skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought USB off/on switches [1] for the external webcam and microphone on my desktop. I think they control the power line and not the data lines, but they do the trick. Reduces port fatigue and USB orientation frustration.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08M44D79T
> standardized tasks such as welding a seam

I came to comment on this as well... there is an entire industrial workforce of CWIs(certified welding inspectors), who exist because welding a seam is not as easy as youtube would lead people to believe. It's easy to make it look correct, but it's the attributes of the weld you cannot see that make it safe/unsafe. Doing it correctly is not something you can learn from a book or listening to someone talk about...it's something you learn by doing it over, and over, and over, until it "feels" correct. The author may as well have included "performing a quadruple heart bypass" in their list of well-understood concepts.

A knowledge worker learns from repetition the "right way" to do things. Example rules like "document your work in a clear and concise manner" read a lot like "weld the seam from a consistent angle and with consistent fill material". Multiple people will follow those instructions, and you will end up with very different outcomes among the individuals doing the work. The sign of a well-seasoned craftsperson is that it "feels" right, and that only comes from long-term repetition.
> The average obese American is on a diet much closer to a vegan diet than a meat-based diet. They get most of their calories from bread, rice, peanut oil, soy products, corn syrup, canola oil, etc. etc.

And meat, cheese and eggs.
Even in the 90s that was a solved problem in Visual Basic with autocomplete. That a lot of dev environments "lost" the ability to do it is mind boggling. With that said, doesn't Rubymine let you do that with autocomplete with the prompt giving you all the info you need? (I haven't done Ruby in a long time).

Still, having to look up the doc or run the code to figure out how to type it is orders of magnitude slower than proper auto complete (be it old school Visual Studio style, or something like Copilot).
Again, you are making assumptions here that are invalid. You are talking about service dogs; I am not.

Service dogs do save lives, and are immensely important, but that is explicitly not my point.

I am talking about the fact that many pet-owners do gain emotional value and support from animals. Emotional animal support can be extremely effective therapy for humans, but would not count as a service animal. However, I don't think that anyone in their right mind would argue that situation is a function of vanity and/or entertainment.

And before you go try and find data: no, there aren't a lot of registered 'therapy animals,' because that is a hot-topic political issue, and people don't differentiate them well from service animals. Not to mention that society continues to think 'mental health problems' are mostly either made-up or to be looked down upon.

There not being a lot of registered ones does not mean that the emotional support and stability gained by having a pet does not do absolute wonders from a therapeutic perspective.

It has been formalized a bit[1], but has been going on informally for centuries, since animals and humans do form close emotional bonds.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/pet-therapy
Mitsubishi Electric used special program to spin fake data
I thought I was joking…

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/a-low-dose-aspirin-da...
> I generalize that for many people less meat and meat products may lead to positive health outcomes, but I am no scientist.

And you fail to take into account the healthy user bias. Plenty of people become vegan because it's advertised as healthier, which means it filters people that don't want to be healthy more than some other diets. Also, vegans are very aware that they diet may lack X or Y so they pay more attention to nutrition. For example, lack of B12 was a meme against vegans at some point, which means now most of them are aware of B12. I can't say the same for the rest of the population.
I can't picture IBM being consumer.. they were too deep and too big. They didn't speak mainstream .. Jobs had some stuff to sell (aesthetics, art, culture) .. IBM had 'enterprise grade'.
Or maybe the same shady plutocrats that control Uber have all the gas stations, so it doesn't even matter.
Not using AWS would not make much of a difference. AWS is a money machine, the parts of Amazon that involve logistics and blue collar work is barely profitable.
Personally feel it won't hurt Amazon one bit unless consumers change their "reliance" on it.
Challenging, but almost always possible.

Most flash chips have a write-enable line that you can put a switch on. Usually have to cut a trace but often can avoid soldering right to the legs by following traces.

Was a common thing to do to receivers (“Integrated Receiver Decoders”) back in the paytv days. Thankfully they had firmware on a parallel eeprom and config stuff on a smaller serial eeprom (that could handle 1m writes instead of 1k writes). Receivers could have a lot of wires especially after they implemented some lock-detection that had to be countered with some 74ac logic that could disrupt the 2nd step of starting a write job.

Should be doable for something like a router or cable modem, but maybe not on something like these WD drives. Like a mod chip without having to worry about the vendor trying to counter you.

Of course you’re still screwed if something is only non-persistent but at least any issues are resolved with a simple reboot.
Sound crackly and distorted to me
I don’t think you can do anything to early my trust personally other than sticking some big brand name in your domain. Anything you say or put on your website still comes from some random server on the web.
Perhaps archive.org can provide some of the missing articles?
How to Set Goals in Life for Doing Great Things – Weidel on Winning
Interesting event! I'll see you there next week!
> A "firmware update" hardware switch is challenging to implement.

