skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming physical injury (like RSI or trauma), yes, it's getting easier and easier.

But there are many other ways you could be injured and unable to work. My straw-man injury when I bought the policy was: "I'm a new skier, which is famous for major head trauma". Similarly, cancer, which directly or via treatment, causes exhaustion is another example of disability that is not solved with "if only I could just input text easier".

I'm glad there's so much work in accessibility going on, and that hardware, machine learning, and social awareness has gotten widespread enough to let non-huge companies dive in and make real progress. It's important to open the field to as many people who we can.

I just want to be sure people don't rely on technology being advanced enough at the exact time you may need it. You can easily get unlucky, and insurance exists to pay somebody else to take the risk.
Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Dating Experts (Full Time Remote)
Ask HN: Do you have a customer discovery problem?
I’ve been bootstrapping a Saas company for over 2 years now and making just enough revenue to sustain.

The product can be used for more than one usecase, hence I get people signing up for different use cases. And I’m finding it hard to figure out which usecase is the strongest. In other words, what segment of customers are getting the most value.

I’m thinking if implementing a survey after users sign up but I’m not sure how credible that can be.

Has anyone else faced a similar problem? What approach can one take to solve this problem?
As someone who's a software engineer (not data scientist) but is interested in consciousness and by extension AGI and dabbled in some ML algorithms, I find it surprising how often I see the sentiments of AGI being possible or impossible using some sort of algorithm.

Obviously I could be missing some great breadth and depth of research (there's definitely a lot I don't know) but from what I've read "we have no idea" is a pretty accurate description with how far we've come when it comes to consciousness, and I would imagine even less for the newer field of AI/AGI (consciousness has been around for a while P: and our theories have mostly sidestepped this real world phenomenon).

> "The idea of using "rewards" as a learning mechanism and a path to actual cognition is just wrong, full stop."

This to me is a huge red flag (mostly of ego/hubris). I think if we rephrased the goal to not talk about "AGI" and maybe around quantitative things like the things you've listed ("computational efficiency", likelihood of being stuck in local minimimas, etc) then I'd happily concede that we should be looking at "X" and not "Y" but unless I've missed something, again likely, when we're talking about AGI, we're talking about consciousness (epiphenomenon that come about through physical/deterministic interactions). A quick way to gut check myself here is twisting what you state is not a good place to start "ML/AI field... gets stuck in local minima" and ask myself is it possible that local minima (which we consider "bad" for current/traditional tasks) could be necessary for consciousness ? I think the widely accepted answer to this is currently "We don't know".

If I think that achieving AGI is going to be similar to what the algorithms and architecture we currently use (where the likelihood of being stuck in a local minima is something we can look at) then sure, your opinions stand. But that is just a guess and unless I'm mistaken AGI hasn't been achieved because we don't know how to do it.

This isn't to say that we should have 100% of the data before making strong judgements like this about a subject. It's just that the subject of "consciousness" is a big one (I'd say THE big one) so making such strong statements about something we know we don't know much about is interesting. <- this is where I get flashbacks to SE world where a missing piece of data can really throw you off or leads to wrong assumptions and when I think about consciousness we know we don't know a lot.
Responding specifically to the competition with nuclear: you're absolutely correct: the Geysers geothermal complex (which is actually about 22 power plants) is about 1.6GW. That's easily the world's largest though: I don't think there's another one over a gigawatt anywhere. And you need really special conditions for that kind of power - specifically really hot geological conditions.

The problem, as always, is that jerk Carnot and his limit. Most accessible geothermal fluid is <150C except in very geologically active areas. That puts a pretty hard limit on plant efficiency.
Future of Tech: Gaming Predicted to Become Next Dominant Technology Platform
I get your point.

But this is a massive company which pumped VC money into an untenable idea. I definitely wouldn't have this level of snark if an independent developer, or at least a good faith startup had to shut down.
LastPass was bought by LogMeIn, which raised some eyebrows. More recently, LogMeIn was bought by private equity vultures. That raises alarm bells for more people.

