skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who don't understand things, call them some variant on magic. People who do, use their true names.

Clarke's linguistic corollary has probably been true for as long as there's been technology.
If I would have known that by buying Kindle I end up working for Amazon, I indeed wouldn't have bought one.

It's deception. Please put on the box a big warning, "THIS DEVICE COLLECTS YOUR DATA", similar to those on cigarette boxes.
> Every single year since I was 12 and paid attention/tracked hurricanes

As a non-US resident, I'd like to ask: International news make it appear as if the situation has worsened in the last years (Katrina used to be a once-in-a-lifetime event, now hurricanes of similar size occur every few years)
Is this impression correct or overblown?

Also, going by news coverage, the US seem to be hit by at least four large-scale destabilizing events simultaneously this year (hurricanes, wildfires, COVID, political tensions). Does this influence the general outlook on the hurricane season?
How Corporate Money Has Distorted American Science
You can go work somewhere else too.

Having a choice is better than not having one, all around.

You can argue the changing employers is hard. I can also argue that 50% of my customers use iPhones and so I have to use one and know how they work. I literally cannot have an app business without dealing with Apple. That’s why this is an anti-trust situation.
Since there is military competition between countries, it’s more like, if we choose A and China chooses B, are we still at an advantage or will China overwhelm our superior trained manned fighters with lots of cheap drones?
Why buy a kindle at all then?

Any cheap budget tablet can read ebooks and stay off the internet.
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Would love to replace my Kindle with another device. Any recommendations? - Also, I appreciate a local file on the Kindle that logs all my highlights (this file is called `My Clippings.txt‘. I parse that file and have a wonderful summary of the books I read. Any other ebook reader that creates a file like that?
> no comments posted without approval

This is a popular opinion - that there are some things that people should just not be allowed to say, anywhere, ever, and while I (sort of) understand the impetus behind it, every proposed cure is worse than the disease.
What is the conventional wisdom? Because frauds are extremely common.
I had a funny situation with kindle. It was connecting to the internet all the time, I enabled airplane mode and then it started complaining about it all the time.

Out of spite I added password to my wifi (I didn't have any and I even named my hotspot smth like "free" for my neighbors to use, wouldn't do that now).

To my surprise, some ~8months later I discovered my kindle to happily connect to my wifi. I'm pretty sure I would never enter the password there, because the kindle was the reason I added password to begin with. Maybe there is some more sane explanation than "kindle bruteforced my wifi", like a bug or some nuance in authorization protocol?

edit: it happened 7 years ago with kindle 2013 paperwhite.
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> In our age of short time spans and competition for attention you would think news magazines would be concise and to the point,

There are terse news outlets, but news magazines whole reason for existence, from the beginning, is providing deeper, more complete coverage of fewer stories than “short-deadline, break-it-first” media like TV and newspapers.
Damn, 2.62%? That's absolutely nuts. Makes me think I should look into buying a house...
Same with articles about legislation. They rarely give the actual name or number of a bill or law.
With recent advancements in ML, a comment thread from people who don’t read TFA could be used to back-generate a plausibly looking article.
Huh. I'll add some more anec-data to this thread: both my mom and myself have had similar issues.

My folks live in WA near Seattle and, while summers are pretty nice, most of the year is crazy dark and gray, necessitating some Vit D supplementation. My mom was pretty diligent about that and noticed heart palpitation on a few occasions, but no actual heart issues.

I live further north and supplement for the same reasons, and have even gone to the hospital thinking I was having a heart attack -- but all the tests came back fine. Those heart issues were after a long period of supplementation + aggressive workouts. If anything, my heart health was probably better then than most times; doctors attributed the issues to stress.
And neglects to address the other points.
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> I've actually found it quite challenging to purchase books to put on my Kindle that aren't from Amazon, since they use a proprietary format.

While MOBI began as one's company's proprietary solution, the format is well over a decade old now and quite well understood by the Free Software community. Calibre can convert EPUB (or anything else, really) to MOBI, so you can buy or pirate your ebooks from anywhere and easily put them on a Kindle.
I see The Mom Test recommended anywhere. Can anyone shed some light into what other information it contains other than "focus on the problem (not your solution) and explain things simply and concisely enough that your mother could understand?"
This is a bit of an artificial measurement... I mean in the charts shown, this claim of "defects are lower" could equally be stated as "Mass production was started later in the development process".
I don't think that will ease anyone with privacy concerns. People who are against government surveillance is not against the police catching criminals and solving cold murder cases. The Golden State Killer case was a very good use of DNA profiling and DNA databases being used to catch a criminal. The problem is that many don't trust the government to only use it for those cases, and many others don't trust the technology to have a low enough false positive rate to not cause harm to innocent people.

