skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of paid volunteers going around with an iPad and helping homeless people high on meth register/vote in 15 minutes! This sounds great! Of course they will be told to vote for policies that help them live healthier, comfier lives...on the streets.
I think in many (most?) cases the former owners simply aren't alive anymore. Presumably they were paid for the houses when they were kicked out too, so that would complicate things.
Absolutely. What galls me though is that in 30 years, when prosecuting things like this have long gone out of fashion, our grand kids will be having this very same conversation.
I’m surprised that 23andMe have not released any new products since they started. They still offer the same SNP chip based test fundamentally. The interpretation of results has if anything become less interesting due to regulation.

It may be that there aren’t any new products that are either useful or that people want. But still, it highlights the type of company they want to be, a kind of genomics facebook.
Absolutely a convenience thing. If we're going to cost efficiency, making new Google accounts whenever you run out of free storage wins.
> Restaurant owners interviewed are not too happy as well. They feel forced to subscribe because of popularity of the site, but have to pay 2 euro per person per reservation. Also it happens that without their knowledge TheFork arranges the Reservation button on Google search, so they flow through their platform.

I've always wondered how this works. Especially when most travellers these days rely on Maps / Tripadvisor to plan their trips. Restaurant owners are almost forced to be on those platforms.
I was worried that was the case :/ Thanks for expressing this!

I'd done the same regardless of gender (or experience level); it's really been that much of a game changer.

Edit: Do you know of any ways to share this sort of enthusiasm that won't come off that way? Or is just something that's not possible?
Not sure why this is posted today. Interesting home PC that I hadn't heard of, much like the TRS-80 Color computer (not that closely related to the TRS-80). Same CPU (6809) and I believe the same huge speed up when you disabled the display.

Not sure why it was posted today, but it's the earliest case I know of adding DRM. The pegasus has a set of diodes on the board (hidden under putty) that forms a 8 bit ID. So an EPROM update for one computer only had a 1 in 256 chance of working on any other computer.
One of the sites I maintain has a collection of recipes. It was only when Google started sending me email because they lacked calorie counts that I realized what a terrible idea microdata is for everyone but Google.

I have since taken all of the microdata out of the HTML. If google wants it, it can pay for it.
If one of my siblings does a dna ancentrial test why would I need to do it???
Since the website is mostly information-free - is that a Wiki? How's it different from a Wiki?
Is there anything like vs-chromium's code search in emacs? After finding vs-chromium I lean on it so hard that when I tried to switch to emacs, helm-projectile was good but wasn't good enough.

Plus I'm on windows and there was enough friction where things kind of worked but didn't (usually environmental things like it couldn't find ag or awk, process lifetime, window drawing, etc.).
Tesla Advantage
Touche. But you'll have to pardon me for being distrustful of anyone that walks in just to defend a politician of any kind (without hard proof, anyway).
"What I think you're saying is that the requirements don't make sense to you, or that they bother you because you're thinking that they're not requirements you can meet."

No, I am for requirements not against them. What are the requirements (or features) of the new platform which does not apply to HN - that is the question.
1 Gallon = 3.999987 Quarts
Interesting to see 'superblack'. I always remember reading the terms 'blacker than black' and 'whiter than white' in old TV repair/theory books.
Honestly, I don't think putting this color on cigarette packaging is going to stop people from buying it. If you're addicted to it, you're going to buy it, who cares what color it's packing is...
This is a new user hostile move from them. They have announced they are removing support for ALL older model speakers not just "discount code redeemed" ones. Additionally they disabling updates for any new speakers that remain in the same audio system as any old products.
I made the mistake of assuming the official numbers being reported were accurate. If the Weibo rumors are true, this is truly scary and uncontrolled within China.
Right. From the product development side, what else is there? Upsell on newer test results? Sell you your genetic code as a poster?
I think the scariest thing is that in a world of unlimited data retention - a future powerful bad actor will have access to all our past behaviour - whether that's liking the wrong political party, or visiting a gay bar.
The Space Force uniform was a Kobayashi Maru.

If money was not spent and they used an existing uniform to keep costs low, critics would complain that the uniform does not match the environment.

If money was spent to design a new uniform that matched the environment, critics would complain that money was wasted on uniforms and they would probably acknowledge the comicality of thinking that a uniformed soldier in space would care about camouflage instead of things like breathing and wondering why they're in uniform in the vacuum of space.

Either way, critics will complain and Space Force personnel will continue to exist in desks for the conceivable future, so uniforms should clearly have been optimized for comfort.
The artifical womb will make fetus death unnecessary during abortion.
> With legalization comes higher prices (and possibly shortages and the inability to get it whenever you want).

