jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, one has to be careful here. In a static portion of a scene, a consistent error likely to look much better than an error that flips between being too large and too small in alternate frames, since the latter will show up as noise or flicker that was not in the original. That can be more objectionable than simply being slightly wrong. Notably none of the metrics we use for evaluating Daala have any means of measuring this.

The better approach, I think, is some form of "temporal RDO", where you spend more bits on places that will be good predictors of future frames. We discussed the idea in a Theora update in 2010 [0]. x264 implemented it even before then (under the name "mbtree" [1]). It is not yet implemented in Daala, as we do not have two-pass rate control or lookahead yet. It's possible to do one-pass, no-lookahead versions by estimating future prediction efficiency based on the past, but you want one with full lookahead to compare against to make sure those estimates are doing the right thing.

I am not sure temporal RDO would save us here, because the issues described only occur in areas of the frame that are being updated. It still might have, in this case---these things are relative---but we could construct cases where it would fail to do so.

[0] https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/theora/demo9.html

[1] http://www.x264.nl/developers/Dark_Shikari/MBtree%20paper.pd...
Desert Places by Robert Frost

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it-it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less-
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars-on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

Ode by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy.

WE are the music-makers,

And we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

And sitting by desolate streams;

World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:

Yet we are the movers and shakers

Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties

We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story

We fashion an empire's glory:

One man with a dream, at pleasure,

Shall go forth and conquer a crown;

And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying

In the buried past of the earth,

Built Nineveh with our sighing,

And Babel itself with our mirth;

And o'erthrew them with prophesying

To the old of the new world's worth;

For each age is a dream that is dying,

Or one that is coming to birth.
To be fair, in the DSM-V pedophilia was replaced with pedophilic disorder which requires either significant distress or actually acting to harm. The attraction, in and of itself, is not considered a disorder. (Granted, must of the population, even among psychologist/psychiatrist, have differing feelings about this.)

That being said, if we could replace the attraction with a more statistically normal one tomorrow, I would say to do so because it would make the world a better place.
Ive been in NYC 18 years (half my life now) and I truly believe it’s the greatest place on earth for me.

It is however becoming harder to defend. The tax rates are out of control high, the quality of life is getting lower (subway infrastructure is disgusting; homeless out of control), apartment maintenance fees are ridiculous and it’s more dangerous than ever (while I lived here). Add to that the “you’re not paying you’re fair share attitude” which I’m definitely getting... there are days I feel like I should move our company to Florida or Texas. I can’t see myself living in a city that isn’t happy to have me.
With what little reasons there are to actually remain in New York due to the pandemic, the last thing New York should be doing right now is raising taxes. Didn't they learn their lesson from the Silicon Valley exodus?

The article itself mentions just how easy it is to pack up for Miami, and a few percentages more of already sky-high taxes will just push people to leave, especially with the federal government already hell-bent on raising taxes on their end as well. And how will this tax be implemented? Will it be a wealth tax? Or will it be a tax that effectively taxes working class doctors, engineers, and lawyers instead? Given their resources and access to powerful accountants and tax attorneys, taxing the wealthy is near-impossible.

Oh, they want to tax businesses, too? Don't they realize how much businesses are hurting there right now?

And how will this money be spent? Will MTA ever join the current century? Or will this tax money just fund peoples' pensions instead like in CA? Raising taxes is an especially tough sell when nobody is convinced their tax money is being spent in ways that benefit them or the public at large.
It works (after a while) in Chromium on Linux for me but Firefox 87 for Linux just displays the gibberish
> But who needs two Macs?

There are many reasons. I'm a developer, I like having computers around, so I have multiple computers, including two Macs. Some people just have multiple computers and I'd guess that people who own a Mac Pro will probably have a second, more portable machine.

> Why are you sp eager to defend them?

Because I believe the i3-Linux-Thinkpad crowd needs to be constantly reminded that there are other people using computers with different opinions who may be actually happy and productive on their Apple hardware and who prefer dealing with minor hiccups like these over running Windows or Linux on generic PC hardware.
One of the factors in the font bounding box is character accents. We don't use them much in the U.S., but other countries do. Looking at Fira Code, for example, it seems the bounding box is unnecessarily tall for a capital A. But when you look at the accented capital A, it is about right (it has a little extra padding). Still, there is some inconsistency. For the example, the "Latin Small Letter L With Acute" (ĺ) in Fira Code breaks out of the bounding box (whereas the same accent on the capital L doesn't). The same with descenders and their accents. The bottom boundary accommodates most of them, but some hang just a bit below. The "Box Drawings" glyphs included in Fira Code extend well outside the bounding box horizontally and vertically (but are kiss-fit on the left and right edges).

