skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is probably in excess of 99% perfect service for me. It feels like a step back in time when I order from other retailers.
Insofar as it's a semantic argument, it's irrelevant.

> If 100 independent scientists reproduce results, those results themselves are a scientific consensus

Not in any sense that's relevant to the discovery of new information or its verification.
Natural selection will apply, just not at a timescale we are generally willing to accept.
Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
I know IRC still exists and there's a lot of people there, but for some reason I don't feel like it is the same ~vibe~ as when I used to use it growing up in the 90s
> I'm setting family members up on Matrix right now specifically because they don't have phones and I can't switch them to Signal.

> “It’s not designed for you” is a reasonable response to you’re building a niche product for a niche audience. But it’s important to note, that is explicitly not Signal’s goal. Signal is advertising itself as an encryption platform for everyone.

Aren’t people with no phone increasingly niche?

I’m not trying to be combative but I would argue attempting to build your app for every single use case is literally a million niches which would require so many concessions and that is the opposite of Signal’s approach. Signal has no interest in building for odd and strange use cases and instead choose the most likely use case and build specifically and securely for that use case.
You still can. We sure make things more complicated than they have to be sometimes.
Mist Annoying Things on Internet
Yes, the exception is books are even worse:

https://thehustle.co/underground-world-of-kindle-ebooks

https://thehustle.co/part-2-confessions-from-the-scammy-unde...

https://thehustle.co/part-3-confessions-from-the-scammy-unde...
A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers (2018)
It's nice, but not really a technical explanation.
In what way is that practical for a user?

This is just me making an assertion, so take it for what you will, but the typical user cares a lot more about contact discovery than everything you mentioned, so an authentication system that makes that work more goodly is quite practical for them.
Scandinavia Got Great by Educating the “Whole Person”
How CRISPR technology is advancing
You're asking to draw the wrong line. Your wealthy person can spend his money on whatever political causes he likes. The court ruled in Citizens United that no limits can be placed on election spending by corporations, including for-profit corporations. I don't see how that's a difficult distinction to make. Before the decision, all the stakeholders of a corporation, from shareholders to employees, were still free to express political views and spend money doing so.
I don't know how helpful it is to the common reader, L.E Dickson's 3-volume 'History of the Theory of Numbers' is mentioned frequently as a definitive history of that branch of Mathematics.
My parents have a (crappy) wireless internet provider. During most evenings and weekend, they're lucky to get even 0.5Mbps. At the same time, Netflix works fine, and the speed on fast.com (Netflix-run) will be a few Mbps (I don't remember exactly). In the daytime on weekdays, they usually get a few Mbps from any speed test and generally everything feels fast.

This lets me deduce the ISP is way over-subscribed on their upstream internet connection, but also has a Netflix appliance.

What's frustrating is if they complain enough, the company will send a tech out who will "adjust" their antenna, or suggest it's a line-of-sight problem and they need a bigger tower, should cut down some trees, etc.
That makes sense, and you don't seem to be the only one, but yeah that is misleading to people like me who hadn't considered that being the reason.
I think these may be the same thing in this case.
Yes, Signal is my preferred messaging app. I'm saying that in many cases, due to the network effect, if I don't use WhatsApp, I'll be communicating to people via SMS.
The only downside is that you can only message other signal users via the desktop app. At least last time I tried. This has caused me to use googles messages app via their web so that I can type on my keyboard :(

And oddly enough the "your phone" app on windows 10, which is frankly, quite good.
The more self driving advances in lab, the more safety features for regular cars are invented which in turn makes it harder for fully self driving systems to computer with human+safety features and justify their value...
No doubt, I had no idea which marker to use. Thanks for the suggestion, I want to give it another go since toner transfer is often a hit/miss.
The review situation is bad enough on Amazon now that I won't buy any medium to high value product without using ReviewMeta. I find their service to be invaluable. Reading reviews and using ReviewMeta still isn't enough, but it's reasonable and much better than not using them.
> anything I don't understand can't be that hard.

Brilliant line, that probably goes a long way towards explaining why software in general simply sucks from a users perspective.
Apple’s documentation is terrible from a usability standpoint. The design looks great, but it’s absolutely useless and incredibly confusing when used as a guide during learning.
>In most places, new cars are more expensive than used ones, but if you stopped providing new cars, the price of the used ones would shoot up as everyone started competing for a dwindling supply of cars

An unspoken consequence of cash for clunkers. Practically overnight 100k miles was considered "low mileage", which was ridiculous before people started needlessly trashing perfectly good used cars.
On the upper end of the RF spectrum, the thermal radiation given off by us and everything around is is ever present.
"Dreamweaver Templates" was basically an early static site generator that made it really easy to design and include site-wide or section-wide elements.

