skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just a few humans were present to deal with a handful of tasks -- two to feed bare motherboards to the line, and two to package the finished consoles.

Maybe I'm just ignorant, but, especially the first task, seems rather trivial compared to what they achieved with their robots? Even the second one, If I remember correctly Amazon does/did this manually because every single package is different and no robot flexible enough, but I assume in Sonys case packages are all exactly the same. Doesn't sound a whole lot harder than plugging in the cables.

So why wouldn't they automatize those steps as well?
PlayStations are manufactured by different companies.

Some are made by Sony EMCS, some by Foxconn and so on. Whether the PlayStation company let's them manufacture by one of Sony's own OEMs or a third party company is usually a matter of which OEM has the best offer.

Sony normally uses their own OEMs for the first batches, for low-volume products and for domestic products.
Argentina is not a dictatorship atm. You are glad that a super power became more powerful here.
Gone Are the Days of Vertically Sliced Stories
That was awesome! I really want to make something like this now. I love how the samples are queued and played in time with the tempo.
Agreed. I was curious enough to run the model myself so I used a tool to extract the data. The slope estimate (b=17.24) is not significantly different from zero, p=.437.

The data are here:
https://pastebin.com/HhWTKZRb
In a similar vein:

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

I'm not convinced all of these are spurious.
Yes, it’s related to all those things including the never-talked-about problem that the lockdown is ineffective at suppressing the inevitable spread of corona
The phrase "water scarce" still seems odd to me. Would you say the US is water scarce? Your link describes aspects of the "water crisis" that include contaminated water, and lack of collection of the water that is available.

To me, saying that it is a "political/corruption crisis" is equivalent to saying that water isn't really scarce.
Sounds like a multi-level marketing scheme for content
Did he say you couldn’t install them or that they wouldn’t be “supported”? Those are two different things.
I think I have to disagree with Naur on this, in that people using the Scientific Method don't ship their theories, but we do.

As a scientist who has just succeeded in testing a hypothesis, I now need to go back and document a simplified series of steps that should lead any independent party to the same phenomenon. Once we are on the same page, they can confirm or refute my theory based on their own perspectives on the problem space.

During that process I may discover that I based half of my experiment on another hypothesis that I never tested, or was plain wrong. Now I've discovered my 'load bearing' assumptions. I may discover something even more interesting there, or I may slink away having never told anybody about my mistake.

Essentially, scientists still 'build one to throw away'. We haven't in ages. And my read on Brook's insistence that we build one to throw away is that it was aspirational and not descriptive. And notably, he apparently recants in the 20th anniversary edition (which is itself 25 years old now):

> "This I now perceived to be wrong, not because it is too radical, but because it is too simplistic. The biggest mistake in the 'Build one to throw away' concept is that it implicitly assumes the classical sequential or waterfall model of software construction."

So we are very much at odds with the scientific method. And we have the benefit of hindsight. We have seen the horrors that can occur when you take the word Theory out of context and try to apply it to non-scientific theories. We should learn from the mistakes of others and summarily reject any plan where we do it too.

In other words: next metaphor, please, and with all due haste.
If the level of automation is sufficiently cost effective perhaps they’ll have fewer revisions on this one.
I would be prepared to be underwhelmed at using a rpi as a desktop. Graphics drivers still need work.

This is where I think Apple can do it right. They can tune drivers and fully optimize system performance, since they basically own the whole stack, and won't be stuck with proprietary broken blobs or reverse engineering a 3rd party design.
Yes! This is so pertinent/understated.

Do you know of anything that elucidates the oversimplifications of dopamine popscience?

Edit: This does a good job:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/03/dopamine-the...
History of Berkshire Hathaway
What are you putting in your container? A trivial container with non-bloated userspace should not take nearly that much memory.
So is this one of the emerging multi billion dollar companies built on the new gene editing tools?
There doesn't seem to be a way to affect the pitch, so figuring out how to play anything in particular is going to be tough.
Almost 20 years ago i have internet, but didn't buy router. And found floppyfw:
https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/

Absolutely brilliant distribution that works perfect. And fit on one floppy - kernel and userspace.
That's because GMO-free and the natural fallacy are marketing ploys.
Agreed. I think gift cards are a really thoughtless gift.
How to obfuscate your email in Hugo
Savannah might be awful, but there are more sensible options. There actually is a good discussion on the GNU website [1]. Savannah gets an A for ethical concerns (which to be fair is what's important to GNU, rather than usability); GitHub gets an F (fully closed source and now controlled by Microsoft...);

However, in the middle there is GitLab, with a respectable C. In my experience, it's usable and has all the important features that Github also has. And it's much better from ethical standpoints! I can't imagine any point of view from where Github is more acceptable than Gitlab.

