skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who said a private SpaceX is either?

Did Lyft or Uber deliver autonomous driving? Talk is cheap.
This article is very on point.

Most of the time tasks go in an out of the list and we lack a meaningful strategy or prioritization.

I can only suggest applying over-scheduling or time-blocking. Reason: most apps don't really combine tasks and agendas very well (see OmniFocus or Things that only display external calendar events), or they can sync calendars bidirectionally but lack a proper agenda view (Todoist falls short even with their recent updates). As a side note, Amazing Marvin is the winner here although with the cost of not being cheap and having an extremely hard learning curve.

This in fact becomes an opportunity to separate executing tasks and planning them ahead, as you only have 24 hours per day and this becomes obvious when you drop your tasks into the calendar.
The Seattle method was to throw all of your random debris into the recycling bin at the end of your lease, because the trash cans are too small to hold anything. That way the next tenants get to deal with a recycling bin full of week-old rotting tilapia. Or maybe that was just us...
to be fair, there is nothing other than safari on iOS...despite the window dressing.
AirBnB doesn’t show what the place actually costs until you get to the “Reserve” screen. Then the cleaning fee, service fee, occupancy fees and taxes are added up. I’ve seen it literally double the advertised price.

I’ve used AirBnB heavily over the past few years and am a huge fan of the business model in general. But, I view this practice as borderline unethical. I’m sure it A/B tests well, but it’s super annoying having to make several extra clicks just to see what you’re actually going to pay for the place at checkout.
I'm not referring to "soft asks". The dark pattern is creating a fake dialog that mimics the real system dialog in order to mislead, and circumvent a feature designed to protect users from spam/abuse.

Telling a user why they're about to get a permissions dialog, and displaying a real system dialog, is obviously not a dark pattern.

They're common as hell, but I can't seem to find a live example of what I'm talking about right now.
Buying a Bitcoin emits 195x as much CO₂ as buying an iPhone
> But X workers are accustomed to being blamed for things that aren’t our fault. We’re trained to feel responsible for failures even when we ought not be

certainly applies to tech
Everyone must live in high rises so densely packed each forms its own little metropolis, of course.
what I really want to know is the best place to get a san diego burrito in SF.

Key differentiators:

- no fillers (no rice, no beans; beans acceptable in breakfast burritos)

- generous portions of meats

- chicken that is finished by grilling on the grill, not ropa-style pulled straight out of a dewey plastic bin

- wrap that is toasted

- wax paper wrap instead of foil (lets the burrito breathe instead of becoming damp and gooey). Also avoids the danger of accidentally biting into the foil and getting that delicious aluminium flavor.

- salsa roja cremosa
Transportation is a huge component.

There are many advantages but not shipping, flying or excessive trucking makes it much greener.

Add in regenerative organic farming processes, and you pay farmers to improve the land.
> There's nowhere to put any to be dispensed in the 'pre-wash' phase.

Some comments here have mentioned that one can put it into the main compartment of the machine. Just squirt it in on the floor, if I understood correctly.
Past Thread (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20435669 [107 comments]
>"One of the most interesting members of the RISC-style x86 group was the Transmeta Crusoe processor, which translated x86 instructions into an internal VLIW form, rather than internal superscalar, and used software to do the translation at runtime, much like a Java virtual machine. This approach allowed the processor itself to be a simple VLIW, without the complex x86 decoding and register-renaming hardware of decoupled x86 designs, and without any superscalar dispatch or OOO logic either."

PDS: Why do I bet that the Transmeta Crusoe didn't suffer from Spectre -- or any other other x86 cache-based or microcode-based security vulnerabilities that are so prevalent today?

Observation: Intentional hardware backdoors -- would have been difficult to place in Transmeta VLIW processors -- at least in the software-based x86 translation portions of it... Now, are there intentional hardware backdoors in its lower-level VLIW instructions?

I don't know and can't speculate on that...

