jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the search for why film is "better" is sniffing up the wrong tree. I think in many mediums, "worse" can actually be preferable. For example, there's been many times when I've heard a song over a crappy phone speaker or off in the distance and think it sounds great, but when I hear the full-fidelity version loses that rough quality.

I think film is much the same way, even digital scans or film hold something a bit better than digital in many ways. The trend in digital photography is often as much to introduce imprecision in color, focus, etc. in order to make it appear more film-like.

So I guess the "warmth" is really a result of all those small errors being introduced (many of them human) that digital photography works very hard to eliminate.
the revolution will not be appified
Is it not theoretically interesting to understand what the consequences of this "axiom" are? For example, can our current living systems evolve to catalyze any chemical reaction? Are there things in "task space" that biology can't evolve a solution to?
The idea is if only a handful of professionals are uploading high quality rips, then it becomes feasible for law enforcement to investigate and take them down. Sort of like professional DVD pirates where they have actual pressing plants. If everyone is uploading stuff from home, it's harder.

Regardless, they didn't stop at HDCP. Check out Cinavia for an interesting approach to closing the analogue hole.
Sure, but again, doesn't the same apply if Facebook decided to lower their salaries?
Yup not working for me either :(
Version 39.0.2171.95 m

Uncaught NotSupportedError: Failed to set the 'buffer' property on 'ConvolverNode': The buffer sample rate of 44100 does not match the context rate of 48000 Hz.

hpl.init_convolver main.js:464
hpl.init main.js:506
main.js:559 (anonymous function)
learning the hard way :)
Given the way Google is steering Android these days i am not sure i want it on a "desktop" any time soon.

Back during early 3.x it had a spark of potential. But since then Google has done quite a bit to lock it down so that it is basically a media consumption terminal.
The real reason a VC company isn't going to kill hollywood is because there's not enough money in it. The author throws around $65 billion industry as if that's some sort of impressive number. FB alone is worth $100B. We could liquidate FB and buy the entire industry and shut it down if we really wanted to. Compare that to LNKD, EBAY, GOOG, hell even CRM. We have hit after hit after hit that are worth more than the entire film industry after a few years' worth of nurturing.

No, the reason that a VC-funded company won't kill Hollywood is because there's not enough money there - not because Hollywood has some sort of monopoly on how to entertain people.
Stormfront is fairly notorious for being a racist forum, which is populated chiefly by racist whites (and those who wish to act like them) and run solely for the benefit of racist whites. It is a hateful place and its rules should be viewed with skepticism on that basis.
Risk is cost we can't measure because it would require the ability to predict what we cannot. Rents are profits that aren't really profits.

The thing to do is be open, transparent and honest about risk and rents. But at our core, we're all liars when the stakes get high. The math is also error prone.

Remember the political climate those old GE nuke plants were built under - "too cheap to meter" and run by people like Leslie Groves who had infought enough to be at the top of the heap. there was this strange, willful naievete.

"Making those industries transparent and honest" seems impossible.
"I've been living like that for the past 4 years."

Well, you evidently do have internet access...
Can anyone recommend a good PHP framework? I've used Zend and Yii - they are okay, but I'd like to try something new. So, other than these two, which ones are good?
The only way that (X) should be used to signal intelligence is if you can explain an idea in a way that makes it completely obvious and trivial

This is the opposite, unfortunately, of academia in general, not just economics.
Bandwidth sharing isn't quite the panacea that a lot of people think it is.

For starters, you have to get the end user to download and install a piece of software first (torrent client, etc) and then direct them to the larger downloads of the actual software you're distributing.

Next, you can't just build this feature into something like our PortableApps.com Platform (with it's built in software downloader/app store/updater) as many end users are prohibited from running P2P software by their ISPs and we can't depend on them being technically knowledgeable enough to know whether or not they're allowed to.

Then you have the issues with routers and firewalls and punching holes in them to allow people to upload to others as well as download (which is a bit easier with upnp but not always automatic).

Then you have the issue that much of the world is still on metered connections. Here in NYC I have the choice between slow DSL provided by one company (and some resellers that use the same line), fast but unreliable cable provided by one company (no resellers or competitors), no fiber (Verizon cancelled FiOS buildouts), or wireless (which carries a limit of 5GB per month and you pay $10 per GB after that). I opted for the fast but unreliable cable and a wireless hotspot as a backup for the several hours a month the cable goes down. Lots of the world has even fewer options than I do.

