skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that there aren't really any major competitors to E Ink in that market indicates however that there probably is some sort of moat (whether it is IP, or otherwise)and that prices are likely higher than they would be in a more competitive market.

I don't know what exactly you mean in the context of the display industry. What do you mean there aren't any major competitors to E Ink? There's tonnes of display products from lots of different vendors. Are you talking about the electrophoretic display industry specifically? If so, then even there there's competitors like ClearInk but its a niche space with low volumes. FYI, the volumes that E Ink reaches even for what is considered "high volume" by them would be considered unacceptably low volume by LCD manufacturers. Ask yourself a simple question. Are you as a VC going to invest a billion into scaling up an electrophoretic display tech startup that may take 10-30 years or would you rather pump that same money into another internet services? Even Amazon pumped billions into Liquavista and then pulled the plug on it after not being able to scale within the time frame Jeff had given them.

> that prices are likely higher than they would be in a more competitive market.

But how are you substantiating that? Do you have awareness of the costs of materials for electrophoretic panels? Are you aware of yield rates? I actually work in the display industry and I have no actual data on that and I would never be able to estimate even order of magnitude cost without knowing those key numbers. So how are you doing making that price estimation? Your claim is equivalent of looking at a sports car market and saying Ferraris would be cheaper if there were more competitors. I hope my explanation is clear enough to convince you of the fundamental flaws in the arguments being made claiming there is "some sort of moat".
That's the beautiful part of the market economy. It supports ideas if the benefits outweigh the costs and let's ideas die if they aren't worth it.
This reminds me of how Roland Barthes would categorize prose as either "readerly" or "writerly", whereas a readerly work is a straightforward and passive experience for the reader, a writerly work is a sort of framework for the reader to participate in the writing, and co-create as you put it.

Recognizing that a work is writerly isn't always obvious. It's often obscured by the fact that reading it can be so stimulating and enjoyable.
This was 14 days late.
Are there any higher than VGA quality ToF sensors? Azure Kinect is not cutting it for us.

We'd like to do real time, full 360 depth capture of actors, but all of the sensors we've found are poorly suited for this task.

We might have to rig up our own optical system and use FPGAs to run them...
If you're trying to determine what is true, you'd better avoid fiction altogether.
Not sure what your point is. If you want to inject genetic material inside an organism to destroy one cell - with the mRNA platform you can only do it once. It won't repackage itself and 'infect' another cell.

If you want to make conditions inhospitable for an organism, you can cause a mass-scale change that affects multiple cells via a drug.
This seems like a statement about one thing (the unsustainability of cities like los angeles compared with cities like new york) being used to try and support increasing densification everywhere. Agriculture-integrated communities that close a lot of input loops will unquestionably be more efficient than cities that leave them open.
Tesla Autopilot remains safer to drive than any human
Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot remains safer to drive than any human
It's painfully gimmicky if it's just a product ad.

Potentially very interesting as a way to find out how many IoT cameras in an entire region automatically and insecurely decode qr codes and have line of sight in a specific direction...
Nothing I said is to suggest a reduced sense of agency or choice for females

Only the sad example this sets that suggests they have to be even more vigilant to shut down bad optics that the divisions they oversee will create or that their parent company might throw onto them, a distraction which is the opposite of privilege
I wonder what that better set of measures would be.

Food

Shelter

Health

Entertainment

Education

Communication?

Science?

Even within each, you have changes not only in quantity and quality but in kind.
I love Doodle for group event scheduling
Fiction is probably more damaging than we credit, when it persistently paints an inaccurate view of the world. But at least we all have the same access to fiction, and can therefore talk about aspects of it that might be wrong or damaging. But when someone tells some "fiction" to you and you alone, they'd better at least tell you they have done so - otherwise we call that a "lie".
Even with a single pattern, you can add a lot of variation just by changing the pattern lengths to do polyrhythms. Say you do:

909: 16 steps
303 bass: 5 steps
303 lead: 3 steps

Now you have a sequence that only repeats every 240 steps or every 15 bars, even though each device never uses more than a single 16 step pattern.
Typed out on a phone, can't go back and edit it now ;P
Maybe Feynman was right about prizes...
I wonder if they will censor the comments or turn off commenting, because they are pretty critical at the moment.
Thanks, both of you make good points. It probably would help if I called it "absolute" or "total risk" increase as that clarifies it. Of course stats is generally difficult for these vary reasons.

> So ideally the information should be phrased as something like "this increases the chance of the thing from x% to y% over an average lifetime."

I've personally never seen medicine info sheets give probabilities much less lifetime risks.

