skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can argue that it is a premium content feature.

That's pretty much what I'm arguing, really. From a sensible viewing distance (8-10ft), 1080p and 2160p do not have huge differences in quality, and a lot of these TVs have some form of upscaling that achieves varying degrees of success in making lower-resolution content look better. Of course, it's not "4k" 4k, but I feel really this marginal gain is pretty much the perfect kind of thing to put behind a premium paywall.

> Personally, I'm more annoyed at their increase in ads recently than at this limitation.

Agreed, that is awful.

> Floatplane

is a competitor to Patreon if anything, in my opinion.

Vimeo is just too far behind to ever be serious competition.
>Saying the words "women are more likely than men to do X" leaves the reader unfortunately with the impression "many women do X," whereas that might not be true.

I wonder if this is related to "X is better than Y." leading to "How dare you say X isn't bad!" I didn't, X can be extremely horrible, it can be the second most horrible thing to exist. The only qualifier I gave was that Y was at least one rank more horrible than X. If instead I had used "Y is worse than X" this likely wouldn't have happened.

I'm wondering if many people, when reading a relative comparison, imagine it in some absolute setting and then assume that was the intended information to convey. If your case they imagine a case where more women than men do X, meaning they imagine a whole lot of women doing X and very few men doing X, even though it could actually have been 2 of every million women vs 1 of every million men.
Perhaps a tangent, but I simply don't understand why we can't apply different terms for "other types of intelligence"?

Growing up, it baffled me that being able to chuck a football 50 yards meant there would be a weekly pep rally in your honor, and an annual parade through the town. Whereas for the gifted program kids, the main message we seemed to receive from teachers and administrators was to stay humble, that being intelligent doesn't make you better than anyone else, etc.

Why do we celebrate athleticism, musical talent, and other forms of ability in others, yet also feel so fiercely insecure about other people's IQ test scores that we have to co-opt the term "intelligence" itself? To apply it to socialization skills and other various abilities. Other than perhaps video games being labeled as "e-sports", you see no major push to label the less physically gifted as "mental athletes", or any other co-opt.

Why can't empathy and socialization skill be... empathy and socialization skill? Artistic talent be artistic talent, etc? Why are individuals so willing to self-identify as average or below-average in any of these traits, yet we torture language because it's anathema to admit that we might not each be in the 90th-percentile of something called "intelligence"?
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In this case I think preemption gives you widespread uniformity so it makes adherence easier to achieve and more predictability. Is those island gonna come up with weird stipulations, maybe Montana… uniformity in this case may be better.
Oh, I see and think we’re just mincing words then. I think this is much closer to mandatory, law, requiring, etc than “normalization” which to me just means people don’t look at you weird for doing it. It says nothing about an expectation that they should be doing it too.

For example I could care less about someone wearing a mask if they want. I am not staying home for not wearing a mask. If I’m reading you right, you’d want me to stay home. So, we’re pretty far from any type of social compact and IMO have no hope for getting there given so many more people feel much more extreme about it than myself.

Social compact is an agreement and nobody is agreeing on this. Somehow everyone mostly agrees with pants.

Not to make it a personal attack, but I really find it strange how the “extreme measures” cohort of people on Covid and risks are still at it with this type of stuff. The news cycle on Covid is over. The turmoil is still happening but for most people the disease is not a daily concern anymore. They’ve resumed their lives. Are you still hoping things like mandatory masks become a thing? Do you really believe that’s even tenable? On a global scale? I never viewed that as particularly possible given how much cooperation would be required.
I think there is a fundamental difference between “OOP classes” and data. Java didn’t have a way to differentiate between the two so a convention was created with POJOs with properties, so reflection-based tools could use arbitrary classes in some way.

Records are imo a really great addition, making the difference explicit.

As for why private fields are important, think of a class implementing a circular buffer with a fixed-size array. Here, the start and end indices used are private state, which is a must for proper OOP — without it it couldn’t enforce class invariants.
Just got my email, and wow, that's really not much of an apology:

"Our original and only intended email, which was controlled by humans, was to inform you that the “free,” non-expiring version of FogBugz is being phased out on October 17, 2022. Additionally, we wanted to offer you the option to continue using FogBugz by updating your account to a paid subscription. "

In my case, that account was dormant for a decade or more - so dormant that I couldn't even login without getting Error 500. I hope that's because my account was deleted, and yet somehow that account deletion hadn't deleted my email address from their systems.

I actually tried replying to one of those emails (at success@fogbugz.com) to ask them to confirm that my account & logins were deleted from their systems - 10+ years ago - and that they wouldn't attempt to bill me (nevermind send it to collections/dunning). All I got back was an autoreply:

Hi,
Please reach out to the Fogbugz support team by visiting the following portal;
https://support.fogbugz.com/hc/en-us/
Thank you,
Fogbugz team.
This is a Sales and Success message delivered by Kayako.

