skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello! My name is Semyon, I'm an entrepreneur and maker. Want to tell about the product and have your opinion on the general topic: audio navigation impact.

*About the product*

Recently I've released a Red Hood app - attentive audio navigator for people. It would be useful for ones who live in big cities and spend a lot of time every day to commute from one point to another. Red Hood provides a user with thorough audio commands along the route.

Features to focus on:
1) Designed for travelling by foot and public transport. You can build path and move along without taking the phone out.
2) Custom geomessages with intro or interesting fact can be placed in any location. Other users will hear having the journey more immersive.
3) You can fetch the places of interest nearby and hear more about them doing a free walk. No special touristic routes, just free exploration.

We believe that citizens should have a specially tuned companion to make the longest routes with the finest experience. That's why there is a focus on the Red Hood being the convenient and useful audio navigator for any person.

*/About the product*

How do you evaluate the prospects of a mobile audio navigation? Which groups of people it would bring the biggest value to? I've came up with the few (couriers, travellers, commuters) and interested to discuss more specific categorization.
> Of course the strikes were to my friend's name, because they have no way to know some stranger did it instead.

For the anecdote, in France, we have a pretty stupid law (that was pushed by our really strong culture industry lobbies) where you can be pursued for downloading copyrighted content but also for not having secured your home network hardly enough so you can’t argue that’s it’s your neighbor over your wifi.

But it’s only a little part of what our culture mafia achieved here, we also have to pay a tax on every device with storage that is redistributed to « copyright owners ».
When I start looking forward to Fridays from Monday itself. On a serious note it is when one of compensation, learning or work life balance get so bad that I start hating start of the work day.
Only once it has been that these were alright but I wanted to start my own gig.
> Yes, most of that water does not need to be potable (97% is the statistic I've heard cited). But if you want to supply both potable and non-potable water, you need to duplicate the entire distribution infrastructure; you can't just treat 3% of the water and say "that's good enough, right?"

Agreed! To speculate about where the difference between 3% (your figure) and 1.5% (my 65×) comes from; maybe people in Virginia take more showers, take longer showers, and use more water to wash their dishes, than people at Burning Man?

If you're disinfecting water at a household, building, or neighborhood level, though, rather than a town or city, duplicating the entire distribution infrastructure is a totally reasonable thing to do. For example, it might amount to running three water pipes instead of two vertically through the building core, next to the 40 chimneys and the elevator shaft, or having a potable-water faucet next to your sink that's hooked up to a water disinfection filter, or keeping a peroxide-generating water jug in the fridge, next to the potatoes, or having a water sanitizer in the utility closet next to the hot-water heater.

In this sense, centralization of water treatment is imposing a 30× or 60× waste factor, which is just a staggering factor: literally 97%–99% of its output is wasted! What's even more amazing is that, historically anyway, it makes up for it by improving convenience, safety, and reliability by an even greater factor. Except, I guess, in places like Flint.

I still think that, with current technology, an ozone generator or germicidal lamp is probably cheaper than this catalytic ROS generation stuff. But it'll be interesting to see how it develops.
>Do you have a blog or anything with write ups about your equipment? Would be very interested in hearing about your silicon upgrades once you get there.

No blog. We don't even have a website as work has only ever arrived by word of mouth. I am not enamoured by studio blogs, generally. There's too much noise out there without my clumsy typehand adding to it. I keep abreast of technology and audio by furiously skimming.

The change over is not set in stone. I have concerns about the privacy claims made by Apple for the sake of my clients, but so far we've had little issue with our Air or Mini.
I'm not seeing what problem is being solved here. If, as he points out early in the paper, common carrier status in the US would only apply to hosting, but not recommendation engines and the like, what is the gain? Anybody can already find hosting somewhere. It's the discoverability that the platforms provide that's the secret sauce.
People can start wanting to protect their privacy at any time. The situation you describe is more like you traditionally log in "from NYC", and then attempt to log in through a VPN which the snakeoil vendor calls "North Macedonia", and then you get discouraged as if it is a problem with the VPN. If website users could choose to opt in/out of such restrictions I'd see the utility, but that's not what's happening.
An RTG powered electric car may not be able to drive cross country at highway speed, but most cars spend the vast majority of their time parked. Having a RTG constantly top off the battery of an electric car would probably work quite well, assuming you worked out the many, many issues surrounding the RTG itself first.
It blows my mind that humans can get together and build something like this.

I was just watching YT channel “Primitive Technology” and it really puts things into perspective. From sticks and stones to bootstrapping a James Webb Telescope that’s gonna sit at a langrange point between the Earth and the Sun. Woah.
Any chance of it taking out the common cold as well? I know it's hardly pandemic material, but it causes a lot of low-grade suffering and a fair bit of lost work.

