skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I do that, I get (1) a Wikipedia page literally titled "film grain modeling", but it's only a redirect to H.264 and the only mention of "grain" on that page is in the redirect notification; (2) a patent; (3) some scientific paper supported by a few images that only show noise (is that what we're talking about? I expected grains in the sense of particle generators); (4-5-6) paywalled scientific papers; (7) a Facebook page...

A link would be nicer than an apparently very specific search term.
You wrote:

> The Governor was not the subject matter expert. He was a vital coordinating and decision makin role, but he’s not a cave diver and was not directly involved in the rescue activity.

Making executive decisions about what plan to use, and when to use it, is part of "rescue activity". Presumably part of that role involved considering Musk's mini-sub at its stage of development. Seems like the governor/rescue chief would be the expert on whether the mini-sub was "not practical" for rescuing the kids.
OmniFocus, Google Keep, pen and paper.
I suspect the door opening was already close to a wall. Just make sure the hinge is on the side farthest away from the wall.
A guru saying the other gurus are wrong. Let people wake up when the want or can.
There's plenty of legitimate criticism to make of Elon. He gets investments for his "big ideas" on sheer reputation and bravado but it's pretty unfair to say it's not even partly deserved. He's legitimatly pulled off a tremendous amount between Space X and Tesla even if he disld promise much more.

I'm not saying don't hold him accountable, and he's been eratic on social media lately, but Jesus ... Have some perspective.

Selecting a handful of quotes from you:

> I write this to point out that, in the US, people will treat any crank seriously if he has enough money or enough prowess in another field.

> Since he’s not proposing to build Hyperloop soon, it could be viewed as clever distraction or FUD.

> The thinking is that he’s rich, so he must always have something interesting to say; he can’t be a huckster when venturing outside his field.

Do you think maybe there's a middle ground between infallible god and delusional crank and huckster?
Google and Apple are both on the AOM and will be implementing decode as well as encode support on their hardware.

Not sure why this issue keeps getting brought up. It's baseless and completely untrue.
Censorship and surveillance kills enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit. China is about to put the clamps on what is driving their success and growth, it was only a matter of time. Totalitarianism will always kill itself.
From a 2011 MacBook Pro which cost the same, I consider $343 per year a steal for being the only tool needed to generate my entire income during that time.
"USB dongles are absolutely standard in pro audio"

Ok. I don't work in pro audio. So that doesn't mean much to me.
> Poland green lighted the invasion of Czechoslovakia, which ultimately led to its own invasion.

I think that's a no-brainer considering that Poles helped themselves to annex parts of Czechoslovakia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Czechoslovak_border_c...
Collectively all large corps in America have too much power, so i’ll assume we mean “more power than the other corporations”

I’m that case I’ll believe that they’re “too powerful” when a tech company mismanages itself to bankruptcy and gets a bail out from tax payer funds. Or when other companies are forced by the government to use (and pay more for) software and tech from a specific company or group of companies (maybe software from “defense” contractors counts?).

Until then i’ll continue to believe that banks, coal, and oil companies have too much power.
For day-to-day tasks I built Natrium[1]. Other tools can accomplish the same thing, but I wanted a couple things in particular:

1. To have a single daily checklist that refreshes every day

2. Views of what I did (or wanted to but didn't) broken down by goal. This makes reflection a lot faster when I can quickly see what I did every day this week for a particular goal.

For longer-term planning (home repairs/improvements, side projects) I use Trello to organize and prioritize things.

At work I tend to use physical post-it notes to track things. It might just be an odd habit but I think it helps me compartmentalize and leave work at work. It's also really satisfying to crumple a note when I finish a task.

[1] https://natriumapp.com
I lived in a smaller town that insisted you stop at every light. When you see the local police punching the accelerater through the intersection when it goes yellow, you know something is not set up right.
MPBs are expensive enough now I expect if Apple weren't so very protective of their IP we'd see a laptop equivalent of the Shelby / Saleen / AMG treatment done in the automotive world. Someone would rehome the MBP guts in a proper case with all the features Apple's power users really want and sell it at a huge premium.

However Apple being Apple they'd cancel warranties and shower Cease & Desists to anyone who dared to reimagine the MBP rather than allowing a licensed derivative. Too bad.
simplenote. It's awesome. I have even offered to pay the company.
Blue Origin plans to charge at least $200K for space rides
Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop?
I've been doing my dev work on Ubuntu 16.04 for years now and I love it. How are people who have updated to the latest version liking it? Would you recommend upgrading?
With GPU encoding it's important to take into account that GPU encodes are usually delivering way lower quality levels per bit, especially if you're looking for fast speeds. The difference is dramatic if you compare a Twitch stream (for example) encoded with NVENC to one encoded with x264. Of course, hardware encoders let you achieve things that you simply can't do with CPU encoding, so sometimes that quality hit is irrelevant... but if you're talking about whether to use h265 instead of h264, it's possible the bitrate and quality improvements aren't that dramatic when you're using nvenc.
Debate about science at organizations like Google Brain/FAIR/DeepMind
> if you register for a trial, for example, you should be "paying" with your email to let the company start a marketing process.

