skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it is changing after Joe Rogan is moving to Spotify. He has a point.
I had a chance to watch ~half of Kasparov’s class on Masterclass. For casual player (1850 lichess in blitz and bullet, 77 percentile), it was close to useless. Too high level and pretty unstructured.
For those who still want news, I think reuters provides the most balance. They do still lean left at times though with overuse of phrases like "far right".
> - In general reported download speeds are little lower than figures coming from other speed tests. We will revisit our methodology to understand the discrepancy.

For what it's worth, Cloudflare shows me at 10mbps down, and Speedtest shows me at 160mbps (much closer to my expected 200mbps). This is a large difference.
An alternative for this is Matrix.

See: https://matrix.org
Sure, I've spent a lot of time and money on my setup, but at the end I realize that it does not make much difference - even in terms of enjoyment. You get used to whatever you have.

I got Uplift bamboo desk, Leap chair, and two PG27UQ monitors. MX Keys keyboard and MX Master 3 mouse. HD 600 headphones. Brio 4k webcam.

But sometimes I take my macbook to a library, and I'm just as comfortable working there without any of those things I have at home.
Well, you could either go the route of a Nobel laureate in literature that you've never heard of, or for a guy with commercial success.

From Wikipedia: His books have been translated into 57 languages and, as of 2012, have sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, have been adapted into films.

It all depends on what your goals are. No-one is forced to take any of the offered classes.
I like this idea.

In response to it just creating more echo chambers:

- it can't be worse than now
- At minimum, it's an echo chamber of your own creation instead of being manipulated by FB. There's value in that, ethically.
- Giving people choice at scale means it will at least improve the situation for some people.
I hardly watch the news anymore. I let myself read the papers at night. But I found myself checking and checking, so once a day. (I was photo editor of my college paper, so I have a soft spot for newspapers).

I do listen to my local public radio statio. I'm in Boston and WGBH, is pretty good.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/

They even have a radio talk show (worst title: Boston Public Radio) which has news, events and other discussions. Lots of local (which was more relevent when there where events to discover...) I don't always listen, but it can be pretty funny when people call in.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/boston-public-radio
Unfortunately, if you want to monetize your Youtube, Twitch, or other videos, the partner agreements on those platforms explicitly forbid uploading the same content to other video sites within certain time periods or posting videos on one platform to send users to your preferred platform. In particular, I know that you have to wait at least 24 hours after a Twitch stream to upload the VOD to Youtube, you can't co-stream simultaneously or upload immediately after streaming and retain your Twitch partnership, and Youtube has killed channels for posting 30-second "I'm going live on Twitch in 5 minutes" notifications (Twitch notifications are notoriously broken). If your income is through advertisements monetizing video views that won't work.

I agree, though, that a website with merchandise (depending on the channel) or a Patreon, distributing your video hosting across platforms, is probably the safest way to go.
It's bad behavior if you're paying a lot for bandwidth…
What're the comparative impacts on battery life of those?
Yes.

All these examples seem to stem from a fundamental misunderstanding about what a flywheel is and what it can do. They are primarily for storing and releasing energy; they don’t generate their own momentum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel
You can try crowdfunded space sim 'Star Citizen' for free
I agree. Humans are interactive agents, they have broader knowledge about the world, and they can (to a degree) diagnose their performance and compensate.

Think of a DL powered, visually guided robot vs. a human on a production line.

One task might be to do QC inspection at the end of the line. Suppose something gets on the camera lens. In general, the DL system will keep chugging along and the accuracy will degrade. The human will notice this and clean his glasses.

If he sees something ambiguous as it passes on the line, he might give it a bit more attention or adjust the angle he's looking at it from. If he sees a series of the same anomalies, he will notice a pattern. Perhaps one of the machines up the line from him has started to introduce a new type of defect.

Suppose in assembly a worker has a sore muscle. He might adapt his motions to compensate, slow down, go to the doctor, take some pain pills, or take a day off. Unless programmed or trained to detect this, a robot will keep driving its failing motor harder until it breaks.
Advogato feelings here.
FYI, the 8K is their Input Resolution.

That resolution is then divided into the 45 viewing directions: https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/Appendix/how-it-works/

We need to divide 7680x4320 by the 9x5 grid.

Thus, the effective resolution is only 864x853 scaled in width to make each pixel about 1.75x wider than tall.

