skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it a marketing fraud? As a mathematician, I can see the solution of a fully public permissionless DLT as long as (1) there is a PKI — not too hard to accomplish, (2) the generation time of ZKPs and SMPC can cross below the network latency threshold — to which I can say that I know researchers in the space and even a simple run rate calculations indicates this will be feasible soon...

I wonder whether your stance would update if you were to read Foundations of Cryptography by Oded Goldreich?
As you referenced that bug and there also gave an example involving fractions and =0.1+0.2 you would certainly also agree that the binary floating point representation of =0.1+0.2-0.3 is not 0.0, still Excel displays 0 as result (and so does Calc) instead of 5.551115123125783E-17 because users expect that.

Your bit-level accuracy approach isn't as simple when it comes to user experience and Excel compatibility.
Analyzing IMDb Data the Intended Way, with R and ggplot2
Well it depends on your app. Technically, you have to rebuild your app to speak GraphQL to the frontend instead of REST. Internally, your GraphQL resolvers (like URL handlers) would then do similar work with using QuerySets as you're doing now.

If you'd like to leverage Hasura, it would be a good fit to potentially replace the "read" portions of your app with GraphQL quite easily. And then eventually you would have to move to writing a GraphQL gateway to handle some of the transactional logic and delegate the other stuff to Hasura via schema-stitching.
Actually no, because this function is already being taken over by gas peaker plants. It's less expensive to have such a plant and fire it once in a while than to keep a large nuclear/coal plant churning.
Behind the Design of a Moscow Metro Station
Itty bitty sites are contained entirely within their own link
It is a very old rationalization that the killing under socialist systems is only due to a bad man and not the system. You need to think, not about the politics, legal structure or the economics of the social system but the underlying ethical assumptions on which it depends. If society is superior to the individual then sacrificing individuals to social goals is inherent in the system, not an accident of history.
If you get a fake product they will deny any wrong doing even with photographic evidence of said fake product
It changes. When Pinterest acquired, it offered all features for free for all users (it used to be a freemium model). I hope it doesnt change back, but I understand if they do. It's fair.
It's not a good comment if you consider that the browser crash they were experiencing wasn't even the website's fault, it was the browser being buggy. The JavaScript error that they copied from the console was an error from inside the Conkeror browser itself (that browser is written mainly in JS). So the OP was complaining to the Show HN creator about the failings of a buggy, non-maintained (in the last 6 years) non-mainstream browser that they choose to use to view the website.

Unfortunately I have seen that type of comment quite a bit on some of the Show HN threads: someone complains that the site doesn't work without JavaScript, or doesn't work with their bizarre non standard web browsing setup.
Here are a few major points :

* APO-E isoform, that predicts alzheimers risk, correlates with how much beta amyloid is present in the brain

* It also correlates with how much Herpes Virus is present : https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/herpes-v...
"Readhead and his colleagues have shown that the more E4 copies someone has, the more HHV–6A and HHV–6B viruses they are likely to have in their brains."

* We also know that if you knock APOE out in a mouse, and then infect it, there is WAY less HSV penetration in the brain (see figure 1, and note that the Y-axis is logarithmic!) : http://jvi.asm.org/content/76/23/12394.full

* Also, APOE isoforms predict whether or not Hepatitis B virus will give you liver cancer. Note that its the E3 genotype that is risky for this, yet its the E4 genotype thats bad for Alzheimers. I take this to be evidence that hepatitis viruses and herpes viruses likely have different binding affinities to these two isoforms.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26823800

* Someone should do some drug screening to eliminate binding between known viral capsids and APOE variants. cough YC Bio
I'm with you on this. I grew up playing lots of video games. Far too many. I still play the occasional game but not often. I don't mind watching my roommate play sometimes if i'm doing other things. But I could never just sit and watch someone play a game online. It makes no sense to me. You're still spending the same amount of time watching a game as you would be playing it. I dunno personally I would rather do something than watch other people do things. I feel like i've spent more than enough time in my life just watching things. Why would I want to sit and watch someone else do something I could do myself? I think probably the only gameplay videos i've ever watched, other than demos of new games or stuff like that, were some of the old super metroid speed runs way back in the day.
A guide to playing many popular games on twitch, written even a few months back, is outdated much faster than even JavaScript framework best practices. As a consequence of this, content which is new has natural advantages over content which is not new. Content even a week old can be so out-dated as to be worthless, not just in theory but frequently in practice. In fact, the strength of the advice and the likelihood that the advice is outdated within a week are actually correlated, because game developers do balance patches.

From these observations, if you assume that people are watching gaming content to learn, you should be able to reduce confusion at the popularity of live content on twitch and start to get an understanding of why Twitch does not represent a step backwards.
I agree that some scenarios are more important than others, but that seems to be orthogonal to the claim that I was objecting to.

