skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saving movies to disk makes a lot of sense - I like not having to rely on either a big company's services or library nor some sketchy, slow illegal streaming site. Not to mention a vast number of movies are not available for streaming illegally or legally in a convenient way.

If I download a movie I know it will always be available and work 100% of the time regardless of internet connection or money. If I delete it after watching, BitTorrent gives me a similar guarantee provided I can be online.
tl;dr Walden is kind of like this youtube series because both are artificial looks at a rustic way of life and we like them anyway
Can this be used with nano as well?
> If you don't like them, you should organize to defeat them democratically.

I spend my free time doing some advocacy in this space. Heres a few things you might not know.

1) Nimby's dont derive power from the ballot box, they derive power from distinctly undemocratic processes like courts and arbitrary middle of the day planning meetings. The biggest NIMBY tool is CEQA, the "california environmental quality act" which allows anyone to sue a project for "environmental" reasons. The reasons are spurious at best (project would increase traffic at an intersection). Nearly all CEQA law suits are filed by neighbors who want to kill the project, or by unions on projects that aren't using union labor. The law suits are rarely won by the plaintiff, but they are nearly always successful because they delay projects long enough to get them canceled. The second tool is the design review meeting, which often occurs around 2pm on some random mid week day, when most people are at work and unable to leave their job. A single project may go through 5 design review meetings where retired nimbys with nothing better to do with their time berate new developments for arbitrary reasons (make it smaller, its out of character etc). In this system, its not "one person one vote" but rather "your power in this process is proportional to how much time you can spend at city hall during normal working hours on a recurring basis and grind it out over months and months of meetings"

2) Nimby policies are being defeated democratically. Our elected officials are realizing the harm that these policies are causing and seeing that an anti-nimby constituency is forming. SB 827 is a democratic solution to this problem.

3) Hyperlocal control (aka, cities deciding their own land use policies) is undemocratic, and essentially feudal. It limits the voices heard in democracy to the people who are able to afford living in the city in question, but excludes the voices of those who stakeholders in the city in some other way, say by working in the city, or commuting through the city. Local control allows cities to capture outsized benefits of development while forcing other cities to absorb the negative externalities. For instance, cupertino built the new apple campus for 12k workers, but didn't build any new housing for them. Now the rest of the bay area needs to deal with the reality of these 12k new highly paid residents looking for housing. Another example is Atherton suing to block caltrain electrifiction within its city limits. A single city is blocking an expansion of public transit that serves 60k riders per day. Why is this city allowed to delay the project and create a negative impact on all of these commuters? Why are they not beholden to a larger set of stakeholders than just the people that live within their boarders?
I’ve always felt a little the same way. Having started out in literature studies I’ve accumulated a bit of a collection.

Some of what I own correlate to me at different times in my life. Others are references to subjects that do not at all line up with my morals, thinking, or lifestyle— I keep them for the point of knowledge about something a little more foreign to me— including even some pseudoscience and occult / pop-occult works.

I have to sheepishly admit that I sometimes entertain the thought that I might be one of a selection of people who in the future might be last remaining protectorates of such libraries should the world ever turn on our public physical archives. It’s lofty, probably naive, and pretty silly but I still feel better having them line my wall than I would feel without them. Moving is a bit of a bitch, though.
I have 500 GB of disk and am barely using 100 GB. Files are huge compared to what? 1-2 GB seems tiny to me.
That it was a rumor. The parent to my post painted it a verifiable fact. "There is a secret indictment against him. See this leak.", when in fact said leak verifies nothing of the sort.
Although tiresome to argue dictionary pedantry, I think the crux of it is that the implication is that the the US doesn't have any defined role in the rule of a lot of the countries (as in, they don't claim ownership, or even influence), but that it's exerted either overtly or covertly by other means.

The point in this context is that the US's web of influence extends outside of the areas in which they have a direct structure of power in place (and isn't consistent within those that it does) - those points, in this sense, imply an "Empire" (quotes, as nebulous), rather than an Empire (the defined thing).
It's a shame Big Browser doesn't have any intention of supporting torrents as a standard protocol.

Fortunately, new browsers such as Brave are already working on supporting IPFS and other decentralized protocols.
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> That is, the dB of sounds in the 2KHz-5KHz is decreased by several decibels, because the human ear is more sensitive to them.

I would expect recorded material to already account for this. Does anyone know why Apple finds it needed to further apply sound shaping to recorded sound?

