skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also buy mine for mostly the reasons you outlined above. Plus because of the kids, I got tired of renting Lion King or 101 Dalmatians etc. for the 11th time. It is actually cheaper to pay ~10-20USD for a BD and be done with it.

It is worth noting though that the content on BD/UDH-BD is not uncompressed. They're still compressed using h.264/h.265/VC1/.. for video and DTS, AC3 and various other codes for audio. It's just that you get a much higher bitrate from the BD compared to streaming. This does make a difference on bigger TV, especially since our internet connection is not as good as it should.

As for the future, when world eventually transitions to H.266 or some other next gen codecs, and at the same time internet speeds keep increasing, this whole debate is largely theoretical. You will be able to stream UHD movie at half or less of of bits that it would take today when compressed using h.265, using internet connections that are n times faster than those we're using today.

Call me old school, I still like owning those BDs. But it's hard to imagine future where they would age very well (compared to quality you are likely to get from streaming services).
That's literally what the comment you're replying to is saying
Often the text in a paper that describes some algorithm will not be completely clear or complete. Providing the code fills in those blanks. I've taken a paper with code and gone through the code line by line comparing it with what was described in the paper. The code often ends up clarifying ambiguities. In some cases there's an outright disagreement between the paper and the code - that's where the feedback comes in, ask the author about these disagreements, it will help them clarify their approach (both the text and the code).

> Reproducing the results does not mean running the same code as the author and plotting the same figures as in the paper.

Sure, to some extent. But the code does provide a baseline, a sanity check. People who are trying to reproduce results should (as I describe above) go through both the paper and the code with a fine tooth comb. The provided code should be considered a place to start. I'll often re-implement the algorithm in a different language using the paper and the provided code as a guide.
If you start with a flap and add a little air and lengthen it, you get into trill territory. This is a good way to teach the trill.

Once I recall I pronounced a drawn out /d/ when cold and startled, and a friend commented that I "rolled my D" and it was weird.
That's a good point. However, it suggests to me that one should publish the code for an additional reason:

1) if we acknowledge that paper production is the wrong way to do science, perhaps papers with attached published code are a step in the right direction. A critical mass of papers that are easy to reproduce because anyone can execute the code attached with them could, hypothetically, come to dominate the zeitgeist and push out papers with grandiose but unverified claims.
I’m not sure if they’re in other countries, but I’m referring to the US. As for who uses them: off the top of my head, for well known services: PayPal, Coinbase, YNAB, Truebill, Acorns, Venmo, Stripe has an integration, I think Mint?, the list goes on.

More often than not I encounter them when trying to link bank accounts to anything now, except with other banks.

They have a history of imitating bank login screens and not disclosing that they’re not your bank. They settled a few lawsuits about that in the past few years and are a little more upfront, but I wouldn’t expect the average user to reasonably understand the situation.

Visa tried to acquire them back in 2020 but dropped the plan.
Who are they and why are they using this old laptop? I wasn’t able to find anything in the article that mentions this.
False. I like windows and have been using XPS laptops for a long time.
I'm supposed to give up my anonymity because of an entirely different person's crime? No thanks, I'm not a criminal. I'll keep using monero or whatever other systems limit my exposure to these unreasonable search without probable cause/warrant of my identity. I believe KYC is violation of 4th amendment, and that the government's ability to seize proceeds of crime is a lower priority than civil rights.
There are about 100 comments saying the same thing already, but I would highly suggest publishing the code:

1. It gives your work more visibility. If there is a easy git clone route to reproducing your work, it offers a low effort starting point for people to build upon your work which means they are more likely to use it. Plus you get free citations from anyone who touches it.

2. There is no reason that people should be hoarding code in academia, and the only reason people do it now is a sort of prisoners dilemma problem (first person to publish their code had to start from scratch, so they feel possessive and let it die when they graduate). Every researcher who releases their code chips away at the problem and pushes the community to be more open with their code which is intrinsically more efficient.

3. If you get lucky and the community adopts your code it will be viewed very positively by potential future career advancement committee being 'they guy who wrote _x'

4. When I started in academia I based my codebase on an existing publicly available code, which saved me a huge amount of time in my work. I built upon it (not expanding the base code, but using it as a module to integrate experimental measurements to the simulations tools I wrote from scratch) in my PhD and when I graduated I handed a virtualbox image with the whole mess (yay free code--wouldn't have been possible with nonfree code) off to my successors, people in new groups, etc which ended up being the base of an entire new research group at a different university. Every once in a while I get an email asking for help, and get a notification saying that someone cited the code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27
Closer than you think since IIRC the PIC, like the Z80, takes 4+ clock cycles to complete one instruction and the 6502 can sometimes do it in 1 (albeit a much simpler/limited core, but obviously Commodore/Apple/Nintendo et al made it work).
You absolutely should publish the code and dump it on GitHub somewhere. I did that 20 years ago on sourceforge and it backs up a lot of claims that would otherwise get dismissed as me making s** up. Plan ahead and make sure you have the receipts because if your research ever becomes relevant you want to have all the receipts.
Much https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-the-banking-app-revol...
I said: I want to see the (capitalist) world burn.

