skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In recent years, the performance of smartphone SoCs has reached a point where their power is often overkill in certain scenarios

I wish this didn’t happen. If everyone had a slower phone CPU:

1. Apps would have to be more efficient

2. That means people with slow phones would get a better experience

3. People with faster phones would also get a better experience

It’s crazy that you can run C programs that have been compiled into JS and run on an interpreter written in a language that runs on a JVM, which consumes 10,000x CPU cycles than native and the solution is “more cores, more RAM, bigger battery “.
The cost is already estimated with junior-levels in mind. If you want the A-team to be present all the time, say it upfront and surely proposals will be changed.
> It has to be noted that most media in France (and US and Germany and UK and practicly every country) are belonging to a very reduced number of Persons, that are, for most of them billionaires.

I fixed it for you.

> (They also avoid paying some wealth taxes by owning shares of media companies...)

Like every company

> And, surprisedly, most of them have personal relationship with the president or top officials of the government...

Just like google and other companies. It's called lobbying and it is the most popular sport in governments around the globe.
> what is so difficult about pricing that you cannot write a one liner saying XXX dollars per YY nodes per ZZ period?

i always suspect the pricing is dependent on your budget and they want to figure out the amount of your budget before giving a quote...
/r/AskHistorians like /r/AskScience are and retain a high quality due to the moderation efforts by the volunteer moderators. Deleting unsourced claims and jokes is for me a good thing.
> How would you feel if I told you only Dell/HP should make computers because people make dangerous repairs that will allow hackers to attack systems?

Yeah, that's pretty much what Apple, the Tesla of computer manufacturers, does.
Copple: ah no worries - it's sorted already (I just quit!)
In the case of person-to-person: links decay but screenshots do not. A screenshot is a record that I know doesn't have any trackers and won't one day disappear. It's the information that I want to send and nothing more.
I think with that much energy the light pressure alone would get you wherever you wanted to go.
Two problems here:

1. Someone is ignoring a colleague's request for help. At least give some sense of whether and when you're going to help.

2. Don't just say "hello" in chat. https://www.nohello.com/
> small, one person companies founded near the beginning of personal computing are shutting down.

It could also be that they didn't appropriately expand, or expanded too much.
Xi was a member of the Standing Committee in 2008 and he was given the political responsibility for the 2008 Olympics.

Maybe before your 玻璃心 breaks you should learn a little bit about your own country’s history before you go around tossing insults.

As for use of national security as an excuse, I’ve been protesting the NSA for 3 decades. I released one of the first anonymizing web proxies and designed anonymous mailers to fight FBI carnivore and NIST Clipper/Skipjack. I spoke out against the Patriot Act in 2001 when the US government used the 9/11 attacks to impose it. I spoke out against the Communications Decent Act when it was proposed and released software to combat it.

And that’s the difference. When my government uses “national security” as an excuse to crack down on freedoms or minorities, I speak out against it.

When you government uses terrorist attacks or crime to shutdown newspapers or jail Uighurs, you support it.

And that’s why it’s fascism because if you buy into the fear over some insignificant terrorist attacks which are not an existential threat to China in order to justify a total surveillance state and an authoritarian President for life who won’t even take turns and relinquish power to other Standing Committee members, then you’re defending an authoritarian dictatorship and fascist.

The governments of the world love using either terrorism, external threats, crime, or protection of children from sex as blanket justification for every encroachment of freedom.
I think you misunderstood. The `action` closure is invoked with no arguments, but the invocation `self.isWarningEnabled.toggle()` does pass one argument, namely the `self` value from the closure's lexical context (`.toggle()` needs to know which instance to manipulate). If you replace the no-argument closure with a function that expects one argument (`self.isWarningEnabled.toggle`), you get the partial application the error mentions (“partial application” is passing fewer arguments to a function than it expects).
> Visibility is not a meaningful "reward" for established European newspapers

Why? There are two ways how I would land on a newspaper's page. One is if I read them regularly, then I just go to their website directly to check what's new. That's what their loyal audience does, and Google doesn't affect that.

Another one is that I'm googling for news about a specific event or specific person - then I go to whatever pages Google shows me. That's how newspaper expand their loyal audience.
It’s possible to merge these. Support can do it as a one time thing. You have to get past triage “support”, past scripted support, to a fully empowered support level person.
Be careful with browser extensions. The edge old reddit redirect extension was malware and because they autoupdate your safety is dependent on the extension author refusing near-daily offers to sell out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27305638
No. We're not outliers. Except from the psychological point of view, sure. Which is where this started. We've got 1000 voices reinforcing the view that some magic pill exists, and that has its effect.

