skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you arguing that MS lost the smart phone race because they were too expensive? I don't know anyone who didn't buy a Windows Phone because of cost.

They lost because finding good Windows Phone apps was difficult. This is why I stopped using a Windows Phone, and why everyone I know stopped using a Windows Phone.

I could pick up a performant Windows Phone for $40, and I wasn't happy with my Android until I spent $200+.

Not to mention one of the largest companies in the world right now makes most of it's money off of selling a mobile OS's.
Axial tilt is sometimes defined such that 0° is when the orbital and rotational axes align, including direction of rotation; Venus has a tilt of 177° by this standard, because of its retrograde rotation compared to the majority of the planets.
There's also the 2DS, and the 2DS XL. Oh, and the New Nintendo 3DS XL.

They all play the same games though, so yeah, good luck explaining which is which to a casual buyer. The very 2DS name sounds like it should be a weaker system than the 3DS, despite coming out later and being mostly the same bar the stereostopic 3D visuals.

Names certainly haven't been their strong suit.
This is from 5+ years ago, you gotta ask why this is being released now.

I can see why it's a bad idea to have Chinese gear in our networks, but this is something completely unrelated except in the vague sense of "china bad". You can argue for getting Huawei out of our networks on their own merit without this crap.
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Sounds like it's now a Weak Company.
Thanks for the response.

> faster recovery times

Is this because of client timeouts or am I missing something?
I don't even know that many people who "store value in gold". The ones that do are usually also the people screaming that the sky is falling, at which point I favor guns, ammunition, and food & water.
Sure, that's fine. It doesn't need to stick, because clocks will continue to be available. I'd rather be employable and have to use a clock to wake up, than unemployable but in a 'natural' state(to use the false dichotomy presented by OP)

Also, I'm curious what your natural bedtime would be if you not only removed clocks, but also removed TVs, screens and other artificial lighting. It seems unfair to say you would do something 'naturally' without clocks, but not without all the other technology that is actually causing you to stay awake at non-natural hours in the first place.
Don't forget app stores, music distributors, etc!
Good point. Note I have designed Adblock Radio to rely on audio only, so that it gives the smallest possible margin for radio operators to circumvent it.

I do not rely on metadata, nor do I use the usual time schedules for ad breaks.
Warranted or not, sanctions can be seen as one step before war. It's an effective method to hit them where it hurts (their pockets) without creating casualties directly. The whole point of sanctions is to drive the enemies GDP down on purpose to "flex your arms". It does not matter whether the sanctioned goods are dangerous or not. Once again, the ultimate goal is to smother their GDP growth. And like all foreign policy tools, it's meant to be political. The US has laws and I expect our justice department to arrest those who break our laws regardless of their nationality if they step into our country (or allies). Just like how the Chinese would arrest any US citizen if we break their laws when we step into their country.

The WTO submitted a report last year about the efficacy of sanctions (and it happens to be on Iran) for those curious [1].

[1] https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/reser_e/ersd201803_e.pdf
IRT meat substitutes coming in bulk forms as opposed to pre-formed patties, I've had "Beyond Meat" before which comes as a ground beef substitute as well as patties. The prices for Beyond Meat weren't much higher than the leanest ground beef at the grocery store.

https://www.beyondmeat.com/
Except when the feed is actually sheep.
What school is that? That’s very low.
“Unlike some other jobs that do pretty well on the list, which are very demanding, software developer tends not to be a really stressful profession," Koenig said.

Money for nothing and the clicks for free...
> The debt is from private lenders, who do have incentive to ensure borrowers pay back.

Not necessarily. Private banks issuing federally-backed student loans want you to default, because then they double their money. See here: http://www.collegescholarships.org/research/student-loans/
I believe this is a trick question. The "standard" chess board is 8x8, with a 32 possible pieces. This gives you a constant (albeit absurdly large) number of configurations, which means that the one-line solution "Brute Force" is an O(1) algorithm.
I think that simplifies things a bit too far.

A Turing Machine represents the most complete computational toolkit we happen to know of--not the most complete computational toolkit possible. If we discovered a new computational trick tomorrow--one that a Turing Machine can't perform (the ability to solve the halting problem for Turing Machines, for instance), then we would have discovered another--higher--class of computers, and it would be a reasonable linguistic move to refer to their programs as "algorithms" as well.
> It's somehow less immoral to skip ads if the user has to put some kind of manual effort into it each time?

It's morally grey, in my opinion.

If we can agree that:

1. Using an adblocker on services that offer premium versions (such as Crunchyroll) is dishonest

2. Going to the bathroom/looking away from the TV during an ad playing on Crunchyroll free is not dishonest

Then the morality line is somewhere in between there.