Well, why would you misquote me?

I wonder.
You make me sound like some madman indeed.
Personally, I would even consider a UBI to be "setting the world ablaze", but probably the only way forwards.

No, I do not volunteer in a soup kitchen, do you? Of course you do.
Do you want to read how I don't have the time to volunteer? Of course not.

Does it matter that you are concretizing an abstraction to make me look like a lazy loudmouthed fool? Of course not.

As to that Syrian experiment, pardon my mistrust, but is it safe enough that you would send your own daughter there?

If I would be a gambler, I would bet that experiment whiped off the earth in 5 - 10 years if they haven't disbanded by then already due to ???

Nah, I have dug myself in here pretty solidly, even if I wanted to: I couldn't just up and leave on a whim. Besides, your plea for me to consider going off into the desert reads like that meme with that dude stating "how curious, yet you participate in a society" to some peasant complaining about the state of the world.

Instead of going someplace that could be droned to peace for being a threat to even mildly authoritarean regimes, or, just as likely, where I could be stoned to death for just existing (am trans and gay): I'll rather wait for the nuclear holocaust to bring anarchy to my doorstep, kthxbye
This feature has been in the works for quite a while. I suspect you're thinking of a different but possibly-related change, where the 2021 edition has reserved the syntax for new string literals forms (beyond the existing b and r forms). In theory those new forms could be used to permit f-strings. But the new capability mentioned in the OP is the ability to implicitly capture names in format strings, which works with the existing formatting macros (such as println).

That said, Rust isn't a company, it's a volunteer organization, and features advance at the speed of enthusiasm. If there's a feature that someone wants to see, there's no use waiting around for it, someone's got to be the one to push it forward. :)
Researcher discloses alleged zero-day vulnerabilities in NUUO NVRmini2 recording
By that definition, I agree, if you add the qualifier "Nelson solved the subconvexity problem for for automorphic L-functions."

I still think it's vague to talk about "the" subconvexity problem without specifying what variable you want the bound to be subconvex in, but, really, who am I to argue with Ian Petrow..!
I worked with some folks that did IVR systems and they were mostly doing their best with the resources and constraints they had to make the thing useful. They were measured by dropped calls, they did not like them.

The weaknesses were mostly just ordinary business stupidity.

The marketing department demands that the first option allow the caller to express interest in buying a product.. nobody ever does that but then it takes up the primest real estate in the system #1 on the first level of the tree.

Of course anyone with a billing enquiry needs to enter the account # so that the collections department has the opportunity to intercept.. but after the arrears lookup nobody in the call centre is willing to pony-up the resources to make the system retain the account number that was typed in so every customer has the then say the damn number after having just typed it in!
Nope. When designing their early carriers ( like the Kiev class), it was a conscious design decision. The size of the vessel was limited by Soviet shipbuilding and designing capabilities, but having missiles onboard was only taking the limited space. They wanted hybrid missile cruiser/aircraft carriers. And it was certainly not a matter of money because at the same time the Soviets were building the Kievs they were also building a titanium hulled submarine class with fast reactors (Alfa), something the US was completely incapable of doing, and the Typhoon class behemoths. They had the money, they just chose to spend it otherwise.

The Ulyanovsk class was too late
720 broken clocks might have one with the correct time on it, but that doesn’t mean it was working properly.
Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's (1970) [pdf]
Your comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29935989) has been killed, so I couldn't post my reply there, so I'll post it here:

> Political theater by Democrats trying to make Jan 6th "The Day That Democracy Nearly Died" or something.

I agree there's been a lot of political theater around Jan. 6th, but if democracy does in fact die in the US, those events will have been an important milestone. Basically, the point where the breakdown of the respect for the institutions of democracy became in-your-face obvious. It also set some precedents/put options in people's minds that will be hugely destabilizing.

That said, I'm really disappointed that Democrats are basically making only small tactical responses (e.g. party-line voting rights legislation, some justice dept. unit to combat "extremism") to a strategic problem, which is that a large fraction of the population is losing/has lost respect for the system. The Democrats really need to get their act together and, being the less-degraded party, do their duty and make whatever sacrifices are necessary to fix that [1].

