skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't care about resolution. Try iMessaging or Signal messaging some 4k video from a $1400 iPhone sometime, it gets silently and automatically recompressed to potato before upload, and the hundreds of millions of users don't seem to notice or care.

Doesn't make sense for those companies to pay money to increase resolution and framerate when most of their customers are on shitty wifi with shitty cameras and wouldn't notice a quality increase anyway.

Thus we proceed with 15-year-old quality levels.
When you calculate the shortest path in a road network, you usually take the distance and divide it by the speed limit to determine the weight of the edges.

To be fancy you also do things like account for deceleration and acceleration at nodes (turns).

Artificially capping the speed limit is easy. You often do this for things like tractors that don't drive at the speed limit.

If people want to drive under a certain speed it's a trivial technical problems for the individual vehicle and path finding.

I'm not sure the calculations are made individually however, so an individual speed limit may be a non trivial problem
I've tested Appsmith: https://www.appsmith.com/ and it's great! It's open source and self hostable on k8s.
It's really easy to use, there is included tutorials. I mainly use it to build frontends to make APIs calls, but it supports DB backends like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Devs are available and willing to answer questions.
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Gwern is a gem. I generally agree with most of what he writes, but even if I didn't, I would still take his opinion into serious account.
I think that the mRNA vaccines success will lead to a huge influx of universities/investors sponsoring mRNA research and techniques since they see it as something viable now(possibly initially a negative if it means less sharing).

Now combine that with decreasing DNA sequencing costs, it should put us on a path where the feasibility of cancer sequencing as a standard method of _exact_ identification and mRNA treatments targeting those identified exactly becomes standard fare within a few years (even if there probably is a bunch of cancerous mutations the number should be somewhat restricted considering much of the risks are hereditary).
Being rich shouldn't mean that you get better health care because your net worth doesn't make you a more deserving human than someone poor. Being poor doesnt mean you should suffer or get substandard care.

And to be fair: I have socialized medicine, but I only got that lucky in my 30's after I moved from the US. I don't have long wait times for a doctor's appointment: Non-urgent has more wait time. (And it's OK: It doesn't matter if I have a cervical cancer screening tomorrow or in 2 months). I can get into the dentist urgently if needed.

If I need to wait for 6 months to get a surgery, it means it isn't urgent and there is a safety net to get me through. IF you don't have a safety net, wait times are cruel. All that said, there is a private option here and folks do pay to skip some wait time - I'm generally against this as again, your net worth shouldn't determine whether you get care due to humanity and all - but I'm fine with folks paying for general bells and whistles. Sure, have a fancy room with fancy food if you want.
Is this because the images that they obtained 10-20 years ago are much lower resolution and look pixelated if expanded to the resolution of modern retina screens?

I've just looked at Baba O'Reiley on Apple music on my iphone plus 8 and the artwork is as wide as the text/controls.
neah, it's productivity related. when no one is working after WFH, then it's pretty clear the experiment failed and people need to be back in their offices.

if productivity stayed the same, no-one would have said anything.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...
Do you have a link (German or English)? I couldn’t find anything, and at first glance it doesn’t make any sense. There is no single agency, group or person MS could negotiate with nationwide, universities are pretty independent and education is on the state level.
There was a nice Sonos enabled Pi based music player with a NFC card UI written up last year.[1]

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/who-needs-vinyl-records-whe...
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Does wfh really give back time to people? From what I've seen with colleagues and friends, it mostly has led to longer working hours. The commute time and the time before dinner has been replaced by more work.

If you have been able to draw the line and log off at 5pm, good for you, but that's not the experience for a lot of people.
My name + address is fine for ID, everyone knows it, but it's unique. There are no security features on my name.

I could claim my name is Joe Biden and I live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, just like I could go onto HN and claim my userid is urda, that isn't a problem.

The next step would be to authenticate - and that's where the problem comes -- SSNs and names are no good for authentication. They're a userid.
To build chips similar to what TSMC produces (i.e. some of the most cutting-edge fab tech in the world)? Hundreds of billions of dollars. Decades of experience. Growing silicon crystals and turning them into transistors barely bigger than a few dozen atoms is immensely difficult. And then turning that into a process you can repeat with precision and churn out at high yield is another enormous hurdle.
Xataface (https://github.com/shannah/xataface)
Open source, currently MySQL only, very easy to use
I it only were enforced...
Are you in the loop with manufacturing in India?
> Sorry to have scared you.

