skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are two pretty different domains. In manufacturing automation, some of the things that are hard include gripping objects, handling fluids and pastes, and adapting to design changes.

For self driving cars, the controls are pretty similar, even across car models. Gas, brakes, and steering. It doesn't happen that a supplier ran out of engines and a decision is made to replace the car's propulsion by jet engines, thrust vectoring, or a hovercraft. It doesn't matter too much for self driving cars to be within 0.1 inches of the center of the road, but if your electrical components are offset by 0.1 inches or there's 0.1 fluid ounces too much glue because this batch of glue is more liquid than the previous one, the electronics probably won't work in the end.
My Antonia is a stunner. It’s got that rural mysticism poetic marvel quality in spades which DHL reaches for. It’s hard focus is on nostalgia and the passing of time whereas DHL is all about the animal passions of humanity at odds with industrialization.
I call it the 2020, everything is fine, playlist.
Hey everyone,

I’m happy to show this project to you after years of mostly lurking. :)

Too many people are walking through life, working on never-ending task lists, losing sight of the big picture and missing what’s really important to them. Are you constantly working on what’s most urgent instead of most important? End up where the circumstances take you instead of taking control of your own path? Keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again instead of actively working on improving things? Then Focality is here to help you!

I started building Focality while working a full-time job and then became a father. So I had plenty of time to battle-test it myself in demanding circumstances. ;) This is the tech stack I used:

- React
- Material UI
- AWS Cognito, AppSync, DynamoDB
- Capacitor to wrap it into native App containers (iOS & Android)
- RevenueCat for handling payments
- Sentry for detecting errors

The biggest challenge so far has been to get attention. I knew this space would be crowded, but it’s quite a bit harder than expected. It feels like a new competitor launches every day (probably is). Users have so many options that it is very hard to engage them to learn their needs.

The second biggest challenge has been the Apple bureaucracy/requirements. :)

On the positive side, I’m really impressed with how powerful the frameworks have become. A few years ago it would not have been possible for me to build a side-project for web, iOS & Android. Neither would it have looked that good without the help of a designer.

Cheers

Florian

P.S.: I’m also launching on Product Hunt today if anyone is interested: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/focality
It is literally right click mute on channels or servers plus you get the choice for how long you want to mute.
If that is too difficult to manage ...
> School is probably the best public invention to systematically distribute knowledge

But is it? There are many schools that fail spectacularly at the task, to the point of graduating people who are functionally illiterate. Maybe school alone is not enough for that.

> Not all parents are good teachers.

True. Unfortunately, even more teachers aren't good teachers. Out of all teachers I had, I have maybe one really great teacher I could name and two or three decent ones. The rest were nearly useless at best, and actively harmful at worst. And there were much more of those than good ones. Fortunately, school is not the only place one can find good teachers...

> School's purpose is not to teach obedience

Are you sure? Because everything I've heard about schools suggests it is. At least if we're talking about standard government-issue school, not special fancy educational project or independent private establishment.

> It is there to teach us critical thinking

Maybe in theory. In practice maybe 1% of teachers could deal with actual critical thinking from the students, and even less would like to. And most "critical thinking" education I've encountered was "question those other authorities in a way we prescribe to you as your only and true authority which you don't dare to question".

> An educated population is also less prone to fall into totalitarianism

Given the absolutely disastrous state of the American academia, I don't think this argument holds any water. Yes, Cultural Revolution despised educated people. But turns out there's more than one way to indoctrination and totalitarian thought control. And being educated in never letting a dissenting opinion to be heard is no better than being not educated at all, at least when we talk about preventing totalitarianism.
Wouldn't the VR game essentially be HL3?
In that case, I'd urge you to tone down your negative criticism on Firefox.

You've already decided that you are not willing to use it over issues you have with it: that choice is fine. Telling others in relevant discussions why you made that choise is, too.

