skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m no expert but I think it’s a combination of:

- gatekeeping. Agents help studios/producers make sure they’re only talking to people suited for projects. Every project has super specific needs in terms of actors and writers. Agents stake their reputations on putting good choices in front of the decision-makers. Hollywood has tons of ambitious people vying for opportunities. Entry-level folks have an especially tough time breaking in, without having an agent vouch for them

- gig-like nature of Hollywood. Writing a movie or a TV season only takes a few months. Writers and actors are always hustling for the next gig. Agents help bear some of the workload so that writers can focus on writing, not scheduling meetings, negotiating contracts, searching for the niche opportunities that suit them, etc.

- bespoke nature of the contracts. The split depends on a lot of factors: how famous the actors are, how accomplished the writers are, etc. That means every project requires negotiation, and it’s nice to have someone in your corner who’s a pro at that.

- difficulty of closing a deal and the low close rate. Even for accomplished writers, it’s a long road to getting something actually made, punctuated by periods of waiting. It means that there are lots of business-related decision points where agents can be helpful, and it means that writers try to keep multiple irons in the fire -contributing to more work on the business side.

- relatively large amounts of money involved. Obviously there’s a lot of money in Hollywood for talent, relatively to most industries, so there’s room for agents to carve out livings

I also wonder if a preference for secrecy plays a role? e.g. as a writer, you need information about projects to make decisions, to craft a pitch, etc., and agents help mediate the flow of information.
I've actually had the opposite problem, I have yet to make a habit of saving my noscript (now umatrix) settings, so any time-saving of eliminating slow scripts is wasted refreshing it three times trying to figure out which cdn is the important one; and trying to selectively enable the scripts of a video streaming site is even worse. Still worth having it though, especially when you go to traditionally sketchy download sites and see it have a cleaner UI than the apple homepage with just a single download button.
I’m not European and stopped reading at this very paragraph. The feeling you describe must be more universal.
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Extending the same principle to provinces/states within, and then to cities, and then to individuals, you finally get to Hayek's "no state currency" proposal.
Throw into the mix the fact that San Francisco wages are approximately 10x Chongqing wages with land at a premium as a result, and so even without zoning restrictions in SF you'd expect new development there to be expensive (and similarly even without government-subsidised overbuilding in Chinese second tier cities you'd expect rental costs to be lower than most Western cities)
"FYI", so what am I supposed to do with this information? If software were perfect we wouldn't need solutions like this in the first place.
Read the backstory. Isocyanate foam maker lobbied cheaper rockwool makers out of the country in UK, with all blessings from the "elites"
jq also has some really nice quick interactive features. My favorite super simple one is that jq beautifies JSON by very virtue of just piping it into jq with no additional arguments.
I dunno.

As an Northeasterner, I am amused at the poor condition of single-story commercial buildings in California, particularly Los Angeles.

You don't see many buildings of that type built before 1970,
particularly in New England, because they are poorly built and the roof starts to leak at some point. In the Northeast that is reason to rebuild, in LA you can probably manage a leaky roof with a bucket for much longer.
I’m not too familiar with the Southern European languages, but I am quite familiar with the Northern European languages. That is where I find the opposite of your difficulty happen, where all those languages look like a different flavour of German to me, so they were very easy to pick up, because I could just read Swedish slowly without ever looking at a textbook or dictionary, and over time I found myself quickly able to write it.

Differences between people, or differences between cultures perhaps. Having grown up in the Netherlands I did already come across Frisian and Limburgs, which are also slightly different but if you keep reading or listening you just pick it up. So I don’t know, keep practicing I’m sure you’ll get Spanish!
I find it darkly funny that Electron is the new size/waste-of-resources whipping boy. Java applications generally suffer the same issues with the exception that the runtime isn't usually distributed with every application. But the goal of write once, run anywhere is basically the same.

Now that Java is being developed at such a speedy clip at the cost of breaking changes, we may see Java runtimes being shipped with apps. (I'm personally still on Java 8 because that was the last release before drastic breaking changes started happening.)

Just kidding. Java has been abandoned in favor of web apps anyway.
DnD scheduling for Sat/Sun.
> why are they hesitant to pass strong privacy laws

Because companies like FB/Google/Amazon spend ridiculous amounts of money "lobbying" and trading favors with the government to prevent them from doing anything to get in the way of surveillance capitalism.
This is a rather tasteless joke.
That’s good or bad dependent on the world you want to see.

In my opinion, engineers should have an ample toolbox for much the same reason that a good carpenter has a tool for any given thing.

