jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While I agree with you generally on all the reasons video's worse than text, _some_ of this is addressable with an offline video player. This is why I download virtually _everything_ I watch (desktop) via youtube-dl (it's pretty much a generic video download tool) and play it in mplayer or Xine.

In theory, VLC allows queuing of online content for playback, though in practice it's flaky enough that it crashes, loses the playlist, and/or gets confused during playback. I much prefer mplayer as a general rule.
The trademark collision is going to test the joke of Red Bean Software:

> We're software producers of a different kind. Rather than market software the usual way, we openly deny its existence, and challenge our customers to do the same.

https://red-bean.com/
Not all devs do.

If you are someone who can't afford 30¢ a day to use Apple's App Store, you can get the fee reduced or waived.
> Someone in his position could do so many things on our little blue dot itself to help those in need.

She's talking about the man who accelerated our transition to electric cars by years, who is significantly lowering the cost and acceptability of solar power, is enabling the transition of the grid to renewables through the Tesla Megapacks, is pouring billions into battery R&D which will be critical to a green transition, is sponsoring a $100 million prize into carbon capture and is researching the production of fossil fuel replacements from carbon dioxide.

Who has done more?
Seems like this is an open invitation for Mark Z and/or Facebook.

Could a "techno-government" go to war with another? And if so, what would that look like?
I doubt the iPhone's long-term success was dictated by Facebook et al whoring out user data. There are plenty of useful apps that don't hinge on violating the privacy of users.
As it seems the Oberon IDE is missing from this list: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon#oberon-ide-features
It's only this time around that I've read the sad conclusion to this thread, from the original contributor

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...

> Unfortunately, I haven't had any time inte the last few days to code, nor read
mail. I'm assuming that there is no point in me finishing the patch and that git
will go with the strbuf solution? /Lukas

... with no response.
> Y combinator startup regalii is working on the first point.

They seem to be aiming to pay bills from the US; I want to send money from another country to the US and just do whatever I want with it.

> Autodesk Homestyler

I looked it up and it doesn't quite seem to be what I want. For one thing, I live in Japan, so none of my furniture is in the catalog.

For another, want to find a chair that physically (not cosmetically) fits my kitchen table. This goes back to my complaint about comparing specs, actually. :)
It's legitimate to use a chemical response as a short-term solution, if it's safe and non-addictive. This walks straight into the "every case is different" territory, though.
I agree, that's huge advantage. That's why I said it was a deceptive representation, but not an invalid one.
It seems likely to me that this policy would polarize, not mitigate, the effects.

That is, if a neighborhood is kind of on the line between okay and bad, this policy might help push it up into okay -- businesses would say, "Okay, there is enough going on in this neighborhood that we can deal with moving into it even if we have these hiring restrictions," and then the hiring restrictions may in fact improve the neighborhood.

But if the neighborhood is solidly bad, the business says, "Let me get this straight: you want us to move into a part of the city where it's by no means clear that we can prosper anyway, AND you want to make it really hard for us to hire people, AND you want to slow down any improvement that our presence may make to the neighborhood by meaning that it all has to be organic rather than imported? HELL NO." And so then nobody takes a chance on really poor neighborhoods and they get worse and worse.

On the gripping hand, I don't think it's a plausible policy in America. It seems outside of the type of business regulations which can actually get enacted.
I agree, this task should fall squarely on your managers(or your colleagues' managers shoulders)
This sounds like a case of another manager downloading their responsibility.
The problem is some managers do not have the skill set to review the work, then they throw their staff under the bus when they are told that a team members work in not up to par. Usually by telling that team member "So and so says your not..." instead of listening to your opinion and then investigating the situation and dealing with it without bringing your name into it.
It's a tough situation, You care about the company but don't like being the bad guy. If You don't deal with the problems there is a chance things will blow up.
Depending on the size of the company maybe You can request being moved to another team, or put in for a promotion, your already doing the managers job from the sounds of it.
I don't know the pertinent CA laws, but in NY you can be fined for not shoveling snow off of your sidewalk and you are required to keep the sidewalk in good repair. If the sidewalk is broken and somebody trips, you can get fined by the city and/or sued by the ankle breaker. If it needs to be replaced, you're expected to do it yourself with your own money or be fined.
Is catching up on your work email after 8pm really freedom from your job?
SRE here. If you can handle your work nobody cares how much you are in the office. At all. However, unless you are insanely organized you won't be able to do this every single week--most successful googlers have several projects going on at once and there will be some times when you need to work hard on more than one.
You're right. I am absolutely not making the argument that Krugman is bad because of the quote. I'm asserting that Krugman is bad, because I know that to be true, without offering proof, which would be outside the scope of an HN comment.

Separately, I'm also adding the quote to make fun of him.