No-one asked you why you chose not to use Firefox in a thread about Gmail. Yet you managed to inject your FUD here nonetheless: Firefox can handle 5+ addons just fine. But now some random passersby might get the impression that Firefox is a burning dumpsterfire based on random negative critiques that aren't even in the right place nor true at all. That helps exactly no-one.
seems very likely that it's Fira Code
I absolutely despise those pop-up "Can I help you" boxes on product websites (usually Intercom). It completely disrupts my flow as a reader in trying to understand the product.

That attention disruption got so bad I blocked Intercom and their ilk via injected CSS rules.

I really want to take it a step further and write a plug in to interface a chat bot with the human on the other end and waste their time so sites begin to learn to stop using that BS.
Reimagining Tax Authorities for the Future
Don't just hope. Help to put it there. Either paste urls into the Wayback Machine [1] or use the Firefox extension to add the pages to the Wayback Machine. I've added some. Don't forget to add the actual pdfs.

[1] https://web.archive.org/save
This comment also shows this UX choice distracts from the message. Now we focus on that he's grabbing the mouse from us.
I miss paper encyclopedias. A roommate had the complete 1974 Winkler Prins, and I loved to just browse through it. Admittedly, browsing through Wikipedia is also fun, but still, browsing through a paper book is a very different experience. My kids don't see the point, unfortunately.
> School is excellent at building the cohesive fabric of a society, including teaching it's boredom, authority, and pointless busywork.

I have a feeling that pointless busywork always grows to however much people can bear, so maybe if school didn't condition people to be so tolerant of it, we'd have less of it.
Well advertisement is the basis on which many services can be offered... it isn't clear that a small number of PhDs/etc. being employed in (a mostly automated) discipline is therefore "a waste".

How many of these wasted lives have, for example, enabled all of the youtube creators to have careers?

> who forgo freedom essentially are subjecting themselves to someone else's idea of prosperity,

Yes and no. The problem space may be infinite, but human nature isnt; nor is the capacity of any given society to provide prosperity.

At some point your parents have to decide what bets to make on how you can reconsile your nature with the potential opportunities on offer (eg., to encourage sports, music, academic study, etc.).

And when parenting subsides you likewise have to reflect and make the same sorts of decisions.

Each such decision is a foreclosing of freedom in your sense: ie., it throws away much of the problem space.

Freedom is the currency of life, it's not there to be amassessed for its own sake. Happiness/prosperity/etc. can only be obtained by spending it.
A SQLite store, aside from json or CSV, is probably one of the best long term archival mechanisms (for power users). Personally I try to get my core stuff always duplicated in dumb plain standards in Dropbox and other backups for the long haul. I love the idea of a community effort to create a common export, providing tools for data portability and creating Plan B’s for when companies drop products or otherwise die.
We have a double bed from chipwood that costed +-1000USD with mattress and bed slats. Slats and mattress are fine (which is expected after roughly only 4 years), but bed frame... overpriced for what it is. Will go for solid massive wood which can be found cheaper where we live. At that time there wasn't basically anything in IKEA from solid wood.

So some IKEA stuff is well priced, some isn't. Some is great value for the money, some definitely isn't. Some styles are plain ugly as fk to us, some they nail pretty well for the price. I think its called hit-and-miss situation.

Their kitchens are great value generally - not top notch by any means, but at given price even professionals tend to agree they are the best. If you want something better, prepare 2-3x the price. And since you never move kitchen, most complains mentioned before don't apply.
> The closer you can come to arguing in person, the better chance both partners have of empathizing with each other and seeing each other as human beings.

I've actually found myself having deeper debates in emails than in person. Having a debate in writing gives both parties time to consider and organize their thoughts, and provides records that can be later referenced. Granted, it only works if both parties are actually interested in putting in such an effort, but I've had deeper and more meaningful debates this way.
Wow, that's more than half a Mobileye or Altera!
This is very neat.

