skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. I’ve grown tired of Fitbit’s lack of cohesive bug-free products — simple things like adjusting the volume of Bluetooth headphones were known bugs for years without progress — and I had to make a choice between jumping off the bandwagon or sticking with Fitbit.

Battery life kept me. Being able to go 4-7 days without thinking about the watch is paramount. I also don’t want to charge every night because I want to track my sleep! So Fitbit won out.

I wish they could succeed independently. They have so much love and stickiness in my friend group and we all love the simplicity of simply an advanced fitness tracker without all the weight of a full-fledged phone on your wrist. Sadly, it seems like they don’t know how to run a company effectively. Which is a shame because I really really don’t want to move to Apple or Google products or anything else in this category until they solve battery life.
Strange post.

First, you realize the vast majority of workers in the Bay are not software engineers? And even less people make $80-100/hr?

Second, when you make $22/hr, you aren't staying in a studio for $3k a month. You're in a house sharing a bathroom with a few others roommates for <$1000/mo.

Third, you may have missed the part where I indicated while I currently work in tech, I studied biomedical engineering and worked in the medical device industry. BME salaries do not start at a floor of $70k like software.

As for why? Had I not done all the grinding early in my career I wouldn't have ended up at a "top tier" tech company today. THAT is why one stays in the Bay Area. I agree with your point that everything useful you must to learn yourself for the most part, rather than being taught it in school, but I disagree with the rest of your sentiments.
Google is doing something similar to what you design. See https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/open-source/bringing-...

> We’ve always seen our friends in the open-source community as equal collaborators, and not simply a resource to be mined. With that in mind, we’ll be offering managed services operated by these partners that are tightly integrated into Google Cloud Platform (GCP), providing a seamless user experience across management, billing and support. This makes it easier for our enterprise customers to build on open-source technologies, and it delivers on our commitment to continually support and grow these open-source communities
you don't have to, just look at the chart on $PALL ETF
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I grew up in Los Angeles during the worst decade of pollution it ever experienced and suffered serious childhood asthma as a result. The decrease in smog after catalytic converters were invented and required in new cars was significant.

After the changes, my ability to breathe improved drastically, and I know I’m not alone. I, for one, strongly support reasonable environmental regulations as a result.

https://www.kcet.org/history-society/how-los-angeles-began-t... is a great history of those times.
> Look at the controversies surrounding "no nudity/sexual imagery" > "banning/unbanning breast feeding pics" > "banning/unbanning pics of the african tribe who nurse sick goat calves back to health with human breast milk".

That is entirely my point. This is actually a famous story -- something as objective and straightforward as banning nudity turned turned into a nightmare with tons of exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions. Politics is the most delicate, messy, complicated subject there is. Facebook obviously can come up with some policy, just like I could right now, but whatever it is, a majority of people will be pissed off.
thanks hn, I know what ETF I'm buying some of tomorrow
In case this helps: The higher end Garmin watches have many strap options, you can try take the supplied strap off and buy a strap made with a different material from Garmin or a third party.
Also, best to take the watch off when showering, dry it completely / wipe down. Put the watch back on once you've dried off also. If your skin is super sensitive, consider taking it off sometimes at night etc.
Isn't the Big Bang only observable as the Cosmic Microwave Background? The Big Bang is the oldest event we can observe, but that doesn't mean nothing was happening before it. It just means we can't observe what was happening.

The travel time for light from that event doesn't seem to tell us very much about how old the Universe is as an n-dimensional space. It only tells us how far back we can observe. We can choose t_0 to be the point in time at which that farthest emitted light was emitted. That doesn't mean there isn't a t_-1, it only means that our axis of positive time starts there because that's all we can observe right now. We know some event happened and before that event we can make no observations, while after that event we can make observations. So everything observable follows from that event. But absence of observations is not evidence of absence.

It's actually sensible to ask what's north of the North Pole because it reveals something about the geometry of the coordinate space. You're considering the North Pole as a fixed boundary where all lines end, whereas the asker considers it as a point that all lines pass through(this is a more correct interpretation). In our polar coordinate system going to that point would result in being somewhere south of north but on the other half of the semicircle. Whether it's sensible to ask that about the universe seems like an open question to me.

The sensible thing to me is to wonder at the question while recognizing that we aren't currently able to answer it sensibly. Maybe we never do.
The thing with a Schrodinger's scam is that it really doesn't matter whether or not the scam was fully capitalized.

When you issue a full reserve currency, without any of the necessary oversight required to run one (Like... An independent auditor...) you're committed to operating in a manner indistinguishable from a scammer.

