skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comment and a related question:

I went down this rabbit hole several years ago, and while finding quality equipment was important, at some point I had to step back and decide the capture was "good enough" - that the incremental quality gained by spending an additional several hundred dollars on more professional equipment wouldn't substantially improve the poor quality of the source material.

To that end, does anyone have familiarity with putting 640*480 videos on Blu-ray in H264 format, in order to cram hours and hours of video on one disk and allow it to be viewed on a standard Blu-ray player?
It's possible that people view taxation as a solution to a coordination problem, i.e. they believe individually donating to charity will lower their personal utility while not helping others much, but if everyone does it then the trade-off will become worth it.
The problem I see with this is that now you don't know who's calling you and stuff like whatsapp will get annoying.
"stain" is not the right word.
It's a nickname, not a feature to hide your account name.
There's no need to resort to lies like that. It's better to stay away from the crazy conspiracy theories. Even the following is sufficient and true:

"Imagine your child's calendar, real-time location, grades, medical history, selfies, search and video viewing history, chats with friends hackable by any predator. All of this is possible if we allow the government to force backdoors."

Just keep hammering on that point to any politician or voter who supports encryption backdoors. Ask them why they want to make children less safe. Stop saying "you can't outlaw math" and "terrorists will use encryption anyway" - people either don't understand, or don't care.
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I don't get why people care about this. How often does that hit you in normal code? It never bothered me in Lua, and certainly not in Julia. For me I just do a context switch. I know when I am in Julia I have to think about things like in my mathematics books. Just like you index a matrix.

When I am in other languages like C/C++ I tell myself that I working with memory addresses. For memory addresses 0-index makes more sense. For tables, matrices etc I honestly think 1-based indexing makes more sense.

Only time I dislike 1-based indexing in Julia is when I write code which is strongly related to how memory works. Like when I was implementing a CPU simulator and assembler.
To drive your point home, paypal.amazon.citibank.scamsite.biz/secure/login/trustus will likely have a perfectly valid certificate, along with the trusted green closed-lock before the URL, implying that the site is "secure".
> You block TOR. More complaints that some users cannot access, but other than that no more complaints about spam.

Sure, if this worked. But it's not 2010 any more. Simple stuff like this only stops the most technologically illiterate attacks.

If your site is being attacked by more than bubba the local "computer guy" - they will be using proxies indistinguishable from your normal traffic, assuming you do any volume at all.

It's just a silly exercise in futility. I put it up there with moving sshd from port 22 to a random port. Yeah, you get less spam I suppose, but it sure as hell didn't make you any more secure. Probably the opposite.

Outright blocks of "bad IPs" are not that useful in my opinion. However, developing reputation systems around IPs and using "is tor" as one metric certainly has shown it's uses in my field of work.
This quote:

there are a base of unspoken intuitions that underlie expert understanding of a field, that are never directly stated in the literature, because they can’t be easily proved with the rigor that the literature demands. And as a result, the insights exist only in conversation and subtext, which make them inaccessible to the casual reader.

I’d love to hear these intuitions from every field. Anyone got some?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/australian-gold-plate...

It seems to be both overinvested and underinvested? How can it be both? (Sorry looking for insight not trying to disprove what you say)
Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky has a bit where a "programmer archaeologist" (a term I just love) notes that deep in the thousand year old code running the starship the time is still counted in seconds since about a megasecond after the first lunar landing.
I've seen serious bugs and even security issues due to invalid utf-8 and code just assuming it's valid (e.g. if there's half of the surrogate present the code just assumes the other half is there too). Display is not the only thing done with utf-8 text, and when parsing utf-8 strings being able to quickly validate utf-8 is a great capability.
My experience interviewing with hedge funds is that they expect candidates to be working with an external recruiter.
There the somewhat absurd ground station locations like Troll and Kerguelen helps. No one can go there on a whim.
You may be able to get the player to recognise files in AVCHD structure (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD).

FWIW, archive the files however you want, then mux a copy into mkv files - most TVs, game consoles etc from the last 3 years or so will play those off USB
Almost as though methods to prevent wildfires are one of the earliest human inventions.
People have been floating the idea of doing this for the life sciences too, where the cost of performing an experiment can be very high (animals, enzymes, local permitting and legal considerations etc. on top of the man hours). It would be very useful to see the results of an experiment you want to do(or something resembling it) but didn't follow up on it for whatever reason and would definitely accelerate research. And would probably help with the weird incentive structure and secrecy issues academia is pointlessly built around.
Great... Well, that explains the crappy response on some bad connections.

