skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people still make a mess and a version that is absolutely fact based is still not there, then there is little hope for the things we don't hear about

This is sometimes called an "isolated demand for rigour"[0]. There is worldwide governmental consensus that Khashoggi was murdered. The Saudi Arabian government admits to it using purposely euphemistic language. They even had a (closed) trial and sentenced five people to death in relation to this "horrible incident."

But then, you respond, have you actually seen video footage of the murder taking place? Well, then it's settled. We truly cannot know if Khashoggi was "murdered," and since no body was recovered, for all we know he's vacationing in the Seychelles, or deep in a Turkish prison. How is this different than the "weapons of mass destruction" that got us into the Iraq War?

> You may be mistaken thinking I'm defending a government and you seem to think you're producing evidence.

This passive-aggressive nonsense is ridiculous. You seem to clinging to some fiction that SA has not literally and materially admitted to wrongdoing. You operate in a worldview where everything that doesn't meet your arbitrary standard of truth is not "evidence-based," and therefore wrong. What you present as some sort of epistemic skepticism is just garden variety solipsism.

[0]https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
Weird timing, I saw Slingbox ads constantly last week while streaming CNN. I never quite saw the appeal of this product, but I also haven't had a cable subscription in about 10 years.
Could you elaborate more on why you would dislike using this to be "in the office"? Thanks for the feedback, this is very helpful.
i like gather.town. a totally frivolous suggestion i would make is that it should be possible to pick up and eat the coffee and cookies. you could have a meaningless status effect of some kind.
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This article is a nice argument against your view:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-un...

One quote:
> Civilised people don’t ask for resumes when answering calls from the edge of a grave. It shouldn’t matter what I did after I cleaned myself off and threw away the last of my asylum-seeking clothes. My accomplishments should belong only to me. There should be no question of earning my place, of showing that I was a good bet. My family and I were once humans in danger, and we knocked on the doors of every embassy we came across: the UK, America, Australia, Italy. America answered and so, decades later, I still feel a need to bow down to airport immigration officers simply for saying “Welcome home”.

> But what America did was a basic human obligation. It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks. It is your duty to answer us, even if we don’t give you sugary success stories. Even if we remain a bunch of ordinary Iranians, sometimes bitter or confused. Even if the country gets overcrowded and you have to give up your luxuries, and we set up ugly little lives around the corner, marring your view. If we need a lot of help and local services, if your taxes rise and your street begins to look and feel strange and everything smells like turmeric and tamarind paste, and your favourite shop is replaced by a halal butcher, your schoolyard chatter becoming ching-chongese and phlegmy “kh”s and “gh”s, and even if, after all that, we don’t spend the rest of our days in grateful ecstasy, atoning for our need.
I have a suggestion to make on this regard, not related to body language.

In scientific conferences, typically at the end of the day (e.g. after dinner, with drinks) you have "poster presentations". These presentations look pretty much like these images from Google [0]. Everyone goes to a big room, and the presenters stand in front of their posters which are ~90x120cm. People walk around looking at the poster titles figures, and when one of them catches their interest they stop to listen to the presenter (if they are already taking to a group) or ask him about it.

The fact that you have these big posters at all ends up being just a cue so people can identify who is working on which kinds of subjects/projects, and go talk to them about it. My advisor had this really funny idea of having "microposters" at a conference, where he just taped an A4 paper with one figure and the project title and his name to his back, and that is all it took to start conferences. It worked super great, it was exactly what it took to "break the ice".

In these conferences people will typically have read your papers, but they don't know your face, or even that you were in a paper (at most they will remember first author or last author, which is the professor). So just having a small cue "I'm Bob and I work on X" is already sufficient to break the ice.

My suggestion would be two things:
1) For mimicking the poster presentation aspect of scientific, to allow people to upload an image which gets displayed on an area of the map. Then the presenter can stand there, and interested folks just gather around him to listen.

2) Allow some kind of mouseover view that shows additional information about the person, eg a bio, a description of the projects, or a picture/link to a description of the projects.

I haven't yet seen a good virtual scientific conference, and it is exactly this aspect of the social interactions that is missing. In the end of the day, the primary reason why scientists move halfway around the globe to gather in a hotel for a few days is not to so much to listen to the speakers as it is to gather in small groups at breakfast/lunch/dinner/happy hour/breaks, and exchange ideas and get to know each other. Academic conferences allow people to put a face to the names they see in papers, and it really helps make science feel more humane and prompts you to exchange more.

Thanks!