It was that plus experiencing a lot of bugginess in their apps that got me to switch to 1Password. It's been a huge improvement.
I expect the amount of heat one could extract would be absolutely negligible compared the the amount of heat in a supervolcano caldera, so I doubt there would be any affect at all.
There’s a pretty awkward moment in the expensive-looking documentary video (ie uncritical puff piece) by Gary Hustwit[1], where a developer on the project says “we can’t have it be like chunky 10 frames per second, you know?”, in the exact moment we see an FPS counter on his computer slow down to 14 FPS as he pans around.

1: https://vimeo.com/469980256#t=368s
I wonder how much of the 1.75 Billion was already spent. I can't believe how they raised so much money in the first place without any market validation whatsoever.
NeoAxis Game Engine 2020.7 Released – .NET Core, 3D/2D engine
The problem here is that the system exposes localized aliases in one context ("Bin" in the "folder" list) but only supports underlying identifiers in another context ("trash" in search). The author is too harsh though:

- Probably only a tiny fraction of users actually know about the "in:folder" search syntax.

- A simpler UX pattern for users who don't use a keyboard for everything is to click on the folder first and then add to the search string to limit search to that folder.

- Folder names must be normalized in some way before being added to the search string, otherwise it would be impossible to search for folders with for example spaces in the name. This normalization could happen in many ways, but if it reduces the character set in any way (such as replacing spaces with hyphens) it's trivial to create "duplicate" folders for search purposes ("foo bar" and "foo-bar", for example). This problem gets worse if they introduce aliases into the mix.

- What about the "in" part of "in:bin"? Surely localizing only part of the API is more confusing than localizing all of it? I've never seen an API framework which encourages this though, probably because it's a shedload of extra complexity for very little gain.
I think you've got the causality wrong here.
There’s noting inherently expensive about serving http -> makes all of the web practically unusable without filtering -> Google monopolized search with the great product they developed

Serving http is getting cheaper, therefore the filtering problem is getting harder, therefore it's harder for new competitors to emerge.

Either way, I agree that ads are the root of the problem because it makes serving garbage http so cheap or profitable. Force people to make informed decisions about where to spend their time and money. Right now people just click away on anything so garbage clickbait is one of the most profitable models.
Nah you're fine. There are other good alternatives but Lastpass does the job and that's fine. They do have a lastpass-cli which is quite nice to have as well. It operates somewhat like pass.
Is being a software contractor for you?
A long running problem with Tesla. Their accounting has always smelled, and this has only gotten worse with every passing quarter.
Anyscale raises $40M to launch a managed service for distributed computing
https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/

Also most editors have indentation guides, which help a lot with indentation issues.
No. Schools offer plenty that KA+YT do not offer, like structured curriculum, and to some extent tailored learning and individual guidance that as far as I know, Khan Academy + YT do not offer. They're both very awesome and have their part in education, though.
It's not my responsibility. Hipp knows he's out of compliance with the standard.
How much choice did customers of the Bell System have?

There was nothing stopping another company from stringing wires across the country and building their own telephone network separate from the Bell System. But they don't just have to build all that infrastructure, they have to have the customers that are already under the Bell System. So they would have to pay gigantic amounts of money to people to switch, because if they didn't, there wouldn't be a value to switching for that consumer.

There are a lot of analogues to these two companies. And the argument against breaking up Facebook would be similar. It's wrong that they're being punished for building something that so many people have found useful. They spent billions building the network, and now they're shattered into multiple companies because of it?

It's hard to know what the right thing to do is, in terms of benefitting the public, maintaining the incentive for future new technology & infrastructure to be built, and being fair to Facebook & its employees, shareholders, and customers. There's a lot to balance out, and it doesn't seem like there will ever be a right answer. But, I find the similarity to the Bell System very striking, and I do think that it being broken up was on whole the right thing to do for the country and its citizens, which is what a government is ultimately tasked with doing.
wow sounds tight
I'm sorry to hear that. It's not typically part of the warning about the flu that you can face lingering cognitive impairment even if you never thought you got the flu.
Trust is non-binary.

