skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first reaction was "No f-ing way!". Then I decided to dig deeper.

This is just a Gigaset GS290 with different software:

https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/gigaset-gs290/

Current street pricing for this phone appears to be around €269.

Volla is getting from €298 to €359 for them (Let's ignore the t-shirts, books, etc.).

If we assume they are buying the phones for, say, 25% off, their COGS is around €200 per unit. In other words, they are getting paid between €100 and €159 to develop software and support their version of the phone. In the case of the KS campaign, that amounts to about €5000 and €7950.

There are other possible business arrangements that are often negotiated in these kinds of deals. For example, Gigaset manages fulfillment under the Volla brand and they split the profits. That would imply zero upfront costs to Volla. That's the kind of deal I would want to make if I were in their shoes. Don't deal with hardware if you don't have to. Hardware is hard and very expensive.

I am going to guess or assume (and we know how dangerous assumptions can be) that the bulk of the software has already been developed and might even be in release-able condition. I make this assumption because they've been at this crowd-sourcing thing for a while.

In other words, they have sunk costs. And it might very well be that they don't really have to invest much more to actually deliver these modified COTS phones. In that context the €5K to €8K they just raised (after paying for the hardware) might be fine. It's a signal rather than a bankroll needed to produce phones. They are NOT manufacturing hardware from scratch. At worst they might have custom printed packaging, which costs nothing.

I then looked into Gigaset. It's a solid company. Used to be Siemens Home. Now 70% owned by Goldin Group out of Hong Kong (which puts into question just how much is really "Made in Germany"). Still, this is a real company with real products. Therefore, there is no reason to doubt the hardware at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigaset_Communications

One way I came out of this is to consider the idea that, if the Volla software does not work out for whatever reason users might be able to reprogram their phones with the standard Gigaset software and life goes on. If this is the case, and you like Gigaphone, this deal has basically zero risk. You are paying a relatively small premium to try a proposal that may or may not work. Which is fine. Good project.
This is SARS type 2; please stop using COVID-19.

> distinction between a disease caused by a specific virus and the virus that causes it

The virus is also called SARS-CoV-2.
Zero based budgeting would be my first policy proposal as President.
I had same reaction, it happened in Torino, Italy. I've no idea why I am being downvoted for reporting simply what she told me.
How often do the people here find that they have too much of down time at work? a bit tangential but asking since i find myself in this situation a bit too often.
It's hard to follow what's actually happening, but it doesn't seem like it's wasted at all. It's just going slower than expected. The factory is in use and has promised to meet its hiring obligation on time. It sounds like they made a bet on its value and came up a bit short. This sort of thing actually happens pretty frequently and it's fine because we don't have all our eggs in one basket. No different than buying stocks, these investment funds pay for a lot of projects knowing that some will bust and some will do well enough to cover the losses.
When I was 12, I went on a week long hike as a scout. We decided to swim across a lake, and 1/2 way through, I got tired, and tried swimming back, but couldn't.

I remember having the presence of mind to yell out help before blanking out. My closest friend in the troop luckily turned around, swam back to and drug me back to shore.

I was scared of the water after that, but some how ended up fighting my fear and earning the swimming merit badge, which for a weak swimmer, was no easy task.

For his heroism, and because I had overcome my near death experience, we were both recognized for embodying different aspects of scouting.

That incident in the lake inspired my friend to go on to become a life-guard.

Both my kids started swim lessons in infancy, and my oldest son gets compliments for his swimming skills while at the public pool. Though the pool we use has life guards, I never for a second take my eyes of my kids.

Maybe one day they'll go on to be life guards prior to college.
> geographic diversity in wind goes a long way toward addressing intermittency

This is unfortunately not true. Taking the whole Europe, either the wind blows everywhere, or it doesn't [1].

1. https://www.vive-le-nucleaire-heureux.com/images/Textes-blog...
I know it anecdotal, but I have a dutch oven that I have had for years it is seasoned black iron. I cook spaghetti and chili from scratch in it quite a bit, most of the time leaving it to simmer overnight, it has never left an iron taste in the sauce. It is well seasoned and if I pour out the sauce it runs out as if the metal is oiled with no residue from the sauce. I provided the article to highlight that it is possible, people do it and it has no ill effect on the taste of the produced food. The trick is to make sure your cookware is completely seasoned before you start using it for acidic based stews and sauces. The seasoning will last, and you will only have to re-season about every 6 months if that. If you braise a lot of fatty meat in it, you really never have to re-season.
Under 10 seconds on which query? If your query involves big joins over a large distributed data-set there won't be a technology that can do it for you. SPARQL is not the problem, you can write the same queries in Cypher or any other language, you will hit the same performance problems
https://www.julian.com writes great long-form guides.
No doctor is dumb enough to give antibiotics for a virus.
Is there active AI research ongoing to identify such at risk individuals in crowded pool from real time Video monitoring
I've gotten good information from Quora, but I would point to StackExchange for the highest quality Q&A in general, and especially for programming and related fields. It sounds to me like perhaps asking questions was overcompensated compared to answering.