This isn't actually a feature of legalizing trade in something. If you're just contrasting "legal drug sales" with "illegal drug sales", the illegal vendor has much, much higher costs and isn't in a position to charge lower prices.

But California chose to impose ludicrously high compliance costs on the legal vendors, so high that illegal vendors can effortlessly beat them on price.
> compare search engines

What metrics would you use? I would be fascinated to know.
Artifact and Underlords are both mobile-style 'board games'.

So sure, Alyx is coming. But before that is a six and a half year gap in major games.

And if you discount CS:GO and Dota 2 as remakes, then you're looking at Portal 2 all the way back in 2011.
>One difference: it's impossible to die (immediately) from marijuana.

You can overdose yourself with Cannabis Extracts. They are just as legal as the plant.
Which has not been done in court? I work in juvenile dependency law and we use paternity-by-DNA to establish and disestablish fathers every day. Other divisions of the DOJ use DNA to establish parents for the purposes of childcare payments. There are loads of statutes and case law regarding DNA testing to determine parentage.
Yeah, I agree. But also it's curious that so many people feel like they have it. Makes me wonder if in addition to people that were born with ADHD, these sites like youtube/reddit and video games can create ADHD symptoms over time as your brain adjusts to constant dopamine.

Kind of like how constant sugar can spike insulin and with weight gain over time can creates insulin resistance/diabetes. It's like type 1 vs type 2. So in this analogy Type 1 people with ADHD would be people who are born with it and it's lifelong, and type 2 ADHD people acquire it after indulging in these dopamine producing addicting web products for years and your reward system/executive function is messed up, impacting daily life similar to people who are born with ADHD.
It's interesting for me too. I wonder if vocal fry existed back then, or if that's something people will point out as a period thing 100 years from now.
> they wouldn't have spread something else than a globalized Mandarin worldwide

For sure, but my point was that the simpler (relatively, comparatively) a lingua franca is, the less pidgin you get, and the more of the actual language you get instead. And that's a merit of the language itself, not the powers that back it.
I'm sure they'll get fined $1M in 2036 or something. That'll even it all out.
> their ROI must be incredibly low.

Not according to [this reddit user's analysis](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/dgvmkk/crazy_...).
I did a fairly broad and deep investigation into PHP frameworks a number of years ago and the best framework I found was Yii[0]. It had scaffolding generators and was very well designed for both database and caching performance while still being relative easy to use. It even generates command-line tasks so you can use the framework for one-off or recurring jobs. There's a pretty big ecosystem now with many plugin style libraries.

[0] https://www.yiiframework.com/

Edit: TL;DR - it's made the way I would have made a framework which is a rare find.
In my view the multi-room feature is nice, but on the whole not worth the trade over simpler and less expensive portable Bluetooth speakers, which I have found to be more useful over time.
Good.
5 years earlier would have saved lives.

If only they could go back and haul up all the tobacco executives from nursing homes and golf courses and do the same.
that's presuming you are traveling backward instantaneously, or very quickly. if you moved more gradually, like the way we the way we move through space, presumably you could stay pinned to earth ...
I disagree. 1.5b is strictly superior to 117M or 345M on everything we've trained it on, from 20MB contemporary poetry on up. Assuming of course you don't screw it up or train too long. The only times we've concluded the smaller models were worth using is when the transfer learning was basically useless (eg for our ABC/MIDI models, there's hardly anything English-like in it, so no transfer, and no point in using 1.5b since it'll just overfit like 117M does, so might as well stick with the small model, since that lets us do things like use >25k context windows).
I'm going to admit that was more out of incredible cynicism rather than actual knowledge - you can already hire PR firms to campaign for you in various ways, so a protest outside the courts might just be a value-added service.
Ha.. Thanks Zaroth. Funny enough it actually ended up being about 21 miles of cable and fiber.

I suspect we are about 8 weeks away from completion.. and I need to update that thread as I am a month behind!
We’re an embedded gaming system (casino) and I make sure we have a platform abstraction layer (2 c++ files per platform), and any project we build can be made for any platform (even Haiku). The amount of threading issues you discover makes this exercise absolutely worth it. The platform files haven’t been touched for almost a decade, write once (a week) and use forever.
I wonder if there are any alternatives for sports drink bottles. Glass and metal bottles sound safest but you can't compress them to easily drink single handed.
There are two candidates for "best website in existence," both were made by people born in countries that spawned from the dissolution of the USSR, and one starts with "sci-" while the other starts with "Lib." One ends with "hub" while the other ends with "Gen."
Your kids can also be identified from your DNA.
Uh, it absolutely has - and with more distant connections than direct parentage. See the recent Golden State Killer case for instance, as well as a myriad of others.
Making debuggability (transparency) a first-class design criteria.

For many (most) systems, there are designs that make perfect sense, but will be hard to debug.

