skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to think of dither (that may only make sense to people with a signals background) is that it linearizes the error introduced by the quantization step (which is a non-linear process). This has a bunch of conceptual implications (like elimination of error harmonics being natural consequence) but maybe most importantly allows you to continue using linear analysis tools and techniques in systems with a quantization filter.
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This depends on how easy/difficult the rollback strategy.
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I suspect warehousing and other distribution logistics factor in as well. 'Transport' is from farm to plate.
I have a perfectly good sleep routine. It's just that it involves a laptop, a mobile phone, a tablet and occasionally a VR headset.
Pretty big gamble (even though it shouldn't be) for those people who have signed on if they don't meet that threshold. I think tech has been very resistant to unionize.
Looks cool when you're livestreaming? Like if you're just showing your face cam and it's in the background.
Lewis and Rao published a meta-analysis of 25 large scale controlled advertising experiment [1]. Here's the abstract:

Twenty-five large field experiments with major U.S. retailers and brokerages, most reaching millions of customers and collectively representing $2.8 million in digital advertising expenditure, reveal that measuring the returns to advertising is difficult. The median confidence interval on return on investment is over 100 percentage points wide. Detailed sales data show that relative to the per capita cost of the advertising, individual-level sales are very volatile; a coefficient of variation of 10 is common. Hence, informative advertising experiments can easily require more than 10 million person-weeks, making experiments costly and potentially infeasible for many firms. Despite these unfavorable economics, randomized control trials represent progress by injecting new, unbiased information into the market. The inference challenges revealed in the field experiments also show that selection bias, due to the targeted nature of advertising, is a crippling concern for widely employed observational methods.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/130/4/1941/191...
You think you wouldn't be tracked worse under socialism/communism?
They are entirely different products. Bandcamp is a digital storefront and SoundCloud is audio social media.

On a related note, their business models are completely different. Bandcamp is bootstrapped and profitable, while SoundCloud is dependent on investment money and almost went bankrupt a few years ago.
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I think there may also be a general surge for HN since it's the "back to work" day after the holidays. Perhaps some largish portion of HN users didn't use it much over the holidays and are catching up on reading.
The article seems to gloss over an important aspect of Section 230, shielding sites and providers from legal liability from 3rd party content. It would open sites and providers to frivolous libel lawsuits, something most small sites couldn't afford to fight in court, leaving only sites like Facebook and Twitter who could afford to deal with the legal ramifications.
Probably, but it was only 2-3pm UK time when it started falling over so there would be all the Europe traffic plus the East Coast traffic starting to sign in.
Oh boy, I think it's about time to hack on some dithered generative art. What an inspiration this article was!
Lmfao religion of crime and dirty money?
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What is he even talking about? Snowden got his records from the NSA and passed it onto journalists. He had nothing with him by the time he got to Russia. How could he possibly reveal Obama's records, even if he wanted to? I feel like at least one Presidential briefing should have covered this.

Also, what the fuck? That's not even a sentence. Was it so hard to find someone who could construct coherent sentences?
It isn't just # of users, though - SlackOps is probably unique to Slack in that list (minus Teams, I guess) - so # of messages per month is a better metric. Not that I'm letting Slack off the hook, it still may be that their codebase and/or dev process is just nasty.
The author mentions Sway and i3 window managers as examples of finished software. I'd be interest if anyone has more examples. What is a piece of software that is feature complete in your opinion?

A couple more examples I can think of:

- jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

- pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/

- tokyo/kyoto cabinet: embedded key value database

- awk: text processing tool / programming language

- (almost per-se) any game that shipped on physical media
From the abstract, the authors are claiming that the big differences between real conspiracies and conspiracy theories is that real conspiracies involve a single domain, while conspiracy theories cross domains.

They explicitly contrast Bridgegate and Pizzagate. Bridgegate was real and only involved New Jersey politics. Pizzagate of course is a grab bag of everything.

Of course we can make a Bridgegate conspiracy theory by simply pointing out the fact that Chris Christie’s name translates as “Christ Christ”, and he was opposed by Mark Sokolich. And what’s another word for “opposed” or “opposite”? That’s right “anti”, as in the antichrist.

Now you might be suspicious, but we know from analyzing transcendentalist literature that the pronunciation of names is a symbol. “Chris Christie”, in addition to meaning Christ, leaves your mouth with a smile, while “Mark Sokolich” leaves your mouth harsh and jagged, like evil.

Furthermore, governor of New Jersey ordered the closures of the upper deck of the George Washington Bridge. Which isn’t surprising because George Washington was famously a Freemason, a group that’s connected to Hermeticism, which has the famous saying, “As above, so below.” Close the upper deck, close the ground.