[1] As in when some asshole trashes some common area, you have the duty to spend your time and effort clean up after them. You don't have control over their behavior, but you have control over your own, and it's wrong to leave the common area trashed even though it's not "fair" you're the one sacrificing your time to clean it up.
Also if We believe that He got it in December, that is probably a lie to not get the vaccine and enter Australia.
"unfair" is, in my view, the wrong way to frame it. It's a question of cost/benefit analysis. Does the US, by virtue of its effective global military presence, gain more through spending and maintaining it, in order to protect allies and its own interests, even if said allies fail to contribute a "fair" amount? (Whatever that may mean)

A loss of military hegemony will most likely reduce the US's global political and economic role as other countries move to fill that void or take advantage of the absence (China, Russia, at present). The net effect will likely be a shrinking of the US economy in the end, and not growth or even sustainment.
The things propping up these companies are laws.

The way you break a network effect is adversarial interoperability. You build a new (ideally open) network by bootstrapping from the old one. But companies use the DMCA and CFAA and other laws to stop competitors from doing that, so it doesn't happen.
If the main goal is not anonymity this should not be a problem?
All I can say is I’m thankful for Elon Musk. The electric car revolution would not have happened without him.
> We immediately engaged legal counsel. PayPal refused to interact with our counsel, and so a C&D was issued. Within one week of the C&D, PayPal did the following:

- Froze the account of our sister company (in Hong Kong), seizing 35k EU

- Froze the personal accounts of all shareholders of the EU and HK corps (~1,5k EU)

- Froze the business accounts of all shareholders by name search (different corporate entities, different businesses) - 5kEU

- Froze the business accounts that the shareholders held (again, different corps, different businesses) - another 5kEU

how can any of this be legal? aren't there laws prohibiting such actions from PayPal?
This has explicit usage limitations that matter in science land, which is very much the kind of thing that belongs in a license.

Eg:

You are permitted to use the Program to validate scientific claims
submitted for peer review, under the condition that You keep
modifications to the Program confidential until those claims have
been published.

Moreover, sure, lots of the license is text that isn't common in legal documents, but there's no rule that says legal text can't be quirky, funny or superfluous. It's just most practical to keep it dry.

In this particular case, however, there's very little risk of actual law suits happening. There is some, but the real goal of the license is not to protect anyone's ass in court (except for the obvious "no warranty" part at the end), but to clearly communicate intent. Don't forget that this is something GPL and MIT also do besides their obvious "will likely stand up in court" qualities. In fact I think that communicating intent is the key goal of GPL and MIT, and also the key goal of CRAPL.

From this perspective, IMO the only problem in this license is

By reading this sentence, You have agreed to the terms and
conditions of this License.

This line makes me sad because it makes a mockery of what's otherwise a pretty decent piece of communication. Obviously nobody can agree to anything just by reading a sentence in it. It should say that by using the source code in any way, you must agree to the license.
They measured a bigger gravitational effect on the particle, because the superpositional pair of the particle flew closer to a mass than the actually measured particle.

Regarding the "never touch", gravity decreases with distance squared, so it diminishes quickly with distance. There is a big difference in being near the mass, as opposed to feeling the dimished effect of it from far.
P+P is rollicking fun and all the P+P movies are rollicking fun. I do however, prefer Persuasion. And I'll admit that I didn't spot that Clueless (which was awesome) was based on Emma until I heard something on NPR. I just remember thinking at the time, damn this script is tight for a teen movie.

If you like P+P then A Room With A View, EM Forster, is a scream from start to finish. (Well, not) every chapter is titled X Lies To Y.
>But on the other hand it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing

It's better than nothing, it also is the only way for others to reproduce your results. I am surprised you were not asked to do that by whatever journal you chose to publish your results.

>many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage

LOL, what!? What is this crap about "competitive advantage"? Are you privately funded? Then it's fine. If you're funded by public (i.e. government) money, you are (at least ethically) obliged to share your work with everybody.
Because they've been doing it since last millennium, and the competing services that didn't steal from their customers went bankrupt because of fraud and reversed payments.
I consider KYC violation of 4A. It's an unreasonable compulsory search to ascertain my identity devoid of probable cause or warrant of a crime.
Do anyone remember a couple months ago the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference? The prime ministers and presidents of the different countries arrived in huge private jets with really large entourage, with huge limos and "security" vehicles, just in case anybody didn't know who they were.

With that kind of political mindset, where they can pollute all they want in order to show off their power, do you think they are gone to do something about private aircrafts and vessels that most of them have? It's very naive to think so.

Like other person said in the comments, I don't know how true or how false this article is, but I won't doubt it too much.
> Why is that? Can't they just check the tracking number?

My experience is Amazon is an enormous pain in the butt to deal with if the delivery service drops your package at the wrong address or there's a hole in the package with nothing in it. Huge pain dealing with those people.

I get that there are scammers out there. But if I get 100 packages per year from amazon for years, some of which have been very expensive, and one outta nowhere they lose my $5 multivitamin, I'm not trying to get rich by fraud but I just want my vitamins.