At that resolution, it might be difficult to read normal-sized text.
Is this entirely web based? How are writing records stored? Thanks and great site!
I’m pretty sure it’s cloudflare being bitchy about not receiving some arcane DNS field from archive and therefore blocking their requests.
Really happy to hear this. I have loved next dns since its start, not only for their product, but also due to the fact is is a clean sustainable business. No need for ads, a generous free tier, and a cheap full featured paid tiered. This is the way I would like to see most SaaS's go
This feels to me that its due more to a lack of demand. Ever since I got off Comcast 10Mbps down/1 up in 2009 and went to Fios, which IIRC was offering 35/10 at the time, I haven't don't think I have ever felt that network speeds have been a problem. I occasionally do large file transfers, but its usually the SD card or hard drives that are more speed constrained than the network itself.

You can get faster stuff, but its all business level and it gets very expensive quickly. Until 8k video becomes a real thing (and thus far, 4k video isn't even much of a thing), I don't see any real need for faster network speeds. Do you?
I'm hoping this will improve the quality of videos too. So many videos are just filler trying to hit that 10 minute mark.
If you want to avoid pasting tokens in online tools (right now it looks like they don't send out / record anything, but as a general practice, pasting sensitive tokens in online tools is probably not the best idea)

Then this one liner in the browser console can be used for most purposes:

JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(atob(TOKENHERE.split('.')[1])), null, 2);
No, I think it's slowly increasing in the background. Look at https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

It's been a steady linear increase for the past three years, now over 30%.

Interestingly, zoom in to 2020, and you'll see the effect of the coronavirus lockdown--all those home workers and people in self-isolation on IPv6 rather than on IPv4-only work networks.

With the increase in dependence upon cloud computing and containers, I believe that one of the big blockers today is the poor support for IPv6 by cloud providers and by docker and other virtualisation/container systems. Their lack of IPv6 support is what precludes wider adoption on client systems and internally in companies. Pervasive IPv6 support would be reason to use it, but right now it's a hindrance.
https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/issues/2
I never look at CNN, MSNBC or FoxNews. I feel sites like reuters.com or apnews.com give me a good level of news without the emotional content.

I agree about local newspapers. We should worry more about what's going on close to us versus Washington.
I would also factor in the quality of the founders. On top of that are questions general to all tech jobs.
It's unfortunate you're being downvoted, because I think in many ways you're right. People -- especially people who hold strong views on divisive issues -- usually will not change their minds when presented with new evidence[0]. They're swayed by emotional appeals that get them to change how they feel about an issue.

Sure, there are exceptions, and some people can be dispassionate enough to weigh evidence and change their minds, but that is definitely not the norm.

[0] I read a fantastic article on this a year or two ago, but can't find it now; will update with an edit if I find it before the edit window expires.
"Fix-the-internet" and "shape the internet" have different meanings, and you have used both... so I am not sure what you are offering!

Where are the problems to be fixed? I can see glossy bios' of mentors and their song-and-dance about how great this is, but it seems a PR gimmick from Mozilla.
I don't think climate change related policies matter much in the big picture. Maybe it makes adoption a year or two faster.

EVs are better cars for the majority of people. Once drive out price unequivocally beats ICE, EV adoption will skyrocket.
Things I would like in a blogging platform:

* Generate lightweight static website

* Good clean default CSS so I don't have to mess with it

* Automatically upload website to CDN and trigger expirations as necessary.

* Self-hosted

* Runs on AWS Lambda or any other Function as a Service equivilient

* Has a super lightweight CMS that I can easily use on both desktop and mobile, so if I have ideas I can start writing anywhere, and can also make minor corrections to existing posts while on the go.

* The CMS can be a frontend to git, but git is hard to use on mobile, so I don't want the CMS to just be git.

If anyone knows of something that meets these requirements I'd be super grateful!
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wow thanks!
Edit: I must say I'm confused as to why changing my hosts file didn't work on Win 10.
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Interesting that slack hasn't just built their own voice messaging tool.
Patents provide country-by-country protection -- a US Patent doesn't mean anything in other countries - except for being evidence of prior art in their own patent offices.

Also, some/many countries have laws that disallow patents or patent infringement claims associated with medicine.
> Yeah, if Apple Pay and Google Pay has the same market share then website could integrate those service

According to the Apple developer docs[1], websites don't have to integrate with Apple Pay specifically; Safari also supports the (fairly new) platform-neutral Payment Request API[2]. Google's docs[3] suggest that something similar is available for Chrome on Android.

1. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_pay_on_the_w...

2. https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

3. https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/payments
While I agree, I think reimplementation is high bar for most research, especially in very niche areas.

I think think extension also carries similar value. It is less grunt work to do, but still requires a deep understanding of the existing code. "Weirdness" should quickly become apparent.
I thought this thread on MasterClass's coordinated distribution strategy was interesting and worth reading: https://twitter.com/TheCoolestCool/status/126538262872474009...

The fact MasterClass ranks first in Google for "what is a shallot?" is pretty surprising.
I think transparency matters more. I liked Andrew Yang’s suggestion to require the recommendation algorithms of the largest social networks to be open sourced given how they can shape public discourse and advertising in all mass media is regulated to prevent outright lies from being spread by major institutions (although an individual certainly may do so).
Barcode scanning startup Scandit raises $80M in Series C round
> Comcast isn't building new last mile infrastructure, they're using new modems on both ends of the coax cable.

In a lot of places, they're also adding lots of equipment in the last mile to shrink the "node" sizes so that the number of households within any particular shared medium on Comcast is much smaller today than it was 10 years ago. It's not the same level of build out as bringing fiber drops to every home, but it's also not nothing.
As far as I understand the mobile Diablo was supposed to be contracted out to another company (Netease). Said company also has a - let's put it this way - very similar game already on the market.

So I guess it's even more surprising there haven't been any further news since then.

Unless of course, they pivoted the project, to provide a PC version or a different game altogether.
well, it seemed like it was due to abuse w/ a botnet making a bunch of community guideline claims. I'm sure youtube will patch their codebase better.
Why do people in the software industry refer to themselves as "nerds" or "geeks"? Both are (or were) rather derogatory terms.

Learn to relax, man.
I just created a throwaway profile to check-out the platform. The interface is sleek and smooth.

I'm still not clear with the free vs premium plans. It would be better if you create a comparison table for that on https://www.writenext.io/premium page.

For e.g., Writing exports are part of the premium. Does that mean after 3 months of the free trial I won't be able to export my writings?
I believe they are shy to show it in high-quality video because the effective resolution is <900px. See my comment below for the math.

Even in that TechCrunch gif, I believe I can already see pixel borders on the specular shading of the top part of the h.

For an even clearer example, see the frog in full-screen at 3:31 here: https://youtu.be/-EA2FQXs4dw?t=211
Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't remove them
I would not recommend it if you expect anything resembling a final product.

I've been trying it and the amount of breaking bugs I hit (which make the session unplayable) is significant. Most of these are already reported, FTR.
Not a new idea. One example was early marketing of Apache Nutch.
I think that the main thing is that in general the "fuel" for a flow battery can be stored at ambient temperature and pressure, and so the tankage is cheaper.

In their basic function though I agree they are very similar.
I have 100MBps Frontier FIOS:

Cloudflare: 244 Mbps

Fast: 100Mbps

Speedtest.net: 83 Mbps

Cloudflare seems to consistently report higher than cap speeds due to 100k and 1mb files not engaging the traffic shaper, while the 10MB files seems to be in line with the other speed tests which they seem to do a continuous download.
In addition, what’s with the scare quotes around “accidentally” with the link to the Twitter post? The post and article title don’t contain them. Sure, it’s probably intentional, but we don’t need editorialization.
You’re wrong - https://mobile.twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791...
Side note: the DuckDuckGo Firefox extension kills a lot of those analytics and tracker requests. Contrary to some of the reviews, turning it off is as easy as flipping a switch.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-fo...
Do I smell a blockchain application?
Louis Rossman: Apple's T2 chip failure [Video]
I wish I could upvote this twice. This is the exact problem preventing widespread adoption of "AI" throughout most businesses. A model that is 99% accurate is not good enough for most mundane business tasks because they will fail in ways that no human ever would. Additionally, when you consider how much it costs upfront to hire a team of engineers and data scientists, build a training dataset, develop the code, maintain it etc, it quickly becomes clear that except for the most costly processes internally there is no way that AI is going to be cheaper than hiring a bunch of people in India by the hour. Not to mention that the people in India can be retrained to do something in hours that would take your super specialized team of engineers months to reproduce with code.

