skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I stopped watching video, with rare exceptions like dancing. No drama, no comedy, nothing. Main form of entertainment is listening to music, in bed, staring at the ceiling.

Because drama and comedy...so George Clooney is always playing George Clooney. Matt Damon is always playing Matt Damon. They're always acting naturally at a deeper level, and they have to have for celebrity reasons a semi-consistent persona in every role. Like Matthew McConaughey, also semi-consistent. I liked his rom-coms while I could still watch them. So in the end it's playing dress-up really. And it's lies.

The second problem is the 2 spatial dimensions, everything you see in 2D is lies. Everything. It's just too easy to distort. That's why I like Hacker News, the social network for essays, it's all just text. Could do it with audio alone.
Collapse is a natural mode in a power grid, even moreso than in a market. It takes active regulation to prevent frequent collapses, even with best intentions all around.

It is a Very Good Thing that magickal thinkers have no say in how power grids are run. They have too much say on markets.
This decomposition is not used much because it is not unique in any sense, it is not numerically stable, and it is fairly uninteresting: the matrix D can always be taken to consist of a diagonal of 1s of length rank(A) and the rest zeros. It is much more interesting once X and Y are constrained to something like unitary matrices (in which case we get SVD).

This “rank decomposition” is a bit interesting algebraically rather than numerically, since then the numerical stability problems disappear. Also, if we take all matrices to be over the integers (and require that “invertible” means the inverse is also an integer matrix), then the rank decomposition is a lot like the Smith normal form of a matrix.
I've never understood this argument. If the display had pure black (depending on the definition of pure black here), it would either be an ideal absorber or reflector across the EM spectrum. My phone is not a theoretically ideal mirror, and it also doesn't accidentally cryogenically freeze surfaces when it's face down and displaying a black screen.

Similarly, it cannot boil water or charge my house's solar batteries if I display an all #fff screen.

(If it could do these things, then I'd argue for clamping contrast in the display driver, not in untrusted CSS code!)

Even in the realm of thermodynamically plausible displays, if it is so bright it's burning stuff into your retina, then turn the brightness down before you permanently have an xkcd burnt on to your retina!

Also, I'm reasonably certain such a monitor would fail safety certifications, so maybe don't buy black / gray market hardware, then ruin it for the rest of us?
Why? People constantly complain about vendor's BSP packages. Not sure why it would be any different with hypothetical Pine64's one.
Autoreload can be added quite easily, like in this Lisp binding, which has an example where even single file autoreload works, both on desktop and mobile, simultaneously:

https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml

https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml/-/tree/master/examples/advanced-...
Haavard Nord, one of the Trolltech founders, has a startup named "Conclude".
Oh noooo. There is a huge difference in quality. Voice actors are severely underrated. They can make or break an audiobook.

We recently listened to How To Train Your Dragon instead of reading it to our kids ourselves specifically because it was narrated by David Tennant.
that elitism has to stop, people should design hyeroglyphs-free programming languages optimized for mathematical expressions and proofs should be written in it.
The lack of IDE support in regular mathML or PDF math is astonishing.
The NYAG release fails to mention - why did they had not have access to banking? Cause the $850m they had in a bank account was frozen.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitfinex-files-subpoena-...

Then, On May 10, 2019 "To alleviate the cash shortfall, BitFinex announced it would conduct a private offering for $1 billion for it's token Unus Sed Leo."

SBF, a crypto insider, has said these issues are the growing pains of a company not allowed to use the US banking system and suck with second and third tier banking solutions.
> from a SWE perspective on any kind of Agile/Scrum team I think the expectation is usually that you pick up another task if you finish early and there's still time during a sprint for example.

This is true, assuming that:

1. the whole team has approximately equal skill

2. the system is uniform and well-documented

3. the people actually give a shit about the product

If any of these assumptions are not met, then the expectation is naive.
I emailed dang about this once, though I didn't find the reply terribly illuminating:

> I think the original intention was probably to de-emphasize the top text a little, relative to the comments below, so it doesn't come across as so authoritative. But that's just a guess. I agree that it's low-contrast. I'm reluctant to mess with the existing design, but we'll think about it.
I only recently became aware that Qt is actively trying to pull away from open source[0].

I understand that people do things for reasons, but this situation looks pretty sad to me.

[0]: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...
I worked in this field (Disaster Recovery/Continuity Planning/Information Security) for 25 years, this is great work, wish I had that years ago!
I worked at Google and been on teams where OKRs are used very ineffectively. Since then, I've read one thing that really changed the way I think about "goals" and could alleviate the problem you mention here. It's called the product strategy stack:

https://review.firstround.com/set-non-goals-and-build-a-prod...

