skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that the same for most products? One big difference between the super cheap mass produced product and the more expensive 'artisanal' product is that the more expensive product has less negative externalities . When I buy the more expensive local meat as opposed to the the super cheap imported meat, part of what I'm paying for isn't just a better product, but also supporting certain farming practices I prefer.
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It depends who the "we" refers to. For readers & editors of the fse blog, I think it makes sense.
> But IDK if a small submarine with little or no crew, small dive depth, and relatively small payload needs all thus. If a nation-state wanted to deploy it, that could be done way more covertly.

In a way, this is tautological. Anything an organized crime group does, a nation state can do trivially, by just paying that crime group (or a similarly-sized and skilled legit group).

The right question is, as you point out, whether it's useful for a nation state to do this. Most of the time it probably isn't - cold war is as much about capability as it is about advertising the capability to the adversaries. If the Russians - or the Chinese, or the Americans - aren't bragging about it, they probably aren't using it in a meaningful fashion.
> Google/Alphabet's current CEO

Current, sure, but he showed up after Google was already successful. Becoming the CEO of Google made him successful, but he didn't make Google successful.

> Apple's current CEO...

Same thing.

> Jobs, the founding CEO, was also not a software engineer.

True but he co-founded it with a software engineer (Wozniak) who was arguably influential enough that he had the influence of a CEO if not the title.

> Amazon's CEO, Bezos, was a software engineer

He may not have held the title or had the function, but apparently he had the knowledge.
> it doesn't feel like

You’d think ha. Economists have a term for this “deadweight loss”.

MVNO are probably the best place for this kind of dynamism but they are always limited by the tools that the tier 1 carriers give them.

There is stuff like you describe on the way but progress is glacial. You’ll get bits and pieces dripped out bit by bit as the big guys satisfy themselves they’re not missing out on anything.

Just a note that this was one of the puzzles Steve Jobs managed to crack. We had smart phones before the iPhones but progress was stymied by the industry - thankfully jobs recognised the potential and had the wherewithal to put the Telcos over his knee and make them his bitch.

Steve is gone now, and there aren’t too many players like that around now and you can see how gradually the smartphone market has started to tend back towards the more orthodox again.
Preteens are bombproof, they will adapt to anything.

The problem is teenagers and up.
I think people are overestimating how well the submarine tracking works, and underestimating how noisy the marine environment is. I suspect that modern ASW only works in a moderate radius around the fleet it's supposed to be protecting, and that if you have a sonar sweep of every noise in the Mediterranean and subtract the ones with transponders, that's still hundreds or even thousands of small boats.

Even the surface refugee traffic overwhelms the limited naval intercept capabilities of the Mediterranean navies.
If you publish your findings somewhere, I'd love to read what you have found!
We are also building a FOSS application firewall for Linux and I would like to see what problems you have found and how we are doing in that regard.
Ref: https://safing.io/portmaster/
Some economists in Spain say that starting from this premise, and trying to apply it universally for the economy may have disastrous results.

The problem here is the effect on productivity. While there are some jobs where decreasing 20% of working hours while keeping productivity constant may be perfectly feasible, there are lots of jobs in Spain's precarious service-oriented economy where this is not possible.

For example, take all jobs depending on tourism: how is a waiter going to produce the same in four days of work than in five?

The same applies for Spain's public sector. Many public workers already have very good working conditions, but more importantly, the same effect described above also applies to them: it is not clear whether their working hours can be compressed without a significant loss of productivity.

To be clear I'm not against the idea, as there may be some merit to it if applied reasonably and on a tactical level, as part of much greater economic reforms. But I fear this is not what will happen; rather, populist politicians will take it and run with it because it sounds good, without any regards for its real implications, and without addressing the much harder and endemic problems of the Spanish economy such as the eye-watering unemployment levels and the lack of opportunities for our youth.
I studied art as an option back in high school, and in College I studied it in a more "scientific" context like gestalt theory, color science, principles (proportions, perspective).

My opinion of art is that it is simply a computational resource that human beings use to store emotions.
Interestingly, many things up for sale as an NFT are not only not tied to an original, they’re often not offered by anyone who owns it. So in that case, the “original” ends up basically being “whoever made it an NFT first”.
That's what I'm saying, the Post's comments are even worse.
They are subject to the GDPR in so far as they might record students, who might then need to give consent, which could then be withdrawn. In so far as the lecturers are concerned, the lawful basis is likely not to be consent, but rather a contractual obligation, where different rules apply. If for instance, paid actors in films could arbitrarily exercise their right to be forgotten, that would not be a tenable situation.

