skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not entirely sure what the difference is between economic value and other sorts of value.

My objection boils down to pay being an approximation of value and rarity. Picking fruit is extremely valuable but the pay is shit because workers are plentiful. Looking at employees as a product, pay is the price, value provided is essentially demand, and the relationship between the two depends heavily on supply.
There _is_ no domestic accountability in those kleptocratic countries precisely because their governments do not make the majority of their revenues from a personal income tax base. I have doubts about the sincerity of western people who seem so terribly concerned about victimized peoples in distant countries when the net effect of the policies they advocate are really about domestic wealth redistribution. The kind of sanctimonious moral arbitrage that exploits "the people," of these countries as a pretext for influencing domestic policy with sob stories is utterly disingenuous.

Kleptocrats gonna klepto, and the reason they can is they can afford to pay the military to keep them in power, with funds that come from resources or puppeteer empires. Offering gratitude without demonstrating understanding or any meaningful benefit just tells people their shared experience was wasted on you.
"Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades."

This is almost certainly false. The paper released earlier this year only looked at other studies which reported insect populations in decline, a methodology certain to find a problem.
That’s just a restriction on how many will be built. The less profitable an investment is the less likely it is to be made. If the government makes profitably housing people who want housing illegal it can solve the problem by building the housing itself and eating the loss, whether an actual monetary loss or the loss of the better use the money could have been put to. But if the aim is to house people where they want to live, in conditions they want to live in more choice is better. If there’s an aesthetic preference for government provision over private provision that preference is costly both in terms of money and unsatisfied preferences.
The older (say 2008-2015) trackpad is best -- a dream to use. The newer one is too big, alas. It's shocking how often I accidentally press it when I'm just trying to rest my palms on my laptop.

(But yes, the unix-like OS that doesn't require a lot of fiddling about and has nice GUI is the big thing for me, too.)
Combining open-source photogrammetry software into a system that scales reasonably to >100k images (with accelerometer/gyroscope data from the video camera) and >1G vertices in a single, consistent, high-quality mesh.
It later computes a texture map based on the images, not smoothing them, but just minimizing seams and using some seam carving and color interpolation to make most seams invisible.

I want VR reconstructions that don't lack details to be feasible for <1k$/acre flat area, not counting someone steering the camera. -

Places need to be archived like the rest of our culture.

[Current sub-part:]

I'm figuring out how https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp can be combined with https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/instant-meshes/ to get better meshes (with less wasted vertices) and also how this can be made to scale Out-of-Core or on a HPC cluster (the kind with lots of RDMA interconnect bandwidth and low latency).

AMA (I won't respond for a few hours)
Hm, I have the new MacBook Pro 15in and if I don't use the plate my own keyboard presses buttons on the default keyboard.
I’m not actively working on anything any more after my son was born, but I’ve spent some time trying to build https://resumedrone.com to more easily update my resume whenever I need to do that.

I’m playing with the idea of making it export into several agencies formats and then sell that to them so they don’t keep formatting stuff by hand, but it’s not quite there yet.
Couldn’t agree more. I was part of a $30 million Rails project that got unmanageable and burned after 2-3 years. Golang is so much more forgiving to human error.
I'm sure there are many unreclaimed works made by dead people who nobody has claimed.
> It is strictly true as far as the law is concerned.

I think maybe the problem here is that you're assuming that "active" interference needs to take place. All you need to do to hurt competition is set your monopoly-backed prices too low for other competitors to match and if you lack any competition, you're not stifling it.

> So what? That's like saying "every criminal has claimed they were innocent". It doesn't mean that innocent people don't exist.

Right, but that means "I am innocent" doesn't constitute an ironclad defense. Which is the only point I'm trying to make.

And I think the ugly part about this is that YouTube actually does an amazing and in fact peerless job on the technical side. I know how a lot of it works and it's breathtaking.

But that's part of why they can set their price for hosting at $0/byte. And that's hard for anyone at a less superlative scale to compete with.
Chaos Monkey is sad.
And probably also the non-local effects of using a framework - and a fairly magic one at that. All the effects of which are understood when creating the functionality, but the maintainer (even when it is the author) has a much harder time with probably only a partial understanding with certain things being out of mind.
Parent used the correct term, a liquefecation map shows liquefecation zones.
I'm working on a authorization protocol for IoT (ABAC+ReBAC and a little of RADAC). The main idea is to make it easier for non-tech people and secure (yes, everybody wants that), made the threat model and stuff - was my master's thesis, want to do a PoC to see if it sees sunlights ;)

Also working on a DataScience crash course with basic statistics, R, Python (Basics), Dataviz and webscraping (for journalists, biologists - for everybody).

Last, but not least, we have a music's group that is doing some visual + electroacoustic music (using supercollider and instruments). Our next step is to use Arduino and some other stuff.

resumes pretty much it.

