skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use this (I wrote it, and have been using it daily for many years): http://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
The competency of the current U.S. administration is my substantiation.
My mouse (Logitech MX Master) supports Bluetooth. It also supports Logitech' s "Unifying Receiver" and has a button to switch between three different Logitech receivers. I think everyone can guess correctly which of these options just works and always does what you want it to.
Not at all. It's indignation that's specific; curiosity is legion. When I post like that, the purpose is to encourage less common, wider-ranging comments. Those don't always appear without help, for the same reason that flowers don't always grow through weeds.
Wow. Look at Tesla go!

Why hasn't any other auto manufacturer thought of this?!
[part 2]

> Replaced "attempted the method" with "carried out the method" because you can fail an attempt, but to fail to attempt the method is to not follow the method. There is not a single known instance of a person having carried out the methods employed by the saints that didn't end up with good results.

Those methods don't possibly include as one step being successful? As in: If you don't get the good result, then the only accepted explanation is that you didn't do it right? Because that would be an untestable claim, then.

Also, in any case, that doesn't resolve the bias, as that sounds pretty much like a textbook example of survivorship bias. Or in other words: Why would you expect to know about someone carrying out the methods and failing? The fact that you don't know about them does not mean that they don't exist, and it seems pretty obvious that those who succeed would be way more likely to be known. Also, it seems just completely impossible to know that such a person never existed, given that anyone out of billions or humans could have been someone who tried?

> Depends on how you are defining overall happiness. Many saints died joyfully while being tortured to death.

Seriously? You are telling me that you can't recognize this as a case of mental illness, and the only possible explanation in your mind is that they found a path to happiness that would be usable by anyone? Sorry, but your claims really are getting absurd. Pretty much what you'd expect from someone who tries to find any justification for a predetermined conclusion, rather than following the evidence where it leads, though.

> The problem you'll find with this is that you're not likely to find anyone who employs no aspects of the methods used by the saints, particularly because such a person, and you'd agree, would be completely depraved.

I'm not sure that I would agree they would be depraved, I am not really sure what your point or argument even is there.

But in any case, sure, that might be a problem, but that is not my problem. If you make a claim, it's your responsibility to provide the evidence, and if that's too difficult, then that doesn't mean that your position is reasonable without evidence, it simply means that you are making unsubstantiated claims.
I worked twenty hours a week in what ended up being my career. I gained valuable work experience that landed me a job immediately when I graduated. I could have done better in school if I’d had the luxury to devote myself fully, but the work experience was invaluable.
But we're not waiting. Cars today are absolutely crammed with automated safety features. Far more than the airbags and ABS on my 20 year old VW. Think automatic collision avoidance, blind zone detectors, traction control, lane departure warnings, back-up cameras, adaptive cruise control, and more that I've probably never heard of yet.[0]

To think that we're waiting until perfect level 5 automated driving before we release it to the public is ridiculous. As the article clearly states,

> Most OEMs are now more forthright about the fact that autonomy will be a succession of small, graduated steps.

We didn't go straight to landing on the moon. Neither will we go straight to autonomous driving, or flying cars. Flying cars will never happen, because there are no gradual steps between flying and not flying, but software can be gradually improved. That doesn't mean running untested beta software in cars though.

[0] Also, advanced crumple zones, numerous airbags, proper safety restraints, crash guards on transport trailers, high-tech road makings, restrictive driving tests, and strict laws on driving while intoxicated or distracted.
Remember why Agile/Scrum sucks and you'll see when attitudes started to get out of whack : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406384

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/44bmmq/why_agi...
That is the cleanest clearest collection of solid definitions I have seen.
They are called, Native Americans.
In a world outside the US, where the Huawei P30 Pro has the best camera combo, one of the fastest processors and a premium. build (and price).
Buses are great but cars are 2x as quick to any destination more than a few km away (at least in Singapore). I don't own a car fwiw.
> you have to be fairly niche

I think they qualify - Sony need rackmounted PS3 and PS4 hardware, since the games in question won't run on standard AWS/Azure GPU instances.
Behing the EU's back? The project is public since years. The former German chancellor is publicly involved in it.

The project is very much European: lots of countries involved.

Why can't the EU buy gas from wherever we want?

Who is the the US to tell us where to buy our gas from?
It doesn't matter what you believe because Apple said that was the case in court filings during the FBI legal fight. Tim Cook reaffirmed that in an interview with Vice last fall.
But that's the rub. How can you tell which companies actually have strong earnings? Anecdotal evidence suggests that mainland Chinese companies frequently falsify financial reports, and auditing standards are weak.
Maybe lasers then?
> The advice to break a hard problem down into simpler pieces good, but I feel like that is often difficult without proper domain knowledge. In many cases, knowing how to break apart a problem like that is how you become an expert in the first place.

