skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hong Kong has never been a democracy. The British appointed governors and the CCP retains the de facto ability to do so as well (though as a local appeasement process they choose not to do this outright and instead allow public vote amongst an approved group of candidates.)
Lulu's Christmas present and platform risk
Yes, I have actually been copying/improving existing features from the competitors while trying to improve some of the things that I consider "bad user experience"
What's wrong with styrofoam, assuming it is disposed of properly? Does it cause problems when tossed into a landfill? I think styrofoam is actually pretty good, per unit of source material, because it is expanded so much.
What's your point in saying that here? That suicidal farmers don't deserve empathy because of the inequities in American agriculture? Who is innocent? By that standard we should all kill ourselves, no?
Competition is the fun part! Once you see existing products/services, you can use them as a proxy to validate some aspects of your idea, but also study from them to see what they're lacking:

- Perhaps the service isn't able to meet 100% of the user needs, maybe because some users jumped onto that product because it was the closest (but not perfect) solution to their problem. Or maybe the company grew too big and lost focus/decided to ignore the needs of a few because they moved up.

- What about the non-technical parts of the product/service? Sometimes you can differentiate by user experience (the note-taking app "Notion" is a really good example of this, and totally swept me up. Kudos to their team!).
Yes, it is! Some of the most creative infographics I have done have been with Keynote.
After a marked decrease, piracy appears to be on the rise again [1]. The timing coincides with the peak content availability of Netflix, and then the fragmentation as every studio decided they needed to build their own streaming service.

It's kind of frustrating to see how close things came to actually getting to the ideal (imho, anyway): any show, streamed on demand, on any device, for a reasonable fee. Instead, the studios are going to try to compete on content - which is not really competition. I don't care what studio makes funny_show (either when deciding what to subscribe to, or when trying to figure out what app to launch to watch it), I just want to watch it. I don't want to watch similar_but_not_as_good_knock_off on another service.

What's crazy is the seemingly unstoppable train wreck the industry is currently involved in. It's bad enough to not only see what the music industry was forced into (which is basically ideal for consumers, at least without dismantling the entire way music is produced), but the movie industry already went through this a half century ago, when theaters used to be owned by the studios and only show their own exclusive movies [2].

[1] https://www.maketecheasier.com/internet-piracy-is-on-the-ris...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_P....
There are so many unsinkable aircraft carriers around China. Taiwan is not the only one, and also Taiwan island is too far away from USA, the only possible opponent of China. So once the war is starting, China is very easy to occupy Taiwan before USA can provide the support.
Standard is the key word here. Good thing McDonals is partnering with Stabucks here.
I feel like this misses the entire purpose of lorem ipsum. Good layout designers don't just want letters and spaces. They want letters and spaces that approximate the whitespace ratio of writing. Your version has only very long words and very short words and nothing in between. This feels like the telephone game version where all of the original intent has been lost and all that's left is a weak simulacrum in vaguely the same symbol space.
I just discovered Ruby, do you have and recommended places to learn the language?
Google vet launches an app for patients to record their doctor’s notes
NPR also recently had a story with this conclusion.

It doesn't seem all that pricey or complicated to me. Perhaps I'm missing some of the big picture, but it sure seems odd this angle has been hitting main stream media in a reinforcing manner.
> That's not a macOS feature though, that's an Apple PC firmware feature.

That you see a distinction here is telling. The end user doesn't see the distinction.

As for all of your complaints about the OpenGL drivers, that's an issue for developers, not end users. Yes, maybe there might be more 3D apps and faster 3D apps if the video driver situation was better, but also maybe not? Either way, this is all irrelevant because the fundamental argument here is the impetus for end users to remain on a platform. Just because you can possibly eek out an extra 20% performance in your Linux app on the same hardware isn't going to shift people.

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On a side note, could the people who are down-voting microcolonel please stop? This is a discussion of ideas, and his/her ideas are being expressed with valid form and structure.
The effects of Wyoming having two senators are far from minor in an age where key votes have been decided on a 51-49 basis.
Have you found a good way to streamline bringing content into your archive after purchase? I've tried to start archiving my collection of movies/TV on physical discs, but have never managed to get very far because the whole process of ripping/transcoding Blu-rays is a PITA and takes forever (ignoring the legal issues with Blu-ray and DVD ripping, as well).
You're assuming current prices in a distorted market. Since the distortions of regulation for various reasons can't (and including safety distortions, shouldn't) be removed, they should instead be managed.

There simply isn't enough housing within the economic zone that jobs exist in; this needs to be fixed.
people have been paying for cell phones for a while though. We used to pay about 30 a line for just a certain amount of talk minutes, but now we have cricket, and its only 20 a line with 5 gb of 4g. Granted with tmobile I had enough discounts for unlimited data for around 30 a line.
honestly, I don't mind something similar already exists.

the problem I'm having is how do I enter a niche space and get customers away from my competition?

the niche I'm entering has existing solutions, but they're messy and difficult to use (based on early feedback). I want to simplify a lot of it, but I know in the beginning I'm going to lack a lot of features that current existing solutions have.