It is a perfectly legitimate concern that npm dependencies are a threat vector. Obviously, at build time - but we've all heard stories how less security conscious developers let malicious code slip through with just `npm update`.

And compared to, e.g., C++ tooling (npm) makes it somewhat easier to slip a malicious update through. So it's not like that's strictly incorrect.

The concern is that is not exactly clear what processes AgileBits have in place and how they manage those dependencies. They could - and probably do - things the proper way (private registry for all dependencies, etc), but the concern is that they're accidentally missing something is perfectly valid - albeit voiced incorrectly (as a statement that it is insecure, not a question whenever they do things in a secure manner).

Brain farts just happen, even to the very best developers and teams.
Literally caused music playback to stutter on my iPhone. On desktop it was okay. Defiantly needs optimization for phones.
There is efene (https://efene.org) which claims to embrace the ZEN of python.
Ask HN: Good JavaScript Minification with support for arrow functions?
Which is a good online service or library for JavaScript Minification that supports arrow functions properly?
Yes. And in case of io_uring, the pointers to the buffers are provided well in advance, with IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS opcode of io_uring_register API, to be reused across I/O system calls.

AFAIK, Windows only has an equivalent for sockets, called Registered Input/Output (RIO). However, RIO was introduced in Windows 8 (2012) while io_uring is much newer, introduced in Linux kernel 5.1 (2019).
The problem with a public document like that is that it has to be fairly diplomatic (it is not the role of the CIA to create undesired diplomatic tensions), so not sure how much of an honest forecast it is.
Fighting “Eroom's Law” [video]
> They built the best products and it seems like it would ultimately be anti-consumer to do anything about it.

No it's not. The best XXX run by a single company, is super-effective! Allowing it, we know from all of human history, is anti-consumer.
This is often repeated, but historical evidence does not support it.

Today, Google shares the majority of it's presence in online ads market with Facebook.

Did Google try to "kill" facebook? Yes, they tried super hard in 2011 with the launch of Google+. And that completely flopped and now Facebook is a major rival for Google.

If we look at Facebook - facebook probably tried to kill snapchat and tiktok, major rivals to Instagram, and look how well those services are doing.

Microsoft couldn't stop iOS or Android.

The list goes on...
Switzerland moved 40% of all freight traffic kilometerd to the rails too, which is really a lot. (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfsstatic/dam/assets/10547450/maste...)
It says this was banned, but how's that much different from CFDs, lol.
Timestamps, IP, and user agent are probably enough to reconstruct the user visit. Chrome is now sending a browser generated fingerprint x-client-data to all Google's domains while of course they will be trying to end use of referer header for everyone else. They are shameless and think people are dumb.

Mobile carriers are injecting their own fingerprint headers into outgoing http requests as well if not using https.
I knew about it because the TVrage feed spammed quite a bit new shows I guess around April this year and all of them were Quibi, I watched a few (torrent) and said meh.

It kinda reminded me of the webisodes that were popping out everywhere in the mid 2000’s to early 2010’s.
They poured a lot of money into recognizable but still affordable actors but the content was just boring.
It’s worse in C++ as you probably don’t get a list of those dependencies.
> with Rust there is a general aversion to undefined behavior.

Ah, but it will be defined behavior - just implicitly defined.
We also just called it ground source when I briefly worked in the field. Although, in my experience, even though someone shells out $$$ for a "ground source heat pump" in their yard, it won't stop them from telling everyone they have geothermal.
For an overview of these super-cheap flights, see the Ryanair website: https://www.ryanair.com/ie/en/plan-trip/explore/getaways

Even some quite long -- for Europe -- flights, like 4½ hours for Dublin to Athens, are just €20. Some shorter ones are €10.

