skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure it could have worked, their phones were getting traction in Europe, if they did not do the big framework screwup which destroyed their developer base, it would have worked.
Is meta analysis of unpublished result really such an established scientific practice?
There were plenty of areas that already required 10 digit dialing prior to this due to past area code overlay changes.

This list adds a bunch more areas.

I have to wonder how many places are left that still allow 7 digit dialing?

On a cell phone, I've legitimately never even tried to use 7 digit dialing, as it has always seemed too risky, as it might do the wrong thing if connected to an unexpected cell tower near an area code boundary.
List of HN discussions of List of Lists of Lists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542366

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886292

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23633972

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384134
My grandfather had a similar fate. Roughly 4 months before his death, my uncle was taking care of him for a week while my grandmother was traveling. My uncle had, for the longest time, been adamant that the medication had made his dementia worse. Unbeknownst to the rest of the family, he stopped administering the dementia meds for the week that he was caring for him.

It was bizarre interacting with him during this lucidity. He was able to do most physical things without assistance (he still had a bad hip) and you could engage with him in conversation. He knew who I was without prompting, something he hadn’t been able to do for about 4 years. He knew all his children and grandchildren. He also shared stories from his middle years, something he had stopped doing during the early stages.

It wore off though, in about a week or so he began to have the brain fog set in. His doctor was also not too happy to hear about the withdrawal.

The only person who seemed disturbed and worried about this moment of lucidity was his caretaker, who had worked with dozens of elderly folks with memory issues prior. She said it almost always happened before a sudden decline. She was right, about 3 weeks later he became very ill and then died within a few months.
3-6 month trial/probation is fairly common. While it does help both sides familiarise with each other, it can't prevent a conflict in the future.

I've dealt with long time (15 years) employees suddenly or gradually going completely nuts - refusing to perform any meaningful task, accusing others of abuse and just playing dirty for months, sometimes years.

It's no fun, I tell you what!
6 months trials are useful but to a point
> Waterfall just seems to be the preferred straw man for Agile advocacy.

People keep saying this, but either I hallucinated the early part of my career, or it's real. The straw man is saying that it's a straw man.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This statement, with absolutely no hard evidence, is asserting that aliens exist and in fact control 40-50% of the universe. Furthermore it is also fundamentally untestable as it includes the convenient disclaimer that "we will meet them in 200 Myr - 2 Gyr."

"I have never seen a unicorn nor do I have any evidence they exist. However, their existence seems logical, and therefore I estimate that they control 40-50% of the universe volume, each will control ~10^5 - 3x10^7 galaxies, and we could meet them in ~200 Myr - 2 Gyr."
Yes it could! It is vendor agnostic, just provides a WebRTC API that can be used anywhere.
If you live anywhere where people love Harleys and Dodge Ram trucks with aftermarket exhausts, then 65 is luxury levels of quietness.

Also, whether in my small village or in a fancy suburb, there seems to always be someone with a 2 cycle, muffler-free piece of lawn equipment running. Leaf blowers are the worst, but weed trimmers and now even leaf vaccuums are common.

Or, if you live in an urban area, especially in NYC, there's rarely a moment that you don't hear an emergency vehicle siren echoing throughout the neighborhood.

Unfortunately, it's just a noisy world. At least this aircraft is electric and has some goal of keeping noise as low as possible.
Could make sense in some major cities in China, and maybe a handful of other places.
What difference does it make to disable the censorship function compared to fully removing it from the code base?

Considering that phone updates cannot be verified, every phone maker has the ability to secretly add such features at any time. And if the phone is link to a user account they could even do this in a targeted way.
Depends on the mirrorless camera, doesn't it? The smaller ones are hardly bigger than larger smartphone, and they do offer way better picture quality.
They don't say how/where they measured, so the figures are basically worthless. 65-70 dB(A) seems on the low end of consumer unmanned quadcopters[1], e.g. "Maximum sound pressure level for fast flyover at 15 m height: 62 dB(A)" for a DJI Phantom 2 weighing less than 2kg.

If they managed to get into that range for a vehicle that must weigh many hundreds of times more, I guess that'd be very impressive.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/11/5940
> Yes the quality of scientific research in this area has been rather bad with rushes to publish and ineffective peer review

Well, sure, but what else is new? The Ivermectin paper was surely bad, but it wasn't outrageously bad nor unexpectedly so. The mania that resulted isn't, at it's core, about bad science. This won't fix the problem.
> Analog computers like this are virtually useless unless you have some particularly applied use-case for them.

Did you miss the educational part?

Electronics is physical math. Amplifiers are a perfect example, take an input and multiply it. Resistors can be used to subtract or divide. Combining these functions is how an op-amp works. Combining more components now allows you to do integrals, derivation, and other functions.

