skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guess I got lucky. I know there's some variability in performance of Roku devices, which can extend to stability of applications. I've got two nearly-identical but different-brand TVs with embedded Rokus, and the older TCL one is rock solid and snappy, but the newer one (Hisense brand) is laggy and everything crashes frequently on it.
Personally, I do the latter.

I never type "old.reddit.com". I'm always on www.reddit.com, and I'm always on the old site experience.

Of course, I don't know how much of that has to do with the fact that I use RES.
That's a weird recipe. '1 cup flour; 1 tbsp flour', '1 tbsp salt; 1 tsp salt', 'bread, 00, or all-purpose flour if neither of those are available'...

I somewhat understand the first, knowing that America has an aversion to mass-based (or even standard volumetric) measurements in recipes, so the alternative really is either an unreasonable number of tablespoons, or an unreasonably precise number of cups.

The latter however is pure nonsense. 'Bread flour', aka 'strong', is so named for relatively high protein content (gluten-producing capability). '00 flour' aka 'super-fine' refers to how finely it's milled; used particularly for pasta and has its proponents for pizza.

Orthogonal concepts. As a substitution chain it basically just reads 'flour' but in a way that implies any speciality is better than plain/'AP'.
You’re welcome! I first saw it on the Wikipedia page for Shona, which has several whistled consonants within its inventory.
> voicing an opinion (showing a petition throughout the office)

voicing an opinion with the intent to gather enough employee consensus to pressure the employer to not serve a particular customer. So the end result is the same - an employee was able to override the decision on who to serve made by management/shareholder.

An employee voicing an opinion is not wrong - but if the reason for said opinion is not in the best interest of the employer, that would mean the employer won't want to heed it unless forced by law.
The choice is shrinking, but there are still some available.

Example: https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U750CV-UMRD-75-4K-UHD-T...

Sadly unobtanium in the EU.
This wasn't convincing. Sweeping statements about viability and scaling do not constitute an argument, I think.
AOC cables are also affordable.
Thank you so much! Our patient interface guides them through how to hold the device, it's a very simple device so even our 90 year old patients love using them :)
They do, but they buy or lease ordinary unmodified vehicles for a year or two then flip them at auction. Zero overhead here except for the buying/disposing of vehicles.

$80/day is probably a decent estimate, but once you include the optional insurance upsells and other add-ons (full tank of gas?) I bet they make way more than $80/day per car.

They also have very limited liability for what the driver does in their car while Waymo basically has unlimited liability.
How about servicing phones or google accounts?
And Toyota is a middleman between you and the raw materials to build a car. I guess it’s obvious that you can build a car cheaper than Toyota? How do the economies of scale fit into this false equivalency of a physics analogy?
I can tell you missed my point. Anyways, I’m more interested in the people reading the discussion.
> it was only added as a result of the controversy.

3 years ago. We’re well past the point where that’s a fair complaint
The old internet was filled with hate, racism, sexism, people fighting, hating and swearing. Things are actually better.

The news seems just as negative as social media.
They know what ads are, they know what poorly designed laggy interfaces are, and they know about TVs that weirdly behave slowly if you load to many apps without rebooting your TV.

It really makes more sense for smart functionality to be a different box so you can pick it independently
From upper New England, been here my whole life - can confirm "Being pissed" always means being angry.
Don't have to go all the way to EPYC, stopping at Threadripper Pro along the way will get you most of the way there.
We do say it, but it doesn't mean drunk, it means angry as in "pissed off."
> Next you have to keep these vehicles fueled - either gasoline or electricity, so you are going to need to pay people to handle that.

I don’t understand how someone who could solve the self driving problem could solve the “plug the car in via simple robotics after it parks itself” problem.

They are also able to park near the city where parking is cheaper, though I guess it could also turn out like it does in China (if anyone is out at 2AM and see all the taxis pushed over to the side of the road with sleeping drivers).

