skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snoo.
It is an expensive baby crib with smart features and an app. The Snoo has added a number of hours per week to our (parents!) sleep schedule and aided sleep tracking. This makes baby’s sleep schedule planning, and just about everything else in life, slightly easier to get through when you have a newborn.
Thanks! I will check these out. The notion of 'phoneme' transcription is especially interesting to me. One of the things I find unappealing about a lot of current ML is how much it seems like brute force to me. Looking for smaller structural elements seems more appealing to me.
Iunno, one thing I like about the internet is that you can type in vague engine codes (e.g. one indicating a vacuum leak, could be anything!), and a forum will already have determined that it's 99% this or that component based on experience.

A book printed and not updated once a car is a year old won't publish that. And definitely won't if it's an issue that tends to pop up after 5+ years of operation (e.g. intake manifold gasket destroys itself in '05 Corollas).
Some areas of Brazil suffer from a lot of that too.

Day-to-day violent crime was the #1 reason that I wanted to leave the country.
Given that your account is seven minutes old and has one comment, you don't pass the sniff test.
I don't understand why you think advertising and affiliate fees wouldn't constitute a real business.
The crypto market is wild and it's honestly fun as hell if you're okay with losing all your money overnight.

Bitcoin is arguably the most stable of all crypto right now (outside of stablecoins of course). There are smallcap and midcap coins that can go from -100% to +500% in a month.

Even large, established coins like XRP can go from flatlining for years to 3x in price in a week.

The best part is that no one really knows whats happening, and everyone has their own theories.
The board hired him specifically to try and sell the company to Microsoft.
Actually it's an attempt to prevent the overwhelming forces of the internet from filling the site immediately with dreck.

Would you please review the site guidelines? Your comment breaks more than one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, as bigyikes pointed out, downvotes don't flag things. Flag flag things.
Ah, no. Current Googler here: 120% is a misunderstanding of what 20% time is.
Clearly written by someone who hasn't ridden a bike since childhood.

Effective bike range isn't one mile, it's 2-10 miles. One mile isn't worth getting on the bike for. Since the majority of car trips taken by Americans are less than 7 miles[1] and have only one passenger, a bicycle is the optimal vehicle for the trip, especially since the advent of ebikes means that physical strain is no longer a consideration.

As for how people have responded to the pandemic, more have turned to bikes than cars. Car prices are always being hiked, that's the whole reason manufacturers are pushing SUVs: same chassis, same engine, higher price, free profit. Bikes, on the other hand, are in such high demand that new ones are hard to find at all. I ordered a new bike in July, it is not expected to arrive until January because the waiting list is that long.

1. http://imgur.com/lCQTN9z
Yeah, I'll never buy a car that isn't an 'enthusiast' car. You can get help on any procedure on any new/ancient BMW or Corolla out there.

Good luck if you have a Kia.
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It's kind of interesting that the ~100 people would have a whole full-time support team just for assisting the decisions (not even making them) of their compensation.
Thank you. The drug is called Molnupiravir, sponsored by Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP.

Relevant clinical trials:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04392219

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04405739
A big takeaway here is that telemetry is a security threat. If your application is pushing opaque regular traffic out for not adequate reasons you are providing a good cover for malware activity.

Even a fresh Windows install these days has so much regular network activity for telemetry and other services, it's trivial to hide bad behavior.
That's not how it works. Rather, there's a tug of war between upvotes and flags. If the flags get the upper hand, [flagged] appears, and if they dominate, then the post also gets killed. In the latter case users with 'showdead' turned on in their profile will see [flagged][dead].
Tesla will reportedly suspend production of its Model S and Model X for 18 days
Even if the stock prices goes to zero they have a billion dollars worth of bitcoin...
The person you're replying to isn't talking about bad drivers, they're talking about bad infrastructure that was designed to comply with the "fun of driving" marketing narrative: unnecessarily wide roads, parking everywhere, speed limits higher than what is safe, deceptive landscaping and painting to make drivers comfortable at unsafe speeds, nonenforcement of speed limits and red lights, highly segmented zoning to artificially give people a reason to use cars that would otherwise be unnecessary, etc etc etc.
I mean, that's a very vague generalization; "Nobody Knows Why" is about the fact that we don't know the direct causal link. It's not pollution (other mussel species in the same ecosystem are doing perfectly fine) and it may be disease but no one has conclusively determined that.
That, and military bases only work if they’re capable of coming online and responding effectively, quickly. Having a hair trigger to go on high alert is also a deterrence measure, since any potential opponents know you’re likely to respond at the first sign of trouble.
Admittedly, it sometimes requires interpolating between a few different YouTube videos before things begin to make sense. There are also the ones to the effect of: "We're not going to do it right, we're going to do it this way instead."