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=scientific%20poster%20presen...
Ah, good point. This is an artifact of the 8-hour block pricing being the first pricing we ever offered, but monthly is definitely more what we're focusing on.
I'm fortunate enough to have needed a Pixel 5 _in addition_ to a Pixel 4a, results are nonsensical imo, 5 is _definitely_ more buttery
Finally somebody said it! You cannot divorce language from its engineering culture. Just compare how Go libraries and tools are made compared to Java. In the Java world everything is over-engineered to an extreme and if you as a new developer try to keep thing simple you will be quickly put in your place and told “that is not how proper Java programs are written.”

And Java is not alone in having that kind of engineering culture. You find it a lot of places but it is the community where I find it most noticeable.
If by "get better" you mean get to the insane situation where you can reasonably describe a $700 phone as a "downmarket" "mid-range" device, then, yeah maybe.
In a nation where most people have an extreme caloric surplus, "processing", aka "cooking" increases the caloric intake of diners. Processing usually removes fiber also.
i could be wrong here but I'm sensing a theme
At a glance, it looks like optimizely does A/B testing. Couldn't they do that without receiving personal data?
Yet some people still choose to use iPhone (as if it's their most reasonable choice)
@diegocg - if you read the full article, I link Cal Newport's book and some of my favorite blog posts by him at the end.
I think the Go docs can be more discerning about when to use channels and when to use shared memory. The broad advice of "share by communicating" is too broad, too many people learn Go and think they need to use channels and CSP everywhere, and then quickly realize that they've over-engineered their program.

I typically use shared memory by default (mostly mutexes and waitgroups), and generally only use channels when I'm working with task queues, which is where they really shine.
This project might not have a million lines of code but how maintainable is the codebase going to be in a few years once the original authors have moved on to other projects? Is the code organized to be easily readable? Java is very expressive but that's a good thing from a maintainance standpoint.

Also, the ecosystem is very young so you don't know which libraries will still be around in 3 or 5 years. You might find yourself reworking large parts of the code for betting on the wrong horse.
Well that's fricking terrifying. Thanks for the followup, and I wish you the best.
I run a completely free service https://firemeet.io
Though I think gather's UX is actually very friendly to non-technical people!
The videos tend to be random, in both operations requested and their order.

If you can generate convincing real-time fake video based on verbal commands like “ok, now show me behind the desk… now your left ear” you probably don’t need to pass an exam any more.
If they're having trouble proctoring their exams, perhaps they're admitting too many students.
Non vegan. I agree with this.

I eat specifically to get strong in the gym.

A bit of a sticking point with me and my partner is I refused to go eat at a cafe with my partners sister/husband for brunch as it was a vegan cafe. My reasoning was it was junk food, heavily processed food made to taste like meat. Nutritionaly there was nothing on the menu that suited my macros as I was training for a competition on a strict diet.

I did explain I'd happily eat somewhere that served real, whole food that was vegan, the issue wasn't about it being a vegan cafe, the issue was the food was nutritionally junk.

Whole based plant foods can be extremely tasty, healthy and simple. I quite happily eat these types of vegan meals. I actively avoid beyond meat burgers but will quite happily eat lentil burgers.

Still on the topic of McDonalds, people want beyond meat style burgers so it's good they are providing them as an option.
It's a silly comparison, they're different products ultimately.
It’s currently thought to be less important than it use to be. Previously it was assumed that a complete protein needs to be consumed during every meal. Now it’s generally regarded as okay to have a complete protein across the entire day. This makes it very likely to have a complete protein by eating a variety of foods throughout the day.
On the other hand, https://www.efabless.com/ offers:

$70K
20 WEEKS
100 SAMPLES

See also: https://theamphour.com/503-fabless-chip-design-with-mohammed...
plant based burgers are heavily processed with all kinds of chemicals and not necessarily healthier
It's essentially impossible to avoid eating sufficient essential amino acids
Possibly who still uses IE is mostly on business, so it's attractive target, isn't it?
Strawman. Not the argument of the person you're responding to.
Game development shops are notoriously cheap. They have to hire people willing to work for peanuts. Like the circus, they take who they can get, from among people who need to be a part of the magic.

Meanwhile, game developers, as a rule, are interested in (surprise!) game development, not languages. What Rust brings to the table, few game developers are looking for. But Rust builds are notoriously glacial, where game developers are wedded to the edit-build-test cycle.

So, gaming will be one of the last places for Rust to thrive. That doesn't mean no games will be in Rust. Rust coders will compete for jobs using it, rather than game shops competing for Rust coders.
Meanwhile that's about the price of a base model iPhone 12 Mini which a SoC that's significantly faster.
I should clarify. I mean badly asked questions, to mean that someone has asked a lazy question, and not done their due diligence before asking for a hand-hold. I am all for helping someone with a good question. I do it daily.
Yeah. Probably huddle?
Source availability and pricing are orthogonal. The most famous example is Doom: it's open source but the game is shareware.

