skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing this; I'm doing a Ph.D. in robotics right now and am contemplating moving back to my small hometown after. Remote working in robotics is always more tricky.

I've talked to a least one startup who was open to hiring remote workers, their justification being that remote access to robots was important to have setup correctly anyways to help supporting clients without traveling. Are you afraid of your employment opportunities if the consultancy doesn't work out (even though it seems to be doing very well now)?
> I get results.

For a very low bar of "results", sure. But unless you are getting electronics with special features or without artificial restrictions imposed by the companies, I wouldn't count I managed to return a shitty TV that got shittier for another baseline shitty TV as "getting results".

> Perhaps if companies had to deal with a load of complaints, losing cash at each one, they might start to care?

They won't "lose cash". If consumers on aggregate started demanding more quality and better support from their companies, it would translate into increased costs and consequently increased prices. Business as a whole can sustain the occasional annoying customer like you, but only when you are the exception and not the rule.

> But otherwise, on another hn thread a while ago some guy said he'd bought, or would buy, a dumb monitor and link that up.

Find the price of a 40"+ monitor that can do 4k and compare with the price of TVs, see how even high-end TVs cost less than the monitors. As an exercise to the reader, correlate that with the point above.

> You'll never know if you don't try.

I won't know because I don't want to know. I simply refuse to buy the shitty crippled electronics in the first place.

> Many of you US guys

I'm not American, but I lived there long enough to understand that most people live by the "Give me convenience or give me death" mentality. I also lived there long enough to realize that money is the only thing they understand. Put these two together, and it gets really hard to expect the average consumer to work to get anything better when they have something convenient for cheap.
They weren’t required before HTML 5 either.
"Privacy is foundational to Amazon Halo, and multiple layers of privacy and security are built into the service to keep data safe and in customers’ control. Health data is encrypted in transit and in the cloud, and customers can download or delete their data at any time directly from the app. Body scan images are automatically deleted from the cloud after processing, so only the customer sees them. Tone is enabled by creating a personal voice profile, after which it begins capturing short samples of speech and providing insights and daily recaps. Speech samples are always analyzed locally on the customer’s phone and automatically deleted after processing—nobody, not even the customer, ever hears them. Learn more about Amazon Halo privacy features."

Playing devils advocate, but it doesn't sound like they retain any data unless you opt into a third party program. Also the emotional part sounds really creepy.

"For example, Tone results may reveal that a difficult work call leads to less positivity in communication with a customer’s family, an indication of the impact of stress on emotional well-being."

Yeah, no thanks. I don't need a machine to help me regulate my emotions. Coming to a dystopian future near you, a call center using Tone. "It appears you didn't sound positive enough in your last call! Please try harder or you will get written up."

I'm surprised they called it Halo. First thing I thought of was the video game from Bungie.
Not in my experience (JIEDDO/Paladin in OIF/OEF). The R&D lab seems like a peacetime concept. All the ideas, all the experimentation, all the hacks that turned into programs, came from the field, often lab guys that got sent forward. The labs had their part for sending new toys, but the pace was so much faster for hacking things together at the front lines.
I think OP was referring to things like vim configs, shell customizations, nginx configs, etc. There's lots of computer customizations I could think of that aren't always thought about in context of storing in a git repo. Also you could have large files such as market data, movies, or music collection that aren't a good fit for a git repo.
More often then I'd like–anecdotally, about once a month or so.
I've heard of a few companies preferring Discord over Slack or Teams right now exactly because gaming figured out so much of this decades ago and Discord prioritizing it works well for those companies.
Holy crap. They are openly saying they will now be recording and listening to (and transcribing presumably) your speech at any time.

BTW, pretty sure Facebook and Google are already listening to speech and serving ads off it, just not admitting to it.
On the plus side, we don't really know what the limits of bad UX/UI patterns are until we cross that line. No one can deny that UX/UI patterns are in the Cambrian Explosion phase (for at least the past 15 years and going strong!), and it will take time for the more robust evolutionary designs to emerge.

Example: Consider the number of articles on HN devoted to seemingly minute detail, e.g.: whether or not an input element should use a placeholder that vanishes, one that shrinks into the upper left corner when the user starts to enter text or a label abve the input element. We're still figuring this out...
As far as I remember, NVDA either does or used to do something similar. They were injecting c++ code into other processes, so that it could quickly query their APIs and return just the data NVDA needed. I never really delved into that part of the codebase, so I might be wrong here.

As an aside, how do you get to the bytecodeyou use? Do you write quazi-assembly by hand? Did you develop your own compiler? For what language?