I also disagree that whether an integration test can cover some part of your code is the litmus test for whether the code is relevant. There are types of errors that are relevant but complicated to simulate in an integration test, or at least in an automated integration test.

An example would be a network partition. It's involved to code a test to cause the partition, wait for the various timeouts to take place, then heal the partition, then wait some more for things to start talking and recovering. And depending on who owns the test environment and how your organization is managed, you may need to negotiate with a DevOps / Operations / Security person to get permission to run iptables in the appropriate machines.

On the other hand, unit-testing what happens when a connection fails is probably pretty easy.
“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community"

Umberto Eco
Munro Teardown Shows Tesla Model 3 Solidly Profitable [video]
That's essentially what Scala implicits do, though the resolution path is very much not straight up the call stack.
Understanding Relations Part 3: Debunking Conventional Wisdom
Not surprisingly, "You won't be able to do this [computationally hard thing]" is a prediction that doesn't age well. :)

The most recent benchmarks I've seen show HEVC encoding to be 10x-15x slower than H.264, and 4K is 4x the pixel count of 1080p. Naively, this would make UHD 40x-60x more computationally intensive than 1080p, but it is probably not quite that bad. (4x pixel count should be a bit less than 4x computation.)

Latency isn't really a factor here, though. UHD doesn't have higher latency than HD; both just need to fill a few seconds of buffer in the player, and as long as they can keep up with a stream in real-time, this will only take a few seconds to do.

> What do UHD recorders do to record UHD material -- just massive iframe only codecs?

Yes, but the use of iframe-only is orthogonal to the delivery codec or format. (Most pro video is shot and edited in an intra-only codec.)
I also recommend this tool for anyone looking to buy expensive items. I saved ~$900 on an OLED TV from a very brief price drop in late May due to camel. It had been on my list for months however.
I did pick one and invested heavily. I never made a statement about "no extra time".
You are what's wrong with my state if you think everything is fine.

1st - that $9 billion surplus isn't a surplus. The state has debt and unfunded liabilities of over $1 TRILLION. $9 billion is couch change in comparison. Also, Brown has already said that "surplus" is being spent.

https://californiapolicycenter.org/californias-total-state-l...
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/05/11/governor-brown-t...
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/04/06/with-california-taxpay...

2nd - this state is over taxes and when they can't tax us more, they levy fees. Like the the 12 cent gas tax for infrastructure projects that have already been paid for, and the increase DMV registration fees for the same. This state is one of the worst for business, which is why so many people and businesses are fleeing the state.

3rd - we have the largest homeless population in the country and are doing nothing to prevent or solve the issue. also, over 40% of people living here (citizens and non-citizens) are on some form of welfare or entitlement. where do you think that $9 billion "surplus" is going?

4th - we are at the bottom of schools systems and quality of life. see #3.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/01/ca...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/02/08/geog...

5th - destruction of the middle class. our open borders policies provide cheap labor. we've also allowed non-citizens to obtain professional licenses - construction, lawyers, medical, etc. this takes away opportunities for citizens - you know the ones that are fleeing the state.

6th - speaking of non-citizens. we've issued over 1,000,000 driver's licenses to non-citizens and over 3,000,000 million own homes in our state. you don't think that amount of people, here illegally, have an affect on our middle class, our lower class - come on, this affects everything from quality of life to our school systems.

but sure it's all fine and dandy. where's the meme with the dog in the room on fire?
I once worked with an SAP consultant who had worked on SAP projects that were 100% custom development. They used it strictly as a form-building app dev platform with solid scalable transaction processing and reporting capabilities, and used zero of the pre-defined configuration or data structures. I think they had a bit of the "when your only tool is a hammer" mentality.
Nobody is really GDPR-ready, however, data privacy law is about being good enough. Yep, there isn’t full compliance ever. Instapaper looks very desperate with its GDPR-lockout of EU users. I guess the EU market is mostly lost …
It's a little different to me.

At least for music, there are some career fallback options if you really want to pursue that path, but lack the charisma / marketing skills to be a pop lead. Orchestras / Broadway, session musicians, game and film composition, studio work (production / engineer / composer), etc. A lot of these paths actually value technical competence way more than the self promotion necessary for pop music stardom. It's an extremely competitive field, of course, but it's possible to do very well as a musician without necessarily being a pop star. I'm not sure if the equivalent exists for Twitch streamers.
Here's the mental gymnastics I go through, and as it sounds like you have done some thinking on this, perhaps you have insight... if Tesla eventually reaches a point of desperation, isn't it reasonable to think they would sell to some better-capitalized party, at which point the stock would have value (in conversion to stock of the other party, if nothing else)? So, while it might currently be overvalued at ~ $300/share, if they succeed in their goals that will seem cheap, and if they fail you'll still more than get your money back out of it. Is that just misguided optimism on my part?
Stick to the topic of the thread, please!
Dual monitor setup, minimised tab being effectively audio only, its also an equiv. to an online howto, cheat, or game mag. Don't underestimate how widely popular certain games such as LoL, SC2, PUBG, and many others are. I also suspect numbers are inflated.
Well a rightsholder would have to actively engage Amazon and notify them. Amazon then dropkicks the seller from their site.

