skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the percentage of people who responded positively was significantly higher than the percentage of people who ultimately chose to pay for the option in actual sales

I'm guessing it's (at least partially) because they weren't offered a'la carte, but instead bundled with the "premium" interior package only offered in the most expensive trim.

This bundling is the only way I've ever gotten the option of heated/chilled cupholders (which are awesome, by the way).
Middle class does not mean median income.
I think Americans are still largely clueless about how extensively the PRC has infiltrated the governments and companies of the world, and how much IP they have stolen. If they want it; they have it. Heck, my company is doing everything they can to prevent users from messing with our firmware, but we have to give all the keys to China to sell our products there. All they had to do was ask. There’s no need to make it hard for owners to get to.
Sadly, I’ve no insight into this, as I only know the respective blog post on the project. They certainly reverse engineered the spaceship outlines correctly (for which you have to dive a few layers into the code), so I guess, it may have been quite accurate. (That said, there’s always a temptation to cut a few corners…)
Good for you. You don't have to install Linux on your phone, but it would be better for the planet (eg: recycling) if we all could.
A big reason that stuff isn't replaceable anymore is because consumers wants some of the benefits that come w/ non-replaceable parts.

For example, it's nice that I can drop my iPhone in water w/o worrying (too much) about destroying it. I spent ~$1500 on an iPhone 12 Pro in November & dropped it in a lake in December. Part of the reason it's (more) waterproof if because it's not covered w/ ports/hatches/openings that would allow me swap out the battery/RAM/SSD/something. If I had to choose between having a fully customizable phone & one that doesn't die when it gets wet, I think I'd rather have one that resists water.

Just one person's opinion.
The solution that works for me. I use one of the old laptop/tablets that's lying around the house, plug it into the tv hdmi, buy one of the many bluetooth keyboards with a trackpad and use it as a remote.

Advantages are that I don't buy any hardware, I know it works with any streaming service, I don't need a smart tv, I don't need to struggle typing in passwords and search terms using a tv remote. And, not once have I felt - oh I wish I had a roku or chromecast or whatever, and something would have been better.
> On HN of all places, I'm surprised to see that the guy throwing his weight around to GET RID of proprietary codecs is being portrayed as the bad guy.

When it comes to these gluttonous Big Tech companies, I tend to err on the side of the smaller guy. Your comment doesn't capture that dimension of the conflict.
Both those sources may be out of date now (July and October). While there is limited experimental evidence for airborne transmission except in animals, there is even less evidence for fomite & respiratory droplet transmission.

The claim that "lack of infection spread in hospital settings" rules out airborne transmission due to masking is also questionable. The opposite seems true. As I understand it, infections in hospital settings have been routinely documented throughout the pandemic despite masking, contact protocols, etc. - which implicates airborne rather than droplet/fomite transmission.

This is a really good article in the Lancet recently which solidified my opinion on this. It offers 10 items of evidence for airborne transmission being the primary driver of the pandemic.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

For me, the key points are:

> Second, long-range transmission of SARS-CoV-2 between people in adjacent rooms but never in each other's presence has been documented in quarantine hotels.7

> Sixth, viable SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in the air. In laboratory experiments, SARS-CoV-2 stayed infectious in the air for up to 3 h with a half-life of 1·1 h.12 Viable SARS-CoV-2 was identified in air samples from rooms occupied by COVID-19 patients in the absence of aerosol-generating health-care procedures13 and in air samples from an infected person's car.14 Although other studies have failed to capture viable SARS-CoV-2 in air samples, this is to be expected. Sampling of airborne virus is technically challenging for several reasons, including limited effectiveness of some sampling methods for collecting fine particles, viral dehydration during collection, viral damage due to impact forces (leading to loss of viability), reaerosolisation of virus during collection, and viral retention in the sampling equipment.3 Measles and tuberculosis, two primarily airborne diseases, have never been cultivated from room air.15