I didn't expect people to take my comment as some sort of intellectual argument. As you point out, obviously, it is not.
> Google won't be liable as long as they (1) aren't aware of the infringing videos and (2) take them down after receiving a DMCA complaint. I don't see how their ability to block them changes this - it's pretty established that these services are not required to proactively monitor their content.

Asking what another comment asked above this thread - doesn't ContentID exactly fill the requirements for clause (1) - Google knows which videos are potential infringement.
and if, like the vast majority of wikipedia traffic you're not, there's not.
I'm the author of the piece and I believe in both. 1 works initially but then 2 takes over in time. Apple isn't about "hackers", it's about people who want ease of use and style. Linux boxes and the like are hacker territory with hardware they can mess with.
Wow, this is fantastic. Issue 8 caught my eye because of 'Better CSS with Sass' and I found a section titled 'Working Geek' about how to give good tech presentations, when I am currently preparing one on RIA Services for work! Couldn't be happier.
Can you provide examples that mention jail?
I was once late to the airport (in Israel) where I was scheduled to pick up my mother. I parked the car and ran towards the gate.

A guard was standing at the entrance with her hands crossed doing nothing by observing. When she saw me coming she made a few quick steps towards me and signaled me to stop and stand aside for questioning. I felt a bit uncomfortable, first because it was abrupt and I was being singled out, but also because she was behaving like a shepherd dog trying to seize my eyes (which I later understood why). She was very polite and dismissed me after presenting my ID and answering a few short questions.

This got me thinking about the silent perimeters, and how smart it is they were only engaged when triggered. The take home lesson for me was: smart earns respect. They were a step ahead of me and I was responding, not them.
I think it's the odd transharmonic (or total harmonic?) distortion that sounds pleasing if I recall my sound engineering from a zillion years ago, an even THD doesn't sound good.
sizeof(char) is a _minimum_ of 1, always, by definition. But it is not always 1, though most modern platforms are.

> Their implementation-defined values shall be equal or greater in magnitude... - ISO/IEC 9899:201x, Annex E, 5.2.4.2.1
It's a great book. The David Cronenberg-directed film is also excellent, although only somewhat related to the book.
Has anyone ever actually paid $1 / year for WhatsApp? I know in several places they claim that is their business model, but I've never come across anyone that has paid for WhatsApp.

Part of that may be due to the fact that WhatsApp grows so fast that most users haven't been around for a year, but I'm under the impression that after a year, if you don't pay, the app continues to work and you never lose access.
I turned it on for a while when I first found HN, but then I turned it back off once the initial surge of discovery had worn down.
somehow a book is missing that would explain why the 'Economist' (sic!) had no idea of the upcoming financial crisis and completely failed to understand the catastrophic effects of economic politics that were promoted by the Economist, which lead to the crisis.
Reasonable enough to say that people with big-company backgrounds often have expectations that amount to "first I'll hire 4 people to do the job you are expecting me to."

I would hire someone from Microsoft over someone from IBM any day. But I agree, I'd rather try and find some disgruntled Yahoo worker and at this point that ought to be easier.
I'm using a CR-48 and I have those too. I think they're just part of the OS. I have never visited those sites so I'm guessing it's auto-added to Chrome?
yes -- this is kind of the 'deep work' argument

the distracting stuff is ultimately low value

we've cranked up the gain on spam -- spam is our culture's moai
I hadn't seen that paper, looks really interesting! It definitely would improve the resolution but I think fundamentally it still runs into the issues I had with voxels where it mostly just learns low level correlations and not high level topology.
> "right now the most likely candidate is Beijing."

Beijing is not even the financial hub of China. That would be Shanghai.
>"Trump should have done more" to "what Trump did was not impactful" shows your bias.

These are not mutually exclusive in any way.
The von Neumann architecture became possible because Church and Turing wrote their highly theoretical, mathematical works.

Lasers became possible because people like Fresnel studied the properties of a highly impractical phenomenon, coherent light, while other people discovered another short-lived curiosity, inverse energy levels population.

Many such works had to be done decades before any engineering applications, or a prospect thereof.

Science is when you study the literally unknown, including no known practical applications.

When you study small pockets of unknown in a generally understood and practically fertile field, it's engineering.
Uh, again,

Sure, we have a shortage. But mask and other equipment production is going to be ramped up shortly. Testing and is going to be the second part of any virus suppression effort.

And yeah, currently, we got nothing. Everyone quarantine, the sick-enough go to the soon-to-be overwhelmed hospitals. But we have to look plausible measures once we have resources, right?
Why the downvotes? I asked a genuine question about potential alternatives.

