skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the TX were running at full power ... Leave your phone in a metal, security cubby and your battery will die quickly

If the phone can't hear a network (not just faint signal like airplanes on certain heights), would it actually transmit?

I think the battery drain would be from active RX searching for networks instead of sleeping. You get a similar though probably lower effect, when in roaming without setting a fixed network - an idle phone without crapware will burn way more energy.
> linking this to the Opium Wars smells like a conspiracy theoroy. This isn't some pay-back for the crimes the East-Indian Company and the West committed against China back then.

Sorry! I just wanted to point out some of the historical context. I don't have a particular fish to fry here.

> why would anyone in China care as long as they don't sell this in China.

That's a bit uncharitable, eh? There are a billion and a half people people in China, they can't all be moral cretins, can they?
I think this is literally impossible because of costs to produce / distribute fentanyl compared to opioids. There will always be people who are skint enough to buy the cheapest thing they can find and there will always be bad apples greedy enough to stretch their produce with Fentanyl.

Then there are those that mean well and spike their produce successfully for a few runs, ... forgetting that it takes only 1 mistake and many will be dead as a result.
Unseen problems is a ill defined term. There is a distinction between in domain and out of domain, both can be unseen by the model before.

Even human as agent requires training before being deployed to unseen problems. Generalization is conditioned on experience, after all.

AI generalizes to unseen in domain data given a specific task. That is why it is useful in the first place.
I think he's suggesting to avoid the vendor lock-in that would come from renting the official hosted WordPress. But I would guess that installing the open source WordPress on your own dedicated Linux server is just fine, because there's no way someone could force you to change something.
Good question (OP here). What I mean is that for example, if you build a Chrome Extension (which is the main way my company's product gets used, so I'm familiar with the pitfalls), you are now at the mercy of Google and how they choose to develop their marketplace for extensions, how they choose to enforce user security, and how they choose to change the platform over time. Single vendor platform, similar to the other app stores.

I'm not suggesting you rely on nothing else such as 3rd party CMS or e-commerce features, but I am suggesting that for example if you build a Shopify plug-in, you are at the mercy of how Shopify chooses to develop their ecosystem, and there will be potentially existential crises along the way.

As with all the other rules, it's one you can and should break when it makes sense for your business. There are many thriving startups on top of Shopify's ecosystem, Apple's ecosystem, Google Chrome's ecosystem, and so on and so forth - I'm just urging you to be aware of the hassle you are creating for yourself by choosing such a path, and to balance it wisely against the benefits.
Just think of how many lawyer and PR dollars came up with this PR / regulatory relations strategy.
We might disagree with Zuckerberg about the specific consequences, but as far as the headline goes he's mostly right. Social media is a new thing, and trying to use existing regulatory frameworks for it, like those for telcos and newspapers, will lead to us all having a bad time.

Where I disagree, or at least am uncertain, is that the right regulatory framework for social media lies on some kind of straight line between the two others mentioned. In particular, those are both pretty heavyweight, and I don't want any real obstacles for new competitors or people just running a phpBB.
> a technical University based in Stockholm

The only technical university in Stockholm is KTH, I believe - is that what you're talking about?

> whose sole job was to output developers into the market in line with what all the hundreds of CTOs that I interviewed required

That's not how a university's role is usually seen.
Do you have a link or two for that?
> In January, Zume cut 360 jobs, leaving a little over 300 employees, and said it would focus on packaging and efficiency gains for other food delivery companies.

Am I understanding correctly that they went from an idea to 660 employees in 2 years? How common is this in VC funded startups? I can't imagine this would be easy to manage effectively.
Strong but super conservative, highly taxed and with bad Internet infrastructure.
Eh, that seems rather harsh. The question is whether or not Google should show these borders as disputed, and I don't think anyone can reasonably deny that, in fact, these borders are a matter of dispute. Showing them as disputed is considerably more neutral than just taking one side (whether that's also realistic/feasible politically is another matter, and also not agreeing with the parent commenter btw).
> I assumed it was like Rust, where the compiler/toolchain makes builds on arbitrary specific platforms really easy to do, but where you still have to actually do those very narrow builds.