“Ground” is just another word for “Earth”, and so what is above the Earth? That’s right the heavens. And what lives in the Heaven? That’s right God. But not just any god, the false gods, those from the heavens, the ancient travelers from the stars.

So you see, by closing two-thirds of the toll booths dedicated to the town, the governor of New Jersey performed a magickal working to ensare and imprison an alien battle fleet, commanded by the the reptilian demon that had replaced the mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

This is just facts. It’s just that the whole is considerably less than the parts.
In that case, for an average employee making $100k-$200k a year in base salary at Google, I can't imagine paying $1-2k a year for the privilege of raising concerns without any real teeth. They can already do this anyway in retros or all-hands meetings, signing on to open letters to the executive team, etc.

Not saying that the organizers here have malicious intentions, but if you did have malicious intentions then something like this could actually be a pretty good scam... Re-purposing the word "union" for something that is not really serving that role, and collecting money from people who will ideologically sign onto it without thinking because they automatically think "unions == good". Basically making money off of the current shift to the left in US politics.
Issues like this might be DNS related...

If anyone needs to check the state of their DNS on a bunch of servers at once check out dug:
https://git.kaijucode.com/matt/dug
I worked for a regional company in the oil and gas industry and the HQ and both datacenters were in the same earthquake zone. A twice per century earthquake had a real risk of taking down both DCs and the HQ. The plan would have been for every gas station in the vertical to switch to a contingency plan distributing critical emergency supplies and selling non-essential supplies using off-grid procedures.
I don't think the comparison to TSLA et al makes sense. Companies don't move their cash into stocks like that so it isn't something that was an alternative for this use case.
That's completely dependent on what kind of software you are writing. (And yeah, if you caught yourself automating UI tests, you are probably way too far.)

The best phrasing is the OP's in that "automated tests are anticorrelated to success" (so is posting on HN, by the way). That doesn't mean that for your exact case they are not essential, just that there is an statistic relation.
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Is there a GHC compiler switch that ensures only "idiomatic code" is compiled?

One can, with sufficient effort, essentially write C code in Haskell using various unsafe primitives. We would argue that this is not true to the spirit and goals of Haskell, and we have attempted in this paper to remain within the space of “reasonably idiomatic” Haskell. However, we have made abundant use of strictness annotations, explicit strictness, and unboxed vectors. We have, more controversially perhaps, used unsafe array subscripting in places. Are our choices reasonable?

http://www.cs.ru.nl/P.Achten/IFL2013/symposium_proceedings_I...
Or it could do the opposite by making better decisions. I don't see why your version is more likely than the opposite.
And if you don't cherry pick a time period which contains a market crash? I'd also point out that stocks represent a real stake in a real company which may generate real cash. Crypto is thin air and trades on the greater fool theory alone.
And I've found the opposite. I'm genuinely not being antagonistic - I just think it's important to get a diversity of voices out there on this topic lest people feel that there's only one "truth".
Bid to address health costs by 3 corporate giants is over
I've had good experiences with ngircd. It's an IRC server that is very easy to self-host, and it can be installed via APT on any debian/ubuntu/raspbian etc system, and I'm sure on many others.
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DHALF.TXT might also be useful.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cyotek/Dithering/master/re...

DITHER.TXT is also available in the same folder.
I've moved it to the Freelancer thread. Thanks for watching out for a fellow user.
If there's anything to learn from Assange and Snowden:

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2. With enough propaganda, you can make people believe anything, even that Snowden is a "traitor" to the US.

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I do love being told I'm deluded.
I remember something about the database being a flat file / flat files. Is that (still) true? How are the two machines being synchronized?
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I want to give her the credit of making some sort of dramatic point, but yeah it felt a little condescending.
> The quantity that they are posting now breaks a new FB policy

Could you tell me more about that? What new policy?
My understanding is that they have a "tenancy" variable in every service call which can take a different code path. They seem to only have one environment for everything and do tests/experiments at code level based on this variable.
The California DMV does this as part of their “upload documents ahead of time” system, and it is a terrible experience, because they often tell you to wait for an email and then no email arrives. What happened - is there a problem with my spam filter? Is there a backed-up queue in the DMV software? Do they simply consider it acceptable if the email takes an hour to be delivered? If you use this method then you really need to care about your email deliverability and that is harder than just maintaining a regular login process.
What an odd coincidence… I just acquired an "Inkplate" for my birthday (a recycled Kindle screen glued onto a board with an Arduino and wifi) and was in the process of looking for old 1bit art for it, stumbled across the term "ditherpunk" just last night.
- https://inkplate.io

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- https://www.instagram.com/mattisdovier/?hl=en
- https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/dinaisth.html

I'm going to start raiding old Hypercard stacks next
It never went down for me.
Depends on how well compensated holiday overtime is. There are some employees happy to work overtime if their hourly pay is doubled or tripled. However there also those who wouldnt do that for any price.
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I don't believe anybody's suggesting Slack and HN are being targeted, more that Slack being down means HN is being hugged to death by actual users.
I finally get it
i didn't express myself correctly. the use-value exists, definitely, but it's effect on exchange-value of the commodity is diminished as that commodity becomes widely used medium of exchange/store of value. gold's use-value in tech and jewelery is a small fraction of gold's exchange-value.

