skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is what made me feel watching the new smart TVs at the showroom like it was "too realistic" and "less cinematic". I wrongly thought it was a side-effect of super high resolution - didn't even know that this was a thing before I read this piece.

This has no value except a being a gimmick which can be used to say "look how smooth/real it is". Worse is to set this to be "on" by default. They should have just had a button on the remote with a marketing-inspired name, like "motion flow" or something, which people could have turned on if they wanted this.
We've been carrying spy devices in our pockets. Now spy devices carry us.
That requires having a reason to oppose AMP beyond generalized dislike of Google.
Underlying many of these comment conversations: don't you dare challenge my belief that contemporary western society is superior because of [global capitalism, technology, "advanced" knowledge, etc.].

Narratives of progress are very loud on HN.

Meanwhile, a lot of people you know personally don't really bath all that often. They stay clean. But not by showering every day. And it really is none of your business. No you cannot necessarily detect them with your nose.
I’m not so sure that most consumers will think “5g is a necessary function.” Without millimeter wave 5g is only slightly faster than 4g, and millimeter wave coverage will be worse than WiFi pretty much everywhere but the most densely populated regions.
That article is not entirely accurate and is based on a misunderstanding of what those contractors are doing. They're loading NATO MIDS/Link-16/IFF keys, not 'starting' the aircraft.

The Austrian Eurofighters can fly and operate without those keys, they just won't be able to join NATO Link-16 networks or other encrypted NATO communications or navigation networks. This is standard practice for all modern combat aircraft, incidentally, as encryption keys are rotated on a regular basis and need to be loaded into the aircraft's onboard systems before flight. The data can also include additional interoperability elements such as TDMA slice allocations in the case of Link-16.

The reason it has to be done by the unnamed contractor is because Austria is not a member of NATO, so it can't be given control over key handling. The same is true for Sweden & Switzerland.

It's a logical tradeoff. Austria, Sweden, and Switzerland get access to encrypted NATO networks and can therefore interoperate seamlessly with NATO forces, but they're always free to opt-out. Sweden for instance has fall-backs to national data links and communications networks to which only it has the encryption keys.
This is yet another example of technology designed to impress consumers in the store which actually worsens the experience once they get the product home. Apple's business strategy for computers has been centered around this trick since Steve Jobs died.
What restrictions do you think Sweden has with regards to NATO IFF codes?
Do you want to kill JavaScript too? It also took over the web.
> Every other first world country had been essentially rid of cent level denominations for years now

Apart from Japan, in the Eurozone we also have a one cent and two cents coins.

They are a pain in the butt though, I'm very much in favor of getting rid of them. When I get some they usually go straight to my "red" jar along with the 2c and 5c (they are all copper).

Apparently some countries like the Netherlands aren't minting them anymore already.
Our code quality checks run as a CI make target instead of a hook. We then have our repo set up to disallow direct push- everything has to go through a PR and therefore CI.
>Usually less women come anyway //

Another reason for less women might be difficulties in going outside, I understand that in some regions controlled by Islamists it's expected (required?) that women are always accompanied by an adult male relative if they go out.

This constraint alone seems like it would almost always lead to Mosques having fewer females present; but I haven't properly modelled it.
Both in mathematics as well as in colloquial language a term's definition must be such that it is useful. The term "normal" is grammatically an attribute (something is normal or is not normal). If "normal" is defined such that no object can be called "normal" - then the the term "normal" is useless.

This way of thinking about language is not just logical and economical but also conforming with a friendly approach on communication. Of course, this is something unattractive to many people who celebrate their incredible and superior intelligence for the purpose of grandstanding. And I fear this attitude is relatively more normal on HN.
Data science is not software engineering and we should stop treating it as such
Hi all,

I have recently written a blog post on medium:
https://medium.com/neptune-ml/https-medium-com-neptune-ml-how-experiment-management-can-improve-the-roi-of-your-machine-learning-projects-ed805618817c

which describes why I feel that there has to be room for science in data science and how one approach that helps solve this problem is proper experiment management.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject.

What are the best practices in your organizations/teams and how do they differ from classical software development approaches?
> my concern is our ability to implementing them well, quickly, at human scale, is another thing all together.

We don't need to. There is no looming climate apocalypse coming that will require large-scale measures in a few years.

FWIW, a single farmer figured out here in Austria, where it's too cold and dry for rice normally, how to grow organic rice in basically 2 years of cheap experiments. He's selling it for a living now. Don't underestimate our ability to adapt.
I think that by virtue of being here to comment at all, you are not one of these dark matter devs.

The group of people he is describing I think largely don't bother to come to communities like this. They do their job, go home and only know about developments in tech if it is relevant to their job and most likely because it comes through in-house channels.

