skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there is no culture of transparency in China.
Hard to say in terms of % but we’ll be adding some Kitemaker vs X comparisons to our landing page soon!
One would hope
Are you talking about their backend tech specifically? Because the MS Teams frontend is lacking far behind Discord in terms of polish. It has 5% of the features and already performs like a bloated mess. It's hard to tell how robust their backend tech is but given that opening new voice channels takes 5-10 seconds, or that they had to update the client to have more inaccurate online statuses to fix backend performance issues does not give me much confidence either.
I wonder if a class action is coming.
If you've never used Discord before, then it just feels like another chat application with a "gamer" theme. In reality, it's so much more and I think startups could actually do a lot more using Discord instead of Slack/Zoom.

The UI is really simple to navigate. If you set up roles properly, it's really easy to automate certain things. There's a massive bot ecosystem. The voice, video chat, and screen share features are so much simpler to use than any other product I've used before. The thing that I find insane is that it's 100% free to use.
There has been a massive, concerted effort by the PRC to deflect culpability. I'm a long time china observer/sinophile, and Chinese social media was abuzz with conspiracy theories that the virus was released by the US military before all the nonsense conspiracies started in the States. In review, China has accused the USA, Japan, Italy, Korea, and probably some others I'm forgetting for releasing the virus.
Took the words out of my hands. I feel like few people are as mindful of the raw fundamental financial metrics of companies. As you said, that's just not the same math PhD type technical stuff that hedge funds and others work on.
Moving in air space is a well-defined problem, the rules of physics and traffic are clear and you can expect others to follow them.

Traffic rules are often not well defined. And even if they are, people don't follow them to the letter, so there is this kind of fuzzy, "this is how we drive here" rule set which isn't well-defined.
I had lots of fun taking images from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ and feeding that to wombo.ai (converts static images of people to them singing a song)
Frankly, I prefer my bank and insurance to have minimal access surface.
Reminds me of Cuttlefish changing their camouflage.

https://youtu.be/pgDE2DOICuc
Is there an explanation of how it works aside from just "It's a GAN"?

I'm guessing it's generating a GAN on frames, and navigating around it (at random?) synchronized to the music, like the transition animations at https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/ , I'm curious if there's something else to it
Germany doesn't have an idea of how much will be delivered, so that is a lame excuse. Germany insists on administering the second shot after three weeks, and also inists on keeping the doses for a lot of these shots in stock until then. That costs time.
Another success story for Elixir/Erlang. If you are building chat apps with anything else, you are doing it wrong. :-)
Either I convinced myself of, or I realized quite early on, that I would not be happy if I just retired early. I need to be doing something, so I may as well be working.
Especially if the delay is caused by additional orders from the EU.
Thanks for being the 1000 person to explain this to me.

They promised before the election that the candidate of the strongest party would get the job.

The whole plan was to strengthen the parliament, and the whole promise was broken after the election, _because_ the council wanted to make sure the parliament and commission are kept weak.

Whenever I have this discussion people for some reasons assume I don't know even the most basic mechanics of the system I critize.

And the same people always conveniently forget what we were promised during the election campaign. All parties agreed to make the candidate of the strongest party after the election the commission president. They all promised that.

Von der Leyen is the council and national governments taking a dump on the parliament. And it didn stop there! During the backroom deals that lead to this, the parliament negotiated that they will only play along if they finally get more power.

Fast forward a couple of months and they got stiffed and insulted again. The brexit deal i.e. was an affront to parliament, because they didn't even get to vote it on it. The vaccine deals were kept secret from them. And on and on and on.

The only directly elected body in the EU is constantly being disrespected.

You act like these are separate problems, but the fact that we got von der Leyen, who didn't even run in the election, IS THE SAME thing as the problem of Power of council vs. Commission vs. Parliament. The later caused the former.

(Sorry for the tone, I got angry, but not at you. Please read it in mickey mouse voice to take the edge off.)
There's comparatively little need for games to be played, even if NOBODY IN THE WORLD played games for a living, the games would still be played, in the exact way that coal wouldn't be mined.

It's a bit the same with other creative work, like music and art, there is a demand for it, but the amount of commercial demand is next to nothing compared to the amound of creative work being done regardless of pay.

The number of guitars being played would be more or less the same even if nobody made money playing them.

The number of paintings being painted would be more or less the same even if nobody ever sold one.

