skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been some related threads on this subject:

"Oslo made its city center basically car-free" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19000076

"Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver traffic deaths in 2019" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21933868
What do you imagine? I could see competent and respectful people working on this feature.
Isn't this problematic due to the 1:10 self-promotion rule on reddit?

"For every 1 time you post self-promotional content, 9 other posts (submissions or comments) should not contain self-promotional content."
Even ignoring the specific movement, hopefully we all pressure our bosses to be less abusive (no abuse is acceptable).

I could never work for Steve Jobs because I wouldn’t have put up with his ridiculous behavior and would have walked.

Part of the situation that lead to the MeToo movement was power, and Steve Jobs had a lot of power over people who worked for him.

This was something I knew since starting my career, and worked for the last ten years to make sure no one (other than governments) has so much power over me that I have to listen to them.
I have and do play vinyl, just for the nostalgia of sitting in my attic bedroom with the liner notes out in front of me and my shitty old headphones on when I was a teenager. I have done reading up and shopping around.

I also understand that I am not a good evaluator of audio items. I don't know, nor do I care about the lingo. I just want a good turntable, so I can get some of the old vinyl out for my small children. I think Thick as a Brick and Locomotive Breath are two things that absolutely need to be experienced in your youth.

And I can't break up my pot and roll a joint on the back of an mp3 player. (jokes)

That's why I've asked here for advice.
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I think this is honestly a worry over nothing: this is very directly a sales tool to encourage spending on MS products.

What you are seeing is basically meaningless stats dressed up in pretty charts. There are enough pretty charts there to ensure that your organization is doing "better than a peer benchmark" on at least a few metrics.

Then the CIO is able to select the best-looking charts into his board presentation and say, "look guys, we are a really great IT organization that is using tools effectively, please give me more budget to go and spend"

And then some of that budget will get back to Microsoft.

I don't think any of the participants in this dance really believe these numbers actually mean anything, and if you suggested tracking individuals at this level I think you would get push back from the managers because it would be a waste of their time.
There's no choice. CCS must be accomplished or the existential risk is we and almost everything else dies.

1. CCS has to be accomplished using biological processes, not mechanical or chemical industrial processes.

2. The best way to accomplish 1. is to use oceanic organisms such as kelp and phytoplankton. Recall the enormous kelp forest between Mexico and Africa that dumped many, many tons of material on Cancún's beaches.

3. Sequestration of 2. requires either sinking material to the deepest depths of the ocean, or minimizing and injecting carbonaceous material below ground.

4. 350 ppm can be achieved for under $20T USD, but the desire, intent, and coordination must occur rather than looking for excuses or shouting "It's impossible!"
India's largest company, Reliance, got its start from oil refining. They run India's largest mobile network, Jio, and it's called that because "Data is the new oil" is Ambani's maxim and it looks like "Oil" spelled backwards.
> Real baller move would be to ban anything with a China built SoC

Right but they are not looking for a baller move. India has severely limited financial , military or technical capabilities compare to China. They can't really challenge in significant way, so banning chinese hardware, capital investment in startups or military action is out of question. Banning some phone apps and calling it a strong retaliatory move against chinese aggression is the story fed by politicians.
The particular cadence and a near-rhyme of the riddle are hard to translate. An expression like "empty hands" may not work. You could get a confusing literal translation, or an uninteresting question stripped of its poetic quality.
With all of the telemetry in Windows 10, how is this a surprise?
You can do that with Zigbee? That sounds fantastic, but the Conbee is a bit pricy still.

Look at the Sonoff line of devices, they're all ESP8266-based and extremely hackable (all mine run custom firmware, Espurna).
Thanks. OP and others please don’t post paywalled content. What is there to discuss if we can’t read
Lol. Are all optimization problems specifically created and taught in the context of machine learning? Do you know any other context than ML?
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Does this imply that anyone who struggles to make ends meet is not worldly and well-rounded? If so, how might they become worldly and well-rounded so that they can pay their bills? Is there an online course they can take between shifts of the part-time, minimum-wage jobs they work to keep a roof over their head? And how will the knowledge they can absorb in these less-than-ideal circumstances enable them to compete with far better-prepared people on the job market?
It's called sunlight and biological processes.
I buy lots of stuff from Aliexpress! It's usually lots of low-stakes stuff like bullet journal stuff, pins, phone cases, magnets, small electronics parts, stones, christmas decorations, baking supplies.

