skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently been shown a lot of ads for a service called "blinkist" where the idea is to provide short summaries of non-fiction books and I think your comment captures why that is a very bad idea. Reading and capturing an idea takes time; it can't be properly substituted by a few minutes of "listening to crucial insights from leading thinkers while you’re on the go."

Their business model is in a way the complete opposite of the ideas in the article (although there is admittedly a difference between fiction and non-fiction books):

They show pictures of very busy business people that can't fit a book into their tight schedule; one of their ads said something along the lines of "80% of successful managers read at least 20 books per year" (which is probably just completely mixing up correlation and causation).
I kept mine for 10+ years. But not by choice. Could not afford to replace it. When it broke with potentially high repair cost, we purchased used, off lease car from dealer. Credit union offered good interest rate.

Never buying brand new car again. Always slightly used car from now. And hopefully cash, with no interest.
No, I'm talking about recreational football, which is how people get into the sport before they enter high school football.
> There are several languages very popular today that didn't exist when I was in college---heck, try even 10 years ago.

Honest question: how many of them are used in game development? My limited understanding is that the majority of games still use more traditional languages like C++ and Java.
Very nice, thanks for the tutorial. I see that TBLFM saves some coding vs. the gist in [2].
Magenta Studio
Given that the author's experience (as referenced in the article) covers a period of time before the Colgan reforms, I'd expect that a decent amount of what he's written is outdated.
Differentiable does not mean easy to optimize.
One could imagine implementing sha-256 using differentiable operators, and yet the system as a whole would not be optimizable at all.
It would be interesting to have compilers that optimize the "optimizability" of differentiable programs tho...

Also, here are two interesting examples of differentiation through physical systems for classification:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.08412.pdf

https://innovate.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018...
This looks really interesting! I actually love browser/html/javaScript as a UI significantly over "native" but creating Electron based stuff always has me worried shipping a gigantic bloat and keeping it updated.
> "The emphasis is on reimbursing creditors, or protecting particular stakeholders such as employees, rather than doing what's necessary to rehabilitate the business."

Don't mean to go far off-topic here, but I can't help but think why we can't try to apply similar principles when operating the corrections system (e.g. rehabilitate the criminal rather than focusing on punishment / appeasing stakeholders like family of the victim), and whether that would yield similar success or is even possible.
If you want the Burning Man experience of the early years, there's Wasteland Weekend.

Camp Humano will probably end up running their own festival on a private island or something.
> Ketamine is plentiful on the street and you can legally buy ketamine analogs online. I don’t see this new route of getting it from a psychiatrist as a huge abuse risk.

Exactly the same thing could be said about opiates.

I'm all for new and novel methods for treating depression, but everyone seems to be jumping on this like it's a magical depression cure with no negative externalities.
This news comes as a joy to me. Also I am unable to see the point of train from Merced to Bakersfield for such an enormous cost. Is it meant for cows ?

All this money can actually go building better roads and other transportation systems into bay area so rent prices can be reduced.
Every time I see these things I just sit in relative disbelief trying to figure out how PWAs have somehow not taken off yet.

Perhaps this year when they finally come to Mac too (they already work on Windows and Linux) it will finally happen. then again with the Mac App store I'm not sure that fits the Apple "vision" (if you can call it that anymore) either.

Either way its sort of maddening to see this as I think PWAs are the right answer for these questions and yet people keep bringing new and unnecessary solutions to the table
>There doesn't seem to be many (any?) on Android for a while now.

To be fair, there are a variety of reasons why this isn't the case that have nothing to do with security. An Android jailbreak is less valuable for a few reasons, among them that you can often purchase android devices with root privs, the same isn't possible for iphone.
And that's why it's called Bootstrap. If only more people understood why that matters. You're moving forward with the application while they're wasting time trying to reinvent a wheel, a wheel that has little to do with getting an MVP in front of your audience.
Complete agreement from me re: big differences between how we're going to manage this as a post-surgical anesthetic and as an antidepressant.
JR was owned by the government when all the important lines were laid out. The subway system is technically private but jointly owned by the local and national government. The private lines can be successful because of the major push the government did to lay the tracks and make a successful system.
And no discussion of new franchises.

It's generally not a good sign when a company decides to try and live on the graces of its past success and not continue striving for greatness.
Payday lenders don't operate within a vacuum but people would still be better off if they didn't operate at all:

https://www.responsiblelending.org/sites/default/files/nodes...
Well that is the fault of the #1 union in the center of the north American continent... The US federal government, which is there to represent "We the People" not the corporations, or political parties, k-street lobbies, or any of that other nonsense.
Is your plan to die before the equity runs out?

