skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was using a software to capture the screen as GIF. The original file size for a single file was around 2x mb. I am by no mean an image expert, so I only used ImageOptim and some online services. And they are what I got. I will be glad to know if you know how I could downsize improperly a GIF.
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I don't disagree with your point per se but you are over simplifying things. Here is my take after working in the industry:

> It's instant

It isn't. There are still latency delays with digital encoders, transmitter hops, etc even with OTA signals. It's just the equipment has gotten so good over the years that the latency has been pushed right down but it did used to be a lot worse. The same will happen with IP streaming given time.

> scales infinitely

It doesn't. You need geostationary satellites / multiple transmission towers, and all that only provides you a finite number of channels. In fact digital streams are actually much cheaper to scale up, which is why so many broadcasters are moving into this territory (and why I currently have a job)

> kind of beautiful simplicity, technically speaking

Superficially yes. But if you spend any amount of time around OTA broadcasters (as I have) you'll see there is a hell of a lot of complexity hidden from sight. In fact since OTA broadcasts are still digital streams served from content stored in digital formats, a lot of the technology used for internet streaming is the same for OTA broadcasts. So there is an argument for the simplicity of just serving that digital stream via IP rather than radio waves (or are you suggesting we go back to analogue as well? Because that also introduces a lot of complexity but of a different nature, like having to giant robotic cabs filled with hundreds of magnetic taps that all have to be wound to the right point; and a dependency on the postal service delivering those tapes since you now cannot just download assets from the content owners).

I'm not saying there isn't a lot of new complexity with IP streaming but I do think it's more pronounced because:

1/ we work in IT so follow the technology more closely than we do for OTA broadcasting

2/ it's still a relatively young industry so there are a lot warts that haven't been cleaned up (much like how OTA broadcasting used to be a lot less polished when the technology there was still evolving).
You can also see that when an author becomes too famous and starts to ignore the editor(s), the books become heavy and repetitive. Editors are sharp. Trust them.
Idk if I would call prime a ripoff. If you use their services regularly it more than pays for itself (shipping fees, streaming, discounts on products and services).
While the point you are making is correct, you could have presented it in a less abrasive way. Not everyone is aware of how environment variables are passed to programs, or pieced together that char envp is also available in assembly.
I have read about this topic a ton. My understanding is that quantum communication is impossible and is being claimed here. Does not compute.
Right, but I want to convince people that they're wrong to want this, which is why I'm arguing that they're wrong to want this.
Well, it (along with the structure of the Senate, the 3/5 rule, and other features of the Constitution) was intended to protect the institution of slavery from expected popular moves to abolish it (a role to which the slave states apparently found it inadequate by the mid 19th century). General limits on government protect against mob rule, disenfranchising particular people to overrepresent others just chooses which particular interests are favored, it doesn't protect against mob rule (it makes it easier, so long as the advantaged groups are part of the mob.)
Ahh yes the Amazon experience of having counterfeit products boxed up by some of the most exploited employees in America shipped to you by an "independent contractor".

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/technology/amazon-wristba...

Gross
previous discussion (yesterday): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17515247
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I'm not sure we can do much to understand the role of authority without understanding the role of conditioning in what makes people act.

For instance, why are most schools so regimented and rule-rich? For efficiency, certainly, but not all school rules increased efficiency. I would guess some of the rules exist to reinforce obedience to the other rules.
You're the punchline.
Strictly speaking we don't see colours at all, we just hallucinate them from the monochrome response in three (or fewer) filters. So, for example, we commonly confuse mixes of different colours with a colour between them.

In this strict frame of mind, it is not a trivial epistemic statement to say that "the highlight colour at yellow.com is yellow", since your screen can not physically emit yellow light.
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I love things that just work but it's a little unfair to compare radio technology that has been around for over 100 years and backed by huge public infrastructure investments with internet-based live streaming that has been around for (being generous) maybe 10-15 years at the most?
The interest of the region in a municipality’s zoning is exactly analogous to the interest of a neighborhood in an individual property owner’s land use.

Free for all zoning would be letting the people who actually own particular properties have the final say.

/s/actually live there/are upper-middle-class, white, and born at the right time/
Embedded x86_64? Is that a common thing?
Don't tease me with their May update again :(
If I could get back every block of 15 minutes I've spent on Amazon scrolling through the endless amount of options in order to avoid buying some crappy Chinese knock-off version, I'd be happy.
You're blaming technology for social problems. For every person that interrupts a play, there are 10 people quietly watching on their train home... turning wasted time into time enjoyed.

