skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sisvel Announces AV1 Patent Pool
> There are plenty of societies that don't respect intellectual property and copyright. And those societies don't innovate at the rate as those who do.

For one, this claim suffers from a correlation/causation issue. But also, do you have an actual citation for research which shows this is true?
The acronym didn't work as well if I extended it to Earthlings. HAMR > HEMR.

Agree not everyone values changing their minds. But since you do, I think you'll enjoy this article about falsification. The idea is to think in terms of "I believe X, but if A, B or C were true then my belief would be false."

https://medium.com/better-humans/the-falsification-mindset-h...
I very much like the idea of the hierarchy and the content just being the file system.

I’m less excited about the connection to Zettelkasten because that smells of fad.

If there were an app that would make useful sense out of a few tens of gigabytes of stuff kept in a plain folder hierarchy, I’d be a potential customer. In a way Dropbox tries to do this, and it’s better than nothing (for me) but I still wish for some kind of magical portal into my messy attic.
Didn't Sony sell their PC division to JIP?
Hmm, I see your concern. I'm pretty big on privacy myself, so I feel I should be able to answer this in a satisfying way.

Most importantly, this always requires the user's concent. On Android you still need the same location permissions as for normal GPS location positioning. Hence, as a user you're always free to reject location permissions same as before.

I have to admit, this tech can also be used for evil purposes. For now, not all phones support collecting raw measurements - either hardware or software support is lacking, but in the future if some entity could force you to have your location verified, then having you cannot lie about it anymore.
Onivim 2 – Modal Editing from the Future
Gathering Requirements in an Interview
Your view that a significant part of the population actually benefits from this system strikes me as singularly optimistic.
> Interpreters are quick to get up and running. You don’t have to go through that whole compilation step before you can start running your code. You just start translating that first line and running it.

> Because of this, an interpreter seems like a natural fit for something like JavaScript. It’s important for a web developer to be able to get going and run their code quickly.

> And that’s why browsers used JavaScript interpreters in the beginning.

I'm curious, is that true? How did the original JavaScript interpreter handle code like this:

var r = test(); // not defined yet
alert( r ); // 42
alert( typeof result ); // "undefined"

function test() {
result = 42; // local because of 'var' below
return result;
var result;
}

Was there a first pass to find "hoisted" function and var statements? Or did it compile to bytecode? Or...?
Nice work! You’re right: the native picker built into macOS is indeed horrible for users who prefer the keyboard.

Minor caveat:
Should you ever decide to tap into the German-speaking market, consider localizing the product name. In German, Mumu is slang for “pussy”.
I am talking about cases where the ad results in a click or view through and finally tracked to a purchase from the same provider. You shouldn’t see the same ad again or another ad to rent a hotel room from same hotel chain. I thought that was the case GP was taking about.

I am excluding the likes of companies like BlueKai (now Oracle) who facilitate trading the cookie to other companies for further targeting or completely different chain of ads based on a search click to another hotel chain

That said, all of this is getting killed by recent Safari and Chrome change of getting rid of all 3rd party cookies
Why are we assuming H.266 is better than AV1? Or at least better enough to warrant all the trouble and cost of licensing?
If you want to create an "AAA" game with this production method, it'll take 10 years to complete and still look cobbled together like Frankenstein's monster in the end.

Also, you won't get very far with "devops infrastructure", or git, or github since you'll need to process a couple of terabytes of source asset data for each nightly build.

You need an experienced team which already has a couple of games under their belt for such an undertaking.
>And their cars are so cheap

Have you cross shopped vehicles lately? Your statement is arguably true about Nissan and Nissan only.

Japanese light vehicles typically carry an initial price premium that self perpetuates for a whole host of reasons beyond the scope of this discussion.
PGA4CS: Plane-Based Geometric Algebra for Computer Science
A good baseline to measure how fast these are would be to look at comparative Xbox production times.
I don't know. I suppose the simplest thing way to put it is that I don't know who is the target audience.

My feeling is that the people who could use this are, basically, people who are trying to get their first job as a software developer. They don't have connections in the industry, and they're focused on interview prep.

But is that person really going to sign up for what sounds like fairly expensive one-on-one tutoring sessions? Many people in the industry will answer questions for free, if you just send them an email.

On the other hand, is this service for pros who want long-term career growth? If so, you can charge more but you need a much stronger selling point (e.g. mentors who are known experts that people will sign up for your service to talk to.)

Anyway, in either case I'm outside of the target audience because I'm not interested in mentorship as a service, I prefer to build friendships, mentors, and role models in "real life."

edit: removed unnecessary comment
>There are plenty of societies that don't respect intellectual property and copyright. And those societies don't innovate at the rate as those who do.