If well tooled engineers is what you’re after then you’ll be replacing one with another; with few surprises.
If by "people" you mean the owner of the car, of course they should be able to do whatever they want with it. If they modify something and it ends up hurting someone, they're liable for it. It's not that different from modifying an older car.
Communist? NOPE. See all the billionaires and social classes in China. Dictatorship dressed up as communism, yes.

The current ruling class in China is very aware that people need to be happy with basic necessities or else.... That's all.
There’s no room for “obvious points to restate” in science. Only hypotheses that can be tested through experimentation.
The workflow is:

1) Take a screenshot.

2) Paste it into Paint.

3) Use the eye dropper to select the pixel that has the color you want.

This is the equivalent of editing a file with Notepad++ instead of opening it in Visual Studio.
Wow when you don't treat housing as an investment it turns out that prices reach sane levels? Who knew?
At least for the Madrid metro, they have what I consider to be one of the most accessible and convenient public transportation systems I've used. And compared to Indianapolis, where I currently live, Madrid's public transport makes what we have here an embarrassment.
Agreed. For example, I spent a couple years using JavaScript as my main language at work then changed jobs and learned OCaml. If I need to use JavaScript again, I'll do it in a much different (IMO better) way than before I understood functional programming.
> I don't know if I'll ever be able to master any language anymore

Even with just a handful of languages in my toolbox, I feel this way too. A mixture of unease and anxiety.

In addition to syntactic variations, I find that the notion of writing idiomatic code in a given language amounts to more thinking overhead which eats into productivity. I'd need to be programming in the same language over a long period of time for idiomatic code to come more naturally. Can't seem to just instantly switch like some talented folk out there.
You can (should) throw more sensors with different characteristics at a Kalman filter for enhanced results in the presence of noise. The wiki page is actually excellent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

In the example presented some of the inputs could include direction finding to local broadcasters, a GLONASS receiver, a heading indicator and distance traveled odometer if we're talking a road vehicle, and many other things limited only by your imagination and resources at hand.
I agree, but I don't have a consulting-firm/reputation/team of lawyers etc. to hide behind. Reporting flaws to companies related to embedded is often still scary today.

The point of this is that hey, this isn't actually that hard if you're willing to put in the time. If you're moderately talented, you can probably learn it too!

As opposed to the standard exploit write-up/security conference circuit thing, where a lot of the details are kept secret and it seems like the entire point is to make other people think you're cool instead of teaching something. :)
I've read some of the most important papers and books and have never come across this. Please post a source.

Depression is a very serious illness and ketamine is a very safe drug. We need to give people more options.
This is indeed what I meant.
They still do that kind of thing in Japan. Indeed, the Japanese "era" is due to switch over when the reigning emperor's abdication becomes effective in May 2019.
Any practical circuit has lots of implicit resistors of very high value (between any two unconnected points on the schematic).
> most Americans are still living in wooden houses

that is pretty much an American thing, e.g. in Sydney, people don't buy wooden match boxes, they prefer double brick federation home or californian bungalow.
Linux has countless LKMs (modules that run in the kernel, but are not -- broadly -- bound by the GPL). Many, many are closed-source and proprietary. Others aren't because they don't have to be.

You hinted that this transgresses the GPL, and there are those that argue that virtually anything transgresses the GPL. But a lot of very large corporations say otherwise, and there have been zero successful challenges against it.
Sure, but one that's almost impossible to defend against it. Any viable defense has to happen on the client side with something like an antenna array to distuingish broadcasts from space from replay attacks, or a clock accurate enough to detect that the broadcasted time is off by dozens of microseconds and thus has to be a replay.
From the headline, I thought it was going to talk about the well-hashed-over advice of keeping online content short, concise, and skimmable. But when he spent 4 paragraphs just leading up to a statement of, "In this essay, I'll show you...", and then a table of contents. I pretty much gave up, as even if the rest of the article does have something to say about writing, it clearly isn't going to be accurate to the 'Online' part of the headline.
The problem with being topologically pedantic about this is that it is at odds with the actual English definition of the word "hole", which includes both toplogical holes, like a hole in your sock, and non-topolotical holes, like a hole in the ground. A straw has one sock-like hole and, locally, two ground-like holes, one at each end.
Why not A/B test #2

IMO there is some negative connotations to “bait” and “fish” but that may resonate with your audience.
If you can screenshot it, you can paste it into MS Paint. No difference from Photoshop or any other image editing program.

