skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk to your customers - find out how much they pay to solve the problem you’re currently solving (or the opportunity cost of not solving it) - as a founder you shouldn’t outsource this skill - if you don’t have it, develop it by talking to your customer and testing prices in the market and taking to other founders
Eh, it still happens. You'll find plenty of CLI utilities that can have small, but breaking changes between minor versions and require all kinds of hacks to get working correctly in a mixed environment.
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Lots of people, including those that stop at Pret in the morning, are probably selecting for convenience rather than any other measure of quality.

They would probably be best served by something like a Nespresso machine.
Driving through a plastic bag also just isn't a safe option in rare cases for cars. It can get wrapped around something and cause some damage or latch onto the exhaust and burn and smell awful.

Do people here really just drive through road hazards without being cautious?
Command+, to bring up preferences is surefire, does linux/windows have the same yet? I remember Command+W not working as consistently as well.

Word and like jumps in Windows also felt backwards to me, doing the equivalent of w instead of e in vim, and couldn't be consistently combined with shift.

Support for Alt+Dpad(+Shift) and Command+Dpad(+Shift) is important IMO. As well as Double/Triple-click+Drag: it should select additional units not letters.

These last paragraphs are OS-level but the features were missing or inconsistent.
Thank you. Unfortunately it won't let me update the link anymore.
Kids always played online browser games, flash games, downloadable games and similar stuff, and some of them still do. The only difference is that there is a higher probability now that technologically illiterate parents accidentally give their kid an access to their credit card.
please ignore the typos - not having a good phone/keyboard day today
What evidence do you have that he left Plausible Labs to work for Apple? If true, that could explain why his blog has been inactive.
"A pool of servers that route traffic to application backends crashed"

https://mobile.twitter.com/uhoelzle/status/13093135569956618...

So, "kind of" confirmed, I think. Assuming a bad update is the most likely culprit for a whole pool of servers to all crash at the same time.
Team is used when the company takes credit for the work of the individual.

But yeah seems like an SEO grab.

Would love if Google changed their algorithm just to screw all these companies who have the resources to dedicate to SEO perfection.
I don't understand how you interpreted my comment like that. I'm arguing against legalizing it like tobacco, I'm not arguing for banning it completely. Opioids are already used in the medical system.
hugely impressed at the skills displayed.
But that's not an argument against masks at all. It's an issue with education, but I have no faith that taking away the masks would have those people who are making bad decisions somehow make better decisions.
I agree with you. It's just some cloth, why is it such a big deal to wear it. I wear one all the time, don't even notice after a while. It's slightly inconvenient, but only trivially so. If we all do it it almost certainly saves a significant number of lives and misery, "evidence" or not. The explanations behind it make perfect sense. And it makes people feel safer as well. All good things, for a trivial inconvenience.

The debate reminds me of the debate about smoking.

For a long time, smoking "probably" caused cancer. Meaning, almost certainly. There was plenty of evidence.

But for a long time, cigarette companies said it wasn't "proven" that it caused cancer. Meaning, let's carry on selling, advertising, consuming it in large quantities.

It would take a few more decades to reach the standard of "proof".

So smoking continued, people died.

Rather than following rational life-optimising behaviour based on the growing body of data.
4 years doesn't sound bad to me. I studied for a MS in Finland and you have to renew your student visa every year.
Day mode: With the power of 1000 suns I now declare you blind!

Night mode: I've played this video game before. A monster is going to jump out and get me at any moment.
You wholly misunderstood me. I can see you like the blunt approach so let me be clear: if your manager does not value what you are doing then quit your job.
A lot of people have tried - getting enough people to do it to support 1) any mesh network 2) your mesh network, specifically is hard
Stupidity and self interest are killing America, not authoritarianism.
Fraud?

Telsa tried to use the "His hands weren't on the wheel, look, he got an alert" argument in the NTSB investigation into an AP fatality. It was later proven that the alert was some 7 minutes prior to the accident.
The most compelling objection (to me) is that when surgeons wear masks, they sneeze inside their masks, then change their masks. When everyday people wear masks, we take our masks off to sneeze, expelling aerosol virus particles into the air to be circulated in the A/C for hours (probably days). That said, some studies have shown a small effect of mask mandates on daily case count growth.
How much is Pro nowadays? And it can't connect to a proper RDBMS.

Come on.

But don't worry, the post is surely out of the front page now, so nobody cares what I say.
> A car for the most part has a single purpose. Technology offers humans a lot more than just getting from point A to point B.

