skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evidence is strongly suggestive that consumer behavior has more of an impact on business success than lockdown, which is why business in Sweden suffered. You can't separate consumer sentiment and lockdown just by looking at the midwest.

The question is more - in places where the population voted for people who did lockdown, would lifting the lockdown lead to a resumption of economic activity? The answer to that question appears to be a tentative no. The best way to resume normal activity is to control the pandemic.
Just because it is impossible to solve completely doesn't mean they should get off the hook for conveniently "forgetting" innocent open source packages.
High cost areas are seeing an exodus of the wealthy because they now have the ability to work from places where they don't have to pay $4000/mo for a tiny apartment.
Because there is more to moral choices then self interest.
Oh right, I misread. The SMS sound hardware was indeed quite good for its time!

> I prefer MegaDrive due to its distinctive sound; sampled audio lacks character.

Interesting, to me the MD sounds like any random 90s FM sound card or MIDI synth, while the SNES is instantly recognisable.
I don't like WordPress, but Jamstack will never overtake WordPress adoption quite simply because Jamstack is too complicated.

In particular, it will never find an audience among non-technical users which is a very different audience from technical users who often think only of their own likes and needs.

If you don't like WordPress, there are more modern CMS apps with modern coding practices (often written in PHP). They aren't part of the Jamstack and but are often much simpler to deploy.
I'm not a fan of the smartphone app requirement (as opposed to, say, a web app requirement), not least because it presupposes ownership of a smartphone. But I _think_ the intent is for "normal people" to be able to know at least as much about their own car and its behavior as the manufacturer does, and more importantly to know what it is their manufacturer knows. Importantly, this is all about data that got shipped off wirelessly to the manufacturer and does not reside in the car itself anymore.

The media console approach would require the existence of such a console and for the media console to connect to "the cloud" to retrieve the data. Possible, presumably, since the car is connecting somehow to ship the data out to start with, but I'm really not sure what the tradeoffs are there.

The standardized port idea unfortunately suffers from that last problem too: it relies on the car itself to make a connection to "the cloud"; depending on what's going on with the car that may or may not be possible, I'd think.
Amazon Prime Day 2020: Day 2, The Best Tech Deals
They arent really defensible, so not suitable as a major source of power
Take your damn upvote
Is it just me, or does this seem like it's likely to be extensively abused by the worst kind of startups that make flashy presentations, but don't have any sort of worthwhile tech (and when you ask them about their software, they mindlessly claim "trade secret" to skirt that fact). At least in VC, the funders put some of their own people on the ground floor.
“Creating a problem”

For who exactly?

The whole article assumes that:

1. Viewers give a shit about quality

2. The article authors know more about whether a show is viable than Netfix (with its massively detailed viewership data)

In reality, Netflix only cares about subscriber count, and that incentive is both obvious and intuitive. A show winning an Emmy has nothing to do with whether or not it’s profitable.

I mean, see cable pre-Internet. The delusion that Netflix is something unique beyond what cable was has never been true. The only thing special about it is that there are no ads, which is not universal among the industry (do cheap Hulu, Tubi, and Pluto remind you of anything? Reminds me of cable!)

Critically acclaimed shows like Stranger Things might have been important to gain mindshare, but now everyone knows what Netflix is and those expensive efforts are probably not worth it. Personally, I spend most of my TV time watching House Hunters which (a) will never win critical acclaim and (b) is about the cheapest show to produce that someone can imagine.

But I don’t like watching one hour dramas that are there to be depressing and have expensive actors, sets, and special effects. I just want to veg out and watch some idiots buy the wrong house.
More color on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_episodes
Why is storing a limited amount of data on a service selling unlimited storage considered abuse?
> And I do like, somehow, the naive optimism of TNG.

This so many times. It gives me hope that humanity will eventually rise above what's going right now. There are also a lot more good lessons in TNG than I remembered as a kid. Great show :)
You can use something like forestry: https://forestry.io or any of the few alternatives for managing content for your static generator site.
I have been looking for an easy way to turn on a coffee maker remotely.

There are insanely expensive WiFi coffee makers that will allegedly grind the coffee to order, control the water temperature, all that. I've got a sneaking suspicion that they'll brew fewer than 10 pots before failing, and that even if the hardware is working in six months they'll turn the service off.

I was thinking of plugging in a cheap drip coffeemaker into a smart plug (somehow I have five of those that aren't plugged in) but out-of-the-box every coffeemaker I've seen doesn't start when you turn it on but needs a button pressed. I tried shorting the pins together on the start button and that doesn't work, I think I'd have to put in a 556 time to delay a moment and then 'push' the button.