> Seventh, SARS-CoV-2 has been identified in air filters and building ducts in hospitals with COVID-19 patients; such locations could be reached only by aerosols.16

> Eighth, studies involving infected caged animals that were connected to separately caged uninfected animals via an air duct have shown transmission of SARS-CoV-2 that can be adequately explained only by aerosols.17

> Tenth, there is limited evidence to support other dominant routes of transmission—ie, respiratory droplet or fomite.9, 24 Ease of infection between people in close proximity to each other has been cited as proof of respiratory droplet transmission of SARS-CoV-2. However, close-proximity transmission in most cases along with distant infection for a few when sharing air is more likely to be explained by dilution of exhaled aerosols with distance from an infected person.9 The flawed assumption that transmission through close proximity implies large respiratory droplets or fomites was historically used for decades to deny the airborne transmission of tuberculosis and measles.
I will always fight tooth and nail against squash merge.

Squash merge has the major disadvantage of getting rid of valuable meaningful git history.

Squash merge is not the proper solution for keeping your git history clean, it is a hack using the side effect of squash.

Keeping your git history clean is a matter of policy, best-practices and education:

Developers should be required to submit _clean_ PRs, that is, PR's whose git history has been organized and refactored in such a way that it removed "clean up commits", "typo fix", etc.

When you squash merge a feature branch that has thousands of lines of code, and 6 months later you have a bug introduced by this feature branch, it becomes extremely hard to find which line introduced the bug.

On the other hand, if you kept the history, and if this history was clean from the get go, it becomes easy to read the commits one-by-one and understand the issue.

Don't use squash+merge.

edit: I see numerous comment saying, in essence, "squash+merge" is what gets rid of the dirty history. No, developers must learn the existence of `git rebase --interactive`, which is the command to use to clean your git history[0]. "squash" is one possible action, among others, that helps cleaning the history.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History
Roku already supports VP9[1], a royalty-free codec. If getting rid of royalties was the true cause they can use that.

1: https://developer.roku.com/en-gb/docs/specs/media/streaming-...
I just compared prices of 2x4 and construction grade plywood between Lowes location in SF area and Austin area. They are pretty much the same. I agree, distance from the mill will matter, but not to a significant degree (not 3 times for sure)
>The universe

That's a funny way to spell government appointed central bankers who fix the price of money.
very true but we have no other advice that works for the upwards mobility of a large population
Doesn't have to. It's not that much to ask to release documentation or code.
Do you have an email/discord? Would like to connect with you on a few things.
Might be neat to see a digraph of this. Would it look like the globe?
It'd be nice if we could have a happy medium it's like we can only live in extremes. On one end, we have the US, the land of patent trolls and divisions of companies suing other divisions of companies for millions and wasting years of time. On the other end, we have China where people just blatantly steal everything. Released a new successful product on Amazon? Get ready to be undercut by 50% or more by some no-name brand out of nowhere!
ok, and?
> Nearly everything then was also not easily repairable, and certainly not by an average consumer.

Sure, but repair shops could exist that would specialize in doing all sorts of repairs.
https://www.axios.com/roku-google-youtube-tv-dispute-525316c... seems to have a copy of their version of events, at least that they communicated to customers.
That’s two people I’ve seen resign from basecamp. Is this the start of a trend ?
But the love the flexibility! The Uber commercial told me so!
> HN is heavily-populated or at least influenced by subcultures (Bay Area, tech) that have been religiously adherent to the appearance of compliance and performative self-abnegation as a response to the pandemic (like a milder version of the Flagellants during the Black Death).

