skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't fault the guy for the arbitrage, just for not fulfilling the contract. It would be about equally unethical if he were doing the great work himself and got bored and wandered away.
Omeo
Sites like that is why I have the Chrome plugin "Quick JavaScript Switcher" that instantly disables JavaScript and reloads the page. As soon as noise starts blasting when it's uncalled for, I just hit the panic button next to the address field!
Apologies. I'm OP, and made the choice to use "mooching" to describe the actives Wes is decrying. I'm not sure I can edit it, but am open to suggestions that will fit in the HN title character limit.
You are absolutely right. I have used an incorrect source. The search was for forward error-correction in modern protocols... G.711 has neither properties. SMPTE2022-5/7 have such provisions, but I am not an expert in these protocols.

Would an expert like to chime in? What are good (open) protocols to do home-streaming with low latency given occasional packet-loss (< 10%)?
Now imagine doing this with a high res satellite anywhere on earth.
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https://pixls.us/

https://www.ifixit.com/

https://forum.f-droid.org/

https://indiewebify.me/
>Thinking atomic bombs :(

The same ones which have prevented large scale open military conflicts involving superpowers for the last 60+ years? Atom bombs have likely saved more lives than they have taken, if we had conventional wars with modern technology without MAD.
Southern Ontario (real / traditional) screamo.

Screamo is a very small community but extremely passionate and active.

For example a great show with well known out of town bands in Toronto is about 50-100 people.

But we have people driving from New Jersey to waterloo (not knowing anyone) to see a show with respire, ostraca and Terry green.

I've been involved in music for quite some time but never seen a fanbase this dedicated..

Currently there is a fest in Toronto (new friends fest) where you see people from all over NA with ages ranging 20-40s putting everything into making emotional hardcore.

Watching a band play in a small packed record shop where the band has <1 meter space from the crowd, complemented with a slippery floor from the sweat / condensation, talking about growing up and losing their loved ones to mental illnesses while playing their hearts out was incredibly powerful to watch and I imagine therapeutic to the band.

I've been trying to start to document the scene via live recordings - here's a shared folder

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KJj448eWVQgXSqw94Gfs...

Favourites so far are
Dianacrawls,
Hundreds of AU,
Terry Green

But there are many amazing acts
WWtW is pretty much my favorite episode of TNG. My favorite goofy episode of trek, though, would have to be "take me out to the holosuite", because it turns the goofy underdog sports movie on its head.

(incidentally, thinking about the episode, sisko's interaction with his team serves as a microcosm of the thesis I have about DS9 as a whole in my parent comment)
Ha, I write telemarketing support systems for a living and feel your pain. It might not be sexy work but sure helps to grease the wheels of commerce and put food on the table.
Not really. You can be an expert in one field and an amateur in another.
No, he's not an amateur but a retired statistian. And the fact that LaTeX is the standard for DIY typesetting in academia nowadays has nothing to do with your competence as a mathematician, or the rigour of a proof published as a Word document. Likewise, it doesn't matter if you work with pen and paper or with pencil and paper.

This title is absurd.
This is a pretty poorly presented article. There are good points for and against DAFs but they're hard to find in here.

And backing up, I feel like we don't often question the idea of giving nearly unlimited tax breaks for charitable donations. The Economist did a very good job explaining the history, pros, and cons of this practice in 2012: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2012/06/09/sweetened-char...

For what it's worth I donate a good amount every year to causes I care about and I am certainly motivated by the tax break. While that's rational, I do sometimes wonder about the ethical side.

After all, I am basically saying that I should get to self-direct a large chunk of my own taxes. The govt has an idea of what it would do with my income taxes but I can donate them to a cause of my choosing. And there's very little vetting about what causes count, as long as they're not for profit. I could be giving thousands to a charity that wants to give citizenship to dolphins, and depriving some good state and federal programs of those funds.

I do think that there's a good reason to give some limited deductions for charitable giving. After all the world is probably better when people give to each other, no matter the cause. But allowing someone to get a billion dollar windfall and use this tax break to redirect many millions to a cause of their choosing rather than the public is probably taking it too far.
I remember my first on site project at a paper mill in the north of England. I couldn't figure out why the people involved were so hostile. It was only later when I was talking to the salesman about it that I found out they were all going to loose their jobs once I'd finished.
I think it still wants to be a useful clock, i.e., you want to be able to see at a glance how late it is where you are now. That's actually why the current time is highlighted.

