skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But they certainly gained a lot in the process and capitalized in every possible way

What did they gain? How did they capitalize?

> and tried to cover their corruption and continued to dissapear physicians, journalists and anyone who tried to expose their incompetence and maleficence in regards to COVID.

100% agree here. But that they're desperately trying to cover it up, regardless of origin, doesn't mean they gained anything from it.

> I can go on, but this should at least give you some context to your frankly very ignorant position on the matter.

Did you confuse me with some other poster? Nothing in that wall of text has got anything to do with my position, or this specific argument, and you still didn't address my actual question.
"conspiracy theory" is literally a theory that people are conspiring in some way. I think we'd have to be daft to think that politicians don't conspire all the time. History is full of cloak and dagger intrigue, if our society is somehow enlightened beyond it, then great, but I truly doubt it. We are, in many ways, just more naive than previous generations.
Not too many, for personal projects I'm mostly budget-constrained. I tried the Flir C2 but the thermal data was extremely low resolution, and returned it. I also tried a Flir Lepton 2 module since I could use an RPi and some gadgetry to do the panorama scanning and stitching automatically, but it too was low resolution (80x60).

The Lepton 3 seems to be decent at 160x120 though, which is probably good enough for a project like this, so if I were doing this again I'd probably use a Lepton 3 and a 2-axis servo scanner with a RPi, and maybe even combine it with an RPi HQ camera to automate the entire process into a single push button.

The Seek RevealPro is slightly annoying in that it doesn't have programmatic access so I had to press a button to take every piece of the panorama. It's a great general-use device though. I use it when camping or doing astrophotography in remote locations for some peace of mind since I can spot any potential wildlife and people threats from a distance, and I can easily identify whether a parked or seemingly abandoned car has been recently occupied. (My fears may be unfounded, but either way I'm much more at ease when I can see in the dark.)
Bitcoin represents some creative endeavor. Is it over exaggerated? Yes... but you can't say there's nothing there.

I got in early and got lucky. I mined a bunch of bitcoins about 10 years ago and have been selling them off gradually. I take that cash and buy stocks with it.
>> presumably every lighting pole will have a charging point since they are on the last century grid.

The new light poles in my area all have solar panels. The solar+battery kit is cheaper than the cost to run the underground wires. The real jokes is that with the days so short, and the nights so cold, some poles are running out of power just before dawn. There have been experiments with running intersections (traffic lights etc) on solar as that can really reduce installation costs at remote locations.
It's likely it will never compete. Either its data will never get better than Google's, or it will. If it does, Google might switch the mapping source for Google Maps over to OSM, and make loads of money off it that way. A bit like MS Edge on top of Chromium.
I thought that was mainly because red light cameras often lead to an increase in collisions because a driver is more likely to stop unsafely if they are worried about the light changing
As a programmer, being able to have something like what GitHub does (Markdown text, you can preview what the rendered version looks like) would be great. I assume that people who are less technical would like a more WYSIWYG editor but as long as the ability to write straight Markdown is there I am sure that I wouldn’t care. Oh, and make sure it’s actually a reasonable subset of Markdown, not like Discord or Slack where you support bold and italics but mot much else.
I use only 1 metric to compare maps - are they accurate giving directions to my address?

Google Maps used to be great - far better than Map Quest.
Waze was pretty bad.
Apple was initially bad.
Open Street Maps was pretty good except they thought my driveway was a road.

In the past year Google got pretty bad.
Apple became awesome.
About a year ago Open Street Maps improved.

Then this morning I checked Open Street Maps and it now has the exact same bug that has irritated me with Google!

I suspect there is some bad code sharing between OSM and Google.

Details - if your physical address is in a different county than your postal office it confuses the heck out of Google. OSM used to handle this just fine, but not now.

Accuracy counts more than anything else!
Why would I search a comment's text?

Re-reading that comment gives me zero indication that it is referencing a piece of media. This isn't a 'failing' on my part, but a failing on conveying that it is either:

1) a joke

2) a reference
Ask N900 owners how they don't care about having a replacement.
Are there former google maps employees who could be hired to work on OSM? Sounds like it could be something folks would be willing to chip in for.
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>>In the long term, most people won’t have private vehicles

You see, I don't believe this point at all, and I'm yet to see a convincing argument why it would be true. It would already be cheaper for me to take an Uber to work rather than own my car yet the convenience of having your own personal space that is mine far outweighs the savings. Also anyone who has children and knows the insane amount of stuff that babies require would laugh at the mere idea. Autonomous vehicles can be fanciest robo taxies(and they won't be, if normal taxies are anything to go by) but the hassle of moving stuff from and out of each for a baby each time one arrives(car, not a baby) would drive you mad.
That doesn’t sound like a QA issue. Rather they have too many competing departments that are reimplementing the same things
> most people using VMware also use ESXi

Most people using it are also using servers. Is ESXi on desktops/workstations anything other than very niche?
Atlassian Cloud is extremely slow, do not use it
Yeah I could see needing to increase code length or add characters besides digits eventually
I think this is a great idea! I can definitely see the use of it as a maintainer of an open source project.
Hi acdha,

We have metrics, but of course as with many such things you always want more insights than the amount of data you're collecting (so we're always trying to grow this as appropriate).

