skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don’t.

One thing I want to try is to assign 2 points fixed to all tickets by default and let each individual dev manage their own meaning to the points. So for A it could be 2 points = half day work, for B 2 points = 2 days, and maybe C doesn’t want to use points so it’s all 2 points.

This way you still get a more granular view into the progress, but it’s not annoying for the devs nor it becomes a way to compare “A did more points than B”.
What about using native es6 imports cached by a service worker? If you don't have to support old browsers, this is a much better option than a compile step. Just pull from git and load it in your browser, no complications eating a weekend reading through docs and shotgun debugging.
Thanks for the feedback! In the near future I'm hoping to add templates you can choose from to optionally skip the onboarding process and play with an example simulation pre-populated with some interesting data. Based on this and some other commentary on here, I'll boost the priority of that feature.
> Ever wondered why governments save failing banks?

Indeed I have, why not just take them over and reimburse their creditors instead?
It is now. After decades of state lying "russian" has a well defined meaning now.
> introduce fact claims

I'm sure everyone would agree that people have eyes and phones and that a phone can take pictures. Why is that a fact claim? Just show the pictures. And then ask real questions, like "what do you see" "oh look someone's knee on someone's neck". I hate inefficiency.
The employer gets value because they make more (in expectation) from the worker than they pay; the worker gets value because they get paid more than the the minimum they'd be willing to work for.

The worker does not get value in that arrangement. The employer is (often but not always) a price maker, the worker is (often but not always) a price taker. This can change depending on whether there are inelasticities of supply or demand.
Adoption of their titles wasn't as high with that system in place.
Take the iPod maturation under Jobs - each iPod embodiment had a 'purpose' to fill the music / video need in your life. (One could say the iPod Touch was a 'gateway drug' because of vendor lock-in with Cingular/ATT than actually diluting a lower cost product.) Can we say the same of the iPhone line up? or is it excellently amortizing last years A{#} processor downstream at lower prices?

I think if we peeled back the facade, we can begin to see that it's been an operations play since Jobs died, and though the M1 is pretty dang amazing, what probably brought it over the line is the insane profit margins and 'upcylcing' Mac sales for folks having a M1 vs M3, etc...

But as everyone here has said - it could have been worse.
Remember the media boycott? Doesn't seem to have worked.
Do you guys still need oxygen there? How is the situation there really? I called a few of my contacts, and get very diverging pictures. No interruptions in Kochi, to some stress in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, to total apocalypse in Noida.

I see oxygen production being such a basic industrial process, that I never could've imagined even a most poorly industrialised country having troubles producing it. It's tragic seeing the lack of something so seemingly trivial costing so many people's lives.

Anyways, if anyone really need a really emergency only O2 source:

1. Get a 200A-300A DC welding machine, most importantly with as much safety features as possible.

2. Reasonably fine stainless steel mesh, use most pure stainless you can find. Carbon felt if possible. Roll up in tubes. Weld/braze thick copper conductors the top, make sure they can handle the current without melting things. Make sure to cover exposed copper with something less electrically conductive, in worst case, smoking hot cooking oil. Make sure it does not get onto stainless.

3. Either a U or H shaped vessel from PP or PVC piping, available at plumbing supplies. Alternative, a plastic bucket, and two drinking water bottles perforated a bit in their lower part. Put electrodes into them.

4. Find something to cap vessels, use original caps from bottles. Make holes in them for conductors. Then find hoses you can get through those caps. Use reasonably thick plastic hose to survive hot O2. A proper oxygen hose would be idea. Drill the caps, get hoses through them, and seal any openings with hot glue, silicone caulk, or, in worst case, chewing gum. If you can't find anything to seal it, use the thickest plastic bag you can find, and tape it.

5. Make some semblance of bubblers. Small plastic beverage bottles work well for this.

6. Fill with drinking water, or settled tap water. Make sure there is no chlorine in it. Make sure that water does not reach copper parts, even if they are well protected.

7. Add a table spoon of lye, or soda to water. Mix.

8. Connect electrodes to welding machine.

9. Test it starting with smallest current.

10. If things work, connect hoses to bubblers. Make sure the hydrogen hose goes outdoor, to a very, very well ventilated place.

11. Make some semblance of a breathing mask for the apparatus. Connect it to oxygen supply through a breathing bag. Make some holes in the breathing bag. Eye the calculation so that incoming oxygen displaces at least 10 times the volume of exhaled CO2.

12. Top off water as the thing works using something to protect yourself from being zapped.

13. Adjust the current, holes in the breathing bag, lye/soda content, and bottle position (if used the bottle version) for optimal output.

14. Replace water if it gets too muddy from dissolving impurities from anode, or anything else in the system. It it does, think of finding other materials.

