skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>hence users don't have a choice. So it's gov.uk's responsibility to make their website as clear, accessible and useful as possible.

If only that sentiment were contagious. The status quo with every government department where I live seems to be "fk you, we're the government we do what we want." I wish more departments would take a "well our users have no choice so let's try not to suck too bad" attitude.
How can we spin this a bit so the skeptics don’t run with this?
And you wrote it up on Tedium, that was...
Bazqux: https://bazqux.com/

Terrible name, great little product.
And this is how people keep making substantial improvements to ancient formats like JPEG or MP3.

E.g. Guetzli from Google: https://github.com/google/guetzli/blob/master/README.md
There might be more offered by SAP than you are accounting for. You would have to re-create all of the features for things like demand management aggregated forecasting by product line, including integration with supply chain ordering and EDI integration with your global suppliers and customers. You might also need a solution for maintaining separate general ledgers for local hyperinflationary accounting requirements in Brazil in parallel with GAAP reporting in the US. And those other services such as HR and invoicing...they are also all in the box with SAP if you choose to go whole hog.
White noise is better than nothing, but my brain won't stop generating content (thoughts) with white noise. When the TV is generating the content, my brain focuses on that, and it's mindless enough to fall asleep to. I think it has something to do with being a mentally active person forced into a passive role, like shifting the brain into low gear.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524534

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17527447
Thanks, I added it to my original post.
>I don't find the resulting glitched video very interesting ... it just looks and sounds like an MPEG streaming having trouble in a glitchy low-bandwidth environment.

"I don't find the resulting distorted audio very interesting ... it sounds like a overdriven amplifier having trouble with a broken low-quality speaker"

Often the kind of malfunctioning or low-quality processing that plagues engineers is embraced by creative types. There are countless examples in the audio world over the last half-century - look at the popularity of overdrive pedals and bitcrushers and analog delay effects in a world where pristine amplification and effects processing is possible on affordable consumer-grade equipment. There's a similarity to many of the changes that audio editing and processing underwent in the early 2000s, as tools of the trade become more widely available.
Analog signals are being phased out and no longer work in the largest cities. The difference here is mostly in OTA vs cable vs streaming, all digital.
People don't tend to work every day in a week, and there are holidays etc.
>In the late 90s/early 00s a lot of people had seemingly infinite trust in IBM.

You probably conflate that period with the 60s-70s.

In the late 90s/00s it was when IBM regained some mojo by adopting Linux and OSS and building on top of them.

It was not its time of "infinite trust", but a time of a recovery into "some trust".
Measuring the brightest iPhone ever: iPhone X
I'm the poster. I posted it because I wanted to get some of my dot-connecting noticed more (https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/cholesterol-have-we-shot-the-me...), but links to "viral" news content is more click-worthy than the "Show HN" section. As a scientist I've slowly learned hard lessons about how to hook people, and I'm terrible at it.

I don't profit from spreading these ideas. I'm just one of the head data scientists at one of the top dementia labs and I'm tired of longevity-based research taking so friggin long. I also have zero desire to spend a year writing this up only to pay some scientific journal top-dollar so they can paywall it. Putting it up on Medium hopefully saves more lives faster.

I guess I took inspiration from the viruses and snuck my medium post on an innocuous buzz article that is exploding on social media now. Sorry not sorry :p
It's not uncommon with TLS 1.2 to have a setup where what actually happens is this:

You make an outgoing TLS connection, the MITM Proxy Meg intervenes, but you actually wanted MyBank

You->Meg (thinking she's MyBank): Hi, I'm looking for MyBank?

Meg->MyBank: Hi, I'm looking for MyBank?

MyBank->Meg: Yes, we're MyBank <cert for MyBank>

[ Meg inspects the cert ]

Meg->You: Yes, we're MyBank <cert for MyBank>

Now Meg stitches the TCP connection back together so you're talking to MyBank. She no longer eavesdrops.

This works for the business because now they're not paying for a box that can proxy your connection _and_ they're less likely to find that one of their "security" employees emptied your bank account. They feel comfortable that MyBank aren't bad guys, so they aren't scared that you'll, say, exfiltrate stolen corporate secrets via MyBank or download Malware from it.

In TLS 1.3 this doesn't work, because the conversation goes like this:

You->Meg (thinking she's MyBank): Hi, I'm looking for MyBank and I picked 14, and the letter Q

Meg->MyBank: Hi, I'm looking for MyBank and I picked 14, and the letter Q

MyBank->Meg: Cool, I picked a Banana and 209.