Nor do I know if the Transmeta Crusoes contained secret deeply embedded "security" cores/processors -- or not...

But secret deeply embedded "security" cores/processors and backdoored VLIW instructions aside -- it would sure be hard as heck for the usual "powers-that-be" -- to be able to create secret/undocumented x86 instructions with side effects/covert communication to lower/secret levels -- and run that code from the Transmeta Crusoe's x86 software interpreter/translator -- especially if the code for the x86 software interpreter/translator -- is open source and throughly reviewed...

In other words, from a pro-security perspective -- there's a lot to be said about architecturally simpler CPU's -- regardless of how slow they might be compared to some of today's super-complex (and, ahem, less secure...) CPU's...
apply it to physical stores, see how far it goes
If this impacts the psychology of people saving money, it's just as likely to prompt them to save more. It's not like we're saving our money just for the sake of having a big number on our accounts. We usually have specific goals in mind such as large investments, funding a business, moving, home ownership, early retirement, etc. It's also making precious metals seem a lot more appealing despite their inconvenience.
Let's not give Amazon a free ride, cancelling the Prime trial was some real bullshit last time I tried.

The option was hidden behind several pages of "Here's what you'll miss out on" and "You still have x days remaining, why not check out these shows" and "confirm" buttons with slightly different position/text/color.
>In the general case, someone (or some thing) can sue for pretty much any reason whatsoever.

in the general case, copyright trolls aren't going to pursue Joe Schmoe over their indie band cover. you'd put hundreds in and barely make pennies back even if you win.

But in the youtube case, it's an easy profit with little consequence. Suing is easy, but costly. DMCA's is easy and zero cost, especially once you automate it.
I have worked at a string of tiny startups and I doubt many large companies would be very impressed. But one thing that has always helped me get some kind of contract or find the next startup has been to find something like requirements specifications and build a few demos.

But now the specs or things like specs are on a handful of freelancing sites that lock you in to accepting 10-15% fees and usually require screen-spying.

What I am trying to get is just another part-time job to replace the current startup that's wrapping up so that I can use the rest of the week for my computer vision learning experiments etc.

So a couple of days ago I made a site, https://postaspec.com. So far everyone ignored it. I am going to put my own spec for a little pet project on there, just so at least it's not empty.
I was looking at mortgage for a house, paying 30% upfront, so I would only need to borrow 500k USD.

At fixed rate 30yr, it was 1% + some fees.. so total cost of the loan over 30 years would be 35k USD.

The flex interest rate (adjusted every 5 years) was a current rate -0.25 + fees. In total that would cost around 10k USD over 30 years.
(Of course with flexible interest rates, the rates could go up).

So I think most of the cost is now just fees... Looking at owning vs. renting it's quite competitive.
It makes sense more in some countries than others.

In Japan, for e.g. there are no street numbers.

In the U.K. we have postal codes that generally refer to a street. But they sometimes can be only a portion of a street, sometimes they’re a building, sometimes they’re a large business who might be across multiple sites. At other times (usually rural) they’re very very long roads, so sticking the address into a Sat Nav takes you to that road but not the point on the road that you want to travel to. Because the system is so mixed, 99/100 nthe address is absolutely fine, but occasionally it isn’t. I agree dropping a pin is more useful though.

Ireland had no postal codes at all until recently.
What if the user wants to cancel before the term is up? If that's allowed, there won't be discounts for annual plans. (Maybe not a bad thing, but maybe inefficient.)
What, washing machines use tablets too nowadays? I've never seen that.
Why are game-makers creating new Game Boy games in 2021?
> emacs arranged for font lock to be done in a separate thread

I'm not sure, but I don't think so. There's this thing called `jit-lock-mode' (check out the docstring of the function named jit-lock-mode for details) that makes Emacs fontify only visible parts of the buffer when triggered by redisplay code (in C core), + some extra fontification of the invisible parts on idle timer. But I don't believe it actually happens on a separate thread, given that redisplay can run arbitrary user code, e.g. through 'display property attached to a piece of text in a visible buffer.