Anyone who lives in a city with a heavy taxi presence already isn’t going to be deterred by these challenges, just the Americans and some other drivin heavy countries will need to adapt.
Well. That answers the question, who breaks a butterfly on a wheel, then.
IANAL but it seems that it would succeed in requiring an additional layer of argumentation that “area” is code for “market”. My rough sense is that nothing is trivial in cases like this, but how difficult would it be to argue this?
For what's worth, Brazilian regulators also had a bunch of issues with data provided for Sputnik. Issues were also raised when facilities were inspected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/world/covid-vaccine-brazi...
I challenge the premise. At least in the United States, the number of subscribers to commercial-free cable channels has decreased significantly in the last 10 years, during which time the number of subscribers to streaming services which show fewer or no ads has increased significantly.
The vaccine was being "touted" by Bolsonaro? He publicly disparaged it several times.
With Quora you can just add ?share=1 at the end of the url and you can view the content without logging in.
I have probably been in far more American factories than you. Obviously I am not going to answer your question directly because I have an interest in protecting my career or privacy but in my extensive experience in mamufacturing many things that you might think could be automated are not because it is still cheaper or more effective to pay a worker $15-25 an hour than to spend $15,000 on automation that doesn't work right half the time.

Here is the reality that self driving will confront:

cost effective, reliable, competitive automation is hard, even for seemingly closed mundane taskes like palatising products.
It's not. It wasn't a targeted attack, or any kind of retaliation. The scammer never even saw any of his videos.
> Oh really? Ever try building, staffing, powering, cooling and equipping a data center? And then build a DR? Let me tell you, my company has foolishly done that just in the past ten years and WE are screaming uncle! We're now transitioning to AWS because it's much, much, much cheaper!

Since most of my career postdates and predates renting capacity on someone else's computer, yes, have done that many times.

Would be great to publish a case study on your experience, would love to understand the numbers.

While for some rare scenarios AWS can be cheaper, for just about any use case it's going to be much more expensive than running your own.
Yes, the Chinese news says someone in Weibo posts about this, then the reporter tests:

1. at first the score is lower after switch region, they guess the reason is thermal throttling because they tested multiple times, after cooling down, the score is only improved a little.

2. they thought the battery capacity is 100%, so there is no throttling. Therefore doing the test on a 80% phone, but there is also no significant difference.

3. Finally they come out an assumption, iPhone will do a soft restart and kill a background process after changing region, so the performance is improved.

Therefore the title from gizchina is a little misleading.
Has anyone switched from Brex to Ramp? Or vice versa? I’m having trouble understanding any significant differences between them other than competing on cash back.
They work exactly as intended, too bad that among the intended features there is also their planned obsolescence.
Yep. And those people need to be empowered and listened to enough to affect the hiring process. No great engineer I've ever met said "put them through 20 hours of leetcode, that'll do it." But here we are.
I mean, not surprising.

Here's an older hacker news thread about Brazil rejecting the Russian Vaccine.[0] It's so depressingly unsurprising in this post-truth era.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26975783
Major negatives:

- Destructors are avoided for reasons, but then a full GC is wedged in. Unless you enable a particular flag, then you have to do all memory management manually, making code non-portable. Why on earth wouldn't you just use reference counting with destructors? Unless I'm missing something, that's better in every case.

- Avoids LLVM because 'C code works everywhere', then doesn't support MSVC.

- 1-indexed in libraries copied from Lua, 0-indexed elsewhere. That's just about the only worse thing you could do than 1-indexing everywhere.

- Preprocessor model instead of the features being a more integrated component of the language. Zig has proved a function-based approach can work well and C's legacy has proved that preprocessors absolutely blow.

- Aforementioned preprocessor directives get seriously wedged. You need them for polymorphism, varargs, etc.

- No closures. This one seems the most baffling to me because Lua has the __call metamethod, which is exactly what you'd use for that, and they're 99% of the point of anonymous or inner functions.
Here's PR to remove the shutter sound for Japan:
https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_...

