skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I've realized that 80% of media is not worth my time. Unless it's something that is 'can't miss' like Martin Scorsese's movie that is debuting on Netflix or Planet Earth II, I can skip it. I use my family's Netflix account, I don't have my own.

I've tried to keep up with the Marvel universe but it's next to impossible at this point. All my favorite shows (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, Game of Thrones) are completed now too. I go to the movies once or twice a year now, at most.
Right. It isn't a choice if I can only watch/play/listen to/consume <x> in one place.
Hoo boy, that makes a difference. Not sure how I missed it the first time.
This is great news. I recently started using Firefox (out of principle mainly). I find it pretty unstable, and whatever needs to be done to grease the bug-fix chutes - so be it!
In more general terms, almost every database we tested with Jepsen fails
> We were just never even aware that there was a possibility that could even happen

I would love know exactly what they meant by that, because the way it's worded makes it sound like this is their first experience with computers.
APM Marketplace [1] just had a researcher on the program the other day sharing that most Americans don’t use more than 20Mbps of bandwidth, and paying for anything above that as a typical internet user is throwing your money away.

Power users, businesses, researchers, and others might expect more, but not the majority of residential users. Muni fiber investments will last quite a while.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2019/08/27/for-faster-internet-d...
you can do these things, but there's enough friction that you won't do it unless you have a good reason
As a side note, and JFYI, there is seemingly from the ashes of DMOZ:

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

a new kid on the block:

https://curlie.org/
So sign up once it's all out. Or sign up periodically and catch up on all the ones that have come out so far, then cancel.
Jazztel, everything included

You just need to negotiate with them, not just accept the first base offer.

https://i.imgur.com/kHDdXZ1.png
Nothing - except being really fucking annoying and pretentious.
I guess it thought it was a picture of Elizabeth Warren.
Funny that "the US is the Mecca of credit cards" but touch-less payment is still so rare.
North Alabama (Huntsville) ? Rumor had it google fiber was coming that way.
Gitlab Is Slowly Overtaking GitHub
I'm a fan of React but I posted the link because this time the author actually used React for many years. Usually, people criticizing it are still learning and are frustrated by React's vast and fragmented ecosystem stemming from its open nature.
Wow the /s completely went over my head. Yeah it's fucking disingenuous.
And he continues: "So what is my proposal? I don't really know."

But then also: Use Polymer.
Same in the US. They used to only accept American Express.
The Most Expensive, yet Functional Calculators on Amazon
> The code was the standard

That's emphatically not what a standard is about. Standards in the field you described were developed over many years by proprietary Unix vendors (including BSD as descendents of the original TCP/IP stack), enshrined in POSIX/SUS (also published as Open Group and ISO standards), and then implemented on Linux. Apart from early RedHat stuff such as PAM and things like LSB, it is only since about 2005 or so that Linux dominates the market by de-facto implementations rather than standards (such as bash, Docker-style containers based on Linux namespaces, etc.)
Nothing, those are private companies without subsidies
Hi @kburman,

For cases like that it would be best combined with a mock:

@auto_pytest()
def test_add(test_case, mocker):
mocker.patch('db.call')
test_case()

Note that this example utilizes the following pytest extension: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-mock

However, I would also note, that just because you have some methods that have potentially dangerous side effects, in most large code-bases, not all functions do. Which is why it operates at a function by function basis. You can use this for new pure functions, while continuing to write other tests in the same fashion by hand.
This is due to a combination of factors-- the choice of implementation language (C++), a variety of enhancements to RocksDB, consistent reads from leaders (using leader leases) rather than doing a 3-way quorum read, etc. We discuss these aspects in more detail here:

[1] https://blog.yugabyte.com/how-we-built-a-high-performance-do...

