skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1. Camtasia Studio has been some of my best dollars spent. Also it's noise removal and volume adjustment features are INCREDIBLE. I mean, just push a button, done, and it's, WOW.

I also bought a great mic (AT2020USB+) so that viewers were actually able to hear what I say. I went as far as recording the audio separately to avoid my notebook fan noise, keyboard clicks, etc. But I later figured that the high quality mic + Camtasia's noise removal are so great that I can save the (huge amount of) time and use the audio that I record on the go. (I was mainly recording 1-2 minute how-to videos.) Now recording a 1 minute video takes me ~an hour instead of a day that it took at the start.
I graduated with a Comp.Sci bachelor with a similar GPA. Spent around 10 years as a programmer in the industry and came back to get into the masters program. I was almost laughed off (a good thing) stating I would have to do another bachelor.

Sold my house, got rid of all my stuff and enrolled in pure math bachelor's. Best decision of my life.

I though that in my mid 30s with a lot more discipline, being able to work longer and harder would've made up for the shit grades. I'm extremely thankful to the department head for waving me off like that because it would've been a disaster.

Clearly Jeff could handle himself, however I think one must really know what they're doing. I thought I'd end up doing the 3-year math program in 2... it'll turn out to be 3.5 with good grades this time around. After that I know I'll be very solid for master/phd programs.
Source? Is this true? I've seen apple users say this, but none of them are out of college, or they are STAHMs.

Does enterprise use this? Any big companies?
An interesting article, I've subconsciously agreed with this in my life, but I've also seen (and encouraged in my companies) change here.

My policy is to fight for lower-salary employees to get closer to 10% raises if they are doing well and gain provable skills. I think the primary issue with job hoping is that 2-4% raises do not match with market value, especially for the first 5 years of a technical career. Eventually it might reach this level (year 10 vs 11), but certainly not the first few years unless the individual is not growing.
Because making things cross platform takes away development and support time that could be spent making your product better for your most profitable customers.
For the folks who have web filters that block reddit:

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Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:

- Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves

- Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker's permission

- Game save and console modding services

As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget's "Save editor" have been discontinued.

Here is a (Japanese language) page describing the new restrictions:

http://www2.accsjp.or.jp/activities/2018/pr6.php

As well as a general news article on the topic:

http://psgamenews.net/1218
And Luna: https://www.luna-lang.org/
I have an entirely different outlook on this, and I believe the case of the "bedroom musician" is a perfect example.

The amount of young talent out there is not withering. It is blooming, particularly because of the low barrier of entry. You are correct that there is much more crap out there due to the low cost of entry, and the signal to noise ratio is much higher. But there is also a lot more talent than I have ever seen before. And the talent still rises to the top, because even though the internet has created a lot of noise, it is also self regulating: the noise filter has been crowdsourced.

Part of it can certainly be explained by the fact that, thanks to Youtube and Soundcloud, it is possible to find talent that before would have otherwise remained in obscurity. But a significant part is not the lower cost of entry, but the lower cost of learning and inspiration. Young musical talent can develop in ways that were simply not possible for past generations.

And furthermore, the easy access to the vast canon of modern music that online access have made available gives these musicians exposure to musical concepts and modalities that they might never had heard otherwise. For example, were it not for Napster, there would be no Fleet Foxes.

I've seen it first hand. Not only can vocalists and instrumentalists of all kinds access vast amounts of training material for the cost of an internet connection, but they can learn from one another, be challenged by their peers, and be motivated to up their game. How many young musicians of the past never developed their talent because of the lack of access to that teacher or that group of musicians?

But all of this means that the entire scene, inevitably, will lose the classic label model where popular musicians are hand-picked based upon their perceived commercial value by a relatively small number of gatekeepers. The door which gives performers access to an audience also gives the audience access to performers.

Even the monetization model is radically changing. Patreon has replaced the game of "hide the royalties," and many of these new musicians do quite well, gain funding to produce a more professional produce, contract for studio time and mixing engineers, etc., and start careers.

Does this mean that we will see a tapering off of "the big contract"? Yep. Good riddance. But it also means that music is returning to the commons where it belongs: where it can once more become a product of the culture itself, with an organic feedback loop between creators and audiences, rather than the culture being told what they may listen to by self-service commercial interests who create nothing on their own.

The Internet is a global campfire for creators and audiences.
Compare NYC public transportport to silicon valley transport and it's no contest. Give me NYC. It connects way more places.
The dollop episode on this scumbag was amazing: https://thedollop.libsyn.com/321-erik-prince-and-blackwater-...
The fun thing about the “use the force” quote is that it was a clue. If you could channel your inner Jedi, and the only shot you fired while in the trench was the one into the exhaust port, you were granted a pretty decent bonus (especially in the higher numbered waves).
> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything?