Rude people are always going to be rude, and we shouldn't worry about the technology that enables them to do so. If they couldn't watch soccer during a musical, they'd just be coughing loudly or rummaging around in their pockets looking for a mint or having a too-loud "private" conversation with the person next to them.

Phones have changed nothing.
Vultr for VPS or Online.net for cheap dedicated servers. Both support FreeBSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
If you have to wear headphones when the GPU is at max, it can be more quiet...
It sounds like you're worried that you aren't accomplishing things because you aren't finishing them. But really, I'm sure you're learning a lot while doing them, and that's accomplishment too. Many times when I do a project, I'm learning the most at the beginning, and the later stages are more fine details (that take a lot more time to get right, such as "productionizing" it).

Feel free to stop working on things when you don't want to work on them anymore. At the very least, you have a lot of interesting things to talk about, and maybe even share your experience with other people (blogs, github).

If you have diagrams or code, I'd suggest releasing them, even unfinished, because maybe someone else will want to pick it up, or just look over it. Even that can be a win, and make you feel productive / accomplished.

Don't force yourself to do something that you aren't interested in anymore - maybe you've already accomplished what you were hoping for! Maybe you'll find something that you just can't put down - even then you might not feel accomplished because it's not your career. Even if it is your career, there's generally always someone who's better at it, and more you can learn.
I'm currently reading "Building Evolutionary Architectures", and I'm liking it so far.
My point was markets are complex and 200k is not cheap.

Anacostia is an example of less expensive, but also not cheap. You can get a 'cheap' condo in much of the US for 35k. However, Anacostia is not staying that way prices are very much on the rise, became larger forces are at work.

SV does not have cheap housing close to jobs largely due to geographic issues. It has a tiny strip of land that can be developed so all of it is going to be expensive. On a block by block basis low density is driving prices down, while on a regional basis lack of housing anywhere drives prices up.
I'd use ipfs as the authoritative storage. Some scripts triggering archiving on the major internet archives.

You could, say, buy 3 tlds for the same name and have different strategies for each.

If money really isn't a problem you could put the data on the bitcoin blockchain.
Here's the text of the house bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6227...

Summary:

* It's a 10-year plan

* NIST gets $400M for quantum research

* NSF gets $250M for quantum research and a mandate to establish 5 centers and to establish graduate traineeships in quantum fields. These traineeships are earmarked for US citizens.

* DOE gets $625M and a mandate to create up to 5 research centers, which go up for review after 5 years.
Elon Musk signs agreement for Tesla factory in China with 500k vehicle capacity
a) Trying to understand historical events with many variables via deliberate scientific experimentation is a reasonable thing to do.

b) The Stanford Prison Experiment has always been under a ton of scrutiny, and is a good example of flashy events heavily covered in intro psych courses that are viewed with a lot more skepticism in the professional community (so I have read, anyway).

c) More info recently came out about it recently, actually: https://cosmosmagazine.com/social-sciences/new-evidence-show...

d) Repetition of scientific findings is one of the main pillars of science. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Lol was thinking more conservative
Just go along with it. It's up to them to figure out where to place you in the company.
Fair! Good example.
I don't think I ever got a counterfeit item on Amazon. The fact that there are news stories about specific counterfeit items (and not the problem in general), indicates to me that it's not as widespread.
Why contain it?
:set list
Depends on your viewpoint. An effective Union in principle post Taft-Hartley is essentially an organized crime organization, seeing as the most effective method of forcing Big Industry to the negotiating table, secondary strikes, were made illegal to organize as a formal Union.

Without the amplifying power of network effects to offset Industy's increased cash reserves to simply wait out the miniscule by comparison reserves of a legal Union, there really is no serious incentive to get Industry actors to really pay attention. Thus is the danger of legislation without sunset dates.

Can't comment on ACLU. Haven't kept up with them nowadays.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17500240
Are we seriously not doing "phrasing"?
If you have lots of math expressions to write, you can use an infix reader in Common Lisp. It has a programmable reader. Such a thing - reading infix expressions - was already a standard feature of the MIT Lisp Machine OS in the 80s.