If I keep at it, I'm sure I'll get to them eventually, but I think the lack of some of these features could be a major deal breaker for some potential customers early on. I don't want to cater to just larger customers, but I don't want to ignore them either.

I'm just not sure what the right balance is going to be, but I think the only way I'm going to figure it out is by engaging with potential customers for their input, while also not pushing them to jump over unless they think we're ready.
And maybe you can get something comparable on Linux. Maybe? Do I have to think about which distro I use? Do I have to think about which audio hardware I use? Do I have to think about which audio apps I use?

On Mac, you get that insane latency without having to put a moment's thought into any part of your architecture. I get that insane latency even if I never bothered to learn why latency matters.

"Just works" is more than ease of use. It's productivity. It shows respect to your mental load and mental priorities. And it is worth money to anyone whose time is valuable.
My favorite example of this is jet.com - who in their right mind would compete directly with Amazon on Amazon’s home turf? Well, it turns out it only looked like the same turf (“e-commerce”), but that’s the catch. Differentiation is subtle yet powerful, and Jet.com went for slower, bulk commodities, with a different pricing approach. Markets are, apparently, full of fickle niches!
Wow, watching the video that is a strong protest!
Thanks for the clarification.
oh, god, no! what an ugly, absurd and unnecessary over-engineering
After purchase I usually just download a "backup" of the content.
Lambda seems to be changing a lot of lives.
Some one that has that job like an architect, technical director, CTO. With the help of the people that needs to with with the code.
No heroes, no working extra hours, no crunch time but just people with different functions.
You're using an outlier library if it has 3-D printers. The average library is more a net cafe with a small amount of books and no "cafe" part. Essentially it's a worse bookstore with worse hours, but free content.

My local library is in a nice building downtown, but it's real amount of books is far less than the books-a-million 20 minutes away, and most of the floor space is dominated by banks of computers. When libraries changed focus from providing access to computers, they kind of lost their mission, because computers are now dirt cheap, yet books are more expensive overall.
But if you asked the same people to build the naturals, they'd likely include an initial object that behaves like 0.
I'm a chronic wheel reinventor. If you're trying to make money off of your project, your mileage may vary. However, I've found that there are plenty of good reasons to reinvent the wheel. Although I'd very rarely reinvent the wheel when I'm doing something for pay as that implies issues like deadlines and maintainability, I do it all the time for personal projects.

Professionally, I'll write only the code that I feel comfortable that I understand and can maintain. Otherwise, I'll look to third party open source code. Unfortunately, I have been bitten a few times recently by popular and well-maintained but poorly designed or tested libraries that include frustrating bugs.

In my personal projects, I like to challenge myself. I will choose to write any and all code that isn't provided by the language's standard library even if trustworthy open source libraries exist that I would use in a professional situation. I like to think of it as "desert island programming". If nothing else, it has taught me interesting things about all sorts of domains I wouldn't have otherwise sought to learn about. And that knowledge is worth the struggle when making it to market as fast as possible isn't the goal.

There are other reasons for reinventing the wheel besides supplementing your personal understanding. Sometimes the licenses of the alternatives are inadequate. Of course, that's a somewhat personal assessment. Sometimes the alternatives are poorly maintained, poorly designed, or have fundamental flaws or bugs. Sometimes it's not that the existing software is bad per se. Oftentimes writing software involves trade-offs and perhaps the trade-offs the major library's authors have chosen are different from what you might choose. Recreating it yourself can clue you in to these trade-offs and gives you the opportunity to explore different paths.
I pay ~4.5% on my mortgage and ~US$20k in property taxes. It’s all relative, I guess!

Curious: your tax is 1.7% of what? Fair market value? Some official valuation?
If you have the machine, and the cup is in pristine condition (ie: hasn’t been used).

Outside those conditions, “disposable” coffee cups of all types lead to long-term pollution.
70 times seems big until you consider that it's just over two months, or 3.5 months if you only consider weekdays. I have a travel mug (Zojirushi, highly recommend!) that I've used for 3 years and it's still in like-new condition, and a Camelbak water bottle that's over 4 years old and still fine.

Using disposable cups just needs to cost more and that needs to be obvious to the consumer. My local Aldi solved it - even though paper bags are only 5¢, everyone brings their own reusable bag.
https://sustainability.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/...

Styrofoam for single-use products has been banned in NYC already.
The red fire alarm relics on New York streets
Tech and Society with Mark Zuckerberg
History of Toilet Paper
This also misses that Lorem Ipsum is effectively gibberish for most people. It's impossible to get hung up on the content.
Important to point out that the linked article, in addition to being highly-informative and well-researched is also an exemplary application of type design worthy of emulation.