I know where you are coming from, but I don't think I've ever heard it said this way. Do you have any resources that talk about free trials or fremium in these terms?

Is the value in that email mostly in the ability to market to the individual behind it, or is the value only in its ability to be sold and/or cross-advertised to?

Personally I would say that any user who didn't sign up is "worthless" (given the context you are using here), whether they gave you a disposable email address or not.
> Why do a lot of people on HN assume everyone is single

That's an easy one.. for the same reason they assume everyone is a young, urban, technical professional living in a major tech hub.

I recall this being a source of criticism (though admittedly not recently) about the problems startups are solving being skewed toward the problems the above people (the same ones doing the solving) tend to have.

> (and always will be)

I'm not sure that's quite true, at least not in the sense that of individuals.

However, they may assume it of the population within a certain location, such as that urban tech hub in which they live, if the individuals who do form >=3 families move away to the suburbs, and are replaced by single individuals. This seems to happen in US cities.

> when car companies instead of selling cars, simply sell memberships to a car sharing plan

What's their incentive? Car-share already exists for non-self-driving cars, but through third parties. It's quite expensive.

> get unlimited self-driving

That seems a particularly unattractive option for the provide, as well as being political dynamite.
"The touchbar is such an FU to developers."

No, it's not. Not every developer uses those keys.
Điểm chuẩn các trường Công an, Quân đội năm 2018
Pad of paper and a pen next to my keyboard.

At the end of each workday, I write down the (predicted) todo list for my next workday.

It's a carry-over from my early days of using the Franklin-Covey system.
Google Inbox reminders. Swipe them away when they're done or have them appear in a few days if I'm not ready yet
On Topic: I own a late '16 MBP 15" w/ touchbar. My machine has been serviced once to replace some issue with a failure of some motherboard component (not touchbar or keyboard). I'm am early adopter (hardware, software, gadgets, etc.) -- and I have the luxury now to wait many years before I need to upgrade again. YMMV.

Off Topic: (sorry)

I think there's a much larger debate around what it means that a company owns "everything" you do on (not via?) their laptop (and worse, the whole concept of owning all thoughts, etc.).

But, what really IS a computer anymore?

I boot off external SSD (for my OSX use). I do this while at work, home, friends, etc. I carry around an SSD drive that's small and light -- no more hauling laptops.

This usage style seems to break a lot of assumptions of what a computer with things such as licensing (Apple, Microsoft, etc.). Although it can be painful at times (if something requires GUI and the network bandwidth is low or latency is inconsistent), using a machine as a client (ie: GUI or GUI-less) terminal to access a remote (dev) machine is possible -- such as any client (windows, linux, OSX on MacBook Air) and iMac (or whatever) on the LAN. Prior to iOS dev (which requires OSX), I was using (windows) PCs and full screen VMWare to run FreeBSD, etc.

If I use a machine and ssh to a remote server and change something, does the owner of the machine that I used to do the ssh now own the thing I changed on the remote server?

I currently share my desktop via iCloud sync (and I used rsync to do this as far back as '03 or so), and split data between local and cloud -- so for the most part I can access the data I need from anywhere.

Many SaaS (cloud or not) can be accessed and used from anywhere. It's extremely frustrating to have to maintain so many different accounts to separate work from personal.

For me, at least, the "computer" is getting abstracted away and devices are just ways to access tools for doing whatever it is that I want or need to do at the moment.
> I wonder if FIFA has ever been discovered to be running hugely corrupt wings, like…

Surely, surely you’re joking?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case

That is an entire Wikipedia page about a corruption case only involving tax evasion , following an investigation by the IRS.

This is the FIFA , which decided, completely non corrupt of course, that Qatar is the best place to host a World Cup. Some people follow through on this anecdote with reasons as to why that’s a worse place to do so than actual Hell, but I prefer to prompt you to sit back a moment and think about that. Qatar. Forget about Russia: Qatar. For a sporting match. In summer. Qatar.

For context, these were the final bids for 2022: South Korea, Qatar, Japan, Australia, U.S.A.

Qatar.

