skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it annoying that with license plate recognition everywhere, that on the toll roads in NY, which have eliminated human attended toll booths, they do read your license plate in order to bill you if necessary, but they charge extra if you don't have the traditional transponder. It's nuts. The transponders cost money, they set up the infrastructure for billing by plates, so they should discourage the former, not the latter. Sunk cost, etc.

However, it is outsourced to a private company and I just bet they have screwy incentives.
I think he is saying, why single out California farmers, when farmers in other states are using up their aquifers as well.
> Just use your Youtube subscription page

I know this isn't a YouTube algorithm discussion thread, but just to jump-in and say that I try to use the 'home' view in the iOS app as discovery for content that's related to my subscriptions to find new channels.

The actual 'Discovery' tab is completely useless to me, as it's exclusively filled with complete trash that's trending locally (and in my case in Sweden, this means endless videos of local reality 'stars' doing 'crazy' stuff, interspersed with young women with well-filled tops talking to camera about 'something' from their beds, and what appear to be Arabic romantic dramas, and of course videos about sports cars).

The home view mostly shows me content that includes my subscriptions and is related to it (programming channels, large-format analog photography channels), but about once a month - despite being a Premium subscriber with a very carefully curated watch history (I don't even click on friends' 'hilarious' YouTube links anymore) - the whole algorithm breaks down and even my Home view is totally overtaken by big-breasted girls, Arabic(?) dramas, some sort of Free Fight boxing competition, and other trash that has to be removed one video at a time with at least two clicks each.

The whole process is really fiddly and I'm always in dread of accidentally clicking the wrong tiny and poorly-designed little interface element so the video plays instead of confirming (for the fiftieth time) that what I really want is "don't recommend channel".

I've rage-quit my Premium subscription a few times about this. But always come back as otherwise YouTube interrupts the videos every few minutes with their random spray ads these days - making it impossible to watch a 40-minute video and retain my sanity.
You can still do this? Have you seen all the people on www.indiehackers.com?
I also just got the full screen ad on the phone app. I've been a YouTube subscriber for ages and this is the first time I have had an ad like this. I agree it is BS even if YouTube doesn't think it is an ad, it definitely was an ad.
Some commercial real estate deals will expect the landlord to contribute some amount for tenant improvements. So if you get a bad tenant you might be out that money. In addition, before they go out of business they probably stop paying rent. So if the business fails in the first year that could easily be a net loss to the landlord compared to waiting for a better tenant.
Personally, i'm partial to the Gameboy Megamachine as demonstrated by Look Mum No Computer, although it's a bit more cumbersome to set up:

https://youtu.be/xpB0_YWPwD8
> So a bus factor of zero would mean that the project is in jeopardy even if all the maintainers are alive.

So, PHP, then.
So it was a sham? I always wondered why, for example, you'd need a different fork and knife for fish when the regular ones are perfectly adequate at moving said fish from the plate to your mouth, and if anything the fish knife is a lesser parody of a knife
PWA is the label for “do things like an app in the browser”. Things like easy install on the homescreen, storing a lot of data locally, notifications, nfc, bluetooth, location and camera (in a user-friendly way), … This is something people definitely want to do, but can’t, and that’s why PWA remains stuck for a niche audience.

The main problem is mobile safari. It is such a limited environment that basically apps are impossible to do for real world use cases in the browser. So, by necessity, even though I was hired to work on the web platform for my organization, I’m now working on a native app.

Apple has handicapped the mobile browser to the point where you have to go native. It is even worse than the IE days, because back then you could make a single web app that supported all browsers. You could have a web-only strategy. This is no longer possible for most organizations.
> Also, people in that industry know that surely no one would proudly advertise a "100 hour battery" if it weren't significantly cheaper than lithium ion on a per kWh basis, so the term "100 hour battery" also means (to the right audience) that the batteries have to be cheaper than lithium ion.

That seems like a stretch or an unwise convention. It could have some other advantage instead. Loudly proclaiming a disadvantage doesn't tell you what's good about a product, or what circumstances it's useful in.
Native to India, interestingly.
>YouTube did it. It managed to get me to subscribe. With loud (way louder than the videos), repetitive, unskippable ads that has nothing to do with me, I figured YouTube was trying to bully me into paying, so I did. I payed, so I could enjoy videos without being interrupted every 5 minutes. But you know what? YouTube is still not happy. Today when I opened the app on my phone, it still showed me an add.

Yes this is called marketing. You'd think on a place like HN that espouses the virtues of capitalism above all else and is the very definition of corporate culture, what with being designed around creating startups with VC money, you'd think people on here would be wiser to the ways of corporate bullshit.

