skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that they invented the term but it was, and probably still is, prominent in the F.I.R.S.T. robotics competition.

At least in that context, as a mentor, I thought it was a decent message for the students. Work together to get the robots as good as possible so that you had an enjoyable competition.

https://www.firstinspires.org/
I've done the startup thing twice and that was enough to make me realize it just isn't worth it.

There's a 99% chance that in 2-3 years the startup will implode and you're going to hate yourself for getting so involved that you drove away your partner. Not worth it. Not even a little bit.
I assume you've heard the advice that small startups should start in a niche and then expand towards the wider markets? Have you thought about initially focusing on Hacker News types, the types who read up on the technical documentation behind a drug?

You've probably heard the story about Head & Shoulders shampoo? This is taught in a lot of marketing classes. The year it launched there were other shampoos launching that also included selenium disulfide and piroctone olamine and therefore could have sold themselves as anti-dandruff shampoo, but the other shampoos instead went after the general market and they almost all failed. Head & Shoulders started with a niche and eventually became a giant:

"By 1982, it was the "number one brand" of shampoo, and it was noted that "No one hair care brand gets so many ad dollars as Head & Shoulders, a twenty year old brand, and no other brand matches its sales", despite it being a "medicated" shampoo."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_%26_Shoulders
Yeah he was a scientist and a total madman. He thought TV was unhealthy and made us read books instead. I ended up working at an investment bank.

He did teach me to how to brew beer though, so his Phd wasn’t a total loss for us kids.
That's what I was getting at. On technical execution they actually are doing pretty bad particularly in manufacturing but also in CPU design. But even technically it has been a few years in comparison to current leaders that previously lagged by similar amounts for many years. Of course financially they are doing far better.

It's just amazing to me that people who really follow the AMD / Intel battle quite closely can actually believe that Intel is finished because AMD emerged from their decade-long post-Opteron slump a few years ago with Zen.
yeah i hear you. fuck it ive make 8 figures and money has made me miserable as fuck. there is SOME wisdom in this list.
One unexpected epicenter in culture wars was whether it’s ok to generate stories involving children. You can probably guess the stories people had a problem with.

Since models are becoming centralized, it’s a bigger deal than it seems. It’ll be interesting to see whether the AI community settles on one specific list of “don’t”’s, or if each company will have their own variant.
If a person defaults, the debt stays on their credit report in the US for (I think...) seven years.

This can have various consequences depending on the new home country and its agreements with the US - from credit issues and possible legal action, to absolutely no consequences at all.

Obviously if the person moves back to the US, they'll likely be chased by debt collectors and possibly the IRS.
Has it become "a disaster" on PCs or Macs?
> Do you live in a different "world", by chance?

Do you make a habit of belittling when making your points?

>not. much. of. an. issue.

If you are going to quote me, please quote me, don't add extra text that I didn't write.

> heart related conditions are always leading causes of death, even in poor countries.

OK, I picked Nigeria out of a hat. It is a large country so the statistics should be pretty stable and has a diversity of rural and urban populations.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1122916/main-causes-of-d...

If you don't want to click, the short of it is:
neonatal (12%), malaria (12%), diarrhea (11%), lower respiratory infection (11%), HIV/AIDS (5%), heart disease (4.4%)

Your claim that it is always the #1 killer is disproven. Are there poor countries where heart disease is #1. For sure. But you shouldn't be sneering at my statement.
IDK maybe they mean the issue that often you don't see when it's too late. I.e. the famous Niemöller quote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

Generally, the more authoritarian a system is, the harder is standing up for liberties, because it has more willingness and tools to violently quell any resistance.
So what? It's not surprising, bad, or newsworthy that Google would bribe developers to try to keep them in the fold
That is arguably why it’s called “in formation” in the first place
Even 70+ minutes is dubious for a small liquid fuelled quad-copter.

