skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid question: has the pandemic made creating custom/any HW in places, specifically, Shenzen, even more economical/cheaper??

If i have a product definition, would i be able to get prototypes for say, $1000 assuming its a fairly (seemingly) simple product?

Edit:

As ones will probably ask “define simple”

- i want what is in effect a body cam, but with multiple cameras providing a 360 degree view, ideally affixed to the “button” location on a baseball cap. Or a small pole on a bavkpack.

I actually thought of this years before gopro existed hut i couldnt convince any of my HW friends in silicon valley of its interest...

There are many iterations on this, for example, one iteration i would like is effectively what has been developed into the “google hike view/walk view”

Lidar on a bavkpack for mapping out in 3D your walk hike...

Regardless, the most simplistic veing a multi cam 360 camera on a hat....

Could this be something done more cheaply in the pandemic climate?
where did you get this idea from ? my advice travel around more. & spend less time on the internet. and then you'll see plenty of places where quality of life from clean air, healthcare, transportation, entertainment, culture, friendly folks etc is much better than the american metros. nyc & sf.
No, test prep does not have a major impact. This meta study estimates ~10 points. The SAT is essentially a disguised IQ test, it's hard to change that. https://www.hepgjournals.org/doi/abs/10.17763/haer.53.1.n06j...
Somehow I pictured it'd be this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Zd3HYKCRE
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The first paragraph for the ABI non-goal section attacks a bunch of straw men about why a stable ABI is bad, then the second paragraph says they would actually be ok with doing what people actually want when they say they want a stable ABI.
in your average walmart, a gallon of coke, soda is cheaper than a gallon of water.
Just watched the Computer History Museum interview with Scott Forstall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjR2vegUBAo

Scott gives an incredible story about how Steve Jobs saved his life was really moving.
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I have had to make $100 in a couple hours with almost no avenue to do so. Here are the 2 different things I did multiple times each that show it IS possible to make money using just your creativity.

1. Went to Goodwill store (second hand store for those that dont know it.) Took pictures of the office furniture available. Posted to CL in my city at a price $10 to $20 more than it cost to buy. Subject line: "Price reduced by 30%". Stood in the store adding more items and watched my inbox for replies. This paid approx $20 an hour. I did this at least half a dozen times when my first child was born and we were on the verge of starving.

2. Called everyone I knew with a business and offered to build a website or facebook page or Twitter profile or Yelp page for $x, half paid up front. We HN folks overestimate how technical people are. 100 bucks to "be on social media" is cheap.
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There is only the simple observation that there is a spectrum: free speech -> deplatforming [ban from youtube & co] -> deinfrastructuring [ban from paypal / aws & co] -> depersoning [physical exile to periphery] -> lethal force.

I seem to remember a time of nuanced conversations. But perhaps online discourse was always an adversarial contest between two strident extremes. Enjoy.
Pretty impressive marketing for what's essentially a case with a remapable Bixby button.
It's clear these authors don't care much about the embedded community, which is too bad, since C++ is basically one of the two choices you have (the other being C). I prefer C on embedded (just because it's easy to accidentally allocate memory in C++), but there are large embedded ecosystems in C++ (Arduino, mbed).
No one rational feels sorry for universities.
The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
LOL I’m not going to give all that data. It would be immediately traceable to me.
UBI is abhorrent to me in principle, no matter the practical effects. If by killing a baby I could end climate change right now, I still wouldn't do it. Because the act itself is bad, the consequences are irrelevant.

Forcibly taking money from some people according to a progressive income tax system, and giving it unconditionally to others is unacceptable. Even if it would improve the life of a million people it should not be done.

An alternative: people who want UBI to be real, why don't you sign an agreement amongst yourself to contribute to a fund that will pay out UBI to your group? Why involve the government and all the coercion that entails?
"Malware analysis" is a subfield you're likely becoming qualified for, but it's a relatively small field, especially compared to your Django skilset.

Joining a CTF team (e.g. the team I play on! OpenToAll) would be a good way to build on the skills and meet some professional reversers to network with.
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How often are you planning on doing that? A little here, a little there, and suddenly your code is littered with inline styles, scoped JS styles, probably a style sheet for fun as well.
Well this was way before the IBM PC.. Microsoft clearly had a plan in those days. They implemented all of the popular languages for microprocessors: Fortran-80, Cobol-80, Basic, PASCAL- but not C. They bought C from Lattice.

(I started with 6800 / 6809 assembly language, and then Microsoft C 4.0).

Also: PDP-10 (TENEX) was awesome to use, was a very nice development platform.
> It can move all manner of formats about but only display ASCII text. The only thing resembling hyperlinks are the lowly gophermaps, one per directory.