As a designer, I agree with your basic point, that more consistency is needed. But it's worth nothing that the same issues affect traditional print design. A 10 pt font in Adobe InDesign, whether in an inch, point, or mm based layout, will vary in size from one font to the next. Their cap heights and x-heights will be different, sometimes dramatically. However, the one thing that will be the same is their leading (baseline spacing). That would be a good start for a reformation with regard to browser displays.

For now, it is probably a case where we can blame the browser devs or standards organizations, but they will in turn blame the specs of the source fonts, which are in fact inconsistent as I said above.
> Right now we are paying 50 USD per hour

I'm really happy Zig is gaining momentum. I do hope they can raise more money. If people are paid as freelancers, 50$ is a really low compensation. You'll have to pay health insurance, retirement etc. out of your own pocket. In Germany, the rule of thumb is if you're earning below ~70€ / hour as a freelance sw dev, it is better to be employed.
Would you care to elaborate, in some tangible, concrete way?
Please don't do this here. It does no good and only makes threads worse.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
It's about a month since I've started seriously diving into lisp.

The last couple of weeks I've spent my days reading 'The joy of Clojure', Structure and Interpretation of Computer programs, lots of tutorials and documentation, playing around in the repl + experimenting with all kinds of frameworks and libs in clojure (eg. Om).

I've spent today implementing the brainfuck interpreter in Racket.

I can't explain it, it's like something is calling me - 'learn lisp. now.'.

Given the amount of Lisp code read/written and the relative novelty of it, I'm dreaming lisp code and the arguments to functions are actual physical things, which are then mapped, reduced, recursed or expanded.

Literally, I think I'm going crazy.

I can fluently write x-platform C++, Javascript/CoffeeScript, Objective-C, Java, Pascal, VB and everything in between.

But never have I experienced this kind of mental strain/obsession as I do now with lisp.

But.

Seems like I'm not alone! Given the amount of lisp news lately on HN,
I fell like more and more people are going through what I'm going.

Seems like we here on HN follow a common mental pattern and suddenly everyone's talking/learning lisp.

As interesting as learning lisp is, this 'group preference' thing is even more interesting to observe.
> Killing someone is extremely easy if the other person trust you. You get behind her and hit her with a heavy object in the head or in the nape.

That makes it physically easy, but the psychological demands of that situation are clearly very different from turning a knob. I think there's good reason to think that there are people who would do the former, but not the latter. If the pilot is inclined to crash the plane due to overwhelming depression, for example, I doubt that this pilot is likely to also kill a flight attendant with his bare hands.
I have never come across a provider which doesn't have similar if not same ToS.
I have not played with Amazon Cloud Drive yet, does it allows for selective synchronization?
Places outside of Silicon Valley, within the USA have the same outlook.

Everywhere has people who have go-nowhere attitudes, but it all depends on the type of people you know, it's not universal. The thing unique to the Valley is that it has people flush with capital that encourage large, repeated, expensive risk taking in tech products with low expectations of success. And, spoiler warning, there is nothing secret about it.
json parser on pypy is competitive, try it (or give us examples where it's not). msgpack needs a better impl, but can be done, database drivers seem to work over cffi at reasonable speed.
US is so car-heavy that they overload you road system.
There's just a lot of variables you have to consider: holidays, resident permits (people who live there are allowed to park for free and/or for an unlimited time), rush hour lanes during week days, street cleaning schedules, and so on.
Attracting users is not going to be easy in any case, so I would start trying to pull them in and get them using it, a bit at a time.
It doesn't sound like he's "creating" anything of value in the VMs. He notes that he mostly uses it for org-mode. It's probably just him needing to access (from his work computer) to notes / agenda info that he would rather keep (e.g.) on his personal Dropbox.

You are right though that anything done using "company resources" may be fair game for a legal battle to determine ownership.
I think it says something about the current environment when VCs have to instruct founders on such basic practices as not creating unnecessary panic and being honest with stakeholders. The truth of the matter is that hot markets create lots of founders who simply don't have the wherewithal and fortitude to lead competently.
You'd think developers would be good with numbers. But put $ signs in front of those numbers, and suddenly they're not very good. Trading away hard cash for gimmicks, and a tiny amount of equity in early stage startups.
Oh. I thought someone was able to find an iPad to buy on Craigslist (that wasn't a scam).

I was skeptical until reading this scenario. It is much more believable.
How does one find a job discovering patterns in the the genome? I'm not even sure what search terms to use on indeed.