Not the top priority, to be sure, but if it happened to be a nice side effect...
She is exhibit A in Greenwald's essay lambasting Congress for pressuring SV to censor speech they find objectionable.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...
I live on a dirt road. The ambient temperature above the surface is noticeably less than on asphalt: the instant you turn off a main road onto the gravel, you can feel the temperature drop.

I also neglected to add that I have shade trees :-)
My main laptop is a Thinkpad x200 (Intel Core 2 Duo) with 8GB of RAM. I like the idea of her challenge, and I have a T61/T61p hanging around two that I have thought about toying with.

The two hardest parts of this challenge:

- 512 MB of RAM: There are unfortunately a lot of programs like to eat up RAM (I am sitting at 3.9 GB used right now on that Thinkpad).

- (not a hard requirement) HDD. HDD is unfortunately painfully slow. I put an SSD in the x200 and that make a world of difference for speed.
Camera Repair Course (2019)
Perhaps it was just the time in my life that I played it, but the most immersive experience I had playing a game was a text based MUD called Achaea. I've tried to recapture that experience unsuccessfully.

The lack of focus on graphics meant that complexity of description and systems didn't need to have visual work to go along with it, which allowed for much more complex systems than I'd seen in any game at the time.
HIV vaccine trial starts at Oxford
Preprint of the paper "Phase precession in the human hippocampus and entorhinal cortex": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.06.285320v1....
Other landlords can borrow money the same way that WeWork borrowed money. There is literally a whole specialized financial services industry which arranges such financing for landlords.
Yes, and... each of the earlier processors had certain 'corner cases' in the way they handled setting (or not) flag bits; DEC s/w had to check these corner cases and execute a proper set of instructions for that specific machine. But yes, conceptually, the orthogonal addressing modes, and 'obvious' instruction names influenced probably 2 generations of students (for the better). The major lesson learned tho, I think, was: never be stingy with address bits! (16 is way too few; and even later 22-bit addresses weren't enough.)
It is hard for those businesses, but I think we need to realize why they post their info on Instagram. It's because that's where their customers are. If more people are on there, they will cater to them on that platform (for the business). If people were to start using other services, the businesses would cater to them that way. If you'd rather businesses not post their info on whatever app, then don't use that app. That's the reason they do it.

I've been without Facebook or Instagram for over 6 years, it's totally optional. I sell stuff on Nextdoor and the dozens of other buy/sell/trade apps. I connect with my family via text/calls/video or other apps. People don't want to be the first to get off of a platform and convince others, and then we get into this situation where we think it isn't optional.
To really understand it (primal, dual formulations) you need tools from convex optimization. So it doesn't really feel appropriate to teach it in a standard machine learning class (unless you just toss out the details). In optimization classes, you go through tons of different applications of the methods you learn about: SVM slots in perfectly there. It hits duality, quadratic programming, even gradient descent (Pegasos).

Re deep learning: right, I was bringing up deep learning as a clear example of why you might not want to classify it under optimization. No one considers applications of deep learning to be optimization. However, work on the various optimizers (Adam, adagrad, second order methods, etc) which are all fundamental to doing any deep learning work would be firmly in the field of optimization.
You know, it's strange, but as much as I want to reject the idea that companies are able to "censor" people, the reality is that large social media platforms have become de facto public squares in 2021. In that regard, he was actually silenced on a very large scale.

I live in Canada and not the US so I know little about how US laws work, but it does seem that both countries need to work on addressing the power that giant tech corporations have over speech.

Ideally I would like some sort of government sponsored, decentralized platform similar to matrix, but I imagine that both governments are incapable of producing or unwilling to produce anything of the sort...

I'm also very wary of government intervention given how little representation both the US and Canada peoples have, compared to who actually lobbies politicians.

As much as I do not care at all for Donald Trump, I do still want people, whose ideas I do not agree with for the most part, able to speak their mind.
> but there may simply be no "first principles" for what makes an organism tick and almost all of its complexity may be irreducible. There may be absolutely no separation between "fundamental property" and "implementation detail". It may be that no terms in the grand equation of life cancel out.

But this is NOT true of all biology. I picked molecular biology as an example for exactly this reason. It’s driven by evolution with all its messiness, but yet it DOES have some reducible complexity. There really is DNA that is transcribed via certain molecules to RNA which is transcribed by other molecules into protein via a sequence of certain amino acids coded by the DNA base pairs. There is reducible complexity in spite of the crazy messiness of evolution, and it ends up looking a lot like some of our engineered systems in some instances (ie we can use the language of information theory and bits to describe encoding of genomes). We are able to use this to actually develop vaccines specifically using mRNA as a delivery mechanism, with specific, engineered changes to the transcribed viral protein spike to improve the vaccine’s effectiveness.

