skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it isn’t working, you might need to switch your headphones to the HSP profile. You can do this in Pavucontrol, the last tab with the devices. I prefer using wired headphones or at least a wired setup for this because HSP is piss-poor quality. But the quality issue, at least, is nothing especially new for BT devices on calls.
Apple has been deciding what and how you are allowed to run apps in your phone for almost a decade now. It's bad and all, but no one can say this is a surprise.
For Linux I would go with a Dell XPS 13 or Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
Health monitoring – the importance of making wearable sensors ‘unawareable’
"According to a study by Harvard Business Review (HBR), inclusive leadership and work culture directly enhance performance..."

No doubt a study could be performed that would show that employment candidates who had grown up in households with two parents present are more productive than those who had grown up in single-parent families.

Would it be a good idea to favor candidates from two-parent households? No! If a candidate, despite being from a single-parent family performs better than other candidates, he or she should be hired! He or she should be treated as an individual not as the member of some group.

Similarly, diversity should be viewed as something of secondary importance. The world does not need more women in tech or more men in nursing or more X in Y. Rather, each human being needs to be treated fairly, judged based on his or her own merits.
Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed by holiday gatherings
Far more restaurants are accessible for delivery to customers due to these apps. That's not worthless, it's an under served market.

Just because our regulatory frameworks allow DoorDash's workers to be taken advantage up does not mean that these apps have no value. DoorDash & others basically fed the whole young, well-off, urban dweller population that can't cook during lock down.
Yeah only because it's a novel virus and there is little to no herd immunity. I'm sure flu killed even more its first year when it was novel (since we didn't know about how viruses spread). Once it is no longer novel it will be a seasonal virus likely that kills at similar rates to flu. The real question is, can we stop wearing masks once we've achieve herd immunity? Or is it worth wearing them cradle to grave to reduce seasonal deaths as well?
The probability can be dialed depending on your needs and you can make it as low as you want.

For a Bloom filter storing 50k hashes with one in quadrillion (10^-15) probability of false positive you need 438kB bitmap.

I would worry more about ability to create software with hashes that exploit false positives in the filter. I guess there is multiple ways to remediate this: the filter could be used only as fallback if the primary service doesn't work. And it could also be rotated regularly. It could be salted (ie. thousands of versions of the filter available) making it difficult to predict which one is going to be used. These are just couple silly ideas off the top of my head.
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Some species even re-evolve again
This seems to be a very cynical view. There also seems to be an expectation that people should stand in either end of all issues. Why not take his for his word that there are times he is conflicted and he is good at communication?
I stopped using DoorDash when they had an outage, and when I tried to contact customer support I got an e-mail saying that a person would get back to me in 48 hours and they never did.

Then I read about the Doordash tip controversy and that made my decision final.
Yeah, screen time "doomscrolling", screen time "playing online board game with friends", screen time "reading a book" and screen time "watching a movie" are pretty different screen times.
The poster already edited, but to be more explicit: as I understand it’s some variation of some of these companies have been paying the driver X per hour, but if they don’t make X per hour, the tips fill in X-1. Effectively you’re paying the drivers wages instead of the company, rather than tips on top of their wages, in some cases.
You get what you vote for.
5. Do require cloud connection for essential, every-day actions that users perform on their devices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959.
Neither this article nor the research paper support the claim from the headline. A correlation was found, no causation afaict.
I wonder if much of Apple's desktop success came from educating a generation of students with Macs... and I wonder if that bodes well for Chromebooks into the future.
> 2 - AI. This mainly threw a big wrench in the planned integration of Communist China into the Western system. AI enabled CCP to maintain control of the Chinese society, which was completely unexpected.

Could you expand on this or better yet, point to some reading on the subject? This sounds like a very interesting topic.
That's a good point. And that must have been large enough to easily more than offset any increase in demand from the home desktop computing enthusiast.

For my company, since we didn't want to use a bunch of money to buy new equipment during an economic squeeze, we let the programmers (essentially everyone) take their workstations home, and most did.
We don't need Facebook, Instagram or stupid apps which make you bunny ears, but we need a hellofa lot more which solves real problems for real people.
I immediately thought of Hari Seldon when I read the opening sentences of the original article. And this quote from the blog post is so awesome

> But no, I don’t think of myself as a Hari Seldon...

And then goes on to explain why he's better. Love it!