Yeah you could always edit the individual files that it outputted, but in some cases people were using this system to manage sites with hundreds or thousands of pages. As recently as a couple years ago it was how the natural history museum in DC managed their site content.
>> How are we supposed to trust the media

You aren't supposed to trust it. You are supposed to learn to read between the lines like we read Pravda in the Soviet Union.

Most of the "free" press in this country is owned by 5 billionaires. Most of it is also losing money hand over fist, so they have other motivations for keeping it around. It's just that this time these motivations are becoming obvious even to the democrats - the beneficiaries of the media bias. The reason for this are independent channels the "free" press can't control. If there was no FB or Twitter, you wouldn't even know Yang existed. Now imagine what Republicans, and Trump supporters especially think of this propaganda machine and how little trust they have in it.

The press in this country (or in any other country, really) exists for one reason only: to manufacture consent for whatever the ruling class wants to shove down your throat next. FB and Twitter get in the way of that in a pretty fatal way, if they aren't controlled by the same cabal.
Not the same thing, but you reminded me of this since it's in a similar vein. Ben Eater went through the entire process of building a VGA "video card." Anyone with a basic understanding of logic circuits has enough background to understand it. Worth a watch.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqY3FMuMuRo
> I am sceptical signal and whatsapp will *ever have a fully untethered protocol

It sounds like they may want to do this eventually, but it requires some significant re-engineering of how users are identified on the network. This is mentioned near the end of the article:

>That feature might someday even allow Signal to ditch its current system of identifying users based on their phone numbers—a feature that many privacy advocates have criticized, since it forces anyone who wants to be contacted via Signal to hand out a cell phone number, often to strangers. Instead, it could store persistent identities for users securely on its servers. "I’ll just say, this is something we’re thinking about," says Marlinspike. Secure value recovery, he says, "would be the first step in resolving that."
But what really matters is the overall statistics:
The self-driving doesn't know how to handle this one in a 10,000 situation.
But in the other 9,999 of 10,000 situations the self-driving vehicle is equal or better.
Thus the self-driving vehicle averages out to be a lot safer.
> If you lock down political speech, you no longer have a democracy (yes, I know we are a republic). Because then the government gets to control what is or is not allowed.

Political speech is already locked down in many ways by the government. For instance: neither you nor I can go to a polling station and harangue the people waiting to vote. We're also not permitted to force our way into schools or private homes to do the same. If we violate those rules, some people in blue uniforms will come and haul us away.

No one has an unrestricted right to go out and literally speak, as that right to do that is balanced against other rights and considerations. What's so different about the right to spend? Why can't that right be balanced against other rights and considerations, too?
There’s a huge bubble in the autonomous vehicle space. I foresee Waymo being able to do it, only because I know some of the crazy smart people that work there. It won’t be until the end of the decade though.
This begs the question does the Vision Fund do any due diligence? Like actually ordering a couple of pizzas on different days to evaluate the end product? Or going to talk with customers?

I thought this was something all venture people did before making an investment but apparently it's just a Midwest thing.
Hugging Face: How to train a new language model from scratch
Being excessively cautious makes you an unpredictable driver as well. Unpredictability is the antithesis of safe driving.
I was hoping for something mid-engine!
Eng teams build better with “why” docs
iOS users are the affluent, and the affluent have outsized influence.
You don't have to, it works by signing a message with your PGP or SSH key. All GitHub users' public keys are already available from their API, that's how the airdrop works.
The relevant quote:

> Penumbra was conducting the test, which also included testing an iPhone 7, to study its Alara phone cases, which the company says are designed to reduce RF exposure in a person
Re: definitions of shared DNA:

Some papers will use different definitions, and it can be confusing.

Between species (e.g. humans and chimps), it's most often considering "non-synonymous mutations," i.e. how many genetic differences there are in protein-coding genes (these are relevant to structure and function of the protein)

For distant relatives (e.g. humans and bananas), it's similar, looking specially at those genes which we can identify across many species (particularly those related to cell upkeep, DNA replication, structure, etc.).

For within-species, there are a few ways of doing it; you could model how much of the genome you expect came from each source (as this study did) (see admixture analysis, coalescence), and you could look for overall differences on the genome (of all existing variation in the species, how much is consistently different between populations) (see F-statistics for example)
Do we really need to be this pedantic? There is no money exchanging hands for this transaction. Apple / YouTube / Netflix puts a rack of stuff in the ISP for no charge. With the right traffic patterns everybody wins:

- End users get a better experience because there are fewer hops between the content and their computer.

- ISP gets to pay less on transit

- The content provider also spends less on transit while providing a better end-user experience
ColorBrewer[0] is a great research-backed resource for dataviz colors.

[0] http://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3
GraphQL File Uploads with React Hooks, TypeScript and Amazon S3 [Tutorial]
> If they won't get a lot of new development it is better to stay just below capacity.

