skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my cursory research seems to indicate that it's pretty reasonable to start a local wireless ISP, with a lower bound wrt minimum number of clients to make the venture worth it being 50 or so according to someone.
It absolutely is, but I am a firm believer in not worrying about things I cannot change, and focusing on things I can change, I guess. If I think about how absurd it is, I just get mad and can't focus.
I'd like to hear more about your experience. I was in a technical presentation yesterday in which a web developer working on a Rails codebase that has been transitioning from backbone to React over the past couple of years talked about her experience trying to add a single page to the app. In the end, it required 14 steps, and I couldn't help but wonder whether all the scaffolding, code generation, and wiring to enable both dynamic and static rendering to work correctly (static for search engines) really provides a better experience for anyone. I get why companies like Google and Facebook developed these frameworks, but for a site of moderate size (say, a million monthly uniques), is it really a win? I look at sites like https://pinboard.in/ and feel like they really hit the sweet spot on utility, user experience, performance, and development workflow. But most of my experience is on the backend. What am I missing?
Avro Lancaster, one of the two most successful heavy bombers of WW2 had 4 27litre V12 merlins, with proven reliability.

The Avro Lancastrian was a passenger variant of the Lanc and developed into the large bodied Avro York that had the range to replace a few of the old flying boat routes. Some lasted into the 60s on commercial routes.

The Lockheed Constellation had four 18 cyl radials, and being pressurised survived in commercial service even longer.

Neither had a turboprop variant.

Mass aviation was going to happen anyway whether the DH Comet arrived or not. It would have looked rather different, and perhaps not quite as endemic as now, but definitely mass aviation as we know it. Jets just hastened the process, and came at just the right time.
Complaining, criticising, two different things. The latter is what's being done, and that is quite useful. Loding and complimenting is nice, but useless. I have a love/hate relationship w/ Firefox, but it's the best trade-off for a privacy-aware power-user that also wants a relatively stable browser which does not want too much fiddling. But too many negatives are present and if we do not point them out they wont be fixed. Fixing them is good for Firefox, and good for all of us FF users.
Let's compare to Manhattan.

Switzerland has the same population as Manhattan.

Switzerland has a population density of 196/km², Manhattan has a population density of 25,846/km².

I'm not absolving the plundering by US Telcos, but there are legit issues as to why cell service quality might differ between a major US metropolis and Switzerland.
What Lean says and how people commonly used it are distinct, which is what the OP is talking about. Some people took some parts of Lean too far and didn't focus enough on delivering a high level of value. That takes risk and vision, but you build better products.

As opposed to obsessing over managing risk and keeping things lean, without properly investing in the hypothesis to really test them out. Which means in practice a bunch of small half-hearted plays that get abandoned too early - or were inherently a minor incremental value proposition that wasn't valuable enough to build a sustainable business around.
I'm envious, it seems I got swindled! Oh well.
On the other hand, their stock price just took a solid hit.

Derek Lowe goes into why: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/09/05/san...

There are only two patients that we’re talking about here. But both of them showed significant declines in the heparan sulfate and dermatan sulfate in their urine, which is good news. However, and this is where the arguing really revs up, they could not find any IDS enzyme in the blood of these patients. You’d have kinda thought that you’d see it there (they sure saw it in the animal studies), and a lot of observers/investors sort of lost it at that news, sending SGMO down pretty briskly in the early trading today. The company responded by saying that there had to be new active enzyme in there for the urine numbers to go the way that they did, that their detection method isn’t incredibly sensitive to start with, that there’s another cohort in the trial that’s getting a larger dose of the gene therapy, etc.

Of course, they also said that urinary levels of GAG were an approvable biomarker and that’s how the enzyme replacement therapy was approved, and that appears not to be true. The enzyme (Elaprase, from Shire) showed effects in the amount the treated patients could walk and the trials looked at lung function as well. In the end, you’re going to want to see functional improvements in these patients anyway, but everyone’s looking for an earlier read. The selloff in Sangamo’s shares continues as of this writing, and other gene-editing stocks are dropping as well (and since these are all companies using different gene-editing technologies, that seems a bit like panic if you ask me). But this can’t have been the way that Sangamo wanted this to go. When that next cohort reports, maybe we’ll have a better idea of what’s going on – either that, or the shouting will get even louder. . .
It seems to work in the US. There's a man in Philadelphia, who's been jailed for years. He's charged with contempt of court. because he claims to have forgotten the FDE key for his macOS box. Which investigators believe is loaded with child porn. And so he periodically sees the judge, who extends his sentence for contempt. There's apparently no limit under current US law.
>> Improved graphics rendering for Windows users without accelerated hardware using Parallel-Off-Main-Thread Painting

Because so many people run windows on hardware without decent graphics hardware?!?!?! And yet Wayland support is still not up to snuff.

