skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly related to this post's subject, but I highly recommend this author's YouTube talks and books on Android internals and embedded Linux to anybody looking to start doing things like customizing or porting Android, building their own secure or lightweight Android ROMs, or building their own distros for single board computers.
Don't gamble with your personal health. Please try to find professional support.
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> Software is the currency that we pay to solve problems,

A great mind shift there.
Depends on what you mean by "just Moore's law." Certainly each standard was developed with a higher target decode complexity; H.264 and H.265 both targeted 2x greater than the previous standard, JVET is currently targeting 16x, and I think AV1 is aiming for less than 2x HW area.

So yeah, there were obvious gains left on the table for H.264 for complexity reasons that H.265 picked up; likewise for H.265/VP9 that AV1 picked up.

That said, there has been a lot of refinement that didn't necessarily increase complexity, and there have been various tools that saw reinvigorated research once complexity targets were raised.
Sounds like a lot but if we are in a bubble like I and lots of other people think we are, then that could come crashing down at any time.
The problem with that, you are always asking someone todo something. I am not disagreeing that some people have a stronger safety net, but everyone has to ask somebody for something to succeed. Very rarely can you just succeed without outside influence. Be it a random connection or someone you grew up living next door to.
>> Companies will slash their investments in video compression technologies. Thousands of jobs will go and millions of USD of funding to universities will be cut.

I believe this is total BS. There are great open technologies(i.e http/http2) and they didn't need a extortion cartel to police anyone who dares to use them without to buy a license(if they could buy it in the first place). Codecs should be open and they can be developed/sponsored by people who benefit most(i.e. Media companies, internet companies, hardware companies etc)
Choosing the JavaScript Framework for next project
(Essentially) No one dumps 40 grams of granulated sugar into their brewed coffee. But Starbucks and other coffee shops sell a lot of "coffee" drinks with sugar contents in that range. A grande mocha has 35 grams of sugar.

https://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/espresso/caffe-mocha#s...
Why is ETH hooey? I haven't heard that before.
Software patents are not recognized in Europe, where the VideoLAN organization is based.

http://www.videolan.org/legal.html
Posted yesterday with 300 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16255711
What about if you do both?
They do overlap, true, but there's content that gets up on one and not the other.
The problem is proof of new ownership after you exchange your asset for FOOCOIN.

Its ok to sell used furniture or drugs - but doesn’t make sense to sell house or car.
Curious, what are your top 2 favorite languages (or CS thinkers)?
software for setting parameters for hardware systems might not require complex logic. a language with formal verification would be a good idea in that case.
A First Look at DFINITY’s Testnet (2017)
I might agree with your comment, but it serves no purpose. I suggest you try to add to the conversation, instead of simply venting your irritation or frustration against them - that's what makes HN a better place IMHO than Reddit or else.

(also, consider that I would happily write several comments like yours... If only they were useful in any form).
Agreed. Putting out fires sadly takes precedence over future fireproofing.
you seem to be a young jewish man who lives in US. I hope you will look up reeducation camps for Uighurs in China, and look up concentration camps that maybe your relatives have been in. And have some empathy.

The world is shades of gray. Some are good but had to do evil, and some are true evil.
As many will. Which might mean that Robinhood might end up having a worse customer support than Coinbase :(
I think the issue being highlighted is that the ratings sometimes have not just little to do with the restaurant, but nothing to do with it. To become number one is something in itself. What happens afterwards (to not spoil it) is something above that entirely, and while it plays into the narrative being put forth, it goes well beyond what it needs to support that narrative and expose quite a bit of hypocrisy.

Fashion is subjective, but there's supposed to by quite a bit more to restaurants than just fashion, and I think it's obvious that sometimes there isn't much more. This whole story says a lot about people. Whether you think it says something about a certain type of people that you can look down on, or about people in general and how our expectations can lead us to weird places and inform our opinions much more than we would think, is up to the person watching.
I notice that the author put a lot of emphasis on security and walking off his devices. I understand that he has a background in crypto/security and also the when I had learnt that stuff and it was fresh I was "paranoid" too.

That having said, is that really an issue in China? Wherever you go you get hacked?
A leveraged buyout is like a mortgage. When you get a mortgage for a house you have to prove income. When you buy a business using a loan you need to prove income from the business. $11 billion in revenue doesn't tell you much, what you need to know is net-revenue. That tells you how long it'll take to payoff the debt.
I recently had an issue where I'm fairly certain someone in Coinbase's verification process stole my credit card info and started charging it fraudulantly. I was able to cancel the card before any damage was done. I contacted support, got a "we're looking into it" email, then nothing for over a month. Good to know I'm not alone, at least.