If a developer comes in and says "Hey I want to develop in this area", it is a contradictory response to say that this development should be prevented, because there is not enough demand.

If a bunch of developers are trying to build houses, then by definition, we are in a situation where there is demand.

This supports my point even more, because I was saying that the developers should build first, and then if the infrastructure starts to hit capacity, THEN the infrastructure should be updated.

Don't build the infrastructure first. Instead build the housing, and fix any problems that come with it.

Also, this is how all this infrastructure gets built in the first place, also. The developers, who are building the buildings, will upgrade the infrastructure as part of the process of building the buildings.
Last time I left a negative review, Amazon banned my account from making comments.

Did they think I was being paid to write a negative comment, is that such a thing? or perhaps they don’t like negative comments either. I don’t know.
Oh, my sweet summer child...

https://twitter.com/eean/status/1228182747149025280

https://twitter.com/neversassylaura/status/96939949395841843...

https://reason.com/2019/01/16/san-francisco-property-owner-f...

I could go on for days.
No problem, give it a shot, it worked really really well in my tests, and very easily.
I envision herds of driverless vehicles slowly cruising randomly, summoned when needed, avoiding the cost of parking.
Some older iTunes downloads were encrypted but over plain HTTP and the decryption keys sent over HTTPS.
And what happens if the network breaks down? Everything gridlocked. Conversely if one vehicle breaks down the rest of the cars just go on by.
You just won a 656M Dollar Lottery. What do you do now?
There is certainly a cultural aspect to it. Tom Scott's video on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtnD4jmCDQ
> specifically writing things for the sake of avoiding downvotes or getting upvotes

I agree that this is a bad thing, and I see that I did not properly describe the strategy I was advising. I did not mean "write enough things specifically tailored to whatever is going to get upvotes and avoid downvotes, so that you have a lot of karma". I meant "write enough things that add genuine value to the site, and eventually you will have enough karma that you don't care about getting downvoted". But I wasn't clear about that, which is my bad.

> you have again misunderstood the point I am making

Which point? Your point that downvotes should not be used just to express disagreement? I understood that point just fine from the start, and what's more, I agreed with it.

What I was having trouble understanding was your description of the kinds of posts that get upvotes; I now realize that's because I misdescribed the strategy I was advising, so we were talking at cross purposes. See above.

> that other people seem to have understood just fine.

Nobody else is posting at all in this subthread (the one starting with my original response to your "HN is kinda dying as a community", it's just you and me. So I don't know what "other people" you are talking about.

> Consider making an effort to interpret what I've said in the ways that make sense, rather than searching for ways to interpret it that make it sound inconsistent.

> P.S. you are yourself and not anyone else, so don't try to say what other people think, as though you know it for a fact.

Consider that maybe the actual issue had nothing to do with any of these things. See above.
This is the result of patents.
So I just spend ten times over the limit, win, and then I can't be prosecuted.
Thanks for the feedback! I just released this yesterday, so I'll be improving the docs/examples in the days to come.
Roughly, we have three types of color-sensitive cone cells in our eyes. They each have different behavior in terms of how much they "react" to different wavelengths of light. Take a look at this chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichromacy#/media/File:Cones_...

Each individual wavelength activates all three to some extent: think about this as a point in 3d space. For example, 400nm corresponds to something like (0.1, 0.05, 0.0), from that chart. 500nm might be (0.1, 0.4, 0.3).

But we experience a mix of many different wavelengths at once. So we can not only experience just these points in 3d space, but we can also experience any linear combination of any of these points. For instance, a mix of half 400nm and half 500nm light might be "sensed" by us as (0.1, 0.225, 0.15), even though maybe there's no individual wavelength that corresponds to that point. Any linear mix of any number of any wavelengths covers the entire gamut of what we can perceive.

The question then for someone picking primary colors for an additive display is: if I can only do a linear mix of three wavelengths, what wavelengths should I pick? What covers the biggest subset of the whole perceptible gamut? It just so happens that red, green, and blue do the best.

If you swapped green for yellow, there would be a section in that 3d space that you could no longer create. Specifically, the area where M cones are strongly activated compared to L and S. Unsurprisingly, this would be the greenest greens.
Would you hang it on your wall?
I'd say this is part of the mainstream move from an "industrial" society (with mostly human robots and computers) to an "information" society (with mostly human modelers and architects, as robots and computers are now machines).

We now start with the "why", see where knowledge fits in the puzzle of reality, where it plugs and how to find it; then only on a need-to-basis do we go deeper into the 'how'.
> But today, there is little reason for most projects not use the advances found in C99.

Does visual studio support c99 yet? Last I heard MS wasn’t interested in supporting it.
Reducing the ability of someone to broadcast their speech is an impairment.