Creating a support account login so that I could ask them to delete my account seemed contrary to what I was trying to do.
Quite funny to me that:

- for the first time, there isn't mountains and mountains of trolling in an Alphafold thread and the comments are _very_ quiet

- the only reason why is a new account tried doing the trolling

- comment is instadead without any manual flagging

- but, people are afraid to post given the one try in 3 hours is dead
I am not a professional accountant or CPA.

But from my experience as a self-employed (in the US), you are in “safe harbor” if you just plan to pay at least 90% of last year’s tax bill (spread throughout the year) and then estimate any additional taxes due in January prior to the April deadline based on end of year totals.

Again, it’s just a suggestion, so discuss this with your tax accountant.
Please note candidate didn't like Nazis and we want people loyal to the company above all personal morals.
This is even worse than google/facebook... with them, you're pretty sure they won't sell your data, but only sell your eyes to advertisers... here, they sell bulk, raw data to possibly many third parties.
Most of the people who were active in the HP48 scene turned out to be good to great coders with a good knack for low-level optimization.

You may have heard of LZ4 or ZStd, the author is a French guy (currently employed by Facebook) who started hacking compressors on his HP48, this is how I met him a long time ago.
The point wasn't that it's terse. The point was that the other version was inefficient and the system couldn't optimize the cost away or move it.
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I don't agree that there's more than one kind of intelligence. People have various abilities, skills, and gifts, but being good at something isn't a type of intelligence. I know that psychological professionals may disagree, but I think that applying intelligence to anything but "general intelligence" is something we've invented to keep people from feeling bad about themselves.

So in a way, I agree with what you're saying, but I'm not sure if it's in the way that you were thinking.

My position on intelligence is that it's largely overrated. It's good for predicting outcomes, and it's effective for determining whether someone is mentally challenged, but greater intelligence has drawbacks for the individual. What makes many people successful, regardless, of IQ, is having a framework by which they make smart decisions.

Contrast the 90 IQ person who makes smart decisions to avoid pitfalls and be likable to others with the 145 IQ gifted person who can't get anyone to like them, can't relate to others, and struggles to function in a general domain. If you want others to believe in you and to like you, it mostly comes down to making decisions that create that perception. The simplest one is merely showing up to your job on time. People who show up on time are far more likely to keep their jobs. Knowing history and having good conversational skills creates likability and intellectual respect, yet those areas don't require an above average IQ at all. Intelligent people might know a lot about history, but can have poor conversational skills and not know when to shut up about the Roman Empire. Intelligence is positively correlated with various mental illnesses which can subject them to addiction and poor decision making, whereas the 90 IQ person who doesn't impulse buy and pays off their debts is capable of being in a better state in life than the 145 IQ person who lives in a shoebox apartment because they can't hold down a tedious job that pays, they have no friends or family of their own, and they keep spending their earnings on weed and other nonsense.

This doesn't mean that intelligence is worthless, but properly trained "dumb" people can beat many "gifted" people without even given them smart drugs.
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Mmmm, yes and no. They definitely tamed the symptoms in anyone that got it, and they made it rather less likely that you'd get it anyway. Consider that before the vaccine and even with masks and everything else it was going through the population of every country where it appeared like prunes through a short grandmother.

As for the symptoms, let me put it this way - I only know four people who refused to get vaccinated, and they died of COVID, or an existing condition made drastically worse by COVID.
"To protect everyone else" is not a non-answer, it's the actual real answer. You may not like it but that doesn't change the fact that that's how vaccines (at a societal level) work.
PGP is pretty much dead - https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html and https://www.wired.co.uk/article/efail-pgp-vulnerability-outl... are pretty good resources
The idea that cities are more violent than less populated areas of the USA is a fascinating myth. One factor is that cities release their crimes stats earlier in the year. So newspapers write articles about those stats, and then when the rural stats come out later the topic of crime stats is exhausted. Another factor is that most reporters live in cities and reporters tend prioritize their surroundings.

One (imperfect) way to look at it is by looking at per capita homicides by county. Here's California: https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/california/2022/mea...

The counties with the highest murder rate in CA are Trinity, Kern, Lake, Del Norte, and San Joaquin. They're about twice as murderous as Alameda (Oakland).

A confounding factor is that smaller counties have a larger margin of error, but the overall trend is still clear. Another confounding factor is that this is by county and not city, but if cities were much worse than their surroundings they'd dominate the per capita metric.
The lack of static typing will be a non-starter for many.
> HDR video can be presented just fine without HDR10+ or Dolby Vision.

