skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I feel like ad services are not making such unaffordable amounts of revenue per user. Facebook reports $112 of revenue per user in the US, and that number plummets to just $25 globally.

Facebook is the privacy boogeyman these days, jokes about Zuckerberg are in no short supply.

Yet if you told people you can pay $9 a month and Facebook never needs your data ever again except host it for you, they'd say no. In fact they might be insulted you had the audacity to ask for such a thing. You could ask for $1 and they'd still say no.

It's just the same way they don't value their digital presence, they don't value digital goods and services.

They'll pay $6 every morning for the same cup of coffee worth 30 cents of ingredients and 5 minutes of work, but balk at the idea of an app asking for 99 cents for a lifetime of development work.

I'm not saying that from a place of bitterness to be clear, it's just what I've found to be the inconvenient reality of things.
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> with the assumption that it has already been fully reverse-engineered and figured out

Then how do you prevent it from being circumvented?
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The web browser by several orders of magnitude...e.g. this.
This is basically the setup we've been using with vagrant (and in production) for years.

Vagrant launches a bare-bones VM.
Local files mount on /vagrant
Chef-zero uses local mount to provision the systems and configurations necessary.

On every vagrant reload, this process repeats. Chefs idempotent nature means that any manual drift is automatically repaired.

In this setup there's no difference between `vagrant reload` and `vagrant destroy && vagrant up`.

It's possible to package this so that it's simultaneously "Infrastructure as Code" while also satisfying "Immutable Infrastructure". Our stab at this is now 6 years old and we're surely not the first to do it.
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You can use this extension to change speed of all HTML5 videos: https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
For cross-platfrom 2D (not mobile, but Windows, Mac, Linux) I recommend looking at Love2D

https://love2d.org/

Easy to use, good documentation, simple API, based off Lua. I suspect it's meant for smaller projects.
Could go either way, right? I've seen folks who have side projects spend most of their work day working on their side projects. They might be "better programmers" (also debatable), but if they don't get their work done - does it matter? I've seen folks who do really solid work for 8 hours and then go home and do other things, some of those folks have said that the separation is helpful so they can really be at their "programming best" at work.

(I say this as someone who generally have multiple programming side projects going on at any given time and also freelances...)
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> This is good. The powers of the Supreme Court are -- and should remain -- limited

Wouldn't not intervening be the limited thing to do?
I haven't yet spent much time researching alternatives. One podcast I used to listen to is now a Spotify exclusive. I use that to stream music and I really like how their desktop and mobile apps work together. I was thinking of giving them a try for podcasts until I realized it didn't seem possible to import an RSS feed. That would eliminate the ability to listen to Patreon supported podcasts which is a deal breaker for me.
> end to end encryption makes multi-party chats hard. The basic issue is that you don't want to burden end points with sending the video streams to all users. ... The mandatory end to end encryption was circumvented by connecting to a central server.

Dumb question: Can't you choose one video encryption key K, use ten thousand individual secure connections (with different keys) to share K with all the other users, then encrypt your video with K and let central servers mirror it all they like? (Could even have other clients do some mirroring, bittorrent-style.) Regarding downsampling: if the client has only enough CPU and bandwidth to put out one stream, then, yeah, that doesn't work very well, but otherwise you could put out multiple streams (all encrypted with K) of different quality.
Something on the periphery of this article’s theses on pedantry, that comes to mind, is the notion that everything anyone states has to cite some peer-reviewed paper that is published in a prestigious journal; otherwise it’s useless.

“Source?” “Citation?” “Papers, please?”

Nobody is allowed to think aloud, lest they risk spreading disinformation, despite the utter and complete failure of occidental peer review systems (80% non-reproducible rate, etc.).

IMHO, this pedantic behavior also creates a Royal Society-esque gatekeeping environment that is hostile to individual a posteriori contributions, relegating them to “anecdata” status at best. That environment turns out to be also hostile to a priori knowledge creation in general.
More fair, but voices still signal age and gender, so implicit bias remains.
This is the perfect ground for a chargeback. The merchant is not delivering the service they promised and isn't abiding by the terms stated at the time of purchase (the original refund policy).
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This is totally addictive
Some channels get more views in a day on a single video than these platforms get visitors in a week.
I run a website that gets decent ad revenue (usually around $2,000/month) and so far month to date in April is down 54% versus the same day last month, and March was already down 14% from February. CPC for March was $0.60 but April is only $0.30 so far. Traffic, CTR, and fill rate haven’t changed, just drastically lower CPC.
I think it really depends on the font you use and the CSS rules you apply. LaTeX needs tweaking, too, even with a good template.

