skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment reminded me of the talks on the issue of information display for Matplotlib[0][1]. I think a lot of design is done without awareness of accessibility and this is more broadly a cultural thing than a technical thing. The situation can be improved both by technical means (OS or hardware awareness) as well as by our collective education about what kinds of issues designs should consider. Typically, designs become better when they account for accessibility, but it is oftentimes seen as a hurdle when a designer or developer has not heard about the issues and also is not equipped with tools to handle them. Having good tools is helpful here. The situation seems to be improving, but it will take time.

When I was in elementary school, you had to special order large print text books, audio books were available, but required special tapes & players. A portable CCTV could be used to magnify small print. All of this equipment was specialized, expensive and hard to come by for most people. All of this has been replaced by features built into my phone. Special shoutouts to the "Zoom" app on iOS, that thing has color filters for people with color sensitivity issues and enhanced text rendering for small print (unfortunately, it's buggy and crashes sometimes), but it is much better than littering my camera roll with random pictures of menus or the bottom of routers just so I can zoom in on some numbers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjHzLUnHeM0
If all of the models line up a ton, an expert witness could explain that these the chances of reaching the same tuning on all these choices via independent work is practically 0.
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My success rate over chat is 0%. I just get told over and over that 'Prime guarantees shipping, not delivery. So your package will be shipped within 2 days [or 1 day for 1-day] to the nearest Amazon distribution center. Usually this matches with the delivery date, but not always. The updated delivery date for your order is when you will get it, so we are following our end.'
> Doesn't putting function in different schemas mean you have to grant select/update permissions to the schemas that talk to other schemas?

In Pg, schemas don't talk to schemas. When a function is run, it runs with the privilege level of either the user that called it, or the user that defined it.
Just not Google's approach to sue others. Think in this case just too much too let it go. You can see it elsewhere with all the research papers and open sourcing so much software. I mean OS K8s was a little nuts, imo.
This is a great article, lots of detail, props to Epic team for generally killing it and specifically putting this together.
Great article, great analogy. There are many interesting applications being built (distribution applications), but distinguishing them from the application layer is an important point. Bitcoin Lightning and Ethereum's version of it (raiden network) are better compared to an application layer, whereas a particular Dapp is more like a particular application powered by that layer. And so far, many of these applications have been hindered by the lack of such a layer, up until 2018 when I think it will see mainnet usage.
Google already has 7% of Uber so just adding to what they already have.
How I'd learn iOS Development
Skeets follow a parabolic trajectory. This makes it much easier to shoot them, as you can basically time it manually.

Drones on the other hand, once they become more intelligent, should be able to fly in a random pattern, to avoid incoming projectiles fired against it.
Hey there :)

Waterloo does one thing uniquely well: the co-op program [1]. Their grads have a ton of real-world experience before they graduate, which puts them head-and-shoulders above their peers. (This is connected to my broader worldview.)

[1] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/future-undergraduate-students/co-op-...
Paypal is "easy" to setup and maintain for many donation type cases like this, and provides an incredibly low barrier for entry to accept donations, this low barrier of entry can easily make up (to the developers) for the skimming done by paypal with fees and bad currency conversions. Also keep in mind that people in europe are likely not converting to USD when donating, the VLC non-profit is europe based so there's likely not a conversion there happening. It's going to happen USD to Euro though. And if that's still a concern, you can also do a direct bank transfer in europe pretty easily as they provide that information, making it without fees for a lot of EU citizens.

And while they don't have an Ethereum address, they do have bitcoin and monero, two of the biggest players in this space. It would be nice to see more options just so that one could use whatever cryptocurrency is going to have lower transaction fees at the time.
If you give everyone same day although, wouldn't the order flow increase to truck sizes?
There’s nothing surprising about this...?
There isn’t even a custom message for “scheduled server maintenance” vs “our servers are busy” (which I can get multiple times a night anyway). You NEED to check the tweets to find out which it is. I love PUBG, I just wish it was made by more competent developers.
I think they're true believers, which does not justify the evil they do, but I expect they would view this as a situation where the ends justify the means - or a situation where they are educating the uneducated.
There was actually a sports agency run by an accounting firm that did something close to this. They basically said, “We will make sure you and your family are taken care of for the rest of your life but it means there are certain things you have to let us handle with your finances so that we can say ‘no’ to people for you.”

They also had to agree not to spend on drugs, strippers, excessive houses, etc.
It's even worse than that. The earth is 93 million miles from the sun (1 AU), so when Mars is on the opposite side of the sun it's at least 180 million miles away, with the sun in the way.