From the article I'd get the impression there should be a huge demand for statisticians to analyze the genome but I'm just not seeing that when I search.
I don't feel the answer really apply to a 7th grade, but I still find the answer interesting. Of course, it's PG so lots of the answer were about startup which is a bit confusing. I stay that because, to the question: "What's the range of salary of a plumber?" Well, a plumber building a new kind of tools could get billionaire which isn't really answering the question.

Still, interesting read way better than apple evilness and "why my kids like ipad".
Well, yeah--after the fact, it doesn't really matter if you experienced terrible pain that you didn't remember. But by that argument it's fine to torture babies, since they won't remember it.

The question is whether, before the fact, you would go into minor surgery without anesthetic at all knowing perfectly well that you would forget all of the pain afterwards. Maybe you would if it was the best option, but I would wince in anticipation.
Any idea when life recorders will catch on? They seem like they would be so useful.
Probably just because the politically-correct answer to poverty is "rich people should give their money to poor people, then they won't be poor any more". (This is, coincidentally, the same solution that most seven-year-olds come up with. It doesn't work in practice.)
Everytime I've been in, I've been asked to either disable my password or create an account for the Genius Bar and provide them with that password (or leave it blank).
Am I confused? That's the whole point. (Money, happiness) correlation is only linear to an extent.
Yes, this stuff happens, yes it's a consequence of calling upon LEO to make judgement calls, and it's a real problem, and yes it's worth fixing.

It is not, however -- by any stretch of the imagination -- the goal of civil statutes to enable indiscriminate harassment.

Your anti-cop ideology is leaking. It's unoriginal, uninsightful, and unhelpful.
thousand in Gear! Not computers/ipads! :)
I agree with both of these as good personal policy in mixed indoor settings.

I reject "virus denier" as bait. Look at Newsom and the many other hypocrites caught in flagrante maskless. They were not denying the virus exists in their public words, but their nominally private deeds said something about their sense of relative risks that doesn't fit your cult-like "denier" language.
There is nothing wrong in your words from my point of view. But saying that no one needs some achievement of Science is not an interesting discussion.
It would be cool if the service would have a rss crawler which searches the web for rss feeds and automatically adds this to the database.
The broke musicians I know can barely afford to pay their rent.
My deepest apologies, I didn't know that what he was describing was what you call an "inverted classroom" until you replied and I looked it up.

The thing is, I don't see how it really matters. You still end up requiring kids to sit still when they can't do it. I guess my focus is on smaller kids. I fully agree with modern comms you can do the inverted classrooms with people older than maybe 12 or so, I'm unsure where the line is.
about that,
>http://www.hwysafety.com/hwy_montana.htm
common sense keeps people safe, over aggressive legalism creates learned helplessness at scale and reduces common sense.
There always are a few skills that help during recession. When recession comes, people want to switch to cheaper ways of doing things. So find a way to making stuff less expensive always helps.
but numerically they are encoded with the B registers in the 4th place

I've never seen an authoritative answer for that but I believe it comes from the fact that in the 16-bit addressing modes, BX is the only one of the 4 ABCD registers that can be used to address memory, and the circuitry for decoding is very slightly simpler to detect two 1 bits than one 1 and one 0 bit. The 4 other registers are, in order, SP BP SI DI.

which don't make much sense except in the context of history

That can be said for a lot of things...
Agreed that we need to spread the message far and wide. Just slamming down on people that are doing their best to cope with this situation isn't very productive, if not discouraging and harmful. In these times, Solidarity is needed. Just the way we support Italian crisis, we need to do the same to the US and the rest of the countries.

Slam governments, take it up on the streets to address issues after this pandemic is over.
“Coming from a country where mapmakers tend to exclude any landscape feature smaller than, say, Pike’s Peak, I am constantly impressed by the richness of detail on the OS 1:25,000 series. They include every wrinkle and divot of the landscape, every barn, milestone, wind pump and tumulus. They distinguish between sand pits and gravel pits and between power lines strung from pylons and power lines strung from poles. This one even included the stone seat on which I sat now. It astounds me to be able to look at a map and know to the square metre where my buttocks are deployed.”

— Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island (1997)
Qt's license and cost is another valid reason to continue developing on GTK
The "source" is based in Hong Kong and is routinely writing articles that harshly criticize China.

I'm not sure you understand much about them apart from a certain word in the name that has triggered such a response.

> appeared nowhere in the Western press

Took me 3 seconds of searching to find this was originally from US based NPR on Thursday interviewing The Lancet author and the South China Morning Post was simply repeating it verbatim.

Plenty of other places on the internet to stir up jingoism, please don't do it here.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/817974987
There are medicines for flu: oseltamivir and zanamivir to name two. None for the cold as far as I'm aware.