<Unintelligible encrypted data> [ Meg can't do anything with this ]

Or Meg could try picking her own Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman values:

You->Meg (thinking she's MyBank): Hi, I'm looking for MyBank and I picked 14, and the letter Q

Meg->MyBank: Hi, I'm looking for MyBank and I picked 81, and the letter Z

MyBank->Meg: Cool, I picked a Banana and 209. <We're MyBank - encrypted data>

[ Meg now has a connection to MyBank, but she can't give it you because it doesn't work if you picked different values ]

In the medium term we expect corporations which do this will just clamp everything to TLS 1.2 with full proxying. This will be very expensive, and worse, but well, we did tell you not to do this, so now that's broken you get to keep both halves. Ordinary folks who aren't trying to put middleboxes everywhere get TLS 1.3, with better performance and more security.
Video compression engineer here.

> I can't understand why it isn't easier understood that a reference implementation is about accuracy only,
> completely ignoring performance considerations.

Because the official codebase conveys another message.
Have a look, there are SIMD implementations for almost all supported targets.

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/av1-normative/aom_dsp...
https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/av1-normative/aom_dsp...
https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/av1-normative/aom_dsp...
....

What are these files for, if not performance? They've been maintained and kept synchronized with the reference C code during the whole project, long before the codec was frozen (and it was a huge PITA).

This doesn't look like "completely ignoring performance considerations".

> As but one example: media encoding is pretty close to being "embarrassingly parallel" in principle,

Almost all video codecs exploit some block-level encoding context, which means the way you encode one block depends on how the previous neighbooring blocks were encoded. This creates a huge dependency between blocks. There are tools like slicing/tiling that allow you to break these dependencies, and thus, encoding in parallel, but at the cost of video quality. Making the problem "embarrassingly parallel" at this point would make the video "embarrasingly ugly".

You could encode multiple frames in parallel ; but then again, being able to encode them independently means you're basically trashing all the compression context (reference frames), and your video quality goes down the tubes.

In an offline encoding scenario (Netflix, Youtube), if you have lots of memory, you can encode multiple independent video sequences from the same movie. Making the problem "embarrassingly parallel" in this case would require an "embarrassingly huge" amount of memory.
Also, it's not applicable to a live scenario (think: latency).
BP == British Petro?

If so, it's in their best interest to always conclude 'nothing to see here, move along' when it comes to pollution/environmental concerns... I would treat such a 'study' with the heavy skepticism it deserves.

It's like as if McDonalds had released a study saying that obesity in the US is on the decline.
>Are we stuck in the game of attention engineering forever?

More or less. As the content generated exceeds limits of human attention, it is our ability to pay attention that is scarce and much sought after. And I don't see that changing anytime soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy
Wonder how that service works. Amazon explicitly forbids keeping track of their pricing history. I knew a few guys who tried it and got a C&D warning at some time. Does ccc have a special agreement or something equivalent? Beats me.
Artificial Intelligence for Big Data
Soviets were always eager to annex something.

Though in 1942-43 when Soviets had to expend an enormous effort and spared no resource to annex back places like Stalingrad, the Soviet forces in Persia still stayed put. Their mission was seen utterly important.
The dude has no clue.

Listed 0 applications but said "Yeahh man its gonna happen"

Sounds like the idiots on /r/cryptocurrency, doesnt sound like a programmer.
I see, my minute sample wasn't enough to see that
It is really regrettable that humans have this incredibly illogical, subconscious algorithm for making otherwise logical decisions.

Most of the money and capital in this world are held by the older generations rather than the younger generations. The younger generations have to then spend their time "pitching" the older generations on ideas that, in a vacuum, are logical but not evident to the older generations.

As a result, anyone in the younger generations who has a personal relationship with the older generations (such as yourself) will become disproportionately wealthy if their pitch is accepted, compared to say the 27 year old single mother + person of color.
> It's been passed around like a stepchild since birth

Didn't Marco create it and run it independently for over 5 years?
I really like markdown but I doubt it's the answer to this.

These people aren't programmers, most of them will only have a loose grasp of what a file format is. What they need are tools that don't require a programming background.
You can say the same about competitive live sports, and clearly your argument doesn't apply.
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Competitive advantage is rarely in processes that a company is trying to replace or automate with third party software.
Is it? Usually when a company wants to shut a service down they just do it.

