skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure how things work in the EU/UK, but wouldn’t it make sense to make sure you have a viable product before moving for the ease of setting up a company? In the US, my partner and I had to think about the overhead/operations/regulatory part of the business maybe once a quarter. It was a pain, but in the grand scheme of things, it was so inconsequential to the entire picture. This reminds me of the usual questions around what new and unfamiliar technology one should pick when creating a new startup when the answer is really just sticking with what you know to get your product complete and in front of customers (who don’t magically appear, either, btw).
That only thing left is also one of ultimate problems in robotics. What’s brilliant(and inhuman) about Amazon is they don’t push it but just wait for the technology to mature while humans cheaply do it.
It was a point of contrast. The U.S. has a man incapable of almost any job you can think of as its president.
Microsoft at the time owned 90 percent of the entire computer market.

The only thing Apple has a monopoly on is things Apple sells. If it is deemed that you can have a monopoly of a subset of a market, ask yourself how this will be applied to other businesses in the future. Does a mall have a legal (not colloquial) monopoly on stores in the mall?

Edit:
If you make a game that has a store in it, do you have to let others sell thing in your game’s store. You have a monopoly on things sold in your game. Your game is a platform.
Buy this book. It's amazing. It might be my favorite book. It's entirely utilitarian in simplicity and proportions, yet also provides really interesting history and knowledge, and looks nice on a shelf. Anyone who drinks should own this book. https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Bar-Book-Comprehensive-Cockt... (Just don't buy it from Amazon and you'll save $10)
I'm absolutely not an expert, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect the CCP/Tiktok has no constitutional rights in the US and the President can take any action against a government controlled foreign business if there's even a hint of a national security risk. Not saying it's right it wrong, only that it's within their power.
How could CRDTs be used to collaborate in a project made with a visual programming language that consists of interconnected operators? Is it necessary to serialize this graph?
Roku sticks don't have much in the way of ads ...
> What would it take for you to care about politics? What sort of issue would have to be up for debate?

I don't think that there is anything at all, in modern day politics that makes that much of a difference.

Individual circumstances and relationships matter much much more than basically all politics in the modern day.

But even if we are discussing things that pass this very high bar of where it matters (So as an actual real life world world, or civil war, and before you say it, the 2020 election does not count as a "civil war" lol), I would still argue that an individual person's ability to effect those politics is very small.

So, for example, even if that other friend was on the "wrong" side of whatever this "very important political topic" is, that person's actual ability to have an effect on that political topic, is so small that I would care more about that person, than their stance on this issue.
This is a great observation. I think one difference is that on the internet, the social gathering is much bigger, and these people end up finding each other. In real life, if you start ranting about flat earth or something, it's likely that no one around will agree with you and not engage. But if you do it online, you'll find plenty of others. (maybe trolls, but how can you really know?) So now you think maybe your ideas aren't so crazy. And normally rational people see all these people starting to believe in flat earth, and that no one is standing up to them, and that makes them unsure and uncomfortable.

Maybe flat earth isn't the best example, but you know, I don't want to looks like I'm opposed to POPULAR_OPINION_ONLINE lol
Capacity factor is bounded by limited demand. You can't put power on the grid that no one wants. So for an all nuclear grid you end up with a capacity factor that is around 60-70%. (note: France exports/imports a lot so capacity factor is higher than if it was an isolated grid).

For wind, if there is storage capacity factor goes up. Basically, if it can produce and there is a consumer (the battery) then the wind mill will turn. If there is no consumer it shut's off even if there is wind.

Windmills have a guarantee for 20 years (in common contracts, sometimes 25). Included in the above prices. Nuclear island lasts 60 years, but will be refurbished and it's power island is not guaranteed for 60 years (turbines). Solar panels guarantees are heading towards the 40 year mark (inverters not yet).

The law of large numbers favor's wind and solar for reliability at scale.

It's not about feelings, it's about hard economic reality. That even with massive economic subsidies very few modern nuclear plants are viable.

With the problem, that the scale up period of Nuclear is too slow. Even successes take decades to build. And are limited by sites/foundery's that themselves takes years to build.
Which is why "excess deaths" is a good metric to look at - heart disease, overdoses, cancer, and car crashes are all normal, routine causes of death.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
They spent a lot of time on this but have not gotten the basics right yet. For instance, there is no “start from beginning” button which is a huge oversight since kids watch stuff 3000 times. You either have to let the credits roll entirely or swipe your way all the way to the beginning of the movie. Super annoying.
IMHO Nazis aren't the core problem - it's the hate speech that tends to come with them that is.
That warehouse burned to the ground about a year ago, didn't it?
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What are the decommissioning costs?

Who will pay for the cost overruns?

