skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OTOH, when you produce 8 movies for the same franchise, how is it not the expected result?

I think Star Wars fans should just make peace with it, look at each trilogy as a separate unit, and not as a never ending recycling of a concept designed to squeeze out as much cash as possible.
mpv is really fast and scriptable with lua
Merry Christmas Dance
Cool. It's interesting how the thumbnails look more organic than the large images. Some patterns are more pleasing at lower res (screen, not data).
To really give a proper recommendation, it would be nice to know more about the interface. Does it need to be a SPA? Really think about this before making a decision and committing to a javascript SPA framework.

If it doesn't need to be a SPA, then just stick with Django + Bootstrap.

Before jumping into a javascript SPA framework,
Hungry for information and hungry for more books
My wife and I met on OKCupid as 98% matches. I'm not sure my life would be what it is if those rules had been in place. Also, OKCupid before the Match.com takeover was amazing. I hate to see what a paid dating company has done to ruin it.
Far more people are the opposite, though, accepting the existence of a personal god and the supernatural without question, while assuming science and quantum weirdness to be nonsense or outright lies.
The decision to avoid potentially destructive operations was a conscious one.
What's an example of one of those kludges? "Ruby concise" at least looks elegant, whereas, say, "Perl concise" is hideous.
Is there a good writeup on why this is such a horrific vulnerability? I see a lot of doom and gloom about this without a lot of explanations.
Will someone throw this person off our hype train?

:)
I'm going to end the discussion here because I don't want to personalize it, but all you are doing is contradicting yourself and you don't even seem to be reading what I have written. So what is the point?

Yesterday you were complaining that that if everyone transacted in crypto the money supply would be deflationary; today you are insisting no-one will want to hold crypto assets because of volatility. Yesterday you were comparing crypto to the gold standard; today you are suggesting that all economic activity prior to Bretton Woods was "barter" (as if that is an argument!). And then it is clear you haven't even read my previous comment, which explicitly states that cryptocurrency is non-problematic so long as prices continue to be denominated in a non-deflationary asset -- so of course taxes need to continue to be paid in fiat.

So I'll stick to my earlier observation: if you want to understand how crypto will intersect with the fiat economy you need to go back and read Keynes on the causes of liquidity traps, and then work forward from first principles. You don't see it now because -- like Krugman -- you think you are arguing against the Gold Standard. But the Gold Standard is irrelevant: in practice the only question that matters from a macro perspective is to what extent fiat-denominated activity will shrink as crypto-adoption spreads, and whether the manner in which crypto is adopted translates into wage and price rigidity across the economy as a whole. If your generation of macroeconomists do not or cannot understand this, the next ones will.
Us Americans solved that problem by making health care unaffordable and systematically reducing and eliminating sick/vacation pay.
Ask HN: Customer development for consumer products like Facebook/Twitter etc?
For free consumer products like social networks, ex Instagram, Wishper, Pinterest etc where there is no upfront user problem to discover (more of a hunch that if the product existed people might use it), how can one validate the idea before building it?
Scheduled 1-1s are dumb and a huge waste of time. If i need to talk to my manager, i want to do it now, not 3 pm on thursday. If i have nothing to talk about on thursday at 3 pm, why do I have to break my flow to go to your office.

A better way is closer to “management by walking around”. Be available for your employees. Those rare birds who need regular 1-1s, schedule them. For everyone else make sure they know they can have one anytime they need, and make sure you take them aside on a regular basis if they haven’t asked for one. And just walk the floor and talk to your team, almost every day.

A manager should be aware of when they haven’t connected directly with a team member in while, and just do it. It’s not hard to track.
The idea is that if the Earth was taken over by an alien species they'd exterminate us- we'd go extinct anyway. So we might as well threaten to do it ourselves _and_ take the planet with us, which greatly reduces the value of invading.
This is a really interesting video on old cases of UFOs that convinced me there might be something to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7T1v_VHpE
> The idea is to have the stuff one really needs.

