skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a personal anecdote; I have about 10 videos on Youtube. Most of them have under 10k views each and not many comments. Those videos do not have any form of CTA. The one video that does get comments even now 3+ years after being posted is the one where I simply asked people to leave a comment on what their experiences with the same hardware were.
I find its OK on macOS but on Windows the latest thing is the delay in displaying modified files. Newly modified files sometimes take minutes to turn up.
New Zealand which has a pretty good relationship with most of the EU since we're part of the Commonwealth. We're synonymous with Australians who seem to be everywhere in the EU, and English is our primary (and often only) language usually.
I watched part of Udacity's "C++ for Programmers" course and was surprisingly unimpressed - their content is typically great (in my experience, like with their 3D graphics course). Udemy looks like they have some good courses - haven't tried them myself.

Honestly, I have had success with reading Stroustrup's book and doing the exercises. YMMV.
>I think most people will see the absolutely dismal lack of technical understanding by Congress

You really think most people have more technical understanding than these senators?
> As a non-scientist

Unfortunately you're missing the thrust of Hossenfelder's developing argument: in upgrading MOND to a full relativistic theory, you necessarily seriously blur the difference between "modified gravity" and "particle dark matter".

There's some meat on this in the comments on that blog page, notably the point raised (and her subsequent reference to it) by "M_Malenfant".

Essentially her point is that when you relativize some theories of MOND (detailed examples in Famaey & McGauch https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3960 section 7) you are inevitably adding a field to the existing fields. Whether you put it on the right or the left of the Einstein Field Equations is a matter of personal taste. The thoretical requirements however are that the field couples with matter somehow (even just gravitationally), just like the particle dark matter case (where particles may interact weakly or even just gravitationally). Moreover, when you have a dynamical, relativistic field like this, you tend to think of how to quantize it, which typically means particles as the field content and particles mediating the interaction between that and the field content of the Standard Model.

So, as she says, perhaps it's more a question of sociology than mathematics that splits particle dark matter theorists (solving cosmological problems like the details of the cosmic microwave background and its neutrino equivalent, or solving problems with the Standard Model like the QCD strong CP problem) or from modified gravity theorists (solving velocity curve problems). At some level, almost all of the still-viable proposals for these and related problems boil down to adding a field on curved spacetime.

On the other hand -- and this is where Hossenfelder (among others) deserves some credit -- this wouldn't have been quite so obvious ten or so years ago, let alone in the early 1980s when Milgrom began developing MOND.
It happened.

We got meta tags that tell us the published date, author and type of web page.

We got schema for job ads.

We got schema for recipes.

We got schema for thumbnails and images associated with a webpage.

We got schema for ecommerce products
Interestingly, it is also apparently quite difficult to find actual trafficking victims, at least in the US.
So I'd like you to prove that git won't lose work. Even smart people who use git have typed stuff that made them lose work.

You can, and will, argue they are morons. That's an excellent way to deal with a poorly designed system.
Trump reminded people to follow him on Twitter all the time during his campaign rallies.
What hubris?
Shift key?
To anyone reading, bitkeeper does nothing special in this regard. Enforce commit message standards, plenty of platforms and systems built around git (and literally every other SCM) have support for this.

Here's what he's taking about: http://www.bitkeeper.org/man/citool.html and http://www.bitkeeper.org/man/templates.html

Here is git's analogous feature: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/better-commit-messages-with-a-...

It's possibly the least interesting and least unique selling point an SCM can have. It's really funny that you keep bringing up this example around the thread.

EDIT: To respond to the above edit:

Again, he's Proving The Point. Commits should be atomic. If you have to individually comment on file changes then the correct thing to do would be to put those in their own commit, no? I'm not really sure what's being described is necessarily a cool feature, but rather a way to avoid making sure your changes are truly related. I honestly don't see the point. This seems like a feature that was written because of the decisions that were made into how BitKeeper works internally, not because it's a fantastic idea. You can get the same thing with atomic commits in git. You comment per file, because BK tracks changes per file. Git does not do this. You should be making your commits atomic because git is tracking the actual content. Atomic commits will accurately describe what's being changed, and then of course those all get lumped together in a patch/PR.