I know a lot of people like this. Many of them aren't even aware that automated testing is a thing. They hardly know anything about any programming languages or technologies except for those they work with.
2nd place was 10. Third - 8. But these guys are all 6'4". When eating pancakes for a record, they top 30.
I know for the first time I started using AMD based instances on AWS the other day. They are better bang for the buck. I suspect this will even become more the case, especially since they didn’t suffer from many of the major security issues of late.
The problem is that publishers do not have a ton of dev resources. Now there are spending time implementing and fixing AMP pages instead of optimizing their regular pages.

I would stress that amongst most publishers they are focused on the UX experience now unlike they were a few years back (but yeah, there is no shortage of bad news sites still).

Its a little bit of a bitter pill that Google, responsible for all the ads and ultimately the shitty ad experience, invents a new format to restrict publishes from implementing the shitty ad experience that Google allows, and then gets the publishers to built it.

"AMP for Ads" makes sense. AMP in general does not.
Yeah 24 FPS hides crimes by disorienting you and making you lose track of what is going on. Kind of like that insane sequence of Liam Neeson climbing over a fence.

I don't see how that is a good thing.
Apparently Berkshire Hathaway has even more: $122B vs. Alphabet's $117B:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-03/buffett-s...
For decades broadcasters have converted movies to NTSC video using three-two pull down, where each movie frame is converted to either three or two video fields in order to convert the 24 frame rate to the 60 field rate (well, actually 29.97 frames/second to 59.94 fields/second). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down

How can the new smoothing conversion be worse than that?
Who doesn't want to kill that security, privacy, performance nightmare?
> than wouldn't that mean both wires switch between hot and neutral everytime the current changes direction?

The neutral line is connected to Earth at some point. The voltage difference is created by a transformer upstream which just pushes a 240V (or whatever) difference between live and neutral, and since neutral is tied to Earth, it stays at ~0V while the live line stays at ~240VAC.

You're right, though, that any current pulled from the live line goes back through the neutral line and they both end up with alternating current going through them.
The voltage only alternates between live (or 'hot') and neutral relative to each other. This voltage difference between the two lines is generated by a transformer and there doesn't have to be any connection between live/neutral and anything else (at which point you can just think of them as live-1 and live-2) but the neutral line is connected to Earth at some point (although depending on load and the distance to the earthing point your neutral will actually have some AC ripple on it).
Two dozen missing Korean war troops just identified from returned remains
I did a mine tour. We first visited a market to buy dynamite, coca leaves, and soda as gifts for miners we may encounter. Tunnel areas are run by different cooperatives. It was interesting and humbling. Each coop has a devil statue in the mine they pay weekly respect to for keeping them safe.
At 4500 meters, it's best advised to take an altitude sickness pill 12 hours before your trip to Potosi if coming in quickly from surrounding areas.
We also went to a bar for drinks and found many locals playing cards at tables, drinking hot lemonade with singani (Bolivian clear Brandy).
Here's a BBC article about the mines, devils:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29448079
Where do you see performance comparisons to Kafka? As far as I can tell, the product you linked doesn't exist outside of a blog, so this reads like a marketing post.
Directors are artists. They pretty much always prefer the old inferior way because it is more arty. C.f. film vs. digital.
And that has started. Checkout ThoughtCo from DotDash

https://www.thoughtco.com/understanding-equivalent-equations...

http://webpagetest.org/result/190803_ZS_b6b97a597768a9aac0ba...

One side-effect is AMP now provides a reason not to do anything about your regular crappy pages.
I don't mean this ironically, I really don't understand why would anyone care about such things?
''Al Jazeera'' Reports on Latvia's Rapid Deforestation. IKEA?
I believe the F-22 software is written in Ada. I had a classmate in college who was in the air force. He said updating an F-22 took hours and if something happened you had to start over which happened often.
Hard not to buy a smart TV, but I do not connect them to the internet (hopefully they're not up to something I don't know).

A smartphone seems like a requirement in life to some extent, but it isn't added to any given homes that I'm aware of.

I'd love to see some improvements in that space as far as switches that actually power off mics and cameras.
Start here: http://ampletter.org/
Do Empress trees make for good firewood?
This is completely untrue and you are being facetious. Virtually nothing in the article includes anything related to what you even posted here. In fact it focuses more on the climate crisis and how mainstream economics might still fail at integrating it (which afaik is mostly true. Climate change is what you might call an “externality” in econspeak)

The article is very general but in fact there’s a generalised movement within economics to reform it.
There are a huge amount of arguments against macroeconomics but if I were to say one is that it’s plainly unscientific. Macroeconomics has essentially no predictive power which means it can barely be considered a science at all, if it should even be considered. The Economist and other big pubs run articles about the same ideas from time to time.