It's possible that they were fully capitalized for the first twenty minutes of Tether's launch. It is possible they were fully capitalized for the first twenty days. Or the first twenty months. Without any kind of proper bookkeeping - which was a deliberate decision on their part[1], we have no idea. And it doesn't matter. [3]

[1] The most charitable interpretation of why they made that decision was that their long-term plan for keeping Tether running would be under-the-table money laundering through Crypto Capital, or its ilk.[2]

[2] [3] Mind you, this means that the entire implementation of Tether is unsustainable! It doesn't matter that they are sitting on a multi-billion-dollar, 100% capitalized reserve if their customers can't ever redeem Tether for USD! Such a situation is indistinguishable from having a 0% capitalized 'reserve'.
> Largely because the opioid crisis has started to impact a lot of middle class households, which has helped to humanize the problems with drug addiction.

Perhaps off topic, and apologies for discussing political issues, but this is the angle I always bring up when folks wonder where "Black Lives Matter" comes from. Reason being in the 80s we also had a horrible drug epidemic that destroyed lives and families, but the response was 180 degree opposite of what you see today with the opioid epidemic: drug users were derided as "crack whores" and "junkies", oppressive minimum sentences were enacted (with cheaper crack punished much more harshly than more expensive powder cocaine), and essentially 0 empathy shown towards drug users. Compare that today with even hardcore Republicans advocating empathy and treatment. "Black Lives Matter" is needed as a slogan because, quite honestly, black lives didn't matter, at least in the eyes of America at large.
It's because Google has lots of internal services (sorta like microservices) and that's how services communicate with their neighbors. In some cases, persistent data is in protobufs too.

The point is probably doing some kind of storage, calculation, or aggregation of data, but "moving protobufs" sounds funnier.
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Do something else is great advice.

My manager was a great people manager and would generally rank high in terms of emotional intelligence (imo), but getting into details and weeds was not his strength.

When the problem we are trying to solve requires a decision maker to remove abstractions and deal head on with complexity, he would do the opposite. He would avoid the tough conversations - Every. Single. Time.

My boss saw his reports (me specifically in this case) as the abstraction. It removed complexity from his plate and made his job easier, but honestly, his poor decision making set me up to fail. I did my best, but when it was clear that I need management support and I won’t receive it, I had no other choice.

I left. :)
I think you mean DocumentDB, not DynamoDB.

https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/
> "Transpilation" and "compilation" describe the exact same concept.

No I think transpile implies compiling from one level of abstraction to another similar level of abstraction, which is quite different in theory and practice to compiling to a much lower level of abstraction. It's a useful word to have in your communication toolbox.
Trying to learn Cocoa dev in 2019 is very frustrating.

Not only there are practically no updated resources available (books, courses, etc), but the Apple docs are really lackluster.

At first I thought Catalyst was about empowering Cocoa devs to bring Mac apps into iOS, but now I see it's just the opposite. I imagine the number of macOS devs has been slowly shrinking over the years.
Thank you all for the feedback! I'll continue to make improvements to this post, as well as build more in the next parts.

My current understanding is mostly based on this wonderful website: https://quantum.country/qcvc - if you can recommend more good resources, I'm all ears!
I love my Garmin. The always-on display, week long battery life, the vast variety of well-designed watch faces, and the movement prompts (with thresholds for when one has moved adequately) are really golden. My only criticism for it is the clunky charger.
Honestly if a lie that blatant even needs to be censored, then I think we can just say democracy is a failure. What concerns me are the lies / truths that depend very much on values and biases that would get caught out because of Facebook's own biases or people gaming the system.
This article erroneously claims that if Facebook is a publisher it loses section 230 protections. This is not the case. See https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230 for more details.
The Fitbit brand-name has become a generic term like Aspirin, Kleenex or Google. That must be a big part of it's appeal for Alphabet.

When you own Fitbit, you own the category.
I didn’t downvote, but the reason is that while CRDTs are indeed awesome, similar results can be achieved by OT. And in many cases more efficiently. So not absolutely critical, strictly speaking :)
I don't think it's generally helpful to keep a backlog of something one is building by oneself. The reason is that a solo developer is able to hold in their short term memory what they are working on now and what needs to be done after.

Backlog is good when multiple developers are working on a project because it can make tasks assignable and prevent overlap of work. But in a solo endeavor, keeping a backlog tend to become a mere formality that slows one down.

I guess my claim depends on the complexity of the project, but I think complexity of project that one developer can handle might be limited such that keeping a backlog is not really worth the effort.
Not universally true. Consider a male name like Luca
This report reminds me of Warren Buffett's famous annual letters to BRK shareholders. Straight to the point, clear figures, no bullshit hype about the future prospects, even the ASCII formatting.
"Put them all up against the wall" is pretty neutral. Just saying.
I'm sure there's lots of research being done in these areas but I was always bothered by how behaviors are learned or just instinct. What the hell is instinct? A priori knowledge or just selected, random hard-wiring? I hope we make some progress during my lifetime and start scratching surfaces of these mechanisms. I just hope it doesn't turn out to be via gut microbes--I want it to be digitally encoded.
And now we are back to why drugs laws were justified in the first place.
Good point. 'like' and 'true' are not really different. Maybe allow people to 'like' political ads (or ads in general) will have the same effect.
Forgot to mention, I'm also getting the book "Quantum Computing Since Democritus" by Scott Aaronson soon.
These people are going to be constructively terminated.