I’m sorry if I missed it, but have you announced pricing?
> The revolution did came from people who were able to read and write, obviously, it is kinda hard to coordinate without that.

The did much more than coordination. The intelligentsia was basically 100% responsible for the revolution in every aspect, starting from conceptualization (peasants would never come up with the idea of trying to apply Marxism to the real world and wouldn't even be able to imagine world other than the one in which tzar rules over them) through managing implementation to the post-revolution power capture. Peasants were merely ants, necessary for revolutionaries' plans to install themselves as new rulers of Russia (obviously, some of them had more lofty goals, but as usual the worst scoundrels quickly took over and the idealists were disposed of).
Apple launches a US-only music video station, Apple Music TV
Not at all. Slack is noticably sluggish and has notable delay whenever I click a channel. In Discord those things are instant for me. Slack has a silly Markdown parser, while in Discord is simply works. The list goes on.
Convenience replaces nostalgia: Why miss Encarta when you have Wikipedia? I liked the Encarta experience: it was amazing to see videos, photos and everything in a nice UI back then, but today we have Wikipedia, Wikimedia, etc. It's a way superior experience and there's x100 content.
And the only reason they obsessed over killing high speed rail was that it would make southern Wisconsin slightly more attractive to young people, who would tip the voting scales.
I remember going through some 3D model of the colloseum in it, always thinking it’s maybe actually a game but it was just a static 3D model. Must have spent hours there.
Sure but not everything is the same degree of disabling. Heavy arthritis might leave you unable to type, fatigue (non serious, non chronic) just makes it hard to get out of bed. Both are challenges requiring the perspective of taking it one day at a time.
Why Utility and “Usefulness” Are Dangerous Concepts
That reminded me of this experiment [1]. Augment your CTR with simulated mouse cursor /s. But yes, the home page is unusable for me too..

[1]: https://javier.xyz/control-user-cursor/
Realism in fantasy, sure.
Realism in S-F? Absolutely not! Start off with omni-present micro/nano/atto bots and proceed from this point anywhere you'd like.
No kidding

Maybe they need money to sink in their 7nm/5nm new projects, but it seems they're losing their hand there

Intel seems to have a great timing for doing the wrong thing at the right time. E.g. their sale of their Arm division
> School's purpose is not to teach obedience or even getting a job. It is there to teach us critical thinking, and consequently, how to be a good citizen. An educated population is also less prone to fall into totalitarianism. Ex: Nazi Germany and Mao's China burned books and persecuted the educated (1984 style).

Frankly, this sounds absurd. Having just been through this educational enlightenment I can tell you that's definitely not what schools do. Higher education like a bachelor's or master, sure. Definitely, even. But high school? Not at all.

It's a lesson in rote memorisation of the _true truth_ which we know is true because _the teacher said it_. It is the opposite of critical thinking. And if I were a totalitarian vying for my own state I'd leave the high school system exactly as is, perhaps change the history books a bit.
Show HN: EspoCRM – an open-source CRM tool for your business
EspoCRM is a web-based application aimed at managing interactions with customers. The platform boosts productivity and improves revenue by aligning the work of your sales, support, and marketing departments.
Your router most likely will allow you to set ITS DNS to your local PiHole. So the DHCP will hand out your home router's IP as DNS server, but that in turn will access the PiHole as DNS server.

Your chromecast will NOT use your DHCP supplied DNS settings, it goes straight to google's.
Intel's NAND flash was overshadowed by their Optane (not included in the sale) and lagging behind Hynix and Samsung, so I guess this isn't such a bad move. The cynical take is that the CFO running Intel is attempting a bunch of standard corporate restructuring strategies to delay the effects of their slowing technical innovation. It is definitely concerning from a US technical superiority standpoint to consider that this same CFO may soon try to sell off some of their more competitive fabs.
This says nothing about population of people who homeschool.
Buy Me a Drink and I’ll Tell You a Story – Write how you speak
Yeah you had the whole world at your fingertips but it still felt achievable to consume all of it. Nowadays you have the whole world at your fingertips but you dont know where to even start.
As far as I know CCPA isn’t being enforced. I’ve had companies refuse to delete my info or even register as a data broker. Reporting them to the AG office just gets you a generic response saying they can’t do anything.
There already are proffesional DMs, but they stream in addition to DMing. Can't feed your family when you have audience of 5.
Part of the value of Encarta was in the human curation of what was interesting.

