skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing speed with latency. The feeling of "responsiveness" leans a lot harder on the latter than the former.

Even traditional hydraulic planetary automatics, the ones associated with the term "slushbox", have been able to physically change gears faster than most humans could row a manual for a long time. They have a similar advantage to DCTs in that gear changes are just a matter of applying and releasing different clutches, so they can on paper be in the same ballpark at least as far as WOT upshifts go.

The biggest problem manual enthusiasts typically have with automatics has been the downshifts. Most obviously the old-school automatics that had no idea when you might need a downshift until the driver pushes the pedal down harder, but even the more modern ones with "manual" modes. For the most part these are just asking the transmission controller nicely to change gears when it has a moment. The actual gear change itself may take place faster than I could move a stick, but the amount of time between me deciding I want to change gear and the gear actually changing goes in the other direction. Sometimes it won't even let me downshift to a valid gear, many automatics in less sport-inclined vehicles won't downshift unless the engine would still be under 4500 RPM even if they redline north of 6000.

A good DCT is almost there. They still struggle with multi-gear downshifts so a tight corner off a high speed stretch is uncomfortable, but as long as you're going one gear at a time they work great.
Saving a few seconds is only the immediately measurable effect of such an investment, but as you can see in this post it seems the added friction is a major headache for people, and removing it may have long term customer loyalty effects.
I think it’s a combination of the oft spoken ‘ritualization’ that goes along with listening to the medium, along with the fact that modern digital (ie streaming) renditions are inferior. To my ears, a well mastered CD sounds much better than both vinyl and mass streaming, though.

I think there’s also a collecting otaku aspect to it, and among the most hardcore evangelists, a psychological need to justify the amount of money they’ve spent on $30 180 gram reissues and the gear to play them.

I suspect there’s also something going on that’s a value-based reaction to the availability of ‘everything’ on Spotify, etc. I haven’t quite figured it out, but I bet it’s related to vintage computer/console buffs preferring ‘real hardware’ to emulation. If you have to pay more and work harder for something, it’s worth more, even if the cheaper, more easily accessible version is identical (or even superior) to that thing.
Some of the potential consequences of plant cognition are really remarkable.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gustavo_Souza4/publicat...

Also, the research and ideas into how plants could possibly have cognition is fascinating as well.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15592324.2019.17...
> .. source code isn't open-source ..

Not sure what you mean, but then what is this:
http://links.twibright.com/download/

> In this thought experiment, any successful attack has massive value so we can expect bad actors to be hammering on the system and finding most such exploits available on the application.

Precisely, and because of that, with 50% people using it, an orders of magnitude smaller attack surface and a mostly fixed feature set (you could at least have a LTS version), just how many vulnerabilities are there to find? How many man-years of work until there is nothing¹ left to find? Do you think that just any code has exploitable vulnerabilities, you just need to look hard enough? And with each fix, you can repeat that ad nauseam?

With the current browser development efforts, would we end up with a 100% formally verified browser, including its dependencies, networking, and maybe even relevant parts of a linux kernel?

Judging by the change log[2], links is currently developed by 1 developer and occasional contributions.

¹ Nothing of sufficient importance, frequency and lack of reasonable mitigations like not clicking on browser look-alikes, server-side CSRF protections, etc.

[2] http://links.twibright.com/download/ChangeLog
"High" flux for geomagnetic fields means it changed by a few degrees. So it's not anywhere near undefined, just slightly off.
Or perhaps it's... you know... ready. gasp
Industry labs compete for govt grants too. No reason why they can't keep developing the drugs. The USPTO has a budget of around $3.5B.
It's always the term "disgruntled" that is used when attempting to discount the experiences related by people who left an organization. What exactly does "disgruntled" mean to you? Take me, for example. I've spent decades of my life as a true believing member of the organization, willingly giving an incredibly significant amount of income, time, and work toward it. And then I discover on my own decades later that I had been indoctrinated to believe in a lot of false stories. This discovery was a very slow process that involved a lot of time, energy, and research. The psychological toll of reframing your entire worldview is large. I benefited a lot from online communities where a lot of people were going through the same journey. I'll always be a person shaped by my previous decades of experience as an active believing Mormon. Did any church members personally treat me badly? No. I've always fit all the right demographics, had the right behavior, and am the correct sexual orientation. Outside of being quizzed and shamed for masturbation as a child, I generally had it pretty good in the church, and I loved it. Did any church members treat me badly after leaving the church? No. They've been respectful enough about it, and I've had some good conversations with some of them.