It's more likely there were multiple drones swapping in and out.
Right. A lot of night vision goggles used by pilots like this will be more along the lines of an image intensifier [0], an NVD [1]. Not thermal imaging, though some models also let you see near-infrared they're not, strictly, infrared goggles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_intensifier

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-vision_device
Did you ever use Linspire? It had a posh, user friendly app store with a ton of useful apps, Firefox, Flash Java and most other things worked without issue. Not a bad experience in the early 2000s on a Pentium 3!
And how is that supposed to work?

In detail please. With examples of how it has had successful outcomes in the past.

Compared to - say - landmark programs like ARPA in the 60s and 70s.

The problem isn't the spending, it's the capture that diverts the spending to useless pork instead of best-in-world investment and R&D.

The US used to be quite good at that. Now it isn't.
Intraclonic Explosion
What sort of "lab"? I've recently created a home manufacturing "lab" in my apartment due to Covid-19. I'm cooking up electrodes (EEG), soldering PCBs, silicone enclosures, 3D printing and sewing.

I'd like to be testing cortisol, GH, and a few other things but don't think that's possible in a home lab. Let me know if I'm wrong.
juicero didn't end so well...
Apple will then have a list of all the people who have an iDevice but disabled iCloud in August, 2021.
The most likely explanation is that the chase never actually happened, and the police are making it up.

We should be long past the point of uncritically believing everything police claim.
The bulk of it reminds me of the (very different) Ekranoplane. They were just massive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
Yes, for RF/Microwave circuits.

https://www.qrz.com/db/KD4HSO
This is a near industry wide abusive practice.

Facebook started forcing companies to use Facebook Credits and then forced a 30% cut. Zynga balked. Zynga and Facebook came to secret arrangement. If you were smaller, you were SOL.

EDIT: https://venturebeat.com/2011/12/12/zynga-history/11/

Netflix didn't want to pay Apple the 30% cut. Apple tried to keep Netflix. Eventually, Netflix got rid of new app store subscriptions.

EDIT: Apple offered Netflix concessions. https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/05/netflix-apple-in-app-purchase...

Look at Amazon's bookstore which forces sellers to not offer their books at a lower price elsewhere.

EDIT: https://lawstreetmedia.com/tech/bookstore-files-antitrust-cl...
Likewise, autonomous drug subs. Seems like it'd be impossible to interdict something like that between the Mexican coast and any arbitrary spot along the US west coast.

If the cartels aren't already using autonomous subs, it seems surprising.
Do you really think we'd have done any of those things if we weren't in Afghanistan? I find that hard to believe.
I think what the government calls it depends greatly on "donations" and promises of do-nothing "consulting" positions with outlandish salaries.
You can key on any color; green is the most common mostly because it's pretty far away from the range of human skin/hair.

You also only need to worry about this when you're doing effects shots. If you're doing relatively naturalistic filmmaking where your set/location isn't gonna be replaced, there's no need for any of that.
The user doesn't notice, but it stifles innovation at that level of the stack.
It is documented in the GNU Parallel documentation: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....

If you seriously believe you can implement everything using xargs, then this (contrived) example is for you: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405552/using-xargs-...

Newer versions include 'parset' which can set shell variables in parallel, which is useful if you want to 'map' values from one array to another.
I never did & I resent the claim that it's universal
If this was reported as a “police chase UFO” story, would a super advanced drone really be the best explanation? I wonder if they were being fooled into thinking they were chasing something that wasn’t really there.
Chrome had the advantage of having the #1 search engine with 90+% market share show warning modals saying "Works best in Chrome" while they actively gated features or degraded features for other browser users. Swapping user agents would cause G Suite to perform much better in non-Chrome browsers.
> And also defeats the point of Epic’s separate app store right?

This is why Epic is suing them, to have a judge prohibit Google from illegally anticompetitive behavior.
They do

https://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-07-15/spanish-police-s...

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mexicos-cartels-are-usin...

