skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My new oven has bluetooth and wifi connectivity. I obviously thought this sounded completely insane, but I went ahead and googled to see what people were using it for. I was actually surprised and impressed.

First, there's a way to do sous vide cooking without one of those big circulators like the one I use. They sell a device that is a little bluetooth thermometer; you can put it in a pot of water, and the induction range can keep the water at a precise temperature. No circulation, but more than good enough imo.

Then you can use the wifi to operate it remotely. So as a case scenario, one could fill a pot with ice and water and a sous vide bagged steak, then turn it on remotely, say an hour or so before getting home. Or one could conceivably leave an uncooked cake in the oven?

I will probably never bother to enable any of this, but yeah, there are uses. I don't want it, but I get it.
It would be fascinating to do a study where you take politics news articles and replace all names with A, B, C, etc. and likewise any mention of Party. So just policy and blank identifiers. Then see how people respond to the news. Are they more likely to agree with or disagree with policies when they don't know who they're coming from?

I suppose in practice there are enough shibboleths in each political camp that readers will still be able to tell which side is their tribe, but it would be interesting to see.
So they can sell it for easy money, is how I read their comment.
Pro tip: please don't use comic sans (or derivative) for serious blog posts.
> It came straight from the factory and I installed vanilla Ubuntu on it.

In that case hopefully not but as seen elsewhere in this thread, for other OSs they can fully own it even if shipped factory direct.

Unless manufacturers are putting these spyware hooks directly into the firmware? Haven't heard of that yet, but those things change.
We had a sales guy pitch exactly this when I worked at a big media corp. The big boss on the marketing side just happened to be in the room at the time, and told everyone that no one was ever to work with this company. I was impressed.
Thanks!

You know, as much as I see people complain about their jobs or companies they work for, Chris Roberts has been able to figure it out. His delivery isn’t the best, but many people love the work he does, and that gives him a job for life that he loves.

I think it would be great if everyone on HN would be able to crowdfund a job they love. Some will deliver better than others, but it would probably reduce the stress and frustration about companies that people have.
I suppose advertisers and youchube think we'll buy more stuff if they scream "Your customers want...with twilio...sign up today" at 100 decibels.

No Twilio.
I used to work for a company that did this, but it was supposedly covered by their client sites' TOS. The client site would install our tag, and our JS code would listen for emails to be entered, and would send them to our backend to collect and cross-reference with visitor on our other clients' sites. This allowed us to send emails to visitors who left sites with buying anything, even if they never entered their email on that site.
Got it. Thanks Jonathan!
I’m being charitable and leaving room for the possibility that they provide a tighter set of policies for some studies or revise their general policy to make commercial use be a study-by-study determination.

Or, just don’t opt-in to any of the Rally studies. Your call, it’s your data.
Except he speaks up about Islamophobia in the west all the time. His inability to speak to the genocide right across his border is not ideological nonsense, and calling it merely an issue of separatism is white washing.
it’s probably cny or ~$1,400
You're not wrong, Walter, ...
> Design patterns — in the boilerplate template sense, though not the underlying concept — are a language smell,

Underrated comment. In C++/Java, one must turn to GoF patterns to accomplish much of what's supported using basic syntax in many other languages (e.g. first-class functions, extensible objects, coroutines, prototypes, flexible parameter types, functional composition).

When it was published, Design Patterns must have seemed sad (or perhaps vindicating) from the perspective of a seasoned Lisp developer.
I'm using wasm and I'm not even targeting the web. JS is irrelevant to me.
Stealth and other tactics can mitigate medium and long range missiles. Terminal guidance, energy management and tracking can be difficult in Beyond Visual Range engagements against savvy pilots. (Over the ocean, it tends to be a lot more effective because ground clutter and mountains aren't a factor)

For example: Russian strategies for the caucuses involved using terrain masking and IR seeking medium range missiles to fight from cover.

Even straightforward BVR combat can often devolve to a dogfight as situational awareness fades and aircraft get close to the ground while defending.

As a final note, rules of engagement can result in fighters having to intercept targets and identify intent before engaging. If the target maneuvers offensively you are pretty much in a dogfight immediately. This is what makes AI pilots capable of Basic Fighter Maneuver combat such an asset.

With AI flown planes, restrictive rules of engagement don't end up getting a pilot killed. Send the drone ahead to suss out the fighter encroaching on your surface assets and then shoot them with slammers if they kill the drone. Even better if the drone can defend itself.
Keeping up the latest electron is f@$king impossible.

It takes months/years to get all clients updated. By then you are already running on an outdated version.
Honestly, the best way to learn is by diving in and implementing something.