One of my main uses for a file browser is to quickly go through a list of files and delete some of them when I clean up a directory. And nnn doesn't even support deletion...

Just for listing files "ls" is still usually the fastest way. Operations on the files is what's cumbersome, e.g. when I try to hit the right files for "rm" with tab completion. When nnn can't help with that its use case is very limited to me.
A Banana Republic is 0.046 standard Super Walmarts. (8300/179,000.)

As an American, I recognize international standards are important.
You might just have missed this - https://github.com/jarun/nnn#nnn
"since they already pay other kinds of insurance"

what other types of insurance? social security / medicare? some employers might provide life insurance as well, but... that's it. oh... "unemployment insurance" I guess, in some states (all of this is assuming US for discussion, btw).
How would GraphQL be useful for a desktop app?
Tuvi
Hello, after some months of just lurking around I decided to submit my first post. It is about an application I'm working on, called Tuvi. It would be awesome if you guys can help me visiting the landing page and give me some feedback about it. Is it clear enough? Any tips? Thanks in advance
http://tuvi.io
I may try this out - I had to move away from VLC because getting it to properly do hardware decoding/deinterlacing on Linux has been like pulling teeth.

If you've got a modern video card, it's hard to go back to software deinterlacing after seeing how good it looks when done by the GPU, and I could never reliably get it to work. Eventually moved to SMPLayer which works great, but it would be nice to see it working right in VLC.
Ask HN: How much to charge for strategizing a checkout page?
I am new to design and have been given the task of revising checkout pages. Especially making a four step checkout into compact one page checkout to increase conversions. Here is a blueprint I created - https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvb0gy6fpxzuje6/one-page-checkout.jpg?dl=0

What do you think about the worth of this blueprint. I know its not the entire design but a ballpark would also help. I am not sure how much to charge.
With the rate speech synthesis is developing, it's probably going to be hard to distinguish between human speakers and synthetic speakers in a few years from now.
I think Rust may be a bit too low level for that but at least you will be in the HN frontpage with that combination for sure!
Oh, no, I didn't mean we'd try to nuke the aliens. I mean we'd threaten to nuke ourselves: irradiate the planet until it's incapable of supporting life (including the aliens' life), if they tried to exterminate us.

"Attack and the planet gets it", see?

Of course we get it along with the planet, but I'm assuming that if the aliens are invading they're planning to exterminate us anyway.
I think your usage of "raid" is not what is being discussed here. The meaning here is when companies get in trouble, they use loopholes (or downright evil language) in their retirement plans to essentially take the money from employees.
Review the difference between latency and throughput. If you think of the machine as producing a sequence of pictures, and your input as affecting those pictures, it takes time for that input to show up. If you have a hypothetical machine that produces 1000 pictures per second then you can count the pictures between input and change and get the latency in ms.
I love audiobooks but I can only stay focused while driving or walking. When I try them while sitting I either fall asleep or get distracted. It seems somehow they don't satisfy all senses.
No companies have to provide health insurance, IIRC. It would be great if most/all companies stopped doing it, and moved the decisions back to the actual consumers. Or hey - just provide a basic health insurance safety net for the whole society.
Agreed, pretty much for hardware decoding/deinterlacing alone. I use MPC-HC on Windows, and SMPlayer (with MPV backend) on Linux.
How grossly manipulative
See https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...

And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15962543
Side note: Google has 4-6 competing messaging applications that are all sub par
Salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta
SecureRandom is now secure in Ruby
Box Office: 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Tops $100M Losers Club, Still Nears $400M
ncdu is not a general purpose file browser, it's specifically for deleting large stuff
I think GraphQL is useful for getting data for UIs on any platform.

