skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title appears to be heavily editorialised. Perhaps for an American audience? The term “unconstitutional” doesn’t really make sense in the EU context - you can either refer to one of the member state constitutions (TFA contains a passing reference to your German constitution), but they are quite different from each other and so you would want to specify; or it can not against the treaties that set up the Union, but no one calls this “unconstitutional”.

The American constitution, of course, does not bind the EU in any way.
PS5: The Last of Us Part I
"...but I don't share the government's concerns about things like laundering."

I get that you, personally, aren't concerned about money laundering... But can you at least understand, in principle, why governments are concerned about money laundering?
"If the average length of a tweet (minus headers) is ~100 bytes of text, that’s only 50GB. You could fit it on a USB stick." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1534939289653592065

Having worked with the Twitter API, I think he's rather underestimating how much volume this is gonna wind up being, the amount of processing it'll entail, and the difficulties of determining "this is a bot" from just the Tweet data.
Behind a paywall so I can't see
It will the first couple of times, after that it just becomes a video!
I've yet to see _anything_ valuable come out of crypto.

Nothing but scams and rich pricks scamming dumb retail investors. What a shame, I really through it would change the world. Show me one thing positive crypto has done, please.
Nothing but, huh? Interesting.
They get 80% of their electricity from nuclear. And even export some.
This may be semi-skewed by the exchange rate power of the dollar
Was it like $1B for him to back out - I can't recall. But in any case, that's a way better deal to walk away than sink $40B into something worth $20B.

Maybe this whole thing was a way to show everyone it was worthless and now he's going to spend $1B on getting out of the deal and another $1B in starting a Twitter clone.
If you want it 98% of the time, try it in a pressure cooker. Egg setting to five minutes instead of three. Bam! You got yourself some hardboiled eggs for your sandwiches, for your toast, for your whatever.

Come to think of it, the pressure cooker is perhaps the new air fryer in the sense that it's really handy to have and people who own one cannot shut up about it. Can you blame them after these perfect eggs?
> Also (surprise) shell Linux knowledge almost doesn't scale to the debugging GPU drivers, DE and X server issues.

You will be surprised on how much Wayland solved those issues. At least, in my experience, understanding why Sway crashed is a debug flag away. Unfortunately, Wayland is a double edge sword, even more if you want to run games with multiple monitors (but that is a pain even on Windows in my experience).
s/So/& commercial/

There are noncommercial models for broadcast media, and the fact that some countries ended up with the vast wasteland[1] that is commercially-supported broadcast television and radio isn't an inevitability. It was made to happen, by commercial interests. It could well have been different in the US, and still is in numerous other regions.

See Robert W. McChesney's Telecommunications, mass media and democracy : the battle for control of U.S. broadcasting, 1928-35 (1995)

https://www.worldcat.org/title/telecommunications-mass-media...

https://archive.org/details/telecommunicatio00mcch

https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=05E6FC47CE851CB143F1DD4...

________________________________

Notes:

1. FCC Commissioner Newton Minnow, 1961

https://vimeo.com/55481067

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-06/newton-min...
Global 10m resolution near realtime land cover dataset for 9 land types
Unpenetrably paywalled?
If the Supreme Court upholds the Jarkesy v. SEC ruling, would that completely void the SEC's ability to do anything about these kinds of scams?
Here you go

# You have a music player that should be playing a 900 song list randomly.
# You notice that you keep hearing a song being repeated during your drive and
# you are curious if its truly random.

from collections import Counter
import random

r = random.Random()
songs = range(1,900)
unplayed = set(songs)

# You also keep hitting skip in the hopes a particular song comes up.
# Write a piece of code that simulates this. You should tell me three things;
# 1) the number of songs played before a repeat occurs
# 2) how many songs needed to be played before you played them all
# 3) after you succeed in playing them all, how many times has the most common song been played.

counter = Counter()
firstrepeat = None
totalplays = 0

while unplayed:
song = r.choice(songs)
unplayed -= set([song])
if firstrepeat is None and song in counter:
firstrepeat = len(counter)
counter[song] += 1
totalplays += 1

print(f"""
Number of songs played before a repeat: {firstrepeat}
Total number songs played: {totalplays}
Most common song: {counter.most_common()[0][0]}
How many times has the most common song was played: {counter.most_common()[0][1]}
""")

Sample run

$ python3 foo.py

Number of songs played before a repeat: 50
Total number songs played: 7263
Most common song: 375
How many times has the most common song was played: 17
Not DARPA, In-Q-Tel which is a non-profit venture capital group guided by CIA. They directly funded Google, after it was spun out from Stanford.