This data is what led to the above (added edit trying to reply to @rusticpenn) saying we can see that "some instances are slower than others", and "some users are slower than others". I can't share those numbers of course though.

However, privacy reasons does prevent us from collecting too much data, so differentiating why individual users might have different experiences (even when other known factors are similar/identical) is difficult.

Also I'd be happy to take any suggestions you have about what to look at back to my engineering team, if you're willing to share other ideas. I know we're tracking several of the ones you mention but more options is always better.
WinRT and Qt are hardly fossilized.
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The cycle lane on Kensington High Street (a major London East-to-West route) actually sped up car journeys.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/01/removed-lond...

When it was removed the study "calculated that average trip times eastbound increased from 5min 39sec to 8min 14sec, with those westbound rising from 5min 48sec to 6min 27sec."
I wanted to share a love story about 2 people I've never met
No, installing your own OS is very open source.
Agree about no-code. But UI that generates code is a pretty cool paradigm. For most common patterns, end users don't need to know that there's a bunch of boilerplate code under the hood, but if that isn't sufficient, that remaining 5% can be reached by just jumping into some auto-generated code that's readable and well-commented. Mere mortals can do the 95% themselves and then call in a wizard for the hard parts, or try to figure it out on their own. Plus, any non-generated solutions can be highlighted, so it builds up a record of the places where the UI fell short.
You can still use remote desktop for accessing remote VMs.

You would be missing the remote power operations.

FWIW, I am working on a product called Vimarun [0] that is aimed to replace most of that missing functionality over time.

No remote power operations yet, but that will come.

[0] https://vimarun.com
> Pretty much all lint rules have false positives so this isn't a good yardstick. Can it potentially cause harm when you do it and is there's no beneficial reason to do it? If yes to both then it's an ideal candidate for a lint rule.

A responsible person running such a linter does a sanity check before taking their positive and bugging someone else with it. An irresponsible one potentially causes harm by assuming every single hit is a major finding that should turn into a bounty payout.
Me too. I abuse it often as well (hard shutdowns with wsl --shutdown, interacting with files from both Linux and Windows side, etc.). The only issue I have is that because of the virtualization approach it uses more RAM as there is no unified RAM pool for both Windows and WSL (as was the case with WSL1). But that's perhaps expected behavior.
I would pay so much for a hackable watch like this with a 3 or 4 color epaper display, I'd almost pay as much as an apple watch if it was high quality hardware and had a great open API and toolchain.
How do you plan on taxing unrecognized capital gains? Forcing the sale of equity?

What parameters determine when someone is forced to sell equity? How about equity in non publicly listed assets, which don’t have a deep market or clear price?
There are pros and cons of having dedicated teams for work that also has to be accomplished by other teams. For instance, it's not a good idea to skip having a security team using the logic that "other teams will just think its that one teams job." The security team provides expertise and (with cooperative management or other teams) can enact policies that influence the rest of the organization to the benefit of security. That can't happen without a set of people dedicated to thinking about those problems.

For your QA team example, the mistake made in some organizations is explicitly removing testing from developer's responsibilities.

It's a matter of BOTH/AND -- you need to have BOTH central teams responsible for long term health of {safety,privacy,security,testing,etc.} AND hold developers responsible to deliver the recommendations of and use the tools developed by central teams.
WSL2 was promised as a good working extension for a Linux dev environment on windows by my peers. Sadly, a whole host of issues specific to my dev environment meant that it was useless as I’d spend more time fixing it than getting any valuable use out of it. More importantly, this became the very reason I switched to arch full time, and haven’t looked back since. I still hope that it becomes what it was promised to be, although I don’t see myself going back to windows any time soon.
“The demand for experienced Linux gurus is steep.” March, 2000
> The main characteristic of a conspiracy theory is that it cannot be disproved.

Then my government surveilance example fits your definition. "If there's no evidence, then it's well hidden."

However, I would also say that in practice your definition leads to fallacy. In general use, what I've noticed is that literal 'theories about a conspiracy' are labeled as "conspiracy theory", and then dismissed because "conspiracy theories can't be disproven and are therefore crazytalk." (I think there's a term for that fallacy, but I can't find it.)
> Also I personally do not believe at all that any of this was intentional. I think it's a mixture of negligence, cover-up and face saving.