(This only includes a fairly small cabin bag, put under the seat in front. The service level is roughly equivalent to a cheap intercity bus.)
I'm surprised that the waste heat is enough to drive a turbine and generate electricity! How much waste heat is that hot? Combined cycle natural gas turbines already do this. Natural gas combustion drives a turbine, then the "waste heat" drives a steam cycle. Even though that steam cycle is less than 50% efficient, I'm guess the wasted heat there can't be used, right?

How high of a COP would it take to make a heat pump a feasible way to make lower temperature waste heat a source? Or is this where the thermodynamics breaks down?
If you're writing a compiler, sure, a hand-written parser is probably better than a generated parser.

However, I'd also make the related claim that we should be much more ready to write formal parsers for other use cases. Far too often developers implement a "pile of regular expressions" where a parser—even a generated parser-would be a better choice.
I'm concerned about self hosting a service like this as well, so I put mine behind an nginx reverse proxy that requires a client cert for auth. That way, an attacker won't even be able to reach the bitwarden server to try to get in (unless there's a vulnerability in nginx).
I wonder if there are also statistics on permanent damage caused by the virus because death isn't the only risk - I've heard of 30-somethings being told they'd never be able to ski again after getting it.
While the Streisand Effect might be valid, I am curious if lawyers give a crap about it. If more people start posting the same content and/or similar but equally aggravating content, then that's just more work for the lawyers to do. More billable hours. They'll just have an intern or do it.
People have pondered cooling Yellowstone's magma chamber by surrounding it with geothermal wells.† The result would be 5GW (for comparison that is 1/6th of California's needs) of clean energy at about $0.10/kWH for thousands of years and a significantly reduced chance of a supervolcano eruption event killing millions of people.

It might alter or stop the geysers though, so it isn't going to go anywhere.

[†] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170817-nasas-ambitious-...
Yes, that makes sense. However, the older I get the more I think society should provide some sort of safety net for the unlucky.

It’s inefficient for everyone to do this and many cannot.

The premiums could jump 50% in a decade, for example. I’ve known situations somewhat like yours where premiums went up a lot.
Apple's argument is typically "users ignore strong warnings".
The CEO of Quibi, Meg Whitman, admitted to not being an entertainment enthusiast. [1]

I realize that a company CEO doesn't need to be a subject matter expert, but when you're building a platform focused on millennials (mobile-first), it would help to have someone that can identify with the target audience.

edit: And co-founder Katzenberg has his "emails printed out (and vertically folded, for some reason) by assistant" [2]

[1] https://theweek.com/speedreads/923863/quibi-ceo-admits-not-r...

[2] https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/is-anyone-watching-quibi.htm...
You're going to have to provide some context. I don't know what you're trying to argue.
"leverage" used as a verb bugs me the most. The "-age" suffix is clearly established as a way to form a noun, in this case with the base verb "lever".

If we treat "leverage" as a verb, "leverageage" is valid.
Sweden Bans Huawei
I am now imagining some description of brush extensions on the front of cow catchers that just take a wire brush and scrub the fire out of the track in front of the train to get leaves off the track and scrub of some of the crushed wet leaves off of it as the train goes along.
Kubernetes SLOs with Prometheus and Linkerd
Canada's population density figure is deceptively low because most of Canada's landmass is completely uninhabited. Most of the Canadian far north has an even lower population density than the Sahara desert.

Canada's population is tightly clustered into a small number of urban areas that have population densities comparable to places like Philadelphia or Vienna.

Despite this, Canada's population centers have nowhere near the quality of public infrastructure of Vienna.
Airtable Pro Tip: Overcoming Airtable Scripting Limitations with Pipedream
Well since this discussion is in a thread about 1password I think it's worth pointing out that 1password doesn't even support SMS as an MFA option [1].