Wikipedia includes (by necessity) everything — but an encyclopedia would probably devote more space to (say) Nigerian history than to (say) the in-game statistics of all ~1,000 Pokémon.
Elon Musk at 2020 Mars Society Event
Thanks for surfacing the info on health care.

EdJiang, please note this isn't to you directly (either as a poster or Uber employee), my engineer-brain is sort of thinking of loopholes and unintended consequences. I'm not expressing an opinion here.

How many "real" working hours does it take to get 25 working hours? I only found one reference (Berkeley Law) that estimated 1/3 of the time is downtime, so very roughly 40 hours a week? Of course depends on location, chosen time of work, and much more.

More cynically, would these companies be able to distribute work such that rides are given to drivers with more "buffer" before hitting these ACA payouts?

Again, not at Uber, Lyft and others specifically but the USA is a country where if we mandate workers with 30 hours get healthcare, employers may try to schedule for 29. I think it's unfortunate, but that's the incentive.

(opinion mode on: we need to fix healthcare as a country; the current state of affairs and likely the state after the Supreme Court hears Texas v. California in three weeks is ridiculous)
Encarta might have been one of my first experiences doinking around with computers - I remember replacing the .WAV file for a cheetah with the sound of a car's engine and trying (but failing) to convince my brother it was the REAL sound of a cheetah. There is something about the data being bounded and explorable, both through the software and the file system that was... neat.
Foxconn stayed out of the cross-hairs, unlike Huawei, ZTE, SMIC, etc. Honestly they should've been since they are a prime facilitator of outsourcing of high margin manufacturing. Pretty much any major computing giant you think of gets their stuff made by Foxconn.

I'd argue that a _real_ trade-war didn't happen. If it did, color me underwhelmed[1]. We got some tariffs put on Chinese goods, China started buying Brazilian soybean instead of American. To put an end to this, a deal was struck were China buys much more agricultural products, which has been going poorly[2]. Sure, there was some economic damage, but I don't think this can be classified as a 'trade war'. Unfortunately (or fortunately), a proper definition doesn't exist in terms of a financial impact threshold.

One angle that I don't think anyone has discussed. Terry Gou is running for Presidency in Taiwan, and this could be a way to show him rubbing shoulders with international leaders. The US is big ally to Taiwan, and who better to be in the good graces of than the President of the US?

Apart from the above discussed angle, I think my comment from Jan 2019 is still relevant[3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr...

[2]: https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/us-china-phase-one...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19018486
Got a source for the latter statement? It’s contrary to everything I’ve seen and heard.
A small fix to the HN title: it's about NAND (flash) memory, so basically "storage/SSD", not RAM "memory".
great work, quite happy to see adoption of rebol's syntax
It's not an assumption, normally people DON'T keep track of any of this. When I go to the bar and buy a beer with $10, the bar tender is for sure NOT writing down the serial number on the bill, checking my ID, and forwarding that information off to the FBI. The $10 can sit for a day or two in the till, and then be returned to another customer as change. In this way it continues its anonymous passage through the economy.
It's an interesting idea and hopefully it works out; but there are so many ways this can go wrong. Losing a power grid is an emergency of a pretty high order of magnitude - a long period of time without power and society basically collapses. Limited refrigeration, limited communications, transport might look vulnerable too looking over the long term where it is likely we have to phase out gasoline and replace it with ... maybe electricity from the grid. This would need to be highly redundant and that is not going to be cheap.