FIFA is not corrupt? Sepp “football is politics” Blatter’s FIFA?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepp_Blatter

Surely you’re joking?
Yep, can also confirm. My parents have a four-prong to RJ-11 adapter in their house, built in the 60's.
Illich's work is interesting. On schooling, medicine, and transportation, I think he gets at a fundamental problem, highlights a great partial solution for part of the population.

But Illich also generalizes too much and has a weird reactionary twist. (It makes perfect sense to me that he was the sort of person who would devote his life to the church but subsequently run into political issues with the church.)

Schooling:

Learning Webs are basically the internet with some tokens for video-conferencing a teacher once in a while. (Proposed in the 70's, no less!)

And it's a great solution for some people in some subjects.

But many students don't have the discipline or need extra hand-holding, and so on in at least one vital subject.

For every student in some subject who learns on their own and whose frustration with the system holds them back, there's at least one student in some subject who just won't learn the material without something resembling a traditional school environment.

And the weird reactionary twist: he sort of harkens back to the good old days while ignoring the fact that we used to just not bother educating most people, and also dismisses anything that's not explicit deschooling.

I remember hearing a recording of him basically telling a teacher that the only way they can truly educate well is by totally giving up on schooling.

I lost a lot of respect for Illich's prescriptions after hearing that, even if I still think he has a great eye for some problems and potential partial solutions. Because I lived in the age of the learning web and could see in my own life that excellent teachers could overcome a lot of the barriers in the system, and there were a lot of things I couldn't learn just from books/websites and friendly folks on IRC and forums.

Also, that poetic tangent at the end of Deschooling always made me cringe.

Medicine:

You could say Illich predicted the opioid epidemic and prescribed lifestyle changes decades before modern medicine caught up, but at the same time if every doctor and medical researcher followed his prescriptions oncology would be stuck in the 70's. And a lot of his work would fit right in among anti-vaccination folks.

I mean, 90% of healthfulness is about lifestyle issues, and medicine in recent history has done a really poor job of stressing that component of treatment. But Illich kind of hard lines about the other 10% in a way that's totally unreasonable.

Transportation: Another great example of a 90% solution that goes off the rails when Illich demands that extra 10%. I'm 100% on board with biking everywhere (and I even do so in the summer, although even then often exceept 15kph). But also, it's nice to travel to different states without going on a months-long pilgrimage...

Illich was very much a brilliant reaction to the more damaging trends that started in the 1950's to 1970's, but he fell in that "extreme ideology" pit that a lot of politics from that era also suffered from.
So... they have to get everything literally perfect on the first attempt in order for you not to dismiss it?

Do you even own a computer? Is there any company that manages to meet your standards?
Not to mention the bag of adapters and hubs you need to function with a computer with just a single USB-C port.
You have a Soros founded non-profit sticker if you're not aware of it (LQDN).
Poles(at that time) had territorial ambitions wrt Czechoslovakia. So it isn't a surprise.
Often, oddly enough. Anime groups in particular are obsessive about bitdepth, quality, and file size to the point it's not hard to find comparisons of lossless compression in newer codecs.

On the development and academic benchmarking side any comparison worth it's salt should have more than 5 different categories of video style. The paper linked in the article based their results on 20 different sequences, 3 or 4 of which looked to be animated.
This seems to an article written by a philosophical type who doesn't really understand contemporary AI from a technical point of view. I'm not sure it's terribly useful.
> “It’s not scientific progress unless you understand where the improvement is coming from.”

I don’t agree with this. If you can chronicle improvement, that is progress. Giving a satisfying linguistic description of that improvement, when possible, might be more progress, but merely documenting it is extremely important scientific progress in its own right.

Overall this essay was extremely hard to read and should cut down about 75% of the content. The whole wolpertinger thing is nothing but a distraction. Just say AI is a mixture of disciplines and serves a mixture of outcomes. It only takes away from the essay to act like you’re being literary or nuanced with the wolpertinger thing when all it does is subtract from the arguments.

And to boot, after so many words, the final advice is extremely hollow... literally just saying,

> “And so we should try to do better along lots of axes.”

How should we improve? I guess by “doing better” on “multiple axes.”

The section on “antidotes” is hardly better, saying:

> “I will suggest two antidotes. The first is the design practice of maintaining continuous contact with the concrete, nebulous real-world problem. Retreating into abstract problem-solving is tidier but usually doesn’t work well.“

Except this is already what basically everyone tries to do. Research labs try to maintain direct contact with state of the art benchmark tasks on a wide variety of data sets. And often they work extremely hard to produce results robust across several tasks and several data sets.

And in various other fractured or specific cases, the researchers are very clear up-front they are solving one particular, ultraspecific problem in the scope of the paper.

