skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the first step is too big or the end goal is too far, I cut the first step into smaller steps, and try to find a tempting intermediary goal.

Right now, I'm restoring an old motorcycle, and it's not going well. A bolt broke and I need to extract it from the engine I just reassembled.

My end goal now isn't to ride a shiny vintage bike, it's just to get it running. The first step isn't to extract the broken bolt, it's to open the engine again, a ten minute job.

Start small, set reasonable goals, and be careful about premature optimisation.
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Historically, each layer of circuits could have a flaws and so yield would drop per layer. With chiplet packaging you might be able to stack some of the chips vertically, if you can handle that much heat.

So for instance how much could you scale performance of a mobile chip by adding more transistors vertically until it has close to the same power draw as a desktop chip?
No one said equally active.

This is an extreme example but imagine someone knocks on your door and says “help, the secret police are after me.”

You don’t help them, and, you don’t turn them in.
Maybe ask GPT-f (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03393) next time!
I'd go for a much more prosaic example, myself. How about Docker?

Among members of my team, I have far and away the most moderate opinions on Docker. I'm pretty sure that this is largely because I'm also the one tasked with maintaining what infrastructure we have that's based on Docker. So my opinions are largely driven by first-hand experience, whereas my colleagues' opinions are largely driven by things they read on the Internet.
Not necessarily, there are lots of things an airline agent won't or can't do for you, however valued your status.

For example, adding ghost segments from another airline so that you can get cross-alliance IATCI without going to the desk at the airport
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But what would sqrt(-1) output ?

Also, we are seeing the first papers trying to do numerical analysis of posit computations and... it is not better than IEEE-754, just different. Probably a better default for 16 bits arithmetic but highly debatable otherwise.
Reader mode. The key combination will change by OS.
When companies say they are being apolitical they mean more narrowly political - ignoring as much as possible the things that do not affect their core business. Does coinbase have to have a declared position for whether there should be a Mexico wall, or gun rights, or abortion - not really. What about BLM or gay rights? They probably have to have some minimal position like "we treat everyone equally", but that's also different than donating to the protests or conversely declaring support for the police union, etc.
If you think that politics is an overriding consideration at all times - that every hour you spend working for someone is an hour spent supporting their political agenda - I don't think you have any choice but to choose your means of survival as a political statement. I agree that this is a pretty bad outcome, which is why I'd encourage you not to embrace such totalizing views of politics.
It's understood to mean "the Danish government". Two paragraphs later, it says, "In a climate plan published on Tuesday, the government estimated...". There's no person to attribute it to.

They could have added "... according to a government plan" to the first paragraph, but that's adding several words to a lede that's supposed to be concise and up front. It's sometimes called the "inverted pyramid"[1], though I find that a little odd since the width of the triangle refers to the importance of the words rather than the brevity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
There are more than 3 million people in the US that live in a world of 56k modems and HughesNet, who would be thrilled to even have LTE.
And here “freedom” means you are forbidden from discussing certain topics at work?
Usually money.
The Coinbase post was 100% right. Here's what you can do about it
How did you get the 50% figure?

And an extra compared to what exactly? The fee is identical on the Play Store.
Which seems fine. A service that isn't paying the minimum wage isn't competing fairly.

Edit: Typo. If you aren't paying a minimum wage, you ARE NOT competing fairly.
Show them by example how to be skeptical without accusing people of lying, and mention often the many reasons why people say things that might not be completely true.

Also, you need to make sure you yourself don't lie to them. A lot of parents still teach their kids to believe in Santa Claus. I know this is one of those cultural sacred cows, but I strongly think this should not be done. Kids need to be able to trust their parents and caregivers to a higher degree than the rest of society.

I've done some formal "activities" with them in homeschooling, like sorting "real" vs. "not real," but even I don't think those are as good as leading by example.
Event Store Secures Series A Investment
Reminds me of an incident in 2015 where a colleague and I stayed late trying to figure out a strange case of our physics engine producing NaN values out of nowhere. Even when we found the culprit it took us so long to believe our findings. There was a bug in Visual Studio's intrinsics for certain geometric functions (I believe it was sin). There was even a bug report for it with a reply saying they were aware of the issue and had no immediate plan to fix it.
Your MacBook Pro didn't now become less secure. It always was. We should be thankful to these people for making the vulnerability clear to us.
My very basic understanding is that most regular DAB (not DAB+) is inferior in audio quality compared to FM?

Also, and I don't know how much it has decided their design decisions, but Teenage Engineering is Swedish based, and here DAB hasn't really become a thing.

