skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 4k video, H.265/VP9 have better quality at the same file size, or equivalent quality at a smaller file size. Bandwidth usage matters for keeping people on the website and viewing Google's ads, so Google wants to ensure a smooth streaming experience. And since YT compresses so heavily, uploading in 4k increase the quality at lower resolutions (it seems weird but a 4k video uploaded to YT and streamed at 1080p will look better than a 1080p video uploaded to YT and streamed at 1080p).

And as xnyan said, high motion video really destroys video quality on YT, this video really shows how bad it can get: https://youtu.be/r6Rp-uo6HmI
The store does not have a shopping cart feature, and started flagging people for fraud for buying multiple games in a row during a huge sale
Running successful business with multiple campaign fronts and ambitious product ideas? That's worthy my envy. Maybe you don't care.
The only thing I really use LinkedIn for at this point is searching for 2nd degree connects / alumni at companies I'd like to work at, and looking up the professional backgrounds of people that I will be meeting with. However, being able to do this is super critical to networking and I almost always end up paying for premium whenever I'm job searching.
> US citizens must also be benefitting from stuff like GDPR.

My benefit so far has been countless popups that either offer a "take it or leave it" Accept button with no other options, or a link to tens of thousands of pages of legal contracts detailing the service terms of hundreds of "partners". None of these sites really seem GDPR compliant to me at all, and I'm talking about EU based sites.

US based sites are easier. Either do like here on HN and have no popup or notice or terms at all, just rightly ignoring the law which is in a foreign jurisdiction not controlled by treaty and which legally has absolutely no bearing. Or do ip block level shutdowns of access with a 451 code response, as well as adding to the TOS that those in EU jurisdiction are not permitted to use the site.

A win for everyone.
Money can also be stored indefinitely, and actually increases in value during that time, unlike cans.
Google has a strong incentive to be ineffective at catching fraud on their platform, and despite the company line, it shows through their actions.
Not to mention thunderbolt 3 even!
check your subscriptions page and make sure you opt-out from everything you don't want amazon to email you about

https://www.amazon.com/preferences/subscriptions/your-subscr...
What does EGS not providing DRM itself have to do with downloading assets from the Unreal store on Linux? AFAIK EGS isn't even supported on Linux.
> Within the past 100 years we had internment camps for Japanese Americans

In the present day, if you're a black American you may also have a different perspective on life in the US than if you're white.
I find it maddening to get accurate information on recycling

- what can be recycled?
- what state can that material be in (cleanliness, prewashing)?
- is it being recycled or just being shipped off to china or burned?
- what efficiencies are involved in the various materials?

This seems to change on a year-by-year basis (for example, china stopped taking our trash, uh recycling).

Currently I desperately try to turn single use plastics to double-use. Plastic bags and covering can be used as poop bags, wrap for trash that could drip, and to hold more trash.

I try to use used paper towels for washing dishes and wiping up counters, and also for gross trash.

Most plastic containers of food from stores and takeout can be reused a few times for leftover storage and other purposes.

Best thing about double-use is that it usually helps ensure the single use plastic stays in the landfill by weighing it down.
I also prefer blender over maya for hard surface modeling (sculpting and animation still needs work IMO, and rigging has a better plugin ecosystem in Maya). Here’s my reasoning:

0) Blender is much more stable than Maya. Also it loads more quickly and is less than 10% the filesize. Although it is quite powerful, Maya is still very bloated with decades of technical debt and legacy baked in. Also blender is OSS which makes me prefer it on principle if I can use it.

1) Blender’s interface has a higher “skill ceiling” — it reminds me of Vim in that most common operations are a few single-key presses away. For example, “rotate the selected object 45 degrees around the x axis” can be executed via R->4->5->X->Enter. Many of these kinds of basic operations require the use of a mouse in Maya or a MEL expression. Of course, this also raises the “skill floor” of blender because you have to remember more key combos. However these days the UI is pretty discoverable (even before Blender 2.8).

2) For basic hard surface UV unwrapping, I like the workflow in blender much better. The interface is the same in 2D as in 3D, and the key combos all carry over, which I really like. Maya has more automatic UV unwrapping options, but I rarely reach for those anyway.

3) 100% of blender’s interface is scriptable. You can literally hover over any button and the corresponding blender python code to execute that button will show in a tooltip. This makes it easy to automate basically anything and has empowered a great community of plugin authors. Maya also has this with MEL, and more recently maya python, but those solutions feel tacked on whereas blender’s UX was built from the ground up to support python.

