skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Their consumer facing platform does not have the URL , but we do share the name. I have since met the guy who built and runs that program, we are all ok with it, since our Dinesafe is strictly a B2B platform. We actually partner with them, and send them data.
Twitch has become my default entertainment at home.

What I really enjoy about Twitch is that I can have it on in the background while doing other stuff (coding most of the time).

I am a huge video game fan, but as I aged, unfortunately, I found it difficult to dedicate time to video games (and there by taking time away from my coding). Twitch allows me to not only get the story of video games, but enjoy the game along with an entertaining streamer and chat (though I rarely ever pay attention to chat).
Conceptually, Racket's parameterize is basically just dynamic vars (though practically, it's more complex than that, because continuations etc.).

If you have a language that supports thread-locals and lambdas, you can get pretty far with something like:

public static S parameterize<T,S>(ThreadLocal<T> param, T value, Callable<S> body) {
T old = param.get();
param.set(value);
try {
S result = body.call();
} finally {
param.set(old);
}
return result;
}

You can then do something like:

public static final ThreadLocal<Logger> LOG = ThreadLocal.withInitial(() -> getRootLogger());

And when you need a different logger, you can do:

String result = parameterize(LOG, myFancyLogger, () -> {
return methodThatLogsThings();
});
Awesome. Let's get fining!
The creator did an AMA on Reddit last year. Basically the site originally showed price history of other sites like Newegg but Amazon told the author they'd let him continue to get pricing info only if he removed the other sites and made it exclusively for Amazon, and he did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5xuniu/im_the_founder...
This is very similar to what I do as a sys eng. I call them weekly's, store them as [date].txt and use notepad++ to compose. I separate stuff with #########[brief desc/todo] and save the all the random tidbits, logs, dumps, presentation outlines, requests, urls, etc.

I have a script that copies them up to my backup drive and Windows full-text indexing is enabled on the folder, so it is easy to search all the content from the start menu. It helps me because my memory is not the best...your point on the deja vu is right on.

The stuff that ends up being really helpful, such as some long bash command, PS for querying AD, complex DB queries, etc. get promoted to helpful_notes.txt.
I am really having trouble sussing out the author's thesis. What are they arguing, exactly?
Are there examples of when this happened? In every case I can remember the parent company just shuts the service down.
> You can divide the video into chunks and encode the chunks in parallel

You can do this with zlib too (zlib divides a file up into 64k chunks). Doesn't mean that zlib is well-suited for GPUs, nor is each chunk "embarrassingly parallel". Neither Netflix post talks about using the GPU at all.
Plus you don't have to worry about parking. Or gasoline.
Both types of HSVs supposedly have been with humanity for thousands of years and are mostly asymptomatic or "occasionally unpleasant" as a condition, hence the liberal attitude. When doing an STD screening, in the US at least, your doctor will almost never bother with checking for HSV because 1. it's super prevalent 2. it's not harmful with the exception of people with deeply compromised immune systems

If you read about the history of the virus, supposedly in the past most people figured they'd get it (both variations) sooner or later and didn't particularly care. The stigma, especially of HSV2, allegedly started mid 20th century when acyclovir / zovirax came on the market and the company who created it needed a reason to push people to start using the medication. Nobody wanted to at the time, as HSV wasn't a big deal. However once you call people who have it "dirty" and make it shameful, the sales go up. Now you want to suppress outbreaks and potential spreading at all costs. Similar to AIDS in the 80s, in the US people won't even hug you if news leaks that you have HSV2.

Also amusing that, in the state of CA, receiving HSV (1 or 2) to the genitals from someone of wealth is a great source of compensation. Most of the money you'll receive from the civil case will not be for the medical treatment, it will be because of the "psychological damages and impact to lifestyle" from suddenly becoming a social pariah. Like you said, why this would be suable is not obvious. If 80% of the population has HSV1 and you transmit it to the genitals through oral sex, you're now a 2 year-long (statute of limitations) juicy target for a lawsuit. People of means have lost millions of dollars to this. Everybody having sex becomes a ticking timebomb of legal extortion. Better have your partners sign a consent form.
Maybe we can make AI who can be good consumers.
> "That's not what the final advice is, the author is suggesting the use of "meta-rationality""

I think you mis-read that section of the essay, because the whole conclusion of the meta-rationality section was the quote that I already gave in my comment, “And so we should try to do better along lots of axes.”