Smugness is nowhere in sight. More like resignation and sadness.
Just checking now on the BBC coverage and every player on the pitch, both English and Italian, took the knee at kickoff.
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Well the Supreme Court disagrees with you on that, but I think Penn and Teller’s description and explanation might appeal to you a little better: https://youtu.be/Hx23c84obwQ
Do you have a source on this? I'd love to read more.

It has already been running for a while now, and has gone back >4 years. I'm able to go in manually as well and modify / delete old comments. I've checked via incognito that they are actually modified, and then deleted.
Existing established thread on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27818667
> The reason people make these requests is that it removes a burden from the requestor.

It also raises a question about your product/system. Someone had a problem. They asked for help. They figured it out. All is well... but they did have a problem, and that should be acknowledged. The software industry is moving more and more towards a UX and even a CX focus, where disregarding problems is questionable behavior.

I'm not saying it is a junior engineer's job to identify, explore, and devise a fix for every problem, but it should get logged in a way that the product team can see trends in questions to know where to improve.
React Is a Code Smell
It may be effective, but it is yet another way we lose privacy.
If you want people who want ownership, don't hire people who don't want ownership. Not very complicated. Maybe hard to execute on though.
I think most Apple products don't even have screws you could use one on these days
Sure, but fines stops Google from ignoring the court ruling forever because if they do France will keep finding them umäntil they comply which will cost more than it is worth. Yes, it is often a good deal to intentionally risk fines to delay but not even Google can afford doing it forever.
Awesome. I'll get some lunch and try again. I'd really love to read about /how/ this works if that's something you'd be interested in sharing.
will that result in lower prices for the buyers ?
Excel can be beautiful and pain free and I would still hand over my taxes to an accountant. Its all nonsense that everyone needs to code or enjoy it. And that the tools are the issue.

As a non programmer with a PhD its a waste of my time, memory and energy that could otherwise be spent on my own domain. Its much simpler to have a 10 minute chat with a professional coder to get what I need.

Similar to the waste of time and skill development required to explain complex domain knowledge to the public. Talking instead to a professional writer makes my life much easier. I dont want to think about what tools the accountant, coder and writer use.
At an average pace you could walk 20km in half that time
Has anybody here read Watson and Tharp's Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment ? Any review/insight/recommendation would be much appreciated.
Thanks for a detailed response. I'll add the book to my reading list.
“Show Me the Money ” Using Data for Finding Easy Upsells
Possibly, but I think someone who didn't pass a driving test is going to know driving law less well than someone who did, so there'll probably be more cyclists violating the law.

Also, a cyclist violating the law is much less dangerous than a driver doing so, the latter has over a hundred times the kinetic energy. So a cyclist might feel that those laws shouldn't apply to them.
Keep it simple. Don't overcomplicate this. Say no, politely, and stop working.

"Hi Boss, sorry but I have some commitments and I can't spend additional time on this project. Thanks."
It appears that they don't want it and prefer other terms - pay me and you can use my headlines. We cannot force newspapers to accept Google's headlines-for-clicks system against their will.
I thought its a bus count factor - how many employees have to be in a bus accident for the company to suffer a fatal blow. Have never heard about the lottery one but that sounds like a nice positive spin!
neat!

I usually just use gsuite + aliases/groups, which includes spam filtering, web console and a lot more. Granted, it's ~$6/mon, doesn't scale to 20,000 email addresses and you have to be cool with Google.

There something else I'm missing out on?
There is also the problem that the formatting syntax is actually slightly different between old.reddit and new reddit, causing a number of broken messages when browsing with the old.reddit.

I absolutely detest that, specially since they have put a giant loginwall in the mobile version of the new reddit which basically forces me to use the old.reddit. These practices are basically what I expect from a shady website, not one of the most popular ones. Reddit is really detestable and I wish we could do something to stop it from acquiring users.
The navigation was done by whales.
That analogy obviously doesn't work at all.

Here's the thing: On one hand you have companies trying to minimize taxes any (legal) way they can, and on the other you have countries saying "Here you can (legally) minimize your taxes!".

Any rational thought process is going to conclude that curbing #2 is the only realistic option to tackle that problem; see the global 15% minimum corp tax.

That's why your analogy doesn't work: Here 'prosecuting one the 3 bank robbers' actually prevents further robberies, and is also the only practical way to prevent any further robberies.
What Is a Google Maps Extractor, and How Does It Work?
> I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular, especially outside of the tech-sphere

Spam.

The target site may be spammy: lots of adverts, popup/unders, taboola "chumboxes" etc.

Or, if a site can make money from inbound link traffic, there's an incentive for its owners to spam links in subreddits to drive traffic to themselves.

