skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just about to write that exact same command from my flawless recollection of stitching examples together from that wiki! But you beat me to it.

Honestly, I'd love a podcast called "Quinecast" where each episode consists of hosts talking in detail about the ffmpeg flags that were used to create the podcast.
Don't think of price, think of return of investment (ROI).

The decision if I should buy a phone for $400 or $1000 should come after answering the question "Are the extra features for $600 worth something to me?" - for some people they'll be worth - e.g. having better quality photos of their family, or having better FPS on the high-end MMORPG. Others don't need that, they don't have a ROI on the extra $600, so should skip the more expensive one.

Now, going out with an old friend and spending $100 on a night out - it's a huge ROI for some, for others not, although I think the latter wouldn't have gone out at first place. The same is valid for holidays and any kind of experiences - people will have huge ROI and will go.

The one McD menu - that's where I personally will never find ROI, so can't speak about it. Even if I am starving, buying a loaf of bread, butter and some potatoes for less than $14 will give me much more ROI.
Maybe they do not. It's ironic that many people criticize the speed of python when it (or at least CPython) was originally made to run highly optimized C-linking code.

But I also take the Cython route when it's just one to a few functions that need optimization/parallelization... (Did you know you can instantly compile Cython in Jupyter to use with Python?). So I avoid writing anything else unless it's really necessary. (avoided* I haven't done that in a while)
This comment makes almost zero sense. What are you trying to say?
For me it’s simple. Woodworking is a problem that I can solve. I mean I am trying to meet market demand and producing a product that I know will be used. Now the part of planning, design, “procuring funding”, building the product and “selling” it is all a story end to end.
> Knowledge of a language or code quality is rarely the hard or important part.

That is true.

The problem is, that code in Python of questionable quality (but real utility) is now turned into production code; and it is done so by building Python stuff around it. So now the insignificant implementation detail which was the language choice is now driving the entire project.

Also, a PhD data scientist/mathematician can get hired for a big salary at a company (especially fintech), and their code will drive critical business decisions. A regular software engineer is mandated to build a structure around that code to make it production worthy. In my experience there is no traction to say, "Great, you've learned how to answer this tough question; now let's implement your solution in a real language."
Oh wow I literally know this guy. Jason Frawley. He's a big part of a very vocal group of rural, deep red state WISP operators who think they're god's own gift to network engineering, and mostly worship at the altar of one specific political figure. Watching their antics has been an endless source of amusement.

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen Jason and his cohort shoot themselves in the foot with some ill-advised network architecture, rf engineering or network engineering design choice...

That he's out there interfering with licensed bands and emergency services is totally unsurprising. That's only the tip of an iceberg of weirdness.

There are very, very few FCC enforcement bureau staff members in WA, ID, OR. You have to do something really egregious to get on their radar screen. Every time the FCC fines someone $10k+ it goes in their public daily digest emails as a "notice of apparent liability" and is quite a rare event in the Pacific Northwest. It is not at all as if the FCC has vans full of guys with spectrum analyzers and such driving around the area trying to hunt down and fine people for petty reasons. To get fined by them you really have to go far outside the accepted norms for two way radio or wisp operations in the area.

He has network equipment and repeaters at the mentioned elk butte site and probably thought he was doing something to protect his gear.

His FCC licensed part 101 fdd band plan ptp microwave links are all part of the public record as part of the FCC ULS public data for the curious.
> a trial service of self-driving taxis in the busy Seoul neighborhood of Gangnam

I can imagine the parody videos already.

> The technology allows the taxis to move independently in real-life traffic without the need for human control, although a safety driver will remain in the car.

Perhaps that the real joke: These driverless cars still have a human in the driver's seat. I guess it might take a year or two before the regulators feel they have enough data to allow journeys without a safety driver.
Material adverse effects have to be rather large; for instance, the company is actually worth 50% less than it was represented as. Even if the bot count is significantly higher (say, 20%) that wouldn't have an easily provable massive effect on revenue. Twitter still makes what it makes, and it still would be roughly the same in terms of profitability.

Keep in mind that the onus is on Elon to prove to a court that the higher bot count has a large, material impact (on the order of 50% of Twitter's revenue). It's not something that is a matter of opinion, but rather based on his ability to argue his position to the court, for which he needs strong evidence.
My Twitter feed has the occasional ad. Fairly unobtrusive, but they are indeed there.
“Hamlet” by T. S. Eliot (1919)
Not it isn't.
It's not about storage but about analysing the data.
It's text so it could easily be compressed to smaller size but this doesn't help in knowing anything about the tweet author, if he is a bit or not.