From there you take these basic building blocks and apply them to real world problems like audio amplification, processing and filtering. Of course a lot of this is replaced by digital stuff but digital has one huge disadvantage: obsolescence. I can repair a 40 year old analog amplifier. I cant repair a 10 year old stereo with a dead ASIC or DSP/SoC.
There are philosophical works that outline methods that you can test yourself (e.g. the socratic method of teaching). Then it is more possible to verify whether or not it works well (even though it can be immensely irritating, also like the socratic method/conversation) and that makes it in my view less of a part of the realm of pure fantasy. Not that there is anything wrong with that realm, I just don't feel that it is worth the prestige that it sometimes gets.
Its at least as dark as the old fat people hate. Seems like the only reason it is allowed is because the state has effectively sanctioned the blaming of the unclean. As a place to vent frustrations against things you disagree with its fine and good. As a place to breed hatred for people who think differently from you its probably not good.
Yet linux desktop is still where it has always been. A place for nerds who like to tinker.
https://archive.is/9EVIv
On a mac, with say, 4 workspaces. What key combo can I hit to go to workspace 2?

Yes you can hit CTRL + left arrow or right arrow multiple times but... once one gets into a workflow that allows them to hit Super+2, it actually feels like a pain to do something else.
"World War 3 to Be Fought over Semiconductors?"

No. Supply might play a part in a conflict, but I don't see this as being the cause.

"China's manufacturing economy AND its military are entirely dependent on foreign-sourced semiconductors."

Why would they risk a global conflict that would weaken its military that would implicitly be weak from a shortage? The only reason I could see them taking this approach is if the foriegn suppliers stop providing the chips and they don't ramp up their own production during an existing conflict, backing them into a corner to take over production in another country (good luck having those facilities intact and staffing them).
I'm where you were a while ago. We are having our first kid at the end of this year, and I have finally found a side project that aligns my passions and a potential market.

I'm scared of what's to come, knowing that I want to spend time with my kid while still being a good husband and making slow yet steady progress on my side project, all on top of having a full job. It feels overwhelming and I'm not even in it yet.
Perhaps more relevant than the source of the rights is who will enforce them and how will they be enforced. Unfortunately, even if God is the source of these rights, They do not directly enforce them. It's governments that need to do that. If it were not so, it wouldn't have been necessary to write it into the declaration of independence in the first place.
Sure, you'd expect and demand that, but that's the goal to strive towards not the reality of large organizations. Which is why permanent pressure and scrutiny is required on any government or corporate entity. That's democracy.

But in terms of analyzing these organizations it's an excellent point that we can't assume consistency. They are complex and contradictory.
I think you're dignifying this comment, which objects to the authors request that meta-studies not include fraudulent analyses in their inputs as an unwarranted "change to established practice".
I've actually had good luck with Linux when it comes to drivers, but I just can't pull off a good desktop setup.

Looking at those rock-solid Debian servers just wishing I could have the desktop experience of a 15 year old PowerBook to go with them...
Seems like a good theory, but when I read something like this it always makes me think about any of the sci-fi I've read that was written 50-75 years ago.

They're also full of what were at the time good theories, but that are now so wrong it often makes reading the story difficult, even with my fairly rudimentary modern astrophysics knowledge.

In all honesty I think it's more likely any sufficiently advanced civilization capable of interstellar travel has probably descended entirely into virtual reality or a singularity.

I mean, what would you prefer? Being the star of your own personal VR space, the next Malcolm Reynolds, space cowboying around where you are the entire focus of that reality. Or schlepping it over to another star in a generation ship or whatever where even if you were somehow still alive when it arrived, you'd be landing on a planet that will probably instantly kill you.
How to interview algorithms without code?
Leaky Vaccines Can Produce Stronger Versions of Viruses (2019)
Lately I've been thinking a lot about data cubes and how their use cases and methodologies for making them applicable are very similar to most machine learning algorithms. I don't mean how the output is generated or how things are programmed. What I mean is that they both tend to produce far more output than is practically useful. Additionally, it can be very easy to look at any small part of the output and draw incorrect conclusions.

To clarify, when I talk about ML I'm primarily referring to classifier algorithms and approaches (including nlp). In the large part the ML is being used to generate classifier rules which generalize patterns, and data cubes are often used to look for aggregations and data sequences which generalize patterns. The problem is that random patterns happen all the time, and may even persist for a long time despite a lack of real correlation. Semantic analysis of data cube output is really important in order to find meaningful patterns.

What I'm getting at is I often wonder why most ML projects try to treat it like it's magic. Human assisted learning has shown repeatedly to be the system which actually works in practical application. The classifier output needs to be pruned to remove rules that only held true in the sample data, or were merely coincidental, or simply have no practical value.

