skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can produce a copy of the contract I have with my employer that specifies my wages and other terms of my employment. If you believe I have a contract with some "content creator" then produce the contract, and show me where my signature was applied.

I am not claiming that the EU legislation is "wrong," I just want people to stop pretending that it is motivated by some high-minded ideal or that it addresses a fundamentally important issue for society. It is nothing more than a regulation imposed on one industry for the benefit of another industry. Copyright has always been about business interests, and the notion that a poor author somewhere is the real beneficiary of copyright is just a nice story publishers have told people since they started lobbying for the Statute of Anne.
I bought the book ages ago and remember not really finding anything of value in it. I don't mean to sound like someone from /r/iamverysmart but I recall thinking I would benefit in the way I did from the design patterns book: by giving me terminology for things I already did. But as far as I remember, the names were really obvious ("rename parameter", "extract method", etc.) and the instructions equally so. Can you give an example of something you learned from it?
Insecurity is having a vulnerability. Whether a threat actor exploited it and what results you can detect are part of a useless variant of Schrödingers cat that everyone prefers you focus on to sell useless software.
No more like I enjoy knowing two or more human brains are collaborating on the same real-time experience
I don't know about macronutrients, but the required micronutrients would be very different. For example, spiders have hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin in their blood, so their oxygen transport is based on copper instead of iron.

(Maybe not the best example because cow milk is not a good source of iron either, but I'm sure there are other more relevant differences like this.)
Royale is an interesting company, but I wouldn't call that a phone form-factor. It's also not clear to me that product is available for delivery today in Royale stores in China.
There is some famous citation from a physicist about people that used to replicate each other experiments before, but now they share their fortran models, so they can agree on all the bugs.
very appropriate analogy
"a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing"

A statistical model is not an oversimplification.
A CEFR-like approach to measure programming proficiency (2014)
Inside the Cloak-And-Dagger Search for Sacred Texts
I don't have a reason to believe our candidates are lying when they say they want to continue doing engineering work or move into management. None of that implies they're set on working with us, and that's OK, they're interviewing and know very little about us, so its understandable that they don't know whether it'll work out with us. So by saying they want to continue working as an engineer, we know that as long as they're working with us, we'll have an engineer. With product/project/people managers, we know to maybe keep an open head for a potential internal lateral movement from engineering.

When they say "at Google", that's at least as bad as saying "working for you"; they know nothing about what working at Google is like any more than they know what working with us will be like. Plus, it implies "I don't want to work for you"; would you hire anyone that says that?
Unfortunately it just creates another opportunity for someone who figures they can make a buck as long as there is someone willing to buy fentanyl.
The article that goes deeper into the betting markets says that they suspect many of the traders were people invested in the reproducibility crisis and related research, that is, they are more knowledgable than the general public would be.

That doesn't take away from your point, but the problem here may be more refined than "the public" vs "psychologists". It may be more like "some psychologists" vs "journal editors and other psychologists".
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Furthermore, the 12mbit/stat is for content that has been encoded in advance, ie nowhere close to real time. If they want to broadcast live sports in 8k, they're not going to get such good compression.
> Why would you take that risk? How could you protect yourself against that risk?

Host only original content of which you or your registered users are the declared copyright holders.

Flickr, Smugmug and other enthusiast photo gallery sites seem to have walked this line quite successfully. Imgur and its ilk haven't because they've never really had a reason to care. Now they do.

So YouTube wouldn't be the massive entity it is now if it were truly YouTube and forbade uploading of any derived content. But perhaps that would be better.

MP3 sites might be more like SoundCloud with original content.

I find it difficult to be moved by the protests of people who just want to post other people's creations. Link to it, don't copy it.
What really improved it for me is to install a backlight ala Philips Ambilight, just DIY.
Extrapolating from current consumer situation, we can expect 8K huge ass TVs which display cringingly poor picture and users won't care. As usual contemporary digital TV setup is:

1. set top box is by default sending only 720p to the TV

2. HDMI input on the TV is by default in "video mode", where it rescales the picture even when fed native 1080p

It took me months to eventually figure this out, and now I have sharp pixel-perfect FullHD picture...that makes compression artifacts pop up :(
What language is it written in I may just recreate it.
You can also say that it is immoral to receive compensation for not working, i.e. rent-seeking. The creator should be compensated for his or her work, but that's not what copyright is about, it's about being compensated at the time of information exchange. Further confounding the moral issue is the fact that copyright can be assigned, so now a third party is charging rent for the information exchange of a product that they didn't create.