Personally I learned how lifetimes work by implementing a zero-copy parser: it builds an AST that borrows from the original string instead of copying tokens out. This is one of those tasks where Rust really shines.
Looks helped for JFK and Obama, and might help for AOC in the future.

On the other hand, millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump because his being ugly, irascible, and vulgar made him seem more relatable and sincere... likely as a reaction to a negative impression given by Obama's relative youth and well-spokenness.
Not at all, he's an excellent instructor (and trust me I've met a few bad ones!)

The chain of events were we were circa 2000ft VFR. Instructor took control to climb in to cloud to get on top of it. Got in, instructor realised we were not going to be able to get on top of it and so IFR'd us back to the aerodrome with an ILS landing just for show.
Look at the infection/death rate in Southeast Asia. It strongly suggests past community transmissions of past coronaviruses.
> When is the estimated release for S42 or Star Citizen.

At the rate at which the scope of the project has been expanding? Never.
Tesla is very different from other car companies.

- Tesla owns a large global infrastructure for charging that they produce themselves. And produce a lot of home and destination charges as well.

- Tesla has a very large expanding internal battery production and will be one of the bigger battery manufacturers in the world themselves.

- Other car companies down own their distribution channels and thus make lower margin per car

- Tesla is market leading in grid storage a gigantic market that is about to grow for the next 20 years straight

- Tesla is leading in home solar/storage market that will also be growing for then ext 20 years

- Tesla has the potential leading in self-driving (yes make your jokes now HN)

- Legacy car makers actually make a huge amount of their money from out of warranty part sales, a channel that Tesla has yet to take advantage of because most of the time they have far more new cars and service is still losing money for them. Steady state the huge service network they are building will be very profitable.

Tesla has the clear potential to continue growing 50%+ with improving margin (localization of production, vertical integration) just with production capacity that's already in production. While the other car makers are at series risk of having a huge amount of legacy infrastructure that is losing value while their still large ICE production could very well turn negative margin as volume decrease economics of scale.

You can still call it to high, but saying its made up nonsense is equally incorrect.

Go look at the Wallstreet models, the stock price is defensible even with not all that aggressive assumptions for the next 10 years. Far less aggressive then Tesla internal targets.

It all depends if you believe Tesla can continue to execute. And what position they will be in by 2030 and then what you believe the next 10 years will look like.
I do this but with scary movies
Dystopian Prime Day
Agenda of science - how dare they talk about vaccines or viruses jumping between spices.

I read on Facebook while I was pooping, that vaccines are evil and don't work, and viruses only exists in our world, because people are engineering them! That's the truth, that has no agenda behind it! /s
Not only, IF it was a speed (it isn't) it would be a very, very slow one, as 10,000/(365x24)= 1.14 km/h.
Depends on what your career goals are. If your goal is to just live a comfy enough life doing coding, sure. If your goal is to be making staff engineer salaries at FAANG, probably not.
that result was actually referring to her never sleeping.
Video production for educational purposes.

I have wanted to produce some useful tutorials on coding and robots for kids. I taught some lessons at my daughter's school. This gave me some great insight, but I want to reach a bigger audience online.

I am finding that thumbnail, title, and how well you structure your cuts into a story makes a big difference. I am mostly trying things out and seeing how an audience responds to a video in terms of average view duration.
Aren't coronaviruses pretty common...?
It may feel cool and that's probably all those bosses that keep threatening to fire their employees think, too.

It works for Linus because of special circumstances that are not easily replicated.

First, Linus is the creator of the project. He is also competent AF (borrowed your jargon here).

Second, people understand Linus is doing this solely out of care for the project. If you look at history of his outbursts you will notice a pattern.

Third, Linus tends to be right.

Fourth, Linus has and had since almost very beginning celebrity status and people tend to approve of eccentric behavior of celebrities more.
What damages were there though? You can't sue (in the US) based on the possibility something might have happened.
Yes. It's run by the original (pre-takeover) Freenode staff.
Essentially gender serves as a simple hash for pronoun assignment. Take his sentence, where <X> is a pronoun:

When John and Mary went on a road trip <X> paid for the gas.

With gendered pronouns, John (probably) hashes to "he" and Mary (probably) to "she".

That's a decent system for simpler times and situations, but it still quickly runs up into limitations. If it is Alice and Mary on the road trip instead of John and Mary, there is no <X> that works.

I think what we need is a set of position based pronouns. I'll just call them P1, P2, P3, and so on. P1 refers to the first noun in the sentence, P2 the second, and so on.

In the first sentence, <X> would be P1 if John paid for the gas and P2 if Mary paid for it.

But that too runs into problems. Pronouns are often used to refer to nouns in prior sentences. The road trip sentence might be followed by "They picked up hitchhiker Bob who was her old neighbor", with "her" referring to Mary from the prior sentence.