And yet people like you constantly come along and want to categorize me as simply a "disgruntled exmember" with no opinion worth listening to, for the mere fact that I still participate in conversations about it online and in person with people who have had similar experiences as mine. This is a perfect characterization and example of what people who leave the church have to deal with. Even I, who never had it badly in the church, and was able to leave without too much drama from the local ward, will be labeled as an untrustworthy disgruntled apostate the moment I try to give a different perspective on this organization I was heavily invested in for decades. Online communities like /r/exmormon have a very large portion of people like me who have not had bad experiences in the church or leaving the church, but yet still have plenty to talk about for what should be obvious reasons.

And who are the people whose opinions we should trust about the Mormon church? Why obviously the believing Mormons of course. Trust the people who have been taught and trained consistently their entire lives to be "member missionaries" and put the best possible spin on their church to outsiders. They're not disgruntled, so therefore their opinion matters more. Trust the used car dealer to make the most honest assessment of the car they're selling.
> Red Hat, which purchased the company behind CoreOS in 2018, will, as of Sept.1, 2020, delete all CoreOS images. That means even if you wanted to download CoreOS (without supported updates), you won’t be able to.

> Although Fedora CoreOS is the official replacement for CoreOS, there are a few use cases it cannot replace, such as:

> No native support for Azure, Digital Ocean, GCE, Vagrant, or Container Linux community-supported platforms.
The rkt container runtime, originally developed by CoreOS, is missing.

Have these images of CoreOS (that RedHat will delete) not been added to the Wayback Machine yet? Or not backed up anywhere else?

> For those looking for a non-Red Hat alternative should check out the Flatcar Linux project, [1] a fork of CoreOS Container Linux.

So there is an (almost) equivalent alternative for those who use the images that are going to be deleted (and one that doesn't have the limitations of Fedora CoreOS)?

[1]: https://www.flatcar-linux.org/releases/
I just want to say that these are some of the most fun comments I've seen in a while on an HN thread. Thanks everyone and make sure your toilets are aligned!
When Danny O'Brien started researching what he called "life hacks" around 2004, the giant decades-long text file was the key practice shared by most of his interviewees. But not just for to-do lists; also for research notes, ideas, and so on.

https://craphound.com/lifehacks2.txt

It's too bad things didn't work out for him to get the book on it finished, but the important thing is that Danny's still with us.
I love reading these two for Python/Recommender Systems:
1. Ben Frederickson: https://www.benfrederickson.com/blog/
2. Erik Bernhardsson: https://erikbern.com/

And for pure ML:
1. Ferenc Huszár: https://www.inference.vc/
2. John Langford: https://hunch.net (although he hasn't written a technical post in a while)
I’m not angry about organized religion and tax rules specifically. I just know that the more complicated the rules get, the more they get exploited.

Off topic, but I would also support mandatory service in military for all similar to Israel. I can’t think of any other way to make people care about their country’s actions.
Simulation Raspbian (Raspberry Pi) on Windows 8.1
Good points, LinkedIn asks this question in behavioral interview “whats the difference between junior and senior engineer”..I had similar points but you have articulated it very well.
No pricing information until after I sign up?
You don't need any magnetic field to distinguish the north-south direction. It is simply the direction shadows are cast when the sun is at its brightest. Consequently, plants will have adjusted to it, providing many (subconscious) clues. The sun makes things strongly non-isotropic, and these clues are everywhere; in the light, in the plants, in the wind, in sound, in urban planning, etc.

I expect most of the anecdotal 'evidence' to be explained by this. What would compel me is if randomly changing the magnetic field correlates with the observations, which is what this study seems to have done.
I stumbled upon Corbin's Treehouse back in the late 90s when I was a kid researching... treehouses! Was enthralled by his treehouse construction and still visit from time to time for all the other content.
Voting is often influenced by tone and adherence to site guidelines, not just accuracy.
You can build it for way lower than that - in their BoM they use quite expensive distributors like Misumi - if you only source your steppers from other places that's already hundreds saved. If you buy the laser tube and power supply from China it's few thousands shaved off (the only problem is the risky shipping of fragile laser tube).
In their this weeks newsletter: no mentions at all... how is this acceptable by any standards of critical business software?
According to the text, Jesus was an itinerant carpenter or stone mason (depending on the vagaries of translation). He wasn’t a billionaire philanthropist. And by the telling of Acts, his followers lived in communal poverty.

The problem with much of mainstream American Christianity is that it tries to reconcile the greed and amorality of Capitalist wealth accumulation with its own teachings and they are fundamentally irreconcilable. Or, if you want, by its own scripture:

“No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Professional Translation Can Help in Digital Marketing – Adlibweb
GDPR limits the use of personal data to the specific usages the user explicitly agreed to. Any other use of a person's data would be illegal.

