skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> + Google Chrome in 2008 : 10x quality-of-life since misbehaving websites crashing don't bring down all the other tabs in my browsing session like Firefox/Opera.

Adding to this: just browser tabs themselves were a 10x improvement for me. I had actually forgotten what the world was like before tabs - a whole lot of unsortable windows, and a lot of clicks of the back button.

It was a godsend to be able to open new links in a tab, and to be able to see those tabs organised neatly in front of you.
I didn't say it was wasteful or make any judgments about it. It's just a fact that a level of lifestyle that allows a person to launch his personal sports car into space has been achieved.
Not really; that is the crux of the problem.

The article goes into detail; it's worth the read to answer your questions.

From my experience, there is very little process and oversight being followed. I had my number ported over (with my knowledge) to Tmobile by a 3rd party, however Tmobile had not attempted to verify my consent. The store associate took this person at her word. My then current phone stopping working caught me by surprise.

I can imagine if I signed up for a family plan, any store associate would be happy to move any number of phone numbers into my control.
In the code above it certainly looks like that - is this not idiomatic swift-finance code though?
Since there are already a lot of great answers, I'll give a niche one: fzf.

It's a simple concept and implementation, but you can plug it in all kinds of things and quickly compose complex tools in a simple manner. You can use it to search (and navigate to) logs, files, git history, external APIs (e.g. AWS). It's amazing.
You'll see how the west is going to "rebrand" globalization from the "world savior" to "a dependency issue". We're going back.

Everyone thought that as new countries got richer, they would follow in the steps of western values (democracy, free markets, etc.). Yet, all we really achieved is to fund the CCP. And now they're not letting investors get their money out and they're putting military bases where they swore they would never. Great.

Of course, the world is more "equal" in general, but not in the concrete edge cases. For already developed countries, it's a nightmare that destroyed the industry and the middle class. For developing countries, it's a nightmare where a powerful few (CCP) have more resources than ever to suppress their people and relinquish power.

The only way forward is back. Let's keep the diversity and the share of information and progress. Let's reverse the economic dependency hell we've cornered ourselves into.

P.D: I have nothing but sympathy for the Chinese people. I admire their resolve and creativity. I hate the CCP and how people all over the world have come to relativize even our core values as a society (democracy, freedom of speech, etc). We're really close to a middle-ages screw up if we don't remember what we stand for.
> In any case, obviously the conversation is DOA if you start it from a foundational assumption that "a play is a play"

That's not my foundational assumption, but I've also not heard a compelling argument that one play / minute streamed should be inherently more valuable than another play / minute streamed.

It's also not clear how this value would be calculated, because I also don't think it's clear that proportion of listen time by user necessarily captures the difference in 'value' of one play against another.

It also feels like it will be very complex to negotiate with rights providers. Spotify's current negotiations with rights providers are really simple and easy to understand - we divvy up our revenue by play count, you are responsible for $x revenue by this metric, so let's negotiate the %. Moving all providers to another weird metric would be an extremely tough thing to do, particularly because having half on one and half on another would likely happen for a crossover, and would result in a loss of profit during the transition period.
Stackoverflow. Its closest competitor, experts exchange, was a slow website that required you sign up to see an answer that was rarely useful. There's a direct correlation to SO and dollars of revenue I've driven.
Condescending boomer advice on par with "walk in and ask to see the manager and give him eye contact and a firm handshake."

Seems ostensibly helpful, is actually just meaningless platitudes and vague, generic advice that everyone knows.
The Dimmed Dark display would be great if the fonts were as bright as the Dark themes, otherwise the entire thing just looks washed and reduces visibility. The rest of the colours are great absent the font colour choice.
Encode smaller bits of the same protein? Who cares.

Otherwise, the mRNAs aren’t present in high enough quantities to do significant signaling or silencing things, and it’s going in the deltoid... not really a medically interesting place. You could inject 1mL of dilute HCl there and it wouldn’t be a big problem.
Apologies, but I must have missed it when you said:

“If you want to argue non-linearity of danger then you are arguing for a very remarkable biological coincidence.“

What do you mean here? Can you give a bit more info?

Note, I am pretty well versed on nonlinearities from a mathematical-engineering point of view, but know very very little about biology. (If that’s of any use to know)
Been where? There are definitely places in Sweden where you can spend years without being seen. The population density in Upper Norrland is 3 people per square km...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Norrland
Wow that's a shitty legal system, okay ... I guess we the people have chosen to just let it happen and fear speaking up as witnesses.
Twitter Hacker Pleads Guilty in Florida Court
Signal: China appears to have blocked encrypted messaging app
If you read deeper than a one line description you'll see:

1. Even after accounting for criminal history, recidivism, age and gender, black defendants were still scored as much more likely to re-offend.

