skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focus can be set automatically in the desired field using Javascript, and tricks can be done to hide that field too - ie. set opacity so it's transparent, etc. You can make it work pretty smoothly for the end user.

Some of the original Yubikeys worked this way, and there are some barcode scanners out there that emulate keyboards too. I've seen some web based implementations go to great lengths to hide this fact.
I had the experience other way around. I did my graduate degree developing solvers and algorithms to analyze mechanical and civil structures. Heck, I even did TA for one of these grad level courses. However, when it was time to find a job, software screening cleared me but it was impossible to find a job because I could not convince the HR and hiring manager that I have the necessary experience using softwares that run such algorithms to design structures. I would happily adapt a software system that has less bias (or atleast bias normalized from different viewpoints and quantified) that having to deal with human bias that is not easily identifiable or quantifiable. Also such human bias is particularly harsh against poor and marginalized groups.
> I'm less familiar with Australian politics, but assuming you mean the 2013 election

They definitely mean the 2019 election.
> In the US, Mozilla is apparently putting users under the thumb of Cloudflare.

Even if you don't think Cloudflare is perfect, don't you trust them way more than, e.g., Comcast?

> I'd rather have a mode where regular DNS and centrally controlled DNS are compared, and you get a popup if they differ. That warns you of censorship attempts. But that doesn't seem to be an option.

This would only fix the censorship problem, not the surveillance problem.
Lol @ this bad faith right wing argument
> are venture capitalists just footing the bill?

Since they're public, its any shareholder and the public market. But that also means they're probably not still raising rounds like they were.
Surely some enterprising folks can create video RSS crawlers and put together a video podcast app, right?
paypal requires your bank password.
> where all the mainstream media and not just Facebook played a major role in inciting violence.

I'd like to see a good example of the MSM inciting violence. Do you have some?
Doing stuff like this is how you create the seeds for a knowledge economy in an area.
That’s like when they said GamerGate was about journalistic ethics: a transparent lie to elicit sympathy. It doesn’t even make sense: what would that mean in this context? It’s not like they forked it because they were concerned about accessibility.

As you can tell from the cartoon and organization name, it’s a 4chan meme based on a Simpsons episode:

https://github.com/Sneeds-Feed-and-Seed/sneedacity

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sneeds-feed-and-seed
(maker of this thing)

> If I use Streambus, how will I get others to see my content? If I want to find new stuff on Streambus, where do I see others' streams?

There's two answers to this.

The first is that the discoverability works through all the same channels as podcasts. You can put your feed on podcast listings, rank in the search and discoverability of the many different apps.

The second is that subscriptions don't need as large of an audience. If you're doing an ad model, you get a million people to watch your video and make maybe $5k in ads. But you could instead get 500 people to pay you $10/month and you make the same with a far smaller audience.

New platforms are a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. Podcasts is our plan to solve it. If you publish a video podcast, you get to piggyback on the already large audience of podcast-listeners. Then subscriptions lower the audience size you actually need for the platform to be viable and drive more video-creators to RSS, which drives more viewers in a virtuous cycle.

That's the plan anyway. Hopefully it will work! Youtube ads and their enormous % cuts really suck.

If you find this as interesting as we do, or you'd like help launching your own show, send me an email at evan @ streambus . com.

Or if you're in the bay area and vaccinated, let's get a coffee or go for a bike ride!
I assume this is getting downvoted because of its tone, but the sentiment is correct. The statement is nonsense. There can be wisdom in attempting to understand why anecdotes disagree with data, but the vast majority of the time it is simply a combination of selection bias and the human tendency to want to believe things that support your own worldview.
I personally hate it when someoen is trying to hype up something idiotic as changing the world.

"We will rent office space in a new way and save the world doing it. "
"We will xxx and humanity will thank us forever!!!!"

Working on a computer system should not entail adopting a religion for
the company, or the CEO or whatever.

Often it is combined with en embrace of the prosperty gospel.
Not only will we save the world but YOU (look into my eyes) YOU..
will become a BILLIONAIRE. $$$$$$$.

I have all my spiritual needs figured out and met.
It is a job, it should not be a cult.

A much minor but slighlty related annoyance is

"Failture is not an option"

Well yes it very much is.

Someone quoting that line is a huge indicator that failure may be imminent.
Years ago (2007ish) I worked for a startup owned by a guy that relocated to Reno and had a huge property in some mountaintop country club on the edge of the city line. As we stood in the snow, looking out over Reno (where they had none) he was telling me all about how the money he saved on taxes in California 100% financed the property we were standing on. It was a very nice house... guessing about 4000 or 5000 sqft.

Many many years later I was sitting at the bar at the top of the Stratosphere in Las Vegas eavesdropping on a conversation by a guy who started some kind of sanitation or janitorial business. He was trying to impress a woman that he was talking with, and I distinctly remember him saying he'd be eaten alive if he started the company in California, and that he was thankful for the tax situation in Nevada.