Although your idea also has some merit.
Where do you think the vast wealth in the American middle class came from? It wasn't picked off the ground, it wasn't here in 1800, and the immigrants did not arrive with it.
I've long noticed the connection between liking fountain pens and mechanical keyboards, but never noticed the tie to head phones. (I'm sitting here wearing some.)

Maybe the personality trait influencing this is a higher sensitivity to tactile experience. I wonder what other tastes this group might share. Of course, nice notebooks/pads go with the pens. I have an inclination toward boardgames with hefty dice, and I'm very choosy regarding my coffee mugs.
Well, that's why Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon are collaborating together to create ONNX, an open source graph model. It's currently looking like ONNX will be the "LLVM IR" of the deep learning world.
Thanks mom.
Ran an illegal live streaming site for a few months. Had a lot of fun with it and used the experience to transition to a legitimate job in that space, but I probably cost some people some money, and for no other reason than "I could".

I also worked at a startup briefly that was run by a convicted con man. The business was legit but it was immediately clear he was using the same confidence techniques on everyone - clients, employees, etc. Not a good scene.
I'm in and from the EU, and had zero problems.
It is plenty hot enough in summer in Germany to warrant AC.
Right. Of course.
Four million people are using Apple’s OS betas
This is indescribably exciting. Can't wait to see OpenAI Five tear through the human players just like what the single bot did to 'Dendi' -- a professional gamer -- during the International 7 tournament in August last year. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiOopO9jTZw
Before reaching any conclusions I might ask:

Looks like the data set is only NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ...

A. have those exchanges strengthened their listing criteria, making it harder to list

B. Has the number of firms listed on alternative exchanges taken up the slack?

C. Are companies deciding to list in other jurisdictions because of inversions or regulatory concerns

D. Looks like they exclude certain types of securities - what are the securities excluded? ADRs, MLP, REITs, etc could also be part of the story

E. What about the semi-private 144a market? How does one factor that in?

F. How has the elmination of regional stock exchanges played a role?
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Unit testing anti-patterns: Structural Inspection
Amazed it hasn't come up yet considering the overlap with engineering communities.

Video game speedrunning - playing a video game over and over, trying to beat it in the fastest time possible. It scratches an engineering itch to know miniscule little details and optimizations about a game that you love, and be collaborating/competing with others, working to push down times. It has a chill social aspect to it, where you stream on twitch and your friends watch your attempts, talk about the techniques, and hang out with you while you practice. A lot of incredibly bright, talented and kind geeks. Some of the real scientists behind the scenes are brilliant engineers who poke at ram values and theorycraft routes based on manipulated RNG seeds.

I got into the scene from participating in a speedgaming tournament (http://speedgaming.org/events/), which forced me to learn a game and made me several great friends.

Since then I've gotten deep into a zelda randomizer (http://alttpr.com/) that has a vibrant and passionate community. A really smart engineer realized that you could randomize the items in the game by breaking it down into a dependency graph, so that the game is different every time. You race on the same seed as someone else, and you win by efficiently routing your item checks, better faster at the game, and/or making good gambles. It's one part speedrunning, one part poker.
That’s one read on history. Another is that the world has been tremendously lucky to not have suffered a nuclear holocaust since WWII. Many powerful people have done everything they could to advocate for nuclear bombings in the past 60 years, and we’ve had some extremely close calls with near accidental launches.
The problem is that the government is little better than thieves. I don't mean that in the abstract. Look at this video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

The video has 2 sections. First, the professor explains the reasoning behind the 5th amendment ... and then a police officer points out how he does it.

Despite that I would agree that this officer is a pretty correct cop. Certainly you cannot call this guy bad or corrupt, and equally certain: he is a pretty smart guy.

He states pretty bluntly what the goal of a police officer is, in criminal cases. You probably think the goal is to arrest the perpetrator, but listen to the guy, it's not. The goal is a confession, the goal is maximizing convictions. Seriously, that's the metric they're judged on: number of convictions. Regardless of any other factor, and frankly using highly illegal tactics (though compared to European police I must say he is a saint). On top of that he has self-control that rivals the best monks.

The average cop, I am sorry to say, is not like this guy. The average cop is much more like Kelso from "that 70s show". The average cop became a cop because he could not get another job, but got accepted in the entrance exam, or (worse) because they enjoy having power over others. Or, like Kelso, a combination of both. They're morons, dumb to the point that people who know them wouldn't leave them alone with a lighter. They're interested in proving their power over others directly by humiliating them (generally in pretty benign ways, but ... like a high school bully that isn't an 8 year old anymore). They regularly screw up badly, and they desperately want to hide those screwups, at almost any cost.

