skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, thank you for responding and second don't take my idiotic self-amusement with the downvote/upvote nonsense as anything other than my own failure in that moment.

> Care to elaborate?

This was in response to the comment by Retric calling out my idiot behavior. Which, I agreed with.

> Another example: the AMA is a horrible gov't-sanctioned monopoly that hugely increases medical costs; most procedures can be done by someone with a few months' training (see the military). Healthcare is one of the few industries that hasn't mastered "mass production" of procedures in spite of the fact that many surgeries are similar.

Very good point. Reducing costs through other measures definitely are a valid approach. This is one I agree with.

>The point I think you were getting at is that most people have limited choice because they are often treated in time-sensitive situations. However, about two percent of healthcare spending is on such emergency care [0]. Most procedures give people at least some time to find options, get second opinions, etc.

This is true in part. However, mobility and access are often very limited to a significant portion of the population due to ability to travel, lack of time to take off work to travel, as well as the type of insurance a person has. If our society was more inclined to provide the ability for people who financially would struggle if they took a day let alone multiple days off of work to shop around to reduce medical costs this would make sense. But that is not the society we live in.
> I've come across people in life that I would have sworn were twins.

Like some kind of dejavu?
Before you buy this person's course, you should definitely buy my course on how to determine if a course is a good value.
I've been looking to get the new galaxy a51 when it comes out in a week or so as a good mid-range phone, and they've removed the jack on the new a-series phones as well.

Pretty soon it will just be one or off brands and the occasional weird model that have them (if it's not already to that point).
Original unibody Macbook Pros were 2.5cm (0.98 in) thick.

Retina Macbook Pros were 1.7cm (0.71 in) thick.

Touchbar Macbook Pros, 1.55 cm (0.61 in) thick.

And they "made it thicker". They are now a whopping 1.62cm (0.64 in) thick.
Music label using algorithms to find its next big artist
It's a transaction. If you don't want to be influenced by website advertising, feel free to avoid the website. If you hate online advertising as a whole, feel free to go to the library.

... where you'll only be advertised at to READ and told about local community events. "Advertising" is really just the structural term for "People communicating things at each other." It's pretty inimical to human interaction in any common human space since we developed the capacity to communicate, and it's pretty unavoidable. We have some laws constraining the sorts of things we can advertise at each other, but advertising itself is extremely core to the experience of living in a human society.

I'm not sure where one draws the line between a Coke ad and a blacksmith's shingle, or between brand-recognition ads and towns putting up hisotrical markers indicating why the town is special. It's all on a common spectrum of information exchange.
Author here.

Thankfully device-side microchips that interface with USB chargers come with overvoltage protection. For example: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps65983b.pdf

Devices which charge from wall chargers have to undergo testing for power glitches to obtain FCC certification. I forget the name of the test. Somebody else will know what I'm talking about!
Nice ones tend to, but most others don't seem to anymore.
I can think of one phone with a great camera and a headphone jack: the Pixel 3a
Attorney General Barr Issues New Rules for Politically Sensitive Investigations
"Ordered dict" is ambiguous, and from the title I thought that key order was meant. Reading the article, I see that it's actually insertion order. Which makes much more sense. Key order would have been a much more significant change.
Interview with actor, comedian, and writer Rudolph Valentino
Hey? We certainly do, unfortunately. It's still quicker to fly Berlin -> Stuttgart (for example) than it is by train (and much quicker than car - 1:15 plane, 5:40 train, 5:30-8:30(!) car).

Another, more extreme, example: Oslo -> Tromsø: 1:50 by plane, no options for train on Google Maps, and 21:10-22:20 by car.
> Attorney General William Barr has issued new restrictions on opening investigations into politically sensitive individuals or entities, including a requirement that he approve any inquiry into a presidential candidate or campaign.
Any one that's new enough to have less than [insert critical mass number here, varies by topic] comments.
Leaving room for being less competitive in games is not the same as doing so for non-games.
Researchers developed a platform that could potentially enable optical computing
> putting a lock on the bathroom door, the light switch and the flush handle isn't increasing security

It certainly is if the thing you're securing is the flush handle itself.

Like all security questions, understanding exactly what you need/want to secure and the threat models surrounding it is extremely important.
It also gives you a little more headroom for doing things like talking at a greater distance from the mic (e.g. talk at 6-10" from the mic and still get great signal).

