skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are numerous formulations of this rule. The one used by the US Marines is 'Never point the weapon at anything you do not INTEND to shoot.'

In this formulation of the rule, pointing a gun with the intent to threaten isn't valid, since an intention to threaten is not an intention to shoot.
I think some of this is just that the industry was really small at the time. If you wanted a processor there were only a handful of choices, and most were completely unsuitable (too expensive mostly) for the home market. Low cost graphics and sound were similarly small markets. But it was also a wide open field in the home console biz, especially with ATARI spectacularly imploding only a few years earlier, so lots of people were throwing their hat in the ring and building the kind of system that made the most sense given the available parts.
These aren't the only options though. At least not in a "all in or all out" kind of way over a large area and length of time. You can aggressively test and trace and separate just those that test positive. You can quarantine those most prone to be affected/infected. You can quarantine specific localized areas where there is infection.

These all require that you actually implement these things effectively and comprehensively of course.

And just for the record, I think in early March we absolutely made the right decisions, and the "lockdowns" that are still in place are still the right way to go considering how terribly the US has managed all this. In general though, this doesn't seem to be the only or even the best tool we have in our toolbox to fight a pandemic like this. Had the NYC area started an extensive test and trace program when we were in our lulls in August (NJ was down to under 300 cases a day across the state), and enacted forced quarantines with criminal consequences, I think we would be in a much better place now.

As an aside on a personal level, I am livid that I am being forced to go back in the office on Monday 5 days a week despite being able to be able to do my job 100% effectively. Its completely irresponsible and has permanently damaged my view of my employer.
But you will realistically only get those speeds so close to the cellular antenna that you can feel it melting your brain.

/s

but actually you do need to be within a few hundred feed of the antenna to get "impressive" 5G speeds. I heard reports that during the build out at NFL stadiums, the antenna coverage didn't even reach the field when placed at the top of the seating.
Your comment is funny, but you should be aware this is a state issue, not a federal one.

Unless you are implying every state is down too :)
The AT&T advertised monthly prices are also based on 30 months of payments. Getting into car loan territory (in the 1980s)
Well according to the author it is aging. It's a parable, not literature.
Holy smokes, HN has become quite the tough crowd. A record breaking scientific achievement, and it's meh, where's my flying car?
Guess I'll do without.

I even have a Facebook, but I don't get why they need this information.
As far as I can tell if the team is prestigious enough, i.e. famous founders or stacked pedigrees, it can raise a few million without a single line of code. There are many examples of this that can be inferred if you look at crunchbase and linkedin start dates for various companies.
Note that Twitter's done a lot more than simply limit the reach. If you try to tweet a link to the article, you get an error message simply saying "We can't complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful." And if you click on one of the pre-existing tweets that linked it, you get an interstitial page warning you the link is "unsafe".

I always did suspect the Great Firewall was the future of the Internet worldwide, but I'm still a bit sad to see it confirmed.
Because the free market only works well with easy price discovery, and having to operate in a free market limits your margins.
The AT&T exclusivity deal was quite different - it was both exclusive and it lasted years. But at the time, carriers also weren't making deals where they didn't control what software was on the device to begin with.
With symmetric 1Gbit internet at home, I noticed that other parts of the system become a bottleneck. E.g. my laptop built in SSD simply cannot handle these speeds, something to do with the drivers. I assume phone users may see similar issues.
The root causes of many (but not all) of our major problems are political or social in nature and can't be solved by throwing money or engineers at them. Also, there are many people on Earth, "we" can work on multiple problems simultaneously.
Everyone is talking about the $30, but the real story is that iPhone 12 is at least $100 more expensive than iPhone 11. The $30 thing seems almost like an intentional distraction from a huge price increase during a global depression and pandemic.
Speaking of, https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/world/teenager-beatified-chur...
Yep, definitely checked it out, earlier this year the dev boards were for sale for a (for my purposes) ridiculous amount. I'd love to see it make more progress, though I'm pretty excited about the commander x-16, though have doubts about it coming to market.
Are you sure it is on Akamai?

They have been using their own CDN for quite some time.
What about, "how to get in front of investors?"
Ask HN: What Its Like to Work for a Trading Firm as Software Engineer or DevOps
What its like to work for a trading firm as a software engineer or devops. Does it require a lot of hours and what's the technical growth like?
The companies found in Silicon Valley have given me problems to solve that nobody I knew in Seattle had faced. Maybe someday experience will be evenly distributed, but the industry has been concentrating it here for a long time.
Spotify is not making billions in pure profit... their 2020 forecast was between 150 to 250 million euro in profit... which means if they had to spend $2 euro per customer per year on customer service, they suddenly have less than zero profit.
Re: Only the branches where some "measurement" is done are "calculated". I suppose the others are garbage collected at the end of time, or something like that.