Despite what Peter Turchin says in that quote, he is a lot like Hari Seldon: both of them model history scientifically, and both of them have a rough plan or roadmap for getting out of our current trouble. He says at the end of the above link:

> And my hope is that Cliodynamics will eventually pay its debt to History by showing that studying past societies is not just an academic endeavor — it can help us understand, among other things, our current Age of Discord, how we got into it, and what we can do to navigate the turbulent waters ahead.
I get the argument that many kids are growing up today without necessarily touching a "real" computer, just a tablet. That said, as someone who got into PCs quite early on, I'm a bit skeptical that the world we live in today where you can assemble a working computer based on a Raspberry Pi with loads of open source software for probably about $100 somehow is less accessible to a kid who wants to hack around on computers.
If you want to understand Trump‘s original appeal to working class America, consider what it would take to convince high-income San Franciscans that drivers were not duped into supporting 22. That they were competently looking out for their interests better than a detached observer can.
The Origins of Word Processing Software for Personal Computers: 1976-1985 (2006)
They demand to be taken as seriously, not as concrete, in my experience. Which is fair, we can maybe reach something like what is described in this article eventually - but as Turchin himself put it, it would not exist without History. If we are to devalue social sciences, we are giving up on ever expanding that knowledge.
To me this is just utterly ridiculous.

In the field that I work in (audio software) there are dozens of things that we can do in software now that were unimagined even in 1990. Polyphonic note editing? Utterly transparent time stretching? Even just the ability to do huge amounts of serious DSP on generic CPUs has completely altered the entire landscape of music production (and the software that is used to do it).

The same is true of so many other fields.

What hasn't changed much is the sort of software that is concerned with entering, editing and generating reports on data. The business/consumer focused versions of this stuff have changed from being built with tools provided by Oracle in the 1980s to using various web stacks, but the basic model - data input, fetch some data and present in a GUI - remains unchanged. And perhaps that's because the task hasn't really changed much, and what we have is actually fairly good at doing it.

But switch over to other areas where data-driven applications are important - many scientific disciplines for example - and even there you will find huge expansions in what is possible, particularly in terms of visualization (or auralization) as a way to help humans explore data.

And FFS, Google freakin' maps! Yes, something like it existed 10 years ago, but have you actually used it while driving recently! It's not bringing about world peace or solving hunger, but good grief, that is an absolute marvel of the composition of so many different areas of CS and software engineering into one incredibly user-friendly tool that I don't even know what to say other than "use the 2nd lane from the right and then turn left at the light".
I predicted based on what people are throwing away that cars will become disposable and landfills will fill up with them https://joshuaspodek.com/prediction-cars-will-become-disposa....

We keep not thinking of the unintended side effects so I hope we consider the end of life for these things. I suspect plenty of externalities aren't factored into the cost that the public will have to bare.
You can't do a traditional quote, PO, invoice, receipt purchase process when you're selling $99/mo. It just doesn't work.

That process makes sense when you're buying and shipping pallets of physical inventory for 5-6 figures. It makes no sense in our SaaS world today.
> ...we’ve built programs that just dont talk to each other at all.

This really struck me, the idea that perhaps software mirrors the human experience. In the US, we've traded tribalism for individualism, open discussion for echo chambers, and the exchange of beliefs for the walled garden of one's personal vision.
Thankfully in some countries the courts will just dismiss the case :

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/technology/09steal.html

Two years later, their case was dismissed :

https://www.generation-nt.com/drm-stopdrm-dadvsi-justice-loi... (fr)

They were considered as 'irresponsible' due to 'either psychological issues, force majeure or legitimate self-defense".

(Note that they even seem to have shared the DMCA infringing software on their website.)
Not matter what. We're not going to stop. That's way too late.
Why do they want dev skills to go at a premium price? For one thing, they do not have any shortage of apps coming in to their app store. They're no longer in the business of begging people to deploy apps. Instead, they're in the business of vetting the apps people submit.

Raising barriers to entry for new developers is a cost-cutting measure for them. And fewer apps on the store, even at the margins, is a revenue enhancer for incumbent app developers.

This may or may not be an explicit factor in their decision making. But it surely contributes to their lack of focus on docs: better docs will improve their profitability not at all.
My CFO didn't care about the line items inside our $20,000/mo Heroku bill. What he did care about its size. When I told him we could save a lot of money by fostering a direct relationship with companies like Redis Labs, he was very receptive to making that happen.

My engineers could spend money on new pieces of third-party infrastructure pretty easily via Heroku plug-ins. If the spend got big we figured out how to address it.

For this dynamic to work for you as SaaS developer, you need enough runway to wait for your users to adopt your tech and have some fraction organically grow big enough to be real money.

