skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying methodologies are useless; having some structure is better than winging it. But they are absolutely fads. Nowhere is this more clear than in the terminology. Black belts? Sprints? Punting? Scrum masters? That's pet rock level fad stuff, and I say this as an "agile" PM... who was at one point was encouraged to get a six sigma black belt by management chasing a fad.
I do like JS myself... I wish there was a way to disable JS in IFrames (where ads/trackers typically propagate).
Yeah, it frustrates me that both Go and Rust have decided to require casting for all numeric conversions, whether there is a chance of information loss or not. This causes casting to proliferate, and you grow numb to it. If lossless conversions were implicit, then you would only need casts in potentially lossy situations so they would stand out more, and hopefully make you think harder about correctness.
Indeed. In particular, neither people selling beef nor people selling milk necessarily breed their own cows. Professional specialization is a thing.
> Unpacking digital book formats is pretty straightforward with Calibre and similar tools.

It wasn't the last time I tried it, but I'd be happy to hear if this has changed.

I don't own a Kindle, which some people are saying is required for the Calibre method, which might have been the issue I had in the past.
Not sure if it's mentioned in that thread yet or not (I've been meaning to post it), but Jack Bogle himself said the markets would start to get weird if 75%+ of investments were indexing:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/john-bogle-has-a-warning-f...
The screen is the component that uses up the most energy though. By having a smaller screen, you can get by with a smaller battery.
Beta, Dev, or Canary?

Edit: I was unable to reproduce this with Canary 78.0.267.0 64-bit.

Edit2: I couldn't reproduce this with Dev 78.0.262.0 64-bit either.
I don't have a Kindle, so...
Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker and Active DPI Circumvention Utility
The driver was found using his phone, over-relied on the autopilot system, and lied about what he was doing when being questioned. Sadly, we can't 100% trust these automated driving systems yet so folks need to stay attentive behind the wheel. The more accidents like this will cause lawmakers to create laws that can potentially slow down automated driving development.
Pilots especially are heavily trained to use checklists for just about everything. A significant chunk of training to be a pilot is just reinforcing the behavior to always use the checklist.

Doctors, based on my limited understanding, are becoming more and more pragmatic about using checklists in surgeries. I am not a doctor, nor am I an expert, I have just read some interesting articles and heard from surgeons that they are trying to improve the process to reduce careless mistakes.

No clue about lawyers.

So processes can actually be incredibly useful, and oftentimes are designed after the fact. Agile has some neat ideas as well, but in practice I'd say 90% of the time it's pretty fucking terrible and the company would be better off without trying it entirely. Not because agile is bad, but because the people in charge of agile are usually bad.

At the end of the day it comes back to something I've learned painfully time and time again throughout my career. No matter how talented you are, you are powerless against a shitty manager.
I think my only hope for learning Spanish at this point would be a game that starts out in a Texaslike setting, with the storyline missions sending the player into progressively more Spanish-speaking situations, with more Hispanic-specific cultural elements, until complete immersion occurs.

Start out ordering tacos for lunch. End by smuggling someone out of Venezuela via the Orinoco in a narco-submarine, with paramilitary groups ready to execute you if you mistranslate something.
> Where else is the success of an experiment reliant on the person who carried out the work? Not in biology

It's absolutely reliant on the person who carried out the work in biology.
They are both equally correct terms, with the same meaning.
Why I hate are when sites tether their interactions to their tracking/analytics system... a failure for the analytics script should not prevent pressing 'Login' from working properly. This one is as much on developers as the ad/tracking scripts. When I've worked for public entities, I always went extra to make sure things worked well for users with ads disabled. Even so far as to make sure ad slots didn't even display the placeholders.
I used Swype keyboard on a SE and love it.

https://www.nuance.com/mobile/mobile-applications/swype/swyp...
Sure. I mention the 5C because it was the real budget device. On the day it was released it had internals the same as the previous year's 5, instead of those of the 5S released on the same day as the 5C. The SE, by contrast, had the same guts as the 6s. People seem confused about this.
Preact is considerably faster, but maybe React is good enough in your use case.

I also prefer using mostly class based components and some functional components for lightweight dumb components. I use Inferno for rendering and vanilla + MobX for everything else.
Doesn't that Phaistos disc's symbols look awfully like what a modern (Western, at least) young person, just playing, would end up with?

Chocolate chip cookie symbol? Ghost symbol? And so on?