[1]: https://support.1password.com/two-factor-authentication/
Animators at Titmouse Become First Canadian Animation Studio to Unionize
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
SF-LA

SF-Sacramento

SF-Tahoe

SF-Napa

SEA-PDX

Austin-Dallas-Houston

LA-Las Vegas-Phoenix-Tucson

And I am not talking snail Amtrak 70 mph train. I am suggesting 150 mph that runs in most Europe.
What is holding US back in public transport?
1password: “We're not open-source, but we do act like it ”
Actually, that point has already come: There is insistence on maintaining ABI compatibility with increasing versions (as opposed to source-level compatibility), which prevents various potential improvements.

Regardless - C++ will effectively has some deprecation, at least of the standard library, with the introduction of modules instead of included headers in C++20.
In my experience, the best way to have a "low-code" environment is to use a high-level language with rich facilities to build custom abstractions, and to use those facilities to build a DSL that domain experts can program in their business logic.

And I'm not just trying to say "use lisp". I've seen it done in Erlang (for example). At the end of the day, it doesn't matter to much the specific language.

I'm not sure what concrete examples the author has in mind for "low-code" or "MDD" solutions, so this criticism may be irrelevant, however I will say that drag-and-drop GUI tools for building business logic tend to fail for the following reasons:

* They have poor version control integration

* They have limited facility for creating new abstractions, which results in a lot of duplication

* the amount of inherent complexity that can be tackled with these tools is surprisingly low
Anyone here ever call it and offer to give back 50% of the money to the investors? The one time I've seen it done, it was taken as "heroic" and that exact same board approved a dramatic pivot which in turn watched that money and 3 more rounds be consumed by. "That CEO is a straight shooter to make a hard call that quickly... give him some more money..."

All things being equal, I wonder what the content is really worth, that stuff typically doesn't age well so not maintaining the ownership may not have been a bad thing and it sounds like they recognized that it wasn't going to catch fire and so shutting it down makes sense. I expect the investment community will look upon it favorably. It's easy to criticize and I don't think I'd have ever paid $10 a month for it, but we also live in a world where there is TV streaming to gas pumps. I wonder what people will do when gas stations stop selling gas but it still takes 20minutes to fully charge your electric car...
they found the cheese gromit
Same presentation in HTML on SEC.gov:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459020...
What a colossal disaster.
You cover math and science and world history, and then claim that the only gaps are local geography, local history, local civics and polity and socialization (which is a lot more than what isn't a gap, but still).

Of the core trinity of “reading, ’riting, and ’rithmetic”, I'll note that what you have covered plus what you have listed as missing includes only one of the three.

Also, while I'm less familiar with KA, YouTube is at best a less-information-dense substitute for a book, not a substitute for active instruction and graded exercises with feedback.
I think you are wrong (2).

Tools are just tools and I've seen many senior engineers who are extremely efficient at what they do—absolutely despise vim/emacs or any other terminal based text editors. They feel more efficient in Sublime/VScode/Pycharm/Webstorm/IntelliJ/Goland etc. They only use vim/tmux only when it's absolutely necessary.

Many beginners just give up when they can't configure these tools around a language properly. I think "repl.it" gives these people a hasslefree way to dip into a language ecosystem and see whether they like it or not.

Once the user has some familiarity with the language and the toolings around it, they make their own decisions regarding whether replit caters their needs or not.
I remember going through a tunnel in a shinkansen at around 300kph and doing a speed test as I was surprised to still have full 4g signal.

It was faster than the max speed I'd ever recorded back in London.

Meanwhile when I was living in the US I had to put my phone next to the window to receive ANY signal at all. This was on a university campus.

I would love to know how Japan built their system (was it publicly funded/subsidised?).
I suspect that Safari uses Public Suffix or similar for that.
In my opinion, this is deceptive. Trying to pretend to be involved or concerned by open source to boost sales...
Are ... are you familiar with the history of CIA?
Here’s a reasonably exhaustive list of languages that do:

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828#alternative-languag...
No no, almost nothing gets merged into the standard if it breaks anything, and to "fix" the language you definitely have to break it...