skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: have you ever successfully created and released a new product? Innovation isolated in a lab is all well and good, but ultimately does nothing to directly improve lives. It's only the first step in a long journey.

Now you need to figure out how do scale up production? How do we control costs to keep it affordable to the average person? How do we get people aware of the product? Who do we target as early adopters? How do we incorporate feedback from real usage back into the engineering of the product? How do we design the product so it's intuitive and appealing to use? How can we convince investors to take the risk and give us the capital needed to get this process under way? How do we plan and budget for production to accommodate projected growth? Are there legal or regulatory considerations? How do we coordinate all the people that need to work together to make this happen?

Ask anyone who's actually successfully launched a product how far the gap is between "works in a lab" to "widespread distribution and adoption". Engineers are part of the equation, but they often arrogantly assume they're the only ones that matter. That's why there's no such thing as a company that's only engineers. Entrepreneurs are the ones responsible for coordinating all the complex work that needs to come together to actually get a product into the hands of consumers.
> The root of it is this idea that war could be a "tool of liberation", looking backwards with rose-colored glasses at WWII.

You know, it's hard for war to be a "tool of liberation" if you do literally nothing to foster the basics of a free/liberal society in the places you went to war for. WWII is not a proper comparison at all; pre-WWII Europe did of course have a robust civil society, very much unlike Afghanistan. The thing about places like Afghanistan is that politicized religion is the closest they get to something even loosely comparable to what we'd call free/civil society in the West!
We're asking because that is often a legal requirement for production use.
This seems out of date (2015?) Unless I am missing something.
>Then networking shut the door completely. If you system couldn't do ethernet you were boned.

I did ARCnet for quite a long time before 10base2 and eventually 10 Base-T took off.

If you were really poor, you could use "The $25 network" from Information Modes and serial ports.
A variant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowls
I'd say the iPhone 2G changed everything, the first one did not really make a revolution on the mobile landscape.
> You can just omit the references and reasoning that go against your narrative.

You can, but it will then be obvious to anyone familiar with the references or who has the power of reasoning that you have failed (innocently or not) to consider them, not that you have found something that debunks them.
Don’t second-guess yourself. The viewpoint you express is completely valid. Other child comments have pointed this out, but corporate messaging does not get to tell you how _you_ choose to look at things.
There is a lot of evidence. The tone of that blog post is potentially a bit overly doubtful, although a person could go into a pretty interesting google dive for medical research papers and more information based on it if they wanted to, so I wouldn't complain.

The mechanisms for viruses causing adult-onset type 1 diabetes have perhaps not been well understood, but there's now little doubt that it happens. I don't know how long it's been a subject of active study but researchers talked to my father about his adult-onset type 1 diabetes, which followed a bad case of the mumps, in the early eighties.

I think it's just very, very tough to prove something like this in a way that is technically beyond doubt. My dad was part of a cluster of cases but, you know, that's not proof of causation, even if you find a lot of them. Interesting field.
> Then why does the withdrawal of US troops result in collapse?

Because US troop withdrawal is also a simultaneous porkbarrel withdrawal.

This is something very obvious I am surprised nobody talks about.

US "war funds" to the most Afghan establishment were basically loyalty bribes.
Who/what is the propery authority on reality?

It certainly isn't government sources, and it's not traditional news sources, and big technology isn't a good choice either.

Snopes used to be a pretty good place to link to dispute clearly bullshit stuff that idiots would forward around the internet as if it had any chance of being true, but at some point there was just too much of that. And they also seemed to expand their scope into things that were more nuanced and easier to get wrong.
I'm an industrial engineer, more manufacturing focused than specifically logistics. From what I've seen and heard from talking with other IE's at other companies, we're probably looking at a couple years before things are "normal" again, and they'll continue to be a mess in a way that's transparent to the consumer longer than that.

As long as there are areas of the world with significant trade that are being hit hard by COVID there will be disruptions. In the last few weeks, Southeast Asia has had reduced port capacity due to a COVID surge.

Heck, even in US production it's tough to get production and warehouse employees right now! Weird times for sure, even if you're paying a strong wage.

If you're curious about general global shipping, in 2017 Flexport put out a great podcast about cargo ships. I really wish they would do an additional podcast about the current happenings, though their blog posts are quite interesting.

https://www.flexport.com/blog/alexis-madrigal-containers-pod...

Odd Lots (a Bloomberg podcast) also had a great interview from earlier this month.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-02/gene-sero...
Configuration and code are effectively the same. It's not like you won't need to test, or won't make mistakes.
around the topic of "Work Hours Overlap for Remote Teams"

Would be interesting to type in your current town, and then generate a list of the other countries (+major cities?) on the same time zone or like +/- 1-2 time zones away.

