skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if we knew the case, one can't just e.g. whip 0.4x into 1x, so a 2x remains a very valuable 2/0.4 jump.

This is pure speculation, which is why actual data would be useful. Is a measured 0.4x performer that way for innate reasons or is that something which some combination of training and mentoring, better tools, streamlined environments, etc. can help with? — or is the way that's measured even valid? I've seen a few cases where someone got flack for being slow until wider perspective showed that they were the only one solving the customer's real problem because it turned out that what they were doing was more complicated than it looked and/or the other guys were “solving” it in ways that required lots of ongoing maintenance.
I think 0.1x (or even negative x) software engineers are more common. The ones that introduce bad bugs, don’t accept feedback, don’t communicate well with PM and design, always want to refactor things… they can take a whole team down.
That is a beautiful project.

With huge numbers of RGB LEDs I wonder if in the future using some sort of small FPGA per panel would make things easier? I have seen that done in some persistence-of-vision projects.
That’s an accurate statement the reality is that any civilization that develops sufficient level of technology to allow it to spread across a single galaxy or even to adjacent star systems would be able to use that technology to find better alternatives in their own star system.

That’s if civilizations even live that long in the first place.
I believe we are saying the same thing. I called these people daredevils in my original post to capture exactly that they are pursuing thrills. I'm sure doing pot is thrilling for puritans because it is illegal but that is so laughable because of the state of reality. My point remains that these daredevils aren't going to upgrade to harsher substances if pot is legalized because that has long since past on the thrills scale.
It also goes a little bit beyond that: if one of your ports stops working (e.g. rust, water damage, etc), you can just buy a replacement port and you're back on track, as opposed to "welp, I guess I'll have to do without it..."
> I seriously overestimated my eyesight when I bought these.

Why's that? Not noticing a huge improvement of 1080 or 1440? I could personally live with 1080 forever, but running 4k on a 27in display gives me a little sense of glee with how crisp it is.
"patients' copayments for the drug could cost around $11,500 annually."

For drugs like this the drug company pays the patients' total out of pocket (co-payment) in full on the first infusion. The patient never has anything to pay in this case...if they have insurance.
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Not everyone is following the Pulp Fiction joke.
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To be fair, explainability is still a hot topic of research, as well as discriminatory bias tradeoffs.
If you get a US security clearance there is a lot you may have to give up. For example, someone who gambles a lot at casinos and lives paycheck to paycheck may get denied for their financial reasons. There's nothing illegal there.

It's not about following the law. They don't want to give clearance to people who could get into situations where they could be bribed or taken advantage of and misuse of a clearance is used to wipe away a debt.
Going so far as to actually smoke it is a hair too far.

Get a quality vaporizer and enjoy the full bouquet without the harmful combustion byproducts.
I disagree. Cheating the pee tests is trivially easy because they don't watch you go for preemployment drug screens. Amazon wants to ship pot because it is like currency markets. Weed is cheap and overtaxed in some states while it just got legalized in others so demand is high and margins are way bigger. The industry is growing and banks will be next everybody will have to get on board.
[help request]

I created a commercial product Video Hub App and have been trying for a year to get streaming a video from a PC to an iPhone working (through a PWA, not a dedicated iOS app) and have had 0 success. I could get the video stream to play on a separate laptop through Chrome, but iOS Safari kicks my ass.

Does anyone have suggestions / ideas?

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App-remote
The Fermi Paradox (where is everyone) has been debated for decades. There are so many possibilities such as great filters (early or late), prime directive, zoo hypothesis, dark forest hypothesis...etc etc. I'm sure you're aware of this, but I included just in case you wanted to explore in more depth. Some really good stuff.
This misses possibly the most important aspect: Privacy is a shield for the powerless.

In your example of reciprocal social surveillance, people had reasonably similar amounts of social and physical power, and lived next to each-other.

Compare that to a drone operator and someone hiding in a cave, that learn of each-other's location. Or revealing the political preferences of those who support the party in power, and those who support the banned party. The surveillance may be reciprocal in those cases, but the results are anything but.
The Survey cited in Peopleware says that it is a 10x difference between the best and the worst performers. The best performers were something like 2.5x the average performer, as measured by time to complete a specific coding task in the 70s.