My philosophy is to always support the content creator in some way. To consume content while robbing the creator of their source of income (even if it's pennies) is dishonest, in my opinion. I don't have qualms manually skipping an ad I've already seen 5 times, and can quote buy heart, however.
I can see through my blinds with a regular Nikon 300mm zoom lens .... I think because there is enough light going through the bunch of holes?
Try looking up Yeelight, they're made by Xiaomi and are basically what I wish Hue was.
The point of the story is that people were saying that in 1953 too... Maybe this new machine is nothing, but we'll see.
Especially when one of the countries has vowed, time and time again, to wipe another country off the map.
From their FAQ: 430 mg sodium in 3 oz

https://images.ctfassets.net/hhv516v5f7sj/5p1YQzJxduEoC2gIWa...

https://impossiblefoods.com/faq/
The price of a commodity depends more on the energy, labor, and technology required to extract it and consequent market power of the main producers than on its abundance in the earth's crust. Otherwise strontium ($1000/kg, 360 ppm in crust) would be a lot cheaper than tin ($16/kg, 2.2 ppm).
I guess it depends on what vocation they are looking at post-graduation and what education is required for those positions. The experience of a software dev isn't a universal one.
On the other hand, you can discharge medical debt, and not dying adds earning power to an individual and cannot be liquidated.
The good people at Huawei would never allow/enable the evil government of Iran to spy on the Iranian people.
The Littlest Boy: the U.S. Army's backpack nuke
Isn't it just this? https://impossiblefoods.com/faq/

430mg per patty which is about the same sodium as like canned tuna
They are not actually the exact same classes -- some are, if they are cross listed in the undergraduate catalogue. Others are taught by lecturers hired specifically for the extension school

(my credentials: I graded for Harvard Extension School multivar calc one summer. That guy was far from a harvard professor....)
This is basically my story. After we closed our office due to everyone except me moving away, I worked from home for a few months. It's nice being around people.
they may have this out...Indiana public colleges have a with HS graduation take an advance test out that gives up to 2 years college free to those HS students from Indiana..so some are looking not at 4 years at almost $50k but $25k
In what way is that not fraud?

Fraud - wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.

No one has to be "out any money" for fraud to occur.
Having looked at a few of these studies I found the following problems

1. Industry sponsorship. Which has been shown to produce wildly biased results.

2. Small, short term studies which can only find a "significant" (i.e. statistically significant) effect if the effect is large and immediate.

In some of the studies an effect showed up close to statistical significance but the headline was "no effect found"

3. I don't know about this one, but some analyses have found that a majority of review papers were ghost written by industry PR hacks who them paid professors to put their names on them.

I suggest read the papers closely and looking hard at sponsorship issues before believing them.

Also note that these studies were on adult men. There is every reason to suspect that the developing male fetus is orders of magnitude more vulnerable to environmental hormone disruptors of all kinds.
I am the sole founder and developer of Meta Meme (https://metameme.app). I built it for a couple of years as a side project, and recently went full time on it. It's been growing slowly over the past couple years but really started picking up last summer. I'm not going to lie, it's been really difficult. There were a lot of times when I'd just be so exhausted or worn down but kept working on it. And I thought everything would be better once I went full time, but it's also had its own unique set of challenges. Still, I am excited and grateful to be doing it and pressing on. It takes a lot of time and dedication.

A VC recently told me that most startups don't fail, it's just that the founder quits working on it. The deeper I get into my business, the more i see how that can be true.
All really great advice, particularly the point about not ignoring early signs. Hope I'm not too late. Thanks.
IBM also marketed OS/2 along with PS/2 in hopes that they would be adopted together, but it wasn't until OS/2 had good support for non-IBM hardware (v1.3/2.x) that it got wider spread adoption before being relegated to checkout computers.
Spiders consume twice the biomass of all adults on earth every year, so I think it's safe to say: Animals. Both in number as well as in weight, even if all humans adopted the US lifestyle (120kg meat/year).
A company I worked had such a scheme. It works the first couple of quarter, then it got weird because senior management tried to find a balance between all departments, all countries and they ran out of candidates. I think it was 5 winners per quarter. They didn't want to reward a person twice. In my opinion over time they just lowered the standard. There've been employees who would've deserved winning every year based on their impact.

It didn't motivate me in particular. Got a nice 3 day holiday (flight+hotel), which was much better than what another person in my office got: an ugly ebike in company colors which failed to run.
The Million Dollar Lecture
I think it's perfectly fair to say Machine Learning is a subset of mathmatics. Everything can be broken down into independent equations, not to mention computers are deterministic.

I do get your point, The outcome of these equations is not always as expected, due to the real world data not being prepped and cleaned.

HOWEVER, I would argue this has nothing to do with ML at all, and only to do with the input data.

If I have a complex equation: y=x+1

And I put in x=1 I expect y=2. If I put in x=11 and expect y=2 then the equation "producted unexpected results". This is not the fault of the equation, it's the fault of the input.
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Ah!