It's been, more or less, in a "trial" state since 1995, not covering the whole country and steps to upgrade to DAB+ and replacing FM canceled a few years ago.
The agent doesn't get kickbacks from the airline or the hotel. The agent gets a kickback from the distribution system, which itself charges a fee to the airline. Airlines don't want agencies, they tolerate them because they still bring the vast majority of traffic (except for some lowcosts, e.g. SWA, Ryanair)
There is a lot of value in removing political activists from your company, and so it's worth paying them to leave.

Aside from the combative toxic environment they generate, they are also often the source of disgruntled rogue employees that will generally behave improperly, misrepresent coworkers, leak documents, raise alarms about operations they don't understand, and generally draw the company into litigation.

In a highly sensitive market like crypto, you don't want to gain unnecessary regulatory attention, and activists like this will be the first to testify against the company with their biased interpretation of internal operations.

They're just poison. In the best case scenario, they are just a huge distraction - and in the worst they will cost you 10x their salary in legal drama.
I would ignore most of this advice and simplify it this way:

Act Immediately

Get an influencer

All the rest of OP's journey doesn't really matter.

My newest venture this summer did 7 figures after I got motivated by watching Hamilton, this was also a week long period of sales, which came after a 2 week long period of idea and building hype. It definitely came down to doing something very trendy and having people know about it, and there is nothing organic in that process. I don't think the same venture could do that now already. It would have to be new trendy things.
A lot of vested interests want you to be anxious about it, and directing resources their way as a result.

Climate change is real, but your influence on it is about as large as your ability to alter the rotational speed of the planet.

Don't worry about it.
I assume that the city's researchers looked at take-home divided by time available to drive and the companies probably only counted the time the drivers were actively engaged. It's why they only want to have to pay a wage when a driver is engaged: they can make them clock out in between rides.
Also author of an O'Reilly book here, sold 7K+ paper copies, and about 10K+ ebooks over the year, been in Amazon best-sellers in several categories for quite some time.
Even though the book was not by any means a disaster, and has made me some money, I do not feel like this was a worthy time investment. Martin's book is one of the (few) books that are selling that well, and, let's face it: most of the books people write won't be best-sellers. Unless you can quit your job and focus on writing for at least a year, it's not likely to be of a quality that will make you money, and even then it highly depends on timing and reception.

I'm very glad it has worked out for OP: well deserved.
It would amount to perjury if they lied in their affidavit.

If NGOs hadn't committed activities that are not shady, they could have very well given their affidavits. And when served a warrant, I don't think they can take 5th Amendment defense as it may not be applicable for organisations.
You probably can't have it both ways. If you decide that working for someone means being paid a minimum number of hours, paid when on stand by to work and not actually driving etc., then obviously you can only idle for one network at a time and watching two apps for the best ride isn't possible.
...and its already sold out.

One thing I like about this and the OP-1 is they hit that retrofuturism, Tokyo-in-1985 kind of vibe so well with their marketing, its really well thought out.
Vendor lock-in is indeed a concern, but IMO the biggest concern is that Firebase only really works for MVPs. It's super easy to go from 0 to 10, but painful or even impossible to go from 10 to 100.
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They didn't ask NGOs to prove that they didn't do anything wrong. Govt merely asked them to provide a signed affidavit.

And also, annual reports which is a mandatory legal requirement.
Hey, I work at The Markup. Do you mind sharing where you're seeing the tracker? We very intentionally aren't loading trackers like that, so if it's showing up somewhere I'd like to figure out why.

The tool does pick up Oracle DMP, which is what Oracle renamed kinda sorta renamed BlueKai to. For example, see The New Yorker's site (scroll down and expand the Oracle heading): https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=newyorker.com

Edit:
Oh, hah, I suspect whatever tool you're using is picking up this image, which uBlock origin is flagging it for me: https://mrkp-static-production.themarkup.org/graphics/blackl...
I suspected (perhaps like you) that this article was going to be about free hosting providers (Netlify and the likes). When I saw it was Disqus/Facebook/Twitter I wasn't too surprised. I also host a lot of projects "for free" (TM) on Netlify, Firebase, etc. and don't tend to include any 3rd party scripts.

It makes me wonder if some form of data (anonymous or not) scraped from folks like Netlify is slated to be sold off to advertisers or SaaS products looking to find customers. As they do things like process your HTML they could pull out textual content looking for signals.
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I was about to say, at that price it's taking the piss a little bit. No matter how good and clever the engineering is, it's just too expensive.
I have the larger Eneby and it puts out a frankly ridiculous quantity of sound without distortion.
I was speaking about the web as a net-work (not just web as in HTTP webpages). There are other protocols such as FTP, SMTP, and direct socket connections over TCP and UDP, but many of these use cases were absorved by REST only (HTTP) transactions and now websockets.
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exposed drivers on a 'outdoor use' 600 dollar device gives me an extreme sense of anxiety.