> For context, if we simplify this to a binomial distribution for a 20 year old with 60 more years to live (i.e. we calculate for each year getting cancer=p), the lifespan chance of getting cancer increases from 26% to 45%.

That would be more useful as well.

> Also the probability of the event is actually around 1% here (around 1000 in 100000), so higher than the 0.5% you mentioned.

It's really a rule of thumb for small values. In this case, I was interested in understanding the "4 extra people out of 100,000" as the article reports it (which is well below my 0.5% guideline) and not the baseline risk of illness per year. Ideally one compares both total and relative risks profiles. I'll be careful to add total risk vs relative risk to my descriptions in the future as that helps distinguish them.
So you have few options. Work on more? Pick up another stack. Do some weekend consulting in a new framework. Better yourself. By being stuck in the only 1 job you could possibly work for, you are just delaying the mess that happens when they close down / get bought / you get fired. The best part of programming is you can teach yourself almost anything, especially if you have previous experience to build on.
There’s a lot more global demand than before. Homes are made of natural resources like wood and there’s only so much we can harvest and use for construction.

I think we have made some improvements though. It isn’t necessary to build with copper pipes any longer. New construction relies on PEX piping which is cheaper, should last longer, is easier to install and to replace.

But this is just the structure. The cost of flooring, tiles, fixtures, and appliances adds a lot too.
> I have no idea what an electric purifier would even look like

Here are some of the popular brands that you can get over here:

https://www.eurekaforbes.com/water-purifiers/by-category/aqu...

https://www.kent.co.in/

These claim to use RO, UV etc. for purifying the water. I am kind of surprised that the Amazon USA listings for water purifiers return several fad-ish "gadget" things first, instead of the above.
I believe recovering unsaved files was another somewhat recent feature.
It's a bug in a new feature they just added a year ago, though. It would be much more impressive if it was a bug that had existed since windows 95.
https://github.com/vitling/acid-banger/blob/main/src/pattern...
It is less exciting than you think. I am not a programmer by profession.

One example is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/k3b3hg/need_a_littl...

I have other more recent (and better) examples, but most are in closed forums or IRC l.
They could hire them as a FTE, but that would cost more. This six month “break” is little more than a cost optimization exercise.
Something is fundamentally wrong if a driver license number can pose an identity security threat.
I'm pretty sure that Spotify's API allows access to podcasts outside the official app. I'm already using software that can stream Spotify content to local devices that don't support Spotify. Creating an RSS feed is only an implementation detail.

And I wouldn't discount the publishing and distribution part of making a podcast content available. Without Spotify or a similar platform, the burden of putting content online, making it discoverable and getting audience analytics falls on the creators. I'm pretty sure that most creators would be pretty disinterested in spending time on these tasks.
Delivering the “right” 80/20: North Star Culture
US Companies Are Helping Mexican Cartels Get Rich Kidnapping Migrants
There's a typo in the title; Should be CocoaPods, not Cococa.
6 minutes read.

"When development asks a product manager for more detailed requirements, she should give them deeper domain knowledge." -- Rob Bayley with an excellent post for how to build Product Teams, where everyone are involved and optimize for customer's value based on deep domain context and knowledge. A metric worth following is how many questions where asked, and how many suggestions were given by non-PM people. You want to have some hunch on curiosity level and engagement that people demonstrate. Product Managers should inspire people to take a step forward and better understand the problem at hand rather than the current solution being developed.
I've been screaming about this to friends for years hahaha, finally someone who thinks similarly! The best use for AR glasses will be IRL ad blocking.
https://www.centerffs.org/sites/default/files/webform/intern...
> There are obvious tradeoffs involved, but I really never see this aspect considered in public debate.

It was a big aspect in 2009/2010 when ACA was being passed.

The reason people want insurance tied to employment is because they benefit from lower premiums because their risk pool experiences less healthcare costs than the general public.

If everyone was dumped into one marketplace and risk pool, then the insurance premiums would have to rise for those working in white collar businesses who had previously been able to enjoy lower premiums since the nature of employment as a requirement precludes many sick people experiencing healthcare costs.

So when people complain that ACA increased their healthcare costs, what they are actually complaining about is having to now share risk pools with sicker people who previously were not getting healthcare period.

The optimal way this would work is if everyone was dumped onto healthcare.gov, and they picked whatever health insurance plan they want, and then naturally the premiums would balance out over time so that the costs are spread amongst the whole population.

Basically, taxpayer funded healthcare, except instead of one managed care organization (the US federal government) you have multiple (United Health, Anthem, Kaiser, CVS, Humana, etc).
> "....During the COVID-19 pandemic, local governments assigned citizens colored QR code images that indicate their risk of exposure to the coronavirus in order to manage the public health crisis. Residents need to show the code on their smartphones before entering public venues. ..."