If the highest quality answers were also the most well compensated, wouldn't that be the ideal situation? If you have a bunch of paid professionals standing by to answer questions then genuinely curious people might come to your platform to ask. I have no data to back this up, that's only intuition.
God Damnit, now I really want that domain.
If I understand the difficulty with production systems in general, things of high complexity have difficulty being stopped and restarted, because the technology and know how to do them are lost. I believe that's why we can't make another Saturn V rocket at the moment.
A system for growth = our MRR is up 800%
> Hydo is very cool, and very green.

Well, maybe. I think this depends on what you mean by "green". If you mean low on CO2 emissions, then sure, but we need to consider habitat loss, methane emissions from decomposition, and the possibility of triggering earthquakes. Hydro is also quite expensive to build, and often requires seizing land through processes like Eminent Domain (in the US).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/jun/01/visa-outa...
I'm pretty sure you've fallen trap to the pie fallacy mentioned in the interview.
I mean, he had to learn to read too. If not for that, he'd never have founded viaweb!

True, but not very interesting.

I happen to think both were fairly innovative. Both viaweb and YC were at the forefront of a newish idea that seems pretty obvious in retrospect: Server based applications, and startup incubators. Both existed before to some extent, but pg recognized their value pretty quickly, and did them both well enough to make an impact. (I'd learn toward more credit incubators and less for server-based apps, but whatever.)
How would one parse "if A and B or C"? You'd want to add parentheses "(A and B) or C"; or "A and (B or C)". For a simple case, a comma might suffice, but more conditions can get difficult to express unambiguously in plain language.
>>long live the billable hour

Such an interesting statement! What do you mean by it?
Hating on billionaires is hot among a certain constituency. They are the 21st century boogeymen.
Just clarifying that this is KubeCon + CloudNativeCon _Amsterdam_, which was scheduled for March 30 - April 2, and that it is being postponed to sometime in July or August (TBD).

Also noted in the post is that KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit Shanghai is cancelled entirely.
They are NOT manufacturing a phone from scratch. Read my detailed post on this thread. At first I thought this campaign was crazy, but it might actually be OK. You have to dig deeper into the numbers.
The notion with information radiators not that you tell them to look up. The notion is that people naturally look at things while walking around or when idle, so it's valuable to make important things visible. It also serves as a way to trigger and focus discussions.

For example, consider the Kanban board. Here's one I built a while back: http://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/

We loved having a physical map of what we were up to. We'd have our daily stand-up around board and discuss it. You'd know when something was completed, because you'd see somebody move a card. I would often know when the product manager was thinking about something he'd go over to look right at it. That often sparked conversations. And we'd all have a feel for how work was flowing, something we'd talk about in our weekly retro.

Could this have been replicated with a system of alerts? No. Alerts are interruptive and necessarily threshhold-driven. I don't want my people caught in a cycle of continuous reactivity to things that at some point in history were seen as important enough to configure an alert. Except for emergencies, I want them to be serene, thoughtful, and proactive, which is very hard to achieve if you're continuously juggling alerts.

So I'd put up something with PR stats if it were something I wanted us to be aware of. Especially so if it were an item of concern in previous retros. Maybe that would eventually lead to an alert (although I'd hope not). But the first step in solving a problem is understanding the problem, and I think information radiators are great for that, especially when problems are thorny and don't have obviously correct answers.
Funny you mention that. Its sister subreddit /r/science is my example of something that has frustrated me greatly in the past. Most of the stories are something I'm trying to learn about, not an expert in, and I've found it very frustrating to try to engage. So if i see anything interesting there, i'll find somewhere else to talk about it.
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I know Derek Lowe is an expert. However, sometimes, experts think that because things have always been a certain way throughout their career, they will always be like that. Drug development has been very conservative especially in the US for the past several decades. The FDA is all about making sure they never have a thalidomide incident and would rather lose a lot of good drugs than approve a bad drug. This is the steady state.

However, a global pandemic is more akin to wartime footing. During WWII design and production ramped up to an unprecedented degree. There is a possibility that Covid19 will spark such a global response.
wonder if any smell remains from the durian
have they made the impulse response data available. would be great to load this into Logic Pro X to use on other material.
I once knew the C precedence chart pretty well. Now, about all I remember is that times and divide are higher than plus and minus.
The Data Science Revolution
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App-Layer Encryption in AWS
camelCase makes sense in golang's "Go Way", as minimizing variable name within its scope is promoted. Then, using underscores makes for more difficult read (words separated). CamelCase names are exported by language semantic.