[2] https://blog.yugabyte.com/enhancing-rocksdb-for-speed-scale/

[3] https://blog.yugabyte.com/low-latency-reads-in-geo-distribut...
I am quite curious to know the existence of such services or hardware. Any pointers?
Explore or Exploit: The Hidden Decision That Guides Your Life
"Choice" here is just a euphemism for "yet another $10.99/month subscription". The more services, the less content I want each has. The more services/apps/etc I have to engage with, the less I want to engage with any of them. That is to say, it's not just as expensive as corded packages, it's harder to actually use. It's the opposite of what it should be.

Content needs F/RAND licensing, possibly with a temporary block on creators self-distributing to try and right the market and get some competition going.

If you think it's getting bad, just wait until Disney starts flexing.
My usual response to this is "keep it, but turn it into / put it in a museum". However, that seems impractical here. .su can't go in a museum any more than pi can go in a museum.

It could be a museum, but it would by nature be the only one of its kind on this topic -- so, who would get to decide what goes in the museum? The history there is too recent and too global to really find an impartial administrator anywhere.
There were realtime 3D games on 8-bit machines. The framerates were atrocious, and they used wireframes or simple filled polygons, but they were also higher-resolution. The C64's character display is 40x25, so that's only 1000 "pixels" per frame.

I think it could be done, with reasonable sacrifices.
I usually don't look at videos (it takes too long) but I was complaining with myself that React is needlessly complicated so I checked it.

The point of the video is not so clear, maybe it's why reinventing the wheel again and again and not coming up with a good wheel once again.

First what I like of React vs (example) jQuery: despite the complexity a React (or Angular or whatever) application is infinitely more maintainable than the corresponding jQuery one. I converted one to React when I didn't dare anymore to fix bugs in a jQuery monster I created.

However, wrestling with dispatch, props, Object.assign, actions etc can't be the right way to do it. After all these web applications are the same thing we were doing in the 90s with VisualBasic or similar systems. Replace disk access or local Access dbs with JSON calls over HTTP, not a big difference and yet, coding a React app is a miserable experience. I think frontend developers should be paid twice as much as backend ones: they do a much more difficult job. For sure I don't want to do frontend development: it's not an efficient way to make money.

Some context: I'm mostly a backend developer now and I'm spending a few days working on a React frontend every two or three months. So I'm a little too rusty every time I start working with React. That doesn't help but I can't help feeling that code as complex as this smells of wrong architectural decisions. A collegue told me that Vue is much more pleasant to work with. I could give it a try if I'll ever have a personal project needing a complicated frontend. Server generated HTML is fine for everything else.
From what I have seen it's probably more "keep doing the old things + add the name of and a part of some new thing."

Then like evolution, it's survival of the fittest with the entrenched old idea having the heavyweight advantage.

BTW, this is a great point you make! I hope my comment doesn't seem to discount it as your thought made my mind go to the experiences I have seen that led to this comment.
The author's criticisms do not seem to be insightful. They boil down to "bah humbug stop changing things". Did you get something more useful out of it?
> My favorite book in the series is The Bacta War

Another X-Wings fan! Bacta War was awesome, I must've re-read it like 10 times :-D
Audit is a paperwork exercise. There are no Wizard-like beings who can spot the misconfiguration of a Java servlet or have an informed opinion about your RSA key sizes. When someone who isn't sure of the difference between GitHub and Jira picks "Yes" we do have appropriate controls in place for network security it is Nobody's job to open a developer console and copy-paste raw image URLs to prove they aren't actually insecure.
There is a physical car designed to be repainted (like a motion capture actor) in CGI. It solves physics by using actual physics.

http://www.themill.com/portfolio/3002/the-blackbird%C2%AE
Need to change "May" for "Will"
Still limited to the selection at Google Movies.

You can do this now with Netflix - but they will ship you DVD's.
The question is how do you know that the owner of the private key is the “owner of GOOGLE”. That’s what CA’s solve. Blockchain doesn’t solve this problem.
> But in modern society, we are told it's a good thing.

Sure, but look who is telling you that.

