skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix has pretty good compression but yeah this is why I canceled my 4k subscription when they announced they were raising prices. I think 4k is currently $4/mo more and I have a gigabit connection. If they are going to charge 30% more for the privilege they shouldn't compress it to the point where it's not appreciably different from upscaling 1080p.

Streaming services really frustrate me for that reason. I get that bandwidth costs money but when e.g. Play Movies advertises a movie rental for $5 but when that actually means $5 for SD (who the hell even uses SD) but $10 for UHD when it's compressed to shit, what service are you actually providing me?
Interesting that this is touted as one of the "best" uses of Meld[0]. Will try this out tomorrow.

0: http://meldmerge.org/help/resolving-conflicts.html
Uber Sexual Harassment Movie in the Works with Whistleblower Susan Fowler
Ancient warriors
Communist Apps of Chinese Communist Party
That article is about the FDA and a melanoma drug. I don't think it has anything to do with Cray or patents.

Possibly mis-copied link?
There are an infinite number of luminance levels between a contrast of 1 to 1,000,000, right? You will need 20 bits if a human can distinguish 1,000,000 levels between those two extremes. Is that the case? Maybe a human can distinguish 2,000,000 levels between 1 and 1,000,000, in which case you would need 21 bits.

You can't take a real range and give a number of bits needed to represent it without also stating what resolution you need. And I think it's unlikely that the resolution that a human can perceive is coincidentally the same as the factor of one extreme to the other.
It depends on how much you do the activity.

When I was a DBA, I did all sorts of data normalization stuff, and the Unix pipeline of tools (vim, sed, awk, some perl) was necessary and I was adept at it. Today, I don't do it that often, and it's quicker to just use Excel or whatever for slicing and dicing. It's not worth the overhead to save 10 minutes of manual tasking.

You'd see this when you did green screen to web transformations in enterprise projects. Training would 1/10 the effort, and knowledge based processes would be faster, but the new people would be alot slower than the veteran keyboard operators.
It's true that you should think about what you're doing so you can avoid mistakes (and, as a side effect, type less), but you still end up typing quite a bit as a programmer, and you probably want to minimize the impedance mismatch while you're translating your thoughts into code.

I've seen this play out in real life with two programmers who were roughly equal in terms of thinking in abstract terms. One of them was much better at typing (and using tools in general), so their code quality was better overall. The other would get frustrated in the translation/typing stage and produce lots of sloppy and incorrect code.
Really neat!! Thanks for sharing :)
I'm also wondering about this. Texas is a majority-minority state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas
Not sure why you're bringing up election meddling when both Chavez and Maduro were elected. What was this meddling supposed to accomplish?
It seems to me that your fears are unjustified. Being unemployable as a senior, architect level developer is very different from being unemployable as a developer, period. It seems to me that you have the skills and resume to find a senior role that is not that senior as architect or CTO. Or at least a more junior one with real fast growth.
What do you suggest using for API documentation? Genuinely curious.
That seems like more of a social issue than "business affairs" to me. But I don't really know what seangrogg is referring to with that phrase.
You bring up many good points, but I don’t think you need to accept the main point of the original post:

>Most wealth is material...

The wealth/value of the companies that control the intellectual property that the world relies on, are at least as valuable as the companies that control the materials we rely on. Microsoft was maybe the first company to grow huge that didn’t rely on control of oil/railroads/etc for its wealth and there are plenty others. I don’t see that trend reversing - as you said we mostly pay for the arrangement of matter, not the matter itself.
Other reasons that I also like Insomnia (I've used Paw as well):

- Cross platform

- Simpler use for non-experts

- No need for pro (paid subscription) for my needs, so it's completely free

- Feels nicer than all of the browser "REST explorer" plugins
I understand your point of view, but these are different levels of trust. You can audit the javascript they are sending you and (potentially) notice it is a ruse. If they are reading your email after you send it to their server though you have no way of knowing.
Why is mask write time such a big deal? They mention 24 hours as a general upper limit, but given that silicon iterations take several weeks, it doesn't seem like a major factor.
Why Atlanta Is the Early Favorite to Land Amazon's Second Headquarters
Related to that, colors of videos on the internet (and YouTube) are always kinda ugly and (I think) not very faithful of what the color artists intended to show...

I'm not sure but I think one of the issues are from the 16 - 235 channel remapping
Because HN is totally uncurated and dang, patio11, tptacek and friends all all angels!
You still have quantization noise at 20 bits. It's just less than at 8.
While I agree with you on most things and I understand I'm not adding much to the overall discussion I kinda feel like saying:

>I don't like using my mouse because of wrist fatigue, so I guess I wouldn't be interested.