With 200A 220V supply, you can make 1-3 kg of oxygen per hour, 4-5 kg in the most ideal scenario.
NPR covered the AG finding quite a bit

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...

As did The NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/nyregion/nursing-home-dea...
It seems to me that astronauts are selected precisely because they are not bothered by that kind of existential worry and fear. If something is wrong they work the problem and perhaps die trying.
Sorry Apple != MacBook Pro Keyboard however bad that latter may be and upset you may be about it.

The idea that Ive has somehow fundamentally damaged Apple's business in a way that they've yet to recover from when they've just had an almost $90bn quarter is .... just wrong.

(And anyway they've fixed the keyboard and Mac sales are up hugely).
>> Yes, but you haven't accepted the central premise of all my posts yet, which is
that entities should only not be multiplied "without necessity."

This is not the central premise of all your posts. For most of our interaction
the central premise of your posts was that I'm misunderstanding the intended use of
Occam's Razor. In recent posts you concluded that the reason I misunderstand it
is that I don't take into account the "necessity" part of the Razor's original
formulation.

Yet, I have constantly said that we don't need to assume that there is a third
person in the car because the two people we already know were in the car suffice
to explain the crash and that therefore assuming a third person in the car is
multiplying entities beyond necessity.

In fact, I keep repeating the "beyond necessity" part like a broken record, so
how come you're now insisting that I'm missing that particular point?

I think what you are saying is that you "need" to assume a third person in the
car, otherwise you can't explain what happened. Well, that is a "need" in the
same way that "I don't have an iPhone, therefore I need to get one" is a "need".
It's not so much a "need" as a "want". You can't think of anything better and
you want to explain what happenned, so you make up some entity that must be
responsible for what happened. So you have an explanation you're happy with and
your "need" for an explanation you're happy with is satisfied.

However, that's still "multiplying entities beyond necessity" because you may
"need" an explanation, but you don't need a third person in the car to explain the
crash.
You might really enjoy the science fiction novels Children of Time and Children of Ruin, if you haven’t already. Or hell, based on your comments, maybe you wrote them! Either way, they are spectacular and thought-provoking.
> Sounds like this one got suppressed

With regard to obscuring the death toll, I agree, and Cuomo needs to be dealt with.

With regard to prioritizing this story against it's competitor, however, I think my information diet got the mix about right, which is to say in proportion to impact.

> This is whataboutism.

If we were just talking about Cuomo, sure -- but you brought up information diets and suppression, which absolutely brings into scope the nonstop 24/7 Republican efforts to use the Cuomo story as whataboutism.
I don’t think extremism is about whether the claim is true or not. It’s about what the claim is. If you’re a gravity extremist, it would suggest that your views on gravity are very different from what’s considered mainstream.
We need to end all secret gov agencies. They are out of control & happily stomping out liberties without discretion.
Opposing something that's government-controlled does not contradict that. I'm not arguing against it, by any means, though. If municipal services are governed by the Bill of Rights primarily, I'd be all for it, at this point. However, in world in which the FCC is in constant violation of the Bill of Rights, I'm not holding out any hope.
https://webpack.js.org/guides/asset-modules
15,000 counts of manslaughter, plus obstruction of justice for the cover up.
Residential wind power? Wind energy is something that greatly benefits from scale: it’s why the current and next generation of turbines have rotor diameters exceeding hundreds of meters. You’d probably be much better served by using solar panels.
There are pieces of linux - say the networking - that already don't meet many people's use cases. People seem to like BSD for certain networking stuff due to differences in the respective networking stacks.
I had a similar "problem" at my last employer. Two of us booked a trip (from Germany) to San Francisco to attend a conference (and ride rented motorcycles around). I worked from there for a few extra days before heading back home.

If your employer isn't so cavalier with its spending, start with what interests you, and what fits in the budget. I'd use the opportunity to do something fun, rather than solely useful.
You did not see anything yet. Wait till they put ads in WhatsApp.
> Done right, the technique can prevent deforestation and result in perfectly round and straight timber

It's annoying that this doesn't explain what the hell "done right" means. What does one have to "do right" to get perfectly round and straight timber out of it? Graft the right tree?
They don't have to line up perfectly for there to be a cycle and thus some minimum amount of debt everyone has that's not real. Someone in the loop might think they owe $1000 and actually owe $900, while someone else thinks they owe $100 but actually owes nothing.
Those are good insights, thanks! I'll work on that.
Apple has recovered. It made me buy my first MacBook Pro in my life, M1 was just too good to pass on even with the disadvantages that I was used to Windows and I'm still not sure about the differences between control, option and command keys.
this is the release notes for it:

https://webpack.js.org/blog/2020-10-10-webpack-5-release/#as...
SEC Director of Enforcement resigns after a few days on the job
Superhabitable Planet
Amethi,India youth arrested for fake tweet seeking oxygen
The rich tourist isn't even required if everyone communicated about their respective debts.
Sure, as soon as we end all jealousy and suspicion in the human race. Glhf
Great explanation indeed.

