skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like we are going to see an announcement out of left field like TSMC buying a fab from Intel, funded by Apple.
Ask HN: Did Fitbit eliminate their support?
I've dealt with Fitbit support multiple times over the years for various devices and they used to be fairly responsive and helpful, always responding within a week.

However, nearly two months ago my partner reached out about her 8-month-old dead device and it took nearly three weeks for a response with some generic troubleshooting advice that's easily found online. After confirming that the steps don't work (again), I was asked for details on the purchase. It's been nearly a month now since last contact despite reaching out multiple times asking for any updates on next steps.

The recent acquisition has me concerned that Fitbit's adopted the Google model for customer support. Has anyone else experienced this lately?
I'd chalk it up there with the "deigners" who draw swoopy lines for parking lots that look great on a map and are a nightmare to use.
It's more than just the lumber. Depending on the angle of the roof, a 1 foot extension all the way around the house equates to lots of extra square footage of roof. All of that requires more material as well.
What is 18 – 9 equal to?
Nitpick: I don't know of any American cities on the coast that have a road between housing and the sand. Certainly not a major road.
What you were writing in your previous post is segregation.

How old are you when you were able to start HRT and did you get to go on blockers?

Your viewpoint of not letting yourself be defined by dysphoria is typically expressed by anyone able to start in early 20s or younger. I find your opinion perfectly fine for people in that foregoing situation. Starting that young has little in comparison with the previous generations' experiences and realities.

It shouldn't be a situation of forcing a universal ideology upon everyone. People gravitate to whatever solution works for them and it can be pleasant or unpleasant for others.

What I consider a cardboard cutout of a woman might just be a woman to you. In any case it doesn't matter because neither of us own anything that's just non-physical/judgement(s)/opinion(s).

People just get assigned a life and observe whatever story they get. No free will exists and obviously some people are in Heaven while others are in Hell. Life is predestined for whatever outcome. I think majority of trans people will have better outcomes after our generations die out.

edit: if you want to chat on discord whenever. I always enjoy chatting with trans people I meet online and learning their views compared to redefining my own. Alizée#4723
Our history is a battle against the microbes
No it doesn't.

It started by saying how to be a coder in Japan, then doesn't mention Japan ever again. All coding problems are exactly the same until a few slides later when actually they are complex. The paraphrase of the feynman quote isn't actually a paraphrase at all. There's no actual substance. It's like a train of thought which gets derailed every 5 seconds.
useEffect as it is runs when the component is mounted and then every time the state is updates, you can control this by passing options to useEffect, to answer your question: yes after the component has been inserted into the DOM, not necessarily after the updated dom has been displayed
Return and Enter Are two different keys
The "human detector" of the modern internet doesn't accept disabled people as sufficiently human. That's... the most dystopian thing I've heard in a while!
Eca de Queiroz is my personal favorite. Luis de Camoes, which many compare to Shakespeare, is maybe the greatest of Portuguese poets.
Their regulator(s) support them selling it. And they can easily cut anyone off for re-distributing it (in addition to any legal remedy they may attempt).
Or Orbitz?
So a Norwegian ex-colleague of mine randomly found a very pristine Enigma machine in the attic of his parents house (presumably left there by a grandparent, who had likely gotten hold of it in the spring/summer of 1945, somehow), about 13 years ago. I was a bit jealous about that find. Apparently only 250 or so remain, altogether.

Photos here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070622082533/http://my.opera.c...

(The guy who took/posted the photos is separate from the lucky guy who found it. Please don't bother him.)
They can just "establish" the network using Bloomberg and actually discuss illegal things off-channel e.g. Signal.
I disagree with what you're saying, but I'm thankful to live in a country that allows you to say it.
.org is among the cheap TLDs and widely used. If you want to make money from it, you jack up the prices and now many long-term established organisations using an .org domain now have to pay you more or have to give up their domain and find a new one, with all the follow up costs and consequences. People just now looking for a domain are fine, the ones committed to a name have an issue.
Questions a Candidate Should Ask at a Software Engineer Job Interview
As usual, a relevant one: https://xkcd.com/705/
This is such an out of touch dev response.

The problem is hcaptcha, the solution is stop using hcaptcha. Not placate and evade with work arounds you wouldn't even suggest to non blind people.

Also this ask a friend solution is like telling someone in a wheelchair to ask a friend to help them up those steps instead of just installing a ramp.

You don't get to take over half the internet and just ignore social responsibility.
> There's an enormous difference between the West and totalitarian dystopia China.

Yes there is. Most surveys e.g. Harvard have shown the Chinese approve of their government at 80% approval. You want to guess at approval rating of Trump’s paradise. Everything you “know” is a lie regarding China.