Spot on. Some people like following rules, and lording their compliance over others. None of this precludes the goodness of following pandemic rules, however.
I haven't personally heard of that job title before. How technical would you say you are? Do you advise on or design technological solutions as well, or is it about org charts, BPMN, etc?
I went through similar products. The last one was an android box. I was tearing out my hair after every upgrade. It is just not worth the problems. Raspberry Pi might be a good option but only v3. The new v4 has problems and there are very hacky ways the get the GPU acceleration working. At this stage an Apple Tv or maybe an Intel NUC might be the best options.
Back in the days I remember storing emails in similar way and reading using an email client. It was called ”maildir” [1].

Emails were stored as files in folder structure. I think this goes quite nicely with the unix ideas as you could use many standard tools to work with the messages.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir and
The mayor and the monk didn't pass the stone on after 5 years :/
Crime and housing cost are not new. Most people fleeing California do that over tax uncertainty and general business unfriendliness. Stuff like retroactive income tax increase or exit tax.
This is true. The solves for Pitfall #4. But it solves for Pitfall #4 but just explicitly being different types. That works when you really want them to be different types. For this example, I agree -- ColoredPoint and Point should not be designed as the same type.

In cases where inheritance makes more sense, the equals relationship is also easier to specify.
> Google must write an app that works on that device.

Why? Saying they must support Roku devices is a pretty firm (and strange) stance to take. Where does the line get drawn on what devices they do or don't have to support?

> I think it's time we have legislation that working apps cannot be removed from platforms over stupid corporate spats.

This would certainly have unintended consequences. What do you consider "stupid corporate spats"? Why should Google be forced to support codecs on HW they don't manufacture?
How is this superior to the standard relational algebra method of using immutable keys associated with mutable attributes?

The fun example is ZIP CODE for houses. Since one house can have multiple values, it makes sense that the house had another key representation. And that using equality based on what is ultimately a mutable attribute just doesn't really make sense.

Even your "aardvark" example fails if you for some reason also reference it as an "Orycteropus afer". Right?

Now, if you expose that at all equal spots, it makes sense. Sorta "a.equals(b, by(get name))". Or as common lisp does it in most spots, ":key #'person-name". :)
A really interesting thing happened in March 2020. The market crashed and we all remember how gloomy everything looked. Needless to say, some businesses were going to be directly affected by Covid (eg: travel, hospitality) and their stocks went down as much as 80%. But it also became clear that many stocks were just collateral damage (eg: most of the tech stocks), and that they were going to recover more quickly than others. I bought all the tech stocks I could and things worked out great. If anything, I gave myself too much time to execute on this strategy - as a way to protect against the market tanking even further, I decided to dollar-cost average and make my investments over a 6-week period between mid March and end of April. As is obvious in hindsight, the mid-March cohort outperformed the late April cohort by a wide margin. Writing about this in April 2021 doesn't seem so surprising, but I can tell you that in April 2020 I was shocked how fast the market was improving even though the global news only kept getting worse and worse. I am close with many people who run their own businesses, and many of them had their worst weeks in April. I guess the market was recovering following the same rationale that I used, so I shouldn't be too surprised about its behavior, but it was still interesting considering how my risk profile is so different from the majority of other people.

Would I recommend timing the market? Most of the time, no. But a lot of people talk about the impact of the 10 best or worst days in the last 20 years, and I would say those "insane periods" do exhibit somewhat recognizable patterns that makes it possible to identify them and take advantage of.
I don’t see why it’s so bad to explain like they’re five, customers in this space can be very dumb.
Gyroscope Stablecoin All-Weather Simulator Level 2: Gyrobatics
Moby may have ended up with chart success and his tracks on car adverts, but he most did produce plenty of music in the same realm as the artists in the article. Maybe a bit more stompy and with a more varied structure than the clinical X-101 stuff, but it would be unfair to not call it techno. Whether or not Eminem was aware of his early work I couldn't say.

- 1994 Horses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ice5Nw6ltfY

- 1995 Desperate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdu9UwXqGc

- 1992 Drop a Beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WywzWjZATKA

- 1991 UHF3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21TjeBcA1cI

- 1991 Voodoo Child (Poor in New York Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WywzWjZATKA
What impressed me when visiting the area, was the density of IT companies and startups.