To see HDR content at its full dynamic range, you'll need an HDR-capable device or display. Viewers watching on non-HDR devices/displays will see an SDR¹ video derived from the HDR source.

¹ "Standard dynamic range" or "smooshed dynamic range"
Interesting. Transactionality is implemented via a regular thread lock, this means in a concurrent Rails app where this library is used in a hot path you might suffer some contention. Best is to use for marshaling data in non-hot paths such as stand alone scripts or app start up. I only say this because it's quite different from expectations around transactions in an SQL sense.
I agree with you. I should have made a better choice than lottery. My intention was that the needle which sets the reward for research, long life work pursuing the solution of a problem should move to the right and get those people more.

$3M isn't enough in our days to recognize remarkable work in my opinion. Yes, one of them made a lot of money, but is it true for all the past winners of this prize?
This is a reasonable benchmark from the Clickhouse folks for single table anlaytical query performance over smallish data sets (10s of GB of data). Most of the DW vendors are on there.

https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/

Timescale apparently lags pretty far behind modern columnstore engines.
Nevermind: I found it. It's on page 19 and 20 of the paper, under Appendix A ("Evaluation Datasets").
Very clear. Thanks for the great explanation.
States move faster... so fast that a technology company would be constantly chasing 50 different state laws.

The Internet is a global entity, and it doesn't strike me as being well served by the "laboratory of the states".

Federal legislation is slow, but executive agencies can move faster if they are empowered by legislation to make rules. Congress sets broad principles, and it's not unreasonable that those principles should stay the same for a decade at a time, even in a fast-moving domain like privacy. And while regulatory agencies can be their own pieces of work, it is much easier to deal with one national agency's rules than 50 different ones.
The poster was saying that Java is so complex that you need an IDE. People use VS Code to write Java today, does that mean that they're not using an IDE? As long as the same features are offered in VS Code and IntelliJ/Eclipse/NetBeans/etc., then the distinction is really nothing worth talking about.
You can just use var/final var in java as well.
If that’s a major concern, you can literally leave it in the sun like the other person suggested.
Given Google's history of killing projects I'm not jumping on this ship just yet.
But we have to process every request even if we do not find any of their data.

A majority of requests are actually this way - people use online services that submit blanket removal requests.
in rust?
It's hard to find, but it's a new feature that's not generally available (apparently will be in 2023) named Canvas. Basically, Slacks version of Google Docs.

Was kind of annoying that this was hidden in the article and I didn't see any mention of it in Slack.
I wonder in those benchmarks are we speaking about TimescaleDB Apache Edition or non OSS TimescaleDB Community edition ?

Looks like these are quite different in features
https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/timescaledb-ed...
I do not think that is true at all.
We do the same thing when we're not split brained, but just damaged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispatial_neglect

When we have brain damage that causes us to neglect one side, we don't notice that we're neglecting one side. If it's pointed out, we unintentionally give specious reasoning as to why it happened.

This is common knowledge, not based on a particular study, but many of them.

edit:

> Our reasoning is far from unknowable in a non-severed brain.

Are you saying this based on something, or is it just a personal belief? If there's anything we know about introspection, it's that it is untrustworthy.
The standard business practice of many US tech companies is to go:

We have a ton of VC capital. Can we use this to price dump our way into the market or to do slightly illegal or very illegal things covered in great UI/UX/XD so that some consumers are our own side, and by the time they ban us, we're too big too fail and fines we get are lower than our profits?

Examples: Uber, Airbnb, LinkedIn, ...
I think anyone afraid of that will avoid the causes of brain fog (to the extent possible), rather than the enormous list of hobbies or careers that you might no longer be able to do if you did get a bad case of it.

Intellectual hobbies and careers are chosen because life without them is boring, more than because of the money — it doesn’t look like Pratchett was put off writing as a result of her father getting early onset Alzheimer’s, for example.
Dude, he was the inventor of cryptocurrency, did you except him to get everything right at once.
Really? How do we know that?
Homicides per 100k by County in CA
>but honestly overloading is not something I ever miss. And it was a minefield back in my C++ days.

For a lot of things, it's fine. And there certainly are potential problems with operator overloading. But the experience of, say, reading/writing, linear algebra code using a C++ library with arithmetic operations on vector and matrix types vs using its java bindings where that's all done through explicit method calls wildly favors C++.
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It does what is says on the tin, as they say in England.

yt-dlp on github also works if you like the command line.
The irony is that countries that think women's rights are important will have high rape statistics compared to countries that don't think women's rights are all that important. The countries that think women's rights are important will also have less actual rapes.
I imagine that phoshopping videos at this quality or higher is going to take way longer and be a much more specialized skill.
Technically we already have protection under the 4th amendment, to me this falls squarely under "papers, and effects" and is an unreasonable search. It seems that the court doesn't agree though considering the current state of things.
Unrelated to the discussion, just wanted to comment on Backstage's tagline:

“Build an ecosystem, not a wilderness"

which is ironic because a wilderness is arguably the most complete and perfectly functioning ecosystem you're gonna get.
> what if someone told you there was a license for stereo audio

Interestingly enough, stereo was under patent in the 1930s -- so you did need a license then.
> Telescreen, newspeak, mass surveillance, perpetual war, "officials" acting as if what they are saying now is always what they said, etc. It's almost easier to list the things that we don't have in common.