[edit] [GOP anti-china propaganda scripts](https://static.politico.com/80/54/2f3219384e01833b0a0ddf9518...)
I had exactly the same issue. I am surprised how neither cloudflare nor google have been sued for making most of the web inaccessible to people with disabilities.
The Dismal State of Flirting in English-Speaking Cultures – Mark Manson
> Why is it a precedent?

Precedents aren't limited to the legal system. Their actions changed the expectation (ie established a new precedent) for their behavior going forward.

> So the only reason for continuing to work for/with violent anti-semites was that they wanted to.

Or entertaining broader ideals surrounding freedom of expression? Or perhaps seeing the inherent dangers of living in a society dominated by public outrage? Or something else entirely?

> Until, at some point, they changed their mind.

Due, by their own admission, to financial concerns. Concerns which wouldn't exist if they and all their competitors were legally required not to discriminate based on otherwise legal content.

> HN has a strange infatuation with this idea of avoiding responsibility by pretending to be powerless.

I don't see that anywhere in this comment section? Rather, I see people objecting to actions which are legal but which they feel should not be.
The reason Julia is a good fit is it has both good numerics support (arrays, matrices, autodiff, samplers, etc) and good metaprogramming support. Probabilistic programming systems really need both to feel natural and well-integrated while still being able to have nice inference algorithms.

A PPS in an environment without those two things is at a disadvantage.
Wi-Fi Frequently Asked Questions
That is a good list, I would Antonio Lobo Antunes as well,
SEC charges YouPlus and CEO with defrauding investors
Avoid the pesky curvature of the Earth's surface by going directly along a chord through the mantle rather than along a great circle?

Using https://planetcalc.com/7725/ and https://planetcalc.com/73/ I just concluded that the straight-line chord distance between Tokyo and San Francisco is 1552 km whereas the great-circle distance is 8270 km. (Neither of these is very precise because it's unclear where in each city you should measure from, and unclear whether either calculator uses data about the irregularity of the Earth's curvature.)

It does make a noticeable difference for HFT applications, I guess: 1552 km/c is about 5 ms while 8270 km/c is about 28 ms. (The neutrinos might do better in another way because I guess light in a fiber doesn't directly follow the curve of the fiber itself, since it's getting repeatedly reflected off of the inside surface of the glass.)
Are you talking from a bit of usability or reliability?

Their usability model is based a bit in the past, I agree. It can be a little convoluted and seems oldschool.

However reliability (which obviously matters the most) is the most rock solid API you can ask for. Compare it to anything else on the market. Their nearest competitor Reuters is kind of a joke compared to Bloomberg. Reuters is easier to use but it's not 100% reliable. Markets can stop streaming you data and you have no way of knowing etc.

Bloomberg is SOLID and you get what you pay for.
Thanks! I just downloaded the Kindle book.
>I've never seen an example of one

Here's most of one, served to Microsoft in 2014 & released in 2017

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/CMSFiles/NationalSecurity--J...
On the preceding I think it would be:

"First they came for the rioters.", although I disagree with OPs sentiment.
> There are so many details like this that it's best to form a checklist.

I am interested in seeing your checklist. Though I am still far out from owning my home, I am nonetheless curious about these sorts of things, and the more I an can learn now, the less I have to crash course during trying to get a purchase or construction contract.
While I understand your point, I would like to point that scientific research has found out the best methods for a lot of things regarding raising babies. Advice from our elders (what you seems to refer as 'cultural memory') is often wrong. What worked for them may not be the best thing to do, they had n=1, science has n=millions. There is a huge problem that scientific findings regarding raising babies does not get transferred well enough (if at all) to the population.
The hard part of wood heat is that in a climate like NH, it means you cannot effectively leave the house for any prolonged period in the winter without making sure that any liquids in the house (e.g. paint) have been moved elsewhere. Ditto for houseplants and pets. Those wood fires won't light themselves.

My wife and I moved into an adobe home in rural NM last year, and we had to wait until our new air-source heat pumps were running in February before we could leave. Working with wood heat only for most of the winter was (1) a lot of work (2) very nice heat (3) a lot of work.