Office environment was a factor in performance.
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The main issue is abuse which is not limited to pot of course and seems to cause fewer issues than alcohol, but it’s nonetheless something not to be proud of.
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Good grief. I had no idea that Steinbeck had written an Arthurian tale - and based on Malory, to boot. I am so looking forward to reading that. Thanks for the information.
I did the same thing last year for a client. So far it has worked pretty well. Client analysts create the reports and then deploy them for end users to view through a browser. End users can't do toooo much regarding playing with the data. It is slightly better than static data but the real value has been the client analysts being able to modify it without needing dev help (no JS chart libraries to mess with!)
This is amazing. I use the MakeNoise Maths module on my synth to experiment with similar ideas, as I think the next leaps in scaling quantum computing are going to come from a generation of kids who developed a musical level intuition for wave dynamics playing with their parents' analog synths.

Digital has been cool and interesting, but when young hackers have the tools and incentives to become de-facto physicists, they're going to tear holes in the fabric of reality. This is such a cool product.
I mean, it's doing something you love, that you get to do all the time. Knowing you could do it but choosing not to...yes it's uncomfortable but you eventually get to a point where you forget you were ever a smoker. Maybe some people have "symptoms" but I believe it's psychosomatic.
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There was a proposal in 2018 to do so (as the argument was GPS was a better alternative), but there was enough outcry by people with radio watches/clocks as well as industrial equipment that uses the signal to delay the shutdown for the foreseeable future.
Oops yes you're right!
I love doing this. Some of the best things I've ever eaten were otherwise normal recipes that I spruced up with whatever I had in my fridge.
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209-comment thread at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27472107

Also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27734268, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671127
The mind of comprehensive documentation they were referring to were garbage 1000+ page documents…

Perhaps, but I don’t believe that is how the documentation point in the Manifesto has always been interpreted since then, and I suspect no-one else here does either.

As I said in my original comment, I think the ideas around Agile can be an interesting and useful area for discussion, but I’ve never fully agreed with the Agile Manifesto as-written. The danger with making these kinds of short, profound statements about a field as nuanced as software development is always that you immediately have to start backtracking and clarifying that what you really meant was… And as soon as you’re doing that, probably the original statement has lost most of any value it might have had anyway and it’s more interesting and productive to discuss the nuanced issues that you brought up afterwards instead.

In Waterfall and related BDUF approaches the intent was to produce this before any code.

OK, but it’s not as if everyone was trying to write software that way before the Agile Manifesto came along. I’ve been writing software for money since well before the Manifesto was published, I’d say I’ve worked on a fairly broad range of applications over the years, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that kind of process in actual use either before or since the publication. Waterfall just seems to be the preferred straw man for Agile advocacy.

You just have to be smart enough to identify what is the MVP.

Or, more generally, you have to be smart enough to identify which milestones in terms of functionality and performance add real business value. That is almost always some kind of step function. Reaching an MVP that you can deploy to start collecting feedback from end users on a realistic product and ideally bringing in some revenue as well is obviously one of the more important steps when developing certain kinds of software, but really there is nothing unique about it and even for those kinds of software the same principles apply both before and after shipping the MVP.

That then invites the question, how do we identify what we need to have ready before we take the next step, MVP or otherwise? And just like before, the options are essentially to check our requirements or to wing it and hope that we’ve guessed well.
for ethernet you'll want to get a usb-c dongle right now, sadly. But the expansion cards look like they could support an ethernet NIC. It just has to be made. If framework is successful, I expect we'll see more expansion cards.
What if aliens nearly exhausted their home planet resources and scaled back industrial life?

Perhaps too many technical missteps, social unrest, meant they’ve linearly creeped along making no technological leaps, but still providing a decent life to each other, until so much time went by, they realized too late about the possibility of space travel?

This is always feels like humans looking for our doppelgängers to sell a sensational concept.
If I remember correctly, my desktop runs at ~20W idle (went down to 15W before I added two extra memory modules) and ~70W fully loaded. That's a 50W delta per eight cores, so around 7W per fully loaded core.
By the way, I've got a question to whoever is into the Alzheimer research: I have recently heard Alzheimer symptoms instantly disappear shortly before the patient's death - people regain their sane mind in full (or close to) capacity but then die in just about a day. Is this true or a myth? Were there at least some such cases documented credibly?
In Seattle, a fully legal 10mg THC edible can be had for $2 dollars. Higher quality ones for $3.