> One of the most interesting aspects of bitcoin is proponents fervently advocate for one element of the gold standard (a fixed supply), but not the other (something physical of utility).

if gold became useless for exchange purpose and only it's use-value was relevant, market price would go down to pretty much nothing, the scammiest cryptocurrency exit-scams would be brought to shame by that drop. so physical utility of gold has absolutely no relevance to gold-standard. even jewelery use-value was mostly driven by exchange-value, so that would become irrelevant as well and the market would be flooded by worthless golden trinkets and rings.
The idea conveyed here is that scarcity being the foundation of value is a myth. No economist believes that just because something happens to be rare makes it inherently valuable. I dont think any real economist really believes that. I think it was a pop culture, snake oil salesman thing that brought it into the zeitgeist. Yet to this day, the myth still prevails and bitcoin is mostly based on that concept.
Just because something is "limited" doesn't mean it already has value.
The ingress components is interesting to me. It takes the OBS stream, via the FTL protocol, & converts it into something for WebRTC to use, yes? What drove you to use FTL protocol for ingestion? Did you consider alternatives like RTMP, which I believe OBS also supports?

I hand't heard of FTL before. Apparently it was a protocol used in Microsoft's now-defunct game-streaming service, Mixer. I found some discussion of the various streaming protocols here[1], which included some description of FTL.

I guess it comes down to latency. That would still have left SRT on the table, yes?

Great project. Such a key area of connectivity for us all. So glad you did this. Thanks.

[1] https://restream.io/blog/streaming-protocols/
Hi John,

Nothing to do with the two positions, but have you ever considered a markdown editor? My pipeline is markdown -> pandoc+filters -> latex, so nowadays I only use Overleaf when the papers (or the coauthors) really demands it.
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-offer-415-million-to-...

How soon everyone forgets. Google was caught red handed colluding with other companies to suppress employee wages in the past. This was still during their "Don't be evil." days, too.
Fluffychat [1] is built with Flutter and apparently supports e2e encryption.

Note: I wanted to try it out for a while, but haven't yet.

[1] https://gitlab.com/famedly/fluffychat
Why do people always assume everyone develops code in these perfect environments where we have tests, CI/CD, etc??
That is because the article is about genomics. Not molecular biology in general.
> That’s being greedy.

The only entity that stands to lose from their greed is one of the largest monopolies in the world. Why do you feel they need to be protected from greed?
> Wikileaks is not a journalistic organisation because it lacks the editorial expertise, ethics, and resources essential to carry out responsible journalism.

There's (luckily) no exams (yet) for what makes a journalist. Someone who has a blog is no less a journalist than anyone at a national newspaper.

> They have to rely on real newspapers or the pentagon (!) to do it for them. It’s no defence to say: we tried to get other people to help us do the right thing

Actually it is. That's why intention is regularly taken into account in court cases and it shows WikiLeaks had the intention to redact and if needed even via the Pentagon.

> but we couldn’t, so we did the wrong thing instead.

They did no 'wrong' thing instead. They tried to consult the U.S. Government about any needed redactions and then published vital information to inform the public that the government is committing war crimes of foreign soil in their name.

Not publishing that would've been wrong and was most likely the goal of the Pentagon in not cooperating.

Is similar with zero days, researchers publish them if the vendor doesn't cooperate because not doing so and letting black hats exploit a known bug is way more 'wrong' than publishing the 0day widely is.
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Exactly. Number of crappy Chinese comedy videos with millions of reacts is astounding.
I get it, there's a lot of unsavory stuff in the crypto space, but I think it's a huge mistake to miss the good stuff just because you dislike the bad stuff. We're talking about open protocols here, that means they're open to drug dealers, money launderers, scammers, and other bad actors just as much as they are to everyone else. This is no different from other protocols we all know and love. People on here wouldn't dismiss BitTorrent just because it can be used for software piracy and illegal porn.
Noe that when deployed properly, we MIGHT not need 85% if we have secondary protocols to inhibit the growth of covid.

For example, requiring all airline passengers or anyone leaving their state to be vaccinated and vaccinating frontline workers including those that work at grocery stores, etc.
If BTC was $1 then all the BTC in the world wouldn't be enough to transfer $30,000,000.