skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be biased, but I think Qt is pretty great :)
It's C++ though. Some people use PyQt. It's popular in some niches, e.g high end VFX packages, especially plugins.
Disclaimer: I work on YouTube's video players. But I don't speak for the company in any way (this is my personal account on my personal computer on my time off from work).

If I understand this correctly, it's worth clarifying that "60% less bandwidth" is for the website host, not the client. Which yeah, is expected if you're using a P2P protocol to offload your bandwidth costs to your users. But it's not a 60% bandwidth savings for the consumer.

I know some might think that's obvious but it's always worth clarifying whose bandwidth you're talking about.
> If they have some hard minimum they require, then what do they expect me to do? Completely abstract from the system scheduler to make it happen?

What if they say the hard minimum is "occasionally"?

They're not holding you responsible for the scheduler, they just want you to leave it as possible. (and not be deliberately malicious, just in case that needs to be said)
I bet that all development and testing was done using stubs for those DRM hooks, which were probably developed by a different team closer to the shipping date, and once they were integrated it was too late to do anything about them.
Is that a nano fork? No thanks.
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An example of why it matters: hit command-S to save your file. Native apps confirm the save by highlighting the menu bar until the save is complete.

VSCode does not indicate to the user when the save is complete. I've had saves require 15+ seconds, and they are not atomic, so you must be careful to not use the file (compile, git, etc) until the save is finished, which is hard to know. I've personally lost data this way.

I agree that command palette is great and is clearly a point of convergence among new apps. I wish Apple would embrace it!
This looks similar to https://www.wickeditor.com/#/ , at least in it's current form.
You could also just see that no network requests are sent when you type.
> torrent

This is the kind of thing where getting a scuzzy blockchain involved would be ludicrous step backwards. Torrent isn't new tech but everyone seems to have forgotten it exists.
How much security savings do I get?
Asking the right questions
Haskell programmers may say the same thing about Haskell, but it’s not the same thing as far as Lisp is concerned.

Yes, it’s possible to concoct the weirdest stuff in Lisp, but that would probably be bad code. Some macros might take time to learn, but unlike Haskell where you need to know monads to be productive, you do not need to know how to author macros to read and write most Lisp.

Languages that have these “abstraction ceilings”, as you put it, have their own danger as well—just a different danger. Namely, you’re choosing boringness of the language as a feature, in many cases requiring some multiple of additional programmers, which means some multiple of additional time spent hiring and money spent paying salaries. For some companies, money isn’t a problem, so choosing boring tech with a gazillion programmers and double-digit churn rate is just fine.

Programming in Go doesn’t automatically resolve all the issues of running and maintaining a technical project. It makes one particular problem trivially solved (inconsistent code format, expressiveness going off the rails, etc.). But choices and policy around how code is contributed to, how software is documented, how architecture is developed and reviewed, how dependencies are managed and added, how code is reviewed, etc. still falls on humans to conceive and implement as agreed-upon policies. In Lisp, how code is formatted and what language features might be off-limits can also be solved by way of such policy-making. Its not theoretical either; even Google publishes a style guide on Lisp development that they follow internally, and it works fine. It’s really not as “dangerous” as everyone seems to make it out to be.
Isn't this already expressible with something like a yield statement between the two atomics?

If you need it - write it down! I can't guess your intentions as a compiler author!
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It's true that if you write code that is pure and error-free then you will never bump up against R's strangeness.

But try out this bit of base R:

> hello = function(cats, dogs) { return(cats) }

> hello(100, honk) # where honk has never been defined

> hello(100, print("hello!"))

> hello(100)
Decentralized internet proponents won't like to hear this, but network operators would much rather have CDNs for distributing popular content than any P2P approach. It just uses less overall network bandwidth.
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1. I still don't understand the involuntary part. Does it appear in each page transition? When Chrome starts?

2. I'd make it configurable.
If the title of this post is true, I just really hope there is something better than CSS in the future.
Somebody didn't read the article
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Thanks. Though I still don't understand, it just seems non-sensical to use "this country" when you're outside the country in question, likes it's just a fundamental error of grammar. Can you give me a specific example?
I'm not a networking expert, but this doesn't sound right. How would using a CDN use less bandwidth?

My understanding is that a CDN for video improves performance and reduces traffic for the host but the total bandwidth doesn't change for the client, so for a network operator it wouldn't make any difference.
Part of that is because it’s far cheaper to catch (say) cancer at an early stage and treat it than it is to catch it at stage 3 or 4 and spend potentially millions on a possibly preventable catastrophe.