Just one of the big problems with nuclear is that it is very centralized and takes individual control away from the consumers, who foot the bill through increased taxes and fees, and who could otherwise be using their money to finance options that give them individual control over their energy costs.
That mostly works if the owner isn't also the person doing most of the work on the project.
Likewise, most of the plastic bag alternatives are worse because they would have to be reused a ridiculous number of times to be better, and are often actually harder to reuse than the large plastic grocery bags (e.g. https://dontthinktheworst.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/aldi.j..., not to be confused with the truly single-use bags common in the US) that they replaced.
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No one is interested in this pedantry. Save your time.
> I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives ...

> the idea being that there's a "default", boring, generic universal font template that covers all glyphs

> a type designer simply modifies parameters

Have you looked through the Unicode code charts lately and really thought about how many primitives you'd need in order to create glyphs not just for Latin/Cyrillic/Greek, but also for Arabic, Telugu, Thai, Lao, Javanese, Mongolian, etc., etc.? Never mind the miscellaneous symbols and dingbats, and the ever-growing collection of emoji....

I don't think this is a realistic proposition.

Within a closely-related group of scripts -- like Latin/Cyrillic/Greek -- and within a constrained range of styles, yes, it's possible: e.g., see Knuth's METAFONT and the various font families that have been created with it.
Telegram doesn't encrypt by default. A dangerous point for protesters in Belarus. One forgotten tickbox could lead to jail or worse.

But I like Telegram too as it's more open. It had an open API for things like bots and they're not so opposed to using third party clients stop tot can integrate it with things like Matrix.

Most of my traffic is just non sensitive group chats anyway. But if I was a protester in a dangerous country I'd use signal for sure. I use both anyway but for most stuff I prefer Telegram.
> It has some serious limitations as a scripting language, namely lack of proper subshell support and background process control. The relevant issues have been open for years with no clear resolution in sight. (which is fair, these are very hard problems and it's an open-source project with finite resources)

You say that but I'd been writing a shell in my spare time and I solved those problems over the course of a few weeks. For me though, they were important problems to solve because few other lesser mainstream / alternative shells addressed those problems and thus they became all the more tantalising problems to solve. In Fish's case, they might be lower priority jobs.

Unfortunately though, I also broke job control support again earlier this year and haven't had the spare time during the pandemic (my kids have been understandably more demanding of my time now that I'm working from home) to fix it. So I can't demo that particular feature as working. As an aside, this is also a good lesson to everyone to write robust tests....
I think you left off the bit that shows the contributors. Here's the budget and contributors:
https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget

Another comment mentioned Facebook and Twitch contribute elsewhere.

Of course, it seems very widely used, so the point that it's under funded stands.
If we are using car brands as analogies, sure, in some way a BMW is a status symbol on public road, but on race tracks, pretty much every non-SUV BMW model would excel. Look at how many non-purpose-built BMW production cars that entered the 2019 VLN race series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_VLN_Series

After a car leaves the showroom, it's ultimately up to the owner to decide what to do with the car. A Corolla is great at getting groceries, but a BMW can not only take you to supermarkets but also win races on Sundays.

Oh BTW, BMW has just won the 24 Hours of the Nürbergring this past Sunday.
I brought it up precisely for that phone call. You must remember what prompted it, right? Jobs didn’t go into his phone book and dial the number–he looked it up from maps. And that is precisely how people use iPhone today: they do a bunch of other things and also call sometimes. To be honest, I take more phone calls from my Mac than my iPhone.
I scream with laughter because most Samsung TVs are sold at MSRP which is 50% more than the competition and you see moron tv buyers going bananas for a trivial discount which makes them 35% more than the competition!
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I have tried enough conference call speakerphones that claimed to be full duplex to know that it's a safe assumption that the claim is 100% false.

I haven't tried this specific one but from my point of view the odds of a microphone picking up your voice clearly from 2ft away, while happily filtering out a very loud sound being emitted 1cm away at the same time, are quite low. Much lower than the odds of a marketing drone getting away with lying on a product brochure.

I'm not an audio expert, but I doubt the SNR is there for the noise cancelling to be effective when you have to substract a 10db echo to recover a 1db voice.

On the other hand, Katie from the Amazon review seems knowledgeable and she has past reviews of other speakerphones so it might be worth a shot :) Still, I'll believe it when I hear it!
I am. You can see that the phone part must be at least less than a third of the device ;)
Czech Republic. There are few exceptions to this (power plant control computers, stuff like that), but generally, it's illegal. EU is a bit less restrictive about this, but company-wide, systematic monitoring is forbidden everywhere.
And the transition from Julian to Gregorian just changed the leap year rules. It didn't change the fact that there's no year 0. The 1st Century began in the year 1.

I don't believe anything in ISO 8601 refers to the century starting 2000-01-01 as "the 21st century" (though apparently it does, in some contexts, allow "20" to refer to the century that started on that date).

