jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Looks nice.

On the read-only version of the page, placing the cursor and hitting "enter" adds newlines. They don't show up in anyone else's session AFAICT, but it's a little disconcerting to get the impression of editing what was supposed to be a read-only document :)

EDIT: also, it doesn't appear that haskell syntax highlighting is doing much. http://codr.cc/s/973f122b/haskell
Detroit wasn't always a "black" city. It's just that almost everyone else has left nowadays. Your average assembly line back then would have been 90% white, since that would have been roughly the racial makeup of America.

Henry Ford was actually much more open about hiring black employees than most of his contemporaries: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=19 (Jews, on the other hand, were out of luck)
You should've used the standard scrolling. Search doesn't work if the text is not in the current view. So you can only really search what's on the current page.
God, I remember when the Dream Act was first introduced. I wrote a story about it for my school newspaper, then started a GeoCities site, and then a newsletter. I thought it would be no time before it would get through. That was over 10 years ago! If it were passed 4 to 10 years from now, which is its apparent trajectory, it would be too late for me to benefit from it. I'm getting less and less optimistic with every year. Nothing changes, man. Nothing. I can hang on for the moment, but just barely. :(

Nothing makes sense.
Is Creative sponsoring this? I thought they killed A3D in favor of the (inferior) EAX after they bought Aureal.
> I don't have this issue, I can interact with a window just by hovering over it with the mouse pointer

Hm, maybe it's just Firefox that's a bad citizen here, like with the global shortcuts.
The most frustrating thing about instant search, to me, is that even in Firefox 4 and Opera (Haven't tried it on Chrome) the instant part freezes up sometimes if I type really quickly or backspace too fast.
You mean like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ajacquesmattheij.com+id...

:D
You are claiming the paper's authors lied about their numbers and "show absolutely no interest in correcting even the obvious errors." Have you actually contacted them to be sure you didn't make a mistake? If so, what did they say? I find it hard to believe that they would respond to an accusation of fudging their numbers by saying they don't care.

I've been on IRC with them since I made that post. I have changed that part in the post though -- as even though they appear to have shown no interest, I have received information from an off-the-record source that they are actually looking into it.

This is a conflict of interest that is relevant to your opinion about other video formats.

We're developing xvp8 too, which we will also license. Personally, I don't care who wins, as long as the encoders are good. xvp8 has the bonus benefit that MPEG-LA doesn't demand license fees on it, so we can aim it at some markets we wouldn't otherwise be able to target.

Now, yes, this does create an incentive for me to want to dislike libvpx, as they are now a competitor.

You also have a history of making unfounded accusations.

Is filing for a patent that covers existing open source software suddenly "not bad"? The accusation seems pretty founded to me! The only reason I retracted any of it was because people SENT DEATH THREATS to the programmer whose name was on the patent.

Those are some pretty serious accusations without a whole lot of evidence or specifics to back them up.

Specifics:

Video tested: Deadline CIF

Bitrate: 700kbps

libvpx version: latest git

x264 version: latest git

PSNR achieved by x264 with their settings: 44.507db (roughly matches the graph).

PSNR achieved by libvpx with the settings they referred to: 43.625db (definitely doesn't match the graph)

There are a few possibilities here:

1) libvpx has gotten about ~0.8db worse since they did the test, since I don't have the revision number. Unlikely.

2) The settings they referred to aren't the actual settings they used. Highly likely -- but even enabling the ARNR options, as they mentioned on IRC, only brought libvpx up to about 44.0db.

3) They tweaked the settings specifically for the test. Possible, and not quite as bad as literally making up numbers, but still cheating.

4) They made up the numbers.

But even if I was completely wrong on this, cherry-picking results in such an extreme way is something you do in fluff marketing pieces, not in an academic paper. The entire paper, from top to bottom, reads like marketing: it doesn't mention a single downside of any of their features.
It's pretty wild that this stuff happens. Similar to today's nasty outage, Google has had some massive problems with its app engine datastore...

I'm curious if anyone has any predictions about what the landscape will be like in a few years? Will these be solved problems? Will cloud services lose favor? Will everything just be designed more conservatively? Will engineers finally learn to read the RTFSLA?
+1 We agree.
yeah, good points. I think lala was pretty good about granting access to music you already owned:

- they matched your collection and automatically granted you "ownership" to anything they had license to

- anything they didn't, the desktop app actually uploaded it to host on their servers so you could still host it

I can't remember the encoding quality but it was good enough for quality headphones / programming for my taste.
Thats an excellent point, thanks - as I was specifically wondering about hiring someone from the Philippines. Are you in Cagayan?
> For me lsd is about the thoughts that result from the general "high".