"In-Q-Tel scouts the global market for commercially focused technologies with the potential to contribute to national security." - Source: iqt.org
You're right,

Although I didn't mean it as an attack it def. didn't add to the discussion, so I'll be more careful onwards.
This last statement is what concerns me a great deal about the MAGA / Q movement. Absolute belief and almost deification of a movement/individual that will replace thought and reason.
> “As far as we know, the only thing that definitely stops Bluetooth beacons is turning off your phone,” Bhaskar said.

At least for recent Apple devices, that's not true anymore (intentionally, as it is used to support "Find my iPhone" even with a dead battery or on a phone that's been switched off):

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06114
> Don’t read too much into blog posts.

"Trust me, not other people" says random person on the internet, providing no evidence to support their claim.

> Having done LeetCode, I’m not even sure how a senior could justify spending 2 months doing all of the problems full-time.

So not only are they lying, but if they aren't lying they are incompetent. Got it.
Texas went for Trump over Biden by a margin of about 630,000 votes in a state with a population of close to 30 million. That's a really tight margin for New York and California to decide to cut the whole state loose.

Another factoid: Biden got 5,244,886 votes in New York and 5,259,126 votes in Texas. In other words, more people voted for Biden in Texas than in New York.
You (and anyone for that matter) can pass them with extensive preparation. If your day to day job is writing CRUD stuff and APIs without any recent actively memorized computer science concepts, you are not going to pass. The technical recruiter will spot you out easily and probably steer towards terminating the call early because you're wasting his time
> Give me a PM (or good engineer) that understands the bigger picture every time.

I was referring to this sentence: you're now telling us that the ideal good engineer understands the developer's point of view but doesn't agree with it. It sounds like you just want to be surrounded by yes men to me. The perfect recipe for a failed startup.
You are being scammed.
You can say the same about assembly language. Yet it is used only by a very narrow audience.
OP for the thread:

> I was told about this problem and the person telling it didn't say anything about that, just that you pick a door and the host opens another one which doesn't have a prize behind it. So I thought the probabilities don't change at all because the host just picked a random door. [emphasis mine]

It doesn't matter if it was at random or deliberate. It matters that a non-prize (goat in most versions) is revealed. The question is about one very specific scenario, even in what antris was originally given: The goat is revealed. In that scenario, you switch.

The OP misunderstood the problem because they forgot (as many others have in this discussion) that it's about one scenario, not about all times. If Monty selects a door at random and reveals the prize, then it's not this same scenario anymore so the odds of that situation are necessarily different over all scenarios. And if we include all possible scenarios (really, two) then the odds of winning drop, but only because you have a 100% chance of losing when he reveals the prize (or 100% chance of winning and the odds increase).

This is the fundamental misunderstanding in many of the comments. If I tell you, "We select, each day, either a prize or a tiger to put behind this door at random. Today it's the tiger. Do you open it?" You'd be a fool to open it. And over all scenarios you'd have a (if chosen uniformly) 50/50 chance of getting the prize or the tiger. But if today I tell you, "It's the prize" should you open it? There's a 100% chance it's the prize, I've told you it's the prize.

Now we can get into adversarial situations, whether I'm honest or not. But that's diving into something entirely different and makes it impossible to consider the problem statement because we'll be chasing nonsense after a few minutes. I've just told you, 100% chance it's the prize today. You should open it.

The Monty Hall problem is the same. It is one scenario, a goat is revealed. The reason or mechanism of that reveal is irrelevant. He could know it, he could not know it. He could have revealed the goat by dumb luck. Or maybe because it started kicking at the door and was too obvious not to reveal. But today, for this game show he revealed a goat. So your odds are better if you switch. And even antris' original statement presented that scenario, they just answered a different question.
Sadly, people have blind spots. I personally know someone who just like 40-50k, someone who was THE biggest advocate of Terra/Luna. Post crash? Reinvesting in Luna2.0
Did you, like, read my second sentence at all?

Whether you realize it or not, you're advocating for keeping people who aren't already mid-to-upper-middle-class (among others) out of these kinds of tech companies. Anything that's designed to make you work hard extra, outside of work to learn separate skills just to pass interviews is guaranteed to make it disproportionately harder for people who are, for whatever reason, unable in practice to devote many hours of their free time to fairly complex technical studying.

No matter how "disciplined" they are, people already working 80 hours/week just to put food on the table don't have the luxury to be doing that. No matter how "smart and/or determined to succeed" they are, people raising 2 kids by themselves would be irresponsible to be doing that.

Now, maybe you think that kind of person should be denied an opportunity to join the super-1337 hackaz' club that is FAANG or whatever. Personally, I think that kind of classist gatekeeping is disgusting.
It stops their competitors from hiring them and it means they won't start new adtech companies.
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but what does "unconstitutional" mean?