(That is, I would expect audiophile-grade equipment to best mimic the monitors on which most recordings are mixed, which presumably is a flat loudness curve.)
On iOS use https://chatsecure.org

For me not relying on a centralized solution ran by a company funded largely by the US government is good enough reason. Especially that as I've demonstrated you can have the same level of security or even more (XMPP doesn't require phone numbers and can run over Tor) not losing any modern features.
Arguments following this pattern are often made to defend technologies: The current state A is bad, and we should aim for state B. Technology X aims for state B, so X is good.

This pattern is fundamentally flawed. X needs to be useful on its own, no further assumptions made. Otherwise it will never get traction, regardless how much we wish B to come true.
It's interesting to me that all these people who don't use BitTorrent themselves are commenting on how they've "over heard" how it is mostly being used for this or that. It is easy to say people should pay for content when you live in a high GDP country. When you earn 200-300$ per month you can't afford to pay 10$ for a movie or thousands of dollars for software.
Assange isn't a document or an article.
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I visit a few forums that are extremely slow. I recommend it. There's a stronger local culture to these places, since you can get to know individual posters, whether by username or style. There's more room for slow, drawn-out conversations that can take place over days or weeks, which you can drop into and out of without losing the thread, and you have a chance to engage in one-on-one conversation with individuals without having to resort to DMs or a chat system.
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>people are arrested "in connection" to crimes all the time

Where the crime is known while the criminal is not this is true.
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On the contrary, it's a significant part of a very alive ad network.
With a 100W TDP it basically is a desktop CPU.
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
@dang Could this be replaced with the non-mobile link?

https://v8project.blogspot.ca/2018/02/lazy-deserialization.h...
I have to agree, if I wanted to write Wikipedia I would write for Wikipedia. This is a comment thread.
We really need a standard easy to run benchmark.
There are several experiments where giving children unlimited access to a wide range of foods for extended periods results in them eating a fairly healthy diet.

That's impractical in your day to day life as it would involve wasting a lot of food. But, most children really do crave nutritious foods as long as they are tasty and available right now.
What are the chances that AMD will ever try to shut down the $200-$250 graphics card market?
If it's double blind isn't it objective?
"... But one source was Kahn. Strangelove’s rhapsodic monologue about preserving specimens of the race in deep mineshafts is an only slightly parodic version of Kahn. There were so many lines from “On Thermonuclear War” in the movie, in fact, that Kahn complained that he should get royalties. (“It doesn’t work that way,” Kubrick told him.)"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/27/fat-man
Obama has already tried doing that with ACTA (remember that one?) and also with the newer TTIP. He failed.
That's the issue - the environment consists of Windows, Mac, and Linux, so it isn't as simple as the Linux case :/
Or its hidden by RingCT -- confidential transactions (cannot see amounts transacted), and signed with a ring signature so you cannot determine the 'true' inputs and outputs. No reason that cryptocurrency needs to use transparent arithmetic.

The next gen of this is mimblewimble, in which you cannot even determine an individual transaction! The block tx's are simply an aggregate of transaction and balance states!
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This is well known.
Maybe more EU people on the board than US people at the moment... otherwise the downvotes (especially without explanation) baffle me.
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So, I guess it determines which direction to use for the left and which for the right channel based on closeness to the wall. If so, what does it do when in the center of a symmetrical room? Is there a weird border case where it starts oscillating between multiple states?
> With the Ryzen 5 2400G, AMD has completely shut down the sub-$100 graphics card market.

Well, almost. Integrated graphics generally take the place of additional CPU cores. For example, there is no 8-core Ryzen with integrated graphics. So if you need cores (like for compiling code) then you end up with a discrete graphics card even if you don't need fast graphics.

I actually wish Intel would make a cheap discrete graphics card for that purpose, because they have the most stable Linux graphics drivers.
Only if all humans have the same opinion about what good audio sounds like.
Same here... I've done some writing for Infoworld and I was typically not the one who decided the (final) title. I would, of course, send along my working title, but it quite often got changed or outright replaced.

As far as I know the editor, or somebody, edits the title to be as appealing / click-worthy as possible.
Others on HN have recommended this before and I finally went ahead and froze my credit reports with the credit agencies. I haven't missed it in the last six-months. If I ever need a car load or credit card, I can temporarily unfreeze with specific agencies to grant access to the creditor. Here's the numbers:

Equifax — 1-800-349-9960

Experian — 1-888-397-3742

TransUnion — 1-888-909-8872

Innovis — 1-800-540-2505

A lawyer friend of mine who specializes in identity theft told me this was too extreme a way to go and that I should sign up for Credit Karma. But isn't that just opening up yet another access point to thieves? Plus, I feel that freezing my credit denies these reporting agencies the value of data.
Environment is Windows, Mac, and Linux. This looks linux only.
I integrated a GrabCut on our e-com website. We tried to build fancy background and sh*t to have no folding on the background.