Yes, you could maybe get a housesitter but then we're into a whole new game.
Sure, the academy shut down several times. But, it was a novel mode of social organization -- and as such, it continues today with great effect. Surely the role of the academy in the scientific revolution is certain, for instance.
amazing models, especially cool is the pompeii one based on real footprints.
Australia has had an app for a few months now that has not provided any useful information since its creation.
Bunch of previous big Pharo threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18968116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18267445

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754872

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14504244

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11690125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9386775
How can we slow, stop, mitigate, and/or reverse the effects of global warming ---- in a way that aligns with capitalist incentives and the natural human inclination to be lazy?
> I don't know how you'd even write a linter for Java or C++ that would know what an appropriate usage of protobufs is

I wouldn't try to massage protobufs into satisfying that need, but I do agree that it's an area that should get more research and development. Looking at it from a linter perspective is making the problem way harder than it needs to be though. Verification is, generally speaking, a much more difficult problem than construction. For example it's much easier to construct a product of two large primes than it is to verify that a given number is a product of same. Anyhow, I'm not one of those people who thinks the theorists know everything and practitioners are all idiots, I'm just one of those people who think practitioners should learn from theorists and that, sadly, the former are often irrationally resistant to the notion. Not always though, TLA+ is a great example of a tool working software engineers use to build real systems that are theoretically verifiable.

I was being a bit cheeky about the code reviews. I do think that the reviewers delighted in the opportunity to be shitty to an unseemly degree, but I also agree that it was net beneficial. That said I did find the engineering quality in the SRE orgs was significantly higher than the SWE ones. Which is the complete opposite of every other company I've ever worked for.
i mean, not everything. i think everyone sees the two systems of gov't transparently enough at least.
How would you expect to obtain informed consent without the patient knowing they're in the study?
It's HN so most of you probably already know and love Neal Stephenson's writing, but any time Enigma comes up I feel compelled to recommend "Cryptonomicon", one of my all-time favorite novels in any genre.
talk to me about (2) ....
This creation is also visible through the split between France (R&D in South of France) and Germany (datacenters and operations)
I hear their printers catch on fire too!
Solutions can’t be implemented instantly; a work around is needed until that ramp is installed. As much as the lack of audio solution sucks, you can’t expect half the internet to just give up on a piece of technology overnight
I only understood some words from him after a drama group played at my school. I used to be bored by his style, but after this, I accepted he was a genius.
You don't need to use your SSL certificate for the CDN. Most websites that use CDNs only do so for static assets such as images, fonts, CSS, etc... the dynamic content comes from the origin server, encrypted with a private key that is not handed out.

If you press F12 in your browser and navigate to some major sites, you'll notice anywhere between 1-5 different CDN domain names that aren't directly related to the original host in any way.
I made a project like this too! Except it's not finished yet. Basically trying to turn the procedural buildings into a roguelike or something similar. https://andrewmanq.github.io/2020-05-28-new-buildings/
Eça, is in my opinion, wrote the best novel available in the Portuguese language, "The Maias". I am not sure how good the English translation is, but he Portuguese original is sublime, especially if you are familiar with Portuguese society. Many of the peculiarities he wrote about are still recognizable 100 years later.

To your wife's excellent list I would add Fernando Pessoa a prolific genius and also Jose Regio, who wrote, Cantigo Negro, my favorite Portuguese poem:

"come this way" — some say with sweet eyes
opening their arms, and certain
that it would be good if I would listen
when they say: "come this way"!
I look at them with languidly,
(my eyes filled with irony and tiredness)
and I cross my arms,
and I never go that way...
this is my glory:
to create inhumanity!
to accompany no one.
— for I live with the same unwillingness
with which i tore my mother's womb
no, I won't go that way! I only go where
my own steps take me...
if to what I seek to know no one can answer
why do you repeat: "come this way"?

I rather crawl thru muddy alleys,
to whirl in the wind,
like rags, to drag my bleeding feet,
than to go that way...
if I came to this world, it was
only to deflower virgin forests,
and to draw my own footsteps in the unexplored sand!
all else I do is worth nothing.

how can you be the ones
that give me impulses, tools and courage
to overcome my own obstacles?
the blood of our ancestors runs thru your veins,
And you love what is easy!
I love the Far and the Mirage,
I loves the abysses, the torrents, the deserts...

go! you have roads,
you have gardens, you have flower-beds,
you have a nation, you have roofs,
and you have rules, and treaties, and philosophers, and wise men.
I have my Madness!
I hold it high like a torch burning in the dark night,
and I feel foam, and blood, and chants on my lips...
God and the Devil guide me, no one else!
everyone's had a father, everyone's had a mother;
but I, who never begin or end,
was born of the love between God and the Devil.

ah! don't give me sympathetic intentions!
don't asks me for definitions!
don't tells me: "come this way"!
my life is a whirlwind that broke loose,
it's a wave that rose.
it's one more atom that ignited...
I don’t know which way I’ll go,
I don't know where I'm going to,
- I know I'm not going that way!
> The next slide had the text "And then when you finally do finish this nice feature, you should always make sure you drink the required amount of alcohol." with a background image of whiskey bottles. The decorative text on that slide was: "But don't drink too much alcohol and end up like me."