A 30 year mortgage won't cover itself more than 15 years or so because you have to pay interest. Add to that the tax you already can't afford and all you've done is trade your property for 10 years of renting it from the bank.

Unless you have some external income or personal budget to cut so as to cover the difference then taxes can absolutely force you from a property you own.
> A phenomenon like Burning Man needs to be somewhat inaccessible to actually work. If it's too easy, it fills up with people who aren't committed enough. In the beginning, that inaccessibility was provided by the sheer obscurity and a somewhat remote and hostile location.

I suspect that the greater general acceptance of drug use is probably the real gating factor that dropped.

However, the primary issue has been that the Burning Man leadership drove it to this spot.

Are you leading a small gathering of burned out hippies from San Francisco or are you leading a cultural force in the broader society?

The leadership chose "we want to be a big cultural force", and you don't get there without broad appeal to the plebes. And the plebes nowadays include a boatload of wannabe social influencers on Instagram, Snapchat, etc. And that brings with it all the toxic "hot chicks" marketing garbage.

Furthermore, given many of the actions that the Burning Man leadership have taken in the past years, this smells like more than a little bit of hypocrisy of "Other people are getting paid and we're not getting our cut."
When I was student, I wear no hat up to -25°C (-13°F) (but I still have minor problem with right ear for 20 years after).
Well, two responses come to mind.

First, a bit flippantly: I bet Disney's services are going to do just fine. :)

Second, less flippantly: I'm not sure we should conflate "no R/X/MA material" with "nothing edgy," nor should we necessarily conflate "edgy" with "interesting." And, again, we don't really know what limits Apple has put on creators for this service; they have some pretty big names lined up in terms of writers, directors, stars, and properties. It's certainly true that a fair amount of what they're producing sounds explicitly family-friendly, but being able to say "we have original programming created for us by Sesame Workshop, Peanuts Worldwide, and Oprah Winfrey" seems like it could carry some weight. (And I'm personally interested in several of the more adult-sounding science fiction shows.)
To me, the internal combustion engine seems like an ecological crime that abets other crimes.
I mentor a lot of young data scientists, and the advice I give them, over and over, is, "your ability to code as a data scientist is not what makes you employable." I use projects like this to make the point.
Also this points to no new projects coming out of Activision. What employee in their right mind would want to take a chance on a new thing at a company that throws away fellow employees like that?
Not all lodges are the same. Check out other lodges in your area to get a feel for them and their membership.
You are comstructing an elaborate strawman that does nothing to work in your favor. If anything, yur essay just makes it clear that it is impossible to glean the data type from the LINQ expression itself.

Yet, any code using its result will contain implicit assumptions about that data. Therefore, in order to maintain type safety, the expected type of the return value must he stated.

That type must also be independent from whatever LINQ does internally to produce that return value. Otherwise, the LINQ providers wouldn't be as exchangeable as you claim.
The couple of products made for lazy NPC consumerist monkeys behave slow with 4K display, who would've guessed.
I can't tell if that's sarcasm. What good discussion are you referring to?

It's not as bad as what I'd normally see on an article. But I don't see much of value. Just a bunch of people sharing anecdotes as to why the death of the news industry is good/bad/deserved.
Even better. We’ll get to see how a union gets to affect an industry, whether symbiotically or parasitically. Remains to be seen, but if they affect a slower industry measurably and negatively, then we can have some confidence that in even faster technology sectors the effect would be greater. If they have a positive influence, they could possibly add to a faster paced industry, perhaps.

I would love to see a unionized AWS -the whole org., from top to bottom. Then see if MS or Goog would approve,
>In high school I took magic mushrooms with my friends, and at one point in the experience the world disappeared and I saw an undulating fabric in a honeycomb pattern. In the center of each “hole” in the fabric was a link to a memory, a time and a place.

This very much resembles my experience taking too many mushrooms.

This and the article also reminds of the times I tried salvia divinorum. It was always accompanied by strange geometric patterns that came before and after really going somewhere.

The one time I tried chewing it the way the south american shamans used to gave me pretty heavy depersonalization and turned the world into a big geometric honeycomb pattern that felt like the 2d backdrop of a play.

LSD also gave some strange rippling geometric patterns that really came to mind reading through this article.
The photos in the "Our Work" are fake. See the analysis of the second example

http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=6db59a852d8a806a8c4...

http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=52e7e3eb6a9165b2dac...

The "lines"around the persons are a clear sign that they just got an image of an empty beach and photoshopped the two persons.

(I couldn't find the original photos. Perhaps they took the photos, but I suspect that they are stock photos or something similar. Bonus points for finding any of them.)