100%. It has a reputation as a thing that weirdos do to have fun or see cool things.

If you "do it like an adult" I've found that it invokes a deeply introspective and thoughtful mode of thinking that can give you new perspective on different areas, both major and minor, in your life.

But like good advice that you might get from a wiser person, it's only useful if you use your insights to better yourself.

I've made immense progress in the areas of personal development and management due to such insights. It wasn't overnight - it inspired small changes in behavior that only years later, I can see the dramatic effects of. If it inspired even a 1 degree correction to a better direction, 10 years later the difference can be immense.
Possibly controversial view, but I think that these differences are largely socioeconomic in nature. The US justice system does not treat poor people kindly, regardless of their skin color or ethnicity. "Justice for all who can afford it" and whatnot.

(Of course there's also the odd case of a racist judge, but my impression is that it's by far the exception.)

Edit: The paper you linked does raise some very interesting questions about the motivations behind various government policies, however.
True, but by the 1400s there was more plentiful ivory to be had from India and East Africa. On top of having to compete for market share with the east trade, the Norse also had to compete with the more technologically advanced Inuit for hunting grounds in west Greenland.

I’m guessing the European noble class didn’t really have to care about ivory from the North Atlantic when they knew they could have cheaper and more plentiful Ivory from the East.
Totally agree but the thing is it's a TON of sophistication to pull that off and block proactively to the point that I'd say the only people who employ methods like that are Amazon (that I've encountered). Typically when you do that you will spoof a crawler and it gets you by just fine.
As someone who knows very little about compilers, is there any good place to read up on the very basic terminology and such (what a parser is, what they mean by code generation, and get a rough outline how code goes from language to something the processor can understand) that is on a slightly more abstract level than this paper?
On the contrary, there are many concrete decision points where this logic should come into play--dispelling your logic was exactly the point of the post. In particular:

--whether to go it alone for a while at the beginning and see if you can make something happen

--whether to bring on more than one co-founder; this may seem like a no-brainier, but I've seen plenty of startups with 3, 4 and even 5 initial founders.

--how much to raise in the first round of financing, which directly correlates to dilution

--what to do with the first round of financing, which directly
correlates into whether you will need a second round and how much

--how much control to give up in terms of whether small exits are still on or off the table

I wasn't saying you should constrain yourself at all costs. I was saying you should really look hard at the potential personal financial outcomes that flow from these decisions.
I used to prefer McDonald's fries, and I still prefer them over other fast food, but most bars and sit-down restaurants seem to have better fries to me now. (And, unlike McDonald's, they will give you barbecue sauce.)
If you aren't aiming for profit, want the recognition and want to make the world a better place then perhaps you could patent it and distribute as an open patent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_patent
With a bit of social engineering... aka "asking someone who works in a McD kitchen"... he could have got the oil cooker temperature and timings.

The McD website, or a pamphlet you can get instore, would list the ingredients.

Anyway, kudos to the writer for doing it the hard way.

Finally, telling a McD fry lover (I put my hand up to that!) that the fries are rubbish is like telling a smoker that cigarettes are bad for them. We know.
This is the Zune.

The Zune Pass gets you unlimited streaming for $14.99/month and a recommendation engine just like you want.

Included in that $14.99/month is the ability to choose 10 tracks a month that you keep forever as DRM-free MP3s.

The Zune will sync automatically every time you come home and it hits your wifi. No plugging in required.

Every Zune, all the way back to the very first generation models, can do all this.
While that may be true, the interesting thing about this article is that it presents a recipe that can be reproduced in an average kitchen. I'm no chef, so I don't know if this has done before, but if it hasn't, it's pretty cool.
In practical, non-platonic terms the new meaning (remarkable like a few others) is incompatible with the old (unlike any other).
I liked the title "The Past is Fictional"
Isn't Enunciate only compatible for Java? I like that readme.com uses OpenAPI.

Any other alternatives to readme.com that look promising?
no one taught me, and I've spent my entire career working in professional roles teaching colleagues how to do what I do.

I'm not a teacher, and I didn't go to college. I barely graduated high school.

I just have a passion for being paid far less than anyone around me while doing the most work, I think.
I did a psychology undergrad major in the late 00s. There was a shocking amount of bad science in the required courses. Lots of stuff that supported "common sense" but would be impossible to replicate, and the methodology didn't even align with the summary of why the study was important to learn about. Mountains of work built off imprecise self assessment tests. You can find a psych study to support just about any idea, and it seems like that's what many successful psychologists in academia have done.