Thank you for supporting my point! You demonstrate the very low level very well. Badly hidden snark akin to personal attacks instead of arguments. Exactly my point about that.. "criticism" of that author, far worse than anything I ever read or heard from him and at least an order of magnitude lower level intellectually, if not more.
Perhaps this will trigger a number of employees to leave for other companies with more flexible policies, or more interestingly, trigger a new wave of start-ups.
fwiw I'm super extroverted and I still get stressed out about the idea of becoming an internet personality :-)
The files at the provided link are dated 2002 and 2016, not 2021. Am I missing something?
You sound like a right bundle of fun to work with.

You should consider that among the things less conducive to team productivity and mental health are "the guy in the room" types who exhibit the same lack of interest in normal social interaction with their colleagues you are claiming here under the incorrect label "professionalism".
"EDGI formed after the US elections in November 2016 to document, research, and respond to the new administration’s effects on federal environmental agencies, science, and policy."
Surely someone will make a movie or a series out of this in the future.

For posterity, how long will that take?

I'll start the bidding at ten years.
In the UK system its pretty common for senior doctors to work for both the socialized NHS and private hospitals.
>The problem is, even the people who think they understand that and see through it are being manipulated.

Whether he's CGI Joe or not is just splitting hairs over the level of fake. The boring explanation is that the entire interaction was fake. The press had prepared questions that Biden knew. Biden had prepared answers the press knew. They're all just reading lines from a script. They might have even done more than one take to get it right. It is such a boring explanation that if I had incontrovertible proof of that being the case, the responses to it here would be something like, "Well of course it's fake! You really believed it was authentic? This is well documented in many presidencies. Look at FDR for example. Nothing burger."
Nice share, but it's an infomercial, the plug for her app is about halfway down. Not a bad idea for an app though, on the face of it, if a little under-featured.
Background: how we got the generics we have (2020)
Rejoice the death of social media.
Equipment = billions.

A bunch of talented people with experience who can use the equipment productively = priceless. Probably can't be bought, otherwise some countries would already have done it.
In our case, we're disrupting a well-known industry. So only a non-educated investor would ask for the total addressable market, and the "why now". Both are pretty obvious if you know the industry.

Having investors ask us about those was a strong signal that those VCs didn't know enough about our market, so they wouldn't be great partners for you.

However, in a standard pitch, I would agree those slides need to be there, especially if you're creating a new category. On our side, we're disrupting a well-known one, so not the same.
This reminded me of the extended range with reversed ski box for tesla. https://electrek.co/2020/03/24/tesla-model-3-roof-rack-box-r...
Excellent article, as he says at the end, the marketing battle between Mac and PC is at the least, very entertaining.
I was assuming that it meant having their phone fall back to the cell network when WiFi is iffy, and I was pointing out that this would require breaching the faraday cage entirely essentially.
In my mind this past year of pandemic work from home hasn’t been an accurate depiction of normal (non-pandemic) work from home because of the forced isolation in the hours outside of work. It seems like the pendulum is swinging back too far too fast to in office work.

I like work from home and get to focus more effectively than the open office. I’m pretty deep on the introvert side of the scale and this pandemic has been too isolating for even me. Which is to say I don’t think work from home should be removed because most everyone is socially needy now. I’m looking forward to being with friends again. But I do not want to go back to working in the office. I’m hoping my work has max one required office day for meetings a week, but not more, and hopefully less.
All of the most ideal places to do this have already outright banned any mention of it. I have property in an area (township) that is quasi-suburban (country but 30 min from "civilization") but has a zoning code that is so thoroughly constructed and exclusive that it would make your mouth drop.

Nevermind putting a trailer on your own property, that ain't happening, you can barely build a house.
I think the changes pushed people to invest in new devices, etc, for a per-user lifestyle, while going back to restaurants, meeting rooms, etc, there's an excess of second hand inventory.
You might want to take a look at Baserow (https://baserow.io), which is an open source self hosted no-code database tool and Airtable alternative. It is not possible to interact with an existing database, but the databases and tables created are stored in a PostgreSQL database. It might be possible for you to migrate your existing MySQL data to Baserow. The repository: https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow. It is build in Django and Vue.js.
"Mozilla" is a complicated entity, and quite a lot of their funds go toward projects unrelated to Firefox (to the chagrin of many Firefox users as much of the donor goodwill toward Mozilla Foundation as an entity comes from Firefox).

There may be some clues in their public accounts but I guess VPN is too new a product to appear their yet https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2019/
If your explanation would be the genesis, then the same distrust would manifest when calling library functions, which does not seem to be the case.

