skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "misconception" -- or rather, its labeling as such -- annoys me to no end:

>Shaving does not cause terminal hair to grow back thicker (more dense) or darker. This belief is due to hair that has never been cut having a tapered end, whereas after cutting the edge is blunt and therefore thicker than the tapered ends; the cut hair appears to be thicker and feels coarser due to the sharper, unworn edges. The shorter hairs being less flexible than longer hairs also contributes to this effect.

So ... shaving an area of hair for the first time doesn't make it come back thicker, darker, and fuller.

It just looks like it's coming back thicker, darker, and fuller.

When the thing that everyone cares about in this context is it looking like it's thicker, darker, and fuller.

Really stretches the definition of "misconception" to the breaking point. I mean, when you make the exact same predictions over observables that someone without the "misconception" would make ...
Sony's only interest is to do a single deployment, using a customized OS and firmware, and then get as many articles out of the project as possible.

They have zero incentive to subsidize supercomputers. They're in the business of trading hardware for royalty, store, and subscription payments.
> I bought a refurbished mid-2015 model which I love. From a utility perspective, it’s the best laptop they’ve ever made, with a bunch of stuff that you’d reasonably expect to find on a "pro" Apple laptop: namely, 8 ports/slots

Only two of which are actual USB ports.

I'd still have to carry around a hub to use it with my mobile music production setup.
I, a user, am extremely appreciative of Apple's walled garden. I've never once had to worry that the app I'm downloading is crammed full of malware because I trust that Apple's processes are robust and will work well in 99.999% of all circumstances.
It isn't an analogy. Plants are literal solar systems. The only reasons they can't be plugged into the grid is they deal with energy chemically instead of electrically.

It doesn't require that much imagination to say that solar cells might one day be work in an extremely similar fashion to plants. Not likely, but not an outrageous thought.

Nature has produced a cheaper, more ubiquitous and more self-replicating solar system using efficiencies in the 5% range with a theoretical cap of 11%. That suggests we don't need 25% efficiency to accomplish amazing things. It isn't a critical metric.
I don’t give a fuck what they are discussing. Get rid of the bots.
>it's hard to see where they would fit into a compute pipeline given that you need to transfer the data to the FPGA, perform your computation/processing, and then transfer the data back.

I see them going mainstream when brain computer interfaces go mainstream (prob a long way away) since a lot of it (in my experience working in a couple of labs and some related hardware) depends on processing a lot of the data from the sensors, of which most is thrown away due to the sheer volume, and transferring it back and being able to update the filtration matrices easily tailored to sampled data.
Previous answer:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270816
Every major Corp is getting intel. This has always been the case and will always be the case.
Mine is already about to be a Linux workstation since, in addition to all the developer hostility the past few years, Catalina essentially killed off Mac gaming (something like 75% of Mac games are 32 bit? or something?). Prior to that it was merely a joke, but it was nice to have an occasional game to play. Now? Nope, Apple Store and recently updated game code or GTFO
can we use this with PHP? And how big can the data get before moving to MySql?
For days, because the "I" had no serifs on my phone, I thought this was about whatever Weird Al is up to.
Zerotier.com did this years ago and it works great.
Because small trucks require more fuel- and emissions-efficient engines than larger ones.
But it is incredibly unlikely that web uploads are piped directly into custom software rather than just being written as files which are processed later. That would be an extreme amount of extra work for no benefit at all.
Right...So what do you call Trump want trying to prevent immigrants to sponsor their parents to the US? Meaning if your wife wants wants to take care of her parents in the USA, she cannot? Is that appealing for immigrants?

What do you call the Trump administration literally stopping the issuing of green cards because it "helps contain the spread of COVID-19".

You really think limiting the legal immigration process is not full blown anti-immigration?
No data link.

