skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "(Never mind that so many people are wearing them incorrectly...)"

at least we agree on one thing! i'm not nearly as cynical (or certain) about other people's motivations/behavior however.
Thanks, added The Circle. I'm sad it looks like a blog-spam to you, this list was shaped after a big discussion we had on reddit. I'd appreciate if you could point out a specific book that doesn't fit thematically or at least stylistically.
> If an organisation doesn't get that right, are they doing OKRs?

I mean, this is kind of what the article is saying; just along a different dimension.

> Perhaps I just fell for John Doerr's elaborately constructed fantasy that he uses to sell books.

A lottery winner can write a book about their excellent saving habits and how they helped a lot. If you follow their advice, you may do quite well, and gain some wealth!

But the advice can also be largely unrelated to why they are wealthy; and people hoping to be multi-millionaires as a result of those habits might be disappointed. This does not mean that the lottery-winner's advice about being frugal and saving money is inherently bad. Go ahead and save, by all means.
K1810VM86 (Soviet 8086 Clone)
The extension needs to be installed by both the creator and the receiver of the URL with the original intended text encoded into it?
I think this might be intentional functionality to reduce expensive search operations.
Now I'm not 100% sure on this, but search engine caches aren't useful if they can't be reused, thus they also serve results of previous queries that might match with the current one.
Given the USA's total failure at the presumably easier task of wide-scale testing, the notion that we could manufacture and distribute a novel vaccine in this time frame seems completely impossible. Maybe other countries could have success.
By using any google = ads.
With something like this, you really do. The first vaccines are unlikely to be 100% effective, and may not last very long, so to get close to eradication we'd have to see very good take-up rates.
Being able to see the geology this way is really interesting. Something made the channels you see, something ground the rocks down to a fine dust and even made that huge sand dune, something tossed all those rocks around. I always wonder if you drilled down 100 meters you'd find life of some kind.
The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool
Does anyone know a dashboard/list for past Akamai outages. Surprisingly, I haven't seen a lot of news about Akamai downtimes. I searched on Google and the last one I found in a news report is from 2011 when its customers like Facebook, Twitter were impacted.

They were a PITA to work with when I used them in the past but if they are really that good in service availability, you can have some justification for their overpriced service.
There was another RCT about six weeks ago released that showed that a combination of Lopinavir/Ritonavir, Ribavirin, and Interferon Beta 1a beat just Lopinavir/Ritonavir in time to PCR negative (7 days vs. 12 days). Presumably this was either due to the Interferon or the Ribavirin.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The big difficulty with flu isn't _usually_ a production shortfall, though; it's that people don't want to get the vaccine.

COVID is much scarier than flu, which should encourage people.
It will remain at the politically correct shutdowns. Look at the list of countries they are doing business with.
A really good example to showcase the capability of the technology !

In context of India, where news channels have reneged from due diligence on evidently doctored videos, this is something which can have huge consequences.
Interesting. I use the Gascat for portablility, but have a Hakko FX-888D soldering station on my workbench.

My only complaint about the Gascat is that it does get really quite hot and takes a while to cool. But it does have a couple of tips for "hot air" which is very useful for heatshrink etc.
We still do because if there are too many anti-vaccine people that would prevent us from reaching herd immunity.
Ah, yeah, that's fair.

Is it too late to claim I wasn't sure whether the original comment came from a human or a GPT-3 instance? ;)
There is already a pretty good one using GPT-2

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
Tools versus Work
Fare Launches Delivery Service with Zero Commission Fees for Restaurants
You are absolutely right about the lack of seeds.

Webtorrent was just added to libtorrent, so hopefully it will be coming to standard torrent clients soon. I'm hoping this will lead to more seeders and wider adoption of webtorrent.

There is also the problem of seeding from battery-powered mobile devices being impractical. Hopefully that can be worked around somehow.
tl;dr - I've made a shift in my technical content from writing blog posts to producing YouTube videos, and there are some implications to doing so.

Writing for a blog and producing a video are very different things, and so aspects of my work suffer for it, but the tangible reward and audience can be (but often is not) better with a platform like YouTube or Medium.

The post explores some more of my thoughts on the transition and was inspired by a comment from a few days ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860041
What? None of my primary or secondary schools ever had a/c and I always went to school no matter the temperature, sometimes when it was over 90°. It was uncomfortable but it's not like I knew any different.
We already have people willing to believe a conspiracy theory based on willfully misinterpreting emails, cough cough, so it seems like it probably won't make a difference.

