skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so stupid, I love it!

Its actually a great demonstration of efficient parallel processing on something totally not needing it. But you've got your "prefix-sum" pattern (maybe called reduction-pattern in some other code, or even "scan" in yet other code).

The only problem is that there's only 16-digits, so parallel processing of this is barely an upgrade at all. But you can imagine that if we scaled credit-card numbers up to 1024 digits or 1-million digits (1 MB), this algorithm would scale very well.
Would be so easy for the US government to turn community colleges into 4 year colleges and make them part of them part of the basic curriculum, should students want to continue their education for free, while allowing private universities to remain just like private primary schools. Our population shouldn't have to rely on the whims of billionaires while our government wastes billions on no-bid contracts, ridiculous military spending and domestic spying programs... I apologize for my rant =)
See here for performance benchmarks on dav1d (av1 e̶n̶c̶o̶d̶e̶r̶):

https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/dav1d#results

Edit: It’s false! This is just a decoder, not an encoder! I just learned it.

Here is the link for the performance benchmarks for SVT-AV1, the most popular encoder as I just learned:

https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/svt-av1
If they spent the extra money on secondary-market financial investment (like stocks or crypto), propping up asset prices, then that seems like it goes against the stimulus that the program wanted, which was to keep steady sales for otherwise reliable businesses.
Yeah the rolling deployments gotcha really stuck out to me. I think most PaaS will provide that by default anyways because who wants downtime during deploys?
Any chance whatsoever they’re going to actually reimburse doctors for their massive school loans, while forcing them (“no network restrictions”) to work for this insurance plan? Especially if it’s anything like Medicaid, and reimburses physicians and hospitals -below cost-.
How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
Who’s gonna stop them?
I’m confused here , so like if you’re in a folder with a file selected and hit the space bar , does pressing the arrow keys not preview the next file for you ?
To be fair USB sticks fill part of the removable media niche.
It's not exactly like the US tho. Basic insurance is mandatory for every resident, insurers can't refuse covererage (no preexisting conditions) and pricing of insurance is transparent (I don't think they can differentiate beyond a few variables).

Afaik pricing of medical procedures is defined by government (probably with insurers and practitioners).

It's high quality but fairly expensive (relative to GDP or salary vs other European countries)
The country is run by the rich, and this will only pass if its good for the rich. Lets hope its good for the rich and the not-rich alike.
Just reminder that if you know any abusers, report it to the DoJ.

These people who bought homes and shit with ppp are going to go to prison. I hope at least.
Where does 60% come from?

I used this calculator - https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes

It said if I (married) made $675,745/year in Manhattan I'd pay 39.59% of my income in taxes.
Telegram bot as a file back end for web apps
The Salvator Mundi definitely seems inferior. There's something very unnatural about the right hand. I can't get my hand in that position and I'm not disabled. The glass orb in the left hand doesn't seem to refract any light at all—I can't imagine as scientifically minded of a painter as Leonardo settling for this. And the eyes...it just has this derpy look

Matthew Landrus and other art historians argue it came from Leonardo's workshop and Leonardo may have contributed some of the brush strokes—I have no problem believing that. But I just don't see this as a Leonardo
Can you elaborate on the git/smb process a little more? I've been using ubuntu exclusively for a number of years but haven't worked git into my workflow as much as I'd like.
Well my original larger point is that the city we're all discussing here is not walkable at all. And you can't make up for that by saying, "Well I know it's a 1.5km walk through identical rowhomes to the nearest pub, but the fact that you can bike there instead makes it the future of urban living."

Almere looks to be a commuter suburb to Amsterdam, where no culture, events, or urban life of any significance takes place. The fact that it is bikable is nice, but there are plenty of suburbs with well designed bike infrastructure. And that in no way does bikability supplant a well design urban area with residential, commercial, park, & event spaces combined together to create a dynamic living environment.
And now recession seems to be here and they will probably get bailed out again.
As someone who doesn't have a dog in this fight, the Hunter Biden laptop story represents a far stronger embrace of journalistic ethics in the face of adversity than any of the stories that were actually awarded. For a publication to stand by a story while facing extreme financial repercussions and censorship is impressive.
Health care coverage with a deductible and copays is not at all similar to taxpayer funded healthcare such as that in the UK.
I haven't read the full text of the bill, but presumably not. The intent will be to disallow private coverage for any service that the government would provide, specifically because they would want to make sure that people with money couldn't avoid the public system.

That's how it ends up working in many places with government care
I'm so sorry to hear it. I will tell you that I likewise had a lot of final round rejections. The most soul-crushing rejection came after 9 interviews, a 10hr take home, and a 4hr on-site – and through all of it, every decision maker told me they were excited to start me.

Nope, rejection comes 2 weeks after the on-site with no explanations, and they refused to elaborate further.

