jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Time-dependent solutions to temperature change across a gradient are exponential decay functions that solve diff eqs based on Newton's law of cooling. It depends mostly on the insulation and the temperature difference.

While it is 10 F outside, the central heating system for my apartment in a 6-story building cannot maintain temperature. It is 66 F and gradually falling. I would guess it would be 2.5kW running 24/7.
Interesting the author accuses computers of 'word soup' and then produces a bit of GPT-3 tier human exceptionalism gunk.
No, it’s definitely saying “if there is a H.264 hardware encoder available, MSE does not support VP8/VP9; but if there isn’t, then VP8/VP9 support under MSE is enabled”. There is no ambiguity in the wording.

It’s a curious restriction, but I suspect it’s to do with the use cases for MSE and perhaps some inferiorities of VP8 and VP9 codecs for the MSE use cases, though I’m not sure. Adaptive bitrate streaming is caring a bit more about the trade-offs in network, CPU and whatnot, so preferring a codec with hardware support is perhaps reasonable—though I do wonder why it wouldn’t still have VP8 if it had a hardware decoder. I certainly don’t know the details of all this, but the wording on MDN is very clear.

Remember also that WebRTC requiring VP8 doesn’t imply that anything else in the browser support VP8. Safari 11, for example, supports WebRTC but doesn’t support WebM or indeed VP8 anywhere else. Only Safari 14 starts to support WebM, and there only from Big Sur on.
> quasi-independent institution holding other powerful institutions and individuals in society in check

The sentiment among an ever growing body of people is that "independant" his has never been less true.

Big media has probably always been heavily biased but had some modicum of professionalism that helped maintain a perception of objectivity. In recent years it feels like they have crossed that line and lost the trust of the people.

An interesting question to ask is WHY has big media been more and more willing to cross that line? I think it comes down to money. Big media's bottom line has been pulled away from them over the last 10 years and so they're getting desperate; More willing than ever before to lean into click bait partisan stories that rile people up.

Shame on them.
Well, if I work as hard as a small-town Swede, with the quality of life of a small town Swede, then it makes sense to me to work at Swedish rate for a German company.
I also missed a TLDR. Is this why all his efforts failing? Because he writes so many words without saying much?
Similar website: https://www.gdm.or.jp/

They also posts new PC parts rumors relatively early.
This should be possible with a RTL-SDR and a raspberry pi. I don't know of any off the shelf software, but the RTL-SDR for sure can tune FM stations.
A future improvement I am looking into is adding unit tests for tax calculation. If the project gets popular enough I would probably hire an accountant to verify everything.
At risk? It seems like they never looked at that Princeton study that stated it had already taken place in 2014 [0].

Personally speaking it took the 2008 crisis to finally force me to accept this truth, the US is a corpo-facist State with a very well traveled revolving door between politics and certain 'Private' Industries that benefit the most of from favourable policy and legislation as their lobbying budgets reflects that--banking, schooling, pharma/medical, and most blatant of all military contractors spanning everything from fastfood chains that supply on base meals, to mercenaries for hire (Blackwater/Xe) to weapons manufacturing (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Ratheon et al).

When you look back at how every crisis before and after 2008 was handled in just my lifetime, be it the opioid epidemic, dotcom bubble before that in the 2000s to the wallstreet corruption and Iran Contra and crack crisis in the 80s their is very little consequence for their corporate and political affiliates, where as entire generations of the populace are let to their own devices.

I hate to to say this, as I wish we could just bypass it entirely already a logical decesion, but short of stopping the CCP expanding its far more dysfunctional form of tyrannical Imperialism and acting as a deterrent in South Asia the US has no real function anymore in anything that matters, and we would benefit from hastening the transition from this pointless archaic and clearly Oligarchical nation state model as soon as possible to a Global confederation so we can start solving real issues on the Global level that demand all of our attention: specifically pertaining to climate change and the fallout from just that alone.