In Lisp you actually don't write parse trees. Lisp uses a serialized hierarchical data format of a tokenizer. S-expressions are not Lisp syntax trees, but a data format.
I hate to agree, but yeah. Given how people elsewhere in the comments have pointed out how overpriced it is, maybe they know their target market pretty well?
People who choose to go to therapy probably tend to generally feel more negative feelings (and express them) than people that don't. Is this study anything more than pointing out that obvious correlation? I don't see how they can demonstrate causation without randomizing with a control group.
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By statute, credit agencies can only keep 7 years of credit history on you. Wouldn't lenders be even better served without that 7-year limit? Yet the limit remains in place, because ultimately the point of all of this is to serve consumers and society at large, not just lenders. It's about finding a balance where economic value is maximized while reasonably protecting consumers. And given the Equifax breach it's not unreasonable to question whether the appropriate balance involves this system continuing to exist at all in its current form.
x86 has LOADALL and SAVEALL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOADALL
We've banned this account

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think it's SPECIFICALLY the rekognition contract, but that is the broad stroke. Microsoft has a strong ethics review process for all things AI, and routinely turns down fat projects because they don't pass ethical muster. The contracts that rekognition is designed to bid for, are largely in the grey zone where MS would turn a lot of things down. Government regulation would help lower the cost of Microsoft's ethics policy.
Then let’s go even more local - to the individual parcel owner.

Oh wait. Actions can have consequences for those around you. This applies as much between cities as it does between neighbors.
It wouldn't be that difficult, it would only require some libc-related magic (but I haven't read much of the asmttpd source code to know how much of it is in there). IIRC, environment variables are passed from the parent process to the child in the form of a "naive" array of strings, so the truly unpleasant parts of this, like parsing text from a config file, are already taken care of.
As technology accelerates we can finally afford that wall. Trump was just ahead of his time.
I've found their reviews to be entirely untrustworthy...in fact I try to stick to smaller e-retailers or ordering directly from vendors after research. 2 day shipping ain't worth the cost IMO, even though I know I am in the minority.
I don’t see why beauty would improve the quality of Instagram posts, other than for people in the beauty business. For friends following friends (which I assume is the majority of users, I don’t follow a single person I don’t know personally and that doesn’t also follow me) beauty and glamour isn’t really important. I just post pix of holidays and kids to keep family up to date and entertain my friends. Yes I’m neither young, rich or beautiful.

For thoughts in text I think twitter is a better platform than fb.
>I don't think I ever got a counterfeit item on Amazon.

Well you wouldn't, if the counterfeit's were any good.
My guess is that Russia will fund one charged guy to hire a a top US lawyer and fight the charges.

A Russian company--allegedly doing Russia's dirty work--hired top US lawyers and they are giving DOJ a heartburn...they must share evidence (can tell how it was obtained) and get ready to go to trial. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/09/concord-manag...
Facebook (the company) feels like a one trick pony. They don't seem to able to tailor their products to focus on the unique aspects that make them attractive to their users. Instead, everything collapses to a common feature set.
I can see someone else complete by having a competitive prime product equivalent for half the cost and remove unnecessary services. When I think about pricing its not very obvious to tack the $99 fee onto individual orders but you should since you're paying for it(I used to order 50+ times year from amazon and now its down to about 10-15 so it's harder to justify). Also, I rarely use other prime free products.

I'd be willing to move to Walmart or Google Express if they have a good selection and lower minimums + decent shipping times in return for a small yearly membership. I can still use amazon for larger purchases or pay a small premium for shipping as needed.
It's been a pleasure working with MongoDB in TypeScript as well
This is disingenuous or naive and keeps being repeated in privacy discussions.

People don't expect privacy in public but they also don't expect all all their public movements to be recorded, stored, collated and analyzed.

These are 2 different things with dramatically different consequences. Any discussion on privacy needs to account for the distinction.
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What if you’ve been doing the same thing for over 10 years and are bored with it despite being good, I’ve been moving into design and went back to school to learn it properly but it’s hard to get into and doesn’t pay as much. I just don’t want to be bored 8 hrs a day doing html,css,etc over and over. I’ve been at it since 99. And backend coding is more boring so I’m stuck on the front end
Json allows comments, but they have to be in string fields of an object so they survive reserialization.
I've gotten counterfeits of other products (for example, I once got a counterfeit DVD boxed set), and a lot of products I look at will have reviews noting that they received a counterfeit and what to look for to make sure you're actually getting the product listed. It seems to be reasonably common.
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There is a big difference between collecting telemetry (data about the product you're using) for improving the product internally and collecting private data for reselling to the highest bidder.
You should give up now. You're smart enough to program, but you're getting in your head too much and until you fix that it won't happen.
On mobile I scroll to the bottom and then I can't get back to the article.
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Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64369.Mindfulness_in_Pla... was good. I read it twice in a row. It actually delivers on the promise of being for beginners.
If we're talking about bad ways to present knowledge, the parent comment could also have been "I really don't know much on this topic so I'd rather not speculate" ;-).
Amazon is better than brick and mortar because Amazon fails to deliver after a week, but a brick and mortar store fulfilled in 15 minutes?
Here is a web site dedicated to explaining why many academics are boycotting Elsevier: http://thecostofknowledge.com
I almost prefer Walmart or other vendors through Google Express to walmart.com (as I never want to set foot in their stores - or most retail stores).