With that and these other complaints in mind, what is a HN preferred alternative? I'd still like to buy some ETH/BTC/etc with USD, but am gun-shy on these now.
Typed from your made in China device, no doubt...
Yes, it is surprising that you can manipulate the world’s top review site into having a completely fictional location full of fake reviews sitting at the #1 spot for a major city for a long time. If that’s not complacency, what is?
> As free LKRG becomes somewhat popular and maybe a target of some
exploits, we might introduce paid LKRG Pro as a means to fund the
project and provide further diversity (with Pro's smaller userbase being
beneficial), extra and specialized functionality (e.g., detection of
container escapes), and maybe distro-specific binary builds.

Hmm,this is what went wrong with grsec. Love the idea though. Why not charge for commercial support and keep all features free?

Tangentially, this feels a lot like Microsoft's KPP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection
I've long since abandoned "bare metal" Linux in favor of VirtualBox and Windows for my home machine and VirtualBox and macOS on my laptop.

Monday's I merge last week's snapshot, take a new one, and run all my updates. Then I do my dev work in my VM. Before I head out on trips, I just ship the entire machine over the network to my MacBook Pro.

This is mostly because have you literally ever tried to install any Linux on laptops? It's always a Russian roulette with those $+#&ing Broadcom wireless chipsets. >.<

So you're not hallucinating. Linux as a desktop/laptop had a sweet spot from like...2012-ish till 2016. Then 802.11ac went mainstream so Broadcom released new chipsets and graphics cards had a whole thing with new drivers and Ubuntu's packagers (the people) lost their mind or something.

Nothing feels right, at least in Ubuntu/Arch land right now.
If a candidate told you they supported Trump, would you also remove your 'unconscious bias'?
because they are French. meaning that French patent laws allow for it.
Maybe they could rename it to the Dynamic Agile Factory Team.
Exactly. Create the right conditions with little grazing pressure and reduced weed competition and regeneration will often happen naturally. There may be technical solutions to bump this along but for most situations this will not be it. Where replanting is being conducted in the third world and this drone is used instead of local planters it might increase community resentment and disengagement. Working with communities on more sustainable livelihoods and helping them understand the reasons why it is better for everyone if some areas are left un-grazed for periods and allowed to regenerate is not easy but without local buy-in nothing will last.
> Our company's full-time job is to shrink our customer's codebase size aggressively. Your team will not do that because it's a job security to them.

No, they did do that, that's where the layers of bloat originated from. Everything turns out to be not quite as generic as the authors thought and that helper function end up as it's own class with an inheritance tree, etc. That fancy mapper that uses reflection to eliminate hundreds of lines of boilerplate becomes a liability because information is now lost to future maintainers.

I don't want less code, I want simple, greppable code that allows me to trace data across the codebase.
Thanks, that explains a lot!
Oh this is good. A much needed hearty laugh to close out the Monday (local time, anyway). Thank you :)
Of course governments could destroy them, just force ISPs to leverage deep pack inspection to systematically cripple nodes in the network.
Julian Assange Thought He Was Messaging Sean Hannity
I also really liked the telic-atelic distinction and would like to read more about it. But this:

> stereotypical "western" goal-oriented notions of success or happiness

is probably more "American" than "western". Look at the laissez-faire life of the French, Spanish or Italians and the typical German surely doesn't thrive for success but for a stable, comfortable life.

That goal-hunting and search for exceptionalism is certainly spreading in the world but I would think that the American culture is maybe the only one where it is really rooted.
I remember my Commodore 64 days where you turned on the C64 and it booted right into BASIC because it loaded BASIC from a ROM, or it loaded software from a cartridge. The 1541 floppy drive was extra, or the tape or modem etc.

The thing I liked most about the C64 was booting into BASIC as soon as you turned it on.

If Linux becomes the Firmware or installed on Firmware on an EEPROM or whatever, it can boot into a LiveCD Distro of Linux from an EEPROM faster than from a hard drive or USB drive or DVD whatever.

I have to say some computers are getting rid of DVD/CD/BluRay drives and booting from USB Drives, which makes download a Linux Live CD/DVD and test it out, now it can just boot from BIOS with the bare minimum LiveCD distro, and allow you to have tools to work on hard drives and fix them etc.

If I ran Commodore, and brought it back from the dead, I'd make Intel/AMD PCs, and I'd also make Commodore Bridge Cards that run a 68M/PPC Amiga on a PCIe/PCI card that can run in the host OS as a Window or Full Screen and can make virtual hard drives and floppies out of files, etc. Maybe a C64/C128/C65 on a card with ports from the Commodore series to hook up real 1541 drives etc. The Commodore Colt PCs will have a VIC-20 series that is low end, and a Mad Max series that is high end and built for video games and SteamOS or run Windows. They will come with Debian Linux but can be reformatted for Windows or SteamOS and make a deal with Steam to run C64 games in emulators the same way Sega Genesis games are run in emulators.