If you have time, listen to the podcast. This is really the most comprehensive treatment I have seen related to OKRs and goal setting. Basically, goals are the last thing you consider. What is often missing is the high levels of the stack clearly articulated such that the goals make sense and measure progress towards a strategic outcome:

"Our strategy is to increase revenue by 5%’ or ‘Increase retention by 10%.’ That’s not a strategy, that’s a goal. It’s great if you can achieve that goal, but only if it’s actually part of a larger strategy that the company is trying to advance,” Mehta says.

“I often see teams get into a mode where they’re just doing anything and everything to move the goal, without actually realizing they’re headed in the wrong direction from a strategic standpoint to create long-term value.” "
Readable link: https://archive.ph/Uv04x
You can use `git add -i` to pick files to add interactivelly
ZFS would probably take ages to merge unless there is a simple mapping of spl -> native Linux interfaces.
> "woke aspergers hater" was an oxymoron.

Ok, fine, but Twitter doesn't describe itself as "woke", so it doesn't seem like your comment was as rhetorically effective as you may have thought it was. Nowadays the term "woke" is almost exclusively used as an insult and not as a self-description; it actually has the feel of self-identifying the user of a term as having a particular sociopolitical leaning.
I wonder if he himself uses Firefox. That would be a nice irony.
The math used in ML papers is very diverse. There is too much to learn. It is easier if you pick a problem and learn the math for it. Find a group that is already working on that problem and ask them for best way to learn the math for it.
> "Oh, I'm just building another CRUD app",

Sometimes that's all there is to it. This is work - fulfillment is optional.

For this reason I try to engage in a measly paid, but interesting project from time to time.

I'm currently in one. I won't be buying that apartment I wanted any time soon, but I can say with confidence that I like my job.
You can easily use git status --ignored for those cases where you really want to see all the cruft you’ve accumulated. Or you can make an alias to mask status and add that flag, then use git status --ignored=no when you don’t want the behavior.
Elon is very exposed right now. He could move to Mars and all his ventures would continue to move forward. Under normal circumstances he could move on but he sees the horizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_American_Civil_War

If this war happens, he's toast. The north american operations being disrupted by war would devastate his wealth. He is very incentivized to prevent the war. His only true goal is trying to end the censorship and allow conversations to happen again.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. -Albert Einstein
I feel like godel incompleteness is a cheap trick that mislead to think there are statements in ZFC that can't be proven except that those proven statement are contrived useless meta-statements.
Not sure what price it used to be but here is a cheaper one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/403515305076 $388
Most teams I worked on did not standardize the team's OS or editor. The "canonical" build was a CI server and the development environment was available as a VM or container.
Your expectations are too low. We all remember google in it's heyday when it returned honest results, so we know what's possible.
You asked for layman's terms, not meant to be rude. ;-)
I'm going to add my N=1 anecdata if no one minds:

I've been running full Btrfs on my workstation since December 2021 with 0 issues (kernel 5.10). It survived multiple hard reboots and power offs, Ryzen 5000 CPUs seems to lose power every now and then on Linux (it's a known issue for years now that no one has figured out yet).

Having compression is great. compsize reports I've saved 33GB on my /home subvolume so far (https://github.com/kilobyte/compsize). I don't use snapshots, I just backup the whole thing.

Obviously this doesn't mean that in the future Btrfs won't eat my data, but so far it hasn't and I'm happy.
I work at AWS in the Professional Services department.
> If I, a tinkerer with a BS in computer science with a ~$15k computer can build this, then any motivated corporation or state can as well.

Huh.
Let's say you are on a ventilator and require electricity to continue to live. How much would you pay for that electricity?
Yes, iTunes still sells you AAC files. The comparison here is Spotify though, which is also not lossless.
QT Company (QTCOM.HE) has been an amazing investment. From 2016-NOW +1800% (TSLA +1600%).
I've started using lazygit and/or tig, these present a UI in the terminal and easily allow staging files. Lazygit also easily allows staging parts of a file; not quite sure about tig.
I only skimmed the video as I can't stand Tucker Carlson (sorry), but I think it's possibly an interesting point. As I pointed out in another comment, traffic deaths in the Netherlands decreased in 2020 and 2021, and many factors such as differences in road design stayed identical, and we had the COVID-factor too.

Policing in the US, however, did change quite a bit, which happened to coincide with COVID and it's a factor that didn't exist in the Netherlands.

Needs more data though: how are things in other countries? And how much did traffic enforcement decrease in the US? And how much of the traffic victims are from minorities? I'm not convinced this is a significant factor yet, but I think it's good to explore. Phrasings such as "question that liberals don't like" probably doesn't help make your point btw.
It is so, so hard to take anything this writer takes seriously when the color scheme of the article/Medium channel itself is so atrocious.
https://archive.ph/JEoWm
Most important is that you have to time the implosion, there's no obvious way to make a bet on Tether's eventual disaster without reference to when it happens.