And finally, most legitimate webhosts prohibit any kind of P2P hosting on their networks, so you can forget about running a torrent tracker on your regular web server. You can go with a second tier provider that is more forgiving (or clueless) but then you have the issues associated with such a provider (likely illegal activities on the same network, likely security issues, etc).

There are other issues and some workarounds for the above, of course, this is just my personal experience with researching it for PortableApps.com over the years.
I think the said company would have to hold the IP (intellectual property) to be able to register with YouTube, thus ending up in the same situation as now
Queer person here. This company is clearly riding on the coat tails of the community and doesn't give two shits about us. They are simply marketing themselves this way to tap into a market of closeted people and they decided to play this up to boost revenue.

If they were actually concerned with the safety and wellbeing of LGBT folk they would create something that reflects the needs of communities and it would take into account how complex we are. They would not push something so simplistic on us claiming it's good for us without ever asking themselves if this is true or if their idea is actually a positive contribution to the community. I'm not sorry to say this: LGBT issues are not so simple that they can be solved with such quick fixes because a handful of community members find such fixes momentarily useful. This company might tangentially help a few people but realistically it might also make a lot of scenarios worse. More credibility to closet stories = less people out = less safety due to smaller numbers; more attention drawn to fake SMS relationship = higher chance of forced outing; transaction history on a teenager's bank account = higher chance of forced outing to parents = higher chance of homelessness and/or abuse; only some people can afford $25/mo. = separation of LGB community by class = fragmentation of community; doesn't consider the entire queer community = less solidarity; etc.

Also companies should stop saying LGBT when really they mean "some lesbians & some gays & maybe some bisexuals but not any trans* folk and definitely no one who doesn't have money".
Once a company has more than a thousand employees, it automatically becomes a company where most employees work from 9-5. Google is no exception.
But IP could still be selectively assigned to the subsidiary.
Please don't treat me like an idiot. I've been studying OOP concepts for quite some time now. I'm quite capable of figuring out any deep concepts you care to throw at me. If you can't explain them in your own words, fine, but don't expect me to believe you have any real insight on this question because of that. I could watch that whole video and still not know what you were trying to argue.
I focus the argument on chilling effects, as in http://www.dbms2.com/2013/07/29/very-chilling-effects/ To quote:

I’ve worried for years about a terrible and under-appreciated danger of privacy intrusion, which in a recent post I characterized as a chilling effect upon the exercise of ordinary freedoms. When government — or an organization such as your employer, your insurer, etc. — watches you closely, it can be dangerous to deviate from the norm. Even the slightest non-conformity could have serious consequences. I wish that were an exaggeration; let’s explore why it isn’t.
Man, the wiki page really makes him look like a short-sighted jerk. A lot of those items are the stereotypical headlines that lack the needed context.

Like the $3k for if military should use umbrellas in the rain: well, should they? Perhaps only officers, so soldiers have their hands free? Maybe we should just contract a clip of some kind that will hold the umbrella to their gear? Or maybe it's only worth it on base? I mean, how far will $3k even go - a week or so of consultant time?

Or the $57k for measuring stewardesses. These are the people who may still be moving about the cabin while everyone else is seated. How do we decide how much a seat on a $100,000,000 plane needs? Can the seat be wider just above the waist of the lady, such that the seats can slightly encroach on the isle? (Big money to be had there possibly - though it's worth noting the 1975 flights likely still had an implicit assumption about stewardess ... styling.) Is it reasonable the typical rider can squeeze past a stewardess? How often and with what kind of difficulty? Will they be required to get out of the way in the event of an emergency or should they stay to direct, potentially blocking the path? In this case, we spent about $130 bucks a few hundred times. An engineer needed those numbers somewhere down the line, and hopefully some insight was gained. Never mind that someone had the (likely) enviable job of measuring the fitting of a few hundred 1970s-style stewardesses.