I really wish Apple executives were forced to use their computers on crap wifi. Who am I kidding, I would imagine Tim Cook hasn't used a Mac in years.
Last I heard the whole Tres Amigas SuperStation deal totally fell apart.
That doesn't work with HTTPS, obviously.

And with DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS and encrypted SNI, that makes it all the more harder.
I mean my anecdata to serve as a realistic example of the hyperbolic concept of just wildly applying anywhere at random.

In both cases, I was switching industries (from ASIC design to IoT cloud software to data analytics). So, I arguably had some qualifications and arguably none at all.
The "actual epidemiologists" at the WHO waited months to declare this a pandemic after it was already clear it was spreading throughout the world. They did this because they are incompetent and were in the pocket of the CCP.

If you want to fault this guy for something it's trusting the data out of China at all and even considering it appropriate to do analysis with those numbers.

Again, 170k estimated vs 220k actual deaths is not a huge difference when dealing with a highly multiplicative event like a pandemic.
https://archive.vn/FCNNF
Well, you have to consider that the USA (and Canada) were on the bleeding edge of technology when they adopted electrical grids. They were left with a... legacy, including the type-A plug and 110V single-phase power to residences.

In your case, I believe each prong of your two-prong plug gets a different phase, so you have 3 possible pairs of phases to power each circuit from. This has the advantage of requiring smaller wires, but the disadvantage of increasing the risk if one is electrocuted.
Prisma cloud (the cloud monitoring part) is not a great product. It lags pretty far behind cloud provider capabilities.

I also got the email that orca probably sent to everyone in their CRM about this, and while I didn’t need any reason to think less of prisma, I now associate Orca as a competitor and probably an earlier call than palo alto for cloud.
Yes, it is the low hanging fruit.

The risk is also mitigated because if the gene manipulation causes cancer, it should be relatively restricted to the eye, which can be removed in the worst case.

For a long time, gene therapy was shied away from because of an early case of oncogenesis with a lentiviral vector:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cba7/d43412c1709861aea218e4...
Coding tests came about because some developers can talk a good game but are very poor at software development, and it can take months to realize in more complex code bases. Algorithm tests came about because when interviewing CS majors, you can assume they have had an algorithm class. Many of us know why the fence was put up. We don’t tear it down because it is a complex problem. It just takes one successful company to create a better process and the fences will start coming down, just as whiteboarding has become much less prevelent in the last decade as laptops have become common for developers.
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>> So I'm skeptical about this frankly. Mostly because the security is inherent in no one having 51% of the currency.

I find that this is not a problem in practice. Even the government with infinite money would struggle to buy even 20% of circulating supply because they would have to drive the price to absolutely insane amounts in order to achieve that.

I'm involved in a DPoS project called Lisk and participants are constantly observing each other's wallets on the blockchain. If a whale tries to move too many tokens to an exchange to sell, the whole community will know and that individual risks losing their delegate position. There is a strong incentive to not sell too many tokens because everyone in the community can see it and it can have negative ramifications. Some groups of forgers make deals with each other and they agree to keep 50% of their forged tokens as reserves in exchange for votes.

Also, you can vote to earn interest on your tokens so a lot of people only sell a portion of the interest they earn and would never sell their principal.

In practice, investors' hands tend to become stronger as the price goes up.

It would be essentially impossible for an outsider to accumulate 51% of tokens. By the time they accumulated 10%, they would have paid so much money to get them that they would totally lose the incentive to harm the project.
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Let us know when polynomial regression succeeds at any machine learning task.

A lot of people publish results that say deep learning is "just" something else, where the something else doesn't work.
If you're going to repeatedly post links to this newsletter, I think you should be up front about the fact that it's your newsletter.
Are you talking about "Differentiating with respect to nested lists, tuples, and dicts" from that page? The comment to which you are responding covers quite a bit more. The jax documentation specifically says "standard Python containers". Zygote.jl and other less stable Julia auto-diff libraries go far beyond the built-ins and can work with structures defined by packages never designed to be used with automatic differentiation. Of course, there are limitations, but quite a bit less severe than the one in jax (and again, I am saying this while being a big jax fan).
Two points:

1. It doesn’t matter what the valence of the emotions are - positive or negative valence feedback loops will spread misinformation and disinformation. Positive emotion is not correlated with truth.

