skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that everyone is running to keep up with all the new web standards introduced by Google. I assume you also don't use Android.
Wait you support FOSS because of education? I wonder how you feel about college education and student debt then...
> The FSF could have advocated for moving software out of copyright and into patents, where source code disclosure could be mandated as a condition of patent grants and we'd be flooded with public domain software today.

I think this is the one thing I do agree with. If there's something I think the FSF got wrong it's their staunch aversion to software patents. I understand the knee-jerk reaction to patent trolls, and I do agree that from a liberal intellectual property stance it's hard to rationalize patenting something that's not a physical invention and that software patents are in some regards akin to patenting the fastest route from your house to the grocery store. I concede we have had some pretty bogus software patents like "an object oriented operating system", but I think that as society matures in its understanding of software it will only get better, not worse, and sniffing out bogus software patents and there will only become more and more prior art. I also think that any serious company needs to patent their inventions. Once you do that the invention becomes public domain and you have the rights to license it in any style you see fit, just as you do with copyright, or, copyright still applies and you have the power to lay claim to all forms of your invention, not just your reference implementation. I think the FSF's focus on copyright is a result of Stallman stumbling into the discovery that he could hack the copyright system and he just ran with that. And of course it is much harder to patent something because it has to be novel and copyleft has that nice.. viral effect. The reality is that most people aren't doing novel things with software, they're just doing things with software. The FSF gets more exposure if it can apply in the later case.

I don't understand why we need to tear down the FSF to incorporate approaches that include freedom-focused patenting into the software licensing discussion. It's also not a new talking point. The GPL covers mutual patent assignment and I believe the FSF has advocated for people to donate patents to different software projects etc. There is a very real issue with patents and free software and there has been litigation in the past between patent holders and open source software projects that have implemented software off of a patented specification. The FSF doesn't exist in a vacuum.
80k stereo is (approximately) 40k mono. We seem to have the same sentiment.
holy fish sticks are they going to have to rely on 230.

I don't see the traitors to 230 ability to host / safe harbor protections as being particularly under assault from federal officials. now that the doj is changed, is no longer off it's rockers. it's been a persistent political party, a highly partisan attack against the new mediums, assaulting their protections to host.
Indeed. In particular, when OP said he wasn't moved emotionally by Glass's music, I immediately thought of the track "67 Cities" from Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOCYcgOnWUM

Glass's score makes this a very powerful scene, IMO.
There's breakthroughs in fusion too, and geothermal also a possibility.
To summarize, one parent doesn't work. Thought so, you can't do both.
People are attacking the FSF BECAUSE of stallman. YOU and your lot are the people that are making him a cult of personality. Again, he is a quirky old man who is in that position, because of his contributions and his views. I sat next to him and I never particularly liked him. But this is the same shit that you people did when you destroyed Mozilla to make an example out of Brendan Eich only to get him replaced with the Chief of Marketing and then wondering why Mozilla's direction is weird.

You don't get to turn this into a cult of personality yourself, then attack it and then blame the other side for it. Your logic here is nothing short of insane.

I don't see you calling for the tearing down of founding fathers statues and the US constitutions. All but 3 of them were slave owners, so probably have a bunch of cruelties they did while they were alive.
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Winnie the Pooh was censored in the Chinese version of the video game Kingdom Hearts III [0][1]. Do you think a massive white blot around Winnie the Pooh in every appearance is a “misunderstanding”?

As I pointed out in another comment, it was also the content of the most censored Weibo post in 2015 [2], according to the Weiboscope cenorship tracker.

These examples are very easy to find if you Google for them (assuming you can Google from your country).

[0] https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/winnie-the-pooh-china-ba...

[1] https://gamerant.com/kingdom-hearts-3-winnie-pooh-censorship...

[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/31/china-top-5-censored-po...
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A few interesting language-related points:

Sanskrit and Hindi have no equivalent of the English word "the" (and, I think, of "a" either).

Sanskrit and Hindi have no concept of upper case vs. lower case letters, just a concept of letters.

Also, a vertical bar is the equivalent of the period or full stop of English.