It really fills me with dread that we can't figure this very obvious problem all while we are trying to tackle being a multi planetary species.

0: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
http://www.hereistheevidence.com
> NHTSA notes that Tesla’s Boombox and the company’s pedestrian alert sounds are mutually exclusive

I wouldn’t characterize this as Tesla allowing users to swap the pedestrian alert sound, even though the NHTSA is expressing concerns consistent with that, they go on to concede unambiguously that it’s not the case.

It sounds like actually they are concerned both features can emit noise at the same time.

A good faith interpretation is that blind users may not realize it is a car because they didn’t hear the “car noise” over the noise of the boom box.

However, this seems like NHTSA is being sensational. A driver could also just have music playing inside the cabin with their windows down, and it doesn’t seem that different. From that perspective, forcing tesla to do a “recall” seems dubious. Whether the “boom box” noise comes from the “pedestrian alert” speaker or some other speaker seems like a technicality to me.

Either way, the NHTSA’s request is pretty reasonable, despite their concern seeming contrived. Disabling the boom box while summoning the car doesn’t create undue burden for tesla or it’s users, but it doesn’t really solve anything either (as noted by Tesla there have been no issues with the previous functionality). It feels like theatrics on behalf of the NHTSA.
It sounds to me like the problem you suffer isn't SEO, it is the people involved, you included. It sounds like you have poor leadership (Especially if they are failing to listen to your input), an unwillingness to compromise (Both you and the SEO team), and a me against them attitude (Which most likely hurts your cause) when it comes to the parts of a website that you work on.

Great user experience and highly effective SEO can co-exist, but it is much harder than most people think and it takes high quality individuals willing to work together, compromise, and execute on a vision that will benefit the corporate vision over all.

I’ve worked in the SEO business now for a very long time and I can also tell you that you are not the only one that feels the way you do and every single time I have seen this it has always come back to the quality of the individuals involved.
Not "just sold as tomatoes", but "sold as just tomatoes". See the Sainsbury's Basics http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=sainsburys+basics brand - the story is that this is as basic as it can be, no cruft, implying better value, lower price.
we're working on it. i'm working on it. one of the reasons i took notes on this is because my next web app will be self-improvement that leverages these principles

mindvalley has some great starts, e.g. gratitudelog.com
It is an active point of research, but the problem is the feedback. It's hard to get metrics people can't fake.

Inasmuch as body weight is one of those unfakeable metrics, the weekly Weight Watchers weight-in (note that you pay less if you weigh less) is an example in this area.
I've just tried Transmission, and it is quite slick, but I'd like to chime in with two of my favorites: the enhanced version of CTorrent (http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/), a handy command-line client, and btpd, the BitTorrent Protocol Daemon (http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/), a client designed to run in the background.

I'm also fond of the original, reference versions of BitTorrent written in Python, but they can be a PITA to install from source because of dependencies.
Well, let's not go overboard here...
1. That is always the problem with these sites. I'm hoping good SEO helps me out a bit too. I launched the site on Monday, Tuesday my sister put up her Crafty and Vintage stuff, and then on Wednesday a woman from Arizona bought an item. I have some ideas. I'm hoping that maybe offering a free store will entice people enough too. Not sure. I'm looking for suggestions though since I have a limited budget. My last company turned into a million dollar company just from putting up some chloroplast signs around cities. Unfortunately I sold a tad too early.

2. I agree. Over time I'll invest more time into the rounded corners, and drop shadows and so on.

Thanks again for your feedback!

Mark
I sell software to big companies (Global 2000) in a new category and SEO has been absolutely vital to our marketing success. People from big companies are actively looking for new solutions w/ Google. (Not like, the CEO, but someone at the architect/pmgmt/tech lead level who may do something.) I've gotten both great OEM leads (from large tech co's even your parents have heard of), great direct sales leads at F500 companies and the (gasp!) federal government, and a lot of activity from consultants, analysts, and journalists.