So it doesn't need to be bad necessarily, if code follows the same conventions.
I literally had to block parts of Quora's website using AdBlock to stop it from bothering me.

Whenever I want to just read an answer it keeps pushing these notifications and asks me to answer questions. It was this aggressive behavior by Quora that made me quit contributing.

I wonder if there is something inherently wrong with online business models that doesn't allow good old sites like Quora to sustain their quality.

GP: I agree. Although I don't accept how Medium forces readers to sign up and subscribe, sometimes there is good content on it.
They just need to get Anbox working.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbox
Is it the case that SARS (of many years ago) had a vaccine developed for it, but it had too many side effects or was not effective enough to get past trials?

And that while this virus is different it is similar in many respects... leading me to think that a vaccine may also be difficult to produce.
Researchers Are Using a Video Game to Fight Coronavirus
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You are right, I was meaning green in the sense of gCO2eq/kWh.
Even when I have no issues with the precedence order, I often add parens anyway because it helps with mental grouping at a glance, instead of having to scan and mentally parse the line.
Crazy how this topic on drowning led me to your comment and led me down a rabbit hole where I am now ordering The Evolution of Beauty, Prum and The Handicap Prinicple, Amotz. Thank you for this comment
I strongly disagree. I can think of a ton of reasons why a driver may need (or even be legally required) to know their speed regardless of speed limit:

* when speed restricted by equipment (trailer, temporary spare, etc)

* when observing advisory speeds

* when observing minimum speed requirements

* as a reference for judging appropriate speeds under inclement conditions

* as a reference for judging appropriate acceleration/deceleration rates when entering/exiting the roadway
But...but.. something.. something Stallman...vendor lock-in...closed-platforms bad...something.
There are many rich people in the world and I don't read their essays or blog posts or whatever. I came to know PG from his essays and think they're pretty interesting.

I also like the fantasy of selling a company and retiring early to write essays and work on my software projects.
There's a point to what you're writing that I hadn't considered, but I'd still hold that building "software used every day, or at least every week" constitutes far more of our collective engineering time than "software used once a year or more rarely."

Even if the latter category is more numerous, I think we spend much less time working on it. And software that's used semi-frequently can benefit from a shorter feedback cycle, even if it doesn't have one right now. Sometimes there's an insurmountable technical barrier to that (e.g. code on a solar orbiter) but it's even in those cases worth investigating.
For a terminal version of this, I really like https://wtfutil.com/

Create a config file, and you get something similar.
Solve puzzles to find a cure for coronavirus
As I was reading the article I was thinking this isn't an issue if you just use parentheses.
Gov report bizarrely claims net neutrality repeal raised incomes $50B a year
Here's a counterargument: if a tool starts developing userbase, it's likely to have even more users in the future. Up to a point, the more users it has, the more it will have. So a breaking change while the userbase is still relatively small can be justified on the grounds of making things better for a larger number of soon-to-be users.
Microsoft allows employees to work from home amid coronavirus outbreak
They don't know it's Coronavirus tho, they didn't test for it.

Calling it Corona is just my speculation based on who she worked with in the clinic where she's a nurse.
The point about govt systems with clunky interfaces is a good one.

I think one area that we need to improve on is handling of PDFs. It's clearly the standard for documents of record. However, the fact it can be scanned images or text data is inconvenient.
If Panasonic’s leaving I’m assuming it wasn’t that sweet of a deal.

Even if someone else comes in will the state off the same terms? Can this hypothetical company fulfill their side? Is there somewhere greener?
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It seems like it would be a better use of resources to just build up enough of a stockpile that the industry would be able to safely retool into a similar civilian industry, such as railroad locomotives, and then have time to switch back without a loss of combat capability. You'd just have to keep a small industry around for upgrades and maintenance.
What E-Waste Journalism Gets Wrong
r/financialindependence is the bigger FIRE subreddit
I've looked into this and in the states you have to go through rigorous wildlife committee approvals, indian reservation approvals (?), have surveys done, blah blah blah. In the end if you do this on your own land you still have to sell excess power back to the grid. Kind of sucks because whether you like it or not you have to work with energy companies and the government.
> because when a nothrow fuction does happen to throw, you're in UB land

IIRC that was the originally proposed behavior for noexcept, but it was changed at some point to call std::terminate instead.
Multiplatform GPU benchmark adds macOS/iOS Metal 2 support
OP isn't "fully against killing insects", just said that "it should not be fun or recreational."
Apple agrees to $500M settlement for throttling older iPhones
Hardware sitting idle is still more productive than the trillions of dollars being spent to disrupt foreign countries and generate future enemies!
So "This was Coronavirus" was actually bullshit.
I think people have it too good. I think bored people are creating problems to solve.