The numbers expressed by GP for how far Earth is from Mars is actually referring to how far Earth's orbit is from Mars' orbit, not the distance of the planets themselves at various positions in their orbits.
Why I forked my own project and my own company ownCloud to Nextcloud
I can show you the self is not an illusion - ask those people to give you all of their possessions to someone else, the poor or some charity.

Suddenly, they'll care about their well being above others and their eternal connection to everyone else is shattered.
Speak for yourself, Politico!
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Has nothing to do with monetizing or social ill. Otherwise, soda, food, gambling, movies, etc wouldn't be allowed to advertise. And we'd ban most newspapers and cable news for being toxic for the masses.

The war on social media is simply about who gets control over people's minds.

Social media sites like Reddit, Google and even HN gave in to the elite. Facebook is holding out.
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You're missing the point of the article. A particular smart contract, or zk-snarks, or a new Bitcoin protocol functionality... these are not application layers, they are a particular application. Lightning is an application layer that enables a whole new set of applications.

And this is groundbreaking stuff, you can't expect it to have been released in Bitcoin's original 2009 client.
I'd like to see updated versions of PL/v8 ship. The situation with building v8 is so bad ( https://github.com/plv8/plv8/issues/251#issuecomment-3645410... ), that almost the entire cloud infrastructure (AWS, Heroku, Docker) is stuck with an ancient version of PL/v8.
https://www.videolan.org/legal.html
It used to be better when (presumably) they had more consistent delivery. They used to offer a month of free Prime membership when your package came late, but now they've been instructed to only offer the credits on additional orders.
That's a good point and I mentioned it because you included social work in your list of hard careers so thought hard doesn't necessarily mean doing hard math/logic/etc.
You should prepare to roll your eyes after the first page break. Once the author starts speculating on the cause it turns into an articulate old-man rant about kids these days.

"Those darn cellular-telephones, porn-ography, unwed couples, and consent. Back in my day we didn't have consent and we liked it!"

Don't get me wrong, the article is well written and cited, but it seems to be suffering from the fallacy of trying to draw conclusions based on things that you can easily get statistics on rather than admitting that you can't boil down human relationships into a few vectors. I'm prepared to have my experience challenged but I can't imagine any young adult thinking this analysis is anything but funny.
I think the parent comment has more value than just humor, but feel like it's being punished for not being serious enough.
See the links I posted in my reply to another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16343367. There's some good information in those talks about how you can tackle mapping information.
And on raspberry pi, with my video collection, is so slow as to be unusable.
> But seriously, the thing that hurts more is that we only require a C89 compiler :/

Indeed. For a glimpse for the non-PG-hackers (like me), there's an ongoing attempt discussed in the PG-hackers mailing list to use stdbool.h.
"Are you making a blockchain product and want me to advise or review? I can be bought. Send me a paid message at https://earn.com/berken/" What is this guy, some kind of digital extortionist?
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Read the VLC 3.0 release notes. Performance is no longer a problem on 4k & 8k videos.
That doesn't show the self is not an illusion. It could be an illusion that is widely believed.
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A wave of cheating AI robots is threatening to ruin HQ Trivia
Yeah don't know what the complaint is about. The lobster place, tacos stand, Vietnamese sandwich shop are all really good spots to eat. And not expensive
> I don't see anything about the US being better.

There is a lot bad going on in the US, but China is ten or a hundred times worse. For instance, the web is massively censored, and political dissidents get sent to jail by the hundreds or thousands.

Furthermore, in the US we still have enough freedom of speech that we can criticize surveillance at places like HN, and even organize efforts to resist it, even political campaigns, but in China that is completely impossible.

It seems to me that if people were to come to believe that things are as hopeless in the US as in China, then they would give up all efforts at resistance. I think that would be a terrible mistake.
And most mechanical engineers are not necessarily making bridges, they are making adhoc small objects.
Are these videos on youtube?
Youtube has an auto transcribe to text feature from what I've read.. any way to make a script that takes thsi vids and reuploads them to youtube to get the transcription and then repost those to a new blog and include a link back to the original video?

When I scan docs I need to ctrl+f to find the terms I'm looking for to be quicker in knowing if these are the docs I'm looking for.

As I plan to teach some code using minecraft and modding this summer, the idea of having to watch a bunch video during the process frightens me. There must be a quick search function made somehow.
From my reading of the following I your README, I think your understanding of the GPL might be slightly wrong

> This project is licensed under the GPL. In simple terms, this means you can use it for free in open source projects that are also licensed under the GPL. If on the other hand you want to use the project for a proprietary app where you don't want to open source the code, then you need a commercial license. The price for one developer is EUR 79 if you purchase before Feb 11, 2018, EUR 99 after. One year of updates is included. To obtain a license, click here.