I don't think the desire for a cure is unreasonable on the part of patients though, but it's the job of public health and experts to temper those expectations. By now any doctor prescribing antibiotics for a virus or to placate a patient should be facing professional sanctions.
> effectively a disease similar to a flu

Not again, please. I think that one has had its run.
In general, in my limited experience, the former is better than the latter because you have NO IDEA what's going to be in that database a decade from now, but your query is probably still getting called by some obscure application that nobody even knows exists.

When someone does something stupid and puts a whole bunch of unexpected data into that database, the latter query will cripple the entire show, whereas in theory the former will still just ask for the original intended data.
We use this technique in Just Dance Now, and I wholeheartedly recommend doing it for usecases where you need to compress lots of small packets individually. We save at least 50% data.

For our game, this consists of the normal communication going back and forth between server and client, where individual messages are normally <100b.

By sampling some user sessions we built a dictionary, fed it into deflateSetDictionary/inflateSetDictionary, and use that in both Node modules for the server, as well as throughout the ecosystem of Android and iOS.

It's very simple to do; we base all communication on standard JSON (for ease of portability and debugging) but then have the preset-dictionary fed into zip (a simple large string!) to counter the weight of JSON.

Needless to say, binary packing the protocol would give additional gains; but the productivity gains with using dictionaries to get good compression of pure JSON was a great choice for us. And it's really supersimple to do.

One nice benefit is that the protocol is extendable by any developer without worrying about the wire-transport; the compression won't break is someone decides to add a parameter to a message, it just most likely won't be compressed as well as the rest of the message.
It sounds like you are a successful freelancer. What you are trying to become is a successful business owner.

You need to hire a couple people to write code, and start selling full time. This is where things get hard. I haven't made it work correctly yet either. Good luck!
>I don't think it's reasonable that a simple silhouette of a phone, used as an icon to represent a phone, is trademarkable.

Trademarks are an interesting case, though. You can trademark common ideas, especially if you're the first one to get the trademark for that specific use. They're extremely focused in that they can only be used in a specific way. MS' trademarks on Windows and Word, for example, only apply to operating systems and word processors.
Disabled by a wellbeing assistent? I had something similar on iOS with Carplay but with no explanation at all. At some point I was not able to use Carplay anymore. My car didn't give an error message, and in iOS I could not find a solution either.

Turns out when you have app time limits on, Carplay becomes broken and unusable.
> I'm not sure this is true

Have you been to a place that doesn't optimise for this? The US is one of the only places in the world where if you are sick, the medicine (if it exists) is 100% available.

I have a relative who lives in a place that doesn't have this aim...she is sick, medicine exists but "policy" is not to cure people who have that illness because the return on investment isn't high enough...in fact, she can't receive treatment at all for it outside of primary care. This happens quite frequently with cancer/epilepsy outside the US too...the medicine exists, you just can't get it...

...and you are complaining about only having a "small selection of plans"...must be nice. Try selecting from one plan that might not cover you when you get sick (and if you get very sick, there might be nothing beyond primary care i.e. your local doctor who isn't a specialist).
Tip: You don't have to put the entire expression in one line
Thanks for the insights :)
>So it's a good thing they didn't get ARM.

It doesn't matter, as the damage is done.

Once the industry caught a whiff of NVIDIA's intent to purchase ARM, they looked for alternatives. That's RISC-V.

Today, it's been years and the RISC-V efforts within the industry have advanced considerably. These won't be dropped now, irrespective of ARM's fate.
They believe disrespect for their leader is bad for social stability. Even if it weren't perceived that way, and it was understood as the petty reaction that it is, it's still just an abuse of an existing censorship system. And most items that are censored are seen as important to national stability.

Just like how NSA spying was justified for national security purposes, you see people abusing the system and spying on ex lovers.

The slippery slope argument is not a fallacy.
It's not just about Twitter; in my own country the courts gave our own Trumpian firebrand Geert Wilders more leeway on account of being a democratically elected MP in two separate rulings. Actually, many countries have presidential and/or parliamentary immunity laws, partly so they can say what they think without fear of prosecution. Twitter is just following this long-standing precedent.
Their revenue is a bit misleading since most of it goes to CC processing fees. This tweet says net profit was 214k in 2019:

https://twitter.com/shl/status/1215673023472140289

Probably triple that this year with the Covid bounce. So obviously doing well for himself, but not quite as good as you think.
Couple of good books to read (or listen to) for context:

“In the Garden of Beasts,” Larsen

“The Coming of the Third Reich,” Evans
Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, etc all have the capability to silence the leader of the free world.

What a time to be alive!