skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More money has been wasted on laser chemistry than any other field of optics. While it is possible, on the single molecule level, to perform very clever experiments, scaling to any useful result has proven impossible for two main reasons. First, at the densities where there can be any non-microscopic yield of a laser chemical process, collisions immediately scramble and ruin intricate quantum state preparation. Secondly, you need at least one photon per reaction—- and even in the age of semiconductor diode laser driven devices, a mole of photons is among the most expensive reagents a chemist can employ.
Causation is not established by that chart, I suspect some of the decline was due to piracy, but with no evidence it seems like it could be attributed to other factors. For example there's a drop in vinyl in the late 70's on the chart, at which time napster wasn't a thing.
I have seen a few attempts/startups attempting alternative ways of identifying candidates. Mindsumo.com [0] is the one I know best (although they pivoted later on) By and large, it still seems to be the same people who come out on top.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/news/mindsumo-the-x-prize-of-hiring/

It would not surprise me if a lot of decent candidates get turned down in the rush to hire star candidates, but I doubt many star candidates are actually being missed by the economy as a whole.
That would have to either be done via the ISP gateway recognizing a MAC address or other stuff that is sniffable and potentially crackable (remember this is Samsung software we're talking about) by someone. I would assume by now if anything like that existed it'd be exploited to hell and back for a free Internet connection.
At the office? Kinda, but mostly not. In the end, it all is superficial. I haven't had a friendship from work that lasted more than 6 months after I quit. In retrospect, I would have liked all that time chatting back.

Outside the office, on the other hand, I definitely miss spontaneous conversation. In my experience, post corona, it's kinda hard to talk to anyone random. Most places where it would be appropriate are operating at a lower capacity, everyone is wearing a mask(making it difficult to read sentiment), and they all just want to get in and get out. It doesn't help that at least 20% of people are down right paranoid about getting the virus. I miss those random conversations at the cafe, the gym, the grocery store, the gastropub, etc., because at least they happen in a natural environment and have some potential for actual acquaintance. I know things are opening up very slowly, but it's still not the same.

Workplace, I can't care less. People are more fake at the workplace than in real life.
Then you haven't heard of Stalin Sort
Some smart TVs perpetually act like internet deprived teenagers and are really irritating to operate.

I have one where a bunch of non internet features won’t work without internet.
Because this is truly a cultural issue - meaning every company is significantly plagued by it in nearly all of their hiring areas.

Having consulted with hundreds of startups and businesses, and a fair number of Fortune 500s, I’ve personally seen how universal the challenge is.

Here’s an experiment: name one employer that properly vets tech talent for the role and work they do once hired.

Edit: appeasing the autocorrect gods.
If that's an intentional backdoor it's a very weird backdoor. Wouldn't you at least obfuscate things a little bit? Simply mixing up the characters in that string in some pre-planned order would be enough.
I am Indian-American, and while I cannot comment much about the culture of Indians in India, I can comment a bit about the culture of Indian-Americans, especially second-gen Indian Americans like myself. Many of my Indian-American classmates exhibit the behaviors described in this article. For example, in my high school (a magnet program for gifted students), there were several Indian-American students, many of whom were "high-achieving". Most of them put a lot of effort into trying to buff their resumes to get into good colleges, for example by volunteering on causes they didn't really care about. Cheating was rampant; the attitude many students seemed to have was why actually learn stuff when you can just cheat and get the same career rewards? Almost all of them followed very conventional (read: boring) career paths; in fact most of them became doctors. True creativity and risk-taking was not a personality trait I commonly observed, I'm sorry to say. I was lucky to have very "Americanized" parents who didn't raise me with these backward attitudes.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-55-class-led-full-hd/6...
This only measures revenues. Are people listening to more, less or the same amount (quantity, diversity, songs, albums, etc) of music?

Listener behaviors have changed, to only cite revenue for the industry (already a subset of all music sources) is unscientific. Video killed something, what killed video and why?

I am going to go out on a limb here and conjecture that the vast majority of people do not listen to music, or listen to much less music than in the past, same thing goes for books. Both industries make the majority of their profits off a small and shrinking segment of the population.

Hit singles are cheap, easy and plentiful to source from anywhere, both paid and free. If the industry just makes hits, they won't have the breadth to support a diverse revenue base. You can't survive on icing alone.
> The best dumb TV is a monitor

Can you find a monitor as large as a good TV for a reasonable price?
The optimal complexity of a sorting network of fixed width numbers is bound by depth O(log n). [1]

I'm not sure how to go about analyzing bread sort, but it does seem bound by aligning and inserting the beads into each column which would be at least O(log n), the number of digits. But, I'd be surprised if it is optimal.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220329153_An_Optima...
Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think? (1985)
your tshirt is in the mail
I've at times done a string of password resets when unusually designed sign up pages cause a password not to be captured by my password manager.