It's a lot of work to spin the company and losing talented people that they might want to keep.
Uber faces U.S. probe over alleged gender discrimination
Looks like your algorithm is classifying some neutral-toned problem solving type feedback as “mean”. Personally, that’s exactly why I would do a Show HN. Examples

“Looks like a cool project, but I can't scroll very far down the site before my browser crashes. I've reproduced this several times, here's the terminal output if it helps: $ conkeror https://alpha.trycarbide.com ...... JavaScript strict warning: https://alpha.trycarbide.com/, line 603: SyntaxError: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)? fault....
-16 sentiment, chriswarbo 2 years ago in reply to "Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment"

“just filed an issue - but the error message is pretty obnoxious for a catch all- bound to the $(window) error event is a catch all error that blames me for not having enough data (56 public repos not enough?) This means that anyone who knows this url and decides to look me up will see a message accusing me of being a non-producer if anything goes wrong with the resume
-14 sentiment, beezee 6 years ago in reply to "Show HN: My Github rsum"

...those were within the first 10. If this similarly neutral-toned problem solving type report makes me mean in your algorithm’s view, that is a label I shall wear with pride.
Tell that to Kevin McCarthy (R-CA 23rd District), who's trying to be the next Speaker of the House. Or Devin Nunes (R-CA 22nd District), the chairman of the House Intelligence committee. Some of the biggest players in the Trump soap opera come from the blue coast.
Would you buy one?
It's the dose, not the substance, that make the poison.

Because of the smartphone, social media is always with you, everywhere you go, and there is infinite content. That makes it pretty different from all the types of media that came before.
1) I like the idea because I am on the receiving end of the pain as a user

2) There are fundamental reasons why you can make a better product and the leader can not respond (would be too long trying to outline why here)

3) This product is used by eng. daily most startups in this space are by software eng. and try to address the pain points for eng. and not for managers.

4) The leader product can not be used by F500 customer (managers) without a number of 3d party addons (which can and should be part of core functionality)

5) without going into specifics imaging SAP ERP system that was built from quickbooks e.g. fundamental mismatch between original arch. and what was bolted on over the years.
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HTML is easy. CSS is hard. CSS is hard partly because it's a mess, but mostly because designing for the web is hard.

Normal human beings understand pages, in the papery sense of the word. They don't understand viewports. It takes an enormous leap of abstraction to reason about a document that could be any shape or size. Responsive design is a fundamentally unintuitive process. A lot of professional designers fail to understand this, even after years of designing for the web.
Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude
Have you looked at Microsoft's product? Whatever label they have put on the stuff they bought from that company in Fargo...Dynamics?
As a fellow grump, I totally agree - even to my own financial detriment.

But you are exactly right - that ad page isn't for you at all. The mailing list and free content is for you. You hopefully buy based on your relationship with the author and aren't going to be convinced by any ad copy anyway. They just hope you'll ignore or forgive them for the annoying ad copy and not unsubscribe.

That ad copy is aimed at the less-engaged customer - say a project manager at a large nameless consulting company somewhere in Germany or whatever who doesn't really care about topic X but was told by their boss to research topic X and has a training budget to buy a book on the topic (which they may or may not even read).

Notice also how every one of these pages will have an absurdly priced $800 bundle option. First, some people at companies who have training budgets will buy it because to them $800 vs. $100 is a rounding error when it's all just free money anyway. And second, having an $800 option makes the $100 option seem incredibly reasonable (when you are essentially asking someone to pay $100 to download a PDF).
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at. Production is output focused.

QA is the system of trying to produce at the desired quality. Anything done to improve quality is QA, including whether you hire better employees or train the ones you have. You can define QA more narrowly if you like, but then we're arguing semantics and we're already off in the weeds.
How AT&T’s plan to become the new Facebook could be a privacy nightmare
Its a learning experience for them as well. They'll get better at public performance much like practising a speech alone at your house.
From what I’ve seen this is usually what happens when the parent company wants to close the service down.

Not always. Fastmail was bought (back) from Opera by employees and they are doing fine.
This, but also for central government debt, the government is the issuer of its own currency. As long as the debt is denominated in the same currency, the government can never become insolvent on its debt. The real constraints are always real resources and real economic activity, the lack of which would cause inflationary pressures.

Here's an insightful bit in US context, but it's much the same for China: https://youtu.be/pex89N9Oqog
Anyone can send a cease and desist. How would that be enforceable though? The information is available publicly to anonymous browsers.
I wrote that post, the post you linked is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is here: https://praxis.fortelabs.co/building-a-second-brain-in-emacs...
Excellent news!

Not been able to use it since GDPR came into play, assumed it was down to slow large company -itis.

Peeved by it the point I was planning out my own replacement product for Instapaper. Hopefully everything is back on track soon
For a decade or so, I've been using `vim -o ~/{todo,progress,done}`

That gives me vim with three splits. Every day I add a new heading with the current date in the bottom split, then in the top one I list the things I plan to do that day. As new urgent work comes in throughout the day, I add it to the top split too. When I start working on something, I move it to the middle split. If I have to shift between tasks, I'll keep their entries in the middle split up to data with what i've done, next steps, etc. When I finish something, I move it from the middle split to the bottom split.

