skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Video_Coding

From what I can tell SVC adds lower resolution streams to the H264 bitstream so that devices with weaker decoders can still decode the video. This would increase, not decrease, the bandwidth.

>Do any of you know open source libraries, or documentation on SVC for mp4, VP9 or AV1

It appears to be defined as annex G in the H.264 (mpeg4 part 10) spec, so it's not available in VP9 or AV1.

The status quo is to use Adaptive Bitrate, where you publish streams at different quality levels and have the client choose which stream to use to adapt to network conditions.
I would like to see Shaun Jones, the article's author, compare and contrast the dangers of "ControlMaster auto" with Russell Jones, one of the authors of Teleport.
>That's not how any other insurance works. Providers charge the same amount regardless of coverage, insurance, etc. and whatever your insurance covers (including nothing at all) you are responsible for.

This is incorrect. It's absolutely the other way around.
I will try to be as objective as possible answering this question, since I am working on a project in a competing space.

Argo workflow is a pipeline engine that is cloud and kubernetes native. It tries to solve graph and multi-steps workflows using containers on Kubernetes, It can be leveraged for ML pipelines as well as other use-cases.

Kubeflow is a large project that has several components: training operators, serving (based on Istio and Knative), metadata (used by tensorflow TFX), pipelines, ... and integrates with other projects. Kubeflow pipelines is using Argo workflow as a workflow engine, although I think there are efforts to support other projects such as Tekton which is also a google project, and possibly TFX as a DSL for authoring pipelines in python.

The main focus for MLFlow, I think, is tracking ML models and providing an intuitive interface to model deployment and governance. The main strength of MLFlow is that it's easy to install and use.

Polyaxon has been used mainly for fast developement and experimentation, it has a tracking interface and several integrations for dashboarding, notebooks, and distributed learning. Polyaxon also has native support for some Kubeflow components, e.g. TFJob, Pytorch job, MPIJob for distributed learning.

The upcoming Polyaxon release will be providing a larger set of intergrations for dashboards, in addition to tensorboards, notebooks and jupyter labs, users will be able to start and share zeppelin notebooks, voila, plotly dash, shiny, and any custom stateless service that can consume the outputs of another operation.

The new workflow interface focuses mainly on an easy declrative way to handle DataOps and MLOps, the main idea is to provide a very simple interface for the user to go from a data transformation to training models. Since the component abstraction is based on containers, it can be used to do other operations, e.g. packaging models and preparing them to be served on other open source projects, cloud providers, or lambda functions. Also support for some frameworks such as dask, spark and flink operators could be used as a step in a workflow, ...

For hyperparams tuning, Currently, the platform has grid search, random search, hyperband, and bayesian optimization, one of the major changes in the next release is a new interface for people to create their own algorithms and a mapping interface to traverse a space search provided by the user or based on the output of another operation.
Try Bing's image search. It's actually very good. Bigger previews, ability to easily download, smart ML-driven similarity search (you can even draw a rectangle of an image to find something similar to that area), better at suggesting related images, nicer UI overall. The mobile app is also much nicer than Google's when it comes to images.
These featured snippets are great for Google, because they keep you on their search pages longer. But they're bad for the websites because they can completely lose your visit, even though they're the ones who created the content.

These snippets also take up more space on top of the page and along with more ads, it means fewer organic links are appearing on the first page.
Privacy: Is That iPhone?
Aztecs were conquered with the help of other slaved tribes. Do you really thing that several sailors could conquering an empire of millions? Spaniards were helped by Aztec enemies.
This comparison between LASIK and actual healthcare is puerile. Healthcare providers make bank off the fact you can't afford to shop around. That you need that cancer operating on. That you need that chemo. That transplant. That stay in hospital. And that they —and all like them— can charge whatever the hell they like because your only alternative is a painful death.

So no, pretending that you can fix this by listing pricing things because an entirely optional industry does it, doesn't just not fix this, it's noise that confuses people.

Healthcare in the US can only be fixed by hard laws on price gouging (codified limits, etc) or astronomically altruistic competition that comes in at cost, and drives everybody else out of business.