There is some quality to be gained from going professional and devoting your entire time to do something, and part of that is probably a contributing factor why people can earn a living doing it.
“I always though it was funny that the original Apple LaserWriters had […] a faster processor than the computers they were attached to”

So did the Commodore 64. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1571 had a 2MHz 6502, the Commodore 64 a 1MHz 6510. It was sometimes used to speed up programs (https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4692/obsc...)
It's picking a random video out of 14:
${urls[urls.length * Math.random() | 0]}

With the list loaded as an asset:
urls = ["Spu3eiOEJ-M", "BE2lZ-Ti1Wc", "lHpcYPfjiLs", "6w2WXRFJpAE", "jPBgu-IO6TI", "g4px8cFR3gc", "whD78YCQXoo", "4iN9738uASY", "2tSa701EftM", "hjinBNYEkb8", "jckJS8RNMbw", "gq5EQtSiJiE", "zhV3ecScgrA", "wVnt_CX0C64"]
I don’t think it’s correct to characterise these bots as one trick ponies, winning based on micro. Take the Dota 2 AI built by OpenAI. Dota 2 isn’t micro intense, it’s mostly about strategy. These bots are capable of beating the best human teams. Their strategy is interesting because it’s different from how humans have played this game as long as it has existed. For example, in a 5v5 humans will skew resources towards so 2-3 players (“cores”) have more to work with than the 2 “supports”. This has always been taken for granted. But OpenAI distributed them evenly, allowing for some interesting strategies.

It’s still not perfect. It still can’t play the full game with no restrictions. But it is discovering new strategies that humans never did. It’s not just micro.
I agree with you but apparently some do not!

As for robots, well it’s expressing a preference which I shy I said “be kind”. In particular I believe the OP is mechanically building the indexes so it makes sense.

But yes those pages are provided for the public’s use, else the people posting could have taken steps to change that. I don’t feel the OP did anything at all wrong.
The expected value of the sum of two random variables is the sum of their individual expected values. The variance of the sum is the sum of the individual variances plus twice the covariance.

So, if you have two different assets with the same expected value and same variance, but with zero correlation, then all mixtures of the two will have the same expected returns, but a 50/50 basket of the two assets will have 0.707 (1/sqrt(2)) times the variance of either of the two assets alone.

More generally, for a basket of non-correlated assets, a basket that maximizes expected returns divided by standard deviation of returns will never be 100% one asset. Returns are a linear function of the individual weights, but std. deviation of returns are a non-linear function. (This is true, regardless of statistical distribution of the random variables, as long as std. deviation is well-defined... no assumptions about normal distribution are involved.)
Great observation and makes total sense, although IMHO it does not conflict with the point made in the article. It could well be the first adopters of these in China had indeed known them by the DuPont name due to the reasons explained in the article, then inadvertently participated in its spread.

On a side point, I call these "Taobao-ism" or "Aliexpress-ism". It may sound backwards, but the "cargo cult" days of practical EE ("shanzhai") have clearly shown a strong influence on the vast majority of EE colloquial corpus widely in use even to this day.

For non-Mandarin speakers out there:

"buckle", "latch" <---> "扣" (= attach / snap in place)

"weld", "solder" <---> "焊" (= join by molten metal)
I disagree with that classification, as there's no "garbage" state for references as they are destroyed immediately. All garbage collecting languages on the other hand have period of time where the references are intact but marked as garbage.

FWIW Chris Lattner, the language creator, put Swift into a non-GC camp.
https://www.thismusicvideodoesnotexist.com/assets/urls.json has about a dozen video IDs
When the market really dumps, it's generally been quite temporary. All fundamental asset's have their time, cash's is just shorter and worse over time. If you think that's interesting, take it one step further and you have ultra cash: physical bills, not just bank IOU's and electricity. It has even a further niche time and even worse over time, 0% interest.
This is really a performance like a lightning mcqueen :)
> My C64 now has a USB interface.

The controller for which is probably faster and has more memory than the C64 itself :) So maybe it's more like your USB controller now has a C64? :)
It seems great, but these things are not surprising anymore. I hope it will eventually turn into something more concrete than a lava lamp.
I used to be very careful about my information and privacy.

Now it's impossible without living your life in such a way that you go nuts.

Now I try to raise awareness and move people around me in the right direction.

If governments continue to listen to the lobbies, and these lobbies are funded by big business, governments will only make laws that favour business interests over citizens' interests.

