skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote two free books specifically on productized services.

The first book discuss how to productize your services and hire and manage remote workers (and it covers the tools and techniques to work remotely). The second book is mostly about value proposition and marketing.

1) http://www.productizebook.co
2) http://www.productizemarketing.co
Someone mentioned above that the battery most likely died quickly due to constant hunting for cell signal, so it’s 100% related.
I didn't recommend banning. But to stop saying "it's safer than an average driver".
+1 for REMOTE for having at least some perceived authority (authored by successful / well-known business owners who practice what they preach), and for explicitly addressing each of several audiences. It's not particularly deep, but it might be useful.
I stand corrected. That turns the whole matter into a complete WTF.
It's also mirrored on Github! [1]

[1]: http://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
Actually, understanding seems to be affected, too!
See:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-lan...
We are living in the UK and we ordered this one. If we buy the items one by one, we would ended up paying more for it. Both me and my wife was super happy with the box and my daughter slept in it for about 6 month (we also had a cot, but we realised very early that the box mobility is an unbeatable feature)
If you need to have enough people that someone can intervene "instantly" then there's not likely to be much of a saving anyway.

Instead imagine a system that is "good enough" that at it's most risk averse configuration it will drive itself in normal conditions, but occasionally it will seem to slow down for now good reason, or even stop, while it waits for a human to intervene because its not sure if its correctly reading the environment ahead.

It would need to be good enough to be able to work well enough of the time to be able to reliably come to a safe stop, but it would mean you'd be able to have one person monitor many vehicles.
IIRC they share the exact same kernel, so they don't need to.
Interesting thought. It’s like pentesting ethics!

There would be a lot of practical issues, though. And people in power have no motivation to pass these laws, so they’d exaggerate the problems even more. They might say that the court system is already stressed, innocent people are waiting in jail for trial, we can’t afford such a distraction.

But honestly I think you’ve struck at the core of a major problem in modern society. It’s too easy for the government to take rights away, and too hard for a citizen to take them back. Automation is a great solution to that asymmetry; I think suggestions like yours are on the right track.
> Red flag laws have been associated with huge reductions in gun-related suicides.

The constitutionality of a law does not hinge on it's effectiveness.

I haven't formed an opinion as to whether red flag laws are constitutional or whether they are or are not similar to watch lists, but that's a terrible reason to suggest they are dissimilar.
The goal to ensuring quality was to see your business as a repeatable process. That way you could apply statistical methods, measure and optimize.

The flaw with six sigma was that it is applicable to only very repeatable manufacturing processes where the defects can stem virtually only from random variation in environment. Eg. room's temperature changes, worker sneezing, etc. In this case you are expecting many small probability defects compounded together, yielding a normal distributuon by the central limit theorem. That way you can apply all the statistical methods around the gaussian distribution and try to eliminate 'six sigma' of defects.

The flaw is that people tried to apply this to highly explorative disciplines like software engineering, where the process is very far from being normally distributed. As Nassim Taleb likes to explain, most of the human processes follow an exponential distribution. In the case of software defects, you tend to have many small ones that nobody even logs anywhere and just fixes them (thus being invisible to anybody (PMs) trying to find a pattern). And the other category which are defects where you go down a deep rabbit hole to understand and the fix might require huge rearchitecting of the app. There is no normal distribution, averages on exponential distribution don't make any sense and delivery estimates don't either.

Part of the reason is why lean and agile are the only successful methodologies in software is because they treat it as a discovery process which eventually can be turned into highly repeatable process - by that point operated 90% by a well designed machine.

Many parts od the industry still got stuck with the flawed analogy between software development and construction business. They posit that both should have an architect to design the system and then an army of low paid workers to execute on the plan. The flaw is in thinking that the software developer is the 'worker' and not the architect. He is actually the designer and the worker in the analogy is the compiler, which performs its job so quickly, that project managers don't even see it to include it in their gantt charts.

It's also sad to observe how the certification business is turning the original lean and agile ideas into another black belt type cargo scrum cults.

It helps going back to the roots and listen to Deming, Juran, the guys around agile manifesto and especially system thinkers like Ackoff.
Why does CD digital audio have a 44.1 kHz sample rate?
I'm actually wondering who is Wendy Tucker...
> Wait, isn't the whole problem with the cables and not the ports?

When buying cables from a reputable manufacturer there doesn't seem to be much of a problem. There are only two figures that matter: the speed they are rated for and the amperage. A good manufacturer will state both clearly on the package.

But in reality, if you don't want to pay $50 that Apple or Belkin charge for a cable, it's a nightmare. (I assume manufacturing cost couldn't be more than a 10th of that.) I've yet to buy a third party USB-C cable that has lasted for 100 insertions (they are supposed to be rated at 10K insertions) - and I must have bought 20 of them by now.