Many people believe that modern software places too many unreasonable restrictions on end-users. I should be able to modify any of the software running on personal devices for my own purposes, at the very least. It's frustrating that I would typically have to use a disassembler instead of getting to directly tweak the source code.

Going back to the artist example: it's akin to buying a poster which says that it must be placed on a wall facing a specific direction, at a specific height, with a specific axial tilt, and that it only be illuminated by natural sunlight. But I just want the poster because I really love a specific section. Once I get home, my scissors go to town on the poster, allowing me to only retain the parts I loved. Then I glue it to a circular sheet of metal and I hang it from the ceiling! I'm quite content to recognize the artist's work in crafting the poster and compensate him fairly. But find his list of restrictions on how it should be used to be utterly absurd, and since it's my poster I do whatever I want with it at home.

Here's the thing: given all the restrictions which you place on your app, it absolutely has to justify its price tag because, even if they have the knowledge and skills to do so, the end-user can't fix the bugs you missed nor tweak it to suit their specific needs. Even if you manage to get 95% of the way there with your app, if that final 5% is really crucial and the end-user has no way of closing the gap, then it doesn't make much sense to invest one's limited capital on something that leaves their problem unresolved.

I've bought open source software in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
I love all sorts of pizza: Meaty, cheesy, vegan, and everything in-between.

I've had some truly phenomenal vegan pizzas that I would regularly take over a "traditional" pizza.

I've also had some horrible ones. But you can say that about anything :-)
In order to reverse the trend you have to have people who are the very representatives of the power you wish dismantled choose to dismantle it. This is even harder than it seems.

The job naturally predominantly attracts those who desire the power in the first place and they retain the support of the people who put and keep them there by giving these people things they desire. This is why you see tax cuts but no real meaningful reduction of the federal government.

You might as well consider it an axiom that no government willingly dis empowers itself.

You say its not settled but it has been moving the same direction for 244 years and shows no sign of reversing course. What suggests a reversal to you?
My cynical take is that frontend devs will do this anyways, just with api calls from the client and probably repeat the same calls a few times per page load. But hey, the backend metrics look great, who cares that the page takes 10 seconds to load.
Come to the comments for a discussion on blindness, leave with the thought that multiple orgasms for men may not be a good idea.

I love HN.
Examiners don't need to absolutely rule out a cheat, they just need to be sure that a cheating examinee would not be able to absolutely rule out cheat detection. Demonstrating absence of cheats isn't like some captcha that you just take again and again if you fail, as often as you like.
> Why did they include the play store + app model instead of embracing a true PWA experience?

I can think of a few possible reasons:

1. Chrome (as in the browser) came out after the first iPhone was released (2007), and around the same time of Android's first release (2008). Chrome OS didn't come out until 2011. Android's app ecosystem started developing before Google had all that much influence on web standards, and likely before they realized that it would be a good idea to have that influence, or even knew that Chrome (the browser) would become as popular as it ended up being. I'll also note that Chrome OS wasn't anywhere near as successful as Google hoped it would be; while that doesn't invalidate Chrome OS's app model, it doesn't validate it either.

2. Android has done a decent amount of copying of iOS features (I say this without judgment or malice; I've been a generally happy Android user continuously since 2010 and have no axe to grind). Not having native app development on Android could have been seen as a possible market disadvantage when compared against Apple.

3. Google may have actually desired more Apple-like control over what runs on Android, or at least wanted to allow for the possibility that they'd want it in the future. That's harder when you base your app platform on web standards.
I am super excited for https://www.huddlehq.io/

Used it for a few 1:1s and sprint plannings. I love it!
That's the point.
IMO you can build the app with less coding noise (different abstraction) with stencil or svelte
ACF composes all harmonics together and that's what likely makes the images visually appealing. However ACF doesn't give special treatment to harmonics that are exactly N octaves apart, e.g. A4 and A7 notes.
You read too far.

I included the assumption "sustainable productivity is desired".

You did not meet that condition, and should have stopped reading ;)
I agree. I think sometimes it is hard to fully understand how complicated logistics can be. I mean that’s why people study logistics in school and companies pay money for professionals well versed in logistics.
Build whatever you want, I just think the text being “abrasive” because of masculine pronouns is beyond goofy as fuck.
Except that laser printers are huge, which is very much not ideal if you live in an apartment and only print once a month.
Yes, it's the word "save" that's the problem. A title like "Go's role in improving Healthcare.gov" would be much better, less click-baity.

Because I can say SQL saved my data analysis project. MS Word saved my writeup of the project. Email saved my distribution of my final report on the project. The phone saved my ability to have meaningful follow-up conversations with stakeholders on the project.
Pauline Gee’s slice shop in Greenpoint has some vegan options that would fool most people in a blind taste test, I think. The bread and the sauce are doing most of the work.
It works on Firefox, but as the error says, you have to set the correct sample rate that matches the mp3 file. You can do that with ?sr=44.1 or ?sr=48. The default value is 44.1 and on Chrome you can use any sample rate.
> Also, the ecosystem is very young so you don't know which libraries will still be around in 3 or 5 years.

