skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to find your path, that's where the subjective energy comes from. The thing about a demo reel is that you're automatically focusing in on someone else's deep and subjective set of interests (or a group of users' various sets). So it's often way too objective (in terms of psychological distance) a lens through which to be able to see a good starting point for one's humble own self.

Personally I eventually found my way in by focusing on lighting and procedural textures. I got really good at making decked-out spheres. :-) It's still a favorite doodling activity. In the process of learning I ended up contributing to Wikipedia articles on things like global illumination, and some of my texturing images are still up there.

(And to this day I don't find the modeling part that interesting. One of my projects was in the 2005 Blender showreel I think, it was just a simple project that seemed fun and I couldn't wait to have the modeling part complete)
Approximately known as red and blue states at this point, no?
I've worked with Python for over a decade and have worked with Go for a few years. The Go tooling and workflow for building and deploying applications is much more pleasant than the Python ecosystem. Once you know which target operating systems and CPU architectures you wish to deploy to, the toolchain makes it very easy to cross compile to produce n deployable binaries, then the static linking means you generally only need to copy 1 binary file to each target, plus your own application configuration. If you have a Python background and have done some programming with a static type system before, then Go is very quick to learn. The Go language itself is a bit annoyingly inexpressive for bashing out algorithms, but that probably doesn't matter if you're writing CLI tools.

For packaging python stuff, it kind of depends who or what the end user of the CLI tool is. I used to work in a small business that shipped windows desktop software to customers, a lot of the software was written in python. From memory we packaged it with py2exe -- so you end up building a zip file containing a self-contained executable, the version of the python interpreter your tool needs, along with all the python packages as well as native libraries. That worked quite reliably, but it'd seem rather distasteful to use that approach for sharing CLI tools with your colleagues or CI machines in a dev team!

edit: there are pitfalls to deploying go application binaries if you try to put them in scratch containers and use libraries that assume they can find data such as timezone data provided in the usual place in the filesystem by the distribution (there will be no such data files in a scratch container unless you explicitly copy them in), or build a go linux binary with dynamic linking assuming glibc, then try to run it in an alpine based environment with musl. So it's not magic. But it's mostly pretty nice.
Exactly right. This is it right here. It's openly hostile to users, especially considering the broader context of Weeny's pejorative comments about his customers.
It's not about value for human life. Grandparents have always died eventually. A single family also doesn't know if they are part of a statistic. My grandmother died from the flu and it didn't make me think there was a great flu pandemic going on.

I think also with the Spanish Flu it was more younger people who died. A lot of people who "died from Covid" are already much older than people would have gotten 100 years ago.

Excess mortality because of Covid is barely visible in many countries.

Anyway, it is all speculation at this point, would have to dig up more data. It's just an opinion.
Google does this as a whole, IME. A body shop did a really shoddy repair and when I went to check my review later, it was gone. I don't understand why; it shows when I'm logged into the original Google account, but not otherwise.
The labor shortage is plenty real and is going to be for a long time.

We could massively expand immigration, but we won't.
Does the apartment have a door?
It's a bit of an exaggeration to say "almost all" games at the highest level end in draws. I wouldn't have said that from my personal experience following top-level chess, and the data indeed indicates it's under 75% [0]—which is a large proportion, but not "almost all".

[0]: https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-draw-rule-is-classica...
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I stopped using YT recommendations a while ago, not I only go back to the same channels and if any new channel gets added it's not from a YT source.

Stupid "I don't want to think" content got replaced by twitch, even through many twitch streams contain hardly any interesting "content" they are sadly stile miles better then most/close to all "dump" YT content (because "dump" YT content has gotten pretty bad).

And high quality YT content often gets demonetized and seldomly recommended, because its either not advertisement friendly enough or doesn't cover a wide enough audience spectrum.
2 platforms I have never heard of before this post. It's like saying Mastadon is a replacement for _______. Yeah, no it/they are not replacing. Those sites are like the catch can for those willing to step away from THE place. Until those creators actually leave YT to 100% commit to other places by no longer posting to YT, then the masses are not leaving YT (or FB/Twit/etc).

Edit: Do any of these content creators posting to other non-YT sites mention the availability of these sites in their YT videos? If not, then they are not really convinced of their staying power themselves.
Anyone who doesn't think the USA and Israel don't spy on each other 24/7 is living in a dream world. Israel is an ally but I don't think that they are our friends.
Maybe time to check out OneFinance for multi-card/ACH

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247788#28248539
Oy vey what an antisemtic statement, assuming Israeli forces are incapable of knowing friend from foe.
Steam has a massive head start and Epic has huge barriers to entry. You can make a super nice launcher and it's not going make many inroads among those who already have all their games and friends on Steam. Epic is throwing money at the problem, but they have few other real options. Where is the money grab (especially in free games)?