The end result is that we preferred to used the blank white wall that was lying behind.
tremendous value

Debatable.
In the UK, we get three or four per hour on the most popular commercial networks. We record everything we want to watch on a Humax just so we don't have to suffer the ads, and pause for a piss, drink, or surf as and when. Or rewind parts we didn't pay enough attention to. Or skip bad segments. I wouldn't bother otherwise. I'm sure it's provider dependent, but US shows appear to have ads every 5mins, and that looks like torture.
Cloud TPU product manager here. As I said in another thread:

The TOS you are quoting only refers to the information you provide in the survey. Here are the Google Cloud TOS: https://cloud.google.com/terms/ if you're interested in what Cloud does with customers data.

5.2 Use of Customer Data. Google will not access or use Customer Data, except as necessary to provide the Services to Customer.

Your training data and models are secure.
That's the entire point, no?
Is this robust across Windows, Mac, and Linux?
Stereo requires two horizontally displaced time-coherent sources. There is no other meaning.

If you're bouncing audio off walls you may get ambience, but you're not going to get a clean stereo image.

Also, the KEF speakers are hardly world beaters. They have a good reputation as PC speakers, but that's not setting the bar very high.

Professional speaker manufacturers like Genelec use a similar adaptive tuning system, and you can buy a microphone and software add-on to flatten the response of any speaker.

https://www.sonarworks.com/reference

The limitations are well known. The correction curve is level-dependent, because room resonance is a time domain phenomenon created by physical standing waves in a 3D space that includes damping elements, and you can't truly correct it with a frequency domain solution.

You can approximate a time-domain correction with convolution and some assumptions about the room geometry and acoustics, but it's never going to be perfect.

Bottom line: I'm sure the Homepod sounds very nice, and - as usual - it's innovating with technology that's been available elsewhere for a while, and made much easier to use.

But it's not magic, and it's not going to sound hugely better than a much more expensive true stereo system.

Of course that'll do just fine for a lot of buyers.
Learning to code is easy. Javascript is easy to work with. Especially nowadays with lots of great learning materials online. Those freelancers weren't born knowing Javascript. They trained. That's how you git gud at things.

Head over to freeCodeCamp and get coding. It doesn't matter if it's too easy at first. Race through it. The good thing about freeCodeCamp is that you have to make a full-fledged product, it's not just examples. Don't listen too much to the sales pitch and don't take seriously the important-sounding words like "become an engineer", etc. Just get coding and complete a project. It's very important that you make something from start to finish on your own. That's the whole point of this bit, really.

When you have finished a project, head over to egghead.io and get the two React courses by Kent C. Dodds. The introductory one is free. The advanced you'll have to buy. It's worth it.

You have three months to do this. You will be more employable -and confident- by May.
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My wife was given/bought at least a dozen baby books when she got pregnant. Skimming through several of them it became clear that everybody was making it up as they went along. Some were far more neurotic than others for sure, but even among the ones with the same temperament and written around the same time the advice varied wildly. The one constant was an underlying fear that if you get this wrong you're going to ruin your child somehow, maybe even kill them.

In the end I took their advice with a grain of salt and mostly went about figuring it out as I went, like most parents do. The one piece of advice I can give is to not worry so much. Kids won't be ruined because you didn't pay attention to them once, or did pay attention to soon, or attempted to engage, or were disengaged, or whatever. Also, every kid is different so blanket advice is of only marginal utility.

Final bit of advice is to try not to bring up the subject of breastfeeding. Everybody knows it is the best, but some people are absolutely nuts about it and will go as far as tell you you're poisoning your child if you ever try to bottle feed them, practical concerns be damned.
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"He was very open & clear I thought:"

It could be just to make the review feel more authentic, and also both advertisers and audience are getting smarter.

This is not a statement about this particular reviewer, just my thoughts.
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This strikes me as an area where distributed apps on a blockchain could have a big impact.

Currently, top piracy options like torrent websites and Kodi addons constantly get taken down by the government (through methods described in this article).

But what happens if a distributed YouTube exists with every movie in pristine 1080p quality, that lives on a blockchain so the government can't shut it down or issue DMCA takedown requests?
It's been five months since it was publicly announced.
A robust solution for Windows, Mac, and Linux is needed :/
With the EU in accession and the US in decline on the global stage, I suspect the US will have less ability to force these issues in future negotiations with the EU.
I mean it kinda makes sense; when you decide you want to watch a movie, you want to have multiple movies you haven't watched to choose from. This kinda requires that you download a lot of movies that you don't watch.
From a media standpoint: frontline comment moderation. It would take a lot of the legwork out of filtering for advertisements, uncivil discussion, attacks, off topic posts, and trolling.