In practical terms, this leads to the creation of entities - media companies, that do not care for morality and are entirely built to maximise profits from the rents they control. Which in turn creates other problems, since those same entities can amass enough wealth and power in order to bend our information exchange technologies in amoral ways, all in the pursuit of perfect rent exploitation. So while the concept of "artist gets paid a fair sum for creating art" is commendable, the current implementation has very detrimental side effects. And you can't fight the side-effects with policy, because free information exchange generates less revenue than the rent on information exchange the media companies seek to extract, so you have less money to lobby for laws against the people trying to restrict your freedom of speech.
According the article, it has little to do with intrinsic concern over the well-being of customers, and more to do with the sellers getting caught up in legal reprisals.
Moon Direct
No other book improved my coding style as much as the first edition of Refactoring. On a superficial level, it teaches you how to "clean up" code, according to various patterns. But what it really does is give you a feeling for why the code should be improved in the first place. Highly recommended.
Do you know if it's legal for a sober person to ride a drunk horse? And how do horses even get drunk??
You're really veering off into conspiracy theory territory here. It's clear you haven't the faintest how climate models or any geophysics works. Don't mistake a facility for computers for expertise in all science. I actually have a PhD in a geophysics field, I know what I am talking about here.

1. That study is 10 years old at this point. The evidence for climate change has become vastly more undeniable since then.

2. Majorities of scientists from all categories believed in climate change, even back then, according to this study.
> What model of human cognition are you claiming is "incorrect"? And is it the one presented by Marcus, or are you strawmanning?

The model of human cognition I'm referring to is the hybrid connectionist-symbolic one that Marcus is well known for advocating (are YOU strawmanning? lol). I'm criticizing it for being more a theoretical model than one grounded in the physical realities of the brain, which of course no one really understands. Proposing a research program on that basis requires a high burden of proof.

> Are you claiming Marcus has produced no interesting research results?

Yes I am claiming that, if the benchmark for "interesting" is deep learning.

There are indeed areas where deep learning is limited, and hybrid approaches could be superior. I would argue that there is not even close to enough evidence that a hybrid approach has improved generalizable power.

> Why use the term "kvetching"? I'm curious.

Huh? I guess it's the term my mother would use.
The only one I have online is jlpt.se. I'm a bit conscious about sharing it with people who know code, since it's a bit of a rats nest. The ui is clean, the logic is not..

One of the big things I was missing in other tools was actual input. I've also haven't had any luck with srs, I prefer learning in an ordered list, then shuffling the order.

I implemented an "unstrict" input method. If I input a letter contained in the word it's an accepted answer. This is a very conscious decision. It's really hard to get a nice tempo with a strict input.

The Kanji part is the only part useful according to me. I simply can't learn vocabulary through regular rote memorization. I'm going into the second "phase" of learning, which is reading. Feels like banging my head into a wall most of the time, but eventually I will break through.
I often wonder what HN could infer from my positions on various topics based on my voting (eventhough I don't use it to signal (dis)agreement).
No you can't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

And if GINA was repealed, (and it wouldn't be, it was passed the House 420-3 a and passed the Senate 95-0), the insurance companies aren't going to beat around the bush and try to hack 23andMe, they'd just demand DNA samples directly as a requirement of being insured.
the opposite of Sweden apparently https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41095004
Isn't there also automatic eye movement? So in principle there is a super-resolution effect which pushes it even higher.
Are you telling me that people who buy camo clothes are more likely to be conservative? That's crazy talk.
Next thing you'll tell me is people who dye their hair pink or blue are more likely to be liberal.
So don't use 23 and me to make sure if your relatives can get away with murder?
Reminds me of genode

https://genode.org

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genode
I have also evaluated Skia, and came to the same conclusion.

Have been using nanovg instead: somewhat lower level, but at least it builds, and also it’s quite simple to use. The main downside it doesn’t support ClearType for text rendering, even when using it with FreeType.
Yes, thank you.

> the only interesting difference between English and Riau Indonesian for this sentence would be the fact that "taste" would (most likely) no longer be the same word in the two phrases.

Which is I guess my point: puns don't usually translate. So is the underlying reality changed? (I used to wonder about this briefly at times when I was studying Russian in college.)
I'm honestly not sure what the DRM situation is on 4K blu-rays—I don't own an "official" 4K blu-ray player—but it should be noted their efforts amounted to basically nothing. With the right drive, you can rip 4K BluRays easily. I know because I have done it.
But for one that still doesn't mean that not being able to view the code is somehow better, as was claimed above, and which I objected to. At best that means that being able to view the code does not necessarily imply the quality of that code is better. Which really is just obvious.

And also, that does not at all mean that the utility breaks down. Back in the day, it was normal for devices to come with schematics. Like, if you bought a TV, the schematic was included. Almost noone who owned a TV could read schematics. But the schematics were still useful to the owner, because those schematics were what enabled you to take your broken TV to any independent repair business of your choice and have them fix it at a competetive price.