This seems to happen most when it's a multi page setup process. I often use a plain text scratchpad document to prevent the loss of data but sometimes circumstances happen.

I'm using LastPass for what it's worth. If anyone has better experiences with competitive products I'd be happy to hear about it.
Sure, we are not using any advanced parallelism beyond just batching requests for translation and spinning up more servers if we have more requests. No distillation.

For translation, there's really not that much to say - we run the transformers on CPU and they seem to be pretty quick. We have a little more tolerance for latency here than with speech.

Real-time deep speech recognition on CPU is a little trickier. wav2letter++ has the best performance we've found. it's implemented entirely in C++ and streaming inference is quick on CPU. Without a GPU (and even with tbh), it is not feasible to do real-time decoding with a transformer LM, so we use n-grams.
Are the LTE modem and SIM network-locked like the Amazon Whispernet?
This is the Buddhist take on it, FWIW: http://www.lionsroar.com/visualizing-a-pure-and-perfect-worl...
Ask HN: Remote Team Fun Activities
I know some teams have player remote games (e.g. Jackbox games), and there's startups popping up that organize remote team-building events (e.g. mailing ingredients for a Zoom-based cooking classes).

Does the HN community have any other recommendations of fun things that they've done with their respective teams?
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We're looking for a whole lot of folks across the business, including:

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Except if new shares are issued at no cost. Or new currency is minted/credit is created which happens literally every day.
Yes, that was part of the point: memristor < bacteria < neuron (reading < as "much much less computationally powerful").
I remember using the xbox and the xecuter modchip to run XBMC on there before it was KODI. It did have the ability to copy games to the hdd.
The Violent Universe, 1969 Astronomy Doc Narrated by Carl Sagan
I'm not sure what you mean by lack of "smart" features. Everything is controlled via an app. Sounds the opposite.
I left reddit for the same reason. It gets ugly fast.
Instead of trying to make this about yourself, maybe take the context and infer it as bringing some humor into their comment on a pretty serious topic
And if you run into problems dealing with coordinate systems, check out https://ihatecoordinatesystems.com/
Who has visitors?

Seriously though, why would someone in your house who’s this clueless ever be given the network password in the first place?
Not so "stellar" quality, but fascinating nonetheless ;)
You can be sure there will be a lot more competition by 2030.
It's really about the economies of scale. You can get entire computers for $35.
30ish, one condition that I can think of is sinusitis, which I always have when I have the flu, with swelling of the eyes and stuffed nose. But this time there was no swelling nor stuffed nose.

also my brother when he was a kid, had pneumonia few times as I did, and when he's sick (mostly flu) he has the same issues that I've got.
That sounds somewhat inaccurate.

That seems to suggest they facilitated online marketplaces where these are sold -- and I don't believe they've ever sold pre-loaded games in these.

At most they advertise possibility of using homebrew. If you can run unsigned code, you can write unsigned code to dump retail games. But Team Xecutor doesn't explicitly encourage those specific actions nor distribute them online (only to cover their asses, of course that's what people buying them buy them for)
As far as I can tell, Wolfram has not invented a model of physics at all; he has invented a notation for talking about causal systems. It's not clear to me that his "hypergraph" imposes any constraints on what can be encoded. This at once makes it intriguing from a mathematical perspective, and completely useless as a physics theory, in the same way that epicycles can model a planet with an orbit shaped like Homer Simpson's head.

I am not surprised that Wolfram thinks FTL is possible - the real question is, is there anything he thinks is impossible?
I’m pretty sure every site I’ve setup to do TOTP only allowed one authenticator. I got burned using Google Authenticator when I had to replace my phone, because there was no way to transfer the auth data to a new phone.

Maybe The Google app has changed now, I have no idea. I’ve had much better luck storing TOTP in 1Password and Bitwarden - which allow you to sync across multiple platforms. So now device upgrades are a non-issue.

Most sites give you some static backup codes for TOTP - definitely store those somewhere safe, they can be a lifesaver.
I have handrolled a pass reset in node but I didn't give up the key back to the client. In this case it was actually spring framework
I’m a fan of TripleByte, they’ve continued to iterate and evolve in interesting ways.

Still, its nearly a myth that companies hire based on merit.

Hiring through social networks is much more significant.