But that's adding complexity back into it. You are increasing complexity of the theory/model by adding a complex cleaner/trimmer in order to reduce the quantity of resources consumed.
Let’s not forget about the disgusting sexual abuse they have to suffer from, under the premise of medical treatments. They caught Nassar in 2018 but god knows how many others are still out there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/well/live/pelvic-massage-...
I hate when they cancel lesser known shows that maybe never had a wide audience to begin with (Dark Crystal, Dirk Gently, etc). Like why did they even bother to make the shows??? They didn't even really give them a chance. I only just found out they had made Dirk Gently, which has so far been great, but it really bums me out that it might end badly. I'm only watching it because I'm already a fan.
Anecdotal, but.. I got dicked around by Wayfair for almost two months (stalled order, various excuses, well meaning but essentially powerless customer support). In the end all it took to resolve was one tweet at their account. Next day the order cleared.
Teens are horrible across the world, but some cultures manage school life a bit better (of course, probably with some other trade-offs).

Indians (and Chinese too I think) for example, generally have some amount of implicit respect for 'education' (there is a goddess of learning and education in India) and for teachers. Parents-from-hell exist but at least when I was growing up, discipline was expected, teachers were given the benefit of doubt instead of always siding with the kids, kids actually used to be somewhat scared of teachers and the principal (I mean sure they would make fun of them behind their back but at least there was some amount of deference to authority) and the overall environment kept kids in line.

The kind of bullying that passes for normal in American schools would never fly. I mean it doesn't fly in American workplaces either. It's the kind of bullshit we only tolerate in schools for some reason.
"This is a Big Tech information coup. This is digital civil war.

I, an editor at The New York Post, one of the nation’s largest papers by circulation, can’t post one of our own stories that details corruption by a major-party presidential candidate, Biden."

https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1316446749729398790
Prior to on-demand content, I was a faithful "red envelope" subscriber because not only was it convenient (and I didn't really have to worry about returning a RedBox DVD), but Netflix kept _all_ my ratings for _all_ the movies I'd seen. They still have that data last I checked, but it's very much hidden in the account settings and they've long since deprecated user reviews. They now say "98% match." Match to what? We pretty much use a single user account across two households; what is that statistic referring to?

Nowadays, I never find anything I want on Netflix and am glad I'm borrowing an account, otherwise I'd drop it. Hulu's trying to catch up, but Netflix is easily the most user-hostile media interface I've ever used, and that includes hotel channel guides.
What part of "starting at $699" is a lie? You will be able to exchange $699 for an iPhone 12 Mini.
Their excess in mortality is 0.06% for 2020
The first 100% biodegradable performance apparel
How is it overblown sorry?
It's half life is actually 9.1 years, which means after nearly a decade, half of it is still left, and this is methane produced annually, so it's continually being added to.

Add that to the fact that methane is 84 times better at trapping heat within the atmosphere than C02. Most methane production from Hydro isn't even counted because it's considered green.
Because some people would make less money.
Agree, irregular volume levels on YouTube Music between songs is really frustrating. And some even sound like MP3 rips of MP3 rips.
I thought about using a fake, Oculus-only account but that's a false sense of separation as FB would see connections from my accounts coming from the same source IP unless I was going to separate them via anonymizing proxy.
It's kind of like asking what Tulip Bulbs are good for. There's a niche use case, but most people are just in it to make money by basically gambling.
Hey, thanks for the bug report and taking the time to SS this and track me down here. I'll trace it in memory logs to be sure, but, I think it's on a fence between a bug and a not-bug. Time to torque all the bolt heads for sure.

The recursive clearing routine honors your bad guesses and does not attempt to correct you. Confusing part is that the interface doesn't explain this when it proc's and a detonation occurs. But the maybe-new bug part here you found is likely that an edge detonation shouldn't trigger a clearing routine but I think it did in this case for some reason.

Part of this sort of thing tends to normally happen if you either accidentally do a near-simultaneous right-click and left-click on some sensitive mice, or TCP network latency causes commands to get transmitted in a fast burst. In that latter case, I don't think order of the clicking messages is messed up by network conditions, but, ... I'll double check that to be sure and keep an eye on it, so again, thanks for taking the time to report this.

My alpha tester has finished most of the large maps without hitting a single mine, after many grueling attempts. She started with the flower one and blew out her boyfriend's eardrum screaming about it when she won. We heard the scream bleed through on discord and then there was a man down in Overwatch.

Right now all the shaped maps are manually rasterized. I'm halfway to switching that process to a dynamic on-the-fly one since to my surprise and delight it turns out it's not computationally intensive. But all other than beginner/inter/expert are lazily set at that expert density, vaguely derived from the classic minesweeper's field percentages (20.625%).