Approaches like this are not cheap to set up and may in the end still only produce the same results as the existing entirely non-ML based system. What is the likely scale of work compared to the benefit is the first question I ask myself before working on anything. If I don't have objective data to answer that you have to do some research to find out. Never try to build a massive or complicated system you don't have objective reasons to expect will be worth the effort. That's precisely what people have been doing with ML constantly. It's little wonder most developers have such low opinions of ML projects.
Hmmm... How about meta-analysis considering only results that were successfully replicated?

Why not consider an index that is higher with the number of successful replications and lower of number of replication tries?
> The United States’ score declined for the fifth consecutive year. False, misleading, and manipulated information continued to proliferate online, even affecting public acceptance of the 2020 presidential election results. The new administration took promising steps to enforce stronger protections for internet users.

How the hell did this make it into the report???

How does (poorly) used freedom of speech endager freedom? It doesn't!

And they still manage to reach the incredible conclusion that Biden administration, which we know has been involved in "assisting" Sillicon Valley fascsits in determining what's fake news, is somehow going to "help". That is completely insane and totally discredits the entire report.
Utilizing Systems Thinking in Software Teams
New batteries won't lose capacity over time. A lot of "new" batteries are just knockoffs, but there's no way of knowing without opening them.

If you want good aftermarket batteries, KingSener has a solid reputation. Only go for aftermarket batteries that are upfront about being aftermarket and are open about the cells they use and well reviewed, or for sealed Lenovo batteries in original packaging.

I recently bought a brand new, sealed 72Wh original battery. It sat sealed for so long the batteries went down below 3.1V per cell and the pack locked itself. Looking at the self discharge curves I'd expect this to be the case for any actually new battery.

To make it work I had to open the battery and use a specialized charger to give it 0.1A of current until it got to 3.3V per cell, and I then programmed it to charge at 6A, after which the battery pack decided to start up.
What point are you making?
To be fair, fighting WW1 was predictably stupid. Sometimes countries do dumb things. This gets worse with autocrats, because their whims and delusions can have an outsized effect on national choices.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Taiwanese government hasn’t subtly signaled to China that the fans would be destroyed within 10minutes of an invasion. It would be stupid for them not too. Then again China is liable (but not guaranteed) to invade Taiwan less because of the fabs, and more because they consider Taiwan a rogue province that they want back.
Even further its only those routers with the `circled` process running, which apparently is part of the parental controls functionality provided by Circle with their NetGear partnership. The silly part too is that the attack surface is available even if you don't have parental controls enabled.
I think sponsorship to access the github repo is smart.

This is similar to what the alpinejs creator did with his "sponsorware" approach.

The animations api looks very simple as well, will definitely try it out!
DOS 2.11 from Scratch
It could've succeeded if they didn't reset the app ecosystem twice (they already didn't have many apps, but the resets definitely didn't help).
You're probably right about astroturfing. It's part of the reason the Hail Corporate subreddit exists.

I'd be interested to see the ratio of lurkers to posters. Reddit is a link aggregator, it's primary utility is unrelated to the comments. This isn't the case with Facebook.
>>"Fighting a war over an industry reliant on large, immobile, extremely vulnerable factories/laboratories is really, really, really, really, really, really, really stupid."

Sounds like you just described the Oil/Gas industry, in which about a dozen wars have started over the last 100 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_war
You’ll be disappointed. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappointment_Islands
IIRC the fabs are Dutch made too, so it’s not clear if you could rebuild them with knowledge and material in Taiwan alone.
I am the author. I can promise you, after I left my job, I more than quartered my total income after taxes and other expenses such as insurance.
The premature smear of potentially effective medications like HCQ and Ivermectin by scientifically illiterate media is unforgivable. Especially in the case of Ivermectin, given that it has one of the most benign safety profiles of any known drug.

There is no excuse. There should have been federally funded widespread trials a year ago, there is no downside. Instead you now have hospitals forbidding off label prescription with threats of termination. None of it makes any sense; people are treating science as though it were a religion, and the safety and efficacy of the vaccines as some sort of core, unquestionable tenet, complete with shaming and excommunication for nonbelievers.

All over a virus which has a complication rate on par with a moderate flu year.
Which is still incredibly unscientific. Cannabis doesn't even really lower inhibitions.
Show HN: Computational romantic relationship narrative generation
Who are these nutcases? https://www.master-list2000.com/ and what is pl41nt3xt?
How is it not measurable?
Honestly this is by far the biggest problem I currently have with newer versions of MacOSX.

I would have hopped by now that integration with dropbox, Sharepoint/Onedrive, Google Drive would have gotten better. But they are mostly barebones.