A simple example:

Most companies see applying for a job as the first step in connecting with a career opportunity.

Every career coach will tell you not to apply until you’ve networked into the company.
It's worth noting that Roku devices apparently send a lot of information about your usage habits back to their servers, so if "privacy" is one of your reasons for choosing a dumb TV, perhaps Roku's not the best choice.

Not sure if there are authoritative deep dives out there, but here's what the Pi-hole folks saw:

https://pi-hole.net/2018/09/19/what-really-happens-on-your-n...

I was disappointed but not surprised to learn that. My experiences with Rokus have been really positive. Tracking issues aside, the user experience is pleasantly simple and responsive. A great example of "it just works" hardware+software. In fact, my 85 year-old dad and his tech-phobic wife even had positive things to say about the remote and interface.
Did your sense of smell and taste come back? How long did it take to recover?
How general is the maths at work here? Is "pulse shaping" another way of saying "controlling the wavefront"? In that case is the maths similar to that used in massive MIMO in communications systems (which in turn is connected to holography)? If so, controlling an electron cloud is effectively massive MIMO in the optical domain.

A further way of looking at it would be as "4 dimensional holography". A regular 3D hologram is static in time, but these ones are effectively "holographic movies", with atomic scale time resolution?
It has been quantified as well, there was research I found at one point showing lower educational attainment and worse life outcome despite IQ for gifted students if they weren't placed in accelerated programs.
Thanks for sharing, I totally agree the inability to have a side conversation on video call makes group conversations so unnatural & zoom fatigue is a big issue!

Just out of curiosity, would your perspective about talking to someone change if this interaction was just a 2 person conversation? And if you could not look at a screen (ie audio or more low-tech phone call)?
They'd have to have my WiFi password as well, which is 64 hexadecimal digits, and the SSID is the poo emoji. Have fun entering that with a TV remote.
> Are multiple password resets common within a small timeframe?

Yes. When you reset your password once, probability is high to reset it many times. It is often because you don’t remember it, and the new one isn’t fixated in your memory. Or because I’ve changed devices, but my computer kept my old password, so I reset it too, and back and forth on each device until I have time to bring the two devices together and type in the same password. Basically password resets happen rarely, except when they happen, they happen in a salve.

That is the exact opposite scenario of when London hired statisticians during the Battle of England because they were surprised how all German bombs fell on specific buildings, and were wondering why Germans would target those, only to discover that randomness meant bombs would randomly fall in clusters for no reason at all.
Let's go with this restatement.

It's one of the features of Common Lisp that things that might be buried in the compiler in other languages are surfaced and made available to the user. This means a great deal of the language's standard functionality can be implemented as if it were in "user space". Macros, readtables, method combinations, setf expanders and generalized places, for example.

IMO, if Common Lisp were to be extended (it probably won't be, at least officially, as there's no money for another whack at a standard) I think it would be best even if more "internal" features were surfaced this way, and made available for user extension.
Governments. It was likely used by governments.

Bi men who live straight lives with a wife and family are ridiculously common. The ability to blackmail those people is extremely valuable to certain state organizations.
Wouldn't be surprised if both are on the list. Alcohol based mouthwash has a warning label about causing cancer too.
Spherical kmeans is your friend there. It's overkill in a lot of cases, but perfect for that one.
I agree with this. A friend of mine is an avid pirate and is often the first one to recommend to me some new book/TV show/movie, which in quite a few cases has led to me buying a ticket or a paperback etc. I've also then shared my thoughts about the media I've consumed with others, and they also bought tickets!

In my friend group, one dude downloading Into The Spiderverse led to six of us seeing it in theaters.

This is obviously anecdotal, but it's always seemed to me that piracy is almost free advertising in some cases (though obviously not universally.)
Being cheap and unethical is certainly part of the Indian culture. Whenever I was haggled in price for something it was an Indian. If I’m getting spam phone calls it’s the Indian on the other end. Do the most likely people that can bother doing this for a t-shirt are probably Indians. And look, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a part of the culture and the only way prosper in that society. It’s a shame that the West is too politically correct and DigitalOcean can’t say that they won’t ship t-shirts to India and eliminate the issue.
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> Problem solved.

I suspect that the 5g era will bring with it many more devices connecting unbeknownst to their owners, and that "smart" appliances will be first on the list.

As that approaches, we need solutions that address this as well.
This joke made on any other community would be considered offensive.

Edit: Also they were explicitly giving themselves a license which I don't think should be taken. So I expressed that opinion.
Do you know of any performance/cost benchmarks that you could point me to showing this?
To which entity are they 'lost'? To the state?
To corporations?