Literally, that is the sum-up of advice in the lone section of the essay that possibly has any call to action or advice. It gives a fairly quick and superficial overview of meta-rationality (which is OK), but does not say anything at all about putting it into practice except for "doing better" on "multiple axes" (literally, this is all it says).

So when you say the "final advice" is meta-rationality -- that's already what I was talking about. That's exactly the part where the essay fails to give any type of actionable payoff at all.
> Since when? How would that even work? The president orders the NSA to generate a list of disagreeable film makers and journalists and passes it to the TSA and customs? Do you have any evidence for that claim at all?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/14/citizenfour-dir...

"Citizenfour director Laura Poitras sues US over 'Kafkaesque harassment'

Film-maker whose documentary about Edward Snowden won an Oscar says she has been held for hours at a time by airport officials, told she was on a no-fly list and threatened with handcuffs for taking notes"
I look for the basics. Is the code indented correctly? Consistent variable names? Redundant logic? Good abstractions? Usually, after you have fixed the basics whatever was the problem becomes obvious and trivial to fix.
+1 for vimwiki; all plain text, with some light organization sprinkled on top. I've gone the OneNote/Evernote/GoodNotes route and keep coming back to vimwiki. If I could find a non-kludgy way to get it on iOS, my grail will have been found.

You don't even need grep, as vimwiki has built-in search:

":VWS /pattern/

Search for /pattern/ in all files of current wiki.

To display all matches use |:lopen| command.

To display next match use |:lnext| command.

To display previous match use |:lprevious| command."
...at what selling price? M3 Long Range starts at $49K, which can be configured with a $2500 deposit for delivery in a few months.

The M3 short range (starting at $35K) can't be configure for delivery at this time.
> ISPs that don't want to give up spying obviously are monopolies, have enough power and can block DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS and all 3rd party resolvers.

It’s protection against passive attack. An ISP that blocks various DNS services will get noticed and will face more backlash than an ISP that merely sniffs all traffic and sells it.

Also, how exactly do you block DNS-over-HTTPS reliably?

> State actors can intercept DNS traffic even easier, since DoH/DoT make it more centralized.

It can be hard for a state actor to tell which ISP customer asked for which domain.
Apple Bug Reporting
I'm a libertarian, and don't support a welfare state in general. I view UBI as a great replacement for current welfare programs including food stamps. It largely eliminate the "welfare gap", where when people earn more money, their benefits start dropping off, resulting in a reversed incentive structure leading to trapping people in poverty.

UBI implemented as a negative income tax would result in much less waste and more freedom to the beneficiaries. It's also politically viable as it could be seen as more "fair" since technically everyone receives it.

Edit: I think the "automation displacing human jobs" argument is easily the weakest in favor of implementing a UBI, especially since it's not necessarily economically realistic.
Well the 300$ Sony action cam in front of me can shoot 2160p30 @100Mbit/s in good quality, considering the form factor. A nicely clocked Nvidia GPU can also use it's H.265 encoder to record at double that, both bandwidth and framerate. These are I/P frame coders, at least you'd not want to use B-frames at these speeds as more effort in your P frames yields more ROI. Intel should, as part of QuickSync, also offer such acceleration, but I am not sure how much that encoder can handle. I am confident it can do something in UHD with P-frames, but I have no idea how good it feats compared to the Nvidia encoder. If the UHD coding is within it's design range, it should yield higher quality though, albeit at barely enough frame rate.