No, you don't always have that choice.

What you do is you break it up, best you can, then try to build each part. If that doesn't work, you break it up differently.
Local warming is a myth, the dome is just going through a natural cycle of warming and cooling!
Why does the US not go to the WTO then? That's the standard process for conflict resolution. Those are the rules set up by the US.
Many JavaScript libraries like Fastify (Node.js) for example. You always get a nice & clean API but if you look under the hood you would be amazed at how much spaghetti code can be written in a project.
This Amazon approach reminds me of how Apple used to do it in the final years of Jobs' executive-ship at the company. He'd send terse replies to people who e-mailed and and for large problems he'd float it to his top lieutenants concerning why the experience sucks so much.
> What would be a concrete problem you could solve with SAT solvers, besides the obvious "satisfy this boolean expression" (which doesn't exactly come up every day)?

Say, you want to implement a package manager, with dependencies.
You're too biased to see that Google is not actually indispensable. Chinese users don't see Google as indispensable obviously, and provided a choice, others may see it too.
I fully agree with you. Another argument against this ride sharing that most people conveniently forget are peak times. How many millions of vehicles are standing still during office hours only to power up when everyone needs to go home? How is a robotaxi service going to solve that? The number of cars on the roads at peak times won’t go down much imo.
Check Print and Mail
I'll like to know if theres an easy interface for print & mail services for check like mailprincess. Thanks you
shaddy
> after you finish the first 90% you need to finish the second 90% (I forget who said this).

I don't know who said it either, but I heard an alternate phrasing: "The first 50% of the project takes 90% of the time. But the second 50% takes the other 90% of the time."
You're right, it was inappropriate. It shouldn't be my assumption that anyone with different views is just not familiar with the topic.
Garbage Collection in Go: Part I – Semantics
Surely, just cancelling debt will always increase cost of service (I cannot come up with a historical example where this is not the case, but happy to be corrected).

However, this gesture is not a policy, and just a really nice gift and expression of altruism.

Also... since you mentioned it, I cannot believe how little teachers are making, including their pension guarantees (in US and many other countries) -- for the effort that many of them put in -- this is just a disgrace.

I wish, there would be a way for exchange safety/tenure guarantees for significant pay increase (eg at least double). And let the teachers make that choice.
I don’t think people are complaining so much as I think they are pointing out why charity is not a good way to solve these sorts of social problems.

Charity is random and arbitrary, and does not fairly address problems by actual need. Yet, many people still argue that charity should be our social safety net, and we don’t need to fund programs that help people.
When you drive a car you probably don't feel like you're risking fatal road accidents happen either but it happens.

Third degree burns happen with boiling hot water, any boiling water is dangerous and potentially lethal if mishandled. People underestimate the energy stored in that water.
I just got rejected from a job, because they wanted me to write tests, without even supplying ANY input with which to presume what types of tests would be applicable (i.e. how was the data gathered)... when I pointed out I wrote the spec-based generation hookable so that you could override it in seconds to generate any set of errors you'ld care to model, and that it was a deliberate choice to avoid premature optimization, they were not amused.

I told them the toy spec they sent, would never work for testing an experienced engineer who is aware of the many specific modes of failure depending on how the system was architected.

I don't get it anymore. I send beautiful, well-thought out code. And get spit in my face for the effort. Not even a first-round interview. Its like they're specifically avoiding hiring experienced engineers. It is positively, frustrating.

My last two projects were so well-architected you could significantly enhance the scope of the project with a few lines of code, that literally write themselves (you know have a good code-base when it suggests an immediate, maintainable solution for feature creep, with zero uncertainty)...

And yet, apparently, I'm not fit to get a coding monkey job...

So I read these articles, and think? Why the fuck even bother? You don't have coders anymore. Just mediocre software engineers who think coding is 'writing tests'.
> The U.S. Digital Service isn’t perfect, but it is clearly working. The team estimates that for every $1 million invested in USDS that the government will avoid spending $5 million and save thousands of labor hours. Over a five-year period, the team’s efforts will save $1.1 billion, redirect almost 2,000 labor years towards higher value work, and generate over 400 percent return on investment. Most importantly, USDS will continue to deliver better government services for the American people, including Veterans who deserve better.

> In the private sector, these kinds of numbers would not lead to a 50 percent cut in budget. Instead, you’d clearly invest further with that kind of return. Considering the ambitious goals set out in the President’s Management Agenda, the Trump Administration should double down on better support for the public, our troops, and our veterans. The best way to do that is clearly through investments like USDS.