If I remember correctly, broad terms like "for anything" are not permitted.
I have the same worry with you, so I buy a mobile disk to store some important data. And I am thinking about deploying the server locally for bitwarden.

As to the tool for cross-platform apps. I am a Javaer but I don't like swing or other components, so I choose electron to build my apps which works fine.
I sure wish those journalists would have any more credibility than regular people though.
Is 100 billion really that much? The church has 16 million members. That is about $6,000 per member. The church has had 200 years of tithing and compound interest to get to this point. If used as an endowment to support 16 million people in 170+ countries that doesn't seem too crazy.

A single human (not mentioning any names) having 100 billion seems crazy.
I personally use a journal + pen, but I've heard that matte screen protectors for the iPad can make it feel a lot more like writing on paper. Just a suggestion.
So Org-Mode is a more complicated note-taking, etc., system that does twice as much as you actually need it to?
Ostracizing ex-members occurs in nearly every tight knit social group, especially ones predicated upon adherence to some ideology. It’s a basic tenant of human tribalism, and religions are perhaps the most tribal social groups we have ever invented.
In what situation would you opt for a dilutive series B where you had enough revenue that a bank would collaterize it for you?

If you are profitable, then it’s probably wiser to not take the dilution round. If you aren’t, your revenue is likely worthless as I can’t imagine a bank would have the risk appetite to turn a money losing venture into a profitable one by taking it over
Fulcro RAD is promising in this regard, going more declarative seems inevitable, there are challenges in designing declarative things though

I think collectively we need more thought on how to design declarative systems that are tangible inspectable debuggable in the same way following procedural code is
I agree with your take that mid-90's was probably peak UX. But I think that has more to do with that being about the time when companies stopped trying to strike a balance between accommodating both power users and casual users. Since then, much more effort has been put into providing a polished/slick UI at the expense of things like automation. Of course, that also plays into the advertising model which I believe is diametrically opposed to things like automation. (i.e. if you're not clicking/touching, they can't tell if you're looking at the ads)

Touch capabilities can be a nice addition to many types of desktop productivity software without detracting from what's already there. Companies reworking desktop applications to look and feel like mobile apps (with all of the related pros and cons) is what causes productivity to suffer rather than anything inherent in the paradigm.
> They don't get wealthy from it.

We have no way of knowing that, because the church keeps their finances shrouded from public view. Not even members that have paid 10% for their entire lives have a view into how the money is spent.

What we do have is a few leaked pay stubs showing actual amounts, and leaked memos acknowledging the existence of, but not quantifying, other forms of compensation. We also have some tangible evidence of the large net worth of various leaders of the church. The typical excuse is that they made lots of money before they were general authorities...but we also have proof of large (8-figure) net worths of people like Thomas Monson, who was a church employee (notorious for lower than market pay) for his entire career.

So what we really have is some leaked proof of a decently sized lower bound on compensation and knowledge that it goes higher than that, with the possibility that it could go much higher. How much higher, we don't know. And we won't until the church decides to actually share their finances.

I know that unapproved critical thinking is looked down on in the mormon church, but if I were a believing member, I would probably be asking why they won't do just that. If they really are responsible and meagerly paid stewards of god's money, they have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, by being transparent about it. Occam's razor tells me that they're a bunch of liars and secrecy suits them far better than transparency does.
Generally you don't need an indexed search on modern personal computers when what you're searching is the text you've written yourself over the last 20 years. You just use Emacs C-s incremental search.

20 years × 16 hours/day × 365 days/year × 160 words/minute × 6 bytes/word is only 6.7 gigabytes. That fits in RAM on a modern machine and takes 150 milliseconds to search through by brute force. In 1990 it was possible you would need an indexed search, and in fact you might have to print stuff out because you didn't have disk space for it. Now you don't.
You seem to be under the impression that a study like this gives a hard "yes/no" answer as to whether some hypothesis is true. That is not the case, nor is it ever the case with most studies like these. Instead, you need to do some sort of statistical hypothesis test.

As other comments have pointed out, once you start testing multiple hypothesis on the same dataset, you cannot apply the same significance threshold that you would if you had just begun with a single hypothesis before observing the data. Instead, you need to apply some sort of correction that takes into account the number of hypothesis being tested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family-wise_error_rate#Control...
Bill Gates on global pandemics (2018)
Coronavirus exposes global dependence on China
Instant Ig Nobel finalist.

https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/
I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, though my opinion might've been influenced somewhat by 538.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/
I commented a few weeks ago on startup ideas saying there was a gap in SaaS financing models. VCs have been abuzz about the opportunities in slow-burn SaaS businesses that have generated predictable recurring revenue streams. This created two classes of potential VC investment - pre-revenue moonshots for billion dollar unicorns and post-revenue SaaS businesses with healthy balance sheets. I lamented that left a gap for pre-revenue slow-burn SaaS businesses in unproven markets.