The century called "the 1900s" overlaps with the 20th century for 99 of 100 years.
> This catchy phrase is catch 22. Negative consequences of freedom mean there is no freedom.

That's something of a misnomer. In the case where the government (as in China) will visit consequences upon you for your speech limits freedom.

But others using their speech to express their displeasure with your speech does not.

Do you see how that works? If your peers disagree with you and express that, it's not limiting freedom, it's giving the same freedom to everyone.

I do believe that it's inappropriate (note the word I use here, as it has a specific meaning and implication) to target someone's professional status for a real or perceived disagreement (assuming that those disagreements are not relevant to the target's professional duties).

That doesn't make it illegal, just petty, vindictive and in bad faith. None of which limits anyone's freedom to express themselves.

There's a big difference between legality and social norms. Just because it's legal to do something, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
That's rather... convenient advice for employees of a company that is alleged to be involved in human rights violations.

Just yesterday, by means of example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chantaldasilva/2020/09/28/palan...
Thank you! I’ve been biting my lips not to correct these comments about how “immigration is (sometimes) bad” because I’m trying to focus on grandparent’s point. But you said it much better then I could have.
OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing
Epic can fight back all walled gardens are monopoly and he is fighting a dragon or dragons using his wooden weapon on his epic horse. Even sing the song “To dream the Impossible dream ...” is as delusion as the original novel or movie.

It can fight the 30% but as long as Apple allow small business and people like us pay 99 get publish I am on that m... walled garden side.
Sounds about the same as generalized AI in time tables
Search on “condensing” or “ventless” dryers.

https://www.abt.com/product/140010/Bosch-24-800-Series-White...
Datto S-1
> Either their standard was too lenient or their testing procedure unrealistic though, because my dishwasher has the "EU mode" (which has to be selected by default by law), and then 4 other modes that will actually clean the dishes.

In the US these newish dishwashers drive me crazy. They don’t have a heating element on the bottom (efficient!) and anything plastic is absolutely dripping wet, even after it’s been drying overnight (or rather, actively drying for a couple hours and then just sitting there). You’re supposed to top them up CONSTANTLY with Jet Dry (drying agent), but it barely does anything. Parent was spot on in describing the efficiency gains as being a result of not doing the damn job.
Depends on the manufacturer.
I think the major design philosophy differences between the two systems are:

- Kiva robots are designed to work along with cheap labor

- Swisslog Autostore is designed to minimise labor, because labor is expensive in Europe (it does more of the work).

Here's a four year old video of an Autostore at komplett.no/komplett.se:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWK5xL_o3f4
> how climate change is endangering the harvest of shrimps in a village of mud huts.

Pro-tip, human beings live in those mud huts, and base their way of life on those shrimps, so for them, it's a big deal.

Way to dismiss human lives as having no value.
This is one of the few projects I support on Patreon and Jim is fantastic. The amount of work that goes into this software is really incredible.
There is kind of a mania going on for teaching coding to kids - at least around me - fueled by the "edtech" industry.

Manipulative marketing and sales tactics to get parents to buy expensive courses which use nothing but MIT's free Scratch language (or nocode tools) combined with terrible instruction. This user on Twitter has been documenting some of these: https://twitter.com/whiteHatSnr

I find it very disturbing. For my 5yo kid, I had used many free resources such as Harvey Mudd College's free course on edX and more constrained apps like LightBot and found them to work spectacularly well. To help other parents, I wrote down this sequence in which these ideas can be introduced.

Disclaimer: LearnAwesome is my open-source project for lifelong learning to build syllabuses exactly like these.

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Look at the kind of ads these edtech companies - in which Mark Zuckerberg is an investor - have been using:

1: https://the-ken.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/whitehatjr-97...

2: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhLBJMYUMAE3C2a?format=jpg&name=...
Can you give examples of other kinds of harm you are thinking of?
It Was All a Lie
I really want to use things like this, but the permissions model is scary, it wants access to everything.

I'm sure most plugins are benign, but it might not be
Pretty interesting how streamlabs managed to capitalize off OBS
Electric motors in the wheels might help on the takeoff roll during initial acceleration to rotation speed (100-150 mph). Perhaps also regenerative braking on landing. And taxiing.
Why aren't there any jail terms in this case? I am 100% sure they are fined much less than the profit they made on it. Unless people are jailed, let me be precise here, unless the CEO is jailed for knowingly leading the scam it will not stop. There is no incentive for them to do financial fraud as long as they are just fined.
Have an recommendations for a home projector setup? I have a really good space for a projector now but idk what I want.
Naive question perhaps – what is missing in Gtk-rs?
Direct link that renders outside of the SEC website frame: https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-20-257812/d36878ds1.h...
That's a lofty idea, but how do you deal with hate speech ?
I mean, you could, but it would probably end up being so complicated that it introduces failure points elsewhere.
I wonder if that would require Nvidia webdrivers to be un-discontinued?
I personally like CFL. They are more efficient, don't get as hot as incandescent bulbs, and unlike incandescent bulbs, you can actually get light that approaches white. Also they're much less bulky and easier to handle than traditional (lightsaber-shaped) fluorescent lamps. What's not to like?

