skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I write firmware for theater/TV LED lights. I have a spectrometer on my desk.

This is the guide I wish I had to get started with! It’s amazing!
Depends on how parallelizable the encoding algorithm is.
A car crashing into a building is a news story.

A misplaced share bike is daily life in cities with lots of shares.

I’m not particularly against them, but they can turn into more of a nuisance than a benefit quickly.
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I think it's weird that whenever the subject of safe drinking water comes up, people immediately talk about how it tastes. As if that matters. I mean, lead is pretty tasty, too.
Let's be honest, most ai and ml is garbage. It's a promise that never delivers. It hasn't yet and probably will still be mediocre in 30 years
Armedness is relative. This is painfully obvious. I await your response to the substance of my previous post.

Let me guess though, instead you're going to respond to this by saying "LOL YOU THINK THE US IS RELATIVELY UNARMED!?", completely ignoring the strategic positioning questions related to armaments, and any nuanced notion of military geopolitics. Tell me again which of us is non-serious.
take a look at starspace from facebook :)
That explains the map regions
As a tourist in Germany I took the train from Frankfurt to Munich. There was a stopover which required me to change trains.

I remember being slightly anxious because there was only a four minute window according to the schedule between when my first train would arrive and when the second train would leave. What if the first train was late? What if I couldn't find the platform for the second train (I don't speak German)?

Turns out I just had to walk to the other side of the same platform. I spent three excruciatingly boring minutes waiting for the second train to leave according to schedule. German railways are glorious.
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>"Governments that do this in Europe fail horribly and just increase prices by huge multiples, nothing else."
That's a very strong statement to make based on one example. That would like saying that the US has no quality control, look at Flint. As an argument for less government, this just isn't very strong. It would help to show a systematic failure instead of a singular event. But, I could imagine if that were to happen where I live, I would be pretty angry at whoever caused it as well.
Why don't you ask/survey the people who will be using the office/tools?

What we did: Determined a budget, and let each employee choose their machines, accessories, monitors, etc as long as they remained within the budget. Just had them send in an e-mail with a list of amazon links and made the purchase as part of on-boarding.
Unlikely, I would imagine that the vast majority of intrinsics used for VP9 decoding can be used for AV1 decoding as well.
I wouldn't mind being that data.
Got in to the second one today. Was a great learning experience! Only 5 people have gotten in to the second one since it launched.
It's entirely possible they didn't officially have the telemetry to answer any questions until speaking with SpaceX. They also have a responsibility to their own investors and business to get the answers right the first time.
> I object to it asking for far more access than it needs, before you're even able to see the product you're granting access to.

If after trying it, you don't like it and revoke its access, it's fine. The most meaningful data was probably siphoned already.
I would think that ebikes would cause stacking at the top of hills, since it does all the work for you :p

Being serious, I have no idea.

I think all bike systems will need rebalancing of some sort. Be it through cheaper pricing or other incentives or something else.
I agree that copyright won't be effective in protecting novel algorithms. That's what patents should be good for. But mostly they end up being a tool used by extortionists who produce nothing, parasites basically making the whole system sick. In their current implementation, whether the patent duration changes or not, they're horribly broken. I suspect we agree there. That's typically common ground in the software business.

But I would go further and say that patents are largely a waste of time and money for startups. With some exceptions, the Swype patent being one. The things is unless you have a novel algorithm for which there is no substitutions, it grants you very little protection.

For example, I have a novel database index algorithm that uses SIMD instructions to do more operations in parallel. But if I patented it, it would largely be a distraction from the insanely complex task of building a full database product and a successful business model and sales channel around it. Sure that algorithm might give me an enduring performance edge over the competition, in the best case scenario. But whether my competitors copy that innovation or not, it's such a small part of the whole, and one for which there are plenty of substitutes - even if somehow mine happens to be the best (the odds are against that!) it's still a minor contribution and likely a waste of resources to patent.

You'd need something that's core to the business and which you can't substitute. If you have an invention like that, by all means patent it. By and large that's rare though.

And the whole system is so terrible, so utterly broken, so abused by bad actors and corrupt courts (District of East Texas, I'm looking at you!) It's impossible to write any substantial amount of code that doesn't infringe patents. So basically everyone infringes, and some have the bad luck that others will use that to extort money from them. I wish the whole system would die in a fire.