(help wanted `:D )
“ In cities such as Buenos Aires, Bogota and Mexico City, commutes can be up to three hours.”

Wouldn’t better mass transit fix part of the problem?
Interesting stuff. Just subscribed.
So non-neighboring countries have a financial incentive to have other countries start wars.
I'm sure this is partly because I don't read F#, but it looks like they've moved all the complexity into meta-programming madness, this is just being way to clever to play code golf at a high level, this is exactly the sort of complexity we should be fighting against.

Even the initial c# version was over complicated. The complex fluent interface with lambdas and callbacks could be done with a few if statements that would be simpler, faster and require no knowledge of the FluentValidation library. Unnecessary getters and setters to satisfy the encapsulation gods.

If you want to fight complexity got back to basics, you can have a static method returning a validation result with code like this:

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(card.CardNumber) && CardNumberRegex.IsMatch(card.CardNumber))
validations.add("Oh my");

Converting if statements to more elaborate constructs is creating complexity not fighting it.
You didn't say it was possible (which almost anything is in this context). You said it was inevitable.
crazy to think we are watching dead people
Sorry, certainly not my intentions or intended sentiments.
I really love this bit. It something that I've felt was true in observing the world views of people around me but never could think of an eloquent way to say.

"How did we get here? We got soft. I don’t mean that in a macho sort of way. I don’t even mean that as a bad thing. I mean that, just like the Romans of Gibbon’s history and just like the Africans of Achebe’s novel and just like the mobsters of the Sopranos, we have long forgotten the horrors of literal war and why we constructed these cooperatively-oriented institutions in the first place. We are content instead to trust that the Peace of Ani or the Peace of the Five Families or the Pax Romana or the Pax Americana is a stable peace – a stable equilibrium – where we can all just focus on living our best lives and eking out a liiiiitle bit of relative advantage. We are content to become creatures of the flock, intently other-observing animals, consumed by concerns of relative positioning to graze on more grass than the sheep next to us. Besides, it’s so wearying to maintain the actual intent of the old institutions, to mean it when you swear an oath to a Constitution or a god or a chief, and not just see it as an empty ritual that must be observed before getting the keys to the car."
Are you arguing that all tools are equal? Or that some tools are better than others but the difference is negligible compared to experience? I don’t agree that experience is everything (if by everything you mean that all other factors have zero influence).
> How does one go about finding movies that are public domain?

With extreme difficulty.

There are quite a few lists of films that have fallen out of copyright, or were never registered correctly, but even those often contain elements, like the soundtrack, that may continue to hold copyright.

Secondly, what is Public Domain in one nation may well not be in another. I know of several films that are public domain in Australia, that won't reach public domain in America for another fifty-seventy years, and vice versa.

Legally speaking, if you're broadcasting for everyone without checking where they live, such as through the registration form, you can and do run up against people willing to litigate you to death over a film made in the 60s that hasn't seen mass broadcast since.

Finally, finding out who owns copyright of a work can be extremely difficult. A company can go under or get carved up, and various trademarks and copyrights can be passed around - often to different people, and occasionally, the copyright can be lost in that mess or owned by an entity that no longer exists. It's still not public domain - but nobody knows who should be angry at you if you broadcast.
Ann Montgomery, Lead Engineer at NASA, on Managing the Apollo Equipment
Schema Validation for YAML
Erm surely ability is important as well. Programming is no different in this regard to pro sports - some people have more talent (which probably in turn breaks down into innate attributes, determination and learning opportunity earlier in life).
The solution to the problem you mention is to hold people to the duties of their office. Some cities are better at it than others.
Agree. You can write terse, maintainable, well encapsulated, testable and readable code in most any language. The problem is about the humans not the language they select.

But yes, complexity is also a major problem.
>Your blog article doesn't contain any code or empirical data so you can expect it to be rightfully ignored.

That doesn't usually seem to stop them.

>Provide a reference implementation in a widely-used language. I would pick C or Rust. The code should be under a widely used open source license, have high test coverage, and be fuzzed.

I suppose I could go ahead and start writing an initial implementation in Common Lisp; it would likely be under a new article, though. I use the AGPLv3, don't need tests, and don't need fuzzing.

>Provide size and performance benchmarks of real-world datasets. You assert that English words can be encoded compactly so try encoding Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg books, or the text files in the Calgary Corpus.

I prove they can be encoding compactly, but I suppose a more concrete example would help, sure.

>Compare your proposal against state of the art compression algorithms like PPM or LZMA.

I can compare file sizes.

>Fork a text editor application and change it to use your reference implementation. What are the effects on editing latency and RAM usage?

This would be a bit much for me at this stage, and editing text as opposed to reading it is still under consideration; it would likely be implemented with characters and a simple notice when invalid words are created, varying.