In addition to car repairs, I've also found the web to be great for home appliances.
TFA

> At first, biologists investigating the cause of the freshwater mussel die-off suspected human activity — contamination or pollution. Rivers and streams in the coal seam-striped southern Appalachian Mountains have a long history of environmental degradation. But pollution tends to be indiscriminate, and not every species is being affected.
At the time she made this statement, she represented Yahoo, not Google, and was making major changes in its culture to fit her direction. I wouldn't put much stock into these statements.

As a current Googler, I've been spending 20% of my time on self-directed work, and 80% on what is assigned since I started, and my contributions have been to both open/released software and also internal stuff, and I joined in 2006.
If you're saying Facebook shouldn't blindly trust anybody who claims to be a researcher, I agree, but that seems pretty far afield from what they're doing with the NYU researchers. Indeed, I think the fact that Facebook creates all sorts of real privacy concerns makes it especially bad that they're using that as a smokescreen to avoid accountability.
Been using both without issue for five years, trackpad for longer.
> The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Thanks for sharing, very insightful! Wish there was more languages approached!

I have always been learning this stuff on my own and it is very exhausting, I love to experiment with new languages because of the unknown possibilities, like when compilers started throwing errors when NULL pointers weren't handled I was amazed that they finally solved such a intrinsic programming problem!

So, way back then, when I started university, I learned C, and fell in love with it's simplicity and predictability, I mastered pointers and data structures, but the process of getting it to run is so difficult! Every OS has their own tools, dependencies, versions, configurations!

It has been taking me a lot of time to learn meta-programming for a language as well-established as C. The language is predictable but C's tooling is unforgivable: You're supposed to know that in order for your program to send network packets you have to add 3 TCP libraries and conditionally load them with preprocessor (or a random config file) depending on the OS of the target! You're also supposed to know that you need a build system builder if you want your code to be compilable from another OS.

Same thing with Machine Learning with python: using open-source repositories requires a program to orchestrate the virtual environment (python and pip) so that you can install the dependencies so that only then you can run the code. So many hidden steps in getting code from someone else to your computer and running it.
Ask HN: Do you want to go back into an office?
Do you want to go back to an office? I do not understand why companies are not acknowledging that remote works. The world hasn’t stopped in tech during COVID. Can you imagine wearing a mask all day in an office?
TFA

> "And it's been like that week after week after week [every fall] since September 2016."

A spill that happened in 2008 and cleaned up by 2015 would be an odd cause for that; you'd expect it to happen sooner.
To be fair, there is a significant delta between “we saw a radar blip and went to high alert” and “we lost a nuke for a while”. I’d only call one of those a “coverup” if they didn’t tell anyone.
I think the only thing I would do differently would be a 'dark theme' case option as I find the yellow on white lettering to be nearly impossible to see (older eyes I guess).

In the category of "all different", my all time favorite calculator is the TI-92+ which was a landscape style calculator with a qwerty keyboard. Building something like that with the 5" 800 x 480 IPS screen that STM has on the STM32F469i-Disco board would be heaven. It is on my long list of things which I will likely not get around to before I die :-). You could swap the STM32F769 for the 'F469 if you wanted more mips. I'd pay $300 for one of those, if you're wondering.
sell the account to someone who can use it
Currently top post on this thread details an issue fixed I've been facing for years. So yes, interested.
We should ignore the word of one of the company's earliest employees, who worked there for over a decade and became a VP just because she no longer works there?
I don't really think the Proud Boys or the Boogaloo Boys care about keeping the MoMa named after Philip Johnson.
Please don't attack other users this way. The damage it does to the community is not worth the chance that you're right. It's much better to follow the site guidelines, which are designed to sustain an interesting community. In this case that means (a) respond with a better argument and/or (b) if you feel the comment breaks the site guidelines, flag it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I too wonder this.
Sure we're consuming it, but how much is retained? Aren't we passing much of it along undigested? Plastic is mostly inert, right? So even if we consume and retain it, what harm is there?
Honestly HN seems to have a very contrarian streak on these matters. I wouldn't necessarily say it's partisan but the prevailing opinion seems to be whatever is against the mainstream view (Examples include Election Fraud, Assange, Litvinenko etc.)
Sure, think of any movie or TV show kind of like a startup or a company.

The Executive Producers are like the Board. The show runner, director and sometimes certain talent are like the C-Suite or SVPs. These set the vision, pace, hiring, management, budgeting etc... like in a normal business.

There are then the middle level directors (casting, lighting, sound) editors and line producers who do the lions share of the work and are supposed to interpret the intents of the director and show runners - basically handle all the details and make sure things run smoothly.