We have to make people want change.
Indeed. All sorts of accidents happen at biological labs. https://globalbiodefense.com/2019/09/21/explosion-confirmed-...
More so with all the machine learning code being deployed to gather better information about people to thrust more ads on them, it's possible that even those who work at Facebook may probably not know the extent to which all this data is funneled into various systems and attempts are made to extract monetary value from it.
It’s the age old question asked since the dawn of the internet: “How can i be doing anything bad, when stealing their content was easy?”
(OP) I've had a short look at Visidata. Maybe it works or not on my described scenario (I should read the docs more carefully and make a test to be sure), but it's definitely in the direction I had in mind (a simple yet customizable enough tool for the job).
If nothing that is being promised during an election actually matters, we really don't have to keep pretending like this is a democracy.
If you'd like you're welcome to lobby for the homestead act again. That would solve your lack of land without having to violate other peoples rights
Taking a no-motion-first approach to animations
I kind of wish people would make more posts about c++ - idiomatic c++ today is totally different than the c++ knowledge i have from pre-2010.

The fact that c++ has changed so much in the past 10 years - it’s possible to write completely type and resource safe code in c++ now - this passed me by until a year or two ago when i attended a Bjarne talk.

Also the c++ folks have written up a core guidelines doc (this was the main topic of that Bjarne talk), and it’s really good https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC...
Did you reverse search that with Shazam etc or did you just know those songs?
Muy first computer work 1GB ram was in 2000. It was given to me by work as it was a heavy UNIX server that had to be replaced on contract.

I never managed to use more than half of it, as in those days it was still crazy much. The CPU was 120 MHz :)
The author does state that the article is just a collection of potentially surprising things from other sources. They also state the target audience is those new to Go but know other languages. Title may be a bit over the top but I'll give them a pass on that as it seems to have worked.
> I don't know if I will actually be accepted there (there is a probation period of 3 months).

Depending on where you live 3-6 month probation periods can be completely standard. If you get the job, you are accepted there. The probation period is just a window in which you and the company can separate with less friction. In most places it's a formality that you shouldn't worry about unless you're extremely underperforming or doing something egregious at work.
Molex is also a misnomer in the same way. The original is the amp/te mate-n-lock and the comparable connector introduced later is the molex 8981. There is also an incompatible molex connector with a straight side which might explain the naming.
Cummings is a self-serving apparatchik with an eye to his future reputation so of course he’s trying to claim he was involved in the one successful program initiated by the government. I’m not sure why you give his claims any credence given his proven lies elsewhere.
A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars (2018)
Yeah these are called FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Connector), which seems to be a standard that got popular first among FPGA eval board makers.
Late to the game but another vote from me.

If you haven't seen a lot of demand for a self-hosted version, you might have beem asking the wrong people. Non-cloud advocates and companies with regulatory on-prem requirements tend to not be the loudest in the room for a myriad of reasons.

It's also unpopular and thus a waste of time to argue for self-hosted solutions in a room (or world) full of cloud-first evangelists with dollar-signs in their eyes.

It's just the fashion right now and fashions rarely care about being practical or affordable or safe for the average person, let alone any edge cases.

Why I am saying this: I want to strongly encourage you (and any software vendor really) to build and offer an affordable self-hosted version of your software. The demand is there, believe me, and if word spreads that your solution is a viable on-prem solution, interested parties will come out of the woodwork, you can be sure of that.

On-prem users tend to think more long-term because they (have to) invest more manpower, organizational knowledge and hardware into an on-prem deployment. So they tend to be less fickle and flighty than cloud customers and think long and hard before selecting a solution. However, as a result they tend to be loyal long-term customers and and such can be worth a dozen or more cloud-based customers. Might be worth considering.

Personally, we've planned to move away from Jira before 2022 exactly because of Atlassian's decisions to in effect kill its on-prem versions (by pricing them out of range for everyone but large enterprises customers with money to burn). So I can guarantee that Kitemaker will get a fair consideration (I just saved your page) if it offers an attractively priced on-prem edition before 2022 :-)

Good luck with your product, I do agree that it looks very slick and I will continue to watch with interest.
That changes a lot of things. For one, this side effect was neither known nor documented, so people could not make an informed decision before getting the vaccine.

Then individuals have a quantifiable risk of dying from COVID vs. dying from the vaccine. Depending on age/sex/comorbidities/medication/etc. one of the other may be higher.