If it's indeed really old, how very interesting.
I came across these petitions today. If EU citizens are interested, they can sign them

https://back-on-track.eu/ending-the-tax-exemption-on-aviatio...

Maybe they would warrant a HN submission of their own, since it is something interesting to discuss.

The proposals are well-written, and concerns an EU-wide fuel tax on kerosene, and a carbon tax.
> What happens if there is a small, but synchronized outflow for any reason? If customers ask for 1% of index funds to be sold, index funds have to sell 1% of their holdings in the exact ratios defined by the index

That's pretty interesting.

In 2019, the average daily trading volume of Berkshire Hathaway (class A) was 0.04% of the total shares outstanding. If all people that held this stock were forced to sell 1% of the total shares outstanding, look out!

On the other hand, Roku has averaged 15.6% this year, with a standard deviation of 10. 1% of total shares isn't even going to be noticed.
How is it a false narrative?
The h264 and h265 files are named incorrectly in their example causing confusion.

<source src="myh264Video.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="hvc1"'>
<source src="myh265Video.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1"'>

myh264Video.mp4 should be avc1 codec...
It seems almost definitional to me that you'd have to be pretty dumb to fall into this trap, but I'm probably being lazy with my terminology, and "bad at thinking" might be a better description than "dumb" (ie, critical thinking is a learnable skill, if you're smart enough).

It's still not clear to me that I see why shills are such a cause for outrage, at least at a personal level: if a person's critical thinking abilities are impaired enough of people that they'd have their views appreciably changed by shills' voting patterns, the absence of shills just means they'd be blindly following the whims of online mobs. I can see how this is better, but just _barely_.

OTOH, for those who are capable of basic critical thinking, shills don't seem to have much power: if they make good points, then good, if they don't, then no harm done.

I just don't see how why bad comments are somehow worse when they're driven by payments instead of simply the stupidity of a normal person.
One thing I'd also like to develop / wish was integrated into audible and the like is silence trimming. Some speakers leave outsized pauses in their narration which can be significantly shortened effectively increasing speed with less distortion.

I have the opposite problem where I have trouble paying attention to an audiobook at 1x. I get bored in between words and my mind wanders making it very difficult to keep track of what is being said (as in I hear individual words but have trouble keeping sentences in memory when everything comes too slow)

I wish I had realized this in university and had been able to somehow record and playback lectures at 2x. I always got so little out of lectures because the information wasn't coming in fast enough for me to process correctly.
Is Powerlineblog a reputable source? Their sidebar has such articles as "A one-step approach to dealing with accusations of racism," implying that they have a lot of readers who are accused of racism. Then you get into their sidebar, which is a dumpster fire of right-wing political blogs.

I would suggest deleting this submission and trying again with a reputable source, if one can be found.
In most cases what you need is management permission to move quicker. Everyone says they want to be agile, but doesn't want to invest in the tooling (unit and integration tests, build servers, etc) that would let you be agile, so you end up with agile overlaid over the waterfall methodology, which does absolutely nothing.
Six sigma wasn't really a project management solution. It was an iterative process framework specific to manufacturing where the number of defects would be measured, the causes of common defects were identified, then resolved. The process would continue to iterations until the number of defective widgets produced was reduced below two-in-a-billion.

This remains a very effective approach in large scale manufacturing. Many engineers still learn about this in school; if not explicitly six sigma, then at least the statistical underpinnings and application of it.

Six sigma was a victim of its own success. Business leaders tried to expand and generalize this framework to apply to different areas of business. This doesn't work well because building a billion nearly identical widgets is nothing like managing a team of accountants.
Even worse. You are likely in this database if even a single one of your contacts uploaded their contacts to Facebook.

The probability of your phone number not being uploaded to Facebook is basically 0.
I'm not sure about including e-Ink, I feel like if people are outside they should be doing something other than staring at their phone...
Mozilla is maintaining an implementation of Baidu's deepspeech with pretrained models (and checkpoints so you can fine tune with your own dataset).

They have an example that accepts streaming from the microphone:
https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/master/examples/m...

See the last full release here:
https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/tag/v0.5.1
I thought the same exact thing. Cookie symbol? A ghost. The imagery looks modern, and playful.
Try out The Witness in addition to the other games suggested here.
Tesla confirms battery cell manufacturing in job listing
One cannot continuously make millions cloning IRC? Whodathunkit?
I suppose "Buy Now!" refers to buying a license.
The mindset required to become a billionaire is incompatible with that of leaving 6M on the ground for whatever reason ;)
It was still reported to HIBP, its probably a worthwhile search.
Android 10, Smart Reply and Signal
Hello,

I just noticed the specific smart reply feature being touted for Android 10. Specifically the capability for Android to read texts and apply intelligence to do automatic things like pulling up directions on Google Maps.

