skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it could be a case of "My wife gets upset when I cheat on her. How can I make her understand that it's not a big deal?".

I am not saying that it is but I do think that Stephen Coveys famous "seek first to understand, then to be understood" quote holds a lot of truth. In order to communicate your own perspective on something to someone, you need to have a sense of how theirs differs to yours.
> because they simply can't provide a... better experience for their customers than Amazon can

That's debatable. If I want a specific book, sure. But Amazon simply cannot replicate the experience of browsing a bookstore looking for an interesting book to read. I cannot physically hold the book in my hands, flip through it's pages, maybe read a few excerpts, etc. And if I'm buying a used book, I can't inspect the actual condition myself before purchasing.
No, but if they see that brand protecting the head of all the people they see eat shit in GoPro videos, or on heads in the Winter Olympics, then they don't (feel they) have to do the research to see if it's a trustworthy brand.

Obviously, this implied value gets taken too far on both sides.
> The fact that hospital capacity was not overrun in either state underscores the validity of the comparison.

Just a tidbit: One UCSF doctor that went to help out in New York reported the hospital he was in converted their cafeteria to a ventilator ward.

And New York was relying on a lot of doctors and nurses from other parts of the country. Not to mention pressing doctors and nurses from other specialties.

I just say this because the covid19 deniers are trying hard to normalize things like what happened in New York.
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Was going to say this. Seems like the more pro folks go with less and improvise more.

A bit of knowledge someone dropped on me once: “we carry our fears.” E.g. I haul lots of water because I hate dehydration.
I care enough to respond to you, for what it's worth. I think the main problem here is the experience of being insulted and the wish to defend against insults. Because we have so little information about each other in these little internet comments, it's extremely easy to perceive insults where there wasn't anything much. More importantly though, even if someone does post an insult, it's just a shitty internet comment. Why respond in kind? It's beneath your dignity and does no good. It feeds the other person's inclination to go further, and damages the container here. I'm not suggesting that you turn the other cheek exactly; just that it's in your and HN's interest for you to just ignore it when people post nasty things.

I believe readers (intelligent ones at least) look to see who stopped replying first and extend greater respect to that one. It feels exactly the opposite in the moment: I have to defend myself lest the other comment stand unrefuted. But actually the commenter with the greater strength to ignore insults and/or walk away is the one who looks better on the internet. I'm writing this for myself as much as anything, since I find this a difficult lesson to learn.
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It's the history behind the brand that's important.

Does that company have a history of building quality products? Do they support them when something breaks? What kind of reputation do they have?

When you buy a brand name product, you generally have a better idea what you're buying.

(Not to say there aren't some high quality generic products out there, but it takes a lot more time and research to find them. And sometimes it's just a gamble.)
Now, is perhaps the best time to do something about climate change if that is something we seriously want to defeat. Right now, we have already laid off and forced so many people to stay home and stop working. We are in the perfect position to evaluate what jobs are actually necessary and cut off as much fat as we can in our society. Pay a basic income so that these people don't have to forever drive to their wage slave jobs that they hate and then drive back home and sleep, only to repeat again the next day. Kill off huge industries that have been kept alive by low wages and poor working conditions that people have no choice but to endure at the threat of poverty and death. Let people live their lives and if even one person, who would've originally been working at McDonalds to pay rent, can invent something like the cure for cancer or a solution to increasing CO2 levels, then it will all pay off. If not, at least you get a nicer society who won't be a few meals away from rioting and killing each other on the streets.
Yes, it is ego. I was recently on a backpacking trip with a few of the most 'geared up' people I've ever met, sporting all top of the line gear and very proud of it - every single item was intentional and brand names and the long technical details of every item of clothing or gear was always mentioned. It's like almost any hobby or sport - some people will geek out and get very into the 'scene'. Walmart will provide a way for new people to dip a toe into the world of backcountry gear and some of those people will move up to the specialty brands.
All this will be AI powered, I assume?
Funny. But what a world we live in where both presidential candidates could, in good faith, argue that the other is clearly senile.
True, is not rocket science to write a CSV parser. The problem with CSV is it looks so deceptively simple so people write simplistic ad-hoc parsers/exporters all the time, so we end up with a bunch of incompatibilities.
What don't you like about the syntax?
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Not broken, but better choices are available.

Many early space rockets were outgrowths of military ballistic missile programs, where hypergolics were favoured due to storability, as being able to launch on a moment's notice was critical. But for launching satellites or humans into orbit, that's not a particularly relevant consideration.