E.g., if your font supports it, you can enable ligatures:

text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
And culture, and education.
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Chronologically:
Internet Explorer
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Facebook (the app)
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There's value in using the right tools for the job. Making games with plain javascript is HARD, there is too much complexity as the environment is simply designed for a different use case.

There's much to learn in game development on itself, so using a dedicated library that will make the simple tasks easy is always a good idea.
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What marginal value does video provide over telephone?
Hasn't been my experience. I was programming mostly in python in 2007 in applied math, oceanography, and physics classes. It had already been established in those fields (at least at my university) in 2007 so it's been at least 15 years.
Voices can be transformed to all look the same and hide gender, age and origin. Remains vocabulary, education, etc.
Show HN: 38K+ “Limited State”/Censored YouTube Videos
This feels like you may get a mighty big slice of a microscopic pie.
When you consider this fact together with news such as this one is when it starts getting scary:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/nhs-coronaviru...
Why do you speak with foul language? Do you not see how it’s unnecessary?
Posted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22856765
Counterexample:

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) (or any ML model, really)

We still don't fully understand how or why they work so well. If you have software that queries a CNN and the CNN returns some prediction, there's absolutely no way of knowing or understanding the reasoning behind the decision. It's a black box of magical layers and weights that have been "trained" to make good predictions.

If you have fraud detection software using ML and it flags something as fraud, that's the extent of the information you get. In this case the computer cannot be understood - it cannot explain to you how it arrived at the conclusion that something is fraud, nor can you explain how the computer arrived at the decision. It just has huge tables of weights and biases that magically "know" when something is fraud.
For those curious:

There are 20 arguments that were to have been heard in March and April that were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus. Of these, 10 are now rescheduled by telephone in May. The other 10 are not rescheduled as of yet.

I've heard speculation in the past month that SCOTUS could simply choose to decide the easy 9-0 cases solely on the basis of the existing briefs, without oral argument. Given that the 10 arguments that are now scheduled for May includes all the "time-sensitive", big, and controversial cases, and the 10 not rescheduled appear to be more boring circuit split cases, this does increase my belief that they are planning on doing this.

As a side note, the case perhaps most relevant to many people in this site, Google v Oracle, is one of the ones not rescheduled for argument.
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TW support told me they just don’t support an account in another country that isn’t in that country’s native currency. Which seemed odd. This was about a year ago.
CPUs are a circuit. What are you on about?

Ergo, you can model anything CPUs do as a matrix.
Its linkbait. Some people click more on a title with foul language.
Just repeal the PAEA.
Hopefully removing a whole extra layer will make it easier to profile and improve, both for Mac tools and for Mac developers. One of my main complaints about Firefox is that everything is so completely custom (even the parts that look 'native') that all my years of Mac development knowledge are useless.

I see that, for better or worse, Inkscape is still fully GTK+ even on macOS. It uses the slightly improved native features of that toolkit, but all the controls still look like they're ripped from an X11 app. The text labels don't even use Mac naming conventions.

I wonder if GTK+ is architected in a way that's going to be easy to optimize on the Mac graphics architecture.
Pressure sensitivity was only working on the caligraphy tool, not on the pencil! This is an huge improvement - The rendering of the pencil tool is way faster for me and i suppose pencil lines are plain paths with an strokeWith, so the resulting svg would have way less complextion on the path data, i guess. Not checked yet. :- )
Well the ad quality is garbage, IME.

> This is a cardinal sin of EDM

SKIP AD FROM MASTERCLASS.COM

> We live in strange times

SKIP AD FROM MASTERCLASS.COM

> Little Red Riding Hood… Let’s start the story a different way!

SKIP AD FROM MASTERCLASS.COM

These adverts never end. They are relentless. There must be something wrong with the platform.
Something like Flappy Bird is easily done in Godot and can help you learn the engine. I for one really like Godot and look forward to using it for many of my game projects. You'll really like the node system once you get into it. Look on YouTube for tutorials, there's quite a few.
That's easy. Just say I will never compromise on writing unreadable and messy code. I will also never compromise on documentation. That's just a disservice to my team members and disrespectful to anyone who will ever read or modify the code.

That bullshit will work for both technical and non-technical people. Of course do I do follow my own mantra all the time? Does anyone follow it at at all times? No.

You need some kind of coding question at the very least to measure coding ability and a non-technical person just can't do that.
Thank you, that's more or less what I was looking for.

I had probably come across it during my earlier attempts at finding a suitable project, but the need for an FPGA likely turned me a bit down. I might re-evaluate that if I really need it.

