skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly; it's about generating (much faster) heuristics for "guessing" the outcome given certain parameters, instead of running the real simulation every time. Useful, for sure, but the real thing should be used to verify once you've found something interesting.
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I am not sure I understand. It sounds like DK claim that assessing one's own competence is difficult (perhaps impossible).

I don't see how that conflicts with the title. It is asking for a test that can assess one's rough ability.
> Many toxicity studies have been done and seem promising.

The article implies a bit more of a mixed bag than that. Some were promising and some were troubling. I'm not a chemist but I think the most generous stance to give would be "cautiously optimistic" and I still think that's overselling it based on what I just read.
It looks relatively straightforward and like a good start for someone trying to get started with web dev with node.

Have you seen Mozilla's in-depth introduction/tutorial: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/E...

Curious if this article adds anything
The stats will be for the whole COSPAS SARSAT system but limited to rescues in the United States because Americans only care about other Americans (not all of them but in general)

The system doesn't present users with "This beacon was detected by this NOAA satellite". You could trace it back, but it's generally not relevant and people are focused on stuff like Do we have a good fix? / Does the registration tell us anything useful? / Who is available that can be tasked to go look? Also do you then count scenarios where five satellites were involved and one was NOAA? A lot of alerts will be "seen" by more than one satellite.

NOAA has some geostationary birds, which can be enough for sole alert if the beacon has GPS, because GPS tells the beacon where it is (if it can see the sky well enough) and then the beacon tells the geostationary satellite its location as part of the distress beacon message. For those obviously they're "parked" over America so maybe some central American or even Canadian incidents but mostly US stuff. For a beacon without GPS the geostationary alert is not much help. "Joe needs rescuing from somewhere in your hemisphere". With 406MHz digital beacons you might perhaps try calling Joe's wife "Oh! Joe is out on the lake, actually he's a bit late for dinner" and that might be useful but mostly alerts with no location are not actioned.

But lower orbits mean a non-geostationary NOAA bird could be over anywhere in the world, and those low orbit satellites can measure doppler shift (ie determine location without GPS), it's just that the rescuers wouldn't necessarily be American and in most cases neither would the victims. Australia has lots of wilderness and so lots of alerts for example.
Right. After having nothing but small and relatively low tech TVs over the years, we bought a nice, expensive 1080p projector in 2009. It looked great, worked great, we were quite happy with it.

But a few months later, it told us that its bulb needed to be replaced soon. And the replacement was going to cost a couple hundred bucks.

I knew that projectors needed bulb replacements from time to time, but I didn't think it would be that frequent.

We just let it complain until the projector refused to work because of an 'expired' bulb.

I got online and bought a super cheap 'clone' for the bulb from China. After installing it, all was well.

That same bulb was working fine from 2009 until we got rid of that projector in 2018.
Detroit offers credit monitoring for 15,000 employees in data breach
I would agree with you that you are under no obligation to reply to any of the questions, if that is what you are saying. Emphatically.

In my opinion, everyone should be encouraged to question the evidentiary basis of any of your beliefs and claims which deal with objective reality, not be discouraged from doing so, and not have this conflated with invalidating your experience.
Yep. But the more responsible option (for FB engineers) would be to never allow opening up the privacy level - users should only be allowed to restrict it!

If they really want to share same content with the whole world, then that should be a completely new post.
This has nothing to do with loyalty. I agree that there is nothing wrong with this person going off to do their own thing. But getting that started on company time, including poaching other Apple employees, is totally out of line.
Me and 10,000 of my bots would like to participate in this election.
Speakers are unpowered in that setup. Occasionally you'll see active speakers (which have built in amps), but most "hi-fi" setups don't use them.
Very curious that this came just a couple weeks after they announced licensing their first drug compound (using data from the test kits?) to the Spanish firm Almirall [0,1].

Anybody have any ideas about this? Why would they slow down the "growth and scaling efforts" (as the cnbc article claims) even despite lower-than expected sales, when the data from kits is what gives them the unique(?) capability to discover novel drug compounds at a massively reduced cost compared to traditional pharma companies.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-09/23andme-l...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22004326
Helsinki University plans to educate 1% of all Europe in the basics of AI
This is an enterprise system, though; it won't be running on your computer, but business computers. Still bad, but less bad – arguably on the level of Google pushing its search engine in Chrome and Firefox to begin with.
Maybe it's because I haven't looked hard enough, or maybe it's because ppi is so high on modern displays, but I haven't noticed a dead or stuck pixel on any Apple product I've owned in...well, years.
I'd be extremely reluctant to go to any wilderness or hiking area and rely on my cell phone. Sure, coverage is much better than years ago, but even a few weeks ago I was driving a few hundred miles. I checked ahead of time to see about possible stops along the way, cell coverage, etc. because some of the route went through the middle of nowhere. Cell maps said I had full coverage the whole way, but there was a hundred mile stretch where every few minutes I'd lose coverage for a mile or two.
I was thinking the same thing... the housing market will probably crash soon... bitcoin to the moon? just kidding.
This looks great! I’m not a woman but my daughter will be eventually and she already likes to make.