The fake stuff problem on Amazon is truly reaching amazingly bad levels. I simply don't buy entire categories of things from Amazon because of fake %.
What does "modern" mean?
I watched the England semi final on a pub outdoor TV with approx 1.5 second discrepancy in latency between screens in different areas of the courtyard (no idea of the technical setup which achieved this). Learning the outcome of a shot/cross just as you watch the ball being struck is particularly weird (quite fun when a free kick is scored, arguably worse than a longer lag the rest of the time as there's little mystery about when/how something will happen)
According to everything I read "spooky action at a distance" isn't really a thing - there is no magic here, unfortunately.
I love how it matches so much more. It would take me some time wrap my head around the new possibilities.

I doubt I have time to learn this or use it but it would be cool to see a list of examples of things that are much more concise and elegant in this language so that it expands my thinking. Is there a list of examples with comparisons to traditional languages?
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More often than not, electronics stuff I've bought on Amazon have been unsatisfactory in some way, such as: counterfeit, was obviously returned by someone else, parts missing, obviously broken, etc.

Their return policy helps with this, but I don't have anywhere near this level of problem at Best Buy or Newegg. So I don't buy electronics on Amazon anymore, even if they're cheaper.
You wait to peek the next byte, or EOF, and then make the choice.
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Ask HN: What're your most favorite developer tools and why?
I'd love to know what developer tools you use in your daily routine and why.

My list:
- VS Code
- Terminal
- Sequel Pro
- Robomongo
- Chrome dev tools
And don't forget resellers stealthily jacking up the price of commodities.

I used to buy indiscriminately from Amazon. If Amazon had it, it was the best price. Why bother shopping around?

I've been bitten multiple times now with ordering something only to realize some reseller has jacked up the price and I didn't notice.

(e.g. buy baby wipes for $10, later re-order same baby wipes and think "hm, $18.50 seems higher than I remembered. Oh well, I need baby wipes!")

So now I shop around for everything. Since Amazon is "forcing me" to shop around, I've started to exclude them out of spite.

I get it, it's capitalism. If some Amazon reseller (including the "fulfilled by Amazon!" resellers) dupes me, I'm the sucker. Amazon's not to blame for capitalism. But... I still blame them. :)
What happens if the free quotas are reached? Will the app terminate until the free quotas are available again, or will the user be billed?
More like popular in the more affluent states. That map is eerily similar to a map of GDP per capita by state.
The best thing about Walmart is that they deliver to the store without charging shipping. Instead of having your Amazon delivery swiped from the porch you pick up your order from your Walmart of choice.
JSON is a serialization protocol not a config file format idiot.
Does anyone know how "fair" the current Linux implementation of futexes is? I experimented with them soon after they were introduced, and at that time there was a great deal of favoritism: under heavy contention a thread/core that had just given up a lock was most likely to reclaim it, and other threads/cores would be starved. This isn't always a bad thing (and can sometimes even help performance) but didn't work well for my application.
I want to add that the point isn’t that the feed is filtered, it’s that Facebook does it poorly. Apparently it is designed to suit their needs, not those of users. More than power users are turned off by this, because it’s not a reaction to being aware that the newsfeed is filtered (though I have seen references to ‘the algo’), it’s the effects.

When I repeatedly post on my FB wall and receive no interaction, I stop posting. When my FB newsfeed is full of annoying political topics, though I unfollowed the last 20 people who posted about annoying political topics, it’s boring and frustrating to read it, so I stop. Then, when I go to the pages of actual friends and family members whose content I care about, and find they have posted things that have not been displayed to me while days of annoying political topics have been, it’s obvious that something isn’t working right.
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