Git isn't lacking the feature you're describing, it just kind of is there without any extra data tracking required, because it's not making up for technical design decisions.
Computer System Transcribes Words Users “Speak Silently”
We use zip files distributed and synced by blockchain across BTC and Ether
assuming you are ok with mutation its just syntax. = means assignment so you only have to type one character. == means equal, so you have to type two. it could be the other way around with := and = but its really a non-issue. there's all kinds of weird syntax out there.
They did two things incredibly well-- marketing, and top-notch engineering of core components which pushed both battery management and electric drivetrain tech forward.

Other than that, it's been a mixed bag. Personally I love what Musk has accomplished with SpaceX, but Tesla is more worrisome. The autopilot thing has been handled badly, their treatment of employees is apparently not stellar, and they seem to view their customers similarly to how Apple views theirs, only worse.

Time will tell how it all plays out. I would hesitate to call the odds either way, though; that is one unpredictable CEO.
With over 20k tokens released so far, perhaps this is what should be done. DDOS-ing a SEC would be a nice way to force them to make explicit exceptions for fundraisings of a certain size.

In Europe, from July 21st 2018, you'll be able to do equity crowdfunding below €1M with no prospectus and registration - Kickstarter style. Above that, but below €8M, states will have an option to have extremely simplified procedure, and many of them will take that option (Germany €8M, Poland €5M, and so on).
Politics is always a performance.

Regardless of the technical literacy of the individuals, they need to ask questions that their constituents will want to know they asked. They are covering their bases so that the media can't play a "Gotcha!" game and say "You were representing the people of the Great State of $YOUR_STATE_HERE, and you didn't even ask Facebook why they invite hackers into their own systems?!". This would look bad for the politician if, by some crazy happenstance, the bug bounty becomes implicated in the boogeyman of the big bad "Russian hackers".

While I don't discount the possibility that many such lines of questioning were borne out of sincere ignorance, the public perception is what matters, regardless of individual competence, knowledge, or ability.

These committee events are just exhibitions to allow politicians to score points back home. Any real work will be done by grossly overpaid lobbyists writing policy that benefits their clients, and grossly underpaid Congressional staffers just trying to work it through the session while protecting Their Guy from potential damage/backlash.
PNPM: Fast, disk space efficient package manager NPM alternative
Is analysis of the crypto market and the price of various coins even possible? A lot of articles seem to approach the price of coins as something that can be rationally discussed, however at the same time we all know the market is a) unregulated b) has wash trading going on and c) is heavily dominated by a handful of actors. I mean, hell, even think about the enormous power the completely unregulated exchanges hold - they could literally behind the scenes be betting against you on any single trade using knowledge you don't have.

In such a market the price of any coin may not even be set by a plurality of participants. It can be set by a single motivated participant who's motivations cannot be divined (except maybe the single driving motivation: make more money for me and fuck everyone else).

If you're trading in the crypto space today, you're crazy - you're sitting down for a card game expecting there to be fairness and rules, but there aren't any. The dealer can stack the deck however they want and change the rules of the game while you're playing, etc.
Yes, it bugs me too. A lot of readers on HN, myself included, are part of the 1%, easily .1 or .01%. Having an education / the leisure to spend enough time to understand and be interested in the kind of topic that are discussed here, along with just having an internet connection probably puts you in the top 10%.

For example, having a fixed salary in France, at minimum wage (~17,760EUR/y) puts you in the top 4% globally. Anything above minimum wage and you steadily climb to the top 1%.

