skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is Google are so internally disfuntional it seems unlikely that that's the actual aim here.

Thi is the same Google that still can't get their own gaming streaming service working on their own TV OS. And you think YouTube are trying to attack other manufacturers to boost sales of a $50 dongle with no margin?

Tbh I think it's more likely that nobody on the Chromecast team has ever met anyone from the YouTube team. Many things at Google would work better if they did.
> Before, during, and after the Phoebus cartel incandescent light bulbs were (and still are!) standardized to 1000 hours. Why? Because that happens to be a good trade off between longevity and efficiency.

I would believe this if the cartel fined members based on the inefficiency of their lightbulbs relative to light produced (lumens per watt), and fined according to this.

Or allowed longer life bulbs if they met a lumen per watt efficiency target.

Or even if they added a minimum life to ensure that consumers got quality, and fined producers if they produced bulbs that were too low-life.

They didn't, they fined members who produced lights that lasted longer regardless of bulb efficiency.

Because the decision to limit bulb life to 1,000 hours had obvious financial benefits for cartel members, I think it's pretty generous to think that this policy was solely based on wanting what was best for consumers.
What 4 USGS seismologists are doing to prepare for the 'Big One' in the Bay Area
I don't understand why Google, who is apparently competing with Roku with Chromecast, would try to "help" Roku fix a worse user experience? My Spidey sense tells me there's more to it than just trying to fix the Roku UX.
Apple App Tracking Transparency (video)
The door-to-door times will still be worse on DC<->NYC trips. I grew up in Baltimore-Washington area, and lived in NYC for a time, and used to take Acela every weekend down. I could get door-to-door in about 3.5 hrs. No way I could get in-out of NYC airport or Dulles/National in that time, even if I was a frequent biz traveler.
And if you increase immigration, you increase labour supply, and demand for housing - reducing wages and increasing cost of living, which negatively impacts fertility.

The fundamental problem in the USA is the broken healthcare and pension system, which allocates too many resources to baby boomers and unfairly burdens younger workers.
There have been male and female Siri voices for a long time. According to the Apple style guide: "When referring to Siri, simply use the name “Siri”. Do not refer to Siri with pronouns such as “she,” “him,” or “her.” Depending on language support, Siri may offer a male or female voice, or both."
I keep insisting so despite mounting evidence to the contrary!

Thank you for the link, this is a very good explanation.
The law passed in August. It took effect in January so businesses could fix violations before. And the practices were always deceptive.
As mentioned there's an inverse trade-off between life and brightness, so if you found a way to make an 1100 hours lightbulb, you could equally make a brighter lightbulb than the competition.
I love this - fun design with the jack connectors, it just looks really cool.

The thermal paper messages are neat too.
I once thought about building this, but it's much harder than you think.

The data has to be processed very quickly. I believe you should think in terms of 0.3m groove per second.

If you put a camera above the groove you also need something like a stepper motor to control the arm.

But I believe the biggest problem is dust. A needle will move small particles out of the way, but a camera does not.

This is also why laser turntables need 'clipping' filters. Dust will create all kinds of noise you don't want to hear.
Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
The requirements for Netflix on a set-top box are... significant. Extremely.
Glossa Psycholinguistics launches on UC’s eScholarship publishing platform
you only need the pub key to verify
I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but IntegreSQL[0] looks like this on steroids. It allows you to create a template (run migrations and seed data), and then uses Postgres's built in cloning functionality to maintain a pool of fresh databases. They claim 500ms to clone a database without the pool, and that the pool pretty much hides the latency entirely.

[0]: https://github.com/allaboutapps/integresql
> This doesn't mean that private companies can't muzzle you at their will

But that's a _public_ school, right?
This doesn’t apply to mobile devices, since it’s not feasible to remove the internal storage device and take a bit-perfect image of it using another computer. You need to plug the device into a Cellebrite kiosk, trust Cellebrite to send read-only commands over the USB interface, and trust the device firmware not to write data when it receives those commands.
Ok, but as this example demonstrates, a person's political views may stem from his religious views, which are protected.
Plain webcams don't have the 3d/infrared tech that FaceID uses.
It's really only used by people for accessing specific legacy apps and internal websites.

And healthcare. And government. And a lot of other non-Silicon Valley and non-hobby industries.
Yes, it does the recognition on the car through a front facing camera.
I'll do your unit tests if you'll take my build scripts! :)
Actual title: "Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could become first-ever home cure for COVID-19" - Edited down as best as I could to fit the length.
That is a blustery title for what seems like a pretty simple regulatory review. Good job by the state for enforcing laws and Lambda for adapting to new rules. Obviously this CA state agency felt like they needed to pat themselves on the back for doing their job.
I think "shortage" means "scarcity," while "shortfall" means "deficit." Just because you have a shortage doesn't mean you have a shortfall whereby suppliers somehow failed. Of course, there have also been shortfalls....when a plant catches fire or production gets delayed due to power outages, that results in a shortfall.