There’s even another publication - evonomics - that directly advocated for a different perspective on economics that includes multiple economists as its writers.
Start with this http://ampletter.org/

"We are a community of individuals who have a significant interest in the development and health of the World Wide Web (“the Web”), and we are deeply concerned about Accelerated Mobile Pages (“AMP”), a Google project that purportedly seeks to improve the user experience of the Web."

https://github.com/amp-letter/amp-letter.github.io
Quite an opinion you've got there. I too think the smoothing is odd, but I'm over 35.
I'm looking for a LMS, I enquired about affiliate in Litmos, but there is no such option. Whether it is available in Teachr?
Well, I dont know why, call it a gut feeling or whatever. But I suspect that germany and maybe even whole Europe gets weather like Texas (dry rainy, hot)
1776, 1789, 1848, 1917, and several smaller ones along the way.

The one in 1861 was ultimately not effective.
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F35s do a perfectly good job of bricking themselves. On a consistent and routine basis.
Ebenezer Stanyard
>Devil’s advocate here. Who’s to say they won’t use it strictly to deter drug trafficking and terrorism?

Anyone paying reasonable attention to either current events or history?
While it hasn’t reached its promised speeds, I wouldn’t at all call it only slightly faster.

https://www.tomsguide.com/features/5g-vs-4g
Just sharing the obligatory cancer scare articles. It's obvious to me that radiation of all kinds has an effect on us, whether that is non-ionizing or not. I think a lot more independent research needs to be done in this area, lest we look back on this time in a similar way to doctors endorsing cigarettes.

"Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns"
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/bay-area-city-blocks-5g-de...

"Don’t keep cell phones next to your body, California Health Department warns"
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/dont-keep-cell-phones-next...
Why Apple and Alphabet are partnering with diabetes company Dexcom
beer and ale would solve that
HTML, Bootstrap and GitHub Pages.
If the US cancels Chinas bonds the US looses any trust, i.e. everyone has to assume that their bonds are worthless. No sane person/company would lend the US money in that scenario.
I think there's reasonable reason to believe that if things got to that point that the military would be likely to have split allegiance.
This seems incredibly non-optimal on a few levels.

I rarely buy small household items at full price, just wait until my brands go on sale or I have a coupon to buy several. They go on sale often enough that I almost always have items in the house. I probably have a five year supply of razors at my house, they take up basically no room. If I need something right away I'll put it on the grocery list and pick it up next time I go to the grocery store.

On top of that I don't really believe in shipping my household products to me one by one, seems very wasteful and inefficient. Plus you'd either need to pay extra for shipping every item you need or buy a prime subscription on top of that.

Amazon pricing is all over the place, not like the normal variation of other stores. You could easily be paying double or even triple since the last time you bought.
Cant edit my comment but the journalist John Carreyrou who broke the story said that.
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What obvious? The command creates and returns a pidfd for the pid passed, not a process or a proc (which would be conflated with other concepts in Linux).
PSA:

If you go to the author's root page, you can see they've written many fascinating books on niche subjects that aren't so niche on HN. For example, implementation of a lisp system and array programming, scheme books, logic programming stuff... etc. I haven't bought any yet (sadly), but plan to in the future as they seem to be optimized for the self learner who wants to learn via discussion and numerous simple examples rather than chapters full of dense mathematical theory. The array programming one looks a lot better than the Dyalog book and some of the J books I own or have flipped through.
IIRC it lets you get around the noexec flag on a mount.
Isn’t netlink’s PROC_EVENT_EXIT pretty straightforward?
> 24 FPS hides crimes by disorienting you and making you lose track of what is going on.

The point is that 24 FPS hides technical/production crimes so you aren't distracted by them and can more fully immerse yourself in the story. I guess if you mostly watch demo videos of steaks frying or furling fabric these TVs are an improvement, otherwise, no.
JIRA can be used in a way that is beneficial to the team. It is ok as a simple shared task list. Of course, a shared spreadsheet is actually better and infinitely less expensive.

Unfortunately JIRA is monstrously complex and dead weight hides in that complexity as you've noticed. My company is so far gone. We use JIRA as the system of record for change audits. This is a function it is particularly poorly suited to. I don't even want to list the other things we use it for. They are too numerous an depressing. But rest assured, if you can somehow map a process to JIRA, it's there.
There's always a PG article -- http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html [April 2005]
Lambda Calculus Part 1 (2013)
In this case, it would be "Who did the Mayan Sacrifice?" instead of "Who did the Maya sacrifice?" The lowercase "s" indicates it is not part of a proper noun, and "Maya" is a Native American group, and must be suffixed with an "n" to act as an adjective.
>He, and the majority or other very visible people in the community, gatekeep the blogosphere by failing to help anyone else break in

It's not his job/role to give people breaks. He's not a Hollywood impresario, he's a blogger. If people are good, they will be discovered.
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I think the freezer cgroup does this, but I do t think systemd uses it.
> Databinding, event handling etc. should be as simple as in Desktop apps

I'm pretty ignorant of how desktop apps work; how simple is it? Are we talking a straight up pub/sub system?
It's in kernel v5.3, which is expected in September, so it might be in Ubuntu Eoan Ermine 19.10. (After all 5.0 got released in March and Ubuntu 19.04 ships with 5.0.)
Their point was more akin to “all cities have been abandoned as civilisation ceased to exist”.

