jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>It came as close as is humanely possible by all means, but quite simply by needing electricity and advanced silicon, it's doomed. In other words, Bitcoin never was what claimed to be. It's main virtue is that it's pretty good at obfuscating that.

and what's that? Based on the prceeding paragraphs it seems to be some sort of payment system that can operate without the influence of an "authority" (whatever that means). But if he took the time to read the whitepaper, he would discover it says:

>Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.

Seems like it's doing that just fine.
Minimalist Nigerian Prince.
The shame of being angrily tutted at is comparable.
I said it clearly: it's private information.

It would be like some random person on the internet sending you an email, asking about specific details on your cap table.
Maybe some of what you desire can be found here? https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
I intentionally uses also example of SS which was state army. ISIS see themselves as army for state too. For that matter, genocide in China and Rwanda were all helped by regular armies.

It is simply not true that all armies would primary defend. You make the "state run army therefore good" implication, not me. You are not leaving politics out when you claim that sacrifice of joining army is always wortht of respect. It is very political statement that prevents criticism of armies and empowers abusers in uniform.

What you are doing is trying to divorce consequences of joining those organizations and paint their members in unfairly good lights.

Sacrifice is also subjective. Some of those people like the organizations they are in.
I highly doubt it's actually jamming the the 433MHz signal from the fob. Command signals are most likely properly decoded by the vehicle, but rather the RSSI measurements are getting disturbances. Those signals are LF (25kHz or 125kHz)sent from the vehicle (multiple antennas) to the fob for localization. Fob performs the measurements and returns values to the vehicle. If the fob is not localized in the expected area, passive unlock or start would not work, and could even start the alarm.

Some gate/card readers going crazy maybe...

Wireless chargers that now come inbuilt as standard can also create enough disturbances to mess up the LF RSSI (but limited to single vehicle). Manufacturers are slowly moving to UWB and BLE for localization, as ToF is more robust (especially for relay attacks) than a simple signal strength measurement, plus it provides a common mechanism for both phones and fobs on the vehicle side.
In some cars, if you lock the car with the fob it primes the alarm. If you subsequently unlock it with the physical key the alarm will activate when you enter the car. You can only disable it in with the fob. Source: had a 7th gen Honda Civic.

Many cars hide their keyholes making them essentially inaccessible. Many drivers probably don't know they have one. Volkswagen has been doing this on some models since 2009. Source: had a Mk6 Golf.
> Both parties _already have_ each other's phone number as a unique identifier.

Do both parties need to have each other's phone number or is enough that one party has the other's phone number for the contact suggestion? I couldn't find it clearly stated in the article.

Practical example: someone has a spam list of phone numbers in his contact list. Will Signal suggest passively profiles that match that numbers?
It's not about advocating for a position. It's about having a shred of humility, and decency.

What Alex is doing is ragebaiting. That's not noble.

Anyway, it's far from established that either strategy is superior, at this point. There are a ton of factors including execution factors that have nothing to do with clinical trials.

My point is this: It seems like unless the FDA conforms exactly to Alex' opinion on any given day, they are corrupt quacks. It's so arrogant, and a case in point for poisonous discourse. This flavour of rhetoric shots down openness. All you can do is hide behind vague press releases and say as little as possible in public.

If I were working on vaccine development, approval or deployment, I would be trying to stay anonymous. These "open society" people are at the helm of an assault on open discourse.
Do you mean Guile or s-expressions?
This is about right. You can usually judge how popular a Prom will be by whether the seated tickets are sold out. If there's still plenty of seats left (check online), then it will most likely be a short queue for standing tickets. If the performance is otherwise a sellout, then I'd try to arrive a minimum of 1 hour prior to stand a chance.

One doesn't have to stand the entire time either. Plenty of people do sit around the edges, and almost everyone does during interval. The advice to bring a blanket to sit on is good.
Lots of jobs in the legal profession involves researching past court decisions - going through mountains of documents. This can now be done in low-cost countries such as India where there are tons of English speaking people. The technology that led to it is the internet.
Those are really good points and they're actively working on improving all of the points you've mentioned. I can't encourage you enough to join the IRC channel or create Github issues, especially with regards to the documentation. I personally spent a significant portion of time working directly with the project manager on improving the documentation, but your feedback too is invaluable. Please speak up about these issues to the team or submit pull requests. They love to see this kind of feedback and these kinds of contributions.
I'm confident that the performance multiple from C# to Ruby is comfortably greater than 2-3x.

But the specifics are heavily dependent on the actual code executed; to a first approximation, most Rails code is shuffling parameters to and from a database. It's very difficult to speculate. If most of your Ruby code, to take an example, is effectively a wrapper around native code (e.g. regular expressions or string substitution in templates), then the win from using something like C# or Java is probably low.
DRM is absolutely to do with piracy, that's the whole point of the technology.