There is fairly strong evidence that if the cost of routine preventative care isn’t paid by insurance, quite a lot of people opt to skip it because they can’t afford it, leading to worse outcomes.
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Maybe I've just lived in the webdev world too long and been spoiled by CSS, but making layouts work and fit together is so horribly confounding in Qt and other such frameworks that it makes me want to bash my head against the wall (and I do that enough with CSS).

Also, Qt's licensing model is sub-optimal IMO.
Physical print costs are generally a small part of the costs of the other things I mentioned, although the specifics would probably depend on just how popular the was.

But you are right: it's still a mostly unnecessary cost these days. And regardless if the other costs, $150 to $700 per year for a journal subscription is rarely justified by the publishing costs the turn articles into more polished and high quality pieces.

The financial model for disseminating scientific knowledge is broken, but I did want to acknowledge that there is good and useful work done in-between an author writing up their research and ultimately making it available online.
How about if your company decides the approved languages are X, Y, and Z, and Lisp is not among them? Such companies exist. I work for one. (They are currently discussing removing JavaScript from the approved languages list because its dynamic typing makes it unsafe at any speed. TypeScript is the approved substitute.)

If you cannot get higher-up buy-in to support your chosen language and train new programmers in it, then it doesn't matter how much of a practical advantage your solution in that language provides -- continuing to code in that language is a fast track to getting PIP'd.
As I understand it, when you want to save bandwidth for the clients you're always limited by the video codec, or you have to take a tradeoff in lowering the quality.

So you're stuck with either VP9, or HEVC which is not royalty free, because nothing better exists at the moment.
When I talk about writing I call this a bump-bump, a quick pairing of ideas; good ones often exhibit parallelism in syntax or sound.

To be, or not to be (parallel contrast, Hamlet)
light of my life, love of my loins (allteration, Lolita)

Rise and shine (assonant i)
Rinse and repeat (alliterative r)
Lock and load (alliterative l)
Wax on, wax off (parallel contrast)

Don't know about Netflix and chill - I want to say there's good assonance and consonance there, but I might be pushing.

In spite of my clumsy word (bump-bump) I actually think these are highly memorable:

e.g.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
First off, I totally agree that the manufacture and approval drugs and devices can be regulated differently with respect to different intended uses. Also, there are specifics that I think both the majority and dissenting opinions got wrong. However, the key is that the FDA has jurisdiction over the manufacture and sale of devices, and no jurisdiction whatsoever over practice of doctors.

>While this clearly leaves open the option for general off-label use, I don't read this as barring the FDA from limiting a specific form of off-label use

There is no back door for intervening in the practice of medicine for specific forms of off-label use. They can go after manufacturers of products frequently used off label; they can make them add warnings, and perhaps even pull the product from the market, but they can't tell doctors what to do with a product that legally on market. For example, the FDA can't stop doctors from prescribing Viagra off-label as a cure for cancer, even if it is both dangerous and ineffective. The FDA can arrest doctors for prescribing Viagra for erectile disfunction if the pills are illegally imported from Canada because those pills are not legally on the market. Regulation and enforcement against using Viagra as a cancer cure is the jurisdiction of state legislature.

>The FDA should most certainly have the power to ban devices with clearly unsafe or ineffective control schemes.

They absolutely do have the power to recall these devices from the market. However, they can't tell doctors what to do with the devices or tell them not to substitute other legally marketed devices off-label.

This specific case is complex because this naturally creates a conflict when a device has multiple potential uses, and doctors refuse to head FDA warnings about off label use. The FDA naturally wants to keep the devices on the market for the effective use and discourage the ineffective use, but their hands are tied. It must be like a sheriff staring at a fugitive across the boarder.

The problem here is that the FDA is trying to cross the boarder between the manufacture devices and the practice of medicine instead of working within their jurisdiction.

They could recall all devices approved with indications for treating Self-Injurious or Aggressive Behavior. They can probably go after the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in their capacity as manufacturer for knowingly manufacturing a device for off-label use.
How does the drop shipping work? If I order from a drop shipper site; as a customer I wouldn't expect to need to pay any custom charges but if they directly ship from the manufacturer won't I get charged?
no worries, I was just a bit confused, haha.
A lot of talk on HN about drop-shipping lately, wondering what it is exactly? Why its good / bad?
Are you mixing up caring about compilation speed with caring about the speed the program runs after being compiled?
i was thinking about scenario where all parties involved in decision are employees or contractors working on some internal project for a single enterprise company, and decision log is being used to record project decisions.

in that case, enterprise company is the one paying the bill for loqbooq subscription, so enterprise would want to set the policy for accessing data / onboarding / offboarding. they'd want SSO integration for access control, and if SSO integration said "this user no longer has an account; access denied" then the enterprise would want loqbooq to deny access and not email out a copy of internal enterprise data.

basically: if there's a disagreement between one or more parties involved in a project where loqbooq is being used, but only one of the parties is the customer paying loqbooq the monthly subscription, so wouldn't that paying customer want loqbooq do do the thing that is most in their interest?

