skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is still more time now than there will be in a few weeks to take steps. they literally built hospitals in 10 days in china, i think we could relax some regs and allow health systems/med schools to train up a few thousand technicians.

this whole "oh welp we fucked up let's just let the healthcare system deal with it" attitude is terrible. there are steps that can be taken now.
Must you be so casually dismissive?

This video is interesting because it covers both dense urban streets and freeways, shows unedited footage including the autopilot debugging view, and is done with someone's personal car (as opposed to a company test car).
Next, some app named Nitrogen will be banned because it is related to explosives and therefore to terrorists.
I don't know how you got access to our developer console, but you need to stop.
Drum Major of the Miami Parade
It's not wholly clear that aircraft carriers etc. should count as machines. What if we limit the definition to "something used to make other things"?
Love it, and would love to see more analysis based on chat.db. A while ago I made a script to select a conversation from a person and output it as a styled PDF, and gave it to them as a gift. It was a hit :-) still need to publish that code, but it was for a previous version of iOS when it used to be sms.db.
He maybe bad at what you believe it tries to be, and still be useful. And hence its price.

>Bitcoin provides speculation and crime.

Everything valuable can become a tool, or a reason for criminal activity.
Where would developers be without Amphetamines? There is no way Zuckerberg hasn’t consumed a mountain of Adderal.
I think the popular conception comes form the fact that if you are a good leader, you want them to make decisions. From a management perspective, this means telling people what to do. Of course, leaders recognize that bossing people around isn't sustainable.
Also for those wondering how you can get subpixel AA on your canvases anyway: if you use a classic 2d rendering context (not WebGL), you can use canvas.getContext("2d", {alpha: false}) to create a canvas with a fully opaque background, which will also cause fillText to render with subpixel AA on most browsers.
Wouldn't a cast iron skillet on an induction cooker radiate enough heat to roast marshmallows?
Meh, I just remote-mount everything with stuff like rclone, then everything is a VFS kinda like plan9.
People should push back.

Tell the interviewer that if you work on the L33T code problem, that you will bill them $250/hour, and 8 hours minimum. Since that is your standard consulting rate.

This will make obviously make them balk. But likely the company isn’t worth working for.

Provide work samples, and discuss them. If the interviewer cannot put in the time to investigate your work product, then they’re just being lazy, or they’re really just stupid. And they need to get off their high horse.
Any large corporation that gets remotely near the headcount as Apple will have enough variance across team cultures that there will inevitably be cesspools of toxicity, true. But there's still the question if certain orgs foster a higher or lower standard across the org, and what factors contribute to it.
What if I put myself in the shoes of the consumer?

Now if a restaurant doesn't offer delivery, can I still get delivery?
I acknowledged that sediment suspended in water moving through the plant causes wear and suggested designing such that it would be deposited in front of a sluice gate to allow it to be flushed without going through the water conveyance plant and the turbine.

I think the sediment building up behind the dam is a bug and not a feature
1) the reservoir fills up with sediment reducing the volume of water that can be stored and the amount of stored energy
2) according to the article, depriving the downstream reaches of the river of sediment is detrimental to the ecosystem.
3) for run of river plants as you have indicated the sediment builds up behind the intake structure and once that volume, which is often quite small for run of river plants, is full it has no choice but to go down the penstock and through the turbine anyway, and depending on the abrasiveness of the sediment and velocity of the water it can be extremely effective at removing metal.

Clearly it is better for sediment to continue moving downstream past any dams or intake structures. Maybe some kind of dredge system / conveyor system would be another option.
NY State Assembly Bill A416
I can easily heat a carbon steel crepe pan to red hot on an induction cooker. Roasting marshmallows is no problem.

Is there anything else you haven't tried that you'd care to opine on?
I found this book very interesting - it's about "outsiders", mainly American citizens, working in Israel to put the jigsaw puzzles in place to bring about the Apocalypse. For example, by recreating the ceremonial horns used in the Temple, and by breeding a perfect red heifer.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27467.The_End_of_Days?ac...
Electric heating using a heat pump or especially photovoltaics (with net metering) is cheaper than burning fossil fuels in Central Europe and completely emission free.
This law only applies to online businesses. So while this effectively stops businesses from providing this service without permission it does not prevent what you describe.
This could be the butterfly keyboard all over again. I find it really hard to believe that Apple isn't testing their products with real people, it's more likely such issues are just getting ignored or shrugged off when discovered. Which is possibly more disturbing.
Worth mentioning, the Internet Archive is now archiving Flash animations[0,1] using Ruffle.rs[2]

[0]http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-for...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128

[2]https://ruffle.rs/
> How did you get to see the Caltech makerspaces if you weren’t a student?