I also bought a SD Card -> IDE adapter some time ago. SD cards can communicate via SPI, so it should be feasible to directly hook up a raspberry pi (after writing a host SD card protocol layer), unless I am missing something? More recent Pi version should be able to drive the SPI link at more than 25 MHz, I hear.
It is designed to be used via screen-sharing on VC call (the instructions cover how). I have successfully played it with up to 6 people over Zoom :)
You're asking for a feature. Put your money where your mouth is.
Let's do an example, using just colors with no red or green in their RGB representation so we just have to give the B component, which is a decimal from from 0 to 255. Let's call 0 "black".

Your suggestion was that if a color is close enough to another to be indistinguishable it the two should have the same name.

1 is close enough to 0, so gets the name "black" too.

How about 2? That's farther from 0 "black". Is it distinguishable? If not, it too is "black", and we can go on to compare 3 and 0, and beyond.

At some point we get our lowest blue-only RGB color that is distinguishable from 0 "black". Suppose that is 4. So we have 0, 1, 2, and 3 are all called "black", and since 4 is distinguishable from 0 it needs a new name, say "very light blue".

But now we have 3 "black" only 1 away from 4 "very light blue". Those are probably indistinguishable, so are supposed to have the same name. Oops.
My point isn't that these bugs exist, or even the maintainers' willingness, time, or ability to fix them.

My point is that people don't understand the necessity for a "vision guy" to direct UX in any program of appreciable size. And it's not like these kinds of people don't exist, or that they'd be unwilling to help. People just don't seem to even WANT them taking on these tasks on their projects.

And that's a real shame, because many of these projects are technical wonders that are borderline unusable for want of a loving touch.
But aren't these examples of having to follow someone else's rules after you've left their house?
"elected officials call to close the warehouse"

How out of touch and uneducated are these people? Pandemics can't be stopped outside a vaccine. We are all going to catch it or be quarentined for 18 months.

Want to flatten the curve? I could go to Walmart and interface with 50 people to get ibuprofen, or I can interface with 1 worker?

We need to stop electing marketers and start electing people that understand math.
No different then existing artist platform economics (although Nebula is geared towards content creators, not pushing ads such that Youtube is).

If you're expecting more, build your own brand and video hosting platform, and develop whatever individual brand value you can from your audience. Otherwise, them the breaks of more content available than one can consume in a lifetime (see: abysmal Spotify artist revenue). IMHO, content creator driven platforms at least give you a chance to extract more value than you could from Youtube (due to creator<->YouTube/Google power dynamics).
So what exactly do you want? The law might be stupid, I agree it's stupid, but it's the bloody law. You wanted TW to break the law just to help our your friend? Then guess what happens? No more TW.

It is literally the first item in the AUP that you're not allowed to use the service for anything unlawful. Of course they monitor that. They did everything right. And I'm sure your "friend" got their money back reasonably promptly after TW completed their review.

Criticism is fine, but taking a company to task for refusing to break the law for you is just silly. They didn't make the rules, and they'd be risking their own existence by breaking them.
Great news. Our company's logo was entirely designed in inkscape
Even if he did, I don't think the BSDs would change to linux. Plus I imagine many of the contributors contribute because of the license, which would anger them.
There's an interesting article on Vox regarding how this all fits into a larger plan for getting Americans out of their homes (https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavi...).

The tl;dr is that at least in the context of a pandemic like this one, lack of access to a smartphone and lack of willingness to enable tracking puts a person in the new second-class-citizen category. It's not the stick that government would use to restrict freedom; it's the carrot of granting more freedom to those who are more trusting of authority.

Not only do I personally not see much of a way around that scenario, the Vox article notes it's entirely possible that Americans' general mistrust of authority means the country may recover more slowly and painfully than nations that are willing to let the government data-tag and monitor everyone.

At what point does the value of participating in society and the economy outweigh the value of one's privacy? It seems this question is going to rapidly become even more non-academic than it already is.
Not to be redundant, but FINALLY! Been using Inkscape since 2013, and having to drag Quartz into the mix is a PITA.
I guess so, I didn't want to use this as a promotional opportunity since I think it would make my comments insincere.

But if your interested, https://h6ntechnologies.com/.
Been using spectacle for years but since it's no longer maintained I had to moved to rectangle. Very similar, love it
No. The federal court that issued the flawed decision is subordinate to the supreme court. In an ideal world, they wouldn't have intervened. However, once they do so in an overly authoritarian way, now it is the supreme court's responsibility to undo that.