When I started designing so that programs could tell me what they are going to do, what they are doing, and why, and so that their state, wherever possible, could be expressed into a structure where I could "see" the wrongness, my development time went way down--because it was really time spent debugging, so my productivity went way up.
The major step was deciding to do a ton of dating in a shorter period of time. I would go on 3-4 dates a week. It's exhausting to do this, so I could only manage this pace for a month or two before taking a few weeks off and trying again.

What I found is that the repetition allows you to reframe the situation. I started to no longer 'get my hopes up' or really anticipate the date, so that I wouldn't have an agenda coming into it. Instead it was much more casual: just get to know them and see if there's a good vibe or connection.

I want to point out that this is different than trying to sleep with a bunch of women. I was really going for connection, and if you go on a lot of dates you start being able to tell pretty quickly if there's a connection.

I really do think there's something to essentially 'brute forcing' your way to getting better at something. Make it so your primary goal is learning and getting better, and, remarkably, you will.
I just shut down my work computers and switched over to my personal machine so I could jump into training mode to work on my dribbling, because I watched a few tips videos on lunch I was eager to apply, but decided to check my news feed first. Fuck.

Cost of the game, 12 DLC packs, and 3 season passes just gone. 388 hours over 12 months to build skills I will never use again. And just as many hours watching others play.

Rocket League was the one and only game I decided to break my no-centralized-or-DRM-protected-games rule for because it is an absolutely beautiful, pure-sport game.

Psyonix made a fantastic game, Epic will destroy it. I knew how bad they were but really hoped they were just going to take this piece of art, not fuck with it, and just profit.

The money I've spent on the game as a Linux user is easily measurable, but what about the, no less than 10, people I've inspired to buy the game and the people they in-turn inspired to buy the game? What about the toys my 3 year old wants because he sees me playing the game? What about when it would have been time for him to get a copy? What about all the friends he was going to inspire to get a copy? All because of a single Linux user that went against his own ideals hoping not to get fucked just this one time.
> but its MVP is very forgiving.

Yes, that was exactly my original point, thanks for explaining it more hacker-news-y than me. :-)
This is old news. Look up ATAK.
Hand-wavy ‘the machine follows the weighted average of the immediately adjacent matter, thru time”
Ok, I like this idea!

The Malleus Maleficarum was a runaway 'hit' just after the printing press was invented. It's comically evil and while not fascism as we'd say it is today, damned if the methods of torture, psuedo-trial, and presumptions of guilt aren't mirrored in fascism (among others).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum#Popularity...
I have a friend who uses an always on audio for his entirely remote team and swears by it. I think it might depend on personality types. I’m willing to admit it does work for some teams even if my own initial reaction is “no way!”
I've worked on ATAK. It is a very capable combat tool.
I have a Sonos that came with my house. It's actually the least of my worries.

The house was built about 10 years ago with what (I presume) was a state-of-the-art system at the time - an "AudioAccess WHEN" system. It works fine - there are keypads and speakers in every room, and I can pipe audio from the Sonos (or an Airplay receiver) to anywhere.

It's a weird topology, however - the speakers in each room are wired to the keypads (which is where the amps live). Each keypad has a power connection, and some kind of (presumably proprietary) Cat-5 connection to a central hub. The hub in turn is connected via Cat-5 to a head unit with FM receiver, CD/AUX inputs, etc...

When we moved into the house, the head unit wasn't working - it refused to establish a connection to the hub. I managed to track down a working tech support phone number, only to hear that they don't make this system any more, and that the head units often fail in this way. I managed to find what may have been the last replacement head unit in existence on Ebay - bought it, and fortunately everything started working!

I am, however, dreading the day when it inevitably dies. Since the speaker wires go to the keypad amps, and not to the wiring closet (where the hubs live), I'm not sure what I could replace it with - beyond re-running new speaker wire to a completely new system in the wiring closet.
Don't forget to thank the WikiGnomes for their work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao

"What is your favorite good article that you contributed significantly to, or assisted significantly in it obtaining good status?"
Ser Amantio di Nicolao : I have not worked on any good articles.
I have some issues with how the other responder phrased it

Is that me? I'd be agreeable to a discussion of the movie and some of the parallels I found with that particular element of the Kapoor story (at least as reported by NPR here) and try to understand your issues with my own conclusions; this particular thread may not be the best medium for it but I'm always open to a friendly session of 'movie-allegory-as-ethics film theory' being a just a middling movie enthusiast.
Why is the advice to switch to Apple or Google ecosystems in lue of Sonos?