>Shared dictionaries were tried in the 1980s (e.g. Spellswell Word Services) but failed in the marketplace. What's different now?

I can't find any information on this, but if it was being sold then I take it that it was proprietary, which would help explain it. Anyway, Microsoft products are dominant, which is evidence that the ''Free Market'' isn't a judge of quality.

In any case, it's nice that something I submitted received any attention whatsoever. Usually, my work goes entirely ignored, but that's hardly the only good work Hacker News doesn't like or understand and so ignores.
Buenos Aires has quite good public transit so I was surprised to read that
There is opportunity here. Various people have had success with SkySails, such as 15%-20% fuel savings [0], but not yet available for pleasurecraft [1].

[0] http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1328...

[1] http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f109/colonial-or-greenwi...
If you can save up to 20% in fuel, you bet they would try it.
> All you need to do to hurt competition is set your monopoly-backed prices too low for other competitors to match and if you lack any competition, you're not stifling it.

YouTube has stayed the same price since it was created, long before it became a monopoly.

> Right, but that means "I am innocent" doesn't constitute an ironclad defense. Which is the only point I'm trying to make.

Obviously. My point is that you haven't shown any examples of YouTube abusing its monopoly to stifle competition, thus the argument that they are in danger of violating anti-trust laws does not seem to be correct.

We both agree that YouTube has the largest market share, but can you explain to me why you believe YouTube's market share is the result of anti-competitive practices and not a result of a superior product?
This made me realise that by the time my 2 year old son is old enough to watch adult movies, movies from the decade I was born will be entering the public domain.
They won't, because the cost of fuel is passed to the shipper, not whoever owns the boat.

If shell owned and operated their own boats, maybe, but I haven't seen that.
You can buy "dumb panels" but they apparently cost more. Some of that is that they're rated for rougher conditions being mounted in public places though. And why can't you respond to me?
Apple's iOS 13 beta 3 FaceTime gaze magic is triumph of tech evolution
I know a lot of people who prefer the new keyboard, including people who have had technical issues with it.
And he makes mistake #1 in mistake #3 by running „get“ sequentially instead of using Promise.all
Sorry for your loss. I know it sucks but ~10 years is a pretty normal lifespan for a dog. I expect purebreds would be on the shorter side too.
Private bathrooms and rooms really start to pump up the required living area. The minimum size is about 200 sq. Ft. and that’s without even minimal kitchen/dining facilities. Or really anyplace for someone to sit other than a bed or a small desk chair.
For the bigger picture I would say grab the Programming Phoenix 1.4 book. It was written by the authors of Elixir and Phoenix.

It focuses on building a web app and shows how everything fits together while solving real issues, which is a much better learning experience than the documentation IMO. If you come at it with a Rails background you'll probably walk away with a completely different impression.
I've been doing work with the Vegan Hacktivists. https://veganhacktivists.org/

Basically, we code up apps that we hope will help promote veganism. In some cases, we lend engineering help to organizations that need something built (e.g. Meat The Victims, Rancher Advocacy, etc.).

Currently, I'm working on the website for Meat the Victims as well as a platform for education on the "why" and "how" of becoming vegan.

If anyone is interested, please reach out (my email is on the website under Gerard O'Neill). We're currently recruiting for experienced developers, ideally with PHP experience.
I'm an absolute beginner in all things botany/agriculture related, and don't have much experience in electrical engineering. However this idea is something I find really interesting and I've started researching it more.

I've been playing with the idea of using existing physical infrastructure for building farms. Specifically, server farms.

I'm imagining isolated racks with individually, fully controlled environments down to temperature, pressure, humidity, light, etc. What are your thoughts on the efficiency of a system like that? Is it outside the realm of commercial viability?

Do you think such a system is still worth pursuing outside of commercial contexts (say, in the case where we NEED such systems? ie. space, deserts, extreme cold, etc.)
> gmail actually still supports POP if you can believe it. I hesitate to even mention it in public for fear that they'll notice and shut it off or put it behind the firewall.

I can confirm that Google thinks the fact that they can't rate limiter IMAP with the same efficacy as their own APIs is a "bug".
It's a bit different here though.

Walmart bought Jet back before Jet had any real market share. Most figured they bought Jet to aquire their technology and people, namely Jet's founder.

And there's nothing shared between Jet.com and Walmart.com - unlike Ford being able to build Jaguar's in the same factory, or benefit from shared economies of scale. Walmart doesn't even sell on Jet.com, it's purely 3rd parties.
I don't think that people in fact choose convenience over privacy, because the impact of a loss of privacy can be, and usually is, latent indefinitely. There's no way to evaluate what might be given up eventually, and no alarm to tell you when you've passed the point of no return.