When going out, you could easily meet people working for those, and get a foot in the door, as you may have made already a positive initial impression in a casual environment.

Remotely, you will compete with a much larger pool of people.
Mills are the issue, not timber. There's an excess of raw timber right now, all of the wood from the wildfires in the PNW last year is being salvaged currently.
Since they're a public company we get to see exactly what they spend their money on [0].

Look at Platform Gross Profit vs. Player Gross Profit. It looks like previously they were selling at a loss, and in 2020 they managed to start selling basically at-cost.

[0] https://ir.roku.com/static-files/0e84462d-74ac-459d-9aff-be3...
The U.S. guaranteeing the independence of a free democracy is not "geopolitical aggression". Claiming sovereignty over land you have not controlled for an entire human lifetime quite certainly is. I'll end my participation in this discussion with a quote from the Taiwanese:

"We fill fight a war if we need to fight a war, and if we need to defend ourselves to the very last day, then we will defend ourselves to the very last day"

https://www.businessinsider.com/taiwan-warns-fight-to-end-co...
There is an issue with quality, if that matters to you. I might be the only person who cares about Dolby Vision/Atmos, but it's supported only by a limited cross section of streaming service x device x app version.
Ask HN: Lots of stuff stolen – any help with DJI drone, Android Nexus 4, iPad?
Hi there - someone stole my DJI drone, my Nexus 4, and a few other things. Does any of you have any experience in using these devices to locate the thieves?

I did a quick search and it seems that:

iPad: needs to be turned on to use "find my"

Nexus 4: same

DJI drone: they don't share the transponder GPS location, for "privacy" reasons (sounds like BS to me). [0]

Any help would be really, really appreciated.

[0]: https://forum.dji.com/thread-192512-1-1.html
Biden set to ban most travel to U.S. from India to limit Covid-19 spread
It seems rather obvious to me that most hiring should be done at the intern/contractor level, where the interview process is extremely basic and let's most people through. Can you do a single basic level hackerrank question? Welcome aboard. Pushing for harder and harder questions simply doesn't accomplish anything real.

Once proven that a candidate is able to learn and adapt to the job, they should be moved to a full-time position, with pay above what is currently being given to that role. If they aren't excellent, let them go. As a company you want to advertise this promotion experience so that people who know they will pass this test will feel more comfortable signing up for a "lowly" temp position.

The top 5% or so of candidates might not take that offer, but you can leave a hole for exceptional candidates based on past experiences and proven success.
This is incredible. I remember the Gears example from the same site, but now with 3D renderings. Great work.
It goes up much quicker and requires less highly skilled tradesman to build and to maintain.

There are new developments in the states where they produce the frames for the various housing 'templates' off-site, and then ship it to the plots and build the house there, almost like a lego kit.
No one is giving them money. They will just pay less in taxes.

That 10bn is not lost money, assuming a fab would not have been built (which may or may not be a fair assumption) without the subsidies.
This isn't remotely equivalent or comparable. First, you're free to choose other forms of payment. Visa isn't holding a gun to your head. I know many sellers simply adjust their prices if you're paying credit -- see almost every gas station in the US. You can't do that with Apple.

Second, the fees actually benefit the customer. They're there to protect the customer from fraud, and to provide perks. I have no idea how I benefit from Apple's fees. Seriously.

Comically, I think Apple should adapt Epic's model for unreal: free for the first $1MM of revenue, only then they start to take a cut.
Glitch puts Star Fox 64 ships in unmodified Zelda cartridge (2020)
You might like https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PDP1_MiSTer :)
go look at the investments into the market 98 early 2000s in the market and how they underperformed for about a decade. (look at the NYT visualization you were commenting on). Adjust it for inflation.

My point is that investing at the peak of the market will not generate returns unless you unload before the market goes down. Now who knows if the equity markets are going to get clipped (or rather when) ... timing is fickle.