This isn't controversial: everybody who knows a few cops knows this.

Can you imagine what interrogations tactics are when the cop is NOT a 20 year old military veteran with a strong sense of honor and very good observational skills, without good self control ? Oh wait, no need to imagine, just search it on youtube. Warning: actually doing that will not be pretty. Moron police officers shooting people for completely absurd misunderstandings, in scenarios that certainly look like a strong racism, sexism, and just general bullying component is at play.

Doing the same lookups for other forces, like for instance, searching youtube for videos of the UN's "blue helmets" in action ... is far worse. European police forces ... outright disgusting.

The problem is not law. You cannot reasonably argue that the problem is that we just need a few more laws and all will be fine.
Well, you could put LiveNation on your resume to hide the fact ;)
It's just blatant clickbait :(
I think your goal should be not to judge to what degree each side is correct, but to learn a little about what people in the area are doing, what they did in the past, what they find important, and why. That way, there is a lot more you can learn and gain.
I had a grand-uncle was a bank Vice President. His main responsibility was reading the obituaries of about 25 papers and making sure relatives didn’t open the safe deposit boxes before probate.

Not sure of salary, but his schtick was 12 month leases of black Cadillacs, so it was pretty good. :)
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Experts suggest this so they can remain "experts".
> Will you only speak of sensitive subjects in rooms with no windows?

That is exactly why almost all DOD secure areas are windowless.
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Such CASs do exist indeed, check Reduce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduce_(computer_algebra_syste...

Which is awesome, BTW. There's also Giac/Xcas: https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html, and a few more specialised ones.
That would only be useful if everyone were outside, and you wanted a split second of many different people's conversations. Satellites move rather quickly relative to the Earth's surface.
Oh, I was genuinely unaware that the replication crisis was such a big problem in psychology - It makes a lot of sense though, and it was a fascinating read :) And yes, I do agree that there's a problem with incentivization in all the sciences.
Definitely some interesting applications.

Sort of orthogonal but is there a similar way to get sound from seeing someone's lip's move in a video -- would it then be possible to recover audio/conversations from old video only files?

Edit: Guess they can read lips via AI https://www.techemergence.com/machine-learning-that-learns-m...

Now getting the high quality sound from just video would be amazing.
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I've actually had the opposite experience, I upgraded my drive storage for an ML project and was still unable to load the datasets into a colab reliably. Hope this story gets better. In the meantime I'm using sagemaker and kaggle kernels.
Another "unused code bug" would be when a locally scoped variable which is not supposed to be there shadows the intended global variable.

It's just a matter of global scoping and precedence. But yeah, sharing notation between inheritance and extension is a tad bit reductionist.
Trans engineers (myself included) are basically my entire social circle at this point :) there's lots of us in the bay and most of us are awesome
A secure memorable password generator
Wells Fargo most likely would only make money on the origination and other fees associated with the refi. The vast majority of mortgages are sold to the Fannie/freddies and Wells Fargo doesn't make a dime off the interest. So it would definitely benefit them to do the refi.
"Fusion" partner dancing, e.g. https://www.missionfusion.com/

Re the vid on that page, we very rarely have a live musician playing in the midst of the dancers! Music is generally by DJs.
It's a criminal organization that should be shut down with executives in prison.
Don’t disagree. Scale that to an entire populace though.
Absolutely. And the underlying paper is entirely justified. The Scientific American article about the paper, is I believe trying to turn this into big news. But I agree with your point.
I just ran into this trying to get Wolfram Alpha to expand a polynomial from product to sum form over a Galois field. I got frustrated and wrote my own C++ code myself to get the answer.
"Will you only speak of sensitive subjects in rooms with no windows" - yes, the building standards for secure facilities (i.e. a room where discussing classified information above a certain grade is permitted) mandate no external windows, and much more than that.
In python, `greeter.lazyGreet()` would succeed, because python only has types at runtime. If you used mypy, you would get a warning for this. No warning would be issued for `greeter.greet()`, but since function dispatch is still done at runtime, this would call `LazyGreeter.greet()`.

I concur that the behaviour is a design decision, not a bug, but I think most programmers would in general prefer design decisions to bring the language closer to python.
The problem with this angle is that while sure, you can always make a compiler more intelligent in ambiguous situations, you must also now train all the humans interfacing with it to be equally as intelligent (or at least, able to sufficiently disambiguate).

We don't see many context-sensitive grammars for programming languages, not because very difficult to implement, but I suspect because they're hard for humans to understand.