The next update will let you select more granular game options, like exact difficulty per map, map tile size (dynamic rescaler), etc. Options right now are to play with multiple players, so you then have 3x lives per player, or of course cheat and invite yourself to the game in a different tab and finish the map ;)
It is relevant because you said “there's no way this is true” when it is in fact true, which means that your understanding of how the system works doesn't match the actual behaviour. I mentioned the importance of scanning to catch those situations quickly.
Non homoiconic languages (Elixir, Julia) usually use quote/unquote syntax, with quote being a construct that transforms code to AST and unquote evaluates an AST. For example in elixir:

a = 3
quote do
if unquote(a) > 3 do
6
end
end

Which produces:
{:if, [context: Elixir, import: Kernel],
[{:>, [context: Elixir, import: Kernel], [4, 3]}, [do: 6]]}

In Elixir and Julia the AST is represented by a normal type within the language itself just like Lisp, so the macro can just receive that type, manipulate it with the base language tools or using the special syntax above and return it.
If you give companies an inch on stuff like this, they'll take a mile. There's no legitimate reason they should be able to play this kind of pricing game, regardless of the relative price increase.
I'm hesitant to spend money on something that may be useful but probably won't save me from homelessness (I'm so unemployable that glowing internal referrals don't even get me a 15-minute phone call), but I don't qualify for your complimentary copy and I really, reallly don't want to out myself (because this will destroy even the tiny bit of employability I might have remaining).

So I bought it. Sure hope it's useful.
That does look interesting. Thanks.
At the time Verizon also mandated every phone on their network had a whip style antenna. The networks had a stranglehold on the handset market, and it took the iPhone to break it.
I would imagine that NFL stadiums are particularly bad RF environments because of interference due to reflection.

OTOH, lots of dense urban environments have similar issues.
Argh. I already find it a nightmare to figure out how to combine hashicorp tools together. Now there's one more! ;)

E.g, if I want a Consul backed Vault, whilst using Vault to generate TLS certs or other creds for Consul. Especially if I want to run either/both of those services using Nomad, backed by Consul. Hopefully I wont have the option of authenticating against any of these services using Boundary. Especially if Boundary is backed by Consul.
I look at posts like this as a very small view into one of the problems they've worked on. This post really offered little by way of rationale for why they are extracting colors. The earlier post offers a bit more, but not much.

Instead, I think that a post like this describes how they approach a challenge and how they automate work that would require manual annotation. I actually think of this analysis more as decision support (making manual review easier) as opposed to full-on automation.
Just curious: how many companies have signed up to be with people that way?
A Soyuz capsule just made a record-breaking 3-hour flight to the ISS
I recently listened to a podcast interview with George Takei. One of the things he mentioned is that because ratings for TOS were so low, it became a cheap filler 5 nights a week in syndication. THAT'S when the show really took off and became a phenomenon.
Ok, that's a good point.
That said a lot of people have grown old waiting for the Bitcoin bubble to burst.
Apple's monthly payment plan is just the price of the phone divided over 24 months, so it's what I personally opted for.
I think private banks were...
I think the idea of "jumping ships" is silly, this is technically impossible in the near future. But urgency of expanding existed long before any recent events. To survive we need to spread.
My private email inbox consists of 80-90% emails to myself. Unlike my business email inbox I don't want to add another tool/app/website for open tasks. Old habit maybe.
It doesn’t seem to just be one very unlikely thing, but a huge series of unlikely things...
It's a shame that John Lewis are probably going to have to eat the loss on this; it would be interesting to see what the effect of suing Facebook in the UK small claims court will be.
Haha yes! I think someone actually gave me a physical copy of this.

Also, in case no one else said it in this thread: the Z80 is one of the easiest chips to build a home brew computer with (the slightly more obscure RCA COSMAC chip might be a little easier.) It's something I'd definitely recommend everyone try (I don't think doing so has any practical application, it's just fun.)
We Pay People at Basecamp
What makes this a state issue?
If I grant the second premise, could you explain your antipathy to the first?

If I want to have a mobile phone, I need a mobile phone plan to go with it. What's wrong with bundling those services for a slightly lower total bill? It strikes me as pretty standard business logic.
Untethered is a game changer for VR.
They’re kind of gimmicky, and don’t give the 6DOF you get with the Quest.
Deepnote: The Google Sheets of Jupyter Notebooks
Hi all,

This is not self-promotion. We discovered this cool online collaborative environment for Jupyter notebooks that HackerNews users should check out. It integrated really easily with our software. You get 100Gb of storage and a virtual machine to execute your notebook for free. Just link to it and people you know can edit and run it from anywhere on the internet.

Blog on how it works with our software here: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-10-14-using-dolt-with-deepnote/
Do the work.