Also, selling on good years makes your performance exceptionally good.

I guess TL; DR. Either sell in the good years around nowish if you've generated a return as equity markets are frothy or be prepared to hold a long time to generate a return [statement for S&P index not individual stocks] assuming the future follows some of the past patterns (sample size is small though to be fair).
What do you mean? It's not like PayPal because the sender is actually anonymous (assuming that exact amounts are hidden by always withdrawing fixed size coins).
I've seen frighteningly few places where the inheritance equality acted as was desired after more than a single collaborator. :(
> Roku requested exceptions that would break the YouTube experience and limit our ability to update YouTube in order to fix issues or add new features.

I assume that is pr speak for, it would limit youtube in experiencing the app users?
Partly, but partly it is an effect of having of thicker market. Arlington itself is still quite densely populated and Uber drivers have a lot of opportunities to pick up fares there. But you aren't going to find people hailing cabs on the street. But if you have a matching mechanism that works better in less densely populated areas then the drivers can actually pick up fares there so they are more willingly to take someone out there to begin with.
Yeah, but the key difference is that Taiwan is under direct threat from China. Mr. Xi openly said that he will take back Taiwan by force if necessary. Weakening the Taiwan semiconductor industry is certainly part of this playbook, too.

Imagine if the US would consider India to be part of its territory
and asking for a "re-unification". I am sure that in this case India would try to prevent key software engineers from leaving, too. Actually, I am surprised that Taiwan has done so little so far.
Not a good take. TSMC is known for paying well above average in the industry, as well as having an internal culture of pretty fierce loyalty. On top of that, fab is very highly automated. Even though you need a lot of very smart engineers, head count is still very low compared to the value the fab creates. Suppressing labor prices is pretty low down the list of priorities for this industry. Costs are utterly dominated by capital costs to build a new generation of your fab every 2 years.
Sounds like exaggeration or either overblown concerns. It's also ignoring the fact that manufacturers going out of their way to make a device deliberately more difficult to repair rather than just implementing tradeoffs.

It's one thing to have a waterproof phone that you need specialty tools to fix it, it's another thing when manufacturers try to make repairing deliberately more difficult than it should be, such as limiting the sale of OEM components or using security screws.

Either way, your thought what Right to Repair is only one version/proposal of what RtR.
SolarWinds MSP is becoming N‑able
That Twitter thread was interesting, thanks! Looks like later in the thread they seem to suggest mRNA vaccine hesitancy hasn't necessarily increased, so I don't think it's as concerning as the first graph makes it seem. But we are lucky in the US to have pretty good supply of the mRNA versions.

Regarding 2, hopefully restrictions introduced by airlines, clubs, sporting events, theme parks, etc. will push anybody on the fence to get a vaccine over the coming months. Once things really start to open up I imagine FOMO can be a real driver.
When gambling, the house "always wins" over time. With options trading, that's not always the case. Anyone with a gambling addiction would be far better off doing options trading - their chances are much better.
I would say people who picked amzn and Tesla are lucky. The jury is out on amzn. Bezos did something no public company ever did to the extent he did. He put customers before profits in an extreme way. Then, he built another multi billion dollar unit from scratch with AWS. So far, it’s worked out but the PE makes it speculative nonetheless. But the gap is quickly closing making it an investment grade issue. I don’t know so I leave it alone knowing I’ll regret it one day. That’s fine. I stay away unless I’m 95% sure. I would say s&p 500 represents 100% certainty overtime, because if it wasn’t, life as we know it wouldn’t be the same anyway we’d have bigger problems. Tesla is just a dumb gamble. There’s no justification at all for its price and history shows us what can happen with auto stocks.
There are many reasons why one would like to update Audacity also if it already does everything one needs, for example increased robustness and speed in newer versions if they provide it, and also new effects that simplify existing workflows.