In a highly polarized world people don't actually care about evaluating evidence. We pay attention to the voices that reinforce our beliefs and – at best – ignore those that don't.
If you're interested in the technology aspect, this is also very good:

https://www.good.is/articles/bombas-socks-for-homeless-peopl...
Minecraft will stop using Amazon’s cloud
You can just skip the articles that you don't find interesting, you know.
The total cost of the app (over a 2-year timeline) is about the same as 1-2 days of Covid testing in Germany. If it helps to reduce the spread of the pandemic it will be absolutely worth it.
Operations for two years are actually not 20 but 40M. But this includes two phone hotlines, thus actual labor cost. (And by then the development costs are close to irrelevant already ...)
They do, but once you setup a load balancer, it wants to send all traffic through the load balancer.

AWS and GCP load balancers are more like an endpoint. Your network is otherwise unaffected.
I think the fundamentals are already in place to support direct encoding of 3 spatial dimensions (or more) using essentially the same ideas as in JPEG/MPEG:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform#3-D_...

Not sure what the pros/cons this kind of approach might bring, or if it's already being used in some areas. I find it really hard to believe that 3d modeling software ecosystem has not experimented with the idea of lossy compression. Does the loss of high frequency information cause more adverse outcomes in 3d models than in 2d models? Seems like this could be useful in games or other creative areas where mathematical precision of the final compressed artifact is not essential.
> Where does that immutability come from? If you have a centralized service controlling the flow of knowledge, this could have its own consequences.

Data can be:

- decentralized

- public

- immutable

- redundant

- verifiable with asymmetric cryptography

..without being part of a blockchain. The technology to do this has existed much longer than blockchain has as a concept. Torrents are a good example.
I believe the images are quite aggressively recolored and cleaned up. The narrator states that the original images would be reddish and hazy.
gpt-3 is a clearer author than I ;-)
I think we are confusing one of the uses for word-based identifiers.

It's not memorizing them that's the goal. It's communicating them to another person.

IPFS and some of its predecessors have had to struggle with this problem. If you want an identifier that relates to the contents of the file, then you have an identifier that can't be transcribed easily.

The problem is though that the density doesn't go up very fast with additional words. Another poster pointed to his solution that only involves 300 words, and to represent a UUID takes 15 words.

If you made the dictionary 600 words it still takes 14 words to represent a UUID. :/
Here’s the video: https://moondisaster.org/film

Not bad but the audio doesn’t sound quite right.
I'm still sad that the Mirasol displays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometric_modulator_disp...) never made it into mainstream products. They seemed to be the best of both worlds: high refresh rates, colour, and no power consumption when not refreshing.
I think you could use Cloudflare as your primary DNS provider and benefit from their DDoS protection, but also specify backup DNS name servers with a different DNS provider in case Cloudflare fails.
Indeed. I think I understand the argument claiming Cloudflare is a SPOF. However, if you're actually dealing with DDoS attacks with any kind of regularity, you're likely to have better uptime with them than without.
> I’d be surprised if people trust their governments in Poland, Bulgaria etc.
> But I bet people having experienced autocratic regimes can never trust their government.

If there is a lack of trust within the Polish public toward the state, then it stems in large part from a history of oppressive foreign or foreign-controlled governments over the course of the last 200 years. Of course, prior to that, the Polish republican tradition generally took a somewhat skeptical view of government and government power, introducing a system of checks and balances that ultimately tipped in favor of the nobility via the Sejm. But recent attitudes are IMO influenced by a kind of habit of viewing government as a foreign intruder dominated by foreign interests (which, frankly, continues to this day in the form of competing German, American, and Russian influence often represented by competing parties). The end of the Cold War did not, of course, lead to the expulsion of the entrenched interests and power networks formed during the years of the Soviet-dominated People's Republic which also contributes to the antipathies Poles have toward government.
In case, someone asks a source for this number.

> The German government says its app cost 20 million euros ($22.7 million) to develop and will require 2.5 million to 3.5 million euros per month to operate. It’s available in German and English, with Turkish and other languages to follow.

https://apnews.com/fd6cc8a04ae77185110cf8d70cf585a1
KFC Is Working on 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Chicken Nuggets
It's an appeal to authority that short circuits the fast nature of HN. Most people are just skimming and some will vote based citations.

@dang what do you think of a rule against citation spam?
Who at a C-level position is going to tell anybody that the potential risk of Cloudflare (or Amazon/Azure/GCP) going down should be protected against?

I would applaud them, but I wonder.
> If you don't have the budget for a nat/load balancer

It's not such a big budget in any of the big cloud providers.

And my point is: if you don't need access, you won't even have such load balancer. Unless someone goes out of their way to provide access to your server, no external access will exist.
Me too, the demos looked fantastic! Maybe after the patents expire other companies will pick up the tech.
To anyone skeptical about the validity of this website. This press release [1] on the NIH website confirms this is real.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-launches-c...
Twitter's power comes fro being nearly integrated into main stream news. the danger therein has been seen with the platform used to shame those who put forth the wrong opinion, spin a story in a manner not acceptable, or associate with someone who has done the same.

how this came about is hard to place but I would not doubt the executives at Twitter cultivated their position along with very adept targeting of celebrities.