On the downside, hypergolics are expensive, and their toxicity makes handling them more expensive still. Meanwhile, cryogenic technology has developed and is today affordable and reliable. Heck, even amateur efforts like Copenhagen Suborbitals are using LOX.
What exactly are you referring to? Upload speed? That's not the issue.

Dropbox is the best at crawling a very complex directory structure with millions of files and diffing it efficiently with the server and other clients, and then transferring all the individual changes. Nothing else comes close. And their write-ups show the work involved:

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-en...
I can put a note in their mail slot, I live biking distance.
Difference between exit() and sys.exit() in Python
Ah, cool, so the tent weatherproofing will be the same, but the zipper and plastic hooks will feel and work nicer on the more expensive branded one? ;D
Yes it is, it is not exposed via the SDK, regardless how Renderscript ends up being compiled to machine code.

You won't find any reference to OpenCL here,

https://source.android.com/

https://developer.android.com/

So while those SDKs do exist, they aren't for application developers, rather for OEMs themselves.

You as application developer have zero control about what GPUs the customers might be using, there is no way to control it on Android manifests, only to specify what APIs are expected, which again, don't have OpenCL as part of the list.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest...

So if you as application developer want to use said SDKs, it is only for your own device, most likely rooted, don't expect to sell applications on the store using OpenCL.
Steve Wozniak’s biography, “iWoz”. He perfectly explains how to combine off the shelf parts in novel ways so that 100% of R&D is focused on closing gaps unique to the business problem at hand.
One of the big questions about search engines is "what is it trying to do?"

The simplest is "search for doc that contaons" . But we're used to "search for document about concept" by now. ISTRC Bing called themselves a "decision engine".

I don't know what Google is/trying to be now, but it often thinks it knows my business better than myself, excluding critical words.

I don't think there can be a universal answer. The corpus gathering is a huge barrier to entry, but having a common corpus would still allow room for competition on diversity of querying methods.
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Oh ffs. Where’s the justice department when you need them?
A question: is really fifth the best ? Seeing FIVE=5 always irks me, as it's an extra indirection for nothing. What do I gain with it ? The ability to change it to FIVE=6 ? OUTPUT=5 maybe but then console.log(OUTPUT) gains you nothing. Maybe NB_LEGS=5 and console.log(NB_LEGS)
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Oh it’s an absolutely lovely overview. Honestly I would highly recommend most stuff from Diaconis, he’s got a fantastic expository style (and all of his papers are quite readable!)
Seems useful for testing public contracts. Bug hunters can get paid using the tool testing the contracts out in the wild and making money directly when they find bugs.
There is a reason why Haskell is not popular. But I don't think the impenetrable passages about Monads are the reason behind it.
It is more about what you gain by adopting Haskell and powering through the impenetrable passages.
If it is not blazing fast runtime performance and fast speed of development and maintainable code, then Haskell is pointless. As such, if there are those kind of benefits available, there is plenty of extra brainpower available among developers to comprehend passages.
Let people live their lives and if even one person, who would've originally been working at McDonalds to pay rent, can invent something like the cure for cancer or a solution to increasing CO2 levels, then it will all pay off.

If you are suggesting that UBI will give us this, this is highly unlikely.

I have been getting myself well with a very deadly condition for 19 years. I spent nearly six years homeless.

The biggest barrier I face to disseminating this information boils down to credibility and connections. No one wants to hear what I have to say. I'm a former homemaker, not a "scientist."

I don't think UBI will lead to what people think it will. Money is not the biggest barrier. That's not the problem poor people have.

Mostly: The problems they have lead to a lack of money, not the other way around.
I think the killer distributed app would be some kind of peer cache of videos from yt, vimeo and so on. You watch YT and your browser stores the movie then shares it like webtorrent. G decides it doesn't like the movie, bang - deleted! Not so much, still available in distributed cache.

I look thru my yt playlist some as old as yt and half of the entries are dead. And there was a lot of original user content too. So much of human art is lost.

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The ecosystem isn't npm or anything but it's not terrible if you don't care about targeting Windows. The standard library is pretty good, and between C and Python interop there's generally always a way to do something even if there's not great library support directly in Swift.
The book written by the guy who runs this site.

Skims on the painting part, I thought, but it makes for an interesting insight into the personal philosophy of someone who values both creativity and logic.