I didn't know much about it, and wow, sounds really terrible. I can even see it as an idea that started with good intentions, but the use cases explained (like linking floc ids to user ids in websites you signed in and potentially exposing browsing habits) make this thing really invasive; the whole idea is broken.
Similar situation, but the way I figure it, it's best to err somewhat on the side of caution. Aim to save more than you expect to need, so that a bad return is still enough.

The thing to remember is that if you are somehow wealthy beyond need, you can just retire. You don't have to keep working if you're financially stable earlier than expected.
from the article:

https://www.leadershippsychologyinstitute.com/women-the-lead...
They needed to test and go further. They left 99% of the potential wealth on the table due to their greed.
A proper management strategy would have led to progress and volume production. Instead the Wright patants were so difficult or expensive to licence that they were allowed to lapse = bad failure mode...
There's the issue precisely. Thanks.
We're an iPhone family, but damn is that lame. How about: make the best product. Don't coerce people into buying an iPhone.

But iMessage isn't the product, it's a feature of the product. They think by not letting those features be available on other platforms they are creating the best product. You can't make the best product while simultaneously commoditizing your differentiators.
> Every time you kill a subreddit or facebook group, 99% of the users stop participating in that kind of content, and the other 1% scurry off to some out of sight echo chamber...
> It's important to let people with divergent views to feel some sort of social pressure to change.

I would love to have actual discussions with people regarding certain views I hold. But quite often others just refuse to even entertain that I have a different view because x and y. And to them I am just dumb/uneducated/other things to discredit me having an opinion at all.

Hell, I went quite a bit more towards "bad" opinions, just because that side is more accepting of discussion/dissent.

It isn't just corporations banning subreddits/websites that drive people into echochambers, but also people simply refusing to engage at all.
How is this problematic? I thought California was the first to lockdown and the stay at home order was issued on the 19th.
>When I was younger, the Left was pro free speech and against big corporations and corporate censorship.

>Now I'm a bit older and the Right is pro free speech and against big corporations and corporate censorship.

100 percent. When I was growing up, the Christian Right wanted to pass anti-flag burning amendments, because veterans were offended. Pornography, because children might see it. Bad words. Unpatriotic stuff, defined as socialism or communism, was a few decades before me. Also to protect morality.

Today we ban so-called hate speech and X phobic speech because 'it hurts'. And in the same way, there's a religious zealotry where if you attempt to use reason you'll be psychoanalyzed and motives attributed.

My advice is, don't engage with these people. If someone uses phraseology like words kill, words are violence, silence is violence, there is no such thing as neutrality, megaphone, we need to do better, systemic Xism, and so forth, run, don't walk away. It's a secular religious movement.

My main problem is the secular religious movement of banishing naughty thoughts has taken Silicon Valley and Madison Avenue by storm.
Thinking about it in terms of intelligence is actually misleading. It's not about intelligence, it's about power to change the world.

Take SARS-CoV-2. It is a small RNA program ~32kb that duplicates and optimizes itself by random search.

It managed to hijack more computing power than our best supercomputers have [0] and kill a lot of us in the process.

By my estimates just the process of copying all SARS-CoV-2 vrions in the world with reproduction rate of 1 takes at least 1 petaFLOPS and up to 100 exaFLOPS.

That's in the range of TOP500 supercomputers (1.3 petaFLOPS - 442 petaFLOPS) [1].

SARS-CoV-2 has certainly a lot of computing power and is still able to outsmart the whole human civilization. Is that a super-intelligence?

Imagine if we manage to create equally stupid program that will figure out how to hijack heat or electrical power of our civilization and feed it into its own growth.

Quite likely it would result in nuclear meltdowns all around the world.

Exponentially growing computational processes are dangerous no matter if they are intelligent or whether they even have any objectives besides just being.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26646029

[1] https://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/
Yeah, every time someone says I need to believe in God, I tell them that I want to believe, if only to get there and punch them in the face for creating such bullshit :D
Ok you're right. I didn't know they were based in moscow. I tend to dismiss "The Russians" claim out of hand now.
End to end encryption is not a complex thing to explain
It depends what you’re building :)

But in general, always verify. You can let users in with an unverified email (better for growth), but you should still send the email and handle verification.