How is Epic the bad guy here when Steam is in a monopoly position? Epic should be commended for taking them on (and Apple and Google).
We ostensibly have a "better" measure of productivity, called the GDP. Every time a carton of cigarettes gets sold, GDP goes up. every time a person is diagnosed with cancer, GDP goes up. for a capitalist, the GDP is generally a positive litmus.

the concern I think is most evident is that a nearly theatrical number of short-term and long-term issues are becoming insurmountable obstacles to progress at all. having coasted on Quantitative Easing and bond buys since 2008, the market has cheated recession at all turns and subsequently created a corporate credit bubble that has turned the prime interest rate into a third-rail for anyone seeking to raise it to counter now rampant US inflation. many point to 2020 as a recession period, however bond prices and home prices remained high, and it only lasted a month at most as the fed simply injected more cash into the system to "correct" the uncomfortable decline.

the minimum wage hasnt moved in a decade, and most service economy workers (those which make up the backbone of neoliberal capitalist society) faced with the near
Sisyphean task of caring for COVID patients at home, educating their kids remotely, and working multiple jobs that offer no healthcare or medical leave reached its absolute breaking point when the government and corporations deputized most of them as mask police to be spit on and assaulted. paying people more isnt working.

finally the fed and the gov arent helping. the looming threat of regular petulant government shutdowns coupled with states that refuse to in many cases even acknowledge their covid numbers, is butting against Federal reserve dogma that laughably insists somehow this is just "transient" inflation and its just going to go away, despite the first decline ever in cyber monday sales on record.

the silver lining analysts all rally around is a trillion dollar stimulus bill just that wasnt even submitted to the house until nine months into the year that will arrive just in time for a 2022 meldown over what are widely anticipated to be poor christmas sales amid a driver shortage, shipping gridlock, and chip shortage.

to see the BLS flog capital intensity platitudes and labor composition functions is just bad comedy. its the same sort of bureaucratic blinders we had right up to 2008.
That sentence is about their reaction to the visiting professor's whiteboard though, prior to Earnest's involvement.
The unfortunate reality, as anyone who's had to moderate online spaces can confirm, is that unexplained shadowbans are a necessary tool. Turn on showdead on HN some time, and you'll see some great examples of smart, coherent people who are incredibly dedicated to ruining the quality of discourse and couldn't be stopped by lesser measures. I was a big opponent of shadowbanning too until I spent some time moderating a subreddit.
And the European allies spy on the USA, rinse and repeat.
> cancelled

What do you mean by this word? I’ve seen it used as a political meme, but the usage always makes it seem like the supposed victim has some kind of entitlement to be a widely admired public figure regardless of what they say or do, without regard to the fleeting nature of fame and the fickleness of public admiration.
> I just don't understand how this plan promotes equity.

Well, it can turn every one into a bad pupil :-)

I wish people would take a look at what happened in other countries which followed a somehow similar path of dumbing down courses and lowering requirements.

Here is what 25 years of dumbing down achieved in France:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xHQ532qyiek/XJ8kH-PnVTI/AAAAAAAAH...

This extremely telling graph about the level in the end of primary school is taken from an official note from the Ministry of Education itself: https://www.education.gouv.fr/media/22373/download

It is about maths (calculus) but we have somewhat similar drops in other matters, notably in French language.

You can easily see on the graph how the above average pupils from now perform as bas as the below average pupils from 30 years ago. Only a small part of pupils perform as the average pupil used to perform. You can also note that the 'excellent' pupils have basically disappeared: there is no bump (and no long tail) on the right of the curve any more.

Furthermore, every social category performs much worse: http://centre-alain-savary.ens-lyon.fr/CAS/documents/documen...

Not a single category got something positive about it. The lower social classes for which this dumbing down was intended actually suffer badly from it; the upper classes didn't find ways to escape it either.

It is estimated that when they reach the end of high school, pupils' level is late by 1 or 2 years (depending on the matter) compared to what it was in the last two decades of the XXth century (when high school access was already expanded massively, we're not talking about the 50s-60s-70s). And yet the high-school pupils are basically automatically all given the degree: 95% success rate compared to 75% in the 90s (and in those days that was after many had repeated 1 or more years, which they don't any more, they almost all pass all classes automatically, even though they didn't assimilate the necessary knowledge and understanding to follow next classes ).