If I understand what you are saying, you say that to use the output of your program one needs to GPL everything, which is not usually how GPL is interpreted.

For example I can use GIMP to create graphics that I can use without any form of restrictions. The GPL applies to GIMP itself, not its outputs.

However, since your product builds executables then if the resulting installer file was built from GPLed code then you are partially correct IMO -- users would be required to distribute the installer source in compliance with GPL. However, while I have not looked into how the build process works for your product I have a hard time imagining that the GPL would require users to GPL the installation target source, since those are a separate set of files.

IANAL
The offshore accounts of corporate executives?
I considered the "don't buy" strategy, but I'm not willing to go all the way to the "don't buy a phone" point, where we've got the same situation, which leaves me with little other choices. :|
We should note, though, that a layered architecture was not envisioned by the inventor and early adopters of Bitcoin. They envisioned it more as a monolith: a single piece of software that handles all the possible use-cases and features in itself. At least, that is how I read the whitepaper: no-where was there a mention of "Application layers" or even "layers".

Many envisioned a layered system, including Satoshi himself:

Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg289...

In this response (which revolves around the nascent Namecoin idea), he also describes cross-chain trades, something only now being implemented at scale.

In another post, Satoshi describes "high frequency trades" in which intermediate transactions between parties are discarded. This feature was present in the original version of Bitcoin, but was later disabled. It is being brought back in a sense through Lightning Network.
This is standard Alex Jonesian "association implies conspiracy" type thinking. They are associated and that's it. LN development is as open source as can be.
"Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me." -- Linus Torvalds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8&t=1339s
Well that's what happens with any digital currency if you share your private key with a malicious party.
The news.
You could’ve taken about the same time to make a feature request in a nice way. Maybe you should quit the hungerstrike and eat a banana or something, you’re getting a little cranky.
>> DTLS multicast

> I'm not seeing mentions of that in the RFC

My bad, still a draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lucas-dtls-multicast/

> I'm looking at the QUIC spec and I don't see anything about that, there doesn't seem to be any error correction done in QUIC (perhaps at the UDP level with the checksum you mean?)

Nope, basically it should be: send X packets (X>=2), then the xor of those packets. Lose one, everything can be recovered

Googoling again I see that they later disabled it 'cause it did not give the expected results on youtube:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hg1SaLEl6T4rEU9j-isovCo8...

Which is not that surprising considering that network errors are more often in bursts, and they could recover only one error.

I still think proper FEC can be useful, especially in networks with high packet loss (at 5% and up my experiments gave me a huge advantage over any control flow algorithm of TCP, even more on high-latency networks)
Monetary donations.
It's the only way the news industry stays in business. Not just in the US but around the world.
Programming is easy. I taught myself. It just took 5-10 years.
By live better parent commenter almost certainly meant make more money.

Even if luxuries are not cheaper, food, shelter, healthcare etc. are, freeing up more monies.
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You're right. Generally the best way to complain about a title is to suggest a better one. When people do that we frequently take the suggestion. "Better" here means accurate, neutral, and using representative language from the text itself.

In this case, though, it's a bit hard because the article is cobbled from multiple sources that aren't all about the same thing.

Edit: we changed the URL from https://qz.com/1196408/scientists-studying-psilocybin-accide.... Turned out that its two most substantive mainstream sources were about the same study. They threw in a Ted talk and some Alan Watts and made a vague mash. My self either found this annoying or imagined that it did, so it changed the URL to one of the articles about the ongoing study.
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This is a very informative and well structured post. The clarity of thought and experimentation methods that led to the final solution was a pleasure to read.

Also, the problem space is one that I haven't thought about, but probably should. After all, accessibility should be important to all of us.
I like that you're in here commenting. After reading through the postmortem, it reminds me of scaling issues we had at previous job. We had hundreds of thousands of clients that would get "hyper active" if they had issues connecting, retry loops FTW.

System goes down and it was hard resurrecting it since the traffic just kept pounding away. No autoscaling, no cloud. It woulda been handy to just fire up some more servers, let alone have things auto-scale via CPU %.
They tried that on me today (I've had a bad run this month - I usually have about an order a day)...

Item bought on Monday, with expected -delivery- Wednesday. Late Monday status said "Package has left seller facility and is in transit to carrier".

It's Friday morning now, no package, and status is still "in transit to carrier".