Maybe they make coffeemakers that just start instead of pushing a button or setting a silly clock, but I think it might be against the law because of fire safety or something like that.
Blogging is not the primary use of Wordpress in practice for small to medium sized businesses.
It probably doesn't work for men either. Go figure.
I've never noticed an issue. And I have used Waze at least three or four times over the years, both with my old Note 3 and now with a Samsung A50, with no issues.
Women of HN: how do you think your male peers can best help to close the gaps in tech (and otherwise)? A lot of us want to help, but I fear we are often misguided.
Not exactly - they are coupled to the interface contract. The behavior can be very different.
Social media is an amazing development, and fundamental to healthy future human societies.

HN is social media.

Algorithmic marketing platforms that use AI to drive engagement in service of selling attention?

There is nothing social about them.
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" - David Wheeler

I agree with you for most part. Mixing unit tests with integration tests is a recipe for failure.
She showed a graph of 'hope for success' versus 'predicted probability for promotion'- it's just outright silly to attempt to represent something as complicated as this on two axises. Any attempt to quantify something like "hope for success" can branch into endless debate about setting success criteria, defining hope, measuring anything in this space, etc. This is a philosophical or psychological issue, not a mathematical one.

Data visualization is a terrible way to make an argument about human behavior.
Almost every week in my business I get told I can't do something because of German law (normally by our local staff), and on closer inspection I find it to be not exactly the case. It is a big joke in the UK!

In this article I find references to the online versions of the Office apps and terms and conditions that the many German regional bodies are arguing over. This sounds like something MS have to sort out with the regulator, not something I have to do.

You make your own judgement, but I have users on 365 in Germany and they are staying there. We do not store customer data on 365.
The network effect is the least sympathetic business moat to run up against, because it's saying "you are way too popular" and nothing else.

Very different from talking about restaurants or stores where you have geographic control, which is a far more odious form of monopoly (competition is restricted because the customers cannot reach competitors). Very different from talking about how Yelp owns the underlying infrastructure (roads, the web, etc.) that makes their business possible.
The general principle is that incentives work. Make one option better than another and people will flock to it. Current implementation is that you will get fed, housed, medical care, and even paid with no participation on your part. You are incentivized to continue what got you homeless, usually drug use or not attempting to work. The simple solution is require recovery to receive benefits - require drug tests, require attendance to lectures, require applying for jobs or that you get one. The point is to make good behavior better than the alternative. Another way to incentivize good behavior is to make programs benefit both parties. Can collecting was one such program, litter is collected and people without other options make at least some money. When you give people the money there is little benefit to a city in return. A lot of the complaints can be rectified by cleaning jobs in particular.
Culture 500, scientifically compares cultures of companies driving the economy
> See stranger things, house of cards, and orange is the new black for examples.

It's easier to stick when you are early in the game and the marketplace is less crowded. Hose of Cards got a lot of extra publicity for being the first.
>> Since the declaration last week, the Great Barrington Declaration has come under attack across the media, online (including Wikipedia and Google) from fellow academics as being part of a Libertarian conspiracy (my politics are not remotely libertarian) or being based in “pseudoscience”; others attempting to be less defamatory say that our views are “fringe”. The large number of serious scientists from top institutions taking part suggest otherwise. There are genuine good faith disagreements that must be aired and discussed — the impact on the world is too significant for us to fail to have this discussion in a serious way.

This has been frustrating this week. I appreciate the author's nuanced approach. It seems that fear has made many too irrational to actually listen to this group of scientists, or to even attempt understanding of the principles on which they base their recommendation.
Also see https://www.onshape.com/, a 3D parametric modeller that is also a web application.
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I have to disagree.

TWD after S01 consisted entirely of a soap opera cast eternally getting lost in the same acre of forest. You could slip episodes and not miss a thing.

Maybe the writers attempted to tackle the now worn-out zombie theme by turning the show itself in to one. A meta-zombie, if you will.
Hi HN, I wanted to share a novel use of interactive video related to surgical research that we finished recently.

A group of surgeons at University College Dublin created a series of 17 interactive interactive videos where they provide the viewer with the patient details, allow them to observe the blood flow via a fluorescent dye, and then ask them to draw the location where they would make an incision or insert a stapler.

550+ responses were gathered from medical professionals in 8 countries around the world. Their paper is currently being reviewed for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

I’m happy to answer any questions or provide further details if of interest.
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Look for trivial solutions to big problems
> That's a very American perspective. In the UK a series is usually only 6 episodes and few shows last more than two or three series.

Points at Top Gear, Dr Who, Sky at Night etc which have gone on for decades
That really brings me back. That was a heck of a game.
Tips for using data to improve your marketing performance
I don't think it's just confined to white older men, rather old men generally as I stated. Not an absolute either, as I stated "many" and not "all". I'm not going to pretend that the majority of progressive minds are concentrated in the older populace, because constantly I find life experience to demonstrate otherwise.