The sole advice I can give is unfortunately to just keep going. Wish I had more. Best of luck.
Make a service that usurps eBay with crypto payments and an escrow service that signs the transaction after proof of KYc for scam sellers and a reserve fund to reimburse buyers for fraud, etc. I can think of so many better ways than the PayPal/eBay fund freezing Mafia
I've been to some customer hq/office sites in oil/chemical industries and experienced similar.

One place had indoor escalator that you weren't allowed to walk on and must always hold the handrail as well. When it was broken, you couldn't use it as stairs and instead had to take this terrifying (though likely very safe) elevator.

Another rule I liked was to not allow strangers on the boat when you're rowing across the river. What river? What boats? What year was this written?
When the 1969 expansion came out it too was rated 18. I was 16, went into Manchester and bought it. Felt like a rebel.

Then on the metro back with my child ticket (valid upto the age of 15) I got stopped. My friend didn’t even have a ticket and he got fined, but they let me off as I at least had a ticket.

Felt like such a rebel that day.
svt-av1 is pretty fast. Well, depending on crf/preset etc of course, but in general, the more cores you have, the easier it is to get realtime encoding with decent quality. You may want to try ab-av1 first, and then go and play with ffmpeg manually if the result does not satisfy your needs.

For other encoders that do not do parallel encoding that well there are things like av1an.
Balance billing was banned federally. https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/health_insurance/surprise_m...
The common refrain is very Yogi-Berra-like, "nobody lives there anymore, it's too crowded."

Few people on the right want to connect things like rising homelessness -> rising rents and property values in the same period -> an influx of high paying jobs. There aren't concrete policy proposals given to fix those things given the circumstances of the last decade, just finger-pointing at whatever particularly policy someone doesn't like. The amount of gymnastics done to blame anything other than "importing a bunch of high-earners and/or wealthy people has unintended consequences" is high. E.g., pointing to pre-Covid out-migration overall numbers while ignoring net in-migration within the US for earners over 100K/yr. (I haven't seen if this has changed post-Covid, it wouldn't suprise me if it has, but one would want to keep an eye on it over the next two years as policies around WFH shift, of course.)
Can you rephrase your question? What came of these investigations is that a lot of people read them and learned something, which is the primary goal of most journalists. Some organizations, like ProPublica, explicitly focus on "impact", but most do not, and I think impact is just one of many things the Pulitzer judges consider.
So how do you identify whether it is luck or not?

Quite a few people win in the casino.
> My taxes doubled last year because of the stupid housing bubble and so we had to raise rent as well. Gotta make a profit here for this investment to be worthwhile

Surely you see stuff like this is part of what is driving this very bubble?
Plus non-linear, with activation energies, sometimes piece wise continuous, etc…
I think it was. When I clicked earlier, it was only showing the journalism awards (or maybe my scroll just broke halfway down? Hard to tell).
The current preferred encoder is SVT-AV1 [1]. It has pretty good CPU/space tradeoffs, so you can pick how long you are willing to wait for a video to encode.

[1] https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1
As an actual living bastard, I endorse the name.

So. There.
Very curious what objective measures you’re referring to. The downfall of leftish media itself kind of suggests the opposite: mainstream left-leaners are rejecting their more extremist media wings. Meanwhile the right is galvanizing around their most extreme.

All of this is a bit conjecturey too, so I ask again, what’s the objective measure you’re speaking of?
Chiming in with 6 years of professional Erlang experience. I'm somewhat familiar with Elixir, having worked on some Elixir codebases for a few months.

> The notion that to learn a language you also need to learn a second one is not great. [...] It's just bizarre.

I disagree. I don't think it's bizarre. I expect to sometimes have to poke around in C code when writing Erlang or Python. It's also fairly common for C/C++ developers to look at the assembly output of some piece of code using https://godbolt.org/.

> Reading the code is NOT an answer.

Again, I disagree, and I think this perspective is harmful to career development. Knowing how things work on a deep(er) level is a superpower. When you're writing Elixir, do you never open up a .ex file in the standard library to see how something is implemented? Are you not at all interested in what powers things like Phoenix.PubSub?

> I don't know what a solution is, but perhaps a concerted effort to create a documentation and library ecosystem that never links back to Erlang would help.

I suspect that a library ecosystem that doesn't require Erlang would be a huge effort to implement and test, and would wind up pulling in all of the ideas from Erlang that you haven't learned/mastered yet. A better alternative would be to accept the fact that Elixir builds on top of Erlang, and understand that a deeper knowledge of Erlang is going to help you improve as an Elixir developer.

> And where there are critical systems that use an Erlang library, perhaps rebuilding it in Elixir is in order?