> Also, why is it called "lock"? I just use that word cos the emacs docs and code do

So do I. I did a little googling, but couldn't find any definitive answer. Most likely explanation[0] seems to be that "lock" here means the fontification spec is attached to the text and updated automatically, vs. being refreshed globally on user request.

> Isn't org mode folding/unfolding just a blocking call that happens when you ask it to?

It is, but it's also something I do very frequently in quick succession. I'll usually press S-Tab in quick succession to perform global visibility cycling, because I often want to take a quick look at the outline of my file, and then get back to editing where I was. If it takes more than a fraction of a second, it's distracting for that use case.

--

[0] - https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/b3jsfc/what_does_loc...
this is my dream! I used to use a Pebble watch for grocery lists, but the display is just too small for a larger list.

It would be fantastic to have something that is basically a half-sized palm pilot (say, 4" tall, 2" wide), eink/memory lcd, and the ability to rotate (not automatically.) There's probably a digital price tag that could work for the screen.

When I was using my Pebbles more often, it was great to be out and never check my phone for anything. Back in the day we could have set responses -- but as the years go on, we lose some functionality. The Rebble project will probably fix this one day.
Jimi went from a $5 acoustic in 1958 to being dead in 1970. That's less time than what it takes most of us to go through our GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) and just enjoy playing the darned thing.
He compared it to a Jolla phone, which I assume runs Sailfish. If you're comparing Android to Android, you are missing the point. Slowness is from the software here.
my point being i did some stuff on 'x' available, hurry now - and went. and they never had them, but the difference is that i traded a quantifiable unit (human life expectancy) vs those online that just annoyed people
> It has so far produced nothing except higher values measured in fiat

Not true. All kinds of blockchain development is happening in hundreds of fields.

The most important development so far is deflationary capped currencies independent of any single government. Currencies that almost anyone in the world can use, which helps the poor in the countries like Venezuela, Argentina, Sudan, Lebanon, Iran.
> I can see that what's downloaded on an M1 Mac has changed quite a bit from what I uploaded. The most obvious thing is the code signature on the binary itself has been replaced with one issued by Apple and isn't the one my build server added.

So yes, Apple is already doing what Google wants to.
To me, the goal of language implementations should be to make the most maintainable code also the fastest code. I shouldn't have to worry much about the performance characteristics of my software outside of general concerns about algorithmic complexity.
Hey everyone!

This is a collection of my investment modules - strategies codified from my experience in quantitative investing and software development. All categorized into a short menu.
These models (algo-investors as I call them) serve different purposes, some just remove the stress and emotion of maintaining a portfolio (automated rebalancing, etc), some seek to capitalize on binary events (like elections or regulation changes), some seek to minimize volatility, some seek to "beat the market" (leveraged modules, hedge fund trackers), and some are just fun (wallstreetsbets sentiment tracker).

These results DO account for slippage, and many are showing actual live results (not just backtests).

This is a highly regulated environment (I'm US-based), so you can't deposit your money in these, but I've been using them myself for a few years. Cheers
> it's also obvious that a receptionist will have input on the hiring process.

That's a stretch.
Costs a lot to get all the free publicity from journalists, got to avoid them pointing out it's a private company trying to control access to a coordinate system, or mentioning any alternatives.
53k Wire Transfer to Coinbase Missing
Did anyone actually believe that you'd be able to rent out your Tesla for money? I know there are a lot of gullible people but that doesn't even pass the sniff test.
Thank you for this - really engaging presentation.
Tesla’s German Plant Delayed Until Next Year
For those like me who didn't know: a pickup is a thingy that generates a tiny electrical field around a string. This allows electronics to translate string vibrations to an audio signal.