I do remember I clicked on that briefly but I thought it was too low level like you said, and I thought there would be something else so I kept looking.

I guess I was wrong, but it's good to know there is something that works.

It also doesn't look that bad anyway, so I might as well give it a try.

Thanks!
"Only the Best", I don't think this is an most accurate definition :) I would recommend to compare it with landing pages from Web Designers' Community - https://cssfox.co/favorite-foxes :)
Best.
there's nut milks and faux leather. nearly everything has a plant-based alternative and if something doesn't, it will have one soon.
The extreme happenings are probably not that extreme anymore from what I've heard.

Working conditions in the warehouses are still bad though. They are bad in a lot of shipping warehouses, but Amazon has been among the ones leading the race to the bottom.

Apart from that, being an employee at Amazon even outside the warehouse is generally not that great from all the accounts I've hear over the years. A big part of that are their principles[0], which breed that kind of an environment.

[0]: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles
No, there's less to it than that:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1344

You aren't allowed to lie to the bank if you're getting money out of them, even if they are made whole. Them being made whole may prevent them from exercising a number of tortious claims against you, but that doesn't mean what you've done isn't independently illegal.
Sadly enough, that all this science explores averages. I cannot drink alcohol because I remember "side effects" much more clearly than "direct" ones. I used to have fun from drinks, but with age I did it less frequently and for the last 10 years I didn't drink at all. Why? Is there is some psychological cause or some biochemistry mechanisms works at higher/lower intensity than in average fly? I cannot even make a guess reading such articles.
>Well yes, of course. People don't go into academia because they want to teach. Academics are also not rewarded significantly for good teaching.

When student tuition fees make up the bulk of a department's income, is this reasonable and fair to students? Are they getting value for money?

Some institutions have separate teaching and research promotion tracks mapped to equivalent salary grades.
Weird how casually they drop in that the one woman spends her time in the morning selling essential oils, most likely via a MLM scheme (even mentions posting on social media to support it).
I think "The 4-color map theory is bunk" could become a movement, like flat earth.
Agreed. Valuation is based on sum of future profits - so essentially how profitable the business can be AND how big it can be. If

1) Ratio of fixed to marginal costs is high you have economies of scale, and will get much more profitable as you grow (software vs consulting)

2) You can capture revenue quickly because it's operationally simple to add customers (e.g don't need to hire with each dollar of revenue) you are more likely to reach that profitable scale faster.

If your company uses tech to achieve (1) and (2) then they should have high valuations. If you happen to use cool tech but don't have economies of scale or easy operational growth than how you brand the company shouldn't really matter.
> instead of simpler solutions such as bringing veg friendly cuisines to the fore.

To me, transforming people's food preference requires obviously much more complex solutions than replicating meat.
My girlfriend and I tend to get them about once a month at a local restaurant and have no problem with them.

Could it be something else in the meal? For instance, our restaurant serves it with vegan Bun, Cheese, and 1000 Island dressing; all sourced from other local businesses. Maybe it's one of those toppings?
The simulation suggests it could have happened that way. That doesn't translate well into that headline. (Given the domain name, a person might hope for better.)

Impact hypotheses are a popular type of explanation. Some may survive actual exposure to evidence, and eventually become theories. This is quite an old idea (as is the idea that the Moon impacted the Earth); maybe one day it'll pan out.

Until then, it'd be great to see fewer hypotheses in 'Science News' headlines ... and more evidence.
What did you go back for degree wise?
It wasn't the translation, I just hated all of the characters - especially the protaganist and his faux-philosophical rants about his hatred the square root of negative one. The world that that the author built was actually interesting, and if that's the only thing a reader cares about, then I can see the appeal. But the storytelling as a whole just sank the whole thing for me.

And this coming is from someone who loved 1984 and Brave New World and was eagerly looking forward to reading "We" at one point.
> I don't think I'd be very inclined to spend money on a space where I had to try to find a room every time I was on a phone call or wanted to talk with someone.

But what makes more sense: you stepping out or getting a private office, or making the open office non-viable for everyone else who has to focus? What a conceit that everyone else should adapt to you when you could simply adapt to everyone else.
The same phenomenon could be witnessed during the right wing terror attack at Munich OEZ. There was only one shooter active in a rather distant part of Munich, but there were a LOT of reports of shooting sounds from all over the city. One panicked dude jumped through a glass bar window for safety and injured himself, and cops had basically the city on lockdown as they had to verify and clear ever more locations.

It was the probably most stressful event in younger Munich history for both public and police/EMS.
If you work in tech or marketing your salary comes from eroding privacy. There is a lot of money at stake here and people don't vote against their interests.