So I don't think this is entirely a myth.
Probably just publish a few videos to Youtube and ask future subscribers to follow your non-Youtube channel instead.
Probably should multiply by a googol for a fair price.
I hate to call something gaslighting, but this is gaslighting of the highest order. I am not familiar with Australian politics, but the other three cases were textbook cases of the data saying one thing (Trump might win, BoJo will probably win, and Brexit might happen) and people refusing to believe it.

How these get turned to make precisely the opposite point (Not just by you. It happens all the time) never ceases to amaze me. Presumably the thought process is "I and the people I respect build beliefs based on data. I and the people I respect were wrong. Therefore the data was wrong". Unbelievable.
the entire coverage of George Floyd and other BLM "martyrs" was engineered for outrage.
Chattanooga, Tennessee launched gigabit fiber in 2010. So we have 11 years of data.

> In 2015, it re-upped its status as a speed leader by becoming the first provider to offer 10 gigabits per second.

> The system has proven an unqualified success. Over half of the homes and businesses in the service area are signed up with “The Gig.” Plus, its price of $68 per month for a gig connection is lower than any private-sector rival for the same service. The operation is cash-positive, allowing EPB to pay off the bonds 12 years ahead of schedule and lower home utility rates.

> A recent study documented more than $2.69 billion in economic benefits to the region during the network’s first ten years. At the beginning of 2020, Forbes magazine predicted Chattanooga would be the number one city for new jobs, and even after the pandemic hit, Time Out magazine called it the best place in the country to work remotely. The expansion has been widespread, with the city seeing one of the highest income growths in the country.

To summarize "everyone benefits" because:

- "the operation is cash-flow positive" i.e. no net-new taxes.

- "price of $68 per month for a gig connection is lower than any private-sector rival" i.e. customers are saving money.

- "$2.69 BB in economic benefits to the region" i.e. everyone else is getting a boost, because connectivity (like roads) attracts business and now also attracts remote workers.

This is just one city (I googled for this success story and saw others, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader), and you might argue "its run competently, most gov entities are not". I agree! People get what they vote for. Vote for competency! Meanwhile, poor voting is not specific to muni-broadband so I'll leave it there.

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/building-back-america/in...
> s quite interesting the lengths people go to follow the letter but not the spirit of things.

Perhaps it appears that way to you, but what do you know about the 'spirit' of Jewish law compared to generations of life-long practitioners and rabbis?
There is a YouTube channel - don’t have the link handy - where the host tears down failed light bulbs and generally the issue appears to be the leds are wired in series, one of the leds fails, and that kills the bulb. To verify his analysis he’ll bypass the failed one and the light works fine.
This is the correct answer. Be less clever. Makes life much simpler for whoever has to maintain your code (which may well be you).
Nice misleading chart with a truncated Y axis.
wow, true heros those two, and that would be incredible if it really leads to a marketable cancer vaccine/treatment
Pfizer to seek OK for 3rd vaccine dose; shots still protect
> Given that this trend is now stalling naturally, the warming trend should follow suit

Even a cursory argument should make it obvious this is untrue: CO2 is cumulative, so emitting the same amount year over year will continue increasing warming.
> If Mozilla cared about preventing DNS tampering, they could have done DNSSEC 10 years ago.

DNSSEC only protects integrity, not confidentiality or availability. It still lets evil ISPs build a profile of every domain you've ever resolved, and to block your access to certain domains by just dropping your DNS request packets for them. Basically the only thing it stops is them sending you to a fake page (e.g., a pretty block message rather than a generic browser error).
Interesting to see no mention of the "Dubai lamp". There was a previous discussion on HN [0], and of course the Big Clive videos about it [1]. In short, the LEDs are underrun, which increases the efficiency, and should increase the lifetime (which as the article mentions is mainly related to heat). Edit: They're called "Dubai lamps", because they're only supposed to be sold there (even though Philips makes them).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25808959

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4
Is this related to the current controversy around Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID19? If so, what new information can this 2017 article provide around this controversy?
You're not understanding what I'm saying.

When a couple has G, what's the probability they'll want to go for GX? When the couple has GG, what's the probability they'll want to go for GGX?

It doesn't matter that X is 50% boy 50% girl - in fact, it being 50/50 is why the bias ends up towards more G.

Edit: Ah wait I think I have something backwards in my head, I need to come back to this later. But I do want to mention that the estimated at-birth ratio in humans is more like 51:49, not 50:50

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC102777/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511063/
Why do you get paid more than most other EU citizens for having US citizenship? Just because it’s a US company? Did you get the job in the US then move to Croatia? Do they only hire US citizens? How does the local tax situation work out?