1: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
I don't think that the average of an empty list being zero is semantically correct, but I can accept that it may not be so bad in practice (e.g. if it shows up like that in a UI and you display the number of elements anyway).

But I still think in other situations I'd want to be yelled at for trying to divide by zero. E.g. imagine I'm trying to compute the slope of a secant between two points. If both points are the same, I'd like the compiler to yell at me (the problem either makes no sense here, indicating a problem somewhere else in my code, or that I should instead compute the derivative) - in most cases, 0 would be the wrong answer. I think the issue here is that with division by zero you lose continuity (unless you use +Inf) which can contradict intuition.

I'm not saying it doesn't work for Pony, maybe it does, but I don't think I would feel comfortable with that behaviour.

Silent wrapping around on overflow is arguably even worse, that I could definitely see leading to logic errors.
To add to this, while you might argue that average([]) is undefined, it is no less defined than 0^0... that is, you can choose to define it by convention. For various reasons, most mathematicians have agreed that 0^0=1. This is not some obvious mathematical fact, but a choice of convention. For the same reason, we can choose that average([]) is 0.
Overfitting is insidious. These graphics would convince a lot of people who'd otherwise catch the error in the article without needing it to be explained to them. At that point it's not enough to eyeball the line of best fit, you have to sanity check the explanatory power and do cross validation...
Could someone link to original article? Didn’t see in post. Notice that they don’t cite what the authors’ computed R^2 was but conjectured it was low (and I agree that it is likely low). Thus, doesn’t appear to be a case of blind p-hacking off the bat.

Could just be really bad. However could be that:

- The conclusion of the paper was that no relationship exists.

- Later specifications include covariates. For example, including travel flows here could help to disentangle cultural mores regarding drinking and probability that ANY virus was transmitted to place.

- some sort of weighting was done. Although in that case I would expect to see a steeper slope to account for New York. Usual practice here would be to display the univariate relationship with circles that are sized to match weights.

- Graphs like this can play tricks on your eyes. There might be a lot of dots clustered along the fit line that are overlapping etc.
This community is so weird/random
The link you added says "DU munitions are nonetheless legal under international humanitarian law." This is in contrast to your previous opinion that their use is "in contravention of international law."

Thanks for your time. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Not necessarily. All components can be made by Japanese companies. Whether Sony uses a Japanese supplier or a company from the other countries you mentioned is a matter of the production volume and which supplier makes the best offer.
> Herd immunity would require that over half of the population get the disease.

Doesn't this also assume that those people remain inoculated to further viral infections after being infected the first time? From my limited understanding, that is not a given for SARS-CoV-2.
You could also argue that 0^0=1 is also not semantically correct, but it is the most widespread convention among mathematicians.
Well, Japanese love CDs. If I'm not mistaken, Japan is the place where collecting music CDs and such still is very much a thing. I think it's pretty nice, really.
Did you try escalating and saying you will do a chargeback?
And I'll tell you one more thing. Everyone one of us is so quick to defend never judging a book by its cover. Yet we judge it by the words it contains? Why don't we look past the words as well in the same fashion?

There's this myth that brilliant people are supposed to be anti social, but only to a point? Look how antisocial I am, at least on the surface.

I'm actually using this forum as a testing ground for my fevered ideations. Any substantive meaning you may extract is all in your own mind.
I used to live in vegas, when did yucca mountain get NIMBY'ed?

>The project was approved in 2002 by the 107th United States Congress, but federal funding for the site ended in 2011 under the Obama Administration via amendment to the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, passed on April 14, 2011
It’s more like art than an engineering accomplishment
Gives a more corporate/big company vibe to me. The background rainbow thing is also distracting, and makes the title and nav hard to read at times. Also is the Stripe blue gone?
I don't necessarily mean the researchers themselves.

> They allow that it could be nutrition, toxin exposure, cultural, or any number of other factors.

Someone, just weeks ago, here on HN cited Rushton at me to point out that it really was genetic factors. Which is not clear to anyone except maybe Rushton.
> H.264 was supported everywhere

this. our TV (a few years old, "smart") can play videos from a network drive, but doesn't support H.265. reencoding a season's worth of episodes to H.264 takes a while...
Lovely! I wish there were more of them.