Also a couple years ago I ordered an obscure stainless steel hinge for woodworking, kind of expensive for stainless steel it was about $8 (solid not plated USA made brass would have been $30+) and Amazon van delivery successfully delivered a bubblewrap envelope with a hole ripped in it because hinges are heavy and bubble wrap envelopes are weak. Its an $8 hinge I just want my hinge can't you ask the amazon employee in the van who delivered it to look on the floor of his van? I'm not angry (yet) but I just want my hinge so I can finish my woodworking project. If I was trying to rip Amazon off then I wouldn't be arguing with somechatbot or someone over a $8 hinge it would be "my box that was supposed to contain a PS5 arrived with a brick in it instead" or similar fraud-smelling situation.

This is why I won't buy consumer electronics from Amazon; they can't deliver a hinge without trying to make a federal case out of it, so if I order a TV with my luck I'm going to get a box of cracked glass with no recourse and long arguments. If I go to best buy the price is worse and the selection is worse and I don't like the experience in general but at least I can slice the box open and see if the glass is smashed before swiping my credit card.

Amazon doesn't have a process for "the delivery people messed up" probably intentionally to save money when the delivery people mess up. Even when the delivery people who messed up are Amazon employees (or contractors)

My point of this ramble, aside from F Amazon, is they set you up to take the blame. They screwed up, the chatbot can't help, the chatbot must be to blame.
I had the same experiences, but only publishing for 5 years so far. I still try to puplish everything openly, but I do not expect any responses anymore. In none of my papers, the reviewers appeared to have even seen the Jupyter Notebooks I attached as HTML. The papers are cited, some more, some less, but there is no reaction towards the source code. I still don't regret publishing it.
High carbonation sparkling mineral water. It gives that same “hit” as sipping a can of soda, but is much healthier.
>It's not clear to me what the House committee is asking for.

They are asking for TV time
That's a pretty naive view.

The profit motive absolutely still exists, as the government will contract out the work to a corporation that will give a kick-back to the politicians that granted them the contract. If not directly via cash (Likely illegal, but still happens anyways), then via campaign contributions or insider stock trading tips (Again, likely illegal, but still happens anyways).
I often entertain the notion that SQL would be way more enjoyable in Spanish.

See also Fjölnir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fj%C3%B6lnir_(programming_lang..., where the program usually seems to end with "GRUNNUR". My understanding is that this is basically just the name of a standard library package "ground", but screaming GRUNNUR at the end of a program feels like something out of an issue of Heavy Metal.
3.8% users are using Steam on Linux, with their shitty support for platforms? Astonishing. That millions of users. It's comparable with XBox market share.

IMHO, somebody should milk this market.
I think it might be a joke.

Either that or it's a good reminder why fundamentals are important.
At this point it's effectively the only public space to share videos. If you stop using it, you stop participating in the society.
> I'm also very curious about antiX "proudly anti-fascist" distro

"Anti-fascist" doesn't actually mean that - it's a political dog-whistle.

> they're two debian releases late

That's in line with their use of Palemoon, which lags behind normal Firefox feature (and security) releases due to their decision to support older features (mostly XUL) (not that this is very avoidable, because maintaining an XUL fork is very hard work, and not for the faint of heart).
Who are all these YT defenders in the comments? "Well, it says ACID, and as every ignorant person knows, ACID means BAD, and knowing the difference between substances is stupid!" You sound like a bot trying to make common sense from adversarial policies. ThisCommonSenseIsFake.com.
do you really think this is true? because it isnt.
That quote is amazing. An AMD engineer publicly stating that our machines are owned.
No, I'm not. I specifically said spending and outlays. If you want to lawyer your way into a discretionary vs non-discretionary argument, have at it. I find it pointless in most scenarios, and especially in the context of this article.

In this hypothetical scenario where America can't borrow money or easily run a deficit, it won't matter at all whether a line item is discretionary or non-discretionary. Cutting the military budget won't magically help anything.
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The way I like to explain it is that Jan 6 was a Denial of Service attack which would have shut down a critical service COV (Certification_Of_Vote). The COV service was designed to bring a new process online while initiating the shut-down sequence of a lame-duck process. But a rogue script in the lame-duck attempted to shut down the COV service, which would have resulted in a privilege escalation and caused the lame-duck to continue running past its expiration date. Thankfully the DoS attack subsided in time and the COV service resumed its normal operation.
...American democracy likely will collapse.

American democracy collapsed in 1788, when the wealthy forced through a "constitution" that overruled democratic regulation of debt.
A trite response like that only makes sense if pipe bombs are so commonplace in the American Capitol that mere coincidence would not be surprising.

I’m not American, so you tell me: are they?