That's like saying it's easy to check if a picture shows a bird because it's only 100kB.
>handful of companies (like Boing and Airbus)

Why yes everyone should consolidate global production of _nuclear power plants_ to a handful of companies probably based in the Western world.
So, why not do a larger set of comparisons?

See http://www.olegkikin.com/png_optimizers/

And then maybe also compare with some websites, such as done at https://www.marketpath.com/blog/a-tactical-comparison-of-sev...
You are missing point - the dark pattern is that medium told the user in exchange for creating an account, they could read the rest of the store. They created an account and then were told they could not read the rest of the story. The sign up flow lied to them. It's the equivalent of an e-commerce site saying "Sign up to get 50% off any order" and then when you signed up there is no discount on your order.
> Obviously you're more likely to already have a D6 somewhere, but then you're even more likely to own a coin

I'm not sure this is still true. At least not here in Sweden. Everyone I know owns multiple board games which come with at least one D6 and in recent years I've had discussions with friends and family about us paying everything electronically nowadays. There has even been talk about the risk to our society of no one having cash anymore.

In fact, some weeks ago I needed a coin to show my kids when they asked about this physical money they'd heard of and I couldn't find one.
The same thing can pretty much be said about any hobby. I know several people that do handmade clothing with both sewing or knitting. The knitters buying the really nice yarn will spend more in the yarn than a finished item from the store.

Aside from the pleasure of just doing something on your own, what you will probably have is something unique. People making electronic projects will probably adding features not available retail, or clothing in patterns and stitch design their own, etc.

Lots of way to value something other than $
As with many financial market things, Matt Levine’s summaries are great on this. Twitter has been reporting these numbers for many, many years now. The public market has accepted them for many, many years. Elon has been complaining about the bots for maybe as long.

So nothing has changed between Musk making the binding offer and today with regards to bots. He has not suddenly been surprised about some discovery. This is not something that materially changes what he thought Twitter was worth. It’s just another game to distract people.
You can observe these behaviours in the wild, and especially among corvids alike. Sure it’s less convenient than using animals in your own enclosure, and perhaps less alluding as they’re not “your” animals. But I reckon for anyone, besides yourself and your friend, involved it would be beneficial if you’d conduct experiments like these through observation of wild behaviour instead.

Also have you looked at the literature? Surely these experiments have been conducted several times already by many students in all kinds of flavours.
i mean if you have trouble not staying in a budget, I suppose that helps, just seems weird to tout that as a great way, if you are overall spending more money...
What you're doing is considering opportunity costs, which is quite a good thing to do.
Makes no sense. Microsoft stock and houses are very different. I can run an illegal alligator fighting ring in one and not the other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_nuclear_scandal
I've been looking for an easy-to-use video editor for some time.

I've used all the big ones, hit film and davinci resolve, but they're a bit too complicated for my tastes. Thanks for sharing. Excited to use this!
This kind of simplified thinking causes so many issues. Like people avoiding fluoride toothpaste because fluoride bad. Or people not getting important vaccines because they contain minuscule amounts of something harmful.

Or the alarm fatigue that cause people to just stop paying attention at all, like with "known to the State of California to cause cancer".

We have to know how harmful something is to know whether to bother fixing it.
RIP crypto when this works.
I'm sure that if someone were to gift you one Bitcoin you would not refuse it on the basis that it's just an ID number pointing to pretend money with zero intrinsic value, would you?
UK healthcare staff call in sick to avoid using car as cost of fuel soars
I've got it! We could use files with one function that spans 5000 lines.
I don't think it will stop unless 1) It's illegal. 2) It's ineffective 3) It's not economical for the company. To stop the trend you have to achieve one of the three.

Similar to algorithms itself, interviewing is essentially searching for people that the company wants.

How a company interviews candidates define its effectiveness (hire the right person, less false positives, less false negatives) and cost (how much does the company spend on the interview process per hire).

Interviewing with LeetCode is acceptable effective: candidates.filter(leetCode) gives you a much smaller set of people good at algorithm brain teasers, and this set of people have acceptable approximation with the set of ideal candidates.

In other word, it's a lazy but effective enough. The majority of companies will only switch to alternatives when the cost is lower, or substantially more effective. It's broken from the candidates perspective, but not the companies'. Most companies will stick to "if it ain't broke don't fix it" unless we offer them 10x solutions - which is yet to be seen.

But I can also see it the other way around, we can undermine the effectiveness or cost for all companies: if we can develop better courses and bootcamps, letting more people hack LeetCode problems quickly. And then companies will naturally go for harder problems. In the end, the problems will be ridiculously hard that the companies can only filter people who memorizes LeetCode, and those set of people have virtually no correlation of good hires (good problem solving skills). And of course, it's also a profitable business to teach people this.
The concept of "intellectual property", which is a blanket term to include trade marks, copyright, patents, trade secrets and more is unhelpful because this covers multiple parts of the law, which were developed independently with different goals.