You can profit from the wide availability of knowledge without having to learn it all yourself. If there are ten competing car repair businesses in your city that all understand how to fix your car, that is better for you than the manufacturer having a monopoly on repairing your car, even if you don't have the slightest clue how your car works.
I imagine the OP was more referring to trying to whip something up quickly in iMovie (or similar). If you own the track, this is trivial. If you're used to Spotify, not so much.
Your lament is not an unusual one for a business owner; it’s unfortunate that legislators and regulators sometimes overlook or disregard the costs of compliance, especially for smaller firms.

Areas of regulation that apply to most small businesses, such as employment law, taxation, and consumer protection, are discussed in many books available from publishers [1] and business organizations [2]. A comprehensive, one-volume textbook on business law can also be a good starting place. These resources are valuable not only for the specific information they contain, but also to help identify areas for further inquiry. This sometimes involves professional advice, but it may just mean checking the website of the relevant government agency.

Indeed, many agencies publish guidance about the laws and regulations they administer. Examples include the IRS’s Employer’s Tax Guide [3], the California Employer’s Guide [4], and Your California Seller’s Permit [5].

Obviously, in more specialized and heavily regulated fields, it’s expected that businesses will have competent advisors. No one reads Becoming a National Bank [6] and then successfully applies for a bank charter, for example, without help from lawyers and others familiar with the process.

[1] https://store.nolo.com/products/legal-guide-for-starting-and...
[2] https://store.calchamber.com/10032179-mastqb/products/employ...
[3] https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-15
[4] https://www.edd.ca.gov/pdf_pub_ctr/de44.pdf
[5] http://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/formspubs/pub73.pdf
[6] https://www.occ.treas.gov/publications/publications-by-type/...
That's... not what vulnerability means.

vul·ner·a·bil·i·ty
noun
the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
The author of the article would have been wise to include this information.

I did find "Clustering by Compression", https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0312044

The emphasis in this paper was not on "efficiency", but rather on phylogenetic grouping. The authors used the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", which apparently has 52 translations as the subject text. See Fig 13 and section 5.2 for details. Instead of just compressing and normalizing, they developed a normalized compression distance, which involves concatenating two texts, compression, and division by the largest of the two texts, as compressed alone.

I think that using the same encoding of all the languages and some kind of normalizing would wash the results of differences due to encodings.
Everything you wrote is wrong - at least as far as CA's contribution to the Brexit vote. In reality CA used very specific targeted advertising on FB.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Nealb2010/status/1059068463933743...

The point about these campaign structures isn't that they're generically effective. In fact they don't need to be generically effective.

They just need to be able to swing a vote by a few percent to define the outcome.

In the 2017 UK election, the Tory majority - such as it was - only survived because of a couple of marginals returned majorities of tens or hundreds.

The adversarial zero-sum nature of representative democracy amplifies those tiny voter preferences into a monolithic national mandate which does not in fact exist.

This how CA's snake oil works. Where a vote is close and uncertain, it only needs to alter the voting intent of an absolutely tiny percentage of voters. That turns out to be almost trivially easy to do.
You don’t need 4 times the bitrate because compression technology scales better than linear the higher the resolution.
Nothing you can do in pure Java code is UB in the C/C++ sense.
> Why should we hire you?

Because you need a programmer and I am one?

Stupid questions get you stupid answers.
Paying ransoms (especially for organisations outside of the respective jurisdiction) isn't?
There are a lot of comments debating whether 8K is worthwhile vs 4K, and whether we can see a difference. I decided to do some math.

Let's assume someone has a 65in (165cm) TV and sits 6.5ft (~2m) away. This is a larger TV than most people have, and a closer viewing distance than most people sit. Let's also assume that the viewer has 20/12.5 (6/3.75) vision. 20/20 (6/6) is the low end of normal, and it isn't uncommon to have slightly better vision. My optometrist (my fiancée) can correct me to about 20/15, but 20/12.5 is unusually good.

The screen width is 56.65in. At this distance, that subtends an angle of about 40 degrees:

>>> math.degrees(2 * math.atan(56.65475464133182 / (2 * 6.5 * 12)))
39.9191582380095

20/12.5 vision corresponds to 48 cycles per degrees, or 96 pixels per degree, distinguishable (20/20 is generally accepted to be 30 cycles per degree). Therefore, the viewer can distinguish 96 * 40 = 3840 pixels horizontally. Which is UHD 4K resolution.

I chose the inputs to get to that result, but my point is that viewers would need to have unusually good vision, and unusually large TV, and be sitting unusually close to hit the limits of 4k. And that's only for very high contrast images, like black text on a white background. Our eyes are less sensitive to low contrast transitions, as found in most videos. Try reading an eye chart with the letters printed in gray on a lighter gray background. It's more difficult!