I argued that "Shipped" means the carrier has it. Not that it may or may not be sitting in a corner of a truck for the last week forgotten or unnoticed.
Amazon as a company is all about efficiency. The one area they have been slow to apply this (till now) is with user acquisition and retention.

This is now changing. Right now amazon has hundreds of MBA Product Managers crunching data to determine how much they can screw up in certain areas with little to no impact on customer happiness or churn (on a macro level.)
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I've been in a SCIF. Imagine walking into a large empty warehouse protected by armed guards, and in the middle of the warehouse is a building the size of a house raised off the ground. There are two pipes leading into the building, presumably electricity, networking, and water. The entrance is an airlock-setup with an outer and inner door - the type of doors you see on submarines in the movies. Inside, there is a mess of devices, screens, and folks that look like they do 14 hour shifts (if there were janitors, I didn't see any evidence that they'd ever been inside). There are machines that you can operate, and other machines that you are not allowed to be within several feet of. You're not allowed to leave with anything they don't allow you to leave with, and anything they do let you leave with is effectively destroyed (HDDs, etc).
I've seen a few variants of this comment, so I wanted to address it.

I don't think we disagree much here.

I agree that medicine in particular is hard on its own. I'm not entirely sure about law, because the legal profession has only become highly-credentialed (in the US at least, which is the subject of this article) relatively recently. Regardless, to not make the trap of my b-school friend, I don't know enough to dispute whether law is super hard. I suspect it's not easy.

(Just as an aside, I'll note that from what I do know about medicine and law, both professions also require an extremely logical approach. I suspect certain specialties in medicine like surgery or anesthesiology or oncology are much harder than programming for various reasons. From cursory web searches, these specialties appear to earn much more than programmers do, and even much more than other physicians.)

Thus, assuming that medicine and law are also very hard (on the same order of difficulty as programming), we can likely say that even without licensing and credentialing requirements, entering the medical or legal professions would be hard.

I suspect we have slightly different ideas when using the term "barriers to entry". Indeed, I might have made a better argument if I had said programming has "high" barriers to entry, since what I'm talking about is clearly a continuum and not a boolean. C'est la vie. When I use "barriers to entry" as a concept, I'm using it broadly. To me, it encapsulates not only legal or political costs, but any cost, which is why I mentioned building a power plant or a semiconductor fab. I am using it the same way I see it used in the various economics literature. In this case, I suspect the cost is that most people seem to feel uncomfortable thinking abstractly and logically, and haven't refined those skills over time. Alternatively, high capital costs are a common contributor to barriers to entry in economic analysis. "Human capital" (another econ term) is exactly how I'd categorize the learning required to practice programming, whether it is acquired through formal training or self-direction.

As far as the self-congratulation, I agree, although that was not my intention. As long as I stay a few standard deviations from Erik Meijer[1] (whom I otherwise deeply respect), I'll consider it a success. ;)

[1] https://vimeo.com/110554082
Reminds me of How to write unmaintainable code [1].

[1] https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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What happens to someone's ability to function regularly if they're constantly going back for heroin hits? Compare that to what happens if you keep opening the Facebook app on your phone.

Effect size matters. A lot. I haven't seen any convincing arguments that Facebook is even as bad as the classic "couch potato" TV junkie scenario. It's impossible to prevent someone from making bad decisions, so the size of the downside risk has to be strongly considered before claiming a problem is worth heavy-handed fixes.
Dr Scott Atran on economic incentives and sacred values:

> Much more is know about economic decision making than moral decision making. Very little is known about sacred values. [In political negotiations] the standard view is to leave the hard questions of recognition and who you are for last, and you try to build things slowly through economic small steps, and person-to-person discussions. [I find that] when sacred values are in conflict, that is a formula for another hundred years of war.

> Now what do I mean by sacred values? Well, they are values that are very strongly tied to the emotions, to your sense of who you are within your community, and you are usually not even aware of them. It is a little bit like food: people usually are not aware of food until they are starving, [but then it becomes the one value people have]

> The same [is true for] sacred values: sacred values are the frame within which all social and economic transactions are possible, and again you usually are not even aware of them, until another society or group challenges them. Then they become dominant.

> In our [secular Western] society we do not have standard principles of sacred values any more, except for our children and perhaps our nation, everything is supposedly fungible. Of course, if I asked you if you would accept a million dollars to sell off your child, you would say I am crazy. If I insisted on it you would think I am a sociopath. But that is exactly the way people feel when one offers them a material incentive to exchange their sacred values.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ijmBd69878&t=6m3s
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