I agree completely.

The reason I - and others - commented, is that your initial comments made it sound like you believed it was 100% on purpose, that it was some weird plan of the CCP to gain power, somehow.
A security auditor once reported a Adobe generator comment in an SVG file as a moderate "version leak vulnerability" to me.
Because Apple is a prime example of a money grab. Once other companies see the profit motive, they too decide to join the bandwagon. It's not like they saw some environmental positive and decided to act.
It’s amazing what legal gets away with at most companies and how little actual engineers and management gets to see of this part of their company. I am sure any self-respecting Cloudflare engineer would be horrified to see that this is in their ToS and yet it exists.
Which scientists failed to raise an eyebrow? Mullis won the most prestigious award from his peers that exists in the world.
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First and foremost, a safe (team) environment. This has to be created over time and there are few shortcuts.

In addition, for each experiment you need: a defined time window, up front criteria by which to judge the results, optionally form solution ideas together, give all teams the same amount of time and opportunity, after the experiment is finished each team presents their solution in a fact based manner in perspective of the criteria. After this the teams rotate and see what they can improve on their original solution with the remarks and information from the other tracks. After this decide together or with an informed captain which solution to continue. After this there should be no hard feelings, no personal consequences. Each team should be treated equally because they all contributed to the end goal. This is what will give you a fair competition and help create team safety.

This can be done on all kind of levels, between one day for something small and two/four weeks for the bigger challenges. Making it bigger than this will incur a lot of stakes/vested interest.
Buy bitcoin and promote it to others. It is a global escape hatch away from inflating fiat currency and corrupt elites who control the money printers.
So if the prices dropped, that's supposed to be a good thing for the environment? Tell me exactly how?
I've run my own one-man[1] software business selling desktop software for Windows and Mac since 2005. Products with launch date:

https://www.perfecttableplan.com (2005)

https://www.hyperplan.com (2015)

https://www.easydatatransform.com (2019)

2020 wasn't a great year due to the effect of COVID on PerfectTablePlan sales. But I've been profitable every year.

[1] With a bit of help from my wife on the accounts and freelancers for web design, testing etc.
People don't just start believing Bill Gates is injecting nano particles though. They get there through a gradual process.

Edit: And I am confident this is the reason because I have observed people go down this process. People who are intelligent, and not the caricatures they are made out to be.
The "kernel of truth" isn't the problem - of course sex slavery exists in the highest echelons of society, that's always been the case. The extreme bullshit that leads from there to QAnon is the problem. That the former exists doesn't mean the latter serves some kind of useful purpose or that they're at least half-right. In fact, QAnon does more harm than good to the legitimate causes fighting child abuse and exploitation.

Yet here I am being attacked and called closed-minded for even pointing things like this out.
> Either its data will never get better than Google's, or it will. If it does, Google might switch the mapping source for Google Maps over to OSM, and make loads of money off it that way. A bit like MS Edge on top of Chromium.

Sure, that's reasonable, too. I think OSM (the project & database) wins in that situation, even if its derivations don't compete.

Again, I don't really see OSM directly competing with Google Maps (the app).
I run BeeLine Reader, [1] which launched on HN years ago. [2]

BeeLine makes reading on screen easier and faster. At first, most of the revenue came from B2C mobile apps and browser plugins, but in 2020 it hit a tipping point and most of the revenue now comes from B2B technology licensing.

Blackboard recently adopted the BeeLine technology, and there are several other large education platforms that are planning to adopt in 2021.

Licensing revenue is uncommon for startups, but it's nice because it's very high margin. I actually used to be a lawyer, so I can keep the main licensing cost (legal fees) under control.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
I use OsmAnd and there are a lot of features. What troubles with Google Maps in India is that every road is considered basically the same and the routes it calculate often tends to be on very bad roads whereas OsmAnd tries to pick the road based on quality/main-roads first then side roads. This is very useful in India where many roads have potholes. Major roads (national, state, district highways) are better maintained than the rest. This distinction between roads are clearly mapped in OSM, at least in Kerala.

GMaps also tries to calculate the very shortest path possible, but this often is a bad idea in India cause the roads won't be that great to go through.

Some of the things I like about OsmAnd: navigation-with-voice, speedbump warnings, sightseeing notifications, trip recording+stats, parking area finder, different profiles (walking, driving, browsing etc.) :- all this available offline :)
The legislation above does eliminate one common form of legal corruption which blocked enforcement and other legal actions by obfuscating who you need to bring action against.

In many cases, hiding the identity of the actors behind a shell corp was sufficient to hide the crime. e.g. a foreign government could donate to a super pac by way of a shell corp. In order to prosecute such behavior one would need.

