skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am doing something similar, just for the sake of it, on the PlayStation 1 of all things: a custom video codec that takes advantage of the console's hardware MJPEG decoder, but replaces the software side of the stock codec (normally in charge of decompressing the Huffman encoded bitstream into run-length tuples, which are then fed into the decoder) with a slightly more efficient compression scheme.

I'm also trying to leverage the GPU to post-process decoded blocks by e.g. blending them with the previous frame, on hardware that was never meant to support p-frames in the first place. The whole project is still in its early stages though, so there is nothing I can show off (yet).
Huh, SketchUp has grown up. Back in Google days it felt both bit like a toy and somewhat withered. But now it looks like it is more serious CAD-like app.
> What is weaseling out is assuming what will hurt their feelings

I'd say "hedging". what if you have that conversation and it does hurt their feelings? Now you can't undo it, which is why the assumption is needed - you probe the question without showing your hand.
The article specifically argues that they should do this in order to further grow their customer base, and retain customers that are unwilling to pay current prices.

Why couldn’t they keep existing subscribers ad-free? Those people are currently paying huge subscription fees.

Why would it be impossible for Netflix to implement advertising in the way this article suggests?
Can it really work if the server doesn't have a public IP? It works if the server blocks all incoming traffic, but doesn't it have to be routable? It can of course work via DHCP, but I would consider my devices at home still to have a public IP, even if they share it.
This would only be possible if you don’t take investor money. Investors expect their investment to keep growing. Unfortunately, while it’s hard to build a Netflix with other people’s money, it’s near impossible to bootstrap.

The closest one was Crunchy Roll I think, and that was only possible since they were essentially pirating their content if I remember correctly. In the end, even with piracy it wasn’t sustainable until investor money came into play.
First the streaming vendors compete for users, then, as the market is getting saturated (no more users left for subscriptions), they start competing for ads. And then users start cancelling, because of too many or irrelevant ads. It's a vicious cycle, the never-ending story of how the ads industry poisons other markets.
Don't use the CPS provided account. CPS policy is quite clear:

https://policy.cps.edu/download.aspx?ID=203

> I. Applicability.

> This policy applies to all students who use CPS Computer Resources and/or access the CPS Network (“Students”). Personal electronic devices (e.g. personal laptop) are subject to this policy when such devices are connected to the CPS Network or Computer Resources.

> IV. Privacy and Monitoring.

> A. Privacy. Students have no expectation of privacy in their use of the CPS Network and Computer Resources

> B. Monitoring. The Department of Information & Technology Services (ITS) has the right to access, search, read, inspect, copy, monitor, log or otherwise use data and information stored, transmitted and processed on the CPS Network and Computer Resources in order to execute the requirements of this policy [...] ITS reserves the right to: (1) access and make changes to any system connected to the CPS Network and Computer Resources to address security concerns.
The article is not very clear. See one of the references for a better discussion.[1]

The key idea here seems to be to have a format which will play usefully on both mobile and 4K TVs. All players take the low-rez stream, and higher resolution devices also take the "enhancement" stream to fill in fine details.

[1] https://www.lcevc.org/wp-content/uploads/A-Review-of-Emergin...
> He's having trouble defending his content from getting deleted.

So? Have you thought the content may be removed for a reason?
There's a song that describes the bridges over the canals as Dutch mountains.
Facebook can't afford to pull out of the EU, it's a massive market, and IMHO the cat will be out of the bag and other jurisdictions will follow suit with similar regulations anyways.
Nice reflection over personal data management. I can relate to several moments. I agree specially with one thing: that a good file naming convention is essential and is perhaps the most fundamental piece of data management in conjunction with a wisely chosen folder structure. ISO8601 is perhaps the most important standard in this regard, but I often used the compressed version YYYYMMDD (instead of YYYY-MM-DD), followed by _ and whatever descriptor is suitable.

But as others have already written I have overtime become less and less keen to keeping a lot of stuff. My family knows where the important documents are (say, for valuable inheritable stuff). Digital photos live in an external hard drive. Other things worth keeping for posterity like books, articles, letters, notes etc that may have intellectual, historical or emotional value for others can be kept in a less than 32 Gb external drive.

The rest is just ephemeral dust or electrons ... as perhaps we all are after all :-)
This is kind of out there but... are there open-source laser printer designs?

I guess the key elements (scanner, toner dispenser, heater) aren't exactly commodity/interchangeable, so maybe better: are there open-source laser printer firmware?

I feel like the technology has been established for a few decades now, and the latest consumer iterations often add ridiculous "features" and outright user-hostility that maybe there's room for an alternate solution.