> This is especially bad on apps where you need to know how to find the share option separately on each app

Definitely another problem, walled gardens that you can't link into as well as out of.
Common Questions about Time Blocking Answered
Predictable result of the (actually) racist stuff that's being promoted and apparently isn't a problem anymore. This will get worse before it gets better.
why not sell the business? too much hassle to operate? someone surely would want it...
Migrating ToolJet Server from Ruby on Rails to Node.js
Yeah, it's Nvidia Canvas for faces, except not trying to sell you RTXs. Instead we're trying (when we load balance) to offer a realtime service through the browser. I have some more background in a comment here https://www.producthunt.com/posts/face-maker-ai
Yes, countries are soverign, and can (in many cases) do what they like.

You can in principle go to a group like the WTO. Google could of course also just stop operating in France.
Sorry if this sounds obvious, but it’s the people within the subs that make it or break it.

Some subs just don’t have those active people that make it gold.
Thats not really fair for new people. Think how it feels to get into a team, then just as you start to be productive member some guy you've never even heard of comes back from paternity leave and you are bounched to another team that might be doing something completely different.
"He calls it “a quest on keeping the combustion engine alive in a fossil free future”."

And why is that a good thing?
JVM or python just for the ecosystem.
kafka, debezium, workflow engines(camunda), ORMs etc - java libraries might not be as nice to use as ruby gems but some are really rock solid for your use-case.

But that being said, anything really - rails/node etc most would work just fine for your use-case
Sure, it isn't the best, but I know lots of other folks cannot either, and reasons vary. The point really is that cycling 20km isn't realistic for a wide swath of population.

And sure, it might use more fuel... when you go uphill. Downhill, you might not even need the power.
Yes, it is an extension. But you could also have a bookmarklet, for example.
How Do Researchers Approach Societal Impact?
nice one liner
How many throways do you get through each day? Can you go attempt to fan the flames of culture war somewhere else?
Communicators would be something like Bluetooth earpieces.

You've got Tricorders wrong, they're a generalized non-contact diagnostic tool; someone was working on one but it was just a load of diagnostic devices stuck together. We've got body temperature, and pulse is doable, but not sure what else can really be added to a Tricorder, maybe a tiny mass-spectrometer gets you part way there.
Aren't all grid scale batteries assemblies of smaller ones? Li ones certainly are!

There are lots of advantages to smaller batteries and few (no?) disadvantages. I've never heard that being brought up before.
Apart from spam, scams too. Fake login pages, to the tech-illeterate are virtually indistinguishable from the real site.
As of 2008 -- which indicates that this view of the constitution is extremely contemporary, as a legal doctrine.

My point wasn't, in any case, about the "facts of the matter". I dont think there are facts about how one should interpret the US constitution.

My point was that the commenter I was replying to assumed that these issues "ID for guns", "ID for votes" were somehow prescribed clearly by the constitution -- and one would be hypocritical to defend only one.

That view is wholly incorrect. The text of the constitution settles almost no matters. Matters are settled at the interpretive level, and much of what passes for "interpretation" is actually established by the historical tradition of the supreme court.

There is no hypocrisy anywhere, because there isnt a stable ideological dogma written down
This feels like it's pushing the TOS for Github Actions a bit by using it for post deployment, live operations. Like the hourly health check and your dead letter queue scheduler.

It made me curious, so I looked at their TOS[1], and they seem somewhat permissive about things like this. Though vague about where/when you cross the line.

Like, this seems clear:

"should not be used for...any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are used."

But then:

"but a low benefit Action could be ok if it’s also low burden"

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-f...
Isn't this just a low-scale biogas-collector+engine? Biogas is already used in farming and commecial transportation since some decades. So the point here is that there are also other sources we can collect it from?

This remindes me of those guys who collect grease from diners and others foodshops to refine it into fuel for their cars.
Seems like a lot more hassle than using purelymail[0] for $10 a year, which has full Sieve and SpamAssassin and sub-addressing.

0. https://purelymail.com/pricing
Suggestion -- addressing friction at initial note-capture stage can help a lot with adopting Obsidian. As an example, I was looking to see if there's an easy way to capture links (with titles) I find while browsing on iOS. I saw that Obsidian doesn't show up in the iOS share-sheet. Ok, so I tried the next best thing -- copy the link + title (via an iOS shortcut), and then I tried pasting it into Obsidian -- and I faced a wall of choices -- which folder? which file?

This "initial capture friction/anxiety" has been an issue with Notion. Roam tried to provide a simple "Quick-capture" but it's not great. Mem.ai addressed this problem head-on and they make quick entry dead-simple: on desktop, you just start typing anywhere and it enters into a new note, and from mobile you can text anything (including sharing links etc) to a specific number and it goes to a new note.
Methane is produced from anaerobic bacteria. If you add enough oxygen to the water and make sure the pond doesn't stratify, aerobic bacteria should take over and produce CO2 instead.
At least tell me they were RODC's?
Possibly, but this isn't really the tradeoff. It is using energy when you have time to reap the benefits when you actually need the quick travel. 20km is going to take hours to walk in one trip.
I do find it reassuring because it implies we have data from that trial and others going back over a number of years.