I've often wondered how I would react if that happened to me. I'd probably find the cheapest lawyer I could in the district hearing the case, and instruct him to draw the proceedings out to the maximum possible extent - run up the bill as high as possible for the bastards.
Fair enough, but the difference between a biker and non-biker is not access to a bike. The difference is that one thinks it's too physically difficult and/or dangerous and the other doesn't. Thats a problem of environment, not access.
One day when you have kids, you can tell them "you are the result of a mistaken web click"
I find it pretty hard to curate even interesting lists of researchers on Twitter without running into too much fluff or political tweets. I don't blame them for using the medium as it might be intended and of course they are free to share their personal opinions, but in my experience even just a handful of people who tweet a bit too often can pollute your stream enough to make it annoying to follow along.

Maybe Twitter should just let you filter posts based on content. (Maybe it's already possible, I'm not a big Twitter user.)
No, It’s not possible to optimise Python like c++ because of the characteristics of the language.
Plenty of very good people are working on Python optimisation and it’s still painfully slow and will always be.
> I rode to an açaí restaurant, "docked my bike" then rode the bike to work.

Sounds nice, but what do you do when someone else takes the bike while you’re eating? Whe I hear ‘dockless’ I think about the hassle of finding a bike where I want it, not the convenience of not having to drop it off...
I get a chill down my spine any time someone uses the phrase "hate speech". Who gets to decide what qualifies? The first amendment must be protected at all costs.
I think I disagree. When you get past AGI to where it can do things that humans can't, a lot of current safeguards haven't been designed with it in mind. So things might be vulnerable.

The kinds of things I'm thinking about are the various countries nuclear arsenals might not be safe from actors with very advanced AI. This I think is the potential source of existential risk, in my opinion. So it could hurt a hell of a lot.

So I'm of the responsible disclosure point of view. You ask "Would releasing AI advancement X mess up someones security/economy". If so, you help them patch it before releasing it to the general public.

The majority of advancements aren't like that and they won't be for a while.
Not that designers have any better ideas. Where the hell did 20px margins and 90% whitespace come from?
Philip Guo has an excellent set of video lectures on CPython internals, which includes an overview of parts of ceval.c: http://pgbovine.net/cpython-internals.htm
I'm curious to know what this looks like for slightly older people. I can see the down side to Instagram: the way it can amplify an obsession with the way things appear from curated snapshots of someone else's seemingly perfect life. And it definitely has less nuanced communication of certain types of ideas - it's not a place to discuss the merits of social policy. But as someone who is slightly older than this 14-24 generation, who finds enriching food-for-thought elsewhere and who isn't obsessed with how other people's lives look, I find Instagram to be the most uplifting of the major networks. It's often more light-hearted than Facebook, and most accounts I follow are purely posting pictures of new products in fields that interest me, pictures of friends doing fun things with their kids, etc. There's much less political flaming, dumb memes, etc. than I unavoidably see elsewhere. I deleted Facebook and LinkedIn from my phone because Facebook just made me feel angry and LinkedIn is just spam and self-congratulation. Instagram is the only major social network still on my phone.

For people who are mature enough to self-regulate and not get addicted to scrolling up and updating their feed, and for people who can avoid an unhealthy level of envying how other's lives appear to be, it seems like a pretty good way to stay up to date with people and hobbies.
Shameless self plug: if you're interested in Markov Decision Processes and related algorithms
, I am the author and maintainer of a C++ and Python library that implements lots of planning and reinforcement learning methods for them.

I hope to officially publish it later this year, but has already been used by a lot of people, in academia and out.

Feel free to play with it if you like!

https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox
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Are threads still all over the place in wee-slack ? Last time I used it was impossible to follow a channel with multiple threads going on, let alone reply to one.
Agreed, but I'd say the likelihood of something in space disrupting an optical path between two satellites for any significant duration is quite small, much smaller than the potential for a cable to be physically damaged.

But I'm still quite certain that satellites nor free-space optics will not be coming anywhere near the capacity of fiber in the foreseeable future.
Hi, that's definitely not a noob question. I'm already having plans on investigating this, but this topic is even more difficult than WhatsApp Web itself (see https://github.com/sigalor/whatsapp-web-reveng/issues/10#iss... ).
Thus, at this time, I am not able to give you a definite answer, though, to put it informally, "it looks good" (at least on the surface).
Not sure why the downvotes. Moores law[1] refers to the number of transistors that are on the die. With the decreasing size of the transistors, this has remained true. Despite that, clock speeds have stopped growing thereby leading to serial performance not increasing as fast as it had in the past.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
Actually it depends. When you're on probation period in France you can quit as well as be fired on the spot or within 2 weeks depending how long you've been hired for (don't remember the exact timeframe). Then after your probation period is over (it can last from 4 to 7 months) there is 3 month notice period on both (employer and employee) sides.
My answer is: Unsuccessfully.