People on HN literally live that shit every day, yet are regularly surprised by the levels of bullshit international mega corps pull. I don't understand it. You people made this shitty world. Own it.
I mean "good reasons" as in objectively good reasons. It's not a comparison. Preregistration is one of those reasons.
I find it hard to discuss consciousness without first trying to come of a definition of it. Is self-awareness a condition for consciousness, or even the ability to contemplate consciousness?
That being said I liked "the hidden spring" by Mark Solms which puts emotion at the core of consciousness. A very interesting premise that seems to be backed up by research (though I don't know nearly enough of it to evaluate). This allows for a much broader concept of consciousness and consciousness as a spectrum, which fits better with my own beliefs :)
I'm seeing some more masks lately, but I doubt it will get back to where it was.

And therefore, I suspect there will be a lot more cold and flu cases this winter than last.

Somewhere I think I read something about how masks probably prevented 40,000 flu deaths. It makes the comments about how "covid-19 is no worse than the flu" seem particularly ironic.
Excellent link!

Also, for those that are new to the "RAN" terminology (as I was just a few minutes ago! <g>):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_access_network
The courses are not on sale to bring your interests on science, that should be the purpose for public compulsory education, which I think is doing what it is intended before the cram schools took up.

The cram school is being evaluated by one metric and one metric only: how much boost can it offer to the kids' test score.
+1 for Newpipe. Not available in Playstore, but easily installable as an apk.

You can disable or uninstall the stock Youtube app (or any app for that matter) through adb :-

pm disable-user --user 0 com.blah.blah

pm uninstall --user 0 com.blah.blah
Ah okay. That makes more sense. I was confused by the wording "therefore the maximum loan is reduced to $4M."
If you can't beat the price, you have to innovate constantly (=stay ahead) and sell higher quality to be competitive.
Upper classes get annoyed when nouveau riche show off their wealth, and so impose restrictions by class.
Badly done agile made me lose interest in software development. Daily scrums that amounted to one upsmanship and lasted entirely too long. Planning meetings that were mired in politics. I went from wanting to learn the deepest minutiae of languages and practices to only coding the bare minimum at work. Only now (8 years later) am I just finding some joy in coding again, mainly because coding is not a large part of my day job. My dev jobs made me feel like I chose a path of arbitrarily short deadlines and stress while the non development folks largely coasted. I ended up blaming agile practices for a lot of it. I think it still deserves some blame because pushing back on bad practice implementation should be a bigger part of the manifesto.
How can you tell the real people from the spambots?

I am on a Bitcoin group on Facebook and spambots keep making their way through the registration process.
Out of curiousity, what is reason to host three different VPNs?
RSS is the way. someone might want to build on it.
I never really understood the hype around (f)ragile (as one famous google engineer called it in a small closed circle a few years ago). I think the main problem is that in the past 7-8 years it has become more of an evangelism effort rather than anything.

> The important piece that gets forgotten is that Agile was openly, militantly anti-management in the beginning.

Yet here we are: The process just became an endless rabbit hole of filling jira tickets, workday schedules, and a bunch of other systems(including a shared google sheets table as it was in a company I used to work for with 5000+ employees) which easily eat up a day of your week. Detrimental if you are aiming for a deadline. And while I embraced wfh and felt insanely comfortable with it, it was used as an excuse for management to further push those things further down everyone's throats. The end result was that, at least from an engineering prespective, work became more of a marketing team meeting, filled with absurd abbreviations and processes which hold no value and only drag you down. Another problem is when you get an email from jira that someone assigned you a ticket called "Implement X in Y" with no further explanation when you click the link. It's absurd that in large companies(think 250+ people) your value is determined by how many tickets you've ticked off. "Implement X in Y" seems like just another one, but in many case those 4 words end up being 8 separate things, each of which can take several days but no one cares even if you described those in detail in the comments. You might think that story points solve that but they often don't. Imagine the following scenario: you are tasked to hook up a system to an s3 bucket to store data but you have restricted access to the aws console so you can't even create a bucket on your own. Then it turns out that the vpn is set up wrong and you can't even resolve the host if you are connected to the vpn. Then it turns out that the library you use has some bug in it or it's incompatible with some of the other libraries you use so you end up upgrading a bunch of libraries, patch up a large codebase and only then be able to get on with the s3 bucket thing. At first glance what you would assume is a 2 hour task tops ends up being a week and a half of your life. And it can be insanely demotivating when you have the same thing to report that you are working on the s3 thing in your daily scrum for a week and a half. Which is even worse when your managers have little to no tech skills beyond excel for instance. The point of my rant is that agile became the thing it was supposed to destroy - a time tracking system for the assembly line.

Edit: those things don't seem to apply for small companies/startups because... Well they are small and you get to know everyone on day one.
Listen to yourself. “Under the works.” Dude, c’mon of course it was the lawsuits.
Can you explain the benefits of this over Zygote?
YeahI get all of that fwiw I would consider design issues programming errors but it doesn't really matter.
Anyone can write anything they want. The question is whether an interviewer actually asks them about what they have written.