The other two examples in the "Our Work" section have a similar signs of been fake.
So from reading it appears that there are a lot of folks who want to work for a game company, but they are not considered precious, because there are so many of them (this totally baffles me as what I saw in game dev was really hard).

But on the other hand, if you standout somehow (experienced?) - you would not face such issue. So why employer would employ "commodity devs" who are part of the union, and why devs, who standout and have a leverage would option to join union?
Yep, Signal sounds great in theory but there’s no way I can commit to a service with no client that takes desktop users seriously.
I'm doing something similar (Go-based desktop app) with Aether (https://getaether.net), without requiring any additional tools.

The short version is, I have an Electron app, but the extent of my JS is just skin — the UI. The JS talks to two Go daemons which do the 99% of the work. It's also much more memory efficient than doing it in JS, and allows for massive parallelism. So you get best of both worlds, speed / clarity of Go, and well-developed JS UI patterns (Vue). It works well, with the caveat being a tradeoff in complexity in incorporating gRPC to let daemons talk to each other.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/nehbit/aether
Plasma 5.15.0 released
This seems like the real answer to what folks are wondering about here. If they just acquired a bunch of companies there are going to be redundant roles to eliminate.
Nothing in the generic spec for a "sleep" function specifies you can't drop to a low power state if there is nothing to do. To varying degrees that is how sleep functions work on general purpose OSes. The CPU doesn't just spin for extended periods of time when there is nothing to do (it may spin for short waits). A "schedule a task to be called in 'n' hundreds of microseconds" is effectively a "sleep" function, the use of an explicit callback (PC) vs implicitly saving the PC of the thread is a mere implementation detail.
>>If I susbcribe then I had to consume that media daily and read several articles to make that subscription worth it and I won't do that.

Why do you feel compelled to read several articles per day to make that subscription worth it? I presume the answer is because you think current subscription prices are too expensive. Perhaps this compulsion would be dampened if the subscription price were lower -- but by how much?
You jump to conclusions and project your own anger/frustrations that have absolutely nothing to do with me. First of all I totally agree with you that to women it was much harder to succeed in those times, there's no need to explain that to me. Second I never even mentioned gender issues anywhere, I was talking about the difference between what was called "programming" and what was "coding" back in those days. And of course women invented a lot of great stuff, but as you said yourself it was programming. And the coding part on the other hand was boring as hell, in order to write and run a program you had to do a lot of manual labour. It's just not comparable to anything today. You mention assembler, but imagine doing asm using only pen & paper, and then you give that program to someone else to turn it into holes on punched cards. And then you had to reserve some time to run that code on mainframe (where operator would run it for you and hand you back the results) and there was a usually a long waiting list for that, so if you've made any mistakes it would take days to get a chance to re-run it again. It was very different than coding today, involved more steps and more people.
Compress large ProRres MOV files to MP4 in smaller size with lossless quality
Current discussion (179 points, over 300 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19147480
I liked the way Ray Bradbury writes about this in Fahrenheit 451. When you read books, you have time to think about it, re-read it and question it. Whereas while watching video, things move so fast that the decision is made up for you.
I haven't read the contract. Typically, an arbitration service can be named, in this case JAMS, but who pays the filing fee is not in the contract, since it's usually the one initiating the arbitration.
Birthday Paradox Revisited
Could you...hit button, have it rewind some fixed amount of time (10 secs a tap?) and then email / store a text transcript of that segment?

__That__ might be something I'd like to try.
I think you deeply misunderstand the way the US government functions. Let's start with: it's not a Trade Union. That's some audacious spin.
I must have missed any mention of tickless schedulers which seem to dominate modern systems because its more efficient both in power costs (allowing the cpu to go into deeper sleeps) and generally for performance/throughput tasks in a system with low CPU contention (because the scheduler never runs).
Personally i'm with you on that. Unfortunately cold objective science says different:

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

"In terms of its effects, a system can be more than the sum of its parts if it expresses synergy or emergent behavior. "
It was really cool as a 'magicial thing'. Once I realized it was a bitmap graphic I was a little less woo-ed. Not a lot, just a little.
> That's how it should be. Too many people start posting on forums without any respect for the norms of the place. That worsens the experience for everyone.

Not really in Metafilter's case. It's norms changed under the feet of a significant fraction of its long time community members. I also wasn't talking so much about norms than a rather narrow range of orthodox opinion.

To put it in HN terms: think of it as a forum where it's orthodox to love Ayn Rand, think in Objectivist terms, and a transgression to voice anything but the most indirect critical perspective of her or her ideas. You might not realize it because there are tons of great threads about other things, but God help you if you venture the opinion that the government should increase mandatory taxes to fund assistance programs for the poor.
How to use Azure Video Indexer to add metadata to files stored anywhere – Zenko
Looks like an interesting article. Lemme check out the comments first.
I'm 47, a father of two, happily married to high school sweetheart, about to send first kid off to college. I also found the article very sad: not even a pet to cuddle. :-(

But, the piece is well written and I don't think the author is sad, nor asking for sympathy.