Of course Hollywood knows that any given DRM scheme will be broken at some point. How much they care about this depends a lot on what exactly "at some point" really means. Almost all money from movie sales comes in a spike when the movie is first release, hardly any movies go on to become long-term cult classics that people are still buying years later. If a DRM scheme is so good that it takes three months to crack once disks hit the street, from the movie studios perspectives that's a huge win because during the movie's peak people had to cough up the money to buy it or put up with some truly crappy low quality version.

The same economics holds for other things like video games. Nobody cares if you beat the DRM on a game that's five years old.

So the real question is, can DRM give studios and other content creators such a window of time? The results are mixed. Sometimes the answer has been yes. Other times the answer has been no. It's complicated and depends on a lot of fiddly things.
> Rayman 2 APM muxer

> LEGO Racers ALP (.tun & .pcm) muxer

Maybe that just shows off my ignorance, but reading the changelogs (current and past), I never realized that ffmpeg contains so many "niche" features.
Don't feel bad at all. Give some thought about which of these behaviors you want to keep once pandemic restrictions are lifted.
Yeah I think there’s also the case that people say they want and would use all kind of things but if you actually give it to them they realise they don’t want/need it or it has some flaw.
Well, sometimes the API of a piece of software presents one model, while the implementation actually uses a different model underneath for various reasons.

In particular in Git, some commands expose the commits-as-diffs model (cherry-pick, rebase) while others present the commits-as-snapshots model (checkout). However, if you were to look at various layers of git code, the model is either commits-as-snapshots, or neither (compressed storage).

You could also theoretically change the entire implementation of git to store commits as diffs, and offer the exact same API as it does today (probably with differences in the way conflicts are resolved, and definitely with differences in performance).
For a typical 1080p "linux iso" what filesize difference will there be between x265 and av1?
Automatically enriching lecture videos with annotations from wikipedia. Something I've been working on as the final project for my undergraduate degree.
dd I really don't mind, because it makes me think and double-check that I'm flashing the right device every time.

find is annoying, though. I'd encourage you to check out fd.

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
There are actually a couple of good GUI bulk file renamers. I'm fond of the one built into xfce's Thunar file manager [1], but there is also ReNamer [2] and Ant Renamer [3].

[1] https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/bulk-renamer/start

[2] http://www.den4b.com/products/renamer

[3] http://www.antp.be/software/renamer
Don't worry, after you die they will insert probes into your dead brain and resurrect your mind, and you can live in hell forever!
Thanks for the interesting paper.
Teasing out returns on R&D would be difficult. Companies that maintain R&D teams (Microsoft, Yahoo, AT&T, Google, Intel, etc.) tend to be industry leaders, which complicates the relationship between research and income. Further, research projects have varying timelines and levels of dedication -- you can work on a project full-time for weeks, only to table it for immediate needs -- so the NPV calculation would be difficult.

I bet R&D departments benefit from economies of scale -- 5 PhDs can likely produce much more than one PhD at 5 companies, and a solid team attracts top talent -- which means the aforementioned big shots are the likeliest to produce meaningful research. Still, I would give a lot to work at a something like a "research startup."
FWIW, HotOrNot scales their votes so that everyone ends up in the top half. (No, they didn't do this when they launched, but obviously they've found it a good idea since then. Even rebels pander to their constituencies.)
I'm guessing your male. If you were female I'd help you out! Bureaucracy sux. Good luck.
Do other subreddits use custom icons that would benefit with a similar optimization not just f7u12? I think there are a few.
Are you enjoying Gleick? I've been considering it, but other books keep jumping the queue.
This was linked to yesterday, and then the link went away, and it was marked as [dead], so I'll say again what I said there:

So it seems terrific up until it asks me to sign in with my Google Account and provides fields for email and password.

So that's a killer right there. It needs so oauth or whatever the cool kids are calling it these days.

Give me some oauth and I would check it out. I'd also suggest a 30 day trial, or even better, seriously, since the $19 payment is for a lifetime license, you should consider a 90 day trial period, let me get good and hooked and then yank the line.

I have paid for additional google storage, and this tool could be invaluable for allowing me to make use of that storage, but I need oauth, and I would prefer a 30 - 90 day trial.
In the US, when a company unionizes a job class, all applicable employees must then pay the union for representing them in negotiations. Only one union can represent a class of workers.

In 27/50 states workers who opt out of union membership loose the power to vote in union matters, but still are governed by union negotiations and must pay the unions "agency fees" for representing them. They no longer have to pay for political campaigning and lobbying by the union on other activism.

In 23/50 states, workers can not opt out of union dues and the union can spend the dues to campaign for political figures and issues.