This is precisely my concern. It's all good and well that we have these "Google level engineers" taking over government projects. But when the boredom runs out (or they go back to the private sector), who takes over?

I suspect the first people who wrote gov't applications in COBOL felt the same way...and you know how that story ends.
As mentioned in the article, Salsa is really good for this
Ask HN: Category of devices that work offline and rarely need to charge?
There is a set of consumer electronics that are functional offline and have a very long life on a single charge or batteries, from from weeks to more than a year. Something that needs nearly no maintainance or updates. A few examples: wrist watches, e-readers, calculators, digital organizers, handheld brick game, AlphaSmart Neo word processor, WikiReader, and many more.

Is there a common name that unites all those examples?
That's cool! How is it funded?
I personally love vim, and have found that setting up vim keybindings for my IDE seems like the best of all worlds.

I do appreciate the consistency and speed of plain vim, however I can't fathom trading that for code completion, which in my experience is the biggest missing feature from vim. Even with plugins like YouCompleteMe (which is awesome) the completion quality isn't even close to what you get in a real IDE. I'm honestly curious how people code productively in a professional environment without code completion?
Agreed on talking walks as well. I'll usually fetch with my dogs on lunch break.
If it never shipped though...
It works well for a learning project that doesn't push clock rates. This lets the nose introduced by the breadboard to settle before each clock edge. Also, bypass capacitors are key.
The people that figure out how much money needs to be set aside this year to pay for the defined pension benefit accrued this year are called actuaries. However, the people that sit on the board of the taxpayer funded pension plans are politicians and senior government employee union officials. So the actuary that gives them the result they want is the actuary that gets hired.

These are all guesses based on assumptions, of course, and no one knows the future 5, 10, 20, 30+ years from now. But as an idea of how corrupted taxpayer funded pensions are, the US government requires all non taxpayer funded pensions to calculate the liabilities using yields from highly rated corporate bonds, i.e. a conservative, safe investment class.

However, the US government exempted taxpayer funded pensions from any oversight, and so they can use whatever discount rate they want. For example, private companies have to use ~4% for their discount rate, whereas governments use ~8%+ for their discount rate.

But that's just small pickles. The big problem is there is no enforcement of even the liberal actuarial recommendations that the pension fund pays for. IL/NJ/CT/and other trouble governments simply skip contributions, i.e. don't set any money aside for the future, and that's the main reason they are in this situation. A decade or two ago, the senior union officials on the pension board didn't care about the skipped contribution payments to make a sufficiently big deal out of it, since they were going to get paid in the short term anyway. And they negotiated ridiculous pension benefits which are never seen in the private sector, such as final average pay formulas.

A typical pension formula is years of service * 1% * salary over 30 years (with a cap). That's referred to as a 1% plan, some companies might do 2%, maybe even 3%.

But in the government, you have formulas like years of service3%final average pay for the last year, or 3 years, or 5 years. That is why you see cops and firefighters working 100 hours a week when they're about to retire in their 40s and 50s, so they can secure $100k+ per year defined benefit pensions. You would NEVER see that in the private sector, as that's a laughably unaffordable benefit.

On top of which, police and firefighters in some lavish plans get to retire in 20 years, so if they start at 18 to 22, they're retiring at 38 to 42, and getting paid $100k per year for 40+ years. That's an annuity worth millions of dollars.
Yes. This, this, and more this. Basically, having a way to see someone's table or booth could work for scientific conferences or trade shows or many different conferences, and also for informal conversations as well. I would love this feature.
I guess the best way of making sure Google has a cheap phone is to buy them and hope that makes a difference? If nothing else you had the phone you wanted for a while, who knows what the future will bring.
The best options now are a TV Tuner and Plex media center. It works about the same and, the last time I remember, it doesn't require Plex to stay in business. I could be wrong on that last bit though.
*asynchronous updates to shared state

If everyone is working in parallel, but on independent tasks, there are no issues.
99% of the Democrats and 98% of the republicans including present leadership disagree with your assessment.

If your position weakens any further it wont even have one seat in congress. In a democracy a position that virtually nobody cares for is dead.
> The language, libraries and whole community is really worshipping simplicity in a way Java never did.

Isn't that because it's essentially "new"?
Experiencing blindness is different than trying to experience what life is like for a blind person.

None of their listed reasons for doing the experiment were related to gaining insight into the life of the disabled.

If that was the goal, I would agree it was a poorly designed experience.
It is not america's job to rescue the rest of the world.
Why are you assuming they shipped anything?
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