- build views without being blocked waiting for a new rest endpoint

- get exactly what the UI needs to render

[edit]

Although to negate my own first point, nb4 being blocked on waiting for new mutations and queries :P
Seems like a good idea to me, actually. We need more socialism, as a rule, not more capitalism.
When I had my old CRT-connected Linux box -- I would kill the X server process from the text console, and it seemed that the monitor went blank even before I pressed the Enter key.
Interesting that none of these except maybe the Market on Mulberry would interest me sufficiently for a visit. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Los Gatos has closed a highway onramp now for two consecutive summers and it is perfectly legal

In California, you only need approval of Caltrans. In other states it is likely similar.

Many people think there is a "taxpayer" angle...there isn't. The governing body of the roads typically has blanket authority to close roads without public consent

In the end, Towns will reconfigure themselves to be giant cul de sacs.
I found your comment a bit abrasive, yet you’re lacking the grit to support it besides just anecdotal evidence (just as the parent comment).

I have yet another opinion - I’ve seen a wide variety of articles on HN from how to grow fast to how to stay small. We’re not going to stay productive by arguing without data.
What would the elegant Ruby version look like, and what was inelegant about the Python version?

In Python I imagine you could just do something like this:

from time import sleep

sleep_increment = 1
sleep_time = 0
success = False
while not success:
sleep(sleep_time)
success = try_thing()
sleep_time += sleep_increment
I’m a big fan of 1-1 meetings. I like a lot of what he says, especially about the near futility of bigger meetings.

But my manager was just instructed to schedule biweekly 1-1 meetings with all 17 of his direct reports. I think it’s the dumbest thing ever. If i have something to say to him, i can usually schedule time that day. I may need to bother him 3 times a week, or not for three weeks. When he wants to talk to me, he drops by my desk and we meet right then.

When my regularly scheduled 1-1 time arrives, i’m busy, don’t bother me.

1-1s good. Forcible 1-1s bad.
How much does a VA doctor make?
If the FBI shows up at your door, and act very nicely, very friendly... but they have a search warrant...

It's not a speeding ticket, you are not gonna out talk them out of searching your house... so you should... not talk?!
This book worked well at helping me overtime social anxiety. It helped me see how others saw me. Upon reading it, and taking its advice, at least one long-time friend mentioned to my wife at how much happier and friendlier I seemed lately.

The Charisma Myth by Olivia Cabane.
Same thing is happening in the greater Boston area. Many city centers have empty store fronts. Even some chains don't survive the high rent. Walgreens opened a huge space in the city center of Cambridge just across the street of a busy CVS. They closed it down about a year later. Just think how much money they wasted on this.

For me the biggest problem is the independent restaurants and coffee shops that cannot afford the high rent. They have to increase prices to survive. Most people are not willing to pay $4 for coffee or $12 for a sandwich. When you go to a coffee place you're not thinking about the rent the place is paying and if their prices are justifiable or not. Many people find cheaper places to go to. These places are usually run by people that either lucked out with landlords who didn't increase their rent for many years, or ones who own the property and are not affected by increasing rents.

Others mentioned banks that don't mind losing money because the physical presence helps their Online banking. I noticed this trend around where I live too. A new coffee shop was recently opened after the place was sitting empty for many months. The new place runs by a catering company. They probably don't mind if the place is losing money as long as it helps their catering business. It's a different way of doing marketing.
This write-up takes a while to get to the point for Thunderbird users, which is:

* Thunderbird add-ons aren't well-sandboxed, so a vulnerable or malicious add-on can access your mail and even private keys

* an as-yet-fully-specified bug in Thunderbird RSS feed handling allows RSS feeds to access "communications and other sensitive data"

I'm not sure how many Thunderbird users are dependent on add-ons – so simply disabling most/all add-ons may be an acceptable mitigation for the 1st matter.

But for the vaguely-described RSS bug, their only suggestion is: "Do not use RSS feeds in Thunderbird for now. There are critical security problems, threatening your entire communication."
Arguing that something isn't elegant is a lost cause.
>> Uh.. Is that something one can 'recognise'?