A different, more useful question is: How should you deal with toxic co-workers?

It depends. Here's a guideline:

1. If you can, talk with the coworker about what's making them toxic.

2. If that doesn't work, or if you can't talk with them, then talk with HR or the lowest-level boss that you have in common.

3. If that doesn't work, then do what you can to not work with that person.

Good luck.
Thanks for the response. Personally, I would be more interested in connecting through a Raspberry Pi 3, which has Bluetooth on board, rather than a mobile device.
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If I don’t give you my wallet, I face starvation. I could choose to steal from you but that would be immoral.

I personally don’t have any control over any food. If I go the supermarket, they threaten to starve me if I don’t hand over my money. I believe it is a voluntary choice for me to pay up not to starve.
If only there were some sort of well-established norm requiring presidential candidates to publicly disclose their tax returns...
Agreed. Toxicity is such a broad range of behaviours that really a fuller story needs to accompany the posted topic.
You could argue not only is it an ergonomic/usability mess but also a security risk, because if future flaws are found in an AVI container code path, it could be used to trick users into executing the video that they normally wouldn’t play. I know that’s a stretch, but there’s just no reason to even have the any of these issues.

That said, I hate to criticize them too much for this detail, in fact, congratulations are in order. It’s been a great engineering effort so far, and hopefully this will continue with the reference implementation evolving into some highly optimized players and encoders.

Aside from the engineering accomplishment you can imagine that it took quite a bit of business effort and coordination to get all these players together and on the same page.

I’d make a bet whoever first proposed the extension name has never been involved with user experience design. But again it’s relative. An excellent chef made a great meal, if just the garnish on top is not perfect it’s not a lot to complain about.
Aesthetic and polish are over-prioritized in modern development. Which is more likely to anger the user -- a beautiful app sadly broken or an ugly one which does what it says on the tin?
> Dockless bikes are an appropriation of public spaces by private companies and need to stop.

I'll support this, as soon as we reclaim the millions of square feet of private space appropriated by curbside parking. This would free up enough space for everyone, and their extended families to park their bikes.

If every block in my neighborhood has room for free parking for ~40 cars, then surely we could reclaim a few of those spots, for the sake of free parking for a greater number of dockless bikes.
OpenBSD, of course :)
Dead on. And the comment you referenced is one of my favorite all-time HN comments…

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."

This is a perfect example of when tech-minded people get blinded to how complicated some things are for the masses.
thanks for the responses, node is kinda my language of choice for the moment, i'll have to update my profile a bit...

i guess i always got hung up on the background thread updating NPC's and the like, but really i should just start small..
He mentions it elsewhere:

> “In the group that has been here longer, white Americans dominate both the FTE sector and the low-wage sector, while African Americans are located almost entirely in the low-wage sector,” he writes. “In the group of recent immigrants, Asians predominantly entered the FTE sector, while Latino immigrants joined African Americans in the low-wage sector.”
Let me put a few caveat on why 5 dollars in 2002 DNE 5 dollars in 2018 for a 12 year old.

Ease of payment, when SA instituted this barrier a young troll intent on disruption had less of a problem coughing up 5 dollars for an account, and more of a problem finding a means to pay this 5 dollars. This is not the case for today's youth. See Xbox live and twitch donations if you don't think I'm being fair here.

Scale-ability, which you directly touch on. Enforcing an upfront cost is a very real value calculation one must make prior to having extracted any value from the service and something most people my self included are currently adverse to. This directly impedes a communities ability to scale.

I can completely relate to your idea that I wouldn't pay to post on the forums. For years I had friends telling me to sign up and I always just shrugged and responded MEH why would I pay for that sort of thing? I didn't understand (at the time) the point or the reason for doing this. My (and many people's) value structure was in-congruent with the owner of SA.

Moving forward, people have to value the idea of an online community free of trolling in order to even put a price tag on that idea. I would find it very hard to believe that

a.) enough people (I'm talking an order of magnitude equal to the number of facebook users) value a troll free environment

b.) that, said people would have a unified enough of an idea of what an act of trolling is such that focused discussion doesn't boil down to pointing fingers. Maybe this point would merely resolve it self over time.
50 years ago, a story describing modern mobile phones and online encyclopedias
When the middle class was discovering the fixed phone in the 60', a sci-fi author told stories about people using phones with screens and cameras, that where used to access online encyclopedias.