But I think our experience differs in that I'm really happy with the quality. Once you start checking Aliexpress for stuff you're about to buy you see just how much stuff in stores is just rebranded bulk orders from Alibaba at a huge markup. I think the most egregious example I found was a tapestry from Urban Outfitters. They were selling it for $50+ and it was on Aliexpress for $3.
The real question isn't if he could have lasted or had to adapt. The real question is if the next Steve Jobs will be able to do the things the old one did, while avoiding post-progressive pitfalls.
MS Teams makes me really paranoid. I take my mouse with me to the toilet and moves it around to not trigger the away notification ...
Again orders of magnitude.

Investing in solar and wind essentially pays for itself. Programs like Energy Star leverage market forces to make enormous changes essentially for free.

Directly taxing carbon and adding it to general revenue would make a huge difference without spending that money on climate. Directing that revenue to carbon sequestration however requires continuously paying 100’s of thousands of people and building infrastructure etc. The benefit is definitely there, but the cost benefit ratio is vastly harder to justify.

After a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions sequestering the last 10% of CO2 might be more economically viable. But, for now better options exist.
It turns out that the startup was a hemp farm. The founders never communicated the vision with the developers and just let them run loose to see what they'd do.
Solar power is anything but cheap. Solar panels are very expensive, short-lived and manufacturing them produces plenty of CO2 and other pollutants.

Nuclear energy is the closest we have to "clean and cheap".
Does anyone else have experience posting on Reddit for marketing purposes that they can share? I haven’t done it myself, but my understanding is that most subreddits frown upon self promotion posts. The article makes it sound like it’s as simple as posting to the right subreddits to get views, but I’m skeptical.

The author also mentions getting 400 visitors as an example of success. 400 visitors is nice, but given that people have reached the top of Hacker News or Product Hunt, gotten massive traffic spikes but then saw little to no conversions, it doesn’t strike me as particularly noteworthy.
That's great, thanks! I already run Espurna on everything, so that's fine, I just wanted to confirm that all Zigbee devices are interoperable. It's unlikely that I'll get a device that will only want to talk to its specific vendor's gateway, then?
If you really just want that bokeh, it's going to be much easier and look a lot better with a DSLR air mirrorless. I typically use my Sony a6000 with a 30mm f/1.4 lens at f/2.0. You won't be able to get the same kind of background separation using the tiny sensor on the HQ camera.

I bought a Tamron 1.4 8mm lens that gives a similar effect to what my Sigma 30mm E mount lens gives at f/4 or so, if it's positioned about 2' away.
Ask HN: How to conduct code review of a project abandoded by original devs?
I've been asked by a friend to take a look at the project, which has been abandoned by the original devs.

Apparently, they don't want to touch it again. I don't have many details about their departure.

How would you go conduct such code/project review/analysis?

I started my own projects, joined existing projects, but never joined a project where people with knowledge about the whole architecture were gone...

P.S. Searching the web didn't help me much, the big G didn't give me any relevant blog posts, articles, etc...
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yeah, WI has some pretty insanely lax gun laws. It took me <30 min to buy my first handgun. I don't have a CCW yet, but it's $150~ and half a days worth of online courses and some paperwork.

The most bizarre thing to me is that background checks aren't required for private firearm sales.
Apparently on HN, you're not allowed to admit there are tradeoffs in the current situation especially to do things that some consider to be unnecessary.
I'm advising top management for a large corporation and can stress what others here mentioned as well: communicate often, in simple terms, and in written form

Executives have a lot on their plate and usually work on a wide variety of topics at the same time. Therefore try to help them when they have to switch context

Concrete example:

* create a (bi)weekly status report with four sections (achievements last week, focus this week, current risks/impediments, decision needs)

* to every risk add a measure (don't admire the problem but bring a solution)

* to every decision need add the alternative(s) (usually something like "Option A", "Option B", "Option do nothing") and show the pros and cons

* show your vision and achievements. Every manager has another boss and will need marketing material to advertise what an important kind of work is going on. Show what you are working towards ("We want to use state of the art AI to improve drug development") and where you stand right now ("We have built the foundation by creating a structured training data set with records of more than 1 million drug trials")

* use abstraction to simplify (not "we switched our legacy adapter from SOAP to REST" but "we switched to a future-proof interface integration")

Regarding the meetings, cancel enough to show you are busy but participate in enough meetings to stay on people's minds

Concrete examples to improve meetings:

* ask for an agenda for each meeting and for your expected contribution

* keep meeting minutes, send them around if no one else does that

* everything that is dicussed should be related to actions that have been undertaken (status update) or will be undertaken (next steps). Every action has to be assigned to someone and has to have a due date

* I mentioned it before, focus on solutions not on admiring a problem (not "no one is providing the data we need" but "We currently lack the data. Who can we contact today to get access to the research data?")

