skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that when people talk about the DMV, they're most likely talking about the lines. When people talk about government inefficiency in nearly every other context, they're talking about money.
I don’t buy the argument that you can’t concentrate two beams on the same spot. Sure you might not be able to do that with one lens, but concentrating on a small area is as good an approximation. But if you require that it really be a point, why can’t I do that with N lenses and mirrors that are fully reversible but all align to aim at the same point from different angles?
The built in offline Android speech recognizer is really bad. Giants like Google and Facebook are blessed with data, and so they can train state of the art speech recognition models (much much better than what you get out of the built in Android recognizer) and then provide speech recognition as a service. They can control the recognition because it happens on their servers and is independent of Android or any other OS.

Is the implication that offline Android recognition does not train on the owner's voice at all? I imagine a lot of phones these days are at least as powerful as the Pentium 200s used to train (successfully!) Dragon Dictate et al 20+ years ago.
I'm a pretty big discord user, early supporter/nitro/hypesquad and all that, and I have never heard of this "influential crowd" calling it uncool. All I've seen is servers getting larger and more servers popping up. Discord themselves just ran a Snowsgiving server which raised 100k for charity in under a week and had ~10k people in it at any time I checked chatting.

I don't have any lag on any devices nor do I hear of anyone else having that issue. The store was maybe not asked for but it's continuously getting better. With the latest announcement it's even more exciting.

I'd like to hear about how you think it's a datamining operation as well. The only times I've heard that are from when a lot of alt-right and neonazi servers/users were banned and started an astroturfing campaign.
>> Russia is a bad place to have medical issues.

I was thinking about that too. People with (severe) food allergies die from them even in developed countries, where there are laws to protect them and the subject is close to the public's consciousness, e.g. deaths from food alergies make it to the popular press and even become front-page news (as the recent case of a teenager who died on a plane journey after eating a sandwich with sesame seeds from Pret-a-manger in the UK). I'm sure it's much easier for something to go seriously wrong if you live in a society that is completely oblivious to the fact that, for some people, everyday foodstuffs can be lethal.

So maybe the fact that the Russian crew in the article find the idea of food allergies so amusing is not their robust Slav character, but the fact that, well, perhaps because of that character, people with severe food allergies die very early on where they come from.

I know, that sounds a bit horrible to say. Apologies to Russian readers.
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afaict, the 1password cli app is just a client for their API and has no offline mode, so if I can't reach 1password's servers, I can't access any of my secrets.

I believe the browser addons do not share this shortcoming, though.
Sounds like you are restoring a backup into your live database instead of restoring it into a fresh instance where you can be assured of the state of the database. It’s best practice where a database instance costs you practically nothing.
What the fuck Android? Why are you helping mobile carriers lie to their customers?
How do you force employers to treat you better, some sort of artificial regulation?

We've never had greater labor mobility, remote options or demand for software developers; I question your premise of limited number of companies.
So the stupidity of the people demands lies.
Wikipedia claims 600:1 payout on 999:1 odds was typical. That's about a 60% payout; a published analysis [0] indicates that California lottery games range between under 50% (most games) to nearly 80% (the latter for high-denomination Scratchers.)

So, in general, worse than numbers games, though better if you choose the right game.

[0] https://wizardofodds.com/games/lottery/california-lottery/
If you want to know what protocols are real alternatives, take a look at the second last column (IETF):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-UlA4-tslROBDS9IqHal...

(I didn't make that spreadsheet, but found it quite interesting when it was posted on HN a few weeks ago)
I would assume that the accumulating money waiting to be claimed is a carrot to get sites involved.
5 words: hot code reloading feedback loop
this do not sell. A while ago phones where purchased on internal memory size (and a fixed $100 upgrade steps for some reason). Until recently purchase decision was based on screen size, bigger the better. Now they are decided on a notch on the screen apparently.

Absolutely nobody buying phones care about the items you listed, unfortunately.
Your post brings up some good points:

Precedent is important. Also, being aware of your rights and theirs precedents in history is important.

The Constitution is entirely written in a manner that grants citizens rights and restrains government power. Someday we might get so ignorant that the government decides pulling a fast one on citizens is possible, therefore they try. (See Patriot Act, NDAA,. etc.)
Color temperature is a representation of the shape of the spectrum as compared to a blackbody of the same temperature. It is not necessarily representative of the surface emitting the light. Because the moon absorbs some of the wavelengths of light more than others it shifts the spectrum to represent a blackbody object of a lower temperature. So depending on what wavelengths are absorbed the color temperature can actually be shifted up or down.

