skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related, check out small asian markets in the US. There are at least 2 relatively big ones near where I am now.

They have some high-quality food, cheap food, and food you won’t find anywhere else. In particular I go for tofu skins (sheets which are a lot like tofu but much firmer). They don’t have things in traditional convenience stores, really only asian foods. But you won’t find these foods at supermarkets.
This already is the norm. I've been asked multiple times why someone should hire me when they could hire 20 developers from India for the same price. Obviously, that stems from a mindset that assumes that productivity can be measured objectively and scales nicely with headcount.

The correct answer is to wait things out. After they've tried outsourcing for 3 months, they'll be ecstatic that with me, they only have to explain things once.
That started when politicians shifted their responsibilities of governance and policy making to private entities to cover for their inefficiencies and their vote bank politics.
Screw You, Microsoft Edge
broke: calling people lazy.

woke: accusing people of being unwilling to do the hard work.
Downvote hell. Why not just report me? Jesus, it was such a toxic and unproductive comment too. I should just be banned, right?
I find Japanese convenience store washrooms are about on par with the ones in fancy hotels in Canada!
The Dow is arbitrary. It happened to do well, if you bought a Japanese index in 1929 you’d do well for 60 years and then make losses which would require another 30 years to recover from.
Next will be a hybrid model where no effort content that begins to trend virally gets a human to tweak it for optimization.

Rewriting headlines that bots wrote and A B testing humans vs Software
Too little, too late. I used 1Password for ten years, but I've switched to a different password manager and I'm happy with it.
HN for arXiv paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107614
That’s wrong. Dec(H′(\Hat{S}_j), ct_j) requires \alpha the server secret to determine the decryption key using Boneh’s notation of the PSI system. Or looking from the other direction, the encryption uses both w (NeuralHash) and L (\alpha G, for server secret \alpha).
While I'm not a crypto trader, but this is the primary reason why most people who I know do algotrading uses IBKR (for equity/futures/options). IB API is still king and execution is the best in retail - no matter how ugly TWS is.
No, ElasticSearch for example uses a disk-first approach.
Emphasis on "Prechecked" here. This isn't a ban on recurring donations. They just can't be turned on by default.
It has been legal for 10 years at least already. In-device scanning applies only into photos which are ending into the cloud.

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2011-title18/USCO...
Census experts puzzled by high rate of unanswered questions
Defense in depth is a legitimate aspect of security. Would you rather keep your money in an unbreakable box on the sidewalk, in an unbreakable box in a stranger's shed three towns over, or in an unbreakable box bolted to the floor of your cellar with your dog sleeping by the stairs?
Strangely enough, Australian artists were uniquely well-prepared for the emergence of MTV.

There was a national Saturday night pop music show called Countdown [1], that ran from 1974, featuring live performances and music videos, so Australian bands had nearly a decade head start to develop the art of music video.

This was a major factor in the USA success of INXS, Men at Work, AC/DC and Olivia Newton-John, as they'd started out in the late 70s, and when MTV started, they already had great music videos in the can and were well placed to make more.

When most videos were just of the group on a studio stage performing the song (e.g., Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing [2]), INXS and other bands of the time had arthouse filmmakers like Richard Lowenstein [3] doing much more creative work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Australian_TV_progr...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_7qkRwcMFc

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lowenstein
It’s the flip side of something that can actually be good, which is not asking people to do something you’re not willing to do, like work weekends for a deadline or take a pay cut.

But your relationship to the company is different than ours. A pay cut still leaves you with a 40% stake in the company, while we get nothing in a fire sale (your preferred stock doesn’t get diluted nearly as much or as frequently as ours does). Equally or perhaps more importantly, this was your dumb idea/baby in the first place, we just showed up to work. You had better be more invested than the rest of us our why are we even here?
Thank you Mr Scam
But then it would no longer mean "coffee" in Polish.