Sure, a car is just one example of technology. Technology in general is responsible for everything we have and everything we do. Here are some other technologies:

- farming

- weaving

- plastic

- glass

- ceramics

- steel

- cooking

To the nearest 0.0001%, 100% of people need these things to work and don't -- and can't -- understand why or how they work. That's the point of technology.
Not a lot. I'm not sure of where these things usually top out but at least for the software linked above the normal codecs are often around 20 baud. They're intended to be used with high-frequency radio transmissions, more so for keyboard to keyboard typing interfaces rather than arbitrary digital data but they can easily be used for any arbitrary data.

I've used it on a few occasions to send out a text email or some other kind of small text document. Sending out something like a several megabyte image would be very slow.
> China has surpassed Taiwan economically.

Per capita basis Taiwan is much better, but overall PRC is a lot more stronger.

> So many, that if the CCP lets Taiwan go, many people will revolt.

CCP has the gift of being able to control the narrative though, can't they make it seem like a win-win situation for them by doing it as some grand gesture and peace through largesse of their heart.

> Geographically, Taiwan is a military significant piece of land. The US can set up base there and blockade all China's naval traffic.

While I can see the importance of Taiwan as an opening between Japan and Philippines. Can't an enemy power use Japan, SK and Philippines to still blockade from Pacific.

Also, friendly relations with an independent Taiwan might mean it remains in PRC's sphere of influence
People trying to take the "high road" stating they won't stand with Assange, thinking that whistleblowers need to be some sort of Gandhi, completely miss the point that if you were a Gandhi, you would be far removed from a position that had something to whistle on. It is about net positive, and at the end of the day a little guy/org took on the behemoths of the world, and mankind collectively went back to posting their thongs online.

I am reminded of HL Mencken's quote - The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
There is no research showing that stem cells are effective for these conditions. That's why it's a scam.
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Was it difficult? :)
It's ironic that von Neumann said that poker isn't susceptible to computation while a few decades later, the game theory that he invented was used to create poker bots that are provably (within epsilon) unbeatable.
> Simplified and traditional characters are in perfect correspondence right?

No, there is no perfect correspondence between simplified and traditional Chinese. The simplified Chinese collapses important characters such as “after” and “back”, often causing confusion (you can read more here [1]).

[1]: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/SimplifiedCharacters.ht...
That's all thanks to the Youtube algorithm.
I think you're confusing the CDC with BLM supporters.

There certainly were various BLM supporters who argued the protests were more important than certain covid-19 restrictions.

But that wasn't the CDC. I don't believe the CDC changed its guidance to allow for BLM protests.
It's a threat because it fucks up the environment, so discarding regulations doesn't really seem to help. (Yes, one could argue that it only does so "locally", but we need thousands of new plants.)
Guys, guys, this is a thing with a lot of cars

Here's BMW, Mitsubishi and others failing at the same thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8JG7kepwc

The only reason you don't hear about it, is because hating on Tesla gets clicks.
Non-deterministic results aren't exactly a point in favor of Tesla's auto braking system.
It really depends on the language, react native is definitely different because lots of the functions are run in-line.

Programming is easy, learning the fancy tricks is the hard part.
This made me realize that my default expectations for anything tech related are very low and when something works the way it should, I'm amazed... I guess it should be the other way around. The amount of bullshit I have to deal with all kind of tech made me pretty much numb to it, I have no hope of things getting better so I just deal with it. What's even more sad is that in many aspects tech has become so much worse than it was in the past...
Another textual account that I find. It still feels incomplete.
https://www.keionline.org/33999

Link to the related webcast. I haven't taken the time to watch it.
https://c.connectedviews.com/05/SitePlayer/wipo?session=1095...
There are many, many life lessons I have drawn from my youth spent playing poker semi-professionally. Perhaps the most consistently useful one was that, as mentioned in the article, one's performance should not be assessed purely on the outcome.

In poker, you can play perfectly and still lose. That is true in almost every field of life. Or, to give it more nuance, you can play exceptionally well and only win a little, whereas someone has had greater luck can play relatively poorly and win a lot.
Nissan performed quite well in those tests, I'm impressed.
Also commercial standalone scripts as I see; I think many are 15+ years old originally and are just updated with better fronts and some new features but all the logic is just the same hacking.
yes, however saying "learn (a secret)" is more precise
This is not true. Car radars do pick pedestrians, but some car radars (blind spot for example) filter that out in post processing.
https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination...