Will other, non-microsoft assistive technologies, like NVDA for example, be able to use it?
Hydration and other factors affect accuracy of impedance body fat estimation. So consistency is key, like measuring at the same time in the same conditions (for myself, after waking and before any consumptions of food or water) daily. Still, absolute measurement will not be as accurate as DXA, hydrostatic, skin calipers, etc.

However, for relative changes over time when consistently measured, impedance works just fine (trending upward or downward).

I'm very skeptical of their claim that the photo measurements are more accurate than other means, but perhaps they've done massive validation of their methods and have achieved adequate reliability and validity.
But employers aren't in business to supply jobs, though, right? If the revenue and profits aren't there they can't print up their own money.

EDIT: parent comment now empty initially said that companies should hire more people to help keep the economy going.
If only there was a term for a prolonged economic retraction, like a recession, but longer and worse.
They could be useful for soil remediation here on Earth as well.
Skip to the actual survey of economists:

https://files.constantcontact.com/668faa28001/65165cb5-5c8f-...

Summary
“Nearly two-thirds of the National Association for Business Economics members who participated in the August 2020
NABE Economic Policy Survey believe the U.S. economy continues to be in a recession that began last February,” said
NABE President Constance Hunter, CBE, chief economist, KPMG. “Almost half the respondents expects inflation-adjusted gross domestic product to remain below its fourth-quarter 2019 level until the second half of 2022 or later. And 80% of panelists indicate there is at least a one-in-four chance of a ‘double-dip’ recession.
“The panel is split in its view on Congress’s fiscal response to the recession, with 40% calling the response insufficient, 37% indicating the response is adequate, and 11% saying it is excessive,” Hunter continued. “Nearly three out of four panelists believe the optimal size for the next fiscal package to be $1 trillion or greater, compared to 17% who favor a smaller package.”
“More than three-quarters of panelists believe that the current stance of U.S. monetary policy is appropriate, the largest share holding this view since 2007,” added Survey Chair Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist, Oxford Economics. “The majority of panelists—58%—expects the federal funds rate range to remain unchanged at 0-0.25%, or even drop lower, by the end of 2021. Most participants—84%—expect that the funds rate target will be higher by year-end 2022, but still within 100 basis points of where it is currently.
She is my inspiration, would like to share one of her quotres here for HN audience

"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."
TikTok is on Google Cloud. If it moved to Azure it would be one of its largest customers. This is why Microsoft wants a controlling interest but not to own it outright.
You should still be able to make it disappear if you change it to "When scrolling".
TSMC announces plans for 2nm chipset factory
My suspicion is that Apple’s design mentality is to strive toward the minimalist ideal of an interface in which everything necessary fits on one (phone) screen, and users are acclimated to ask Siri for anything/everything else, e.g. “Siri show me a print/download dialog”
The most fearsome terrorist attack, in my mind, is the "VRA" Vehicle Ramming Attack.

A vehicle is such a high energy, dangerous piece of equipment. Our whole society, at least in North America, is built on the idea that people treasure their vehicles and will never act in a way that damages them.

To my eyes, that is the type of assumption that makes an ass out of everyone. The gun control debate pales in comparison to what would happen if people decide their terroristic point is worth their life, and they have a car. And even kids have cars. We've got no protection against it. Only the shared cooperation of our society- and for whatever reason, people of late seem to be working to tear apart that cooperative fabric of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack
Yes she was just a fast computer. She never claimed that she is a maths person
THANK YOU! I had no idea what was going on, or how to describe it. I wouldn't have thought of using the word "shaking". There was a time when every feature you needed was visible (yes, I had crazy FVWM bars for a while), but "discoverability" is becoming increasingly frustrating and annoying.
A few giant elephants aside, I wonder how they train it at all and how it works across cultures, as coincidentally I just saw someone tweeting that multi-lingual person basically has independent thought processes and split personalities for each languages, and someone else following up they notice their facial expressions and gestures switch.
Doesn't look like the desktop app has any OneNote import/export functionality, so yeah looks like DIY project.
Well, that is not the definition. Output of a pure functions can depend on input arguments, and those arguments can definitely depend on runtime properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
This is essentially the reason behind Keynesian stimulus, isn't it? Something's gotta bootstrap the recovery.
Do you still have to replace the pencil tips often and are they still expensive?
It doesn't support any of the proprietary ebook formats, but it does display PDFs wonderfully and I use mine often this way.

I also export trip itineraries, lists, project files and so on to PDF and keep them on my ReMarkable. It's handy for that.
They don't offer content for free, they offer content for the cost of giving up information about yourself and having to witness some consumerist propaganda, which puts cash on their pocket. It's a transaction not a gift.
Here is a review: https://www.engadget.com/remarkable-2-tablet-e-ink-hands-on-...
I think this is a solid way to incentivize people to develop for a new platform (it's an app store as far as I can understand?) A $5k cash award for most popular app seems token when the most popular apps on competing platforms make literally billions of dollars, though.
Another commenter mentioned it already, but Walmart probably wants the direct access to another eCommerce channel.
On Web API Versioning
Assume good faith?