Overall I'd say you're right. Capacity has so much inertia that it lags beyond the created demand. That isn't the fault of the foundries, it's just an artifact of unpredictable market behavior.
So? Isn't its purpose it to show American farmers what the climate is like to help them plan their planting?
https://www.doxafestival.ca/program/2021
I've done and seen quite some 'spin' on things as an entrepreneur, but this complete lack of humbleness takes the cake for me.
> Edit2: Looks like HN can't handle URLs that end with a period. Clicking the link above won't work; you have to manually terminate it with a period before loading (should end with "B.L.", not "B.L")

Did you try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahanoy_Area_School_District_v... ?
Also seems to play weird with the go back browser functionality
The Ugly, Dangerous, and Inefficient Stroads Found All over the US and Canada
Even if you're right, that's the same argument for airplane safety. The problem is being in control versus putting your hands in the hands of an unknown third party.

The psychological, ethical and legal implications are completely different. If tomorrow I drive a car and run a kid over then I'll be in trouble and you'll probably never hear about it. If tomorrow I get in my Tesla self-driving car and it runs a kid over then you'll hear about it everywhere and Tesla's responsibility will be invoked. Because whose else?

The bar for self driving cars is not being as good (or bad) as a human driver, they need to be orders of magnitude safer in all situations. They need to have airplane industry numbers, not Average Joe drunk driving numbers.
Telegram does not care about your privacy. It's always been an after thought. Of course they would implement non privacy respecting payments.

Signal is all about privacy. It trumps everything else. There are no "mainstream" payment options that align with their privacy requirements.

It's not a 1:1 comparison. They both want to achieve the same goal(payment integration) buy have vastly different requirements.
It’s not ridiculous at all, hours count. I haven’t looked at the article, but I’m assuming it’s the same machine, it’s a 10,000 pound unit with tiny little tires and a 75 hp diesel engine. It’s going to compact the soil, get stuck, and waste fuel driving around looking for weeds.

If sending a 20 pound gas drone with a 2 TB solid-state drive and 60 FPS 4K camera on it up and down the field for one 100th of the fuel consumption once a week saves 500 hours a year off that beast, it’d probably be worth it.
Generally people who build interesting things don't enjoy shitting on other people's attempts to change the world for the better.

I give less than zero shits if people who adopt this type of attitude don't want to work with me. They're not worth working with to begin with.

Go look at the HN launch posts for Dropbox or Coinbase, or the struggles of other companies trying to do something new and make a difference and look at the parade of negative nancies shitting on these companies. It's gross, and they look foolish.

I'm on the side of the builders.
Spinning a negative as a positive is misleading at best.
If you type a word related to the emoji you're looking for then it will be automatically suggested to you. You don't need to scroll through the whole menu.
And you don't accept the argument that it increases resiliency?

I found Vitalik's arguments quite persuasive.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html

Another angle is that with the arrival of hashrate markets, a PoW miner can attack a blockchain that they have negligable investment in. In PoS that's not possible. You can't attack a PoS chain without a large investment locked into it.

You seem to be warning of various bad effects that we haven't seen in fiat currencies, despite the fact that interest is analogous to staker rewards. For example, the fact that I don't sell someone with EUR my USD without taking into account the interest that EUR can earn vs USD has not directly led to either currency becoming unreasonably expensive to acquire.
I'm missing "UML as a satelite map of the wilderness"
Because radars lacks resolution. Why my Tesla phantom brakes due to low hanging signs or slow cars in the other lane. They tune it down to ignore these anomalies and it has issues running into disabled cars and emergency vehicles.
...but that doesn't align with the whole conspiracy angle.
Well, they don't really "work" anywhere, if your standards are high enough. But your point is valid; making a self-driving car for many national markets has to be harder than making a regular car for those same markets.
Was human created climate change inevitable?
I'm sure the previous terms made the loans much more attractive to lenders which is helpful to Lambda. It would be most useful to understand who created the terms in the first place.
There are a lot of dating sites at least in Scandinavia/central europe, where men pay per message (or usually buy message packs, it ends up being around 1€ a message IIRC).

The (mostly) men answering these messages, pretending to be women, get paid around 0.15€ per reply. And obviously writing messages where they try to prolong the conversation and turn down real life meetings or changing to other (free) messaging system "for now"
This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, and everything to do with workers' rights. You can't be fired for belonging to a protected class, but you can be fired for literally anything else - hence people are still rarely punished for firing members of a protected class.

There was an upheld case a few years ago where a man fired one of his employees for being too sexy. Not acting too sexy, or dressing too sexy, but being too sexy. You can fire someone for wearing Adidas, or for breathing too loudly (unless it can be shown to be the effect of a disability.)