For instance, all the US government security clearance investigations were leaked to someone unknown several years ago. The consequence for most people was a short period of credit monitoring and nothing notable otherwise. But if someone now has a database of all possible compromising information, fingerprints, and other information for everyone who's had a position of trust with the government, then some day when a previous "nobody" is suddenly of interest, then that data can be leveraged.
Newton's 3rd law. If you're applying a force to reel in the kite, that force is equally propelling you forward. Plus, the faster apparent air flow over the kite will produce more power, which is why sailboarders pump their sails while they race. In the real world, I've only ever pumped a kite like this to momentarily get some more energy into it to help with ram air inflation.
To add to this; all of the Soviet films are available on YouTube with good subtitles from an official channel. A really great one is "Ivan vassilievich changes occupation".

https://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm
Lots of Eastern European brands that I’m not familiar with, but I venture yes: relatively simple power trains that can be serviced and don’t rely on much complicated technology.
Reads on a core rope are nondestructive, since the information is hard-wired into the weaving pattern. Unlike regular core memory, there's no way for the data to get corrupted. (Unless, of course, there's a component failure. When reading the modules at the Computer History Museum, we discovered that two strands had one-bit failures, probably due to failed diodes. Fortunately, since the module has parity, we could recover the data despite the corruption.)
Well, if it’s pure foolishness, there’s a name for the way that Hodler makes money: a Ponzi scheme. Where is my theory incomplete?
"Shell manages one of the largest fleets of oil/chemical tankers and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers in the world" https://www.shell.com/business-customers/trading-and-supply/...
They're all artificial examples: one could assume that the tasks in #3 are intended to be executed serially. Though there aren't any data dependencies expressed between the different calls, perhaps ordering could be important for other reasons.
You may be interested in reading this: https://eufactcheck.eu/factcheck/mostly-false-10000-scientif...
That's kind of cool, but I immediately ask myself what kind of security measures are in place.
What happens so that every word I type isn't automatically uploaded somewhere where I do not know how it is handled?
Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence.
I'm building https://learnawesome.org - essentially, a stumbleupon-equivalent for learners with richer data. The idea is to make it easy to answer queries like:

"Show me podcasts about architecture that are less than an hour long."

"Show me books about abstract algebra that are visual."

"Show me MOOCs on machine-learning that are challenging."

Just last week, I released browser add-ons for Chrome/Brave/Firefox to make it super easy to use. Eventually, we'll implement unidirectional relationships so you see recommendations only from people you trust/admire.
>If they're not knowingly thwarting social norms, and there's no harsh consequences for doing so, then I argue the words don't have the same meaning as they do in the real world.

You can't separate the two like that. The internet is ubiquitous enough now that if effects the real world to the same degree as any other form of mass media. People who spend time pretending to be Nazis on an imageboard cannot simply turn that off and have it not affect them in real life, people don't work that way.

And I'll give you one consequence - pretending to be Nazis on an imageboard creates a welcoming atmosphere for actual Nazis, and a way for actual Nazis to propagate their ideas and culture. Because the thing about irony is, since no one can tell you aren't serious, no one can tell you are serious.

>And since that's the case-- we cannot say 8chan is a "hate speech" website.

Being ironic doesn't somehow remove the effect of hateful speech, it just means the people speaking don't care about the effects.

>and it only highlights how terribly out of touch these old-timers are with how youth today express themselves.

...as if they're all sixty year old fuddy duddys who only use manual typewriters and can't work the remote for their newfangled color tvs?

The web and its culture have been around for decades at this point - saying that only young people understand it and acting as if it hasn't subsumed every other aspect of modern society is like saying only young people understand how to use a telephone. It's a stereotype that isn't as true as you think.

>I don't know why the Christ Church shooter did what they did.

I mean, he literally published a manifesto and everything but OK.

>Most of what the shooter has put out are actually red herrings designed to make politically correct people go in circles exactly like we're doing now, and the references to memes made throughout they're writings were most likely more of the same.

You know this how?
One technique I use to solve this is to name each stage of a complex pipeline with tuple pairs. Then I can pattern match on a specific error. I've found that I haven't ever written crazy error handling and so this has worked well for me
I wouldn’t rely on JetBrians survey to tell the whole story for C++. TONS of places use Visual Studio for C++ and would never even know about a JetBrains survey
I just hope it's not as LOUD as the Sun Chips biodegradable bag. This was actually a legitimate problem, I stopped buying Sun Chips for parties because of the obnoxious sounds of the bag.

https://gizmodo.com/sunchips-new-100-compostable-bag-is-hila...
I feel overwhelmed by the ambition here - I’m burnt out. I’m working on mental health.
> * It makes a lot of noise.

You don't work with people using mechanical keyboards, right?
That comment is from Mike, the expert on everything AGC, who is part of the restoration team.