India looks same implementation:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...
Same feeling here. Curiously enough the domain is called "For better science", where we'd have expected neutrality and impartiality to be the guiding principles of any report.

Apart from that, it is hard to believe that any of the vaccine reports and clinical trials are unbiased. Unfortunately there are too many conflicts of interest and money on the table for any information to be taken at face value. The beauty of science is that now that the vaccines are out there it becomes easier to independently access them and move our knowledge further in the right direction.
And on that note, regardless of the final outcome for Sputnik V, at least there will be lessons learned for the future development of vaccines and increased scrutiny in their manufacturing process.
Is it a way to work on FOSS in decentralized or even distributed manner? Without relaying on the Github index as the critical point.
“ Richard Sapper isn’t a household name like Jony Ive, Dieter Rams, or Phillipe Stark.”

None of these are household names.
What kind of phone was it?
Have you heard of the musical group Bauhaus? I don't have a specific point, except that my impression is they were pretty theatrical.

Also, I'd observe that a "spiritual successor" to something might have some significant differences?

Anyway, I liked the folding Thinkpad keyboard. If it had been a flimsy malfunctioning attempt at getting attention, it would have been different. But it was very solid, wasn't it?
Yep, this is a really interesting question. I had a long discussion about this on another forum, and it turns out linguists really have no idea why clicks are restricted to African languages. The best we could come up with was that click sounds are just too difficult to evolve — there’s no easy way for some random English sound (for instance) to turn into a click. On the other hand, if a neighbouring language has click sounds, that can start to provide almost a ‘pathway’ for clicks to come into the language.
I’m sure the costs Uber offer are accurate and not incredibly subsidized: https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/

So $260-270/week? Not sure if they have any extra fees applied, however.
*epicycle
If I were a city, I'd want people spending all of their money on food, drinks, music and other attractions, right? Not necessarily parking and taxis. This might be off base, but I feel like some cities would happily help pay for the cost of having the mapping done and kept up to date.
I think that what is sort of a sideline in this article is really a more important story. The Lancet and NEJM have completely debased themselves and destroyed centuries of institutional credibility in their handling of covid related research. I don't know where it goes from here but they have both burned themselves to the ground.
there wasn't much of a push to vaccinate people, and also not much incentive for people to get one- especially when the country had no COVID cases in the community and life was normal.
How about never connecting it to a network?
There are more places in the world than Europe and USA. I'm in Vietnam and it's 8.30 am. So maybe the opinions you're seeing are from Russia, India, China, Thailand, Indonesia, or Mongolia as well as the USA?
But English clicks are not phonemic consonants in the same way they are in Xhosa and Khoekhoe — that is, clicks are not part of words in English, whereas they are in those languages. (Even the language name Xhosa begins with a click.)
> Maybe I'm just cynical but I have a hard time believing that it was because everyone just _had_ to have a TV with a buggy UI (in many cases) and/or loaded with spyware.

As you indicated, dumb TVs did compete against smart TVs for many years. The options were more like:

1. Buy a smart TV that might contain spyware and bugs.

2. Buy a dumb TV, and also buy another device to play content which can just as easily contain spyware and bugs. Oh, and the dumb TV already costs the same as the smart TV, because the "smart" hardware is extremely cheap at scale even without any secondary revenue streams.
Unofortunately some manufacturers are now implementing DRM to control your use of the ice maker function.

See: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgxpjy/hacker-bypasses-ges-r... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129801
Yeah tbh 1-2 months would be ideal. Touch base, hit some stuff, grab a beer after work. But if we are just chugging along adding features and refining... why do you need to be in the office?