On the internet?

Assume good faith in 'random comment' from 'random person' on the internet.

Would you sir be interested in buying an invisible unicorn from me? I will sell it for only $100.
Whoop does not have body fat percentage measurement. And, the monthly price of $30 is too high for me to get started with them.
Interesting. I'll wait for some unbiased results before buying one, but it's promising!
The shield will happily push 4K@120hz at 4:2:0 subsampling if your display supports it. The shield supports hdmi 2.0b.
For me, a data scientist, learning D3 feels so far off since the background needed to learn it seems vastly connected with some notion of frontend concepts, which for me are very foreign. And honestly, I don't care much about UI programming.

Is this impression correct? Is there a way around this? A learning source that covers both?
"The current UI <cut> is designed to make things possible, yet difficult enough that people won’t figure it out."

Let's be honest. Don't attribute it to the system complexity or interop failures — that's bullshit. When they need to shove you an ads under your finger, the complexity suddenly vanishes.
I love pages that have CSS to make the first section precisely the size of the viewport…and then have some sort of arrow indicating that you should scroll down to see more content.
I feel that the author is drawing attention to Sourcehut because there are no alternatives that use the workflow he is pitching. It's not as great as Github at the moment, but he is trying to show what it can be. He always comes off as incapable of fixing sourcehut's flaws because a lot of suggestions he gets are contradictory to the fundamental design he has in mind. Despite this, sourcehut is making steady improvements. Drew also puts up invaluable resources which helps people like me get into the email workflow. Sourcehut currently has a steep learning curve, after which you would immediately recognize the design as a safer bet in the long term.
To add - the CDP people solved the problem by doing things no one else was doing. It was Trevor Wishart's pet project and it was never going to be commercially viable, but he put some very interesting ideas into it. I played with it for a while and got a good few you-can't-do-this-with-a-synth sounds out of it. It was probably ten years ahead of its time and it's much easier to do that kind of thing today with modern processor speeds.

I used to know some of the CDP people and there was a story that one of them left a script running on his Atari ST and then went on holiday for two weeks. It still hadn't finished when he got back.

It would probably take a few minutes today.
by that logic consumer and labor protection laws all fit under your definition of fascist.

you can contort words to mean anything by stretching definitions or being vague enough but i don’t think that’s a useful definition
Right. That's perfect. Now with shrinking profits and a recession they will pay them with...?
To me it's obvious and logical that they spend more resources on preparing for terrorism.
my father (75yo) still obsessively updates his personal website (using FrontPage!) For years he was proud that his article on Hill's Criteria of Causation was the top hit on google for a search on "hills criteria" or similar. At the time Wikipedia had no article on it (he's now #4 since wikipedia has a article as well as a couple of medical sites.)

His site has the look of a personal webpage from 1997, but since retiring, he still works on articles and publishes them on his site. His site is a mix of scholarly articles (Anthropology), old syllabi, and personal stuff.
I'm happy with my iPad. I can read books, watch videos or take notes all in one, plus I get to surf the open web on a super fast browser on top hardware that doesn't try to mimic the dead-tree. Not sure what the use-case for a sluggish 'paper-like' interface would ever be?

I know some folks will jump to suggest less eyestrain but neither paper books nor e-ink help with that. Since eyestrain stems from overworked eyes and a tired brain [1], it doesn't help to claim that the nature of surface revealing the text has anything to do with it.

[1] https://bubblin.io/blog/daylight-energy-fatigue
> (I'm a little surprised they weren't stabilized at the same time!)

They were stabilized at the same time, see the release announcement.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/27/Rust-1.46.0.html
I'm genuinely super confused. This could be done in Flash in a couple hours. Am I missing something or is this just mostly static images with button transitions? Like what you could do in Powerpoint.
That's just the (bizarre) reason given, it's still accurate to say that this adaptation has been cancelled. Most optimistically we can say it's back into some kind of vague development hell, from which a TV series may or may not some day emerge.
Estonia built one of the world’s most advanced digital societies
Gentle reminder that 3nm is a meaningless marketing number that does not represent neither the transistor size no element density, and it does not correlate in any way with all other Xnm production of other companies.
Best Android Google Chrome alternative and their features
Yes but that's my point. So many facets of society just have this rotting sword of Damocles hanging over them. Academia, the private sector - at this point is there any real difference?
They’re also not amazon, where a huge part of their business is data.
I dont like the very thin scroll bar in JetBrain IDEs.
Another example is Razer, who thinks you should need an internet connected, tied-to-a-person app to configure your mouse buttons.
I'll never buy or recommend another product from them in any category.
>when that is the entire point of Monte Carlo methods and doesn't change their result.