SEO matters, even in the complex business to business sale, <em>but only if your company and your offering is remarkable</em>. (In the Seth Godin sense - worthy of remark.) Look at how much SEO a company like salesforce.com does.
>Post-MVP will add a lot of features they don't have.

Sign up with me and post-MVP you'll get a free pony! ;0)>

Too many promise the Earth; if it's tied in a bow and waiting in your warehouse then forgive my cynicism.

(Edit:too)
I think Efene/Ifene is better for this task (just different syntax for Erlang, without changing Erlang semantics). No performance overhead.

Reia has completely new semantics and run in interpreted mode over BEAM (Erlang VM).

I personally think, that if programmer can't adapt to new syntax, it will be much harder to her/him to adapt to new semantics.

Erlang's syntax is ugly comparing to modern languages like Ruby. The simple things are hard to do in Erlang and simple in Ruby, but complex thing are easy in Erlang and impossible in Ruby.

Erlang is pragmatic choice for today. Maybe in 5-10 years Erjang,Scala,Go,Rust or some other new language will be a better choice, but until then use Erlang/OTP.
This is basically what Amazon is planning to launch with the KDK. Amazon's model is fixed price per app, not bandwidth based.

Since 3G is free with the device, apps that need bandwidth need to have a subscription price to use the network. Amazon takes some, you get some. Presumably, Amazon uses this to offset 3G costs or pays it to the carrier.
Apparently, concentration camps are not evil when compared to a whistleblower website. Enough said.

I feel sorry for Zuck though.
That's why there is boost and lots of experimentation by compiler developers commercial and in academia.

C/C++/Fortran and other de jeur standard languages do seem to have a very long life with multiple implementations on multiple platforms...
I'm in the 20, then.
The solution to this is the same as the solution to spam... kill all who respond. They are too stupid to live in this society.
Site appears to be down - anyone snag a cache? Looks like google didn't
> This could've easily been say "P-Diddy's Certificate and Ho Emporium", "certificats pour les snobs par francois" or "Jenkins Tea, Crumpets and Certs".

The assumption here is that perpetuating English and French stereotypes is morally equivalent to doing the same to black American. Apart from the fact that being known for drinking tea and eating biscuits is not nearly as embarrassing or damaging as being thought of as a pimp or ho, there's another problem here: every non-white person can hold this assumption about French and English people and the French and English will not have a problem getting around in society. The same is not true with your P-Diddy example, if believed by every non-black person.

> If it wasn't for stereotyping we'd loose a valuable source of comedy all over the world.

This is tantamount to saying "I have a right to perpetuate racially-based stereotypes, despite any claimed or real negative effect they have, because my ability to be funny depends on it."
I've previously worked for a pair of bosses who telecommuted. Never again. At least for the types of algorithmic / machine learning software I work on, frequent in person collaboration is really helpful and none of the remote collaboration software came close to standing in front of the same piece of paper / monitor / whiteboard.
One thing I've found is that honey is an amazing sore-throat cure.
I would love to hear why the person that down-voted this comment did so?
agree..and then there is the fact that the human body cannot properly digest vitamins. Most of the time the vitmins are excreted intact
From the article:

If, for some reason, YOU failed to prepare adequately for a highly-publicized storm and Uber is your only way to get some much-needed supply (from closed stores?), then don’t complain about price or availability. YOU brought it upon YOUrself.

WHAT?

Take responsibility for myself? Are you INSANE?
This is a little bit silly. I feel sorry for the poor judge or magistrate who has to tell them "no".
Packaged right, this could give electric cars a big push. A Nissan Leaf sports a 26kW/h battery; a rough guess puts the cost of a home solar charging system dedicated to the car at about half the price of that car. For context: charging it from 110v is like running a moderate hairdryer for the charging period (up to 21 hours for a full charge, which is unlikely needed).