I think that to make positional pronouns work, they need to count back from the position of usage rather than forward from the position of the thing the reference. So if you have two sentences with John and Mary named in the first and Bob in the second, P1 refers to John if it occurs between John and Mary, to Mary if it occurs between Mary and Bob, and to Bob if it occurs later.

That would certainly be odd at first, because the same pronoun could be used more than once in a sentence and mean different people each time:

John overthrew when P1 tossed the ball to Mary but P1 was still able to catch it.

P1 is John in part of that sentence and Mary in part of it.

In more complicated sentences this could get very confusing very fast. Imagine reading along and somewhere near the end of long paragraph you hit a P12 and had to them skim backward counting nouns. Or worse, if someone dropped a P12 in conversation.

So I think what I'd actually advocate for is the forward counting position based pronouns, but they only work within a sentence.
Metaverse milestone: VRChat raises $80M shortly after Rec Room raises $100M
Yep, totally agree. XPlane is a fantastic idea I'll look in to it. Better than Microsoft Flight Sim?
A reminder that WE are the product. Our emails, our phone numbers, what we're shopping for, what we drive, where we live, who we voted for....all of this is in a ginormous Oracle marketing database that they rent to other companies. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon...they all do the same thing. They track us and every digital footprint we make.
We've sequenced human DNA that's older, but only from pretty miraculous finds. Once you get past a thousand years, you're well into serious degradation territory and have to start pulling out the aDNA tricks. However, the authors of this paper have stated they looked for DNA and couldn't find any.
Recognition of a country does not require the security council, a general assembly vote is all that is needed. That said, the UN isn't exactly a body known for it's lawfullness or fidelity to procedure. When the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon rejected Taiwan's bid because of resolution 2758, there was no real legal basis for him to do that, but people just went along. Neither is there a "supreme court" of the UN that can settle these disputes, as the ICJ is intended to resolve disputes between two member nations, not disputes between the General Assembly and the Secretary General.

It's best to think of the UN as a meeting place where consensus can form, rather than as a law making body with a well functioning appeal and dispute resolution process for its own deliberations.
Sounds like it was not only shady, but incompetent in making the calls synchronous.
All depends if you mean actual dark patterns or something you find distasteful. Either way my current company doesn’t, we work in the electric Vergil’s industry. Not a single distasteful thing expect some of the meetings with clients and management plans. But tech wise, none that I know of.
Just... no. That's now what happened here at all. Panasonic invested very early in Tesla, as a way to help give them more runway and just generally be a good partner to a buyer of their batteries. The price of Tesla stock has nothing to do with anything Panasonic did to "pump it up". They probably are just as astounded as the rest of the world by how the Tesla stock is, and decided to cash it out rather than let a meme stock own a huge chunk of their balance sheet, all while making a 9-figure profit.
The US is 240 volt for power purposes. The 120 volt thing is just dividing that in half - the meters don't measure that. These days most US houses get 200 amp service, but in the past 30, 60, and 100 were all common (100 is still done). I know of a few houses with more than that, but those are not normal.
Regarding 2. that would run afoul of many ethics boards at universities. Generally they require that (informed) consent has been given to take part in the study.
Also metal detectors at schools. Very weird and unimaginable in Europe
>> In that sense any opt-in choice given to another is yet another privacy breach on their 'contacts' for example.
That is a non-sequitor, when we are discussing opting-in to social science research.

> That is a non-sequitor, when we are discussing opting-in to social science research.

As I understand it, the commenter's point does not rest on 'contact' linking being present. Their point is that any kind of data linking provides a reindentification risk.

Regarding the risk of data linkages, how confident are you that Mozilla and others with access to the data will manage it ...

1. ... up to the currently-accepted level of knowledge (including hopefully some theoretical guarantees, if possible, and if not, mitigations with known kinds of risk) and ...

2. ... that the current level is acceptable given that history of data privacy doesn't paint a rosy picture?

To be open, I'm not interested in your confidence level per se, but rather the reasoning in your risk assessment. I want to weight the various factors myself, in other words. For example, you appear to have more confidence in IRB's than I do.

Knowing the history of the "arms race" between deidentification and reidentification, I don't put a whole lot of trust in Institutional Review Boards. Many smart, well-meaning efforts have fallen prey to linkage attacks. They are insidious.

P.S. In my view, using "non-sequitor" here is a bit strong, perhaps even off-putting. It is only a "non-sequitor" because you are making different logical assumptions than the commenter. Another approach would be to say "your conclusion only holds if..." This would make your point without being so pointed. It also helps show that you want to understand the other person's assumptions.
2015 iPhone 6S's are still getting patches, in fact it'll be compatible with iOS 15 this coming fall. It'll have seven years of ongoing support by this time next year.
I would also keep around pieces of real production code and ask the candidate to either fill in additional/missing functionalities

So as opposed to a boilerplate test or asking developers to solve a challenge with a few lines of code and discuss their thoughts on it, they're asked to look at real production code that is in use, opine on it, and add/change functionality to it?