> The thing I tell most people is that we currently live under more surveillance then folks in 1984.

> In ~20 years you'll see how silly you are for welcoming totalitarianism. You won't care until it effects you.

Three examples from this thread (one by you) of folks claiming "1984 is totally real and not a work of fiction", at least to the degree of what I originally said (you're misconstruing what I wrote for rhetorical value, but if you look at what I actually claimed, these quotes fit).

There are not "a number of very real parallels between the world we live in and the world of 1984", this is a misremembering of the content of the novel. You don't get to just hand select a few things from the novel and say, "Look, 1984!" in the same way you don't get to cite "well the humans in Lord of the Rings breathed air so it's the same as today!"

For example, without the critical, "or else you die" consequences of misbehavior in the 1984 novel, none of the "scary" things in the novel carry anything remotely approaching the weight or meaningfulness.
It may be faster for specific benchmark cases, but in my experience Timescale has had wildly unpredictable performance when used in a production setting. It's also very annoying that you have to remember to run certain timescale functions for backups or restores and there's many more additional background processes running.
I would say they should be the "right size". 27TB isn't one library. It's the amount of libraries there are.

In the NPM world there are too many small libraries that create a dependency graph that's impossible to parse mentally. No one knows your true dependencies and that created many problems.

In Maven libraries are sometimes too big. That's true. But most of them are closer to the size that gives a library a bit of "meat". Obviously YMMV.
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here.

https://resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/en/resources/fighting-...

This lists what is counted as rape, and what is counted as other related definitions like "indecent assault with violence or threat" in Belgium.

So, non-penetrative sex acts are not classed as rape. So if you compare "number of rapes" between two countries, some things will be counted in one country that aren't in another. Your evidence against this appears to be Ctrl-F in a Google translation? That's not really how this works.

You seem simultaneously really invested in this, and at the same time not really willing to engage with the slightest bit of complexity when comparing crime statistics across mutiple countries.
Mathematician might prove something important, then in case of getting a brain fog to switch for something no-brain like civil servant, in opposite case to keep researching. Why somebody needs to choose being a civil servant if for the time being he has enough skills to be a mathematician?
C++ is definitely not replaced by Go, nor by Rust.

C++ as well, but especially Java likely has multiple times as much projects than all the smaller languages summed. They are ain’t going anywhere anytime soonz
I'm kind of bummed that FOSS licencing isn't one of the teeth here. The anticompetitive aspects here are based in overly restrictive distributor contracts. The fact that android and chrome are so full of FOSS, yet Google does what it does...
(By "gone back hard" I don't mean "has returned to" but "did a 180 away from". Maybe you are just expanding, but it sort of sounded like you were disagreeing, when in fact I am fully on board. I remember when they started and their stated goal had been to separate all of their build and hosting infrastructure from Google so everyone was working with and seeing live commits to collaborate.)
No. For that you need Temporal Tables: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/t...
Memory allocators generally don't unmap anything, because the performance hit on any other threads running is severe.

When memory is unmapped, caches of memory mappings of other threads are discarded, via inter-core interrupts. Then they get misses until their cache is restored.

In what might be a multi-thread program, you don't fool with the memory map without very good reasons. Mapping new pages, or marking a page r/o or r/w is OK; anything else, probably not.
New Metador Apt, Likely a Private Contractor, Targets ISPs
Personally I find it to be a useful model. It's not going to perfectly describe every relationship accurately. But I find it gives me an opportunity to be introspective about a relationship and my contributions to it, including my shortcomings.

Not everything needs to be scientifically rigorous to make a positive impact. Though I agree it's useful to keep in mind the limitations of a given description. MBTI is neat but making it part of a job application feels like a step too far.
Makes me ask myself: which hugely successful works of fiction (excluding stuff like the Bible) are out there convincing readers solely through their content because the author remains anonymous/pseudonymous and how can they reliably be found?
I did some digging as well and it looks like their docs have a pretty good overview [1]. (And to be perfectly honest, it looks like they've done a very thorough job with them! I'm impressed!)

1: https://docs.ditto.live/javascript/common/how-it-works/mesh-...
Except in ways that are constitutionally prohibited, right?