Maybe for a period of heavy design work... but wth.
Antivax propaganda.
Doing that on interior camera that the cars are sure to have … that is some evidence that goes way beyond “he said she said.”
Carbon Costs Quantified
>[...] for a range of reasons which I don’t think have been resolved

Care to elaborate? I'm very interested in this. Thanks.
> for a task blinking in and out of existence for the exact number of milliseconds they’re needed

Right, in cases where the capacity needed is so low that "blinking out of existence" is a frequent scenario, it is indeed cheaper to rent only those CPU-milliseconds that are needed.

But as usage grows, it will fairly quickly exceed the cost of just having dedicated servers.
It seems to happen to me when I have an ad blocker. On occasion I try without an adblocker and don't seem to have the issue. It could just be a coincidence though.
There's also 'UntrackMe' for Android: https://fedilab.app/wiki/untrackme/
A Spring Cloud Compatible Service Mesh
I didn’t say it was prohibitive but it’s certainly not cheap. The cost is per km rather than per square km. DeepMap charges $5k / km for example (the big companies don’t publish their costs, but it’s widely known in the industry to be on par with this). I can’t seem to find the stats again, but map invalidation happens on the order of weeks to months.
Perhaps there are methods to maximize forest yield, it would probably be appropriate to bake that into the value I would think. I think forests that burn may leave behind char in the soil layers and on small time scales it would be insignificant but maybe it becomes significant over millennia?
The animation of how a relay works in episode 2 made me wince.
https://youtu.be/LN0ucKNX0hc?t=95 Why is one terminal of the coil connected to the output?

Nevertheless, I am rather impressed by the early episodes that I've skimmed so far, which actually manage to present a credible high-level overview of digital logic and even microprocessor architecture. Hats off to the authors.
Thanks. I honestly think this is the peak though. But that's ok. There are banter people in the world that would love to have a similar situation to mine vs the one they may be in.
I really don't know why people want to venerate anything to do with Steve Jobs. He was an absolute disgrace of a human being, treated people like garbage, a borderline psychopath. And yet some venerate him because he made some pretty things before other people would have inevitably made those same pretty things.

P.S. I somewhat agree with the commentator saying that hacker news is in many ways a sort of venture capital pornography, but I think the people comparing jobs to historical figures that confronted adolf hitler or changed the course of human history need some very long and deep self reflection.
Why wasn't it smart (besides actually talking to the cop)? I was not guilty of anything but making a joke in bad taste (and maybe doing 59 in a 55). It was an inconvenience to be detained for an hour, but it wasn't a hot day, I didn't have any obligations...

>simply admitting

no your best option is not to say a GD thing. story time: i was once pulled over on the eastern shore by a cop that was barely my age. i didn't say a word to him for the 10 minute stop. that really messed with his mental state and I could tell his internal hard drive was returning a seek error. at the end he stammered out "o-okay, w-well you slow down and haveaniceday" then he quick walked back to his car and turned down a side road.

NEVER TALK TO COPS.
It was my initial thought since X399D8A-2T mobo (X399 but has IPMI) existed for TR 2000. But they changed chipset for TR 3000 and TR 3000 don't offer 16 core SKU (it's enough for me). I also found that even TR 2000 build isn't much cheaper than EPYC because it needs ECC UDIMM that rarely sold cheaply rather than ECC RDIMM. So finally I go for EPYC Rome.
That is 101 for autonomous driving. Solved years ago.
Serious question - what makes the database serialization not vulnerable to timing attacks in the same vein? I wouldn't expect those to be purely constant time implementations.
Oh, I am not denying at all that Covid has a more severe impact on older people.