Two nitpicks: a) it shouldn't change the conclusions, but MC calculations will get different results depending on the seed. and b) it is considered good practice in reproducible science to fix the seed so that the results of subsequent runs give exactly the same results.

Ultimately, I think there is a balance: really poor code can lead to incorrect conclusions... but you don't need production ready code for scientific exploration.
Few people have probably read those specs cover-to-cover with full attention.

But never opening them is a mistake. The value of taking a look, skimming around, reading a few parts that seem interesting to you, is HUGE compared to never even having looked in there. And then continuing to do so when a curiosity arises.
A really long and protracted economic contraction is just depressing to think about.
It’s much easier to give a company back money they already earned in the form of a tax cut than it is to expect a business to create new revenue out of thin air.
Economists are as effective as astrologists at predicting the future. For some reason otherwise smart people don't realize this? I think it's something about economists being associated with the university system.

I see this assured economic doom repeated so much without being questioned as anything but guaranteed I wonder where this incredible confidence is coming from? We have literally no idea what 2021 holds for us, in the same way we had no idea 2020 would be so uh unique.
Couple things, since surveillance organizations like tech companies and government intelligence bureaus have been known for weasel words:

>Speech samples are always analyzed locally on the customer’s phone

OK, and are they ONLY analyzed there? Are they also uploaded anywhere? Are they also analyzed anywhere else?

>automatically deleted after processing

Deleted from where? The local storage? See above, what if it's also uploaded somewhere else?

>nobody, not even the customer, ever hears them.

No human? Are transcriptions created that could be reviewed by a human?
Everett proposed relativistic interpretation. The measurement happens solely due to physical interaction and is properly contained in light cone. The difference is that the cat has two states: one dead and one alive, when you physically interact with them, your state splits into two, each state sees the respective cat's state, both are real, but the picture is relative. The observation corresponds to not what exists, but to what physical interactions happen, and because these split states don't interact, they don't see each other as if it was a collapse.
No reason at all. At least we get to enjoy books, videos, notes and most importantly open web on proper hardware with the iPad.
I thought that in Keynesian stimulus/theory, the government, not the private sector, provides the recovery?
I'd be interested to hear what the growth curve looked like.
With their 3d modeling feature, they can kill ShapeScale before its launch.

https://shapescale.com/
10 ms sounds completely out of reach right now. A quick search shows some black-and-white boards advertising 7.5 FPS (150ms) in 2019.

I was working with a three-color e-ink board from Pimoroni recently and a full screen refresh would take 20+ seconds. Looks very nice when it's done, but definitely unusable for anything real-time.
We can soothe ourselves with the thought that Economists are usually wrong.
You may find more value digging into why the grandparent (And many others here) didn’t find value from the demo and propositions on your home page, than arguing with us here.

One of the most important concepts I learned doing 100’s of pitches is that understanding the value of your product is not the customer’s problem - it’s yours. Find a way to communicate it better :)
Transplanted brown-fat-like cells hold promise for obesity and diabetes
> 1) Cut them off on technology

Google Rare Earth metals producers [0]

Do you really want to enter who will starve first competition?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268011/top-countries-in-...
As an aside, for anyone who wants to track changes, I made an iOS shortcut which takes weight, waist circumference and neck measure and estimates body fat and muscle mass using the navy formula. It then logs weight, waist, body fat, muscle fat and bmi to apple health.

It is surely inaccurate, but directionally accurate. I only check weight and waist each day. Neck circumference changes slowly.

This uses imperial measures and is for men. You need to set the apple health data to imperial for weight and waist.

For women, you also need hip measures, and the calculations would differ a bit. If you’re interested in building this reach out and I can help modify this one.

Shortcut runs fast, and the two measures are quite quick to do daily.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fb69f71fc1c54cb09191b3610cf...
Are you talking about Apple Watch...?

Does it matter if the V1 is totally accurate or not? Safe to assume it will get better over time. The point still stands.
> shuts down every discussion of that toxicity

That's far from accurate. There have been many major discussions.

It's true that some people feel that those topics are underrepresented, but that's because every topic is felt to be underrepresented, including the most common topics. It seems to be a consequence of frontpage space being such a scarce resource [1]. Sometimes people even end up with the idea that the most-commonly-discussed topics are actually being "aggressively removed from discussion" [2].

It's true that users sometimes flag articles that don't deserve to be flagged. We sometimes turn flags off on those. We don't always do that, because not every article on a given topic (e.g. misogyny or racism) is equally likely to support a meaningful discussion.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624962