If you’re running a SAAS business you can admire it; if you publish a blog or editorial site by all means copy it.
While Windows's backwards compatibility is sadly getting worse, it's also still pretty incredible. I can run lots of obscure Windows programs that 2+ decades old!

Mac backwards compatibility isn't as bad as some people say—I have a decade-old program that still works in Mojave, for instance—but Windows is a lot better.

The platform with awful backwards compatibility is iOS. And there, you don't even have the option to dual boot or downgrade. The fact that no one cares says something about how much we value mobile software...
The owner of land owns it outright. If you own land, you don't pay taxes on it to anyone. It's yours.

Generally, nobles held land under "feudal tenure" and not "allodial tenure" (the latter is "outright" ownership). Under feudal tenure, the noble did not owe taxes but they did owe "service" which they could try to make up with goods and money instead.

The service was onerous. Generally, showing up with a sword and shield and an army fitting your station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism_in_England#Varieties...

Along with the main service there could be many more specific services. One example of many: in the present day, there is a noble family in England that is required to set out three glasses of Brandy or Cognac or another strong spirit on a certain holiday, so that the reigning monarch may come by and drink them if she so chooses.
At least in all the Starbucks shops I've visited in the United States so far, the common practice is for all coffee to be served in to-go containers. There's no eating in distinction, and while the shops sell (and accept) reusable cups, that isn't the default. If you eat in, and don't bring your own cup, you're served coffee in a disposable container.
Plot twist: the glass is just crushed and dumped, very little actually gets recycled. Everyone uses different glass for their bottles and you can’t easily separate it once it’s mixed (either as whole bottles, shards of broken bottles, or molten glass).
I might be in agreement with you. I do think we need RMS doing whatever it is RMS sees fit to do. But we also need many other sincere and altruistic people, with other perspectives and approaches, also working on ideas in this broad space.
What is the point of mini PCS?
YouTube TV will raise rates to 50$/month in May, this imo is overpriced for what they offer. I have been with the service from the beginning, and was happy with it. Unfortunately I now need to find a replacement.
Exactly this, the market is validated. Can you find an opening? The game changes more to marketing.
Taiwan is actually very close to two very important US allies, the Philippines and Japan. It’s alot harder and more expensive to launch an attack from Luzon or Okinawa than it is to launch it from Taiwan.
> I think cell phones eliminated the home phone line for most people, not the internet.

Right, in functionality, but if you think in terms of a kind of slot for bills, I think home Internet fits close into where the phone bill used to (think back when phone bills were kinda high, especially if you wanted caller ID and voicemail and such, once those came around, or long distance) while cell phones tend to be a little higher and fit roughly where cable/satellite used to, as far as proportion of telecom bill goes.

> Edit: I recommend US mobile or Ting for cheap phone plans. My wife and I pay ~$55 combined monthly on Ting.

Yeah, probably time for us to shop around again. We're on T-Mobile, which was easily the cheapest option from the big carriers at the time we picked it. We like that we still get (much slower) Internet service if we hit our tiny cap, which we can do by accidentally watching youtube for a few minutes with the wifi off. But maybe we should look at re-sellers. Seems crazy that they could be cheaper than going first-party, but I guess maybe they are, somehow.

[EDIT] is that $55 with taxes and fees and such? I remember last time I looked into this, maybe a year ago, what I kept running into was that it looked like I'd save a lot looking at sales' version of the figures, but when it came time to get serious about paying and those things got added in it was no savings, or maybe just single digit $/mo so not really worth a switch.
Just do expand a bit further on Grab, they added food delivery and parcel courier services recently, as well as transport subscription services (for around $40 you get 35 car rides a month, for example).
Camera attachment to phones claims to transfer data using ultrasonic sound
The dream of cheap streaming television will always stupid. Given that there's zero marginal cost to distributing content, "unbundling" doesn't ultimately reduce providers' costs at all (of course it's not quite this simple, you have several players involved in providing content - studios, cable operators, aggregators like netflix, etc - but in the long run these details don't matter). So given that the costs of production haven't been lowered, why would anybody expect the cost to the consumer to decrease? On average they should remain the same. Maybe everybody expected to be on the lucky side of average? Or maybe people just hadn't thought this through at all.
The crux of all of these issues is that we want the benefits of containers without the consequences.

Well, we're learning that you have to deal with it at some point, be it the occasional washing or mountains of trash. People are going to have to just suck it up about reusing things. As long as it's safe, people's feelings about perceived ickiness will go away once the practice is normalized. And eventually we won't even remember how convenient it was to just throw things away.
Die no, but everybody had an H. pylori infection
Not nostalgia I think, but a search for texture and warmth. Digital media has a very glossy, smooth, and cool look to it. How ever that feels very mannered and sterile. Imperfections like grain evoke a sense of texture to works that add interest, and noise in general is considered warm. I think people find more comfort and authenticity in those things.