The solution is clearly to not record students in any identifiable way, but there’s no need to avoid recording the lecture altogether. In fact, if the student were not identifiable, I expect it would be perfectly legitimate to record them without any explicit consent.

Disclaimer:
I am not a lawyer, this isn’t legal advice
It seems the parameters for healthy ocean ecosystems is much tighter than on land and much more sensitive to change. The UK has similar issues (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/04/catastro...) and Australia is well documented.

Outside of mechanical damage and over fishing, it's hard to know what could help, you can't really adjust ocean conditions, it's just too vast - for example something fundamental in relation to temperature and water acidity has changed meaning you can't just replant, it'd just suffer the same fate. It kind of implies to save the oceans climate change needs to be improved globally.
I thought you were mocking them but nope, this the actual opening paragraph of a corporate announcement post. Do they not have enough money for editors or technical writers anymore?
Just a note that the phrase is "pore over", not "pour over".
in legal cases, its possible. But it removes any consequence for the anonymous speech that is not legally actionable. While there's value to that type of speech, it should also be devalued by others.

So, see what I wrote above as a modification of the proposal. To encourage all users to be verifiable, for end users to be easily able to identify non verified users, and hence to be able to devalue those opinions.
Now I like hypolatent and throughputful.
One of the brilliant things about start-ups is that it allows you to step directly into the CEO shoes, and I'm amazed by and extremely grateful for the willingness of investors to allow first time founders to learn on the fly.

There is a hurdle though, that being a CEO of a startup is a full time job. A consequence is that if you happen to be a strong engineer with relevant skills in a cash strapped environment, you will come under strong pressure to be an engineer and perform poorly as a CEO unless you can raise the funds to hire a top-tier engineer.

Now I get to insert yet another gripe against Europe and its horrible environment for fundraising. I believe that the lack of technical CEOs is likely due to the lack of resources (both at startups and large companies) to develop them.
Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core
Officially there is no Wintertime, that's the real time. Summertime is the anomaly here and it drives me crazy that people want to stick to that forever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/business/media/al-jaffee-...
From the slew of negative nitpicky comments here, it seems that Hacker News has been taken over by MBA and not technical types. Yes the nerds you looked down on in high school are doing way better than you, no hard feelings. :)

I agree with the article, but there's also a much simpler answer. To be successful in a world-changing sense, you have to actually care about making a good product. People get MBAs to make personal money, not to make world-changing products. People in these leadership roles got into software because they were interested in making cool products. Nowadays we see some people getting into software primarily to make some personal money - they won't succeed either, not in this world-changing leadership sense.
> My opinion of art is that it is simply a computational resource that human beings use to store emotions.

With NFTs this is now more true than ever, on multiple levels
> Also, needless to say, Jobs was not a software engineer either.

The article actually refers to Jobs & Wozniak.
Just a small nitpick: what you probably mean is there was little regulation. Regulatory capture is what occurs after regulation has been established, is seen as a hindrance and companies start currying favour by greasing the wheels. In a word, captured regulatory agencies are beholden to the industry. See also: Ajit Pai in the FCC, SOPA, Boeing and the FAA...
> And Wozniak was never CEO of Apple.

In terms of title? No. In terms of function? Well sure, he's a co-founder.
> TinkerCAD, which runs from the browser. Very intuitive...

TinkerCAD is proprietary software by AutoCAD... And we remember what has happen[0] with its another 'free' app - Fusion360 (RIP).

Thanks, but no.

BTW, LeoCAD is a much better choice for kids and AFOLs.

[0] https://twitter.com/MvdH74169613/status/1369334245043404815
So, you think this is unrelated to human activities?
so you're right, but part of the problem is that there is no personal consequence to this anonymous speech. It's also impossible to distinguish between "fake/non verified" users and "real/verified" users on a mass scale. So, I modify my proposal to argue that if we don't want to get rid of anonymous/pseudononymous accounts, we have to take steps to enable users to really devalue the anonymous speech and not put it on the same level as non anonymous speech.
It at least sets a precedent for Lenovo, and will probably dissuade them from appealing, at least in Italy. It might even make it easier to get a refund.

The precedent here is making it not economical for Lenovo to engage in a lengthy litigation process. Such tactics are generally employed against consumers, to dissuade them from suing. It's nice to see it backfiring, and indicative of a healthy court system, IMO.
> Can I steal the feudalism idea?

