skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found it incredibly useful to seek out potential users, either in HackerNews, niche subreddits, or small local conferences/workshops. There you are likely to find small projects like your own, some of whom will find your stuff useful. A small community of even 3-4 people providing feedback and encouragement to your work can go a long way.

If I can't find anybody interested in my work, I will take a good look at whether my project is actually as useful as I thought it was, and if I need to reorient my goals. Usually it's because existing tools already solve the problem well enough, and I didn't do my background research. Or because I didn't even have a problem statement in mind to begin with. Or I'll find that I didn't write enough documentation. Feedback is invaluable.

Sometimes I will work on something just because it's fun, or because I'm learning new things. That's okay, but in that case I have made an explicit decision to not care about popularity or usage.
A combination of two things: one, I redesigned my site from PHP and raw HTML articles to C++ and Markdown articles, and didn't want to update all of them to the new format. Two, I feel I was a bit too confrontational and opinionated with my viewpoints in the past. I've grown and mellowed out a lot in the 20-years I've had an online presence, and I don't really stand by some of the older pieces I've written anymore. It's always been a struggle to counter-balance the passion/intensity of coding with that of my writing; they tend to be a package deal ^^;

I'm open to suggestions to revise and bring back any specific articles, if there's a technical piece you miss.
What do you mean "all the efforts"? The global economy is 80 trillion dollars a year. Should all of that be focused on various ocean plastic projects?
How to Overthrow an Empire – and Replace It with Your Own
Reminds me of this gimbal-shot portrait-video parallax effect: https://youtu.be/Ryu4hp-HbwU (which was probably somewhat inspired by the Ken's Burns Effect)
I'm not sure what you mean by dense. If two symbols mean the same thing (both reference the same procedure) but one is longer than the other, then surely the longer one is less dense, no? In physics, density is a measure of mass / volume, so in programming density would be a measure of meaning / code length

`mkdir` is immediately obvious to someone like you or me that has a background in dealing with legacy system design (namely, any Linux/Unix/BSD/GNU system that all derives from early 70s design ethos (or hardware limitations..)) but to somebody who's not already steeped in this tradition, it's basically a bizarre incantation.

And mkdir is far from the worse of it; once you learn what it means it's easy to create a mnemonic mapping between `mkdir` and "m[a]k[e] dir[ectory]". But what about something like `ln`? Obviously that's "natural logorithm", everybody learns that in highschool. Wait no, it's not that at all. It's "[make] l[i]n[k]" Frankly, that's crap. Contrast with `make-file-or-directory-link` from racket. It means the same thing but it's more than 10x as long (less dense) and there is simply no way you could mistake that for a natural log function.
How can you have a free market system where the most expensive items are heart attacks, organ replacements, brain operations and other situations where you often don't have a chance to "shop around"? Unless we have price controls and socialized medicine like other more modern nations, our system will remain a failure.
depends on the use case. if your company produces apps for phones, not so much. if your company is saas, yes, big time
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What high leverage actions can be taken by individuals willing to dedicate some of their spare time to fight global warming?

Can the common fields of expertise found on HN help?
I wondered exactly the same thing and scrolled to the end for the human credits:

Script by Dylan Meconis, Scott McCloud, Syne Mitchell
Art by Dylan Meconis
Color by Jenn Manley Lee
Japanese localization by Kaz Sato, Mariko Ogawa
Produced by the Google Comics Factory (Allen Tsai, Alison Lentz, Michael Richardson)
Most Americans have forgotten that the first rule of international travel is not to overtly fuck with totalitarian regimes.

With the unipolar world of the last thirty years coming to a messy end, that's a lesson we're going to have internalize again. Be humble, be careful with the risks you take abroad, and steer clear of overtly dangerous places.
Why Do Only Some People Get 'Skin Orgasms' from Listening to Music?
Love your personal website.
Size is not all. Ireland, Norway, and Denmark, being small countries of similar population, all somehow managed to have a similar amount of nobel laureates than China or India.
Oh, dear. Just because it works for you that way (and it's fine!) it does not mean it works for everyone that way.

Sure, looks matter. But for me (given a similar age), I am 2-3 orders of magnitude (!) pickier in personality/goals/etc.

You may say that for casual sex personality does not matter, but even then I want someone fun to talk to, safe, and drama-free.
And for your record, I don't have a problem with getting matches. (Now in Asia, and as a European I get tons.)