If you try, you can push over 100 fps through the Nvidia one, but quality will suffer even more.
Most CA state services I've interacted with eventually get the job done (DMV, unemployment insurance, road repair) but far later than it could be done and without great service compared to living in big cities in red states in the south.

So the gap between quality of service and quantity of money is concerning. CA-run single-payer terrifies me, for instance. Mandated insurance is great, but we haven't shown the ability to effectively manage a state monopoly service so I don't want us doing it ourselves.

Good intentions, spectacularly bad execution. Currently I prefer that to bad intentions, better execution, but it's trying my patience.
Yeah, when I started as a trader it was pretty much a given that you'd be interested in poker and sports betting. The "training" would consist of the the senior traders asking you to make markets in just about every imaginable sports event, an after-work poker game, and a good few questions about things that aren't normal bets (how many burgers do you think you could eat?).
This looks like the same guy / story :)
Good, I hope Tesla can find their space and actually become a feasible company. My "commuter" vehicle is paid off in 2 years, so I hope in 3 or 4 EVs are widespread enough to buy one. I drive about 120km round trip, so an EV makes a lot of sense. Don't let my comment history fool you; I'm pro EV, and even pro Tesla. I simply believe TSLA is overvalued, because they aren't going to rule the world.

That said, there's a big gap between "theoretically" profitable, and GAAP profitable. Tesla's problem won't be the margin on their assembly and parts; it will be the ongoing maintenance and potentially demand for cars that, up to now, are far more expensive than advertised.
This seems like the exact opposite of that. If Pinterest wanted Instapaper gone they'd just nuke it. I actually give them kudos for spinning it out and giving it a chance to survive, especially considering I was one of the cynical ones on the HN thread of the original announcement taking it as a given that Instapaper would get Incredible Journeyed.
Implementing a Parameter Server in 15 Lines of Python with Ray
It is not an “arbitrary new standard”. It’s an enhanced port of the Workflow app that Apple acquired a year ago. They added functionality, but the core of inter process communications is the x-callback-url protocol that third party developers have been supporting for years.

http://x-callback-url.com/

As far as app support, you act as if iOS is some backwood platform without robust third party support.
Which was the original video where he didn't like the fittings etc?
> Education is ripe for disruption. There’s a commonly believed fallacy right now that technology companies, specifically VC-backed technology education companies, are going to disrupt education. That’s bullshit. Instead, Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Stanford are the favorites to disrupt education when they fall under heavy and sustained government pressure over the irrational and immoral hoarding of their mammoth endowments. Harvard claims it could have doubled the size of its freshman class last year with no sacrifice to its educational quality. Good. Do it. More students, paying no tuition, at the best schools will disrupt the system.

Harvard matriculates a teeny, tiny fraction of all university students. Doubling that number is not a solution. Even doubling that number at all ivies and elite universities is not even remotely close to a solution.

UBI may not be the correct solution, but even UBI isn't this out of touch.
How do you weed out false positives?
This, so very much.

I bought a LaserJet printer. I went into my "Recommended for me" and the first four pages were probably 30% other printers, and 30% printer supplies (for my printers and others).

How is this still a problem?
That makes no sense. Attempting reproducibility and discovering that it cannot be obtained is also science. It's like you are trying to say science can only be defined by positive results, not negative results.

Science can be defined by positive or negative results... it's just that the single thing science "is about" (whether a positive instance or negative instance) is reproducibility. If you can reliably reproduce a behavior that you cannot explain, that's hugely scientific. If you can show reproducibility wasn't achieved in some certain conditions, that's also hugely scientific. Reproducibility is the thing.
For a brief bit I had a simple python script dump tweets into a .plan file mostly just to amuse myself by connecting new social media to old.

Hmm, I wonder if I ask my Mastodon host nicely if they'd open up finger protocol support, lol. (ETA: Reminds one of the old adage about blind men touching the elephant.)
jesse areguinn and his cohort took over berkeley politics in 2016 by running on a YIMBY and pro-development platform. once in office it seems they shed their skins and showed their true NIMBY colors. his knee-jerk and inflammatory comments to this bill are telling.

since i live in berkeley, and the housing (and homeless) crisis here is real, i would LOVE to see more high-density housing go up around any and all major public transit hubs. immediately.
This seems like a strawman screed. It seems like this guy literally created an argument out of what he thinks the general "big tech" consensus on UBI is and then attacks it.