So even if you consider it inevitable, backing that conviction with your own cash is a great way to get rekt.
Discussed previously

2016 (338 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12743628

2017: (107 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14813691

Related and current: "Please Stop Using Grey Text" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420938
Which leads right back to the "screw around until the clock strikes five" road, which leads to stress, boredom and resentment. Humans are not machines. 100% efficiency is a pointy-haired manager's pipe dream.
Did you write that, or did your 85 billion (approx.) neurons?

Corporations are intelligent, sentient entities which act on incentives. They don't have a conscious sense of self, but then neither do many natural organisms. That doesn't keep them from responding to their environment as if they're aware of it, and acting in incentive-driven ways.

Corporations seeking to maximise profits are exactly like humans attempting to maximise income. The problem is that corporations - like humans - have the wrong incentives, further diminished by limited predictive ability and poor heuristics.

So maladaptive behaviours emerge and stick. Both humans and corporations find a nice local minimum and don't move from it.

More intelligent behaviour would be able to predict and avoid existential threats without having to experience them first. But it's a question of predictive ability, not a binary absence of all intelligence.

So it's not that Google can't do better because it has too many employees. It can't do better because its cultural heuristics - which include it internal culture and the external culture it operates in - don't allow it to.
While obviously not universally true, this bothers me about a large swath of current UX culture and it’s pushing me towards other types of design. Anyone who’s heard a UX conference keynote in the past ten years would think UX folks go into work every day making unbiased data, using it to identify users’ genuine needs, and championing those needs at every stage of product development. Sure, the suits call the shots, but does our software landscape indicate anybody really does that?

Many product folks just don’t seem honest, even with themselves, about what benefits users. Do you really think your users benefit from ”more relevant” advertisements? Because your users don’t. Are new services and content so beneficial to users that they’d forfeit their privacy to fund it? If so, why obfuscate your having made that choice for them? Why not make it opt-in? Does that dialog box popping up just at the right time really give that overstimulated and frustrated user a choice? Either answer those kinds of questions honestly or admit that you’re just finding the smoothest path to maximize revenue. The hypocrisy is infuriating.

Give me a break.
"How the Web Became Unreadable" (2016)

So why are designers resorting to lighter and lighter text? When I asked designers why gray type has become so popular, many pointed me to the Typography Handbook, a reference guide to web design. The handbook warns against too much contrast. It recommends developers build using a very dark gray (#333) instead of pitch black (#000).

The theory espoused by designers is that black text on a white background can strain the eyes. Opting for a softer shade of black text, instead, makes a page more comfortable to read. Adam Schwartz, author of “The Magic of CSS,” reiterates the argument...

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/
Font too small on mobile, therefore unconvincing.
It's not and it's not a blog that is hostile to open source like it's being pawned as. It's just saying there is a cost/tradeoffs just like any other way of doing software. Some OSS advocates won't hear any of that. They just hear insults to their favorite project.
> In its recent subpoena application, Bitfinex claims that these losses were the result of theft or criminal mismanagement by Crypto Capital. Without signing a formal agreement, Bitfinex entrusted $880 million with Crypto Capital and since then has been unable to access it. In a bid to avoid disclosing these difficulties to its users, Bitfinex initiated the scheme to “borrow” money from Tether.

You think this makes them look less sleazy? Who gives someone nearly a billion dollars without a contract?
A bot that tweets California fires in real time based on CHP reports
Isn't that just Gaussian elimination?
Anybody know of any Kubernetes replacements in development? I would be happy to work on such a project.
Hey, Siri: Accent bias in speech recognition technology
That was introduced to me as the "platinum rule" and in such a way that stated that the "golden rule" was wrong. I'd say neither is wrong, and one is not better than the other. In fact, both are trying to help understand and communicate with each other effectively.
The normal use of a term is legally irrelevant. Section 230 applies equally to all online services, regardless of whether they are social media platforms or not. The law dates back to 1996 so obviously the point of the law wasn't specific to social media.

Again there is no distinction between "platform" and "publisher". Go read the actual law.
You could take Strang’s follow-up course on learning from data.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-065-matrix-methods-in-data-an...
Ha! This is the tech savvy version of that gif where a old man drags the "my computer" icon to the trash and then see the computer disappearing in front of his eyes.
Technical solutions are not going to fix a political problem.

Sundar has been quoted as saying “they are a business first” and a businesses political obligation is make profit for the owners.

These companies and technologies are meant to serve human beings, not a mathematical ideal in programmers heads.

While: $makeMoney == $howSocietyWorks; return $getUsedToIt

Ooh but politics is boring!