2. It incorrectly predicted that black defendants would re-offend much more frequently than white defendants.

3. It incorrectly predicted that white defendants would not re-offend much more frequently than black defendants.

Considering those three things and that they have refused to give any details about how the algorithm works, I see zero reason to give them the benefit of the doubt. Fire them until they can demonstrate that the algorithm is not in fact biased like it appears to be.

The score also takes into account answers to questions like whether the defendant's parents were separated or whether their parents were ever arrested. Those things are completely out of the defendant's control and are highly correlated with race. Even including those things in their score is damning.
Thank you — I pieced that feature together. Will tweak!
I was not talking about a personal tax rate. My point was that employers can not pay anywhere near SF salaries because some places tax high salaries so severely. It is not a matter of employers being unwilling. A rich company can't just decide to pay people at SF levels and expect to create a local silicon valley.
I mean, if I were in a slightly different point in my life, I might be willing to grind out long hours for a year or three if I thought I was going to come out the other end a multi millionaire.

But the way they structure the RSUs makes that way harder, it kinda feels like I might as well wait for IPO and buy shares then.

Lack of job security is big too, but I guess that's to be expected at any startup.
> The reality is, there is no place for humans in an AI driven world where AI is smarter than humans and robots can make stuff.

Luckily, that's a hell of a lot further away than AI bulls indicate. Can't even use AI to help with hiring people without it getting cancelled as racist, after all.
Huge difference between running a graphics card at 100% capacity (ok, most eth miners underclock but still use a good amount of wattage close to 100% of the time) and someone playing a video game for a few hours after work one day.

Nowhere near the same amount of energy. Gaming certainly doesn't use 1% of the planets energy, for example...
Besides Scala, I feel both Kotlin and Rust have been heavily influenced by Scala.
If you want to follow that chain of logic, then the thing to do would be to either find a way to prove that a sufficiently AI would be conscious, or to augment human consciousness with AI. Because even if AI's are superior to humans at everything, if they're not self-aware, you still need humans or other conscious animals for anything to have a point - you need someone to experience the stuff that exist. And humans aren't built to be happy existing simply as consumers, so if humans are going to be those experiencers, they need to be involved in creation, not just consumption.
> the user has control over their Mac.

for now, because observing the current trends, they'll likely won't for much longer... all for the sake of safety and convenience.
Congratulations, you've spotted the negligible amount, which I explicitly said was negligible, as opposed to zero. Just because something has some benefit does not mean that benefit is greater than the costs.
Are they not violating GDPR because of that? Surely they don't need to know most of that data to process search queries? Or it is a classic example of trying to bypass regulation by creating the fake need for this data in their T&C.
Another question is that why regulators don't look into that? If I search for "Pythagorean formula", do they need my address for that?
I think the business model like Google should be outlawed (and I believe it already is illegal in the EU) and it should not be possible to pay for a service with your personal data.
Yes, I get the argument that if services become paid, then a lot of people won't be able to afford the subscriptions, but we could have a law that email operators should provide basic email service for free, just like banks have to provide basic bank accounts free of charge.
I'm sorry to hear of your loss. It seems you took good care of things like this for her.
I very much like the idea of Moore's Law for a lot of things (maybe not for everything, there could be some nasty surprises in games of catch-up between offensive and defense).

Setting aside social implications, it might also not quite come to this, as not everything might be solvable by data and/or thinking. Our understanding of nature could be correct enough in some areas to block progress. For example, it might not be possible to predict which atom will decay next, or maybe there are no gravity shields possible in this universe as it is a fundamental property of mass (very very handwaving here).
Thanks! I appreciate that you bothered at all to respond to my many-days-later comment. :) I'm glad you've respectively had good luck in this regard.

I should be clear that I'm not speaking in particular about a present or past employer, nor do I really mean to denigrate businesses operating as I described. My rhetorical cynicism might be misread as just cynicism, so I'd like to try again, hopefully more charitably:

Not many top decision makers are (or closely employ) good stats people. So pretty optimistic non-stats folks try to figure out what to measure, how to measure it, what is meaningful, and how to extrapolate that into good forecasts -- not a great start for accurate measurement and forecasting.

Next, data is often bad: because of adblockers, brief app outages, known workarounds, bugs, gaps, measurement-method changes over time, differing cohort assumptions, etc. There always ends up being some hand waving. Another strike against accurate measurement and forecasting.

Finally, businesses must survive, and many are not cash-rich enough for safety or for growth, so in the near term they may be oriented more toward investment than revenue. Some good hand waving can then be the essential survival activity, and good hand-waving may require treating some fictions as real. The dreaded third strike falls against accurate measurement and forecasts.