Is like saying:

>Having to do activities that involve lightly throwing baseballs hurts my arm so I'm going to stick with lightly throwing tennis balls.
This is extremely bad advice. Firing people because you think they are "losers" is a sure fire way to make your work place toxic. This is what lazy managers and companies do.

Someone who is underperforming should be informed specifically how they are underperforming and what they can do to become an excellent performer. They may not be aware they are underperforming or believe they are overperfomlng but they are doing the wrong thing. Having open and honest discussions with people, giving them chances, offering guidance/training, and treating people like adults is how you build a company that is not full of "losers".

It's not being lazy to work with an underperforming employee to turn that around it's lazy to just fire them because to you they appear to be a "loser".

Positivity is super important especially when you are a manager. This article has such a negative tone it's disappointing that it's author might actually be a manager some place.

Additionally comparing poorly performing employees with serious drug addiction is just not super cool.
Good, reliable tool, with great native UI is very well worth one time $50 purchase.
TLDR: businesses depend on their employees, including their weak hires. Have enough weak hires (or a few key bad hires) and you can't function with or without them. The article misses the real exposure most businesses face in this regard... good employees who become weak over time. The dependency crisis this creates is very real, especially in small businesses without the resources to rehabilitate and retrain struggling employees.
I would call this a poorly written article, but it's not an article. It's someone's half baked thought on a blog, but unfortunately, it reflects an attitude common enough at most tech firms to warrant a comment.

Employees don't "suck" in isolation. What do you think happens when you try to hire and coach a group of people together to solve a problem? You're building a team. No, you're not building a "band" of "rockstars", you're assembling a highly functional team of professionals. Someone who was hired who's not at the bar of seniority to be functional on the team? Hiring process and manager take responsibility. Someone was hired who wouldn't professionally gel and fit in with the team/organization? Same problem. Someone on the team has concerns and they're not going heard? Someone on the team is not finding the growth opportunities they need? Same problem.

As a middle manager, it is your job to find the right team members for your specific organization. If you're wasting time whining about how certain organizations are "addicted" to "losers", all you're doing is passing the buck, which by your own admission would make you...a "loser". See how stupid that is? You're not a loser, you're just incompetent.

Probably the only thing this half baked piece got right is that a dysfunctional organization of a certain size is going to have a much more difficult time ridding itself of that dysfunction than a smaller one -- you can't just fire your way to healthiness in such a situation. But, that's what real crisis leadership is about. It's not impossible, just very rare. You can see why, though -- it's so much easier to place the blame on others (especially your reports) by grading them into adder/subtractor buckets. And of course, when the team, division or organization folds, it's not your fault. Then, you take that toxic attitude with you to the next organization unlucky enough to get saddled with you.

Looking at the world through the lens of losers/rockstars reflects a childish, simplistic view of how humans work and are motivated. Those who subscribe to it are bound to live through a life full of unnecessary hardship and mediocrity. The competition for talent is fierce, and managers who can't effectively hire, retain and develop talent will stunt the growth of their organization. Obviously, this is not uncommon, and many organizations deteriorate to this level of dysfunction. But, there are plenty that don't. They'll poach your talent, as they should, and you'll be too oblivious to understand why.

Learn your lessons the easy way, or learn them the hard way.

PS: Don't even get me started with that egregiously inappropriate heroin analogy. The author should hope that their HR department never finds this blog post, because that would be a PR disaster.
I'd love to hear more people like you (and me :-) ) Honesty about failures (whatever the reason) lacks so much down here and is so reassuring (when the "whatever" reason is outside oneself)...
There's https://teachable.com/, https://www.thinkific.com/, and many others.
Being able to ssh <build farm> && tmux attach to reconnect to your development environment is powerful, especially when your testing environment consists of connecting to a number of different systems at once.

Examle, a persistent tmux session with splits on a big monitor, Vim/Editor in one pane with live-UT results in another and documentation/misc details (scratch?) in another kicked off as I save.

Once kiddo's go to bed I can simply 'tmux attach' from any machine with access and be up and running.

I use IDEs and Vim, but there is clear value to working completely inside the terminal.
Exactly - it's a real range! You always have quantisation noise. What I'm asking is why is 20 bits the correct minimum resolution? One extreme being a factor of 1,000,000 to the other seems irrelevant for determining the correct minimum resolution.
It really does. I can reasonably go to Houston Hobby or Austin Bergstrom and with Precheck expect to be at the gate within 15 minutes of when I walked in the door (assuming no checked baggage). DFW or O'Hare or George Bush is an entirely different ballgame.
Yep. Thanks for the heads up. I fixed it.
Don't have a blog post for you, but I'm pretty sure he's utilitizing Flask-APISpec (https://github.com/jmcarp/flask-apispec). I've been eying it for a while.
I get what you're saying, but realistically PGP will never cross the chasm, so there was not really a viable business there. I like that they have integrated it, but are moving in a direction that lowers the barrier to entry. There are risks to be sure, but it feels like the most promising of the secure messaging platforms.
This is one of the fifty greatest essays ever. Don’t be distracted the talk of Feminism or the New Left. This stuff applies across every organization I’ve run into.
Four Corners NBN programme: what's wrong with the ABC?
As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I recommend watching Abby Martin's on the ground reporting in Venezuela to get a full picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYWrPiUeWY (this particular episode is one of many examples)
Those problems are normally Pandoc parsing errors. Considering it's open source, perhaps we should print the error message so people can actually help fix it...