I’ve made sure that all specific claims I’ve made on my résumé are ones that I can explain, but of course I no longer have access to those systems so I can’t prove my conclusions. Either they believe me or they don’t.

I don’t recall being asked any specific questions about the particular claims I’ve made, but I do know that at least some of those claims have led to general questions about what I did in those jobs, and gave me an opportunity to expand on the nature of the work.

But I do assume that they might ask about anything I put on there, or questions related to things I put on there. Or if they feel there are gaps in the information I provided, they might ask questions about that. So, I’m very careful about what I put on my résumé and what I choose to leave off.
Tess Lawrie co-wrote a meta-analysis that was crowd-funded, on the premises that ivermectin is working against covid.. That doesn't bode well for its neutrality, does it ?

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-get-lifesaving-drug-appro...
Out of the box, Brave is pretty good at blocking ads.
Use m.youtube.com in Firefox, which lets you use uBlock Origin or ABP. Works great for just about everything, except that it doesn't support casting to a Chromecast (unless you cast your whole screen).
Favouring tools is bad engineering (2018)
Sure, but it strikes me that people latched on to this drug as a miracle cure since this study stated that chance of dying with ivermectin was 90% less than compared with a placebo. It just strikes me that any subsequent studies should be viewed with the highest amount of skepticism.

I think this epidemiologist provides a better argument than I will ever do on an online forum: https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on... (TL;DR: efficacy goes to 0 when you add in a new study and remove an additional study that shouldn't have been in the meta-analysis)

Also, let's not forget recent history: the EUA for Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid got pulled by the FDA even though it was celebrated by many as the miracle cure for covid last year both on this site and in the media. https://www.fda.gov/media/138945/download
> Have you read the diagnosis criteria and studies regarding long covid? I have read a few, and I see that many are using the widest net possible to define long covid, (...)

I really don't understand what point you tried to make.

The whole point of scientific papers is to gather and document findings in a way to be subjected to critical analysis and serve as food for thought.

From your own example, which unfortunately is completely unsubstantiated, documenting symptoms reported by patients is a good starting point to form hypothesis to be verified or rejected.
Not super related but just wanted to make a comment praising Look Mum No Computer. If you've got an interest in analog electronics, synthesized music and just crazy stuff in general, his videos are great. Dude's one of those crazy, brilliant geniuses.
PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects
The two problems I see are that the program could have bugs that the original gpedit doesn’t, and how most enterprises wouldn’t dare trust third-party software to manage group policy on their internal network.
The Finance department never bought into it. They needed to provide funding to product owner initiatives that aligned with the business and then just let go of the process. C-suite and finance people will never do that.
In that analysis, he appears to remove multiple papers (2?) not just the single paper.

The problem with all research at the moment is it's moving so fast and it's not peer reviewed. Luckily, Ivermectin carries very little risks, is well studied and has minimal drug interactions (and is cheap @ ~$1 per pill).

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-1122/ivermectin-oral/deta...

For anyone interested, there's a database of papers and results: https://c19early.com/

I recommend actually diving into the papers, many are not very good, but that's the nature of the research all around (drugs, vaccine, covid19, etc) at the moment.
VB6 did support compiling "native" binaries by default, and not to p-code, as previous versions did.

https://blog.decompiler-vb.net/the-truth-about-p-code/
>"Full specifications

[...]

Bootable Micro SD

[...]"

Also, from further above on the page:

"the PinePhone runs mainline Linux as well as anything else you’ll get it to run."
I don't understand how this would make a difference. The depth of the block is already fixed so the only way to add area is to make your store wider and increase the space it takes up on the street. Taxing width just seems like it would artifically raise the value of buildings on blocks that are deeper if the blocks are irregular enough to have some variation.
Any tips for Twitch?
> https://www.youtube.com/premium

> “Ad free”

> “Watch videos uninterrupted by ads”

No. An ad is an ad no matter what synonym you use. Still showing ads, after explicitly claiming they wont, is false advertising and against consumer protection laws
I hope India regulates entities like Byjus. Every government should have khan-academy like videos made by the best teachers available to all citizens for free.
And of course, everything gets changed in version n+1 in the churn-churn-churn world of web software so that the skills one picked up become dated fast unless constantly being refreshed. Not worth it for something that only might be useful if they're lucky.
We don't like hearing negative things about Democratic party on this forum.
I think it is the other way around. AI in Westworld is under human-level to human-level (excluding that giant machine in S3, which did not have free will AFAIR). All the strives of the machines are very human. Westworld is more a psychological thriller, than a pondering on what a machine intelligence might be.

Transcendence falls back to it in the ending too, but before it the behavior of the entity is not comprehended by humans, and not really explained in detail.
> You tell jokes in front of people for one-off fees.