Just realized (IIRC) that neither language has the concept of single or double quotation marks either :)
Good question. I still think that its up to user to decide what data he shares with app. If its crucial for app to know that gps position is not faked, app could do some heuristic. Check if user is not moving faster than some limit, does not stop moving for extended periods of time etc. Basically anticheat engine. Only area where this whould be relevant i think is online multiplayer games. Otherwise, if user is faking gps he is messing up his own experience.
Probably not --non-gpl, x264 is under the GNU GPL.
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Well, there are a lot of people who want positions of power, like working as a judge, or having a high position in the government. Undoubtedly, some will turn out to be pedophiles, and / or abusers.

We likely hear a lot of places like Churches, hospitals, and schools, because historically people were pretty quiet about what went on there, and now all these horrible historic revelations are coming out one after another.

I can imagine access to children being a factor too, although actual pedophiles have an instinctual emotional closeness with children which might influence them towards those positions. If any are in those positions and see this, I really hope you don't do anything to anyone there.

The highest frequency of abuse actually happens in none of those places but at home. It is usually a family member who does it. Sometimes, it may even involve drugs, rather than a sexual interest. I'm not very fond of the War on Drugs, as it destroys lives, but I really hope people use drugs responsibly, when / if they do. And we may need better mental health services to reduce the perceived need to rely on alcohol / drugs.

From what I know, pedophilia is a spectrum, which goes from very weak (insignificant and easy to ignore for most intents and purposes) to the exclusive type. There are some sub-types, like ones who are only interested in infants, rather than older children. Pedophiles aren't synonymous with abusers. Many don't abuse.
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I would love for this to work well, but it really needs a better way to know who is already on the platform. Right now all I can do is search and every artist I tried simply results in an empty results page and a suggestion I contact them. This makes it feel like there's no interest in the platform from the side of performers and you're asking me to volunteer to change that.

It would be much better if I could look at a list of already registered artists with a form to submit a wish for missing artists, with an implication that you'd contact them. Either you have a network in the industry and are more likely to reach them than a random fan, or you don't and this seems unlikely to take off.

You should of course save statistics of fans requesting an artist and where in the world they are, to facilitate convincing them. Maybe even, as another commenter suggested, make this data visible on the site to show users how much interest there is for certain performers.
is the code on github?
One of the stories I remember reading that motivated RMS to start free software is how the printer driver was buggy and there was no recourse to it. 40 something years later, we are still facing the same problem - my printer ink costs 100x the actual cost and it doesn’t print in black if one of the color runs out. similarly the reason clang, llvm exists is due to extreme restrictions on how the gnu toolchain can be used. In a free country FSF has full freedom to push for their agenda but at the same time, don’t take my freedoms to pay for and use non-free software because that just works better for me.
There are bald eagles around here?! Very cool, will have to keep an eye out (howdy from Cave Springs).
I used to work at both Google and Facebook and I still know a lot of people at both those places. My take on working at these large companies is, your experience will be massively different depending on what project you work on and what team you work with. Both companies have both brilliant engineers and mediocre engineers. The % of brilliant is higher than most workplaces, but there’s no guarantee. You have to actively seek out the work and the teammates that you click with.
If I lost access to coffee I can still have tea, guarana or yerba mate.
> It’s easy to feel that iOS isn’t on your side when you can’t use a non-WebKit browser and can’t use an adblocker.

Not only does Safari allow for 3rd-party adblock extensions that are pretty good, there are iOS browsers available, like iCab Mobile[0] for instance, that allow for extremely fine-grained, granular and tweakable ad-blocking, filtering, domain-blocking, and CSS and javascript rules - all of which can be user-edited and refined to fit exactly the user's own requirements.

There are always so many comments like the above in these threads: often characterized by people banging on iOS because it "can't be customized the way I want it after I paid so much for my iPhone". But these seem to be just standard consumer-mindset complaining from users that don't even have the intellectual curiosity to investigate whether there's actually anything already available that solves their imagined problem, or even try to fix it themselves - just as the article says.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icab-mobile-web-browser/id3081...
The idea may be promising. But once again this product is a "About Us: We are anonymous. Sign Up: We have no privacy policy". I always wonder why startups find that unimportant.
“Device” here is a clickbait. Device means some separate entity which prevents fraud, but these’s no such device. It’s akin saying modern money printers use anti-fraud devices (watermarks).
Pretty spectacular, my niece wants to learn GO having already some basic programming knowledge and this seems a perfect fit for her.
Sure, we could runs some PSNR or SSIM comparisons. However, I've been doing this for a hot minute, and h.265 is pretty damn good. Getting 4K video filesize for VR to run on a phone based headset was never going to happen without it. h.264 encodes just were never going to make it in the real world for the frame size and TRTs. Once we knew the target devices could handle h.265, it was a game changer. That was way back in 2015 when live action VR was almost a thing.

