skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the right way to handle it. Not directly relevant to Amazon, but I had a comparable experience with a different and much less prominent streaming provider. The picture quality was exemplary, but the sound mix was movie-ruiningly atrocious. It had been normalised to the point that during a lull in a conversation, the background sound of chirping crickets would rise in volume to match the volume of the dialogue. I tried several playback devices, it made no difference. I tried reporting the issue, but didn't have the will to wade through their irrelevant questions, so I simply decided to never buy from them again.

Turns out I'm not the only one:

https://www.avforums.com/threads/chili-tv-audio-compression....
This is a very fair question and shouldn't be down-voted.

It's a way for powerful people to pay other powerful people for arbitrary things like 'speeches' so that they can exchange favours off the books in a very indirect way.

It doesn't have to be illegal or even nefarious, but it should raise eyebrows as a possible conflict of interest.
My concern if this is used in cars is, what grid can support this? You'd have people drawing so much power that it charges almost instantly but existing residential lines won't handle it at scale. Maybe specialized stations can handle it, but home charging doesn't seem real. Unless you limit the rate, but then what's the benefit?
don't know why this was downvoted. If I'm not mistaken, there is generally a high error rate per pore fundamentally because it's a single molecule experiment. These get averaged out, but may be difficult to align as it might not necessarily be a straightforward averaging. There are also segments that are fundamentally generally difficult to sequence correctly (single nucleide runs, not even a super high n) that will probably never get satisfyingly resolved no matter how many times you sequence.
This brings back memories. In the beginning of my career (early 90's) i implemented an entire UI for a Personnel Information System in COBOL on a Mainframe (CDC Cyber 180/840A) using ANSI escape sequences.

Please don't judge me :-)
That is well-known (gulag, etc). You give the green light to all sorts of scums and they do it without explicit directives. But it doesn’t explain why. CCP embraces very high risks with this route, while more ‘liberal’ routes exist. Even from a cynical point of view, today it feels more like an irrational hate rather than ideological issues.
Derek's blog is great but he's a bit of a stooge for his industry, so he plays dumb sometimes.
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are there different ethics rules for "speaking fee" vs "consulting fee" ?
Hah! I saw your note about programmatically entering Tek mode from xterm. You can do: echo -e "\e[?38h" from the vt100 window to launch the Tek window. Then echo -e "\e\x03" from the Tek window to switch input back to the vt100 window.

Edit: Hrm. I did try it out before posting, and it worked. So not sure why it isn't working for you.
financial professional masquerading as a politician.

politicians are supposed to be public servants.
> there’s also the financial reality that not all trades are done with the immediate availability of the seller’s security, or the buyer’s cash, to achieve real time trade by trade settlement so a margin call is essential.

I thought settlement was just swapping money for securities; I did not realize that the margin call was key part of the process.
If you're using a mobile browser on Android that doesn't allow overriding websites that disable zoom (or using a website that defines font sizes in vw/vh), check your accessibility settings, there should be a shortcut for triple-tap to enable a zoom function. Some devices have other magnifying functions as well. My tablets and phone all have the basic magnifier function; my LineageOS (android 7 & 8) tablets additionally have a screen zoom/dpi setting to modify how large both pictures and text appear, and my samsung tablet (Android 10) has this and also a text zoom function. There's also a minimum view width setting in developer options since at least Android 8, to ensure interfaces aren't too small on mobile (this only goes one way though-- there's no maximum view width and no height controls).

It doesn't help with everything, but the triple-tap zoom is quite useful.
To recuse herself from a clear conflict of interest.
But they did apply the law. Part of the settlement was an admission of guilt (along with massive fines and turning snitch on at least one business associate).

It sounds like everybody wins. IRS gets revenue in the form of fines that exceeded the avoided taxes. AG's office gets a snitch, which should enable them to fry bigger fish. The criminal pays a large fine, gets his name in the paper for bad reasons, but avoids jail.

Really, what does jail get us in this case? It's a non-violent crime.
tl,dr;

This article is about an exhibition that ran (in Berlin) until Jan 03, 2021. It's over.

The book mentioned in the article is the exhibition catalague.
And if they pull it off, they’d be worth $50 a share. That’s what DFV said himself.
Not sure I get your point?

700k might be a small sum (I don't think it is, but ok) for her, but she still accepted it.
Thanks, it is weird how the brain works where you could swear you are clicking on one spot, but end up clicking somewhere else. Just like when I come home from the grocery store with diet soda instead of regular -- I'd be looking at one product, reach for it, and somehow grab the wrong one.