Poor people are a lot poorer than we think, and you're likely not among them if you're reading this.
Interested parties:

https://www.scribd.com/document/375623623/Call-for-Rule-maki...
The point of public political hearings is PR. To help legislators show voters that they care about whatever crisis is top of news. Information seeking and legislation writing happens in closed door negotiations with lobbyists and lawyers.
The interesting bits for me:

"Our testing shows AV1 surpasses its stated goal of 30% better compression than VP9, and achieves gains of 50.3%, 46.2% and 34.0%, compared to x264 main profile, x264 high profile and libvpx-vp9, respectively.

"However, AV1 saw increases in encoding computational complexity compared with x264 main, x264 high and libvpx-vp9 for ABR mode. Encoding run time was 9226.4x, 8139.2x and 667.1x greater, respectively…"
Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes
I know this is a joke, but have you checked out mango? https://github.com/axic/mango
Still waiting on the "demonstrable" facts.

Uh, you are completely misunderstanding why it was a silly anecdote Mr. Dead Project maintainer. It's based on your personal recollection of events. Him physically being somewhere doesn't make what you said true -- especially since it doesn't TECHNICALLY make sense.

Please explain to me, in technical detail how git is "lossy." I won't hold my breath.

EDIT: Your profile indicates that you are the CEO of the company that makes bitkeeper. You are referencing a conversation, that if I'm reading right, apparently happened around 2007. You've made an assertion that this is what Linus said (despite it not technically making any sense, so I have some serious doubts about that). You have elsewhere around the thread also chosen to paint BitKeeper's "unadoption" as a simple matter of licensing issues, despite textual evidence in the Linux mailing list archives CONSISTENTLY pinpointing technical problems that the team had with BitKeeper and Linus himself in one thread specifically stating he wanted Git to be nothing like BK.

You are ignoring that in your magical BK timeline, you had TWO separate projects (Git and Mercurial) both pop up at basically the same time, adopt literally nothing from BitKeeper, move the Linux project off BK and onto Git, and then proceeded to completely dominate your software product for technical reasons (and not simple licensing issues, people pay for SCM's even now) to the point where BK is now open source.

Basically, you seem like you're being pretty fucking dishonest and disingenuous right now and are rather salty the whole world doesn't agree that your SCM is Totally Sane (TM).
I would also argue that a healthy dose of tech illiteracy (if that's what you want to call it) is precisely what we need in this situation. Tech minded people will always find a way to decide in favor of technology. They are loyal to the technology. We need people who can look at all of this from the unbiased perspective.
I wonder if he was worried about the follow up question:

Senator: "But that is just for advertising. What about competitors for your customers that use the social networking product?"

Zuckerberg: "Oh them. They aren't our customers, they are the product."
Hmm, that does seem probable. In fact that could make the SQL even more efficient as you'd only need a combined index on the 'prop' and 'value' columns, rather than N arbitrary combinations of indexes that may or may not be used.

Edit: Had some bad attempt at writing this query but it's rather late and it made no sense.
Reference-Conditioned Super-Resolution by Neural Texture Transfer
I’d say its specific because its a sensible extrapolation based on existing declassified information combined with the small amount of leaked information that has trickled out over the years.

While reading about the possible conspiracy that the failure did not happen and it was to cover the launch of a stealth satellite, this was basically the satellite payload I pictured. Based on its role as a high orbit SIGINT satellite it would have a huge antenna, huge antennas are fragile buggers to launch, thus the fancy custom payload adapter.
Brought to you by the same guys who decided giving opaque, untamperable access to your browser by random external parties was a good idea.

I think I'll pass.
> It’s absurd that someone thinks that they have an expectation of privacy when they voluntarily choose to send a message to someone else.

How does this world view reconcile with the fact that many different states have 2 party consent? Or the fact that considerable money and effort have been spent on concepts like OTR?

People expect others to have some discretion in what private information they pass on to others. Most applications have this assumptions built in mind.