Normally a feature like this wouldn't bother me. However, the statement that it works for Signal does.

Now it seems Google now has the ability to read these texts. This may be innocuous now and people would probably argue that all the analysis is done locally. However, my concern is that now I have to trust Google to not send it to anyone else.

This seems eerily similar to Facebook's plan a little while back to backdoor all end-to-end encryption with a local service that will scan and report suspicious content. Do you agree?
Millions of Facebook User's Phone Number Leaks Online
I've currently been working on this as a side project when I have time. It's still in early infancy, but my plan is to try to innovate in lots of those areas. Specifically by not implementing complex algorithms for ranking or filtering and instead building a complete user-suite of preferences that individuals can fine-tune. The other portion is to change the news feed to be a single source at a time, forcing users to focus on one thing at once and avoid infinite headline scroll.

Like I said, it's still early, but I'd love to hear other people's thoughts.
We certainly have performance bottlenecks in our rendering, so if a different library is faster we're definitely interested
In my 15 years of experience as a sysadmin and architect, hard drives are far and above the most frequent hardware casualty of power failures.

The EBS documentation states that there's an expected AFR of 1 to 2 per thousand volumes, so you should plan accordingly. Replicate any data that will cause harm to your business if lost to other sources. Keep backups.
> I would consider a 13 year old to be a kid?

It doesn't matter what you consider, the law under which they were sued is explicit about the age below which you are not allowed to collect data. This is the reason why almost every website out there asks you if you're older than 13 when you create an account.

> You're missing the point of the comment you replied to.

The comment I replied to opened with a whole mock narrative about engineers deciding to advertise on kids. My point is that this is a non-trivial and non-obvious issue. As far as Youtube is concerned, they made a site where 13yo+ can upload and watch videos. What ended up happening is that people uploaded videos for kids, and others let their kids watch said videos. It's disingenuous to make it sound like Youtube intentionally planned this.

I agree that fines don't do this. And again, the laws are pretty explicit, but this is a complex case, which is what I was trying to convey. It's not an obvious "someone in a dark room wrote code that collects children data".
No problem; I saw 8base at one of the GraphQL conferences, looks cool. I agree: PostGraphile is intended for people who want to control their own servers (be that via serverless, containers, Heroku, or traditional servers).
It's cute that you're pretending like you understood the conversation all along, but you started your comment with "why would I care?", in response to a conversation where two goal-aligned people were discussing tactics for reaching that goal.
I don't really believe this. One of the major advantages of real cameras is the sensor size. More sensor size gives you more SNR / dynamic range.

All of the tricks used in a smartphone could be used in a real camera. If they were, then real cameras will always have many stops of dynamic range advantage.
Okay, but the experimental subjects didn't put any thoughts together but read out some text aloud...
Pollan's book pushed something that was obviously growing fast over the edge into a lot of popular awareness.

That awareness is probably what is necessary to really get these things started and accepted socially which translates into regulatory acceptance. Sadly everything is a popularity contest.
If you close your eyes listening comprehension goes way up. I top out around 2x if I have to look but with my eyes closed I can get full comprehension at 3x+

If it's a technical talk or something I'll still pause often too reflect on what was said, but I can hear full sentences just fine at >3x with my eyes closed.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? You've done that a lot, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN more as intended from now on, we'd be grateful.
Version 78.0.262.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit)
I'm guessing you've never had to find the source of a bug via git bisect.
We know that requirements gathering is the most problematic part of project management, and yet we have very few tools to deal with this.

It's a huge blind spot, and I've seen little to no progress in this area for my entire career.
By the way, the list of SSL/TLS certificates (including subdomains) is public
Do the potential users of that codepage know to use it?
So what the title says is: It may or may not have that rate. Moving on, nothing to see here.
There's no logical reason why we should necessarily uphold the institution of marriage and the nuclear family as the foundational structure of society. We could all enjoy fulfilling relationships with each other and with our community's children without marriage. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that we are failing many people in society by only legitimising those relationships that are based in marriage and legal parenthood/guardianship of children.