Edit: see rdw's answer elsewhere here, for why a laser printer is a pretty complicated piece of control system
Look at what happened to DocuSign. They provide an amazing service, great growth yet stockholders decided to completely shit on it. Then the CEO apologizes and says they missed the mark by not growing out their business the right way. IMO, they did a great job and provided a valuable service. Yet shareholder are completely forcing them to react and do things they really had no interest in pursuing.
Human ancestors evolved social skills way before they descended to the savanna. Chimps kill each other all the time, maybe evolving a way to predict feelings would be useful there?
Are you addressing this part of their comment or the previous piece?

> You really think people are willing to risk their 6 figure salaries for some anonymous warehouse workers...
Emergence is widely used to describe the behaviour of complex systems that you would have a hard time to guess from first principles. One simple example would be convection cells. (Note how "hard time to guess" is quite subjective as criteria go.)
I remember that as the first time when using default styling of basic elements produced unusable results. I have to ask, when did it become my job to solve things like this?? Hidden check boxes with a check box in a label is not a nice elegant way of styling something at all. It's closer to an ugly hack. I find it an upsetting development given how well everything else was designed.

It seems we are going to get more good ideas in unfinished form?

The definition of a range is: "the area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale." Why would the user only get to configure 1 of the 2?
The definition of a slider is: a knob or lever that is moved horizontally or vertically to control a variable, such as the volume of a radio.

enterkeyhint="next" conceptually a great idea. Sadly it doesn't do anything? I wanted an attribute that makes the button go to the "next field".

Easily fixed by every developer individually a million+ times deep into the future.
Technically Signal wouldn't be covered under the DMA ( they aren't even close to being big enough). But yep, that's the point of the new regulation and it's awesome. Forces interoperability and levels the playing field between the huge incumbents with moats and competitors. Oh and it will force Apple to allow third party app stores, so there's that too.
Why is it not legal to discuss the sales price of certain sales of expensive assets like domains or companies?
Conversely, Einstein started as a patents clerk. He had his idea for general relativity when he read about a worker falling off his ladder. Then, with the help of a friend, he spent the next three years learning the mathematical techniques that would help him formalize his idea.
Hides all their feelings, or some?
A theory with empirical adequecy would require you to do some actual research into language use in humans; all of its features; how it works; various theories of its mechanisms etc. And after a comprehensive, experimental and detailed theoretical work -- show that NLP models even any* of it.*

What - specifically - do you mean?

There's an entire field adjacent to NLP called Computational Linguistics. Most people in the field work across them both, and there is significant cross pollination.

It's unclear if think there is some process in the brain that you think NLP models should be similar to. If this is the case you should look at studies similar to [1] where they do MRI imaging and can see similar responses in semantically similar words. This is very similar to how word vectors put similar concept closely together (and of course how more complex models put concept close together).

Or perhaps you think that NLP models do not understand syntactic concepts like nouns, verbs etc. This is incorrect too[2].

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23273798.2017.1...

[2] https://explosion.ai/demos/displacy
First, who cares? This article isn’t about the consumers. Perhaps it would be great for the Netflix consumer if Netflix became a nonprofit?

Second, why? Why would this be bad for the Netflix consumer. Consumers willing to pay current sub fees shouldn’t be affected, and those unwilling to pay current prices would be able to access Netflix for less money.

This would obviously benefit consumers with less disposable income.
> Do as I say, not as I do

I said not very mature, not immature.

But in any case, I never said you should never call someone immature, but that in this case as an alternative to name-calling someone a baby, it doesn't mean much. Pinning some social situation on someones communication skill, or friendship, or personal virtue for example.
A terrible nickname, if there was ever one !
"Project Farm" on YouTube does really great tool reviews with zero BS. There are differences between major tool brands and it's not just a matter of same factory, different brand sticker like with a lot of electronics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpjBJ8aQ3NE is a good example. It's pretty hard to go wrong with any of the major players these days, more about what color you like or their tool ecosystem. I'm into Milwaukee and like a whole lot of their tools, so I ended up getting about a dozen of them over the years. Milwaukee tends to be on or near the top in terms of performance, and while that might not be necessary for occasional non-professional use, I have done a few things with them where I was glad to have the extra power or just have a well-designed tool that is easy to use. Festool is even more premium but when I started buying Milwaukee they didn't have any or maybe only very few cordless tools, and they were too expensive for me at the time. Home Depot does pretty awesome holiday sales on Milwaukee if you keep an eye out, and eBay also has great deals on "tool only" once you have some batteries in your ecosystem of choice, as people do things like buy combo packs and sell the individual tools they don't want. Milwaukee also has excellent batteries that while pricey, are again relatively easy to find deals on if you keep an eye out.