I'm not sure what there is to "get" about trans. I think everyone deserves to be treated with decency and respect, while also believing there is plenty to discuss about the moral and ethical aspects of hormone treatment (particularly during childhood), genderless bathrooms, etc.
Trump boosts China's chip industry like Xi Jinping never could
Which almost doubles the size of what I need to carry along to simply charge my phone and more than doubles what needs to be on my table. I’d rather have a single cable on my desk, in my car etc. that ideally works across generations (from a slow ebook reader, charging headphones and power packs to connecting video and storage) and manufacturers (pretty sure the MagSafe connector won’t be available for non-licensed devices).
I would not under-count this advancement.

One thing which struck me back when I was studying neuroscience was just how impactful new tools were. If you look at the history of neuroscience, major leaps forward have almost always been driven by a new tool: whether it's a new dye, or a new imaging technology, every time we have gotten a better look at how the physiology of the brain actually works, it has elucidated topics we could only speculate about before.

So it's easy to poo-poo something like this from the sidelines, but if we can get more detailed information about the behavior or neurotransmitter concentrations over time, even if it's just a point measurement this could be an input to more accurate models which could help explain all kinds of things about how the brain actually works.
iOS and iPadOS 14 (The MacStories Review)
Batteries are always maintenance parts. The fact that modern smartphones and notebooks don't make changing them a trivial operation is condemnable.

At least you can install new batteries with different form factors now. Technically it would be trivial to just have a lid to install new ones.

Profit orientation is worse than customer orientation. It is also an ecological problem. Instead of changing batteries after 2-3 years, people buy new phones.
That's not even true, although you're right that the risk of both are extremely low for our age group.

Do you think the lives and health of others have no impact on your decision making? If so, you might be interested to learn that drunk drivers actually have a higher rate of survival than people who walk home drunk from the bar. Never mind those pesky pedestrians you might hit, drunk driving is the safest option for the driver!
I think that is what made Schitt's Creek work. Small creative circle close to the project.
Object/reaction mass fraction can be higher
“The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”

I'm pretty sure these conditions applied when the lockdowns were imposed in most countries.

So the WHO does not disagree with the poster at all.

And yeah, no one thinks lockdowns should be the primary or only way of addressing the pandemic.
Please share their primary use that cannot be sufficed with a third party application or beyond a static page? Im curious as to what these are not being snarky
On page 27, example 2, they use JP PE, LOOP. Why not JR PE, LOOP-$? Is that because JR has no encoding for some flags?
> How do you deal with the (European) right to be forgotten?

Probably by not being European.

Europe doesn't make laws for the whole world anymore. Colonialism is dead.
That's a good point, but I wonder what's the cost of leaving shows completely unfinished in the long run. I know that I'm very unlikely to start watching a show if I know that it never reaches a satisfying conclusion. This in turn might create some "dead inventory" for Netflix, shows that people are reluctant to start watching because they're unfinished.

Although there's cliffhanger and cliffhanger. Santa Clarita Diet for instance technically ends on a cliffhanger, but it's a last minute event that's supposed to introduce what they thought would be the next season. If you ignore the last scene basically every important plot thread up until that point is either wrapped up or at a status quo, so it's not such a terrible place to end a show.

An other recent example is The Boys: while the show did get renewed for a third season the ending of season 2 could easily be a show final, you'd just have to get rid of the last couple of scenes introducing a cliffhanger for season 3.

Conversely you have shows that clearly couldn't wrap their storyline in a satisfactory way before they were canceled. GLOW is unfortunately in this boat.
> Yes, and I still think I'm right and they are wrong. You're welcome to disagree, but I personally wouldn't hold up the distant 3rd place in desktop computing as evidence against my argument.

FWIW, Windows also has a package “manager”, although it didn’t manage installed packages last I checked (despite being basically a copy-paste of WinGet IIRC). But I see no reason to hold up what AFAIK is the shrinking 3rd place in computing (behind cloud and mobile) as evidence. Servers and phones install software too.
Doctors are not interested to make you healthy, because then they will not make any money with you. It's much better to give people Vit-D tablets with minimal dose, so you will constantly visit the doctor and give all your money away.
I just built my first site in Gatsby (https://pubgood.dev/) and I honestly missed WordPress. Gatsby just doesn't take care of enough stuff without having to install a bunch of other solutions. I'm not sure of the extent I will use it in client sites.