No, it’s not. The actual low-level chip on the flash has a separate pin that must be connected to ground to enable writes.
I almost physically cringe when for example I see people searching for the super important cost estimation of a project and finding it as “/Documents/documents/docs/Old Stuff/work/New Folder (1)/Amy/work/migration/temp18/excel/team/DO NOT DELETE/e.xlsx”
Companies like Facebook, Uber, and Amazon exploit small business
How do you even know that? Text says they were armed with knives. And what do you mean "civilians" in this context? The article lists them as armed belligerents.
Yeah that's fair, and I can believe its a lot less likely to damage morale if you have the Spaniards on the run, on home turf.
No humans were harmed in the operation of the reactor.
Vehicles Vehicles
Produced Delivered

Q2 2020 [a] 82,272 90,650
Q2 2021 206,421 201,250

Annual change +150.9% +122.0%

Wow, Tesla more than doubled its vehicle business over the past year. The run rate is on track to surpass 1M vehicles/year before the end of 2021.

--

[a] Estimates from a year ago: https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q2-2020-vehicle-pro...
"I agree completely that the change in leadership marked an inability to really bring WATSON to market, and some other products too."

Watson for all it's academic glory, was kind of vapourware as a product.

It just never really did anything materially useful. They did a lot of hospital trials that fizzled. Way, way over-promised.

A little bit along the lines of ElementAI - it's hard to commercialized AI directly.

Google et. al. do it right by incrementally improving things like translation, voice recognition ... it's making waves within academia for it's quality, but it's something consumers are hardly aware of.

Since IBM is not a consumer company, there's only so much sugar and hype that Watson can provide (winning Jeopardy was a brilliant thing) before the rubber has to hit the rode.

I'm not so sure if it's fair to blame a new leader for that one ... because I'm not sure what a realistic business application for Watson would be. (Maybe there are hard and real products, but they're probably going to be very context specific etc..)

Building great tech is hard enough, then building great products on top of that - just as hard. Doing it within a massive multinational that makes it's money from grifting governments and megacorps into paying for really expensive services probably just is not going to work.

MS, Google, FB ... they have the operational fidelity and product line to leverage AI internally, IBM, not so much.

I don't know what the future of IBM looks like aside from just being another Accenture.
The first step of the trial was for charges to be filed. The next part was using those charges to request his extradition. At this point you could say the extradition hearing is not a part of his trial, but it is only happening because of the trial and the US is the reason he is in prison currently.

I'd write this off as weird pedantry but you're accusing me of lying for some reason.
Meh. The vast majority of people subscribed to some religion or another and all the major religions say don't do rape or murder. I think it's reasonable to point out the moral failings of the past relative to their own morality.

Seems perfectly reasonable to say "these people did bad things". If you want to then go a step further and say "they did bad things because reasons" that's fine, but the bad things were still done and pretending that providing some context justifies it is just as flawed an analysis as saying it doesn't. The world is nuanced AF.
2 people run for office, both committed a crime. 1 of them supports Russia in their ongoing aggression. So Russia has WikiLeaks post only the information on the candidate they don't like, securing the election for a politically favorable but perhaps even more corrupt person.

How and what information is being presented is an incredibly important part of "the truth" as a whole.
The problem with audits is it’s an adversarial relationship in that you can’t trust the other party. The wealth of computerized records would be great if you could trust them, but anything the IRS automates is begging to be gamed. On top of this internal systems aren’t forced to use a constant standard.

In effect the IRS is stuck at some level doing audits by hand while handed a deluge of low level data.
I think you may have that backwards.

There are two scenarios. In the first, the government simply prints the $1.5T. That's newly created money. $1.5T has been added to the economy overnight. It's been created, not destroyed.

The second scenario is where the government takes the money from somewhere else (maybe taxes). The money is removed from somewhere (someone's assets), but the exact same amount of debt is also removed. The net is zero - neither creation or destruction, just rearrangement.
This is an HN comment thread, not a scientific paper. There’s no “onus” on me to do anything, and if there were, it certainly wouldn’t be up to you who got to make comments without fulfilling some evidentiary ritual. If you’re actually interested, you could very easily google it, but I’ll give you a starting point: https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/news/2020-dietary-guidelin...
Sam's EPS target was the singular focus during that time. Executive management squeezed everything for the last penny during that period, IMO setting the path to failure.
I am pleased to see this shared.