Understanding how the book reader features are used in practice is good. Selling the same data to a advertiser is bad. Profiling people into predefined groups is bad, and the technology has risk of having false positives/negatives that reinforce stereotypes. The law has yet to catch up to treat information gathered by libraries and information gathered by a developer of e-readers as being very similar in risks.
Even if the developers take the egregious step of nerfing airplane mode, you can still "opt out" by not giving the device credentials for your WiFi network.
The original vision for the iPhone was as a console for loading web apps.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/before-the-app-store-the-...

https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...
Well, I tried browsing without NoScript for a little while.

I stand corrected. New Reddit made 150 requests in about 30 seconds, not counting images/media/html.

That being said, It's easy to block many of these with NoScript/uBlock Origin.
Wow. That bodes good news for TSMC partners (AMD, NVidia, Qualcomm, and Apple).

I doubt they'll pass on the savings to consumers however. Certainly not Apple or Nvidia, and so the competitors Qualcomm and AMD have no reason to drop prices either.
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I Became an Active Angel Investor Without Being a Millionaire
The parent was complaining about Apple being a filter on the apps that users can install on their phones. But that type of restriction is basically the industry norm.
*Intel crying in the corner of the room :D
I'll agree to that. My issue is with this:

> telling you what to do and how to live, with an implicit guarantee that it would give everyone a decent life.

Why should I need to tell you what to do and how to live? There's gonna be things everyone will have to do from time to time (like cleaning streets, trash drives, maybe canal work, but most of those you can address by making the reward for doing such jobs higher than the average desk job), but other than that, you will have to work less and have more free time in which you will be free to do whatever you want.

I'd argue that our current system forces you way more to do certain things than a socialist system would. If you are poor, you need to work service jobs or hard manual labor, otherwise you die. The system literally forces you to work, otherwise you will not be caught by any social safety net. That's why leftists tend to talk about "wage slaves", because at the end of the day, you can either become homeless and sick, or work.
schools back in and all I hear are zoom classes
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It seems to be that than TSMC needs to increase their prices. They should be extracting more margin when compared to AMD, NVDA etc. They are just killing it. One of the main reasons with intc had better chips was they had the best Fabs.

Its kind of sad we used have guys like shockley, moore, kilby etc. The reason why silicon valley is called silicon valley. Now we are just falling behind Taiwan, south korea, and maybe china.
No one in their right mind compares the petro industry of Houston to anything in Florida.
And they were required to wear FFP3 (N95) masks.
I don't see this changing no matter who wins the White House in November. I used to laugh at people who said that the Fed was going to work at lowering interest rates as much as possible in order to promote economic growth and inflate away the debt. I'm not laughing at those people anymore.
> even though the majority of the population is jobless and moneyless

Unemployment is high, but much lower than the initial surge from coronavirus. It's likely we're still seeing significant hour/shift reduction, but as lockdown measures relax that will mostly let up or those workers will shift to different fields.

We are seeing things shift away from brick and mortars, but that isn't new just accelerated. It seems like ecommerce is eating everyones lunch now.
I recall that as standard practice on Slashdot in 2000.
I have an app already. It’s called a browser. Requiring a specialized app just to get performance that should already exist is the epitome of what’s wrong with the mobile experience.

If Reddit had been envisioned from the begging as requiring a special app for access, I would feel differently, but it’s a damn website that should be cleanly and effectively accessed through a browser.
It's not about how it is used, it's about how it can be used (especially when a less benevolent entity gains access to it.)
It doesn't really matter does it? You don't collect data without consent, period.

Why is that so hard to understand?

Why don't developers ever push back against this sort of thing? Collectively we build this stuff, we are not 'soldiers following orders' which makes us responsible for what we create.

The current actual use is not relevant. Consent and the possible uses are relevant.
Is it possible that they are constraining the design of circuits to elements that will have a higher yield? These probably aren't just "the same circuit but smaller".
The Milgram experiment only proved how easy it is to fool the world by publishing lies.
Read the validity section
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
rolling back all of the great tech advances during this pandemic time :/
Doesn't matter, the behaviour is still monopolistic, but even if we cede that point it's absolutely a duopoly. Fortnite is also banned on Google play, they've lost access to over 90% of the mobile market. The Sherman Act isn't about being a monopoly, it's about exploiting an unfair degree of leverage.

But either way that's not my point. Epic establishing a precedent that restricts the degree to which companies can dominate a supply line and then use that position to skim isn't going to make it easier for Epic to dominate you, the consumer. That's not their objective. That is Apple's objective.
How to make onboarding engineers a launching pad for success
I've worked at four startups and onboarding is one of the key elements that can easily be made better.