2. If you haven’t heard about this idea before, here is a starting point: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/digital-technolog...
That is interesting. Do you know if the Radeon cards throttle automatically when they get too hot? Did you have any custom cooling? I can't imagine they would perform all that great at 140F if they throttles themselves, but them doing so may have kept them functional and error free at the expense of hiding poor performance, unless you have data showing otherwise (and you totally might, it seems like the person setting up that system might also check to ensure it's performing to spec :) )
> Kids can take the California High School Proficiency Exam, leave high school at 16

Yep. Though I didn't do any college after that. I messed around with mathematics and programming for about 5 years, then made a serious effort to find a programming job, and have been working since then.

I didn't know about the CHSPE until 9th grade, though, when my sister told me about it (because she had a friend who used it too). Before then, my impression was that there was no feasible alternative to school. Certainly no one at school mentioned it.

Also, you're not allowed to take the CHSPE until either age 16 or in the second semester of 10th grade. Which strikes me as stupid. Seems to me that, if you manage to pass it at a younger age, then that is a stronger proof that you're smart/hardworking and shouldn't be stuck taking 9th grade or 8th grade or whatever. (I imagine most of my peer group could have passed it in 6th grade; it is really a test of basic minimum competency.)
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NGO’s are in a tough position with endemic corruption common in most poor countries. Having a 100% native workforce ends up being extremely high risk, which results in all sorts of seemingly inefficient strategies becoming common. For example leaving anyone in charge for very long tends to be a surprisingly bad idea.
Of course only US traffic counts and that "some reason" would be because their jurisdiction is only the US.
No, if uber implemented bid/ask pricing then their case that drivers are independent contractors would hold more water
An issue with this is that it's inherently one-sided: you get to see the performance of the people you hire, but you have no idea what happens with the people you reject.

Because of that, you inevitably get "weird" results like seeing that your best employees often did relatively poorly on interviews (Google did a study that produced exactly that result—their best employees often were those that failed 1 or 2 of their interviews).

But this is just selection bias: these are candidates that got hired! Which just means that they were so spectacular in some other respect that they were able to get an offer /despite/ poor interview performance. It tells you nothing actionable about your interview process.

Really you need to take an experimental approach where you randomly give offers to people who failed the interview, and see how they turn out.
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TLS makes this difficult today and SNI encryption will make this next to impossible without installing a custom ca certificate and doing MITM. Even that isn't helpful when you are using a laptop that may not always be on the network where you have deployed a device for inspection. Better to be able to inspect or block on the device by application.
For example, "the passive" is rarely defined in a coherent way, or matches the actual definition of "passive voice". Worse, though, is that it is very bad advice. What are called passive senses are tools to correctly place emphasis which, done well, aids clarity.

Often a long word captures a nuance the short version can't. Its presence, by itself, calls the careful reader's attention to the distinction between it and the shorter word it displaced, without belaboring it.

Metaphors, similes, and figures of speech are the furniture of language. Most words, standing alone, embody one. Orwell certainly did not obey this stricture, or he would have been mute.

A word that could have been cut, but wasn't, calls attention to the choice made not to cut it, inviting curiosity why it wasn't, which you may then answer.

Foreign, technical, and jargon words tell the reader about your context. Substituting a word unfamiliar in that context generates confusion, and questions about what distinction you are trying to make by avoiding the usual word. Sometimes you are, in fact, making such a distinction.

Careful readers learn to recognize when writers are making their choices judiciously, and draw extra meaning from them.

So, better advice would tell you to put each such choice to work on the hard job of communicating.
Three-phase systems are far more than a carry-over from early electric motors. Cars, which have no legacy compatibility issues also use three phases. Three-phase power is a very good balance of simplicity of transformation and rectification with even-ness of loading.

You have to remember that alternators and generators are loading mechanical systems, so it's a bad idea to have huge cyclic variations in the load, which stresses the physical system.
Agreed, however the media has been singularly focused on new cases as a measure of the pandemic's severity. To me the news here is as much "NPR reports on the falling COVID death rate."

Even here they seem insistent that the lower death rate is attributable to "flattening the curve" even though there's almost no correlation at this point.
> how does one classify abolitionism as hate speech and gets this past judges, journalists

Gag rule against discussing slavery?
That didn't cause WW2. In fact the nazis broke the Hitler-Stalin Pakt as part of WW2.
To answer your question, yes.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12334

“This paper shows that continuous assured PNT (positioning, navigation, timing) service over ±60° latitude (covering 99.8% of the world's population) with positioning performance exceeding traditional GNSS pseudoranging would cost less than 0.8% of downlink capacity for the largest of the new constellations, SpaceX's Starlink.“
How can it be objectively true when there isn't even an objective definition of white supremacy, let alone knowledge of who subscribes to that belief? But even then, growing on what time scale? It's surely been in decline over the past century but perhaps grew over the previous year or decade? The journalist is still correct if it grew over the past year and otherwise declined over the past decade, or if the reverse is true, so it's a meaningless statement without more details.

