skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the real lesson is narrowly targeted sites/markets for your ads are smarter than trying to appeal to the machine's data.

It reminds me of the food delivery company that targeted porn sites to better utilize ad spend. Or another article a couple days/weeks ago discussing why an advertiser might want to include/exclude certain groups from ad targets.

In the end, it's ALL about value. I think general brands might be better served with more generic reach than we typically see though. I'd like to see ad networks that only try to bid 2-3 levels and fallback to generic quickly (even if less profitable) rather than go a dozen layers of IFrames in the browser. I think browser vendors could help with this by disabling scripts after 2 layers of IFrames and I've said this for a while.

edit: of course the fact the biggest advertising company is also the biggest browser vendor prevent this from being realistic.
>how does a new parent find time for this?
Speaking as a new parent, we have a knack for lighting our time (and sanity) on fire in order to provide things of marginal value to the baby.

I'm talking things like boiling water before making formula, sterilising bottles and dummies, installing and then looking at baby monitors, feeding baby at regular intervals (even in the middle of the night), making the latest "Montessori" toys and cloth nappies, etc. etc.

Anything that helps us fruitlessly burn ourselves out to the point that quality time with our newborn is seen as yet another problem will be welcomed with open arms.
What? Biden addressed and plans to take action for climate change
Kinda silly article. The laptops the author sites for his examples are the top 1% of the high performance category.
Here’s another fun video:

Why the Lucky Stiff and The Thirsty Cups at RailsConf 2006

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNsQxI2PdAI
Agreed with the slowness. I absolutely love using Notion, but my #1 complaint is that time-to-note is too slow. I wish that were a northstar metric for them. One thing Notion excels at is allowing me to refactor quick notes into increasing levels of structure, but that first step of getting information into the system from my brain is the biggest gap.
I'm not sure where you are getting that 118W number. I can't find it on that page. The energy guide[1] states 87 kWh per year at 5 hours per day so roughly 48W per hour rather than 118W so drop that yearly cost down around $100. Also I don't want to sound like I am shilling for Samsung, but there are various power saving options on the device. I'm not sure if those are included in the estimate. Either way, even in the markets with the most expensive electricity costs, it would take several years if not over a decade for this approach to match the initial price of the e-Ink option.

Also both these options are wasteful in the grand scheme of things. Yes, the LCD option will likely be more wasteful than the e-Ink version, but neither is particularly justifiable if you are concerned about waste. I would also venture a guess that on the full spectrum of environmental waste those two options are much closer together than either is to just throwing up an old fashioned art print on your wall.

[1] - https://image-us.samsung.com/SamsungUS/PVI/20200606/common-e...
HyperGraphs are more memory efficient than graphs [pdf]
I got horribly confused several decades ago. I was an early fan of Walter Carlos with his 'Switched on Bach' series of albums. I had about 4 or 5 of his LPs that I bought in the 1970s.

But then he disappeared, so to speak. The only person I could find was Wendy Carlos. Was that his sister, or maybe his wife? Or maybe no connection? Don't forget, this was pre-Internet and pre-WWW, when information was a lot harder to find.

I finally discovered the truth and was able to continue getting her music.

PS. The soundtrack from 'A Clockwork Orange' is probably my favorite.
I don’t know django. This is a genuine question. Why not something like this?

https://github.com/kpn-digital/django-etcd-settings

Seems like it’s possible to fetch settings from an external store.
What are the benefits that would be lost?
Prediction = Compression
https://www.theweek.com/speedreads/946300/climate-scientists...
Umm... this is one reason we send kids to school. To learn how to play with others.
this is legitimately the worst programming book i've ever read. i wanted to get started with ruby back in 2009, and everyone was praising this book. i got it, read the first few chapters, and got bored out of my mind. it meanders and takes forever to get to the point. in the end, i never really learned ruby, and the main cause was this book.
Which of course, we shall remember comes from our beloved Scheme. :)
And people like to listen to NPR because they claim it’s “unbiased”.
That sounds like what the production company for the movie _Unsubscribe_ did four months ago to 'top the US box office' [0] by buying out / sponsoring all their showings and then trying to resell the tickets themselves. Because of the way the sales are reported and the limited viewership then and now, they got to claim a headline.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23571858
Secular Jews go more by ethnicity/culture, not so much by religion. I don't know who made you the police of all Jews, but many people don't follow your so-called rules.
> Android has a craptastic audio stack

Didn't know. Looks like I'm little closer to replacing my android with iphone
That might be true if lithium battery storage was the only option. It isn't.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/8/9/20767886...
Therapy saves you from that.
Link is missing.
Agreed with siblings that Ableton is a powerful tool and powerful tools aren't trivial to learn. Nobody expects to come in proficient on day one for ProTools, or Avid, or SolidWorks, etc.