The idea that we should have special rules for racists and sexists is an insult. It would be in effect creating a protected class for bigots, who could still be fired for wearing green on Thursday.

The most absurd part of this is that the vast majority of the people decrying "cancel culture" are the most antagonistic to any normalization of worker's rights, or enforcement of minority protections. Apparently, the only real racism is when you call someone a racist.
"Online" is not equivalent to using a dating app.
Hey I made the game free for a week for everyone who signs up to try it out. Thanks kjrose for the feedback.
I have used:

- a Roku
- the newest "Chromecast with Google TV"
- old style chromecasts
- an "smart TV" with Android TV
- A "smart TV" from visio

The worst by far are the smart TVs. The old chromecast is next because there's no UI outside my phone, but I always have my phone so it's not that bad. Next is the Roku and finally, top marks for the CCGTV. It's super fast and responsive and I love it.
Well, there's an interesting amount of proof that Mother Teresa could indeed make a lot of art, really tons of art, it seems...
The goal of regulation is compliance. Especially for new laws where the meaning may be unclear. Since the permanent harm is minimal (anyone who didn't know their loan was dischargeable, now knows and can discharge it), the informational update solves the problem.

Obviously if the defendant did not agree to comply with the law, there would be no settlement and the case would be pursued further.
Google open-sourced pluscodes, which seems like a decent open alternative: https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/
I wonder if Monsanto seeds will start producing a signature that could be recognized. This will help in 2 ways. First, more easily identify those pesky farmers using their seeds without proper licensing. Second, help the machines know what plants to keep, and the ones to remove.
100% agree but i wonder about the standards applied.

Where I live the streets are tight and most drivers mediocre at best, unaware that cyclists might have right of way and about 1/20 doesn't seem to know the difference between different kind of light settings in the car. At least half the cars on my street have visible scratches/dents.

For me that is the standard to be beaten, not perfection. And the car could still give signal and ask for a human to take over in some cases. Self-drivinf cars for me could also be much slower, no need to speed when you can read a book or play games
A thought experiment on what would happen if we could rewind the clock, copy paste the Earth a hundred times, and then watch humanity play itself out.
Not a problem if you only sell to the bottom 50% of drivers.
I missed that it was an injunction. I still feel this is unusual for an injunction given the scope.
Would you hand the wheel over to your enemies? Agriculture? Writing?

Probably not, if they are assured to remain your enemies. Wars have almost always been decided on technological capabilities alone, with a few counter-examples. You asked an interesting question, if only a bit narrow.

Going further, most technologies can be directly used for ill.
A human being can drive a million miles without a serious accident. 2018 saw 1.1 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles driven[1]. Human beings are extremely good at driving safely overall.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
As long as the fact checkers stick with facts that are as obvious as the ones in your examples, then sure: they're objective and indisputable.

However, people do dispute facts, and anything someone disputes is no longer in the purview of the fact checker, by your definition.
Maybe, but stating that with no supporting information is worthless.

"Lambda school is a much worse model for students than normal colleges." Maybe? Maybe not?
Gates are only a suggestion - signals/gates malfunction so often you can find compilation videos of them on youtube.
Yes, that’s a good adjustment assuming the need for hundreds (or thousands?) of highly paid engineers isn’t baked into the business model/product.
Wasn't Joker supposed to be arthouse? Like a modern version of Taxi Driver.
Personally, I'm a little less convinced of the 1st bullet point.

In particular, I see many obstacles to a "free society in which everyone gets to pursue a dignified life": healthcare costs, ongoing climate disaster, erosion of labor rights, rising nativism and authoritarianism on the far-right, etc. chief among them. To be as monomaniacally focused on "cancel culture" as Mounk (and many others on the center/right of the American political spectrum) strikes me as misguided at best and disingenuously self-serving at worst.

Persuasion seems to me a massive over-reaction to the minor injustice that is "cancel culture" wrapped in some self-important and grandiose rhetoric.
Yep, it's about "Human Capital: The Last Unoptimized Asset Class" <- the title of an actual internal memo they wrote.
The problem with the US college/debt system is we combine three features: study anything, at any school you can get into, and take out nearly unlimited loans to do it.
Big loans aren't bad if you use them to study medicine, and a lot of student debt is held by grad degree holders: the issue is people taking on debt that people can take on debt that isn't a very good investment in themselves.
the problem is that if you introduce async, your could should preferably async all the way to the bottom.
of course you can trick yourself by using thread pools and move long running functions to them, but not everybody knows that.

of course sync functions have the same problem (not the same problem, but it's the same concept, just in the other way), except that most frameworks just deal with it at the very front, so developers do not need to deal with it.
It would be interesting to put a black box in a car tied to the driver. Anyone who shows patterns of driving worse than average gets a self driving car.