What's the difference?
Olympics, FC Barcelona Twitter Accounts Hacked by Our Mine
I'm pretty sure you can be jailed for not including certain areas in a country's map. Right or wrong, UN recognition or not, your team in that country might be charged with treason.
It's probably too early to say, as most laptops only started using USB-C a few years ago. My experience has been that they are durable enough for charging, but can be very flakey for data purposes. I have to plug and unplug my USB-C dock several times to get DisplayPort passthrough to work, for instance.
Or it's not happening because people are too stupid to see the potential.
https://what-problem-does-it-solve.com/webpack/interoperabil... nailed head-on what I detest about Webpack and many Javascript build solutions for that matter: the burning desire to shove the kitchen sink of operations into a single tool with its own, incompatible-with-everyone-else, plugin framework and an ungodly configuration language. Where all I really wanted was a somewhat more ergonomic Make and a bunch of well-written, decoupled tools to use with it.

This is on my back burner of ideas to run with one day, but as a back-end engineer working in other langs, it hasn't quite bubbled up to the surface yet.
So, treat them as a mash-up between one of the best known monopolies in US history and an industry known for equal parts educating and confusing people? That's both very forthcoming of him and completely terrifying.

The National Enquirer is a newspaper too, and probably the closer analogy to Facebook in reality than more reputable news organizations.
you are forgetting however that the 750-950 SEK/h includes self-employment taxes (arbetsgivaravgifter) of ~30% + 30% income tax. That´s before all other taxes and fees.

This was essentially the whole point of my original post about consultants. But people dont get this. After all taxes are paid, you get something like 375-475sek/h if even that as this is the above average level of salary.

Compared to when I lived and worked in London, this is a joke. That´s before factoring in cost of living relative to income. You live a much better life in London than you do in Sthlm for instance so I am not sure where you got that last part from. Especially if you consider how massively fucked the Krona is right now
No, but good luck trying to burn some piece of forest to get your piece of earth for your farm. You cannot justify the existing order with basic human needs. In some places you even have to pay for access to water.
I realize the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937 is considered anathema among libertarians and many owners of enterprises who employ low-wage workers, but I don't think you'll find many takers among populace at large.

The "freedom" you are talking about is the freedom to take or leave work schedules we consider abusive today. If you want to go back to a world where employment means 12/7 or starve, you are free to campaign for the repeal all you like, though. Your senators' aides are standing by, call now. Meanwhile, I will be lobbying them to constrain your freedom a little more.
I’m guess that’s the reason they never got back to him.
oh boy ... I have read it the same way too until just now

I even thought what an edgy name every time I came across a comment - not once bothering to re-read ... human brains are terrible :D
So what is the point then? To spit out future academic researchers who write papers read by other academic researchers on postmodern literature?

Academia is a fraud, but to the extent that it produces useful employees it is at least socially justifiable.
At least she was convicted.

Up here in the monarchy of Canada unconvicted persons can lose millions

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-administr...

It is common for the civil forfeiture office to attack accused persons prior to trial, denying them access to their own funds for paying a defence attorney. They can remain in pre-trial custody without legal representation for years.

They are currently litigating for seizure of three hells angels clubhouses on the theory they could be used in the future to engage in unlawful activity. 2019 BCSC 1421.
Rule #11 can be more challenging than you'd think. For my first start-up, we had to initially sign up with a smaller bank because the bigger ones did not want to deal with first-time CEOs. After a bit more than a year of waiting, we were then allowed to create an account at the big boring bank.
Contracting in London is as good as dead come April
Pizza Hut had a 1984 patent for a mobile delivery/kitchen truck that would cook the pizza en route to the customer.[1] Zume's patent even cites it[1]. Just skimming over both filings, I'm kind of surprised it was issued in the first place.

0. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4632836A/en

1. https://patents.justia.com/patent/10140587
Strategies of a Survivor reality show participant
"Rule #5: Don’t do freemium"

Isn't CrankWheel, the author's company, a freemium product?

"Free forever for limited use. No credit card needed"

What experience does the author have with SaaS products that have no free tier?

I stopped reading here.
I used open shot quite a bit years ago for YouTube content creation. It is approximately a million times easier to use than pretty much any other video editor but back then it was slow and crashy to the point of frustration. I just gave 2.5.0 a try and sometimes it was a little slow and stuttery at times but I managed to edit a fairly simple video with it.

The GPU acceleration feature is pretty nice. On my dated machine, encoding a 1080p MP4 on an integrated Intel video chip is a little more than twice as fast as hammering all 4 of my CPU cores. (Effectively rendering in real time.)
Let me guess, he should have the discretion of a newspaper and the freedom from liability of a telco?
Way to get overly salty.