I'm having a hard time looking for anything related to it Online, but honestly I was just walking the campus the day they were showing off some of the stuff they made. I was in Pasadena for am unrelated meetup, and decided to just tour the campus as they had put in the sustainability building and wanted to see if JPL was doing anything on campus that day. And when I got there I just saw them showing off several things: one was a body suit that had turn signals built into it for bicycle riders, the other was a set of gloves that interpreted the hand movements in sign language to speech.

I asked about it any they didn't specifically mention it was a student only event, and told me to look up online for the next one. I might have even gotten a link to one of their slack channels on an old phone if I recall correctly.

I had also been a regular at the hackathons at CU Boulder for a few years as a non-student as I first saw it advertised on a flyer when I worked out of the Aerospace department during my startup days and just walked in. Years later when I was at IBM's blockchain lab I even introduced a team from Stanford working on a blockchain based verifiable fund spending audit solution for charities to the Crytpo based guys who eventually won the main prize, that was way more than the all the rest. I still have their picture somewhere as they asked me to take it for them when they won, it was a very cool day!

So to answer you question: I don't know, these things just randomly happen when I'm around and no one has ever told me 'no' so I just keep doing it.
Specifically [1]:

> At some point between 610 and before 594 BC, Necho reputedly commissioned an expedition of Phoenicians, who it is said in three years sailed from the Red Sea around Africa back to the mouth of the Nile; and would thereby be the first completion of the Cape Route. Herodotus' account was handed down to him by oral tradition, but is seen as potentially credible because he stated with disbelief that the Phoenicians "as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Libya (Africa), they had the sun on their right"—to northward of them (The Histories 4.42).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necho_II#Phoenician_expediti...
And the article makes no mention of catalytic wood stoves, which drives me nuts because I thought pretty much all the recent ones included at least an option for a catalyst.
Incredibly insensitive product naming.

I’m guessing the software authors don’t have children and don’t have multiple friends and family who’s lives have been destroyed by meth.

Instead it’s just a bro having cool fun with words “hey keeps your computer awake! Get it? Ha! So clever!”
I started porting this to aarch64 a month ago. It’s fun. There are some architecture specific hacks that don’t just translate.
> You need large diverse teams to tackle interesting problems

This ‘corporate’ view of science is just not true, kind of like adding “man-hours” to software projects doesn’t necessarily account for better software, speeds up or enables those projects.

Large diverse teams just produce more mediocre research, if recent experience with massive “deep learning” industry is of any indication, or fail completely like that “blue brain” project with multi billion funding and thousands of participants.

Bigger is not always better and it has never been necessary for good science.
IDK. I've tried it every which way. None have worked out well for me.

Me now thinks only winning move is to suck it up while finding a new gig. For H1B prisoners like this OP, well, it's tough to win a rigged game.

The core problem, IMHO, is not having a baseline model for what good management looks like.

In my 30s, I finally stumbled into a high mutual trust situation. It was heaven. We got so much done, had so much fun.

Once you get a taste of trust, it's hard to suspend disbelief, kinda ruins you for future relationships.

After earning my PhD in failure, I'm still no wiser, have no prescriptive advice.

The only "skill" I got was tuning my spidey sense.
It may be a meme, but using Gentoo for the first time. I did Linux From Scratch in a VM and it piqued my curiosity. Although I would prefer Nix or Guix due to their interesting declarative approach, I decided to go for Gentoo so I can have a better understanding of how to tweak the heck out of a real system.

Also, probably getting more up-to-date on C++. I have let my skills slack, and some of the new things in C++20 seem intriguing. The only issue here is finding a good project to work on. Doing interview-style problems is basically "how to use the standard library proficiently in the scope of one file, and probably just ~5 methods", and other things seem difficult to approach. This seems very different from the clear progression one finds in other popular languages.

(If anyone has any suggestions for such projects, please do share. I could use some help)
Attorneys will happily take your money and fight for you. Use what options you have.
Welcome to wage slavery, friend. You can’t even criticize!

Hah-ha!
Ordering for pickup has gotten so much easier this year. Restaurants usually will hand me my food at the door, so I only need to spend a few seconds waiting, and the food is just in way better condition when I carry it home myself.
> The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard.

As with most things in life, there are places where it matters and places where it doesn't matter. If someone's a junior employee working in a big company, it's likely that they don't have the necessary experience to figure out whether hard work matters in their position. That's an important risk to be aware of. But the opposite advice, avoiding hard work, is also risky. (And not a good habit to cultivate in the long term of course.) If you're not sure which position you're in, and you don't trust your more experienced coworkers to tell you honestly without punishing you for asking, then putting in some amount of hard work with the goal of finding out is a pretty good start.
Does a wood-stove catalytic converter help with PM2.5? That seemed to be the main focus of the article.
On the Old Continent, there are a lot of old houses (I'm writing from a 400 year old one, older than the USA), about 10% being more than 100 year old [1], most of which comes with a central chimney (or several).