Of course, if the room acoustics are horrible, that's not going to sound nearly as good as talking close to the mic, but if you have a decent sounding room it is freeing to not have to be close (and a good mic won't necessarily sound worse at slightly longer distances).
The 95th percentile of SAT seems quite different than the 95th percentile of people taking in the first time and doing no special prep. Sadly that second score is near impossible to measure because it would be useful to help many kids compare their first score with no dedicated prep to a more realistic percentile (and better encourage them to work to improve their score).
People who want to repair their own phones are free to purchase non-Apple hardware and do so. Nobody is being forced to do anything.
The 72 bytes is from the difference between the uImage header and the lzma inside, from the post. 0x132b8-0x13270 = 72 (dec).

So you'll need to check what binimage says about your image, the uImage header isn't necessarily fixed in size. Also see the comment above about the --dd switch, though mind the reply to that pointing out you might want to check what it finds before just letting it write a pile of files.
Some recent comments on the 1.0 release, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053140
I only ask that you develop your own sense of morality and abide by it.
You'll also have to replace the battery though
Whats the Butlerian Jihad?
Javascript taught me to never assume any ordering in a dict/map/hashmap (whatever the term)
> Buy a car cheap enough that if you total it, you aren't upset.

And alive.
This is a bug on Macbooks in general, as I understand it. I have a 2019 MBP with a 4k monitor, and if I change the resolution to anything except the default, there is massive system-wide lag. God forbid I use PyCharm on 4k scaled resolution – a full second between typing and seeing the text.
In Europe in dense cities. In France near Paris for example you can clearly see the distinction when you go further in the countryside[1]. Anecdotical but I know very few people under 40 who own a car in Paris:

[1] % of families having at least 1 car, 2012. Zoom on big cities (Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux...) to see the difference: http://map.datafrance.info/logement?coords.lat=48.8732963701...
Only if it's an EV because he will save on TCO (aka investment). If it's an ICE then it's just a consumer good that lost him a lot of money.
Did you also disable that setting under the "location" submenu, which explicitly says it works even if bluetooth is off?

Not that this is good design, mind you, but if you turned both settings off and still say BT activity, then that is much different.
Architecture matters. When I walk into a brutalist space, I feel minuscule and irrelevant. When I walk into spaces that I (subjectively) regard as a beautiful, I feel changed, for the better.
The value of a good mic for remote work cannot be understated.

One of the worst aspects of my job as a remote developer has been working with people with crappy microphones. I worked with one client whose conference mic was so low-fi that a lot of what they were saying in meetings was incomprehensible. (I told them about this, but they didn't seem to care, which is why I'm glad I'm not working with them anymore)

Going against what the author suggests, I purchased a Blue Yeti mic. The reason I went for it is that I want my coworkers to not have to strain to hear me. Ideally, it should sound as if I'm in the same room with them. With cardioid mode turned on, I can use the mic with my MacBook Pro speakers as the output channel and never have feedback issues. My home is quiet, so I never have issues with bad noises coming through. If I'm at a cafe, that's when I'll use my AirPods. However, I use my Yeti mic when possible. A few of my other coworkers have since bought a Blue Yeti or a Razer Seiren, and it makes a world of difference.
How do you feel about monthly 1:1's? This was my approach though the topic was less about keeping up to date with what the team/person has been doing, and more about how they are feeling, if there any roadblocks I could help them with, if they are interested in the work they are doing, etc etc...

I think of my job as a manager as supporting and empowering my team to be productive and making sure they are happy with their work, this was just one way for me to do so.

Given your preference for less 1:1's, I would be interested to hear your take.
I still think it makes more sense to implement languages that more people want to learn.

However, the long term goal is making it easy for the community to build courses, so once the project is mature, it should be possible to include a way larger number of languages.

I am also thinking of things like conlang enthusiasts being able to create courses for their own conlangs.
All money saved is spend on surf-trips searching for the best waves... And working less, to have more time surfing.
Remember that everyone has different goals. My cousin was heartbroken when she got a 1570 on the old SATs, as her dream of going to some university was crushed, as she was competing with peers in an elite high school. She had to settle for Brown or something, and was convinced that life was over.

For me, I didn't have the desire or resources to do that. I got my 1400 and was able to choose from any of a dozen schools. That meant that being a white shoe attorney or McKinsey consultant was out of my reach. Life is good.

On another note, my son is passionate about little league. He's good, has fun, has a competitive spirit, has made great friends, etc. It's a great thing. He's probably in the 75th percentile of players at his age and region. So unfortunately, major league baseball dreams are unlikely to be fulfilled.