I should also mention that blender has already went through a major UI refresh, so if you haven’t tried in a while it would be worth trying it out again. I would say that the jump in accessibility from the previous UI refresh is the same jump that we see now. So I’d give blender a second chance if you haven’t already!
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It's highly unlikely that 20% will disappear overnight. Every other case where we've seen automation/innovation eliminating jobs has been a gradual process, so I see no reason for this not to continue.

Amazon has been testing cashierless grocery stores, yet they haven't completely eliminated their competition where they're available. I'm sure they'll become popular, but they'll likely roll out relatively slowly. We already have self checkout, yet some people prefer to checkout with a human, and I doubt that will change.

Manufacturing jobs have been using more and more automation, yet manufacturing jobs are still available, just different. Many jobs that used to be minimum wage jobs have been replaced by higher paying jobs with specialists; there are fewer of them, sure, but they pay better.

As labor jobs get replaced by automation, we'll invent new jobs to take advantage of the increased labor pool. That's just the way innovation goes.
Most charities have a mission. I use to have an attitude of critiquing how they use their money. Than I worked for a non-profit & another & another. Here's what I learned.

I realized you can't critique how they spend their money from outside.

The most important thing isn't how the money is used but the impact they have on their mission. If a CEO takes 98% of the money but the non-profit ends hunger, is that a problem?

If you want talent, it costs money to keep & retain it. A lot of non-profits had amazing young people working there but those people wanted to have families & move up in the world.

Non-profits that are 100% volunteer are usually less organized & less efficient. Most small non-profits that do pay employees pay very poorly & can't keep great employees which hurts efficiency of their mission.

Sometimes really good opportunities come up for non-profits that could help their mission immensely but they have to turn them down because it would really look bad on their finances when people look at their administrative costs. There actually seem to be black markets out there of non-profits trying to move money around to achieve missions around without hurting their administrative cost to money spent directly on mission ratio.

People need to quit handicapping non-profits. Solving problems cost money & non-profits often spend more time managing accounting than thinking about the problem they're trying to solve.
Referral link spam site basically.
It's ostensibly about making sure you don't spread disease.

Edit: changed mostly to ostensibly, because of comments below.
The index word suddenly gave me an idea: the entire internet transformed into tabular data, searchable and open to public.

Even if we got Google's data, there's a whole lot of scraping to transform irregular and disparate. Typically you would have to google a keyword, look through the search results, visit different websites (research mode), and then consolidate separate sources of truths to build your own understanding. Building a scraper for each website in the search results and displaying a complete table data of the website. Why click through 100s of pages of profiles or data when you can have it all in one view? Why bother with HTML, when all a data-centric individual desires is data. Getting to the data is so tedious and a long journey. Scrape the website, clean the data, make it available for consumption, schedule & consolidate updates. For instance, a hedge fund that scrapes certain group of websites to execute market orders for an automated trading system.

A tabular data focused search engine would return tabular data, there would be no HTML medium, just straight up raw data. For instance, instead of seeing the comments rendered in a normal browser, imagine a tabular data that describes all the username, post time, comment minus the hierarchy.

To build a focused crawler quickly, I came up with Web Scraping Language (https://scrapeit.netlify.com), and essentially what I want to do is hire people to write WSL to scrape the web and then sell a subscription to data-centric customers.

What do ya say HN?
Bad quality article.

There's a simple answer: ball bearings are relatively high tech that requires lots of innovation to come together at the same time.
So... This is the first post I create on Reddit. And yes, is a shameless plug :)
I saw this "app" on a show on netflix and wanted to recreate it.

Put in a phone number, type in a message, and hit send.

A bot will call the phone number and read out the message for you.

That's it. That's the thing.

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Here, send someone a message:

https://ringbot.me/

Here's also my launch on Product Hunt:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ringbot

I'm giving away limited free single-use promo codes to the ones that ask for it.
Google alumni != Google SWE.
well this book will be one of the few books that are worth to cut a tree
See also: http://reactivex.io/
Bicycles seem really expensive to me, relative to cars, considering how much simpler they are and how much less total material's involved. Plus they're a whole lot easier to ship. Not TCO, sure, but sheer cost of the manufactured object at retail. And on the cheaper end they often barely work correctly at all anyway, and all of them seem to require a lot more maintenance than a car, per hour of use or (especially, by long shot) per KM travelled. I assume these are economy of scale issues that may be sorted out if bicycle use grows significantly—though I'm not sure about the reliability.
Sorry, but the rule against trollish usernames applies even to moderators: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... This sort of thing is always better to nip in the bud rather than let fester, so I've banned this account. If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com with an alternate username and we'll be happy to swap it for you.
He never call Win32 an "open standard." He calls it an open platform, or open experience, which he means anyone can build win32 games and distribute them on their own.