You can easily forward a single email to someone in gmail, but there is not 1-click solution to send all of your emails to someone else.
Let that sink in:

'Encoding run time was 9226.4x, 8139.2x and 667.1x greater, respectively…'

The codec is good, but the encoder has a long way to go. This places it squarely in the realm of only worth it right now if you're serving the same video millions of times (someone graph this?).

It's a bit hyperbolic to claim that this is a 'practical use case', but maybe at Facebook/Netflix/YouTube's scale, it is. But it will be exciting to watch this space.
There are folks who are junior in their attitude and experience, but not in their coding or design skill set. I’m very senior, yet I’d say I suck at reviewing code. There are other things I’m good at, code reviews just aren’t one of those things. My best code reviewer on the team is a dude who’s just out of school. In fact, he’s probably the second best reviewer I’ve seen in 20 years in this industry, and the other dude is only better than him because he had incredibly deep knowledge of a gnarly problem domain specific to that particular team. Frankly, I’m shocked that someone who’s 22 years old can be this good, and I no longer believe there’s that huge of a gap in technical skill between junior and senior folks per se. I also think that people of such extreme skill should be paid at the same rate as the senior people even though they do not possess an illustrious resume quite yet. It pains me to see that he could be easily making three times as much if he only had “worked on such and such bullshit products for 10 years” on his resume. If I ever poach him, I’ll make sure he gets paid really well.

The main point is, just because someone is nominally “junior” means little to nothing in terms of their ability to write and review code. The advantage of experience is largely in knowing how to restrict the search space when solving any given problem.
Audio-Visual Scene Analysis with Self-Supervised Multisensory Features
Yes, I remember noticing how similar basic was to what you'd see in a math textbook. You'd expect to see a variable defined like "let x equal (whatever)", and basic just mimicked that: "LET X = 9".
On the flip side, as the encoder gets better, the quality and bitrate will improve as well, not just the encoding time.
I'm sure a lot of them are pissed at her, but that's the point. Being part of the ruling class means that if they're pissed at you, you get exiled to the fringe of the ruling class and have to live in the outer darkness of mere affluence instead of fantastic wealth and power. Not being part of it means that you get locked in a cage for a substantial portion of your remaining lifespan.

To use a crude analogy, if you're wronged, are you more likely to be vindictive if the transgressor is a close relative, or a complete stranger?
Good grief if you are this worried about these fees your company doesn’t have enough revenue to justify its existence. Yes I had a Delaware c-Corp with a foreign qualification for Massachusetts, no I would not have cared about these annual fees if my company was meeting growth targets.

Please just spend a little time educating yourself about corporate structure and spend a lot of time building a company with real value. The former can typically be changed without a lot of fuss if the latter requires it.
You can go look at BK's merge alg, it's quite cool. And the basic implementation was done in about 20 minutes. And it is extremely fast.

I should write up a blog post about it, it's pretty complicated to understand because to get it, you need to understand SCCS's interleaved delta format. If you understand that format, then imagine that you put a line number in front of each data line in the weave. Check out the GCA, local, and remote versions of the file with those line numbers prefixed. Now run a 3 way merge on that.

All the complexity in smerge.c comes from dealing with the cases where that doesn't work, but man, it works great 99% of the time.
I haven't had noticeable performance issues with it, but I've not tried it with truly large projects. Otherwise it actually works pretty well.
Abolish the wage system!
>relentlessly adjusted and overfitted and still appears very inadequate to fit all the evidence

Welcome to physics. The Copenhagen Interpretation is the most concise and robustly tested theory in all of physics. Yet it was dreamt up by a literal absurdist who thought that the universe itself has no objective state of existence. For all we know about the universe, we can still not answer many of the most basic questions about it. The lesson to be learnt from this is that our greatest theories are at best woefully incomplete, and that even our greatest scientists don't have the ability to talk about many things with any level of objective certainty.
SQLite shifted to Fossil in stages. Documentation moved in 2007. The TH3 and sqllogictest test suites started out in Fossil in 2008.