This article is similar. Being in the 95th percentile of people playing some video game is interesting, but isn't something that I would have any desire to do, and probably is a fools errand unless you're looking to compete at a professional level. I'd like to be in the 99th of people having fun playing a game -- the time and mechanics of getting to be an elite player is probably in opposition to that goal!
That line of Shure's in general are amazing. I've got an old 565SD from the 60s or 70s that was given to me. It's beat to all hell and still sounds fantastic and is totally reliable. They've re-released them as well if anyone's into the shiny thing

https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/565sd
Does the NTG-2 work well in a desk setup with minimizing typing? I’m looking to find a better quality mic (blue yeti now) that does better at minimizing keystroke sound.
>VW Group barely hangs on in Chapter 11

Not sure what you're referring to. Chapter 11 is a form of reorganization in bankruptcy in US law.

Volkswagen AG (i.e. the VW Group) is an EUR85 billion German company that - despite the massive fines and recall - has been consistently profitable, with a small loss in 2015 due to the aforementioned issue and earned ~EUR12 billion in net profit last year.
That's already how most EULA click-through NDAs are, and no one blinks an eye. People are just numb to legal disclaimers now. One outrage article will not go viral, and will not sink any companies.
You can look at the rank distribution of every competitive game and this concept becomes obvious.

I've played Dota for many years. Managed to reach the Divine rank last year which at the time iirc started at the 95th percentile (maybe 98th?).

Any player who has played Dota for some time knows that while Divine players are good for average player standards, compared to any semi-pro or top 1000 player (not even pro) they are god-awful. To the point where they basically cannot compete in any aspect of the game.
TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 removal for Stack Exchange services
Generally the expensive ones are using the same components as the cheap ones and simply upcharging you, that’s why.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20943377/chinese-hi-fi-au...

That said, I’m happy with my AirPods and Beats, which are on the expensive side. The custom Bluetooth chip is certainly more seamless than regular Bluetooth.
So I'm just checking out a video review of that stand. It looks like there's rubber pads that maybe raise the laptop up a bit off the plate. Can you tell me if your laptop is actually laying flush against the aluminum plate, or is there an air gap?
What kind of fraud? Counterfeits?
Thanks for the reference, I missed that.

I know one way or another that SpaceX's internal launch costs are a lot lower than the others. Good stuff.
I agree that the author isn't totally rigorous in his methodology, which I understand is frustrating, but I think you're missing the bigger point he's trying to make. As I interpreted it, the article is mostly about self-improvement and the fact that even at 95%, there's still a lot of room for optimization between 95 and 99. He's saying, "hey, even this competitive Overwatch streamer makes game-losing mistakes, but it's very easy to improve on these things, if you have the right mindset". In other words, instead of focusing on your rank, you should be focusing on the low-hanging fruit, no matter where you land on the spectrum of talent.
I don't know about the US system other than described in the article, but based on the UK system, where HMRC (our IRS-equivalent) supplies its own free-to-use web application, I can think of two possible reasons that third-party software could be worth paying for:

- improved usability

- requiring certain form pages that are not provided in the government's own solution (HMRC web filing covers most, but not all, use cases - if you fall under one of the edge cases, as I did last year, you have a choice of filing on paper - requiring hand calculations, and a much earlier deadline - or paying for a COTS solution)
According to Nokia: Unlocking a device means you may lose some of its functionalities, including – but not limit to – telephone, radio, audio, video, payment, encryption and DRM.
Relevant to the article, but more on the tooling side, a question (especially for you consultants):

What tool do you use to track where your time is spent?

This can either be for the "film study" of how I work or for billing clients in 15 minute increments. I've tried apps that take screenshots every 60s and others that track accumulated time on foreground application.

The end result being, same as Dan's friend, I'd like to know where I'm wasting time and how to improve. Forget the 95/99% numbers, I just want +10% this week, +8% next week, etc.
Handshake bans to stop the coronavirus might be overkill in most places
> Nobody flies between cities in one state

The second most popular route in the US is LA to SF.
Ninja is the most visible example, but the same pattern holds true at virtually any audience size (within the range of what is typically monetizable). This pattern is actually more extreme on platforms like Patreon because the audience is expecting something for their money. They are closer to a customer than a typical viewer.

The distinction between a 'true' fan and just a 'fan' is a vague one. If a creator has a total audience size of 1 million, you can bet that less than 1% of them are giving the creator any amount of money, even 1 dollar. Does that 1% count as their true fans? The folks with thousands of paying subscribers, or tens of thousands, have audience sizes to match.

Given that less than 1% pay anything, what percent of those do you think pay at least 20x the normal amount ($5 -> 100$)? Many creators make this somewhat visible by highlighting their contributors and the air is quite thin.