Many of his ideas are universal (probably why I'm here!). Others don't port so well (or are specific to his experience).

Well worth the OPs time, given the question.

Joel on Software is also a fantastic read. More concrete in talking about specific aspects of a software developers' working experience, and ideas towards technology in general.

A mentor of mine suggested I should read it alongside Hackers and Painters.

I can't thank him and his friends enough, frankly...
Perhaps an issue is that the well known saying "prefer object composition over class inheritance" isn't done, because a majority of programmers simply don't know how to apply it.

Inheritance is used inappropriately (outside of frameworks) almost everywhere.
I just tested this with VoiceOver and when it reaches the image, it tries to read aloud the alt text of the image, so it starts reading each character and number, almost as if it went bonkers.

Therefore yeah, while it is a cool experiment to show how to hide additional data on tweets (it doesn't seem that Twitter search includes alt texts, unlike other stuff like display names or handles), it is also disrespectful and unpolite to users who depend on accessibility features like screen readers.

(There are already other subtle ways to be unpolite to screen reader users on Twitter, such as sharing critical but well-designed announcements inside images with no alternate text available and no link to a text-only version – something that governments seems to do often once they get aboard the Twitter train)
It is well sourced, but the sources are mostly the informed opinions of specialists.

This is exactly the kind of question which must be answered through experimentation. Anything else is wasting time.
The last North Face jacket I bought was utter garbage.

It didn’t last two seasons before the main zipper and pocket zippers faded.

That put me off all the brands in the similar price range.

I’d now rather buy at the next bracket down and have twice, or more, the number of items.
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“The Innovator’s Prescription” (Clay Christensen) explains the Innovator’s Dilemma better than the original book and introduces jobs-to-be-done with the milkshake story.

“Creativity Inc.” (Ed Catmull) explains how Pixar manages people & throws in a few insights from mature (post Apple firing) Steve Jobs.

“Managing the Design Factory” (Don Reinertsen) explains how to prioritize projects and analyze a business for bottlenecks in order to minimize cost of delay.
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I was merely claiming that we have an incomplete understanding of the climate system, and because of that we shouldn't make these types of claims and state them with absolute certainty like the article is doing.

Surely we can agree there?
True, serving it to you was negligible, but that little extra being served millions of times, once for every request, in aggregate slows down servers, eats up peoples’ data, raises costs and generally quickens the heat death of the universe.
Sounds like Ubuntu's Unity to me. My 2 cents: Now that I'm using two 4K panels I very much enjoy having 4 windows side-by-side (optionally even splitting those vertical "columns" horizontally to hold 2 windows). No more task switching, all I need is always visible - I personally wouldn't opt for a tab-based full-screen WM.
Questioning these types of assertions isn't appreciated. I'm already being downvoted in this thread because of it.
I’ve spent the last week learning SwiftUI to see how hard it would be to reimplement Notion in a performant way. It seems really ... unfinished. Like, the default List view is really hard to style. I spent 4 hours yesterday trying to get an unstyled text Button to have a hit target bigger than the characters themselves. Adding a frame with a background worked, but if the frame had no background (or a transparent background) then the hit target would stay tiny. I ended up fixing it by just reading through every property method in swiftui and guessing. It reminds me of web development in the early days of jQuery.

If the SwiftUI code were opensource it would be much more pleasant - I could paw through the code if I needed to, file issues, and so on. But the whole experience compared to writing typescript with VS Code is shockingly bad. With the preview open Xcode sometimes stutters so much that it misses key presses - so I’ll type a function name and it’ll come out missing letters, because apparently I wasn’t typing slowly enough for my $3000 computer from 2016 to keep up.

That Xcode gets trounced in developer experience by vs code - an IDE running on electron - is really a testament to the work Microsoft has put into performance. And it should be hugely embarrassing for Apple.
Ask HN: Easy to modify PET plastic for 3D printing?
See: https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/7855/can-i-3d-print-print-a-pet-bottle

PET is not a good polymer to print with. Is there any process through which we can convert it into something more suitable for printing?

Cheaper and easier the better.
LGPL is free and there are Qt bindings in pretty much all languages now (+ I mentioned QML for that reason).
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That's a good point and it makes sense, but couldn't you hedge the inventory risk?
> Fortunately [annotations becoming less-and-less optional over time] doesn't seem to be happening.