And that will get an average person pretty solidly high for several hours.

Contrasted with the cost of alcohol, this is dirt cheap.
The company behind this drug - Biogen - was also dumb enough to hold an international conference in downtown Boston during the beginning of the pandemic, and spread COVID throughout the state.
Hi, I'm the creator of Manyverse. We definitely want to be on F-Droid, the reason it's not there at the moment is merely technical. Manyverse is a beast to compile on F-Droid servers, requires compiling Node.js (Mobile) from scratch, compiling several Rust dependencies, C++ dependencies, and it's a React Native project (which comes with its own headaches). Some while ago the build broke and I've been pouring hours into it trying to bring the build back, but it's killing me. Sorry for the inconvenience
Nice idea. I often use base64 for this, since it's somewhat recognizable and there are tons of decoding tools available.

Base64 does lengthen the text by a third, which may or may not be a problem. On the other hand, it doesn't need special handling of control characters, and manages to hide word lengths well.
Lithuania urges people to throw away Chinese phones
Well, yes, but also, consider the NSA's LOVEINT scandals.
Yeah. So you worked at FB, made your dirty money, got your new role, and are now demonizing others who made the same decision as you. But it’s different for you, or course, and easy to do now that you’ve made your cash. You are just as immoral as the candidates you are rejecting, if not more.
Maybe. But there's something to be said for getting a hard drive full of juicy info from 'just some guy' who has zero oversight now and forever.

And even if the only thing you're accomplishing is giving the secret judge a break from rubber stamping all of your requests, I can see that having some inter-department social currency benefits.
WOW! That article gave me goosebumps. How can I upvote this more than once?
>ooohh.. mate, calm down.

You're adding emotion to my statements where there is none.

> I'm sure he/she wrote that with the best intention.

I agree. But if you throw a cigarette butt out the window with good intentions it's still littering.

>Hope you're okay!

Sarcasm conveys poorly over test. Next time just say "yikes" and save yourself the typing and everyone else the reading. People less fluent in English will appreciate it too.
Not buying stuff you don't need and the like are measures and individual can take that don't have hidden carbon downsides.
Imagine you're the one doing the building/assembly. Does 5000 sound small to you? Does 100?
What other people choose to eat is really none of your business.
Nope, you can see a condensed version of their acquisition history on their Wiki page for more proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlassian#Acquisitions_and_pro...

When BitBucket was acquired they were cloud only, and when Stash launched it was on-prem only. We used Stash and BitBucket Cloud around that time at the place I was working and I can definitely tell you that on-prem Stash was definitely not a reskinned on-prem BitBucket Cloud; for one I’m pretty sure BitBucket Cloud was written in Python (Django) and Stash was a typical Atlassian Java product.
> Very sf-type of term, is it still in use?

Yeah, I've never seen it outside the SF bubble.

Where everyone seems to think they are the 10x, and everyone around them is a dolt.
"Many people are concerned that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic"

Every time I read a phrase like this I have to add "reaction to" in front of COVID. Whether you think our societies policies and reaction were justified or not, this has nothing to do with a disease and everything to do with how we decided to react to that disease.

Personally I know of (not direct contacts but friends or children of friends, or neighbors) three people who have committed suicide in the last year and a half and zero people who have died of covid. I'm not saying I'm a representative sample, but it's hard for me to think very positively about how our society approached this problem.
Almost the entire msm is left, hollywood is far left, tech is left, the music industry is left....

I agree that maybe when it comes to new media like podcasts or YouTube you'll find more conservatives with big audiences but I think the reason is that they've been driven out of the mainstream so they found areas where their voices could be heard.

>I think Rogan is just going where the money is, which is low-key pandering to the "alt-right" or whatever the hell it's called this week.

I think he would tell you the goal posts have moved. The stuff he says wouldn't have been controversial at all 5-10 years ago. Now he's considered right wing by many. I agree with his stance on this because I feel the same way. I feel like the left shifted so far left it doesn't represent me anymore and while I don't 100% agree with the "Rogans" of the world they feel far more sane to me than the current left.
Instead of micromanaging performance and energy usage; use data centers that use clean energy. It's dirty energy that we need to stop using. Clean energy, we should feel less constrained about (without wasting it obviously). Long term when we have a surplus, it shouldn't matter how much we use. Short term, increased demand actually grows the renewable supply mostly because that is the cheapest way to meet that demand. The more renewables, the less economical non renewable becomes. So, not all energy usage is bad.