A friend of my partner uses voice commands for everything on her iPhone. She is almost blind on one eye, and has terrible eye sight with the other eye (albino trait).
Modern Computational Methods for Bayesian Inference – A Reading List
> The left uses any inequality of outcome, like the unequal representation of minorities and women in the software development industry, as evidence of discrimination without allowing for the possibility these differences are due to different abilities, choices, or desires.

No, the left doesn't. On a number of levels; as well as not ruling out the possibility of non-discriminatory causes (while being skeptical of handwaves in that direction), the left broadly recognizes that differences in choices and desires are natural and obvious consequences of visible discrimination in society, and thus even when they are direct factors not inconsistent with discrimination as root cause.
relatively speaking, the pool is smaller, sure.

but I don't get 'pre-college grads'. i can't think of a single mac (or macbook) owner I know who is a non-adult (I'm presuming you were meaning to indicate a youth-angle, not education level). I'm sure there are college-age mac owners, but all the ones I know are adults, working for businesses (or themselves as a business).

it's also easier to support just one platform than many.

"there's riches in niches" may be the general answer.
Inequality of ownership is definitely a problem, but this argument doesn't establish that debt itself is a problem. I mean, local stores used to offer credit too (and in the really old days would do so based on knowing your face in a small town).

> 2-27 million new debtors in a year. Not sustainable.

Why not? Simply because it's a big number? What number would be sustainable?
I just started a new job, so to reduce anxiety about how much I dont know I'm trying desperately to hold on to beginners/childs mind - absorbing without doing my normal immediate '"let's connect this to all I know". It seems to be working, in the sense that I'm learning new material quickly without overwhelming frustration at not knowing how to do things or what a lot of terminology means, but I also have a lot more incidents like you describe - because I'm not yet trying everything together, conclusions about what makes zero sense are absent.

Still, at least in this first month, I wouldn't want to change methods.
One of the world’s biggest toy makers races to engineer the perfect lullaby
Is IQ data available in a nice CSV file for us to analyze? I would like to see a nice Jupiter notebook with plots and should be able to play around with the data.
I'm pretty sure you are both talking about the same thing. The used phrase "zoom in and crop" implies starting with context, zooming in, and showing the close-up feature. Otherwise s/he could have just said "crop".
Impeachment will never happen. If you study recent history, an impeachment attempt on Trump will go down just like it did on Clinton - - strictly along party lines. The Clinton vote was razor accurate along party lines when it happened. No majority means no impeachment.
My Notes about “Structuring ML Projects” Part IV – Deep Learning Specialization
>>I had to end many, many friendships because it became harder and harder for me to relate to them

>>I desire for my personal growth but I digress.

>>The fact that Gates mentions that he thinks about these things now as opposed to his 20s makes me wonder if I am making the right decisions here.

A few days back some one on HN mentioned that most people on earth, are not going to terrible failures or spectacular successes.

Once you come to this realization. You will take your health, mental health, friendships, relationships and hobbies far more seriously.

After a while all you want is a peaceful, normal life with happy relationships and healthy body. After a while you can earn enough. And you are going to be eating the same burgers, as a billionaire eats to fill stomach. The beef ain't exactly going to come from heaven for trading extra efforts for sure failure.

>> Still, I have made great progress.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

— as recounted by Aristotle, Physics VI:9, 239b10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Achilles_an...

For a lot of things in life, there are indeed infinite sub tasks you need to complete. Most of us aren't going to make it. Bail out while you have time.
Yes, it is readable, it's called kuffi,
Berlin has 26 subway lines. Some of them (S-Bahn) interconnect with intercity rail, so there are times when you can transfer from a subway to a train on the same platform.

I would really like to know what makes you think Berlin public transit is "pitiful"...
Our product Feather is based on this one. If you want to try running a few Flutter apps on macOS, see the 'Sample Apps' section on this page: https://feather-apps.com/
Mensa membership is actually quite interesting, and possibly relevant to this discussion. It's full if people who are 'smart' (i.e., did well on the mensa tests), yet don't do that well professionally to be around smart people all the time. It's full or primary school teachers and nurses and that sort of thing. Mensa is for people who feel out of place in their day to day lives, they're generally not well understood by their day to day environment. While (most) doctors and lawyers and engineers and academics are already around smart people all the time, and don't need any extra on top of it.

(All this imo, may be observation bias, ymmv, etc)
A central concept in the book Debt: The First 5000 Years is that peasants' revolts occurred when dept level becomes unsustainable. The reason why is that as debt goes up the security of the loans go down, which forces the lender to impose harsher punishment to defaulters. In turn this resulted in usury laws regulating loaning, or in other places making loaning a monopoly right of the state, the church or completely illegal.