For another example, the color temperature of standard incandescent bulbs is ~2700K, and this is similar to blackbody radiation. However, LED lights can have the same color temperature, but the surface of the LED is not at 2700K because the light emitted is being created through a different process than blackbody radiaton.

That said, I am still wrapping my head around the xkcd explanation because blackbody radiation of the moon at 100K would not be enough but there is also reflected sunlight at a .16 albedo.
Why would switching to Vulkan have anything to do with making the CPU code multithreaded?
A hospital with his name on it springs to mind.
oh tell me about TV contrast ratios and pixel update time!
I don't know very much thermodynamics, but I'm not sure that thermodynamic temperature is well-defined for a system consisting of "just a few atoms".
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Incidentally, a reminder: pre-emptively destroying records under the apprehension that you might be served with a lawsuit is A Bad Idea.
I agree. It is the de facto app for chatting amongst gamers, especially streamers. Just check out streamers on Twitch: even the tiniest ones have a Discord server.
That's fine if they exist in a world all by themselves.

But if that was true they wouldn't need to mislead anyone, because they'd be in charge of the names.

The problems come when you need to make a comparison between different networks.

"4G" means something. "5G" means something else. If you want to represent incremental improvement between the two, use a number between 4 and 5.

Especially when "4G" was already being stretched down to talk about lower performance than it should have been.
Well, it is called Hacker News, not Hacker Show. Looking at the Show page (which I rarely do), most of even the top page has hardly any comments. People come here for news, to discuss things...For me, some of the best things are on AskHN. Mostly when I've asked questions, I get little or no response. They're things I would comment on if I saw them asked, I eagerly await answers, but usually..not much response. (I didn't post "Is Hacker News broken?" asking why HN ignored my fascinating questions, saying how HN doesn't know quality etc. That would've been weird, don't you think.)

People are busy with their own stuff. News, I guess, being generally informed, comes under "one's own stuff"; checking out other's peoples' stuff, especially the new and untested, is something else. Probably mostly not worth bothering about.

Why assume the voting would be accurately proportional to the quality of the submission? Although you seem to be comparing News clicks with Show clicks - apples with oranges. It's hard to put oneself in the shoes of an imagined HN reader, what would make them want to click through to something. Probably it's good that people can't guess - if it was the total 'echo chamber' it's accused of being, people would share more similar taste, I guess.
There is an official lastpass cli, but I don't know how well maintained it is. https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli
The ad replacements are opt in, are they not? Ads for me are just straight up blocked.
Another thing a lot of companies could try is a five-day work week.
The biggest thing is that while it's focused to and originally for gamers that's not the only thing it's used for. There's a server for anything now. Subreddits have Discords, I've been in the typology/psychology Discords a lot. Discord themselves even has a page promoting it for open-source projects.

- https://discordapp.com/open-source
Without the FAQs online, there is a whole lot of grinding to do for star systems with resources worth mining on them, and the "fuel" system makes random grinding much more tedious.
I remember an article about some guy that bought a TV on "sales", then scraped off the price tag, only to see that the the "Christmas sale" price was higher then the original price.
> fascism is that its endgame always ends up with its adherents attacking each other.

Historically both fascist governments and fascist movements require external attack to collapse - or a succession crisis, which takes a while. And a lot of people can get killed along the way.
Unions. Laws. Collective action. Artificial regulation.
Then I ask, why are we having such a tough time defending against illegal digital collection and searching by the government? Doesn't it seem like people care about their privacy from government? If public opinion isn't allowing our 4th amendment to be valued, then what are we doing wrong? How can we show the government that we do indeed want them to stop violating our privacy?

Do we have to riot in the streets? I thought that was the entire point of the American Revolution! We already fought for our rights, and yet people try telling me that we're losing them because we're not fighting anymore. Apparently it's entirely acceptable that when we become complacent, that the government can steamroll us for our ignorance?
I'm using Firefox right now om android and its a nice experience. Chrome variants are smoother scrolling I guess but the sync is sure nice in Firefox.
>That's what the "partially zero" means - they have zero evaporative emissions.

Except it doesn't mean "partial zero." Instead, it refers to a "partial ZEV" (ie a partial vehicle).

The argument is that having a greater number of lower-emission vehicles[1] on the road has the same effect on air pollution as having a smaller number of zero-emission vehicles. So if those vehicles count as a partial ZEVs (for the purposes of the CARB ZEV Mandate), the same overall policy effect would be achieved.

[1] as you point out, legally they defined this as meeting the EPA SULEV emission requirements, plus having zero evaporative emissions
Bitwarden recently completed a 3rd party Audit[1] and Bitwarden is the only one to be completely open source[2] (server and client).