There is an “interplanetary Internet”, look into it.
that's a fair criticism, however it's not a given that any product category will end up with the same growth curve of PCs, the web, cloud, and mobile.

thinking back on the PC, Web, cloud, and mobile growth periods, each came with a transformative change in the capabilities, cost, and availability of computing power. We're only seeing two of these aspects in AI today - with the cost side heading in the wrong direction.
> A lot of mobile game developers who use Unity aren't small at all. They are huge companies with lots of experienced engineers. The baby devs don't generate the $ for Unity.

Even if they are large companies, the teams are still small and the point of Unity is simplicity.

Unity wants to be AAA for console/desktop but mobile is their bread and butter as you say. Companies and indies chose it for simplicity and there are lots of Unity developers. They are messing up the simplicity angle and going after new markets but causing pain for their existing customers. I get they want to grow and sell more licenses, but I'd argue most of their paying customers are indies, smaller mobile studios and larger mobile studios the have many small game teams.

Unity also make lots of money from the asset store. All these constant breaking changes also break many assets.

Unity just need a more consistent surface level API/signature/facade, and move the hard stuff down below that for most cases with advanced modes accessible with more setup/work. Their changes now are making people that don't need AAA level output, more cartoony mobile games, do unnecessary work losing out on their selling point of simplicity.
How to use Axios for making API calls?
These YouTube takedowns are typically not copyright claims. The DMCA process does have more rigor. YouTube has a voluntary process that doesn’t require any of that rigor.

YouTube’s company policy is essentially “ask us and we’ll take it down”, and has nothing to do with what the law requires.
> the standard Mac laptop

There is nothing standard about a Mac laptop, both technically and in market share.
Beekeeper Studio 1.4 – SSH Tunnels, SQL Server, and Clicking
I just argued that point.

When developing inside docker, you are fooled into thinking that various things about your environment are constants. When it comes time to update your base image, all these constants change, and your application breaks.
> Disclaimer: This advice probably only applies to consumer products (ones where the purchaser is also the user -- this includes some business products). For markets that have purchasing processes with long lists of feature requirements, you should probably just crank out as many features as possible and not waste time on simplicity or usability.

I hate it because it's true.
This is a problem with almost all open source software: for all the talk of doing one thing and doing it well, they almost all end up being kitchen sinks in the end. The only major success story I can think of was when Mozilla was forked and trimmed down to Firefox. Hopefully the same thing will happen to Firefox, and we can get a browsing experience where the focus is the average user experience, with easy ways to change it into an expert user interface. And even more hopefully something similar happens to every desktop manager, email client and shell tool out there. Make things extensible, then remove the cruft. Continue until the core functionality is all that remains.
Closeable offices also work well with Apple’s culture of secrecy. You might not be allowed to know about the project the guy in the next room over is working on.
Pretty much how I feel, except I have less sadness and more anger. I haven’t bought a Mac laptop since 2015, and I bought 4 PC ones to test my migration path to Linux, even if it proceeds glacially due to having other things to do, and in any case 15 years of workflow takes a while to switch.
I'm not going to argue over semantics. I am bullish on the web as a secure application platform for HN readers, and I am bullish on the web as a secure application platform for everyday users.

Of the current platforms available today for ordinary, nontechnical users, the web is currently in the best position on both security and privacy, and it's currently making the best progress in both of those areas as well.

Firefox is pulling up features from Tor, and while right now they're only available to advanced users, more of them will be enabled by default in the future. We've already seen movement from 'advanced' features to 'everyday' features with Firefox starting to inline more of its tracker blocking. Containers are another strong concept that I suspect will get more powerful and more accessible over time. There's some concern over new features (particularly web USB and file access), but we're also seeing a lot of holes get closed around core browser concepts. The changes Chrome is making around SameSite cookies are huge, and both technical and novice users will get them for free without requiring any training or technical knowledge at all.