Any reason why you chose to build your own vs use existing infrastructure (ie your own subreddit you moderate, closed facebook group, etc)? I’m not intending to sound critiquing, I’m interested in learning more about your insight.
Why is x86 ugly? Why is it considered inferior when compared to others?
I think we are better off writing our own tool and host it on our own server(s), if no one knows about it, no one can hack it or "accidentally" remove the app/extension. I don't mind using an opensource/free toolkits to build our own password managers though.
I am hoping to get some guidance on this side project. I have made a ton of mistakes along the way so I am hoping I can reduce them as I go forward.

The product is an IT ticketing system that has an integrated Asset Management and a Remote Management system (RMM). It has a mobile app, customizable dashboard, reporting and a decent search experience.

The webapp is written in vuejs.
The mobile app is Xamarin.
The backend is .net core.
All deployed on Azure.

If you guys have any suggestions on the product overall (technical or otherwise), it would be very welcome.
Correct, but those air gapped data centers already exist- there are separate Azure regions for certain restricted civilian government workloads, DoD unclassified work, and cleared work.
Yes, definitely not a given a new tv you buy will still have rca jacks.
Truebill is what Mint was supposed to be if it wasn't acquired. Plus, we're YC. If you haven't yet, try it!
I am very satisfied with my Snapcast + Home Assistant setup. I needed to spend more time get my setup going than a Sonos user probably needs, that is not for everyone, I realize that. I think it does what Sonos does. But maybe Sonos is more advanced.
Ask HN: What to do when people are leaving my company every week?
I’m a developer with quite a bit of experience in the field.

My company has gone through some hella changes, new owners and we pivoted our product to adapt to the market.

Problem
———————-
These past 4 months, people have been resigning faster than we can refill their spots.

I’m not sure what to do, on paper things are going well and we have enough redundant staff to pick up the slack. But it's not sustainable.

Honestly, I'm a little worried

Has any of y’all experienced this?

What signs should I be on the lookout for?
I said that before about antidepressants: I wish psychiatric medications were as magical as many neurotypicals think.
This comment ads nothing of particular value. TripAdvisor, just like many of the businesses that thrived around Google and search engines in general, use SEO to promote their own services. Nothing wrong with that.

The wrong bit here is that Google is acting as a dangerous monopoly, disregarding privacy and as of recently, shamelessly stealing markets from its own customers. Few years ago in Europe it was sanctioned for stealing news from news agencies, and the echo chamber around hn criticised news agencies and governments trying to prevent this madness.
> They'll all continue to work exactly as they already do.

Yeah, that's false.
Several things are wrong with this post. The exome is the protein coding portion of the genome. It does not change except by somatic mutation, same as the rest of the genome. Genotyping is the act of decoding variants in a genome and does not have anything to do with the underlying technology used. To my knowledge both ancestry and 23andme still rely on microarrays to do genotyping, though 23andme experimented with whole exome sequencing (which is not low coverage) in the past.
I offer you my genuine personal point of view.

ADHD people are incredibly creative! They are those whose brain naturally refuses to conform to "what is not fun", in the words of the author. This feeling is right behind Artistry itself! Your mind is trying to say something very important.

I advise you to invest in finding what your flow is. For a moment think the way your brain works is a gift of the universe and things like Distraction, Hyperactivity and Never Ending Stream of Thoughts might in turn be confused with Graph Exploitation, Mind Stamina and Infinite Power of Association.

How can you take the most utility out of your "condition"? By using it as a tool for Creative Expression. We are all blessed to have so many options to do that. Fall in love with a project - something you care about so much you will likely be always motivated by it.

The System is totally broken. Many know that. Companies should see ADHD collaborators as a unique and rare kind of Problem Solvers and work hard to make sure their gift is well exploited. The full equation has got many parameters, but a good starting question is "how can we design an environment where my ADHD (or any other condition) can give their absolute best?".