I guess only by adding 'rarity' to my list of costs would make it wholly correct.
Don't mind paying but would like to know that they are not going to skew the results based on politics or at least give an option to opt out of them deciding for me what is fake news and what is acceptable content and all those things. Basically a big check box saying "I am not a lefty, bring it on". Or maybe even a scale where you can play with it yourself and see what kind of results suits you the best, if you want the news coming more from the Guardian or Breitbart, it should be up to the user.
It’s not for everyone, but as an example, DaisyDisk was the number one app in the Mac App Store last year under the utilities category. There is a demand for this kind of thing—not clear whether there is for my particular implementation of course ;)
He owns both extensive utility operations and extensive transportation operations. Might as well own some natural gas assets too, if it can be acquired at the right price.
> That would be explicitly promoting an ideology through

> commercial action, which is pretty much the opposite of

> what I see the OP advocating for.

Exactly. There is a major difference between neutrality and support.

But let's re-imagine this. The person walks into the hardware store and expresses aloud "I plan to use this for dubious purposes". Then this person has expressed illegal intent and the store owner should inform the authorities, if nothing else for their own safety.

> Who is this "we"?

Somebody who believes they are in the category of being a "good" person. Almost everybody believes they are in this group, not matter what "side" they are on.
A couple of days ago, I went looking for when this code was removed. It was removed in 2003: https://lwn.net/Articles/21512/
I don't know if it is just cliche, but I have heard that Japanese people have a very different relationship to robots/automatization than western countries.

Were we immediatly think Skynet, they see something that helps them.
I think he meant waste as in Radioactive waste.
You're probably being killed (in part) by the default stack sizes, which is much larger on x86_64.
It wouldn't just be nice - it'd be smart. We could probably have more immigrant-owned business and immigrant-developed inventions of we made it easy for foreign born US graduates to stay. Both of which should add jobs to the economy and make the US more economically competitive.
I once worked as a software engineer at a YC startup which claimed to provide some kind of an “enhanced credit report” for landlords to check their prospective tenants. Millions of people had used their software. When I checked their codebase I found out that they literally just pulled an existing Equifax report, repackaged it in a slightly different format, and made up some completely bullshit numbers out of thin air (some were literally random numbers that could not be reproduced even with the same inputs). This startup received several rounds of funding in the millions of $ and had over a dozen software engineers.
> White space significant, good luck minifying it.

Brython supports precompilation to JS, which is obviously minifiable.

> on top of that you are running Python interpreter in the JS VM.

No, you aren't. Brython is not a Python interpreter, but a compiler to JS. There are optimization issues from the need to maintain Python semantics interfering with optimizing the JS, but that's not the same as running a Python interpreter.
People want HDR. hard to make a brighter display by removing more light.
Sony uses multiple OEMs, including Sony EMCS in Japan and Foxconn in China.

Usually, the first batches of a Sony product are made in Japan or the ones sold domestically.

If you buy an early PlayStation 1, 2, 3 or 4 in Japan, they're usually all Made in Japan.
> I think many folks here didn't actually read the article

On Hacker News? Not likely. Everyone's a well informed 10xer who doesn't just go shooting his mouth off with the first thought that pops into his mind.
"This government has a better chance of building a more effective British state than any government in decades".

They saved the biggest joke for the end, this Government makes Theresa may look "strong and stable".
EllisX builds platform that connects Startups with Media and Events in 2-clicks
While in I high school, I always held the impression that college would be full of immensely enriching educational experiences. Courses, primarily those by world renown universities, would be so transformative that they would compensate for the substandard education system of the United States. However, after living with students at various universities and eventually attending an Ivy League University, I found that many of the courses were quite comparable to any simple online course I found on the topic, no matter if it was being taught by another top 50 university, top 100, or random high school teacher. Many Ivy League students worked incredibly hard to attend their respective universities, however, like any other school, there are many that exist far from that stereotypical characterization. Likewise, I know many brilliant people who attended lesser known universities of far less prestige. Harvard students are probably better than average students but definitely not special enough to think they have nothing more to learn, no one is. I would highly encourage everyone to keep an open mind and look for what others can teach you.
That doesn't seem likely, since stacks are and have always been demand-paged on Linux. If you don't use more than 4K, your stacks will be 4K for ever.
They don't dump genetically modified anything anywhere. Inside a lab, they produce chemicals using genetically modified enzymes instead of traditional methods of chemistry.
What about the students that can't go to class because they're with family or friends that are at risk? What about the immigrants who came here to get an education that are now being kicked out because of the administration's cruelty? Why are you encouraging something that would exacerbate the spread of the coronavirus and celebrating forcing people to travel back home and potentially spread the virus cross country?