While there is a lot of good in there, (not much complaint about trademarks), some mixed (copyright is good, 95 years is excessive), some bad (software patents) it's very mixed, and so lumping it all together as "intellectual property" is unhelpful. If for no other reason than it is too broad a topic that is too easily distracted to get anything resolved.
After reading the article I still don't know what the Quantum computer DID exactly. What did it compute? What question asked and answered?

All I got was "benchmark". But my benchmark of "smashing monitors with a hammer" says my hands beat any quantum computer so I am disinclined to believe the usefulness of a benchmark.

Quantum computing news seems on par with fusion. The actual field may indeed progressing but nothing useful yet.
> The biggest problem I see with cryptocurrency is the transaction rate problem. (...) How long is the world supposed to wait for reasonable transaction rates on this technology?

The technology to do so already exists / is currently being developed via:

- Optimistic rollups (Arbitrum, Optimism)

- 0-knowledge rollups (zkSync 2.0 (in public testing), Loopring, Immutable X)

- sidechains (Polygon PoS, Fantom)

https://ethtps.info/
https://l2fees.info/

At worst, you'll only need to wait for a year or two to get sub-$0.10 transaction fees on the ETH rollups, as user adoption picks up. For me, I've been an active user of Polygon PoS & my transaction fees are often below $0.01, with the most being $0.05.

There're also scalability improvements that're currently in the works, such as EIP-4844 (Proto-Danksharding, partially named after one of the core contributors to the ETH protocol). It should be noted that this is placed in the backburner, as the move to PoS is more important.

https://www.eip4844.com/

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844
IIRC development hell. I think they had to scrap basically the whole movie and start over at one point.
‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands to despair
Hey awesome to hear others are using my Nesper! Nice to read through your repo and see what style of Nim coding you used (low level C-like constructs vs higher level Pythonic ones). Feel free to post PR's, I try to merge them once a month.
It can when you use LTO, but that tends to be very slow for large programs.
Not too sure about that one. If a firm deliberately misrepresents anything to a potential buyer/investor we would rightly call that as fraud.
It is interesting, but should be taken with a couple pretty big grains of salt IMO. It does a good job of discussing the many varied sources of cost and income. But the secret unsourced data of unnamed movies that is “trust me” better than what’s on Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo… really big red flag. I absolutely do not buy that the average profit is 3.7%. I worked on one of the movies he discusses (Shrek 2) and the paragraph about it is misleading, which for me makes me wonder how many other paragraphs are misleading. I also worked for a 2nd major film company and watched first-hand how they account for production budgets, which can involve trading costs with other nearby productions to make the expenses appear larger in order to do things like justify restructuring decisions, hide gains and losses, divert money toward or away from bonus pools. What really happens is impossible to know even as an insider, but the outcomes of this industry reveal that despite what they claim, it’s quite healthy for the big-budget crowd.
I'd definitely read a series about control theory. The first time round was very badly presented at my university. A lot of math, motivation hidden.

Stuff like Nyquist criterion just sort of appears out of nowhere as functions.

I guess the big one is feedback being the magic, and then the complex plane tells you where that blows up.
What's the problem with talking about yourself? You can just memorize a few sentences since the questions are always the same.
Rates are usually only good when comparing apples with apples. So if you know you'll use the computer for N days, and the alternative is roughly for the same N, then comparing rates and comparing absolute numbers is an identical analysis.

But if you're comparing using a computer for 5 years vs eating cheeseburgers over 10 years, using rates become more challenging, and is prone to faulty analyses.

My point, though, is that cost per use is not usually a helpful metric.
They certainly were not good enough at Fukushima, in a half-dozen particulars.

The next pile of reactors down the coast did not melt down, solely on the strength of a single engineer who succeeded, with enormous difficulty, in upholding standards management objected to, but that he knew were essential. Without him, there would now be two major uninhabitable areas there. He must have known Fukushima would melt down, and must have wanted it held to the same standard as his, but lacked authority to extend his standard so far.
This seems like a StackOverflow question...
Plastic fire promoters around your house? Who wants that?
That’s an important distinction here. He’s getting roasted not just because he interfered, but because he interfered even though he knew very well he was not supposed to.
Cheeseburger all day every day... but then I need to think about the quality of life degradation that 100 additional cheeseburgers would bring... sigh The rabbit hole never ends.
I'm a prolific follower and follow several thousand accounts making it my primary source for getting a heads-up on what people all over the place in those fields that interest me are thinking and doing (IT, politics, gaming, art, business, etc).