P.S. you can buy the drone in the first article for a few 1000’s $ on Alibaba…
Your idiosyncratic definition is fine-tuned to capture both KKK and BLM as "racist". Clearly you haven't suffered the racism of modern American life that gave rise to BLM [0]. If anyone other than yourself used this definition, it would prolong that racism. You have only "confused" yourself. If you meant something else, you should have said something else.

[0] https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

>The number of narcosubs—boats modified to minimize their profile while shuttling drugs, has exploded nearly tenfold in the past decade.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-seas-suddenly-swimming-drug-2...
Change your useragent to Chrome. Google often gates performance improvements to be Chrome only.
I used to program without a debugger back when I was a PHP developer, and I carried that habit into JavaScript because I had no idea browser dev tools existed. Once I found out I never looked back.
That’s a dangerous over-simplification. Multiple super-powers were at Afghanistan before the US. The place is strategic because it’s a gate to Russia and China. It’s also wrong to assume that the US will leave Afghanistan. They’ll either operate by proxy or re-deploy at a future date.
As of now, we can only offer our product to Indian companies. This is a regulatory requirement for corporate cards.
A hobby is a perfect way to disconnect. During the Olympics there was a diver that used crochet as a distraction between dives. TV announcer thought it was strange but he used it as a way to reduce the stress from competition.

In order to disconnect, a hobby, you can focus on, is a great way to unplug for a bit.
Check US inflation since the early 80's. It's 200%.

For something more recent, look at US home prices over the past year. It's crazy.

Food costs are also rising. Anecdotally, grocery prices have gone up quite a bit. Restaurants, too. I don't remember a large pizza costing $25 a couple years ago.
Show HN: A toy compiler of a Scala subset
Visa Card Generator
The VISA Credit Card Generator creates a credit card by first loading a generator to the personal computer of the user. Then the user makes a choice of which credit card he wants to generate. The computer processes the data and then creates the card. Once the card has been created, the process is done.
> anything that is more than a single script

... which is exactly what GNU Parallel is. Your concern is even mentioned in the design documentation: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html
Slightly OT but why do people point to Snowden as the guy who discovered the NSA surveillance in 2013 when the NY Times discovered the much worse surveillance they were doing in 2005?

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy...
Error recovery with parser combinators (using nom)
The original tweet:
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200
How is this different from giving developers a larger cut of profits? It's a pretty common sales trick to do "cash back" instead of reducing price. If this is what Epic is going with, they're grasping at straws more than I had imagined.
Literally anything not done directly on the CPU - anything reliant on an external system - should be considered IO. If it requires talking with an external device/network/etc. it's IO.

The person who wrote that should go back and take an intro to computer architecture course.
Precisely, and larger orgs will most likely resort to yet another tool for higher level planning like ProductPlan. JIRA is left for product teams at the local scale.
`Microsoft To Do` works great as an issues-only repository that syncs well between multiple users and devices, integrates with Outlook (flagging an email automatically imports an issue) and has i.e. excellent native desktop and mobile apps.

Once I started using Microsoft To Do, the way that I ran my life/business scheduling became 10-fold more efficient. Any recurring tasks or issues, be it daily, weekly, annually, can be easily scheduled, tracked, and shown as a badge in your taskbar. It's an incredibly integrated, underdiscovered and maybe undervalued app that Microsoft sort of stealth released.