Reminds me of Braun products; products designed to look nice, but in general usability suffers in favor of sleek metal human interfaces, nice weights, and a generally 'quality' feel.
If you're referring to my comments, I'm probably the only person in this thread who works professionally in two-way satellite. My day to day work encompasses the venn diagram overlap between terrestrial ISP backbone network engineering, point-to-point high capacity microwave and millimeter wave band transport links, and various two-way satellite access technologies when a link via geostationary is the only viable option.

And I don't dislike Starlink. I actually think it's amazing tech. I'm criticizing the specific PR stunt of putting a starlink CPE at an exising ILEC CO, not what Starlink is.

Starlink, when ready for ordinary end user production use, will be an amazing improvement over cheap ($110-200/mo) consumer grade VSAT terminals. The physics and economics of launching 4000-6200 kg geostationary telecom satellites and their extremely limited aggregate capacity means that a consumer grade VSAT must be oversubscribed at a 32:1 ratio or worse. Resulting in terrible things like 60GB/month data quotas for end users. It's overall a miserable experience. Starlink has the potential to entirely disrupt and kill what I call the 'shitty VSAT' market.

Above the 'shitty VSAT' market there's a whole category of serious two way satellite technology that the ordinary consumer will never see. And things like o3b and starlink also have the potential to improve that. You would visibly cringe if you saw the monthly $ per MHz transponder costs for Ku spot beam capacity over eastern Africa. The dollars per Mbps ratio is ridiculously bad. In order to achieve any reasonable bps/Hz modulation density you can easily spend $100k to erect a pair of 4.5m size earth stations for a dedicated 1:1, SCPC link. And that's before you're looking at anywhere from $5000 to $30,000/month paid for transponder capacity, depending on how much data you're trying to move, and how asymmetric it is.

There's a reason why every telecom/ISP in every developing nation is trying their hardest to connect to the nearest submarine cable landing station and not remain reliant upon monthly C or Ku band transponder leases.
I think he will leverage his other companies to use this thing. Starlink on a tesla truck/car/whatever or bundled with solar. That is an interesting use case. Also there was at one time many trucks rolling around the US with a satellite receiver/transmitter on them. They were bound to the US and setting up stations in other countries was a huge deal. But this changes that market radically. You will start to see a mix of cell and satellite again. If the costs are within the same range. For what the cell companies want for their data plans in some IoT cases I can see why he may have said 'I will just build my own'. Use the system to bring down cost per rocket also is a good use case. I think he is burning money on a few different things here. Rural ISP is not the only one. But it is brought up a lot.
"Silenced" strikes me as a uselessly broad category. If I tell my friends to stop yelling about politics because we're trying to have a nice dinner, that isn't an active political action.
Well, the main news is that Gitter is going to natively join Matrix. We've been talking about doing this for a few years, but it never got to the top of the todo list on either side - plus frankly we're breaking new ground by making a large existing network natively speak Matrix (complete with incorporating room archives, etc).

Others (e.g. Rocket.Chat) have had a go at natively speaking Matrix but it's hard to be the first to do so unless both sides of the bridge are prioritising it and focusing on making it a success - and an obvious way of getting aligned is if you are on the same team. So when the opportunity came up for Gitter to move from GitLab to Element, it was a no-brainer way to ensure a successful native bridge for Gitter into Matrix. But we'd probably have got around to it anyway... it'd just have had a lower chance of success.

As another datapoint: Gitter was already looking (independently) at using Element to replace their native mobile apps, which otherwise they were having to deprecate (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/-/issues/2281).

Edit: another relevant link: https://blog.gitter.im/2020/09/30/gitter-element-acquisition...
Focus on Answering The Damn Question. In my experience, this is enough to attract traffic in the long run.

If that works, then you can start thinking about monetization. For now, just build something good amd see how it gets picked up.
Maybe he's talking about reader view which, for me, can be enabled with F9 or clicking the icon in the address bar (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...)
Not adding much to the discussion, just want to say how great this website is and its articles! They have been a fun read and fantastic resource!
> It depends on how extreme the politics of the society are.

I live in Northern Ireland the politics of my society are very extreme when its allowed in the workplace, group A kills group B and vice versa.

Calling out the extremists and forcing them to apolitical in the work place is necessary to stop them from killing every one.

You can argue that this is a call for centrism and the status quo and it is, but it makes sense for this to be the status quo simply because extremists like to kill anyone that doesn't agree with their politics, this is true across history, country and race.

There is an obvious right answer because I have seen what happens when extremism is made the status quo.
MKBHD picking it up had nothing to do with his journey or level of skill.

MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular, a different designer dabbling with no prior mobile icon interest could have come up with something appealing to others as well.