Hopefully this article can be helpful for your company. Feel free to share around and let me know what you think.
I read the title as "Boeing ok with not being extraordinary". That would be a pretty dramatic statement...
There were exactly 0 ads in that piece (unless you consider the 1 pitch to subscribe to that same magazine an ad).
Best Social Media Posting and Scheduling APIs of 2020
Well...

1) even if we were all-knowing about what we’ll need in the future, we still don’t know enough about genetics to reliably “push” towards a set goal. Yes we know genetics plays a huge role in things like your body condition, your age, etc., but the degree to which those genes affect - and are affected by - your environment and at what stages they begin working, and where we should alter them, is so far almost completely unknown. Eugenics is grounded in the old idea that much of “you” is just genetics, but we know that idea now to be not just old-fashioned but outright wrong, in that there is a combinatorial number of possibilities enabled by your environment. It’s like calling the codebase of google search the same as the discord codebase because they’re both made of underlying C code (or whatever); technically true but also not true at all.

2)we really don’t have any idea what we should be pushing towards. Maybe right now we think that pushing towards greater strength, for example, would be a good idea, but maybe down the road we discover that one of the genes we made dominant actually makes us very susceptible to some virus strain, overall making the population die at a much higher rate compared to how things would have gone if we had not tried to play god. There are many, many variables you can’t even begin to account for; I find the words “Life finds a way” remarkably suitable to this discussion.
EUV being the biggest suspect for yield boost. The 6nm EUV, and 7nm EUV were niche processes incompatible with non-EUV versions, and had own special design rules. I believe very few companies went for them other than for trial runs to gather expertise.

TSMC 5nm uses EUV by default, and very likely has no quad patterning layers, and possibly they threw out double patterning layers too.

Not having to give any considerations to multiple patterning should allow for much freer design rules, and let recover density from sacrificial lines.
I originally started https://foodpages.ca and dinehere.us then built https://geocode.ca to provide local search functionality, then expanded worldwide with geocode.xyz and 3geonames.org, also got into collaborative fiction writing with fictionpad.com and price comparison engines with comparify.xyz & askvini.com (which I sold on flippa) and real estate aggregator sites (shitet.net and landhub.ca, landhub.us).

Currently geocode.xyz and geocoder.ca are my most profitable businesses.
Any cheap budget table isn't e-ink, which matters for battery life and, at least for some people, reading pleasure. Also, I mainly use my Kindle for reading research papers in academia, into the hundreds of publications each year. So, after years of using these devices its UI (which I find admirably simple and straightforward) is burned into my muscle memory. So, switching to another series of devices would mean having to adjust to a new workflow that may well bring unwelcome complexities.
$250k less 10% downpayment assuming 3% interest rate for 30 years yields about $1300 per month payments which is $15600 per year.

With median household income in Ohio being around 56k, spending 15k on a house looks affordable.
Poetry can be about not being dull, business communication should be dull.
> It seems to be that than TSMC needs to increase their prices. They should be extracting more margin when compared to AMD, NVDA etc. They are just killing it. One of the main reasons with intc had better chips was they had the best Fabs.

TSMC margin was always at around 30%, they are killing it.
>What's really misleading, at least based on the comments here, is that this spike was driven by a drastic increase in multi-family (5+ unit) starts.

... so COVID-19 somehow helped the YIMBY movement get apartment buildings permitted for bloody once? This is... great news, albeit without any clear causal connection between one thing and another.
Covid milestone: zero reported deaths in UK
Variations of Pike Press or Decline Push Up. If that 250lbs is mostly fat I wouldn't worry too much about my shoulder strength and focus on losing the extra weight. If it's muscle I agree that it's hard to maintain that without some iron.
Beautiful, definitely one of the clearest walkthroughs I've seen on CORS, with enough detail to understand what's going on with all those magic headers.
> There's no risk of the mine uprooting itself and carrying itself into an urban civilian population center.

And yet, landmines kill an estimated 15-20,000 civilians each year. About one in five are children. All because someone decided to defend an area. You say this is “working as intended”, but—how can this be the intended result?

Automatic weapon systems allow you to make decisions about who lives and dies, and they let you escape responsibility by making those deaths occur at a different time/place from when and where you caused those deaths. If you were defending an area with teammates and friends’ lives on the line, you might be a little less careful about how your decisions affect the lives of civilians—especially the civilian deaths are uncertain and distant.
eInk is a lot nicer for reading books than LCD screens.

The downside is that eInk currently only supports black-and-white and turning pages is roughly only as fast as turning the page of a book.