> Mance may overstate his case, but he is spot on to make us confront the horrible truth that the vast majority of us are supporting animal suffering every time we shop

It took me a long time to understand that there was a link in the actual world between the delicious food I was enjoying and horrible animal suffering that went in to producing it.

I used to make fun of vegans and never for a moment took their position seriously. I couldn't imagine how anyone could voluntarily give up cheese.

Now I see that something as seemingly benign as cheese isn't made in an ethical vacuum. It's very often the product of a system that creates animal suffering.

I would encourage anyone who was in my position to confront the realities of what goes in to producing what you eat and consider trying a vegan diet and advocating for animal welfare.
the full sentence is:

the [..] device can achieve an overall efficiency of 385 percent in converting the energy of sunlight into the energy of water evaporation.

it seems quite clear how the 3.85 ratio is obtained
I don't think I was prescribing throwing it all out, but implementing UBI or needing heavy antitrust laws to enforce behavior suggests capitalism alone is not a solution by itself, it must be heavily regulated, and maybe supplemented with socialist/welfare policies. The problem is that capitalism often leads to regulatory capture, so we're left with crony capitalism.
Tesla has still not opened up their Supercharger network, they are the last major provider who has not done this.

Apparently the terms offered by Tesla is unacceptable, it is hard to see the EU keep on accepting this state of affairs.

It does look like this might change in September 2022 in Norway, which in my opinion is very late.

Source:

https://electrek.co/2021/06/24/tesla-confirms-plan-open-supe...

Germany also wants to open up the Supercharger network:

https://www.torquenews.com/13417/german-minister-wants-tesla...
AWS Infnidash (where it started)
Regarding the name, search Scunthorpe on YouTube
Best Buy, Why Does Your Support Person Sound Terrified?
I share your confidence that lots of providers blanket drop mail from IP ranges owned by cheap VPS providers.

The cost of swtiching IPs within those providers is low, so spammers have already abused that, and made life worse for the rest of us as a result.
Scary reds! Be afraid!! Russia needs America and China to be able to scare their own populace into giving up more and more of their own personal freedoms, just like America needs China and Russia to do the same. No one country could “rule the world” in a way that wouldn’t immediately galvanize worldwide opposition. Capital claims no nationality, so nationality is one of the ways the very rich divide and conquer the populace at large. It’s a fake idea in an age of global instant communication when people have literally bought citizenships.
The unrolled version:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1410989291895869445.html
>our corporate-friendly judges see it otherwise.

It's unfortunately not just judges. Our lawmakers are in on it. Given that we, the voters, are the ones putting them in place, it seems that we largely don't care, either.
This line of thinking very likely has the causation backwards — Tesla is a complex-enough business that they can determine how much they're gonna make in regulatory credits, and then turn opex up or down accordingly, with profit being a downstream effect of that decision.
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Amusingly, there's one real PSR-60 that someone abandoned in the trash shed in my residence. It's been there for a week, I think I'll grab it and see if something still works in there.
>>> Edward Snowden said: "This is the end of the case against Julian Assange."

>> What does Snowden know? He's not a lawyer of any sort.

> He is broadly considered a generic authority based on his long, deep thinking and publications about leaks and legal consequences.

Maybe so, but I wouldn't hire him as my lawyer or rely on his judgements about when a legal case will fail.

It's the difference between thinking about the consequences of a technology and building/operating that technology. For instance, someone might be an expert on the pernicious social effects of Facebook, but would flame out if they actually worked as a developer there. Snowden more than likely doesn't have the technical knowledge of the British legal system for him to reliably tell the difference between a major and minor development, let alone make trustworthy prediction about the future outcome of the whole thing.
I work similar to this.

I think you have inspired me to go full on with it.
Every time I read replies or comments from WD the less i want to buy anything from them again. Very disappointing as every few years i buy 1 drive that backsup all my previous backups plus the new stuff. So i guess all my drives are unsupported. Not buying any cloud solution, NAS ever. A company not taking care of its customers is either not worth investing or are about to go belly up anytime.
Context is key.

Overall EV adoption is what I want to see growing.

https://www.strategyand.pwc.com/de/en/insights/2021/electric...

In Europe:

> BEV sales were up by 80% compared to Q1 2020, and PHEVs by 184%. The respective market shares were 6.7% and 7.4% respectively, compared to 3.8% and 2.6% in Q1 2020, and 1.2% and 0.8% in Q1 2019 - strong proof of continued, accelerating growth.

And USA:

> BEVs recorded a market share of 2.1% in January, an almost twofold increase from 1.1% in the equivalent month last year.

Another set of charts:

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/06/27/market-share-of-electri...