/2 cents
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The Earn IT Bill: A New Path for DOJ to Finally Break Encryption
It doesn't seem like anything special. Maybe he added special caching for high loads. Would be nice if the counts actually used some kind of trust ratings to populate ranges based upon the infection rates, and probability of misreporting. And honestly, if you don't vigorously test, how can you hope to have accurate numbers?
Almost certainly. Of the saves I made over the years, the only one where I wasn't already giving the victim extra attention for 5-10 minutes was a seizure.
There is a great Linus Tech Tips and Smarter Every Day Youtube video about this. Highly recommended!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olRF5Ckaga0
Bonus points for mentioning Gorgias :)

Re: wouldn't society race past this question without hesitation [if someone got lucky and produced what appears to be strong AI by just randomly throwing atoms together]?

Yes, and in fact some people would argue that is precisely what has in fact happened, the random atom-throwing-together process being called "evolution". And as you point out, philosophers would continue to debate about "is it REALLY strong AI?", just as nowadays philosophers debate about whether humans are machines or not.

These hypothetical debates will always exist, nothing will ever change that, not even if someone randomly creates a true strong AI by sheer luck.

My point is that there's a whole other half of the field, which ISN'T doomed to perpetual fruitless philosophical debating. The question of whether intelligent machines can exist is one that is doomed to fruitless debates forever. But the question of whether we can build specific machines and know with mathematical certainty how quantitatively intelligent they are---that is a much more fruitful area where progress can be made, theorems can be proved, mathematics can be applied, etc.
China's Geely invests $326 mln to build satellites for autonomous cars
Mi Max 3 only, the whole family is still on ice
> I’m wondering how long it will take for large companies to realize that people are gradually adapting and starting to look for information on sites other than Google search bar.

Hopefully it will take them a very long time. I don't want companies to start poisoning online communities with their hidden advertising. When I visit an online community, I want to read about the real thoughts of real people that are hopefully much smarter than I am, and maybe even post a few of my own. No community wants paid members with ulterior motives and conflicts of interest.
GitHub Satellite to be a virtual event due to COVID-19
>That's not a problem with dashboards. That's a problem with training and staffing people.

Training and staffing people to look at dashboards? I've never heard of this and it sounds awful.
Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home
Doctors use gene editing tool Crispr inside body for first time
Antibiotics prevent secondary bacterial infection that exploit the immune system occupied with the primary viral infection.
Ah, but C99 has a bool type: _Bool. Also available as 'bool' via stdbool.h:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/keyword/_Bool

But I otherwise agree with you.
A village that small and unwired, rural, third world, would be happy with that line of sight limitation.
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>Friends, it's not entirely clear to me why this is, but I instrumented a copy of fib, and I found that the number of calls in fib(n) was a more or less constant factor of the result of calling fib. That ratio converges to twice the golden ratio, which means that since fib(n+1) ~= φ * fib(n), then the number of calls in fib(n) is approximately 2 * fib(n+1). I scratched my head for a bit as to why this is and I gave up; the Lord works in mysterious ways.

We can model the number of calls with a doubly-recursive function, much like fib itself:

calls 0 = 1
calls 1 = 1
calls n = 1 + calls(n-1) + calls(n-2)

However, it's easier to work with this if we split into three parts: the base case of fib that adds 0, the base case that adds 1, and the recursive case. If you examine the number of each type of call, you get the following table:

add 0: 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 ... = fib(n-1)
add 1: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ... = fib(n)
recurse: 0, 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 12 ... = fib(n+1)-1

So the total number of calls is fib(n-1) + fib(n) + fib(n+1) - 1. Since fib(n+1) = fib(n) + fib(n-1), we can express the sum as 2 x fib(n+1)-1.

And of course, there's an OEIS entry for this sequence: http://oeis.org/A001595. I notice that one of the definitions given there is "odd numbers whose index is a Fibonacci number," which matches our definition nicely, since you can define the set of odd numbers as 2*(n+1)-1.
I have that in my 2020 Ford, and you can tune the alert threshold from 0-5mph over the limit. I wouldn't even consider turning it on unless I could set it to at least 10mph, however.

The vehicle has a camera that looks out for speed limit signs, and then updates a little icon on the instrument cluster with the current speed limit. It works very well.
Antibiotics could be administered to reduce the chance of getting a secondary bacterial infection in the lungs weakened by the virus. Cortisol would increase your cell regeneration rate, helping marginally.

It's a rough equivalent of disinfecting a wound and putting a band-aid on it. Better than nothing, but doesn't address the issue directly.
Yes, the SARS vaccine virtually guaranteed severe lung scarring if you were re-exposed to full-strength SARS:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...