His argument seems to be the amount suggested (which he suggests) isn't enough and that tech companies need to pour lots of money into helping people.
Well, Redding officially wants nothing to do with the State of Jefferson proposal, and they'd be the state capital.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091913/http://www.krcrtv...

So I think it's more that rural areas want nothing to do with city areas.
Shall you start to serve the EU customers, like you did before GDPR nonsense?
I didn't say anything about 802.1x in my comment, and I'm one of the folks that has published information about how to bypass these crappy AT&T routers.
At these delays you can use sharded coding with clustering. I.e., at a GOP of say 10 seconds, this gives you 8 shards. And with that many shards, I think a nice blade center full of high-clock current-gen CPUs can do it. I.e., 8 systems with as many max speed cores each as the encoder can handle.

x264 for example caps out at about 20~60 cores for 1080p, but I didn't save the exact numbers.
I don't think I said that Gnome has won out (and neither should it).

I was making a comparison between two Gnome based distros. In case you were not aware, Ubuntu is now Gnome.
Interesting perspective, and something I had not considered previously.
> Could be 300, or 400 per person I just pulled an arbitrary # out of my arse.

That's part of my point, though, that what the number is (or at least its order of magnitude), actually does matter.

For something like a per-person charge, if that number is high enough, for large enough families, people are going to start looking at whether they could be saving by using the per-vehicle pricing of buying versus renting. I'm also saying that this number must be high enough to be attractive for the car company.

> maybe not 100% electric, but maybe 100 mpg with electric assist.

I'd say that's misguided, then, because fuel cost alone is too low a fraction of total operating cost.

> Road trips would cost extra

So like today's cellphone "unlimited" data? In that case, sure, an actually-limited subscription plan would easily be attractive to a car company, since they could write in any limits they want and change them any time, as well as vary the pricing at any time.

How many consumers would opt for that instead of outright buying is another matter.
>You see the deceptive practices applied especially in clothing where items are marketed at inflated prices and then suddenly dropped 50% or more for a 'sale'.

JCPenny's discovered that the consumer demands this behavior.
The best of “Like a boss” compilation video – Funny Cube mix
You can also run it on AWS as a Lambda function with S3 backend.

AWS even created a cloudformation script to deploy it with few clicks of a button

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/serverless-imag...
> because people excuse themselves from their obligation to provide accessibly

What obligation? They're not even obligated to put the video up; it's just a gesture of public service. Giving people the obligation to put captions when they upload videos for free consumption is like giving a beggar part of your lunch out of generosity and he complaining that he likes his sandwiches with more cheese.

Not to specifically liken the deaf and hard of hearing to beggars, since all YouTube viewers are beggars in my analogy. However, the point I'm getting at is that when someone does you a favor like upload a video for free for your consumption you should generally be grateful and do what you can with it, not complain and demand more. It's just not the right attitude.

It's like FOSS. You can ask the developer for more, but not demand it.

I think if we want more captions from videos submitted without remuneration, it's gonna need to be automated. Have the machine do the work. I think YouTube already does this, now that I think about it.

EDIT: Added some more on the analogy in case people thought I had something against deaf people.
This will be unpopular, but: what if an uncomfortably large part of the population just really doesn't have anything economically worthwhile to offer in the modern context? Nobody wants to say that, but if it's true, then something like a UBI or dole (even granting the author's problems with it) is all we can do short of mounting a massive Plato's Cave-like conspiracy to convince people they are doing something useful.
I get pareidolia from white noise. Not a lot, but enough that the 'sounds' are more distracting than mundane background sounds like TV or music that I can tune out easily.
I am concerned that dPOS will lead to cartel like organizations in the long run as the rich get richer and can vote for themselves
I'd argue it is no more a lottery than aiming to be a stand up comedian or any other form of professional entertainer.