Quoted from above page on SAR reports:

Under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), financial institutions are required to assist U.S. government agencies in detecting and preventing money laundering, such as:

-Keep records of cash purchases of negotiable instruments,

-File reports of cash transactions exceeding $10,000 (daily aggregate amount), and

-Report suspicious activity that might signal criminal activity (e.g., money laundering, tax evasion).
I love calibre. One of my favorite examples of free software. Easy to use, fully featured, great command line tools. That is all.

Glad he's finally moved to Python 3. Hope the (popular) plugins get migrated soon as well.
They thereby fall into the trap of judgement and dissipate their energies in Real world bullshit :)
When Iran coordinated attacks on American soldiers, Trump almost started World War III. When Russia coordinated and put bounties on American soldiers' heads, Trump tried getting Putin invited to the G7 summit.

Saying that Trump has a special relationship with Putin isn't even close to speculation. It's an easily observable understatement of the decade.
WATCH: code running in debug scenario fails to run successfully.
Unrelated question:

I'm reading this with Firefox on Android. None of the Twitter links work, reporting "Cannot Complete Request

"Additional information about this problem or error is currently unavailable."

Is the problem Twitter or Firefox?
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That paper says "when you put a mask on, and we immediately ask you to exhale onto a plate, we don't detect virus on that plate".

Parent poster isn't asking whether masks trap particles or not (clearly, they do), they're asking a much more interesting and useful question which is if we make everyone wear a mask does that prevent the spread of disease or not?

So far, we really don't have much evidence. In this thread, where lots of people are posting links, there's only one decent link posted by gameswithgo here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24589569
It's not a random document. It's worse. It's an actual filing by Flynn's counsel in an attempt to get his case reversed/dismissed. A case in which he pleaded guilty. Twice. To two different judges.

It is propaganda though, and it's being coordinated by Barr, Jensen and other top level DOJ officials.
I don't buy that excuse at all. Sure, perfection is impossible, but there's a very, very broad spectrum of quality that spans between "perfect" and "completely unusable". To say "well, we can't be perfect, so everything is terrible" seems absurdly black and white to me.
It's not unfair but realistic!

No one expects all cars to always perfectly breake in all situations.

But Tesla breakes far from perfectly.

And this isn't the first time Tesla has worse then everyone else results in emergency breaking system tests.
No. They are not in perfect correspondence. The mapping is one-to-multiple or multiple-to-one in quite a few characters, some of them commonly used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguities_in_Chinese_chara...
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The one thing that has changed is updates can be delivered easily. This takes some of the pressure off in terms of QA because rolling out a fix to a centralised service delivered through the browser is quick and painless. The cost of pressing millions of CD's kept developers in check in the past.
I agree. The only processors that seem to support it are designed for servers (eg Xeon). Other processors say they're compatible but don't actually use the ECC part of the memory.

I built a ML workstation for my work team and was disappointed that my options were: expensive, low clock speed server CPU + ECC, or inexpensive, very fast, desktop CPU without ECC. Even if I were willing to pay more money, it was really hard to get the same performance if I needed ECC.
> if mask mandates only slow the growth of asymptomatic cases, they are quite useless from a health perspective

If mask mandates slow the growth of asymptomatic cases, the R number must be lower.

As we all should know by now, reducing R is a good target, as the difference between R > 1 and R < 1 is profound, and R is thought to be close enough to 1 that measures taking place can make that difference.

This is very useful from a health perspective.
I work somewhere that primarily relies on manual testing rather than automated testing. It definitely does not make the software more reliable here, at the least. :-)
People literally have to get months of training to operate these machines because they are highly specialized, non intuitive and finnicky. Using medical instruments as an example of good software isn't a great idea
> Going to the supermarket hungry makes you buy more calories.

> All wrong.

>misleading conclusions not warranted by the research itself; fabricated data; data manhandled to pass significance tests; incompetent experimental designs; or experiments that wouldn’t replicate when tried by other scientists.

Not wrong. But often experts proving what they think is true by the wrong means. The ear wagging the donkey.

I suspect this is how science in the past worked and worked well.

I think the explosion of scientists and the lower standards means this is now broken. But I don't think we can look to the scientific method to fix it, I'm not sure it ever worked as we think it did.
I don't see BMW, Mitsubishi calling their system AutoPilot and their CEOs making all kinds of outlandish claims.
I just pointed you to a clinic in the Ukraine who 30 years ago initially did 5 years research before clinically offering fetal stem cell treatments for 25 years - where their research, and I'd recommend you read through their site + you can email to ask them for whatever evidence or 3rd party research by others they could point you to to satisfy you.