And I don't see either of those happening in the US because everybody involved in US healthcare is making obscene money from the status quo.
Love the interface and the fact that it's written in Clojure but it's worth mentioning Whimsical is $10/month vs. draw.io being free forever, and the Whimsical limited intro version is crippled in some quite annoying ways.
Anecdotally, prevalent amongst India's elite too.
Let me share another client-side way https://monastic.netlify.com/
I am talking from a position of ignorance, but intuitively I am sure the runtime does or will do lots of things, between the sandboxing, the linking, potential garbage collection, etc.
I'm not defending anybody, just setting some historical context.
Announcing .NET Jupyter Notebooks
Naw, that's just the way many people are. If you can't give them the answers they want they'll assume you're incompetent (aren't you a senior engineer?), if you refuse to, they'll just think you're a jerk (quit playing games and tell me what I need to know). They don't want you to treat them like a child, because you're "trying to help them learn". Some people just hesitate to run with the premise, it'll look like you're making them jump through hoops, and wasting time.
For what it's worth (to the initial quotes posted) there are plenty of options in the FAR and on existing contract vehicles to hire people with particular sets of skills to achieve a general goal / purpose of the organization "and other duties" that will allow you to contract flexible skills that you can direct as needed.

To your last point - I agree there is a lot of red tape. This needs to improve but it's also there for protection.

At a minimum, updating the GS scale / hiring authorities to ensure that the right expertise can be hired at competitive rates to effectively manage and guide contractual expertise is a MUST.

Right now, program officers may not even have the expertise / in-house resources to understand whether the work being done / reported is going to achieve their contract objective, and they might be relying on contractor project managers to translate. (Sometimes from the same company!) so checks are hard to come by and it's all very inefficient. To do this effectively you have to be able to hire folks that know, to create a culture around the effort at the agency so they can bring contractors on as true partners that understand the way the agency does business (norms, engineering standards, reporting, etc) - this goes a long way to ensuring objectives are met and real work is getting done.
I would agree with this if not for my recent experience with duckduckgo. While Google's search result quality has sharply deteriorated in recent months, duckduckgo's results have stayed flat for the most part, to the point where ddg's result quality is more often superior to Google. If it were a matter of SEO manipulation, wouldn't ddg's quality decline too?
I'm really hoping for native to become the standard for java. I'm really looking forward to this months release as graal will finally support java > 8.
What does Chrome have to do with a plugin for my image editor or a command line tool on my server?
Managed to download the Apple TV app and watch the first episode of The Mandalorian last night when it released early. Watching that episode was completely smooth at the time. But later while just browsing I found several issues. Some content curation related, like one or two shows only having a single season listed, but multiple seasons' worth of episodes assigned to that single season. Also, the queuing system (adding shows/movies to the watchlist or w/e they call it) didn't seem to work; the check mark showed after selecting it for each item, but nothing would actually come up on the queue page.
I don't remember reading anything to that effect.
this is either priming the video feed to make it quicker when you want to access it, or it's malicious.

i mean, it's Facebook, no way it's malicious right?
It's not even a circuit yet, this is a district court judgement. It is not a final say.
The suit seemed pretty dubious on the face of it--they're going after a gun manufacturer for advertising and selling guns?--until I read some of the details of the brief.

Remington sells a lot of guns, but this particular model was advertised with phrases like "ultimate combat weapons system" and "Forces of opposition, bow down. You are single-handedly outnumbered," and emphasized its standard 30-round magazine where Remington's own hunting and competition rifles have 5- or 10-round mags.

They were specifically advertising this particular gun as a great way to kill a lot of people.
Netflix is renown for paying their engineers very well. I would be interested to know if Disney+ also pay such high salaries to attract the best?
Can’t you just look at the comment while logged out?
Almost everything, some films are still under contract and may be a while before D+ can in house them.

Solo and The Last Jedi are still under Netflix for now
> ... in an unclassified paper

Or a declassified paper. (Not everything that starts behind the classification wall, stays behind the classification wall... but neither does everything behind the classification wall come forward in any reasonable timeframe.)
Sure, and I still fail to see why going through it and using Pascal is supposed to be a problem.
After wrapping the Mujoco physics engine in Julia, I did a few reinforcement learning / robotics control projects, combining it with the Flux.jl library for neural nets.

While I never made my research code public, https://openreview.net/forum?id=SyxytxBFDr documents a similar setup to what I use.
If you're willing to let a value slide, its not a value. Values should be things you're willing to stick to even when it hurts you. I think that misunderstanding/lie is the problem with most "values" list.
I think this misunderstands the point of insurance. Insurance covers rare, but high-cost situations by spreading the risk around to the entire population that's subject to that risk. It's not necessary that the situation be a surprise.