I haven't regularly done client WP work in several years but I'm planning on doing some over the next year and I'm curious - how good is Gutenberg now? Before it would be adding fields to the admin with a plugin like Advanced Custom Fields - were they able to make it truly WYSIWYG for editing content?
I recall some conspiracy theorist that "Lean In" was heavily popularized by a right wing think tank, because at a surface level, it's message recontextualizes a lack of opportunity for women in various fields, not as a system issue of sexism, but as a personal failure. 'The reason there aren't more women engineers is because women just aren't confident enough! There doesn't need to be any national policy changes to maternity leave!'
Yeah. This. We hackers should remember that the stuff we write, be it code, docs, proposals, business plans, security incident postmortems, whatever, needs to be VALUABLE to the readers -- the people -- we intend to reach. If it isn't valuable, they won't read or use it. If they don't read or use it, we've just wasted a lot of our time, and a little bit of theirs. Ouch.

We're not trying to show people what WE think about anything. We're trying to influence how THEY think.

This is tricky with code, because many members of our audience are future developers with less experience than us. Our brilliance is worthless to them. What's valuable to them is the ability to modify or built on what we did to solve their problems, problems we didn't forsee.

Ask: what do our readers / users need to know / do? How can we convince them we CAN help them? Only THEN do we get to try to help them.
It might reduce the impact of THEIR misinformation, but... I know a guy who loved Alex Jones (sigh) and he's now just reposting stuff by the likes of "The HighWire with Del Bigtree" instead, who is (unfortunately?) a LOT more convincing (has misinformation... evolved?)
As somebody who gave two honest attempt at building a PRNG... no, not quite. Building complexity -- especially one that isn't trivally reducible -- is quite hard.
People think that US schools are like in the media. Everyone is attractive, from well off families, and in a well funded school.
Awesome, I really appreciate that and I do understand the reasoning.
Corel painter has terrible UX, to the point where I deleted it from my computer after three hours attempting to follow tutorials. On Mac, I strongly recommend Pixelmator.
I've removed the filtering.
Often while making arguments about how increased housing would hurt poor people, hilariously enough.
JTAG is very useful to test that this particular iPhone was manufactured correctly, so Apple doesn’t completely disable it. That said, Apple does have a hardware disable that removes the ability to access registers and memory via JTAG. One only has this ability with special development iPhones that have to be obtained illegally, in the US anyway.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/10/ktrw-journey-...
Like the rest of Germany, then? When is Nord Stream 2 finishing?
Pilgrim’s reaches plea deal with Justice Department on price-fixing allegations
These all may sound silly at first but they make a good deal of sense.
Strangely each time I see a doubt about renewable energy quick search resolves it [1]. I've thought hydro produces least, no

> At a dam in Brazil, where the flooded basin is wide and the biomass volume is high the methane produced results in a pollution potential 3.5 times more than an oil-fired power plant would be. A theoretical study has indicated that globally hydroelectric reservoirs may emit 104 million metric tonnes of methane gas annually [2].

There is no green gas free energy only different cost, even nuclear. But maybe we can reduce emissions and some day catch them back.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_reserv...
Theres people who use it for certain things, like PornHub just started accepting BTC payments.

But there has never been more institutional and high net worth interest in BTC than now as a value store and adoption for a global reserve currency (we can see this from the institutional gateway inflows). Some recent examples: Microstrategy invested $425 million in BTC over treasuries. Twitter bought $50 million the other week (and Jack Dorsey owns BTC personally). Paul Tudor Jones bought in with about 2% of his total assets. Its gaining traction in this area as a value store.
One difference is that you can turn off cold shower when it becomes uncomfortable and typically you start by short cold showers. You proceed to longer ones only as you adapt. Another is that, water is more effective in cooling things then air.

If you are walking outside in t-shirt only, it is harder to get back to warm place when you suddenly feel cold or shivering. With cold shower, you just turn it off.
An alternative solution here is to not cave and fund content in the old broadcast style of "run a show until it doesn't make money".

You could instead make intentional decisions to fund miniseries and content with clearly defined "endings".

I'd much rather have 6 episodes of a genuine story with a start/middle/end than two seasons of character development and a cliffhanger ending.
In the UK, Doctor Who is clearly an outlier. The other really long-running shows are soap operas like Eastenders or comedy panel shows.

But in the US, there seem to be an awful lot of outliers, and it's on the strength of those series that Netflix initially established their following: Friends, The Office, Park and Rec, Seinfeld, Community, The Walking Dead, The Blacklist, Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, West Wing, That 70's Show, Supernatural, Criminal Minds, and I could keep going, honestly, for quite a while.

So yes, there's an extent to which 5 or 8 seasons is less common, but the goal for US shows has been 100 episodes for decades now, which is usually 5 seasons of 20+ episodes each.

If Netflix is adopting a more UK-like approach, that might result in better TV eventually, but it would be nice for creators to know they have to tell their story in 16 episodes rather than 100.