Every time this happens I swear it is a glitch in the matrix or something.
Yeah, forming the staircase at the edge of the memory array is a big deal with a lot of steps, and it can take up a significant chunk of die area. But they can apparently do it with a very small number of photolithography masks: https://www.techinsights.com/webinar/memory-process-webinar-...
It's a material amount that can only be spent in the context of 'getting something for it'. What that is is nebulous, and it could be something as simple as an introduction to someone as of yet unknown at a future date. But it's something worth $700K, not a 'speech'.
If she recused herself every time she had a hearing with a company that paid her for a talk, she might as well resign being treasury secretary.
I agree there is, for small, niche players who are more flexible and adaptive to their market than, say, Steam.

Can a brick-and-mortar dinosaur (with a lot of temporary money) just buy their way into being a Steam competitor? I doubt it.
The thing people like about Facebook is looking at other peoples photos, safe in the knowledge that they don't know you are looking at their photos.
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> feeds

Oh, if she's still receiving money from Citadel, I agree.

If she's not still receiving money from Citadel, I don't see the relevance. I would expect anyone qualified for the job to have made paid speeches at any number of important financial institutions over the years. It wouldn't be in our best interests as citizens to have them recuse every time a matter concerning one of them arises.
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E-sport enthusiast are, as a group, sadly not very good patrons. They stay very long per visit and order very little food and drinks (relative to the extent of their stay). This is because many, if not most, if them will be teenagers or in their early twenties, and unruly enough to drive the more financially stable 30+ crowd away. So you will have all-night events showing StarCraft 2 or whatever, and only refill a bunch of drinks every once in a while. Very difficult to get a good business that way. Price sensitivity also plays a big part here.

I've talked to several owners of failed e-sport restaurants. They all say the same thing. It's sad, but also the reason you don't see tons of them around, even if gaming as an industry makes billions of dollars.
This is very fascinating!

He tried amending his tax returns to correct the reporting issues.

He tried to use amnesty program on undeclared Swiss banking back in the early 2010s when the US was piercing the Swiss Constitution, and was denied!

And this all started because divorce proceedings listed many assets. Eventually ensnaring a completely unrelated person in actual jail.

Wow.

For all intents and purposes it seems like they were overly focused on Smith, until some of the hobnobbing with the administration started to pay off.
We don't really understand probabilities, we only learned to jump from probabilities to decisions, MWI just explicates this lack of understanding. The problem was known since early 19th century.
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People used to say “Just use bcrypt.”, but this might have changed since. A cursory look seems to indicate that Argon2 is the current preferred choice.
A lot of developers think that way, just like everyone else in their jobs, thinking they could do it better.

When they realize it's more soft skill oriented, endless meetings, power point deck after power point deck, stakeholder after stakeholder, and 1 hour left to code, they finally get the picture.

I was once that developer, thinking I knew what was best for everything. I scoffed at management and project managers. Now I know the real truth - their job is way harder than it seems.
>Can someone explain this in a little more detail? Particularly the eschewing the lifecycle altogether.

We use it in conjunction with MobX observers, so that a component is only ever rerendered when its' data is updated, and there's no fooling around with `componentDidUpdate` stuff that can get unwieldy really fast.

The interaction flow is basically: Click handler -> Send event to the state machine -> State machine evaluates business logic, calls services, etc. and updates MobX model -> MobX observer rerenders the pure functional React component. So that all your components are ever doing is sending events to the state machine, with no business logic baked in. Use `useState` for ephemeral component level state like toggle switches, but the source of truth for the entire application lies in MobX models updated by state machines.
I’ve been at similar though 4 weeks would have been generous.
> stuff gets to your house in 2 days even during worldwide pandemic with widespread supply chain disruption.

On the backs of warehouse and distribution workers who put themselves at serious risk for Covid (or just backbreaking work environments).
Based on what eternalny1 said, private mode doesn't require "many custom plugins and configurations" as it's baked right into the product.

One could reduce that amount of spam signup requests that one gets by simplying adding a captca such as recaptcha[0] or hcaptcha[1]

[0]: https://www.google.com/recaptcha

[1]: https://www.hcaptcha.com
Because raise huge suspect of bribing.
This looks great. I was looking for something similar to get the word out about a private event recently and the options for non-public minimalist website hosting is surprisingly limited. (I ended up just doing a password-protected simple nginx server, but this looks potentially much nicer to set up and use.)
Could you point me to non politician, non regulator, non government official receiving a market rate of $300k a speech?

I hear you can get Zuckerberg or Gates for that kind of money, but they make more than that in an hour just from their existing wealth.
"Speaking Fee" is the modern day term for bribe.
> request less than market rates

Is the current market rate for a speech $290k? And what are exactly the goods object of the transaction?
I think you could do that / similar to many other shows/movies summaries online can be pretty descriptive. I've enjoyed watching all the seasons though.
> ceteris paribus

> universally linearly coupled to each other.

Yeah, neither am I.
+1 and this is the case for anyone who would be a good choice for the job in the first place.
Yes. Was logging in to share the same comment.