This bit is utterly disturbing.
You have packed two strawman arguments into one comment. I was talking about a moral obligation and not about informed consent or this:

"The Nuremberg Code aimed to protect human subjects from enduring the kind of cruelty and exploitation the prisoners endured at concentration camps. The 10 elements of the code are: Voluntary consent is essential. The results of any experiment must be for the greater good of society."

;)
If the men’s faces remind you a little of Freddie Mercury that’s because he too was a Parsi.
What are some modern day inflation hedge? The past generation depended on gold but it seems new generation doesn't like the idea of lugging around the yellow metal and likes crypto currencies more.
This is a fun learning project, but I don't think it's really a browser except in name. The code seems to implement the behavior someone thinks a browser might have, not what the specs actually say.

Ex.
https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb/blob/655eac96e4faa141cb4...

That's not an html parser. It's just some code that regexes strings looking for brackets.

Projects like this are good ways to learn and have fun, but they're many years away from being a browser, even if we limit the scope to the specs of say 2012.

Also fwiw, if you're implementing a browser use the web platform tests instead of writing your own:

https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt
There are three different methods.
1) TDMA (Time division multiplexing). Some sync system so only one camera is emitting light at a given time. The Microsoft Azure Kinect uses this with the 3.5mm sync cable, this enables up to 3 cameras to illuminate at different times.

2) Frequency domain. iToF cameras use different modulation frequencies, you can set different modulation frequencies and the signals won't interfere. The other cameras photon's will contribute to photon shot noise. Or randomly change modulation frequencies by a small amount during the integration time, which is supported by some sensors.

3) Randomly change timing during integration time, this is more common with pulsed ToF cameras. Analog devices had an example of this in their booth at CES in 2020.
Exceptionally underrated. They would get more attention, though, if they played the algorithm's game and just posted more frequently.
I was talking about events from almost two decades ago. Did you think Bill Gates became a philanthropist yesterday?
Darn I wish I'd come across Linux before. I was starting university and my Amiga A1200 was just too incompatible with everything. I spent ages weighing up a powerbook with the shiny new OSX or a Thinkpad T40 with XP. In the end I was most impressed with the reliability of the ThinkPad, but those years spent fighting XP when I could have been using Linux - I regret! When I discovered Ubuntu 9.04, I felt like my love of computing had returned.
I dismissed the pop-up and Firefox worked fine.

I added the "blueCircle(x,y)" function and saw it.
The thing is - what would be achieved if we didn't have such safety net? People would essentially be forced to work - I would think that forced labour should be a thing of the past, because as a civilisation we can do better. Then other people inevitably would be forced into crime.
With this system you can safely go home with your groceries without fear of getting killed for a baguette, because people don't get reduced to animals.
There is also a ton of savings when it comes to policing. People have full bellies, so they are less likely to commit violent crime.
YouTube’s A.I. boosts alternative facts
Reasons to Give Management a Try
This cookie notice is everything that is wrong with the internet.
Indeed. I have refused signing such contracts.

One funny anecdote, I went through a relatively lengthy recruitment process for a company. The company, the role, the team, the tech, everything was interesting and enticing. We eventually agreed on compensation and the process moved on. I asked for a copy of the contract minutes before they had everything ready so I could read it without causing delays, which they complied.

I pointed out a few minor details but this one was sticking out so I was pretty clear that I was bothered by that. After a few of their tentatives to explain why and convince me it was fine and that clause had never been enforced, and that my comments had reignited internal conversations about this, in one call I was told they were in advanced talks with legal to make the change.

I told them I would be delighted to be in touch again when the clause was removed from my contract.

They never called back. :)
We only need CocoaPods, because Apple couldn't build a proper package manager for XCode. And I am quite sure event Apple uses CocoaPods internally.

CocoaPods itself is quite problematic: You need Ruby to run it. Definitions aren't strict enough (you can use too old CocoaPods binary for package that doesn't support it). Pods can cause build conflicts/issues that might only be visible when you run your app.
And the point of the person above you is that after the lawsuit, they had all those things retroactively paid for, so they ended up making more than they would have as employees.
It's a recurring theme. People spend decades taming and beautifying a place. Then people with no respect or appreciation come and love all the "nature" and turn the place into exactly what they were trying to leave behind.

It's incredibly narcissistic and selfish to believe that "the locals" are only there as a hindrance to you. Would you roll up to a random village in Thailand and just start changing things, and expect the people who live there to worship and serve you?
I always saw second homes as a recreational expense first. Your first rental property would be an investment.
The irony of the title change on this specific topic is striking.
7 minutes read.