So in a sense, these aren't traditional businesses. Their measurements and forecasts may not be very accurate, but for now it doesn't really matter. What matters more is usually the story.
I will never work in an office again. At least I’ll try as much as I can. I’m currently rejecting all of the offers recruiters send to me with “Sorry. Only 100% remote works for me at the moment. Thank you!”
Respect yourself, respect others, and live life like you are going to die.

Doom scrolling and anxious FOMO will ensure your continued mysery.
Sure, just like taking down free speech or right-leaning sites 'included' 'calling for violence'.

Twitter didn't removed CP even when the victim asked for it:

https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-ref...
>1. Automatic device discovery and driver installation (e.g., with USB devices (also USB device categories, etc.)). Instead of trying to find a driver, things just worked.

I remember well when installing Windows went from "make sure you have all the driver CDs before you start" to "just make sure you have the network card driver and the disk driver (if needed)" and then it went to "as long as you can connect to the internet Windows Update will get everything".

Before you had to get on the internet and find all the driver files yourself. The last hold out was graphics card drivers IIRC.
I've been waiting for two features from Docker:

1. Launch a container by specifying its image digest, not image ID [0] [1]. You can pull an image with a specific digest, but then it gets an ID that is unique to the image repository. Later deployments must use that different image ID. This makes deployment tooling needlessly complicated. And it breaks the security guarantees of the digest by allowing the repository to modify the image.

2. Copy a file into a container with docker-compose, without requiring Swarm [1].

Do financial problems explain their slowness? I wish they would just charge $100/year per seat for Docker for macOS and then fix the long-standing problems.

And sell a hosted tool to do trusted builds of docker images from hashed sources. Reproducible builds would be great, too.

[0] https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/16482#issuecomment-29782...

[1] https://windsock.io/explaining-docker-image-ids/#contentaddr...

[2] https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/5523
yes, good point. we base our statistical inferences on backward-looking data, but the future can change in ways we're unable to fully predict and account for.

this illustrates that just-in-time isn't an unalloyed good. it trades off resiliency for cost (and a bit of agility). it also introduces more structural variance in the supply chain, exacerbating supply issues, which isn't obvious on first blush (operations research coursework covers this).
And if you'd bet on Jim Herman winning the PGA Tour Wyndham Championship, you would have over $500,000!

High-risk propositions are so valuable when you remove the risk part!
Perhaps, one can just buy a mouse and have the best of both worlds?
Apple Failure Modes
Awesome!

I'm just starting with a clear niche and solving my own problems. Where many of my friends and myself are in bilingual relationships that have been trying to learn our partner's languages.

In the US, 15% of new marriages are multi-ethnic, so that's pretty large already. I think people are surprised how common it is. And it easily pique's people's interests who are in the situation versus another generic language learning platform.

If the project goes well, it can expand and branch out (e.g., adding friends/family, connecting to other peers, finding strangers to learn with). Right now, it works very well as a language learning tool, even without a partner.
Sure, but it's easy to clinically examine any communication and refine it with the benefit of both hindsight and low cortisol levels. My read of this situation is that everyone involved was stuck in a shitty situation; it got very briefly heated, and ended up where it should have: with another dev cycle to iterate on FreeBSD WireGuard.
Semantic Data Interoperability: Exchanging Data with Meaning
So what does people typically use pfSense/OPNsense for which OpenWRT can’t do, or is a bad fit for?

Asking as a curious OpenWRT devotee.
> - Without no-cd cracks, you were required to leave a CD / DVD in your drive

Speaking of which, prior to Steam, I'd definitely consider "Making an ISO of your favorite game and mounting it as a virtual drive using DaemonTools" to be a 10x innovation.
HN has a hate-boner for everything crypto-related, which is surprising considering some of those same folks were probably crypto-anarchy idealists talking about the coming digital liberation at some point in their lives.
If your (state, country, whatever) has a 100% vaccination policy to "prevent mutations", then how can you possibly not have a vaccination passport?
Are status pages the right answer though? They seem to be a failure all around, so let's find a better solution.
Ya. My guess is that proper nouns are weighted much heavier than distance when displaying results. I also guess that indexing of stuff gets worse in smaller markets.

I vividly recall wanting to pick up some flowers while driving north of Phoenix. Google was useless. No local businesses. Just national chains and stuff from other time zones. Infuriating.
Greenland ice sheet melted once before, and could again
The Secret Stunt Doubles of the Art World
> Since AIs are smarter than humans, why bother teaching humans at all? Unless there is a point where a developed human brain could outsmart the AI, it seems to be a waste and emotionally guided.

taking this point and running off with it. why bother having humans at all? let's all become a simulation and live within a computer.
> emotionally guided

As humans, we emotionally feel sympathy toward other animals of the human race. Bonus points if they look similar (ethnically).