"Those who successfully navigate the arduous corporate recruiting process will be rewarded with a secure place on the corporate ladder"

Those who do not see that (+ the 60-80-hour weeks) as rewarding will not be motivated to pursue it. Economic slavery is over-rated.

They may or may not be 'lost' to themselves, depending on what they're doing with all that time. Across Asia, many people found themselves meditating for decades. They weren't jacked into any perverse realities.

"The rest are largely condemned to flit from one low-paying job to the next, with little avenue for advancement and zero job security." Wow, judgemental much?

Many well-known authors, poets, artists, composers, DJs,even hackers found themselves in that position. It's a fair cop, but society's to blame.
Oh really, imagine the counter-factual universe where we do. Where does the data come? You log on to HN and hear about how they determined that diabetes is associated with diet soda by linking your store purchases with medical records. Construct a hypothetical comment. What does it look like?

Imagine the front-page of the NYT in that counter-factual world. Imagine the outrage on Twitter. Now, choose to inhabit that counter-factual world by starting the company that does this. Good luck.
As in no online features & ads.

They claim the app is open-source and I'm sure it only uses Bluetooth instead of WIFI thus no internet access at all.

In any case, IR remotes are supported and the app is optional.
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Oh yeah I had family that did something similar. They did that whole thing where you bid on abandoned storage lockers. They actually did quite well considering how you can't rummage through everything prior to bidding. Made a small profit for a few years.

Then the TV shows came out and that put an end to that for them. Bids were too high that it wasn't feasible anymore.
Mental thought process of programmer:

Sooo... what's the one thing we need this token to be. Secret.

OK, let's just return it to the one person in the whole world we don't want to have it.

Mmmm is it lunchtime...?
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So? Imagine if we didn’t need to rebuy bullshit romance novels every few years as they’re stained with god knows what. Imagine how much further that money can go for the common good.
IMHO calling it "Hacktoberfest" and not expecting a Jugaad flood seems rather naive of DO.

That said, a very similar culture exists in China and the Asian subcontinent (with the exception of Japan and possibly the Koreas), in particular SE Asia, so I wouldn't say it's specific to India.
I think those two properties are probably assumed to be indicative of a pretty unsurprising ticking timebomb for the poor situation brewing in the individual's future. Basically it's a strong signal of lack of independence and a strong sign of dependence, dependency upon a parent who is the one taking care of business in some way that keeps the bills paid and the both of them alive. When the parent passes on how will these individuals function and survive I think is the big gaping question.

To further aggravate things too I suppose, if the parent's health declines and requires the financial help of their children who cannot provide it then you're left with a situation where two dependents are present to the situation.
It is better to be unusual and misunderstood than to be usual and understood. Unusual and understood is purgatory.
False recovery is the worst thing, when you think that this is the end, then sluggishnes and headaches comes to remind you that you are still sick. Headaches and sluggishnes with dizziness still keep coming back, like last monday it was bad to the point I though that I'll lie down on the floor and won't get up. From what I've found, every time when I feel sick, my blood pressure is above 140/90. Check yours It may be the case.
> hasn't produced a single testable prediction after 30+ years

Not completely true. It is able model some aspects of quark gluon plasma. [1] Not a high energy theorist myself, but this is the retort some of my friends would give. It also is well motivated by an entire human history's worth of experimental data which any new theory needs to reproduce. Wolfram fails even to show that this is the case for his work. Note: I'm also not a "true believer" of string theory, but comparing it to Wolfram isn't fair.

> Not convinced that's true.

Besides making a point about string theory, do you really have a reason to believe that? I know many high energy physics folks myself and work with some of them. I have never met someone that does this professionally that has given Wolfram's theories a second thought.

[1] https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/news/091107/story2.asp
To me it lasted 3 days. I felt so happy when I could smell again. It was a bit scary.
My German AirBnB host was a city employee who was able to take a two week vacation abroad. This was a job that required no experience.

Meanwhile, I went to college to better my life and ended up a slave
hah ok I missed that.

> the system won't give them my number from a completely different numbering system

Perhaps your country has cell phone stores too?
Prism+ tv is just a tv without smart tv functions except it can run Netflix and YouTube and prime video. Thats it.
Agreed Traits is just a simple proxy. But nothing in there depends on new features of 7.3 right? MW has great backwards compatibility.
The local public library's contents look mostly like what you'd expect in a K-12 school library. I suppose they know who their customers are.
so, a smart tv then? that's pretty much what the smart tv features include.