If it means "violates United States of America's constitution", why would European law makers care?
DeepMind has a thing called synthetic gradients: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/decoupled-neural-interfaces-us....
Perhaps they're not required, but they can help during high-stakes competition between nations.
I continue to question why email clients with calendar, contacts, and tasks functionality don't have local sync integrated with Android or iPhone. Having said that, outside those "basic" integrated functions, my top 3 requirements to switch from Outlook are:

- Full encryption integrated into the client for all data (e.g., I don't want Windows Search able to index the mail so someone has access when the client is closed/unencrypted; I also remember testing Thunderbird years ago and was able to go into the individual unencrypted .eml files [I think that's what they were] and read the messages without having Thunderbird opened)

- Full local sync with Android/iPhone (i.e., home WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB cable); it still amazes me that Thunderbird still doesn't have this built-in

- Xobni-like functionality (e.g., showing all emails and attachments to/from sender when clicking on an email, keyword searches); yes, I know the plugin is still available but it doesn't work properly with current Outlook versions
At the end of the day, they are independent contractors - and the PGA is trying to enfornce that they aren't
GNU utils are incredibly primitive and their text-driven APIs are fragile and cause tons of issues in shell scripting.

I love Emacs, but it's a slow, crufty mess.

Vim is a huge pile of code with a lot of complexity in its codebase and hilariously bad design decisions like VimScript.

Apache is a mess from a security perspective (1.7k listed CVEs[1]), and still slower than Nginx.

Want to guess at the amount of lost productivity due to Apache vulnerabilities?

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-45/A...
Sure, here is an example of a productive exchange:

Bot: Hello, I am a chat bot to talk with about problems. What can I talk with you about?

You: Well I have a bit of a problem with having trouble getting myself to exercise

Bot: And so it seems like there's a way to find out what the right opportunities for you are.

You: well I enjoy rowing on my machine

Bot: It sounds like a challenge to me, isn't it? Is there something in you says, I don't want to something unless it's really right?

You: Sure, but I enjoy rowing on the machine, it's just hard to set up a consistent time for those things

Bot: You said you want to to deal with this problem and get rid of it.

You: I am not sure how to set up a system so that I will exercise

Bot: And again, tell me some times where you felt like you were doing the right thing. What were some other times where you had
those kind of feelings?

You: Well, I had that feeling when I was out running

Bot: You're saying too that you know perfectly well the feeling within yourself that occurs when you are really doing something
that's right for you.

You: Yes, so you are saying maybe I need to vary my exercise routine to some degree?

Bot: And that's something of interest to you?

You: Maybe, I could try it. Maybe I could do an hour of a different exercise on some days

Bot: That's true. That's very true.

You: Okay, so that's what I will try. Do you think there might be something else I can do to make myself more consistent?

Bot: Is it fair to say that you feel, really, that at times you're acting in ways that are not in accord with your own inner
standards?

You: well yes

Bot: And you want to learn new things. Is that fair to say?

You: Yes I do want to learn new things

Bot: What might you say?

You: I might say that I could learn some strategies to be more consistent about my exercise, or try something new and see what
works for me

Bot: What are you doing about that?

You: I could set up an exercise log in a paper book

Bot: All right. So you mentioned feeling guilty about making a choice. How do you feel about that right now?

You: Maybe a little better about it because I know there is something I can try to improve my exercise routine or improve my
consistency

Bot: The point is, you haven't forgotten.

You: Right, I am motivated now

Bot: It sounds like a tough assignment.

You: Yes, but I am up for it

Bot: One thing I might ask, what is it you wish I would say to you?

You: I guess you could say you think I can make it work

Bot: Well, yeah. It sounds like one of the hard things is that you really value the time late at night.

You: Yes, maybe I could shift more to the morning

Bot: Is that the main idea?

You: Well maybe ultimately it is because if I got up early I could make the time to exercise with more consistency

Bot: You mean you want to get over this for yourself?

You: Yes, it is my responsibility

Bot: That sounds right.
Even in an extreme political separation, the integration and infrastructure of the Union is a utility for the vast majority of Americans. Californian's may want to secede, but they'll probably want to keep the Dollar and maintain a unified navy with the rest of the US. Few would be interested in the friction of having to go through customs within the US either. While we're at it.. centralized infrastructure projects are pretty useful - does anyone want 50 different highway systems?
I was never a linux user but I decided to install this OS on an old pc. From a devs perspective I like how this OS behaves like a git repo but the immutability aspect of it makes it much less practical to use especially when tools rely on root level directories like ~/home or ~/usr

Take this with a grain of salt, my guess is that experienced linux users will have a significantly better experience than me.
Ethically dubious, sure. But legally?
That's disruption theory at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
> emacs, ... don't put artificial corporate constraints

The historical record disagrees. See for example RMS squashing better clang+emacs integration: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg01...
Crypto-coin stuff seems to cause one-dimensional good-vs-bad discussions. Nothing to learn from.
I get it, but why spend resources "punishing" a feeble attempt which was immediately turned away? Maybe take their names down and audit the voter logs to make sure those folks haven't actually voted two times, but honestly it's just a waste of time and money to "punish" these folks.
Probably a couple hundred metadata fields for each tweet, right? he's at least one order of magnitude off right out of the gate
US Dollars. Not "Republic of Texas" Dollars.