That said it's totally fair to not have the time to commit to learning a complex tool. There are other, more accessible DAWs out there you can use if you don't need the power this one provides. Garageband, for example, is easy to use and straightforward. Curious if folks know other ones similarly easy to use.
Way more than “kinda”. If you have a continuous integration pipeline that checks out projects from scratch (as it should), every build fetches all dependencies, transitively.

Even ignoring download costs, a local cache (one of the functions of an artifactory) helps speed up those downloads and,with it, your builds. It probably also helps against getting blacklisted by code repositories.

An artifactory also automatically backs up any libraries you use. That protects against them disappearing from the internet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
I saw that story, which is why I remembered Wordperfect. Good luck having a DOS emulator that works with WP 40 years from now :-)

Now what happens if it was a slightly less popular word processor, like PC-Write? (PC-Write rose to fame by being the first shareware program.)
The one css property for improving performance in 2020 is css: contain
Well that's because government are the wrong place to try and make change. A lot of failed policies have been put in place and we keep trying the same thing over and over again thinking we're smarter than the last people.

Investment and innovation are where real and sustainable change happens.
You can implement the best of both worlds. Have new writes and updates always go through ci/cd but reads from all services.
It seems like the actual display he mentions in the article is available on alibaba as well, though it is $1500:
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Largest-E-ink-Display...
I really hate that low value, reddit-style political comments like this are becoming more common on HN nowadays.
Thanks, it made me (poignantly) remember Ruby and _why
> Notion and it’s ilk would not be nearly has great or feature rich without Electron

I’ve been using Notion _hard_ for the last couple of months and only just realised people use it outside of the browser, so I’m not going to agree with that
Having all your backups in the same spot is as dumb as relying on the cloud.
One of the things that have dramatically hampered my experience on HN lately is irrelevant or tangentially related comments. I want to see relevant insightful comments or other people's experience of better way of doing things or any potential pitfalls of what's being recommended in the posted article. Instead, the comments are usually end up being complaining about some products or some features. And it becomes worse, after awhile it becomes the same broken record of constant complaining.
To be honest, I went through a ton of trail and error over ~15 years. So it'd take a lot to fill in those blanks. What I can say in a more short form is that I started out thinking it was best to be a generalist and work on any software project I could get hired for. Not sure if I was ignorant, arrogant or maybe a little of both, but that is a quick way to fail.

In the end what I found worked best was to specialize in a niche area that is large enough to grow but specific enough you can find ways to stand out. Part of what made us successful over time was we defined our ideal clients, our threshold clients, set up minimum project values, moved away from hourly billing, and focused as "generalist" within the niche. The final key for us was we were selling our services to bring a product to market, not only write source code for a project. There is a huge difference in value to clients and profit to the company.

Happy to be more specific if there is something I can share my experience from that might be more helpful even if it was a failure for me. FWIW -- my primary niche areas when I exited consulting was marketing automation and distributed systems to solve large data problems (ecommerce, healthcare, ads and direct marketing were the "industries" we played in).
> I would gladly contribute a larger share of my income as taxes to ensure my community doesn't suffer (...)

I would too, which is why I vote with my wallet and buy local, even at a premium, whenever I can.

However, income tax is the exact opposite of helping out the community, as it's designed to fatten up the central government's revenue which is then used up to feed the state's current expenditure.
The first 20” Intel iMac was released in the same chassis as the G5 iMac it was replacing with 2-3x the CPU speed. I beleive they continued to sell the G5 model for a brief while though for those that needed a PPC machine.
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A Canvas Made of Pixels [2015]
Throwaway! The credible threat of violence is useful and is certainly a skill to teach your sons.

Personal anecdata! My wife messed around once. We had young children who needed a mom and a non-broken home. I calmly visited the home of the other man. I told him that if my wife divorced me that was her choice and I would not stand in their way. I told him that if my wife did not divorce me and he continued to see her then I would beat the hell out of him. I left. Things turned out well for my children, over 5 years later, in that their parents remain married because the other dude stopped speaking to my wife.
Yes! Ansible Vault encrypted. sops is an alternative.
While I'm enjoying the clever "fraud" twist in the otherwise well-worn trope about welfare queens in left-leaning states, I'm genuinely confused as to where it fits in with a discussion about voter ID requirements.
We do both, to a point. We use Hashicorp's Consul to push config changes to running systems, but we sync it from a repo using an internal git2consul type thing.

It's nice to be able to push things into the system while it's running without hopping through all the hoops of qa, staging, etc. We then usually move it into the applications base configs in the app repo if it's going to stick around for more than a day or two to keep things tidy.

There's nothing wrong with a service to push config into a system at run-time, and you don't have to throwaway the benefits of the git history.
Link seems to be broken ?
This might be very good timing for your product - the European Data Protection Board has just out their first guidance after the Schrems II case. It seems to firmly point towards cloud services where the provider can access the data in plaintext as being "unable to have the risks mitigated" from the perspective of international transfers.