On the extension front, uBlock Origin isn't as powerful as uMatrix, but it's wildly simple to use; every single computer I set up has it installed, even when I'm setting up computers for kids. That alone is a substantial security and privacy gain over other platforms -- I can't block ads and phishing attacks within my niece's smartphone games, but I can block ads when they're watching Youtube videos. And uBlock Origin is simple enough to install that average users can do so. At this point, there's practically no reason for anyone, anywhere not to be running an adblocker. And when you think about that, it's kind of crazy that in maybe 5 or 6 clicks from a bare-bones browser, any nontechnical user can get better adblocking on the web today than is even possible for an advanced user to set up on a modern smartphone.

So yeah, I'm bullish on the web.

I genuinely don't understand what's controversial about this. Yes, average users probably can't specifically use uMatrix without training. But the web is still the best option available today for those people, even if the only thing they ever do is install uBlock Origin. I'm still advising everyone I know (regardless of their technical know-how) to use apps like Facebook and Twitter inside a browser instead of installing native clients on their phones/tablets/PCs.

Is there another application platform you think is making better progress in this area? What about the web makes you think I shouldn't be bullish about it?
The current climate we are in wants reduced legal immigration as well. Easy examples (and I don't even follow immigration news) are

1) Wanting to not allow immigrants to sponsor their parents anymore
2) Not issuing green cards to reduce the spread of corona virus. You know what actually reduces spread of corona virus? wearing masks, which Trump isn't in support of.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/04/23/new-t...
... and alot more communication needs, testing needs and maintenance. It also pulls the company in many directions if there is no clear engineering/product lead at the top and it is all management/business/finance pushing feature based development which gets them into version 2 syndrome. [1]

> The second-system effect (also known as second-system syndrome) is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by over-engineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.

If the second-system effect doesn't describe Unity I don't know what does.

Get back to simplicity Unity, let the engineers/product people have power to set this back on course. Stop catering to big developers, they make their own engine for this reason, consistency and simplicity of their own process. Dogfood Unity with an actual game, the problems will be clear today. If you aren't doing that, listen to people like Garry who are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
If I may ask, why do you still persist with apple products then? Sounds like masochism from here...
While it is related to common uses of the word "even", the construction would usually be thought of as "not even", a single unit in two words. Other languages express "even" and "not even" differently from each other.
Wow that was quite a ride!

> He still has balance and coordination problems on land, but does not experience these underwater. He continues to deep free-dive.

It's like the sea claimed him.
I mean, modern Google was half-built on the back of the Gmail web app...
I don't understand, 11:00am EST is 3pm UTC? Isn't it correct?
https://youtu.be/3Qi3tT2Xulk
This is famous cut from the famous Polish comedy from 1981. The man is trying to send a telegram to London. (Londyn in Polish.) The lady says: "There is no such a city like London. There is Lądek. Lądek-Zdrój (popular spa in Poland)."
A lot of effort goes into making sure allocations are avoided though. You also have DOT's High Performance C# which is a blazing fast subset of C# (Burst Compiler). I like the idea of using a language for everything, then restrict to a subset where performance is critical. You don't have that wall between scripts and (C++) engine code. And as mentioned above, less glue code is appreciated.
Yeah, I like to think of that as the "Salesforce clause." Salesforce is a very powerful system, and can be bent to do just about anything. But, actual users frequently hate it, and customization is involved enough that you need someone who's an expert in doing it.

I consider myself lucky that I don't have to use very much software at work that was chosen for me by a CTO, or, worse yet, a CFO, or other executive.
But the complaint was about lifetimes. You seem to want copies (if I understood your post correctly).
Best part is the Oxford devices are _actually affordable_. Illumina has had such a stranglehold on the market - devices start at around 35k and go up into “this is a house now” territory. Meanwhile the Flongle [0] is $99 and the main Oxford device can be had for $1k.