[1] https://blog.bitwarden.com/bitwarden-completes-third-party-s...
[2] https://github.com/bitwarden/
I really wish there was something for iPhone that told me my SNR, CRO, Bands etc... and then let me manually configure if I want.

As things are going we're basically going to get the equivalent of stoplights for the reception/connectivity UI.
Maybe they can use some of that money to add multiple email account support.
> So do you object to mandated nutritional labels and ingredient lists?

Absolutely. Do I like them, sure, and I'd happily avoid any product that didn't provide them willingly.

> To say if you want to enter food and food stuffs into the stream of commerce you need to include nutritional information and ingredients, is that really authoritarian?

Yes, it is, by definition. Forcing a vendor to do anything is authoritarian; the question is is it justified. Forcing someone not to lie, yea that's justified because lying is fraud. Forcing them to add something to a label, that's just authoritarian. Let the market kill them for being stupid. If the market wants nutrition labels they'll do it voluntarily or their competition will.

> I personally like consumer rights and don’t pretend there is a level playing field between consumers and corporations. I think it’s a common sense approach to the reality companies put nasty shit in food from preservatives to various types of sugars that consumers base buying decisions on and it’s not authoritarian to require those disclosures...at least you know where we have a quasi democratic process in the form of a constitutional republic.

It is authoritarian by definition; though it may be justified authoritarianism in response to bad actors in the market. Not all authoritarianism is unjustified, markets do fail. However, nutrition information being forced on all isn't remotely the same as forcing only some to label something GMO as if that status has any scientific validity whatsoever. The non-GMO movement is superstition and ignorance, not science. Superstition should not be forced onto vendors.

> It’s like saying it’s authoritarian to require doctors to inform patients about their options.

It is. You seem to not know what that word means. If the government makes you do something, it is by definition authoritarian.

> How dare these authoritarians dictate how doctors practice medicine.

Yes actually, you should be very concerned when government decides it knows better than doctors about how to treat patients. But you'll note the legal requirement on this actually refers back to the doctors norms, they're only required to inform patients of things that a reasonable doctor would inform them of.

> Did I say I was good and anyone else was bad.

I didn't say you said it; I said watching you pretend to be, that means that's how your coming off to me. That's my opinion of your behavior.
Ask HN: What to do with a Google Home if you don’t trust Google?
I’ve stated on HN that I would never put a Google Home in my house because I don’t trust Google. So, naturally I won one at the office Christmas party. I thought about giving it away, but that just helps Google do things I personally find unethical. So, what useful things can I do with this device that don’t involve allowing Google to spy on my family and friends?
I disagree (to a degree). Everyone i know kicked and screamed about switching from Vent/Teamspeak/Mumble. I feel like it eventually dominated not because it was easy to dump existing solutions, but because existing solutions were poorly designed by comparison. No mobile, horrid chat, required install, poor voip quality. Discord came along with a better offering and it still was a tough switch.

With that said, i agree that no one "cares" about Discord. If a better thing comes along i could easily see people dumping it. But, i imagine it'll be a bit more difficult. Discord "won" in my view because it simply had to be modern to be vastly superior. However, i'm unsure how easy someone can make a next version that is such a superior leap.

Fwiw, as a gaming voip/chat i still find it a pretty great UX. My only complaint is that it is a bit laggy due to the, i assume, web-based interface on "desktop".
Eh. Raw data to me means maximally noisy, maximally biased by collector and detector mechanisms, unfiltered, uncorrected and uncalibrated. Give me the raw data along with your adjustments, rationale and feedback loops that keep your adjustments in line.
This was added to cyanogen as a status bar option. Someone send the patch to android, became a setting one of the irrelevant post-2.3 versions i believe (when most of the code was scratched because they were forking 3 vs 4 to tweak for tablets), and disappeared on actual versions that were pushed to phones as google do with every little feature where the community do manage to overcome the immense hurdle of contributing to android in the first place.

open source in android only means "carriers do not have to sign a NDA to see the source in order to send patches for OEM marketing tweaks on the UI" :(
Do you have a source for "their store has already been doing very well"?

I buy quite a few games, but can't see a compelling reason to buy anything from Discord. I also don't know anyone else that's bought a game from them yet either.
I'm also currently using it with a Yubikey and on personal account.
You can't share memory between threads. ie. it's single threaded.
I have been using Discord since the very beginning, as a replacement for TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and the occasional Mumble ( friends and onlinr friends). Also it replaced entirely Skype. And IRC for pugs and finding opponents to "fight".
Discord is great and free. I would have never expected them to try and take a bite off Steam.
Steam has a lot of issues but it's also the king of the hill and will be extremely hard to take a seizable chunk of their cake away.
With the Netflix for videogames approach Discord enters another unsustainable model, with the first one being unlimited chat and voice-chat for everyone.