It is so powerful that I deprecated all my no-code JIRA projects and opt to using it instead of a Calendar in my personal life. Would do the same Calendar delete in my business if only it integrated with Teams/Outlook calendar and meeting bookings.
I'm waiting for the drone version of the "Doberman Gang" [i]

[i] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068491/
Those are crewed, or occasionally towed behind a normal boat. It should be relatively straightforward at this point to build a sub that can navigate entirely by itself.
As long as it wasn't a blank line typed by John Cage ;)
Archived version: https://archive.is/zcJwO
I actually think of FF VII as one of the PS1 games that have aged the most, and far more to my eye then MGS. The 3d battle models are fantastic, but the overworld models are, like, laughably bad. It wasn't a hardware limitation either, because FF VIII and IX both fixed this with character models that actually look like the character, but VII looks like polygons are in short supply. They just didnt know how to fully utilize the system yet.
Even if that is true, it doesn't help the average person who doesn't travel much. Their day-to-day expenses are still going up faster than wages.
There have been reports and speculation that they’re doing just that. Of course it’s worth it for the negotiation threat alone, but Apple also really doesn’t seem to like depending on Google.

I personally can’t see them switching any time soon, as DuckDuckGo’s search results are something between worse to terrible and I’m not sure they can do much better without collecting more data.
> Don't reward this nonsense.

Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean others can't. It's design, and design is subjective. People bemoan that Jackson Pollocks go for $20 Million, why are these stupid people buying that when a two year old can make 'the same thing'?

I think most people buying this are well aware, they aren't buying it for the features or something that is exclusive to these phones. They're buying because they like how it looks and for the novel user experience.
It seems the vaccine does little to prevent vaccinated people from spreading the virus. So what is the point of vaccine passports, is that based on outdated data? Preventing serious injury seems unrelated to this question; it seems the unvaccinated are only putting themselves at risk.
This is basically a conspiracy theory.

They are ignoring expert opinion and answers. And instead making a lot of big claims based on some correlations.

The most laughable part being the claim that reducing calorie intake doesn't work. Everyone will lose weight by reducing calorie intake. It's just physics.

Now in practice people have an extremely hard time sticking to diets which makes them ineffective. But people not following diets is not proof that you can't lose weight by reducing calories.
Ask HN: Whats you're ideal PhD workflow
I'll be starting a CS PhD (specifically comp bio/biomedical datascience) at Columbia this September and have been thinking a lot about what sort of workflow/tech stack would be best to use during this period of time. I've only ever worked in academic research and haven't always had the most structure which would usually resemble a waterfall type workflow.

So far I'm thinking kanban to organize ToDos, SciWheel for citation management, Evernote for general notetaking, overleaf for LaTeX, and Doom Emacs as an IDE all used in an Agile-esque way.

Are there any suggested organizational methods/tools that you might recommend?
The power dynamics are identical.

I think you'd have to be quite naive to maintain that the USSR didn't have its local equivalent of a bourgeoisie. Or that a nominally Marxist economy like North Korea isn't really a dynastic monarchy hiding behind Marxist iconography.
Ultimately, many people don't understand what a function, mapping, transmutation, transcription, reclassification, or other process which takes items from one category and puts them in a new set of categories.

Programmers, especially in the data space, perform this activity _all the time_. It's almost as deeply ingrained as breathing. Many people who work in tech-adjacent areas get some kind of understanding of this as "business rules." But on all these fronts it is the application of mathematics, the logic and language of the structure of things.

For me, mathematics was always something that I was decent-but-limited at until I got a great teacher -- and then it all just clicked. I had this teacher at the early undergraduate level, but it was because of their absolute practicality that it all made sense. Prior instructors had focused on the _how_ to perform activities, but never really dug into the _what_ / definition of the activity. What the goal of the action was, and more importantly, how it could then be used as a tool in the toolkit.

What I have realized over time is that when things are difficult to explain, I find success by channeling the great math instructors I had in life.

I feel strongly that this relates to the DNA→RNA issue identified here. Simple abstraction, a game, you name it can help engage the _concept_ of reclassification, and then it becomes much simpler to apply the abstract concept to the specific process.
These are very different things.