While I don't know whether this would have helped you in the case you described, these are some general points for management communication that offer a good return of investment from my perspective.
I am a sucker for these type of stories.
Growth.
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There are loads of additionals added to soap, likely SLS helps too, to combat hardness in water. Most water has some hardness, but mine varies between 20 and 60 grains of hardness, which is quite high.

As you cannot tell the perfect amount of soap to add, unless you know the precise hardness at that moment, water like mine which is variable means a simple thing.

I am simply forced to add 3x the soap of the 'low range' of my water hardness, thus ensuring the clothes are effected by the soap.

Yet with amounts like that, all the soap has a difficult time washing out. Vinegar really helps, as an acid, to nullify the soap and wash it out.

So my target is not SLS in specific, just 'soap is a base, so acid should help get rid of it', which seems to work.

Some organisms cannot handle acid as well, so it may help in other respects.
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Mostly because it means you don't have to train up a second person. You probably know it best for software: if you've ever started a new job, or brought a new person on your team, you know it can be weeks or even months before they're actually productive. Leaving for six months would require at least some reorientation when you got back. A lot of other jobs have hours or days before you actually know what you're doing.

Not that efficiency should be the end-all and be-all. Your job gets along without you for two weeks a year, or 4-6 weeks if you live in a first world country. In a world where we expected people to work only six months might produce fewer programs, or programs a few months later than otherwise, but it might not really be poorer for that. Silicon Valley prizes getting your MVP out immediately, but if somebody else got there ahead of you, the world hasn't really lost anything.

But it's not easy to get there. The winner is often (not always!) the one who works hardest and longest, and the winner often takes all. There's often no second place, or a very meager one. It's kind of a prisoner's dilemma, where we'd all be better off if everybody would just relax, but since they won't, you can't.

There are definitely people who work that way. Some software developers work on short-term work when they feel like it, make as much money as they require, and spend the rest of their time doing whatever they want. I'd kinda like to be one of them some day.
That doesn't scream "real" to me. Bribery is illegal in Japan. Thats why there is informal "gift giving"
Gun murder rate per 100k, state by state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...

The data are from 2015, but DC is highest by far, even with its very strict gun laws. Note that California is higher than Texas despite horribly restrictive gun laws.

My point was more that people are less likely to abuse them as some exceptional item, at least as far as I've seen. Criminals will always use them; I was more talking about the likelihood of someone to draw a gun in a tense situation, which I can't measure. But people who view them as tools and know how to use them understand that one ought not to draw a gun unless he intends to use it.

All that aside, I don't support gun rights because rates of certain crimes are below some number. We would call it silly to support a right to privacy only insofar as terrorism does not exceed a certain threshold and to say that such a right disappears. In the same way, I don't believe crime rate should have any effect on our right to keep and bear arms.
It sucked.
Rejecting the issue based on the fact that both logical extremes are failures is case of double headed reductio ad absurdum I think :)
I would be happy to supply further information via email. I'd send an email, but not sure where to (profile emails are not visible to other users. :)
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>> One thing that was unusual is that all the technical people there understood all aspects of the machine. Software people could talk about ASICs and CPU instructions, and the hardware people understood the software stack. Every aspect of what it takes to make a computer work was represented in one building: analog hardware, chip design, motherboard design, compiler design (objective C), loader, operating system, windowing system, application layer, and applications. Where other companies had engineering teams, NeXT would have a single individual.

This is in stark contrast to most of today's companies, where you have front-end engineers who don't know anything about the backend they are interacting with, backend engineers who don't care about the frontend they are serving data to, database engineers who care about neither, etc.

And that's just software. The hardware might as well be a black box for the vast majority of software engineers working at your average software company today.

Where did we go so wrong?
Agree! In these games, you only need one player who plays foul and the rules have to be changed for everyone.

Having said that, The Great Firewall is the best thing CCP has done to protect itself, by a long shot. Had it not done so, China would be, at best, full of riots and uprisings and protests everywhere as foreign interests mobilized locals to act against the CCP using anti-CCP propaganda in their social media.
Niches, SF, Fleets, Black Founder Showcase, etc.
Yes, those of us who choose Android to gain some control over our tracking devices are likely to carry more cash for the privacy and autonomy benefits it brings.
Close, but no. Windows does not use the CGA/EGA palette (unless started in EGA mode, which is a thing that can be done)

The Windows 16-color palette is based on pure, fully saturated colors (i.e. red is 255/0/0, lime green is 0/255/0, cyan is 0/255/255, etc) while the CGA/EGA hardware palette is a little bit softer and less saturated, as in your Wikipedia link.