I use Firefox almost exclusively, but Mozilla seems to have some strange priorities. It's not just them, it's a lot of people out there doing what they want instead of what's good for their users.
They've already sold the division. They don't care and probably never did.
I'll argue that the surviving people on the pointy end of the stick haven't thoroughly considered how pointy conventional aerial bombardment gets.
Depends if you think anyone is wronged by the gender pay gap, and whether (2) is one of the foundations of the gender pay gap.
Lean startup was a stupid cult idea pushed by people with no imagination. Like agile.
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Yes, I notice this on my mac (mac book pro, 2015?): I'll even often open Safari just to watch youtube videos. It's fine on my Linux machine (X1 Yoga thinkpad) though.
Also a huge fan of this feature, I lit up when I read it. I hope there is a way to turn it into a keyboard shortcut.
Thanks. That makes a lot of sense. So while testing a given class, it may have some dependencies, but those may be external resources (a DB, an API, etc), or internal ones. It sounds like the recommendation is only to mock where those external dependencies lie, and leave the internal dependencies. Eventually, as you go down the chain, those internal dependencies will get to external ones (which will likely still need some sort of mock/fake/stub), but you're allowing more of the logic and interaction of the system to be tested, rather than just the logic in the one class that's directly being tested.
Came here with exact same quote in clipboard, ready to grumble.
Not that this is in any way an essential feature to me, but the trend is one way, and one way only: The paring down of choice and useful public features.
Firefox of ten years ago was UI-wise a far superior product to the sorry quasi-Chrome of today. I no longer use it with any kind of joy or excitement because it's somehow best. I use it because everything else is even worse.
No, please, spare me the recommendation: I do not use Google products. Period.

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I agree, owning is more freeing. I just bought a house in a "hot" market mostly because I was sick of dealing with sub-par landlords who charged market rents because they could. I'd rather spend a little more monthly and not have to deal with maintenance problems and unresponsive property managers.
This is both true and highly misleading. In X64 mode many instructions were gone. However you couldn't execute a 32-bit program directly in that mode anyway so it was the least of your problems.

Everything was still there in 32-bit mode. Nobody would have bought the processors if they didn't work with existing software.
Theranos's problem seems to be that they (especially Holmes) would not bend on technical issues that would have allowed them to build a functioning product.

It sounds like if they had allowed the machine to be a little bigger, and if they had compromised on being able to take a little more blood (instead of the one drop they had been marketing), they could have had a real machine that would produce reliable results.

Then they could have iterated and continued the push to miniaturize what they already had commercialized.

Instead, Holmes insisted on a sample size that technically they couldn't achieve reliable results with, and when faced with the decision of compromising on spec to get something to work, or release something that didn't work and then lie about it, she chose the latter.

If anything, a "lean" approach (to the extent possible with medical testing hardware) would have benefited them.
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No, definitely not. You get away with all sorts of things with a sufficiently old building.
I/O is anything outside the program itself. All sorts of headaches happen this way. The problem is actually more complex than the article suggests. For example, say your app uses a database schema. What if the schema changes? Will your app break?
How quickly they became corrupted by money. Hopefully they get prosecuted for fraud.

In their eyes a homeless man didn't deserve it all because of drug abuse, so instead they spent it on trips and a BMW for themselves.

https://abc7.com/society/all-gofundme-money-is-gone-attorney...
I really love Firefox, and I’m still holding out for HiDPI support on Wayland. Currently it is a little awful to use...
We probably need to distinguish between consumer UI's and office or "productivity" UI's. The first is more subject to fads and gimmicks, or at least should be.

As far as office UI's, there seems a push back to desktop based applications. Microsoft is improving the deployment process such that deployment is becoming almost seamless. The web failed to give us sufficient and reliable widgets and screen control. JavaScript + DOM is a hack. We waited it out, hoping, but are gradually giving up: it's not coming; the web is stuck on suck for that niche. Desktop IDE's are more productive than web stacks for office CRUD development. And they use screen real-estate better. Bootstrap is finger-centric waste-strap. We gotta mouse, use it! And MVC? Gimme a break.

Hopefully a cross-platform GUI browser and related standard are created. But MS still rules the office screen for now such that cross-platform is less an issue. If you don't like MS, there's always Delphi/Lazarus, but I cannot comment on their application update deployment yet.
> no amount of noise-cancelling headphones can stop me noticing movements in my periphery

Or the shaking of the floor. I worked in a "modern" high-rise of a well known company with open offices and the floor felt like it was made of Ikea particle board skin of an under-floor giant African drum.
How long have you been in the new office?