Also, battery life is counted in days (and sometimes weeks) and not in hours.
Experimenting on humans is considered highly unethical. Studies like this are rare for a very good reason, looking back through history we have realized that such experiments when reviewed at a later date almost always turned out to be not in the best interest of the subjects of the tests.
Interfaces are contracts between caller and provider. James Stanier, the author, is using interfaces as contracts in order to make expectations explicit while delegating out the provider's implementation.

He does not address the contract that you as a manager fulfill as a provider for your reports. He should. Given the volume of material on his site, I'd expect he addresses how managers serve elsewhere.

Stanier is talking about managers managing other managers, so the units of implementation are people who orchestrating other people's work and who are serving the needs of their teams in turn. A manager of managers has an interest in "what", the contract, and as well as "how well", the return, and following that, with exception cases, the causal question of "why". As a manager of managers you need to know enough specifics to quickly understand and add value in situations where your chief service is exception handling and diagnostics.
I wonder how many of the comments here right now have been written/discussed without having read the article.
> the "invasive" data mentioned in the post doesn't seem particularly invasive to me[.]

Attempting to get the subnet IP address? That seems pretty invasive.

From the article:

> Attempt to get the IP address on the local network (a 10. address, which was incorrect for me)
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I've not seen any fab where defects can be traded off against any other parameter...

For example, can I get double the logic density if I'm happy to get defects from 0.1 per square centimeter to 1000 per square centimeter? If I can, I'd very much like to for some usecases. Think of things like SRAM, where you can simply have a "bad address handling unit", which keeps a list of the bad addresses and maps them elsewhere. As long as my design is fine with adding a few cycles latency on 1 in a million ram accesses, I'm fine.
One would think Deepwater Horizon would be mentioned by comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
That's a really interesting point, and it piqued my curiosity. I decided a pretty fair comparison was Red Hat at the time of its 2005 IPO.[1] Its annual revenue for FY2005 was $278 million, so adjusted for inflation, a little smaller than Asana. (I'm annualizing the last reported quarter for Asana, because of its meteoric growth rate.)

But, still a fair good comparison of the shrink-wrapped software startups of yesteryear to today's SaaS business model. Operating systems certainly seem inherently more complex, so that should handicap things in favor of Asana. Of course, Red Hat is just re-packaging what's mostly developed by external open source contributors. But still, if we're talking about the overhead of support/services/sales, if anything that should make things harder for Red Hat.

In terms of COGS (cost of goods sold), its amazing how close the two land together. 14% or revenue at Asana and 17% at Red Hat. Since COGS includes technical support, it doesn't really seem that shrink-wrapped software is significantly more costly to support than SaaS.

For both companies sales is a major expense item. Still Red Hat's model seems to have a handy advantage. Its "only" paying 32% of revenue to sales, whereas Asana is paying a whooping 76% of revenue to sales. To be fair Asana is achieving a much faster growth rate than 2005-era Red Hat. Still, there doesn't really seem to be any clear sign that shrink-wrapped software is more expensive to sell than SaaS. At least in the enterprise space.

However with R&D costs the discrepancy's pretty clear. In 2005, Red Hat was spending 16% of revenue on this line item. Asana triples this rate by spending nearly 50% of revenue on R&D. And again, ipso facto it certainly seems like Red Hat is developing a much more complex product.

[1]https://www.annualreports.com/Company/red-hat-inc
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> Developers have increasingly taken adversarial positions with their users

And who do we have to thank for that turn? Apple's culture that "we know better" is a good part of that problem. Developers want to be Apple, and Apple is pretty abusive towards their users. They take the occasional pro-user stance where it suits them, but overall it's pretty clear that the only institutional interest for Apple is Apple's own bottom line.

Here you're effectively defending an absolutist monarch: he can take a good decision here and there, maybe even give you a decade or two of peace and prosperity, but in the long run his family will inevitably do what is good for them, not for the country. Democracy is messy, unstable, often dangerous, but in the long run is more sustainable for the ecosystem at large.
Taking a job as a soldier is not at all comparable to taking a job as a fire fighter.
How high did it raise the sea level worldwide?
The book is about how to avoid getting false signals of customer needs for a problem you think your solving, regardless of solution, that doesn't exist. People also “fire customers” when they don't like what they hear. Its in the same vein.
We've unofficially crossed the rubicon into basically what amounts to Modern Monetary Theory. It's going to be an interesting decade.
Most commenters here didn't read the article properly and completely misunderstood what this is about. To be fair, it's not explained super clearly.

So to clarify: This was not done to study the spread of the virus, but rather to study the behavior of people at this type of event. Only people who tested negative were allowed to the event.

This has a lot more detail (but is in German): https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/corona-konzert-r...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/faq-journey