I would be honored.

Other thing most people don't understand is that unpaid overtime is actually tax fraud.
I have never seen paid overtime in Spain. I read someone in HN saying she got paid overtime tho.
I just gave this a try, and I would honestly love to have a traditional cad software that is so intuitive and easy to use. (Except for the stuff with the rotation, that was a little hiccup for me)

I could just get into it, drag, drop rotate and make some stuff - it's actually _fun_ to use!

Does anyone know of a cad program which uses a similar approach? I'd love to be able to build smooth models with such a software...
> you are, in effect, asking for people to step in the bear trap in order to prove to you that it’s dangerous

As a counterpoint, by invoking the "bear trap" argument you are dismissing the only possible way to prove your point. Both sides sound like logical fallacies to me.
The logical next step for these submarines is to go autonomous, and be minuaritized.

Small 6 feet long submarines which just head to a predetermined gps coordinate and travel at 1 mph, powered by a solar panel floating a few inches under the water surface would be very hard to detect without very specialist tech. They could probably be built for $1000 each without any custom built parts - simple RC plane servos, a compass and GPS, and an arduino should suffice.

The smugglers could then head out at their leisure and pick them out of the water after their 2/3 month transit time.
How to search for specific word/s here on HN?
Just as title says. I want to search for soecific word/s. How to achieve this?
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Ask HN: Looking for OCR for exam papers/tests
Is there a way to prepare tests with closed questions (and possibly with open questions) in such a way, that they can be easily digitalized after the exam?

The closed questions could be automatically checked by the system, or at least parsed and displayed in a text format. The answers to open questions could be parsed to text or just cropped (as images).

Looking for both open-source solutions and SaaS/PaaS.
This is pretty much what we are doing with the Portmaster: https://safing.io/portmaster/
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Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action-at-a-distance? Essays
Axis was WW2, not WW1.

For WW1, the reason I consider Allied and Central powers to be equivalent has more to do with the flaws of the Allies in that era than with the actions of the Central powers.

With WW2 and Axis/Allies, even though I’m not at all sure how to judge the relative behaviour of Stalin (Allied) vs Hitler (Axis) — there’s too much propaganda for me to filter though — the British and Americans were unambiguously more moral than the Axis powers.
That's not true at all.

Nature isn't gradual, it's catastropic. The Younger Drayas caused a 7° to 10° C drop worldwide in a matter of decades.

Volcanic eruptions, sudden drought, earthquakes, asteroid impacts, abrupt population crashes: sudden change is normal.

Yes, a lot of the change we see now is human impact. But this could easily be a virus that hit the sea stars out of the blue. We just don't know.
The nitpicking on this forum is getting ridiculous.
This article needs an image of the plane with red dots where all the bullet holes were. That, or to explain how great software engineer CEOs include Jonathan Schwartz, Stephen Elop, and all those one-person companies that are still waiting for the coffee shops in Palo Alto to reopen so they can pick up their “business address” mail.
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DataBunker service to store customer data in a GDPR compliant way
I curious, can you remember which ones?
The classic selection bias. If the list of "top" companies is mostly software companies (which is FAANG++ at the moment), then how is it uncommon for a software engg. to lead the company ?
"I think this would be a dream jobs to design and built low-tech yet effective solutions for smuggling. "

If you think engineers are expendable to "regular" companies, wait until you learn how the cartels deal with them...
A vast majority of companies (most of them not very successful) don't do this.
The slow rise of electric vehicles in Kenya
I'll remove the reference (I can't be bothered to spend the time to hunt down the sources), but it was a huge (but brief) stink. It wasn't that long ago.

The guy was a paid subreddit mod, and an engineer in Arizona or New Mexico, or somewhere.

The story destroyed his career. I know he was immediately fired by his day job. Maybe it's a good thing that the story is hard to find. We all deserve a second chance. I actually felt a bit sorry for him.
What about an intra-hospital alliance of sorts, basically build a software platform that covers billing/etc and turns your local hospital into the insurer.

You pay 5% of your income for example. If you're traveling they pay the other hospital, either at the normal ins. rates or the rates that hospitals...

Example: All the hospitals in utah join. I live in a small town with 45k people.

Only hospital in the county, which is about 60k people.

So the hospital gets 60K * 5% of income - Medicare/Medicaid who would be billed normally.

They get this monthly so they could budget their bills by this income.