> move forward

Without honestly realizing what an AI driven world means, any "solution" is just vaporware talks, and will probably mean we are not ready when the shift happens.
Absolutely. Everyone wants to talk stagnation, but we don't realize how much incredible work is being done in the background. Then, because we live in filtered versions of reality, we don't see it. The Fair serves as a showcase of all of the incredible work being done to shape the future to 1) give people hope and 2) inspire more people to help build it.
Sleep Is the Mate of Death
Any sources on that? I’m guessing the 90% is hyperbole, but I still wonder how much spam the average user actually gets. (For me, close to absolute zero)
I'll take your MN income tax if you'll take my NJ property taxes. Around here a typical middle class home is pushing $20k/yr.
I want to love this, but the keyboard seems horrible. I know I'm exceptionally picky when it comes to keyboards, I usually just take a 60% mechanical keyboard with me, but I've been able to adjust to using the (non-crappy years) Macbook Pro keyboard and the Thinkpad keyboards while traveling, and generally find them acceptable. This keyboard though has really bad legends, an inexplicable numpad, and it takes up too much real estate when I'd rather have a trackpoint and a larger touchpad.

Also, the screen resolution and size seems odd. I'm okay with a 1080P screen... but not at nearly 16". This should be offered with a 3K or 4K screen only.
Cannot do that - too much classified work :)

Also, some places where funding matches are used to bring stuff to fruition would lose significant funding from both sides: private would not in many cases invest where the results would be given away for free, and govt could not invest or match to help bring things to market.

For example the SBIR program would face significant problems, and it's responsible for a lot of good research and products. DARPA stuff would face the same issues.

Or, to keep such stuff not public, groups that currently publish would simply not publish in order to get funding to continue working. Then the public again loses access to knowledge.

Also, there is no such thing as zero cost - someone is going to have to pay to make such materials available - and that cost (even though small) will likely be borne by the taxpayers. For example, arxiv costs a few million a year to run.

Such solutions are unlikely to yield the results you want.
I don't think the argument is valid because it can be applied to nearly every event where people come together, including sporting events and concerts. But like with the Olympic Games, the World's Fair can serve as a catalyst for urban development projects.

Also, the "science showcase" is a thing of the past, the BIE switched to "individual country showcase" a couple of years ago, which makes the whole thing a lot less appealing IMHO, but that's another issue.
Probably because it's (likely) a Clevo NL51RU or something similar and they use these gamer-y legends. [0]

[0] https://clevo-computer.com/media/image/15/da/88/CLEVO-NL51RU...
SSDs did it twice - the improvement from spinning disk to SSD it desktops was amazing, and then NVME/M.2 took it ANOTHER 10x - the speeds for storage are now so insanely fast that some of the trade-off decisions no longer apply.
> We will discover new jobs–we always do after a technological revolution

CGP grey put this well

> Imagine a pair of horses in the early 1900s talking about technology. One worries all these new mechanical muscles (cars etc) will make horses unnecessary. The other horse reminds him that everything so far has made their lives easier - remember all that farm work? Remember running coast-to-coast delivering mail? Remember riding into battle? All terrible! These new city jobs are pretty cushy, and with so many humans in the cities there will be more jobs for horses than ever. Even if this car thingy takes off, he might say, there will be new jobs for horses we can't imagine.

> But you know what happened. There are still working horses, but nothing like before. The horse population peaked in 1915 - from that point on it was nothing but down.

> There's no law of economics that says that better technology makes more better jobs for horses. It sounds shockingly dumb to even say that out loud. But swap horses for humans and suddenly people think it sounds about right.

"Humans need not apply" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
NVIDIA doesn’t own any fabs, they don’t really have a choice.
Honest question for the sake of discussion/learning: What impact would it have on you if (1) the status page was updated instantly and (2) All impacted capabilities were marked as down/degraded?
Apple has a well known exception to the rule requiring an option to subscribe inside the app for “reader” apps, a vaguely defined which includes Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, and seemingly whatever else is convenient to Apple.

Apple did not lift this requirement for the Hey email app during the controversy over that last year. Instead, they reached a compromise where Hey would offer a free trial of their service inside the app, so they could be in compliance with the rule that an app must have some functionality without an account.
This is nonsense in a startup its very transparent.
Given the Pangolin was used for Ubuntu 12.04 and System 76 has used previously referenced animals from Ubuntu's naming scheme before, I'd suspect that's why.