It helps to have a pre-existing network or pedigree but it's not necessary. Research your space and opportunity. Become the #1 expert in the world. Then start talking to others. They will be impressed, and eventually you'll network your way to people you want raise money from.

It takes years if you're new to a space, but it can be worth it.
Interstate commerce, which this most certainly is, is a federal issue?
Especially if you don't pay for a really good insurance policy or your employer provides you with a really good insurance policy. You will get screwed with no remorse.
It's not generally a concern to me; I was just considering the potential monetary value of that in relation to the FreeYourMusic fee.
I had a post taken down for posting a link to a local gay event. Their algorithm cant figure out pro vs hate speech.

So I started migrating the few apps I used FB logins from, (spotify), then stopped using google login because of facebook. Taught me, not to trust these companies with my 3rd party accounts THAT I PAY FOR.
The real kicker: Before the doc will even see you, you need to sign an agreement that basically says: "You agree to be responsible for paying whatever amount this doctor decides to charge, which could be any amount from $0 to $infinity, and which the doctor will not know prior to treatment."
Why do "apps" even need to be installed on it. Isn't it just a sensor array and a couple of displays?

I used to think everyone should learn a programming language just so they can experience its expressive power but more and more I wish they would so they wouldn't get duped by really dumb marketing.
Nobody knows for sure, but the postmortem suggests that it might have been straight up incompetence. However, it's certainly possible to consider that the "incompetence" was on purpose to hide the fact that he was stealing from the company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l70iRcSxqzo
Lyft Deal with Grubhub Challenges Uber in Food Delivery
I'm in a data science team, but do not feel like a data scientist
I rewatched the entire thing while my partner caught up. I didn't notice it on my first watch, but the first 4 four seasons we're genuinely good, groundbreaking television.

Season 4 is where it started to fall apart. Season 6 through 8 suffered terribly with the shift in writing and structure, and I'd be happy to never watch any of those episodes again.
An open letter about community software
> Government has a monopoly on the claim to legitimate use of force. All elements of this statement are crucial.

I do agree and understand that, and I'm not a libertarian. My main issue here is that big governments has the same issues than big companies. We must break then all, not only big companies. My provocation was about that, not the use of force per si, so I may use the wrong words in the previous post.
Do they also use confidential computing to ensure regular employees can't mess with the encryption?

Anyways, if this is real and not other lie like when they first lied about E2EE in Zoom, then kudos to them for listening to their users and common sense.

It's weird to see the "leader" reacting so much to user feedback, when companies like Google who are playing catch-up with Meet are just starting to give up on E2EE from Duo. Same with Skype, where Microsoft killed any chance of Skype using secure communications ever again (how else would they please the government with its secret data request orders?)
Oh 100% give it a go, it's extremely easy to setup.

For the GO you could set your resolution to 1440x1440 in the config file so you get less jaggies and then tone the graphics detail right down (unless you do have a beast of a PC), it's basically because it has to render the game twice, which it was never meant to do and you want to be sticking to around 90fps.

I will say again, it's not perfect, but for what it is, and the fact someone managed to do this as a mod, you can't complain.

If you are going to do it, install the following two mods:

https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/world-of-variety
https://www.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/realistic-top-speed-for-g...

It completely changes how alive the world is.
Maybe you’re not using Terraform. I suspect that your problem is an insufficient usage of HCL.
That’s why you provide well-featured transparent debugging facilities.
The last known iPhone ASP (from AAPL 2018 Q4 results) was $793
It seems like they're pushing FB as an authentication method for everything. Try and comment on a local news article (yeah, I know) and it wants to authenticate you with your FB account. Same thing with trying to buy something from a small independent web vendor. "Log in with your Facebook account" is becoming the default everywhere and it sucks.
I want to stress this (as a VC investor) - “Make sure your grandmother could read this and understand what it is that you do and why it is better than what we have today.”

The number of times that I’ll read a deck and go “Ok, so I still have no idea what they do” is too high... I’m a slow one though, so it could be my own shortcomings!
> The $30 thing seems almost like an intentional distraction from a huge price increase during a global depression and pandemic.

Apple's customers are largely not lacking for purchasing power. That's why you won't see their quarterly sales tanking through this mess.

In the US, the iPhone buyers as an economic class have not seen a large and sustained unemployment spike, as they did during the great recession (which severely hit a broad swath of labor). Nearly all of the big job hit this time around has been absorbed by the working poor or lower middle class, people that work at hotels, bars, restaurants, in hospitality broadly, and other lower pay jobs that were similarly exposed to a bad hit by Covid-related closings.
We wouldn't know or care and it would make no difference. It only becomes an "issue" if there is a mutation or glitch that breaks symmetry.