Being there and getting an influencer is what made this story, and can be repeated by anyone. OP is conflating the rest of it with his own trials and tribulations.
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You’re constructing a hypothetical “what-if” that sometimes could be true, but is not guaranteed to be true.

I could just as well say “no one should ever argue anything because then people could argue about every little thing and it would be impossible to do anything at all.”
This is going to be a premier headset for research or enterprise:

* Eye Tracking

* Pupillometry ( eye dilation )

* Lower Face ( mouth tracking )

* Heart Rate Tracking
The OP-1 is kind of a weird thing. I remember a few years ago I was almost convinced that I should have one, except for the price tag which was way over my league. And back then it was still being sold for about $900 in stores I think and now it’s like $1500.

On the bright side though I picked up a decent Korg Triton Le 88 waveform keyboard with weighted hammer action keys a couple of years ago second hand, and for that one I paid $300 which I think was a pretty good price. Online websites seem to indicate that these often sell for $550 to $600 second-hand, or at least that people are listing them asking for that amount.

But the greatest thing for my music making happened a year later when I was able to pick up an Akai MPC X second hand in excellent condition for $1000. The guy that sold it to me had barely even used it. The retail price for those things are $2000, and I love my MPC X to bits.

The MPC X combined with the aforementioned keyboard make for a wonderful time when I work on music.

I have always preferred working with my music without using a computer for it when I play, and with the MPC X you get something that is still very tactile while at the same time also having quite a few of the features of a DAW. My keyboard is connected to the MIDI in and MIDI out of the MPC X, and I play on the keyboard, record MIDI notes, make changes to them and do all kinds of stuff.

Now you may be wondering why I am bringing this up. Like, an 88-keys keyboard and a piece of other hardware sitting on top of it, all on a keyboard stand, it’s not portable so it’s not an apples to apples kind of deal quite.

But the point is that I paid $1300 for this music gear and even though I don’t have the portability that an OP-1 would give you it just gives me so infinitely much personal joy to be making music with.

The OP-1 meanwhile, I think even if you picked it up second hand you’d be unlikely to find it for less than $1000 anytime soon. And I think for me personally, yeah the OP-1 looks neat I suppose, but I am lucky that I could not afford it because this setup that I have instead I think is giving me much much more than the OP-1 ever would for me.

When in the distant future I can afford to buy anything more for my music making, I don’t think I would actually ever buy the OP-1 at this point tbh. Because whereas I used to be intrigued by it and inspired by some of the videos I was seeing and the music people make with it, I think for me the truth is that it would not really help me musically.

Not saying the OP-1 isn’t good or anything. Like I said, some people make cool music with it. Just think that for me I have found a different path to music for myself than what the OP-1 is for. And I feel like with my MPC X and my keyboard I can do all of what I would have been able to do with an OP-1 but not only that but so much more.
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The premise of your argument is that you have no choice in your employment, which is false. There are hundreds of tech companies to work for, if not thousands.

No one is forcing climate change activists to work for oil companies. As a corollary it would be absurd for a climate change activist to argue that oil companies must employ them to allow their companies to be destroyed from the inside out.

I’m simply saying your employer does not pay you to advance any agenda other than their own and that using your employer’s time to advance a political agenda irrelevant to theirs is theft, for lack of a better term.
What lessons can Europe learn from Sweden's Covid-19 experience?
Yikes, talk about MAGA propaganda. Trump is a proto fascist, if Americans don't want to be apart of the new axis of evil they better be activists. This has nothing to do with calling everything racist or sexist, the fact that you think so has me suspicious of your views on the world.
Hopefully they'll be happy that Gitter will sprout all Matrix's funky features like E2EE, VoIP, Widgets, Read receipts, Reactions, a bajillion clients/bots/bridges, the open standard API itself... and as long as Element-branded-as-Gitter looks and performs and smells enough like Gitter, and the community & rooms are still there, all will be well.

And if they don't like it, they can always go spin up their own Gitter instance and maintain it, bridged into Matrix - it's FOSS after all :D
It's an easy case to make:

Causes of death (U.S., approx., annually) strongly related to metabolic health which is strongly affected by diet:

Heart disease: 635k,
Cancer: 598k,
Stroke: 142k,
Alzheimer's: 116k,
Kidney disease: 50k

Causes of death related to guns:

Suicide: 21k,
Homicide: 11k,
Accident/Negligence: 500
There's a lot of data here to digest, but one thing that stood out to me is:

> Bot traffic: 41% of total

So of all the traffic that CF sees, it attributes 41% of it to automated bots. This is way higher than I would have guessed!
Privacy is simple. The "watcher" always without exception has a massive power imbalance in their favor. The first and often only line of defense against that power imbalance is the right to privacy.
“The Social Dilemma” Fails to Tackle the Real Issues in Tech