But copyright is worthless if nobody defends it. And I bet that for most game devs its just not worth the hassle.

The easiest way to defend copyright is stuff like content ID which automates the process but everyone hates that so...
A few loosely related thoughts:

Background: HSV1 is commonly known as cold sores. Some people get them in their mouth, or on their lips. Most of the population don't develop any symptoms.

This link between HSV1 and Alzheimer's could be big business. The numbers are wildly divergent, but it sounds like a sizable chunk of the US population has HSV1. I've seen estimates from 20% to 80%. Even if it's the very conservative 20% number, that's still a big market.

The skeptic in me (his name is David) is suspicious of this article precisely because it has the potential to be such a big market. Case in point, there's a link to some HSV1 medicine at the bottom of the article. I wonder if they have an affiliate marketing arrangement with the makers of acyclovir. Tangentially related, I think that this article is on the front page of HN precisely because HSV1 is so widespread. For example, if another article discussed a cure for Alzheimer's, but that article involved some rare condition that does not affect the general population, would that article hit page #1?

With that said, I think our society's lax approach to HSV1 is bizarre. In Sex Ed, I didn't get any education around the fact that kissing people and sharing drinks can spread a virus. After reading quite a few articles on the virus, I got the impression that STD researchers don't really know much about it. I could be wildly incorrect about that last point, I'm not a medical expert. It's just the general impression I got when trying to understand HSV1 from an STD perspective. For example, it's been common wisdom for a long time that, if you have HSV1 (cold sores), then you can't get HSV2 (genital herpes). But the reality seems to be more ambiguous than that. Apparently there was a fairly recent study mentioning that college students who have HSV1 performed oral sex on their partners and transferred HSV1 to the partner's genitals. Or something like that.

Long story short, although I'm skeptical of the business incentives around associating HSV1 with something as scary as Alzheimer's, I welcome more research around understanding HSV1.
Synergies can turn out to not materialize post acquisition. Not a bad thing if the acquisition can be unraveled. Kudos to Pinterest for not just nuking Instapaper.
Haven't tested this, and it's a true concern. But I would hope there's some truth to emission reductions as having a comprehensive pass (includes bikes, buses, and Helsinkis good subway system) should entice people to use these options as well. One incentive to use these other options is not needing to search for a parking spot.
To make a real difference, people need to be willing to not rely on car sharing 100%, though. So maybe more incentives would be needed for this to reduce emissions in other cities.
Isn't it strange to think that on one hand we worry that people are spying on us, on the other hand we are kind of desperate for an audience?
I used to be a free plan user and happy with it. The paid features (search I guess) were fine, but unnessential.

If they come back with the same feature distribution I would keep being a free user.
Luxury Lounge Wars Heat Up as Airlines Vie for High-End Passengers
I have (had) a twitch channel with a few thousand followers, maybe 50/100 viewers at any given time, doing speedruns. Relatively popular. But it was always just a hobby.

The economics simply don't work. Even if you ascend to the "middle tier". It works out to way less than (american) minimum wage, at best.

I now cringe a bit at the hours and hours i spent there, though i did make some good friends and had great conversations. But it really wasn't the best use of my Late 20s, in the longrun.

It should really only be seen as a hobby, for a few extra bucks on the side, at best, like mowing lawns or other odd jobs. If you think you can make a living, that is both dangerous and delusional thinking.
Alternatively, this also applies when you are living in the future, and making highly static websites: maintaining your own servers and small CDN gives you a cost and speed advantage.

Bandwidth is cheap - except on cloud services!
Keepa [1] shows a graph at every item. It works great on Chrome and Firefox.

[1] https://keepa.com
Fungible and Unfungible ERC token are used by a lot of people.
We’re experimenting with it on a new product at my company, and this is how we use it. Specifically, we use it as an API gateway in front of a bunch of restful services.

Another benefit is a more robust type system than you get with JSON. GraphQL supports union types, interfaces, etc., allows you to provide more strongly typed contracts between the backend and frontend.