Why would you halve the budget of a team that's yielding a more than 400% ROI (in terms of cost savings)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
You're being directly obtuse, but to humour you:

> So what if people were lied to?

This is fairly serious when you consider that this is the entity which takes a portion of your working income as tax to provide services based on the needs of the community. If the policies which are decided on are based on a misinformed public opinion, then the services which are actually required (as opposed to being perceived as being required) are not delivered.

> Is the government the citizenry's only source of information?

Obviously not, but to claim that there is not a significant perception of truth in a lot of people's eyes when it comes to what a sitting government says is naive.

> Do they even trust the government?

See above, many do.

> Are there not competing sources of information?

This is a discussion in itself. The Murdoch groups own over two-thirds of the media outlets in this country (something like 64% according to a quick glance at wikipedia [1]). It is no small secret that this organisation has a lot of influence in Australia and has swayed public opinions previously on various topics, and there's a plethora of articles discussing this [2].

> What basis do you have for concluding that the Australian government has any significant ability to sway the opinion of its citizens?

I'd put the onus of proof on you for this one, what makes you think that they do not? Governments spend tens of millions of dollars in prime-time advertising with the sole intention of sway opinions of citizens. This seems beyond ridiculous to me that you would want to make that point.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Australia

2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/20/very-australia...
After initial transportation failures, sealed terrariums were used by Robert Fortune to send stolen tea seedlings from China to India,[1] thus helping the British to break the nineteenth Century Chinese monopoly on tea production.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00H9J1AM2/
I am sure there are plenty of studies out there about this, that would be more useful than speculating. There’s an increased risk, but is it that much greater than typical driving risk? I’m sure more accidents happen in bad weather but I don’t think it’s anywhere near “no one should drive in the rain at night” level of panic you suggest.

But regardless of the extreme cases, there are plenty of scenarios in which human drivers may be slightly impaired Which current state of the art autonomous technology is not just impaired, but entirely helpless: simple, common road construction, missing or obscured lane markings, precipitation of any sort, malfunctioning stoplights, delivery trucks or dumpsters in the lane, negotiating a busy parking lot, any atypical road usage of any sort, roundabouts, dirt roads, unmapped roads, stationary objects...

Humans can handle all of these situations without special training or instructions.
I didn't look into their methodology, but I would guess that crash was implicitly defined as reported crash. I've had a fair number of low speed collisions where we never bothered to report it.
I look forward to the day when I can walk around Rome viewing something like this on my phone and augmented reality on google maps!
They would be say that an inheritance tax hurts "family farms" and "family businesses", because they are dishonest about the fact that their policies benefit the power and privilege of a only a tiny minority of the population
Hottest Hacker Chick in Internet History – DajshaDoll
For a long time I've had this idea about creating a website where this type of idea is expressed. I envision it to be some large hierarchical tree like structure (not unlike the ones you see in games like FInal Fantasy) where you pick a topic you want to learn and it gives you the basics to learn and then once mastered allows you to goes deeper by diverging into specialised categories.
Looks like their international roaming is pretty expensive. I guess I just change SIMs
>I’m not sure if it’s just me, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve played a lot less games

Me too. Reminds me of this quote: "we don't stop playing game because we get old, we get old because we stop playing games".
Everyone here worships at the temple of competition
Look at their budget. Most of their revenue comes from AWS. So their large AWS clients are their customers. The margins on the retailing e-commerce customers is slim and wasn't profitable on a cashflow basis until recent years. From a financial perspective, they're the people who are going to stock the items and take the risk for products where demand is uncertain. Once more data is collected about their sales, Amazon will use their scale to undercut their e-commerce selling partners. So they are important to their company logistics, just not to the bottom line.
I got angry just reading that - Personally I would have started a claim back process from my card provider - you can guarantee that it would have caused something on Google's End once they started getting chargeback notices.
The opposite actually
Why Software Giants Like Adobe Are Slaughtering Manufacturers Like 3M
> Is there something about wireless in particular that lends itself to this proliferation of complexity?

A tiny (but still HUGE) part of this VAST spec is the fact that these bluetooth chips are ruddy frequency hopping radios.

Something that a decade or two ago was only seen in high end military radios.
I'm more upset that a single person has 5 billion dollars in the first place. Why don't we have a wealth tax on billionaires so that no one has student debt and we don't have to rely on the isolated generosity of individual billionaires?
If it's not obvious, the USB receiver works flawlessly. I occasionally have trouble with Bluetooth not connecting (or randomly disconnecting) with the same mouse, but it mostly works okay.
You would think that if they weren't connected that Google wouldn't ban you across accounts, but I know a person who had their name banned from Uber, so if Google wanted they probably could deny services to you.
... some places already mandate that that new construction has to have EV charging. Palo Alto is one example.
I think the GP went a bit far, but I can't help feeling a bit of it in the air. Something about the word "waitress" caused a weird backlash. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19957074 is not a good-faith comment.
I’m pretty sure google is to gcp.
Sounds familiar - here it's always that changes are going to hurt "small businesses" and the "average, working class citizen" even though that's pretty trivially not the case.