People with chronic diseases aren't subject to an emergency, but they're far more expensive to provide medical services for than otherwise healthy people because they need so much more medical care. Same with people with cancer: cancer is not an emergency in the sense you're describing, but no amount of comparison shopping is going to make cancer treatment affordable for one person. What does make it affordable is that a huge pool of people are paying for it.
The Ebola Vaccine Is Now Officially Here with Approval in Europe
Politics, and yet it doesn't have bounds checking support.
Well if you prrdicated such a permutation, that would indeed reject the null hypothesis. If 1.64E-24 doesn’t convince you, how do you manage to believe in anything at all? Thr world view you are positing is essentially solipsistic: there’s nothing that exists or is true except your own existence. Hopefully we all can agree that at best, such a view results in paralysis, at worst, absolute destruction.

Moreover, I don’t think you or anyone else actually applies your logic in your own life. If you did, you would be dead because of your disbelief in reality. For example, you migh conclude that eating is unnecessary, because the people who starved to death were just unlucky and that in fact, there’s been no “proof” that people need food at all. Or even proof that people exist at all!
As time passes our society should be judged more severely. You can't judge actions of XVI century, bit you can sure judge actions of XX century.
Storage and production costs for something available in UHD are the same regardless of whether someone streams a downscaled version. Storing multiple resolutions (assuming they do that rather than downscaling live from the stored highest-res or making the client do it) is where additional costs for more versions would show up.
Ask HN: Share your .vimrc file and what plug-ins you use
Belated edit: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator#/media/F...

> ... Intermediate Condenser ... Cooling Water ...
I'm sure this depends on the team, but I've actually heard from someone who works there that Netflix views working overtime consistently as a red flag? As in, everyone is supposed to be a superstar engineer, and not being able to finish your work in 9-5 makes you look bad?
So what would you and others in this thread do if, through some stroke of luck, you had hired the next John Carmack?

Are you saying that would be a guaranteed liability?

If so, how good is too good? You need to be sure to let your engineers know to stop progressing before they get there.
Mobile Coding Is a Thing
Because Disney has a huge back catalog that they can use in the coming years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault) would be one reason for that (and a lot of nostalgia).
Besides "parallel construction", there is a third-party doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
I've worked at two companies that have a definite set of values: Amazon and Shopify. In both companies the values serve two purposes. In decision-making, they act as something you can point at when you weigh choices. And in performance evaluations, they act as something you can point at to say that you or other people demonstrated certain values.

In this way they act as a norming force to keep everyone in a large company aligned on how decisions should be made and what behaviours are considered good. One of the biggest challenges a large organization faces is keeping all its parts aligned, and a specific set of values helps with that.
That's certainly a crucial protection but if law enforcement conducts an embarrassing or destructive search (such as when police recently blew up a man's home), they can still essentially end you.

But yes, it's good that you can't be simultaneously nailed in court with illegally collected evidence.

* https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-...
Based on this reading, “people” elect the senate. If “people” includes travelers, does that mean travelers get to vote?
Web developers don't seem to have any concern about using gigantic quantities of memory. Don't hire a web developer to develop for games. :)
If you are looking for post-apocalypse design options, or even practical solutions for current real world problems to try to avert the apocalypse, there is also a zeer, aka "pot in pot refrigerator."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator
I would classify it as "works as designed". That said, I have argued with the ssh developers at length about MaxSessions defaulting to 10. There are no syslog entries created for subsequent authentication and phishing attacks become incredibly easy. A coworker and I were going to demo how getting a developer to run a python/ruby script would lead to root access in production but they stopped the demo for fear they would have to mitigate the scenario.

Some would argue that getting someone to run a script is difficult, but we found that about 10% of developers want to be helpful and are not cynical enough to presume malice. They will run the script which will happily drop a ssh key, fire up sshd as the user, create an outbound connection to a passwordless shell-less VPS node and then we are that developer and can piggy back all their connections. Some developers are devops, so they also have prod access. Some places have passwordless sudo, too. In some places, you don't even need sudo, as the posix permissions of applications are sub-optimal.

If you try this, the script should have an obvious problem that requires running it to see. The developer/engineer will feel good that they helped you solve a trivial problem and you will have whatever access they have. Obviously get written permission for this type of pen-test with all the steps clearly documented and approved. Most important, ensure management agree to NOT shame the victims of the test. Get them to participate in the re-engineering of your network to harden it properly without adding excessive friction.
It sounds like you don’t care about the damage done by searching innocent people. Of course, if you don’t care about that, then just search 100% of all people! Why profile at all?
To be exact they didn't go from 0 to 100 though as it was already live in the Netherlands for a month.
Who on earth thinks this is a good idea? I want ONE FUCKING SERVICE.
You keep trying to flog that same horse, and you only end up sounding like someone who's never launched anything at scale.
To summarize: "Writing things twice allows you to know where you went wrong and correct it."