Using the word "standard", which he never does in that article, is quite misleading.
People keep seeming to apply for jobs at Amazon warehouses making $15-16/hr, so...
The author is still an undergraduate, so yeah, I'd file under "learning exercise".
add Bing to the Index
True for a modern bike, but a brass (whatever metal) bushing would work for a more primitive bike.
Another of 2-3 stories about the Amazon strike deleted from the front page of Hacker news, it's hard to not be conspiratorial about this.
He was a SWE
But the monetization is so good! lol.
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No ingredient is healthy or unhealthy. Diet can be that or not. Having more vitamins, or other stuff means nothing. Body thrives on variability not on some optimality based on nutrient amounts.
Well, it depends on where, seemingly you forget Europe in the years around (before and after) WWII and of course whole China.
Mission over Metrics
This so much. All of this analysis is predicated on the idea that Amazon has made this value for its owners through legitimate means and not by underpaying, overworking, and dehumanizing vast swathes of their workforce. It's so bizarre to me that people think it's a reasonable argument to make that "X company couldn't do Y if they payed better" and the response is just a giant shrug and "I guess their workers will have to pee in bottles and get second jobs" and not "X company therefor can't reasonable do Y"
They should drop 1500 cats instead.

Frankly that's a terrible idea. If they were going to introduce a new predator species they'd likely be better off with a limited number of terriers trained at ratting (at least for a first generation), but that could have a significant impact on other wildlife on the island even if they were less inclined than cats to hunting birds.

Overall the original plan sounds like it had a lot of thought behind it. They're talking about grain pellets (most sea mammals and seabirds aren't likely eating a lot of grain), at a time when most birds and sea mammals are away from the islands anyway, with crews retrieving as many mouse corpses as possible so other animals won't eat them and be exposed. They acknowledge that some non-targeted birds and animals will be affected, but in small enough numbers to not pose a serious risk to the population - and likely in smaller numbers than would be impacted by failing to address the mouse problems.

More details at a non-firewalled article: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/11/like-dropping-a-nucle...
Okay, so the actual reason here is that you're lazy, it's not a lack of information. I get that — I'm lazy too — but don't cite vague concerns about administrative budgets when you could literally search "how much should a nonprofit spend on administration" and find 237947209847 articles about evaluating that. There are entire organizations like GiveWell dedicated to answering that question and they do in-depth research so that you don't have to.

Chrissake, you have no idea how much we deal with this working at nonprofits. "You are nefariously concealing information from me!!!!!" "Have you tried looking at our website?" The answer is basically always no.
I also did this and have younger friends who still do. I much preferred that job to a customer service one where I had to deal with angry people all day. I was also sorting via zip codes and enjoyed the physical work... I don't understand what people accepting a factory job expect. It is repetitive, non-creative, work. That is the idea.
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I find it highly amusing that in response to your "well clearly the government experts who aren't emotionally involved in the local situation think this is the best thing to do" response everyone starts questioning the judgement of the government. Were this nearly any other topic most people on HN would be singing its praises and extolling about how government is all that is good in the world.

Cognitive dissonance much.

I don't care which side you pick, both have some merit, just pick one and stick to it.
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Does the US system not seem crazy to the people who are stuck inside it? I mean, I guess this is a low-effort comment etc, but I’m still staggered that pulling massive overtime in advance, and $50k for medical bills is seen as a potential part of having a kid.
Such a primitive bike is only a novelty, not a mode of transportation. It would be less efficient and more expensive than just walking. (I.e., a toy.)
>Likewise, in Europe, I also hear a lot of "I don't give money to beggars but if they want to eat then I can buy something". I disagree because to me it's part of a larger dehumanization process: who are we to tell people what they should spend their money on ? If the guy wants to drink it or buy a night in a cheap hotel or buy a blanket or food or whatever... it's still up to him. I don't have the `right` to control what his priorities should be.

If someone is living off a welfare check, I do not want them using that money to buy things I consider luxury goods with the money I worked to earn (tax dollars).

This is more a comment to your 'drink it' part, but also applies to people who buy soda/candy bars/junk food on food stamps. When I was working minimum wage I didn't buy that stuff because it was a waste of money that I couldn't afford.
>a model aware of the (programming) language constructs explicitly

You could never include that in the model's training. The best you could do would be to construct an AST on the model output and discard suggestions with invalid syntax. And provide enough negative examples (invalid syntax) to reduce false positives.

What you proposed would never work with a language model, and makes no sense with how backprop works. The model will learn the grammar (syntax), but will always output some percentage of false positives (invalid syntax).