Now days it seems that the risk of uprisings are low, and that when either whole countries or people en mass start to default, the governments simply steps in and shuffle tax money or print more in order to stabilize the economy. I don't think we actually know how far that strategy can work.
How does one create a deepfake?
I generally agree with it: money is claims on future resources. Printing money redistributes resources. The government can redistribute internally as much as it likes without creating inflation. Especially if it's printing money to hire people and the economy is not at full employment.

What you can't do is print foreign currency. So the component of spending that goes on imports is affected. You can't have a program that prints money to buy people discount fuel if you're not a net oil producing country, for example (this mistake has blown up a number of African economies!)
This has been a discussion thread I've heard of before. I.E. the mountains full of rare earth metals, lithium, etc. in Afghanistan, and how we need to secure it ASAP before the Chinese do. Read like Bush-League propaganda and was usually juxtaposed with "China buying all of the rare metals in Africa". Which makes me wonder if this is pure pablum to help Prince ride the propaganda, or if he's looking to corner the market.

Also didn't realize he sold the Acadami/Xe/Blackwater group, and is now beholden to Hong Kong financiers:

> Prince sold Blackwater in 2010 after it was hit with a string of lawsuits. He is currently executive deputy chairman of Frontier Services Group, which provides integrated security, logistics and insurance services in frontier markets and is backed by Hong Kong investor Chun Shun Ko and China’s CITIC Group.
> We need free speech to be a liberal democracy but information itself is becoming dangerous. How do you square that?

You can't. Either speech is free or it's not. There are reasonable restrictions - literally inciting violence or things done to intentionally cause harm ("Fire!" in a theater, etc).

For information, the only thing you can do is make it classified, which is hard to do when it's a private company doing the innovating.
I have to agree. Having managed to read both articles, which loaded instantly, while on a high-speed, cross-country train journey using mobile hotspot to my laptop, small is good, and even on a 4K, 15.6-inch screen, make the window smaller if you don't like the flow, or use reading mode. Or zoom in :D
If you focus on increasing engineering quality, retention will follow.

> there's still an astounding number of bug reports for a simple app.

Why don't you reverse engineer some of these bugs and see how & when they were introduced. What step in your development workflow should have caught those?

> The development process is indeed slow and full of fail-safes

I have seen engineers who focus on less meaty stuff in code reviews (language semantics, coding conventions, naming etc) and miss out on system design, regression, logical mistakes etc. Former takes less mental effort & is limited in it's usability while latter takes time/energy but is worth the price. See if this is happening in your organisation.

> how they actively engage in bickering and in-fighting between their own teams

My guess is some of your engineers are less focused on product/features/customers and more on the stack/technology/tools they are using. I don't know how to change this (lead by example maybe?).
definitely agree. I wrote this a bit overly simplified to showcase the point that even mid-sized raises can quickly be outweighed by bigger jumps. There are a lot of specific situations that may or may not apply to your specific role.

I do think though that I used modest assumptions for switching jobs, so the math evens out. For those that are already underpaid a jump of 30-50% is not unheard of.
Though still missing the mark. Nuclear’s biggest issue is cost.

If it was cheap enough companies would have built more and scaled them up and down to meet demand, instead France only got mostly Nuclear by exporting its excess and nobody else really got very close to full nuclear.

The problem today is wind costs less. But, when you add a lot of wind during times of high wind your nuclear becomes useless. This ends up driving up the effective cost of nuclear even higher.

Storage makes this worse as you would then just want ever more wind due to cost.
In recent years, Chinese firms have drastically reduced the cost of short-run PCB manufacturing and assembly. They generally accept re-reeled or cut tape parts and some offer a turnkey sourcing service - you provide the BOM, they do the rest.

I just requested some quotes for assembly of 200 boards with a single-side load of 25 SMT parts, of which one is a BGA. The cheapest quote was ALLPCB at $1.09 per board, followed by PCBWay at $1.33 per board. That price includes setup and testing.

No transaction involving Chinese outsourcing is without risk and you need to do your homework, but it is no longer the case that DIY assembly is your only option.

https://pcbshopper.com/
AMBROSIA[0] Actor-Model-Based Reliable Object System for Internet Applications sounds like Erlang OTP but with C# on .Net Core. This could become interesting if they support F# and running outside of Azure. There's a note about an Azure subscription currently being required.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/AMBROSIA
I'm sure there will be comments on other aspects also. But discussion on this part is important too.
Bash tips and tricks: good and not-so-good bash practices
CSRF is mitigated by using the samesite cookie flag. XSS is mitigated by httponly, except where XSS makes legitimate requests to domains specified by the cookie.