That's true.

I still prefer DRY, but I can appreciate the WET perspective.
Fair. Insert relevant authorities instead; the principle is of more concern than the implementing authority in this situation.
There's something deeply disturbed with a culture that produces two successive generations who's #1 "joke" is suicide. If we're good at one thing, it's anhedonic depression.
Might work for bigger channels with a stable following. Which is great but they need to start somewhere. I have an old friend who owns a history channel on yt. History Hustle. His vids are quite good but he's no pro just kinda doing it on the side. He doesn't have any real kind of sponsorship aside of his one patreon and yt. I think a lot of guys started out this way too. But I remember how other friend bragging when he got like a few euro through it. I think that inspired it. I don't know how that kind of thing would work without the yt model.
Its all about your perspective. If I bought 100k worth of $50 stock and it went to $5000 per share and this company decided to come clean and admit their devious (but not evil) plan and the stock went to $25/share I'd consider that evil...not the $5000/share value they made off of selling 'ads'.
> The practice was probably used to improve the children’s chances of securing a university place.

The fact the competition to get into a university is so hard you need to co-author a scientific paper for this is the problem. Education should be accessible for everybody.
Your first example is funny, considering that the hospital where my son was delivered sent us a letter about a month before his due date with an estimate of the cost for both normal delivery and caesarean.

Of course it didn't cover every possible contingency... That's what an "estimate" means by definition. But that doesn't mean that it's impossible or even unreasonable to provide a baseline price, along with some of the more common events that can modify that price.
Is the primary advantage of CockroachDB over FoundationDB primarily in supporting SQL out of the box? The multi-region support seems pretty banger at first glance.

P.S.

... and I had a tirade here about the licensing information being largely absent on their FAQ or product pages, but I did find this after a google before posting:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroach...

which... from what I can tell at my cursory inspection, seems okay to me. I'd be pretty pissed too assuming a giant SaaS company came by, forked their product, and then resold it with improvements they didn't upstream. Mostly, because it's just fucking rude. One could have a good business relationship with another company with both prospering, but instead you take the short-n-shitty road for no reason...

With that said, it'd be nice if you put that in yer FAQ.
I am no fan of the NRA and their sponsors but the standard of proof in this case for the line of arguement worries me.

It is one thing if e-cig manufacturers get sued for marketing as smoking cessation devices while talking about flavor or advertising on influencers - it is damn clear that they are dodging anti-tobbaco advertisement and advertising nicotine to minors and the standard of evidence is well established. But trying to draw connection between the machismo and spree shooters? It seems far too speculative when courtroom junk science based on the desired outcome has already caused problems.

Plus how easily used for the next moral panic. For a silly example that Minecraft causes illegal and unpermitted construction when it is really say priced out younger generations building their own squats.
What you're describing will indeed be introduced with the WebAssembly GC proposal: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc

For languages that can express unforgeable pointers as first-class concept, that is indeed a very attractive, fine-grained approach. Unfortunately bringing that to languages like C/C++/Rust is a different matter altogether.

Since we want to support those languages as first-class citizens, we can't require GC support as a base concept, so we have to treat a nanoprocess as the unit of isolation from the outside.

Once we have GC support, nothing will prevent languages that can use it from expressing finer-grained capabilities even within a nanoprocess, and that seems highly desirable indeed.

(full disclosure: I'm a Mozilla employee and one of the people who set up the Bytecode Alliance.)
It is not necessarily the final say. DHS may turn around and challenge the ruling which may then be picked up by the Court of Appeals for further review. However, the Court of Appeals does not have to review the case and even if they did, they very well may agree with the ruling from the district court.
That's a silly (mis)characterization of what this is. Some rights are only afforded to the citizenry, and that is not inherently evil and is often the only reasonable approach. Other rights are afforded to everyone. The discussion centers around teasing out what the Constitution means when it uses person/people.
No, not even if that were the case. If you only check people who meet the profile your attackers will start using people who don’t fit the profile. So those percentages wouldn’t stay 100% and 0% for long.
We have used clj-ml[0], which wraps a bunch of Weka stuff, as well as the XGBoost JVM bindings. I've used Bayadera[1] and Dragan's other tools for linear algebra, although not in production. I was always sad that Incanter didn't really go anywhere, but at this point I wouldn't be surprised if Clojure became a respectable platform for data science, especially given Clojurists Together's funding focus this quarter[2].

0: https://github.com/shark8me/clj-ml

1: https://github.com/uncomplicate/bayadera

2: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q4-2019-funding-anno...