I wrote Fossil specifically to support SQLite development. If Fossil does nothing else other than support SQLite, then it is a success. Any other use of Fossil is just gravy. That we were conservative in moving the main SQLite source code into Fossil does not negate that fact.

We do also use Fossil for dogfooding SQLite. See, for example, item 15 on the release-testing checklist: https://www.sqlite.org/checklists/3230000/index
I'm not sure what the author does or does not understand, but many of the people going full-steam down the microservice road don't know those things either, and so end up often creating at least as big of a mess as they would with a monolith, despite lots of zeal and hype.

Coordinating a complex architecture IS hard. Microservices are often used as a way to wish away all that hard coordinating because... decoupling or something... and stuff.

Meanwhile what actually gets built is a tangled mess of tightly coupled (but separate) libraries as "services", with many-to-one relations between those services and developers, unnecessarily complex deployments, and... a big, fat, crappy HTTP layer slathered on top, just to add insult to injury. The next step is usually to pour on generous helpings of graphql.
Check out registered agent fees as well, which can easily go over $100 first year. I used a ‘service’ about $100 to setup LLC in a low tax state. No complaints.
You would need to have a new join for each new property

SELECT DISTINCT loyaltyMemberID
from members as m
INNER JOIN properties as p1 on m.id = p1.user_id
INNER JOIN properties as p2 on m.id = p2.user_id
INNER JOIN properties as p3 on m.id = p3.user_id
AND (p1.prop = 'gender' AND p1.value = x)
AND ((p2.prop = 'age' AND p2.value = y) OR (p3.prop = 'censor' AND p3.value = z))
Accessible Realities library (alpha) for Unreal Engine 4
The Bitmex and Bitfinex futures markets are settled in BTC and it's been blatantly clear that someone (most likely the exchange operators) are consistently manipulating the futures market (most likely to wipe out margin traders who don't know better) with short squeezes that return back to the norm within hours.

https://i.imgur.com/LpgnksQ.png

CBOE and CME futures being cash settled is a joke, and removes any incentive for the risk associated with the long position actually acquiring BTC, further proving the large traders just want to play with the tool for speculative market volatility and not actually facilitate using or acquiring the asset itself.

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/latest
You are willfully ignoring the strongest point in my statement.
>Seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of SQL rather than a particularly hard problem to solve.

Without knowing the rest of their stack, or what their data ingestion looks like, I think your query is oversimplified. If they are doing a union, then it's likely they aren't querying one table, but they are querying multiple tables. The article mentions that individual customers had as many as 500 million rows. Likely each customer has their own set of data they also pipe into the system. Next their own custom query language may support more complex algebra than standard equality.

IMO, the article doesn't sufficiently describe the problem for us to understand why their solution works. To you and I there are 100 other solutions they could have tried that seem simpler than the one they presented.

It's less likely that they overengineered - we are probably just underinformed.
IQ tests only measure your ability to write IQ tests.
This is super, super cool - thanks for sharing!
It replaced a couple sub queries/ common table expression.
Somehow using the same data store makes it a microservice rather than a distributed monolith.

Of course it’s a lot less 2018/webscale to just optimize your DB rather than replace something with Go
You might argue that what kept Elizabeth Holmes out of trouble was her public persona as well. Neither case has the aroma of justice as far as I'm concerned.
Netflix yes, others no, most videos aren't played often
True, it's not easy to do, and maybe it's not feasable to determine who is using the data. I don't know, maybe someone from Facebook will chime in on the issue, or leak some more info about company behavior.

>I think some caution is a good idea, they don't want to get the numbers wrong - although they are making steps in the right direction with the message to 87 million on their news feeds.

Totally agree with the second part, but ~4 years (only divulging the info when forced to during PR damage control mode) is well past being cautious. It's being cautious with the amount of damage the disclosure does to your profits, Equifax doesn't even wait that long.