I think yes. If you think about it, we have evidence that a technological civilisation can exist- ours. We don't have any evidence that a superintelligence can exist. So an alien civilisation invading us is a more credible threat than an emerging superintelligence turning us all into paper clips and whatnot.
First of all, congratulations on launching something, and welcome!

It's not completely clear what you're building. Some kind of prediction market with social features? A question-oriented social network? It would help if the landing page gave the steps and sample flow for a question in time order, rather than just miscellaneous features.

You also shouldn't equivocate between "your friends" and "the community". Which is it, or both? Is it private, or public, or does it support both?

Are questions persistent and enduring, or ephemeral (e.g. Snapchat-style)?

Also, you're building a social application that wants user data, and you advertise "trustworthy" as a selling point. You need to be using HTTPS pervasively; Let's Encrypt makes that easy.
They're good, but the transcripts really demonstrate just how hopelessly naive RW is. She printed classified docs on her work printer, emailed them from her work email and then confessed to FBI agents without consulting a lawyer.

It doesn't excuse what she did, of course, but it's clear she didn't grasp the gravity of her actions.
They want to push their expensive enterprise cards (Tesla series) which are exempt from this rule (applies only to "GeForc" cards) and they are probably getting ready to push their own ML service with their own datacenters.
Much better subtitle rendering for starters. Another reason is madvr.
The add-on architecture of Thunderbird allows an attacker to obtain your email communication through compromised add-ons. The add-ons are insufficiently separated and have access to the content in Thunderbird.

IMHO that's a feature, not a bug, and the reason why add-ons are so useful. One only has to look at the situation around the capabilities (or lack thereof) of the new Firefox extensions model to see why.

There's a memorable saying which I get reminded of every time I read things like this: "the security people will not be satisfied until everyone has been put into prison."
Tried submitting it to virustotal?

Edit: I might be close to paranoid but I've seen to many cases of nice freeware or open source software getting compromised or even selling out to adware.
> internally uses JSON text format for metadata.

What the hell? Why would they do this? The only (tenuous) justification for using a parsed human-oriented text format in any protocol is so that humans can edit things by hand, but this will presumably not be the case for file metadata.

I don’t want to read too much into this since there might be a sane explanation, but this seriously makes me question the design of this security-critical system.
Also, you can use it to query local data too.

This enables you to transparently move data-source around.
Steve Jobs was famous for at the beginning of meetings asking people why they were there. Often when they were assistants/subordinates to a manager in the meeting.

If they didn’t have information/knowledge needed to contribute to the discussion, Steve would say, “Thanks, but you aren’t needed, you can leave now”.

I really admire him for that.
Yes. And it gets worse -- I really hate the new "fake auto-play".

On our Roku, if you sit on a movie or show for just a few seconds, Netflix starts auto-playing a video. But it's not the real show anymore, it's a weird custom-Netflix-made background advertisement for the show using random clips set to odd royalty-free stock music that is specifically not from the show/movie you are actually on and doesn't match. It kind of looks like they set some machine learning robot, or some poorly-paid Amazon Turk people, to generate these clips for much of the titles in their library.

Why? Why does this exist? What user testing or data could have happened for Netflix to decide to spend time/money/bandwidth/resources on this?

Not an earth shattering issue or anything. But it's a personal pet peeve to encounter this every time I turn on Netflix. It feels like they are trying to video-clickbait me, even after I've already paid them for everything.
That TED talk took an unexpected left turn in the last third which made an interesting subject ten times as fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Maybe it’s because I’ve never been in that position, but I simply do not understand why you wouldn’t ask to have an attorney present for the questioning.
There are now so many people who have read and taken to heart these types of tricks, that displaying that you've read them, even if you come across slighly insincere is itself sometimes a positive social signal (i.e. that you're trying to improve yourself).
You could take that view or you could think of it as putting your best foot forward. How manipulative it is depends on your intentions.
Ethical. Right. So fighting back against people that actively try to trick you make suboptimal economic decisions and which build the ultimate surveillance state is somehow ethical questionable.