The only problem I have with MS Paint is that it doesn't give me the hex value of the color I picked, only the individual RGB values.
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I think we'll see the market shift to delivery in BC. Storefronts are getting heavily targeted now.
I've seen it recently being used in industrial automation. The IDE is friendly to non-programmers, the generated binaries perform really well and the compilation times are very fast.

From my perspective, as a developer that uses more up-to-date tools, Delphi is not great, but it's not bad either.
#1 I agree. I wasn’t sure it was people data and/or businesses
I loved the first one. It's one of my all-time favorite technical books. I was really disappointed by the second, though. I'd recommend skipping it. The second lacked the cohesion of the first probably owing to the fact that it wasn't written by the same author as the first. And each chapter was written by a different author.
glibc getaddrinfo(3) and greener pastures
That is probably because they are both different jobs. Both doctors and programmers get paid while they're at conferences and shouldn't have to pay for travel, lodging, food, or conference fees. Outside of that, I'm not sure doctors are needing to pick up too many skills outside of what they typically get paid to do.

A rails developer gets paid to make rails apps and maintain them. If you notice that your company will have to pivot soon and another technology will be needed, I hope they allow you to learn on the job, but many are far too shortsighted, so you have to do so outside of work and it's the reality of the situation however stupid.
Not going to post the link in fear of being banned, but its sha256 hash is 178615046e433921a4e2d71522c0d93e90a5348a33de33ab1762811855c2e0eb - just in case the one that you happen to find afterwards has been modified.

I hope that just linking the hash is fine, especially considering that using the hashes of files to block illegal content is common practice.
In at least one conservative US state they have passed laws that require the publication online of public servant's salaries as well as their property addresses (i.e. primary residence). Not sure what the logic is there, if any.
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In my opinion it's a good thing to have a point of comparison to other languages when writing code, there might also be concepts prevalent in other languages that your primary language doesn't commonly use but would be useful. It's really similar to learning multiple spoken/written human languages.
Good call. and it looks like it attempts to be compatible with FUSE 2.7
https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/blob/master/dokan_fuse/i...

I used to use Dokan based program for mounting ftp.
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I learned many languages for years and I received a poor return on time investment. Later, I started learning AWS in depth and studying for certs. I now know way more than I previously did about networking, envelope encryption, messaging, infrastructure as code, pipelines, caching, CDN’s, networking protocols, load balancers, dns, and designing highly available and scalable systems. In summary, don’t forgo learning about systems to chase a hot new language.
What real-world types of problems can Persistent Homology solve ?
restate this "scientifically supported" point
I have a special place in my heart for Perl5, but I would never use it for anything DevOps related... Perl’s motto is “there’s always another way to write it” — and that’s the exact opposite of what you want in a DevOps environment :)

Oh yeah, and Motif can die in a fire.
> It is an error to use the sample size of a non-random sample to support the underlying comparison with the population of interest. Sample size can decrease random error, but not bias
Hmmm... C and Python are vastly different. I think focus should be on use cases. For example (really) knowing Python, R, and MATLAB, is far less impressive than knowing Python, C++, and Haskell.
All of these can be done in emacs/vim as well for most of languages. None of the above is modern by any standard.
Here is The Guardian lying about Assange and Manafort meeting:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...

I don’t trust much that appears in that paper.
I doubt writing SWIM would ever work so I don't think you need to bother with it.
> I’ve also worked at a company that had many functional patterns implemented in php, and frankly made the language quite decent.

Oooh, got any examples?
Idea's don't matter, it's all about execution and solving a problem that customers will pay for. You said in your other comment that you are new to marketing which is troubling to hear since this is not a simple industry to get into to.

That's why I asked about what it is exactly that you're providing and to whom. You should really have an answer to that before you go any further.
This is true, though if you've only ever built a web stack in Rails with JS, then trying to build a stack in Haskell will be quite educational both back end (how you deal with side effects on Haskell and how purity leads to different code architecture) and on the front end (stream-based event driven UI instead of stateful spaghetti)
When I did a short term contract in SH in 2016, I lived near an "ultraluxury" highrise that was five years old. At 21:00, I was only able to count like 15 flats having lights on.
Would definitely use this if it supported YT/YTM.

I use YT/YTM (I have GPM subscription but have been trying to transition to the YTM ecosystem because believe they'll be migrating GPM to YTM at some point and figure it will be less painful if I do as much as possible in YTM), but most of my peers use Spotify, so if I want to share a song I'm listening to in YTM, I have to open Spotify and search for the song or album and grab the Spotify link, which is a pain in the ass.