Thank you to the people that took the time to answer the question and explain why these ideas are not currently feasible.
It seems fair. I have an hypothesis beyond the fact that it's a niche so self-motivated people are pre-selected: what somebody needs to learn Haskell are in good part applicable to computer science and programming languages whereas for JavaScript you need to learn the quirks and the specificity of the ecosystem first. The second experience does not translate very well to solving hard problems.
No, that's incorrect. The Federal Reserve System is an unusual hybrid unlike NASA or any other government agency I can think of. NASA doesn't have Boeing or Raytheon as "member agencies" or as owners of regional space administrations that take their marching orders from a Board of Space Governors appointed by the president.

Some of the critics of the Fed like this book, but I haven't read it myself:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal/dp/...

Note I'm not expressing an opinion on the grandparent post's claims one way or another.
Do you know that almost every Mac OS X program uses it? It's the basis of KVO - that's how Interface Builder bindings are implemented.

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-01-23.html
> Everything comes in non-packets? From an untrusted brand?

Close; bulk ingredients and reusable containers, from a minimally branded supplier to which I have no loyalty.
iPad uses HTML5 since there's no flash on iOS, might be your adblock.
I actually refuse to use PIC32 on principle because they took the MIPS version of gcc, added a license manager to it that disabled -O2 and higher unless you paid them a substantial sum of money for a license key, and then tried to make people use their crippled gcc by forbidding people from using the official PIC32 peripheral libraries with any other version of the compiler. It was a really sleazy end-run around the intent of the GPL.
Do you use adblock? Chrome's extensions can eat up more RAM than chrome itself, and you don't always see it as a separate process. I keep my extensions minimal, and can use chrome just fine on a 2 GB system.
IMHO, this is a long game. What if every branded product (or ones that cared enough or could afford it) shipped with a dash button or was given one at checkout? What would brands pay for that? Customers wouldn't have to. And yes, I see the anti-incentive for a Safeway to disintermediate themselves unless Amazon was the delivery agent anyway. I can see brands willing to try this out. Given the amount of money spent on promotions and coupons with no clear, trackable value, this seems like something they would get behind once some basic metrics are in place.
I work at a university as a software dev. I got offered the job, interviewed, and started working in a couple weeks. It was actually a very seamless process.
The pay for my area is comparable to private jobs, but I don't get all the startups benefits like pingpong and snacks. It's just a basic office job. The good part though is that there is no bureaucracy and I have free roam to develop in any environment I want.

I'm not an academic but I work for one. If that makes sense.
I made the argument knowing that, actually. And in my opinion, the promises are almost always implicit.
Generally yes. The RandomX dev seems to have some issues getting to to work well on apple silicon, however the Xmrig dev has it working, but seems it caps out at 2.3kh/s due to not being able to take advantage of JIT or large pages. (At least from what I read of their respective GitHub repos
https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/issues/196

And

https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/issues/1991).

RandomX mining is better at the moment, but that may be because nobody's developed a GPU minter tailored to the uniqueness of apple's GPU, if that's even possible.
From centralized exchanges the decentralized exchanges evolved since they share your criticism.

The way I look at it: people create things, these things have certain effects. That's all there's to it. I don't mind that it's almost 100% against the idealism of Bitcoin, the fact that centralized exchanges were created and used is interesting in itself. Moreover, it's not necessarily incompatible with decentralization since trading Bitcoin on an exchange (centralized) is something else than exchanging Bitcoin via the blockchain (decentralized).
Harrison Bergeron's one of those few cases where i actually preferred the movie version to the original story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron_(film)

I thought the original was a bit over the top a bit ridiculous almost. Bergeron's some kind of god being almost. The movie kept it a little more realistic and was darker i felt.
> The goal is a 100% diverse school system.

What does 100% diverse means in this context ?
https://mia.bet/ is one i like, a home made site where you bet on a marble run race with the randomness generated by their pet hamster. makes me smile.

i'll also add in https://clr.fund/ as its relevant to the bigger question of "how do we fund open source public goods" that might be relevant to hackernews readers.
I see.

> Nomad is supposed to be "significantly easier than microk8s or minikube or kind" to run locally as a dev environment. Well, anyone familiar with minikube is well aware that to get it up and running you only need to install it and kubectl, and quite literally just run 'minikube start'

It would appear that i wasn't up to date on minikube - last time i installed it ( it was a few years back, and since then i've switched to microk8s for local stuff), it required a VM intermediary and driver, but that's no longer the case, direct Docker being supported. That's drastically easier than it was before, but there's still a slight advantage to Nomad (see below).

> Nomad agent is not only far more convoluted to get up and running according to Nomad's official documentation, but it is also explicitly stated that it's use is highly discouraged

How so? Download a binary, run `nomad agent -dev` and that's it, there's nothing convoluted. It's highly discouraged the same way minikube is - for production use. With `nomad agent -dev` you get a local ephemeral Nomad instance you can do whatever you want with, but should never use it for production use.