It is a lot of networking to help make raids happen early on, a lot of learning to adapt to what the audience wants (which is hard with only a text interface to the audience!), a lot of hard work, and a good amount of natural talent.
FWIW I've never had this experience, and either way it's a non-issue in the UK, because you can return items for any reason.
there is mention of GraphQL proxy - any idea about any available proxies for GraphQL at this moment ?
There is a difference between inciting end point devices to drop down to less secure protocols, and alerting the user that you are running an active attack.
I'm not against value, I'm against the term "provide value" because (to me, and I'm probably a huge minority in HN) it is a term loaded with capitalist meanings.

We don't talk about providing value in academia, I assume they don't talk about providing value in philanthropic organizations or political movements. Whenever I hear the term it essentially means "to make money".

I appreciate that this is my personal interpretation of this though
I learned this stuff from Roland's 'Program Construction'. Great book. Once you've been through that, then suddenly Dijkstra's writing becomes really practical.
I'm talking about the third study included in the meta study mentioned in the article. That study only includes HSV1 cases, i.e cold sores on the lips. I don't think many of those are ever tested.
"This will be unpopular..."

the opening salvo of fascists everywhere
Apple announces Unicode 11.0 emoji coming to iOS and Mac “later this year”
This needs an answer. One would hope it is profitable at 40% above it's base price. The real question is if they'll be able to eek out a profit when they start selling to the masses.
Potential DNA Damage from CRISPR “Seriously Underestimated,” Study Finds
IMO the central thesis is that society should have a negative view of tech companies and tech workers. That's the only thesis that each argument made in the post actually justifies. So if that's not the true thesis, then I guess the article is just a sequence of incoherent and poorly constructed arguments about UBI, education, corporate taxation, etc.

A counter-argument to the "you should hate tech people" thesis might be the pronounced support among tech workers for fixing the problems their industry helps create. The author argues that this is actually yet another reason why we should have a negative view of tech companies and tech workers, because UBI won't work and because we could fix college affordability by forcing Harvard to fund a few more full rides.
FCC Chairman Raises “Serious Concerns” About Sinclair-Tribune Merger
Speak for yourself, I got 4 games for 17 dollars, I'm really happy about getting Mount and Blade for 7 dollars.

Especially when you compare to anything on the consoles.

I think the developers have gotten smarter and wont give 1 year old games 66% off on top of their already lower price.

EDIT: Also, prime day has always sucked. Not really comparable.
This kind of automated or rule-based analysis is not sufficiently smart to use as any kind of moderation tool. And it won't be until it can interpret semantic content as well as recognize patterns.

Consider the following exchange:

Person 1: Hello! I just wanted to chime in and make you aware of the fact that according to some very cool research <link>, people with sub-equatorial ancestry exhibit markedly lower test scores, in fact very similar to many of the great apes! Your mileage may vary, but in my humble opinion I would never hire someone or work with someone from that demographic.

Person 2: Shut up and go away, you racist prick.

This pattern plays out on twitter fairly regularly, and it's usually Person 2 who gets moderated, despite the fact that the content of their message is actually more appropriate and a net positive for the community (given the context.) Meanwhile, as long as it's polite, actual hate speech can make it through most of these filters.

I've heard this referred to as the "polite Nazi" problem, and it's quite real.
WeWork bans meat from employee events and expense reports
It's a fair point, for sure. I'm not so sure how antivirals work but that is probably a more direct pathway to target.

Alternatively, maybe we could train our immune systems to detect when a lipoprotein is transporting malicious cargo. Ideally, if we could realiably distinguish between healthy LDL particles and lipoviral particles, maybe we can find surface epitopes!

I wonder if the reason foam cells are forming in atherosclerosis is because the immune system suspects that they may be infected and carrying payloads.
https://www.webmd.com/oral-health/features/healthy-teeth-hea...