Finally the supporting cast, craft services etc...are basically told what to do, how to do it and when.
Love this. How long has this been going for? Also excuse my ignorance of mesh networks: how does the mesh connect back to the internet? Is that going through an ISP, or are you trying to circumvent ISPs altogether?
It depends on the need/success of the project. My first 20% project was a disconnected caching filesystem back in 2005 and it was rapidly shifted to my 80% project as it solved a real need in our infrastructure.
Porsche. Aka, the same people who can afford a Tesla. If you think Porsche and Tesla are examples of car manufacturers with regular customer demand, you are very, very privileged.

The Taycan has an MSRP of $103,000-185,000. Toyota sells cars to normal people, who are looking to spend between $15,000 and $30,000.
What's the DAC, amp, DSP, microphone & wireless protocols tech that JBL, Sony & Bose don't concern?
They do, I missed that on the web site.
What Is ARIA Even For?
Yeah I fixed a dryer thanks to YouTube. And someone on Reddit diagnosed my dishwasher and I fixed it too. Thousand dollars saved right there.
Of course, just pointing out that this dividend doesn’t give bitcoin value, it exists when bitcoin has value. With stocks, the expected cash dividend is what gives them ultimate value.
Taking VC put them on a collision course with Amazon because of growth requirements, and the limited ways to build the type of business that requires. Advertising and affiliate fees almost certainly don't create a large enough opportunity (interested if you have counterexamples!), and put them on that crash course with Amazon. As the obvious route to the size of business that merits VC is to attempt to cannibalize AAmazon's business. Probably by being the recommendation engine that starts sales, then starting to sell books themselves instead of being leadgen.

Had they instead chosen not to take VC: they had 35 headcount at the time of acquisition. That load probably requires $7m to $10m/year of revenue, particularly when they have to start doing data deals for all that book data / cover photos. I suspect they couldn't make the business work w/o VC given they ran two years on that $750k angel round. And even if they could, having a near-monopsony relationship with their affiliate fees partner makes them not a real business because they are highly vulnerable to Amazon predation. The same as Mozilla -- when there's just one buyer, that buyer names the price.

edit: put more succinctly: a business that either ran and grew on earned dollars (ie no vc), or a VC-backed business that didn't rely on the company you were attempting to cannibalize to play nice with you.
CCS started production in 2013, it was a written standard a little before that. They've had roughly 7 years to work on adopting the standard plug and are only just starting to make upgrade kits to use CCS plugs with pass through adapters. They're still not able to use all of the power of the CCS connectors though. In the US they still don't have a single charger with a CCS connector on it.

I realize USB-C didn't exist when they made Lightning. It still doesn't make sense why they have not migrated to USB-C either, other than continued vendor lock-in/control over the accessory market. With practically all MacBooks and many iPads being on USB-C, it makes less and less sense to have Lightning and USB-C at the same time. There's a standard out there they've halfway adopted, but they choose to not commit to it. All of their portable devices could charge off USB-C, and sell small USB-C to Lightning tips for the brief transition.

I agree, Tesla is in somewhat the same situation. They could start producing CCS compatible cars in the US, they could retrofit ends on their chargers with J1772/CCS plugs, but instead they continue to build proprietary stations and proprietary cars.

You're right both companies are in the same boat and do a similar thing in relation to connector standards. This doesn't make these actions good though.
Humans. Humans are the direct causal link.

There isn't going to be some single silver bullet explaining everything further than that, it is an ecosystem collapse.

Humans impact everything in small ways, these in turn impact everything else in its network.

Sometimes positively but more usually negatively via various strains.

It's not always pollution, sometimes it's disease, sometimes it's habitat sometimes it's climate, sometimes food chain, sometimes it's noise pollution, sometimes it's even more complicated than that for example you might knock out a predator but then create more disease or remove an ecological pressure that kept a species behaviour in line with its environment.
I've heard this in the "right rooms" to know this to be likely true, but I'd like something to link to, too.
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> [wait] the problem with this is it's a synchronous operation that blocks a thread per child.

Wouldn't the wait syscall wait for any child?
Boredom, sleep and dreams, random conversations.

But mostly downtime and boredom.
This is...just an ad?
As should I have been...
You can find various reliability stats online. Toyota usually comes up at, or very near, the top.
Crap, just learned Alibaba bought them out in '15. They have some good overseas editors that cover local topics that local media just doesn't cover well.
And taking the roadways or sidewalks away from bicycles, confining them to bike lanes/routes, results in equally heated opposition.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, and especially not shallow dismissals, to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry, you are correct. I updated my comment and replaced the $1200 with $3600. The math works now.
This a common take among the uninitiated and certain individuals in the "security community". Lots of people only witness bots breaking into sandboxes and installing bitcoin miners and then think they've seen the entirety of computer security.

