skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you a lot, it has been a long journey, and seeing your own product coming out it's and indescribable feeling XP

Best of luck to you too!!! If you want to keep in touch, feel free to mail me at alberto@notify17.net :)
Good. Maybe the scarce resource is good talent and this being harder to find for FB they’ll quit being so creepy and too hopped on their own greatness.
> the source out it there

[Typo: "out it there --> "is out there"]
The casual gamer is perfectly happy with cookie clicker or Fortnite on mobile. 2D games should be able to run on almost any platform and 3D games can be toned down until they run well too. The only type of gamer that isn't served by the things above is the "core" gamer that wants high fidelity 3D graphics and real time experiences. Really the only need that streaming serves is to make DRM possible which means the companies want to have complete control over the user experience and they certainly are going to abuse that control as much as they can.
> ... if you told it not to.

FTFY

By default, Win96 would run that CD. You didn't tell it to. You had to go change the setting from the default. You had to tell Win95 to not autorun a CD.
The polycarbonate substrate could degrade due to temperature, humidity, exposure to sunlight, and other environmental variables. These are concerns for institutions with large CD-based archives (e.g., Library of Congress). [1]

In practice, though, it's far more likely that the the disc will get corrupted from small scratches.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/08/18/34...
> I'm curious why a CD would not work anymore after listening to it a lot? Is the laser powerful enough to damage it or is it the heat from the device itself which is degrading the material in the long term?

If you handled everything with white gloves and carefully moved the CD around it would probably last forever under a realistic scenario (you left it in a closet, didn't move it around much, etc.).

I have a bunch of original CDs from my first music collection that still work after ~20 years based on spot checking some of them 5+ years ago. Even with hundreds of playbacks.

But, I do have a handful of CDs that I remember having issues. They skip in certain spots due to artifacts on the CD. The real world happens. I don't remember what happened exactly in each case, but I'm guessing they got scratched. Like maybe I didn't put it fully into the black binder that held 200 CDs and I hit a bump in my car which caused the binder to jump around and an edge of the CD got clipped by the zipper, who knows.

Also burnt CDs seem to have a much worse shelf life. They are much more susceptible to being damaged. I don't know exactly why at a technical level but for sure I've had more burnt CDs fail over time. That becomes an issue when you want to back things up.

With mp3s, I can just put thousands of songs on my computer and everything works all the time. I never had an mp3 not play or skip unless the file itself was corrupt initially. They are also a heck of a lot more portable. You can put your collection on your phone, throw in some earbuds and now you can go on a run, or a 6 hour plane trip. You ever try running with a discman[0]? I have. It doesn't really work too well haha.

[0]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41305EZ51FL...
GPS automatically changes theme when you go under tunnel why can't we do this by detecting luminosity of the room?
> You mean "over", not "or"?

clarification: I mean what I wrote. I tried the author's game and found it lifeless and too much work, the worst combination of attributes from my two preferred puzzles styles I described
They probably bet on having the DNN figure this out from the data.

Of course this seems like a really hard thing. Probably with enough layers and with the right learning tasks it might be able to do it eventually. But the probability for noise and various learning artifacts is enormous, when you want to learn a sort of model of everything road related.
>> I have no doubt if an alt-right voice wrote on Medium and were controversial enough in their views they'd be deplatformed.
But also the way they handle it is just rude. Fuck them.

Well fuck alt right too! They can get their own website after all. Why should Medium or any other company have to host their shit? People act like they have some kind of right to have their crap hosted by someone else. Companies are not public services after all.
> The issue even with a DRM-free local iTunes library is: how are people going to keep that over 30 years?

The same place and way you keep all your other digitally purchased music. Just like the music I buy from bleep, Bandcamp or directly from artists.

What’s the problem here?
Yeah the bandwidth needs are going to be high enough that laying dedicated fiber is not only an advantage in terms of latency but also absolutely necessary because the regular lines will be at maximum capacity if everyone streams video games at 20mbit/s but ISPs will still refuse to upgrade their infrastructure.
Stops are not a problem. Japan's Shinkansen has exactly the same problem of prefectures/municipalities forcing railways to build a station in the middle of nowhere. There are literally dozens of such stations even on the busiest routes. The solution is simple: most trains don't stop at these station and pass them at near max speed. There are special "slow" trains that stop at each station and timed so that they get bypassed by quicker ones.
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This is not a "hack." This is using the phone as designed.
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I guess it depends on what your definition of "big" is, I've never had to deal with 100GB files!
Great news! Ireland needs to become less reliant on coal and peat, two of the absolute worst energy sources in terms of pollution.