Sorry for asking so many questions. I’m curious because I’m also an EU/US dual citizen about to start my career in tech.
Just to make sure I understand, this assumes that you start decoding at the beginning of a byte, not halfway through a byte, correct?
Smartphones Repurposed to Form Inexpensive Earthquake Early Warning System
Yes: in the US, long-term capital gains (i.e. an asset you have owned for more than a year) are taxed at a significantly lower rate than income. Short-term cap gains are treated as income.
For years we thought Google Translate was the best machine translation we would ever get. Then DeepL just popped up out of nowhere and today other services still didn't manage to catch up.

Every now and then you get someone to think about an old problem on a clean sheet of paper and you might get a better result with less training data / investment.
The changes in melanoma and lung cancer are mainly due to immunotherapy, which is a bona fide revolution in cancer treatment. It's almost embarrassingly simple, just turn off one receptor ligand interaction (PD-1 and PD-L1) that suppresses anti-cancer immunity. Nobel prize was given for the discovery. Importantly it works in earlier stage and later stage disease, and the same drug works in multiple different cancers which is quite unique for a cancer treatment. There are definitely people walking around today who are alive only because they received this treatment. Seems that you can stop it after 2 years as well and it largely keeps working.

These treatments cost about $100K - $150K per year. They don't work for everyone, or even the majority of people with melanoma and lung cancer. Generally they result in 15 - 20% of patients with otherwise fatal cancer having long term disease control, and some lesser percentage that are probably cured from the incurable. They require sepcialist multidisciplinary oncology care. There can be severe and permanent side effects, but these are almost aways preferable to being dead from cancer.

It is important to note that these drugs do not work well or at all for the most common cancers with large shares of overall cancer mortality (Breast, Prostate and Colon), so this decline in mortality isn't going to automatically continue year over year. Also note that lung cancer is still the number one cause of cancer mortality, and this is due to smoking. So although we should celebrate great science and fancy expensive drugs, always remember that lung cancer is a disease caused by our failure to think clearly about corporate ethics and healthcare. Big tobacco is remarkably profitable and that is solely because we agree to pay in cash and lives for the negative externalities of their product.
> When you believe in an omniscient and omnipotent lawgiver

Is that assumed in Judaism?
I can’t help but think about how little time the average cellular device spends pressed up against an ear in significant range of brain tissue vs in a pocket, and what might be the comparative risk between Tx energy while in a voice call vs always-on data connections.

In short - if the effect is real, should there also be an observable increase in (forgive me) butt cancers?
Damn! Glad you're still with us!

Have you been able to continue hacking?
Thanks, that largely reflects my own experience.

The now-largely-unusable (thanks to API key limitations) mps-youtube command-line utility still remains the most useful interface to YouTube I've ever used:

- Runs without any browser at all.

- From a console.

- Without video, if you so specify.

- Enables full search, can be limited to music, includes both content and account search. That is, you can search for content matching terms, or for a username / account matching a term. Also playlists IIRC.

- Can play based on a given account's videos / postings.

- Individual items can be saved to a queue. Those may be ephemeral (session-only), or saved to disk.

- Content can be downloaded if preferred.

- No YouTube account required, no play history on YouTube.

YouTube apparently did all they could to kill this, and largely succeeded. I'd used it fairly extensively for my own preferred use of the site: finding lectures (and occasionally book-readings or similar content), and queuing up playlists or downloading archives of those. Works on absolutely minimal hardware.
>Software is giving bureaucrats the perfect escape hatch. "I'm sorry, but The System won't let me".

Kafka would be proud. Or horrified. One of the two.
Is that what that utterly bananas leading photo supposed to be??
Prices are increasing because the money supply is increasing... at an alarming rate. [0][1]

Supply and demand is real. When you increase the supply of Money, the demand for it goes down.

The USD is worth less than it was relative to things that can't be created as fast as a USD can before those two graphs I linked broke upwards.

That's the answer to the question in the title, at least.

The article literally doesn't even mention the word "money". Weird!

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
I could write a poem about the succinct beauty of this response.

Quick question: should we be concerned with the number of files per directory and / or the number of directories?

Put another way, could we use your solution with a single giant directory of ~10mb files spanning roughly 100TB?
So, You'd Like to Start a Software Scam
Author here. This is a darkly humorous take on an industry exposé. 3,800 words. Your comments are welcomed and appreciated!
Not sure if it's still true, but if to pick up the emergence phone (but don't push the call button) you could often use DTMF tones to call a number for free.
If Microsoft, Apple, and Google all agreed to make ECH mandatory on the same future date, wouldn't that basically force the hands of every other enterprise?
1) No. But you can freely distribute the disk duplication machine.