Or "river" in Japanese.
Good lord, it's like they're trying to ruin it.
> Hats off to the 0ad team

Agree!

> Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install 0ad

If you want the latest version, you're probably better off with either the development PPA[0] or any of the following distribution models:

- Snap - https://snapcraft.io/0ad

- AppImage - https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1438982/

- Flatpack - https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.play0ad.zeroad

From https://play0ad.com/download/linux/#Ubuntu

- [0] `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad.dev` and then the apt-get dance
Blackberry and Treo from the early 2000s certainly gave you "easy to access" email and some limited browsing. The iPhone by the late 2000s though was a very different experience. There was definitely a gen 1 of smartphones and then a gen 2 ushered in by the iPhone.
Good idea.

The market sentiment in 1921 was very bad for stocks. In fact, a week ago in 1921, Andrew Mellon (Treasury Secretary) suggested retail investors avoid stocks. This was covered in my post last week.

Sentiment is going to flip around 1923-1924 (once we clear the 1920 top) and only strengthen into 1929.
Xsolla CEO says firing using an algorithm-based solution protect minorities
What are you referring to? Keep in mind this thread is about how to write the email, given the action they took.
Intersputnik
Seems like this is a feature you could demand if you were a big enough client of their enterprise products. Better yet, get a critical mass of big clients together and push for it. You could probably do this by showing up at a product-specific conference and networking with the other devs who care enough about the tool to show up.

Also, if this is a genuinely useful thing to have, you could probably monetize it directly. Decouple the schema repository from your primary application and sell access to well-validated, performant client libraries for popular SaaS APIs.
I use KeepassXC selfhosted, very happy with it
Thanks to advertising as a business model.
"The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible"

I'm genuinely curious do the woke brigades of twitter not have the self awareness to recognize what they're doing? Or do they just not care? Would they be happy with a language designed to make 'harmful' thinking impossible?
Speaking as a former ESL teacher, I wouldn't. I've never heard such an English saying and it sounds rather unnatural. A more idiomatic equivalent would be, "shape up or ship out."
While I prefer Family Mart in Taiwan. I really don't find much difference between 7-11 in Japan vs Taiwan, both are great. But Singapore, oh man 7-11 in Singapore is terrible compared to Taiwan/Japan. Still better than anything in the west tho!
Does anyone know if there is a URL for Tim Berners-Lee's book "Weaving the Web", where it is accessible over HTTP? Not even talking about gratis open access, just whether or not the Web-of-documents vision is actually in practice for TimBL's book itself. Also not talking about a link to a storefront that sells it, or a promo site, or a faithfully reproduced but non-canonical link to a warez'd copy. Specifically asking here whether the book has a URL. This seems like a pretty basic OKR for grading progress of the Web vision, and yet it seems reasonable to think the answer is "no", which is incredibly ironic (but not shocking).

It was surprising just now to find that there is not even a preview on Google Books, nor are you allowed to search inside it.
French patrons can face up to 6 months in prison for lacking Covid pass
Some old versions of Opera from over a decade ago supported downloading torrents. It sadly didn't catch on.
And now we in the US have stupid restaurants like Poke Land which would be pocket land, but they thought it related to Pokémon. And it's just a shitty overpriced FoTM.

So now we have double-borrowed words. By the time it gets back to Japan it will be something like Land-Land and will mean something different again like monsters.

Pretty amazing.
It's that post dinner smoke for me. Everything else is easy, but I have to have that battle every day.
> If Apple answers that the solution for privacy is for your friend to buy an iPhone, they need to be called out.

People have been trying to call them out for this for quite a while. Apple hasn't created an iMessage app for Android because a large part of their business relies on ecosystem lock-in, and they won't implement RCS for the same reason.
Post processing is absolutely essential with tesseract. Not to self promote but I discussed this at some length in this blog post, if you're interested: https://kn100.me/taking-back-data-from-eufy/
"You received this email because my big data team analyzed your activities in Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards and tagged you as unengaged and unproductive employees."