David Brunelle with his take to Charity Majors's post that I've shared this week as well. Both sides are fun to play with. It should be encouraged for people to try the "Management Pendulum" -- where you move between the Manager ladder and the IC ladder every few years -- The product we deliver is built by the product (organization) we orchestrated. Complexity exists in both realms so we can transition to where our energy takes us.
I am an admitted Apple fanboy, but even I recognize that Apple is an offender in this field. We have tons of old Apple iPhones and iPads that had functionality that no longer works - app developers stopped supporting the only iOS that can be loaded on the device. It is only a matter of time before this happens to HomeKit too.
I've never tried setting something like that up but Bootstrap itself is extremely modular and you can be selective about what you want bundled with it, so that's probably a more effective starting place: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.4/customize/
>I just like it a lot, and I don't want to switch because it does everything I need. Spotify seems like it wouldn't be as configurable

Maybe I'm missing out on part of the experience. What else is there to do with a podcast other than download/stream and listen?

- Thanks for all the tips. I don't listen to a ton of podcasts but I'll give it a shot.
I couldn't agree more.

I was born in the US to Asian Indian parents. We lived in a small town in the southern US and dealt with a lot of racist crap. I went to college in a big city and while racism still exists the majority do not have racist views and are more accepting of people that do not look like them.

I've travelled to 47 states and I am most scared when I am in a small town in the mountain west. Burns, Oregon. Moscow, Idaho. Everyone was staring at me in the grocery store. I got some intimidating comments like "Are you new in town?" "No, just passing through." "Good."

Not welcoming in the slightest.
Somebody is definitely downplaying him here. Im not seeing any data to support that though.
You're suggesting that she was hired in 2014 for inclusivity, and spent the last decade making YT the most popular video streaming website ever.. just to give this "award" in 2021 to crucify her?
But one of the guys stayed? " Gustad Hathiram, decided to stay in the United States."
No. On Linux, the only stable ABI is the kernel. On Windows, the stable ABI and API includes many platform components outside of the kernel (in fact, the syscall interface itself is undocumented and NOT backward compatible on Windows). The Windows platform APIs are very expansive and cover a lot of territory that on Linux is covered by non-ABI-stable dependencies.
I'm not saying anything like that.
Rustls is really cool. I came to it because one of my projects used a library that in turn (by default) used OpenSSL. After much tinkering and not getting OpenSSL play well on that particular system I switched to Rustls and it worked out of the box and like a charm.

That being said and from what I understand Rustls is not a drop in replacement and it is not that easy for all Rust libraries which use TLS.

Which brings me to the point that I think a big leap forward for wider Rustls adoption in the Rust world itself would be to make it easily usable with all popular and widely used Rust libraries that depend on a TLS implementation.

What I would like to see is sort of a global (not per dependency)

features = ["rustls-tls"]

so that all libraries and their dependencies use Rustls automatically
and OpenSSL is completely out of the picture. I know that this is not on Rustls alone but
on the library writers too, but still it would be really cool to switch the TLS implementation
like that.

Then we could even dream to make Rustls the default and use OpenSSL (or one of its relatives) only if need be.
Being sold on the idea of using machines and chemical inputs for everything is the reason most farmers can't make ends meet. There are other paradigms of agriculture that are much more efficient; unfortunately farmers are bending over backwards to feed the folks in the city who want very specific things, and don't care about the consequences.
Carthage has been a happy middle ground for us. It doesn't dictate the structure or configuration of your project.
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Points for getting Joe rogan: +50

Points for censorship: -1000

Spotify is not taking over.
Escaping the suggestion algorithm is what the physical bookstore does for me. Yes suggestions can be helpful to a point but limit the ability for discovery.

Books in general are about discovery whether that is discovering knowledge or discovering new worlds. A bookstore is an extension of this.

Lists do this to some degree but someone has done the discovery for you. ( and I don't have the answer here ) But we need to find a way to allow the discovery to occur.
Yes, that would be super cool. But also crazy-risky!! :)

But the risk is not due to chance, its due to the unknowns. Once they're no longer unknowns we'll be able to engineer such a therapy.

Alternatively, once we understand our biology so well, we might as well just patch all the "bugs" so that we don't get infected by harmful pathogens. Or maybe forsake our biology and move on to Silicon ?
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Hi HN - looks like someone beat me to posting this here! This was my most recent weekend project, and I was curious to see how GPT would do when asked for output that a computer had to run, versus output for humans to read. The area of AI results that are wrong but wrong in plausible ways fascinated me.

Let me know if you have any questions!
bad analogy. the height variance (not absolute bounds) in each sex is probably smaller than the difference in mean height. whereas this is not true of other metrics like intelligence
What do you think about defence spending?