Also, it is maybe why I don't approach random strangers at a bar. Unless a science conference, rarely "fun to talk to".
I may be wrong in thinking that given two researchers are working at Adobe, the plan probably is to keep it proprietary and put it in one of their software.
Sooner or later you end up needing to debug in production to narrow down phenomena that for some reason don't replicate. Repl du jour, aws cli, lsof, tcpdump, netcat, perf, netstat, iptables, poking around in /proc, valgrind, pdb, replacing binaries with shell scripts that log their args, rerunning various subsystems from the shell with debug/verbose switches, retrieving badly configured core dumps etc. If you've been spared from these kinds of issues, be thankful for your so far sheltered life :)

If your problem is reproducible at will in prod (big if), theoretically you can bake each thing you try into your container build and debug its automation at each step, often slowing the debugging process down prohibitively.
Reddit co-founder backing UBI experiment
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> board game

> drawing

> cardboard

> LEGOs

> nerf darts

> book

Sometimes I wonder if people don't realize prep - actually having something to interact with - is needed for this to work.
Pretty much what I thought as well. But cool nonetheless.
M4A just won't work when half the country is completely against it. A public option as a stepping stone is much more feasible. We also need to stop limiting the number of doctors and nurses artificially.
most projects can't move as slow as sqlites development does.

A software such as sqlite is in the rare situation that stable releases are more important than anything else.

Everyone I've worked with got payed for features though, not stability
What phones is that chip in? When apple can release a new phone that hits 5% market share within a year (with appropriate software improvements) it means your install base is huge and you can start doing things with it.
That's true, and tribalism plays into it as well: virtually everything is fine where I'm from, it's just those people that pervert the system and have their princelings or revolving doors between government and big business.

Staying clear of the boundaries of one's bubble make it easy, too.
I now decided that I am going to do this actually, thanks.
GWU aims to get smaller. Will that mean cuts to faculty and financial aid?
It feels awkward seeing humanity working towards what we think is progress and in parallel always seeing someone using this knowledge as a threaten for human life to gain power.
You mean "Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple
Share" https://priceonomics.com/online-dating-and-the-death-of-the-... ?
I am planning to release the code as well as the dataset but have yet to get approval to do so. If the work is done by an intern, then Adobe is usually fairly open in terms of sharing the work.
I think if he asked ‘pay me or xx’ it would be extortion. What he did was ‘an offer you cant refuse’
I remember in the 90's you could publish anything and people would try it out because boredom I guess. Now there is so much to choose from. But I think its still possible if you find a good channel. Literally an IRC channel or niche forum where you will find your first users. Before starting a project, ask yourself who will be the first users and where do I find them.
Norway.

I thought it was an old joke, but someone I have reason to believe said it was true and you could get in trouble for it.
I assume he means that DB perf on mainframes are insane. That would make sense, given their low-latency architecture and I/O throughput capabilities.

I would love to see an article that breaks down clustering v. supercomputers v. mainframes in tangible use-cases. It is all a bit opaque to me where one officially starts and the other one(s) begin. As well as where (and to what degree) the value prop is of one versus the others.

I've heard folks say mainframes are just legacy stuff carried forward - I've heard others say they have specific use-cases that are not well solved by other current technologies (usually a cost of refactoring). That said, are there any current use-cases, where if I were to write code from ground zero, that are best solved on mainframe, hands down? That is my root question.
The difference is you get to choose what to verify.

Science says you can use electricity to turn water into oxygen and hydrogen and then burn them to get water again. It further says what the flame will look like and how much heat it will produce etc etc. Now, if any of that seems unlikely it’s fairly cheap to verify, if something else bothers you then verify that.

Sure, verification of every idea is impossible, but pick a few at random and that should logically give you more confidence in the others.

On the other hand with matters of faith you can’t verify any of it. Which should then give you some pause.
Yes, there is a comment further down about how population size doesn't matter, that all you need is a sample size of around 1,000. Fascinating. I stand corrected.
The fact that the government doesn’t get to step in and insist on sanitized portrayals of American life is a huge part of why Hollywood has the soft power it does. Even the ratings system is technically opt-in and was set up by the studios to avoid a government ratings agency. (The MPAA has plenty of problems to be sure, but these days films can just be released unrated anyway.)
Thank you for you kind words! I moved away from having separate websites for each project and am currently trying to bring all my projects to my personal website. I just added the Mini Chess game last night, which used to be an Android app.
Modded Google Camera 7.0 shows the Pixel 4’s Astrophotography will be promising
In an ideal world we would build a multi-tier method JIT for CRuby just like JSC. Unfortunately nobody is willing to invest the resources to do that.

There have been numerous failed attempts to build baseline JITs for CRuby so I'm trying tracing.
A bit OT, but related: there are no cheap, simple, FOSS mp3 players. It used to be that you could get a Sansa which was flashable with Rockbox¹, had a decent battery life, cost around US$30 and would take SD cards. Those options have now disappeared and been replaced with devices that do not have enough memory to be flashed with Rockbox. The default OS on these is terrible compared to Rockbox.

Would love it if someone would make a simple player which was controllable by the user.