That’s the point you should be focusing on: it’s not a competitive user experience. The commercialization angle isn’t “no way to extract money” but “no users”.

I remember the era of BBSes, Fidonet, and then getting access to the internet. FTP was obviously useful. The web was extremely useful. Gopher was … “what’s the point?”
Agreed it might end up being the way you mentioned but it might end up being very extreme. We both don't know yet which way it'll end up being.

-> but, there will still be advantages for US companies to pay for US developers: culture

I disagree here. My company has moved completed teams to India with no loss in productivity. Company today survives because of some projects that happened in India. Had the projects not moved to India some American folk would have been working on it and gathering accolodes and feeling proud of their work.

-> People will start companies here and hire people in other countries to code for them.

I don't know. People don't want to work for other people if they can start companies. How many chinese work for US organizations. They have their own companies and people to work for.

There are lot of points I want to bring forth but I fear they might hurt someone.
In the beginning it'll help people people living in Texas or Nevada. But that benefit will be short lived. People in USA are still super expensive compared to people in other countries.

Same argument hold for H1B. You get some selected very smart people ( only smart not the abuse that Infosys has been upto ). They train 10 people. Start companies hire americans. Economy and people here in general benefit. You stop them from coming here. They can do their work sitting in their 10 by 10 room in some other country.

See guys California's/New york's loss will soon boil down to USA's loss. Maybe it'll take 10 years. But USA is still one country. Taxes people pay in california is still used for the developement of the country.

Don't think of a 4 year picture here. 20 year picture in WFH situation will not settle well for USA's dominiance.

It'll work well for China's dominance. They don't let their innovations leave their country :).
Maybe the people working at YouTube still have a moral and ethical responsibility to minimize the spread of disinformation.
When you are editorializing , you dont get the pipes exception on copyright infringement.

Either they get it right, or open up. They cant do it half way.
Or you could go with an FPGA for low volumes. Like the Lattice CrossLink-NX. It can get video input and even aggregate multiple video feeds into one as output for further processing.
> And the option to buy cheap food from the government.

But then why do you need this at all? There is already food available in the market. If you have $300 you can buy it. There is nothing the government needs to do other than give you the $300.

> The government just needs to provide the bare minimum. Broke an arm? Goverment will cast it.

There is a pretty good argument that the local government should provide emergency medicine for the same reason they provide fire departments -- you can't choose a provider while you're bleeding out. But most medical care is not provided under emergency conditions.

> Want a better education for your kids? Homeschool if you can, or just work for more money and pay for one.

But that's the problem. The government takes $10,000 from you and then gives it back if you use their schools. If you want to use your school and it only costs $8000, not only do you not get the $2000 back, you don't get any of it and end up having to pay $18,000 for what should have cost you $8000. So your school doesn't just have to be better than the government's school, it has to be so much better that it's worth paying twice. There is no legitimate reason to impose that requirement instead of allowing people who don't use the government's school to get back the money they saved the taxpayer.
I wasn't particularly aware of it, but it looks like the TRS-80 BASIC that introduced me to programming was also probably developed by Microsoft, and I'm pretty sure that AmigaBASIC was as well. I think I also used QuickBASIC on the Mac a little, but what I particularly remember was a demo for it that visually showed different sorting algorithms, that inspired me to do something similar in Pascal.
Yep, I expected that kind of response, and yep it’s somewhat valid but doesn’t counter my central point.

The wording of the Wikipedia article is that anything considered “alternative medicine” is by-definition “biologically implausible”.

But plenty of what is central to what naturopaths do - i.e., nutrition - is plainly biologically plausible. That naturopaths approach nutrition differently to mainstream dieticians doesn’t make the approach by-definition “implausible”. And the “unproven” herbal remedies they may use are not “implausible” (herbs are made up of molecules and thus can quite obviously influence physiology).

“Unproven” and “implausible” are not the same thing; that’s my central point.

If some naturopaths also practice homeopathy, that doesn’t change the biological plausibility of the nutritional aspect, which in my experience, is the vast majority of the practice (at least here in Australia).

For what it’s worth, your assertion that naturopathy is an umbrella term for those other modalities isn’t correct. Sure, some of them are also homeopaths, but not the majority in my experience. And of course acupuncture is from Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is a separate system again.

Speaking of which, in just the past few years we’ve seen Nobel Prize awarded to a Chinese researcher for “discovering” artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin in the herb sweet wormwood, which had long been used as a malaria remedy. She found this by scouring 1600-year-old Chinese medical texts.

So by Wikipedia’s definition, this remedy was “biologically implausible” right up until the moment someone completed Nobel Prize-winning research to suddenly make it plausible.