This rhymes with how Intuit won the accounting market. They initially got destroyed in reviews when compared to their more mature yet complicated competition, but everyone starting a business wanted cheap and simple. You just need to be willing to wait for enough of your early garage-based startup customers to become S&P 500 companies. While you're waiting, you're also evolving your product so that it better meets your growing customers' needs.
You're mixing up Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the observer effect. The former limits the precision at which certain linked properties can be known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

> Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused with a related effect in physics, called the observer effect, which notes that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the system, that is, without changing something in a system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)
Heating oil futures and natural gas futures for the various regions are tied to the average temperature since oil/gas heating usage is tied to temperature across days and not just the min or max.

So to go back to your excellent analogy, I am certainly asking for the average middle (the first moment) and not a point prediction.

ps: you should write more, we need better scientific explanations!
The UNIX philosophy has never been followed very assiduously. The 1970s bloated crap just didn't survive until today while ls did.
The style of English used in these older quotes in this article sounds amazing to me. When I write I feel like I just spew out words until I'm done, then I make a couple of passes to check things fit ok. Every piece of text I read from this period seems so carefully worded, deliberate and I dunno ... patient? It may just be how everyone spoke at the time, but it sounds special. See the below - it's got something particular about it and wish I could pinpoint exactly what:

"their Boat being made of Fish Skins, are so contrived that he can never sink, but is like a Sea-gull swimming on the top of the Water. His shirt he has is so fastned to the Boat, that no Water can come into his Boat to do him damage."
On the other hand this one person risks becoming a superspreader. It's not at all clear which is better from an epidemiological perspective.
People who hate tipping should run for public office, I swear. Damn Kantians!

You don't get to act as though your behavior is a categorical imperative if you don't participate in writing laws that make such imperatives a reality. You do not live as Robinson Crusoe, Chuck Noland, or even Richard Hatch did.

"Categorical imperative" is just a bad translation of "Law" which is a perfectly cromulent word.
To me it is not obvious. What causation do you think is at play here? A lot of commenters seem to think it is some kind of emotional mechanism, mentioning things like social media and such. But it might just be a physical mechanism, like being too sedentary, or eye fatigue.
I think what they really mean by "elite overproduction" is overproduction of people who feel that they deserve to be elites.
Last night I didn't realize Doordash doesn't even give me the option to tip for carryout. I came back to the restaurant to leave some cash in their jar labeled "DOORDASH TIPS!"

We Americans really need a way to tip via app. I wish cryptocurrency was viable, because the POS ecosystem (Toast, Square, Clover, etc) is fragmented and takes a cut, the gig-app ordering systems take an even bigger cut, and it's just awfully annoying to have paper cash on hand. Crypto has yet to make any firm inroads though.

It'll even be a great day for those who rely on gratituity when the US decides to mint $2 and/or $5 coins. $1 coins are so hard to come by and people think they're such a novelty yet they're immensely more useful, more durable, cleaner, and denser (10 $1 bills bursts my wallet and eventually turns into a chaotic mess in my pocket when I don't have time at the register to nicely stack and fold them back into my wallet; 10 $1 coins in my pocket is far more manageable.)
The author refers to install time, not build time.

I thought pip did not run code when installing .whl files? A —-wheels-only option would then be useful.
If you order with any regularity, the $10/month fee makes the overall fees you pay fairly minor. The difference in cost is primarily in the tip.

"Amazing that people have normalized..." something that is ridiculously convenient and comes at a marginal additional cost? I'm no more amazed at that than wash-n-fold laundry or taxi service.
I predict that nothing of this will happen in the next decade.
Yep, I'm not sure how small single purpose utilities passing text between them are supposed to implement a GUI framework, or Kerbal Space Program.

Many of the applications we're creating nowadays are solving gnarly, poorly understood problems.
Well, he could get his wish by buying a few copies of his computer, for spare parts, installing what he wants and then unplugging from the internet. Interestingly, this is precisely what JPL does before launching their missions: they have original, exact hardware and software on hand to trouble-shoot if they need it.
It depends on what you want to achieve, and who you are.

Do a PhD if you love research, and have a good safety net e.g. middle class family who'd support you in an emergency or savings to cover several years' living costs. Have an exit plan - are you planning to go on the postdoc treadmill afterwards?

Go for the BigCo if you're unsure what to do. You'll build your CV, make good money, and learn whether it suits you well.