Enterprise might think through scenarios like:

* "what if one of our contractors or employees foolishly/accidentally dumps customer PII into external loqbooq.app SaaS outside of our datacentres? how do we limit & do damage control over data breach?"

* what if we believe that some of our employees are trying to start up a new business in competition with us, and might try to use our proprietary information to do so? (product roadmaps ; architecture docs ; lists of customers & suppliers ; ...)

In both scenarios they may want a mechanism that gives company administrators a quick and reliable way to terminate user access to loqbooq and limit risk of further information leaks.
Semantics aside, you require a SSD or better at some point and that was where Backblaze was seeing above average failures and started reining in Chia usage iirc
Unrelated to this link, but youtube is WAY slower than pretty much any other video alternatives.
Note I even use the embed link for the video and have ublock, so it's not the youtube UI boggling it down.

Don't feel like writing more right now, but just felt like saying youtube is terrible in performance to my eyes.
I'm still seeing seek bars on videos on my main feed, so I wonder if this is some kind of A/B testing that only some people can see? — Or whether this is just being rolled out in stages, and my feed has yet to receive this update? Interesting either way.
>Lisp doesn’t really have many, if at all, super weird concepts that need months of thinking about in order to understand.

I dunno, using a DSL for linked lists as the only syntax construct is pretty radical. CAR/CDR and CONS pair dot notation must feel pretty esoteric. The concept of macros that transform the syntax tree is unusual, and knowing when to use them requires a restraint that comes only with experience. I could see it taking months if not years to fully grasp the zen of Lisp.
> The last GUI program I wrote in Lazarus worked out to a 24 megabyte executable, because I left the debug information in. It used MySQL and did a lot of computing with gear information. I didn't have to sign the code, or ask ANYONE's permission to deploy it.

I agree with this in some context, I bought the device, I own it and I should be able to use it as I see fit.

However not all uses are equal. Take my elderly mother, her needs are much different and in fact centralized distribution channels, app reviews, signing etc are all mechanisms which benefit her.
About 50% of that $1.2 trillion is in unnecessary admin.
I agree with your take. I work in the industry. The for some reason has partly to do with the U.S. tying insurance to your employer and not charging taxes. It makes sense to offer as much as possible pretax.
To produce export goods?
As other comments have pointed out, the tech stack used here is excessive for what it is trying to do. The author has said it was a project to learn some specific technologies. There is a lot of mirth for overcomplicated contraptions mucking up otherwise simple tasks (and rightfully so, IMO), hence the retort of a one-line console command.
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> MDMA successfully completed Phase III trials for PTSD:

Cool. I look forward to seeing how it performs in long term practice.

> Psilocybin can provide peace to terminally ill patients:

Looks promising, though that is a single study with a small sample size.

> and it's in Phase II trials for major depressive disorder:

Again, compelling but small sample size

> hell, ketamine is FDA approved for depression

This approval is based on self reported symptom data from phase III trials and currently is backed up with any extrinsic measurements such as reduced suicide. It's not nothing but it's not a slam dunk yet.

Again, it's all very preliminary though it looks promising. I don't see any evidence to suggest it will become the standard of care soon but it may in the future. We just have to wait and see.
The potential Orwellian horror of central bank digital currencies
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Do you have some sources where I can read up more on this? I have always believed that the cost of front line worker salaries (Doctors/Nurses) was a relatively small % of the total cost of healthcare.

Studies like this [1] led me to believe that massive rises in administration costs and inefficiencies due to insurance structure are bigger culprits than doctor/nurse salaries. But I am admittedly not very well informed in this area.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31905376/
Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (2019)
Do you have an example of a cost study? I’m curious, but don’t know how to find one.
GP is not referring to the UI side of things. He is essentially saying that clients need 100% of the video, while under this P2P scheme, 60% of your outgoing video packets can be offloaded to other users in the system. Regardless of scheme, the same amount of data needs to be moved around, it's just a semantic perspective on who is "saving" bandwidth. If your consumer internet plan has caps, your p2p uploads might count against your quota, so you are in effect "losing" bandwidth.
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It....is?

Starting in 2013, all US-funded work needs to end up publicly accessible within a year of publication. There are slightly different ways, depending on the funder, but it's the rule.