1. The list of all donations
2. The ownership information of all donations

I can't exactly send out a mass lawsuit against all donors asking them to prove that they are in fact American.
Can I contact you? I have an overlap in interest ( I'm building an e-commerce platform and things are getting real :) )
I have never encountered your position in the wild.
Reminds me of this e-mail chain at Microsoft, on September 27, 1991:

Brad Silverberg: "drdos has problems running windows today, and I assume will have more problems in the future."

Jim Allchin: "You should make sure it has problems in the future. :-)"
> If you're a technical user, you know it's unlikely that update == "more crashes and slower load times" so saying the opposite isn't helpful, and a list of things might be helpful.

It's precisely because an update might bring more crashes that I'd like to see what changed.
Please make this available as EPUB.
Thanks! I'm not sure this is the most doable thing (I'm not familiar with the technical aspects of the editor storage format) but can definitely discuss with that team.

The "reasonable subset of Markdown" is also a very useful specific detail, exactly the kind of specificity that helps us do our jobs.
The thing we’ve constructed of users not owning their content that they post on platforms and then holding the ability to lock them out of access to it arbitrarily is really one of the worst things that has happened to the web.
Bugfix: closed open single quote in title.
What app are you using? OSM itself (openstreetmap.org) doesn't do routing, so I'm guessing the data itself is bad? It could be a bad governmental open data merge.
Why would one compare the market cap of a commodity like BTC to that of a for-profit corporation?

Does one normally compare the value of all platinum in the world to the value of Microsoft?
Very cool browser extension, does what it promised. An option to whitelist certain pages would be cool :)
I just saw this yesterday but it’s pretty confusing... codejoh.com ... but in general I’d think people either want to code themselves or use low-code or no-code solutions.
Not that I'm a particular David Allen GTD fan (and really am not much of a "methodology" person in general) but one of the handful of his ideas I really did like was the idea of breaking down projects into specific actionable tasks. Whether it's losing weight or getting better organized.
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Execute order 66.
Land borders are also arbitrary.
this "trying to show concern" is just fake. Atlassian have a ticket tracking system for their problems. They just ignore so much of the big hard problems, they close tickets with hundreds and hundreds of people on it explaining a multitude of core problems. Coming on HN is just trying to spin it for PR purposes is just not going to work, thread after thread on HN just shows that many many people have been BURNT by Atlassian products. However, I will say, Confluence has improved, but so many things still suck about it, including it being sluggish, and a search that seems really brain dead.
No, there has been a culture shift. Apple actually does pay quite well as of the last 2-3 years. They will match other FAANG at the very least.
A more charitable interpretation might be “my boss won’t let me fix things unless I have specific comments about problems from people who use the software”.
The issue isn't lack of engineering but that the engineering in OSM is entirely on the "value add" providers, that are the companies using OSM.

The OSM Foundation and general leadership (both official and unofficial) are people who sell these services (map rendering and geolocation) and appear blind to the need for a dedicated effort to make it better. They instead rely on work done a decade ago, proprietary work done by companies or else work done by volunteers without coordination.

Because of this, the situation persists and gets worse over time.
There is no bubble, it's just that every dollar the central bank is pumping out is ending up in the wrong place.
This is how I learned. The most important step here is selection of the right thing to juggle. Nothing adds more difficulty (well, maybe riding a unicycle). The hackysack was made for this. The heft and size are perfect, especially when you move to having two in one hand and one in the other (the juggling starting position). After that, it is all muscle memory. After I got the basics, I would go out in the yard and just do laps while juggling. Before a week or so I was able to juggle fairly well with three identical objects, then figured out doing different sizes and weights together. At some point, I realized girls were not going to be impressed enough by this skill to overcome the other deficiencies I had, and I stopped. :)
The desktop experience Windows offers is often a lot better than the desktop experience of Linux. Then there's also the issue of Linux hardware support which often is not optimal. Also a lot of people need to use Windows for work and don't have a choice. And then there's the possibility people actually like using Windows. Having a full Linux terminal in your Windows desktop environment is the best of both worlds for a lot of people.
Automated testing needs to be able to check that any dev/debug code doesn't exist in production.

(Only works if the dev/debug code is added in some sort of properly planned and documented way I guess.)
That’s the cause. Normally that’d be caught in testing — the same input producing different outputs isn’t hard to test — and it’s commonly reported by users. Maybe they each think the other team should fix it but who cares: from the user’s perspective it’s broken.
Could be Brave?
Not the worst though, there's Eritrea.

They also tax their citizens worldwide [1]

[1] https://www.taxesforexpats.com/expat-tax-advice/Citizenship-...
Which is kind of funny, because the common argument against conspiracies is "you really think this many people could keep a secret?"