Also, each bulb contains only a few mg of mercury. Tuna has ~0.3 ppm of mercury, so if you eat two pounds of tuna then you'll ingest about 0.3 mg of mercury. I don't think you'll ingest more than 10% of mercury even if you break a CFL, so roughly speaking, "breaking a CFL" is the same order of magnitude as "two pounds of tuna" - doesn't sound that dangerous to me.
But what would we do if all those legal and technical experts came up with a framework that the general population believed was obviously unfair?

In the current framework, nothing. They're built right into the system. It's a pretty core principal of government operating only by the consent of those governed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern:

The most unusual characteristic of Computer Modern, however, is the fact that it is a complete type family designed with Knuth's Metafont system, one of the few typefaces developed in this way. The Computer Modern source files are governed by 62 distinct parameters, controlling the widths and heights of various elements, the presence of serifs or old-style numerals, whether dots such as the dot on the "i" are square or rounded, and the degree of "superness" in the bowls of lowercase letters such as "g" and "o". This allows Metafont designs to be processed in unusual ways; Knuth has shown effects such as morphing in demonstrations, where one font slowly transitions into another over the course of a text. While it attracted attention for the concept, Metafont has been used by few other font designers; by 1996 Knuth commented "asking an artist to become enough of a mathematician to understand how to write a font with 60 parameters is too much" while digital-period font designer Jonathan Hoefler commented in 2015 that "Knuth's idea that letters start with skeletal forms is flawed".

For a small sample of font source code, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont

Edit: for an idea about what variants can be generated, see https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_master_fonts and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_fonts are younger, but also don’t quite work. It’s very hard/not really possible to design parametrized fonts that look well across wide parameter ranges.
There was a bit more to $.each than that.

Originally, a jQuery object that you got from calls like $(foo) was not an array-like object as it is today. The jQuery object had an internal array of the matching DOM elements, but you were supposed to ignore it and instead use $(foo).each(...) to iterate through the elements, or $(foo).get(n) to access a specific element.

I thought it would be more convenient if you could just treat the jQuery object itself as an array, which turned out to be a simple change. So that's why you can now do $(foo)[n]. The .get(n) method was kept for compatibility with very old code.

At that point, $(foo).each(...) was not as useful as it had been, but it was also kept for compatibility. And $.each(...) was also kept around, as it was the helper function for $(foo).each(...) and related methods.

Another fun fact on the first version of the jQuery code: all of the methods on a jQuery object like $().each, $().html, $().css, etc. were not on a prototype object. Whenever you called $(foo) to create a jQuery object, it ran a loop to copy references to all those methods into the jQuery object.

Needless to say, that was a bit slow, and got slower as you added plugins. So my other minor architectural contribution was to use a prototype instead of copying all the methods.

We were all learning as we went along in those days! :-)
Nice, definitely will try
Amazon's approach of letting customers return "shipped and sold by amazon" items and letting an automated system issue refunds proactively for basically any reason is actually one of the more scalable approaches. It just sucks that the system pushes quality control to the customer
If the price on the private market is anything to go by, $6 times several tens of thousands of stock units, minus the astronomical cost to exercise, minus confusing Trump taxes.

Oops, I just said the T-word! Better stop thinking about the news again! Ha ha!
If you haven't just used OBS you definitely should check it out. It's an incredible piece of software. I can screen cap multiple browsers and get a webcam feed and be at ~4% CPU usage. To put that in perspective I just made an app with OpenFrameworks (C++) that just gets my camera and it uses ~6% of my CPU.

OBS is amazing.
Can't you describe any software as 'just some tools'? If the tools do what you want and achieve the same things as OBS then isn't that what you want?
And? What does it have to do with Covid?
Why is it punishing? It is just a rule, and you'd know in advance you have to abide by it when placing your order. If you think it is risky, do not place your order in the first place.
I wonder if it can take one person's video feed from MS Teams and use that as an input... which is the background subbed in via green-screen.

And then re-injected into an MS Teams call via virtual camera.
It is not a monopoly. You are spinned. The answer is key. Can’t be monopoly like this legally. Otherwise you may be charged of monopoly of selling coffee in your backyard as only you can do it.

Not just that, to be honest Apple App do not spill over even. You do not need to run in Apple store unlike in 1990 you basically have to run windows.
Those items remind me very much of how GUIs are specified in Tk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(software)

Perhaps a model similar to Tk could be used?
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