I think there are much better things we can use our limited bandwidth for than increasing resolution: we could use better compression codecs at higher bitrates, reduce or eliminate chroma subsampling, increase color depth and/or gamut for HDR content, or use higher framerates for content where that is appropriate.

EDIT: Here's a source for 20/20 = 30 cycles per degree, and 20/12.5 vision being unusually good: https://www.opt.uh.edu/onlinecoursematerials/stevenson-5320/...
It won’t be that bad.

STBs from Comcast over the past few years support 1080p and the ones released over the past year support 4K. Also most newer Android TV based STBs support 4k. You’re probably saying “yeah, but the content doesn’t”, oh, but it does.

Companies like Comcast and OTT providers like DirectTV Now support 4K linear broadcast as most transcoders in the past five years support 4K streams and most broadcasters are supplying these providers with 4K streams. Even the recent move to HVEC is making these providers rencode their VOD libraries and titles are being rencoded at 4K.

The transition to 8k won’t be as bad when people had 1080p TVs with 480 content.
This comment is insulting and rude. There are other ways to inform someone that you think he is wrong while being civil and mature.

That being said I get where the commenter is coming from. Much of biology is a qualitative science. Darwin's evolution was originally elucidated through descriptions not hard numbers and statistics. Taxonomy in zoology is also largely qualitative.
Several things.

The scale of technical achievement is by far more impressive than anything that came before. Metal Gear Solid 5 might be the closest thing in terms of open world technology, but RDR2 is far superior to it.

The anti-game aspects create a very different dramatic experience than most games. Sometimes you just ride along with another character and do nothing but observe what happens. Other times your plans get derailed in an Inception sort of way and you end up halfway acrosd the map doing something you never intended, none of which has anything to do with the story. This happens in ways that are much more organic and natural than previous similar mechanisms in e.g. GTA games.

The story deals with a lot of themes that have more impact because of coming across them in an open world (stumbling into KKK meetings, seeing lynched bodies hanging in swamplands, tracking down a gang that tortures animals, finding evidence of families split by slave trade, and many more).

The main story is compelling and well crafted, but the fuller picture from the pastiche of stuff in the world makes it feel effective, and the scenes of blood-thirsty wild west action feel more like uncommon punctuation marks than important aspects of the plot.
It's really not news, it's clickbait (because it's controversial). I understand NYT and their like needs to make ends meet, but they need to find a better way.
Not an (admissible) heuristic per se. But I've begun asking people: Are you living the dream?

Not only is it a fantastic conversation starter. But I am truly shocked how few people get to live it! Maybe 1% if being generous.

It's a proxy for a more meaningful encounter than what "How are you?" can elicit. And opens a space to share the most intimate threads from their personal history. As well as reinforcing my own belief in staying true to one's vision ;)
Could a directional radio still be detected? It seems like smugglers might be able to keep track of where they are relative to each other, then point antennas.
8K sounds scary but if you think of it as a sequence of 33MP photos it starts to sound quite OK. Plenty of cameras shoot photos with higher resolution than that already.
How much bandwidth would you need to show that type of video? I feel like my broadband network couldn't even handle that.
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Anything captured on film simply can't be compared with a digital file. Even if the picture is blurry the resolution will still be there.
Assuming you pull these four words randomly (not-human-random, actually random) out of a dictionary of at least 2048 words, and separate them by a space, you have a password of (at least) 44 bits of entropy. There's no way a "dictionary" attack can reduce the possible password space to less than 244 possibilities.
you're focusing on a function with a known limitation, that was superceded 15 years ago and practically everyone used mysql_real since then. That's not the reason why the module was removed though. The reason is that the mysql_* functions are "too low level for noobs".

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16859477/why-are-phps-my...
_has_ may be incorrect but I do feel the switch is happening [0]. Angular which is the most popular client side JS framework is using Typescript. React is also moving in the same direction with typescript-react-starter and tsx support.

[0] https://2018.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/overview/
Reproducible builds make it much easier for others to check for things like hyperparameter sensitivity. Right?
You didn't even mention the horror of the level of color reproduction on the cheap models that most people are buying. Or how some TVs don't even seem to have a way to fully disable motion interpolation.
> Why is it immoral?

Theft is immoral. I can't just sneak into your home, steal your stuff and walk away saying you're holding mankind back, can I? That's the analogy in the OP.
>In the hard sciences you can run reproducible experiments and have mathematical models used to make precise predictions and come up with "natural laws".

Spend time with condensed matter physicists. What you describe is not what they do. A lot of results are not reproducible.
Full internationalization of Django application (urls, models, templates, code)
^ This should be the top comment. Thank you for the excellent summary, and for fighting the good fight!