I'm definitely biased, but I would be much less trusting of an Elixir copy of a 'critical' Erlang library. Many of the selling points of Elixir that lead to very concise code (read: macros, 'using', and others) are things that make it difficult for me to develop a deep understanding of a library. It's cool to use DSLs like Ecto and Plug, but I have a much harder time understanding those libraries as a result. Erlang's unambiguous syntax and its basic text-substitution-based macro system are much easier for me to understand, and while it takes more effort to write APIs and code that are as concise as what's available in Elixir, I know that I can open up an Erlang file and trust that much less is hidden from me.
They showed a Data General nameplate at one point. The panels with blinky light bulbs and a button for "IPL" suggest IBM. Some of the PC boards they showed had 7400 series TTL, and others raw transistors in metal cans. Those might have been just stock footage.

There was another panel with somebody flipping what looked more like Digital Equipment Corp. switches. Normally, you would do that only when booting the machine: you would put in a program by setting switches for a few words in memory -- set, store, set, store,... -- and run that to read in and run a paper tape that itself had just enough code to read and run a boot sector from disk, and off you went.

The notion of buying expensive, read-only memory useful only when you boot was absurd. (You needed the paper tape reader anyway.)

Often there was a stick with notches for the switches. You would flip all the switches up and push the stick against them, pushing some down, and store, then rotate the stick and do it again. Cheap ROM. The program to read paper tape was very short.
dav1d is an av1 decoder
Ohps funny how the eyes skip entire words sometimes
I also don't think that it will exist, but not because it's technically infeasible. I just don't think it makes sense as a solution.

The complexity of a task depends on the complexity of the problem. That complexity has to live somewhere, and it doesn't matter whether it lives in a GUI or in code.

Just recently I overheard a conversation where some people were complaining about their Zapier integration. Someone had built a data flow for all these tasks, and it was an absolute mess and a maze to wander through. I found myself laughing because it's the same kind of complaint developers often make about code.

Bottom line is that if the UI is complex, the GUI that is used to build it will be complex.
Small business owners are a very powerful political force. If you are handing out checks to regular people (their employees) You basically have to give them something or they will wreck you.
One of the unsung heroes of go is how goroutines sit on top of channels + select. Blocking and waiting on one queue is easy, blocking and waiting on a set of queues waiting for any to get an element is a good deal trickier. Having that baked into the language and the default channel data-structures really does pay dividends over a library in a case like this.

You can kinda do this with futures but I suspect it'll be wildly inefficient. I really hope Java get's something to fill this niche. We already have a menagerie of Queue, BlockingQueue, and TransferQueue implementations. What's a few more?
I am not a modern react/angular/vue developer, but this is still new to me. Thanks!
I'm basing this off of apartments in NYC. I often see ~$600k co-cops with $800 monthly co op fees (of which half is maintenance half is taxes). That seems low to me compared with similarly priced homes elsewhere.
I feel like ZX has these features already. Rather than choosing to believe there is a meaningful unbridgeable hard fast line, I think it's beneficial to consider case-by-case what features & capabilities are important & what enables smooth, light operation.

Node still isnt `perl -pie` level easy & hybrid, but again I think it's altogether pretty slick & simple with zx today.

The interactive repl doesnt look like a shell but it has quite advanced editing, comes out ahead in many ways (value previews). There's no ability to generate new autocompletion capabilities in the built in repl, but one could potentially yse an IDE and LSP with a repl. The potential for non-monolithic shells is interesting, that a shell might be separated into editor, engine, & plugins.

There is pretty ok pipeline handling via streams, which finally have decent & well embraced standards. https://github.com/google/zx/blob/main/docs/pipelines.md

Formatting as final step Im not as familiar with but it sounds like one could easily map or swizzle their stream output pretty easily. Particularly with better ndjson I think the potential here is high.

Overall I think there are distinctions, characterizations between shell and other languages, but it's less inherent to me; we simply havent spent much effort identifying what it is that makes operating the command line easy, flexible, and have even less work trying to port those ideas & riff off them. Even an early simple thin standard library like zx achieving so much success at becoming putty or glue, alike a shell, so quickly, indicates to me that it's worth doubting our long held certainty that these things are absolutely apart & different.
Hint, smart money is buying puts on energy...
No individual climate event is a testable event. The claim is that multiple events will become more frequent over time. It is not empiricism to claim there will be more hot days then normal, and then say every hot day is driven by your hypothesis
Same here, that's 5 minutes saved in my day I guess.
Nope, just a dumb accident. I think Bloomberg redirected me right before I copied the URL from the address bar ...

Is there any way to easily fix the link?
Same issue in FF v56, which is old, but from which WF and PM share code. Please, keep a method for old browsers to pass Managed Challenge.
Because college students yolo-ing on Gamestop options isn't especially productive for society.

But, as I said, my bigger issue is the massive PPP fraud. And my issue with massive fraud on the scale of hundreds of billions of dollars is that the US is already deeply in debt.