How do you split up something which is embedded into the media, specifically the news?
There's always a line, and therefore, I'm ok with drawing the line at Nazis.
If axioms are mutually contradictory, that doesn't actually prevent the concept of computing them and attaching them to logical chains.

The core problem with computing them is that no machine can decide whether the axioms are contradictory in the first place. In most cases, even humans won't 100% agree.
At first I wanted to add some smart-sounding comment to this, but then I took a sneak peak at the author's home page, and realized she's 18 only years old.

This made me think: even if she might not be 100% right, or she might have missed some important detail, etc, it's really impressive that at this age she's able to articulate this concept quite well. I was way dumber when I was 18. Heck, when I was double that.

To be clear and to avoid being misinterpreted: being 18 to me simply count as not possibly having several years of experience as a founder, which makes her thoughts even more impressive.
Mobile app idea #75: Business Ideas Finder
Whenever I hear concerns about vaccine production capacities I have to think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_aircraft_product...
So, why exactly is it that color e-ink displays try to make every micro-capsule capable of switching to any of the supported colors; rather than laying (groups of) CMYK micro-capsules out in a subpixel-like arrangement, and then wiring them to the substrate such that each of the CMYK "bitplanes" forms an independently-addressed display signal?

Sure, it'd look like badly-registered offset printing, but that only matters for small up-close displays, not large far-away displays. (And you could fix the registration with a precisely-cast diffuser layer, convolving each subpixel-cluster.)

If this was for reading rather than imagery, and you wanted to have true blacks, you could also just step one level forward in e-ink technology, and have the colored micro-capsule groups be just dual-tone (the capsule's color plus black), giving you {C+K, Y+K, M+K, K} bitplanes.

Are e-ink display manufacturers just imprecise in the way they deposit the capsules into the panel, making it impossible to address individual capsules? (If so, that seems like something that could be solved pretty easily with modern photolithography processes, e.g. etching onto the backing electrode a grid of "buckets" for individual micro-capsules to fall into.)
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So in the end, who cares about single point of failures?
I think a lot of people could have made a good working app for a lot less. But on the other side: if SAP and Telekom had failed no one would have blamed the government.

And if the both had failed their reputation would have suffered a lot. Well it's not the best as it is, so well.

They have a top team and delivered on time. Thats rare in software development.

And 20 million are nothing compared to the tax break which costs about 3 trillion.

For the government it's money well spend in two german flagship companies.

My guess most of it was insurance money in case something went wrong, so these companies would have taken the fall.
Came to the comments to recommend this as well! Fantastic read.
This is from The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XXIII", Season 24 episode 2. This segment starts at 14:45 on the Disney+ version.

There's a relatively low-quality cut on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ehuHRnC4Q
Why would that be an impediment? As far as I understand it, the principle of voluntary exchange relates to buyers and sellers in a market, not to the commodity in which the market is made. The moral enormity inherent in chattel slavery, namely that it reduces human beings to a commodity in which a market is then made, has nothing that I can see to do with whether such a market can operate in an economy run on capitalistic principles.
There should be artifacts of cut diamonds or goldbars around in the ocean floor. Artifacts on the moon.
You'll get better answers if you tell us more details. What platforms? You don't even specify desktop or mobile. What kind of product? B2B or consumer? Have you measured usage per platform? Is support of the platform critical for sales, or is it really something done on principle? What toolkit do you use? Can some platforms be served with a light version of the product?
There are several such triples:

- Eas Fors Waterfall

- Deschutes Falls, Tumwater, Washington

- Lochmere Lake, Cary, North Carolina

- Bredon Hill, Pendle Hill, (hill hill hill)

- Nesoddtangen (cape cape cape)

- Wookey Hole Caves (cave cave cave)

Lake Semerwater is a near-quad: lake lake lake water.

Then there are double doubles: The La Brea Tar Pits (the the tar tar pits).
I wouldn't think it would matter at all. Nobody would know who the scientists were, so you wouldn't even need to use real ones for the same effect. I don't even think most warming deniers would really care, and it wouldn't even spend a week in the news cycle, if aired at all. Do a video of them sacrificing a child to Beelzebub, and maybe you'd get some attention.