From years of real world experience, h.265 produces much smaller files by being able to use a lower bitrate to achieve the same visual quality has previous h.264. Guess what. H.264 did the same thing to MPEG2. Not really sure why this is so unbelievable.
An antivaxxer that has issues with left leaning media but conveniently has no issues with the right attempting to brainwash the masses through fox and oan

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I don't play Pokémon go, but with my understanding of the game I'm not sure how spoofing the GPS would impact other users in a negative way.

Considering that most of the world has some form of travel restrictions over the past year, and I believe that being able to interact with friends in the game requires you be be in very close proximity. Can you explain how spoofing GPS data so that people are allowed to play together even though they are not close is bad?
> In fact, I think we're approaching the "runaway" part of an exponential curve.

Tangential nitpick: There's no "runaway" part of an exponential curve. At every point along the x-axis (typically time), the curve looks exactly the same. This property is often abused by writers who want to make you believe that now is the time when everything changes – although in fairness, they often deceive themselves.

If you don't believe me, look at plots [1] and [2]. In both cases it looks like the past was flat and the "knee" of the curve is right in front of you, promising an exciting future!

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+exp%28x%29+x+%3D+...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+exp%28x%29+x+%3D+...
This is a worrying announcement. I really hope they do not cave to pressure from woke activists. Whenever this happens, some people or organizations mistakenly think there is some consequence awaiting them just because some loud students or Twitter accounts are complaining. There isn’t. So don’t cave to their demands. If you do cave in, and backtrack, and apologize - there’ll be no redemption for you, just people piling on you from both sides, leaving you feeling like you should have grown a spine and defended rationality against the modern witch hunt that is cancel culture.

Related discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573717
Greenwald has been remarkably consistent on his positions about civil liberties for decades - long before Wikileaks was around. He doesn't hide his disgust for authoritarianism or hypocrisy, and has actually been notable for his willingness to be non-partisan in his criticism. It was his disgust for the authoritarianism of the Bush administration that motivated him to start writing about these issues in the first place (I write this as a longtime reader of his). Unfortunately critics of the government can sometimes seem like a partisans when "your guy" is currently running the show. I invite you to read what he was writing back when Bush was president and what he is writing now and see if you see any substantive attitude change.

https://www.salon.com/2007/12/16/telecoms/
I would want at the very least to have it expunged from their record and not count as an arrest/conviction. I think at bare minimum we can afford that.
Methamphetamine is not a prescription for ADHD. Dextroamphetamine, amphetamine, and Methylphenidate are.

They also have controlled release mechanisms and are available in therapeutic doses.

It is not the same thing as buying however much you want of a significantly stronger stimulant and taking and instant hit.

And to anyone not prescribed those medications that are obtaining them for recreational usage, you make an already difficult life of ADHDers much worse, as some are denied an effective, life-changing treatment because of this.
I like to think of it as: 5.6 million lb-ft of torque at ~100 rpm means if you could get it up to about 5250 rpm, you'd have 5.6 million hp.
Normally, when you encrypt a message, you have a recipient in mind. When it's one government to another government, or one person to another person, it's safe to assume that the message is authentic and meaningful, and not just designed to waste time, and that a recipient has a way of decoding the message. Normally, the point of encrypting a message is that you want it to be unbreakable by anyone except the intended recipient, and that you're not wasting their time by sending gibberish once decoded.

In this case, it's a deranged serial killer that's sending a message to law enforcement. The sender is someone who kills people for personal gratification, so it's pretty safe to assume that someone who does that might also want to mess with people for the sake of personal gratification. Crucially, there is no intended recipient other than law enforcement, so there would be no reason to include any actual sensitive information because there's no one to send it to other than the FBI. There's no reason to believe that he'd write a message that would give himself up. Real life is not like the fable of Rumpelstiltskin where solving a riddle makes someone honor-bound to give themselves up. Continuing to solve these ciphers probably fed into power trips and sexual gratification for the author.