And my issue with the nation being deeply in debt is that future generations will have to pay for the profligate spending of this one, which I find immoral.
How can you shame Cloudflare in this case? This is a very niche issue that non-technical people won't even care about. I don't even think people should be using Waterfox or Pale Moon -- it's the enormous power that Cloudflare holds that bothers me. And it's in their best interest (i.e. the interests of their owners) to do things like this.

"Corporations are too powerful" is a much more popular position than "Cloudflare shouldn't block certain browser," which means that adding your voice -- by donating, voting selectively, and/or calling officials -- is a better bet than trying to get people to care about this.
For clarity I’m not talking about the text of this opinion, but the larger argument that’s happening outside of it. I think you’re probably accurate about this decision and its consequences in the short term, but I thought you were missing why this could have a bigger effect in the long term.
That's actually not entirely clear to me. Which is another reason to avoid H265 altogether....

I mean, even if say Chrome started using the hardware decoders, do you think someone from the MPEG-LA would _refrain_ from suing Google since "they're just using the Windows API"? It's already not rare to have to pay both for the hardware _and_ the software in this world.
I miss the days of just one database sometimes…

Batching is the way to go, 100%. Remove the network as much as you possibly can.
I don't think anyone in this thread (at least anyone with experience of NL) is really in agreement with the parent article's point that Almere is particularly good. It's just an average-ish Dutch city.

But even average Dutch cities are much more walkable and bikeable than basically anywhere else.
It has a feature now where you can scan your signature and pop it into any document on demand. Super useful.
The part where they explained why the capitol police officers were escorting people into the building was perhaps the most vividly compelling.
[edit] Discarding the comment, because without the (now-flagged) context of the parent, it was unclear and open to misinterpretation.
> But I'm not that guy.

Yep, that was jerf :-P
What examples do you have of major award winning journalism from the Trump years that was proven to be based on lies? There’s certainly been a lack of consequence on some things (like the tax leaks, which are still part of ongoing court cases) but I can’t think of any major examples (beyond the Steele dossier) that meet your description. An absence of major consequence doesn’t disprove the validity of the journalism.
> In fact it's entirely possible for a significant increase in tax rates to make rental units a poor investment, causing housing prices to plummet and rents to drop.

How does this logic work? Building apartments becomes a bad investment. Then developers don't build apartments. And somehow constrained supply is supposed to result in lower prices?
Older people do pay more for healthcare insurance…
Go old school - get a landline and one of those analogue rotary dial phones. The most secure phone there is.
GME is still up 20x isn't it? Someone who invested in that meme stock won't have lost anything. I wouldn't mind those returns.
But what if you leave your kids at home? How would it know their phones? I wouldn’t give my kid the power of the thermostat, the pranks would be endless…
It certainly stimulated GameStop stock.

I think the criticism is that the stimulus worked too well and we’re suffering inflation and whatnot now.
This happens all the time. Deciding whether a raised rent price is justification for moving out is a complicated and personal process and yet it fuels all of the response to landlords that do this.

Also, 1-year leases are typical in the U.S. (at least Philly/NYC northeast U.S.), so from that contractual perspective, your rent can go up every year and that's totally legal.
I don't know of any healthcare system where what you're describing is the case outside of outliers like North Korea. Even in the UK with NHS, there's a whole system of private insurance and private hospitals too.
I've used this with FFmpeg with great success. Encoding time and video quality is comparable to other encoders, and file size almost always smaller.
VR took to HEVC from the get go just because they needed every savings in filesize that could be found. We were running HEVC videos on Android well before iPhones could do it. So it's beyond Apple devices too
There are things like Qt Designer and Glade for GTK; I don't see why that can't exist for the web. The layout system for most toolkits are less complex than HTML/CSS though, and since CSS isn't that difficult it's just a poor effort/benefit trade-off.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of "website building tools" that don't offer all features but more than enough for most normal non-programmers looking to create a site, and these go back a long time (e.g. Geocities).
> You ever been to a Canadian hospital?

As a Canadian: yes.

And the bill was $0 at the end of my father's heart bypass and valve replacement surgery. My friend's sister cancer treatment also had a bill of $0.

Finished filing my taxes last month, and my average rate (provincial+federal) for last year was 21%. Happy to pay.
All property taxes are paid from rents unless the landlord is operating at a loss.
Not just companies; megachurches, antivax orgs, even a Jan 6 rioter got a PPP loan. The most egregious examples are starting to be brought to justice: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-convicted-27-million-ppp-...
I think you're meandering a bit from the topic. Manhattan is not similar at all to Almere. Manhattan is filled with multi-use zoning and multiple modes of transportation options on every block, while still being highly walkable. It's also not a great biking city.

But while people ride bikes in both areas, it's a bit absurd for the article at hand to call Almere the "future of urban living".