I'd also try to make ARM-based PCs running Linux for under $100 based loosely on the Raspberry PI but assembled. Contribute to the Raspian or whatever it uses with an emulator app for 8-bit Commodores and they can buy ROMs from a store in the emulators to download and run, after getting permission from the software companies if they still exist to license them and pay 10% or whatever the fee is to the customer.
Sure, there are lots of crappy blockchain shitcoin stories coming out every day.

But then there are very interesting, motivating stories like this one!
If HN was so perfect of an experience, then I and many others wouldn't use an app to consume and interact with it. I come here for the conversation and curation, but the UX on mobile is awful. It's far too easy to make mistakes. I can't even upvote properly without a very high probability of down-voting instead (at least we can cancel the down votes now). Just because You don't care about the design doesn't mean the design isn't useful or even necessary for an application's success.

I agree with your point about nagging, popups, and analytics, but I don't think the existence of those annoyances are an argument against the OP.
None of us have lived in any other generation, and we don't know what it would be like.

Gates asks "Why do we gloss over positive news stories and fixate on the negative ones?"

I dare you to asks someone on the subway what the DNC scandal was, who Snowden is, why media doesn't report record-breaking protests around the world, what happened at the Dakota pipeline protests, why Americans lack access to affordable healthcare, etc. In my experience, less than 50% of people even know what the DNC scandal is, or who Snowden is. It's not that we're drawn to pessimism.

Civil and constitutional rights are on the decline. The world is getting richer, but psychologists know that money doesn't make us happier (in absolute terms).

It's easy to say we have the greatest society every, and the leaders of such society would be pleased with such.

It's harder to be a skeptic and a critic, but that's how progress is always made.
Simple also gets us into trouble.

Straightforward is the way to go.
Not taking either side here, but a boycott doesn't have to be 100%.

I can choose to ride my bike to work when its convenient. Oil companies will lose a little bit of money. I can choose not to eat meat 3 days per week. A few more animals will live (or not be born), and slightly fewer greenhouse gasses will be emitted.

Likewise, I can choose not to purchase something made in China when a meaningful alternative exists, and I will be ever so slightly hurting China's export industry, and thus the tax receipts and influence of the Chinese government.

Most things like this work on a sliding scale.
> And any direct war that happened after 1945, had one belligerent that did not possess nuclear weapons, who turned out to be loser

The Vietnam War would seem to belie your claim
I think if the system provides reliable results, people will come around. There are a lot of preferences that players have, but I think they ultimately come to respect systems that work.
Another JA smear. Seems uninteresting.
Counter-intelligence.
To me, this suggests the value of professional food critics as well-known sources of... well maybe not truth, but at least honest opinion.

It's easy to fake a crowd. It's a lot harder to impersonate a well-known individual's trusted name.
Ask HN: Outsourcing marketing
I'm handling the business and tech side of my new company. Zero experience in marketing, and my current efforts have shown to be mediocre at best. I have been looking at bringing in a contractor for part time stuff, but was also considering going with an outsourced marketing firm. Would love to hear feedback from how others have managed the situation. And if you found a particularly helpful marketing team, if you could share a link I would appreciate it. Thanks <3
Facebook's Simple Secret
Imo dodging taxes is okay _if_ those funds are genuinely put to good use. (I can also see how an added incentive is redundant for the ultra wealthy) but I think the claim here is that the donors are being more duplicitous than that.
Threatening to contact the CFPB and FTC works too (speaking from experience)
The best way to do it is to come across as totally unhinged. They know you can’t be reasoned with or ignored so they actually have to solve your problem.

I’ve done this a handful of times when I’ve gotten the runaround after being polite and following the rules.
Totally agree. Bot support is one of the worst things you can do for your customers. Especially in Coinbase's case where there's $ involved, auto bot responses piss off customers wanting their $ in time.

AI is a long way from being at the forefront of customer support. At best AI works well as a complementary tool for customer support agents to help their customers, but not be the customer support agent itself.

What Coinbase needs to do is shore up their support team.
Interesting change of perspective.

News article from the US (Texas):
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/dr-pepper-keurig/
"The Yanks Have Bought Dr Pepper"

News article from Germany:
http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter/...
"German billionaire family Reimann buys Dr. Pepper"

I guess both are true, since Keurig is still a US run company, although its majority is owned by JAB holding.
Between the lines he is just upset about admitting the defeat of patent trolling school of thought in media codecs.
Wow. Can I do whole-genome sequencing with this?