I’ll give you an example. Say you want to add social logins and want avoid duplicated account. You can implement auto linking. I sign up with my email, then I log in with google, if it’s the same email AND I did verify it, then you can auto link. If I didn’t verify my email, you must not.
The dichotomy of sex and violence in tabletop roleplaying is always fascinating. If Steve the Rogue breaks into a house, slaughters an entire family, and then makes lawn decorations with their entrails, his tablemates will probably be exasperated with him. If Steve the Rogue breaks into a house and rapes one of the NPCs, he's probably getting ejected from the game and most likely the friend group.
It goes by points, not comments.
I guess that's where the What If blog went, it hasn't been updated for a while now. No timestamps on the last post but wiki says he started writing this column for NYT late 2019, which feels about right.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/
There are a million ways to eff up design. The Apple Watch and its OS are elegant and do a great job. It's basically a masterclass in design. Remember, the best design is largely invisible, when things just feel obvious and intuitive. Which describes the Apple Watch to a T.

Finding product-market fit for health is a separate issue -- that's not the design department's job.

Ive's job was to design a brand-new smartwatch from scratch and he and his team knocked it out of the park.
This 100% ^^

Apple can be seen as an excellent MBA course in operations, as probably to be expected. I'm not going to say Steve was a all knowing genius, but it's a pretty dang smart move to put someone in place who will put the company on such firm economical footing while you wait for your next big thing (person) to emerge from the organization.
I didn't see your reply until just now, but the AGPL does not require you to redistribute source code to network users if it is not modified. The following stack exchange question has quotes from the fsf

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/650/do-i-have...
> Here is just one example:

Here's an example that in major parts contributed to a civil war going on to this day: The existence of a US military operation that manipulates social media trough sock-puppet accounts [0] was revealed around the same time Syrians were riled up to regime change trough.. social media [1].

Said social media presence kept announcing "Days of Rage" protests in Syria which initially no Syrian even showed up to.

These operations predate anything noteworthy Russia did on the same front, as most of that only started in the wake of the Ukraine revolution, which also saw plenty of blatant US interference [2]. Back then Russia was diplomatically very vocal about how unprecedented the foreign interference in Ukraine was.

What followed was St. Petersburg troll farms heavily targeting the US.

> We also know that hundreds of thousands of foreign-sponsored accounts on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc, have been banned over the years. (Please fact check by googling!)

How many domestic sponsored accounts have been banned? Zero, which means that on US based social media these kind of outfits are fighting with a heavy home game advantage [3], yet in most of these places that never comes up, it's always "Look out for the Russian/Chinese propagandist!", just like you are doing here. Which usually ends up targeting skeptical people not wholeheartedly endorsing the "Good vs Evil" narrative and not any actual propagandists.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/20110203-syria-democracy-protest...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/john-mccain-uk...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit...
Solving world hunger is obviously better than ads, but I'd say in the scheme of things tech people spend their time on, ad improvements is middling in importance? It's not the bottom.

Good ad targeting means:

1) New small businesses (on Shopify) can reach customers without going through retail gatekeepers. Ask any Shopify seller, nothing beats FB.

2) New challenger SaaS brands can get in front of customers to compete with mammoth corporate brands with worse software (I see this all the time on my job).

3) Without good ad targeting, only bottom hanging fruit advertisers that appeal to the lowest common denominator can afford to spend. Weight loss, teeth whitening, etc. Good ad targeting means a better user experience with ads.
Not just "can", this happens on Twitter, Instagram, Stocktwits etc daily.
Yes, I heard about it in the first quarter of last year. I heard about it on news sites on the web. I found it credible.

This whole reportage stinks of "We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia" to me at the moment.
Quite interesting that the ad revenue growth is mostly from ads commanding a higher price, and only marginally because they serve more ads.

FB's targeting is pretty good, if for no other reason then because they see all the social stuff users do even without the need for crutches like third-party cookies. Likely customers are willing to pay increasingly more for a well-targeted ad.
That's a different complaint though. Just allowing sandboxed, sideloaded, apps would enable a whole host of new apps such as emulators, plus it would allow apps to provide their own monetization (e.g. Fortnite).
Search #nuremburg2021 on Twitter. There is fairly robust group of people who consider reactions to covid 19 crimes against humanity and they are seeking trials against everyone involved.

I personally know one of these people.
Medtor – Accuracy Redefined
On the flip, that tree in your backyard isn't growing out of the ground outside of the moisture that falls from the sky -- if it did the ground would sink -- it is growing out of the air.
The author is one of the highest signal accounts I follow on Twitter. He seems to want to report on everything. [1] Also, relevant thread. [2]

1. https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1387026165597151234

2. https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/1387194016790323200
It is very sad to see western media is up against the democratic government when an individual is suspected of foul play.
https://news.yahoo.com/india-coronavirus-man-charged-over-14...
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, and it's destructive of what this site is supposed to be for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Ever been tested for Sjogrens? An autoimmune disorder that attacks fluid producing systems.
I had no idea Randall started writing for the nytimes. Seems like a great continuation to his what if series. I've missed it dearly. Hope he writes more!
Correct, updated. Main point still stands.