Personally, I like to use my abilities thinking about The Future of Technology and expressing those thoughts through Software Development. If you vibe with that, message me. I would very much want to be your friend.
I have a similar function. I find the inverse also very useful - especially for diffing things
The Architecture of Information
No the article says the opposite. It says they’ll continue working together:

“First, rest assured that come May, when we end new software updates for our legacy products, they will continue to work just as they do today. We are not bricking them, we are not forcing them into obsolescence, and we are not taking anything away.”
They need a SaaS!

Monthly/yearly subscription to updates of some sort
The English Wikipedia now has over 6M content articles
When it's in their financial interest, they will avoid doing things that cost them money. Lawsuits are one such cost. Which is why companies train interviewers not to ask any information that laws prevent them from using during the hiring process. If you don't know, clearly you didn't use that info for discriminatory hiring practices.

Similarly, there was a very recent article about how GINA might be acting as a privacy law, since companies would prefer just not to know:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/genetic-bia...

But then, there's about zero useful information in genetic information when it comes to hiring. If there were useful information, I'm sure we'd see far more violations.

I'm far more concerned about access to life insurance, which is not covered by GINA.

Also, it's very unlikely that a 23andMe type test will have enough clinical information that would be useful even for life insurance purposes or health insurance purposes. Clinical genetic testing is far more powerful that way.
Half siblings are probably the most interesting “relatives-you-didn’t-know-you-had” you can find! They might show up at any time, and you wouldn’t know without having your own account.
Yes, but they use a monthly subscription payment model so they should have a recurring income stream from all those users.
Kindof reminds me of that one poem about changing the world:

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.

I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.

When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.
You still give them plenty of data to sell.
What if they mixed this with weathered maroon?
> Actual transit providers typically lack the technical knowledge

This is actually getting better, as most of the transit providers already rely on software companies that provide their own route planning software for passengers and/or administrative software like tools to create the actual schedule with. These companies are slowly getting better in providing standardized feeds.

I am skeptical that something like a feed-wiki would work, both because of vandalism, and because schedules are usually incredibly complex. You may have noticed that your bus starting at 14:30 from station X was scheduled incorrectly, but does this service has this mistake every day? What about the 3 days a year where this bus has a slightly different schedule? If the bus travels every 5 minutes, and each trip has this mistake, you have to manually check hundreds of trips per day if they contain this mistake. Automation is difficult here, because trips that occur frequently are very often not grouped by any mechanism (although for example GTFS provides such mechanisms).

I think the better way is a legislative change which requires all transit companies to submit their schedule data to a central authority, which then publishes the merged schedule.

There is now (since the beginning of 2020) a new EU regulation [0] which basically pushes for an EU-wide multimodal route planner and schedule dataset (published in a special format, NeTEx). This makes it now possible to rely on the data of existing national schedule aggregators, which have been checking and merging timetables of all national transit providers for decades. For example, in Switzerland, the national railway company SBB does this (GTFS feed published here [1]), in Austria its also the national railway company ÖBB, and in Germany, its Deutsche Bahn (GTFS feed published here [2]).

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2017/1926/oj

[1] https://gtfs.geops.ch/

[2] https://gtfs.de
For anyone looking at this in the future, the number is at 6,000,653 as of posting this.
will that disassembly tool include regulator genes and all the protein-protein interactions that influence said regulator genes, ad infinitum? there's so much more complexity to life than gene sequences themselves.
When and how to speak out is something that every ally is going to wrestle with, so everyone will have experience with it. Sometimes you have to stand up and be counted. If it hadn't been that night it would have been another.

But there is no substitute for the underrepresented assuming actual positions of real power and leadership — breaking through ceilings, becoming role models, making mistakes and overcoming them... and eventually becoming ordinary and routine.
Sure, but in the markets people bitch about that hasn't happened. Even during the crash, prices didn't move downward that much. There is a risk for sure, but that's true of all investments that pay better than t-bills.
Oh, good, an outright lie.

This is how a $2B company behaves - before they've turned a profit?

If anything in the last 6 years, Google/Apple have made significant headway standardizing the 'Cast' workflow. If the hardware could, "receive, forward, and playback" sound from a network 5 years ago, it should be able to do so until the link is obsolete, every AP I've encountered supports all the way back to 802.11a from 15 years ago, and in the worst case you just bridge your APs.

Apps are apps, networks are networks, if they're anticipating getting pushed out of this niche by the "ecosystem proprietors", Sonos is stupid and should realize that they just can't do anything about it and focus on their product development, pricing, their horrid marketing / website and not pissing away their multi-million dollar TV ad expenditure over the years on bad press.

What happens if consumers turn on the music industry should they start tuning their EQ out of the box for fart noises, screaming, and 20 year old Asian women punching gak? What if it becomes economical to fill your whole house with water, maybe they should develop underwater speakers asap!