Packaged right, this could get a big push for dedicated A/C operation. Home cooling being most needed when sunlight is strongest, solar could significantly reduce or outright replace the considerable power needed for cooling - and do it with a minimum, if any, battery buffer.
Experts in every field have trouble communicating with the 'non-technical'. For example, the dull, unintelligible jargon of experts in our field is a familiar, widespread joke. Think about it next time you read, or write, an error message -- something intended for end users but which even I often can't make sense of.
Posting this because I am interested in this: "Strategies are available that can reduce the effectiveness of a launch-on-warning stance. For example, the first-strike nation can use a technique called X-ray pin-down to delay a retaliatory response. It involves a barrage of submarine-based missiles fired from close range in a "depressed trajectory" mode that reaches its targets in minutes. The warheads would be set to explode every minute or so at high altitudes, which would significantly disrupt the attacked nation's ability to launch its own ICBMs."

How does this work in detail?
Really? PS4 and Xbone are AMD, and selling like truckloads.
If you are that good, it shouldn't be that hard for you to learn how to perform in technical interviews. Personally, I'm not so fond of the shakey-hands parts, or how you need to connect with the interviewer on irrelevant topics "wow you like to surfing! I do too!" or smile and pretend you're best pals, but I've learnt how to do it.

I.e it's just a skill that you should easily be able to acquire.
I second that. I use my phone for two things - calling and texting - and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I'm switching to a small, lightweight "dumbphone" (we got so used to the brick-sized smartphones we forgot how handy the old phones were), that can last a week without charging and has a physical keyboard which - in my opinion - is so much better than a virtual one.
I will consider your feature request.
Where were you ten years ago before all of this BS became ubiquitous?
Commission. Plus we won't hit 21m until the middle of 22th century. Probably there will be a post-scarcity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_scarcity) by that time, so money will be only of historical interest :)
You are leaving out Facebook comments which is, for better or for worse, an increasingly popular commenting system.
Dang, good citation. I will point out though, that this appears to only apply to already-quarantined communities:

> When we expanded our quarantine policy, we created an appeals process for sanctioned communities. One of the goals was to “force subscribers to reconsider their behavior and incentivize moderators to make changes.” While the policy attempted to hold moderators more accountable for enforcing healthier rules and norms, it didn’t address the role that each member plays in the health of their community.

> Today, we’re making an update to address this gap: Users who consistently upvote policy-breaking content within quarantined communities will receive automated warnings, followed by further consequences like a temporary or permanent suspension. We hope this will encourage healthier behavior across these communities.

Quarantined communities are already basically on probation for flagrantly violating policies. This does not apply globally.
Merriam-Webster says (ref: https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/existential...)

> an existential threat is a threat to the existence of something.
Yes they do. It really bugs me all these HN threads state this and rely on their own personal experience not as an ad buyer but as a consumer. It's not true.

One can directly measure ROI and prove the value of this advertising. Especially FB provides for my business (political marketing) at least 10X better direct response value and that is mostly using 1:1 targeting and lookalike modeling.
Isn’t Machiavelli dead? How are you able to teach a dead guy anything, regardless of your pedagogical approach?
> Bill caps sound great until you leave one on on a production system and your whole business comes crashing down during a spike in customer traffic.

Hence the "ask on account creation". If I want a dev account, I can choose to cap it. The amount of SMB that would benefit from this is staggering.

> Customer obsession means not shipping bugs? OK, Bob, let's see your code.

A major difference being that my company isn't worth $1T+.

I've used AWS for a long time and spoken at length with many wonderful, intelligent people in the company; and I didn't mean to tread on anyone's toes, I just wanted to express how it feels as a customer who spent >£150k/month for half a decade.
It may be possible, but enterprise type companies like supporting a limited number of differences. It limits the risk of having to diagnose issues that are due to some sort of weird compile option for the kernel or someone using musl instead of glibc.
That is the exact opposite of what this change did. It REMOVED the option to quietly fall back to servers that might compromise your privacy.
I’m not so quick to write off China’s treatment of Uiygurs as terrible for human rights. My understanding is that Tibetans went through similar issues decades before, so my sense is that it’s likely happening, whether or not the source is CIA.