Constructive termination is where they want to fire you for 'x' but can't legally so they construct 'y' as the real reason for firing you.
Yes, businesses paying the big bucks tend to get a different level of service than consumers using stuff for free.
At Domino's, there is a sliding scale of topping amounts. As the total number of toppings go up, the amount per topping goes down.

Large 1-topping has 48 pepperoni
Large 2-topping has 30 (from memory, many years ago)

So a double pepperoni pizza has 60, not 96 slices.
You read this thread and that’s the argument you thought I was making? Or did you just think that was a saucy zinger to aim at me?

If it’s the former, reply and I’ll clarify my point. I definitely do not agree with what you wrote.
For reference, Google pays $1B in taxes and fines to France, September 2019. https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/google-agrees-...
Mapping the World of Amiga Samples
We should use "economical figures" instead of "astronomical figures" when talking about large numbers.
I also got hooked on Garmin. The functionality on my 645m is good. The battery is great. The device is rugged enough. It has it's won GPS, I don't need a phone when I'm out running. The best part is it looks good enough to wear to work etc without shouting 'Apple watch or Fitbit'.
And they're still opposed by large amounts of Westerners.
Ask HN: NLG Narratives Like the Yahoo Fantasy App – Any Libraries for This?
XML, Julia, Rust, Crystal, Forth? support macros too. I was just pointing out that it can be done without sexp. Yes, the tooling sucks. Grammatical implementation is less powerful but that seems better than implementing a grammar ontop of sexps. You get some lexical freedom ontop of pure text that you don't get implementing grammars on top of sexps, respecting lisps tokenisation rules.

I wonder how far Lisp would have come if people had taken the source-source translator approach of js and just implemented an Algol frontend to lisp. There's plenty of things that Lisp had that are far more useful than just macros.

I think Tcl is the Unix answer to Lisp. Worse is better somehow evolved into a Lisp.
Yes. There was a lawsuit after a fatality. The delivery driver was a witness against Domino's.

They now have a satisfaction guarantee. If you call and say it was too slow, you'll be calmly told they don't offer a time guarantee, but if you were, for example, dissatisfied with your oder, you get free pizza.
This was dealt with in other media the same way that Facebook decided to deal with it.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct...

TV networks are required to air even untruthful ads as not to run afoul of regulations governing political ads. It's also likely that campaign laws requiring all political ads to be true would be unconstitutional.

Either way, the very fact that the Elizabeth Warren campaign is promoting a fairly blatant falsehood (and many people are happy to parrot a false talking point in the name of truth) is a symptom of the same problem that would force any reasonable entity to make the same decision Facebook just did. Truth isn't very popular, especially in politics and people (on every side of most political issues) would lose their mind if falsehoods were strictly banned.
Pizza is being forged. 12 hrs remaining.

Get it right now! Cost: 400 Gems
> I suspect modern armor piercing rounds on a 4.5" gun might do better than you expect against 1918 battleship armor.

Not sure they would. The standard RN small ship gun in WWII was 4.7". The standing orders if a Captain of a small ship sighted a German battleship was to load armour piercing rounds and aim for rangefinders or radar antennae, there wasn't any expectation of doing much damage to elsewhere on the target. His relatives would get given his posthumous VC some time later.

There are youtube videos of using modern torpedoes on ships. One should be enough to sink anything, particularly if it detonated under a battleship magazine.

You could also compare the effects of early guided bombs on battleships [1], they were comparable in weight and warhead to modern guided bombs and to things like the Harpoon missile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X
Home gyms go through fad cycles just like fashion does. Peloton is on the upswing of the “streaming fitness” fad, but give it one or two more years and it will start to die down.

I’ll only admit Peloton is here to stay if we see a correlation between Peloton’s profit and a loss for other fitness/entertainment. Basically, if people are just buying the bikes and paying for the subscription, but ultimately don’t change their fitness behavior (by cancelling a gym membership, for example) then we know it’s just a fad. Once they get tired of seeing the monthly charge, they’ll cancel and put the bike up on Craigslist.

But if people decide to drop something else in favour of Peloton, then I know it’s here to stay. If peloton is so great that you’ll cancel your gym membership, then it must not be a fad! People only have so much time and energy in a day.
https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b... - might be relevant.
I recommend a firewall in that case.

NAT itself would only be security-through-obscurity.
A simple method for spray-on gene editing in planta
Your approach is called hash join in databases.