Unions generally support Democratic politicians and agendas, and unions have high approval Among members of the Democratic Party. Republican Party members disfavor unions and resent obligatory union dues used to fund the party they do not support.

I much prefer the European concept of unions, where employees can pick and choose between different options
> did not know you could do global marks with mA and `A.

Incidentally, the "Vimium" browser extension also supports those marks with the same syntax; they're an interesting alternative to conventional bookmarks for frequently accessed pages. https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/README.md
They have added that, but it's written by the app developers so you still can't trust what they claim they're gathering from you.
For anyone curious to know more about usage of ECS in Overwatch, check out this GDC talk from one of the developers: https://youtu.be/W3aieHjyNvw
> Like, lemme get this straight: you expect a six figure salary, full autonomy to solve problems as you see fit, and _also_ bite-sized, well-scoped bug reports/features.

I take some offense at this straw man.

Either give me the autonomy to solve the high-level business problems you want to make me accountable for, _or else_ I will default to expecting bite-sized, well-scoped tickets.

In exchange for six figures and autonomy, I'm capable of writing my own well-scoped tickets if you think that's a good use of my time, and I might do so happily if I need to be coordinating with other talented individuals in a team built on mutual trust and respect. But if I'm stuck with minimal autonomy, pulling some tickets written by a project manager off the backlog, then hell yes I expect them to be bite-sized and well-scoped so I can do my job and not waste an entire week figuring out what the problem really is, determine who the real stakeholders are, secretly talk to the end users, pick the brains of developers on other teams, implement a few thousand lines of missing back end services, coordinate with ops to get those deployed, and finally just add that button to the UI that the product owner, half a year ago, persuaded the team would only take a day, all why being grilled every morning about why such a simple task is taking so long. Don't deny me autonomy, let me be fed me crap, and have me do someone else's job without credit while listening to them complain. Let me do my job without wasting my time; is that too much to ask?
Signal does it for anyone in your address book, not just mutuals.

Your "anyone I've emailed" example is a great reason not to use the same service you use to host your email to host your contacts.

Personally I would never in a million years sync my contacts to Google, which I assume is what you mean here (most people use gmail).
Copyright info shows 2019, either could have been overlooked or the project could have been abandoned. But having updated year info doesn't necessarily mean active project as well, as auto-incrementing copyright year info is very easy.
What a great idea. Let's do more of these.
It should be blaringly obvious to Clubhouse that they don't have the right to even store most of this data, let alone use it for anything.

So even if you are at fault, I can't imagine that would help them a lot, if some data protection authority looked into this.
Amazon isn't against paid reviews. They are against paid reviews THEY don't control.

I'm sick of seeing news pieces where they focus on some mommy blogger who made $15k (which they play up like it's a tone of money) by providing conflict of interest reviews, while Amazon does that at 1,000,000x the scale with no one bating an eye.

I'd say it's lazy if not biased and single sided bad journalism to not even mention the Vine program.
I got that. The more basic question I am interested in is why doesn't Elixir have while-loop? Is that a missing feature in all "functional languages"? And if so, why is that?
> There are an infinite number of inputs and outputs.

No, there are a finite number of particles in a finite space making up the Earth's climate.

> The climate isn't that simple. It's unfathomably complex.

Nothing is simple unless you simplify it.

A baseball is an unfathomably complex collection of billions of billions of particles interacting with the entire universe until you abstract it to a simple Newtonian point mass, but you'll still make all the relevant predictions to >99% accuracy.

Global warming can be accurately modeled by a very simple system:

There is the atmosphere, the ocean, the Earth itself, and the rest of the universe.

Over any finite time period there is a simple real number change in the temperature of these 4 subsystems modeled by thermodynamics, and there can be no net change in temperature due to conservation laws.

Can we predict these changes as accurately as we can predict simple Newtonian systems? No. But we can still predict them to a good degree of accuracy in the short term.
...except that it's not true [1]...

[1] https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jul/18...
> does give 50% of the answer

How could you possibly know it's only 50%? Please, HN, stop with all of the ridiculous guessing of motives with nothing to back it up.
This lab is doing a whole series of amazing stuff---

500ps hand gesture recognition system: http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/zSpace/index-e.html

Robust tracking for moving objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7IL0Gvux7U
You can build controllers and CRDs to completely integrate any platform features you need all while maintaining a workflow with kubecfg and using kube to manage state recovery, roll out, and networking.
Yeah, I can live with that.
The important feature is that on the iPhone it will actually work. Also, there will be enough distribution to actually establish video calls on a regular basis (because both ends have an iPhone).
> The cuts were made by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., a fascinating executive who made AmEx and IBM major players in the 80s-00s.