You can't hardcode the syntax into the model. Another approach is to encode token types after tokenization, which will give the model more information about the syntax/meaning of tokens.
While it’s maybe surprising, have you ever tried riding something with a 1:1 drive ratio? There’s a reason even bikes with a fixed gear still have gears...

Pedals connected directly to the front wheel would be truly awful for virtually all adult bicycle use cases.
I'm not an expert, but people in Australia who are experts think that feral cats are a huge problem for native wildlife. I know in some areas you can get a bounty for bringing in dead cats. There's also programs that do sterilization and poisoned traps

Interesting article here, which I think I originally saw on HN: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/magazine/australia-cat-ki... Some of the pictures are a bit unpleasant, but part of the article is about the visceral backlash to killing cats even when it is almost universally agreed to be for the greater good
I use Unreal+Blender just fine. What do you mean?
Life expectancy in the US has dropped by about 4 months in the last 3 years. In the last 40 years it has increased over 8 years. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?location...

Remember that real wage is a deflection based on cost, but the cost of living is absolutely localized whereas the minimum wage is federal unless overridden by the state. Therefore as an average that might be true, but is generally incorrect for any given actual datapoint. Just because minimum wage is garbage in Mountain View doesn't mean it's not perfectly fine in Ohio. https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_microeconomics-theory-th... https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/index/north-americ...

Obesity is absolutely self caused unless you're on a feeding tube. You can get 2400 cals a day for about $4 from McDonalds - don't even need to cook. Yes, your fresh organic vegetables that had to be trucked in from halfway across the US costs more than a bag of processed corn chips that can sit on a shelf for 2 years. You can still eat very healthy for very little money.

The cost of luxury goods is relevant because things like laptop computers, the internet, cellphones, cars, and so on are considered luxury goods. And hey, it turns out it's pretty hard to get a job if you can't email, and it's hard to be connected if you don't have a phone. You can get a functional phone for $20 and a plan for about $15 or less a month - something mind boggling compared to a few decades ago, not to mention more portable than a telegraph or a landline.
Free doesn’t imply better outcomes or efficiency (doesn’t imply the reverse either).

Imagine a charity could hire someone that would 100x the amount of donations, whether that’s through more effective marketing, connections, etc. how much should a charity be willing to pay for that?
I can't believe a bunch of professional engineers think we've traveled to the moon... It's mental. Live stream video in '69 from the moon? How can you be so daft?
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Again? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/germ...
I think this would be more useful with some comparison points, so:

* Firefox/Linux/AMD and default settings gives me 4dd1c8196b5a7f7fd5faecadd398a31e

* Chromium/Linux/AMD and default settings gives me 3a255645100c90693ae68d2e121f64fb
I understand where you are coming from, but I've come to find it horrible to put judgments on a donation. Am I better than the panhandler that I know what he should receive?

What should I give a panhandler?

A sandwich? Maybe he's has celliac's. Or diabetes.

A gift card to the coffee shop? Maybe he needs gloves.

Money to buy gloves and a sugar free lunch? Maybe he's an alcoholic.

Instead, just donate. Just help. Just see the person lying on the floor as a fellow human being fully deserving in dignity. If you're Christian, see Christ sprawled on the floor and make sure your right hand doesn't see your left hand.
If you're a patient for something elective that could be delayed until after the conclusion of the labor action then yes, you're a scab. For emergency care? Probably not.
Market conditions are set by regulation and market participants (there is no such thing as a pure free market except in an economist's textbook). Congress (the Senate specifically, conservatives/republicans) have failed to raise the federal minimum wage ($7.25, unchanged since 2009) to reflect the required wage to survive with increased costs of living (housing, broken healthcare, etc). This caused Senator Sanders to have to shame Amazon into paying a higher wage to Amazon's warehouse workers (which Amazon not only agreed to do, but also stated they would lobby for raising the federal minimum wage as well).

Why shouldn't one of the wealthiest companies in the world (a labor market participant) be demonizied for worker abuse, even if it is "legal"?

If you don't understand what Amazon fulfillment workers experience, I encourage you to take a vacation day or two and apply for a job at a warehouse as a runner. You'll only need a day or two to appreciate the experience. There is no college course or bootcamp for compassion and empathy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9m7d07k22A (Warehouses: HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
I don't honestly know why anyone would design a product that used 100W via USB. Even without the issue of dodgy cables, it just sounds like a bad idea and a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. If I ever ran across such a product I would question their other engineering decisions and pass on the purchase.
I don't think it's worthwhile to split hairs over standard/platform; I've heard Win32 called both, many times, by respectable sources.

As it is, he argued that Win32 is more open than UWP or Android; regardless of whether you think the API is a standard or a platform.
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