I have no idea how to buy a reasonable quality USB-C cable. I've resorted to treating them like consumables - buying them 5 at a time, and ensuring I always have a few spares in the house. It's doubly frustrating because the OEM cables that come with the devices are invariably good, so they are out there, I just don't have a clue how to find them.
I do have three kids, and we cloth-diapered the first two, so yeah you're right that alone is several more loads a week. Though we only ever did it on alternate days, and the burden of folding the CD loads is way less— we basically just stacked them all up in pile under the change table.
Likely because it's not selling them that's the beneficial part: it's the "giving them to everyone for free" part.
"Is performance still an issue in this era of cheap 486 computers and super-fast Pentium computers? You bet. How many programs that you use really run so fast that you wouldn't be happier if they ran faster? We're so used to slow software that when a compile-and-link sequence that took two minutes on a PC takes just ten seconds on a 486 computer, we're ecstatic—when in truth we should be settling for nothing less than instantaneous response."

Not sure if I want to laugh or cry at how 100% relevant this still is 20 years later...
Of course there's a difference. In NIT you literally get less money as you make more money. UBI you don't. No people do not consider UBI a disincentive to work and it's the major argument for UBI.

Not all startups are by people like you and me. Sometimes there are people who poor and trapped in a scarcity mindset and whose economic thinking is governed by fear. Those people could never reach their full potential. UBI really helps.
In America, you know, the best country at everything, the doctors are basically unsympathetic assholes with the bedside manner of prison guards. The hospital over-bills you for everything, including the air you breathe, and the insurance companies ensure you're kicked out of the hospital while still dragging the placenta behind you. Once you get home nosy neighbors discover that you arent breastfeeding the baby and notify the police of suspected child neglect/abuse. Then overbearing and power-tripping child welfare workers remove the child from your care and place him/her in multiple foster homes. You are forced to jump through ridiculous hoops and pay enormous amounts of money in failed attempts to regain custody. The child grows up with abusive foster parents while you are drained of your finances, lose your job, and end up living in a cardboard box adjacent to streets paved with gold.
> All unconstitutional

You seem to base this on lack of due process, however I've only heard of red flag laws that specifically require due process before a judge. Are there others? If so, it would be useful to distinguish them. Otherwise, the statement is generalization.
Hey Elon, why don't you build a car course and fill it with all the things your cars have failed to avoid. Why haven't you made some OTA for large obstacle non car thing?
If Tesla is unable to brake for a stationary fire truck with 3+ seconds of visibility, why should I be confident to pay $6k for “Full Self Driving”? Recognizing a stopped fire truck (effectively a wall) in front of me is a prerequisite for me to invest further. A part of me believes that the public is being intentionally misled on the capabilities, and Tesla’s lack of transparency, coupled with their financial incentive to obscure, makes me more cynical.

What Tesla needs to do is to classify every known accident, and then recreate the accident (video please) followed by a recreation with their fixes. If the scenario can’t be prevented in software, it needs to be disclosed to the buyer.

Would Tesla crash into that same fire truck again with the newest software? I suspect yes. I even suspect there are a bunch of engineers sitting around Tesla confident that crashing into that fire truck was the right thing to do.

Heck, I think Tesla should be required to have an asterisk next to every self driving claim, with an asterisk for every known scenario where their product has failed, including links to the crash reports, including full video evidence. The public should have a right to know exactly where/when/why the system failed as long as those failures aren’t prevented in software from happening again.
Judge for yourself:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071115235344/http://www.s3stat....

I'd call that a solid 1.

- 99designs logo

- $10 template

- Handmade graphics (from screenshots of Webalizer, no less)

The product itself was literally Webalizer reports, along with some quick and dirty forms to input enough information so that we could generate those reports (running directly on the webserver, of course), and a list view to link back to them.

Note the $1/month pricing, and no mechanism to actually charge credit cards to collect said dollar.

But a lot of people signed up, and some of them are still around 13 years later.
Something like that is what I am hoping we get with contracts when they make it into C++. Although the versions so far only add constraints to functions, having them on types as well sounds very useful.
Isn't the entire premise of the rule of law that results do sometimes justify taking away rights (albeit through a procedure and with due process?)
Fair enough, my comment was more geared towards the getting started in embedded (i.e. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, simple automation) than getting deep in the weeds. I should have been more clear in that regards.
Pushy recruiters
If submarines are intelligent then cars and bikes must be intelligent also since they operate on similar principles. If a bike is intelligent, then pogo sticks are intelligent too. I suppose at that point, anything can be intelligent. What kind of intelligent things will bikes and cars and pogo sticks and submarines do if all humans ceased to exist? Let me guess: none.
Decentralized social network: a customized phpBB with a good OpenID module would be enough. Host your own, authenticate yourself to other instances, use RSS feeds to create your own composite timelines.
Jobs to Be Done
You are the third guy who's trying to debate me like I'm arguing against UBI when my comment that you are replying to is for UBI. I wonder if there's something confusing about my comment.