How about stop pushing unsolicited content to begin with? Then adnauseam has nothing to click on, ethical concerns solved.
Ask HN: Why do Americans/Europeans not use “bum gun” or water to wash?
People tend to find others insincere when it seems like the other person is trying or practicing rather than just acting naturally. Unfortunately, social interactions are a skill, and for many people this skill could use some work, so this becomes a catch-22. Trying or practicing is a prerequisite for getting better, but it seems unnatural and/or awkward at first.

Of course, some people just rattle off canned lines and don't pay attention to others. They're insincere, because they can't be bothered to give other people their attention and respect.

In my experience, people who are actively trying to get better at social situations are usually in the first category, but not always (read PUAs). And maybe there are other categories!
unidentified doesn't equate extra terrestrial.
California has 40 million people. We have renewable water resources for 20 million. At this rate we will utterly obliterate our water resources for good. No government can fix that...and no, you aren't going to desal that much water either.

We need to figure out how to get 10 million out of the State.
I attribute my writing abilities to having read a ton of books as a kid.

I read most of those books in middle school, but prior to that in elementary school, I was already reading at a 12th grade level according to some reading test we took in school.

As to why my reading comprehension was advanced for my age? No idea.

I don't nearly do as well with public speaking, but I've tried Toastmasters for a while, and think that helps. At the minimum, you'll meet some great people, have some fun, and listen to (and share I hope!) some great stories.
This is actually an everyday way of expressing a scientifically observed fact. Studies of highly intelligent people suggest that they have a “rage to learn”: they greedily and even obsessively search out new information.
I had forgotten about that, but I've totally had this experience too. A sufficiently low-latency response feels like it has negative latency.
Disagree 1000%.

Just because you can write a monstrosity in Ruby doesn’t make the language itself inelegant.

Ruby, of the many languages I’ve used, has by far the highest potential for code being poetry. You can find solutions that are incredibly simple and understandable due to so much boilerplate being remove from the syntax. Likewise you can write code that’s impressively concise without being inscrutable — I’m continually astonished by how readable Ruby can be.

One exercise in particular sticks out in my mind. Many years back, I implemented the first few dozen Project Euler problems in Ruby. However, I imposed a limitation: each solution had to be under 72 characters (library inclusions are fine), a single logical line, and readable. The end result was surprising at how naturally it ended up working — the solutions ended up being little more than the high-level conceptual approach, translated literally to code. Solutions ended up looking like the following:

(2 ** 1000).digits.sum
(2..10_000).amicable_numbers.sum
1901.to_year.upto(2001.to_year - 1).select {|d| d.mday + d.wday == 1 }.count

Sure, these depended upon injecting new methods into core classes, but who cares? For this problem it led toward incredibly straightforward and readable solutions for these problems. If this were library code I wouldn’t dream of doing it this way, but for application code — why not?

I have yet to see any other language with Ruby’s capacity for readable conciseness.
talk about going backwards ffs
Wow, that's a really clean API. Nice work!
Tools are tools. Some people use these techniques to be manipulative. Others use them to protect themselves from those that use them maliciously, or as a social prosthesis the same way they might use a meticulous journal to combat an attention or memory disorder.
GATK implements deep learning for variant calling
I love Ruby, but I agree. It creates unnecessary ambiguity.

Reads nicer sometimes, sure.
This is a UI/UX felony. Anybody who writes an interface that does this should go to UI jail.
New Android version may give carriers ability to hide signal strength from users
The twitter account has been restored.
> could do the same just in different ways

Write a function that works with any monad? No?

Write a function that works with any numeric type? No?

You can fake type-classes, but it’s in no way a first class citizen. You can’t easily fake higher kinds.

You may not need those features, it doesn’t make my original statement any less true.