The small advantage i talked about is that minikube is a separate thing you have to download ( and there's minikube vs microk8s vs kind); with nomad, it's the same one as the CLI you need to interact with the cluster. So i'd be like there was `kubectl minikube start`, and that's it - you can go from working with a cluster to having a local one for testing in a command. Very slight advantage, indeed, but still one IMHO.
Very few politicians have a firsthand understanding of issues like this. You don't have to attribute "fascism" to them to wonder who actually drafted the talking points embodied in that letter.
Not to beat a dead horse, but django is a framework, the concurrency part is handled by another layer. You were testing how well django's test server handles concurrency; that's all.
If by well-formatted, you mean chopped up into five pages, I guess you got me. I'll take the single page version (which for the record, does not trigger the print dialog).
That's on our roadmap, yes. In the future we'll be storage-agnostic, so you can use our S3 storage, your own S3 storage, Box.net, Dropbox, and a few other options we're mulling over.
In addition to exposure to a wide variety of topics, learning how to attack problems from various angles or using different frameworks is incredibly useful.
When following the docs, Go just works. It compiles fast, though not so dynamic as Ruby and Python. Tooling and runtime also matters in one's work.
> Moving to Apple Maps is basically stabbing yourself in the face.

After doing some basic A/B testing (checking Google Maps, Waze and Apple Maps for routing guidance) and establishing that Apple Maps has been giving me earlier arrival times through different routing guidance (and actually delivering on that earlier arrival time, by means of actually using it), I've determined that's less likely to be true, if you're in a city that has been refreshed recently.

Combined with the (potentially anti-competitive) use of private APIs on both the iPhone and Apple Watch, enabling the phone lockscreen to always display routing guidance, and the watch to provide haptic feedback for routing guidance, Apple Maps has become a superior experience as far as driving goes.

This is all if you're already a sucker in their eco-system, and happen to live in a city they care about, which I am.

EDIT: At the same time..

> Moving to Apple Maps is basically stabbing yourself in the face.

If you're taking this from the perspective of moving from one megacorp to another, rather than quality of service, then yes, there's basically no difference here. Apple today is claiming to care, in a similar manner to Google's old mission statement of "dont be evil". Apple have been pretty clear that their interest in your privacy only extends as far as lip service goes, given the lack of E2E encryption on iCloud storage for the majority of your data.

2 decades ago Google was "don't be evil" and here we are today. Where do we think Apple will be in a decade or two from now?

So yes, in that respect, don't stab yourself in the face, and don't use any megacorp products.
>My fiancée has cancer, and we regularly joke that dealing with insurance companies is worse than the actual stage 3 cancer she has.

You know what's crazy? This isn't even the first time I've heard this. Literally had the same conversation with a close friend last year. Thankfully it wasn't Stage Three and their spouse is in remission, but the financial ordeal was more stressful than the diagnosis.
It's regular Groovy. Look at this unrelated library that is doing the same thing. Toggle from Groovy to see what it is doing behind the scenes. https://spreadsheet.dsl.builders/#_outlines

The first parameter in a Groovy closure it will be treated as "this" and any function you call can applied to "this" first.

sourceSets is just a function that accepts a closure whose first parameter is sourceSets (this is implementation specific). If you call main inside the closure then groovy will call sourceSets.main and set that property.

What you are probably complaining about is that parenthesis are optional in two contexts. Your function fits on a single line or your last parameter is a closure (curly braces)

You're also confused by the fact that you can pass a map as a parameter by simply doing "function key1: name1, key2: name2".
"Asia" is very vague and not helpful, unfortunately. I was asking about Japan ;-)
You've pretty much summed up my reaction as well.
yo, founder of notifo here. send me an email and we'll get it sorted for you.
It is explained in the comments: take three different lines in the plane, and you'll get 2=3.
The way this article is written makes it sound like the author has recently bought into the Dave McClure pyramid scheme and he's supposed to tell 10 friends about the new, awesome system Dave has come up with.

Disclaimer: I'm not from the Valley and I haven't ever heard of Dave McClure. He may very well be a reputable fellow in the angel investing world.
Though not HTML5, it is possible to script Ruby browser-side in IE, Firefox and Safari: http://www.rubyinside.com/ironruby-silverlight-ruby-in-brows...

Well.. sort of ;-)
Is this a joke? I found it very offensive.
nostrademons, I'm confused why you would wonder about the viewpoint of a public health official. Are you in government yourself? Do you often view things from the point of view of someone working in government? Is there anything about the opinion of a public health official that normally interests you?
"You might notice that these men harbor some strange ideas about how the world works and some particularly strange ideas about women."

Gross understatement indeed! I found most observations spot on.
It is what you make it. I know plenty of people in the area who seem to have a good amount of fun. But it's always possible to go live in the city if you find the hard life too difficult to find in the valley.

But an attitude that dwells on thoughts like ". . . but unfortunately it is wasted with this boring sprawling burbs" could probably suck the life right out of almost any experience.