That said, I really miss the good old days before 'social media' when there used to be actual forums and blogs and IRC channels for everything under the sun. Thank heavens we still have HN.
My third language was C, after Pascal and Modula 2. And I've built a good bit of production C long ago. (And beside the point, it was not difficult...? Memory management and pointer math is not rocket science. But I digress.)

It seems like the people promoting Python for its ability to interact with C (to outsource time/memory constrained functions) are no familiar with the other uses of Python -- namely to build large systems in object oriented fashions.

A 10 or 100 or even 1000 line "script" in Python is just fine. Read it like a story, let it do the one job it needs to do, and go home.

But scale up to 10000 or 100000 lines, and you will certainly be forced to go OOP. After all, most Python modules use OO classes in cases where a module of functions would suffice... Now you are in the realm where Python is comparatively very poorly suited for the job.

It's a frog-in-the-pot boiling situation. It started out innocently enough with the frog choosing the nicest small body of water nearby, but now the frog is in pain and dying and unable to understand how they got into that situation.
It's really hard to say without the the factual evidence and everyone in this thread is speculating.A thousand Acre fire isn't that big, less than two square miles. If he was in the proximity, tracking him down might have looking over their shoulder at the radio tower Tower and telling him to knock it off.

The obvious questions are how disruptive was he and what were his intentions. This information is not present.

8 transmissions over two days could be annoying or nothing. Big difference if he's informing them where a trapped family is or is bullshiting wasting airtime
Indeed. Similar things have occurred in universities here in Australia. And as far as I know, universities bend over backwards because a large amount of their money comes in from international students. A lot of which happen to be Chinese.
One can do optimal regalloc over SSA if one doesn't have to spill, or split to make the spilling better, but spilling and splitting are the most interesting and relevant part of practical register allocation -- so in practice this isn't quite true.
I'd optimize for whatever will make you not dread going into work every Monday.

I've tried to optimize for money at various points in my career (admittedly not FAANG money which may be enough to make a difference, though I'm skeptical of that), but inevitably I'm starting to look for an exit after 6 months.

A high level of autonomy and ownership is what I've discovered I need in my work (something I've so far only really been able to find at small 5-15 person start ups), which is easily worth $20-30k for me.

Agree with the other comments that 300 employees is more "Mid-sized" with potentially a lot of process and overhead though, so may not be as free as they are making it sound (though still maybe be a better environment to work at than being squeezed at Amazon).
I think it's a fair script to use against arguments of the form "cryptocurrencies will never amount to anything".

I would hazard to say that it's not the criticism of the current state of cryptocurrency that irks most of its proponents - most of them agree that it's not very useful currently.

However, it becomes problematic when you take that valid criticism of the technology's current state and use it to support the conclusion that the entire tech is a permanent dead end. That problematic reasoning is what this article's really speaking out against.

If you want your mind changed that cryptocurrency is currently useful, I can't help you there. But if you want your mind changed that many of the drawbacks of blockchain technology are not as insurmountable as detractors would have you believe, the article does a good job of laying out points in favor of that.
The difference I think is that the lock on your front door is on your front door. Whereas I think even if there's no other copyright violation, it's still illegal to break DRM.

Picking the lock involves trespassing your property. Breaking the DRM is illegal regardless of if it's trespassing on anyone's property.
I.e., spending the NPP money on PV instead would displace 5 times the CO2 emission.
Given enough digging around in the python runtime system I'm sure you can find the current stack trace and shove that in an error class.

But now it's a lesser error than an exception. Any exception while processing your error will cause the stack to unwind and drop the error variable with the stack trace inside of it.

Now if you raise an exception while in the handling of an exception, python will keep around both stack traces.
I've used it for editing 4k on linux somewhat recently (1 year +) and it was ok, the fact that it wouldn't GPU render was a real bummer but maybe that's fixed by now. Exporting a couple minutes of video could take an hour on an i7.

As an amateur I loved their interface because it was really easy to figure out.
Quantum-computing-resistant cryptography exists.
My signals processing professor apparently knew one joke, and one joke only.

"A LOT (Polish airline) airplane is about to land in New York City; as they align for final approach, the first officer notifies the passengers that those seated on the right can now see the Statue of Liberty. A number of passengers get up from their seats left of the aisle and lean over the people seated on the right to get a glimpse of the statue. Plane promptly crashes.

Why? There were too many Poles in the right half of the plane.

I'll lead myself out.
hosts my own git instance
>> Remember, the entire purpose of both of these is to benefit society and the country as a whole - to promote innovation

This is inaccurate. Patents are designed to promote innovation.

Copyrights are designed to promote creativity, not innovation. My novel is not innovative, it is creative. Copyrights allow me to monetize my creations if I choose to do so.

Patents are designed for people to monetize invention.

Conflating the two is both common, and unhelpful, as they both need different reforms in different aspects.