I hope they mean spending too much time in Jira/Confluence/Gmail/chats instead of actually working, but I'm afraid it was the opposite...
Change can still be change without being sudden.
1. I’ve built systems that can do this https://insideropinion.com/

2. If anyone has worked in a corporate environment you know a large portion of the team is slacking. That’s not to say they should be fired. I always recommend rehabilitation, as those people already have institutional knowledge AND if they can be rehabilitated are more energetic.

3. If you only now realize their activity, you had bad metrics for success. Activity does not mean results, and results should be the end goal. Case in point, an expert developer may like to take talks to consider a problem. Their activity will be lower, while their delivery will be higher.

4. My system monitors morale as well, because firing someone impacts morale. In this case morale will likely drop, but overall work may improve (I don’t know).

5. In the end, “data analysis” probably didn’t need to be done. People who don’t do work are left alone, if you surveyed the company you’d probably find a lot of those people single out by coworkers as people they don’t want to work with.

Anyway, I always have mixed feelings on this. Personally, I think it’s good to cut weight, but better to focus on making the team fit (and reducing attrition).
I've been a weirdo with my Python code recently, and tend towards a more functional programming style. So, the `operator` module is essential for doing some cools things with maps.

For instance, I'm writing a library to simulate the behavior of vectors in R, and that means vectorized operators (the operators runs the length of two paired vectors). All you need to do is make a special tuple subclass that maps the operator along another tuple (vector) and returns your vector subclass:

https://github.com/shanedrabing/pyrat/blob/e0049213152f615e4...

Anyways, this is all to say that I love `operator` and try my best not to use lamdbas much anymore (except where they are honestly simpler).
It's popular for liberals to say things like "truth better than falsehood" but they really mean that they want to be able to control what other people read. Only half of what they think is true at a given time actually is.

The other half of the equation is that the more well monied get their message out better than the unmonied. You can't use technology to fix that. Most of the conspiracies we deplore are advanced by idiots with money.
> Don't forget how Google admitted their mistake and withdrew from the Chinese market.

Which I point to the decision they came inadvertently. It was their intention to play games with the regime which backfired on them, not vice versa.
Microsoft Recruiting US Teen 'Influencers' for Its Educational Coding Platform
The rock wasn't destroyed. It was moved to other university property that, according to the reports, is close enough to still be used in classes.
The fact that “leftist” is today invoked in relation to communism is an excellent example of Newspeak deployed in the actual world.
We are very upfront about our tech stack. It is clearly stated in my post.

Regarding whether electron apps are desktop apps or not, we can go on and on about it. I do understand the demerits of Electron technically but I also see merits in using it for startups like ours where we can quickly build and test with users.

Regarding trusting with users' cryptocurrencies, we don't hold any cryptocurrencies. They remain on the exchanges.
Oh look that's what it is:

"The name Kawa comes from the Polish word for coffee; a play on words, since Java is another familiar name for coffee."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawa_(Scheme_implementation)
> In this particular case, the potential for harm from the vaccine is quite low (this is borne out by the data),

Which is why a common anti-vax argument is sow doubt about the harmful effects.

I noticed a few options:

a) conspiratorial: "the government is lying about side harm"

b) anecdotal: "I personally know at least 3 people who couldn't walk after the vaccine. Do you call me a liar?"

c) hyper-skepticism: "how can we know if it long term side effect? Yes it's proven safe for X months, but what about in Y month? what about Y years?"

I found it hard to defuse such positions with "just more data". They seem to be memes (crafted or just evolved?) that resist quite strongly to data.
How does panel efficiency go into this? Those 200 W/kg are post-conversion, so whatever efficiency they have is already included.

> assuming an optimistic 1/2 of total weight for solar collection is panels

What does that even mean? 200 W/kg is system efficiency, so not just cells but all the structures involved.

> runs around 50 kg per MWh per month on the moon.