What I see in neuroscience looks a lot like genomics and inheritance before the discovery of DNA. And the insistence that “biological systems are entirely non reducible complexity” feels just a bit too much like a cop-out. This is not magic. If you are a neuroscientist optimistic about the field, then you must also believe there is some reducible complexity in there that will be discovered. I do get the feeling, based on research progress like in this article, that there really are some breakthroughs coming in really understanding what’s going on.
Another way to put it is that it’s a jobs program.

Edit: what’s with the downvotes? I would like to understand what the disagreement is here. Any gov program can be split up into two parts. One, the actual cost as dictated by the market economy, and second, the additional costs for delays, bureaucracy, etc which usually tends to be multiples of the actual costs. This money goes into paying salaries without actually making any progress. Hence the jobs program. What’s there to disagree here? Is this argument somehow belonging to a particular political spectrum? Downvotes are fine but I’d like to gain some understanding of where my thoughts are not aligned with you. Please explain your position.
Funny enough that the presentation loops (at least on my phone) and just shows the first slide after the last one without any indication of it.
> Did your bank/ATM stop accepting it?

not OP, but my bank literally does not accept cash deposits at its branches, nor does it operate any ATMs. I'm pretty sure I could deposit cash at a 3rd party ATM, but I've never tested that. anyway, I only visit an ATM a few times a year on the rare occasion that I do business with someone who only accepts cash.

> Do you never settle debts with your friends?

all the time, with venmo.

I do understand an respect the privacy argument for cash. but in most cases, it's not worth the inconvenience or sacrificing the 3-5% cashback I get on most purchases.
It would never happen because social media would convince users to vote against their own interests. Like Facebook did with the Apple debacle.
Matomo is open source but the A/B testing plugin costs 200 euros a year after a 30 day trial period.

I would most likely just cobble together something with nginx and serve two separate versions of the content and measure the metrics you desire separately.
> By using an SVG, I’m able to get a lot of cool benefits like: Inline icon (no need for a linked resource)

AFAICT that's not any different than for non-SVG favicons which can also use data urls.
fighting global warming starts from here, we should punish the bloat culture advocators
this is the only right answer
A good SSD would take some of the bite out of that 512MB RAM requirement. Swapping to SSD is much less painful than swapping to a slow laptop HDD.

The single core CPU only requirement makes finding working hardware quite a challenge. Core2 era chips were usually dual core, and the single core options were mostly put in trash that people have already thrown away.
I’m afraid the same happened for me. I just couldn’t get to the end. It was, uh, distracting me.
If you peel back the layers and sequence of causation, I think you'll always find that there is some government intervention that has a hand in these "market" failures. Unfortunately, I don't think capitalism can function properly in an environment that has government fiddling, which is what we're seeing. And I say that as a full free-market advocate.

Either way, government is too blame. Both for not regulating these bad things away, and also for having some hand in causing them N-levels back (you just can't see or prove this one easily). It's a nice sweet spot for governments and their officials and advocates, because they can always absolve themselves by blaming the free-market in one way or another. They do too much or do the wrong regulation, causing something "bad" in the market, and boom they blame "the market". Likewise, they put some half-assed regulations that don't do much and yet again they blame "not enough regulation". The entire thing is ridiculously circular and self-reinforcing. Almost as if it's been designed for argumentative deadlock.
Vector graphics rendered at very low resolutions like 16x16 or whatever favicons are rarely look as good as hand-crafted bitmaps. Is it possible to make them look good?
So, you think it's OK that your bank decides what you can do with your own money?

What if 'for your own good' your bank decides to block any purchases you try to make at your local fast food shop?.. or off-licence?.. or betting shop? You OK with that too?
Social media above a certain size should be treated as common carriers. There are no reasonable alternatives to them, and today, common public activities activities that are core to our life are conducted on these large platforms. This is not a matter of protecting the freedom of companies to do as they wish - we already regulate companies and restrict their activities in many ways. Private power utilities cannot discriminate against their customers based on their speech or political viewpoints, for example. The same regulations can be enacted to govern these platforms.

I often see arguments saying that someone who is deplatformed/demonetized on these service can just use an alternate service, but I find that to not be the case in practice. Consider that Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have more users than virtually all nations. Their network effects are core to what the product is, which is why there aren't suitable alternatives (especially when they enact censorship in unison). Telling someone to just go use a different platform is like telling someone that they don't need their power utility, since they can just stick a windmill on their property instead.