When I was an engineer in NYC my taxable income was about the following:
1. ~35% federal
2. ~8% state
3. ~3% city

Don't forget sales tax!
Its possible to be both, but there are 700k reasons she might just be a little bit biased.
My part of the US apparently. The local restaurant regulations is 6ft apart and if people are sitting you don't need a mask. Same with stadiums/theaters/etc..
Speaking fees is how one legally bribes politicians. Such is how my cynical self sees it. The Clintons earned over $150 in speaking fees since leaving the presidency. Does anyone think their speeches are worth $10 million a year? At the end of the Clinton presidency he signed into law a repeal of Glass-Steagall. Reagan famously was paid around $10 million after his presidency to give some speeches in Japan. He got rid of car import quotas.

Perhaps I'm being too conspiratorial or cynical but it seems to me that this is the polite understanding between business and those with political power. We'll pay you a lot of money for very little work if you pass legislation that we like.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill...
Apple only :(
Also didn't hurt Jeff Bezos is a fan and bought the show
must be an amazing speaker
Some buzzwords have stronger underlying value than others. Hybrid Cloud is very critical for orgs that want to migrate or partly use cloud resources, say for moving capital expense to operating expense or for burst uses, but don’t want two different tool chains. IBM/RH’s offer is more flexible then Azure Stack or pieces of Google like Anthos, but the flexibility comes at a higher cost.

In any case, is buzzword but not the same variant of buzz as blockchain.
eh, the 'truly rounded education' can generally be attained through the internet, and I've found those who aren't interested in them in the first place tend not to gain much from the classes anyways. Friendships are the main unique upside, but unless you go to an elite college the students who are genuinely driven in their field are hard to find. That's not to say your friends need to be "leaders" and whatnot, but it definitely differs from the narrative colleges put around their students and the price tag being worth it.
The defence ministry of Italy does, as well as other Italian government bodies.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/from-microsoft-to-libreoffice-...

Well and my company does, but naturally biased as we're European (meaning, sending over lots of data to Microsoft is a bit more frowned upon) and produce open source software ourself.
I think a lot of people are quite successful in the middle somewhere - doing something they like (or at least don't hate) - for someone else.

It helps to learn what you like and don't like early, say while your parents are paying the bills.
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There's two big issues for GameStop:

a) People are getting faster Internet connections, which enables them to actually utilise digital stores. The PlayStation Store is almost 15 years old and I can imagine how bad the average consumer connection was back then. And if you have a slower connection, you can still pre-order and pre-load games.

b) Physical medium is not exclusive to brick and mortar. I am myself a collector of physical games (167 games in my shelf at the moment I believe) and I don't really go out and buy games. I just order them online.

Basically, they're not only competing against the growing popularity of PlayStation Store, Xbox Live and Nintendo e-Shop, they're competing against Amazon.
My family needs a private place like this. I put a non-federated Pleroma instance on a free tier Google Cloud VM. Pleroma is a lightweight alternative to Mastodon and it requires very few resources to handle ~10 users. It's compatible with more popular Mastodon so there is a lot of available clients apart from the web version.

Highly recommend you give it a try.
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The problem is not so much the speaking fee as she is now presiding over a meeting with regulators on a matter directly related to Citadel.
This is my experience as well. You must always ask for a detailed description for these roles.

I've even seen companies that have a role called "Product Manager Owner" with a vague enough description that it could be either or both.
It seems clear from articles in the past 10 years a meteor strike is very unlikely.

e.g. - if you look at the wiki reference [7] "The Bangui Magnetic Anomaly Revisited" they clearly say no with what seems like an air tight explanation.

I know wiki isn't a source of truth, but academia doesn't seem to be stepping up with solutions. Someone needs to say the meteor strike theory is very unlikely and needs more updated evidence or modelling to still be taken seriously.
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That was the feature I loved about Google Plus, I used it extensively when the service was growing. But no one else went to it regularly enough. CS Friends, Video Game Friends, RPG Friends, Soccer Buddies, Family, Immediate Family, Colleagues (several for several different jobs). I could easily post things across circles that would appeal to that circle. Vacation photos go to family and some friends, most don't care (or need to see it). My nerdy tabletop RPG posts went to those friends who cared about it. CS/programming topics went to those friends who cared about it.
I wish Firefly would have been able to experience some of this
It is just ridiculous to call her "a financial professional". She was a top regulation official. Now she is a top regulation official again. How can you just call her "a financial professional". I don't understand your "don't understand". Did you just hear her name the first time or something?
selling naked or cash covered options?
In preparing for space combat they vent the ship and wear space suits, expecting the ship to be poked full of holes.

When ships travel through space, they can be seen traveling in "reverse" as they arrive, because they are burning their engines to decelerate.