I don't get it. "MWh per month" is 114 watts. A 50 kg array at 200 W/kg has 10 kW peak. At the south pole, a non-tracking unifacial horizontally mounted and elevated array will have at least a ~30% capacity factor, a bifacial array will have a ~60% capacity factor. That's 3 kW or 6 kW on average, respectively, far from your 114 watts.

EDIT: Should have really been 1.4 kW instead of 114 watts - I calculated with 1 MWh per year by a mistake. Still a substantial difference from 3/6 kWh.

> Fuel cells at ~30%

A round-trip from a fuel-cell system will be at ~40%. Maybe ~50% if you use top equipment. But even bog-standard fuel cells are at ~50-55% (LHV) efficiency and bog-standard PEM electrolyzers are at ~80% efficiency, which should give you no less than a 40% round-trip.
I think fp-ts exists because TypeScript is entrenched with a strong job market. If that weren't the case most users would just use something like PureScript.
Just because you do not agree with a position does not make it manipulative.
Yes it is the null hypothesis.

The poster is making a positive claim without evidence. Indeed the claim is unverifiable.

Reasonable priors lead fo a null hypothesis that they are at least simply mistaken.

This is without even taking into account other indicators of credibility or authority, or perverse incentives, as priors.

This is a rational use of ‘null hypothesis’, but it also matches the scientific use, which would be that the claim is spurious unless experiment shows otherwise.

In any case, we know that the poster is in fact wrong in their claim.
I am sure that this kind of analysis has been going on for a long time at some large tech companies. I'd guess that they were smart enough to not announce the methodology. Just like layoffs hitting the pushing 50 crowd, "up or out" mindsets, etc...
> First, reinfection was not confirmed through whole genome sequencing, which would be necessary to definitively prove that the reinfection was caused from a distinct virus relative to the first infection.

I guess that would explain how it doesn't fit with this: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/08/covid-19-reinfection-t... (<200 confirmed reinfections worldwide, 82k suspected reinfections worldwide).
Do you happen to know why the wind turbine project didn't work out? It seems electricity currently comes from diesel generators, and there was a plan to get a wind turbine installed, but somehow it wasn't delivered?
Or someone could...read the papers.
That’s certainly true. But you can say the same of early 1990s www. My point is that the idea of having a multifunction tool in your pocket that could connect to the internet came as early as it was technically possible, long before Apple released the iphone.
What would be cool is if they'd figured out two methods, and only published one.

Though if they've published a convenient list of the bad papers, then, assuming other markers exist, that makes it easy for others to discover them.
I don’t count this as data exfiltration because it only releases data if you are doing iCloud photos sync, which is opt in. iCloud photo sync has also always been recoverable on the server by government request.

So they have always been one software update from non-opt-in data exfiltration and remain so.
@roaring20s I have read through all of your current Substack articles and would love to catch up on your own background and data sources. I think pre-computer data extraction powers the best ML insights.

I am working at a YC Fintech company exploring economic opportunity over time and think there are some deep relationships here around human psychology and markets.
Is launching on Product Hunt worth it?
There's so much out there on HOW to launch here on PH, but not so much of a discussion on whether it's worth the effort.

After our launch where we took #1 product of the day, I sat down to run an analysis on whether it was worth it or not:

‘Worth it’ is a relative term. For us it was, despite traffic, signups and purchases undershooting our expectations.

So why was it worth it?

The benefits to launching were:

1. 10,000+ eyeballs on our website and social media accounts. There’s something to be said for having a ‘launch’ day, Product Hunt or not. It galvanizes the team, friends and users around a specific event and so we received more shares, retweets and organic engagement than any other normal day. It’s important to note that most of these didn’t actually come through the Product Hunt launch, rather from the buzz we generated around it.

2. 300+ app downloads. On the two days spanning our launch (depending on time zone) we had over
300 app installs, which could easily cost $1500 at a $5 CPI.