> He has only flawed circumstantial evidence for the former

The former is consensus among researchers in the field. The latter is something there's disagreement on and no clear consensus. This is not like claiming the Earth is flat or he achieved cold fusion. It's not clearly incorrect, but is morally wrong by contemporary standards.
Can't say much without knowing the specifics such as, what are the 2 countries, and if this is company to company relationship or company to you individually relationship.

There are things to consider after knowing that such as the type of work, if there is a double taxation agreement between the countries, if it is to you individually were you resident in one or both countries during the year and which one.

Some countries also always expect you to pay tax regardless of presence - for example the US if you are a citizen or permanent resident which is a somewhat more complicated situation

For context I've dealt with some international situations between Ireland and the US in the past - but don't take anything I say as legal advice because IANAL or tax expert
Isn't the + a shorthand for the international part of the code, which changes per country. My country (oz) it's 0011 (and faxes were/are 0015).
So you don't need to create new country codes or boot countries into new prefixes, but just supply a new interplanetary prefix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_call_p...
> google.com.evilwebsite.example?=google.com

This was solved a decade ago by rendering the 2nd+1st level domains (and sometimes other parts of the URL) in a different style.

> There's also arguments that URLs are too complex for normal people to understand.

That argument is an insulting attempt to justify a form of illiteracy[1]. Most people don't need to know all of the technical features of a URL; they just need to be able to use it as an address and recognize basic features like the hostname.

Street addresses are a good analogy. Most people understand the basics easily even though physical addresses are far more complex[2] than URLs!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7694919

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7695735
I'm convinced that there is no generalized "right" way to do hiring - for engineers or otherwise. Considering "engineers" as a monolith is silly and the diversity of engineers makes any attempt to generalize fail.

Different types of people fit into different cultures and work styles.

If there's anything at all that I would generalize on, it would be: "Be candid about your work culture if hiring and don't try to work some place that doesn't fit your style if applying."
> And has two grids.

Not just two. There's also the Darwin/Katherine system which serves about 150k customers. The NWIS and Alice Springs system both have 20k+ customers. Australia has some really interesting power systems.
I'm currently mitigating those risks. The bucket name is not enumerable/guessable, even with brute force tools, and the filenames aren't predictable either. I have bucket enumeration set to forbidden.
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It depends. There are quite a lot of really good libraries for things like that but there are still a few important things missing.
Title's a tad bit click baity, mysterious implies the function and what the organ is is a mystery. Previously unknown would be a better description.

It is pretty cool to find a new set of major salivary glands right at the center of the head though. It's pretty amazing the things that are still hidden right in front of us, even when it comes to the human body.
I've been thinking about this for a couple of years, because of SMTP IP reputation, ISP & colocation mobility, etc. When I first looked into it a /24 was selling for $4-5k. Now it's selling for $6-7k. See, e.g., https://auctions.ipv4.global/

AFAIU, IANA will only transfer blocks to a business entity, so if you're serious about it you might have to first start with that.
> Having AC power allows all kinds of cool things! Did you know that your common household 120v feed is simply a single phase being split into two 120v 'legs'. Both 120 degrees out of phase. So if you remember elementary school math the abs() of phase A at its peak of +120 and phase B at it's valley of -120 = 240.

The two legs are 180 degrees "out of phase" (that is to say one is simply the negative to the other). The peaks on each are +/- 170 volts, with a total peak across both of 340 volts. But we talk about AC in terms of RMS voltage, which is the DC-equivalent voltage that would perform the same work into a resistor, which is a factor of sqrt(2) for a sine wave, or "120/240 volts".
Sorry but this sounds diabolical... we need companies worthy of our trust so we can gain the benefit of the apps we’ve chosen to use, rather than avoiding them with manual workarounds. We need laws and penalties applied to companies that abuse our trust. (Yes i know, unfortunately its too late for the FAANG’s of our time)
Apple is not going in a great direction for more technical people. Started looking a Linux desktops and r/unixporn . Maybe time to switch, when my Macbook is up for replacement.