One downside though - while the responses can become smaller, with fewer round trips, the requests get A LOT bigger (than with REST), as you have to specify every field, subfield, etc. This is especially true if you make heavy use of union types - then you have to specify all the fields, sub fields, etc. of all the various concrete members you might get back. Like requests with payloads over 1KB is not uncommon. If you’re polling, and the result of the polling is generally an empty response, you may end up sending significantly MORE data over the wire, not less.
Somewhere in the realm of Adobe, the PDF design/spec, and open source software, there are big problems properly supporting forms and signing.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is now only supported on macOS and Windows. And only Acrobat Reader fully supports all the varieties of forms in various PDF specs. I think it's a big problem for government to in effect require the use of a monolithic and proprietary operating system to fill out government forms.

And then the whole state of signing PDFs is a confusing mess. Learning how to create or buy a certificate is irritatingly confusing, and then where the certificate goes and how to use it. Google search guides and it's completely different instructions depending on platform and Acrobat version. The latest versions of Acrobat Reader let you do a thing called signing a document, but it doesn't use certificates, doesn't let you add a password to the document to prevent modification, but you can add text/image/drawing of a "signature" - no doubt this confusing thing exists because the certificate based signing is so difficult. And then verifying digital signatures isn't something people know how to do: technical companies I work with do not accept them unless the digital signature includes a visible human signature and the PDF security options enable printing the PDF!
AWS and GCP have certifications too.

GCP - https://cloud.google.com/certification/

AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/certification/

Personally I just learn whatever I need for my current task by reading documentation and sample code.
Many folks are obviously not that busy. Simple TV consumption for example is still a few hours a day … And I am not included in that average, so a lot of folks spend a substantial time of their day with passive screen use.
Spy Magazine was writing about this 30 years ago: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2001/08/one_ch...
WeWork will no longer reimburse staff for meals with poultry, pork and red meat
One does look for further indications of satire.
Skill is very relative when it comes to art
thanks! will give it a try! honey also has a price chart thing (only shows when you go to an Amazon item specifically and then the Chrome extension injects it in) but I've found it only shows it when there have been recent deals so it's not always useful
I trusted Amazon in this regard that they weren't so stupid that they wouldn't get caught given how much they know about technology (in The Netherlands there's been a pricewatch website on Tweakers which is for tech related comparisons though localised for NL. Its been online for almost two decennia). Turns out, I was wrong.
They are bad, but it is better than nothing. I think if you are completely deaf they probably are not good enough. For myself, I have some hearing damage from working with fire alarms without hearing protection which makes it sometimes hard to understand speech with some background noise, it also doesn't help that English is not my native language. These subtitles make some videos that are hard for me to understand much better than without, because I am able to combine the hearing that I got with the subtitles to figure out what is being said. So yea, I hope they could improve them, but without them my experience is definitely worse.
> Do different video encoders, for the same codec, and input produce different outputs, or is the algorithm specified in a way where it produces the same results for two given inputs, no matter what?

Someone else answered this but I thought I'd elaborate: A good way to think about a codec is as a toolbox. The specification tells you which tools you can use to build a frame (encoder) and which you must support to turn one into pixels (decoder).

Which tools are used in what way makes a huge difference in the output of the encoder, particularly in terms of compression. Have a look at the results for a few H.264 encoders [0]. For the "video conferencing" use-case, the best encoder (x264) uses ~400kbps to produce the same quality of the worst at ~1000kbps.

And like different tools have different costs (a jackhammer needs a generator, a handheld hammer does not), so do the tools in the codec toolbox. Some tools might make the encode slower or might make the decode drain more battery from a mobile device. Others might take a lot of physical space on a piece of silicon, so they're rarely used in hardware.

So different encoders have very different characteristics, not just in terms of output but in terms of power usage, speed and complexity as well.

[0]: http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2012/
Sure, I wondered if there were any non-iframe only encoders out for recording uhd
There's also keepa.com which has an extension that puts the price history inline in Amazon. Extremely useful.
In case you weren't already aware, there is almost a cross-browser standard for doing that: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions and https://browserext.github.io/browserext/ is the draft standard
Some teams/coaches like possession, others do not. If a team plays a dominance based game, eventually, their defenders will be (almost) on the opponents half. When this happens, it becomes edgy, and a loss of possession can be punished by a counter. That counter needs to be executed as fast as possible. Teams that are ahead often retreat and let the opponent have the ball to be able to break out like that. It just means possession doesn't really say anything.
Belgium went ahead against Brazil with a bit of luck, and then let Brazil have the ball. Belgium's second goal was a classic counter punch. After that Brazil was allowed to have the ball while Belgium tried to control the game.
Regarding odds, Belgium was number 3 in the world when the game was played, Brazil was number 2. Obviously, it would not be a `walk over` for anyone.

If you look at both Belgium/England games, you see number 2 against number 12. The ranking was respected there.

https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/in...

Used to be a silly ranking system, but it's elo based these days, so it's not too shabby.