If you are better than average you can keep your dumb car.
So tell us what one should drive instead of a model 3?
It's a restaurant - 99% of the machinery in there has to operate within certain boundaries for food safety. Somehow every other machine manages to be fine, execpt this one that has a 15% failure rate.

Also, other restaurants service dairy - also with a much less than 15% failure rate.

There are simple solutions for everything you just said.
Taylor makes garbage equipment and is ripping off franchise owners. McDonalds corporate likely owns stock in the company and uses it as a side hustle of revenue from franchise owners.
Sorry, us plebes down here in the dirt bow to your lofty white high-horse.
I like the analogy he makes here.

There is a balance in here somewhere to learn how to navigate, adapt and live within a society/community that favors set standards and "normality" without muting out uniqueness, personal interests, etc.
Hopefully never.

I hard disable the permission to ask me for push notification permissions on every browser I can, because under no circumstances do I want a website to send me a push notification. Ever.
There are test frameworks which automate this behavior -- both Django and Rails provide test-case libraries which run each test in a transaction, and roll back to reset. (NB they also have to provide ways to disable this -- in order to, e.g., test application code which itself can conditionally roll back -- so both can also reset database state "the hard way", at a performance penalty.)
How is it that you can predict the defenses are likely to fail catastrophically but the people building them won't? Is your concern really that other people don't know as much as you about how to build sea walls?
That has nothing to do with log redaction. That's to prevent private data escaping apps and either being sent to Apple or readable by others. You want that on.
Lambda's customers (students who want to learn how to code and are negatively impacted by this deception) are builders too.
Can you use Prime Video?
Facebook stopped employees from reading an internal report
Is this how early versions of the Zoom installer bypassed gatekeeper for a zero-click install?
They read each-other's press releases, they reasearch competitors, employees and mamagers move between companies. There is no way for them to not communicate.

Just because bosses didnt sit down a and sign a deal in a smokey room doesnt mean no decision was made
The anecdote about Daryl Davis is the preamble, the last sentence is their point.

I'm not saying that's not a valid point of conversation, I'm saying it comes across as off-context to the point where it seems a little like bait.
You don't need resolution to detect train about to ram into you.

Similarly, lidar resolution is a great overkill, and overcomplication over a moderatly sophisticated mm wave radar, which is on top of that will be much more durable, and reliable.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
We regularize traffic more than your estimate though. Like 99.99% of the 300 mile drive I took yesterday was sitting in a lane.

The hardest part was that Google hadn't mapped a service drive, so it thought the adjacent service drive was the best route (which would be addressed pretty fast if you were trying to deploy self driving service in that area).

I don't think we get to level 5 very soon, but level 4 cars will have the ability to go lots of places pretty soon. If I overestimate driveway distances from yesterday, it's like 99.966% lane miles. There was some construction, but it was already well marked for human drivers.
Great advice.
Looking at the headline, I thought this article was originally about bit-encoding, since it mentioned 99 bits.
"Here is the strongest presentation of this argument that I've seen:"

This is really good
They now call it "news".
It's not like students have a right to participate in particular high school extracurricular activities like sports, right? Could this case end up making varsity sports not allowed to cut players, or is the expectation just that they turn cuts/bans into another "nod and wink" thing where you just aren't chosen/stay benched?
Maybe they want to hire people like to work on the things the company do.
Unless you rely on transactions in your code. I’m going to take the schema route for a spin. You essentially utilize a schema as a namespace and destroy it when tests are complete (as opposed to the “public” default schema)

This way you don’t need to worry about provisioning a stand-alone db for each test run, but still get ephemerality. Plus the ability to run transactions.
If you don't want to swear in your newspaper, you shouldn't have to swear in your newspaper to seem "adult." People reading the Courts & Law section are also old enough to know what the fuck "f--k" means.
I am surprised by your comment. Posting a single sentence without any context other than what appears to be nothing more than a personal insult (how do you know about Jamie's sources of income?) is unusually rude for this community.
Greenwald has horrible formula of creating negative stories.

X did bad. X is connected to Y. Add some some innuendo. Now Y is bad.

Discusting.
American export controls threaten to hinder global vaccine production
Framing a request to stop making false claims about dischargeability as a request to clarify them is misleading. Making it seem like those were the only false claims the settlement covered is misleading too.
Most remote assistance is not live driving. A remote human adds labels and maybe even marks out a safe path for the vehicle so that vehicle has enough information to proceed.
And for me, it regularly doesn't, taking the full timeout period.
Antitrust for allowing the user to choose? I don’t think that would stand in court.
>Being "canceled" is a choice that private individuals and institutions

You're making a lot of assumptions about the comment above yours. Language changes.
Blue Origin Challenges NASA over SpaceX Moon Lander Deal