Big part of why I decided not to pursue it as a career.
I get a significant cash bonus paid out in year 2 as well. They are just as committed to the bonus in both years as they are the base salary. I think I'm missing something here though.
The cost to run utilities to a property varies considerably with location. Typically it depends on the distance of your property from existing electrical lines. If you purchase land way off grid it can cost > $100K to get an electrical connection. So you need to do some research before buying any land. At some point it is cheaper to generate your own electricity. If you generate your own electricity then you need to research what form of energy is most plentiful for your region (solar, wind, hydro, or a gas / diesel generator). You might consider getting a property with decent hydroelectric "head" (water flowing with a significant elevation drop) as microhydro power tends to be more reliable than solar or wind. I advise you to research this site for more options: http://www.homepower.com/
Maybe we should call it a Secondary Public Offering then.
Yes, it does. It has automatic snapshots, up to ten. Google doesn't have that, if I delete a file from the trash is gone forever.
200 ug of selenium.
If you don't have expertise in physics, Weinberg is extremely difficult to read---he uses notations that nobody else does, and its full of technicalities.

A much more approachable first text for QFT is the book by Zee.
This does not make them that unusable. I was not implying that there is no problems.
Great platform. Used this religiously while in college at Davis. Luckily, there was an active community of people updating the pages, which allowed the Wiki to essentially replace Yelp for looking up business info.
And it's dynamic. Portions will switch from unlimited to limited speed based on weather, construction, or accidents far ahead, giving everyone time to slow down and merge away from a blocked lane.

And drivers actually follow the signs. As an American driver it's an amazing thing to see.
I can't speak as to how coinbase tested their specific exchange, but having written 4 trading systems and some exchange code, I can probably answer many of the questions you have.

Email in my profile...
No, he wouldn't let her know that he knew it in advance :)
Alpaca was top of mind in the smaller group after IB :) They seem really neat!
My point is that there is an age-old institution to solve this problem, called a court. We all participate in a social contract where the court's decisions about subjective matters have the force of law.

Where it gets weird is that Twitter also has an explicit user contract with the underlying USA social contract/courts as a dependency! If you could physically live in Twitter apartments, and somehow remain safe from war, why not only depend on the Twitter contract and its moderation system? And that's how we get to the future world of Snow Crash.
Instead of a rock you just need an inflatable security guard.

What's frightening about all this is that this article has gotten 15 upvotes despite 100% of the comments so far being about what a pointless article this is.
interesting to see "5G" on the "outright misinformation" section of the graph in the illustration, because this is yet another example of just how muddy things are.

John C. Dvorak was fired from his decades-long tenure at PC Magazine after he wrote a column questioning 5G technology. the US was well on its way to integrate Chinese 5G technology into our telecommunications infrastructure, and then that got pulled (I think?). somewhere in there, people made all kinds of accusations about 5G, ranging from "there's potential for ongoing health issues due to exposure, maybe" to "5G gives you covid" to "no wait it triggers the microchips in the vaccines and controls your thoughts."

the 5G rollout is fishy, not least because mild, reasonable criticism and/or asking "why do we really need this, we can already stream 1080p videos to smartphones via 4G, what else could possibly be achieved by increasing bandwidth, given that in order to do so, you need a much higher density of transmitters, maybe that's not the best idea" now lumps you in with "5G is turning the frogs gay" or whatever. you have to be unquestioningly in support of 5G deployment or else you're a Conspiracy Theorist who implicitly believes all the crazy things I said above.

case in point: the image in this post that labels "5G" (broadly!! without even the nuance of addressing any specific accusation!!!) as "outright misinformation". if you aren't the kind of person who thinks critically about these things, but agrees with the content of the post, that we're living in a deluge of misinformation and also agrees that it's impossible to police this misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way... you may come away from reading this post and viewing the associated image thinking "every possible negative thing I've heard about 5G technology is definitely, 100% 'outright misinformation'".

and this is exactly the point I'm making here: misinformation is easier than ever to produce because you don't have to poison the well, you can just dump a load of sewage right into it and then that well is forever tainted, critical thought is suppressed under a load of bullshit, then there's some new story the next day to move your attention onto the next thing.

unless we outlaw smartphones, none of this is ever going away. this is the natural consequence of carrying the Internet in our pockets.
A tea towel/dish cloth mask catches 70% of virus sized, a vacuum cleaner bag 85% particles as against 90% for surgical masks.

Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/
c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
You mean to use for the screens in the devices? The thing is though that the video/GIF export in that case would be useless as the whole thing would be static. So while it's completely possible for me to add, I just don't see it making much sense with the current setup.
At least then the people in charge are forced to respond in some capacity to what the public wants rather than individual purchasing decisions about what tactically works best moment to moment.
good concept, but no HTTPS, seriously?
If DHS had used 6 million rounds a months since 2013, they’d still have enough for another 13 years of Iraq-invasion level war.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billi...
I use this approach all the time.
None of those parties are the Cabinet, the face of Canada on the international stage, and the one China is looking at.
Huh, apparently[0] they removed lambdas' ability to do that in Python 3!

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/11328422/2391244
Can you point me toward other threads about other parts of the world where a particular ethnicity is singled out in a negative light for immigrating? I'll take back everything I said if you can find ONE.
Not surprising.

The Trudeau family has always supported dictatorships, such as the Castro regime in Cuba. The son even went as far as calling Fidel "larger than life leader who served his people" [0]

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/world/justin-trudeau-castro-e...
Suffocation from co-sleeping is NOT SIDS.

https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20180212/baby-suffocation-de....
Roper is awesome. There’s a video of him describing the role of K8s in the next-gen process.
Seems like someone who uses LastPass got XSRF'd: view-source:http://ramarchy.com/
It always amazes me when die-hard FP'ers get it all wrong and think OOP is at war with their beloved FP. Well no, plenty of OOP languages exist that combine FP and OO together. Scala.. C#.. Clojure.. etc.
I had exactly the same reaction. I was thinking it was going to be hilarious to watch, but it turned out to be extremely aggravating. The random pawn promotion was particularly egregious.

I'm curious if other people had the same visceral reaction.
> most of the people in the street

That title wouldn't make sense for most of the people in the street. In the best case they would probably ask who's Format (but take my words with a grain of salt as I'm not a native English speaker).
Nah, parsing a date is a thing that you do usually (depends on your job) like 1 every 2/3 months at best.

Every time I have to pick up the docs because Is day the 1st or month the 1st? Ms and Ns which number? Timezone?

I think that the decision of golang to use this way is really unfortunate and yet more lazy than people that don't want to learn yet another (useless) thing.
You should still apply, especially if with Watson group.
They've still done good research lately. This is just the nature of business I think. Eventually others catch up to where you are, and it is difficult to constantly remain competitive. A further problem in IBM's case, which maybe isn't as pronounced in other industries, is how quickly the computing landscape is changing.
> IBM's market cap rose from $29b in 1993 to $168b in 2002 when Gerstner retired.

When you optimize for market cap you may end losing sight of long-term relevance.
The random move is chosen by generating all legal moves, then choosing from them. This favors pieces with more legal moves, and thus tends to favor the queen the most. Compare with choosing from all pieces that have a legal move, then choosing a legal move for that piece, which would favor a lot of pawn motion, at least until they got themselves killed.
Here you seem to be blaming globalism for failing to account for the true price of a product. The product should be cheaper if made locally because transport costs are reduced. At the moment transport is extremely cheap because there is no significant cost to producing emissions. If appropriate carbon taxes were added you would see such products being made more locally.
So how should an investor prepare today to the inevitable consequences of climate change?
I don't get it. Why not git merge --no-ff and put your formatted message in the merge commit?
Like saying "My spelling is perfect, my grammer to!"
Speaking of highlighting, something about Disqus' markup/styles causes your blog text to be un-highlightable with mouse (Firefox 3.6.16 Debian 5.0.8).
AT&T buying T-Mobile is only good for AT&T. It would result in the US having only 2 major wireless carriers in a matter of years and falling behind the rest of the world in wireless technology. This is exactly what the FTC was created to prevent.
http://headphonecommute.com/
With a bit of Java, he can create a LegoFactoryFactory!
I know I'm hopeless when the music in his example 1 (random notes) sounds better than that in 4 to me. Example 1 sounds like a totally passable background music for a movie, a horror movie, for example.
Majority of these results are examples and test cases which is probably why the bugs have not manifested themselves.
It's not just in the Math community. But isn't it common practice that when you use quotes, you absolutely don't paraphrase. Weird move by Jeff.
Damn straight, I found one like that and I'm glad to be with her every day :)
Looks like XML implemented as JSON.
If you want that much structure, use XML.
Don't forget how you had to sell a certain amount every day for a week in order to even qualify for commission/bonus/spiff/whatever they were calling it that week. Then they wouldn't schedule you for enough hours/shifts to possibly meet that number.

And don't you just miss the Sunday sales meetings where you had to drive someplace and listen to some suit go on about HOTASSS or whatever the stupid acronym was?
Money quote right here:

"We have kind of hyped this vaccine so much for so long we are starting to believe our own hype."

Scientists and doctors are just as susceptible to bias as the rest of us. We'd all do well to remember that.