On the other hand, Guido himself recently said "new stdlib code should be written with annotations inline" [0] whereas the core developers original position was "it will be the choice of the author of new stdlib modules whether and how to use type hints" [1], or even "We will not be putting type annotations anywhere in the stdlib" [2].

[0] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-path-forward-for-ty...

[1] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...

[2] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...
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Has anyone tried out that startup review site, Sussio?
Has anyone tried out that startup review site, Sussio? Looks like they're similar to Yelp for startups? They claim to help consumers 'suss out' brands" - sounds kind of tacky.
People are still going to Starbucks, mate, you think quite high of intelligence of those picking up streetwalkers.
>That's not the problem poor people have

Are you sure? I don't have any numbers on it, but I like to think the amount of homeless who are truly lost causes where money would not help is very small. I'm poor and if money was not a priority, I'd be able to work on stuff like programming and pursuing writing as a hobby. That's pretty much what I've been doing now that I can justifiably take UI and stay home for some time without worrying about how to pay rent and buy food. For me, hell yeah money is the biggest barrier. And the only options in front of me are to work at shitty minimum wage food service jobs which are now destroyed.
Why would Ioannidis risk reputation for such a small amount? I do not bite it. He did a basic research which is what he is paid to do. If his analysis has flaws

a, The paper was peer reviewed
b. We can see other peer reviewed papers disprove his findings.

The flame wars feed conspiracy theories in both sides.

I am not an expert, I am not even a researcher any more, however my possibly flawed opinion is that deadliness of the virus is not a number written in stone and may have seasonal and regional variation.
Here's a more complete story:

https://qz.com/1742279/a-mind-reading-headband-is-facing-bac...

Seems that the headbands were donated to a school by a US startup that put them on the market as a consumer product, probably targeting China's 'tiger' mothers; that people protested, and the authorities banned them.

The video says "this school is using" and while it sounds like an generic example, it's actually ONE school, using for a short period of time a product donated by a US startup.
GitHub is mostly free now.
> Professors themselves are often optimizing their content for testability, rather than for providing actual, functional lifelong knowledge.

Hah! I think you have this backwards. Most professors are quite concerned about imparting knowledge when the vast majority of the students simply want a piece of paper with the University's logo on it.

I knew of very few professors in electrical engineering or computer science who tried to optimize for "testability".
I fully agree with you, and therefore:

a) the thread, in readable form https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1258372975004389379.html

b) the full publication https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v...
I've thought about this before, and the conclusion that I've come to are that dithering and anti-aliasing are both techniques from the wrong eras of pixel art.

Dithering is something that you need the most when you are working with either a very limited or a fixed color palette. On the NES backgrounds were dithered because you had so few colors to work with per tile. EGA era PC games used dithering because the standard 16 color choices weren't very useful. Modern pixel artist don't have these technical limitations to work with. And I think that for most, dithering just doesn't look very appealing vs adding an intermediate color.

Anti-aliasing is on the other side of technology window, from an era where there was enough resolution and color choices to support those techniques, but before 3d really took over. By the time you have that level of rendering capability, your are starting to push into the realm of photo-realistic or cartoon techniques. Late in the Super NES and VGA era the trend was away from hand drawn pixel art, and towards high resolution renders scaled down. And when you're working in that space today, you're starting to lose the appeal that the limitations of pixel art offer.

This is all conjecture though. And I'm sure there are pixel artists out there doing amazing things with dithering and anti-aliasing.
> the rest of the conversation seemed to be assuming that "whether you have received the full message" is well-defined at the level of TCP

I don't see anything in the comment you linked that implies that.

Sorry you got confused, but there's no need for anyone to go reply to that comment to say so.
So this is like Chrome but you can only open drive.google.com

ok
> so had uses for it all, could test out the new ideas in graphics programs, and had questions of my own to answer

That's a very interesting point you made!
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I started using dark themes on my code editor about 8-9 years ago (Monokai on Subline IIRC) and recently I've gone back to light themes.

Light themes are certainly less cool but since you can have greater contrast they have much better readability and less strain on your eyes.
Perhaps make a mobile friendly stylesheet? Please!!!!
The article context is Windows and Linux. I'm not sure where "mobile cross-platform is discussed".

But if you want to go to actual cross-platform-beyond-desktop, Qt is still massive on other devices. From cars to TVs to smart fridges.
This is a very useful service. I often search for podcasts on random topics that I want to know more about. Imagine if the web was such that you subscribed to certain pages and only consumed those. Weird.
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