IMO only go for the start-up if you've got a specific opportunity in mind that you're in love with. Almost all start-ups fail, and sadly it's harder to spin those failures into something positive on a CV.
The chart is tons to LEO. Saturn V wasn't designed for LEO, but it certainly could have dropped that much there. (Skylab used a pretty fair fraction of that capability.)

When you're comparing launchers you have to pick some baseline target orbit. LEO is a good lowest common denominator, but isn't quite fair as launch systems optimized for higher energy orbits (like the Saturn V) lose some of their advantage. But a higher orbit is even less fair to systems designed for LEO; choose anything else, like GEO or lunar insertion, STS would have a big fat 0.
Even uBlock was blocking sites for me so that was expected behaviour :)
US visas for Chinese students tumble 99% as tensions rise
I was CTO at a company that got bought by an enormous company with these sorts of procurement processes. I mused with my engineers multiple times about a company that would simply do billing process arbitrage.
Rome wasn't built in a single day either. If you want to eventually get to your destination, you must do the first step.
This is something that the EPA has been trying to get people to believe since at least the 80's. It's called "point source pollution."

Instead of having a million lawn mowers each belching out pollution, you use electric mowers and have all the filth at the power plant, where it can be cleaned and scrubbed better. And when new technology comes along to clean better or shift to a new form of energy production, you only have to upgrade one power plant instead of making a million people buy new mowers.

Somehow it never caught on. I don't know why.
I'd love someone in the know to explain this to me.

The "poster" they have on the site doesn't give me a real sense of how the OS ICMP-limit counter can be exploited to reveal open ports.
Well... I just checked and a fully decked mini here in Ireland is about US$600 more expensive than in the US. Import tax evasion ignored, it's possible to visit the US for US$600.

If you go for a top 16" MBP it'll be about US$3000.
On a ship they are called guns. Big-ass Guns
They would pay the same duties, which is why there wouldn't be an arbitrage opportunity
The concept of a differential equation is not hard. Solving differential equations can range from trivial to non-trivial.
These types of marketplaces do exist but it is very difficult to justify using them. Why pay a significant margin (15-30%) so that we can use a pre-existing billing mechanism inside AppExchange or Azure or AWS. It makes more sense to maintain your own billing system and buyer journey. If the margins go down to 5% then it becomes interesting to give up that control.
cheers, had no idea
To own or not to own delivery? Grocers reassess the Instacart dilemma
You might want to go back and re-calculate. Pre-covid, I did a comparison between in-store, Instacart, and Shipt. I did my normal groceries in store, then took the receipt and re-created it in Instacart and Shipt. It wasn't just the delivery fee + tip. Shipt and Instacart both increased the prices of each individual item; sometimes by a lot. IIRC the total was about 12% more BEFORE taxes, fees and tips. On a $150 shop, it was considerable. This was a while ago and things may have changed, but its worth looking into. You don't even need an in-store receipt; just download your store's weekly flyer and compare those prices with Shipt's and Instacart's.

Also noteworthy: Shipt didn't respect any of my store's B1G1 offers. It didn't even appear in their system while shopping (Instacart did). I actually know a Shipt shopper that was getting free stuff all the time because of this.

If you're strapped for time but still want to stay safe and save money, consider stores that have curb side service like Wal-Mart. You get in store prices with no extra fees and no-contact hand off.
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Is this "just" another observational study? (I.e. subject to all manner of confounding factors that affect the multitude of similar studies that already exist.)
If you somehow managed to convince a group of people to stare at a glowing white rectangle for 10 hours day, I would be pretty surprised if you couldn't notice any mental health effects.
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Dual booting is still a problem. I just tried to install ubuntu as dual-boot on a separate SSD from windows (which I keep around for video games) and I ran into 13 bugs (I wrote them down!) within two hours - including two which caused fatal issues in the installation process itself which I had to run around eight times before it succeeded. Then it somehow permanently trashed the ability of windows to boot. After spending three hours trying to fix that I said fuck it and nuked both OSs with a fresh windows install.

This is the first time I've tried installing linux in about a decade, after using a stable dual-boot setup during university. Things seem to have gotten worse. It'll be another decade before I try again, probably. I lost two days of pay and probably years of non-grey hair dealing with this fiasco.
"lessening screentime may reduce the symptoms of depression"

Can anybody explain how they could possibly distinguish these two scenarios:

- A) Depressed people watch more TV/screen.

- B) Watching more TV makes people depressed.

I would expect both to be true to varying degree (maybe A even more so than B), yet they seem to expect B to be the dominant causation.