It is not surprising that an investigative agency did not allocate a ton of resources to decode a message that one could anticipate would say something like "are you having fun with my game yet?" without any other prior information.
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It's funny how much memories change with time. I almost forgot that the surgeon general and Health Canada recommended against wearing masks, and that the motto was that the real danger was fear/hoarding/overreaction.
The "few states over" is what should go on the train. It's the same idea as container shipping.
That's a good example, but I would not want to overstate the need for recursion. Most people look to the standard patterns in https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Enum.html unless they are doing some custom control flow.

Pattern matching is really helpful, though. It turns complex nested logic into simple truth tables and acts like Eiffel's design by contract, just pattern match on valid inputs, then handle the errors.

The same functional patterns repeat at different levels in the stack. For example, in the Phoenix web framework, processing a HTTP request can be considered as pattern matching on the expected inputs (validating them), then a series of transformations (making a db request, taking the result and rendering it into HTML via a template), then returning the result.

From a concurrency perspective, the interesting part is that each HTTP request runs in its own separate blocking process (green thread). So when you are doing the programming, you don't need to think about concurrency and async stuff. You just do your thing. This makes it easy to think about and debug.
It’s sad how far the ACLU has fallen. Where they were once principled, with leaders like Nadine, they have instead turned into just another partisan activist organization. Their social media posts look like a college student’s overly-conformist and simplistic personal Twitter feed. I sadly ended up cancelling my donations after supporting them for years.
From my specific tests from elsewhere in this thread, I did further analysis of the files that were run based on the examples listed in the comment.

The original screen capture H.264 files did have a 1 second GOP size. However, the very simplistic ffmpeg commands to make the h.265 & h.264 files that I made used the default GOP settings from ffmpeg. Turns out, the default is 4 seconds. That would easily help get the final file size down.
I don't follow medium links any more. It's so desperately monetized that it's lost credibility, and is just an unpleasant experience.
> Not really sure why this is so unbelievable

No one is saying that. Everyone knows H265 is better than H264. Just saying your number is meaningless without either fixing the bitrate or the quality.
Putting aside the question of the selection effect (which, frankly, seems like it could only realistically go in one direction, unless you want to propose a plausible mechanism by which people with higher than average IQ are _less_ likely to sit for these standardized exams)...

You could also spend 5 seconds Googling the question and find that that this is not exactly an untrod ground in academic literature. The relationship is strong and well-established, far more so than almost any other result from the social sciences.

Also, yes, test results, can, in fact, be improved by studying (or other things!). This does not mean that they are not strongly correlated to IQ. Reality is generally not monocausal. I don't see how this contradicts the original claim.
There’s always going to be something that is hard or unreachable by public transport. The key here is multi-modality: you reach the edge of the city by public transport and then switch to car sharing.
Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNP9b3aIfY
You are right, and I stand corrected. I was completely mis-remembering something I read, analyzing the reasons behind expectations of Rocket Lake power consumption.
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They are more environmentally friendly, but still bad for the environment.
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I would love for this to work, but I'm wondering how well itt actually might?

Performers likely know already where their fans are, especially if they're on services such as Spotify which aggregate location data of listeners.

This reminds me of this one guy in high school who went to a concert abroad to see Alter Bridge and managed to catch up with them as they were about to enter the venue. He tried convincing them to come play in Sweden. They promised to do so if he gathered enough interest and gave him a huge lot of stickers with their logo that he put all over town.
It sounds like the real modern-day bach must be girltalk, then?
That's half the unicity distance of English for even very simple monoalphabetic substitution ciphers. It's probably impossible even in theory to decode that using any amount of computing power.
> I have used a Linux phone for 12 years or so. First the N900 and later the Jolla/Sailfish ones.

> None of them has been a great product.

Likewise, and I disagree. The phones that support Sailfish X or later are all great. With Xperia XA2 or Xperia 10, you can install micro-g via f-droid, and then most android apps should work fine. Yes, it is not ideal that we need android/ios apps to function properly in a society. Blame it on SV. Oh, that's us?

Anyway, back to Jolla. A good example is that if the LCD screen breaks, I can just buy a replacement, ssh into the old phone, and scp from it to the new phone (this actually happened). That's a Linux phone.
More like low-code...I guess