Comparable examples being ?
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If I was an investor, I would be worried that the CEO with no operations or technology experience is also the COO and CTO, is the one leading the operations and technology integration.
This article discusses the Dutch national broadcaster NPO's switch from targeted ads to _contextual_ advertising, placing advertisements based on the content of the publisher site instead of user features of the person reading the page.

STER mentioned in the article is NPO's ad agency. The whitepaper is available on STER's site: https://www.ster.nl/onderzoek/een-toekomst-zonder-advertenti...

I haven't read the whitepaper (waiting on the English language version.) Where the increased revenue is coming from isn't really clear. It seems really unlikely they're increasing revenue by charging more per impression.

Cutting out the ad network could make up for it, but then this seems like a case of STER setting itself up as supply platform. It works great for large publishers, but doesn't really scale.

Totally related: expect to see more if these articles. The demise of third-party cookies is coming and groups like W3C's Web Advertising Business Group [https://www.w3.org/community/web-adv/] and efforts like Chromium's privacy sandbox [https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...] are picking up steam.
It's from the Guardian Open Platform[1], which has a clause in the TOS[2] requiring that that the "Powered By The Guardian" logo be displayed where you display Guardian content

> Include a "Powered by The Guardian" logo (or such other Guardian logo as we may require from time to time) on the same webpage as any republished OP Content, or any tool or function that is based on OP Content. Such logo must be a reproduction of the "Powered By" file found at http://www.theguardian.com/open-platform/logos, and comply with any special terms set out by us. The "Powered by The Guardian" logo must not be used in conjunction with any content other than the OP Content.

[1] https://open-platform.theguardian.com/

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/open-platform/terms-and-conditio...
Companies that took over $150k loans from PPP data
Yes. For the most part, you need to be able to encode to a low and constant bandwidth at 30/60/+ fps, possibly even with limited latency. Then there are also some lesser, but also important aspects, such as the need to be able to start in the middle of a stream, handle lost packages etc.
> The decoders are almost completely useless.

You'd be surprised at how often these are used.
Yeah, I often wonder this... a/b tests only ever measure short term differences. What if the change you are making increased sales for a few months, but pisses off users in the long run?

An A/B test isn't going to show that.
Would lcc work with ambisonic audio?
There's other ways an app could invade your privacy than just the clipboard.
http://archive.is/e3oMI
don't remember exactly if it was a bio, and interview or something else, no ok wait now i remember, it was from the book "Superonda Storia segreta della musica italiana" by Valerio Mattioli (a recent book about the sperimental/pop music scene in Italy, tightly connected with the Darmstadt School and John Cage for the later, influecend by for the second), though in the book it is clear that Morricone and Leone never shared much during their childhood (they saw each other again after 25 years from those school days), and actually they came back together almost by chance also because Leone had different ideas about the music that Morricone provided for another movie, Gunfight at Red Sands/Gringo (Duello del Texas), music he utterly disliked, but probably neither Morricone cared much since he used a moniker.
Performance Improvements via Formally-Verified Cryptography in Firefox
Ask HN: How does Google Analytics, a client-side script, get referring URLs?
Shower thought: given that Google Analytics is installed by dropping a JavaScript snippet onto the page, how does Google get the referring page when visitors land on the page via link or search result, etc.?
But they're still incredibly targeted. They're not just using info from your search, although that information is highly relevant in choosing what ad to display.
Naturally. You can't do business in Japan without a fax machine.
Not at all a Python user, but I don’t get how this is a valid argument at all:

> Python has no built-in structure to manipulate trees

What’s wrong with an API like appendChild etc? I know you’re just quoting the FAQ but if anyone has an answer I am legitimately curious. I have worked with Ruby for many years and loath cute DSLs but I always thought it was just the Ruby community that went overboard on that shit haha
Is that a quirk of the 'pro' version?

I have read many complaints online of people calling the PS4 noisy. I have a PS4 slim, and it is very quiet, the optical drive is by far the loudest part of the machine.
Historically, everyone who studied computing seriously learned assembly language, and it was much more widely used.

In early computing, assembly language saw a lot of use. The navigation program that sent the Apollo mission to the Moon was written in assembly language. During the micro-computer boom, which echoed the history of big iron boom, a lot of applications and systems were written in assembly language again. Most commercial video games for 8 bit micros were written in assembly language. The famous WordPerfect word processor for the IBM PC was assembly language. The VMS operating system: assembly language.

C became easily popular because it gave a nice notation, and a sprinkling of type, to assembly language memory manipulation concepts that most professional programmers already knew how to use.
I've just finished rewriting a standalone python application into a JS browser application, and runtime went from 20 minutes to 1.5s. The most important factor is that the original programmer didn't know what convolution is and that it's a linear operation, but in those 1.5s, V8 manages to run thousands of times through a 250k pixel array, convolve it, and draw it; changing the color mapping takes a mere 4ms, so it can be done with responsive controls. Python just can't do that.