What you're hinting at is discussed further in Manifacturing Consent, might be interesting to you if you have not heard of it yet[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrBQEAM3rE
Perhaps the military gave them permission and these are publicity stunts for darpa investors.
Thanks, I had Jazztel years ago and it worked well and they were cheap, but that's better. "Base imponible" suggests that VAT still must be applied though.
It would be too easy for electro-terrorists to stop production at the solar park: four drones (one on each corner) could simply airlift a rectangular 3x4 mile opaque tarp from Sudan or outer space and drop it over the panels. Probably only take 15 minutes. Drones and tarps are available for a low price on Amazon. This is a scary possibility. Egypt must fund anti-drone defenses today!
Baby Boomers – The Worst Generation
In my mind, and agile approach would involve a series of 'tiny' incremental migrations from the existing system to the new one. I'd actually expect that to work much better than attempting to switch over everyone all at once, after years of development. That either doesn't work or works very badly in my experience.
LinusTechTips had a weird bug with some Adobe product (I think Premiere) where, IIRC, it crashed if the project was read off the disk too fast
Airsim also has poor facilities for stepped simulation needed for many RL algorithms (e.g. insert control, advance simulator by 30ms, observe state, repeat). It looks like this is still being worked on: https://github.com/microsoft/AirSim/issues/600
Waste of time - he never explains what we should use instead
Thoughts behind project creation live here: https://timothycrosley.com/project-5-hypothesis-auto
Q: Is there any evidence that a facial recognition-enabled boarding gate can process a line of passengers more rapidly than a human can?

My (completely anecdotal) experience of the last few dozen flights is that an average gate agent - if handed a boarding pass and identity document open at the photo page - is capable in matching the name on both documents, matching the photo against the face, and scanning the boarding pass in less than 10 seconds, and the good ones can do it in 5 seconds.

Are machines actually better, or merely cheaper than humans?
I've said this for years.

Piracy, in many cases, offers a superior product to streaming. If I go to ThePirateBay, I'm virtually guaranteed to find whatever movie I'm looking for, in 1080p (or even 4k nowadays) quality, without any DRM, which can then be easily streamed from Plex or Emby on any of my devices with no regards to regions, often with more options for subtitles and audio tracks (if you're watching anime).

I have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, and frankly I already hate having to search all three for a movie, just to find that they don't have it anyway; I already pay enough for these services, I really have no interest in signing up for yet another just to make my search for a movie even longer.

Spotify (and nowadays Apple Music for me) has made it so that I've completely stopped torrenting music, since they offer a superior product to ThePirateBay. It has nearly any song I'm looking for, in decent quality, and there aren't banner ads for "Hot MILFs in my area!" all over the place in a convenient app that works well on my phone. They made the legal option superior, and as a result I don't mind paying the ten bucks a month for it.
Because I wound never read this blog post. Video, on the other hand, I will listen while preparing my lunch.
"They charged too much" is not a useful review comment. "There are _unlisted_ charges that you should be aware of: ..." is, and should never have been taken down. However, that review should of course also go with a complaint to tripadvisor and request for them to update the listing to include these hidden charges.
It has already happened to me as well.

Look, I want a convenient way to watch movies. I would even be ready to pay more than I do right now to Netflix to have a library of ALL the movies I want to watch.

1 library, not 10, especially if they may or may not contain the movie I want to see.

My honeymoon period with Netflix and co is over.

- I feel that their original content has dried out : there is even more of it, but it rarely interest me these days and I feel like the quality has dropped in favor of quantity.

- Let's say I want to watch Blade Runner. I want the "final cut" (IMO the best version, it is the director's cut, unlike the "director's cut" which isn't one in this case). Well, I have just checked, this movie is not on Netflix. If it was, I would not have the choice of the cut. I would not be able to e.g. listen to the team commentary either. That's the first movie that sprung to my mind, but that's a good example of my experience with Netflix.

A rolling library of content like what Netflix and co have is not what I want. At all. I want an ever growing one.