I'm not saying a lot of the stuff's doesn't make me gloriously incredulous, but it's super easy to just take something at face value and just mock it. (Not that your linking it implies anything - people who mock like Proxmire just get my goat.)
I really wouldn't expect there to be a mountain of evidence for predatory pricing, it's been illegal since the 50's and if done properly it's subtle. It's just one of many tools firms have to duck and move in the marketplace.
Not even close, sadly.
At that point, we’re already changing the name, so why not go all the way?
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Similar story here for longevity of the BeagleBone Black. It’s as good, or better, than the matching RPi.
Explicit consent for privacy-related things is a great idea. It’s difficult to sympathise with Facebook here.
The greatest threat to liberty and democracy today are the big tech companies, agreed.
They're still taking extra time to boot up an OS and using electricity to track what you're doing. There have also been stories on HN about smart TVs connecting to open wifi to send data home.
I saw this, but from what I understand it was only if you had an Android phone, and it needed to be beside you the whole time while it procesed the messages for you in the background?
I see no technical reason why GitHub could not have been implemented as a federated system. Should we even consider convenience of a service that has serious ethical issues?
I disagree. I think if using dplyr + ggplot2 you can go very far without dealing with R's warts and I hope that the future of R lies in this direction. Honestly, R's syntax is not the problem, the "standard" library is the biggest problem in it's inconsistencies.

That said, the other big area of complaint in R is the type system. We are too often having to coerce types, but I'm not exactly sure of the solution for that.
> So what? Is biodynamic farming going to feed 10B people?

Natural polyculture methods have higher yields than chemical monoculture methods. There will be less of a particular type of corn or soybean, but more food overall.

Though some farmers, such as Masanobu Fukuoka was able to have significantly higher rice yields (& even more overall food of different types) using natural polyculture methods than chemical monoculture methods.

Note that permaculture is of a different tradition than biodynamic farming. Both are good in their appropriate usages. Appropriate for the climate, land, water context, etc.
Those links are very interesting, I didn't know it was such a common question.

However I still wonder - is bytecode the only way to go about this? Every compile-to-JS language I've used has either been sugar over JS or had JS's semantics/syntax seeping through the cracks...what if the base language was a Lisp? There's a big difference between being bound to the semantics of a language like JS or dart and those of Lisp.

I have no doubt that a new VM would be a herculean undertaking and be riddled with all sorts of problems, but I remain unconvinced that it wouldn't pay off in the end. Maybe I'm being naive, but if what we're doing now really is as good as it gets then it seems either I'm much more ignorant to the issues at play than I thought or this hole is significantly deeper than even I imagined.
Diplomas.
No, scanning main memory is very obvious and easy to detect.

A small one kilobyte of escrow is a lot more nefarious and harder to detect.
There is a good Netflix series called Thieves Of The Wood that has a subplot about a social climber trying to "get his wig" (a symbol of the office he aspires to). Some very cool wigs. Takes place in 18th century Belgium.
How does one get on this list?
i have tech crunch blocked so i'm not. i do like to come see the comments from HN users every now and then...
I like his way of doing the auto signing. I wrote about the topic at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-migrate2cl... and just had the new instance run the manifest locally.

The other option is to have the instance sign its own key, much the same way I have the instance set itself up in Cacti.
Yeah it changed to that mid-day, but I think it's since changed to http://sharedspaces.googlelabs.com/

Gadgets seem to be working now, too.
Microsoft relies on Office piracy as a strange means of price discrimination. The product requires network effects to maintain its near-monopoly position in the corporate world, and having a significant portion of people in "document sharing" networks say, "I don't have Office" is a threat. So, what Microsoft's quietly made decision says to me is that they are worried that a sufficiently large enough portion of computer users were both unwilling to pay for Office and unwilling to bother pirating it.

On Black Friday, many online retailers were running specials on a Home/Student Office "Family Pack" -- three legal installs for $100. This is a midpoint between the corporate price point and free. Perhaps an attempt to introduce another segment? I recall the availability of home/student editions in the past, but the price points were always much higher.
> The answer is: use HIBP, or https://haveibeenpwned.com/. They’ve got the technical (and social) bits of this process right!

While I'd trust HIBP more it isn't doing anything significantly different with the lookup process, is it?

"There's no k-anonymity implementation for phone numbers at this point in time." https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-...

Putting a number sends it directly in the GET request: https://haveibeenpwned.com/unifiedsearch/%2B1%20123%20456%20...

Edit: as does looking up an email. It's password lookups that use local hashing/k-anonymity: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Privacy
> Maybe finding a way to scale up good things like trust or good will? I want to find something where I'm making the world a better place but also working on something that makes me smile.