ML is not just Haskell, there is OCaml and F# as other notable dialects. (and to a much more limited extent, Rust, which borrows a few features but is otherwise more traditionally C-like)

The language family lends itself very well for writing data transformation, especially tree processing (of which most parsers require), which is a very common kind of operation when writing minifiers and syntax transformers.
A typical response is

return

false

Where the program returns undefined. I can only think of these examples as straw men. Not once did I run in to an ASI bug.
I find this crippling of hardware and extortion through software to be very offensive. I mean is this the future we want to live in ? I wish that electric cars weren't so heavily dependent upon proprietary software that steals the freedom from the user. You do not really own a Tesla evidently you are just paying Elon Musk for the pretense of ownership aka taking on the liabilities of an asset you don't have the ability to control.
Juno+Mattress+Reduced+$50
nope just some email exchanges with employees which started with begging them for the most rudimental Bitbucket issue tracker features and fixes and ended with semi-explicit admissions that their hands were tied due to the "just move to Jira" corporate directive.

See "Want a more powerful issue tracker?" at the bottom of https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/issue-trackers-22... for the documentation of this policy.
We use the technique - We find a lot of "diamonds in the rough" with it - people that have a low opinion of themselves but their coworkers love them and their work.

It also helps filter out people who can interview extremely well but can't work with other people.
> If you have to narrow the definition of driving so much then it’s not actually driving.

I don't care what you call it. I just want to be able to ignore the road until the car beeps at me. (with at least 10 seconds of warning)

> Many cars spend a lot of time idling

But a car can't be idling while I use it. A computer can have idle power levels while I browse the web, and a phone that works in a certain range of hours is still very useful. If you wanted to make an analogy for "useless", that didn't come across.

> You wouldn’t let your child operate in them under the assumption that “there’s a good chance they won’t die”.

> once in a while it burns down the house

Who said anything about 'a good chance'? You said those products worked for specific uses. You didn't say they would also fail at random, even inside those limits. This is a different scenario now.

If the car can handle "a straight line with almost zero challenges", sign me up for that easy highway driving. It's only when you remove the word 'almost' that it becomes a cruise control missile / deathtrap.
Because I know if it weren’t for Apple I would be downloading Random software from the Internet from an unknown developer and giving them my payment information.....
github offers these now for individual accounts.
This is how you survive as a company in the world we are in today. We all know public gets knee jerk reaction towards those issues, and why drive fire towards yourself.
As a matter of fact, 2018 saw the first "carbeque" world championships, to be repeated in 2020 - https://www.carbeque.one/en/
Your poetic post seems to imply there is some "right" border to be drawn between conflict zones?
not suggesting nor calling anyone a moral cretin. My point is that if you don't have an extradition agreement in place then what are you gonna do? (-> e.g. "why would anyone in China care").

edit: @carapace fwiw, I'd never thought so, or meant to accuse you of subscribing to conspiracy theories. what I meant here is that it could be construed as an incorrect cause->effect relation between opium wars and the crimes of US BigPharma. If you follow what is happening right now with the US in Munich at the security conference, then China isn't the evil that the US paints them as. China is a threat to the West for sure but the real terrorist really is the US (who are preparing for war): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRoY2PQsGg -> When I posted my reply my emotions were running a bit high on the hypocrisy that the US is pushing again in Munich. So I want to apologize for that. I also edited my above comment.
Well you may not be wrong - I don't know any better than you. I'm just suggesting a principle of charity leads to better conversations. And I'm not pointing fingers - it's something I need to work on (ie. pause to think and/or ask for clarification, particularly before posting anything accusatory)
Rule #13: I wholeheartedly agree. One of the nastiest turns in my early days of entrepreneurship was when my tax advisor stopped returning phone calls. Shortly afterwards, I was contacted by a government agency that he had not submitted paperwork on time, that they (the government) couldn't find him anymore, and that I was fully legally liable to clean up the whole mess and my company would have to pay a €2500 fine.
Free private repos are an upside over ... Github, which gives free accounts unlimited private repos? Gitlab, which does the same?
No specific examples I'm afraid (what they said put me off reading him entirely so I don't have any personal examples either - too many other books I want to read!), although the two people who mentioned it to me recently were a neuroscientist and an economist with a keen interest evolutionary biology.

I do wonder about the value of pop science. It feels like it's almost always oversimplified to the point of being misleading. I have a background in psychology / neuroscience and find it difficult to read any pop neuroscience without grinding my teeth.
Yes, spaghetti-code is much better! /s

> Following the logic

That's what names are for. I prefer to find _afterLeft_ spread all over the place rather than `x2<=x1` even if it actually increases code size by 50%. I can validate it only once, and if I stumble upon _aboveBottom_ I don't even need to validate it to infer what it means (left as an exercise for the reader).