I like to be able to get my content "legitimely" (quotes because if you watch old movies, chances are you are not paying the artists but the mega corporation who bought the rights to it but that's OT), and I am not looking for solutions to "cheat the system". However, right now torrenting sites are becoming again the most efficient (and in some cases only) solution to access the content I would like to watch.
A Commodore 64 or TI-994A could. Probably not at 60fps, but it could be done. It would definitely need to be done in assembly, or with a modern compilation tool, like cc65.

The sprites would have to be hardcoded, instead of being interpreted from images. You would also have to be extra smart about what you're calculating/rendering, but keep in mind that your screen is probably only 40 characters wide, so the amount to render is exponentially smaller.

You'd be amazed what can be done on those older computers when the developer understands how the processors work on the ground level.

At the very least it'd be an impressive tech demo for something like the Commander X16[0], a new 6502 based computer running at 8mhz.

[0] https://github.com/commanderx16
Don't miss the overdub demo: https://www.descript.com/overdub and the demo video: https://www.descript.com/
> municipal

> my $50/mo rate will never rise

Came here to dispute that. Your rate may never rise but deficits will come out of taxes.

Being a public service the budget is publicly available.

For 2018, I count $11,930,874 in expenses and $12,420,323 in revenue (literally 99.9% from $50/mo service charge). That's a 3.9% margin. At that margin, I don't see how rates will never rise. The expenses will go up with inflation. If the revenue remains constant ...

That said, it wasn't readily obvious so I didn't dig deeply to see if some 2018 expenses were unusual one-time charges, or anything like that.
You can look at all of the source. Lots of math.
Show HN: MySQL as a Cache Layer for BigQuery
HIIT, yes.

To clarify: I mean specifically the over-emphasis on intensity by amateurs for competitions longer than a few minutes.
I don't know if it's your case, but I think battery charge usually isn't reliable fir the first 2 or 3 charges, until it's calibrated.
If my images are on the internet, then I expect crowd-sourcing of doctors and scientists to tell me everything that is breaking / broken in my body. ;-)
How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution
None of that is alleged in the linked article, though. Also, and I think most folks here might be missing the distinction: the article is about refugees from Venezuela fleeing to South American destinations, not border crossing into the USA.
I would argue that reddit's comment system is far superior to that of HN.
Yev here -> that's similar to what we saw too! It's one of those things where because we'd not done it, there was a bit of dread (not because we thought we'd be skewered, but because we really don't want to let folks down). However, once we saw the early responses rolling in, there was a collective sigh of relief.
Banning adtech would be a good start.
In no way am I qualified to talk about this with any sort of certainty, but I have been studying EE for the past 2 years and live in a house with a physicist who is probably far more well read in this topic. Classical computers are nice because they are predictable; if you want to order some product online, it would't be very helpful if the bit stream of data coming into your computer was fuzzy and muddled, making it hard to tell a 0 or a 1 apart. Quantum computing takes advantage of quantum properties such as the uncertainty principle and quantum entanglement to store bits in a state of being either a 0 or 1 until we "observe" the bit coming through (quantum bits -> qubit). This allows for algorithms, experiments, and other things quantum to be ran much faster than any classical computer since it can encode more data into a single bit. To minimize the fuzz in a q-computer, they freeze the sh*t out of it to keep the energy at a minimum, along with using conducting materials which excel at conducting heat away (like diamonds). I believe the spin of an electron is what determines the qubit value and when used in conjunction with quantum entanglement will affect other electrons that are already entangled. My little knowledge ends here but with this thought on quantum entanglement, you can see how flipping bits values respectively can allow for more ways to store information with the same amount of "stuff" remaining constant vs. a classical computer.
Or 'has driven'.
Yeah, no, I don't buy this facile argument. Closest I can come up with is either an all-you-can-eat buffet you have a membership to, or Costco, and turning up one day and there's no pasta or burgers. And they say "sorry, Olive Garden/McDonalds bought the rights to that food and we can no longer serve it". It's absurd.

Rights-holders absolutely deserve to get paid. But weaponizing that? Sorry, they lost me.
A quantum computer doesn't work much like a classical computer at all, so any analogy to transistors fails pretty quickly.

