skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when I lived in Germany, it was cheaper to fly to US and buy the highest end MacBook there, and fly back, instead of buying in Germany. The price was the same number in USD and EUR, and this was when EUR was strong.
With only 24 participants it's no wonder if there is noise in the results.
As karatinversion already pointed out, some traditional health practices have been shown to be ineffective, or even actively harmful.

There is no substitute for the scientific method.
> in a dead industry

That “dead industry” is worth many $100s of Billions. What are you on about?
How are you, as an individual, going to protest the inclusion of "next DRM" in the HTML6?
Decent article explaining the prices, and also the influences of taxes and import duties. But the author kinda makes it sound like it’s Apples fault for their price ing in India.

Really the government’s fault for imposing such high duties and taxes. I just don’t understand it from a morality perspective .
Same in tiny Uruguay, but it's even more preposterous to say that they're trying to protect or incentivize a local consumer electronics manufacturing industry.

As a thought experiment, you could take the concept of tariffs and apply it to an ever decreasing geographic area. Maybe my city should try to protect its jobs and industry and therefore levy a 100% tariff on goods made in other cities. Same for my neighborhood or city block.

Ultimately, it's also a tragically regressive tax. Wealthy families that regularly travel to Miami or New York don't suffer much from it -- they just buy their electronics there. They may even make some money by bringing some home and selling the goods for much more than they paid.

If you're poor and you need to buy a laptop or phone on your meager salary, you're screwed.
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Or Nikon's own, unpaywalled site:

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2020-photomicrogra...
I don't know how you can look at phones and conclude that the US is behind. They make the only two OS that matter and Apple is #1 in mobile chip and phone design.
Yeah, it is distinctive but not in a good way, compare it to next cheapest model[1] it's way better and normal looking. Their other cars design are over top, specially that the parent company own Citroën, Peugeot, DS, Opel and Vauxhall.

https://media.citroen.fr/image/28/9/C1ELLE.279289.36.jpg
I've been using spaced repetition via anki for about a year now. Two effects that I've run into:

1.) When there's a deadline looming i tend to drop doing it, and then after the deadline i have a bunch to catch up on.

2.) I find somewhat frequently that some of the things i learned that I thought would be good to know in the future, i no longer have a use for. It's easy enough to stop reviewing those bits, but I've wondered what kind of impact that has.
So, GNU Emacs is thinking to modernize , improvise the Emacs which i think is very good.

https://lwn.net/Articles/819452/
The tax isn't just designed to make Apple and others move to India, it's to give an advantage to local manufacturers over foreign ones. Now whether or not local phone companies are starting/growing in India as a result of this tax, I don't know
If you haven't seen any of his posts before, gwern is a treasure. He delves so, so deeply into topics that he finds interesting. A modern Library of Alexandria.
Looks good on the design and clean code. Keep up the good work, Thanks.
How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers, Part 1
> You might want to be less aggressive when asking for citations in the future. Especially considering this is something you could have found in ~5 mins of googling.

Why is it my responsibility to validate someone's vague claim?
> tech startup the way Quibi

I think the founding theory behind Quibi was that is wasn't supposed to be a tech startup. It was a media/content start up. We largely consider Netflix a tech startup, but their technology has two main areas: distribution and recommendations. The rest of their business (and likely the larger fraction) is in content production and procurement.

Quibi wasn't supposed to be a tech startup, it was all about the content. This was their primary expertise and focus. Their main differentiating factor was that they were creating content for mobile consumption.

It may well be that the rapid changes in media consumption due to Covid had a major part of their downfall. That and TikTok. It's hard to compete against free, mobile-first, viral content.
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I’ve got several spaced repetition links here:

https://github.com/melling/LanguageLearning/blob/master/READ...

I’ve been developing iOS language apps for many years. A recent one attempts to simply teach 100 basic words.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hundred-words/id1469449237

I don’t use spaced repetition but have considered it. I’m not sure if that’s more worthwhile than gamifying with a better reward system.

Anyway, I’m looking for ideas on how to make better educational apps. Thanks.
There could definitely be an "Atlas Obscura, Greece Edition" book.
And what of the hundreds of other practices? Shall we take all old things at face value and never study them? We study things we "already know" all the time. Often we discover new things while doing so, but still prove our previously held beliefs more true.

More personally, why aren't you just happy to see extra validation of something you believe in?
True, but they often put stipulations on it. I know for Singapore, you had to have owned the item for at least 3 months. Otherwise it was considered to be a new item imported and duty needed to be paid.

I have no idea how that was actually enforced.
Doesn't mean much without GM saying how many were available. Did they get 100, or 100,000 pre-orders?
> why is adaptive bitrate something you want for video playback outside of streaming?

I don't follow. Adaptive bitrate only applies to streaming.