Historically, most humans did not marry and were engaged in collective child-rearing, rather than foisting the responsibility on a single pair of parents that were either biologically or legally bound to a child. These practices only emerged with the agricultural revolution. I think it's easy to imagine that children would have a far more enriching experience of growing up if they were cared for by a larger group of people with a wider range of age, experience, skills, etc. Not to mention that it would help with the problems of children growing up in "broken" or single-parent households, where they may experience poor or insufficient care and attention due to economic hardship or parental absence.
It's really not useful to make top n lists. As soon as there disagreement, distinctions and catagories evolve. Its probably sufficient to simple state you enjoyed the game, and to highlite some aspects you enjoyed.
Interestingly they claim it right after lots of their former property was reconstructed...
Just because the political structures are similar doesn't mean their composition is similar, which is more what I'm getting at.

Definitely fair to draw comparisons, though; you're right that there are structural similarities on a state and federal level to the old colonial and imperial governments (respectively). My argument is that how the legislators and executives of those governments are appointed (i.e. democratically v. autocratically) is the big change, and one that would make the American Independence movement more of a revolution; the polities themselves were outright replaced, at least nominally, as the existing polities were rooted in the Crown's authority.

Contrast this with Canada or Australia, where (last I checked) the British monarch is still formally the head of state despite them being sovereign nations with independent governments and separate heads of government. I suspect that's closer to what you're envisioning (i.e. colonial governments continuing to exist as-is after gaining political sovereignty).
At minimum, those substances would be very useful in a therapy setting with a trusted therapist.

They might also be useful on their own merits, as in, if you have severe depression and eat a bunch of mushrooms maybe you won't be so depressed anymore. Given the current state of anti-depressants, it certainly seems worth a shot.
Nest Founder Says Plastic Apologists Are ‘Lying’
Why do you hate the headphone jack so much? I hate Bluetooth and would really prefer having a headphone jack
About 2d ones, I would recommend mari0, a fan game that mix portal and mario.

https://stabyourself.net/mari0/

Also, the other stabyourself games are great too.
That's not what I mean when I say "magic". Magic, to me, is having some special string in your template which is going to invoke some arbitrary logic to get something "just working". In this example, note how `group` does different things depending on what kind of input you're dealing with. That's the kind of stuff that sounds great in a demo but quickly becomes a pain in a large application.

It's not about being able to learn a framework without reading the documentation, it's about how many distinct concepts you have to read the documentation for to use the framework. React is extremely conceptually light, by design, which is something I love about it.
I always thought one of the requirements for published Sudoku puzzles was that no trial and error should be required; it should be possible to deduce the single unique solution from the clues given. This would mean the "search" part of Norvig's algorithm would not be required; constraint propagation alone would be enough.
A lot of 401k providers have been pushing passive Index funds as "stable" late-life investments with higher return rates than actually stable securities such as bonds. So maybe there is a fear to find there that there is a lot more short term thinking and short-term investors in Index funds than there "should be" (and that market adjustment there could be disastrous to a lot of retirees).
ha I was gonna comment this sounds like a book I read recently (since I didn't read TFA because who even does that).

I'm unsatisfied with the cassava and acorn stuff. I get that metabolism is externalized and I get that once it is a cultural practice then that's just how it is. I struggle with envisioning the part in between where the processing is newish and becoming a practice, especially in regards to something like the cassava toxin that doesn't happen until decades later. How does a processing strategy sustain in those early iterations? Versus the animal husbandry practices, they have more immediate results that seem less vulnerable to biases making false causation. I think I struggle with the making sense part of it, what I got from the book is that considering cause is a luxury won by doing it "because I said so".
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> Earnings: Loss of 14 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs. 18 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.

> Revenue: $145 million, vs. $140.7 million as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.

So they beat estimates in both cases and the stock fell? Am i misreading this?
Theoretically a board with multiple solutions should be easier to find a solution for though, right?
Ad banners are just hilarious
Which one was that?

BlackMesa (a fan remake of Half-Life 1 on a modern engine) is outstanding.
At first glance the difference is proxy on the node and not per pod. It is also K8s centric where L5d is easier compatible and has way more more powerful configuration options and runs on vms as well.

I would say that L5d 2.0 would be the direct competitor. They are both: small, simple, opt-in, K8s centric, and support SMI.
Yeh that makes sense, I'll have to come up with a solution for that. I didn't think about it that deeply yet tbh, I just snapped it together as a tongue in cheek project.

I'll explore some solutions for scaling and customizing it, thanks!
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