Fabulous logic. How lucky the researcher hadn’t read Wikipedia beforehand and learned her proposed research was implausible.
>> This proposal should read "Google's Goals and Priorities for C++"

> I would say they are quite transparent about that...

I don't even see the word "Google" anywhere?
I don't understand this thinking that remote work will lead to hiring all over the world. I've worked on a bunch of teams split across timezones and I have never seen a team successfully function as a single team with more than a 3 hour timezone difference.
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How have you pivoted in this pandemic?
The sad part is because it's so competitive it seems like no one has any money left over to renovate, which has the rather perverse outcome of the nicest locations in the world to live, having the worst houses to live in.
This is your best.
Not sure whether it was exactly this version, but on an early job in the mid 80s, used a Microsoft BASIC compiler on a PC in a shared office. At least by default, when compiling, it would ring the "bell" on every syntax error. And by "ring", I mean loudly. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. Which I discovered sitting at the PC, surrounded by secretaries, who commenced withering stares.

That's the first day I remember not liking Microsoft.
The time pressure forces others to not get it. You getting it does depend on your skill to a large degree, but extra time increases your probability of getting it.
I use Clipman. Simple, but does job.
I just used the official docs and guides they had on the website, they seemed pretty good to me. I might have googled a few extra things, but can't really remember, I just remember it being pretty straightforward. I remember they pointed out a number of things you had to take care of.
I agree, and that means that sometimes that kind of communication is indispensable.

Zoom/Phone don't quite replicate that experience - they require focused attention. In person, your attention can "wander" while you are still focused on the conversation. Look how many people maintain eye contact in a cafe while having a conversation. Not many right? But do the same thing on Zoom/Skype/$VideoChat. "Hey, are you paying attention?" When really, wandering eyes are indicative (usually) of deep thought.

I have a heuristic when synchronous communication (phone, video chat) is necessary: When something is:

a) complex, or
b) has a significant likelihood of misunderstanding (which is just a more specific version of (a).

Actual face to face... that's got to be for things that are socially critical. Breakups. Hard messages to people who are close. First meetings with the biggest client of your life. Important deals, if they take more than "Happy? Yep." Etc. Stuff where the physical impression makes or breaks the experience.
I think it’s almost always less productive. I suspect the reason software engineers like to talk about how productive it is, is because software engineers tend to enjoy sitting down and their own code the way the want to do it. Collaboration, teamwork, and anything that involves accounting for the needs of other stakeholders all gets in the way of that. So you can feel more productive, because you get to spend more time doing the things that you think of as productive. But really you’re probably operating much less efficiently from an organisational standpoint.
> The large majority of the money isn't going to the insurance company, it's going to healthcare providers.

I have upvoted you but on HN, the prevailing belief is that doctors are gods and insurance companies are evil.

The data clearly shows that, on the average, insurance companies lose money while hospitals charge a 10000% markup - that's right, a 10000% markup.

I have written extensively on this topic (see my Quora) but I am finding it incredibly challenging getting people to see the reality.

Because I am often a contrarian here I am no alien to the downvote silence system here on HN - it's likely you can't respond to this comment of mine because HN won't let you for a few hours.

My email is in my profile, would love to connect with you - a person aware of reality.

Thank you
Great project! The query interpretation could better support phrasing and orderig of terms. The query "migrating from postgres to mysql" only returns results for "how to migrate from mysql to postgres"

only returns
I don't know how much I think it would have an effect. Google employees didn't know about the surveillance projects because they found out on-site, they knew about them because Google chose to make them known. Plenty of companies keep secrets from their employees, and those secrets largely remain safe despite employees working on premises. And outside of Google, who had until recently a very open culture of critiquing decisions, almost all calling-out happened through non-company channels.

And is it really so much easier to get rid of them? Presumably they'll have the same legal protections they previously did, and having to be physically removed from the building isn't exactly a major limitation on firing.
Isn't this the default behavior / reason for containers to exist?
A lot of relationships are forged through consistent meetings. Hobby circles generally form friendships for this reason. I don't think getting involved in my local community or working from a coffee shop will really provide the same sort of rich interactions that I get from a forced periodic meeting.
By SF criteria yes. But by the criteria he's used to maybe not. An adjustment period may be required.

Once upon a time three times your annual gross was considered an expensive house. And a little more than ten years ago, six to eight times your gross was considered prudence.
Compensation is a representation of bargaining power. If anything, compensation for labor has an inverse relationship with actual value. Teachers get paid little despite educating future generations, sanitation workers contribute more to the public health than doctors but make peanuts, and stay-at-home parents nurture children and are paid nothing at all. Bargaining power is not value of labor.