Another troublesome consequence is that it propagates. Very recently, universities, which for a long time tried to keep the same level as before, started to dumb down their courses an lower their requirements for passing years too, because the first years of university had become a slaughterhouse for a mass of students who were coming with a completely insufficient level (the high-school graduation serves as an automatic entry ticket for universities, there is no entrance exam). So the same effect as in primary and secondary education is about to happen, and selection is pushed to the Master level, but that last barrier will probably very soon break too (we already hear complaints about it).
Musk says Tesla's Cybertruck will have four-motor variant
Privacy.com is to firewall you from service providers, not the government. There is no way around KYC/AML if you’re operating legally.
> Don't write internal cli tools in python

A lot of the advice is good but I take an issue with this one. With poetry and docker, packaging Python apps for easy consumption is a non-issue. Same for Ruby. If you can get your team to standardize on poetry, you might not even need containers -- but, honestly, running these tools from CI or automation (anywhere) is so useful that you probably want container versions anyway.

Golang is not a good fit for exploratory CLIs that work with complex data structures and are written for one-off, low-CPU consumption purposes -- not for scale-up API services. Just having an interactive shell (or `pry` in Ruby, those two are identical for the purpose) saved me probably weeks of time. Trying to unit test any moderately complex API surface brings me to tears when I compare it to trivial object mocking in something like Ruby.

Python (or Ruby) are ideal for this and have excellent frameworks for CLI tools.
My school was rural and that is way more advanced than mine was.

8: Algebra I
9: Algebra II
10: Geometry
11: Trigonometry
12: Pre-calculus

Advanced class was -1 year. This was Upstate New York 90s/00s. Though I guess to be more specific these courses were actually combination. So it was 3 years of mixed algebra/geometry/trigonometry. Math A, B I think New York called it. Until Pre-calculus Which was actually year and a half courses of mixed topics.
This is why evaluation bars are misleading. Computer will say it's equal but for one side, every move is equal and for the other side, you have to make the only drawing move each time.

I wouldn't say that Ian made a mistake. That position was winning for white after pawn on h4 was traded. It's not Leela vs Stockfish, it's two humans playing. Defending with solo queen against RNPP w/ connected pawns is extremely hard unless perpetual check is unstoppable.
The biggest problem is not supporting h264 encoding for the output.

Also as the preview playback is done with html video elements and those can't be started at a precise enough time, the timing of these videos are imprecise and may not align with other elements. This only happens at playback or scrubbing, not when staying on a single frame and the exported result should not be affected.
Holy shit! How's Simple Apps stuff not shutdown by GDPR? Either Simpler App is lying (thus GDPR kicks in) or Lusha. This is insane
As a user, the Epic store is massively inferior to the Steam store on the merits. The UI is worse, the download and update speeds are worse, the interface is worse, the portability is worse, the social layer is worse, almost everything about it is worse. You're acting like they're remotely comparable in end-user experience, which they aren't. Gamers don't necessarily want a monopoly, they just don't want to be forced to use a shittier store to play certain games. If Epic actually put any effort into their store I think there would have been a lot less backlash.
> The figure—$10.9 trillion—represents the cumulative loss in output in the U.S. nonfarm business sector due to the labor productivity slowdown since 2005, also corresponding to a loss of $95,000 in output per worker.

Exactly that. This is characterized as a loss but productivity has actually grown every single year except 2011 (which had zero growth, so not a "loss" either).

Maybe 1998-2004 were just exceptional. My guess is that's when computers started to take over larger swaths of the most productive industries.

> above-average growth of the late 1990s and early 2000s

On top of that, the article (at least to me) reads like there was about a decade of above-average growth whereas it was really more like 6 years.

Edit: This reads a lot like this: https://xkcd.com/605/
beeminder.com has a product that fills some of these needs.
>> whether we will be able to afford private school

Private school is not necessarily better than public school, especially for high school. If you are in a good public school district then it is unlikely that a private school will give your children a better education.
This looks like the falling rate of profit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...) by a different name.
> Today we produce 1,000,000x more videos/memes/gifs/conten

Truth is nobody knows how to value those things in terms of money, to be honest I'm not even sure they can be valued the same way as we used to value physical things that got built during a physical production process.

I've seen this problem partially addressed by slightly leftish-leaning economists such as Mariana Mazzucato in "The Value of Everything" [1] and I'm sure there may be others like her, but afaik mainstream economics is still ignoring the issue, I think mainstream economists don't even acknowledge this as being an issue.