I can imagine debt being a potential gap filler but only in established markets where lenders have points of comparison. This article skews on the side of pushing VC money out of the post-revenue slow-burn SaaS space. To be honest, if I was a founder running a healthy SaaS business wishing to grow then I would probably prefer debt compared to handing out equity.

But if I am starting from complete scratch and my goal is to build a slow-burn SaaS business (maybe even of a lifestyle business scale) I don't know I would jump onto debt as my first choice for funding. The only viable options I see other than personal savings are friends/family, government entrepreneurial grants and potentially crowd sourcing.
Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
I do have vim on Termux on Android, but it's a pain in the ass to use.
In a poll in '07, 50% Israeli said they would not live in the same building as an Arab, nor would they ever befriend an arab. Imagine 50% American whites saying the same about African Americans. Israel in 2020 is what USA was in 1960
Washington Apple Pi in the mid 80’s. Had no idea that would be thought of as a ‘heyday’. I was in high school and used it mostly as a group of people to get software from...shareware and... otherwise.

There were also some fun bbs games like TradeWars 2000, of which nothing like that exists today. I remember racing home from school to see if there were still colonists left on Earth to take to my planets.
The Age of Decadence
Twitter 2019-Q4 Earnings Release [pdf]
https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-rad
*pee-hacking
But aren't the debt holders typically the first ones to be paid in a bankruptcy?
Pages 6-8 (5-7 pdf) discuss the sun as well as measurements across times of day.

https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.11...
And how much Plato and Herodotus have you read? Nearly all of Western intellectual history pretty strongly disagrees with your argument.
The handshake could be encrypted with something like https://saltyrtc.org.
I do roughly the same thing with a Google Doc.

Of all the apps/tools I've tried, it turns out that the complexity of the tools was really just another form of procrastination.

Just a daily list I write out in the morning, and work through - bumping unfinished things up to the next day if needed.
This bit is crucial for running a good experiment:

> Good experiments use tight exposure groups

Not all your users will have the conditions necessary for the experimental treatment.

You should only look at changes in behavior where the treatment condition was true. Otherwise your experimental effect is diluted.

But your comparison between experiment and control groups must be neutral on the condition, that is, users in the control group would have seen the treatment if they were in the experiment group (counterfactual).
do you use a full sized A4 pad ?

I tried tiny (A6, A7) notebooks and they frustrate me.

My brain prefers scribbling but I have to admit that I'd love something that connects idea to realization directly (the good old bidirectional modeling app)
Disclaimer: the user is the CTO of the ipregistry.co
“Worldwide, the 1918 flu killed an estimated 50 million people, perhaps more.

We have better tools today than we did a century ago. We have a seasonal flu vaccine, although it’s not always effective, you have to get one every year, and most people in the world never get the shot. We also have antibiotics for secondary infections of bacterial pneumonia. Despite these advances, this animated simulation by the Institute for Disease Modeling shows what would happen if a highly contagious and lethal airborne pathogen – like the 1918 flu – were to occur today.

Nearly 33 million people worldwide would die in just six months.“
What about pooping at night though?
Training on a common ‘software engineering body of knowledge’. The state of the art is so different across organizations it’s like having medical tricorders at one place and leeches at another.
Only 2 things: Naming things, invalidating caches, and off-by-one errors.
Yes, but (a) one can be in pictures without having any agreement (b) fb license cannot grant you rights contradicting swiss law (my assumption, neither lawyer or swiss), ...
Decent nocode, or some sort of nocode holy grail.

I want to be able to plug APIs together, process user input, have persistence and identity, without writing so much boilerplate.
I guess it’s really the First National Bank of Latter Day Saints.
It's all about quickly responding to input.

Because it's the CPU stuff that's the problem here, and that's not fundamentally different. The display differences are a very separate thing and not the cause of the problem.
There's an understandably big focus on mortality/non-mortality. It seems that people are classified recovered and sent home after 3 to 14 days of tests are clear (depending on the hospital) but I haven't seen estimates for full recovery from symptoms and fatigue afterwards.
Many companies run very lean... Is it likely 2 weeks off work per person after hospital discharge? 4?
The History Blog [1] (a great read daily) has a post today (coincidentally) on a recently unearthed Viking era "hnefatafl" piece, probably a king. Dug up on Lindisfarne, a holy island site off the coast of Northumbria in England. It's a lovely piece of decorated azure glass. The post is worth a (short) read.

[1] http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/57805
complexity overload: identify and eliminate unnecessary bloat