Or maybe people really think NIT == UBI when it really doesn't. There's a dramatic difference.
Be careful what you say or you might start to believe it. There is absolutely no reason to hang the CEOs of Equifax. Not even close.
First, you are absolutely correct in fact.

But that being said, if person A has no measurable symptoms, and person B does, then A's experience with a weighted blanket may not translate to B even if A experiences positive, measurable "improvement."

So I agree that A's subjective endorsement is no good for B, but then again even if A had sustained objective improvement it still might be no good for B.

At the end of the day, if B has real, measurable symptoms of poor sleep, the very best thing is a controlled test of people with the same symptoms of poor sleep.

IMHO, of course. If my medical diplomas were laid end-to-end, they'd stretch from Albuquerque to Albuquerque.
Ask HN: API Method Naming Clarity
We are designing API and arguing with developers to death about clarity.

Let's say you have a service that allow to add entities to collections. For example, you can add Task to Feature. What name is better?

1. addToCollection(type, id, collectionField, collectionEntityId)

2. addCollectionItem(type, field, id, itemId)
The ones who come to mind are Zapier and Basecamp, which has been mentioned earlier.

https://zapier.com/learn/remote-work/
They seem really big on keeping iOS things secret-ish, but the XNU kernel for both iOS and macOS seem to be built from the same code base.

Up until a couple years ago, they'd strip out ARM specific things from the releases macOS XNU code. Then they started leaving that stuff in!
Perhaps so, but I think it would be better to have had those parameters established beforehand, and where the limits of what was considered fair under law were. Maybe people could consider it settled even if they didn't like the result

Anything would be better than how we did do it, really. :)
Because the baseband is opaque to the software running elsewhere on the phone, proprietary, and not visible to inspection by security researchers.
A web performance audit checklist
Which also happens to provide training data ever time a human has to intervene...
Do you have any links that talk about this in more detail? Modifying a off-the-shelf drone (assuming you mean quad copter here, not a fixed wing craft) to have a 1000 mile range seems like quite the feat...
It is ironic that Britain is already close to a tax-heaven than they admit.
useCallback used as something else than a provider of callback functions, e.g. for rendering.

Example:

const renderItem = useCallback(() => <Item />, []);

And then:

return renderItem();

What should have been used here is useMemo.
Though this study is better it still doesn't really seem to distinguish cause and effect. ie is it

- your real social life sucks so you spend time on facebook, or

- facebook causes your life to suck?

From personal experience I find more the first one. You could try an experiment where you persuade participants to be chosen at random to either spend much longer on facebook or much less so the change would just be facebook usage rather than other life factors?
Ironically, I cannot see the article on Firefox for iOS without disabling tracking prevention.
It will be very hard to be a monolithic kernel without any sort of kernel space drivers.

Also many BSD syscalls have been deprecated along the years, including POSIX features like networking stack, now replaced by Objective-C APIs.

I would advise spending some time reading "Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach" and "Mac OS X and iOS Internals" books, to learn that having everything on kernel space alone, doesn't rewrite the original microkernel code into a huge monolith.
Someone out there thinks that I want to manage the thermal properties of my bed since the ads which squeeze through uBlock and friends are all for "BedJet" and other bed air conditioners.

With that being said, it is an interesting idea and might be worth investigating.
Has anyone tried overlapping words instead of speeding them up? Like so:

How
are
you
doing?

I often wondered if this, or at least sped up speech, should be the default robotic interface... it would make sense to optimize for efficiency/speed (while maintaining legibility) if we can do so.
The significant limitations on the second amendment are not the ones banning new technology. Laws preventing open carry or conceal carry, requiring permits, red flag laws... They all erode the ability of citizens to defend themselves.
American Bases in Japan Are Sitting Ducks
I very rarely have sleep issues so I never looked into blankets or gadgets but I will say this:

Recently my neighbor got a really bright outdoor light on the side of their house and even with black out blinds it wasn't close to enough blockage because light kept leaking through the sides and even pierced the blinds.

The first night I noticed that, I was like "jesus, why is it so bright outside" and I tried to sleep unsuccessfully. I was up until about 3am when I normally goto bed at 11pm'ish. I tried everything to block it on the spot like trying to pile up a sheet near my face but it had no effect since the light just illuminated the room. It was so light that I could see details across the room, like individual fan blades on a 12" fan. I typically can only fall asleep on 1 side but switching sides made no difference either.

So the next afternoon I decided to try an experiment. I took a black garbage bag and completely covered the window. I actually laughed out loud to myself at how dark it was when it was bright outside.