The MathJax failures are either things that MathJax doesn't support, or use of \DeclareMathOperator which we haven't added support for yet.

Edit: Added a more useful error message. :) https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1608.04012/
Nice but how do you know in which group you are or when you go from one group to another...
Will let the client continue to seed once it's done downloading. Thanks for posting.

And if you don't use torrent all that much, yup, you copy that whole paragraph of glyphs as-is and paste it into the appropriate text box of your torrent client. (I initially saw the "...tracker.org" part and thought maybe it was two addresses that needed an extra line feed. Nope.)
Well now you're just playing semantic games with the word "growth".

Never mind the details of the economy, population growth is the killer.

As long as the net ecosystem gain per person is negative rather than positive we are accelerating at a wall.
Ask HN: Ethical advertising platform?
I would like to monetize a website through advertising, but am unsure on how to proceed. My main concern is that I don't want to cooperate with such a disgusting industry.

Do you have any experience with advertising platforms that take privacy of users seriously?
IMHO its all about time management, proper planning, and your passion for learning.

You may schedule some time for learning specific stuff every day - Avenues such as Coursera can enable this easily.
Is a 50% variation in housing costs between large American cities not reasonable in any sense of the word?

The per-capita GDP variation between large American cities is larger than that, and there's no good reason to expect housing to cost the same in very different cities.

Some cities having housing cost at least 50% more (or double) the national average seems like something that would be the case in pretty much any country in any period of history.
In most cases, rent and the cost of owning is related, meaning that if you're 30% under water, the rent will likely only cover 60~80% of your monthly expenses. On top of that, if you had to move away for another job, there are additional expenses around managing rental property remotely.
A Human to Know: Rachel Tobac (DEFCON’s SECTF Winner in 2016 and 2017)
You can probably find bits and pieces in my comment history, but I have not yet organized my thoughts on paper.

What I have in mind is basically anticipatory computing.
EPA kept scientists from speaking about climate change at Rhode Island event
Not pedantic at all, tbh. This is an important distinction. Curly braces are my primary way of moving in vim and it works great even without curly braces in the code (even in pieces of code without delimiters, actually)
Thanks for the links, Mark! (Disclaimer, I work for Algolia.)

As Mark mentions on his summary page, the best place for that kind of information is our CTO's "Inside the Engine" series (8 parts).

https://blog.algolia.com/inside-the-algolia-engine-part-1-in...
The whole world is overpopulated and congested, get over it and accept you're fate of living in towers of tiny boxes, it's called progress.
You may be interested in George Price. There are a few documentaries that cover his life and work. He was very interested in altruism and his efforts to figure that out are believed to be why he killed himself. Basically, it drove him insane to think about altruism and if it was actually possible to be altruistic.

Here is a starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price
Teslas development still happens in Palo Alto or San Mateo. They only setup the factory in Fremont because the building had already been built 30 years ago.
This article makes me appreciate the balance struck in GTA.

IMHO this type of scene is better than any of the examples shown in the article:

http://prod.hosted.cloud.rockstargames.com/ugc/gta5photo/YjB...
It seems to me that building the product is relatively easy when compared to acquiring (and retaining) customers, growth, etc. Often it seems the focus is on technology and product with marketing being a no-brainer, given. Typically, reality is the other way around.
It seems like it might be a good fit for US national labs -- when a job doesn't involve ITAR or anything classified.
M-theory (which posits additional dimensions) is obviously not observationally proven by any stretch, but it's based on mathematics and scientific principles and is respected by many prominent physicists, so I wouldn't call it the realm of magic. It does make falsifiable predictions--the problem is developing technology capable of falsifying them.

An Alcubierre warp drive[1] would be capable of enacting causality faster than light, no?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
They absolutely do - take an ant and put it in your palm, it will frantically run around trying to get off you.

Similarly, if an intergalactic monster comes to Earth, I am sure we will be fully perceptive of them :)
Well, the mnemonic is delete, it just also puts the deleted text into your clipboard
Attack of the week: DUHK
You're not imaginative enough :)

You may not be able to spend your money at Walmart but you could invest in startups, fund charities, buy property you'll never see etc.

After a point, that's what rich people do anyway. There's only so much enjoyment to have from physically shopping for bread.