[1] https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-value-of-everything
A NYTimes Reporter Runs a Scam to Collect Royalties from Hundreds of Musicians
+1 for Being Mortal.
Why the World Needs Lower Egress Fees
> Those city departments responsible for trash pickup now incur significant costs, over and above what they would have to pay in the absence of recycling. These costs include the personnel and equipment for separate additional refuse collection (or payment to a contractor to provide the service), as well as the cost of paying firms to accept recyclables, now that they no longer can be profitably resold.

> Some recyclables — notably, aluminum cans — continue to have a relatively high market value. But they are mixed with other materials that have little value and therefore require expensive sorting.

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/recycling-cost-benefit-a...

So, cities pay for recycling to be collected, and then after that pay some company to take it off their hands. They used to not pay much for the latter, sometimes even zero, if enough aluminum could be recovered. But now, they pay for it to be taken too.

These companies that take the recycling, try to make some profit from the money they are paid, and the materials. They also have to look like they are actually recycling. So they used to just spend some of the money (which they are paid by the city, and some from the pure aluminum they can separate) to ship the worthless stuff to China for "recycling" ... and what's left over is profit.

EDIT: better specific data:

> Boston then pays a private firm, Casella Waste Systems, to sort and sell the materials when there is a buyer, or otherwise dispose of them.

> The price that the city must pay Casella to accept these recyclables has been rising, partly because some 25% of the materials are contaminated. A five-year “residential recycling processing contract” that expired in 2019 called on the city to pay $70 per ton for that service;[18] a new contract signed in 2019 increased that fee to a minimum of $125 per ton and a maximum of $160 per ton—depending on market conditions.
Yep. My wife has been using Blender purely for video editing (no 3D modeling) for more than 10 years now. Apparently it's a bit weird to get used to, but very powerful.
There is tremendous dissonance in culture between the rewards of ingratiation and the opprobrium of it. At the same time it is difficult to balance the difference between brown-nosing and being a normal caring fellow human being who is grateful to others. The example I gave is over the top (in my mind), but I assume different workplace cultures have different norms.
An interesting take. I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear, I don't think what you're doing leads to positive change. I think it leads to a race to the bottom.

Are you sure your take isn't just self-justification?
Now that's how you write a title folks
While the author is interesting, he doesn't seem to be focused on very much. He meanders from topic to topic, talking about whatever the fuck he wants, eventually landing on geopolitics and his recently published book, and doesn't really talk about "how the virus struck back", as the title would have you believe.
This path is kinda the obvious path to go down if you have a large public site 2021. It is what the data says. Even for small sites with 1M users this is obvious. HN would benefit a lot from going down the same path too to avoid premiering all the zealots.

Edit: Landed well as expected. Maybe HN could provide a service where users could battle about facts in different areas. So all the useless fatty Americans could show their true credentials.
How does this compare to Postgres + parquet FDW? Is zero copy feasible in Postgres with FDWs?
Rclone is excellent, I use it to deploy my static site to Neocities and it's worked excellently for ages.
Doesn't give me a lot of hope with Dave being in the top list on odysee surrounded by alt-right creators who escaped there from other platforms. Plus his recent shilling of the crypto currency connected to odysee on twitter.

I get that creators want to be paid and need a better home than youtube, but none of this bodes well to me yet.
>You can get better feedback on whether a video is bad by skimming comments.

But many videos disabled comments while the dislikes count was still visible to help decide.

>You should also acknowledge that you may like content that is unpopular (highly disliked videos

For non-politics or non-music videos such as how-to tutorials or product reviews, I've never experienced this. The crowdsourced dislikes was a very accurate indicator of a bad video and I've never disagreed with it.
> we loose a lot with go: having to compile

If you're concerned about compile time -- Go does a pretty reasonable job of caching (including caching unit test results). If you're working on a Python project with a large number of unit tests, because Python is so slow to execute anything, and the go build and test tools are quite fast, it wouldn't be that surprising if it was actually faster to compile and run the test suite in Go vs running the test suite in Python -- particularly for incremental work where you make a change in one library and rerun the impacted tests.

If you're concerned more about the workflow of needing an additional compile step, go has `go run script.go` which lets you use go like a scripting language, assuming you're in an environment with the go toolchain installed.
How to Find Information on the Internet (2001) [pdf]
gotta earn money some how. if you can't make it with ads, put your viewers to work in other ways. just a guess
Love this software, use it for everything from mounting cloud storage to syncing backups