Hand tools are sometimes more about feel than actual performance differences, but over the years I've come to appreciate (and be able to easily afford) the nicer stuff. It's nice not stripping Phillips head screws now that I've got really nice drivers with excellent sharp grippy tips in all the different sizes to properly fit. I grew up with the poorly-made fake chrome set of "jewelers" screw drivers that I'm sure many of y'all also learned on. I guess it makes me appreciate Wiha / PB Swiss / Wera / Felo / Klein MIUSA / custom boutique stuff (check out Scout Leather Co and CountyComm TPSK for some of the best precision multi-bit drivers I've used) more now.

On hand tools, Project Farm reviews those too, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP4uECoH8cc for torque wrenches.

I admit that there are some made-up Chinese brands that are just slapping a random name on stuff coming out of the same few factories and selling on Amazon (then changing the name if they get bad reviews) for tools, but that's only really at the bottom of the market. Mid and top-tier tools do actually have measurable performance differences in many cases. Whether that's worth it to you is for y'all to decide. I just really hate ruining a project / breaking stuff because of bad tools that can't do the job, and I dislike supporting companies that make knock-off designs (i.e. they don't pay for their own R&D) out of cheaper, weaker metals then selling look-alikes at still-too-much-for-what-you're-getting prices. There's actually a name for this in the bicycle world: "bike shaped objects".
“Russia can't afford to lose, we need a kind of victory”:former advisor on Putin
Congrats on 1.0!

Is it possible to do Redwood development completely on something like Github codespaces or CodeSandbox? Last time I checked (~6 months ago) this didn't play nicely with Docker but curious if things have changed since then.
He’s demonstrating the use of a transformer to step up the voltage. The thermal properties are because of the lower current - not the line frequency. The transformer requires AC to work, but that is not the only way to convert power, and once the voltage is stepped up, it can be rectified back to DC and will actually be more efficient than AC - hence the reason that HVDC is a thing.

High power DC-DC conversion equipment is still more expensive than AC and the technology simply didn’t exist during the current wars.
In one of my very first jobs in the mid 90ies there was also an incoming team we took over from a major competitor, who made the processes I introduced much simpler by removing dev testing, staging and CVS.
They preferred to work as root on the live servers with 80.000 customers. Development was apparently so much easier with immediate feedback.

I liked that so much, that I resigned, and found a much better job 2 years later.
I guess you could say bad cultural fit.
Netflix is full of ads, but you’re so used to them you don’t see them. I can’t remember what it was I watched the other night, but I definitely noticed the 45 second sequence of cereal box, bowl of cereal, cereal box, bowl of cereal, character going “mmm it’s delicious”, cereal box, end scene - and this is just one of many examples. Next Netflix production you watch, pay attention for the placements - there are a lot. Some subtle. Some as subtle as a hammer to the forehead.
lol.

Your comments here make it pretty clear that you’re an ideologue who never intended to seriously engage with anyone anyway.

You hate advertising, therefore everything about this article is evil regardless of how correct it may be from a business perspective. You have no interest in debating the article, but only care about pursuing your holy war against advertising.
Putin’s European Allies
Not really. If there's no free will, you cannot also remove responsibility (because you don't have the free will to remove it). You believe, follow, and practice what you're determined (non freely) to believe about responsibility.
The West is running out of ways to punish Putin
https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
Would it really be a benefit tough?

I would say no because:

Having all your costumers pay a monthly fixed price is the most comfortable and reliable way to earn money. Adds revenue is based on how many people see it, which is not known if have bunch of them in front of a TV, depends on the day of time, what is shown and so on...

Adds dictate what you can do.
Ever heard a YouTuber say "I can't show or say this or I get demonitized"?

That would happen to Netflix too.
And Netflix is an international company, showing nudity in German is not a problem. Showing violence in America is no problem but cater to both and try to sell Adds for that is going to be a mess.
So it would completely destroy what Netflix is content wise, and thus lose a lot of customers. Generic bland drizzle TV that sells you Soap and other crap like cable TV?
No thanks

And it is questionable if it increases revenue at all.
Streaming costs money.
I have a Netflix account which I seldomly use.
If I where to watch add based Netflix they would earn way less from me. Maybe that is the case for the average user as well. The author does not know but the people at Netflix probably do.
You have to emit the plumbing for something like flow typing to work. You can't omit the type checking because you cannot account for all the possible call sites at compile time, that will lead to a combinatorial explosion. You do end up generating code to pass arguments with temporary type information.

Take the example of a variant type, which is what I'm most interested in.