To make a long story short, I disagree with the concept because it paints a very rosy picture of the situation and doesn't match reality much, if at all. If you had 1,000 'true' fans you'd probably end up with $2,000 a month after taxes/platform fees/expenses. And of course, that assumes that you're able to consistently monetize through a subscription platform. If you had to sell individual products to get there it would be even worse.
Is the ordering there at least fixed, or can it vary from run to run even on the same data, or between implementations or versions of the same implementation?

EDIT: to clarify, I was asking about JavaScript there.
If you want a good camera the pixel 3a is there.

The Galaxy s10 hit the critics like a storm. It got pretty rave reviews. I'm on an s9 and I guess that'll be my next phone whenever this one dies.
No talk of scams involving Italy and Postage should go without mention of the original Ponzi scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi#Origin_of_the_te...
Why do they use a Raspberry Pi for this?

Seems like some Arduino-style microcontroller for $2 could do this just as well.
Thanks for the feedback. Location "Anywhere" jobs are still applicable though. So it will give you good number of results.
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The only way to truly stop piracy is obviously to disallow all devices from playing any audio at all.
It's also bizarre that people, especially on here, in this thread, think it's ok for a business to retroactively take away a feature that was already paid for. That price you paid on the used car has those features priced in.
This is some weird crabs-in-a-bucket behavior but driven towards protecting a corporation.
Gotta stop borrowing postagr from Jorge Luis Borges. My mail keeps getting returned.
Android is such a mess. Google needs to do a rewrite and dump legacy support.
So? Why can't I have a company in which some people are required to show their asses and not others, based on some arbitrary rule? That's the way I sell and employees can choose to stay or leave
I agree; that's a structural problem I'd like to see improved. Google used to have a Contributor program where you could pay directly to not see ads, but it was shut down at some point it seems. Some websites offer you the opportunity to pay a subscription fee to avoid ads, but it's very ad-hoc (no pun intended).

A general solution for that where people could avoid ads by direct-paying publishers would be nice to have. As it stands, we're left with not-so-great options for the consumer where we either just deal with the annoyance of ads, choose to consume advertising-free content at a premium (that differs from the ad-supported content), or try to cheat the system by getting ad-supported content without ads.
true but those brands don't make climbing shoes

except black diamond?
Flex workspaces predate WFH as a trend. It originated among salespeople and other departments where employees are not actually “in” most of the time - someone figured out they could cut on office costs by reducing “wasted” space. Similarly to open-space modes, hotdesks were then extended to a lot of other places where they didn’t belong, and here we are. I know of entire buildings where people are effectively forced to get to the office horribly early just to ensure they have a decent desk close to their colleagues.
One thing hinted at by the other comment thread, but not brought up: in the embedded world, read-write filesystems as you know them are less common, and usually a failsafe mode is desirable. OpenWRT, for instance, uses a JFFS overlay on top of a squashfs (at least in a recent-ish build for a router I have). So you change out the squashfs (and try to figure out what to do with the overlay filesystem), rather than replacing individual files.
If you listen to Freakonomics, they often say that we aren’t “Homo Economicus”. While what you say may make sense economically, that’s not how most people operate.
> Best practices and rules in C++ are changing on a daily basis as the language is still evolving.

Yeah "daily", C++ standard evolves every 3 years minimum and most API are still C++11 meaning 9 years old. "Daily" right ?

This is FUD. Without even mentioning that any C++lib can expose a C API.
Brandon Rhodes gave a great talk at PyCon 2017 about the evolution of dictionaries in Python.

I really appreciate the people who dive deep into these implementation details, and continue to optimize the languages we all use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66P5FMkWoVU
I'm fat and so when my belly covers my phone in my pocket, like when I'm leaning over, my Bluetooth cuts out. Shit sucks lol.
Most of the best boards don’t come off factory presses instead they are built by someone with great passion in a small warehouse or garage. These guys are happy just getting by and sharing the stoke with customers they know. Moreover, once you become addicted to surfing that’s all one cares about. True surfers don’t care about the hype around the latest thing, once you buy your board and a wetsuit all you care about is getting that glide. If I didn’t have a family to support I’d make the yearly circuit from Sri Lanka, Peru, etc and just live on the beach for less than $10 a day and would be perfectly satisfied. I feel sorry for my office mates who don’t have any hobbies or escapes and instead are focused on the next bonus or promotion either for their egos or so they can buy more stuff. I just want more time off to travel with my family and surf. After 3 startups and 23 years in tech and many, many 12 hour days I can tell you the whole system is empty. Despite recognition or financial success there’s nothing in the system that brings true long term happiness, but the natural meditation when waiting on the wave or for the next set does.
If you do that, it will disable it. Yes, it's a well hidden option deep in the menu.