I think if you look at most modernist architecture, you have a real life version of the digital look; you have the glossy, cool, and smooth aesthetic, but they have sort of an anti-human vibe to them. It might be that the influencers are just tired of the mannered look and the implications of it.
US also think Tibet is an individual country, but who cares
Yep - just took a look and there is a lot of stuff there that is clearly staged and not at all "candid". Like she is sitting on a basket ball net 10ft in the air in perfect lighting from 3 separate angles, followed by another post of her and someone else wearing matching outfits and doing that vapid mouth-slightly-open distant-stare pose (again from multiple angles).

So candid. #nofilter.

It's fine - I've not got a problem with someone wanting to have their photo taken. But trying to pass that off as anything different than what has gone before seems disengenius. Sure, perhaps the style of photos have changed, but then styles and fashions have always changed in everything from clothes and houses through to pets and holidays.
Here's the recommendation I give to students when they ask me this question (it's a common one!):

You come up with a brilliant idea, you obsess over it, you Google some info, and on your screen lies your idea, being done by someone else, for the last two years. You’re all too familiar with that sinking feeling in your stomach that follows. You abandon the idea almost immediately after all that excitement and ideation.

First (as already mentioned), existing solutions prove your idea — their existence proves that you’re trying to solve a real problem that people might pay to have solved. And it proves that you’re heading in a direction that makes sense to others, too.

Second, and this is the biggie: The moment you see someone else’s solution, you mar and limit your ideas. It suddenly becomes a lot more difficult to think outside the box because before, you were exploring totally new territory. Your mind was pioneering in a frontier that had no paths. But now, you’ve seen someone else’s path. It becomes much harder to see any other potential paths. It becomes much harder to be freely creative.

Next time you come up with that great idea, don’t Google it for a week. Let your mind fester on the idea, allow it to grow like many branches from a trunk. Jot down all of the tangentially related but equally exciting ideas that inevitably follow. Allow your mind to take the idea far into new places. No, you won’t build 90% of them, but give yourself the time to enjoy exploring the idea totally.

When I do this, once I do Google for existing solutions, I usually find that all the other things I came up with in the ensuing week are far better than what’s already out there. I have more innovative ideas for where it could go next; I have a unique value proposition that the other folks haven’t figured out yet. But had I searched for them first, I never would have come up with those better ideas at all.

Finally, I’ll say this: if you see your idea has already been done and you no longer care about it, then it probably wasn’t something you were passionate enough about in the first place; it was just a neat idea to you.
Can we diff spectrograms to define the "distance" between two chunks of sound and use this measure to guide the ML learning process?

Would it help to decompose sound into subpatterns with Fourier transform?

Afaik, there is a similar technique for recognizing faces: a face picture is mapped to a "face vector". Yet this technique doesn't need the notion of "sequence of faces" to train the model. Can we use it to get "sound vectors"?
> I think you and people with similar points are exaggerating

I hardly think I am exaggerating by stating this concern. The development of one-time use cups (like dixie cups) was primarily to address sanitary issues. I can see lipstick on a glass, I can't see funky residue inside a straw.

I've discussed issues with soap use at some cafes that use reusable ceramics (as it can leave a residue and affect the flavor). One owner of a higher end cafe told me that they chose rather to sanitize their cups with a high temperature commercial dishwasher. This violates their local health code but is practically acceptable.

Anyways, I know it's possible to disinfect straws, but if it proves to be more complicated or requires a lesser known process (like boiling them), the odds if it not being done properly or not at all go up.
The best use I've found for it is figuring out which of the people I know are fake, shallow and attention starved... and then avoiding those people.
Bishop's looks like an awesome book, and it's on my reading list after many colleagues recommended it to me.
I wouldn't have added it to the list though, because I haven't read it yet.
My favorite part about this question is that it allows for an SAT like comparison that tickles me to no end when people realize how true it is.

Trump is to Boomers as Elon Musk is to Millennials.

They are almost the exact same personality wrapped in only slightly different generational belief systems. Where Trump made waves in the 80s by being the "winner" type, Musk made waves by being the "visionary" type.

Both are voracious exaggerators bordering on pathological liars. Both are media whores who appear in movie cameos as themselves. Both are completely despised by former business partners. Both use Twitter as a personal echo chamber.

Only reason Musk hasn't gone bankrupt is because the US government kept all of his businesses afloat with major capital infusions. At least Trump's bankruptcies didn't cost tax dollars.

Musk is worshiped because a lot of people don't want to face the fact he's a bullshit artist so they have to take comfort in the illusion of his persona.