Just telling everybody that you were told that this meeting happened through secret messages from a secret high-level traitor from the Soros Foundation would work just as well. It would work on hundreds of people even if you said that you were receiving these messages psychically or encoded through subtle changes in reruns of Law & Order.
One of the most powerful motivations I rarely hear discussed is desperation. As stupid as it sounds, for myself, desperation to prove myself and fear of failing are what have driven me. People in general don't like to be miserable for long periods of time. You almost have to be miserable enough to think a startup is worth it.
What's the -r do? Output as raw bytes? I always just do `uuid -v4`
It's likely a success if you only measure click though rate, i.e. someone loses focus of what they were trying to do because they are presented something similar that is very salient and switches to that context.

I've certainly noticed that more and more with features like "frequently opened sites" YouTube's recommendations, a highly targeted ad etc
NASWA is good at facilitating knowledge-sharing, but they are no better equipped to build a software product than any state IT department. Each state is still ultimately handling "modernization" in their own way. There's very little appetite for COTS for whatever reason, and little sharing of technical components between states.
Since most patents expired, 3rd party brands started manufacturing compatible capsules in aluminum (plastic copies have existed for a longer time, but Nespresso fights that).

The fact you need to go to a Nespresso shop and/or order online is actually fairly annoying. Most people want to buy coffee alongside their groceries. That's probably biggest reason behind the Starbucks partnership.
At this point it's just antiquated advice, but it's an easy and well-described thing to put forward as a general trading theory. Buy an index fund and just wait for decades.

To put it another way - it rolls off the tongue better than "buy a weighted amount of a CSRP (or comparable) US Total Market Index and FTSE (or comparable) Global All Cap ex US Index, where your weighting is probably slightly overweighted to domestic".

Often (usually?) when people say it, they aren't literally advocating to only buy S&P 500. Some people still do recommend this, but I'd wager they're closer to a minority now. Famously I'm pretty sure Warren Buffett is still advocating S&P 500 only, and it takes a long time for voices like Michael Burry to outweigh. Vanguard pushed out a whitepaper years back, and made a very public change in their own corporate 401k to get rid of the s&p500 fund choice.
If you give it some text and tack "TLDR" on the end then it will give you a summary of the text.
Interesting question.

My understanding is that modern printers actually mix those four different inks together on the page to achieve a wide range of colors. That isn't possible with a display where colors have to remain within their own separate (sub)pixels and can't actually mix together.

With a high enough resolution that might not matter, as your eyes would be unable to discern individual subpixels, but this display is only 600×448, and that's with only one subpixel per pixel. (A CMYK display would need 4; maybe slightly less depending on subpixel layout.)

Furthermore, modern sRGB displays can output 255 different brightness values for each subpixel. This display can only output 7 values for each pixel. That further reduces the number of possible colors which would be possible in a CMYK subpixel-based display.

Provided all those issues could be solved though; maybe it would work? There could be other considerations I'm missing. (E.g. Can subtractive color mixing even work with subpixels in the first place?)
Well, it's going a little beyond Rohde et al (and could be an interesting future paper if you're into writing papers), but I would imagine the same sort of modelling would probably show that it's unlikely for anyone to have exactly one line of direct descent to an IA point ancestor.

Anyway, on the fun side of things, if you think of it in terms of ancient prophecies (the ancient prophecy says the chosen hero shall be a descendant of X), such prophecies usually don't distinguish between 1 line vs. many :)
GPT-3 doesn't know how to code. However, it has so many parameters that it was almost able to memorize its training data, which included people asking how to code something and other people answering.
I'm not surprised. Since I've seen S. Altman talking in one of his videos about "things that you (the employer) can't tell to your employees" I completely don't trust that guy.
I'm not sure if we should expect that to be a huge problem. There are a lot of white-collar prosecutions based heavily on written documents, but as far as I know it's not common for people to be convicted based on forgeries.
There’s a lot of truth to this. Cloudflare for now has achieved IBM status in that no one will be fired for choosing Cloudflare, in spite of any issues that arise.
That's not the kind of versioning I intended. What I'm interested in is if I make some changes to the test setup in your UI, is there a way to see what I changed, and when those changes happened in the past?
Not true, you can load money on a smart card via kiosk. This is already available almost everywhere, although would need to be accepted at POS.
Some of the other controls have to do with hover effects.
I have a feeling that you do side-projects because they provide you the autonomy and the ability to tinker that official projects and collaborative OSS don't. And it is part of this autonomy that allows you to up and leave anytime you don't feel like it, whereas you can't do that with say your office project. So why take away that distinct advantage that allows you to do these things in the first place. My only question is why are we self-commoditizing the only thing that is providing a sense of relief from what is already a measured activity ie., people(office) constantly telling us what to do, when to do, and what tools to use etc and how well we did in abiding by that.
I am on Sloan Memorial with one of the best in the world as I have more than a thousand moles. So I can't really do that.
How does this compare to other existing "no code" SaaS regression testing tools such as screenster.io?
Meta-package-manager, CLI providing unifying interface to all package managers