Hell, you could even have a second remote job if you got that bored.
Ah, fair enough. I appreciate the breakdown.
Don't ruin your child's life with a short career in technology
The individual user's keyboard and mouse proficiency determines their most efficient setup. I'm decent with Vim, but my mouse speed and accuracy is good enough to do many editing tasks with a mouse faster than I could accomplish in Vim.
If the original post had said that population growth needed to be stopped, I'd have agreed with it. But that's not what it said.

The whole thrust of that comment and the ensuing conversation is the nature of economic growth. That's not "semantic games," that's a different topic.
I don't follow your hang up about classification systems. Different systems are good for different purposes. There is no reason one is better than any other, in general.

You are asking for something that makes no sense. EG, which is better: a winter coat or a hoody? It depends on the situation. You can use either of them, both of them together, or something else entirely.

For the purpose of my example, use whatever system SEER uses since that is the biggest database of cancer data.

>"You sound like a phycisist who thinks he can explain the world in terms of spherical cows, asserting a shit-ton of stuff without clear back-up as to why what you state is true, acting as if all kinds of nuanced issues are simple and/or solved problems, and assuming authority over a field you do not seem to be part of."

I am saying literally count cells, how many are there that look like x, y, and z? Classify x, y, z however it is already being done in the clinic, if there is more than one method... then use more than one method. Each method probably has its advantages and drawbacks.

What assumptions are you talking about? I am making pretty much none. Sit there, count the cells to the best of your ability, that's it.

In fact the currently proposed project is going to be making all sorts of assumptions behind the various assays. Each of these makes the data more questionable. That is why I want basic stuff like # of cells that is least likely to be messed up.
I believe them, because I see the amount of support these kids get (highly educated + available parents & teachers, with large budgets). I have a coworker who graduated high school not so long ago, and her high school had an industrial design studio with better equipment (laser cutters, 3D printers, CNC machines, metal lathes, etc.) than the design studio I work in. My own high school, in comparison, had maybe 20-30 computers for about 1000 students.

It can be upsetting to read these things if one feels that they'd have thrived in such a supportive environment, but instead only had indifferent teachers/a school with little budget/etc and had to do without such support. But it's not a reason to doubt the veracity of any of it, or hate on the kids; these kids are sharp and hardworking and doing their best, they just happen to also be much more privileged than average.
depends on the OS, according to this comment on the ZoL github [0] solaris passes through errors from the hardware while linux retries.

[0] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/1256#issuecomment-1...
Link please to Eskil Steenbergs writings!
Ah, thanks. So another way of wording it would be to say that the activation function of nodes in a neural network is a gross oversimplification of the amount of logic that happens via dendrites in actual neurons.
This is a lazy response. One can criticize a specific governmental policy without being an anarcho-capitalist.
Amazon receives 238 proposals for its second headquarters
It's worth mentioning that the original Sphinxsearch project has been stagnant for the past year. There's a new lively fork - https://manticoresearch.com/

Beyond being a user of both I don't have affiliations with either of them.
It’d Be a Business Miracle If Tesla and Uber Succeed at All
From part 0, they make the claim and question:

> So why the heck do most games look so bad?

And then they go on to pick a game that people specifically calling out for looking amazing: HZD.

In fact, the problem seems to be:

> But all of them feel videogamey and none of them would pass for a film or a photograph.

To which I would reply: because they are video games. A photograph doesn't pass as film, and film doesn't pass as a photograph (though the nature of the two, film essentially being a lot of photographs). A video game must serve a different purpose than a photograph or a film. The players interact with the game, and therefore the intent and purpose is different. Glares on the screen aren't just there to add lens flare, but to make it harder to see because that's part of the challenge. It is harder to see, and you have to deal with that to overcome the challenge. That can be offset by keeping the sun to your back. Same with grime in the screen, or other such things. You want to highlight the things players need to react to, and in such a way that allow them to react quickly.

There is so much more, and yet so far this article is only referencing the pure look and seems to ignore the goals of the medium. I'll reserve judgement until I read the next parts of the articles, but until then, I can't help but wonder if this really matters.
Exponential growth is a pipe dream sustained only by exponential inflation and destroying Earth. Economies have overcapacity, with ML coming into play it's going to be evident everywhere. We will need a big political change; I hope people won't go with the traditional solution - war, genocide etc. Technology now enabled a few people to literally own the whole planet, so while they were playing this pointless domination game, environment suffered and might never fully recover.
Artstyle is far far more important than graphical capability.

A game like Team Fortress 2, released in 2007 (!) looks so much better than many modern games because there is a coherence and style to the art. It's not "HD" for the sake of "HD."

We're in a period where the graphical canvas is getting larger every year, and the temptation is to fill it with as much color and pop as possible. But some restraint really works wonders.