Can I re-ask my question if I've read you properly and understood: presumably you pay people for this right?

I ask because in my mind, solving a coding challenge or talking about something hypothetical/conceptual probably isn't too much different than solving a problem on actual code the company uses from a technical standpoint in as much as they both require effort on my part to think about the problem and bang out a solution...

... but in terms of time spent interviewing and evaluating employers, I'd feel less comfortable contributing anything to production code without the guarantee that the company wont just take the work and implement it, and then later say they hired someone else/went another direction or just decided not to hire at all.

Which has happened.
I was trying to agree with a comment I saw, but it appears I replied to the wrong comment.
AWS hired the architect behind the NSA's attempt at breaking commercial crypto, according the Matthew Green [0].

I can't trust AWS will be truthful about their crypto systems and lack of backdoors.

[0] - https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/13571435600055091...
> commentators were mentioning he was Chinese. Now why would that be relevant indeed ?

Because the maintainer could've been a foreigner who sees a "huawei.org" email address and imagines that they might want to apply unpleasant pressure to get their typo fixes merged.

Having a Chinese name makes it a bit less likely that the maintainer is influenced by such stereotypes and makes the critique of Huawei harder to dismiss out of hand.
How is the notation and standards in convex optimization?

I took a course linear programming out of Vanderbei's book and it seemed any time I used google to find notes that everyone used slightly different notation or methods. For example, Vanderbei used the dictionaries and others used the tableau.
> but nursing homes were forced to accept COVID-positive transfers even though the elderly were at the greatest risk.

Yeah. Remind me who ordered that, and whether they're out of office over it? That's so blatantly wrong that it should rise to the level of criminal endangerment, even if nobody died from it. And I'm pretty sure that people did die from it, at which point it's at least manslaughter. Yes, I want that politician charged, because that was the clearly predictable result of that insanely wrong-headed decision.
30% made sense when you were getting white-glove service from the platform owner, when that platform was actively building out new features, when there was little competition from other software, huge growth in customer base, and when bandwidth and ecommerce generally were still expensive and difficult.

Now, the platform owners have dropped all developer support to basically zero, are just sitting on core systems that were created 10+ years ago, have no curation, and all of their fixed and marginal costs have been pushed towards zero.

You can go into the Steamworks dev forum for example and find ongoing major platform issues that have been raised for years, consensus gained from a lot of other devs that they need to be fixed, and just never addressed or even responded to by any Valve staff.
Funny you mention that. I have in fact heard about that one from some teens as well. Don't use it much though, since I don't really know anyone on the platform. I still haven't figured out how it differs from Instagram, other than the ownership of the site.
The Antigravity Underground (2003)
Can't speak for FAA as I am in the UK and night flight is most certainly a separate rating. It's an additional 5 hours of training. Not much but essential given how many differences there are at night. It's night and day! #dadjoke.

Edit: More info about night rating: https://www.caa.co.uk/General-aviation/Pilot-licences/Applic...
This hit the frontpage a few weeks ago, and may be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414443
You don't think that's using a very wide brush to paint all Maori at all points in history and across all iwi the same?

How do you feel about Germany and what they did less than 100 years ago.

Nearly every tribe, nation, empire or a represntive of has blood on their hands in some wrong doing at some point in history.

I feel you're being harsh and dismissive. There could stil be good to come from their guidance and the Maori do a lot in New Zealand and are taking on a lot of roles to safeguard the environment and be leaders and guardians in those areas.
Isn't Panasonic the battery company?
Plenty of IoThings don't "require a connection", yet end up on the Internet anyway, which is perhaps worse.

That's one of the reasons why the transition to IPv6 is good : IoT directly connected to the Internet without any NAT is going to be the default assumption.
They're standing there as the institution, not their personal opinions or unions. I think it's pretty benign.
I’m not an expert but scientists have found that coronaviruses are aerosolized. So i think the process of aerosolization probably played a part.

Source for reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293495/
Yes. You can and are encouraged to make forms with just a few fields, and let Zoominfo auto-fill the rest.

When my client made the initial request I responded with "I don't know if that's possible OR legal" and then a couple weeks later they sent me Zoominfo welcome emails and asked to integrate into their web forms.

FWIW, my clients' forms actually display the fields (none are hidden) so I at least can sleep a little better at night.
Can they self isolate? Do old people not need to go to the grocery store, doctor's offices, the hardware store to get parts for their broken toilet, etc?
Unfortunately my training didn’t include manual drafting.