Europeans aren't inherently better: if Facebook and Google were companies founded in Germany or France who knows if GDPR would exist.
Maybe younger people are performing something like reinforcement learning with higher emphasis on exploration than exploitation relative to older individuals.
We've edited the comment for you—I hope you don't mind! You have to use a blank line in order to get a newline (https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc).
I thought this was going to be a bit more radical, like a market for students that companies would pay into. I could see something where you could take "aptitude" tests that would get you tuition funding from a company if you showed some signal that you could be useful to them, but I guess that's basically just a scholarship... Also they can't force you to work for them once you are done, so that's a problem. One thing It would be useful for though would be to strongly signal when there is a LACK of demand in a specific area. It might save some people a lot of heart ache and money getting a "useless" degree.
I think it's just that calling it "maths" tends to give a false sense of certainty where none is warranted.

Example: All the really clever math you use to make an encryption algorithm is all 100% correct. Then all the really clever math you use to show that it would take the heat death of the universe to crack your clever encryption is 100% correct. The user uses 'password' as the key; How does your crypto stand up to a brute force? Is that your algorithms fault? Did your difficulty proof lie to you?

I know key length is a well understood. In terms of how algorithmically "valid" real world data that can otherwise torpedo entire complex systems, it's as good an example as any.
Extremely inhumane and cruel! Similar to punishing poachers for barely making a living and not the black industry/market.

Some poor man/woman on the other side of the line probably lost a day of work because of this!

The best thing to do with these scammers is to ignore.
Possibly because that would explain its rotation being the reverse of the other planets(except Venus). If it started rotating the same way as the other planets and were rotated 82 degrees, it would still be rotating in the same direction as the other planets, where as by rotating 98 degrees, the rotation is reversed.
Why we fell for clean eating (2017)
Yes I have the same problem, also the fake meat products are often loaded with ridiculous amounts of salt.

The produce spiel claims reduced salt so it looks like this has been an issue with this product in the past.
I have looked at "expertsexchange" for years and never saw the humor there. Thanks for pointing out!
It takes energy to process soya into an edible patty. It does for meat patties as well, so I am curious about the comparison (eg. a soy patty takes x Kw to make, a beef one takes y Kw).

Where I think meat has an advantage is that "we" don't need to use energy to make the patty taste good, the cow does that naturally using the feed. But a soy patty needs all sorts of things added to it and we need to use energy and water to actively process it into something edible.

If we were just eating the soya beans as we pulled them out of the ground, it would be far more sustainable. But beef tastes great right off the cow! Soya is quite bland.
Remember when FF wasn't shit?
Good times. I miss my extensions that no longer work.
>I’ll open up the voice memos app on my iPhone, hit record, and let it just sit there. It doesn’t go entirely unnoticed; any notification or buzz will illuminate the homescreen to show white soundwaves under a red “recording” bar. But he’s aware of what the phone is doing, and he doesn’t seem to mind.

Uhhhh...this does not seem healthy whatsoever.
If your workflow is like:
1. Manipulate current directory
2. Run some program
3. Manipulate current directory again
4. Run yet another program...

You can actually consider current directory as immutable already.

It became "badly mutable" for example if you manipulate the current directory and this change is observable from a program point of view which is already running. Would that be really useful?

To clarify I am not trying to say that absolutely everything should be immutable but it's fun thought experiment how far you can go.
The tricky thing about cross-platform UI dev, when considering macOS, isn't just about the widgets and so on. It's things like placement, hierarchies, etc. Like you said, easier said than done. To demonstrate for those who aren't sure:

Say Joe Bloggs wants to make an alert window to confirm if the user wants to save the document, but needs to add custom text and graphics so can't rely on a default implementation on each platform. So he makes an alert window, looks great.

Except his design is utterly confusing for macOS users. See, on Windows (and plenty of Linux environments), the Save and Cancel buttons would be centred on the window, and Save would be at the left. On macOS, Save and Cancel would be aligned to the right, and Save would be the right-most button.

Okay, so that's a pretty easy thing to solve with a cross-platform toolkit. Instead of defining the placement of buttons, you just define the text and action for the default button, the text and action for the cancel button, and they'll be put in the right place for every platform. Easy.

But that's such a small example. Try scaling that to the way macOS and Windows/Linux differ in the use of view hierarchies. Windows-style tab controls vs NSTabView; Windows/Linux-style tabbed, left-aligned settings windows vs standard macOS-style centre-aligned preference windows with NSToolbar at the top; each window/section of an app having its own menu bar as opposed to macOS having a static menu bar whose items enable/disable depending on context; MDI vs document-based apps; the fact that macOS apps can still be running even with no windows open, meaning that certain parts of the UI can still be opened, and your UI must account for this despite another window that you would expect to be open (on Windows or Linux) not being in memory at all.

To an engineer, these might seem trivial or not that big a deal. To a user, that's potential data loss.
Both Sears and K-Mart were crappy dumps 30 years ago. Not saying a competent manager couldn't have turned them around, but they've been on their way down for a long time.