Think of it this way. Your kid goes and destroys your neighbors window. Now, not intervening in your neighbor's life means not touching their window and not breaking their stuff. However, a person you're responsible for went ahead and interfered anyway. Now you're obligated to undo it to the best of your ability in the interests of non-intervention. You may need to take active steps to do so, including installing a new window. While installing a new window for your neighbor is a major intervention, if you look at the larger context, it may be a component of staying non-interventionist.

Or if sci-fi is more your bent. Consider the prime directive from Star Trek, a rule of non-intervention:

> As the right of each sentient species to live in accordance with its normal cultural evolution is considered sacred, no Starfleet personnel may interfere with the normal and healthy development of alien life and culture. Such interference includes introducing superior knowledge, strength, or technology to a world whose society is incapable of handling such advantages wisely. Starfleet personnel may not violate this Prime Directive, even to save their lives and/or their ship, unless they are acting to right an earlier violation or an accidental contamination of said culture. This directive takes precedence over any and all other considerations, and carries with it the highest moral obligation.

Notice that non-intervention is key, unless the prime directive is already violated. Then acting to right an earlier violation is considered kosher.
more inventory and demand than advertisers.. CPM falls. What do they expect?
Masterclass has hacked the algorithm. Their ads are pretty great and I feel like I'm learning a little and often watch the entire thing, even if I have no interest in paying for the full course.
Yes, that sucked, which is why I mentioned it.
Another angle of this question is often to elicit what kinds of problems you have solved in your personal time, ideally technical, but not necessarily so.

I have had great conversations with someone who has built an automatic pet feeder that lead to the work.

It shows a different facet of one's personality. This, in turn may come in to play when creative problem solving is involved. Quite often even non-technical problem solving around the home can transfer to work

It can delineate the difference between a developer who sees what they do as a profession, vs those who started with it as a passion and continue to solve problems.
Things will course correct
I would be interested in a performance comparison of delta debugging tools, in my experience the performance of this type of tool has not been great (to be fair I have only tried creduce, delta, and my own coding experiments), although I might give dustmite a try
> find a way to productize their service (re-usable code blocks or processes, customized per client at a very high effective rate), or

Anecdote incoming:

One of my short-term roommates was a programmer who did mostly SCADA-type stuff. He'd previously had a gig working for a utility contractor designing water/plumbing control systems, but for unrelated political reasons the project died he was able to retain the code (no idea if that was legal or permitted... but he had it). Flash forward to when I was living with him and he was doing freelancing work for a few counties and their related utilities, essentially implementing the same code for new clients. He eventually admitted he was only doing 30-40% new code, and mostly reviewing the existing systems.

Didn't seem to lack for work though, and had a few stacked clients / contracts going at once. Don't know his hourly rate but I'd assume he was going for at least $50/hr.
If Bezos tries to acquire USPS, Donald Trump will save USPS. Simple.
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IMO this is a good move. The counter arguments are:

- Delivery apps are struggling and they have to charge 30% to survive in a cut-throat market (many delivery services competing).

- Why not charge the consumer? Restaurants are struggling and take the fees off of them and charge consumers.

I feel like delivery companies are "double dipping", they charge delivery fee and they charge 30% to the restaurants as commission. That's unsustainable. Charge the consumer not the restaurant. It has all kinds of nasty disincentives - "We won't list your restaurant on our super popular delivery app because you didn't agree to pay 30% commission to us." Fuck that.

Delivery services should just charge by the mile/time of the delivery it takes. That's kind of like Uber but instead of driving around a human, they're driving around food.

+ 10.99 sandwich
+ 1.99 chips
+ 5.50 delivery charge

5.50 delivery charge is based on the time/distance of the restaurant to the house. If they pool multiple orders, they it should be amortized and split. Personally, I tip because I have to but not because I want to. Tipping is a shitty culture and needs to be abolished like Japan. Just pay the employees enough. There should be laws that protect service workers and guarantee their wage. I am happy to know that $8.00 is the delivery fee upfront because of increased salary for service workers than having to "voluntarily" tip $2.50. That's the job of the delivery company to pay, not for the consumers to pony up atop $5.50 delivery fee.
Yes and no. They're out there and exist but you hit the treadmill that is customer acquisition. Any additional moneys you make by publishing off YouTube you'll pay to someone else to get a viewership. If you already have a large organic viewership you might be able to make the switch less painful but I doubt you'll be able to start from zero.

You'll probably have to be on YT for exposure and then direct people off the site. Ironically a lot of TikTok-ers are trying to use the same trick to move their followers to YT for better pay.
It's a business. Students still are taking classes online. Why undermine our own educational system.