The distrust seems to manifest from forking off a separate process invoked by it's name, not relying on externally written software. — it seems to be a distrust of forks and pipes.

I think what in many cases also plays is a fundamental misunderstanding of performance bottlenecks, with many programmers believing that forking off a program and piping to it is measurably slow, while in reality if the target program be well optimized it will be faster than a single heap allocation.
Well, many worthy candidates to consider over the years. Hope these two have plenty of time left on this earth to enjoy the award.
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Main feature for me is that I can have a few terminal windows/panes open, close the terminal, and open it back up later to the same tabs and panes still running. Or, I can open a terminal on any virtual desktop and get the same terminal on all of them.

I work with a few different hosts on SSH and having an active connection for each as a labelled window (tab) in the terminal itself that I can just open up a terminal anywhere to come back to is great.

Personally I use the `tmuxinator` helper tool[^1] that allows you to create configurations as json files to be launched/attached to with short aliases (eg `mux s myconfig`)

[1] https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
All of the samples were taken from faucets within old buildings -- not from the connections to the water mains. So, they can't know whether the source is bad or the buildings' plumbing is bad.
It is good because Y Combinator increases the number of options available to African founders but you cannot make a blanket statement about what is less exploitative. Only the founders themselves can make that decision.
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Check the rest of the videos, all in the same vein. I originally followed him because he re-created the infamous 'BitchinFast 3D 2000' graphics card.
and delete them if no longer needed (no soft delete).
Encryption for data at rest can also help.
I've seen some neat Home Assistant-based projects with this concept as well!
The OpenOffice/LibreOffice Access alternative (called Base iirc) can use mysql/postgresql as database backend.

if that's what you want you might want to look into that.
Honestly, it depends on your stage. But seed stage, only a slide deck.
The reality is that most people don't grow in the same company. They grow by changing employer. So what you just said here, doesn't apply to most people anyway. The ones that most like the current structure are the ones most rewarded by it as well. No wonder they don't want it to change. Most people get promoted by social acts, even in google.
Can you hear the difference between 320 kbit/s mp3 and lossless formats?
Somewhat tangential, but I've always found it weird when I read about strong opposition of some in the US to government ID, framing it as something that jeopardizes the indivdiual's rights. My perspective from a European point of view is different, a government system that provides some ID (which is good both for identification and authentication) is a crucial protection of my rights. I don't want anybody to be able to impersonate me, which means I want a universally accepted system of strong authentication. That's what government ID is to me, it's like a PGP keyring where the government is the introducer in the web of trust.

In the absence of such a system, various ad-hoc systems emerge, and that's IMO why identity theft is so staggeringly common in the US - it's easy, and it's easy because very poor systems are routinely used for authentication. If I understand correctly, you can do a lot in the US with one-factor knowledge authentication, where the "something you know" are things like your name, address, DOB or SSN, all of which are exceptionally poor as authentication.
I'm not sure how cleaning schools requires the sempai-kohai system...?

Besides, while I'm not a fan of the whole sempai-kohai thing, it's not like bullying isn't absolutely rampant in US schools which wholly lack that cultural mechanism.
I'd love to believe in this free market utopia where the end result is always in the best interest of the community. In reality it's well known that companies rely on cartels to protect their shared interests.
We can't know if pharmaceuticals are actively holding back any cure but it would be naive to completely trust organizations which only need to answer to their shareholders.
Since its apt: www.ransomwatch.org
All the time on HN I read posts saying how we should celebrate negative results. Here we have a negative result.

Why not celebrate it?
This is some lazy math:

> A trailer park at 5 homes per acre and 2.5 people per household works out to 8,000 people per square mile, or more than twice as dense as Phoenix.

Well yes but a trailer park is just housing. What about streets, businesses, and open space? Nobody wants to live in an infinite trailer park even if it's an infinite luxury trailer park.

I actually think there's amazing potential for mixed-use commercial/residential space in a trailer park because the cost of starting a new business would be so low and you could even relocate your business over time.

But until the non-housing aspects are addressed a trailer park is just a cheap suburb, which isn't really inspiring.
Any idea why Canada decided to be so extreme - even the UK (which has the overtly socialist NHS) happily has a smaller parallel private healthcare system and a lot of doctors work in both.
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I would try something where you don't risk money. The chances are very high that you end up losing instead of making money.

How much money do you need to make, and what is the timeframe?

Try to analyze your spending. There can be a lot of money "made" by spending less.
This is both hilarious and slightly alarming, because it implies the existence of a lot more shadow schools that may not be as well intentioned but aren't subject to scrutiny.