The joke is sound, and I can imagine a number former secondary school classmates present it in these exact words.
A bit unrelated but I have a complaint regarding firefox and addons.mozilla.org. In the past that site would let you browse through the code of the addon so that you could make sure that it did not contain anything malicious but now it lacks that option. In addition firefox does not give me the option to check the source of the plugin on updates so even if I manually download the plugin and review it the addon author can at any time introduce backdoors and firefox will automatically fetch the updated version. In addition as far as I am aware firefox only check for signatures from mozilla, not from the addon author, so mozilla can push malicious updates for addons if they wish without the addon creator knowing about it.
> Can someone who thinks for themself arrive at "typical views"? If yes, then thinking for yourself does not imply anything about the views one holds.

Can someone flipping a non-biased coin 50 times have heads come up every flip? Yes. While theoretically possible, in reality it’s almost certainly a weighted coin.
Disclaimer: I moved to US from China about 10 years ago.

"China knows they are being spied" -> Not sure govt public admitting spying and censorship is a good thing at all. It sets a vert bad example for the rest of the country to follow.

If it's OK for the central govt to do those shitty business (arguably backed by those so called national security rationals, whole another topic). Then how about local govt to use the same toolkits? How about powerful corporations, how about celebrities? Since the central govt sets a bad example, everyone else who's holding power are tend to think this is just OK. IMHO, that is what's causing much bigger damages.
I originally held that David Lynch's film "Mulholland Drive" used all the conventional motifs of a horror film to construct a whole that was less than, and yet too much more than a cohesive horror story. It wasn't complete, but had the sense that it was. Stitched together in a nonsensical manner, but which felt familiar.

I'm not saying that's true, but it was my conversational theory for a while.

Maybe he made the GPT-3 of films.
as a fan of clojure you must be familiar with how people dismiss lisps because of the parens.

some of the complexity of Rust is just necessary to get C speed with memory safety, some is just not being used to the “parens”
Do you have any suggestions for books that do cover these design styles?
I put the same prompt into the question-answering preset and it immediately answered

A: Justin Bieber.

So that suggests that the prompt and temperature (etc.) are relevant to getting the kind of behavior you want. But it didn't seem to have any trouble getting this right the first time with the appropriate preset.
What about the Great Highway separating Ocean Beach from homes in San Francisco?
You have a really low bar for freedom if the destruction of property is all it takes for you to start justifying unmarked federal agents grabbing people off the street. Further the leadership in these states already have sufficient resources available to handle these protests if they decide it's gotten out of hand. People not from these neighborhoods are proclaiming these protests out of hand summarily.

The people protesting have been exceeding clear about what they are arguing for precisely. Holding police accountable is not some fringe political opinion and in fact the right, according to its own professed beliefs, should be natural allies in this movement. The further this continues the more evidence we have that these concerns about police in the United States acting with impunity are legitimate.

What is clear however, is that a significant portion of the people who have claimed themselves champions of freedom and states' rights always held the caveat that it be in the service of a particular group of people. It is interesting how people who in every other circumstance hold individual liberty as central to their beliefs now place law and order at the center of their arguments at the expense of individual liberty. Where in the Constitution are our rights subject to conditions on behavior? Fucking nowhere. The second amendment itself grants the people the right to violence against a tyrannical government so why then would "not destroying statues" in any way be considered some kind of pre-requisite for legitimite protest?
he canonically created us, didn't he? got to be at least a little bit interested. tho of course I don't see the point of debating the motivations of a fictional character
I do work in a corporate setting and have done so, as a consultant, for years. I know the numbers very well, both from what I and others charge and what large companies actually budget.
How exactly do you know that only violent rioters are being forcibly taken?

And my comment was not about who they're targeting first, but about how that kind of logic is a slippery slope.

The reality is that most people lack empathy for those they do not know, and only become engaged when it affects them personally. It’s good to keep that in mind when taking dangerous stances like the above.
> In particular, FINRA claims that following the establishment of its OTC equity trading desk, the firm sought to program the desk’s trading systems to comply with the Trading Ahead and Limit Order Display Rules by providing customer orders automated order protection, quote display, and execution.

> “The OTC Desk, however, implemented controls, settings and processes that removed hundreds of thousands of mostly larger customer orders from those logics. While those controls, settings and processes had multiple purposes, they shared a principal purpose of directing OTC customer orders for manual review and/or handling. Impacted orders were rendered inactive until the completion of a manual trader review,” FINRA said in the document earlier this month.

How interesting. This is almost certainly a case of the lawyers/compliance talking to the programmers/ops and everyone thinking they’re on the same page with how the process needs to work only to find out years later that they weren’t.

I wonder how this issue was even identified.
The nickelodeon was the first type of movie theatre in the US