I am just saying that, looking at the data, maybe 0.1% of the 55+ workers died of Covid, and so Covid by itself does not explain the 5% drop in the FRED graph. Maybe part of the disconnect is that Covid disproportionately affects people too old to be in the workforce?
The law that case is referring to is also the one I was referring to about protecting object code of any form: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

"Subject to the provisions of Articles 5 and 6, the exclusive rights of the rightholder within the meaning of Article 2, shall include the right to do or to authorize:
(a) the permanent or temporary reproduction of a computer program by any means and in any form, in part or in whole. Insofar as loading, displaying, running, transmision or storage of the computer program necessitate such reproduction, such acts shall be subject to authorization by the rightholder;"

To be clear the "gotcha"s as referred to in the comments above aren't "bits of the written law one might find surprising or overreaching" they are attempts at circumventing the meaning of the law by taking it absurdly literally (as in my stop sign example in my sibling comment) and hoping to use that narrow interpretation as legal reasoning instead of paying attention to the actual intent of said law.

As I said the law as written doesn't singularly hinge on the process of loading a program into RAM to allow the requiring license to use software anyways, the software can require those additional terms as part of the installation onto the computer's storage which is clearly a copying process. This is also why the "walk to the store, buy a disc, it's yours. Legally obtained copy. No terms." example is silly - even if we accepted that was legally yours with no usage terms what you have is no terms usage (but not modification or redistribution) of the installer which is going to require you to agree to terms to perform the copy (and probably enter a license key in any semi-modern time). Similarly with the point on music, what makes you think it isn't licensed to a copyright holder? Because it doesn't prompt you when you hit play? CDs give unlimited private playback and backup rights, no public distribution, and no public performance. Modification has certain allowances (known as fair use) just like software but generally is up to the rightsholder. Streaming gives a temporary license for much the same. Digital radio gives you rights to listen live. There is no slippery slope of digital music gaining copyright control through some reasoning from software copyright, it's all already there.
It depends on who owns, maintains, and is paying for the vehicle and license/medallion to operate.

The whole system - whether Uber/Lyft drivers who "relied on their unfamiliarity with capital depreciation calculations"[1] or traditional cabbies who, let's be honest is not a glamorous job, is tenuous at best. Cutting out the lowest cost factors and replacing them with technology and also incurring the fleet costs doesn't really seem like a great business.

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more
When I had a larger homelab, I found it was a large proportion of my electricity usage.

A constant 200W adds up, and 200W of heat is not desirable during Australian summers.

I have settled on a PC Engine APU2 acting as my router, and a Raspberry Pi acting as my IoT brain. 10W.

My other devices sleep.
If you never fail, you aren't moving fast enough.

A million people are killed globally each year by motor vehicles. Staggering amounts of pain and injuries. Massive amounts of property damage. Tesla's cars are not supposed to be left to drive themselves. The chance to save so much carnage seems worth letting some people driving Tesla's, that fail to pay attention to the road, suffer the consequences of poor decisions.

Plus these problems are likely too be mostly fixed due to the fact that they happened.
I was told in a screening interview once that they don’t really need people who can solve problems or write maintainable code, or who understand software design. They said the tech lead will do all that. They said they just really needed people with framework experience. I was at a loss for words
Have you read the second part?
Consider Ken Forkish’s “Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast”. I’ve been happily making bakery-quality sourdough with it.
Are there any plans for a Mountain View trial? I live there.
Once upon a time US regulators recognized that limited competition and market dominance can be a problem all by themselves, for their chilling effect on innovation. Unfortunately under Reagan the DOJ changed their policy and started arguing that concrete consumer harm has to be demonstrated for a business to be subject to antitrust. That’s a much higher bar. Imagine trying to build the modern internet under a telco monopoly, and trying to argue that consumers were being harmed because internet access was limited. Who would even want internet access under those circumstances?

The same is true of Google. It’s hard to show concrete harm (though wrecking flight search counts for me) when we have no counterfactual to consider. For example, in a truly competitive display ad market (instead of a duopoly), maybe our civilization would have figured out that display ads are a waste of money and consumer product manufacturers and retailers would stop buying them. But it’s hard to know. This is why we should go after any company that is dominant in any market.
Business savings accounts generally give crappier rates than individual ones. I’m not aware of any major bank that gives anything greater than .05%.