While a lot of people have other heating/cooking systems, those chimney are still in use to some capacity.

[1] http://www.iut.nu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Housing-Statist...
I can have as much as 100 tabs open, depending on what I'm doing.
While I agree that impersonation or platforms showing up first in search results is bad, whether the restaurant gets the full margin is a separate issue and currently correlates negatively.

A restaurant that's being impersonated without any agreement/permission will get the full margin, because the platform has to buy at retail prices.

A restaurant only loses money to commissions when they have an agreement with the platform, and that agreement very often also allows the platform to set up those pages that show up first.

So a law requiring platforms to get permission to deliver might end up with fewer restaurants getting full margin!
Are you really an interviewer? And are you actually this clueless?
Then when the lease expires, they can downsize. Or if they're growing, they can not lease additional space when they otherwise would have.
Going by some sentiments on this site, too old is when you pass the age of twelve and haven’t by some innate instinct been drawn to hacker/tinkerdom.
"Magic beans" is something you can say about majority of payment tokens humanity has been using. However, once enough people agree they are good for exchange they become good for exchange.
> developing the substance, breadth, and judgement

A leader cannot have one without the other. If you've spend any time amongst high academic performers, many of these folks have "developing the substance, breadth, and judgement", but not nearly as many have the confidence to apply these skills as leaders.
The white paper is literally titled “A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” and the first line of the abstract states “ A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”

For this purpose it is abjectly poorly suited.

Neither the word “gold” nor “store of value” nor anything else of the sort appear in the abstract.
Burkes thesis isn't the causality so much as relations, almost always crossing what we now see as typical boundaries; scientific or engineering disciplines, professions, regions, cultures. One thing influences numerous others.

He's critiquing and offering an alternative to strict linear domain-respecting narratives. And "looking back to peer forward": by offerring an interdisciplinary narrative of the past, he proposes and suggests the same approach for describing, or more importantly, creating, the future.
Thank you for taking the time to read!

Yes, in the full paper I separated consumer credit from mortgages. In the intro I linked, indeed they are aggregated.

Long story short: in northern and continental Europe consumer credit is almost non-existent. Very tiny numbers. Notable exception: the UK. But more mortgages don't necessarily mean more home ownership eh.

"Those mortgages are backed by houses, and are a sign of good financial practices, allowing gradual increase of wealth. Where consumptive credit is backed by nothing and is generally a sign of bad financial practices."

That's almost my conclusion as well, but I put more emphasis on what social policies encourage you to do, more than on good or bad practices. In the US they really encourage going for consumer credit, also their bankruptcy legislation is more lenient and encouraging a fresh start; while in Europe we are much more draconian with debt.
Can you share tips on how to pop their balloons?
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The app could say "we deliver from the Greek place on Main Street" to avoid using the trademark, but still be in violation of the new law.

Also, many restaurants can't get a trademark. My favorite local place is "Joe's Pub" but I don't imagine that's a unique name.
Yes, of course that is the case but a "real" delivery service is only one or two contortions away from "publishing" their "listings" in a way that is just like what I wrote.
Tell HN: If you bid on a car on eBay the seller gets your phone number
Just found this out the hard way.
> In the end, all of us here have been a victim of that sort of thing and we all probably became aware of it at least once while also completely prepared to make the same mistake at some other time.

At least in the U.S., it's the exact opposite problem that is eating away at democracy.

There are literally tens of millions of people who refuse to believe any story from any news source because they wildly overestimate the corruption of journalism across the board.

Where's the pretentious tag for that phenomenon?
That makes sense, I see that point, but I think that stopping the bleeding is more important. Moreover the new set of rules can also benefit small competitors in the delivery space by allowing them to sign exclusive agreements with small businesses.
Damn, and this was going to be my first project of 2021. Kudos on launching, I still think I'm going to keep plugging away on my own version.

It is 2021 though, and there really is no excuse for not using TLS.
Amphetamine isn't exactly an innocent name. Of all the app takedowns that occur, this one seems pretty normal and actionable.

It's important to remember that reviews are superficial, and passing review is not at all the same as being compliant with the terms. Compliance is the burden of the submitter.

Now, that app store monopoly makes terms unfair and arbitrary is another discussion entirely.
It’s a great app! I do tend to agree with them, as every time I looked in the corner of my screen, I was reminded of how much harder I could work if only I had some adderall.
Depends on what apps you are already using and if there's a self-hosted alternative to it.

