skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is pretty funny that his suggestion is that you should setup your own VPN. Your hosting provider knows your real identity and is going to shut you down very quickly if something happens and is far more likely to yield to legal pressure because they don't earn money from privacy. Meanwhile for a VPN provider it would at least make sense to invest into a legal team that at least throws empty threats into the recycling bin instead of "selling you out" as soon as there is even a hint that you are a problematic customer.
What? A predatory system isn't predatory because poor, uneducated people should make better decisions? That is exactly why the European systems don't have gotchas.

The US system sells dreams that don't come true, and you blame them for believing that they can do better in their life than their parents by getting an education? Absurd.
Well, good performance of http request/response cycle is mostly related to async operation, in some form, when long-lived daemon can process big amount of requests without spending time on initialization. Workerman and swoole, powered by async PHP approach, are very fast and suitable for high load. The problem with async PHP, though, is that you need to be careful with libraries (e.g. mysql client) because most of them were designed with short-lived PHP script execution in mind.
When reading the source https://my.visme.co/view/01070kx3-unconventional-ventures-no... the divide goes:

Gender | % Companies (#) | % Funding

All men | 85 (1473) | 88.81

All women| 6.35 (110) | 2.21

Mixed | 8.66 (150) | 8.98

Notes:

- There is no disparity when it comes to number of rounds

- The trend is decrease in funding from all men teams (-10 points compared to 2019) and increase mostly for mixed teams (+10 points) and women (+2 points) (their numbers don't add up to 100...)
Yes, local web servers should work (Python certainly does, I just checked on my iPhone). Can you file a bug at https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues with more details?
The piano and marimba doesn't quite have a full scale, consider using -, = and [, ] to add the extra couple of notes!

I would love to be able to upload a midi to this...
Pyto is really interesting, it's not as polished at Pythonista but I appreciate the very frequent updates. It's come a long way pretty quickly.
If there are trusted and untrusted agents, and you can’t tell the two groups apart, it’s sensible not to trust anyone.

Also, the government, in addition to setting up honeypots, could simply require the providers to log. The way that it works, there are only a couple of people in the company who need to be aware of that; such fact will never be known to the public. There is zero audit trail.
Privatezilla – fine-tune Windows 10's many settings and configure your privacy
I don't like to mix voices - that's inorganic when the changes are more than minor and can lead to parts of the 'answer' being at odds with itself.

Except for typos, syntax..etc, I don't edit someone else's answer; I leave a comment and let the original respondent edit.
Many computers, especially those fan less laptop/2-in-1 tablet, doesn't have adequate cooling system.

If CPU was used too much, it instantly reach the temperature threshold, then forced down clock and stall kicks in to save the CPU, repeat the cycle.

Which way do you prefer? endless cycle of 60fps for 10 seconds followed by shuttering for 10 seconds, OR stable 20fps.
This article has been debunked multiple times. It misses the point entirely.

Use VPN to change your local ISP to foreign ISP. The foreign ISP is better precisely because it is foreign. The direction doesn't matter.

Ideally pick across poorly cooperating jurisdictions.
I agree with you. I would still love to work in academia, but when the work required to get proper funding is tied to the extension of your contract it can lead to some sleepless nights.

In the book God Particle, the author describes how the funding for colliders in USA stopped after the cold war and it was extremely demoralizing even as a reader.
> I wish more of the conversation around WFH focused on how everyone is different, one size fits all rarely works

and then

> if you do want to "get ahead" you'll need to put in face time. Period.

You've just prescribed a one-size-fits-all solution, in the same phrase as saying that it doesn't work. How are you resolving the cognitive dissonance?
Not that bitcoin is not volatile (it sure as hell is), but you're picking the most stable currencies in the world and comparing them to a crypto asset that is younger than a kindergarden class. Try building the same graphs for 3rd or even 2nd world currencies and observe that they might have even worse volatility. I live in a country whose currencies devaluated in order of trillion times in 20th century if you count multiple "monetary reforms" and "denominations".
You Need Address Normalization and How to Implement It
If you need to resort to such a response as "people are trying to argue that the venture capital industry is working class", which your parent commenter very clearly did not do, you're not arguing from a position of strength, nor signalling an interest in debating in good faith.
That's funny and all, but it doesn't drive home much more of a point than "PHP is bad because PHP is bad". The insinuation that all "houses" built with PHP are defective and waiting to fall apart is so obviously untrue that it feels unworthy of discussion.

A more reasonable analogy would be that there's a standardized toolbox that carpenters use that's weird, quirky and sometimes so bad that you need to know workarounds to use it correctly, but the houses that are being built do what they're supposed to in the vast majority of cases because most of the carpenters know the quirks well.