Canada's Tri-Council Agencies have had a similar policy from 2016 onward, ditto EU....

Older papers are tricky though. I'm not sure the government can compel you to make something available.
If the DRM code was cleanly separated from the normal flow of the game code, it would be trivial for crackers to patch it out.
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You’re my new hero. Did you use graphing paper? Have you hashed by hand as well? http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...
You are right, it's a different point - just trying to illustrate that being some of the smartest people on earth doesnt mean you wont make a terrible mistake or will have good judgement.

Like they knew it was super dangerous, there wasn't new science discovered since then about this particular setup. Today rank and file engineers know not to do that
The host can put their CDN inside the operator's network. And, generally, a centrally operated CDN can be smarter than p2p.
Ads are even more unreliable with peer to peer than with regular Youtube.

However, you could make money like many professional youtubers: sponsorships for companies. Getting a sponsorship requires a certain amount of fame and viewers in the first place, though. It'd be near impossible to start a Youtube-like career, but for existing Youtubers who can use this system as a secondary/alternative video host, the problem wouldn't be so big.
The US CBDC digital currency proposal is expected later this month from MIT and Boston Fed, including open-source reference code, https://dci.mit.edu/building-a-hypothetical-cbdc
I would probably buy the second carpet. I thought the rockets were poppies at first. Which is basically accidental poetry.
It’s when you essentially forward a product from the manufacturer, typically somewhere in Asia. All the drop shopper is doing is providing a digital store front, and the goods are piped directly to you from the overseas supplier. There is no value add or special thing about the product; you could order it from the supplier yourself for much less at the expense of (sometimes) waiting longer.
This is the idea behind theta token https://www.thetatoken.org/

Google is 1 of the sponsors, but I don’t think that means too much.
If you can’t get buy-in, you can’t get buy-in. Some companies won’t allow you to write whatever you want, Lisp or otherwise. I don’t suggest writing Lisp is possible anywhere, just that it’s perfectly attainable and within one’s power to have a career of which Lisp is a significant part if you decide that should be a priority. If working at $COOL_COMPANY that only allows Python due to CTO-mandated policy is your priority, then there’s not much that can be done to accomplish that and writing Lisp.

Sometimes, also, you have to be more persuasive than “let’s use lisp it’s cool”. Implement a piece of code as a side project that solves a real problem that people care about at your company. Don’t shove it in people’s faces or rogue commit it to production. Ask people about it and have a plan to integrate it and support it. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.

As professional software engineers, our job is to solve technical software problems in exchange for a wage. Some of these technical problems come in the form of giant pieces of software that you’re asked to chip away at. Others come in the form of greenfield implementation work. Some are somewhere in between. Some of these projects have 2 programmers, and others 2,000. Where on these spectra you’re being paid to contribute makes a lot of difference in how much sway you have for foundational technological choices on specific projects.
AV1 exists, and is actively used for serving a good chunk of YouTube content.

But yeah, codecs and smart format selections/ABR are critical to reducing bandwidth.
It's nice having a battery when their soldered ssds crap out after 5 years.
If (a huge if) our memories are stored in qubits, a sufficiently strong magnetic pulse (one much larger than found in an MRI) might be able to erase our brains.

This also has interesting (morbid?) implications for how long our memories last after death.
No, I've read the standard. The "abstract machine" is, as its name implies, abstract. In reality, there are other concerns that are equally if not more important. That is the problem with compiler writers, ignoring those practical concerns. They prefer to downvote rather than face the reality of going outside their imaginary abstract machine world.

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
The face to face conversation is a double edged sword. In my experience if you have a satellite office then the face to face conversations at one office don't make it to the other one so you can't really take advantage of globalization.

For example, you are in Office A and there is a major issue you can huddle in a room but if someone in office B is involved then all of a sudden they are listening to you from an conference audio that barely comes across, or most likely completely left out of the conversation.

I think the companies which will take advantage of globalization will be able to have everyone work remote or if in office only meet from their desks, which defeats the purpose of in person, with global employees performing support work but being fully engaged.
You kick a cash cow often enough, it will bite back...
> something about the reflection of the water from the harbor

Temperature inversion? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology)
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I searched for the Penn Museum and found this link https://www.penn.museum/collections/videos/video/1014, but the video seems to have conveniently left out examples of anti-American rugs.
> leading to worse outcomes.

Do you have evidence of this part specifically? Because the Oregon Experiment found no improvement in health outcomes in a large randomized trial of low-income recipients of Medicaid. (Partly because their health was generally good in the first place.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Medicaid_health_experim...