[0] https://store.nanoporetech.com/us/flowcells/flongle-flow-cel...
Even better, try setting the dead zones on an XInput game pad. Off the top of my head, it goes something like:
“Settings” > “Bluetooth and other devices” > “Printers and other devices“ > Right click your game pad > “Gamepad Settings” > select your gamepad > “Ok” > “Deadzones”
Was it your performance?
Punchfork
btw since two weeks ago the official Oculus Quest store is not sold out anymore (although it might be sold out again, haven't checked since it got back in store)
The general trend toward returning computing to the edge, which is just starting and has been accelerated due to COVID forcing BeyondCorp type practices on us.

Cognitive radio, ultra wide spread spectrum, and other radio tech that promises great range and license free or minimal licensing operation due to lack of interference with other stuff.

Rust is the first serious C/C++ replacement contender IMHO.

RISC-V and other commodity open source silicon.

Cheaper faster ASIC production making custom silicon with 100X+ performance gains feasible for more problems.

Zero knowledge proofs, homomorphic crypto, etc.
If you're in a toxic team, maybe. I have found it to be the minimal useful script for daily updates because it 1) quickly updates the team on changes, 2) quickly heads off duplicated work and misunderstandings, and 3) provides a fast channel to get someone help.
Really, really good read. Natures way of also looking into wacky solutions to problems. She does not put all her eggs in one basket.
Neural Guided Constraint Logic Programming for Program Synthesis
Hertz files for bankruptcy protection
Constantly cracking down on videos that slightly mentions a certain topic goes way too far. Do we really want GFW style censoring to maintain an artificial utopia where harmful content™️ won't exist?
> Terrible performance. One of my engineers recently thought that 150ms was terrific for a HTTP request. Break out of the container and it was <10ms. YMMV.

If you're not using Linux (presumably you're using MacOS), your "containers" are actually VMs so it's unsurprising that the performance suffers somewhat (not to mention that file accesses are especially slow with the Docker-on-Linux setup). The performance impact of being inside a container on Linux is as close to zero as you can get.
Holly shit, this is a friend of mine! Small world.
Well, for me, it was finance where you know each and everyone of your clients by name because each of them is paying millions of dollars a year for your product. The company had around 50 employees and a 200m valuation.
Or who eat meat "too often".
He can be pardoned right now without ever being put on trial. GP didn’t say anything about setting precedent.

Subjecting himself to the risks of trial would be insane, considering the tremendous amount of illegal things that were done (and continue to be done) to Assange.
Aww, that was an unfortunate side effect of me removing their clickbait “Canada v USA” that it had...
Very true. Microsoft Word is a great example of this. It has a ton of features. Nobody uses them all. Everybody uses a small fraction of them. The problem is that my useful subset is probably not the same as your useful subset.

And, this is about a piece of software that's fundamentally just about producing documents for people to read. You know, text, and the occasional picture or graph. Excel is worse: never become known as the person who "knows Excel" in the office, unless you want people bugging you forever about it.

Why do so few software projects ever reach a state that's considered "finished," anyway?
Curious how you’re getting $2m? Are you the Enterprise plan?
Right, because most of Apple sells come from the Enterprise. Apple has a long history of going out of its way to support big enterprise to convince them to buy Macs.
Pretty confused by what you mean here. Could you give examples of how loners decisively determine who wins the game? Or what the game even is?
Thank you! This is encouraging. My background is mostly in Python programming and SQL. But in an alternate universe, I wish I am a network ninja like you guys and I will definitely check out Google TSE jobs when I can look for new jobs (currently hoping to get my green card done). If there's a book or two that is the most useful for you to be an efficient TSE, please feel free to share. Have a restful weekend!
I looked it up and this thing is actually for the thermometer, not the grill.

Points kinda the same tho right? Power strip is too early / dumb to modify a near-continuous variable on the device
How MathsGee Is Supporting Learners During Covid-19 Lockdown
It's back! From the About page:

Company History

- 2010 Originally founded

- 2012 Grew to 1M users

- 2013 Acquired by Pinterest — formed recipe pins [0]

- 2020 Rebuilt from the ground up — relaunched as an independent company

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002932
I removed the clickbait in the title on purpose!