> having to seek back because text suddenly became unintelligible

That's an issue with the minimum quality being set too low, not an issue with adaptive bitrate itself.
And it's easy to create similar examples. "Jacket without stripes". "Pan without non-stick coating". Anything of the form "X without Y" tends to trip up Google.
>We techies - programmers as well as business folks in tech - love to think that a programmer's most valuable skills are their knowledge of programming languages.

Until recently, this wasn't a common thought beyond the beginner stage.

I think the mindset comes from the demand to grind out websites. A short ramp up has become way more important than ability to learn on the job.

Programming isn't magic, one of our not-software disciplines has a tradition of learning python so they can make business logic changes to internal tooling we maintain for them. Not that it's hard for them to get on our schedule (they usually preempt our other work), it's just that it's so damn easy for someone smart to pick up python.
The author’s conclusion that the overall effect was generally positive seems strangely dismissive of the fact that anxiety and confusion scores were increased.

Anecdotally, I had a few coworkers go through a phase of LSD microdosing enthusiasm. From my outside perspective, this study matches what I observed: Vaguely better moods associated with increased confusion. They were more immersed in their tasks, but that was partially because even easy tasks were more difficult on their microdosing days.

The most concerning part of their experiment was how it distorted their own perceptions and judgment. They’d feel like they had arrived at great epiphanies or accomplished something impressive after solving trivial or obvious problems. They were convinced that their LSD days were full of breakthroughs and leaps forward, when in reality the drug was just making even small tasks feel like great victories. We politely hinted that they should stop when they struggled to keep up in meetings and conversations.

For another perspective, Gwern has some self trials with LSD that also showed some worrisome negative trends: https://www.gwern.net/LSD-microdosing
American anti trust was based on apparent harm to users. This is a different beast altogether. That is worth noting.
Exactly. Any translation is better than none but a good translation can be better than a poor one.
Nokia selected by NASA to build the first 4G mobile network on the Moon
Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record
We've been trying to design a safe and portable language in WebGPU (called WGSL), but it turns out to be really hard. For example, subgroup ops discussion [1] so far concluded that even the most limited form still has portability concerns. Even things like texture sampling (that depend on control flow uniformity) could be tricky with regards to how the uniformity is defined. And at least in WGSL we can be conservative, but Rust-GPU does probably not have this luxury.

Thus, I'm curious to see how Rust will tackle it. Will it try to enforce the portability and safety guarantees with a type system, or will it specifically lower the guarantees compared to native code (thus keeping the syntax of Rust but not the philosophy).

Anyhow, amazing work by Embark, and a stellar example how to collaborate in open source!

[1] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/pull/954
SEALs are mammals too; even they spend _some_ time on land.

And, said in a less snarky way: I can see why a diving instructor would say "don't hold your breath" when you're under water. Navy SEALs likely dive a lot, but they also do training and actions above the water. And they likely spend a lot of time in stressful situations (certainly more than me). I can imagine they might box breath _on land_ to help manage the stress.
Interestingly I bought my house from a fairly high up (they have a "head of" title) person that defected to LA to work for Quibi. At the time my wife, who is in media, thought that it was a great move that was pretty much guaranteed to be a home run.

I wonder how they made out on it all. they had reasonably good track record prior and likely had a reasonably good cash component, but any equity they had must be wiped.

I feel bad saying this, but I thank Quibi for my lovingly renovated house. No backsies!
Defense is much cheaper than offense.

I don’t think that’s true and there are plenty of counterexamples e.g what did Saddam spend on Scuds vs what the US spent on Patriot?
Part of it has to do with corruption.

There was a time when I was trying to run an actual journalistic quality blog about gamedev, and I interviewed a bunch of people, some of them almost slipped out stuff, and one talked to me off the record, basically he claimed a certain Brazillian company that has a license from a certain japanese company to manufacture some 8-bit and 16-bit consoles, lobbyed very hard for the tax increases on imported consoles (something that didn't helped them, most of their income come from Karaoke machines now).

And later on I found out that a lot of employees of that certain brazillian company have connections with the government, for example one of them worked for that company and worked for BNDS, and while still in both of their payrolls went on a speaking tour to explain how the government was being great for the local game industry by offering loans at low cost for game companies... when I went to check, the game companies or had government friends, or family (for example one of the "game companies" the government helped, that never made a game, had the son of the president as shareholder).

I also once foolishly helped an "activist" that was promising to represent Brazillian gamers to lower the taxes, I even printed the logo of his campaign on my own company t-shirts and promo materials, and printed his logo on an Arcade machine I built.