I do think the time zone thing can be crucial.
I agree with the concept, but not a tax on sugar.

With sugar I could at most harm myself, not others. A tax on sugar but not on fat would be discrimination of one diet form or even lifestyle over another. I can offset a lot of sugar with a lot of sport myself.
Obviously as this doesn't align with what I was expecting, I'm going to try to pick holes in it.

One thought, as this is facebook derived data and I don't believe they took up my references - maybe a load of people just chose the 'most educated option'
>Most people aren’t of any single race.

I disagree. In fact, I'd say that people (at least all the ones we know) are entirely one race: Human.
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> If I were to start digging through Github repositories and... whatever other unknown resources I don't know the search terms to even search for

The package managers and their associated websites tell you exactly where the sources are; you don’t need to search for them yourself. This is how I found some quotes for `fortune` from CentOS that I liked which weren’t present in the macOS version.
> the logical fallacies are hurting my brain

Like your "they don't omit references ever" straw man?

"This one case" meaning one of the most significant and contested events of the US election? Surely their far-left agenda would prevent them from publishing this?

This isn't "Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer" level of insignificance.
The "good" Pickleballs, Franklin and Dura, seem to last a few to several days before cracking or warping while the "bad" ones that nobody wants to use because they are softer seem to last forever. It's a bit better than tennis where people want a new can every time they play. No shortage in Pickleballs that I've seen so far.
Here's two from me which just try to replicate the results of the original, it doesn't accommodate for values being the same or anything like that. This took me well over half an hour, I got more stuck on the first one trying to reduce the logic than I'd prefer to have, and I would have failed any job interview by now because I'm someone that's known to supposed to be "smart", but these things are always difficult for me to focus on.

def mono_runs_pythonic_two(seq):
curr = []

result = []
prev = None
is_decreasing = None

for elem in seq:
if prev is not None:
if (
elem < prev
) is not is_decreasing and is_decreasing is not None:

if is_decreasing:
curr.reverse()
if curr:
result.append(curr)
curr = []
is_decreasing = elem < prev
prev = elem
curr.append(elem)

result.append(curr)

return result

def mono_runs_pythonic_three(seq):
def grouper():

is_decreasing = False
prev = None

def go(elem):
nonlocal is_decreasing, prev
if prev is not None:
is_decreasing = elem < prev
prev = elem
return is_decreasing

return go

return [
list(reversed(list(group))) if is_decreasing else list(group)
for is_decreasing, group in itertools.groupby(seq, key=grouper())
]
The point I'm making is that you can simply modify an already existing font "just enough" for it to be considered a new work.

This is essentially what happened with Arial w/ Helvetica; and companies have been doing this ever since to create new licenses that they can control.

We are drowning in Grotesk/Sans-Serif/Helvetica type fonts! Do we really need another "Big Tech Sans"? Or rather, why can't Twitter just use X? xD
Polygon acquires Hermez in $250M deal that includes first-ever token 'merger'
France is on the brink of a revolution over vaccine passports. Police are inspecting peoples' "papers" at restaurants, and there are anti-passport protests with police leading the parade. There are full blown brownshirt squads in Australia. Police are beating protesters in Canada.

It's not only reasonable to hypothesize this is about control, to me it's irrational to think otherwise at this point.
They never could have moved in mass as the moment they would US and Afghan aviation. But not only did US pull intel support, air support, they pulled logistic support so the Afghan aviation is in complete disrepair.
Not to label things you haven't researched yourself as "facts." You can instead label them with their sources. Even better, you can not jump into it at all if you're just copying from a another secondary source, and allow that source to get the traffic.

If you are the secondary source, you should of course include your references. If you're the primary source (e.g. you're quoting anonymous administration officials), feel free to declare it a fact; people shouldn't just believe you, but putting your reputation on the line is actually a good signal to me (contingent on said reputation.)
Less than a month ago, 40% of the Australian population was under a stay-at-home order:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57845163

The Australian military is being used to intimidate dissenters (eg. anti-lockdown protests) and enforce lockdown: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58021718

Australia is absolutely not an example of success, it has deteriorated into a police state.
Don't most cultures in the world (outside of the US) engage in these kinds of discussions? I lived in Italy for a few months and as I was walking around the city I'd often come across groups of 2 to 4 men standing on a corner engaged in a passionate conversation. I might see them as I entered a store to shop and when I came out 30 minutes later they'd still be at it.