I believe NYT does this already, but using minimal oversight to prevent any edge case misses or false positives.

Presently there’s not much in the way of suitable options for large media that build their modules in house. At the same time media tends to prefer to not invest too heavily in hardware if they don’t have to. Convincing leadership of using a cloud service to train an AI/ML model sounds leaner and lets them tick off even more buzzwords for the executive, etc. That said, results from efforts in the aforementioned application sound promising.
What measures have take to secure your infrastructure??? If someone is able to penetrate your network can they now have access to all your clients machines???
I feel like trying to resolve the MX record for the domain could solve this. You can't send the validation email anyway, unless the domain resolved. But to do that, you actually have to (partly) parse the address...
I don't see why. n-gate sometimes makes reasonable points, but not usually. Even when it does make a good point it is rarely of any help to anyone who wants to learn about something concrete like algorithms.
That'd be me. It's almost meditative.
The folic acid supplements should be considered absolutely necessary. Fortunately they're very cheap.

https://www.marchofdimes.org/pregnancy/folic-acid.aspx
My kids get up with the sun regardless of when they go to bed, but if they're not in bed before about 9 they'll be cranky when they get up, especially in the summer.

With one kid it isn't too bad, but when you have multiple kids they tend to be up with whomever is the earliest riser, because they make a lot of noise when they get up and wake everybody else.
I believe they Firefox has opened up to answering ipfs URLs in the near future.
From my recent experiences with childbirth over the last decade or so, the topic (for non-religious purposes) seems to be becoming progressively more taboo.

For our most recent child, the only times I ever saw it come up were when indecisive parents asked about it on bulletin boards and when the delivering doctor asked us our decision on the matter. The books barely mentioned it, much less advocated it.
Yep, but the motivation may be simply one of convenience. My DVD player loops the menu all night long if you happen to dose off - and it's a struggle to get up and stop it. Even selecting and starting a movie on a DVD can be a trial.
Have a wife who earns more than you? Then you have the option of the fun of being a stay at home dad. Job done.
I believe On Thermonuclear War, 1960, by Kahn alone, must be that book.
If I were Equifax, I’d have a group dedicated to monitoring the records of such people and ensuring that fraud got shut down very quickly with no cost or hassle to the target.
> A lawyer friend of mine who specializes in identity theft

That's odd. IANAL but everyone I know (including lawyers) says that freezing it is the way to go.

Maybe if everyone froze their credit your friend might be looking for new work? ;)
I wouldn't trust a fox to tell me how to keep my chickens.
Site is down, but I noticed recently that the bit torrent client is looking more and more like 90s malware every time I download it. It has been streaming commercials for a while now. Ive decided to look for an alternative client next time I need to install one
The wiki links to a French article which has quotes from the author of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Maos-Great-Famine-Devastating-Catastr...
This is a very common rehash of the "blockchain not bitcoin" perspective, and this indicates a lack of understanding of the purpose of bitcoin. Bitcoin/satoshi aren't being coy, though. The Genesis block contains the headline "Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks." Bitcoin was created as a democratized money that is outside of central control.

The author thinks that centralized control is not a problem because "there is no lack of trusted enough intermediaries in the financial/accounting sector".

This is something that bitcoiners strongly disagree with, with almost daily news of financial censorship going on, and irresponsible financial institutions continuing to be funded by quantitative easing[1] to engage in carry trade and other gambling (which is somehow considered less risky than a revolutionary new form of hard digital money).

The thing that I think a lot of people miss is that bitcoin is not a technology, it is a combination of technological innovations with economic innovations.

Its the incentives in bitcoin that are critical to the system... this is why "private blockchains" are silly. You might as well use Oracle with version tracking on changes.

Public blockchains, namely bitcoin, have the potential of being genuinely trustworthy in themselves, not based on hoping you don't have counterparty risk.

In 2009, it was the counterpary risks that really amplified the disaster-- all of those CDOs were written assuming there was no possibility of default.

The rest of the financial sector operates at the risk of financial censorship, but financial censorship is not unusual-- everything from banning people from doing business with each other to the elimination of ownership rights for corporate bonds in the GM case. It's not that uncommon.

With bitcoin there is no possibility of default, and very high resistance to financial censorship.

[1] Not to mention that arbitrary issuance of currency basically removes individuals ability to trust that currency in the first place.