That night was remarkable. I didn't think a room could be so dark. It was the most peaceful sleep ever, except now my TV's little red dot is a distraction where as even pre-outside light it wasn't noticeable.

So if you have trouble sleeping, you may want to try to make your room as dark as possible as a test. Even in hostile lighting conditions a black garbage bag (one of the big ones you would use for leafs) can solve the problem. I hung mine with 2 nails, so when I wake up I just unhook 1 side to get natural light. The only problem is it looks completely stupid from the inside.
Since neither the post nor the repo explain it, some context if you have no clue what this is about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy#%CE%B5-di...
US lifts ban on old-style light bulbs
Do you see a problem with denying someone the ability to vote in an election, or to petition the government, or to have an abortion, or to be free of unreasonable searches, for a limited period of time because their state of mind is in question?

All of those examples are clearly terrible, right? If merely "questioning" someone's state of mind is enough to strip a fundamental right, then a bad actor could trivially strip that right from people when they need it most.

I suspect what you're getting at is that you disagree with gun ownership being treated as an important right like "not being thrown in prison for no reason" or "being able to criticise the government" or "voting", but given that it is a protected right in the US, it's nonsense to suggest that a right should not be protected, or that merely having a right temporarily removed is not a significant infringement.
Stretch Out for Your Cohesion
Was it one of the software companies? Was is a software-only role?
A more accurate title would be "How to get Google search results in Google Sheets or MS Excel" as per the original article (corrected for capitalization). "inside sheets" sounds dangerously close to "between the sheets".
Perhaps. But restricting it must be done carefully, or you will end up with a disarmed populace, against well armed corporate security.
What about their embedded OS? Like one they're running on T2 chip or inside Airpods? Is it still based on XNU kernel?
Having experienced something similar at one point, I'll claim this is not about the information itself, but about the state your brain is operating in. It is not my intention to offer a diagnosis, but keep in mind these conditions are a spectrum, a large percentage of the population has various (sub-threshold) levels of things such as ADHD, sensory modulation disorder or anxiety. If any of these ring a bell, solving these problems (which really is a single issue at its root) will solve the information overload.

And when I mentioned brain state, I was referring to the electrical activation pattern of the brain, which you can see with an EEG device.
A lot of comments are focussing on a Zipcar not starting due to insufficient battery power. However, that’s only one aspect of the article (a personal anecdote of the writer). The other scenarios highlighted the key take-away from the piece:

> But the problem with using services dependent on a network is that you are then dependent on the network.

This – for me – is the main problem with IoT devices, e.g., many privacy issues would go away if devices were designed to operate without needing to regularly “phone home” (excepting explicit, intentional data-mining by the manufacturer).
Time: Problema cu băutura în Moldova este cea mai mare din lume
Your TV probably has a setting to turn that light off, or do what I do and put black electrical tape all over anything with a useless status light.
New White Dashboard Laravel with Ready to Use CRUDs
If I read it right, red flag laws go through a judge who signs off on individual cases. This is different from the others where the judicial branch is out of the loop.
With the option being enabled, there is 1 other guy that creates the exact same fingerprint. I hope he is not a serial killer...

Currently using chrome for HN, but that also creates a completely unique print. I highly doubt it will ever be a focus of this browser to change that issue. And everyone should buy more widescreen monitors, they are awesome.

I wonder if users of standard devices like iPhones fare much better. Not that I would want to use one...

Curiously, Firefox gives me WebGL Vendor = not supported, which isn't true at all, while chrome gives the full driver name, which in my case is very uncommon (using an intel nuc).
Sounds like every sales person I've ever met. Let's be nice though and just assume they were having a bad day(s) :)
Fine, but downvotes for a civil discussion?
Of all toy companies Lego is probably the last one to be criticized like that. Lego has famously worked against that impression for decades, e.g. [0] from the 70s and [1] from the 80s.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/XmlDUox

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/xwAsW56
Why phones that secretly listen to us are a myth
You misspelled "sensible".
Here in Argentina we had that program canceled by the current President Mauricio Macri, and the former was prosecuted for pushing for this program to be implemented nation-wide. There was also a big media campaign from the local multimedia monopoly to lay shame of the program [1][2], although it covered way more items than in Finland.

The boxes (qnitas) were left to rot in a warehouse. Trully fascist.

This was later found to be without basis and the goverment have been ordered to restart the program, without effect.

[1] https://www.clarin.com/politica/paso-paso-fraude-licitacion-... (in spanish)

[2] https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/plan-qunita-inseguros-c... (in spanish)
I wonder if there's any danger for weak or infirm people?

Seems it could come to rest on someone's throat, or the weight on the chest could become the straw that broke the camel's back.