I'm kind of envious - it's really something we don't have in the US because we're such an isolated culture.
This is the exact same because "conspiracy theorists might use it" reasoning just flowing in the opposite direction. Conspiracy theorists with conspiracy theorize regardless of the level of transparency provided by journalist organizations.
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It hardly seems controversial to suggest that slavery was a fundamental building block of our country, and one that has had an enormous long-lasting impact on our society.

To label 1619 as the founding of the country sounds like hyperbole designed to draw attention and discussion.

Was she wrong to respond the way she did? Sure. And it's a shame that an important project to take a sober look at the legacy of slavery has been diminished by her reaction to the criticism, and generally mishandled by the NYT.

Does that mean that the project as a whole is "factually wrong"? That seems dubious at best.
I think you are missing some facts here. COVID vaccines are not on the list of eligible vaccines for that program. You also can't sue the relevant govt departments for the COVID vaccine.

This article does a nice job of going into the nuances

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...

Also, a better link than a wikipedia article: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/history/ind...
I use this in a few of my projects. Simple, no complaints. Compile time is faster than it takes for me to yawn most of the time (using mold linker and sccache, which improves compile time a lot with a far superior linker and caching compiled dependencies, respectively).

(Edit to add: below complaint is entirely within rust and irrelevant to this library)

Only problem (not the fault of egui) is sometimes the elements disallow me using the templateapp object mutably as a whole: sometimes I have to mut borrow a part of `self` before the ui part (instead of mutating `self.whatever` within the UI element, I have to do `let borrow = self.whatever.borrow_mut()` before the UI element then call that borrow) which seemed odd to me as a beginner. I think this is mostly a rust "problem" but also maybe because of how UI element creation was designed.

If you understand the borrow rules then you'll probably understand it fine. I might be able to just lock an Arc Mutex instead and avoid the problem but I just learned how to use them so :p
Simple questions for you: you seem to have a very detailed opinion of the way the Afghan people think and behave. How many are within your group of friends with whom you communicate on a regular basis? How many have provided an opinion or insight on your analysis of their situation? Have you spent any time anywhere near the region?
Lol it's hilarious. All the SJW types on instagram now are reposting "The latest on what's happening in Afghanistan! What you can do to help!" Someone said donating to some fund or something and reposting this or that... all selfish posturing.

Some people literally have no clue about the way reality unfolds. Sometimes its just the strong that create the new reality, and they eradicate the weak from existence. When you have strength and general justice on your side, you need to take the chance and destroy the evil.
This is just it - most people criticize the media have a clear political agenda, it oozes out of them. In this case, it immediately goes to Trump and Russia, almost instantly, almost as if it's a campaign. It misleads by saying "we don't have direct evidence of this, therefore it must not have happened." The two articles linked are not convincing.

Often times people complain about the mainstream media and then post their own media, without convincing me why I should trust this media over any other media.
What do you think causes T2D?

T2D is insulin resistance, what causes the body to release insulin and why does the body become resistant?
> Easiest solution to diabetes: Sugar tax.
>
> Easiest solution to climate change: Carbon tax.

It sounds all good and well, until you realize it's essentially just a tax on the least wealthy people. Cheap food is typically high in sugar, so all you're doing is removing cheap food.

I offer the alternative of subsidizing healthy food, use the carrot and not the stick. Subsidizing healthy food also has the added bonus of supporting local farmers and manufacturing of food.

> If we havn't used these solutions, someone high up in the food chain is placing a greater emphasis on profits from the status quo instead of the wellbeing of the population.

I think the fundamental assumption here is a lack of agency of the individual. The answer isn't to 'tax the plebs until they do what we want' - we need to understand exactly why people are making the decisions they do.

I have some theories of my own about this, but it's an actively ongoing investigation. I spoke to a friend in Biology just the other day, and they had a completely different perspective from their field about why people are becoming more obese.
WinCompose is one of a handful of utilities that's made using Windows virtually painless as someone who's used to using Linux as a daily driver.

(other such utilities include Chocolatey, MobaXterm, Greenshot, WSL in general for common CLI tools, and some KDE apps but especially Kate and Okular)
I just couldn't resist posting this here from one of the files comment section:

iOS-style toggle switch:

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>Nothing wrong with fessing up and saying “we made a mistake, here’s the correction”

Sadly if you do retractions, you are not qualified for the name "fact checker". Because "facts" are not retractable.

And fact-checkers are just the tip of the iceberg, and if you care to look, there are many things that are peddled as being "fact" when there is not enough credible evidence to say so..

For example the statement "Vaccines don't cause autism". Any one with two brain cells will know that this NOT a fact, simply because it does not say "Which vaccines".

But that does not prevent people from saying that as a FACT.