Are you claiming IBM wasn't a major player by the 1980s?
Increased risk by as much as 41 percent... Okay, most risk of developing cancer is pretty low.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/lifetime-probabi...

So, I found Hodgkin lymphoma at 2.43%. Increased by 41%, 2.43% * 1.41 = 3.43%.
Now any increase in cancer risk is alarming, but this is a small increase. More important question would be. How many people are getting increased exposure to glyphosate? If it's only 1000 people annually, then it looks like ten more people gets cancer. If it's a global exposure, then yes, we have a big problem.

Edited to correct math mistakes, thanks tomsmeding
There is so much money to be made selling stupid people things that align with their biases.
I will not, like others, cry over Miniclip because the truth is that I have looked there maybe twice in the last 5 years. But for sure I would also like to pay my respects and thank you for the time I could spend having fun there several years ago.
What was supposed to be a simple classroom demonstration of a Geiger counter turned into a school-closing panic when the sensitive radiation detector set up a loud clamor over a rock.

Colonia High School was evacuated and a hazardous materials team clad in lead aprons borrowed from a dentist secured the rock in a lead-lined box.

But scientists said Wednesday that the grapefruit-sized chunk of stone was never any threat.

The radiation danger was no worse than sunlight, said William Csaszar, a radiation physicist for the state Department of Environmental Protection.
We should aim to keep the mass media out of our perception, because all it cares about is generating clicks :)

They don't care about plain simple failures, but they are large part of startup life.

One day they will move on from startups to some other hot thing, just like they did with Bitcoin, Ebola, etc.

Don't believe the hype!
It's just a unicode character.
> Amazon owns every part of this stack, which actually makes money.

Amazon is a really bad example of a business that "actually makes money":

* http://www.ibtimes.com/amazon-nearly-20-years-business-it-st...

* http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/031414/amazon-nev...

* http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...

* http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2013/08/15/why-amazon...
Oh, let me be a bit more clear. To quote the article

> The main push of docker seems to be for completely self-contained applications, basically a super cheap and consistent VM. But VMs are a hack, and docker in many ways is just as hacky.

So I just thought that the problem you have with Docker is similar to the author of the article (which is anti Docker/VM, since he dislike both).
Forgive my lack of a source, but I read a while back that hotel wifi is often so bad because they signed short-sighted contracts in the past that locked them in to these terrible data rates for many years. And now they pass that terrible deal on to their guests.

Edit: well I found the 'source' - turns out it was a Hacker News comment, so take it for what it's worth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8082519
Sure. "Complex" problems are problems with many facets/moving parts (I recommend watching the Rich Hickey talk "Simple Made Easy"). These problems can in some cases have simple (as in, few facets/moving parts) solutions, although those solutions may not be easy to implement.
In all fairness the Toronto answer isn't as ridiculous as it seems at first blush. If you confuse Lester B. Pearson with Alastair Pearson (something quite possible by NLP when you have to match "Pearson international airport" then you at least match you end up with a British World War II hero. Not being a U.S. city would involve either underfitting or ignoring category information, and trying to stretch buttonville or billy bishop into a WWII battle takes work, but it seems like precisely the kind of error that would be caused by actual NLP rather than optimizing page rank variants.

I also think IBM has the right model by creating Watson as a service on 30% revenue share -> Let external developers find all the various products and business models. They'll be better at finding and optimizing new products than a services companies would be and some of them will be able to go after much smaller products. You end up with more diversification and less of IBM's capital at risk for 30% of what's likely to be a much larger pie than IBM can generate on their own.
You might want to try Unhosted and related projects.

https://unhosted.org/
Hey HN. I quit my job as a postdoctoral researcher 3 years ago and have since been working full-time on my first PC game. It's called Moonman and is a mix between Spelunky and Terraria. I've written all the code (60k LOC of C++) and done 99% of the artwork.

I'm now seeking crowdfunding so I can spend one more year on Moonman and finish the game! http://kck.st/1DElnw3

I'm happy to answer any questions about the game or my 3 year journey to Kickstarter. :)
Ah yes, but those are POWER systems. I was thinking of more familiar x86 systems.
At some point in the process of you getting your pay check, there's a good chance a mainframe was involved.
Of course it can. But A: the "masses" have simply become accustomed to the antics of the shock jockeys, and no, there probably are no longer any depth of depravity that an artist can sink to that will shock the masses any longer and B: the philosophical sensibility of modern art is also the philosophical sensibility of the modern elite.

So, err, who exactly are artists expecting to "shock"? The elite that already agrees with them, or the masses that have long since stopped paying attention?

You want to shock? You're going to have to attack the dominant philosophical sensibility, not echo it. I'm not sure the artists have been echoing the dominant elite sensibility so monolithically at any point in history since the Enlightenment.