The question then is, if you're contracting someone to build your house, or you're the manager of a construction company, do you go with the standard toolbox that's used by the X% majority of carpenters, or do you hire carpenters that use more obscure (but functionally "better") toolboxes while running the risk of now ending up with unmaintainable or deviating houses that are hard to recruit additional carpenters for because they refuse to work on what is quite objectively "non-standard" houses?

The answer in my mind is no less complex than it would be for software development: it depends, and you should be wary of anyone telling you that it's "obvious" that the answer is one or the other.
Regardless of how you feel about AB5, you should vote No on Prop 22 for one reason:

> Amending Proposition 22 would require a seven-eights (87.5%) vote in each chamber of the California State Legislature and the governor's signature, provided that the amendment is consistent with, and furthers the purpose of, Proposition 22. Changes that are not considered consistent with, and furthering the purpose of, Proposition 22 would need voter approval [0]

This means if the law passes with a simple majority, any future amendments require 87.5% of the legislature which is basically impossible.

This proposition re-writes the democratic process, not just the law. It manes Uber and Lyft get to decide not only what the law is today but how it evolves forever.

That's not how democracy should work and we should not pass this prop. If you believe drivers should be contractors, fine, but let's not hand over the government over that point.

[0]: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based...
>I'm just calling it for what it is: a broken tool.

Thats what every Rust-Fanboy says about the C/C++ Ecosystem
Actually art would be same but using something like GANs or genetic algorithms something overcomplex would hilarious.
I love how so many recent websites respect system theme preferences.
Let's hope this takes off:
https://github.com/abertschi/graalphp
Huh. My old cello teacher told me I had pretty long fingers. I would guess that would imply "above average size hands?" I dunno.
You can disable SSL checks, though I don't think I had them. Youtube-dl is very slow though, you're better off using a Telegram bot to give you the videos. The app also can't run for long in the background, which is essential for downloading.
> A lot of service workers depend on tips.

This isn't a good argument that tips are a beneficial practice.
If anyone is curious I've uploaded the half-page derivation found in Chapter 3 of Linear Algebra Done Right here[0].

[0] https://imgur.com/a/BTKMWU2
There are hosting providers you don't need to give out your real identity to use and would fight any attempts of getting the details they do have on you, to law enforcement or others.

Obviously if you want to protect your identity, you need to do that at every level, if you're hosting your VPN somewhere, that includes from the platform you're hosting your VPN at.
Interesting take on disabling telemetry is, it can make your use case invisible and justify sunsets on that ground.

I’ve seen someone crying over it elsewhere that local(international) users puts some significant feature in jeopardy by doing that and make his life hard.
Same, we live in a fairly small (90sqm) house which we rebuilt a few years ago. Bedrooms and bathroom are downstairs and upstairs is open plan with high ceilings. My workspace is upstairs and it works out great. Kids going to school and my wife to work neatly bookends the day and I just switch on my own machine and off the companies to keep separation. I'm right in the heart of downtown Reykjavik so heading out to do stuff or take a break is straightforward.
I wonder if such solutions are cost effective. Unless they are marketing these services for a very limited (ultra-rich) clientele, in which, it doesn't make any sense. Why buy an airplane that you can only use over sea, and in good conditions? You can use a boat at a fraction of the cost for large numbers of people (purchase, maintenance), or a helicopter for a smaller number of people.

And on planet earth we do get bad weather (even at sea level). It's not as bad as in Interstellar ("these are not mountains"), but it can certainly render this useless.

Unless they target VERY SPECIFIC region (specific parts of Arab peninsula), then we are limiting the use so much that it can only survive as a niche company and not expand much.
Hello! I think such functionality can be implemented only trough Language Server https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/langua... . Very likely it'll be much easier to add this feature to the standard JS/TS extension.
Usability Testing: Website Checklist
I don't see that line in the original comment, was it edited?
That would be the general idea. I think calling it a lease instead of tax has some benefits from an ideological perspective. But for this discussion suffice it to say that it should not just be an arbitrary tax.

I also think a substantial amount of the revenue from such lease should be tunneled back into the economy as a public dividend. Also for ideological reasons. But in practice to allow for higher prices (100% of market value would be ideal) while not impacting the retirees you mention quite as much.
Lower voltage slows down recharging of the gates. Bugs in the integrated graphics can easily lock up the whole thing.
They don't have a data retention policy [1]. The European Union for example requires "the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC" for up to 2 years:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention
There is a graph of sectors when at least one founder is female but there is no equivalent data for all male founders so I cannot compare
It would be even more fun if there was a looper built into it.
I get that - but building trust comes not with a company registration in a tax heaven.
I used to walk to school in sometimes very cold weather (-35 Celsius). Once, in order to try preventing the inside of my nose to freeze, I put my scarf over it. The scarf froze very quickly and I ended up with ice around my neck...
Now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder how people will manage masks this year with COVID in cold countries.

