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Fyi... if you're getting a bounceback... It seems the author doesn't want this on Hacker News. The webpage html source: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> ... <script async src="&#x2
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To echo what others have said, the practice of big data has become so normalized that the language term "big data" -- as a new thing to call attention to itself -- is not needed as much as before. Similar language history that
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>There's no technological reason for a 1MB limit that makes any sense. Bitcoin started in 2009. Since then there have been 4 main generations of the Raspberry pi, disks went in size from ~1-2TB maximum to ~20TB maximum, gigabit in
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> always online? It depends on what you mean by "online" and the service level : - "online" meaning a HN server responds with something. In this more literal sense, HN always seems to be up. - "online"
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>In NYC the scaffolding is eternal. Wendover made a short video about that: https://youtu.be/lphKvTqovHs?t=1m56s TLDW: It's the Law of Unintended Consequences -- The sidewalk shed (aka "scaffolding") i
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>Is anyone else really annoyed by the constant cuts in videos these days? [...], so I could imagine there are a lot of "re-takes" + cutting out of "umms" I agree it's jarring but I understand why it often happe
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> When I last looked into the CSA stuff you had to pay a few thousand dollars a year to become a member to access any specifications Don't know if it's what you're looking for but downloadable pdf docs for (Zigbee) Rf4ce
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>Because IMHO it's never 100% full circle. It looks like we're back at the same point, but there are usually crucial differences in the implementation details that makes it quite different. Your intuition is correct. The &quo
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>Why would mobile devices need to do this themselves? Couldn't Google do this with a podcast/audiobook service To answer your question, what's the baseline premise of how podcasts should work on a mobile phone? - Should
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>automatically generated captions in YouTube Youtube's AI-powered auto gen captions are often inaccurate for uncommon words and proper nouns (names, etc). Here's an example to a deep link : https://youtu.be/z
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>THE WEB WAS born to publish documents—in particular, physics papers from CERN, the great laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee, [...] I have argued many times, to the despair of anyone within range, that the <form> element was a pivot
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>it is a response to another tech person. Maybe the general public would get some sympathy here, but this person had a vanity domain that they used for something important then let expire, and should know better Fyi... the person in qu
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>You can deploy c# app without having to install anything. The C# option of self-contained executables is very recent with VS2019 & VS2022 and was not available when Go came out in 2009 . Before that, you had extra steps of ClickO
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>- Made by really famous veteran language designers - Backed by Google Looking at decades of how various programming languages gain popularity, those proposed reasons don't seem that convincing when we look at counterexamples . E
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A big limitation with /etc/hosts is no support for wildcards. Previous subthread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22535387 (But it doesn't look like wildcard pattern matching doesn't wor
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>entire generations have grown up agreeing with you because literally the density of the pre-car era was eradicated and they know nothing different. But a lot of people have experienced high-density living and deliberately reject it an
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>, I wonder what has made SMTP such a stable protocol that has stood the test of time and what is the real reason we don't use XMPP There are probably multiple reasons and we can't replay history to know which reason contribu
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>The two biggest problems in US politics are the two-party system In terms of cause & effect, the USA's 2-party system is the effect caused by the voting system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%2
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>, as much as i hate the idea of music creation tools being created for the browser, I just tried it on desktop (Windows with Google Chrome) and then on iPad and iPhone. Seems to work. No downloads or app installs. Instant gratificat
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>I still find it hard to comprehend how a one of the tools of a taxi calling app has this much complexity and have thousands of engineers working on it . Fyi... have you already seen the famous Uber engineer comment on the complexity o
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A meta comment about some of the replies... I think many replies are over-interpreting op's wording of "image filters applied" as being generalized to any image manipulation so having an algorithm determine it is unrealis
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>What would be the difference from a company owned by five individuals that also do all the work and a coop formed by five individuals? Parent is probably talking about "BigLaw" (thousands of lawyers) and boutique law firms (
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>It’s nowhere near perfect information because we’re limited. Parent is using "perfect information" as a particular term-of-art in economics and game theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_info
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>You can also just use an RSS reader, to solve many of these problems for you. You're inserting the typical "you can just ..." tone in your advice as if it's a simple solution but you're overlooking the full
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>People were paying for browsers. It was the norm before Microsoft gave away Internet Explorer for free, No, not really. Most people paid $0 for web browsers even in the early Netscape's days in October 1994. That was Netscape&#
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>Our use case does not really need instant scaling all that much since we're a B2B business [...] His arguments are [...] we will scale to more production machines it would be easier to just start another VM than wait for a new ded
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>, I've found myself paying for OpenAI's GPT-3 playground app in micropayments format. Unless I'm misunderstanding OpenAI's pricing format for "bulk tokens" [1] prepaid for by credit-cards , this isn&#x2
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>Did you read the article? [...] , but learning clearly is an essential factor. I think your reading of the article missed the point of their experiments that dissected the learning : Yes, the "learning from other-species foster
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>FFmpeg and VLC seem to use (lib)x265 for H.265 content. copypaste of previous comment: The FFmpeg project does not distribute binaries with unlicensed or illegal code. E.g. if you want ffmpeg to use libdvdcss for decrypting DVDs or
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>VB was basically the MS response to Borland's Delphi, No, that wasn't the timeline. Visual Basic came out in 1991. Borland Delphi was +4 years later in 1995. (Borland Turbo Pascal for Windows was 1991 but Microsoft VB&

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