Only 13% of adults in the US have an advanced degree. Coddled engineers live in an emotional bubble ignoring the very real world that does not feel an obligation to a minority of coddled engineers.
Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Using CouchDB?
I am reading CouchDB document. It looks good, but what are the actual pros and cons of using CouchDB for web app? Anyone who is using it or has used it in production, please could you share your good and not so good experiences with it?
I really enjoyed your comment. Nevertheless, I have to ask: what is a person if not their ideas? Their actions?
In over twenty years as a programmer, I don't think I've witnessed a single rational decision being made based on the merits of an idea alone.
Proof is not required

it always depends on who is asking. this whole subthread is about who the GDPR applies to. in your other comment you lay that out very clearly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31397369

the relevant question is: when do i loose my status as a resident of the EU if i am an EU citizen. i'd like to make the claim that the intent of the GDPR is to protect the people who are inside the EU at the moment the data is collected.

even if i just leave for a week as a tourist, and then use some non-EU service, the GDPR no longer protects me. it is unclear if the GDPR still applies if i registered with that service from inside the EU and they know that i am the same person that's now accessing the service from outside the EU, but as you said, the easy thing to do is to just assume that the GDPR does apply until there is a clear benefit from being able to not apply it, and in that case the company needs to show evidence that i am not an EU resident. on the other hand if i sign up for a service outside and continue using that service after i return to the EU, protection should start from the moment i come back.

my point is that this is meant to be not the legal residence status, but simply your location at the time, unless you happen to be in the EU only for a short visit, in which case the GDPR is not going to be of much use (it might still apply though. can i visit the EU as a tourist and then issue a GDPR data request or deletion or whatever other benefit the GDPR offers, and then go back home after issuing the request?).

which is different from getting an EU domain. there it matters that you have the legal residence status regardless of your location. if you have a multi year residence visa, you won't loose your EU domain just because you spent most of that time traveling outside of the EU. you'll need to return your EU domain only after you permanently leave the EU. (which every british resident had to do)

I assume you can lie going to China

you can't lie, they want to see evidence that you are a resident or they won't let you board the plane. consider that the point is to control infection vectors and they want to avoid people transiting through high risk areas. so this is not to punish people but to prevent the virus from spreading and if in doubt, they won't let you in.
In the U.S. the cheapest Kobo is just under 100 USD: https://us.kobobooks.com/collections/ereaders. They go on sale somewhat regularly.
What's also useful is to set "commit.verbose" to true; then you get the diff in your editor when composing the commit message. This allows reviewing the diff and you can abort the commit if it's wrong.
I want to have the freedom to go to the grocery store without the risk of being run over by someone exercising their "freedom" to drive like a maniac.

Sorry, but I think my freedom of not being killed outweighs your freedom to get somewhere 2 minutes faster.
Makes 100k+ euro in Europe is not "being poor"

Despite the reductiveness of your argument there are things people value more than just buying a big house.

The quality of life you get In Europe is superior in my opinion to the one in America. The way cities are laid out and the pervasiveness of public transit allows for a better social life.

I could go on and on but if you're going to be on this forum and engage with others you should adjust your attitude.
From the video it seems as though the script writer (who doesn't speak any Japanese) wrote the script entirely using what he thinks the characters are saying and what he would 'want' them to say. The Wikipedia page for The Water Margin [0] adds that he also used brief plot synopses.

Still pretty baffling though. Does anyone happen to know how close they ended up getting to the original story/dialog?

Was it common to optimize for 'lip movement accuracy' over translation accuracy for dubs?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Margin_(1973_TV_seri...
I keep seeing this excuse but it doesn't explain why google doesn't downrank obvious bad actors that have been showing up at the top for years, or returning results that don't have the most important word in your search terms, or why they don't offer settings to permanently filter some sites. It's a problem with incentives, not SEO spam.
I have a subscription to Disney+ here in Thailand...

1. I could not download the right Disney+ app on my Android TV because my Google account is French

2. I could download the right app on my iPhone (after temporarily switching stores which is a PITA) so I bought a cable to stream from my iPhone to my TV but the app doesn’t allow me to

3. I bought a Raspberry Pi and installed Plex and al. I can now watch the Disney movies easily on my TV.

I have a subscription to Netflix…

1. I went off-internet for a week, so I synced a couple of movies to be available offline.

2. I started watching one on the first day and 48h hours later it expired…

3. Next time I will use my Plex setup!

I must be very dumb to keep paying for these two subscriptions!
They fscked up when they decided to omit the dot when multiplying. So now it's impossible to differentiate between "varname" and "var*name".
"isn't this illegal"

Only if you live in one of the few states that have strict wiretapping laws. Amazingly if you look at the states that have these "two party" consent laws, they are usually states with a history of lots of corrupt politicians and dirty politics. Funny, that.

There was a time when this was a lauded technique of investigative journalists. How sad is it that the practice has been infrequent for so long that the first inclination you have is to think it's illegal?
They are an extremely reliable source. Every article I have ever read about PV supposedly "selectively editing" never gives an example. But maybe I'm wrong about them, perhaps you can provide me with an example?