This article describes some of the most vulnerable ways to use a JWT in 2019, but please let's stop talking about none algorithms.
The very basic point you're using here might be incorrect [1]. The difference is that all the nuclear radioactive waste is concentrated while the things coming out of coal plants are significantly diluted and mixed with local air. Therefore I think nuclear is better than coal plants even in the short term.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Disclosure: former Los Angeles native here. Beats? no, the california metro systems are dwarfed by NYC. Beating a hundred year old system? absolutely.

"Ford to City: Drop Dead" in 1975 was an omen for the NYC systems. local, state, and national politicians have all chosen to just ignore NYC metro in the hopes it magically gets better or starts running on time.

Having visited NYC to visit my sister, I can say that what LA lacks in ridership it makes up for in overall investment. New railcars for the NYC system are slated for 2023, whereas Metro LA sees new cars on a yearly basis. The LA high speed project, for whatever political boondoggle it might be, was approved and is in construction. our single tap NFC metro cards are good not just for the LA system, but for most if not all surrounding city systems. I can use an LA TAP card on Santa monica, Culver city, and LA city buses with no penalty.

I also get the equivalent of groupon deals with my tap card. Half price bulgogi or even a free coffee, just for having a metrocard. Its surely no coffin nail for the iron juggernaut of NYC, but its a perk.

Most LA buses and subways all have free Wifi, with the exception of some larger express lines.

LA also has sixteen new transit projects, all green-lit, some of them individually over a billion dollars. This is just the city of los angeles, not the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Metro_Rail#Future

TL;DR: When compared to an entire state, and factoring in current and future investment, the west coast is crushing NYC.
The guide is pretty solid, kudos to Seeed, I've used them for a 4-layer PCB and was very happy with the result.

Even if some things are different across CM's, the guide at least provides an awareness of the main issues for the target audience (amateurs or people getting their feet wet) for which these things are "unknown unknowns." If someone were to follow Seeed's guidelines, they would be in a good position to adapt their stuff for a different CM as long as they're receptive to feedback and the CM is willing to review it.
Steve Bannon is - inspired, I guess? by this method and he and others at Breitbart build on it to trick people into forming associations between things that aren't really there. "The opposition with Jordan Klepper" has an excellent bit on it, where one of the correspondents goes undercover at a "citizen journalism" workshop taught by one of the Breitbart editors. The relevant bit is here, on the second clip:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhniP-mAChI&t=1m20s

And here's the first clip, just for completeness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgWXIjBEIU
Could you make it work without Javascript? Build pagination by default, then with JS, progressively enhance to infinite scroll. I had to enable JS for your domain and a few others before anything meaningful appeared. Your content turned out to be photos, which is something that you do not need JS for!
Nothing in particular, I guess just because of the learning curve - I'm MSFT top-to-bottom so I would have to learn how to e.g set SQLite up and find tools to administer it (as opposed to SSMS which I can use with my eyes closed). It just seems much easier to have a windows box to tinker on, but then I guess they know that and it's why it's so expensive in Azure.
It still takes a few seconds to identify the word since this is not how Arabic is usually written but yes the word "Al-Khawarizmi" is legible.

In fact, the logo contains text both in black and navy blue, the navy blue part is "Al-Khawarizmi" or in Arabic "الخوارزمي". Then the navy blue script is rotated at 90 degrees 3 additional times.
Google Maps Easter Egg? Anfield, Liverpool Linked via a Strange Name
> Besides, stuff like word count is easy to automate.

Supposing I hand you a 90 page book and ask you roughly how many words are in it. How are you going to answer that? People hand round paper screenplays, or bits of screenplays, all the time, especially on set. It's much more practical for lots of purposes. Abandoning the minute-per-page rule of thumb (or equally importantly pages-per-shooting-day targets) would create way more problems than it solves.

However, it's also true that if you receive a screenplay that's not in standard screenplay format, it's a very reliable indication that the writer doesn't know what they're doing. Not a perfect heuristic, but there are maybe hundreds of thousands of spec scripts in circulation of which a few dozen a year get picked up by studios. So they can afford to be picky.

Bonus trivia: As it happens Fury Road is a very rare case of a movie that was originally developed as a storyboard, and converted to screenplay format for production purposes. Apparently you can do that if you're George Miller.
Digital hygiene
I'm in VFX, in one of the leading houses (5000+ employees over 5 sites). We use Linux for 90% of our workload, but the rest is probably evenly split between Windows for the occasional tools that don't have a Linux release, or Macs.

Interestingly, its mostly the admin/production/HR team who are on the Macs. Additionally all company laptops are MacBooks.
https://twitter.com/necunoscom/status/1080461317197180928
Will deepfake detection be built into antivirus software?
Since she doesn't say a word about citizenship or nationality, but instead says that all humans are equal, then yes, the requirement is there.
It actually was a coincidence, as the practices leading inevitably to the current situation have been going on for decades.