We are paid what can demand and not a penny more irrespective of our labor's actual value.
There is a reason why you're supposed to run an odd number of nodes so that you will hopefully have a majority in case of a failure.
Stealth Mode. That's a great way of referring to airplane mode!
you've cleverly argued in a way to make hidden the major point i wanted to make - which is that insurance companies making a profit is a loss to the payer. I'm purely talking about the insurance system, and not the medical provider system (hospitals/doctors etc).

> The large majority of the money isn't going to the insurance company, it's going to healthcare providers.

Any money going into insurance as profit is a loss to the payer - insurance doesn't _provide_ value. If the gov't is the one "doing the insurance" as you say, then any profit from that operation will count as a lowered cost of providing medical treatment.

> allows people to make risky/unhealthy choices and socialize the costs of those choices, and therefore why high deductible insurance is more efficient by introducing at least some price sensitivity.

so therefore, insurance companies will pick out the least risky people, least unhealthy, and not allow the sick into their programs. That is exactly what you see today, because those more ill people are what saps the profits.

The price sensitivity is at the wrong end - it should be at the medical provider end, not at the insurance end. Why do you think the cost for treatment is low when you're covered under medicare (for low income people)? It's because medicare is such a large buyer that hospitals are able to sell their services at that low a price.

> This is equivalent to legislating prices. They can already do this regardless, but it's a bad idea for the same reason price controls in general are

no it's not price control. It's buying power, from a single entity that is not profit-driven. The market for medical treatment is unchanged under my model. Insurance companies currently all own their own little monopoly in their region/network, and hence, there's no competition for pricing the medical treatment today. You are forced into the insurance's monopoly (or face the higher ticket price hospitals charge because they can).

> why wouldn't the insurance companies be doing it too?
> ... if the government really is so much more efficient then they should easily be able to out-compete the insurance companies

Insurance companies provide efficiency in operation vs gov't perhaps - i don't know. But what efficiency they provide is taken out as profit instead of being passed on to customers. And insurance company's efficiency is not in lowering the cost of medical care - it's in finding customers that don't cost them more than premiums they charge. They are more incentivized to keep medical costs high to force people onto insurance plans (that they negotiate using their purchasing power)!

There is no real place in the world for a profit-making medical insurance company imho. Or, if there is, they will be _in addition_ to a tax-payer funded universal healthcare system, and they can provide non-medically necessary operations that are not covered by the universal system.
This keeps getting brought up because there was one anecdote in the Verge story about a student who renamed the file on their computer. (Which still shouldn't have caused the test to keel over, but it's at least slightly more understandable.)

However, there were many other reports of students going the more "normal" route of just uploading through their iPhones, which caused the website to outright hang.
The PC in the comment was referring to “personal computer” in the generic sense.

It is interesting now to see Microsoft going back to its roots as a provider of developer tools for multiple platforms.
I find the combination of 1) C++, 2) a goal of "Code that is simple and easy to read, understand, and write", and 3) a non-goal of backwards compatibility, to be strange.

The reason C++ is the federal tax code of programming languages is that it is the accumulation of decades of ideas that seemed good at the time--some even were--where each better way to program ended up as the lifeblood of some special interest group that can never be removed, only piled on top of.

By subsetting C++, you can customize it into almost anything you want with just a few exceptions. You can't meaningfully simplify it in a backwards compatible way without breaking most subsets.

So these people are saying it should be simplified in a non-BC way, the only real way to do it, that preserves their own favored subset.

That's what most of us call a new programming language. Trying to turn C++ into !C++ guarantees they'll be fighting over this for years. With the resources Google has, I don't understand why they don't just throw off all C++-based constraints and use those years to create exactly what they need. With half the PL PhDs on the planet in their employ, you'd think somebody would be available. (Maybe even enough for multiple, parallel teams req'd to share ideas with each other.) It would take a few years to mature enough to rely on, but they'd be spending those years in the C++ cmte debates anyway. A new language called "non-BC C++" will need new tools, new libs, etc., anyway, and they'll have the current C++ to keep using until their alternative is ready.

Why not just create that simple, easy, customized-for-server apps language from scratch instead of making it by breaking C++?
There's no reason we can't implement UBI asynchronously

For what it's worth, of all of these solutions, UBI is the one that requires the least overhead, by far. Housing requires actually building houses. Education means making broad structural changes to many different levels of the whole system

UBI, as it has been mainstreamed, is literally just playing a trick within the money/accounting/tax system to lift people out of poverty. This will have a positive spill-over effect into other stuff
I have taken both IQ and SAT tests, and the sorts of questions are very similar. I am doubtful there is no significant correlation.

The GRE, on the other hand, is more busywork and knowledge based than IQ insight based, in my experience.