(Unfortunately the second antidote is more “wolpertinger”... ugh.)
Wow, seriously. This is as exciting and enlightening as reading an expense report. I'm going to guess this guy was an accountant...
Depends on the type of checklist.

If it's something like a grocery list, etc I tend to use Google Keep.

If it's code specific then one of GitHub's project boards.

If it's going to require managing a team, keeping up on tasks, generating productivity reports and something akin to virtual scrum / kanban / post-it's on a daily, weekly or monthly basis BusinessDay [1]. I chose it because of recurring tasks, aging of cards and private lists.

This goes into the process behind it [2]

[1] https://blog.businessday.io/

[2] https://blog.businessday.io/2016/09/04/quick-start-for-accou...
Spread the word by sending that to WikiLeaks or post it on 4chan.
Worked through this about a year ago, but at the time I wrote it, it worked interchangeably with Bitcoin blocks.
https://github.com/ltavag/blocks/blob/master/block.py#L68
> Nobody is going to suffer from an extra pound of weight.

I would and did for a long time, and I am very glad for the lightening trend. Try considering for just a moment that there are many people in the world who aren't as ablebodied as you. Small changes can make big differences.
Have a look at the expected utility Wikipedia article. In short:

The difference between owning a total of 0 and a total of 10000 USD is way more important than the difference between owning 10000 and 20000 USD.

So assume you have 20000 USD. There's a 10% change that you will lose it all and become homeless. It makes sense for you to pay 2000 USD at the start to get 10000 USD back in case that happens. Because being homeless in 10% of the cases is way worse than having 18000 USD instead of 20000 USD in 90% of the cases.
Sounds like a real limiter on job & class mobility though.

I mean, sure, go ahead and charge the true cost. But I think artificially limiting mobility has a lot of downsides.
Right, that's exactly how I would expect this to be implemented. The lowest-level IO functions (at the level of making syscalls) mark themselves as supporting async: e.g. "asyncable" which means it can be called either sync or async (which may actually be implemented with different os apis). Every function that calls one of these functions sees the results directly as if it were syncronous but is also marked as "asyncable". This "mark" continues up the call chain, completely transparently to the users (unless they use an escape hatch). Near the very top of the program, the main function, an main event loop, your http server thread, etc, the code chooses to call the first function either synchronously or asynchronously and decide details like which executor to use. If your "main" function calls it async, the entire call stack is compiled to use the async versions, all the way down to the syscall functions

The point is that only at the very top of the call stack or the very bottom should you ever need to care or think about whether code is async, because 99% of the time (every bit of code between main and syscalls... which is almost all of it) that's the only place you should need to care. This can be completely automatic because the compiler already knows where to insert await/async, it only needs to know when to use async (decided by main) and what to call at the end (decided by the syscall funcs).
Pretty sure they are targeting their best buyers. Lifestyle bloggers and vain people with more disposable than sense. Developers bitch too much and feel like their needs are more important than a Mormon Mommy Pinterest Aficionado. The developer can easily dump Apple without any peer push back. The Lifestyle blogger can't, because it's a status thing.
Send me your resume. There is probably a red flag in it (can be your name or something like that).
I can understand why Communism might have this effect, but why censorship or surveillance? Anything I can read on the subject?
Weabooism.
Yes I couldn't read the page due to this issue.
> And it really doesn't matter if they didn't use it. More options is better than too few options.

No it really isn't. When people are fatigued, under pressure and facing some hard time constraints you want less options, options that the rescue team are familiar with and trained for. You don't want them thinking about whether this new contraption would work in the back of their minds.

It's like having that boss that wants status reports every 5 minutes during a production issue, not only is it unhelpful but it does hamper efforts to resolve things.

> Test it, validate it, prove it, and donate it to whoever it is that keeps big boxes of weird contraptions for when things go wrong.

And do all of this before it's needed, don't wing it.
Seems interesting. Abstraction over abstraction over abstraction.
I read a paper more than a decade ago about monitoring simian brains. They noticed (I think it was by accident) that when a chimp watched another eat an ice-cream, the same areas of the brain 'lit up' as if the chimp itself was eating. It makes sense when you think about how invested people can get in their favourite characters in TV and film.
Fun fact:

The name, Nagini, derives from the Sanskrit word for "a deity or class of entity or being taking the form of a very great snake, specifically the king cobra, found in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga
https://github.com/github/SoftU2F

https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#yubikey-4c-...
Show HN: Bulk CMS and Category Detector
Thanks for saying this. Every producer/Dj I know needs USB-A. It will be decades before that equipment is phased out.
What non equities or bonds investments are you thinking for that? Multi family? Private placements?
https://github.com/github/SoftU2F