I felt the same for about 6 months. It's been a couple years now, and I am getting incredibly lonely and bored. Which is weird because I've never been a "social" person.

Even though my office is huge, it feels like hiding in a closet.

I often wonder why I even come in instead of working from home. All my collaboration with co-workers happens over email and screen sharing programs anyway.
I had a similar experience, having been in college during the first dot-com boom and bust. During the boom years it seemed that everyone was pushing their sons and daughters into computer science (the department experienced record enrollment for a few short years), yet I would overhear things in the hallway like "Take Prof. Smith for CS305, he doesn't make you code!". In one of my "Intro to Programming" courses, class attendance had dwindled from 80ish to about a dozen students after just a few weeks. However, all 80 showed up to the final review. The questions they were asking made it clear they could not have possibly completed anything past the second assignment. It was a very surreal few years.
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Good old fashion GoFundMe fraud.

>Bob­bitt filed a law­suit against a New Jer­sey couple who had raised more than $400,000 on GoFundMe to help him re­build his life, al­leg­ing they'd with­held the mon­ey and spent it on va­ca­tions, gam­bling and a lux­u­ry car. A judge gave them until Sept. 3 to hand over the re­main­ing funds. But a day af­ter the dead­line, a lawyer for Bob­bitt said there's no mon­ey left to sur­ren­der

This is why I refuse to use GoFundMe, I think fraud like this is rampant and underreported. There's been many times when you see a sad story in the media and multiple GoFundMes are created for the person in the story by people who are unrelated to them, or some who are related but have less than honest motivations. It's just too ripe for fraud and abuse. Even if I 100% know the campaign is real, I won't use the platform out of principle.

They claim they would release the money once the homeless man got off of drugs. I don't even think that's appropriate, if they raised money for him they will have to accept he will spend it the way he wants.
> It is also afraid of buying assets in the US and Europe as it cannot guarantee that these assets will not be seized if need be for political reasons.

Chinese firms own commercial properties, ports, highways, and bridges across Europe and the United States. A common, although wildly exaggerated, meme is that Chinese interests buying up property in cities such as Vancouver and San Francisco drive house prices up to extreme levels.
Part of the point of this thread is that 'modern flagship phones' are designed with problems like that in mind. You're the one claiming to have 'proof' they are trivially insecure.
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"I stand by my point that nearly all important advances of mankind are tools developed to solve a long forgotten goal."

That is indeed true.

Of course, almost all of the goals I have accomplished for myself have been accomplished by actively engaging in pursuing that goal rather than pursuing some side channel, while the side projects I've created have generally been a lot less useful to myself and humanity than, say Bach. :D
> Even if you have raised $2 billion, shouldn't you know if people want short form content?

This has already been proven with Youtube.

The bigger question is whether there is a ~$100 billion market for a Netflix style service selling 10min videos, which justify a $1-2 billion investment. And whether this company can recruit the talent in a sustainable business model, where they can produce enough good content to keep users happy.

Even if there is a $100 million dollar business here, that would be a failure scenario for this startup right out of the gate. As it won't return the investor money anytime soon.
> Instead of $200 billion in the bank, unspent, shouldn't those devices be reviewed and redesigned until impregnable?

The problem is the Mythical Man-Month. Apple's devices are built on a mountain of ancient C code. XNU is a bizarre Mach/BSD hybrid, built for the sake of expedience. (This is not to bash Apple; most other devices aren't much better.)

Apple has been working to improve the situation, but there's a limit as to how rapidly all those millions of lines of code can be changed.
You've got strengths and are already aware of several variables (exercise, fasting) you can control to increase your well-being and decrease your suffering. I encourage you to keep moving in the direction of ever increasing possibilities. I offer you 3 Immutable Laws of Forward Motion:

1. Pain. 2. Uncertainty 3. Ceaseless Effort

Any attempts to exonerate yourself from these laws will necessarily lead to the sense of being stuck (without options) and hopeless (without possibilities). However if you accumulate skills to embrace these laws, you will increase well-being both for yourself and those you care about.

When you say, "things in my life have been a lot harder to do/achieve than they should...", you're headed for a dead end. Any plan that seeks contentment as a destination is likely to be a dead end. The best game to play has no promise of "win" or "lose". It's the game where you get to keep playing. Evolution seems to be playing that game, and it has produced some fairly numinous wonders. You being one of them.
That's a big advantage of ebooks: a book that would have been padded to fit a certain length/size slot can now be the size that the subject requires, and no more.
I think it was a sleight-of-hand move by NASA to spur the development of decarbonizarion technologies.
There are significant logistical differences between the US and Switzerland.