Funny quote from the article:

"A single megawatt is equivalent to around 1,000 kilowatts."

A single megawatt is equivalent to _exactly_ 1,000 kilowatts.
Using underlying non-hardened OS libraries will open your browser to numerous exploits, see e.g. IE’s WMF vulns [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
Cool stuff. I wonder how long it will take until speech synthesis is at the point where it can be used to create dialogue for video games. Obviously it would (at least initially) replace just the less important stuff spoken by background characters or less important NPCs, but even that could be a big improvement.

Just imagine how much more immersive a game like Skyrim would be if the writers could just write the lines and then run it through a speech synthesizer to get finished dialogue. No need to hire multiple actors and get them to a studio to record their lines. It would be so much easier and faster to create a massive amount of unique dialogue and you wouldn't have to listen to the same "arrow to the knee" line spoken by the same couple of actors over and over again everywhere you go.

It would improve user created mods as well since just about anyone could then just create new characters with completely custom voices and dialogue.
Articles like this one are thinly veiled ads for a service that someone is trying to grow. So it makes sense to target it to their target audience, not the general public. If it doesn't resonate with you, you aren't their market.
Fine, I won't really delete the files, but move them all into a hidden ZIP file. When the user picks the one file to rescue, the code will pull that file out then delete the ZIP. You've got an hour to make your choice before the ZIP gets deleted anyway.

Remember, ransomware-makers aren't providing a service anyone wants. They have inserted themselves into the system and only care about getting their victim's money.
That is what has happened, essentially. The mole is atomically precise, and will never change.
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> You know. That old internet that used to be open and free.

This is bullshit. Medium is free, you're free to use it, it's open (unless an author explicitly asks for a paywall for compensation) and you're free to register an account to have your own content published there.

Medium isn't using a proprietary protocol nor does it require a licensed client to access it and everyone has a browser, so I really don't get the issue with publishing there.
That didn't work for getting you access to the better quality audio. The PC's drive would just skip the audio section, even if you prevented it from installing the malware/rootkit.
The SI units are supposed to be used to define all other units.

The mole is just a unitless number which isn't used for many definitions, while the bit (or preferably, Shannon) has a fundamental use in information theory and the wider field of physics.

The mole is a human specific number, the bit is a property of the universe. Information is a physical quantity, just like mass or length, and deserves to have a unit in the SI system.
You could use other bases, like the nebit (natural log) or Hart (base 10), but bit is most elegant as it uses the smallest integer base possible, 2.
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If you think mole is redundant, the bit is just as redundant.
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Win96 = Win95OSR?
if it was then it was a smart way of spinning it.
its electricity
Their music is compressed down to 6db maybe, no wonder it sounds the same, the industry is to blame.
Yes, I'm aware at first sight, for non Golang users, it may look a not-so-friendly syntax, but Go templates are just too powerful to not use them :D
Based on what?

It seems this is a classic estimation problem, and we need performance data points to fit a curve. Do we have anyting? Do we even know if this is a problem where we have a chance at accelerated compounding (so exponential improvement rate)?
Interesting thing about electricity bills in Ireland is that we pay a Public Service Obligation Levy on every bill. Part of that goes to subsidising investment in renewable energy to help reduce emissions. The other part of it goes to subsidising electricity generation using peat which is even worse than coal for emissions so the good and the bad might cancel each other out.

In their defence, they are phasing out using peat but I just am annoyed at it.
Thank you for this detail and useful guide Andy.
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In first reading legal opinions when I started law school, I was handicapped by subconsciously imagining law to be a knowable engineering discipline, with accepted rules that could be learned and predictably applied. That's true to a certain extent, but only in roughly the sense that Ptolemaic astronomy is also true to a certain extent.

One might say that the practice of law is more akin to weather forecasting than to engineering. As Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said, "The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law." [0] The basis for prediction is, in essence, looking to the outcomes of past power struggles between people who wanted what they wanted and sought to enlist others — courts, legislators, executives, the populace — in their cause.