Also from a public health perspective, if these CVST cases are known to be mostly limited to a particular group (women under 50) and the vector vaccine, then this group could be vaccinated with other types like mRNA vaccines.
Uh. What? Discord's client is electron. Unless you're referring to their servers. In which case, nice bait.
You're thinking of Content Farms. I think the current villain is Content Marketing, which is to attract people to your website without paying for AdSense, via an inane blog post. Like the Michelin guide or Guinness book did before the internet.

The reason Google keeps those results near the top is because it drives up the cost of AdSense, since multiple competitors are fighting for the first page of organic results with those tactics, and AdSense is a way to "cut the line".

The result for users is that the first page of most result pages is littered with advertisement, either via real AdSense or with those inane marketing blog posts.
That’s your view. A thing is worth what someone will pay for it, be that gamestock, tesla, a gallon of gas, bitcoin, an NFT, or a kilogram of rice.
Many of the loopholes were 100% known by everyone passing the law. They were often an agreement to keep certain stakeholders happy.

For example, this year in the UK there is a special question on the tax form for if you are a deep water diver. Why? Because divers have a different taxation system put in place as a sweetheart deal for BP (who employ a lot of divers for their offshore oil rigs)
That's very cool. And especially thanks for surfacing the Wikipedia article.
I may be in the minority but Discord has a really confusing UI. It's so different to anything else and all the controls are just sort of thrown somewhere (e.g. user preferences).

Slack is much much better in that regard (though not perfect).
Is there any hard evidence for this, seems alright for rust to be slow and people still using it.
I.e. national governments using EU to pass legislation, which they then oppose locally, claiming the evil EU is forcing it upon them against their will.

Generally, blaming all bad things on the EU and acting like it's a foreign power whenever it servers their needs, obfuscating the the national governments are the ones with most power over EU decisions.
So does Discord. Discord is clearly much better than Mumble.
Signing up for a subscription to a site and sharing the acccount is illegal. But there you are essentially just sharing a link that contains a secret. That secret is the username and password. But nothing wrong in that secret being a uuid, which is what we have in this case.

Not saying that their “security” is snot bad. But you can’t defend a car theft by saying that the defendant left the key in the ignition.
I have several Macs including an M1. I always have activity monitor open :)

But I assume your question goes deeper than that?
Internet is already dominated by designed-by-committee personalities.
Sure. The only thing that was obscure to me in the beginning was slices. I could not comprehend at first that an append could modify the underlying and possibly aliased data structure, and other slices. I blame the pseudo-functional use, x = append(x, ...), and the fact that taking a slice looks so much like making a copy for that. It simply deviated too much from all the other languages I've programmed in.
Full blown conflicts aren’t the only types of conflicts. Small ones, especially those fought by proxies matter too. The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict of 2020 wasn’t a world war, but it was still consequential. Notably it was won by the effective use of drones.

Conflict will increasingly be drone based. The controllers of those drones will increasingly be wielded by AI. This link is about tactics. This thread got derailed into strategy. But it’s reasonable to think that AI would do a good job of controlling attack air/sea drones with clear success criteria.
Gartner Insight Engines Reviews and Ratings
I see heavy influences from the video for Take On Me by a-ha (except that was in black and white) https://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914
> it's challenging because of the new medium

I think this is the whole crux of everything. Trying to look back on past analogues really don't make much sense in my opinion. The fact is the old decisions were made in the past environment they were a part of. That environment has changed dramatically. The surveillance possible today simply wasn't possible in the past. Sure someone could setup a wiretap or a directional microphone, but the shear ubiquity of easy surveillance by so many different actors makes the environment fundamentally different at the application of past analogues pretty much pointless (in my opinion anyway).

I understand that legal precedent is built into the US legal system, but I think its applicability is often over emphasized. These are new times. Trying to apply past logic when the game has so completely changed is a fool's errand.
They literally sent file names and file sizes over to Facebook. That might very well include very personal or confidential data. The fact that they don't even mention this and make it sound like some random unimportant tracking happened without them noticing is completely ridiculous.
I never said it was profound, in fact, I said it was obvious. I called it a "trivial observation" - but it matters if you don't realize it. The Discord software isn't being bought and isn't worth 10 billion, probably not even 1 billion, but rather the totality of what Discord is (brand, users, data, etc).
I think "fantastic" is a stretch. Even Discord's weirdly unconventional UI is better than Mumble and as others have said the practical sound quality is way better.

It would be great if someone could make a modern Mumble client.
Are we re-inventing, install linux GUI image oon hyper-V/any other VM. Wasnt wsl supposed to be a lightweight way of running cli tools? How is wsl2 any different from a regular vm when the image is fullblown.