An sacrificial ablative coating which survives 1800C° is different from a turbine spinning 25000RPM doing the same for thousands of hours.
Trying out an experiment, creating a substack with purely AI generated content. GPT3 is pretty good for buzzfeed kind of content.

https://aifeed.substack.com/
You hated it so much you made it your hacker news handle! I, too, hate leetcode.
For me the issue is that I'd probably need to move to the East coast and work in a government office environment. I'd rather stay on the West coast.
My phone has a hidden app store made by the manufacturer that automatically shows and whitelabels itself when it connects to a Brazilian cell network. The app is really just http://help.motorola.com/hc/apps/brapps/redirect.php (Redirects to https://moto.offerwall.com.br/appbox_moto) in a WebView with a carrier-specific header at the top and some way to install APKs which seems to be defunct as the page only links to the Play Store now.
Ask HN: Whats your ideal PhD workflow
I'll be starting a CS PhD (specifically comp bio/biomedical datascience) at Columbia this September and have been thinking a lot about what sort of workflow/tech stack would be best to use during this period of time. I've only ever worked in academic research and haven't always had the most structure which would usually resemble a waterfall type workflow.

So far I'm thinking kanban to organize ToDos, SciWheel for citation management, Evernote for general notetaking, overleaf for LaTeX, and Doom Emacs as an IDE all used in an Agile-esque way.

Are there any suggested organizational methods/tools that you might recommend?
Ah thanks. Although even without so many cores, I got ideas on how to saturate all those new ports. Am I reading that those cores have an awful lot of execution ports?

I hope Intel settles down soon to actual product lines I'm having a very hard time predicting anything right now... As are most of the oems we buy from...
There's also parser combinators, which (for example) are used in GHC's parser.
Until they identify it, it is a UFO.
The trail of the data goes cold at Ariely. He is refusing to tell who supposedly gave him the data, and can't keep his story straight. He is also marked as the creator of the Excel file in the metadata [0]. If he received the data in Excel format, he wouldn't be the creator. If he received it in some other format.

It's obvious that Ariely is dirty, and I'd bet we'll hear of other similar cases soon enough from other studies that he was involved in. Cheaters don't cheat just once.

[0] https://datacolada.org/98#footnote_13_6142
>> After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."

They're literally a cartel.
Article says it had to be satellite driven but why not AI powered?
> its a bit sad for me that you just call the right Unity of Vulcan API and voila, effect you were looking for on your scene appears.

You are free to not call those APIs. You could constrain yourself. I did this and I am having way more fun than if I tried to use the full capabilities of a modern GPU+software stack.
That would not be hard.
> like smartphones or phones in total, Apple just does not have a monopoly.

A monopoly is not needed for anti-competitive behavior to be illegal. All that is needed is significant market power.

Apple has 50% of the smartphone market. Which is around where courts have stated that anti-trust laws start to apply.

50% of a highly concentrated market is not a slam dunk anti-trust case, by any means, but it is within the realm where courts might rule against it, depending on numerous factors.
https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Guru

From there:

> I am no guru, but when .guru domains became available, my colleagues suggested that only I could own that domain. We bought supermemo.guru in February 2014, and I accepted the position of the guru on the understanding that the world of SuperMemo is so specialist that it may indeed be hard to find a better SuperMemo Guru.
All the "drone delivery" startups and big co projects have outright failed or been nothing more than PR. There might be something about this that is a lot more difficult than can be seen prima facie, starting probably with the flight time of battery powered drones..
So?

It's not complicated. If someone is overweight and consuming 3,000 calories a day and then reduces to 2,000 they might not lose weight. But then they just need to reduce further.

All humans will lose weight at 0 calories per day. You just gotta find the right calorie level.

Yes exact absorption greatly varies and is impossible to measure. But that's why you just reduce until you are losing at the desired speed. You don't need to precisely measure anything. You just need to be able to tell if overall consumption is going up or down.

Of course this is mentally very challenging so people try to find reasons for it to not work. But energy has to come from somewhere.
Full Self Driving simply doesn't exist until Tesla is willing to accept liability for errors the FSD makes when driving. Otherwise, it should be call Full-Time Babysitting.
Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?