I wish them the best, it would suck if Discord disappeared, but they're throwing a lot stones into the gaming well. And we all know how the gaming world is...
https://www.universelol.com/what-are-some-staggering-certain... What Are Some Staggering Certainties About Material Science?
Germany has far worse ratios.
They are, that's why Fortnite took a massive dump on PUBG
What Are Some Staggering Certainties About Material Science? https://www.universelol.com/what-are-some-staggering-certain...
The operator knows your phone's IMEI which allows to determine the brand/model.
At a certain point in life this sort of listening, or mind reading, becomes non-cognitive. You do this without deliberation and have trouble turning it off. I suppose the idea is to better understand and possibly anticipate the forth coming decisions from how they treat people, self reflect, and plan.
Should fire safety not apply to all large residential buildings? Why just hotels? Would generally applicable regulation not be better?

Hotels have more strict fire safety laws because of the way they’re constructed and because there are more potential victims in a smaller space.
That'd require not thieving from workers. Wage theft is the most common crime committed in the USA, yet we don't see managers and owners that commit this crime prosecuted in any meaningful way, at most they'll be asked to pay back wages: https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...
Used to be a keepass user until I found bitwarden. It does everything better, more simply. Sync is handled so much better and the browser extensions are super intelligent at picking up login fields.
Indira Gandhi's shenanigans led to the the establishment of the Basic Structure Doctrine of the Indian constitution, which I hope will prevent anybody else from exploiting the same loopholes
as a gamer I have to ask "when was that?"
No not only is oil production at historic highes, my theory is the US, Chinese and other foreign governments will start pushing electric vehicles hard. With tech adoption being extreme high unlike the past this adoption curve may take less than 5 years to get huge shares.

If you look at the US for example for the first time in 30 years. They've been oil reserves. Oil they save for nation security to turn it into profit before it's worthless.

It makes sense for China, the US, and europe to go electric since they have very little oil. It's a national security thing is what my guess is.
Disk IO is not always fast. Memory bandwidth is a huge bottleneck on current-day systems, especially on high-frequency, high-core-count processors. And so on and so forth. If you want a snappy and truly usable system you still need to care about performance issues, particularly given the rise in non-reducible system requirements e.g. for browsing the modern web.
I definitely see where you are coming from, and I personally wouldn't recommend "formal" actions like regulation or unionization.

I've been considering my options lately and the more I think about it, the more I hear "contracting" as one of the better ways to make liveable money without losing control over your working conditions + dialogue with client(s).

When you have constant, daily interaction with middle managers who are trying to become VPs or whatever, it can be extremely grating. Workplace politics, policies, and appearances are all created by these people so that they can protect their jobs and future bonuses.

So, perhaps consulting + contracting will create a barrier between you and the middle managers. They're forced to work with you more collaboratively because the CEO signs the checks on this one (hopefully), not the individual department you work for.

But yeah, out of the thousands of corporations and startups of all ages, industries, and sizes, I bet only 10% or less have an efficient, enjoyable, and equitable experience between low-ranking employees and their layers of management.

That's what is causing all the job-hopping and attempts to "trade-up" ;)
I've had some interest in personal steam engines over the years and I've found that they are far from cheap. Steriling engines are also not cheap. The issue is they don't produce a lot of work for the capital invested. Steam turbines maybe a better bet but it is tricky to make them small and cheap at the same time. Large, mighty and not too costly is no problem for steam turbines.

Non perfectly dry steam can be a disaster for steam turbines I think I recall. So the quality of the heat is going to have to be very high.

Maybe organic turbines could be a better bet as they can come in small packages. But even those are not exactly inexpensive.
Great find. One thing to hear a story in a comment, even better to see the commit.
Gee, maybe it sounds like YOU'RE projecting, friend-o.

I merely clarified an unspoken point, which is not to be confused with holding the view. Understanding a thing is not identifying with a thing. Get your head straight.
The comparison is silly: in 4mb-era one didn’t have to run docker instances and assorted VMs and databases (yes, you can do it in the cloud, but that’s not cheap). Most dev stacks were CPU-bound, now they are mostly memory-bound. That’s why devs are memory-hungry, not because they want 3d emojis.
Having played BG, Neverwinter, and after a long hiatus Pillars (but none of the above) can you elaborate a little? I liked the health/encounter system in Pillars. Spamming rests was no longer an option but having per encounter powers and health kept the game fun and balenced.