Finally, I am greatly concerned that these large privately-controlled platforms are essentially outsourcing government-driven censorship and also violating election laws. For example when conservatives did form their own platform on Parler, AOC called for the Apple and Google app stores to ban Parler after the Jan 6 capitol riot (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...). If a sitting member of the government pressures private organizations to censor others, it should be considered a violation of the first amendment. Leaving aside the technicalities of law, it is unethical and immoral even otherwise and completely in conflict with classically liberal values. Actions taken by these companies to suppress certain political speech in this manner also amount to a donation to the other side. This isn't recognized as "campaign funding" but it is probably more effective than campaign funding at this point. We need to do a better job of recognizing the gifts-in-kind coming out of Silicon Valley tech companies towards political parties based on the ideas they suppress/amplify/etc.
If you pay attention to the time those comments come out you'll see a specific pattern around european users coffee/lunch/evening times.
Ah, so it's not mono-food-sourcing that makes a species deserving of death. It's fragility. So coral reefs deserve to die.
Why is that preferable?
> Of course, every single member of the US government was fully and faithfully implementing the president's policy goals.

Sure, blah blah deep state. Even if Fauci and Zuckerberg teamed up in some grand scheme to ban Trump from Facebook after an election that he lost -- the question remains -- how is that a 1st Amendment issue and not an Executive Branch staffing issue?

Given that we have a Unitary Executive (an argument held strongly by the most conservative jurists in the country) -- if someone in the Executive Branch were colluding to pressure social media companies with the power of the State, legally it was Trump who was colluding. So Trump is suing Facebook for colluding with his own government?

This lawsuit makes no sense on its face, it will be Cable News bait for a few days and then be forgotten, and unfortunately, it further clouds the much more important debate about social media platforms and their rights and responsibilities.
> the implied-but-never-actualized threat of physical violence is the thing that makes in-person customer service succeed? [emphasis mine]

It's not the thing, but I think it's one of the things, among others such as the ones you listed.

> there is basically no threat

Recent events such as shopkeepers or security guards being assaulted for requiring people to wear masks suggests otherwise. The threat is still very small, but I'd argue it exists and humans aren't always reasonable when it comes to evaluating risk probabilities and will probably overestimate the actual risk and adjust their behavior.

> society built laws and norms that prevent that from being a viable solution

People don't always act reasonably and the perpetrator being punished down the line doesn't change the fact you got your face smashed and needed to get stitches.

> But I'd argue that those extremely rare cases are further proof that the in-person "threat of physical violence" does not play a part in making customer service work well.

The other advantages of in-person communication (which you raised) is that both sides can "read the room" and adjust their behavior before the situation escalates to violence. A customer service person might be more likely to bend the rules when they are in front of a person that's visibly angry or violent so that the situation does not actually escalate that far.
$1B? That gone last a year tops.
People stopped caring about Windows being dominant years ago. Mac and Linux became competitive for those who wanted it, mobile ate the world, and Windows only dominates in Office and gaming, neither of which are apparently worth fighting over.
Only in the sense that staying in touch with people is non-essential...
We have the same tax here. Pretty insulting when I'm a content creator myself (and I'd never pirate the artists it's protecting, I think they are all terrible), but not many ways left to import without bigger costs (customs).
I kind of like it. No complex UI showing forward/back, how many slides deep you are, etc. Just the slides themselves.

It reminds me of "minimal" UIs in video games that remove health bars, stats, etc. so that the content is front and center. Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, etc.

Almost cinematic.
Agreed. Ironically, the slideshow format is extremely 'low density', and frustrates my ability to quickly read what they have to say. I didn't get all the way through it either.
Idaho housing boom is insane. They are building thousands of cookie-cutter homes in the Boise area, and they sell well before they are finished, and they sell for prices that would look at home in California about 5 years ago (of course, California got more expensive since). And they have nowhere near enough infrastructure for all those houses (the roads are tiny for the number of people in those houses, for example) and I have no idea how people living on Idaho salaries could afford any of that California-priced housing. I have no idea how it would work - my hope is all taxes from all those housing would be used by the government to upgrade the infrastructure and do something smart with it, but my trust in governments being smart is kinda low... No idea what would happen. I once thought about moving there but I really don't want to end up in the middle of the volcano...
Cost-effective serverless computing
Even 5B for a novel, and uniquely powerful observation platform would be a bargain!

When you are engineering a unit of 1 pushing the boundaries of science, with multiple conflicting constraints, funded by a variety of self-interested stakeholders, and are forced to do commercial production, rather than govt production, even when it is most cost effective, it isn't like you are heading towards lowest cost, technically acceptable.
Yes. Why not scrutinize their business as well?