I'll opine that it should totally unacceptable for a city to be relying on distant foreign climes for their electricity. Mega-grids to help stabilise the thing over an hour or two, sure. But if I couldn't drive to a big, 24/7 electrical plant in a few hours I'd be feeling very nervous.

OPEC is quite bad enough, there is an enormous strategic problem with sourcing so much oil non-locally. We'd be much better off with decentralised local generation, and the world would be much more peaceful.
The real shitshow starts when the CFO becomes the CEO (as is usually the case), so Intel is pretty much dead as is US tech innovation on this scale (until VCs do what China does and start pouring money into hard stuff, not just fluffy software).
No, No-Code Will Not Kill Code, Ever. Period
In this article, I'm going to share my experience in creating healthy online businesses using no-code tools. If you consider using no-code as a part of your company tech stack, this article is for you.
HN replies has been running since before your post, I've been using it for a few years for sure.
If nag me with providing personal information afterwards I will stop using your app/website. Not being upfront about the kind of information you require comes off as extremely scummy.
Plus it felt like an ad.
Chatbots are dead, long live chatbots! I firmly believe we are going through the “through of disillusionment” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle). We need to figure out ways to really bring value to people and not just raise money for the next AI based Chatbot system!
I played alto and tenor sax in high school/college. What a great instrument. It still gives me chills when I hear a great sax tune.
I Wrote a Letter to God – Which is unusual for an atheist with writer’s block
Yeah, it starts with an interesting story then swiftly turns into a blatant ad...
The Yoga Slim 7 Pro looks great and has a color accurate retina-level display, but it seems impossible to actually buy one.
Maybe a wavelet decomposition and then processing the larger chunks would have been better?
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A one stop shop is kinda nice. The quality of the content is really good too. Wikipedia is probably good enough for the most part though.

I remember being so excited and enchanted by encarta and even non digital encyclopedias and books as a kid. The idea that I could crack open a volume and learn anything felt magical, in a non digitized world.
I would still put Citizens up there. We have rules around elections in the same way that we have some limits on individual speech (yelling fire, and all that) to effect the fundamental right that the First Amendment is meant to protect. Similarly, PACs were an unforeseen (and in some ways unforeseeable to eighteenth century framers) exploit of a well functioning democracy as it relates to people.

Kucho vs. Common Cause as well. Gerrymandering is a clear abuse of the system. Kagan’s dissent is heartbreaking.
Would you mind telling some of the kinds of checks the Clang tools do not perform? I wonder if they are mostly syntactic or if they need dataflow analyses. (That said, Polyspace has 2 tools now, Bug Finder and Code Prover, whose applications are somewhat different.)
Thanks. I was about to ask the same question
Musk Calls for Covid Lockdowns to End in Great Barrington Declaration Discussion
The problem for discussion is when people are dishonest about their emotional motivations. So, someone who feels bad about this or that will really go out of way to absurd arguments to make it sound like he is rational. Conversely, it makes you mis-interpret people. People can be dismissive because they think something with idea is wrong, or because they are tired and cranky.

Emotions are not just big things. It may be that weird feeling about someone you cant explain. And that weird feeling may be either unfair bias or you actually noticing a problem with that person.

The emotion-logic dichotomy where mention of emotions makes you sound irrational motivates people to hide those. And it creates discussions that happen in sort of alternative reality and emotional conflicts that mask as professional disagreements.
The answer is no, if I'm freelancing the company I work for should not pay me benefits. I could be working for five companies at once. Should they all be giving me Healthcare?

Should any app that pays you a few bucks for doing small jobs pay you Healthcare now?
Does that matter if they just add the whole website to their robots.txt in December of 2024?
Representing Binary Data in CSV
If there are any naval powers in the post-apocalypse, New Zealand would be plum pickings for any pirate lord or renegade admiral.
Sometimes a divided internet is better than a hopeless one;
My courageous life, show me yours – What’s your best possible self?
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