I use a 2004 era laptop to power my media experiences throughout my home, connected to regular ole amplifiers of variying vintages. 10-15yrs old off ebay seems to be a sweat spot, you pay ~10% the original 2-10k price tags because these units are purchased by wealthy consumer audiophiles.
Hope you make a post about it.
However, the number of available titles on Linux/Mac is small, so you become a big fish in small pond and take all the users money. Piracy on OSX is smaller, and they are typically wealthier and starving for content.
The changing nature of work in the US
It can manifest differently in anyone. My father, my sister, and myself were all diagnosed with ADHD around the same time. My father has taken medication regularly for years without issue, and my sister used it "tactically" for the purposes of doing schoolwork and testing, and would be focused but really drowsy.

I, on the opposite end of the spectrum, would get strong symptoms of depression, and a constant feeling of nausea and lack of appetite to the point of being suspected of anorexia/bulimia by my physician. I tried a wide variety of medications throughout grade school and high school, and eventually gave up because they all gave me negative side effects of some kind.
If you take the first million digits of pi, and compress it with, say, bzip2, you get a file of about 420KB. This is pretty good in one sense - an 8 bit byte that stores a decimal digit can store 3.3 bits of information, right? As such, you would expect output to be 3.3/8 or about 42%. But obviously that 420KB + a decompressor is nowhere near a minimal program. I've always been fascinated with the Mandelbrot/Julia sets and where that information comes from as well.
Yeah but then you lose all the Apple TV content and the apps...
Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook
they already provide this as a service
A difference between emacs functions and awk one-liners is that the former are highly composable. Over the course of weeks you can build whole libraries of custom text-manipulation functionality for your particular domain, all integrated seamlessly into your editor. The thought of calling out to tools like awk for this is really galling. Could just be me, though.
Medical AI named “Zach” was just a father and son with no medical experience
I was asking her why she thought that. Not what other people thought.
Even without the Sonos app, you could feed your audio sources through an HDMI switch that sends a single optical output to the Playbar, and you could make one of those sources an Apple TV or a Bluetooth receiver or whatever.
Not trying to be snarky, but did you read the article or did you skim it? The author explains the reasoning behind the walkie-talkie approach versus a phone call.
I grew up with IM and distributed teams online, and am very comfortable with it. It's my platonic ideal for remote/distributed communication... until expectations around response times are put into place.

If I can receive a message, respond to it four hours or a day later, and receive a phone call for anything more urgent than that, I'm happy to use IM platforms for collaboration.
This was a mechanical turk at its finest.

The journalist's original investigation started back in 2018 and it has taken about 18 months for the authorities to investigate and shut them down.

The AI was used among other things to interpret ECG results. They pair claimed they had a $500 million super computer that nobody ever saw.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-best-of/31-12-2018/summer-reiss...
You can check my comment history to verify my identity if you want someone that is defending Yang. I'm actually being vocal in this thread about Yang Gangers specifically making accounts to participate in conversations about him.
Man I hope Apple loses hard on this one, but more importantly in the long run I really think Apple should hope they lose hard, too. A vibrant startup ecosystem can have tons of benefits for any platform company like Apple.

California may have tons of shit wrong with it politically, but man did they get it right when it comes to making non-competes and non-solicits unenforceable. Coming from Texas, non-competes and non-solicits have a huge stifling effect on startup formation in the tech world. I've hit it myself, and it is a major pain in the ass. Most companies have a non-solicit of fellow employees for a full year after you leave. Of course if you start a startup you're going to want colleagues you really liked to come work with you.

I hear about other states and locales that say they want to "be the next Silicon Valley" and I just laugh if they have enforceable non-competes and non-solicits.
The strength we need is not biological. We need the strength to pursue our individual roles in life. All the collective strengthening in the world cannot tell you which way to swim or do your life for you.

George Lucas got into film from cultural anthropology when it was near impossible to get a career in it. He then made a soap opera in space which you needed his background in anthropology to get what he was doing. The collective was against it or didn't understand. The film nearly didn't get made.

The NBA stars that make it have individual advantages that put them ahead of the pack. Wayne Gretzky was ahead of the game to the point where the collective had little to provide in direction or competition.

Independence is fundamental and countries have wars over it. Codependency is a psychological disorder that ruins lives. Strengthening people who are aiming at ruin breaks the virtuous loop, no matter how much collective support. It is a myth to think collective support is an easy task. Real support requires as much time, effort and skill as the individual puts into achievement. A married pair of doctors in the same field would know enough about each other and the task to support each other.

Falling into taking or giving the signalling cues of the collective and eating/massaging perks is a quick way to lose yourself. Meet each other's needs, yes. Collective strength as a replacement for the individual? No.
While it's more pronounced in tech, it's not just tech. Lots of old economy companies tightening their belts as well based on anecdotal stories I've been hearing in the last year.
Why wonder about something you already know the answer to?
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