I imagine it didn't proceed as the treatment wasn't effective, rather than because everybody died from the vaccine. And if there were problems with the vaccine itself, then I would think that knowledge would feed into the design/implementation of future iterations of mRNA vaccines.

So yeah, that's what I take from that. I find the existence of a decade of trials of the tech, and the approval of these two vaccines after a bunch of their own trials, and the ongoing monitoring of outcomes, to be fairly reassuring.

That said, I got the AZ vaccine, because that's what I was offered!
Virginia is back as America's Top State for Business in 2021
Please. /r/truelesbians was banned for being transphobic.

Meanwhile, /r/actuallesbians continues unhindered, cause it's not transphobic.

> 'male lesbians'.

Nice dog whistle.
.... or the next best explanation:

- If I know nothing, I'm likely to defer to authority

- If I know a little, I know enough to at least distrust questionable authorities

The declining trust makes sense, with the replication crisis, grandstanding, intentional p-hunting, and all the other stuff happening today. I've been affiliated with an elite school for most of my life -- more weakly in recent years, and it just feels sleazy at this point. These things have gone from accidentally wrong results to games to win academia points (high impact factor publications, etc.) and get jobs and prestige.

The political split makes sense too. Trust in authority goes, in part, with representation. Conservatives are not welcome on elite university campuses. It's not just conservatives; other groups (like African Americans and some, although not many, immigrant groups) who have been excluded have historically had a hard time trusting those establishments. I'm from an ethnic group about a fifth of whom were killed based in part on eugenics research at Harvard.

Thanks Harvard!

That was in my parents' time, so the distrust from that has faded, but it at least give empathy for why skepticism is reasonable.

I think one of the things I find painful in reading an article like this one is how self-centered it is. It comes off as "Why don't they trust us?" with two presumptions:

- everything we believe is true

- so there's something wrong with them and not with us

If that were true, eugenics wouldn't have happened. The scientific establishment is just as susceptible to politics, biases, and everything else as any other establishment. I think it did pretty well around 1950-2000. Sometime in the nineties or early 00's, a gradual decline started, which is now a freefall.

Distrust in things like climate change and vaccines are very dangerous consequences of that. However, it takes a very high level of scientific literacy to sort truth from fiction in a post-truth era.

It's undermined by a history of very intentional dishonesty in both of those domains too. Throughout COVID19, the scientific establishment often exaggerated -- now obviously (see: masks) -- to bring about the behavior it wanted. Why would people believe them about vaccines? And climate change predictions had (knowingly) exaggerated timelines and impacts in the eighties and nineties, which are now being cited as reasons for distrust.

It's the boy who cried wolf.

Climate change is real, but if you have a history of lying about it, some people won't believe you.

I don't see this changing without fundamentally realigning incentives in academia.
Yeah, that seems like the obvious solution—far clearer than playing games with scaling and offsetting.
If it is due to retirement, the other employees might not be able to take over the product if it has been a 1 person show. I know of similar software where if the main developer were to leave, I have zero confidence they could do much besides maintenance. It isn't just the code, but having the mathematical understanding of the problem.

Also, without looking at this in general, I wonder if it's hard to compete with Mathematica which is ~$1000 for a professional license (very reasonable in the industry compared to most others) or free on raspberry pi with free or near free for most students. Also, there is open source software as well that could eat into their niche.
You are surprisingly optimistic. We have been a few months in the vaccination campaign and we are already in need of boosters to patch new strains. Even if the numbers you mention are true, you still have to deliver a product with extremely complex logistics in highly unreachable places (vaccinating westerners with our infrastructure is way easier than doing the same in Africa), hope that they will really deliver those numbers at that speed, and cross fingers that when this happens, the virus hasn't already mutated enough to make it obsolete.
Consider also that many people in third world countries do not trust westerners so I would predict that the percentage of people that will avoid the jab might be much higher than what you have in the USA or EU.

Anyway I am sorry I didn't share an article about what I mentioned, I thought it was known enough to not need an article. (I might say the same about your numbers)

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/info:doi/10.13...
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One person businesses often require a unique collection of skills to operate and don’t make enough money to hire a team of professional operators. This is also true of traditional small businesses like restaurants and car mechanics. The phenomenon is discussed extensively in the “E-myth” series of books. The TLDR is if you ever want to get someone else to run your business, you have to be careful to systematize and document how it works.