Also shows Tesla over time:

https://cleantechnica.com/ev-sales-charts-graphs-stats/

In Europe, only the Renault Zoe outsold the Tesla Model 3 in 2020. Globally, the Tesla Model 3 has a big lead.
There's a difference between operating within the constructs of power and having a reductionist worldview of power. The 2nd one is more like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The plural of datum is data, and when you look at something that produces a datum.
Since the information is encoded in model weights, I doubt that erasure is even possible. Only post-retrieval filtering would be an option.

It only goes to show that intransparent black-box models have no place in the industry. The networks leak information left and right, because it's way too easy to just crawl the web and throw terabytes of unfiltered data at the training process.
Haha! Fair enough.

Although, to give Ballmer some credit, he inherited a lot of structural problems in the business, and I merged their eras because it was never very clear when Gates actually let go of all of the reigns.
Maybe this was a thing 15+ years ago but I don't think this is really a thing anymore??? People go vegan and no one gives a shit.

I have many friends/acquaintances who are vegan and none of them are like - "I am such a victim, no one will eat with me! All my friends left me for meat!"

Hell - people are much more judgmental these days to people who are just picky eaters! If you're vegan - no one cares. Picky eater though? You ain't getting married, buddy.
How do you check?
I love this response. Such a pleasure when a Registered Dietitian chimes in with an informed opinion based on data on the internet.

If anyone want to get some high quality info from an actual registered dietitian, check out Simnett Nutrition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpyhJZhJQWKDdJCR07jPY-Q
He died at age 88 not 99.
Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is 'becoming an extremist'
The drop in Model S/X sales is huge (17,650 2019 Q2 -> 2340 2021 Q2). I'm sure buyer are just preferring the newer model 3/Y, and the total sales have grown a lot. But the Fremont plant producing S/X really isn't producing much.

Edit: Turns out the shift is just a retooling
If you go to a restaurant or eat with them in any context it becomes obvious very quickly.
Doesn't leaking information that exposes flaws of a country make it more resilient in the future against bigger attacks? So even if he is helping Russia spread their propaganda isn't it making us stronger to find this out and plan against it instead of an all out information war? How does Russia win here.
Having worked at one of those that also did business with IBM, I felt there was an ethos I observed in the upper ranks that is hard to describe. It was like they felt they were better than others, had large egos about their brand and had a certain stuffiness to them where they knew what was right because it was them. Like a business book/MBA club of sorts. Kinda hard to describe it.

Anyhow I wonder if this better-than-thou, stuffy corporate attitude leads itself to internal re-org cycles where it results in no identity and no central vision, just internal battles.

It seems like other similar size large companies, like Apple, can be successful so maybe their leadership doesn't show these character traits?
IMO if they have a point in time where they decide they will no longer provide security updates, they should adjust the MTBF calculation, setting the maximum possible lifetime to be the EOL on the software.
Your double hourly rate for contracting might be gross, and after taxes (covering both sides of FICA), health insurance, and other employer-provided benefits, the net delta could be smaller.
Subscribing to their twitter feed is dangerous - a constant supply of interesting book recommendations that causes your "books I want to read" list to grow faster than you can read them:)
I’m focusing on peeing in a bottle because I think it’s particularly dehumanizing and humiliating part of amazon’s horrible labour practices.

And for the record, if you’re doing a job in my house, you can use my toilet. Whatever social stigmas there are around contractors and cleaners using the house toilet - those are the same classist and toxic forces that let people justify dehumanizing work.
We don't shred digital images in RAM in that way, but we can scan & reconstruct physical images that have been shredded or torn.

You can paste together possible scenes to construct side-scrolling game scenery in realtime.

By applying a few insights we can phase one image into a hole that is in another image. This is similar to randomizing an array by creating a second array with random values, then sorting them in tandem, except we use the TSP with expected weightings.

There are lots of use cases for this.
>Charge more and address these drawbacks, or get out of the business.

Why? It seems like this is meeting plenty of people's needs just fine. Not everything has to meet your needs.
"Cue", not "Queue".
Well, I'm going by what the Wikipedia article says, that they were "Atahualpa's counselors, commanders, and unarmed attendants". According to the article the "armed host" was stationed outside the city and fled when the emperor was killed.

Edit: sorry, captured, not killed.
Why are they better?
Challenging? I think you mean fun.
Condo boards everywhere are unprepared for serious repairs
Show HN: Native Session State in a Streamlit App
> IMAP synchronizes with the server, but keeps a local copy.

The local copy is client dependent. Mail.app on your iPhone will not keep a local copy of all your emails if you have a large number of emails spanning a long period of time. Other clients may vary.