I was homeschooled for a bit in the 80s in the UK, but I think it would be considerably harder these days as every form of schooling is subject to OFSTED inspection and there have been a set of scandals relating to tiny religious schools with weird curriculums.
Product Person running the show vs a Logistics Person.
If you follow the link, they just state again: "The actors behind this campaign, which we attribute to a government-backed entity based in North Korea" but no details at all. This is why I allow myself to be skeptical.

I would produce a research paper with "my method is the best" and nothing behind to prove it, I hope my peers would be very skeptical.
This doesn't affect your point but just a note; they're officially on MacOS 11 now.
There's a concept of "contention" when it comes to consumer broadband.

Your 50/5 broadband isn't dedicated to you, instead you share a single up link connection.

Depending on where you live and how they've extended it, you could have terrible ratios like 1:20.

This is often where you get the issues with connection consistency.

However consumers have no way of seeing what their ratio is.

So I'd argue getting higher bandwidth connections to households means that this would give a reason for ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure.

Also as consumers we should demand more not less from service providers.

50/5 is terrible. 625 kilobytes a second upload, that's objectively horrible internet.

If you're sharing a home with other people, you need to say to them "I'm going to have a conference call, could you not use the internet"

That is ridiculous.
Video conference calls can have higher quality streams as well.

But also there are plenty of industries where they aren't just pushing text to the internet.

What about creative fields where they want to upload a multi megapixel image they're going to get printed on a billboard?

Or a game developer who wants to iterate on assets?

High quality remote desktop streaming to a high end PC in a data centre?

There's a lot of business applications which aren't just email and code which would benefit from a good internet connection.

Where one person will have to wait seconds for an upload, and someone else has to wait minutes or hours.

Like I have a 1000/1000 connection in the UK, that has a low contention where I get great consistency of connection. And it costs me the equivalent of $70 a month.

It enables so much in an internet connected world. And I think as consumers we should be demanding that.

Not arguing that a connection that'd be impressive in 2005, is acceptable.
Godot has been renamed to Godette Engine
Is that opinion common among experts?
You could a mix tapes of sorts. Love this idea.
SQL vs. NoSQL
Cheers to 10 Years
How do you handle stuff like LinkedIn? How do they not know you have another job?
Whilst I use terminal multiplexers daily on localhost, the best feature of a multiplexer is that even if your TCP connection gets broken, chances are that the long-running, business critical command you had to execute on a remote machine will still be running.
> Japanese politics is different from US politics. And not in the quirky, hand-wagging way that European politics is different. Japanese politics is not US politics expressed using a different idiom, but rather a world of its own.

I'm surprised by the implication that the authors think European politics is US politics expressed using a different idiom. There's not even such a thing as a single "European politics". Just compare France, where President Macron's party « La République En Marche ! » was founded in 2016, and Germany, where CDU and SPD used to be in binary opposition, but lost so much support that they had to form a coalition government together to stay in power.

The article mentions that

> existing research shows that party loyalty, insofar as it is understood in the US and Europe as a sense of identification with a “team”, is almost unknown in Japan.[6] The Japanese World Values Survey team even went so far as to drop the standard question on party loyalty from their poll as it was “not relevant in Japan”

so I went to look for the World Values Survey. https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp Their website is some terrible session-based thing where you can't link to anything, so here's the path you need to follow: "2017-2020" → "Select all" → "Next" → Enter "Q98" as the variable → click on "Show" in the search result → select the "Maps" tab → select "Not a member".

The percentage of people who're not in a political party in Japan is 94.4%, with the closest European countries being Denmark (94.7%) and Germany (93.5%). The US is the country with the lowest percentage of non-party members at 49.9%. I think it's pretty clear who's the odd one out here.
Try copying some code from https://stackoverflow.com...
Serious question as someone totally naive on this. A few hundred billion dollars seems like an extremely good deal to lead this area of technology - why don't we see funding for this at a government level? I mean, we now have a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan.

Is there an impediment I'm not aware of? Or maybe it's not as good of a deal as I think?
> True, but where do you see demand dropping off?

Likely December.

Right now, because everyone is fearful of shortages, they've overbought or are in the process of overbuying.

At some point, everyone is going to realize that, in the US, carrying inventory has tax implications, and everybody is going to try to dump a bunch of inventory back into the system that they really didn't need and aren't prepared to pay taxes on.

Which will be fine for a while--until the middlemen get back up to what they consider useful inventory levels and quit buying. And all the prices will crash.
Doubtful. Who ever said that about rockets?