3. 20 new subscribers. Our launch was among the first few days we shifted to a subscription model so while 20 subscriptions was less than what we had hoped for, it was still a good boost and the users who joined have been high quality engaged users.

So was our Product Hunt launch worth it? Given our cost of the ~70 hours we spent preparing the launch (and that we self produced all our creatives), then undoubtedly yes.

I Put all our findings, research and launch plan here:

https://www.alpeaudio.com/post/is-launching-on-product-hunt-worth-it-and-how-to-do-it

Curious to hear your thoughts on this topic!
I think I could have ended up at that kind of rock bottom had I not found the path I ended up on. And more importantly, there's no reason why the techniques I've found wouldn't work for people in AA; they're just not widely known about. I guess mainstream psychiatry and Christianity are the sources for AA's methods, and they're just not aware of what else is out there that could be more effective.
“Kawa” already comes from the Polish word for coffee. Do many languages use a similar word?
>our campus NeXTs, this new "World Wide Web" thing

Similar story. My lab had 2 NeXT cubes (the monochrome version) and the first time I saw a graphical browser was eye-opening. I had only experienced telnet and gopher before that...

I think this was probably '92-93 - like 3 years before Windows 95 even existed. This experience is what pushed me headlong into the nascent Linux, as the idea of going from NeXT to Windows 95 was like moving from a Ferrari to a tricycle. Linux was no Ferrari but it was at least a pickup truck....
You're measuring conveniently from the top of the epic bubble in the late eighties. But yes the US has been a better long term bet than Japan. That doesn't mean it's "arbitrary".
It's our manifest destiny.
In spite of the title and the article, he is not selling the code.

It's more like selling an autographed printed version of the code and pinky promising not to sell a million more tomorrow.
I'd be curious to know how many combined page loads there are for PornHub (and cousins) per minute. It's just as much a part of what the web is today as any of the services listed above.
> Basically ‘N-word-________’ was used to describe anything that was a shade of black well into the mid 90s.

If you mean 1890s. I never heard what you are describing.
It can't hurt
They're wanting "busy" employees, which is not necessarily the same as productive ones.

It's like the old "Jesus is coming ... look busy!".

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Coming-Look-Busy-T-Shirt/dp/B07...
Yes, articles that explain features with simple examples are almost always full of contrived examples. It's unfortunate that people nitpick them, because the alternative is long and complicated examples that can't be understood at a glance.

If you want to do a parity check on a string:

parity = reduce(xor, map(ord, str))%2

Except Python3 took reduce away in favor of more boilerplate. And yes, there are multiple alternative implementations of the above.
Broadly speaking my job as a programmer is to turn repetitive activities into processes and code. If I’m still “working hard” a year in you should really wonder about my capabilities.

I probably spend half of my time and way more than half of my energy on removing work we shouldn’t even have to do ourselves, first the random sources (machine bookkeeping beats human bookkeeping almost every time) and then persistent drudge work that steals resources from more important matters.

One job where I was mad about not getting any credit for this, I sat and did math and in six months I had saved us one head count, and I don’t know how much stress (seriously bullshit things). I joked that I could not show up to work and still provide as much value as people who they liked.
> Not to mention the exercise of ethnocentric privilege implicit in demanding something of quality in exchange for nothing assured.

Whoa! Knowing nothing about the OP you assume that he is the member of the oppressing class clamoring for the output of his slaves? And, since you're writing this in English, I think it's safe to guess you're assuming the person you're attacking is a white, so you're basically accusing this guy of being an entitled white who can't give up his slave labor

I was with you on the rest of the post but charges of "ethnocentric privilege" are a weird, racist escalation hiding in academic terminology there bud

Occam's Razor applies here: everybody likes free shit. This isn't a property unique to the evil whites
Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks
Sorry, I didn't fact check or anything, point was just that they're commonplace, routine, cheap etc. Just a number I had in my head for some reason.