One thing missing (for me) from the article is a rough idea of what the effect could be. Why would you care about easy swapping at all? Why not find the right one(s) and stick with that/those? Why does changing speed matter - would you change them between songs?

(Yes, I didn't know about pickups before this article)
Rothschild Dynasty Is Seeking to Fulfill Kalergi Depopulation Agenda
The missing implicit bits and technical conflations are probably what are throwing you. "Technology" really means technical understanding and resulting quality as opposed to use. Even the crappy ones still use tech that they outsource but poorly. Losing out means in the context of matters of popularity. It is losing out in the same way Semmelweiss did in his lifetime over "doctors should wash their hands".
I solved a similar problem recently: given a stream of data, how should you choose packet size in an online way to minimize regret (a linear combination of spare capacity of last packet and total packets used).

Turns out doubling isn’t the best strategy. The optimal solution is actually to add a constant increment to packet size. How much depends on relative cost of the terms in the regret function.
Meta question, apologies:

I submitted this exact link 20 days ago, and I've noticed several other precisely duplicate submissions recently. Meanwhile, sometimes I go to submit a link and I'm not allowed because there was a previous submission almost a year(!) ago. Just what the heck are the rules here?
I find it hard to believe that large farms don’t have “skin in the game”.

I would think that they manage their farm land as an investment. It isn’t easy to move to a different area due to labor, equipment, investment into the ground, etc.

If anything, I’d expect a small farm operation to easily relocate should the land become less productive.
no, but a 10YO troll in Brazil sure can get the FBI to raid the home of an American streamer they don't like.

Not saying it's even by any means, but it's better than zero human response. There will at least be some case in a govt. record should some bad actor keep getting reported, unlike Google.
It would be especially worth it to have approved mRNA flu vaccine in hand for the next pandemic flu. You'd might be able to actually vaccinate your way out of it.
This might be the best YouTube rabbit hole I've ever fallen down. Thank you for posting it!
Have you tried running a business, even a part-time side hustle like lawn mowing, selling something you make on Etsy, drop-shipping a few products, selling a tiny licensed software app, or a coffee subscription service? Literally any business, any size.

If starting and operating a business is your goal, actually doing that - even at very small scale for a short time - seems worthwhile. You’d learn a ton and probably form an opinion whether an MBA is worth the time and opportunity cost.

(If you have started and operated a business, how did it go? What did you like and dislike? What were your strengths and weaknesses?)
Seconded. This is exactly the same stackexchange post I thought of as well.
Calling a woman a girl, while calling a man a man, might be why you find it hard to form positive rapport with her.
Someone told me way back in time that in the ERP sales process, your two top answers are:

Q: Can your system do X?

A: Yes (doesn't matter what the question is, or that an entire add-on would have to be built that could never be cost justified).

Q: As a company we do things like this, will your system work?

A: Yes, our product works with your process, no matter what it is.

I have observed this to be true. Customers particularly love the second one, so telling someone that they must change their process to work with your super simple un-customizable product can often be a deal-breaker.
There's what I call the "cheap shoes fallacy" at play here.

When you buy cheap shoes, they break quickly, forcing you to buy another pair, ultimately costing more over time than if you had just bought good shoes to begin with.

The same applies to food. When you buy cheap food, it will nourish you only a little bit, forcing you to buy more of it, ultimately costing more over time than if you had just bought good food to begin with.

Cheap, industrial food contains the minimum amount of actual food to pass for grub, and is laden with artificial flavorings to fool your brain into thinking you're actually eating something, when you're not.
Sony[1] has a ruggedized version of their flagship with all the same fancy specs. You might not like the price however.

https://electronics.sony.com/mobile/smartphone/professional-...
Well it’s quite clear that none of the commenters so far have read the document they’re commenting on and almost none of them seem able to distinguish between “software” and the internet.