It also seems like your screenshot does not represent the true 16-color palette that Windows 3.x actually used. I have no idea what's going on with PCJS or what manner of weird graphics driver it's emulating but this is not what Windows 3 generally looked like if you had a VGA card. The first row does not have the correct color values, and the second row should be visibly darker. The difference between the lighter and darker blue is very small in your screenshot, for instance. This is not correct.

This screenshot shows the true default Windows VGA palette (in true color mode, so the rightmost columns are not dithered): https://i.imgur.com/YR37uSO.png

EDIT: I had to investigate. Yes, PCJS is doing some kind of weird color mangling and does not display the real color values. You can see in this screenshot I just took that what Windows running in PCJS considers to be pure green is actually not that. https://i.imgur.com/SpUJI8x.png

EDIT 2: For the sake of completeness, the following screenshot shows Windows 3.0 running in actual EGA mode. This was a very rare sight even back in the day since most hardware powerful enough to run Windows 3 satisfactorily would have had VGA/SVGA. Regardless, it is doable. You can see that the titlebar color is very different from the default VGA one. The default EGA fonts are also quite different and are a rare sight. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6245486/41811800-6...
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This is it right here. You can either expect all the people hearing your stuff to learn enough about engineering to understand your engineering statuses. Or you can learn enough about what the business values in your work to rephrase it that way instead. And hopefully you already understand the latter!
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Like or not, the internet has been way more popular than the original inventors intended. Because it’s popular, governments want to control it for their own agendas.

Just the way we have import/export sanctions, I can see why we have similar gates for the Internet.

If we really want the promise of Internet to live on, then we ought to invest in more decentralized technology. Push for mobile OSs allowing other apps. As long as the reigns are controlled by only a few Mega corps, we are at risk.

Our mobile phones are an extension of who we are, but they aren’t owned by us.
Roughly 10 years ago I had a startup idea and had the thought to reach out to "enthusiasts" within the market niche on Reddit and elsewhere. My requests for feedback were met with extreme cynicism, criticism and just outright rudeness. Maybe 5% of the responses were constructive.\

My takeaways: Asking users what they want isn't always useful. Enthusiasts communities can be very negative to new ideas or members.
Nope, but instructions said don’t get metal too close to walls.
Taking a comic strip online in 1988 would have not been a smart move -- nobody would have been able to read it.
SameSite cookies handle pretty much all cases and are supported in all modern browsers. If your login (which is what usually issues the cookie) does a module/nomodule check SameSite is probably enough.
You can have tradeoffs but then you're no longer answering scientific questions but either a political question or a question of personal belief (ie, "which you think is better").
Reddit has been great for driving traffic to https://vo.codes.

It's a meme site, so it's tolerated. The best thing is that the users have started posting content generated by my site to various subreddits (/r/vocalsynthesis, /r/mediasynthesis, /r/artificial, etc.), which has compounded the traffic we get. It's about 15k uniques a day and growing.

I don't have monetization in place yet, but plan to add a Patreon and eventual subscriptions for streamers wanting to integrate TTS donations into their stream.

I'm going to use RPAN to demo streaming deep fakes and apply it to an improv session. It should be fun and will hopefully drive a lot more traffic.
If conversion directly into money through bitcoin is so damn liquid that this is what we're doing, what is this 'excess' energy you're talking about?

In this scenario there is NO SUCH THING as 'excess' energy. Or reducing dependence on fossil fuel, so long as that can still be used to produce energy to mine bitcoin with.

You're right about competition and market dynamics, but it is utterly and completely dedicated to converting ALL the energy into money without any left over. To fail to do so is to fail to be competitive. I really do not understand this talk about 'excess' energy.
Get a USB mouse jiggler for this situation - have used them in the past with great success.
> Society divorcees and scandalized people in transition, politicians from remote ridings, elderly widows, downwardly mobile sons of establishment families, mistresses, professional artists and musicians who needed to be in the city but could never raise enough for a down payment - these characters and archetypes form the mythology of cities. . .

I found this description very evocative, to the point that I was starting to imagine a story set in a building of these characters. I was very pleased to click on your profile and see that you're a writer, and are not letting that talent go to waste!
Wow. iOS 14 is hella bloated.

I would like the option to run an iPhone OS 1.0 sized OS on a modern iPhone.
Apple openly bribed the City of Waukee to abate $170m in State property tax. "... the company is contributing up to $100 million to a newly created Public Improvement Fund dedicated to community development and infrastructure around Waukee." [1]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could all cut a $1000 check to the city to evade $1700 in State/County property tax on our homes?

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/apples-next-us-data-c...