Edit to add: or even better for actual experiential learning - find someone with MS who's searching for non-harmful solutions and have them do it, be close to them before to know their quality of life intimately, perhaps go with them for treatment, and then be with them after closely to see how/if they have improvements that you can see + that they report.

I'm guessing you didn't watch the documentary on YouTube yet either - otherwise that's some amazing acting by patients and their local doctors. They have other videos on their site as well.
I was going to make the same point that this only really makes sense if you are used to the way that Mac OS renders fonts. I switched back to Linux a couple of years ago and this is one reason why at this point I just couldn't go back.
Me: Agrees with title but decides to read the post before commenting

WOAH my eyes!

Aha, there's a dark-mode switch. Maybe if I click that I'll be able to read this blinding page

* CLICK *

Nope
No. You see the abundant food choices in developed countries and yet only a small percentage of the population is vegetarian or vegan.

The reason why people choose a vegetarian/vegan diet is also varied and sometimes has nothing to do with wanting to stop the suffering of animals. Losing weight, a healthier body, peer group pressure are alternate motivations.

The decisive factor is not poverty.

I was also in the Philippines, and I was able to eat quite well for my 3 months there. I ate rice, beans, fruits and vegetables. My costs were the same as a local.
That's more of a question of where you come down on the idea of federalism. Personally I think way more stuff makes sense to have created and funded uniformly across the country than fragmented. The biggest budget sinks at the federal level of military and entitlement programs like social security make sense to be there. The military for obvious reasons makes more sense to have funded from there and then social security et al as well because people often move from where they were working to where they retire so trying to fund that at the state level get's a bit dicey for moving the money to where the old people actually are.
“I have a few Indoor Cams from Ring, but sometimes I would leave the house and couldn’t remember if I’d left a window open and wished I had a camera there.”

Said no one ever.

I guess that plays better than:

"Hey we at Amazon would really love to collect even more data traditionally considered private. Please pay us to run a drone inside your home so we can 3d map it and see what stuff you have so we can sell you even more stuff and tell our partners all about you.

We could not figure out how to make it quiet so we are going to say that it's loudness is a privacy guarantee giving you several seconds to stop having sex when you hear a high pitched wine in hallway.

If our spy drone catches you naked coming out of the shower we promise never to use the images it captures until of course one of our employees is found with a TB of them. Then we will apologize while feigning outrage and promise to put procedures in place to limit this type of thing until the next time it happens."
No need to tiptoe. It’s been six months. You can call it bullshit and demand a real plan instead of a political escape plan.
Consumer technology would be a better qualification. Or at least computers.

- The whole current USB ports fiasco;
- Just look at any wireless headset and you'll find at least 2 major bugs, between connectivity, quality, or general usability;
- Smart TVs suck terribly even at the high-ish level, both performance, image quality and usability;
- Touchscreen stovetops get triggered by food splatter;
And so on

Basically anything that has a microprocessor anywhere is bound to go haywire somehow at some point.
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If it were only for novel products this would be a reasonable argument. See Netscape's rush to release their browser as an example of what you're talk about.

But the worst part is that this is an issue with established products that have secured their market, and will even receive money every year from their customers. They have both the money and the time to pace themselves and test things properly, but they don't.
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> Why are we blaming automakers for garbage drivers?

Because most people are bad drivers, most of those people realize it whether they'll admit it or not, and I truly believe that deep down most people recognize that they are one inattentive moment away from killing someone.

There is a desperate desire to be able to offload that responsibility onto someone or something else. "They came out from behind that car" instead of "I shouldn't have been going 45mph next to a row of parked cars." "They stopped short" instead of "I was tailgating."

If we can offload the responsibility it becomes someone else's problem and we don't need to change our habits of driving too fast, not paying enough attention to the road, and being too distracted.
Many driver-assist programs ignore distant stationary objects because the sensors aren't good enough to tell if they're really in the road or just close to the road, or maybe a metal plate that should be driven over, or whatever. But the collision detection for close-up objects is usually better than this.
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The current ruling party of Taiwan, the DPP, disagrees with the One China Policy. They see Taiwan as a soveriegn nation whose territory consists solely of Taiwan and surrouding islands. Although there isn't an international agreement on this topic, the DPP sees it this way and they control the executive and legislature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party#P...
It's interesting that he uses "Phone at 5% brightness" as an example of a problem that needs urgent fixing. My phone has a perfectly functioning brightness slider and the only time I feel a need to put it brighter than 10% is when I'm using it outside on a sunny day. >60% indoors on a cloudy day or evening is obnoxiously bright.