If that was the case we would observe a definite decline in population numbers across the world.

We don’t see that which either implies that the existence of civilisation wasn’t the prerequisite for our survival or that civilisation went elsewhere.

I am betting on the second one. By the time Rome become irrelevant we observe the raise of Paris and London.
Hi, Affiliate is available in Teachr. I will share the link of features which is available in Teachr over Litmos.

https://getteachr.com/litmos-lms-alternative
So, not about curly vs straight quotes, but about whether to use en-dash, em-dash, minus, or hyphens on Wikipedia. For example, what mark do you put in "Mexican-American War"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mexican%E2%80%93American_...

Here's a lengthy village pump discussion, with no outcome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy...

Look at the word counts for some of the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dash&pre...

Some of these discussions end up on Arbcom which is pretty severe: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitra...

It seems a lot of people do care, passionately, about the difference between "" and “”.
not even close, and none of this is civil disobedience. civil would be to have a movement put multispectral bright lights on top of every car boat plane train bicycle ball cap dog collar and then scatter them everywhere at intersections and parks etc. not sure how bright they would need to be to saturate enough to hide the car or dog. you could track the bright spot till they intersect but then I would be iffy to keep them apart at slow intersections I think.
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> And this was despite it being a paid app at the time (I remember paying a few dollars for lifetime access).

In practice Android users would get their free trial period extended regularly. I'm not sure anyone but iPhone users (who are less price sensitive) actually paid for Whatsapp.
Is anyone else extremely bothered by the false equivalence of narcotics trafficking and the need for homeland security?

This blurring of the lines between a multi-billion dollar _business_ (probably around 1% of the world's GDP) that in fact relies on the success of the state, and purported threats to the state itself strikes me as extremely dangerous.

I'm contrasting this to American intelligence involvement in central America in the 1980s. During that time, the same organizations involved in cocaine trafficking and production were also extremely political, and crucial to the CIA carrying out their (in my opinion neoimperialist) "responsibilities" in the region.

My point is: I am aware of absolutely no evidence that modern drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) operating within the borders of the US are political whatsoever, so can we really view them as a threat to homeland security? Is there evidence that there is some risk of groups which pose a threat to our security have infiltrated these DTOs, or are piggybacking off their operations somehow?
Whooooshh.... (way to miss the point)
Big thumbs up! Looks great on mobile and works very well. I think I will drop them a line and congratulate them later on their efforts. Maybe others should do so, too.
The 24 FPS movie rate premise is that the human eye can’t detect the difference of higher frame rates. But the higher frame rate TV demos look amazing and movies that are resampled look like crap to people because they CAN see at more than 24 FPS.

I’m not saying that the resampling is right, but I am super questioning this film rate in a digital age.

I’m also questioning the algorithm that just creates a messy blur of nonsense between two frames. Surely we can create a smarter algorithm
But the action figure factory was not Mattel, right? They were a
contract manufacturer that companies like Mattel source from. If they try and reduce their prices to Mattel by 10-25% to counteract tariffs then it’s going to hurt bad, because they don’t have 25% margins. They have <10% margins.
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San Francisco airport bans sale of plastic bottles
My issue with TV smoothing is that it is inconsistent. It can revert back to the original framerate when the scene is too complex.
CSS Modules give all of the benefits of CSS-in-JS plus the junior devs won’t be tempted to put 300 lines of styles in the same file as the view component.

And you can still use SASS. With those benefits, I don’t see any reason to use CSS-in-JS over CSS Modules in any project.
systemd uses cgroups, correct? just wondering what the options are for learning more about this, would it be enough, assuming you'd only be working with systemd operating systems, to learn the systemd concepts of slices etc.?
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson
Chelsea Russell: not convicted.

Count Dankula: broadcast the phrase "gas the jews", then did not use a freedom of speech argument in court, instead saying "it was just a joke". His "I am using this to annoy my girlfriend" defence failed because there's no evidence she even saw the video, and if he was just doing it to annoy her there was no need to broadcast it to his youtube channel.

> I believe there is also a case where some Grime rappers were charged with hate speech for their songs

It's pretty hard to have this conversation with someone who admits they don't know what they're talking about.