Targeted, sophisticated, nation-state threats are real and have been documented in the FLAME, DUQU, DARKHOTELs of the world. Supply-chain attacks are not new either, Juniper was compromised 4 years ago and backdoored into their firmware, NOTPETYA compromised a legitimate accounting software company, and ransomware has been delivering through MSPs for quite some time.

Professionals look at indicators posted and techniques leveraged and come to their own conclusions.

This is not standard malware. This was not a script kiddie.
Not sure about the risk. Like you said, we'd have to massively redo infrastructure on a huge level to see any penetration beyond luxury alternative use. If we'd start to also see increased carbon taxes or various efforts to reduce climate change, both vehicle and infrastructure might become even more expensive and more of a luxury.

Plus, it seems as a culture we are just wasting the productivity gains from increased technology and automation and dumping the value into money games; eventually i expect electric cars will be moot because there won't be enough jobs or job creation to sustain enough of a middle class to afford them.
Sure, but unless your solution is "wipe out humanity" this is so broad as to be useless for solving the specific problem, or really any problem. Unless we're supposed to just throw hands up in the air and rot away fatalistically.

Some human-caused issues are fixable. As a rough example that is somewhat similar to a mussel die-off in a river, Washington was able to bring local salmon numbers back up on a river by fixing culverts blocking stream flow and blowing up dams.
That he passed on the day before he is in the NYT Crossword (Monday) as a clue is some cosmic timing.
Right. If given the prompt "this system likely or definitely has a backdoor - find it", this won't be all that hard to find. Especially if you already have a PCAP that you suspect has some of the malicious traffic.

But it could go unnoticed and disregarded as completely normal, benign network traffic for years, or perhaps forever.
Another current thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25409416. Both discussions are good, but I don't think we'll merge them, because this one is oriented around the more specific information in the fireeye.com article.
Pawning parenting and the entertainment of your children off on literal shit-tier technology comes with a cost, I suppose.
I authenticate with 10 different Azure AD directories, of which I my company controls 1, and I personally control zero.

Notably, Microsoft's consumer MFA, the type used to protect Hotmail and XBox accounts shows more information in the exact same mobile app!

It's not that they don't have the capability, or don't know that it's important. Microsoft has explicitly chosen to never ever show additional information of any type for enterprise customers only.

They care about the security of their own things, not you stuff, in other words.
Another current thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25413053. Both discussions are good, but I don't think we'll merge them, because the other one is oriented around the more specific information in the fireeye.com article.
Where's the "moat" is in electric charging networks, though? I view it just as a way to make their EVs usable/saleable until the world catches up, not as a long term leg of the business. It seems really unlikely that the industry won't standardize on something interoperable/non-proprietary.
> Clearly written by someone who hasn't ridden a bike since childhood.

Try again. I know when the last time I rode a bike was. You don't. Hint: it was quite recent.

Condescension reeks throughout your entire post. You are wrong about who I am, you are wrong about my bicycling habits, and you are also wrong about how realistic it is for me to ride my bike to work. Yet you think you are in a position to dictate to me what I ought to be doing.

This is typical of bicycle-commuting advocates and it is the reason you are a fringe minority.

> As for how people have responded to the pandemic, more have turned to bikes than cars. Car prices are always being hiked, that's the whole reason manufacturers are pushing SUVs: same chassis, same engine, higher price, free profit.

Explain how this applies to used cars which is what I mentioned in my post. Of course you won't, because you have already put on your ideological blinkers and ranted about manufacturers pushing new SUVs, which I never mentioned. Instead, please explain why used cars are up in price compared to a year ago.
This has more or less happened already. The Fed is by far the largest buyer of treasuries right now.

Total treasury supply has nearly doubled this year, and yet foreign owned treasuries is only up 2% - meaning The Fed has bought close to 98% of it [1].

There is no treasury market. There is only The Fed. Considering that this market is about 30% of the size of the entire US economy, this should probably concern people. That's a large part of the US economy to be price fixed. Especially when you consider this essentially fixes prices for the housing market.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4379154-fed-is-almost-out-o...
But aren't most of those "real" assets intangible too?

Share and bond wealth relies on the existence of a functional government who is willing to honour your property rights.

The fact you nominally own 25% of Amazon.com means very little if the server farms have been cut off, the employees have abandoned their posts and the warehouses have been ransacked and plundered
Actually it's pretty funny and shows the Sisyphean task that central banks have of promoting productivity and growth when their only tool is printing.

If you can loan billions of dollars for nearly no cost why not put it into something speculative? With a low enough interest rate it would even make sense to take out loans to buy gold, the fiat cost of your loan is impacted by inflation.

Take out a $50k loan this year. Buy gold and bitcoin with it. If the assets appreciate pay off the loan and either collect your profit or let the "free" investment sit. Look at the historical price of bitcoin and there is literally no point you could have bought it and held for a few years and not made money. Take out another loan and repeat.