Equally famously, Holmes said: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, and even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." [1]

[0] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897), https://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm

[1] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Common Law, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449
Answer from another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19937017
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I see your point. It's obviously legitimate and a false positive in this case, but you do have a very clear option to ignore and proceed if you went there with intent, so it doesn't actually really get in your way if you did mean to go to the article. It's not hidden away like with the ssl cert warning.

Saying this is curating or favouring certain websites I think is a very big leap. The intent is obviously to prevent typo injection/phishing attacks which are very much used in the wild, and I think it's likely to do overwhelmingly more good than harm because there are, I'd assume, far more instances of that than edge cases of domains which are very similar to known brand names.
> Some guys win lots of trophies at shooting contests, and display impressive marksmanship down at the shooting range. But some guys can shoot at that same superhuman level in a fog, with contacts all around them, at night, and under a level of fire so high you'd probably label it "Hollywood". Well, if you get to pick and choose, the guy who can shoot at that level while under fire is obviously a superior pick for you than the show pony who shoots well at the equivalent of beauty pageants. To me, this seems like the same kind of situation.

It's not. Some students apply with subpar scores, but often the majority of applicants to these universities apply with perfect or close to perfect grades and SAT scores (think 3.9+, as many AP classes as the school offers, good extracurricular, and probably a >2200 SAT or >33 ACT). It's not just about performance, there's a lot of additional character judgement and luck involved. I went to one an institution widely considered "elite" myself, and I can say firsthand that plenty of students from other universities are just as smart and can work just as effectively under pressure as my classmates. The universities themselves state that many more qualified students apply than are positions. For universities where this is legal, race absolutely comes into play as far as which applicants are selected. There are many universities that can't discriminate based on race due to legal restrictions, and it's widely suspected that this adversity score will be engineering to be strongly correlated with demographics these institutions discriminated in favor of when such discrimination was legal. A backdoor means to what is meant to be prohibited discrimination.

> No one is taking a bet on anyone's parents, strung out or not. They're taking a bet on one of these kids. I posit that Stanford or SAT or whoever would be correct. The impoverished local yokel from Angleton, TX with strung out parents and a cold, unpracticed 35, is a better bet than the guy with 35 through the efforts of a ton of expensive test prep. And it's obvious that part of why he's a better bet is that he can score the 35 under much less optimal conditions than the guy with expensive test prep can.

Yeah, but how we engineer the metric to measure how much of an "impoverished local yokel" is easily subject to abuse. The fact that these 'Adversity Socres' are kept private is highly suspicious. This comes on the heels of racial discrimination becoming more prohibited by the current government. There's strong reason to suspect that this is about circumventing the principles of equal protection of the law. And this is to mention the possibility of people gaming this system to portray themselves as enduring adversity. Wealthier people can probably better min-max this system to boost their diversity scores. Not to mention, in doing so we may be discouraging things that are demonstrated to be healthy. If this adversity score penalizes two parent households, then we're basically discouraging marriage. Even if its creation is earnest, it could easily have negative effects.
No, the explanation is that you're a fucking faggot.
I already use KDEconnect for this. fully encrypted and even local net only if you so wish. (and not limited to kde)
I know this statement of yours is somewhat of a meme, and you may even be saying it tongue-in-cheek, but, this is one of many tiny cuts over the years that caused me to switch entirely to Linux. I don't run Windows at home or at work for the best part of a decade now. I run bleeding edge hardware, I have a high-end gaming PC, my laptop is a 2019 model that only works if I use Linux 5.0 and my wife complains that Open/Libre Office sucks on her laptop.

Don't get me wrong, I have my issues, sometimes I have to fix things, but I would rather this any day than having to go back to using Windows.
I agree. Publishing things online is easy, if you have the knowhow. If you don't know how to set up your website or blog it is hard. And gaining an audience and eventually getting paid for all your work is very hard.

Medium makes these things easier. At an expense, I agree. And there might be better ways for them to do that. And there might be better alternatives, but the reason Medium exists is because they fill a need.
Also a guide to how to usr all that to interpret medical nonclemature of mutations, like c.345G>E would be handy

Those mutation descriptions are called HGVS (Human Genome Variation Society) nomenclature. In the example you give, "c." means that it's in a (protein) coding region, 345 is the position within the region, and G>E would be the change (although E isn't a valid "letter" in DNA sequence, even if you allow ambiguity codes -- you'd normally see something like G>T there instead).