Realistically though, how is grabbing the YTM link (once you support it), and then inputting it into you app/website, to get a different platform link, any faster than my current process? Unless there is some kind of plugin to your app in the various music clients (which I doubt would be allowed) ?
If I understand it correctly, the spoofing works by replaying the original signal delayed in time but at a higher power so the receiver selects your better spoofed signal. I wonder if it would be possible for the receiver to compute what the appropriate signal level should be and if it is too strong that could be a way of detecting if you are receiving a spoofed signal ?
Why not? Is the original signal is somehow not going through? If it does, it does not matter the other is stronger. It will arrive later with the same timestamp.
Abuse of the Dunning Kruger effect, lead to a faulty conclusion that data can't support.
FWIW that pretty much described Colorado at first. The supply needed time to come online & stabilize, and then the pros were happy, prices came down, and the against group saw minors didn't really have more access and stopped complaining.

I want to say it took about 18 months.
Stoicism books, Markmanson.net, books by Brene Brown
Sure thing. I think most of the discussions have been cross-referen ed in this issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/859
Has anyone done this on a Tesla? Seems like free battery capacity is quite the carrot for that effort.
> Two specific practices have gnawed at television writers. One is the agents’ decades-old habit of packaging a roster of talent from their pool of clients for a given project. In return, the agencies waive the usual 10 percent commission fee paid to them by individual clients and collect large sums, called packaging fees, from the studios.

This is a textbook case of selling out one’s clients. Also, 10%!
> It's not hard for writers to connect to employers. It's hard for studios to connect to competent writers without wading through a tidal wave of utter dross.

So agents are a filter, like tech recruiters, essentially.
I only got my current job because I happened to be reading a book on C#, which is strange because we barely code in C#. I spent several years programming in Elixir which got blank stares from recruiters. But saying I know Elixir and C# actually got me a pretty good gig!

In an ideal world, knowing data structures and algorithms would get job interviews, but without being able to at least speak to some specifics of the language being used, a good number of HR departments will screen you out before you’ll get to the data structures and algorithms part of an interview.
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A detailed solution that addresses all of the stakeholder's equities in the PNT space would be welcome.

It is, however, a very long-standing issue that has been addressed by some of the best minds in physics and technology, with many billions of dollars available to them.

Do you have any suggestions?
Exactly. Although, maybe this tool will help attract other people to my projects?
I deal with programs that crash OOM on 32GB+ machines. I deal with products that actually have a million users, with gigabytes of download. I don't need to invent anything that the developer could be working on, existing problems to work on are abundant. And I don't even work on anything important! But more important than this color picker? I'm pretty sure you could think of concrete examples of that too, without resorting to imagining anything.

And if we're limiting the discussion to just the technical merits of a product, I'm not sure why you started discussing developer time and expense at all. You're the one who brought up "dev time vs millions of users hardware", and I'm just pointing out that it's perhaps more realistic to view this as "dev time" vs "thousands of users hardware" in this particular case, and that there's a lot of mildly important things the developer could work on instead.
> cron, Makefile, bash, sed

For a programmer with a minimal amount of linux experience, it likely takes a week to catch up to what the codebase is doing with these.

> regex

There are good tools to destructure regex.

> python sql jq query

I consider those as "given" or "learnable good enough in a week"

> nginx conf

Don't know this.

Overall, "knowing all these languages" seems overblown in the choice of words for me. Java, Python, Prolog and Clojure? Hell yeah that would take quite a developer to replace! But the above? There is 1 proper general-purpose language in there, the rest are well-known tools with great examples online.
or community bug fixes could save a lot of people...
Learn shell, a scripting language like Python, and a systems language like Java, C, Rust, Go, etc. I think that’s all you need to know as a backend or systems/DevOps Engineer.
Thanks! I guess I should have bothered to read your other reply but didn't notice it :)
Never assume anything. Well done. :)
I've said this before in regards to other substances on this board.

Please, please, please do your own research or talk to a professional before embarking on such things. Think for yourself and don't take advice from random people on any forum. You're too important.
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1) your idea would probably be a lot more costly (you have to pay for the audit after all) and even then some people still wouldn’t trust it. Maybe just design your product in such a way that there’s nothing to audit? People have built software & successful businesses around that for decades without the “analytics” cancer, so please don’t tell me that you can’t do the same.

If your model is a good old “pay for good software” model, then why not just ask what features people want? Why do you feel the need to stalk what people do instead of politely asking?