Ships only have "gravity" when they are running their engines.
Yes, she should resign.
source on this claim?
I can’t believe you’re even questioning yourself on this. OF COURSE it’s legal bribing.
> in order to be taken seriously I must provide sources, backing, it is not enough to explain my thoughts cogently

You must at least provide reasoning, for the thoughts to be cogent. Your assertions are vague - you allude to things without clarifying what you mean, and why you believe it to be so.

> in order to be taken seriously I must...

> I must show...

> I must acquire...

You must do theses things? According to who. again, assertion without explanation. Understand, your thoughts don't explain themselves!
Ijon Tichy's scratching his head, wondering if he's Hard Sci-Fi - as too the Ijon Tichy from ten minutes in the future who's just popped in and started eating the pancakes he'd just finished eating.
I'm guessing it's a blip in history, not a trend.

What we're seeing is a first cohort of people who get in and build their careers while the niche is still young, and before everyone knows about it. Then there's a much larger cohort of second movers who see the work as aspirational and want to get into it. They have a much more difficult path to success. They have to compete with each other, and with the established players, for a piece of a pie that is no longer growing. Very few end up succeeding.

Jobs where I've previously seen this happen include lawyer, craft brewer, restaurantier, data scientist, academic, airline pilot, and games developer. I'm not sure I see any particular reason to think that it will be different for professional gaming.
pbkdf2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

Your standard crypto library probably implements it (Rfc2898DeriveBytes for .NET). Under the covers you should tell it to use SHA512. If you can choose something better go ahead, but this is often good enough
It's how bribes are paid nowadays.

Monetary payments leave paper trails. What's an easy way around that? Come give a 30 minute speech!
This right here. Whenever I see proponents of blockchain listing ways it could be used, every single one I read has second and third-order consequences they clearly haven't thought much about.
If she finds for them, it's because they paid her. If she finds against them, it's because they didn't pay her enough.

Seems like a great impartial position.
Everettian universe has fine tuning problem too (and explanation): the universe has non-fine tuned states orthogonal to our, where complex life doesn't exist.
I had the exact opposite impression. 700k to bribe a former chair of the Fed and (at the time) likely future treasury secretary seems so paltry that it just being a speaking fee seemed quite reasonable. Citadel pays people in their 20s more than that.

From a quick Google search, there are plenty of actors and sportspeople who charge six figures for a speech.
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That's a good point that cheapest isn't necessarily the worst, and quite true for RAM from reputed manufacturers like Micron. But 4x is certainly unethical price gauging. I was under the naive impression though that Apple uses the best parts in its devices, even if they price gauge you later on the parts.
Or a favor.
Doesn't matter. Yellen has a conflict of interest.
I'm really sick about this whattaboutism that every internet discussion about electric cars invariably devolves into at least in part.

Fire requires fuel, oxygen and ignition (heat). Liquid fuels require external ignition. Batteries do not. But you also have to pump liquid fuels around and generally handle them more to make them do work.

Batteries are more dangerous on a fundamental/conceptual level because they have everything they need to release their energy all at once. So we build them with hard casings for the same reason we build large safety factors into pressurized gas containers so in practice it doesn't really matter.

Batteries and liquid fuels aren't really better or worse than each other from a "much safety or "won't somebody think of the children" point of view. They just require slightly different engineering considerations for an equivalent level of safety.

This is directed just as much (ore maybe even more) at the parent comment as it is at you.
The point was it’s not a small sum for her, it’s in fact more than triple her yearly salary. An adjacent point was she makes little compared to how much she could be getting, and people still complain.

Her taking up that offer is no surprise.
I guess I misunderstood, how do you think a less reactionary country would replicate the standard of living that is obtained with a six figure salary?
There have been tons of discussions and proposals regarding error handling boilerplate [0][1], and the general consensus is that go developers like the explicitness of `if err != nil` and just want to leave it be [2]

[0]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437
[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32804
[2]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32825
I agree in general with you about pardons, but there was also an apology for Turing's treatment from the then prime minister, Gordon Brown.
I'm sure some HF's have, just as some HF's lost billions in their own right on the way up.
Should be easy to verify on social media by someone who has a mac pro?
That'd be great.

Seriously though, why is that the case? If she's a public servant, she could donate her time to talks easily. When you're being paid that much money to speak, then are asked to sit in judgment on this company, are you really expecting her to bite the hand that feeds her? *At the absolute best it puts her in a terribly awkward position. At worst it's bribery.
Their point is that if the Free Software solution is far inferior to the non-Free solution, it doesn't seem right to harm the students' education in the name of ideology.

I'm not disputing the validity of the ideological point here, but it isn't enough. The Free Software solution needs to be genuinely competitive.
Well, the circles feature as implemented and documented by Google managed to confuse even me and I thought I understood it early on.