Complications include:

1) You need to know which gene this is relative to.

2) The "coding sequence" for the gene isn't always perfectly defined, due to splice variation and different versions of the annotation. Ideally, you'd see this code relative to a specific splice variant (which might have an ENST identifier, from http://www.ensembl.org/). But it depends...

More at http://varnomen.hgvs.org/ if you're curious.
Worth noting that the UK (along with Malta) is an exception in Europe. In the other European countries ripping a CD you own for personal use is completely legal.
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The Boeing 777 has three flight control computers

And still only two alpha vanes.
"Hey Siri, remind me about this at <time>" or "Hey Siri, remind me about this when I get home" are the ways I work around this kind of scenario.
I went to Stanford with full financial aid (apparently says something about my financials). I didn’t have to work to support the family, but I didn’t have private tutoring either, and my parents didn’t help me with my homework. I didn’t feel punished at all compared to kids who have everything in the world at their disposal; in fact, knowledge in my brain is about the last thing in the world that’s affected by my family’s socioeconomic status, and standardized testing, with all its problems, is about the fairest thing in this unfair society. Now tell me why you want to ruin the fairest thing by giving kids who have equal access to resources as I did an edge just because their parents earn a few grands less. Oh, while we’re at it, apparently I have above-average intelligence, which largely came from my parents’ DNA; should I be punished for that too?
Autorunning CDs was the default until windows vista, which is how the u3 usb devices were used for “hacksaw”[0] and “switchblade”[1] attacks.

More on u3: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3_(software)?wprov=sfti1

0: https://forums.hak5.org/topic/2843-usb-hacksaw-development/

1: https://forums.hak5.org/topic/2361-usb-switchblade-developme...
The purported benefits of Optimistic Merge appear entirely unrelated to the merging strategy used. The scenarios could easily unfold completely differently:

> PM: depending on unspecified, arbitrary criteria, patch may be merged rapidly or slowly. At least sometimes, a good contributor will be left with bad feelings.

> OM: good contributors feel happy and appreciated, and continue to provide excellent patches until they are done using the project.

alternatively:

PM: The patch is merged as soon as CI passes, unless code review uncovers any serious issues. Good contributors feel happy and appreciated.

OM: depending on unspecified, arbitrary criteria, patch may be reverted or modified to suit the tastes of the project maintainer. At least sometimes, a good contributor will be left with bad feelings.

> PM: contributor retreats, fixes patch, comes back somewhat humiliated.

> OM: second contributor joins in to help first fix their patch. We get a short, happy patch party. New contributor now has a coach and friend in the project.

alternatively:

PM: second contributor notices the CI failure, joins in to help first fix their patch. We get a short, happy patch party. New contributor now has a coach and friend in the project.

OM: the patch breaks master, someone posts an angry rant, contributor retreats, fixes patch, comes back somewhat humiliated.

> PM: we get a flamewar and everyone wonders why the community is so hostile.

> OM: the mediocre contributor is largely ignored. If patch needs fixing, it'll happen rapidly. Contributor loses interest and eventually the patch is reverted.

alternatively:

PM: the mediocre contributor is largely ignored. Contributor loses interest and eventually the PR is closed.

OM: the patch breaks master, someone posts an angry rant, we get a flamewar and everyone wonders why the community is so hostile.

> PM: we get a flamewar which troll wins by sheer force of argument. Community explodes in fight-or-flee emotions. Bad patches get pushed through.

> OM: existing contributor immediately reverts the patch. There is no discussion. Troll may try again, and eventually may be banned. Toxic patches remain in git history forever.

alternatively:

PM: existing contributor immediately closes the PR. There is no discussion, because comments are disabled. Troll may try again, and eventually may be banned. Toxic patches don't ever make it into git.

OM: we get a flamewar which troll wins by sheer force of argument. Community explodes in fight-or-flee emotions. Bad patches get pushed through and remain in git history forever.

My takeaway is that you need to have a great community and everything will work out in the end.
So she is not testifying because she doesn't want to repeat herself? That seems silly.
No, there is something she doesn't want to say, because it would incriminate someone she doesn't want to incriminate. I doubt it's herself.
> Megatons, as in yield of nuclear weapons. Which is a bit odd unit, should be in J, goddammit!

That’s what is odd about it? It should be teragrams.