2) Someone using a copy machine is knowingly copying a specific work.
Watch a repair video, there are those who can solder new chips on. The problem is when Apple bans their suppliers from selling them to individuals or hardware locks components based on ID. These are artificial roadblocks and part of what r2r wants to address.

Remove those two barriers then people can fix or not as their skill or funds allow.
A card trick based on this, and I also find the high level explanation more clear than Wikipedia's:

http://teachersofindia.org/en/article/fibonacci-coding-and-c...
No snark implied but what a great ad for the author!

This was very fun to read, and an interesting window into the processes and inner workings of a startup that size.
That's a really powerful stream of downvotes. I wonder if it represents the average opinion of HN or it's just people who support the comment's point don't bother to upvote?
Local conditions can dramatically change these numbers. In places where the ground temperature is 20C you use dramatically less energy to heat and cool with a ground source heat pump. Nordic countries have minimal need for cooling and high levels of insulation minimize the need for heating. The worst for heat pumps is simply resistance heating which isn’t that much worse than the a heat pump connected to 5C or less ground temperatures.

On top of this 30k is on the high end for ground source heat pumps.
Use them where, exactly?

Your comment glosses over a ton of critical details.

The most important of them being that even on such an old technology generation (180nm-110nm) no two fabs are so compatible that you can send a GDS designed for one of them to the other unless (a) one of them licensed their process from the other, like IBM/GloFo/Samsung back in the 2010s or (b) you planned for this in advance and designed a custom "least common denominator" process (like MOSIS SCMOS) to target which means making very large performance sacrifices. The (b) approach is much harder than it looks; I know of no examples other than MOSIS SCMOS, and in spite of being the pioneer experts at doing this they had a hard time at 180nm and failed on the following (90nm) generation.

The other, lesser, problem is that no foundry will let you even submit a GDS without signing their NDA. Even if you swear to them that you don't need their design rules for some reason. They don't care. NDA or no chips, not up for discussion. In fact, technically SkyWater still works this way -- to avoid the NDA you must submit through eFabless, not directly to the foundry (maybe this will change someday) and eFabless signed their NDA, then (obviously) negotiated a waiver. So saying "you can work around this problem that the only no-NDA foundry has by just going to another foundry" because there are no other no-NDA foundries, nor are there any on the horizon.
Once you are out of the main coastal communities housing prices drop dramatically. I have friends in Eureka renting a gigantic house for like $1200/mo, and I saw studio apartments in the city center in the order of $750/mo. The SoCal equivalents would be $3500/mo-plus and $1500/mo-plus, respectively.
So the argument is that, because Thomas Caldwell posted the word “Inside” on his Facebook during the riots, Facebook is somehow responsible for the riots themselves?

It’s trendy to hate FB, but this is utterly ridiculous. Guess what else was used to organize these riots? Telephones. Are telephones evil? No. Do evil people use communication tools to further their goals? Yes. Does that mean those tools are bad or should be shut down or monitored? No.
I believe this is actually powered by OpenAI, which while large (now), is nowhere near the behemoth that Microsoft or Google is.

This suggests that seeing the future a bit ahead of the rest of the world, and then assembling a motivated all-star team is (perhaps in the short term at least) one way of out-competing the "super AI" of the giants.
Refine your mind
> For some reason, everyone is reluctant to apply

We just don't want another vendor lock-in. Especially for research projects. Maybe if TPUs were sold in the open market.
This applies to most specialties. Companies tend to have a few teams that lead the charge and expect everyone else to follow. Knowing which teams get the authority and which teams are along for the ride at a company is important for knowing what your job experience will look like.

> However, if E-team does give you the authority to call Product's bullshit, and tell Finance to stuff it, and not take direction from Eng leads

I know this was meant partially in jest, but if you reach the point where you're at odds with all of the teams and departments in the company you may get a lot done in the short term, but long term it's going to be difficult if you don't have some allies in each of those departments. Obviously no one should roll over and take orders from other departments, but some times it's necessary to do some give and take to build rapport. It's a balance, not a war.
They go up to the counter and complain that The WiFi isn't working.
All animals are equal - some are more equal than others.
Agreed. I did this in December in Thailand and I had no problems. Just come in with a plan to stay busy the two weeks. I was able to work remotely which took up the majority of my time.
It's not illegal to train a model to spit out classified nuclear weapon schematics. Possessing the original data might be. Releasing software that does this might be illegal, but not for copyright reasons, which is the issue at hand.
Average rent for a 1-bedroom is not a good deal. It's much cheaper to rent a single room in a larger house or apartment.

4500 per month, divided by 4 rooms is $1125/month, not $1200.

You can book the whole house and fill it with friends.

But look, it really doesn't matter if you're paying $1125 or $1200, that has approximately 0 impact on the actual conclusions of this post.
Evidence that their constituents care and that their donors don’t have qualms with taking action.