Perhaps a straightforward E2EE toolbox could help companies implement their products rapidly so they remain complaint. Clearly this won't help fix issues like Microsoft 365 or GSuite (which need access to the plaintext for email and similar), but it might help some types of SaaS to thicken up their client application and prevent the backend having access to unencrypted data, thus making the transfer permitted.

I just want to echo the above comment around how most customers don't have the knowledge to understand the benefit of this, but hopefully this is changing as we see more strict enforcement of penalties for data breaches. Data is fast becoming a liability you don't want to have the ability to see, and systems like yours offer usable solutions for those who don't understand all the technology, but need a solution.
I'm not sure more time makes it better. The logic here is that they baited you for so long that it suddenly became fair?

Apply that logic to other situations and it doesn't make sense. I get that `you` may be ok with this, but it doesn't change what it is.

Regardless of whether we individually feel what is happening is 'fair', we should be able to acknowledge why someone is upset and that this is indeed a bait & switch. Customers were offered unlimited backup and storage of the photos they took. Customers used said service with that expectation, while competitors to it went out of business, and now, they are forced to pay for continued service. That is a bait & switch.

The moment we have to start saying, "well, they should have known better" or "how did you expect this to be free forever" puts us into victim blaming territory. Just because someone could have been aware of a bait & switch/scam, doesn't make that practice not a bait & switch/scam.
Sorry, I used ambiguous language. What I was suggesting was replacing Electron with a standalone webassembly+canvas engine, since much of Chromium is redundant in this particular case.
> 87 kWh per year at 5 hours per day

I said in my post I'm using 24 hours per day, not 5. Multiply your figures by 24/5 to see the 24/7 costs.

> 48W per hour

1 W = 1 J/s. 48 J/s/hr would be some weird kind of accelerating power consumption, which is I assume not what you meant here.
no self respecting person who calls themselves a date scientist ai researcher or ml engineer would touch R.. it's a toy for making pretty plots and fitting traditional stats models to small data.. it is not a proper programming language but a horrible old scripting whatever that was unfortunately
saved by Hadley and his persistence on creating an eco system around it..
> What percentage of journal article material makes it to textbooks

I think that says as much about the quality of journal articles and academic incentives as much as anything.
The screen itself _is_ a commercial product. The custom software to run this is only a few dozen LoC on a server and you could probably work out how to hack it directly with the Visionect software.
Isn't this what most venture capital backed companies also do? They lose money in exchange for trying to capture a monopoly and when they're confident in their customer lock-in, they begin to turn a profit.

This is what Amazon does by saying 'hey, we're not profitable, we are trying to murder all local businesses by operating at thin margin and once we crush competition and everyone's dependent on us, then you'll begin to see awesome returns'. They don't literally say this but everyone knows that is in fact what they've been doing for years.

It's not a secret that this is what people with money do - they trade it in for power and what better way to have power than to be needed and irreplaceable.

This isn't a big tech problem, it's a human problem and I have yet to hear a nuanced solution.
In my experience it’s not so much about hearing the full blown crying, it’s about hearing the fussing that indicates that crying is imminent.
I am comparing the use case and not the technology. I am comparing one art piece to another art piece.
No. Because why the child can only get attention for 24 hours per day, other tasks primarily focused on the child (buying nappies, cooking baby-friendly meals, washing bottles, etc.) are what Parent #2 is doing while Parent #1 looks after child.
I fail to see what's wrong with either of those options. Switching photos apps is not hard.
To get to that size stacking 3 of them on top of each other probably wouldn't look so bad, it'd be like having 3 <hr> tags on the page.
YouTube Down?
Videos are not playing, from my wife or cellular data. Anyone know why?
"We already have too many photos for our ML pipelines." Thank you very much.

Now you must pay.
Okay that's fair. I don't think Hilary should have said that.

But since Trump lost the popular vote, "illegitimate" is a somewhat reasonable opinion IMHO. As in he won the election legally but is not the "legitimate" leader of the people in a moral sense.
Google Announces Eventarc in Preview – A New Events Functionality for Cloud Run
A book which stops you learning Ruby is in fact an excellent book.
this complaint is effectively “repost!!!”
You can stop using Apple hardware for no additional software cost if you use Ableton.
> Examples of large, modern societies flourishing without the use of taxation?

This is a disingenuous red herring.

It's one thing to claim that some amount of taxes to finance public spending can be benefitial to society.