1. https://www.rockbox.org/
Annnnd Martha still doesn't have a ml-solvable business problem identified with a large enough curated dataset to actually create a useful model.
I just left that toxic insanity in March after many years with them. Tim Sloan former CEO left a few days later. Literally a vipers nest. And my team wasn’t even at branches!
The British opinion polls are all over the place at the moment, yes. It's very likely that these are not sampling issues, though. British politics is currently in a period of realignment with the position of all parties in flux.

Election polling relies heavily on turnout modeling: it's not enough to know what people's opinions are to predict elections, but also which of those people are likely to vote. And the different polling companies have very different models for that, and other 'artistic' parts of the modeling which aren't strictly related to their polling sample. It certainly doesn't imply problems for survey research as a whole (though, as I said, there are increasingly long-term challenges to the while edifice).
Windows CE Merged into Dreamcast Emulator for RetroArch and Switch Port Teaser
I was watching a lot of tutorials like that when I started working on the project. The shown results were created fully automatically, one can optionally refine the camera path though. You can find more information on that in the video on my website.
> "Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency."

Realistically, children aren't the only ones with an aversion to boredom problem. Adults - especially those dependent on creativity to solve problems - would benefit for generous doses to boredom as well.
The watch housing is almost exactly like a Fitbit Versa. Kinda curious if the housing is made by the same manufacturer.
Implementing the Gaussian Mixture Model Algorithm as a Spark Estimator
Open AI did the right thing by not releasing their model; it's disappointing that researchers are so callous about the potential effects of their research in the name of progress.
Ah yeah, 2019 the year of the Linux Phone.
Is there a difference if another manufacturer got hold of the exact same tooling?
UN assessments are controversial and, in my opinion, dead wrong and biased. The UN wants the situation to deescalate, which is the opposite of what will happen if Iran's role is acknowledged.

The rest of your comments don't contradict my initial statements. The Saudis tried to keep Hadi in power and failed. The attacks against them by the Houthis are inversely correlated to the Saudi intervention. The Saudis have been scaling back their intervention, while the Houthis are attacking them more and using firepower and weapons they obviously received from Iran.

The Houthis have no reason to keep escalating against KSA now that KSA has virtually stopped their intervention. This would be an insane strategy - a rebel force launching extremely aggressive and escalating attacks against a large and powerful neighbor who stopped fighting them 3 years ago.

The only way you can explain this is that they are doing Iran's bidding. As the weapons are Iranian, this is hardly far-fetched.
Clip less provides the ability to apply power through the bottom of the stroke, which provides significant benefits when going uphill.

Only if you've never learnt how to spin.
Facebook will pay some news publishers to syndicate headlines and previews
> recently

How recent? Debian's latest stable, Buster, got released a couple of months ago. Raspbian's rebase on Debian Buster is recent, like a good month ago. Raspbian should sport Buster's Qt version.
You'll probably get a bill in a few years for 10% of the original amount from a bill collector the debt got sold to. Don't pay that either. They should have made sure your insurance covered it, so the onus is on them.
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Perhaps it would also be worth mentioning Ken Burns and his documentaries.

They're absolutely worth watching and gives BBC a run for its money.

Perhaps start with The West and then move on to Civil War. My personal favorite was perhaps the one on Jazz, made in 2001.
Chinese forecasts always seem to assume a slow march in a particular direction.

What happens if cooling becomes a rapid heat up in tensions?

The US is unpredictable and has always flourished when the world is in chaos. Good luck predicting when and how and who decides it is time to go over the waterfall
-shrug- Doing work only changes the facts, which I reported. We can't change what you believe, that has to be left to you to do.

One of my friends works in IT, he's like third line support for some big international outfit. He's a Windows guy but still, you'd expect he knows what he's doing. One day he complained about how shitty his broadband is. So I asked why he doesn't have FTTC. "It's not available". OK, so I punch in his landline phone number and the system says of course yeah like almost everybody else in my entire city he can have FTTC.

Yes, it costs more money and that might make it unattractive to some people, but it's right there, I'd guess it took maybe 5-10 days from that conversation until he had FTTC instead of ADSL.
Or the associated cost of recouping those costs, it costs money to administer all that which could instead just go towards healthcare (or transit)

When everyone has insurance by default or transit is free and we pay it via taxes then there is no free rider problem.
I call it “crying wolf in reverse”: The problem with being a totalitarian state that falsely imprisons people on a regular basis is that you’ve lost all moral authority when it comes to arresting people for actual crimes. If you’ve falsified evidence, conducted show trials and made a mockery of rule of law before, why should anyone believe you when you say it’s a real crime this time?
Auto workers union says it will strike against GM at midnight
Re: binaries from the 70s, if the re-engineering costs are the only reason to stay on mainframe (rather than e.g. microcomputers not being up to the task IO-wise), then why not just run the workload in a z/OS emulator on commodity hardware? I mean, the modern z/OS machines are just running 70s-era workloads on an "older z/OS uarch" emulator anyways, so...
Don't know why this is being downvoted. This is known to happen, just ask any ex-pat in the community.