And I can’t say I blame them. I know the fenty website isn’t software but what about facebook and amazon? I don’t really consider them software but I suppose most of their users access the site(s) through iOS and android apps which I would consider software.
The Google to find employees with an instagram to view their portfolios
So Nigeria, a country which imports maize, rice and tomato paste thinks it should devote its land to growing avocados. SMH.

There are times I wonder if Western capitalists invent and promote fancy new superfoods and whatnots so they can create agricultural and ecological stress in African and South American countries.

Simply create excuses where they can take land away from local staples to cause poverty in those countries and protect their own farmers subsidized production of basic foods.
AFAIK Transmeta's core was doing a lot of speculative execution stuff, so if it evolved until today I wouldn't bet on it also gaining issues like Spectre.
Zinc supplements are part of the recommended prevention and treatment protocol. There is some research to indicate that Quercetin facilities zinc uptake.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mask-pl...
I’ve noticed recently that many of the places on Airbnb are also listed on VRBO, and usually cheaper for some reason. VRBO also lets you filter by total price from the start.
Well, I did send them feedback, and pointed at the OP.
One theory about the 1918 flu us that it hit young people harder because older people had encountered a similar flu already, before the younger generation were born.

But in general, being exposed to (say) seasonal flu every year might not help you at all when a new strain of pandemic flu shows up. The 1918 flu tore through young healthy people.
Web.com charges 13 months in a year.

They bill months in 4 week intervals— so a month = 28 days which = 13 months per year. This is all in their fine print.

Screenshot: https://twitter.com/stevebenjamins/status/138531992456700313...
I should have added "in C / C++ / C#".

Everything OOP works well in Smalltalk (and most of it does in Python), but you pay dearly for that in efficiency - which is what this article as about.
Yes. The data shows that women have a huge misunderstanding of "male attractiveness":

https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyo...

That's a gigantic problem in that even if a woman estimates herself correctly relative to other females, she totally mis-estimates the men she's equivalent to.

Men, on the other hand, understand female attractiveness quite well. However, they put in a lot of effort to land that female that punches above their weight in attractiveness.
> $7k (x 2) at the time, reason was to help Tesla survive.

Man there is something truly remarkable about Musk that he successfully convinced some people to, in effect, treat Tesla, a for-profit company, as a charity and to donate to them thousands of dollars with no expectation of anything in return.

Any other company would just raise money from investors, whether those be institution or from main street via the stock or bond markets.

But Tesla just sold folks a dream and they bought it, allowing Tesla to generate cashflow without Musk having to worry about pesky shareholders or dilution or even delivering a working product.

I suspect that phenomenon will be studied in business school for years to come.
> But it looks like GPS addressing schemes like w3w need a MUCH larger list by an order of magnitude.

If you're trying to get down to 3 words yes, but if you're happy with 4 words (and I am), then the long list would be more than enough. One problem I found was that I think people don't want strongly negative phrases being used to describe where they live (rural poverty assault, evil disease island). The BIP39 wordlist can create word groups that are very offensive, or that would feel rascist if applied to particular parts of the world. It also has words that are easily confused for other words like era/error, son/sun, alter/altar, aisle/I'll, floor/flaw, .

I did use words from BIP39, but had to remove quite a few in the end for my wordlist (e.g. blast, load, black, finger, female etc.) because of the unfortunate clusters it could create.

Ultimately, I think coming up with a good wordlist is still a bit of an unsolved problem. The ideal wordlist for something like this

1. can't form obviously rascist or overtly sexual word clusters

2. can be easily distinguished in spoken communication

3. can be easily distinguished in written communication

4. doesn't have words that sound similar to other words in any of the most common accents

5. doesn't have geographic words (it'd be confusing)

6. is mainly positive or neutral words

7. consists of words that are common and easy to spell, avoiding words that are commonly misspelled and where there are different standard ways of spelling the words depending on region

8. has words that are not too long, a small number of syllables

9. doesn't contain words that are concatenations of other words in the wordlist

Obviously not easy if you need a significant number of them.