It's an entirely different thing to claim that taxing remote work brings any benefit to society.
Making Roles Explicit
Au contraire: https://garfieldminusgarfield.net

(Although I suppose a case could be made for it still being "empty.")
YouTube Down
Direct announcement details: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/build-even...
iOS doesn't let you have that amount of control.
Timely. I just got my closet server on the internet with WebDAV behind auth and SSL. Also installed PhotoSync on my phone. I do miss the image GP browser though (a little).
Ruby is good :)
Alas bullshit is not diamonds.
i don't think it was even funny the first time.

reading this stuff i always feel like the author is trying to keep my attention by jiggling some car keys in front of my face as if i am an infant. this applies to books like learn you a haskell too.
I have a synology setup with a syncme app on mobile that I run every month or so to dump pics on home nas. I have a amazon glacier backup plugin on NAS that backup's periodically. thats it.

Even if the house catches fire I can still get my stuff out of amazon.
YouTube Video playback is down
Go to any youtube video and watch the network requests to redirector.googlevideo.com hang.

i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3VcGKv9Cfw
Absolutely. I buy new drives every year or so and copy the stuff forward. Many of my 10+ year old drives no longer function.
It may not be hard conceptually, but it does seem hard practically. To date, the number of geologically stable sites used for commercial - as opposed to experimental - storage of nuclear waste appears to be zero.
It's not properly built in. OLEDs support full conversion to red-only light, allowing you to preserve your night vision. No other app or built in implementation except f.lux and cf.lumen allow for turning all colors off except red. This is the main reason that I jailbreak my android phone (a oneplus). Not ad blocking, not side loading apps, but because I want to not get my eyes destroyed every night when I try to go to the bathroom and use my phone as an impromptu flashlight...

What the fuck guys? Do you just not care about astronomers? Why is it that no one has properly implemented all of f.luxs features?
YouTube Is Down for Everyone
Videos are not loading at all. People all around the world are experiencing issues. Check the Twitter tag below.

Could this be a global outage of YouTube?

Down detector: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtube
Is just a temporary degradation

Probably...
I haven't used AE myself, but I use many of the other Adobe products and I know that many (perhaps all or close to all) of them have scripting support, so I decided to do a quick Google search for AE scripting guides.

A couple of results came up, one is an official PDF about scripting AE CS6, the other a website about AE scripting. I assume most of the stuff from the AE CS6 PDF applies to AE CC as well.

https://blogs.adobe.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/48/files/2012/0...

https://docs.aenhancers.com

From the PDF:

> When you use Adobe After Effects, you create projects, compositions, and render queue items along with all of the elements that they contain: footage, images, solids, layers, masks, effects, and properties. Each of these items, in scripting terms, is an object. This guide describes the ExtendScript objects that have been defined for After Effects projects.

I think it might be worthwhile to look into whether scripting might be used in order to randomize effects and effect parameters. My immediate guess would be that yes it would be possible. I didn't look into it closely, and if it turns out to be a dead end then I apologise for that but anyways I figured I might mention this in case it might be useful to you. Also, of course since I didn't look into it closely I can not make any guesses as to how much work it would take to get the type of functionality that you want.
I find it emotionally a lot easier to be evaluated and rejected for romance by a stranger over the course of a few days, than to have a friendship that grows for months/years but ultimately stops short of romantic territory. The latter is usually what happens with people I meet organically.
Reminds me of when Homebrew's creator can't get past Apple's interview process [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
With a light sensor you could adjust the colour of an LCD display so it exactly simulates the light reflected by paper. I don't understand why nobody did it before. Now you can't patent it though because this comment serves as prior art :)
Pretty strong consensus in any country with voting that climate change isn't a priority.
If Apple can put iOS’s ‘files’ app API to use in Finder these companies might just be able to drop macOS native (macOS only) apps in exchange for only distributing catalyst apps.
Is just a temporary degradation, probably...

Edit: Err, probably more serious
> Mutually Assured Destruction assures that there will be no direct conflict between superpowers

If a conflict stays below a certain threshold, it doesn't go nuclear. Russia is always prodding to see how far they can go. Ability to answer in kind is something you need, and autonomous tanks seem to fit the bill quite well.
> That seems to contradict the thread I linked to above.

That thread was wrong, then. The cost of PV, utility scale, is about $1/W(dc). Nuclear is an order of magnitude more expensive, per watt. PV has lower capacity factor, but it's still cheaper per kWh.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2020
Quite off topic, but: where would a person go nowadays to get up to speed about music making? (Learning, news, etc).

I used to tinker with beatmaking back when fl studio was still called fruity loops, and this post has made me very nostalgic. I would like to get back as a hobby, but it's been like 15 years and I'm quite lost.
If there is a throwaway word in your argument that has no meaning, why did you pick "fraud" instead of "sodomy" or whatever?
Everything is measured by if he can deliver. A superstar with leadership skills is arguably a better superstar.

You can also have asshole superstar who just needs other people for dumb labor. And who can micromanage them to project success.

That is pretty obviously only a local optimum.