Once states secede, they lose all the clout that comes from being part of the world's only superpower controlling the world's reserve currency. Southern states would be better off switching to Pesos than printing their own.
Evolution and scarce resources. We are barely evolved apes.
Isn't this about the EU not being totalitarian? I.e. the laws limit government power and the courts rule independently.

> I expect this new proposal to be heavily contested as well, and I expect fundamental rights to constitute a significant part of that debate – as is already evidenced by the comments from the EDPS, MEP Patrick Breyer, EDRi and the group of security experts mentioned above.

I sure hope this will be struck down. Private communication is a fundamental right.
But it isn’t flexibility we can control. It’s either fluctuations in supply which we need to absorb somehow, or it’s scaling down supply. The big differentiator is the flexibility to scale up supply when you need it, and it’s precisely this flexibility that’s missing.
Television “A Vast Wasteland” (1961) [video]
Is there a better-written article on what's going on out there, somewhere?
Americans Spend More on Gaming Than Streaming – Or Health and Fitness
Sure, relative to the total grid capacity it's not much but during peak loads every bit helps.

I suppose you'd want to transition from ship to shore via a DC path and convert it back to synchronized AC which should avoid issues with reactive loads.
Fundraising and publishing are specialised skills that artists don't necessarily have. Also, lots of people, including many artists, like the stability of a steady pay check and employment rights, which means companies or co-ops.

The sci-fi author Charlie Stross has a series of blog posts on their site about all the work that goes into publishing a book and how much of it is done by employees of the publisher (and how that is not work that Stross can do / would like to do).
Because the linux kernel is not a company.

It's mainly built with people employed in bigger companies, where they have fruitful exchanges with their company peers.
The contributions they push in the kernel is part of a larger effort in their respective companies. And the mailing list is the way they communicate around the kernel. They still have physical colleagues in their day jobs.
The Builder Pattern in Rust
It's not a critique of financial investment or speculation. It's calling all of it what it is - financial investment and/or speculation. If someone claimed they were participating in changing the world and building the future of everything by shuffling Euros around on some forex platform and taking it home as USD you would be skeptical, correct? How is trading BTC any different?

You misunderstand me. Many people trade crypto but this doesn't equate to actual use. Crypto exchanges run order books just like a forex exchange or other investment platform with a SQL or whatever backend.

Do you really consider people speculating on insert-random-coin-ticker-on-exchange-here as use? It moves on an internal order book, it doesn't touch the blockchain itself. That is not use. That is people investing or speculating with an asset just like any other asset. It has nothing to do with the underlying technology or use. Nothing.

Looking at the chains themselves you will see that very few people actually transact off exchanges on actual blockchains (real use). This is what I mean when I say cryptocurrency USE is irrelevant. Buying and selling BTC to take it home in USD to buy a Lambo is not USE of BTC. It's financial investment/speculation on some random asset and USE of USD.
Francophones might not have the same understanding of the distinction as you do.
can someone paste a link or copy of the article for us poor plebs who wont pay for it?
The hard part's not creating some kind of certification, it's getting desirable employers to accept it as a replacement for the most-painful parts of their interview processes. I suspect a lot of top companies don't want to make it easier to jump between them.
You want "ffmpeg -ss <start time as hh:mm:ss> -t <length in seconds or as hh:mm:ss> -i <your video here>.mp4 -c copy output.mp4" or something along those lines.
Davinci Resolve is non-free but good. Shotcut is free but non-good.
Since when is providing pertinent information to someone performing pre purchase due diligence calling their bluff?
Ask HN: PO of my team talks too much. What to do?
The PO talks too much in an endless loop and get on my nerves. Despite being super wordy and verbose, dude is a great person and professional but stakeholders get bored as hell, you can see in their faces. Sometimes he does it to fullfil time as well, when demand is low. What to do?
ps: we're remote
I'm sure there are people saying "look, NOW is the time to get in on luna2! We learned lessons from 1, and 2 will be perfect"
No, not like that. That's the one that supports and facilitates global commerce.

It can be hard to tell the difference once you've had all that kool-aid.
Their concern is of no value.
I disagree. By this standard the government should not even be building highways (they are subsidies to the technology of the automobile, after all)

The government built/supported plenty of the infrastructure that helped the internet/wireless communication take off fast. It obviously would have occurred without it but would have been slower.