One key aspect of that is that all of the qubits are entangled. The qubit isn't in more than two states, but in 2 states at once, and N qubits are in 2^N states at once. It's not quite as simple as that: you can't really just set up any algorithm in a quantum computer the way you would with a classical one. But for those problems amenable to quantum computation (including, notably, prime factoring), they can be solved very fast.

With 2^53 qubits we should be able to factor some very, very large prime numbers.
That's...what the article proposes, so yes?
OpenAI experiment proves that even bots cheat at hide-and-seek
This list is full of hilariously terrible advice. Was that intentional? On the internet, nobody know if you're a dog or being sarcastic, and I dread stumbling across a code base where someone took some of this stuff seriously.

Examples:
> if you can have an extra indirection, add it.

> Use events instead of functions.

> You never know when someone may need something else!
No. "Human trafficking" is a term of art in the international community. It has a formal definition and standardized usage. The wikipedia page is as good an overview as any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking
Super cool. I've always been a big fan of generating synthetic training data. As long as you can degrade/distort the data to match real world conditions, you can have your cake and eat it to: accurate inputs with perfect automated labels.

At my last job, we read the contents of receipts and parsed them for purchase information. I was really interested in working there, so I built a docker-based CGI receipt-generator[0] that mimicked real-world conditions of a receipt captured with a camera phone. After getting the job, I expanded it to provide the perfect labelled data of bounding box and character[1]. I then used this data to train custom TensorFlow models.

0. https://github.com/amoffat/metabrite-receipt-tests

1. https://i.imgur.com/gkdnAkt.jpg
The first 13 minutes are just a history of how we got to React. The remaining is the author saying it's bad, but that he doesn't have a solution.

Not worth the watch.
On the other hand I log into my bank with my computer using the same browser as always and my username and password, but this time I'm in a different country. Even just a different Wi-Fi (like at a coffee shop)

And the bank _freaks out_. Omg omg omg hacking hacking! Quick to the 2FA mobile! Should we call you? Can we text you? Do you prefer email?

That's before we even get into how trigger happy they are about credit cards being used in weird ways. You buy one thing out of the ordinary (like a $3000 downpayment for a motorcycle) and immediately get 5 texts, 10 emails, and 2 phone calls. YO did you do that?

Or the one time my girlfriend deposited a physical cheque and it was so out of the ordinary the bank had a melt down and started shutting down all her accounts and blacklisting her from the bank.

I don't know about "sophisticated", but they definitely do something.
It's almost as if it's promoting a comforting but unrealistic narrative.
GDP per capita is a proxy for local price level, and it absolutely matters. Running a fiber service is overwhelmingly a matter of labor costs. Everyone from employees who deal with permitting and approvals to guys who run the cable to network operators to customer support representatives. The stuff that’s made in China—the fiber and the equipment, is a small part of those costs.
If I remember correctly, Brenden Eich was a big proponent of Firefox OS, and it died shortly after they pushed him out.
Writers- Why you should create content for yourself first
One reason for getting a faster link is that most broadband connections in the US are not symmetric.

Comcast in my area doesn't even make claims of upload speed anymore, but my recollection of when they used to is that it was about 10% of the download speed. If you want more than 2 Mbps upload, that 20 Mbps plan wouldn't cut it.
Better to be safe, I always say 6-9 months away, at MOST.
Somehow it's related to "the ends don't justify the means". These lies and misrepresentations are immoral acts even if they're being done to a bad person.
They also numbered three out of nine PCUS general secretary.
"Part of managing a team is understanding that you have to give power away; you have to allow and enable your team to make decisions."

Most important lesson for many new managers.
They're still DRM'd. I can't use them in VLC.
`Ctrl + 4` to center view on page!

Pressure sensitive pencil for the PowerStroke Live Path Effect (LPE) "if a pressure sensitive device is available"!
Looking at 4 Major Ways GDPR Has Altered the Marketing Landscape