Clean up your act, Sonos.
In a state with in-person voting, if someone tells you they'll give you $50 to vote for their candidate, you can take the $50, go to the ballot box, and vote for the other person. They'll be none the wiser. In WA, on the other hand, they can watch you fill out your ballot and stick it in the mail before giving you the $50.

As a WA resident, our system is certainly nice. Is that risk worth it? Meh, it probably is.
It's a positive term....
I've put a lot of time and money into Rocket League, including working on GNU/Linux support for BakkesMod. This is a damn shame.

Second follow up: I have Proton running RL consistently at 250 FPS using the following start command: PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 %command% -nomovie -high -AllowBackgroundAudio

First follow up: With the native version, I can keep a steady 250 FPS (the in-game max). With the Steam Play version, using Proton 4.11, I average around 145 FPS. Certainly not the same.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this. For others who found that interesting and wanted to know more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alraigo_incident
Cannibalising publishers is a separate issue from showing too many ads, and I don't follow which of these you think nationalizing a search engine will solve.
Excerpts:

"The DEC Alpha AXP chip, a MIPS style RISC design, was painfully spartan in the instructions available, but the instruction set was designed to avoid inter-instruction implicit register dependencies. There was no hardware-defined stack register. There was no hardware-defined flags register. Even the instruction pointer was OS defined - if you wanted to return to the caller, you had to work out how the caller was going to let you know what address to return to. This was usually defined by the OS calling convention. On the x86, though, it's defined by the chip hardware."

[...]

"You don't see those kinds of bursts of performance boosting things in the x86 family tree largely because the x86 instruction set's complexity makes many kinds of execution optimizations prohibitively expensive if not impossible. Intel's stroke of genius was in giving up on implementing the x86 instruction set in hardware anymore - all modern x86 chips are actually RISC cores that to a certain degree interpret the x86 instructions, translating them into internal microcode which preserves all the semantics of the original x86 instruction, but allows for a little bit of that RISC out-of-order and other optimizations over the microcode."

"I've written a lot of x86 assembler and can fully appreciate the convenience of its CISC roots. But I didn't fully appreciate just how complicated x86 was until I spent some time writing Alpha AXP assembler. I was gobsmacked by AXP's simplicity and uniformity. The differences are enormous, and profound."
I have my system centered around a Denon A/V receiver, with a Sony tv (with a single HDMI cable from the Denon being the only cable to it). Everything works more or less perfect, with the ocassional glitch where the a/v and tv no longer talk to each other (I need to reboot the whole system when this happens).

- The tv and cable remote are both able to turn off the off the tv, which will tell the a/v receiver to turn off

- Pressing home on the fire stick causes the tv and a/v to turn on

- The volume on the tv, cable remote, and denon remote all trigger the volume of the denon to change. The tv and cable remotes do not trigger the denon's volume's "speed up how fast it changes" on the volume (I don't like that feature, so it works out well)

Just pressing the button you would expect to work results in the expected action. I imagine adding sound multi-channel would add complexity (it, picking a channel), but that should be orthogonal to the rest of the setup, and be the same level of complexity between wired and not.

What kinds of issues did you run into?

Edit: To be clear, I'm an a/v newbie, I doubt I'd be able to offer any advice. I was just curious what issues you saw.
I guess you're being satirical, and maybe not everyone appreciates that, but you raise an interesting idea. Could AI (or rather, some simplistic machine learning algorithms) help to inform voters about which candidates share the same values as them, or what position on a ballot proposition they should take to be consistent with other views they have expressed?

Of course, that might end up putting a lot of power into the hands of the people making the algorithms, but if the training data and source code were transparent, and the output of the algorithm included a human-readable explanation for its recommendation, then it might actually be a better system than people voting the way they are told to by the only newspaper or TV station that they read/watch. (People should still then go to a ballot box and cast their vote on paper, though).

Here is a TED talk which introduces this idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGWML6cI_k
I suspect a lot of this has to do with perception. Even though a phone or laptop may appear to be in fine condition after several years and may even work very well, we understand that the internals no longer support more advanced, current hardware and software capabilities.

But I don't think the same way about speakers. The part that really matters for a speaker is the construction of the cabinet and the quality of the actual speakers (woofers, mids, tweeters, etc.). Traditional speakers have very little electronics involved.

Too bad Sonos didn't design a more modular/swappable system. I can understand needing to replace a central receiver/hub on occasion to take advantage of new capabilities, and/or swap out a component of the speaker, such as a bluetooth receiver. But to make all speakers in a system no longer supported is hard to understand.
Ah, the lucrative appendix removal industry.
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