TL;DR: don’t put a scarf over your nose in very cold temperatures.
> The proposition that made California the way it is is the one that meant that the primaries are non-partisan and the final race is between the two top contenders.

No, it's not.

It's not even a proposition. It's that the California Republican Party tries to campaign like it's Kansas, that keeps them hovering right at the border of the level where Democrats have a 2/3 supermajority in both houses plus control of the statewide offices.

> This means that special interests in California need only present their cause through the lens of leftism and they will automatically find sympathetic candidates in the top two,

It's actually pretty rare that the jungle primary provides same party candidates (and it's never, IIRC, done “Democrat plus leftist third party”), so, no, that wouldn't be true even if the California Democratic Party was reliably leftist, which it decidedly is not, see, e.g., Dianne Feinstein.

> Contrast this with a partisan primary system. In that system, on the final ballot, it would be difficult for special interests to formulate an argument appealing to both candidates.

It's actually not, you just craft it around the local district not left-right ideology.

> for some reason, I am downvoted but there is little engagement or actual refutation of what I'm saying. If you're going to downvote, at least say something.

Downvoting is saying that something isn't a productive addition to the conversation, engaging is saying that even if it is wrong, it is. There's really no good reason to engage when downvoting, or vice versa, they serve opposing purposes.
There's no way this isn't a troll.
Doesn't mean anything though. I searched for picture of a "Basketball Team", and in the team in the first photo there are 7x as many black people as white. An infinite ratio of men to women too.

That isn't evidence of any sort of discrimination or prejudice. It is due to the rather difficult to dispute fact that for reasons uncertain black men seem to play better basketball. I don't even know anything about basketball I just picked a stereotype.

I'm all for investigations; but report back when there is evidence of a problem not evidence of a difference. Differences are routine.
Nobody is saying the VC industry is working class at all. The article is referring to startup founders, not people working in the VC sector.

Startups are hard and poorly compensated for the majority of people who attempt them.
> But then again, the reason it still essentially needs to exist is because there is no universal truth, no universal sense of good or bad.

That may be true to some extent if you really push the philosophy angle, but I'd say real world is much simpler than that. There's stuff that happened, and there are consequences - just because the consequences may not be fully computable in the amount of time and effort anyone is willing to expend on it, doesn't mean truth suddenly becomes fuzzy. The territory is sharp, it's just the map that's uncertain. But for that, the proper words are "I'm not sure", not "I have my truth, you have yours".

> So for example, do I forgive nuclear power and GM food companies from trying to influence public discourse on the safety of their work? Of course, it's essential in a world where they are competing against lots of unwarranted negative attention, much of it baseless as far as the science goes.

And because of what I wrote above, I despise both. Yes, I understand the practical necessity - one side lies because the other side lies too, both stuck in a feedback loop. But I'd still say both are behaving unethically. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I subscribe to the viewpoint I've best seen phrased in an old blog post[0]: "promoting less than maximally accurate beliefs is an act of sabotage. Don’t do it to anyone unless you’d also slash their tires".

--

[0] - http://web.archive.org/web/20080915221100/http://www.acceler...
> Web browsers and HTML were invented at CERN.

More structural funding for open source software would also be welcome. Software that deals with communication (browsers, protocols, email, filesystems, codecs, etc.) should be fully open and developed by universities and government institutions, imho.
Quest Sprout: 'The most wholesome thing on the internet'
What would be much better would be to encode an overlay raster stream, which the player can then composite at runtime, like they do with text subtitles.

Much faster to encode. Can be toggled. But players need to support it.
"This must be Thursday," said Arthur musing to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
On GNU/Linux this is the default.
Show HN: A faster way to prototype your APIs using OpenAPI 3 and Swagger UI
It's logically impossible to verify, but any number of facts can be easily disproved by one evidence, previously unknown
No, I meant what I said. People think those are "additional costs" just because their payslip says "additional costs". To the employer, it's a simple math of "employee costs me X" compared to "employee earns me Y". All successful companies have Y > X. All bankrupt companies have Y < X.
Apparently, yes.

https://www.politico.eu/article/have-a-gdpr-complaint-skip-t...
> giving any language pair (say romanian-nepali), having two vectors close to each other in that latent space means the sentences have the same meaning.

That's the goal, but have you asked any Romanian-Nepali bilinguals how well it works? (I realize those might be hard to come by.) I had a look at some of the language pairs in CCMatrix, and I noticed that the highest-confidence matches for some of them (English-Chinese, English-Korean) include a lot of quotations from old religious texts. That wouldn't be a problem if they were actually the same quotations, but it looked more like the model managed to identify archaic language and then got overly confident that two archaic sentences must have the same meaning.