I've gotten to the point where I actually desperately want to find a politician with right wing policies who isn't a dishonest slimeball, it's almost my white whale.
Are there any canonical guides to building a jar-rarium? Lots of crappy YouTube videos but nothing very thorough and complete.
T-Mobile offers this, albeit at 3G speeds.
There was supposed to be mass recycling of glass and plastic, but we're not close to running out of the raw virgin materials for that stuff.

The question is going to be whether lithium batteries are going to be more like aluminium (recycling is cheaper and better for environment) or more like plastics (recycling is more expensive and more carbon intensive).
The very first time I tried to read the Bible (actually just the New Testament as I didn’t have the whole Bible and it was pre-internet era), I went straight to the book of Revelations (just because I like to read books from the end :) ), and it was pretty shocking, given that I didn’t have any religious knowledge or even history knowledge whatsoever (thanks to communists trying to suppress any information on those)...

The 2nd time I read it a few years later, it was after I actually believed in God and with the help of His Spirit was able to read the whole New Testament and understand it to much greater degree as compared to all of my previous attempts before I believed. And I understood much more of the Revelations than the first time.

That was 25 years ago.
Later on, rereading it, it’s amazing to find new meanings and understanding almost every time I read it.

But, out of all of the books of the Bible, this book has the most of mysteries that haven’t been solved or haven’t happened yet... and no amount of commentaries that I read give a satisfying explanation sometimes... and yet the main message is clear ...
The mere fact that this is possible, highlights the risk that international trade has become, specially regarding technology.

Any country holding a considerable share of the technology market should be considered a single point of failure, and diversification should take place.

The US is currently the 100-pound technology gorilla, and they are highly politicized. Very unreliable, and using its position to force its will into all kind of matters. No country should rely on the US as a single provider, to avoid being target of blackmail. It is actually surprising that we have reached the current status quo without realizing about these simple facts.

Re-decentralization of the Internet (and technology in general) is long overdue.

The same applies to other "industries". A frightening one is nuclear missiles. We are so used to the US (and the Russians) having thousands of nuclear heads that we do not care anymore. And simply because it has worked out in the past, we assume that the worse can be avoided indefinitely.

Nothing is further from the truth: the current situation guarantees that there will be a nuclear war. It is not a question of if, but when. We are a crazy president away from starting it (or maybe we have already hit the jackpot).
See Boeing 707 barrel roll by Tex JohnSton.
2025 operating system market share:

25% Google Chrome for Android

25% Google Android for Chrome

50% Android Legacy Edition (deprecated)
Are you distinguishing an inheritance tax from an estate tax? Arguably the former is more fair than the latter: if a rich man bequeaths his entire estate to one child, both taxes would be the same. But if he gives much smaller amounts to many different people, the inheritance tax would be much smaller.

If your goal is to reduce dynastic wealth, this is arguably a good outcome because there's less "harm" in a bunch of people getting a smaller amount of money than a single person getting a huge amount of money.

However, things are a little less clear if a rich man gives all his money to his 4 children, their 4 spouses, and his 12 grandchildren. It still seems pretty dynastic in that case, even though the estate is being split up between 20 people.
There's a great four-part documentary by Adam Curtis about Edward Bernays, his career and the rise of marketing in the 20th century called "The Century Of The Self".

It's available on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
It's not all about getting paid the most for some people. I think a challenge for the case of physicists that want to work in that field is that there are more of them than are jobs.

Compare to programmers (of all levels), where there is basically endless demand in most big cities, and in the top say 15 tech centers in the us probably a few 100k jobs are available in total. I'm sure Seattle has 50k jobs.
It's a China vs. the world issue. China has been spying on everyone, for years. Political, military, commercial, makes no difference.
That investment shouldn't be made by individuals, it should be made by society as a whole, ie by increasing taxes so tuition is free. The burden of student debt is not shared equally or fairly.
> Bluetooth chips come with SDKs and depending on your solution another API

Yup and a simple embedded version of a useful subset of that is (just counted) about 4000 non-comment non-blank lines _just_ for the header files.

And assumes you then understand what the API does which is probably less comprehensively documented than the underlying HCI spec.
Yeah, basically -- but most consumer hardware is a compromise and just 'good enough' to meet whatever consumer demands are put in front of them.
RPCValet: NI-driven tail-aware balancing of µs-scale RPCs