Not sure about the diffing research though.
> Implicit in that grant is the idea that the corporation betters society by its existence.

Really? I don't think that is a thing, but happy to learn otherwise with a reference to some legal doctrine or legislation that spells this out.

That isn't to say that there can't be additional legislation that regulates an industry beyond the legal infrastructure that enables the formation of a corporation.
hash map worst case insertion/search is O(N) so this is potentially worst case O(N^2). IIRC a typical implementation would be more likely to be O(N log N) for some high log factor in the limit, but still worse than O(ND). And this is before we account for the fact that hashing a line probably has an implicit factor of D in it.
There are already Protected Car Lanes, but that doesn't stop everyone from double parking.
My Garmin only needs to be charged about once a week. If I'm using it a lot for fitness then twice a week. Once I traveled and forgot the charger, I managed to eek nearly two weeks out of the thing. I find this much better than daily charging and have steered away from watches that need to be charged daily.
Lots of networks and software is broken on ipv6.

The more you use ipv4, the more reliable things are.

Someday that will hopefully change.
Cool idea. I can definitely see the value of where you're going with it. I like the idea of building integrations and web services on top of this. It's the kind of thing nobody has time to do at their own company, but everybody wants.

Any plans to open source the core? Or at least offer self hosting in some way? Without either of those, it's a non-starter for me and probably a lot of people. Companies are pretty sensitive about their internal architecture, so it might be a requirement for some.
Not necessarily. Positional power is only one aspect of a managers capability.

It doesn’t prevent you from using personal power and influence, although most organizations are setup to purposefully make it difficult to function that way.

Usually your best managers do both. Think of the best people that you’ve worked for in any environment. Usually they are people from whom you’d seek advice and counsel.
Pollution concerns aside, your valves are timed and the manifold ports are shaped to work with the back pressure provided by a working cat.

If you didn't compensate for this during the modification you've likely cut the working life of you head(s) by half.
> > And all the U.S. had to do is make drugs illegal, and it would disappear. (Or not.)

> Well, yeah. Making drugs illegal makes them disappear. From legal sources. The illegal sources share a similar set of problems as noted. Am I going to get what I paid for? Will I get all of what I paid for? Will there be repercussions? How safe is this?

It has been fascinating to me to see how important brand and reputation are in the underground, otherwise struggling-to-be-anynomous markets. But then, even in the chans there were tripcodes.
Yes there is, sometimes they don't even remit but rather use btc. I send $10 a month to ~5 people in Venezuela and it's one of the only ways now to help out and/or live there
The one big problem with any theory that tells me that the universe has started and will end is that if this is true then why hasn't it ended yet? (the inverse of "Why has it started?")

It hasn't ended yet so it makes sense that either space time is static or that there is an infinite chain of big bang like events.
One of the world's largest hardware companies uses the line continuation feature to help make stuff you've almost certainly used today.

Whether that is the best way to solve their problem is another story, but that feature does get used.
On the other hand it's not as easy to adjust brightness on desktop monitors so I appreciate having the option either way.

Software brightness control on desktop monitors is something I've wanted for a while. Closest thing I've seen is a monitor with a built in light sensor that has the option of auto adjusting independent of the computer.
Is societal privilege even falsifiable? Can it explain anything? (Or rather, can it be made to explain anything and everything?)
"A history". As I said, you are interpreting that word differently than they are. I think it's valid to interpret "a history" to mean "something that happens with some amount of frequency". I also suppose it's valid to interpret "a history" as "something that's every happened".

At the end, you write "don't and have never never endangered", which is something only you are saying.
Incredible reporting, more so for being written by patio11 in his copious spare time as opposed to a crack team of journos at the WSJ or something.

There's one thing I don't understand though: if Tether is off-the-charts risky & illiquid if/when push comes to shove, you'd expect there to be a divergence in the price between BTC priced in Tether (on exchanges like Bitfinex, where you're screwed if Tether implodes) and BTC prices in USD (on comparatively reputable exchanges like Coinbase). Yet there isn't: http://www.untether.space/

Are arbitrageurs picking up pennies in front of the steam roller? Or is there something else happening here?
It is so true that it even has its own T-shirt!

https://www.google.com/search?q=larry+sergey+protobuf+moving...:

It's not really because of the monrepo. Think about how many jobs outside Google involve moving JSON data around (and manipulating and transforming it). At an Alphabet company, that work would likely use protobufs instead of JSON.
> so FB can impose whatever rules they want

Except, as evident, they don't. And they don't really have a financial motive to police speech, in fact they have financial motives to turn a blind eye to it.

And moreover, Facebook not making more money does not affect society at large, but the continued distribution of misinformation has direct repercussions for society at large.
I'm curious about the technical difference between a ball and a sphere.
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