Let's also not forget that most business processes are bespoke to each corporation. Finding a single process that can be successfully targeted across multiple companies is hard. Some people like AWS and Google are trying with Textract and some of these other AI-as-a-service products, but they're not having a lot of success. They still fail all the time.
The ‘other’ NLP - neurolinguistic programming.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
Yup doesn't work on Firefox. Also using Fedora.
You can't attack another user like that. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.
I would have thought that MasterClass would struggle because of
the cultural "anti-expert" zeitgeist we have right now. Glad i'm wrong.
I came here to make all the same feedback. My 1Gbps connection also massively under-reports.
Resignation and Termination versus Layoff
My experience watching carlos santana's class on guitar was similarly disappointing. He just keeps talking about "finding your sound" then plays a few notes. Not really helpful.
This is exactly what people thought with ST3: there were years and years when it was in beta with radio silence, and then, all of a sudden, it came out in a production release and it was awesome as expected. I think that's just how they roll.
With more then 99% confidence, FB, Google and Amazon, Visa, Mastercard can all do this today already.
You guys are doing it right now.
We're misunderstanding each other then.

I assumed this package about mocking time was _not_ about mocking timestamps but program behavior. For example, if I have a loop that says "every 20 seconds, do X", and I want to test that, I now have to mock time.

That's not about timestamps, that's about comparing monotonic clocks for "20s have elapsed".

The go time package doesn't just give you a timestamp to do something with, it also lets you compare times. That was my point.

It sounds like your original comment was arguing that mocking time isn't useful, so I assumed you meant all uses of time.
Yikes, thanks for pointing that out!
they should have just shared the project landing page => https://yatta-lang.org

why another language? why not, who cares
Ever seen a news broadcast that said "well, nothing really important happened today, so we're not doing a show - instead here's an hour of cat videos instead"? This is 24 times worse with the proliferation of dedicated news channels.

At the same time, the recipe for click-bait has been perfected, and that's bled over into TV news as well. Sensationalism and outrage sell.

It also seems like there's a strong culture that being first is far more important than being correct, and so even when there is news I might care about, it's hard to get actual details: It's early and inaccurate information, or worse, just various "talking heads" going on for hours speculating but not really adding anything useful.
"Try it now. No sign up required"

I love that phrase. This looks like a fantastic service!
Also would be nice if the line chart had hover info to let you know which test it was running at the time.
Netflix has servers directly in the ISP datacenter.

Ookla also is generally run out of the isp datacenter.

Cloudflare has servers running at a PoP and doesn’t get the same performance
This post has always irked me. It reads as straight up gate-keeping, especially when what follows these questions are a litany of negativity ("go home" "no one cares" "you are kidding yourself" and "you are wrong."). This is especially frustrating as the author later admits he himself cannot answer these questions honestly and yet persists in designing his own language. He certainly hasn't "gone home" so why should anyone else?

Here's my advice: Want to invent a new programming language? Dive in. It doesn't matter if someone invented it before. It doesn't matter if you can't formalize it in mathematical notation at the outset (or ever). It doesn't matter if your language could be implemented in a library of another language. It doesn't matter if you can't articulate the precise benefits of your language. It doesn't matter if there are any benefits at all. It doesn't matter if you can't answer a single of the above questions. Have at it. You are guaranteed to a) learn a lot, and b) have fun. Maybe you do something completely derivative and that's fine. Maybe no one will appreciate what you do and that's fine. Maybe it will go nowhere, maybe it will never compile. Maybe you will be the only user. Maybe some guy on the internet will tell you to go home and no one cares. So what?
I was expecting there to be Doxygen comments in there, but there wasn’t. So, no, this header is not documentation. I don’t want to read all the code to understand how to use a library; I want examples.
A rather persistent recruiter from FB contacted me recently, and given the new WFH scenario there I was almost considering looking into it further, despite it probably being a frying-pan-fire thing (coming from Google)

But after reading this... yeah, no.
I've listened to some talks by Song, and my impression is that she does not seem to have a strong technical grasp of what's going on, for what it's worth. There is a lack of clarity in her communication style. I'd try to work with Vechev, Liang, UW PLSE group if I were you...
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to be clear, wasn't disagreeing, but pointing out some potential rationale why this could conceivably be viewed as a security matter vs open science matter
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