You literally just described a job. A huge portion of the US society makes money from doing things for one-off fees.

A sole proprietor house painter paints houses for one-off fees.

A car driver drives people around for one-off fees.

A motivational speaker talks to a group for one-off fees.

You likely have a stricter definition than the rest of society of what a job is, but you should update it so people know wtf you’re talking about. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/job

> People on the road don't have much bills. The people at the top might, but if you're a young comedian, maybe you're living out of your car. Your bills come from the people controlling the pump you're getting your gas from.

Your grasp on the expenses living on the road is very tenuous. Credit card bills for food/gas/(shelter|gym shower), monthly bills for phone/car insurance/tax payments/car payment/medical expenses, etc. You still very much have to manage finances like anyone else.

> You sort of get into that mindset by not taking anything seriously, certainly not bills.

No, that’s absolutely not how comedy works. Good comedians aren’t just people who don’t give a fuck. You think it’s just people spitting off the cuff but it requires persistence, preparation, and practice. People good at comedy take their craft very seriously.

You’re just describing a deadbeat, which has nothing to do with comedians.
Even when you paid for YouTube premium, you still have to deal with baked in sponsorship, which dilutes the value of the subscription. Those sponsorships are 2min of 10 min videos.

Besides that, many creators pad their videos to 10min mark to get adroll. "Hey guys. This is ... Please like the video, subscribe to the channel". This is especially annoying in tutorial videos, where they take 10min to explain how to crop a photo for example. You get to the end, just to discover they used a slightly older version of program.

(That's why I love lockpickinglawyer. 2 min videos straight to the point.)

The problem is, the current reward structure push creators to pad their content and add sponsorships. YouTube Premium doesn't address those problems.
HN continues to amaze me, seeing this fascinating but obscure topic on the main page was a Sunday morning surprise.

There are many sources on these tunnels and passages, unfortunately not many of them in English. Here’s a video of one of the more accessible tunnels, under the hippodrome: https://youtu.be/TeP9BYjtiiI If you are curious, these were also featured in Expedition Unknown, streaming on Amazon Prime.

Many claim that there are tunnels from the city to Prince’ Islands, going under the sea, but these have not been found yet.
I must say I don't really understand your points

> why does Rust report 86.1% love while Python only got 66.7% ?

I mean, because python is in practice a boring office language where the immense majority of devs have to maintain Joe Coder's 2009 Django set of custom attributes.

> Huh, that chart is dominated by Python. 30% of programmers not doing Python wanted to start.

Because people believe that if they learn python they'll instead land a cool ML job which pays 100k more than what they have ? Like, I have my girlfriend who literally does not know anything about programming ask me if I could teach her python because she saw an ad about it (for a "land a CS job in 3 months" type of thin). That necessarily causes some inertia for Python, not enough to be more hyped than rust, but enough to influence results.
Agile is a generic umbrella term that involves a vast array of complex, subtle knowledge and skills. It's like saying "Engineer", or "Chef". Each has a shared skillset, to be sure. But each category's members can't just work the same way at all jobs, and there's no book on how to be an Engineer or Chef everywhere.

The Agile Manifesto is a failure at trying to make Agile happen because it can't tell you how to make it happen, because it varies wildly. No manager can read a book on how to "Agile-ify" their org, they have to apply their brains and figure out how their specific version of "Agile" will work. But the skill-set required to do this is not a Managerial skill, it is a lower-level-worker skill. But it's also a very advanced lower-level-worker skill.

And that's why things like "Agile", "DevOps", etc will fail. People at the higher end have no clue how to make it happen, and people at the lower end who have an idea how to make it happen don't have the power to make the organizational changes to do so. You need a way for the lower-end people to tell the higher-end people what to do, and have the higher-end people listen to them, and make the changes happen. This is very hard in a traditional organizational hierarchy, because higher-end people have big egos and bigger concerns over things like politics.
I hope the trend of having fewer births in western countries reverses.
We need more people if we want to fill the O'Neil cylinders.
What's wrong about it? They should also put cameras in the streets to analyse people's movement patterns. If you can cluster someone's daily movements as highly resembling daily movements of employed people, it suggests a person is working (even if in undocumented way), deny him benefits. What's wrong about denying freeloaders, many of them illegal immigrants, some taxpayer's cash?
> Use all of these and you'll never see another YouTube ad.

I mean yes, but the OP already paid for youtube subscription as they said. So they shouldn't have to do anything to never see an ad again.
You seem to be implying that the reason so many people refuse to get vaccinated is because of some passport mechanism?

That does not match my experience whatsoever; the people refusing a vaccine are all worried about side effects because they think it’s still “experimental”, and they don’t believe C19 poses a serious threat to them. I’ve never heard anyone mention anything about “digital identity schemes”.
Does ublock origin not work with twitch?