This spaghetti line: `x2<=x1&&x1+w1<=x2+w2&&y2<=y1&&y1+h1<=y2+h2`, in my opinion, is much harder than `inside`.
My company operates on a freemium model. It's a big hassle, as documented in the section about not doing freemium, but it's also something we decided was fundamental to our main distribution channel which is the Chrome Web Store (breaking another of the rules in the article - but maybe check the last section).

I haven't run a non-freemium SaaS company, but I do see what benefits it would bring if we were able to operate on a typical 14 or 30-day trial model. The big ones that would bring are a much shorter sales pipeline and shorter feedback loop on ad spend.
Virtual sets in Mandalorian – VFX and Unreal engine
You're asking a bank to remove visible account balances from a dashboard view?
Google gets it if you add fondue.
A "little" temporary pain is not a problem. A lot of temporary pain is a problem though, and it is even worse when doctors do not believe the patient and think that the patient is just looking for drugs, or when the doctors do not understand how big the pain is (after all, only the person who suffers can judge it).

This is why I believe it should be up to the patient to select whether to take opiates.
Two years later – did Traefik replace Nginx and HAproxy?
>I think we should also start with 6 hours work days or 4 days 8 hours.

I hope you are not alluding that Sweden has 6 hour work days? That is not true. It has 8 hours, like most other countries.
I was also surprised there. Lucky for us, the author is here on HackerNews, so let's hope we'll get a reply.
FWIW, the round Lenovo plugs weren't that great either in my experience, but on a swappable module, so easy to fix once they broke. I hope they kept that, at least for the chunkier models.
I skimmed the whole thing, but I don't agree with the author when he says subscription fatigue should really be called spending fatigue. Nor do I agree with the burden being irrelevant whether you do a subscription or a one-time cost.

The first example that comes to mind is what Adobe did, causing it to lose some business, but overall increase profits: switching to a subscription model. I think around 10 years ago or so I paid about $150 for Lightroom. For the last 4-5 years, since Adobe switched to subscriptions, I've paid more than quadruple that just to have access to Lightroom and Photoshop.
I won’t force you to support them. I WANT to support others because I feel good doing so. At normal jobs I’m just helping some billionaire get richer (my last job I worked indirectly for a billionaire). I would way rather work day in and day out to support regular people like me.

And since you brought it up, I find your attitude disturbing. “Why should I have to help other people” is kind of a gross question. You don’t want to help other people? Doesn’t that make you selfish? Again I’m not saying I will force you to help, but why are you against the idea of helping others anyway?

I see that you mention government. I didn’t mention government. I said society could provide for everyone. We can do that without the government.
Can you explain the usefulness?

From my perspective, it's a term, coined by a 19th century philosopher, that gets dragged out by people with physics envy.

Modern biology, for example, is incredibly quantitative: molecular biologists collect massive genomics datasets, neuroscientists record from hundreds of sites in the brain, and ecologists, whom everyone thinks of as flannel-clad outdoorsmen, fit sophisticated statistical models. Psychology is getting there too, especially if you're willing to lump in related industries like advertising: Google and Facebook have massive datasets on people's activities and preferences.

It's true that these fields have had less success with mathematical modeling, but you also have to look at the sheer number of interacting variables vs the ~10 terms in Maxwell's equations. It's possible that the underlying phenomena might often just be irreducibly complex, as this perspective argues: (preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/764258v3 and was just published in Neuron).
"Cached values" isn't a great name here. He should probably call them "Derived values".
Any Traefik users here that actually did this?
"Hero myths like the ones surrounding Musk and Jobs are damaging in other ways, too. If tech leaders are seen primarily as singular, lone achievers, it is easier for them to extract disproportionate wealth. It is also harder to get their companies to accept that they should return some of their profits to agencies like NASA and the National Science Foundation through higher taxes or simply less tax dodging.

And finally, technology hero worship tends to distort our visions of the future. Why should governments do the hard work of fixing and expanding California’s mass transit system when Musk says we could zip people across the state at 760 miles per hour in a “hyperloop”? Is trying to colonize Mars, at a cost in the billions of dollars, actually the right direction for future space exploration and scientific research? We should be able to determine long-term technology priorities without giving excessive weight to the particular visions of a few tech celebrities.

Rather than placing tech leaders on a pedestal, we should put their successes in context, acknowledging the role of government not only as a supporter of basic science but as a partner for new ventures. Otherwise, it is all too easy to denigrate public-sector investment, eroding support for government agencies and training programs and ultimately putting future innovation at risk. As Mazzucato puts it, “It’s precisely because we admire Musk and think his contributions are important that we need to get real about where his success actually comes from.”"

Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539861/techs-enduring-gre...