If you visit china and you're someone they may not like or have a reason to be targeted(even for monetary gain) use extreme caution. People should be aware of this.
> That is just old fashioned white supremacy and anti-semitism.

I will concede the anti-semitism point. But the opinion on IQ is consistent with mainstream psychology [1] - it is, to the best of our knowledge, accurate. Of course you did not label the claim false, merely 'white supremacy'. Furthermore, the poster whatshisface made the claim that Jewish people have higher average IQ [2]. Do you believe he, and Jordan Peterson (who he sources for that claim), are Jewish supremacists for holding that position?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20978083
Because China doesn't believe in individualism. You are defined by your party affiliation, friends, family, race (Han vs non-Han), and skin color (brown/"dirty"脏 Asian vs white Asian).
Those look nice! The premise of the project was to only use a single image as an input in order to be applicable to existing footage. Without this constraint, more stunning effects like the portrait-video parallax become possible. I am sure we will see more exciting work like this in the future!
Your Infrastructure should be Boring (2016)
> billion+ fraud, espionage, and political corruption by family members

Detaining the estranged daughters of a suspected fraudster is not due process. It’s the sort of shenanigans that make Chinese courts the laughingstocks they are held to be.
The government of South Africa will not allow the Dalai Lama to visit South Africa. This has been on going for years.

https://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-05-china-thanks-sa-for-corr...
It's not that easy.

The trust system only works between participants. Trust can't be enforced.

The promise works with a third party. When two parties to lose confidence/trust into each other they can relay on a thrid party (the gov.) to enforce a prommise between two participants.
Looks like Scott McCloud worked on this. I highly recommend his book "Understanding Comics".
This sounds really interesting! Do you mind sharing examples of such events? Thank you!
Is there a way to reconcile these two above responses? They seem to be very different answers. Are these both options that a customer can choose from?
How we have failed our teachers
Because most of these stories are extremes. All my friends' pregnancies and major surgeries came with some hefty "residual" bills, but all got negotiated down or tossed. If you stand up to them they'll back off. About 80-90% of America has insurance that is "ok" and will keep you from going bankrupt. It's not as bad overall (big picture) as the anecdotes portray. Don't forget there are 340 million people in the USA (1% is still 3.4 million people, plenty of room there for stories to arise). It still really sucks and we need price controls and public option for insurance though. Also fear of the unknown, leaving your family behind, other countries in general don't like Americans unless you bring a few million dollars with you, other countries seem to have a very high barrier to foreigners working there, etc get in the way.
> If The Great Wall had turned out to be the massive hit everyone was expecting, this process might have continued. But The Great Wall was not a hit. It was a massive flop—in China, America, and everywhere else.

OK, I don't go the the movies a lot [1] so am generally unaware of much of what is in theaters, but I do watch a lot of TV live (as opposed to on DVR) on channels that have ads and on which studios run lots of ads for the movies that they expect to be big, so I'm usually aware of what is opening that the studios are expecting to be big.

I don't recall ever hearing anything about this movie before reading that article. Was there something anemic about their advertising in the US? Or were the ads just so forgettable that I did see them but completely ignored or forgot them?

[1] My complete movie theater history for the last 20 years: American Beauty, Gladiator, second two Matrix movies, the three Lord of the Rings movies, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Wild Wild West (by accident...was trying for Star Wars and went into the wrong theater), How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World, and Avengers: Endgame.
Speaking of words that changed: sublime used to mean this. Something powerful and dangerous that inspired terror and a sort of admiration was said to be sublime. Here's Edmund Burke writing in 1757:

‘Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.’
It's much easier to do remote freelancing/contracting/consulting than employment. For employment the target company has to incorporate in employee's country or you need to have a branch that acts as an intermediary; not sure if you won't be on a legally shaky ground and forced to accept the programmers you connected as your own employees.
That thought has always terrified me: survival mode in/on the water with an inevitable death ahead.

It masks me wonder if there is a market for automatic sensing hydro-electronic sensors integrated in sailors / fishermen's clothing. The idea is if the sensor is in contact with some amount of water for 90+ seconds, start a count-down to chirp an emergency radio beacon.If the user doesn't over-ride the count-down, via a button somewhere in clothing, it starts sending a distress beacon, allowing for rescue within hours most likely.

The reason for the automatic element is if someone were to be knocked overboard and unconscious. A similar concept can be thought of regarding the firefighters PASS device:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PASS_device