Anyone traveling who gets sick in their location the hospital they are subscribed to pays their bill. Hospitals in the network all agree on pricing schemes that are fair so there's really no gouging or alternative prices. Since the payee is other hospitals and they could be on the other side of the price for patients it makes sense to make it reasonable.

Localities could require all residents move to a hospital as insurer model to make the system more streamlined. A tech provider would create software / erp that automatically does the billing so basically you replace billing people on both sides of insurance.

There's probably a lot of small quirks I'm unaware of... but this seems like it could work the larger (multi-state/all 50 states) the network as a whole they could even have significant power to bring down drug prices and equipment purchases for MRI machines/etc as basically a big union of healthcare providers.

Primary care physicians would basically get a "cut" of the subscription monthly + co-pays.

You could pick your "regular" Dentist, PCP, Eyecare, and other "centers" you go to at least a few times per year, and they could divy out funds to them on a recurring basis for the same goal of creating MRR for small healthcare providers locally.
True. But there you can go into optimizations like parallelization of the compression and building an optimized dictionary upfront once to make the process faster.
> No problem with any of those parameters: low sugars could be fixed by infusing sucrose, acid could be removed by using potasium bicarbonate, tanin structure could be improved by using artifical tanins (or tanins extracted from wood), color could be fixed by acetaldehyde (cause of headaches, together with high SO2 levels) and whole structure might be balanced by using reverse osmosis.

This is process chemistry for formulated products. And the only difference between that and cooking is that process chemistry actually cares about quality and consistency of the final product.

Not to mention, whether talking about cheap wine or McDonald's burgers, chemical additives are a bit of a red herring - the goals of the process are achieved as much, if not more, by being in control of how ingredients are mixed, heated, vapourised, deposited or otherwise processed. That's what all this bulky equipment does. Vats that keep the oil within a fraction of degree of a set temperature. Presses and dryers that ensure specific granularity and surface area, combined with conveyors precisely timed to have the half-product lose exactly enough moisture. All other kinds of hardware that doesn't add new chemical compounds, just keeps natural reactions and phase transitions under control. All in a tight loop with automated and manual laboratory testing, that checks both for process parameters and presence of contaminants.

The whole thing is an exercise of minimizing variance in the process, so that the end result hits desired metrics. It carries the usual dangers of optimization systems - the choice of metrics and of things that are not optimized for. But it's not as simple as "more processed = more chemicals = more bad".
with the search field thats on every page?
You can always render the text to a texture offline as a signed distance field and just draw out quads as needed at render time. This will always be faster than drawing from the curves, and rendering from an SDF (especially multi-channel variants) scales surprisingly well if you choose the texture/glyph size well.

A little more info:

https://blog.mapbox.com/drawing-text-with-signed-distance-fi...

MIT-licensed open-source multi-channel glyph generation:

https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen

The only remaining issue would be the kerning/layout, which is admittedly far from simple.
We are building the Portmaster, which can do some of these things already. Currently looking for testers:
https://safing.io/portmaster/
The one thing Google plus got right with "circles" IMHO
1) Not everyone has a job where they can be paid in crypto. 2) Some people want to invest larger amounts into crypto. Both these cases require an onramp.
The link to the repo is broken.
As a wine "connoisseur" (or "nerd"), price isn't really the interesting factor. The fun part of this hobby for me isn't drinking $200 dollar bottles of wine, it's exploring the huge and changing variety of wine out there, and you can happily spend a life time doing that without spending much over $25 for a bottle. Tasting a $20 bottle of some native Slovenian grape you've never heard of can be every bit as fun and rewarding as drinking a $200 bottle of some 'name brand' wine.
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/the-ongoing-problem-of-hospita...
Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
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You mean you are betting everything you own that FIAT currencies will be devalued relative to your crypto currencies.
If you'd like to try a modern version of that - we are looking for testers: https://safing.io/portmaster/
What is Stripe doing that BoA/Chase/Citi/Capital One/US Bank/Wells Fargo isn’t or can’t?

What are the profit margins on consumer banking? It seems like a commodity product, I expect it to be not amazing (compared to tech companies’ profit margins).

Why would giving 5% cash back solve any of Stripe’s problem? Any of the other banks can do the same now, but they obviously don’t think it’s worth it to lose that much money for customer acquisition, especially when switching costs are so low.
You know that it was the CIA that invented and spread the term 'conspiracy theorist' to smear those who questioned the official story of the death of President Kennedy, right?