Edit: this thing transpiles to JS, apparently, so it might perform.
XicTools (ASIC CAD) goes open source
There are many strange and wonderful circles to be seen in the Netherlands. For example, the IJsseloog:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/IJsseloog/@52.5969321,5.73...
Yes my work dell matches or beats my personal MacBook pro specs in terms of ram and cpu. I’m sure it costed way less too! Oh but it’s the worse computer ever.

The dell is an abhorrent disgrace in every other matter. It weights two tons, is unable to dissipate heat because surprise surprise bulky plastic is bad for that, is filled with weird bugs, has a bizarrely large spacing between keys on the keyboard, a bad screen, bad track pad, terrible battery life, etc
In that case, I'd still have to either audit the app's code or trust the author. With mobile Web, I know it won't spy on me like that because the browser won't let it.
Internet Writer Workflows
curl -sI https://itch.io | grep -i server
Server: lapis
It's a good project.

If you print a lot, here's my project using which you can create tons of cheap filament:

https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

If anyone can contribute diameter control algorithm, please let me know!
He should have gotten one for The Mission. Gabriel's Oboe is, I think, his most beautiful theme.
It's not clear if the journalist understood throughput vs latency.

But more fundamentally: factories often have more than one line.
> It's a callback. What would you name it? "Callback"? You're adding extra complexity for no gain.

Anon callbacks are annoying for anybody who needs to debug performance. I don't see how naming functionality increases complexity either.
For that single factory line. Consumer electronics factories often have a lot of lines in parallel.
My current place suffers from all of that!! But our retention is very high, and you can guess the reason.
Debug and release builds probably call slightly different sets of methods, so they might end up with slightly different heaps. That might be enough to cause a difference in offset between the builds.
(disclaimer: I'm the author of the blog post). The argument the other way is that if a mathematician sees this convention, their reaction is likely to be "that's just silly, 1/0 is obviously 'halt and catch fire'", and any attempt to defend this by saying "it makes perfect sense viewed through the lens of type theory" runs the risk of the response "well I won't be doing my mathematics in type theory then". In the comments to the blog post (and in personal emails) people have suggested that instead of trying to defend the idea that 1/0=0 (which is what I was trying to do, given that I am now very much used to it) I should instead be complaining to the Lean designers to make the front end "work more like a mathematician expects". However this is difficult, because talking to mathematicians it becomes clear that they have different opinions about what "actually happens" when you put garbage in.
The Pro is super loud. Some PS4 non-Pro models can also get pretty loud, but it's more hit-or-miss.
Webhosts for Tor Relays Who Are Not; OVH, Hetzner or Scaleway
I love having a Python REPL handy for short one-offs. Now with Brython I'll be able to have it on my Chromebook!
How to Write Better SQL: Advanced SQL Episode 2 – Please Stop Using So Many CTEs
It is not homophobic. Don't move the goalpost.

Fruitcakes are full of nuts. You are nuts if you are a fruitcake.
That’s not the full story. Insurance companies today already ration care : they won’t pay for expensive brand-name medicines and they often won’t approve surgeries without requiring extensive pre-qualifications and alternate treatments. Which is mostly for the best.

Single-payer would have other effects. One, by ensuring that everyone has access to preventive and non-emergency care, it would reduce the overall cost of care. Today, the uninsured wait until they are horribly ill to show up at the ER where they are treated as public charges. Those people are also not effective at their jobs, and die earlier, which is an added cost. Net-net, a healthier population will be less expensive to care for and will be more productive.

Second, a single-payer system will replace hundreds of independent insurance companies that compete with each other with a single system, increasing efficiency,

Third, a single-payer monopoly can negotiate with providers to reduce cost. When you represent all of the patients in the country, you can demand the lowest rates. The government already does this today with Medicare, which is why many people call this plan “Medicare for All.”

There will undoubtedly be some care rationing, but I expect that as in the UK there will be the option to buy private insurance on the retail market, or to pay cash for procedures that you want but which aren’t covered - as it is today for cosmetic surgery. Insurers dont cover plastic surgery, but that business seems to be booming.
> Hows about selling a more open system that allows end-users to tinker and contribute themselves?

The appeal of a console is that it's an appliance - you can just plug the thing in, not worry about any of the technicals, and go play games with minimal fuss. If you are an enthusiast of such things and inclined to tinker, I think making a Mini-ITX PC to stuff under your TV mostly effectively already covers this niche? You can pick out your parts to your liking, it will be small, it can run Linux, play VR, and be programmed and customized effectively to however much of your system you can grasp.