So it is not only them. It is you as well.
Shortages wouldn't be so severe if market prices could reward those who had done work to mitigate the shortage. For example, when cups are in short supply, the person who sells their reserve stock for a healthy profit.

Unfortunately anti-price-gouging laws are being enforced more strictly, which means those who can alleviate a shortage are usually not rewarded. End result is people no longer go to great lengths to come up with ways to alleviate shortages, and the shortages end up worse.
We agree. :)

So far, only Tesla really supports this at scale (and unfortunately it's proprietary so we can't really use it).

However, the coming wave of EVs will finally support ISO15118, which is a global standard that brings this experience to any EV. We'll support it as soon as there's a meaningful population of vehicles out there with the car-side support. Come to our labs in a month or two for a preview ;)
Oh wow these look great!
All modern media companies today have been built by using these kinds of shady "growth hacks."

Doesn't anybody see the irony of Buzzfeed calling out a fellow media company for using such tactics?

Buzzfeed's entire growth strategy for years was copy-pasting content from trending reddit threads and turning them into "listicles" with clickbait headlines, then feeding them into Facebook.

Was that not also plagiarism?
That One Cool Reader Trick
Thanks

I personally use the reddit.com address, but have opted out of the redesign. I wonder if you can track that with reddit.
But was never convicted, or even prosecuted, for the bombing the original tweet mentioned. And never prosecuted for terrorism.
I’d be interested to know how oil consumption and the industries it supports are responsible for the lack of famines and lower maternal mortality rates typically credited to policy changes (farm subsidies), and the advancement of medicine and hygiene standards.
How many people have have gotten Covid from fomite transmission so far? Last I checked the number of such confirmed cases varied from zero to one.

Meanwhile the entire globe has been anxiously sanitizing their hands and everything they touch for 18 months (a lot of people in my family were even washing the grocery produce with soap and setting them aside for one day before use). All this long, long after scientists had pretty much figured out that risks of fomite transmission of Covid were vanishingly small.
I want this comic so bad. Hard to find though
Dover (YC S19) just raised $20m and is hiring for all roles
Bush and his crew are mostly to blame. Although Obama could've done something after the momentum from Osama's demise. I've read Biden was anti-afghan war since 2009.

It really is a waste when you figure we are going to be in an all-out global conflict with the CCP, Russia, NK, Iran in about 5-10 years.
Continued presence was at a minimal cost while keeping the freedom of ten's of millions. Instead we chose to create a horrible human catastrophe to save very little.
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I just realized that this must not be the chirp font at all, based on looking at the g. This must be some fall-back font. oops. Still it looks terrible.
Programming the Windows Firewall
Just FYI.

Not sure about others, but I almost never watch video content to learn how to do something with a computer. I don't like needing to have audio turned on, they are often either too slow or too fast, and they don't allow me to move at my own pace / jump around as easily.

Video is a great medium to convince me to try something or show me why I should do something a particular way, but not the medium I want to use to learn how to use a thing generally. Really prefer text and occasionally text+picture.
I'm sure you realize who has filled that vacuum, that regional powerhouse next door that shares its largest border? Maybe by giving them such an enormous gift we're frenemies, after all?
I think I'd like to use this to enter my SSO password on corporate web sites.
No, that is the worst idea and the root of the problem.

Those "10,000 soldiers" are 18-year-old kids. With guns. In a place where they are scared, angry, bored and have no frame of reference understand the culture. What happens in that situation is about what you'd expect to happen, even when they are the "best trained in the world". The longer you keep them there, the more angry the locals are going to be.
You left out the rest of that...

> or would have hedged their bets with a dozen alternatives

Nokia or Motorola wouldn't have bet their phone business on a single UI/hardware combination like Apple did, and so I don't believe it would have had the technological impact the iPhone did.
That was not the original lab leak article. The original article called it definitely false and racist.
It's often OK to disagree. The vocal Socialist and I entertained our office sometimes with frothing rants at lunchtime, with the explicit prior agreement that we agreed to disagree and there was no convincing the idjits that believed the other side's arguments. He was a good guy, good cow orker and an entertaining debater. The fact that we could shout at each other made the rare work disagreements shorter and far less meaningful, stuff didn't stew and ego issues were open and visible for what they were.

Why must agreement be total? Why can't we work beside someone with a different view, especially when what we're doing is something we agree on?

Does an office need to consist of only fans of $Sports_Team? Should they have mandatory pep rallies? Contrawise, is there any harm if some folks want to have an office Superbowl party? Is your office's political stance of any more consequence than their stance on a given sport?
It’s just that simply looking at the guy operate it makes my back hurt. You need to rotate the handle hundreds of times per load.