I wonder whether there's been a human evaluation of the mined training data, or whether you rely on catching any problems downstream when you measure the BLEU of the trained model.
They could phrase it like please use complex passwords + 2fa, though. It's not their fault if people are stupid.
If you assume that accelerator technology remains the same then you do of course have to keep making your accelerators bigger. There are a fairly large number of people working on plasma accelerators which are more compact because they support a greater accelerating potential. The AWAKE experiment [1] is an example of such a project.

As an aside, I think this is a great example of a role which fundamental science plays in society: It can facilitate step changes in technological progress.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWAKE
The article seems to imply gender inequality is a major issue in Nordic countries. The truth is they are light years ahead of their European neighbours in the matter.
PHP is filled to the brim with bad frameworks with one size fits all type of mentality. Just avoid them and make your life easier.

If you need a framework, look for something small, small enough to read thru and understand in one hour.
Well that page landed on hn first page. thats something. also We do not know how many edit author did for that page to be like that.
it's a meme

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/based-on-what-slang-misinterp...
You can set the charenc option for other character sets.
There’s a story about an art teacher that split their class
in half. They told one half of the students that they’d be
graded based on a single piece of work, and the other half
that they would be graded on the quantity of work produced.

Does anyone know of an actual event where this happened, or is it apocryphal?

(I don't disagree with the premise, I'm just curious about its basis)
Affinity looks like the most promising replacement for Adobe applications like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

The Affinity applications get a lot of things right, and do some things better than Adobe already. And obviously the pricing and permanent sale model are much more attractive than Adobe's subscription model.

They do also have some almost unbelievable limitations, where what you'd expect to be entry-level functionality simply doesn't exist, and they lack any sort of plug-in ecosystem and all the extensibility and customisation that brings.

But saying that, it's not as if Adobe's applications haven't had bizarre omissions over the years, and they've had much longer to fix them. Hopefully Serif can keep up the momentum and community good will it's built for the Affinity suite and in time they'll close the gaps.
Yup, I tried to convey that in the "being conscious of it" part. I meant to say you have to actively see it as learning / improvement.
As yes, the 2012 fractal of bad design, being peddled out yet again - your post is just pure hate, it adds no valid argument whatsoever.
*somebody wants to...
to be fair, crypto purchases have a high incidence of chargeback fraud. this is expensive for banks.

edit: i chuckled at the little britain reference :)
> Undervolting lowers voltage, but the processor will now stay at higher clocks for a longer time, hitting the same TDP/power limits.

No,at the same power, but for shorter amount of time, because now it is able do a lot more work per unit of time. So no, you'll definitely use less energy, although dissipate same amount of power. Keeping in mind, that your will be idling 90% of time, if not more, your savings will be even bigger.
It is not fair to bring C into this, C is an old language and when all the kernels and core libraries were created it was the best tool for the job. You hate C please go and contribute to the many rewrites and one day 25 years from now maybe we will have an OS written in some language that is cool now but would be outdated then.

My advice is use the best tool for the job when possible, if you don't have a choice then learn to accept that most of us work with less cool languages/frameworks/projects ... the skill we bring is to find solutions for our customers and implement this solutions as best we can with the tools we have, most of the time a developer should be spending reading stuff(documentation,articles, code), thinking and the least time should be spent on typing code or tooling.
I should see if we can still start my dad's old 1984 Acorn Electron and then play the original Elite.
On my prior gig we were in an office but communicated via Teams anyways since it was an open office and you could not talk without disturbing the 6 person wall-less booth. Communication from home is much easier since we just can call each other. But this is mainly due to bad office layout not wfh being better as a concept.

It is probably a good idea to have office days even with remote teams. Half a day every other week or what ever.
I find gstreamer (using gst-launch)[1] a more pleasant experience than ffmpeg.

You can't use some expresions on the command line like `x=(w-text_w)/2:y=(h-text_h)` but it can be workaround with some scripting using python bindings for example.

Some (simple) text overlay can be acomplished with:

gst-launch filesrc location=sample.mp4 \
! decodebin \
! videoconvert \
! textoverlay text="Hello" font-desc="Sans Bold 150px" y-absolute=0.5 \
! autovideosink

1. http://manpages.org/gst-launch
If you counted golf carts as cars, what percentage of total cars would they be in California?
I have no idea how the block works, but I learned that WhatsApp video calls are blocked in the United Arab Emirates, along with almost every other video chat app. There’s a UAE sponsored app called Totok that works, although it is/was removed from the Apple Store for privacy reasons. Recently they started allowing Zoom calls to go through.

Further reading:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/coronavirus-lockdown-uae-res...
OK, but we were always talking about anecdotal data in casual conversation right, not hardcore scientific analysis? I think even the original poster acknowledged that.