I just think the USA has done far more to encourage this stupid “love your country or we will treat you as a terrorist” attitude that China seems to have adopted. Also the consequences of my country invading Iraq without a real mission or realistic plan destabilizing the region have caused (far?) more than 200k civilian deaths.

I feel like an American complaining about China (which he has zero influence over) and ignoring the problems in America that he can influence is large hypocrisy and it should be poured out, repeatedly.
I work for a company whose primary source is direct revenue from users and it's edging towards this dystopian direction. Advertising revenue certainly doesn't help, but it's not a pre-requisite for this problem to exist.
What do you do differently from Stellar or Ripple at the consensus layer which both started out with similar ideas, but quickly found that their validators fall apart due to the strongly-connected validator set requirement not being met? In other words, how do you avoid the exact same fate that both Stellar and Ripple ran into in their consensus models when they also tried to let "node individually choose"?
Sort of... most companies that fund this type of research do it for product development (IDS/IPS related stuff), or as vulnerability development (for sale as parts of exploit packs or use in engagements). This is a gross over generalization, but like everything else related to the disclosure and research field, there is a lot of history and drama involved.
Yes, I use this. I had to change the topcolor bar of HN because otherwise it was too bright compared to the rest of the page, but generally it works fine.
I will, of course, grant there were many ideas throughout history that were heretical at the time. But not all.

The invention (or discovery) of multiplication moved society forward. Was multiplication considered false before then?

Many other times, society often takes its time at recognizing, accepting, and implementing the true ideas.
> That doesn't leave many communication channels open

Other than the literal press office inside his house staffed by correspondents of all major worldwide news outlets. How will he let us know what he’s thinking?!?!
Matt Gaetz is not an authority on what is true and his take on things is irrelevant in this thread.
I’m for all speech. Regardless if I agree with it or not. I would rather debate ideas I disagree with rather than they fester underground.

“violent inciting free speech” is a subject take on Trump’s tweets whether you like it or not. I’d rather make that distinction for myself instead of relying on the judgment of some Twitter employee I’ve never met.
Even so, Christmas/New year is going to lead to arbitrary peaks and troughs in the data because people will be setting up new phones, starting new jobs/university courses (for which they need extra apps) etc.

The only fair way to look at it is on a percentage basis (ie. of all chat apps installed last week, what percentage was whatsapp, and what percentage was signal?)

I would be shocked if Signal has even 1% of installations in india.
Did you even read about the implementation details here? It appears you didn’t.
Many liberals, like myself, are appalled by deplatforming as well and are rethinking our support for the modern left. It is an peculiar era indeed where championing freedom of speech, a core part of the Enlightenment philosophy that gave birth to liberalism, is condemned as being right wing.
Yep.

I still haven't read one article from Go aficionados that hasn't made me bang my head against a wall repeatedly.
I think gxti is asking for a quantification of 'without much'.
Long live the Austrian School. Nothing else makes sense.
What is the great disaster that was supposed to have befallen us had Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson and former CEO of Goldman Sachs not gotten his $700 million slush fund?

Certainly many of those placing their bets on the collapse of housing bubble would not have gotten paid by AIG, but how does that cause the rest of the economy to collapse exactly?

Yes, your investments would certainly have experienced losses as the companies doing all the stupid things dropped in value once their folly was fully revealed. But isn't dumb behavior and blind faith in casinos supposed to be punished?

Instead of that righteous outcome, the costs are no being dumped upon millions who had nothing to do with all of the stupidity. And the reckoning has merely been postponed and perhaps will grow even larger now that they have been encouraged to continue taking foolish risks.

Personally, I think Warren Buffett knows better.
> hilarious idea to make this into a bug report.

Actually, the MS guys requested that. I'm sure there's a lesson about soulless bureaucracies somewhere in there...