Have you made any progress finding something new to work on?

Maybe I'm projecting here, but I'd imagine this is the dream of most of HN, no? But I don't know which is harder: finding such a unicorn idea, or executing on it once you've found it.
Maybe COBOL needs a Racket-type implementation that can be hacked upon to make it cool again.
They're both pinkie cases -- kebab case is clearly superior. ;)
> We're in a period where the severity and number of infections has lowered, so mutation is less likely. A dangerous mutation is extremely rare, fortunately.

That's not just a coincidence, right? Isn't that because we're restricting indoor mass gatherings and such? Meaning that reversing the latter seems precisely like the kind of thing that would give a virus plenty of opportunities to mutate?
I've summarized this elsewhere:

Django is really great for writing Django apps. It's not great for writing other kinds of apps.

If your app is a CRUD interface over a relational DB, it's awesome and I mean that sincerely. I'll happily reach for it instead of reinventing that nicely crafted wheel.

If your app isn't -- say, it's backed with noSQL or maybe is a frontend over a bunch of backend API calls such that you're not using its ORM or its permission model -- then it feels like a box of pain.
The autocomplete results can come from the global app state. There’s no rules written in stone about what should be in local state. My default is “as little as possible”.
What one party may characterize as an "inability to produce a counterpoint", another party may characterize as "unwilling to waste time arguing with some moron who doesn't understand the self-evident point".

There are 100 other possible explanations, but I think anyone can agree that not replying to every "counterargument" in a social setting doesn't mean that someone is wrong.
Excited to find out just how much degeneracy and crime San Franciscans are willing to put up with! So far, there's no bottom.
You expect people on HackerNews to not accurately represent how society views something? There's a reason why the phrase "what's my monthly?" is a thing. Car dealers pushing 7 to 8 year loans is because people are worried about their "monthly." Same for rent-to-own places, mobile companies, and everyone else in the lending business.
This solution competes against short term storage, (typically tens of minutes, up to hours). Flywheels are commonly used and efficient energy storage for short term.

Pumped hydro mentioned in the article is good for long term storage > weeks, months, even seasonal.
Some places a starter apartment is $25000, and you can work remotely as a developer earning, say, $4000 a month net. It's just hard to wrap my head around 20 year mortgage.
I think it is safe to say that learning a joint distribution of vision + language, is fully possible at this stage, demonstrating by this work.

But 'understanding' itself needs to be further specified, in order to be tested even.

What strikes me most is the fidelity of those generated images, matching the SOTA from GAN literature with much more variety, without using the GAN objective.

It seems Transformer model might be the best neural construct we have right now, to learn any distribution, assuming more than enough data.
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Won't this cause issues with retraining? You'll end up with a high SNR and lower sync speed, which may solve the packet loss problem but isn't ideal. It would be better to either work out whether the router is the issue and replace it or work out if the line is a problem and get an engineer booked out to investigate it.
Chrome impliments the necessary features for wasm and webgl. Here's a test: checkaux.github.io

Mobile firefox lacks simd, i haven't been able to get its shared memory to work on a local or deployed environment because of bugs in what it thinks is a 'secure context'

Desktop and mobile Firefox does not support OffscreenCanvas without turning on flags. It's been years since this was meant to be made. Therefore you cannot use seperate threads to render to webgl without using less performant workarounds.

Lack of proper threading means bad page performance.

There's lots more dumb bugs and features firefox said it would support and simply never did. Understand there's real reasons as to why chrome is the preferred. it works and it actually puts in the necessary features.
> A lot of time, money and effort invested to support a platform whos creator is unwilling to provide support.

If Linux only ran on hardware which the creator was willing to provide support, Linux would not exist. Linux was created in spite of Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc etc. Support from the makers only came later.

Linux was originally an OS created by people who wanted to do things the OEMs and commercial vendors didn't support. While it's cool that a lot of manufacturers support Linux now, that's not where we came from.
Speaking of Nat (and semi-related to this post), I noticed that when he did the reddit AMA just before Microsoft took control the only highly rated question that went unanswered related to censorship in China.

https://i.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_f...

Now that you guys have had some time to formulate policy do you have any comment?
Maybe it is using the language information in the browser to determine the default language.

For IP geolocation, did you see Germany if you visit https://www.ipaddress.my?