So I'm conflicted in how I feel about it. The author also seems conflicted about whether she wants a man in her life.
The amount of relative debt is irrelevant here. What is important, is that the US consistently pays more, and gets less.

Regardless of its merits, Spain spent 40 billion euros and got a functioning nationwide high speed train network.[0] California was looking to spend twice that and get a single line, and probably would have ended up spending even more if it was completed.

[0] https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/03/26/inenglish/1427383199_99...
I will swear on my life that I haven't used a style attribute in the last five years. Since I started using BEM for namespacing I have had a very easy time keeping my CSS clean and maintainable. I won't deny others their opinions, though.
> If you want to have a united interface to multiple services behind the scenes and incorporate ACL or any kind of top-level resource management, GraphQL is a great way to go about doing that.

I like GraphQL outside of these points as well because it's more opinionated than REST. It means you can get on with things instead of having long disagreements about what is and isn't RESTful.
Personally, I've found my problem is more "feeling like I don't have time" rather than actually not having time. You can always find things to do to fill each moment, but at least for me, the majority of those things are neither necessary (such as writing this post) nor am I doing them as efficiently as possible. I find through regularly reviewing how I'm spending my time, I'm always finding things to cut out that are a waste of my time or finding ways to be more efficient so that I can focus on the things that are actually important to me. Possibly I am just more distractible than average so I have to keep pulling myself back in to focus, but I don't think so.
JQuery Minified and GZipped is also 30KB: https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/jquery-size

When doing comparisons, don't be disingenuous. Compare like numbers.
How it functions, or how its suppose to function, or rather how the elites want it to function?

Or maybe its all nonsense because repeatedly people in the US have shown a susceptibility to propaganda and a willingness to vote against their own best interest? Or for that matter to vote for politicians that refuse to take stances which deviate from the party talking points.
add to your points this gem:

>> places like Twitter and Medium that remain open and free.

WHAT? Perhaps only in the most literal sense of "they don't make you pay money to read", but that's not really what people mean when they talk about open and free...
I think it is pretty clear that sales do attract customers, though, even when the "sale" price is the same as a non-sale price at some other time during the year. The interactions are complex, though - see [1]. For example, it's a well-used tactic for Amazon sellers to increase their prices slightly and then offer a discount to attract people who aren't tracking price trends since many consumers are somewhat addicted to "getting a deal" regardless of whether the "deal" is in comparison to the true base price of a product or just its current advertised price.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01482...
This reminds me of that black mirror episode where blocking someone in real life blurred their faces in pictures and memory. Doesn't seem like a very helpful thing to me. Sure it's hard looking at pictures and having those memories, but, if there's pictures, there was probably at least some good memories. I always just try and focus on those while looking at such pictures. Shit happens, good and bad, editing pictures(or altering memories) doesn't change this. It might suck that pictures can bring up bad memories but removing the person from them won't change your memories and I doubt it'll make you forget you were there with that person.
Thx
>>The point of a realtime OS is not to make your programs run in real-time, but to make it possible for your programs to run in real-time.

So basically, if I program something and somehow set it to be "realtime" then I can be sure that it won't be suspended before it finishes whatever it is doing?

Such a condition cannot be kept indefinitely - soon or later there will be activities that will need the OS' attention (therefore my program will have to be suspended), no? (If yes then I have problems understanding the threshold...).
The title is somewhat misrepresenting. Textbooks as teaching means are becoming obsolete.
Two more things to add...

1) It was recommended to me at one point to listen at a faster playback speed. Evidently, the novelty forces the brain to focus more, and thus have better retention.

2) What about a audio effect for highlighting? Some sort of filter? Or perhaps more bass? Something to say "you liked this bit before"?
What's worse that thousands of pieces of throwaway hardware that don't get updates? How about thousands of enterprise systems where the security updates are hidden behind support contacts?

> when I push out improvements

No, if your software has a security issue, it's refundable. Write good software.

> release a new model every month with ANY improvement

Good, but that doesn't remove your liability from your last model.
I don’t think it is - mutations (and state management) are the biggest issue. It’s ok for reads though, although even there tooling for rest is better.
Add JetBlue, Ryanair, Cathay Pacific, IndiGo...there are a lot more than 2 profitable airlines worldwide.

But it is hard to compete with a rival that has explicit support from a state. Whether that be owned by the state, or with negotiating advantages from an arrangement like Chapter 11.