After he got inside the government and the negotiations started, then he immediately proposed a tax cut only for physical stores, and massive tax increases for online stores, specially Steam, this made people investigate his life, and then find out he was shareholder of physical game stores... Thankfully his effort failed (thankfully because what he was proposing would make overall taxes higher instead of lower, also it would result in censorship of a bunch of stuff).
The ", that was never a thing anyway, except for a few technerds." was a pretty important part of the line you quoted.
Yeah, put a `type` tag in there and call it a day.
I would add to that a brighter screen, the base has twice the storage and the pro has better camera capabilities (that could actually be claimed to be 'pro'). When you equalise the storage, the price differential is about $200.
Is just gmail not the answer?
The planet or moon may be facing the wrong way for you to be able to send a message directly to the rover or base on the surface.

Using your example, and assuming you want to send a message to a moon base on the surface of Callisto, a moon of Jupiter: while you may have a clear line to Jupiter, the point on the surface of Callisto that you want to send a message may not be in your line-of-sight because it is facing away from you. So your route becomes Earth -> Jupiter Communications Satellite 3 -> Callisto ComSat 10 -> Callisto Base Alpha

Assuming you want to send a message to the far side of Luna, even then the best path may be a commsat in high orbit around Luna -> Comsat in low orbit around Luna -> FarSide Base.

I agree, rarely are you going to need to bounce from Mars to Jupiter, but for low-priority bulk traffic (scientific images, etc) and enough nodes, it might be worthwhile to bounce from Mars to Jupiter to Luna to Earth if all communication nodes were otherwise idle. The Delay Tolerant Network Vint Cerf is working on supports knowledge of when certain antennas have available communication windows to different nodes, and can schedule and route communication accordingly.

Source: Myself, did a presentation on it in college
This is good advice but not always easy to implement. We have some customers that insist on using IPs instead of DNS (usually because of bad/old software on their side). In our case we have some commercial LBs that can pass the EIP to each other as needed. However we do see quite a few resets so I wonder if something like this is still going on.
>> You elided the "necessarily".

Well, if it follows, then it follows necessarily. But maybe that's just a deformation professionelle? I spend a lot of time working with automated theorem proving where there's no ifs and buts about conclusions following from premises.
The Case for OAuth 3.0
There are many things on the internet you can run yourself - eg calculators.
You don't always have a clear line of sight. E.g. when you communicate with a satellite orbiting mars, the planet will get in between for a period of time.

Furthermore, even if you have clear line of sight, repeaters on the way can be helpful because the inverse square law even holds for lasers (the light isn't perfectly parallel, there is no such solution to the maxwell equations (outside of an infinite plane emitting light perpendicular to it), instead it's a gaussian beam).

Last, you only have a limited amount of spectrum you can send to or receive from a specific point in the sky. Beyond that, it gets hard really quick. If you have repeater stations far away so that they can be targeted from the distance, you can increase the maximum bandwidth. This is mainly a concern once the interplanetary bandwidth is maxed out.
Awesome youtube channel. Here is the one he did on battery packs for hand tools.

DIY super capacity BATTERY PACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_dwesKFwY
iPhone: “Made in China – India?”
Matched in terms of voltage and discharge characteristics. Many of the battery guides mention the possibility of the weakest cell in an unmatched pack being improperly charged. And that that would result in shorter life for the pack or worse consequences.
On a much smaller scale, this is achieved in the US by going to a no sales tax state like Oregon or Delaware.

With the sales tax in Los Angeles at 10.25%, I’ve ended up queuing up large purchases together, buying a round trip ticket to Portland ($200-300) and hitting up the Apple Store, Target, Best Buy there. And get a free trip to Portland!

I’ve read the Christiana Mall in Delaware is especially popular for people living along the I-95 corridor for this very purpose.
Very true, and I agree there are programs to retrieve browser passwords [1]. Does this mean there is built-in code in Firefox which sniffs for browser-stored password files inside home directory of a user? I don't see any other way how Firefox knew that I had the logins saved in Chromium for the particular site I mentioned.

[1] https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_browser_password.html
> and I could go on and on.

Please do, I just learned about dumb-jump, any more suggestions of things that worked for you?
incidentally, does anyone know what happened to happs like whispercore from 2011? are there new apps like that that exist on android or ios? is Adguard DNS about the closest thing to that now?
Correct, OFAC only works for people who abide by it (mostly banks).

But how do you get your idea working? The whole point of bitcoin and crypto is that its decentralized. Even if governments bought in, they cant stop individuals
I was pretty frustrated with existing spaced repetition software, so I went ahead and made my own[1].

It's markdown enabled (including latex), with a cross platform offline-first desktop app and mobile apps. The pro subscription offers syncing across devices.

It's sort of a mix between a zettelkasten and spaced repetition system.

[1] https://mochi.cards/
Well, I think that you generally don't control beam dispersion /angular resolution that well (please correct me if I'm wrong). So the received power is probably a lot better if you aim closer.