> Canada v US: Loon stabs eagle through heart

Admittedly it was decently done, but I felt it violates the clickbait rules.
Don't forget some sound dampeners (felt pads, staircase / waves foam textures, etc). Hard, unobstucted, parallel walls are going to resonate quite noticeably and unpleasantly every time you speak.
Institute for Propaganda Analysis (1937)
It’s not exactly mobile friendly. You should direct mobile users to use this on their desktop with some kind of alert.
Thank you for the reply! My background is mostly in Python programming and SQL. But in an alternate universe, I wish I am a network ninja like you. If there's a book or two that is the most useful for you to be an efficient TSE, please feel free to share. Have a restful weekend!
Chronic anxiety is a vicious cycle of anxiety-inducing thoughts leading to physical symptoms leading to more anxiety-inducing thoughts. The most recommended solution is to chronic anxiety is to always just refocus on the task you're currently doing and continue on. You'll quickly forget about paying attention to your breathing and return to normal breathing.

Do NOT do breathing exercises to curb anxiety, because that will just reinforce the pathways in your brain and your anxiety will keep recurring.

If you're noticing you're mind is dwelling on anxiety-inducing thoughts you need to refocus on your current task.

Just keep doing that whenever symptoms popup.

The symptoms will popup less and less frequently, and you'll have developed such strong coping mechanisms that you automatically handle the issue.

This is approach is called "cognitive behavioral therapy" or CBT, and is an evidence-based approach used widely. You can consult a therapist and get taught CBT skills by a professional. (That's what I did)

In addition to learning CBT techniques, and get regular exercise and enough sleep. I recommend you cut out all caffeine until you have developed strong CBT skills. Of course, rule out any underlying medical issues and work on any medical conditions (obesity, bad posture).

Once you're comfortable you have anxiety under control you can slowly re-introduce caffeine.

Source: I used to have severe and debilitating chronic hyperventilation and anxiety, but sought help from a CBT therapist a few years ago. Now when I am living my life and notice I've started hyperventilating (or dwelling on an anxious thought), I can immediately stop it by refocusing. It's changed my life and I highly recommend learning the CBT techniques.

I highly recommend a few sessions with a CBT therapist. If you're not in a position to do that you might be able to learn about CBT techniques from elsewhere, such as YouTube.
Thanks! I'm definitely going to keep this under my pillow.
Snapcast seems to also have integrations with Airplay and Home Assistant. This post is also quite nice, I've saved it to use as reference for whenever I get around to setting up Snapcast.
There's a comment from the article's author here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14327802

The data is thought to be pretty accurate (±5M years) and it's from radiometric dating of the oil sands.
If you include the hit to your professional reputation from actually plagiarizing a news site for revenue and getting blacklisted from the industry, then what did it cost? Everything.
LG Gram 17.

20% better single-thread performance than the MBP16 at half the price, and much lighter to boot.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/2261388?baselin...

Sure, the keyboard is not as good as a Thinkpad, but still way better than the disgrace in the 16” MBP (just because it’s not an abomination like the butterfly keyboard doesn’t mean it is any good, anyone who says otherwise is suffering from Stockholm syndrome).
CBDC's would only make it harder to buy and sell BTC for CBDC. With BTC already illiquid, I don't think it's going to benefit from that.

I don't understand what are these people buying BTC trying to achieve. It's a totally pointless currency that one can't even own (you own just the private keys, until someone obtains a copy), it has no use cases and almost no one accepts it.
If YouTube actually followed the law instead of making up their own bullshit system those people could be sued for damages in court for filing false take down notices!
I don't want to send over the Internet a record of every program I run. Is there a way to opt-out completely?
The way to avoid this behavior is to not buy a machine from a company that actively hates it's users.