You have something like type X = int32 | string | boolean | SomeCustomType

When you then write a function that accepts X as a type you need to be able to pass any of these things into that function. To do that you need a auto user defined type that can carry the information, in C that might look like this

struct {
union {
int a;
char* b;
boolean c;
} data;
Tag type,
}

then your type assertions can work on this. If you wrote this in my fancy language:

if x != nil {
// x cannot be nil here
x.foo
}

the equivalent C code for this would be something like

void f(X x) {
if (x.type != WELL_KNOWN_NIL) {
x.data.foo // we know it's safe to access foo (assuming we typed X as Foo | nil)
}
}

Trying to solve this at compile time without any runtime checks might be possible but I don't know that it would be better, it might be too slow if I have to solve some nasty combinatorial problems. This is at least somewhat easy to explain.
That is how you keep cheapETH cheap
Can you compare it to Yggdrasil?
The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
This.

There are plenty of printers that can print straight from USB storage, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are scanners/multi-function devices that can scan to USB storage as well. Having two USB ports to plug those storage devices into would cause _a lot_ of support calls because some people would insist on using the wrong port.

The same applies for record players able to record to USB storage, many external hard drives and other periopherals from the 2000's and early 2010's. Mini-USB was also quite common for smaller devices in those times.

After 2012-ish, many seems to have switched to micro-USB and now we're gradually moving to USB-C.

That being said, A-to-A cables do exist and some rare devices use them.
>>The existing government mandates - aka "laws" - exist as a compromise. They prohibit a company like Amazon from engaging in certain practices, and in exchange, some union practices are prohibited.

There is nothing of note that unions could do, that isn't enabled by contract-liberty-violating labor regulations and wouldn't break the law. Picketing Amazon's premises, and beating up replacement workers, as the illegal strikes of the past did, was justifiably punished by the state before the labor regulation era, and for that reason, unions had very little power.

All the power they acquired came from laws that abridged the freedom to contract.

>>The economic power of the Boston Journeymen Bootmaker's Society came from the ability to quit - collectively.

Industry would gladly give unions the power to collectively quit, if it meant they too would have their contract liberty restored, so they could choose to not employ unionized workers, or to replace them without government punishing them.

>>I'll counter when a decidedly not benign - the Ludlow massacre, where companies worked with the government to attack striking coal workers, including firing MACHINE GUNS at them and their families.

This leaves out a seminally important precursor to the attack on the striker's camp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre#Strike

>>When leasing the sites, the union had selected locations near the mouths of canyons that led to the coal camps in order to block any strikebreakers' traffic.[17] The company hired the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency to protect the new workers and harass the strikers.

"block any strikebreakers' traffic" means viciously attack and sometimes murder strikebreakers, who were there to replace them.

The strikers were a violent force, engaging in aggression. The only basis for their actions is a victimhood narrative that argues the employer and replacement workers do not have a right to their contract liberty when workers strike. If you accept this illiberal premise, then of course any violence that strikers engage in is justified, and any response is a "massacre".
Those are not standard though, more like a "hack".
As per game theory, when you're already losing, that's the best time to take risks. If you lose more, it hardly matters as you were already losing anyway, but if you win you have a chance to comeback.
These days there are even cross platform PHP game engines/frameworks... for most ideas that can be executed by one person - use what you know!
Being not from US I can't answer the legal part (here in France it's illegal and you just need to file a formal complaint) however: why you choose a Chromebook? People needs desktops, not modern dumb terminals/endpoints acting as WebVM bootloaders, so learn them from the start help kids a lot in both practical skill and pedagogical ones (they learn different things exists, strong and weak point of anything and they have comparisons terms), I mean Classroom works on GNU/Linux desktop I suppose, so why not just give you son a GNU/Linux desktop well configured and dedicate a bit of time aside to teach him basic and less basic usage?
What you are describing is deeply, deeply pathological. You think people on HN of all places would do that? I mean I guess it is possible but shit man, I don't even know what to think about that.
I think more about culture that you should have "automate first" mindset.

Yes, changing 500 lines in a text file if you can write grep replace in 30 seconds is nice.

Automating deployment that you are doing once a month and is taking 20 mins to prepare and run, I don't feel it. Because developing such automation takes considerable resources especially if you cannot test it right away on prod and have to make test env and other overhead.

Maybe one should automate preparation parts of such deployment first and then see how it goes.
To me, that mostly reads like a UX report. This person admits he has no musical education, and just wants to play - the issue seems to be that reading a score maybe shouldn’t require a degree in musical theory, the same way that using a piece of software doesn’t require a CS degree.

As another amateur musician, I was nodding at most of these points. I fully believe it’s all very complex and double sharps exist for some reason, but how much of that do you really need the reader to understand?
My wife fucked a prick on my bed and this has been going on for 2 years now and am just getting to find out with the help of spyexpert0@gmail.com after a phone hack carried out on my wife phone.
I think that every DSLR/DSLM is vastly superior to the common webcams, even if you pay a little extra.