On the other hand, the latency penalty might be quite steep. There is probably a latency/bandwidth tradeoff that needs to be solved for every packet. I think today's internet has the same set of tradeoffs (plus some, like cost). If packets could carry their own metrics, routers could make better-informed choices.
I am illustrating the fact that you can be in position of power, and through your unwillingness to give up the privileges of your position or sheer ignorance of others fate, you are still responsible (to lesser or grater degree) for the acts committed by the group/social class you belong to (unless you are actually acting against that).

Direct historical example is the aristocracy of Hungary and Poland. Both undermined and exploited their rulers to extracted privileges and wealth of their respective nations. Resulting in weak states that fall pray to their neighbors.

> All this is under article about Marie Antionette who specifically I don't really think was evil.

I am not arguing she was evil, but that she was guilty of the situation and shouldn't be judged based on how nice she was to people and how great her writing skills were.
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We are building a software jobs listing application to help search and apply for jobs.

Our api can be found here https://github.com/Mastersam07/devjobapi while the app can be found here https://github.com/Mastersam07/jobby.

Our app should be available for beta testing 24th of October 2020.

Please star the repo if you like what you see
Show HN: Mightysmart- a Visual Resume for Creatives
As a designer with no coding experience, it's taken me longer to get to the starting line.

Mightysmart is a website for creative professionals to build dynamic profiles that link all their content on the web back to their visual resume.

Your comments are much appreciated.
For a while I was scrapping dead laptop batteries to build an 18650 pack for my esk8 build. I ended up building a battery validation rig with a Turnigy battery charger that charges the battery to 4.2V, drains it to 3.8V, and charges it back up to 4.2V to figure out its true storage rating. Then I sorted them by manufacturer, model, and storage capacity, with a recycling bin for anything below 80% of their rated capacity, open cells, and shorted cells.

It's a lot of work, but the validation was all automated via the charger. The pack I ended up with had healthy cells all within 10% of each other in terms of capacity.
Hmm, I was assuming the charger would have a balancer, if it doesn't you can get in trouble, yes.
My understanding is that (in theory) box breathing is used to calm and focus the practitioner - it’s not something you do while exerting yourself at all. If you tried box breathing while running (or diving), for example, you would quickly need to stop running or pass out.
Looks cool, probably uses similar techniques indeed!

The use case of my API is not quite as you describe, but I get the confusion. Instead, my case needs the platforms at which you register to implement the new method of confirmation. That means you can't just use this for every existing software.

It goes like this:

- You register at platform A with your own real email address

- Platform A asks you to confirm your email address, but instead of sending you an email, it shows you an email address to which you can send an email.

- You send an email using your own real email address.

- Platform A receives an event from my API that they received an email at the given email address from the email address they expected, so email address confirmed.

What you see at the provided URL is simply a demo of what could be part of any registration form.
If you figure it out please post/reply - I’m wondering the same.
Is the author sure that he wouldn’t be subject to taxes when re-entering with something bought elsewhere? Pretty sure that this is the case for at least some cases.
I also found another interesting Chrome extension to compare prices between different Amazon, Walmart and Target https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shopping-helper-fi...

P.S. using camelcamelcamel and also Honey
> I wonder if this is simply because there is a mismatch between what people are being told and what people are observing with their own eyes.

This has been my experience with people who want to open things back up. They're getting together with friends, they've been going to visit family, they've gotten their kids back in school, and no one has gotten sick. They think the rest of us are being ridiculous.

I almost feel like its the elephant in the room. No official has come out and said "I understand why these policies look like overkill, but if things go bad they will go bad quickly". Now the reason no official has said that is because they think people will hear the first part and discard the last part, but it's exacerbating the mistrust people already have about our government response.

I will say that I'm personally finding it hard, and I fall into cycles of wondering if the sacrifices I've made a are worth it. Family members are getting older and we've probably missed out on 4-5 visits we would have had any other year, plus we're facing the possibility of seeing no one over Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We had all of our business listings on Google Maps/Business suspended a month ago because I had our GSUITE admin account suspended (due to some confusion with enabling/disabling 2FA repeatedly while doing a GSUITE Data Export), and it cascade suspended the company's Google Maps/Business listings.

The Google account was unsuspended in minutes, but there is no way to unsuspend Google Maps/Business listings, even though we are PAYING customers of Google.

GSUITE support says they don't own Google Map listings (they only support the core apps), so they can't help, and Google Business listings support has a canned response that says because of Covid they aren't responding to requests.

We are already hurting because of the pandemic and now we're not even listed anymore. This is exactly how it was dealing with 1980s telecom monopolies.
The problem with soldering them with an iron is that you get the cells way too hot by the time solder has managed to melt, even if you're quick about it.
An analog solution like this works well. Depends on what you consider pleasant sounds.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/201429990/vintage-westclox-wind...