One has 327 million people and an area of 9.8 million square kilometers (36 people per Km2). The other has 8.4 million people and 41 thousand square kilometers (216 people per Km2).

Okay, but here in Sweden, with a population density of 22 people/km2, my mobile 4G internet plan has unlimited data, unlimited calls and messages for $55/month. I use it for both my phone and my 4G router at home. It's my only Internet connection since I live in a very rural place (a village of ~150 inhabitants in the north). I get about 13 Mbps downloads -- it would be much better if I was closer to a tower.

In cities in Sweden, which are all very small and not very dense, you can usually get 100 or 1000 Mbps fibre connections for something like $40 a month.

I am also not aware of a single cell data provider in Sweden that has ever tried to disable or charge for tethering.
BSD isn't the same as linux. Command line tools are just software, there is nothing preventing you from using bash, sh, zsh or ksh or powershell on Windows through either
the linux subsystem, cygwin or ubuntu for windows. Your second statement is more ridiculous.
Man, you get cheaper and better 4g in Russia, Kazakhstan, and ...Mongolia out of all places.

That logic is invalid.
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/not relevant to the article, but sort of relevant to your comment.

When I was 11 I was in the hospital. A nurse was going to replace my IV. She spent 45 minutes trying to find a vein in either arm. She got another nurse and within 5 minutes, it was done.

The new nurse said that the previous one just got done trying to put an IV in an infant so she was "a little stressed" and "should have known better" about not stabbing a child for 45 minutes straight.

That experience was pure hell. It hurt so much. I was so sick that I could barely move or talk to ask for someone new. All I could do was lay there screaming in my mind and sort of move every once in a while.
Per someone else's comment, then, explain Manhattan having such sucky speeds.

Unless you stipulate there's a goldilocks population density; if it's lower than that you don't get the investment, if it's higher than that there's too many people for the amount of spectrum/infrastructure. In which case, fair enough; are the places in the US that fall in that zone reaching speeds equal to Switzerland? I would contend no, not consistently, but of course, I'd need to know what that zone is.
No study needs to be done. The carriers are publicly admitting this on their websites, just go look at their plans.

The more expensive plans have "HD-streaming" of video content. They even tell you X plan gets you 480p and Z plan gets you 720p. What else could this mean other than they are throttling videos?
Is there a word for the strange behavior many have around defending large corporations? I know there's Stockholm syndrome but this appears to be more nuanced.
This is a good example for bad display of data: ten lines for example don't get recognized by the mind as having that much greater value than a single line.
Careful with this comparison, Africa is still mostly a continent of primary resources and factories, so it would more natural that their trade balance be positive.
> Humans were hand writing books on paper and giving them to other humans to hand write copies.

Not very many were, and a big reason for that was the available tooling.

> A good craftsman never blames his tools

Someone who writes a book by blames the available tooling support for the low quality of its content is a craftsman (but, per the saying, not a good one) blaming his tools.

A person who chooses not to write a book at all because the anticipated opportunity cost given the existing tooling support and that person’s personal utility function is not.
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That's really bad. Deleting user data is one of the most loud ways to declare that "we're bad at software development!" I guess I should consider trying Ungoogled Chromium or maybe Pale Moon. I worry the former will be a menace to build because I don't have lots of RAM and CPU. Edit: I don't use the feature but still...
anyone know if Microsoft is following suit? I searched briefly and could not find any comments...
In that case why start fundraising in the first place?
Windwos 10, the most commonly used SO in the world.
When Mircosoft duped its customers with that 'free windwos update', they sealed the planet's fate.
Windwos will destroy the earth.
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Darn, if only there were some way the network providers had some kind of neutrality with respect to how they move traffic... hmm. Just a silly fantasy I had.
Depends on what you listen to, I listen to ambient or house music without any vocals or lyrics, it tunes out quite nicely.
I only have 2 months worth of information here, but here is a budget breakdown: http://ablate.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-does-it-cost-to-live...

In short, my expenses were under 1,000usd monthly.

Like the other person that replied, I did that by not really eating out often, not going to foreign restaurants, and choosing cheap activities, which Taipei has plenty of. Rock climbing was 30c at the gym, hiking was free, a day trip to fulong for bicycling was like five bucks total. Etc.

So yea, putting 50% of income away to savings isn't exactly ideal I guess (we're supposed to do 70% right?) Hence my plans to move back as an engineer.

Edit: in hindsight, I don't know how the fuck I was spending 200$ on groceries lol. That's how much I spend here. I could definitely optimize that budget. Probably wasn't leveraging the morning markets enough and buying too much Nutella or something.
Kierkegaard is usually considered the original existentialist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism#Confusion_with_...
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