For analytics for example you can save a lot of money without sacrificing insights or privacy by using self-hosted userTrack[0] instead of GA + Hotjar/FullStory for example.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net/
>> Given 1983 technology, it was very difficult to implement digital audio filters, which require millions of multiplication/accumulation operations a second.

> This seems high? A second-order digital filter requires what, about 4 stores, recalls, and multiplies per sample? This would seem to be in the same level of complexity as six carrier/modulator interactions; you have to do a multiply to do a lookup after all. Or is the issue that the multiplies had to be 12-16 bit?

For microprocessors in 1983, multiply instructions, if they existed at all, involved a lot of shift and add cycles. That took a long time.

A simple filter might need 4 multiplies and accumulates. Times 44,000 times a second, for each sample. Times the number of voices; 16 in the case of the DX7.

Now you are easily over a million multiplies a second.

And even though the original DX7 is 12 bits, I think you'd need those multiplies to be 16x16 bits for accumulated error issues.

So the DX7 was an alternative to having to implement digital filters in 1983 technology. They could introduce a digital synth at a very reasonable price.
Doesn't exactly work when HR is toothless and one is seeking legal action against literally the richest company in the world and already inundated in lawsuits. Not to mention the author was on a student OPT visa- how is someone being sponsored by a company going to risk their status by suing that company?
Not being a moron is a skill that is getting harder to find everyday.
So the problem is how it's packed, and delivery could be done correctly. Okay, that makes sense.
Funny that some medications have these dream effects. An uncommon side effect of Montelukast is vivid nightmares and sleep paralysis. It’s a relativity common asthma control medication, but was recently moved to a not-recommended status for younger people because of this side effect. My personal experience was pretty intense nightmares 1-2 times a week if I took it before bed. Taking early in the day stopped this side effect.
You're not going to win against Apple. Change your app's name.
This sounds like the age-old balance between maintenance/repair and breaking-new-ground/innovation. My personal sense is that there is and always has been a gendered dimension to striking this balance, and varying levels of predisposition that bellcurve along gender-specific neurotypes.

For me, once I was pointed to this axis, I started recognizing it everywhere -- legal institutions, the way companies are run, etc etc

Hofstede's cultural dimension studies commissioned by IBM in the 50s (?) have things to say about this too
Maybe they have a child with ADHD whose life was saved by amphetamines?
It seems that any activity where R&D is a significant chunk trends towards a monopoly.
Or a microdot on playing cards distributed to communist countries.. similar to this concept:
https://bicyclecards.com/article/a-map-inside-the-cards/
>This is because to renew the operating licence for these dams, its ratepayers would have to foot an approximately $400m (£308m) bill for upgrades to ensure compliance with legislation (including the installation of costly fish ladders at each dam that would enable migration).

Upgrading the dams cost $400m.

>Overall, little will be lost in terms of renewable energy generation: the dams represent less than 8% of PacfiCorp’s 2,208 MW current renewable generation capacity,

[1] indicates that you are correct and 7 dams produce 169 MW. so indeed these dams produce a relatively small amount of electricity.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klamath_River_Hydroelectric_Pr...
When COVID dies down please spend some time traveling outside of cities so you can understand how people outside your bubble live.

Wood is very common in rural areas. Cold areas that don't have city gas largely rely on fuel oil (diesel), propane, and/or wood. Fuel oil and propane are both significantly more expensive than wood, even if you buy it pre-cut. If you have land and cut it yourself the biggest cost is time.
We spent months that were planned for developing new features ripping out features that didn't perform well enough.

The intent was good: bring the new shiny to people with older hardware. The result was poor: people with older hardware thought we were deliberately slowing them down.
Well, no shit. On the other hand, wood is really cheap, and if you want to heat up to 75-85 F, there's really no substitute.
I was really confused for a bit there, and I finally realized the comment I was responding to said "not just in science," not "just not in science" as I had originally read it. Whoops.
I am sorry to hear this.

I was a manager for 25 years, at a renowned corporation, that wasn’t fun, but didn’t have too much of this kind of thing.

When I became a manager, my personal vow was to “be the manager I always wanted.”

Contrary to popular mythology, this was not “Become a doormat.” As anyone that worked for me can tell you, I could be quite firm.

But that was the exception; not the rule.

Kindness and empathy pay huge dividends, as a manager —as long as they are “for real.” In my experience, artificial empathy gets detected quite quickly, by the types of folks we manage (smart ones).

But this should not be considered just an “Apple” problem. It happens everywhere, and, unlike in the movies, where the villain always gets their comeuppance, the perpetrators often thrive, establishing ugly corporate environments.

Sadly, their bosses are often quite aware of how bad they are, but they “get results,” and results are the bottom line.