Is this a similar product/result as buying whole genome sequencing from an established company for the $500 to $800 they charge these days?
Well, this exists in most of Western Europe right? They do have entrepreneurs (and I'm not talking solely VC-funded startups here) but I've read that at times there's some cultural issues with 'going above your station' (thinking maybe Scandinavia). Maybe some of our European founders could detail that a bit more.
So what’s a whole human genome sequence cost? That’s the usual metric machines are listed by.
I need one of these to identify the neighbor that lets their dog fertilize my lawn.
At least .. I hope it's a dog.
“Heatmap” for social athlete’s app reveals secret bases, secret places
The world is shades of gray. Some are good but had to do evil, and some are true evil.

you seem to be a young jewish man who lives in US. I hope you will look up reeducation camps for Uighurs in China, and look up concentration camps that maybe your relatives have been in. And have some empathy.
OSM volunteers are pretty crazy, though. A friend of mine spent his time doing linework for North Korean roads. It's a data sparse region for us capitalist pigs. Anywhere, there might be good data where you least expect expect it.
CryptoMarkets Maturity and Price Volatility
> NetBSD's kernel size (and its cleaner design,

Don't make me laugh.
> Healthcare is just one example of many (agriculture, energy, telecom, etc.)

That depends on the country. Energy and telecom are quite free markets in many countries, especially with local loop unbundling and separation of generation, transmission and distribution.

And compare that to "Almost nothing is a free market" which you claimed. Now it's the opposite: most markets are free, but some, which depend on restricted physical infrastructure, are not.

Very different from your claim.
This is surprisingly simple and readable. Nice work.
I think it is still independently developed, but parts of it are included in AV1. Thea idea of lapped transforms in video is really interesting and AV1 isn't using it as far as I know. So hopefully Daala will continue on its own.

UPDATE: Looking at the mailing list archive, there isn't any activity there: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/daala/

The code repo is also pretty quiet: https://git.xiph.org/?p=daala.git;a=shortlog
I meant 'sports stars' in the context of high school... people who certainly could and traditionally did take food resources away from more scholarly children.
Depth (well-known individual who built their reputation over time) versus Breadth (crowd).

We seem to increasingly incentivize breadth of appeal over depth. TV Shows that appeal to the lowest common denominator, etc.
I agree that you need help, but I think the difference is not having a personal safety net and “earning” help from others by doing good work, not having it handed to you by default.

There’s always chance, but I see a distinction.
I have no idea. the kids who were good at sports seemed to be pretty popular in high school, though, which is what I thought we were talking about.
It's disappointing when a company that's as well funded and big as Coinbase leaves customers hanging. I'm a co-founder at a customer conversations management and helpdesk platform - Re:amaze, and we answer _every_ single customer question and conversation on email, social and on our site that come our way. Every single one. Any that we can't answer right away we let them know we're working on it and set a reminder to get back to them once their issue has been investigated and resolved on our end. Every single employee at our company is responsible for making that happen, and we also help other businesses with the goal of a zero-inbox as well.

Just plain inexcusable that it takes one HN article to get things resolved.

BTW, you're not the only one with these issues. There are a number of complaints from people in the same boat as you on Reddit as well
Trump administration declines to apply new Russia sanctions, for now
How much are the flow cells?
It's a hypocritical argument, not an absurd one. One could argue that it's also wrong to uncritically celebrate the technological achievements of Silicon Valley.

Well over a million people have been killed in U.S. wars of aggression (Vietnam, Iraq, etc.) and there are very direct ties between SV high tech funding and the Pentagon. Exhibit A: DARPA.[1] Even more direct than in China. A lot of what SV does is commercializing military technology developed at taxpayer expense. Autonomous vehicles and Siri are just a couple recent examples.[2][3]

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/darpa-history-and-timeline

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO
Ah. ~$500 - $1000 each. That seems like an expensive consumable, but I have no basis for comparison. Is this a lot?

https://store.nanoporetech.com/flowcells.html
All who visit the New York Times are.
It is ridiculous a country that elects a openly racist president like Trump claims any morale high ground...
How to define Machine Learning
Whoops, this comment got attached to the wrong post. Sorry :(
For an interesting contrast, here's a look inside two DNA sequencers from the last decade, costing two orders of magnitude more (and also roughly two orders of magnitude larger in volume and weight):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaumUp4GpCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9whMm7vvc

It's almost like Moore's law.
Boycott Israel.
If it's complex and hard to maintain, then it's not dumb code. It's genius code. Dumb code is actually very hard to write successfully in production and there isn't a recipe for it. The novice flails and makes the code too complicated trying to add one hack on top of another without doing any causal analysis, the journeyman programmer starts throwing in a lot of defensive abstraction they learned about yesterday that doesn't tame the problem at hand, and the expert writes a correct solution that is exactly what is needed and no more. As a bonus, when you enter a new problem domain you're a novice again. All that stuff you knew about working with databases is irrelevant if you're working with real-time audio. But you get to skip through the cycle faster this time.

Ergo, dumb code. It's hard to make dumb code that actually stays dumb instead of turning into genius-level complexity or bad abstraction.
I will say, if nothing else, this guy will have a great career in marketing. His shed's online presence was top notch, half the restaurateurs I know would do well to emulate him.
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