And Sony, who has spent like 80 years making locked down media formats for their consumer audio/video/gaming appliances that compete against industry standard formats, is unlikely to ever be the company that makes an open gaming platform.
Bryan Cantrill Interview: On Performance (July 2019)
I love my PS4 but.. it's really slow. From turning on to getting in a party will take minutes, especially when loading the friends list and their profiles. Beyond this, getting everyone into the same lobby is also tedious due to host issues. I don't know if the Xbone has similar issues but I remember the 360 being able to sign in, be in a party with my friends in under 30 seconds and it just worked.
Not commenting on this specific case here, but I believe we currently see the pendulum swinging from one extreme (WFH only at a very exclusive subset of companies) to the other extreme ("WFH first" policies)

I'm convinced the true winners will be those companies that find a smart mix of both worlds. This includes recognizing that both concepts have their strengths (e.g., people are a lot more disciplined about meetings in a remote context) and weaknesses (e.g., a further breakdown of the separation between work and live). WFH needs more than just giving people the green light to work from home on selected days. It also, for example, needs a radical rethink of office infrastructure (most offices are not designed for 10 people sitting side-by-side and being on the phone most of the day), management culture, and shared best practices how to approach non-transactional work (e.g., how to tackle complex topics with people who do not know each other remotely?)
How do you actually build the Kindle file with the articles?

I've tried a couple times to hack together something similar for personal use but I could never figure out how to create the newspaper file.
I've heard this argument made (I believe I've even made it myself at some point), but in practice, it turns out to be less effective than people think. "Be silent and it'll just blow over" is increasingly ineffective as a strategy because the Internet has a longer memory; as one looks up information on a person, allegations will jump to the surface. And increasingly, people seem to assume that absence of a counterpoint is implicit admission of possible truth (there's the perpetual "when will you stop beating your wife" argument, but a lot of other allegations are in far more plausible categories, where silence can imply a lack of ability to defend one's reputation).
Yea, there always seems to be a disconnect in these conversations between people who aren't yet used to Javascript's grotesqueness and those who are desensitized to it. Javascript was so horrible for so long, and remained horrible every time I tried it because "seriously, it's good now", that there's a fairly significant threshold to get me interested in using it when any other alternative is available.

Naturally, if I was making a decision for a company I worked at, I would do my due diligence and likely end up using JS for any of a number of reasons that don't have to do with how unpleasant and unproductive working in the language is. But for personal projects, I'd happily use something like this, short of discovering a show-stopping problem with it.

The thread OP comment just seems like classic defensiveness about JS; a project like this is never going to be literally perfect for corporate production use on day one or but it doesn't need to be to be useful. Even on the off chance that it were to grow into something widely useful, at that point you'd see a lot of powerful actors polishing off the rough edges. This is exactly what happened to Javascript: the only reason it's defensible at all is because of the millions of dollars poured into it and its ecosystem by companies like Google, Mozilla, etc
I mean, sure, but there's plenty of add-ons and filter lists that would make the web stop doing that.
Is there any significant performance penalty using WM built in Python?
Roborace & Formula E?
Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater
I guess only time will tell.

AV1 is supposed to be 30% better than HEVC and they claim H.266 is 50% better than HECV. This would mean that H.266 is roughly 30% better than AV1. By better I'm always referring to the bandwidth/space needed.

But take this with more than a grain of salt since bandwidth/space are only one of many things that matter and also these comparisons are dependent on so many things like resolution, material (animatic/real), etc. etc.
UIToolbar in SwiftUI
This discussion of a test flywheel installation in California seems a lot more interesting than this article.

https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/2019publications/CEC-500-2019-012/...
Brilliant!

I was just ranting on HN about the need for this two weeks ago. It seems like the inevitable end game for teaching of hard sciences (and possibly other fields). One inspiration (besides the book you referenced) is there first few posts of "An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics".

Here is a great example[1] where he describes QM as essentially a computational process and does everything just shy of writing down the code. That specific page is from the series here [2].

And from reading this I realized how much easier many concepts would be to grasp if you could just read the objective source code of the description and not have to try to interpret messy English or imprecise notations.

1. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5vZD32EynD9n94dhr/configurat...
2. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/apbcLXz5zB7PXfgg2/an-intuiti...
My answer was to a post that brought up "...puerto rico, california and indian territories and UK ireland and France guiana and so on..." Those also were not post WWII.

But the parents argument was that from chinese perspective China has liberated the foreign state Turkestan and brought enlightenment to this region.

Considering the Genocide this interpretation seems somewhat dubious. And yes, i would expect such colonialist atrocities come up same as with other countries.
Why Tesla Is Selling Naughty Short-Shorts
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