Granted Google Drive is barebones on nearly every platform.

I'm a big 365 user, and that is by far the best experience so far in terms of fluid use between devices and apps. Especially on windows, where even sharing a file doesn't require a Web browser popup. But oh man the admin side of 365 is overly complex, and easy to see why people use gsuite.

iCloud Sucks and has always sucked. Unless that is you are 100% apple ecosystem. Integration into my onsite server is easy with 365, google, and dropbox. Icloud is super clunky and really thinking about moving the Wife to something other than iCloud.
Do you live in the US? Is so, where and why? Which countries do you think aren't shit places to live?
Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app with data longevity in mind [Mac]
Policy has to be interpreted and enforced by people and that isn't always going to be consistent even with the same person let alone the fact that's its never the same person or group of people overseeing every decision.
Things like the borrower checker helps manage all resources, a GC only manages memory.
Easy thing: iOs on iPhone does not support MediaFileExtensions, so you can't use <video> tag with dynamic source.

You can however go the way described in the post: instead of requesting data though the data channel, you can initiate video/audio channels and make your streaming work pretty much like google hangouts, having your streamer as a participant.

It is not the recommended way though. But no other way for iOs anyways.
Synesthesia as a Basis for Ordinary Perceptions
> If your velocity is correct you should end up with 100% completion and your employees having a work life balance. But I rarely see that.

It would be awesome if this were the exact, widely agreed upon definition of velocity.

Of course then the other issue would be whether it's followed.
Looking at the greyed out comments it seems HN is not pro, but against scientific debate. Questioning science IS part of the scientific method.

https://c19ivermectin.com/ is a very adequate counter-argument to the article, and it's unfair to the whole scientific community that comments are greyed out that mention it.
Again the manifesto doesn't state that you should not spec. Nor did I make the claim that before agile nobody talked to each other

Sadly I have seen work packages delivered to software teams without any context just specs. Sadly I have worked and seen projects that went down the documentation rabbit hole and spend years trying to come up with the ideal spec before any thing has been build. (and I'm not even that old). You would see that kind of stuff with in government but also large enterprise and even at mid sized companies. And it still exists today

I also have seen successful waterfall projects and I have seen failed agile projects (although those tent to fail faster and thus less costly)

The agile way is not the only way, there are instances that other ways of working might be better.

But for me personally the best work experiences where all companies that worked agile or where transitioning to agile. I worked this way (and helped in the transition) at companies ranging from scale ups to big enterprise.

A many a time I have had these same discussions with people at the beginning of a transition. Mostly people that never worked this way or had a bad experience.
> Unless in the lead up to war each country hides its valuable targets. They could probably create hundreds of decoy facilities within a few months to throw attackers off the mark.

I mean... TSMC is right here: https://www.google.com/maps/search/tsmc/@24.7768163,120.9992... If China wants it, their problem is not that they don't know where it is.
Agreed, patching/generating custom edid configs is not my idea of it just works...
Safari Keyword Search hits 2.0, comes to iOS
Utter Pradesh. 241 million mostly impoverished people. 13% of the population is vaccinated. But they're handing out prophylactic doses of ivermectin. And something has essentially eradicated Delta variant Covid.

If it's not ivermectin, what is it?
It's not a celebration, it's factual. The common format is screenshots of their social media anti-vax posts, followed by a loved one or family member announcing their death.

That's reality. The posts themselves usually contain no commentary aside from giving it a title. Looking at the most popular posts for this week, I picked a couple of examples.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/ppm601/kri...

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/ppq315/lau...

The ones that do contain commentary are perspectives of dealing with COVID patients. Some examples of that:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/pqm303/an_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/prhzi9/a_m...

Finally, the reason why the subreddit is named the way it is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/pncpqu/bec...
You can definitely buy some synthetic urine on a few hours notice.
I'm surprised they didn't apply this analysis to their Twitter page as well.
I'd also qualify it by saying that a 10x engineer is not a 10x engineer for long if you burn them out or even if life just happens.

I've met a lot of spunky young college grads/drop-outs who felt like 10x engineers but had no family, no hobbies outside programming and no social life outside meetups, conferences and work.

I've also met people I'd confidently describe as 10x engineers who had all of that but in turn spent far fewer "productive" hours at work than the former.

There's a common misconception that you need to find "young talent" and make them work maximum productive hours (who needs to do chores when you have a work-provided luxury cafeteria and laundry service?) to get the most value out of them like they're top athletes. Well, most top athletes retire before they hit 40. If that's your plan, you're not looking for 10x developers, you're just looking for more meat for the grinder.
Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
yes but in an oil/gas war the same resources can be tapped again with new infrastructure. If you destroy one of ASML's machines you need to recreate the entire global supply chain that constructed it.