What you have said is akin to saying that if the government banned the publishing of certain books that wouldn't be an impairment on the written word because people would still be free to write whatever they wanted down in their own personal notebooks.
It’s not phone only. I use it all the time with my phone in a different room.
"Lie"? Rather a harsh phrasing.

The only thing unleashing it is the decision to turn it on, which is largely up to regulators.
Submotion – Simple SaaS Management
Ask HN: How do you write vertical sliced user stories?
My team is trying to use agile and for the past few months, we've had more than one story just sit on the sprint board for multiple sprints.

After doing some research, I guess the cure for this is to write vertical sliced stories that are very small in scope.

The problem that I see with this is that you can have multiple user stories that are quite similar but limited in scope.

How do you ensure that each dev who works on the story can complete the story without developing tech debt around multiple implementations of the same logic? How do you prevent integration headaches?

For example, if an app is a react/redux app on the front-end with a rails API and relational database.

If the vertical story is "As a user, I want to be able to add counters to my shopping cart." and "As a user I want to be able to remove counters from my shopping cart." And there's no previous logic to handle this on the front or the backend. How do you ensure if you split these tickets that the two devs who work on the ticket don't just waste time doing the same thing but in different ways?
How does one “lose their home” if the value (to resell to others) goes down, but they aren’t moving & still living there?
Hammerspoon shortcut to toggle grayscale & color (applescript not mine, borrowed from https://github.com/shavidzet/osa-grayscale)

hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd", "ctrl", "alt"}, "c", function()
hs.osascript.applescript([[
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor "Seeing_Display" of pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
repeat while not (exists of checkbox "Use grayscale" of group 1 of window "Accessibility")
delay 0.1
end repeat
set theCheckbox to checkbox "Use grayscale" of group 1 of window "Accessibility"
tell theCheckbox
# If the checkbox is not checked, check it to turn grayscale on
if not (its value as boolean) then
set checked to true
click theCheckbox
else # else turn grayscale off
set checked to false
click theCheckbox
end if
end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences"
quit
end tell
]])
end)
Claim: consciousness is a material experience
Matias makes a quiet tactile keyswitch. It feels about identical to vintage ALPS from my recollection.
what does sctb / pg stand for?
It's not a terrible idea, and I've wanted to play around with the concept myself, but I've never really had time or an acute need.

The Snapmaker (1) is a 3d printer with changeable heads. For mine I mostly use the 3d printing head or the low-power laser engraving head, but it also came with a milling head and they sell a higher-power laser head that can cut some materials.

I looked around and people have had trouble trying this with the milling head. The bit usually breaks and the X axis isn't stable enough. Maybe v2.0 will be more sable since it has a second Z axis mount.

That being said, their mounting platform is modular. There's nothing to stop you from fabricating a dremel mount and ripping apart an existing milling head to interface it with the dremel.

[1]: https://snapmaker.com/product
In Russia (I guess from Soviet times) there’s a similar saying, ‘a good engineer won’t get promoted.’
Facebook Prepares for Wave of Influencer Marketing in Politics
Now I'm wondering if there are programmable lenses to provide basic, real-life filters at concerts and other events.
This isn’t a mainstream solution acceptable to most users. I didn’t create this environment. I’m just attempting to optimize within it.
>When it became clear that Uber's strategy (under Kalanick anyway) was premised on replacing drivers with AIs before the cash ran out I couldn't see general self-driving vehicles coming within 20 years. I still say that's true.

Even so, this never made sense as a business strategy, unless Uber somehow has a comparative advantage in achieving self-driving cars and then can get a long monopoly on them.

If they don't -- if others have SDCs around the same time, then sure, their costs go way down, but they can also charge a lot less, because the competition has the same "advantage"!

It's like:

"Hey, man, do you really think your grocery store can make those superhuge profits when you sell at the wholesale price?"

'Oh, no, I have a plan. You know those barcodes they're putting on products now? I'm going to invent a way to integrate that with the checkouts, and boom, I don't have to pay for people to put price tags on. Labor costs go way down!'

Same problem: "No, you're not. Someone better at that will, and they'll sell the tech to all grocery stores."

There was never a reason to believe Kalanick's operation as it stood in 2010/11 had that comparative advantage, so that strategy never made sense. And today, not surprisingly, Uber is one of the worst at SDCs, and is correspondingly unlikely to have that advantage.
You can audit the app. Bytecode isn’t hard to read. Pentesters aren’t idiots.
Well, unfortunately, yes. I don't want to sound heartless, but sometimes the needs of the many do outweigh the needs of the few. This isn't "tyranny of the majority" here.

It's incredibly selfish to use PTSD or noise-sensitivity as a justification for contributing to a situation where tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people have 3-hour commutes when they could otherwise live closer to work.
Car manufacturers seem have have had a pretty relaxed attitude to security for ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v1PRHTpK2c