You can see a sample at https://imgur.com/a/jNa5Qp3

This helps me

* plan how much I can accomplish in a day

* limit the number of things I'm doing at once

* remember context when i do have to multitask

* explain to others (e.g. my manager) what i've been working on
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insinuate that you had any shady objectives. From my casual research, I do think that it's important that we develop more understanding around HSV1, especially if there's a link to something as devastating as Alzheimer's.

My only goal was to inject some skepticism and awareness around why this particular article might receive more attention.
The gov.uk folks make heavy use of Markdown, and so they should - the sooner we leave this PDF/Word doc nonsense in the past the better.

HTML in the browser is the best tool for consuming documents; we can read and write on any device, bookmark documents or chapter headings, resize and style at will in a device independent manner, enhance documents and make them interactive[1], even add videos if required. The best part is that the source is all stored in plain text and is version controlled without requiring Sharepoint or similar.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-publish-on-gov-uk/markdow...
[1] https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2013/08/21/barcharts-in-html...
UK unveils new Tempest fighter jet
The problem is tech: that is, if you are using algorithms to drive (ultimately) payments to creators, than creators have an incentive to game the algorithms and will (on average) fail to thrive and be forced to find some other business if they do not. So, the market will be saturated with those gaming the system, because that's what it pays for.
After reading GTD, I came up with the way-oversimplified system I've been using the last decade:

One text file, 'CurrentTasks', where I keep my To Do list, writing down notes on everything that I need to do or remember, sorted by urgency/priority. The top of the file has stuff that needs to happen in the very near term, scrolling down brings in to view longer term things. As I finish something, the task and any associated notes gets copied into the Logbook file, see next.

I keep a second file, Logbook<YYYY>, e.g. 'Logbook2018', where I keep notes, by day, on everything I did.

I keep the files in a Dropbox folder. The system has worked reasonably well across a PhD dissertation, two jobs, three continents, four internships, a number of hard drive failures, and half a dozen moves.
You might be interested in the vimwiki plugin. The diary feature automatically creates pages per day named with a datestamp. Grep to search.
I think it's the same thing that prevents you from not hiring someone because of the color of their skin. You open yourself up to being sued. And if you paid an investigation company money in order to get a sealed criminal background on an individual and then don't hit them that's pretty good evidence you were using that as a hiring decision.
Good point. I'm assuming this problem of letting the ET know a message is being sent can be overcome with certain design choices, such as using a really narrow bandwidth for transmission to mark the signal as artificial (most cosmic radio sources have really large bandwidths).

What sort of clock recovery strategies are you thinking of?
In cities a substantial fraction of traffic is people circling the block trying to find parking near their destination and some fraction of traffic holdups is from people stopping in a lane while waiting for somebody else to pull out of a parking space. These problems are substantially reduced with autonomous vehicles. Instead of slowly going around the block looking for a parking spot, you get out at your destination and the car drives away to some place where parking is cheap and a spot is known to be available. (When you need to leave, you tell the car via an app and it comes back to get you.)

Self-driving cars can park far more densely without fear of being blocked in and can park inconveniently far away while still being reasonably available. Thus cities will need less on-street or near-street parking and can reclaim a lot of that space for traffic or transit or bikes or people or commerce.

If your wife only occasionally needs a car, couldn't she call a local on-demand one - an automated uber? That seems cheaper than paying to send an empty car on two daily 20km trips...
Nassim Taleb is basically a stopped clock. He's pretty big on pointing on how we're all prone to find illusory correlations (not his discovery) and he's a great promoter for Kahneman and Tversky, but there are other areas where he clearly is out of his depth. It's beyond obvious, for instance, that he's never gotten past Popper in his studies of philosophy of science. Unfortunately, his disciples are (ironically) quite terrible at thinking for themselves and buy into his demagoguery.

Basically a book by Nassim Taleb is an incoherent summary of the books that Nassim Taleb has read within the past year, with a few morsels of recycled insight here and there.
It could make sense. If I have to work on someone else’s code I’d much rather it have a suite of unit tests than not. Having (useful, properly done) tests is good, so TDD might be useful even if the quality of the code remains the same.
Same here, actually.

It turns out that if you do the basics, and make content that is not terrible, then you can be the "#1 live stream programmer in the world", pretty easily.

But it turns out that getting to the #1 spot at the top of the twitch programming category only nets you about 10-20 concurrent viewers.

At that point the goal should be to grow the category as a whole, I guess.
I'm not entirely sure how common it is.

It's a case of multiple implementation inheritance, so I could see a lot of people balking at it.
It should be noted that cervical cancer is of the same type as that woman’s skin cancer that was cured with direct tumor injections of Gardasil9.

Further high signal discussion on Reddit that goes into more depth: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/8z1lg0/hpv_vaccine...
After fighting with the options, failing to find a good default, and still consistently getting larger images, I fail to see how svgcleaner is better.