p38: "Occasionally when orbiting Bennie Noakes punches an encyclopedia connection on his phone and marvels at what it tells him"

p40: "phone efficient with viewscreens"

p61: "Eventually she scribbled a list and reached for the switch of the phone, after another quick glance at herself to make sure the image on the screen would be fitting."

p87: "However, when he had summed up what he could recall of Beninia—privately wondering all the time why Norman didn't simply go to the phone and punch for an encyclopedia"

p129: "He approached the phone. But that wouldn't do—just conversing with an image on a screen. He wanted to see and hear strangers, to be reassured of their independence from himself."

p130: "If that phone were to ring, and the Colonel were on the screen activating me, telling me to report for duty at once"

p176: "Stretched out on the couch naked, hair dyed the fashionable bronze shade that everyone said suited her so well, a screen protecting the majority of her body from the scan of the camera on the phone but bathing her in the blue-white of the sunshine lamps"

p352: ""Same with the screen on your phone."

p418: "Donald drew a deep breath. What he was going to say could have been found as easily through an encyclopedia connection over the phone"

etc, etc...
What in the actual fuck? I can't fathom how this would even theoretically work. Like people ostensibly would just memorize every api and library they might ever have to use in advance?
hmmm...

https://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/07/19/how-the-nsa-taps-un...
Obligatory exec() mention.
30% smaller than h26_4_ is an often heard statement. If you know how much more efficient h265 is in comparison with h264 you can do the math :)

At transloadit we’ve been testing the reference implementation but to encode a video it’s about 20x slower than h264 still :) there will be many improvements to speed up but it’s expected to remain a lot slower (up to 4x as slow) or so I’ve read.
If it is tasty and affordable, why not? Almost everything we eat nowadays is already highly optimized through selective breeding over thousands of years, so adding lab-grown meat does not make our food less "natural" than it is already. On the other hand, lab-grown meat will probably use much less resources compared to traditionally produced meat, while not causing any issues with regard to (bad) treatment / killing of actual animals.
>norm requiring presidential candidates to

Apparently not required.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar
what about .. av2
I look forward to Uber Airlines in that case.
As an additional data point: https://www.statista.com/statistics/397765/electric-bicycle-...

ebike sales are growing rapidly and in general will start to shape cities in europe very rapidly. That will trickle over to the US in a lot of the big cities that are already dense, and then shift over to the less dense but flatter cities (think LA!)
For most tech people, 10% of your income in an index fund is not going to get you out of the middle class.

Most tech people are not in SV.
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The American sidewalk on which I stand as I write this comment is almost impassable from all the cars parked on it. The idea that “dockless” bikes are an even slight intrusion upon the American streetscape is just so stupid that I can barely bring myself to argue over it.
FWIW, I'd expect any git hosting provider -- including gitlab.com and bitbucket.com -- to be similarly eager to evangelize new git releases, since an improvement to git is an improvement to the usability of their offerings. At the very least, encouraging users to upgrade to easier-to-use git versions could reduce support costs and customer churn.
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Haven't tried this, but consider this guy's approach:

https://github.com/llSourcell/Learn_Computer_Science_in_5_Mo...

Video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvRVlqKebI&feature=youtu.be

Not sure how you'd complete the MIT 6.006 course (3 months on campus) in 2 weeks though.
So you are claiming expensive timestamping protocol, right? Yes, maybe I don't need to use proof of work. but my deterministic random consensus requires PoW for some reason. If you can suggest an alternative for that, I'm very happy for that. (The reason why I need to use proof of work is described in the white paper)
You know I just watched an old (and much degraded) VHS of a TV broadcast of the 80s superman. I missed zero HD 4K whatever.

Something about the medium and the message here.
>The Twitch test set is entirely live-streamed video game content, and we see solid gains here as well.

From the article, near the end.
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That's all well and good for a tech demo, but things rarely seem to be that simple in systems as big/old as OkCupid. I guess this time, it was.
That is only a very specific benchmark and as that post said the result is so strange probably because of the changes in the C trigonometric functions lib that slowed down a lot to increase precision.
I don’t know what you’re trying to show me with that first link. It’s two scooters parked in a street parking spot that would normally be occupied by only one car. To me that’s a huge victory for urban America over the automobile.
Yes, but they don't replace the value of the aggregate data.
In Poland social insurance is lower as a contractor. Also taxes for someone with high income (linear scale).
freedombox is actually based on debian - so they select some packages and configure them to work nicely together, and add a nice web configuration page.

Still a lot of work, but not as much as creating your own distro from scratch.
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> Surely AV1 would be infringing on at least some of HEVC's expansive patent pool

Yes, it probably would, but if these patents are owned by members of AOM it is not an issue