There is something to be said for the simplicity of naming things to describe what they are (e.g. Hungarian notation), but I really think it's a mistake for languages (configuration, programming, etc.) to even allow identifiers to be reused for differing types.
High level overview of three.js
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At some point it is (controversially) hypothesized that we may be able to pull imprinted recordings off of ancient artifacts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoacoustics#Past_interpre...
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afaik you cannot just 'disable' it. You have to disable it every time you boot the computer, and secure boot has to be disabled. I would agree with you if microsofts signing process was 21st century and anyone could do it through proper channels but last time I checked it's archaic and targetable by anyone wanting to make a virus anyways. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17195758
Ditto VA Everclear. But... if you make a run to WV it's like 95%.
I was subcontracted as development resource to a short terms loan company. They had me implement a piece of software that lets people enter their online banking details (yes their name and password, that thing that the bank says if you reveal to anybody you have no protections on your account), store them in a database, and then use those credentials to scrape their bank records so that their loans could be approved without the user having to send their bank statements in.

I wasn't comfortable working for a company that preys on the fiscally challenged, so I found another job and quit the contracting company I worked for.
In the brave new world that's being built, the entire population (most of it) doesn't get to have true confidentiality if somebody is sufficiently interested in them.
This reminds me of the Parallax View, the 1974 Warren Beatty movie, in which the evil Parallax Corporation recruited psychopaths it identified with a standardized test, then put them to work doing evil things. The story proposed that those tests were hard to fool, because the questions were intricately cross referenced (so Beatty didn't even try, he just had a real psychopath fill in the answers) and that the traits sought by Parallax were not ordinary, but were complex and rare. Contrast that with tests to identify the D-Factor. They'd be easy to fool, if one knows they're looking for self exaltation. And D-Factor traits are not complex or rare, they're present in everyone to a degree.

I just don't see why the notion of a D-Factor would surprise anyone, or why this study is regarded as "big news."
> Will you only speak of sensitive subjects in rooms with no windows?

Of course. I mean, that's been obvious for at least a decade.

> Will we be silent in public?

There's no need to be silent. However, one must be aware of surveillance risks, and act accordingly.

> These are issues where technology, politics, and human rights intersect.

For sure. But just wanting privacy doesn't work. And you must always deal with what's so.
I've worked in a number of professional environments, and attire ranged from steel-toed work boots and rugged clothes covered with mud, to full suit-and-tie, and a range of in-betweens (but never beach gear). So I never associated attire with professionalism per se, although it is important to wear something suitable to the task at hand.

What has not been so variable are things I'd consider more core aspects of professional behavior:

* caring deeply about customer needs and expectations, exercising grit, determination, and ingenuity to satisfy them

* understanding business concerns like cost management and delivering value to both investors and customers, striking a balance between competing demands

* understanding and caring about teammates, working effectively with a team to achieve above 2 objectives. maintaining a solution oriented mindset.

Here's how I might apply my interpretation of professionalism to the hypothetical situation that you were a capable coworker at Weber Thompson who felt uncomfortable due to the approximately 16 degree temperature excess on a hot day: propose partitioning off a space and installing air conditioning there for those who want it.

I don't see any inherent technical obstacles or insurmountable business concerns in that solution. It would balance the desires of some employees for connection with outside air, without causing discomfort to others who for one reason or another have a different preference. Customers might appreciate the flexibility to make the space suitable for a wider variety of preferences, and ask if we can do the same for them.
Why G711? G722 is much better with the same 64 kbit/s.
https://reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing

It's damn impressive how quickly some of the most obscure requests are answered due to the sheer number of eyes looking at them.
Back in the day I wrote some "AOHell style" apps for AOL and Yahoo chat.

Also trolled my non-programming friends who had computers by installing a personally developed backdoor that allowed me to open and close their cd-rom tray remotely. That was really fun.
True its also onpar with r/insanepeoplefacebook too
Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship – MIT Sloan [pdf]
Was fed up with Quake Live not providing any matchmaking, so I tried to make my own. Of course they didn't have any API, so I needed to scrape their website to get the match results. I sent a lot of requests.

So when they blogged about their web site becoming occasionally very slow, I sheepishly emailed them, and asked if this might be due to my scripts. I assumed that of course they'd have some sort of IP based limiter in place in case I got to greedy. Well, they didn't. They requested that I send them my scripts, which I happily did. They also banned my account, which I thought was quite petty.

They might have unbanned me a couple weeks after that, but I quickly lost interest in Quake Live.