Come on. This is a ridiculous thing to defend.
The PS4 is specifically not PC-compatible. It's a different x86-subarchitecture.
Haven’t gotten to that part yet! Maybe I will on my next walk. But I would guess that he was talking about Linux virtualization being good enough that you wouldn’t need to do this and/or no Bootcamp support?
Why you should share your salary
In the US, two weeks of vacation is pretty standard so a prospective employee would either have to a) forfeit all of their vacation for the year or b) quit their previous job first and risk having no job at all.
I think you're confusing radicalism with extremism or aggressiveness.

* Radicalism - from the Latin "radix" - means focusing on (what you consider to be) the root of an issue, striving for fundamental change of the way things are.

Also - I couldn't agree more about "who cares if someone on the Internet is wrong" - but I think the conclusion is that you care when it's in physical real life. On the other hand, talking to people you don't know is how you get to know new people, so that part might need some more nuance.
Their product sounds like pure hydrogen peroxide, not the actual yeast.

The yeast are in chemical reactors. The company harvests the peroxide from the reactors and sells it as a substitute to petroleum-produced peroxide.
Text, images, videos up to and including the occasional rare film, lots of PDFs (usually small), sometimes a PowerPoint or an Excel spreadsheet, used to also do source code and builds and stuff before GitHub... and if I had faith in them being more useful, as opposed to just backed up, I'd probably dump a whole bunch more in my semi-organized DropBox folder.

So for my use-case the Organizer App would have to be able to deal with lots and lots of data of various types, occasionally including multi-gig files like the rough cut of a film, and also know when I "mv this ~/Organizer/that/" -- a tall order, I know. But with storage so cheap these days, I still dream of that.
Ultrasound tweezers could help remove kidney stones without surgery
It's the hacker news "culture". As much as this site loves to hate on reddit (and I don't disagree with reddit hate), this community has its own cringe and pretentiousness which can be seen in silly articles like this reaching the front page.

Edit for the downvoters: what does this article have to with technology besides the fact that some self proclaimed hacker thinks this article is interesting? This isn't hacker news, this is an attempt at hacker "community" and all the off topic articles are so random it makes me cringe and not visit this site anymore. This site comes off as a lifestyle magazine anymore.
I think I remember a WWDC talk mentioning that it would be possible via a revamped csrutil from recovery.

Edit: this one, about 19 minutes in: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10686/
A better question is where do you draw the line in terms of companies supplying actors that are directly contributing to human suffering? We (America, but others as well) cut trade and enact sanctions exactly for that reason, all the time. This idea that capitalism should be entirely apolitical is farce, people only want it to be apolitical as far as they are personally comfortable.

they're building a generic tool and simply can't be responsible for how others use it

AutoDesk is undoubtedly aware of its sales with a massive coal plant, unless they are a horribly run and incredibly lucky company. Beyond that, it seems like AutoDesk has gone as far as promoting their involvement in developing the excavators, no?

Would you sell hammers to a sweat shop?
This is a very naive view.

A prestigious school like Harvard has all the best professors, all the best resources (libraries, computer labs, machine shops, laboratories), and all the best opportunities (more research positions, more interesting academic work to be done), etc. A small school just can't afford all that stuff.

So you're right that a good school is much more than just the things you learn in class. But to boil that down to some "all the elites go here just to meet the other elites" is closer to a conspiracy theory than the truth.
I think it's an interplay between system clock skew, Chromium's SCT validation implementation, and (very) recently issued certificates (which are backdated by 1 hour).

It's a bit of a heisenbug but it's occasionally reported on the Let's Encrypt forums. It always goes away for the reporters just by waiting a little bit.

It would be really nice if a user who runs into this could generate a Chromium event log which would hopefully include the SCT events (chrome://net-internals).
ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country If Their Schools Are Online-Only
What does this solve that DuckDuckGo hasn’t?
Once again, people only stop using it if there is some better alternative. It's not as if people are going to stop communicating with each other.
The WWDC '20 video on this feature.

>Meet the new Photos picker

Let people select photos and videos to use in your app without requiring full Photo Library access. Discover how the PHPicker API for iOS and Mac Catalyst ensures privacy while providing your app the features you need.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10652