Most of the big cloud providers already are implementing agendas to become sustainable:

- https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud... AWS is planning to be carbon neutral by 2025

- https://cloud.google.com/sustainability, Google claims to be carbon neutral now but are also planning to switch to 100% renewable energy by 2030. I guess they are planting trees or something.

- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/sust... Azure is planning to using 100% renewable energy by 2025

Otherwise, maybe optimize your cost with cloud usage and indirectly save some energy. If you don't need it and it's running, it's costing you and the planet something. So, win win if you fix that. Also, as MS helpfully suggests, on premise is way more inefficient than their solution. While that is somewhat self serving, it's also probably true. If you us on premise, maybe consider picking your energy supplier more carefully.

I guess, in the future, having strong guarantees from suppliers about sustainability could potentially mean advertising your own sustainability. Few companies do this right now. But it's potentially a big deal when your customers start appreciating, or better, demanding that you run your business sustainably. Right now, few companies care about this. It's a mindset change that needs to happen.
At this point, Apple tries to ensure you can't even use authentic parts if you're not "authorized".
No. Emojis go from U+10000 to U+1FFFF, and this rotates chars U+0 through U+FFFF (hence the U+8000 middle point).
If you admit to using weed in the past year, they will make you wait to get your clearance. As long as you don't have any DUIs or legal trouble from drinking you will not be restricted. Unless you say something like "I have a serious drinking problem and get blackout drunk every night" Drinking is not an issue, even people who do drink too much will consider themselves moderate drinkers, even if they are lying to themselves.

So, admission to responsible weed usage and responsible alcohol usage will get different results.

I have a clearance and almost all of my coworkers talked openly about drinking too much on occasion, but no one would say they touched weed
You always start by looking at the data, not by busting out advanced statistical methods. Those methods are obscure and could easily hide how ugly and unclean your dataset is. You really do need to look at types, missingness, the data structure and ensuring the row ID is what you want it to be, eliminating duplicates, joining on other datasets; it's a massive list of steps.

Even with a clean dataset, most clients will want basic arithmetic calculations: averages, counts, percentages, standard deviation, etc. Occasionally they'll want some basic logistic models, something slightly more causal. If they go straight to machine learning without these steps, do they actually understand their problem and what they want? Or are they reaching for the shiniest thing they've heard of?
Now I feel really old, but your mom probably remembers time when a bright lightbulb would consume twice as much energy as a modern laptop (which was like 10-15 years ago)
1.) Use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram

2.) Setup your logging accordingly

3.) Let this setup write what changed only once per hour, or a few times per day to solid storage.

4.) If that doesn't suit your needs and you can live with only 4GB RAM, get one of the about a hand full to a dozen boards which do have M.2/MiniPCIE from other vendors, and maybe enjoy faster crypto.

5.) If 4. applies, still do 1!

6.) Wonder why it lasts so long a few years later with a grin.

7.) Alternatively hot-glue/duct-tape an USB-Keychain to a free USB-Port, and still do 1.

Seriously, use ZRAM!
But fundamentally, it needs to be out there in order to be obtained by a TLA. Facebook and Friends help by giving us a reason AND a platform for us to put information out there that can then be tapped.
>It's time for an international alliance to make China stop annoying the whole world

Wasn't TPP a trade agreement to reduce China's power in the Pacific? And the new administration in 2017 withdrew US from it on day one.
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I’m not sure at all what that has to do with music; but since you bring up a historical topic then let’s discuss it.

Historical figures should be treated within academia in a holistic fashion, neither as heroes nor villains but as people who accomplished things.

Whether or not an act is good or evil is something that a history class shouldn’t seek to teach. That should be left up to either the minds of the students, or more pertinently to an ethics and philosophy class.

As someone who took the later, I must say I leaned more about good and evil in ethics classes than in history.
How do you explain Reddit then?
As I remember it, PayPal worked to enforce many of the same laws the government requires of banks, as well as helps track transfers for taxation reasons.

I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, PayPal just made sure they were on the side of the law that allowed them to operate without government interference.
Minimal fraction of suns energy output would allow insane number of humans to survive. And it will be around a while so there is really no hurry to move out.

Kinda comes to calculation that when earliest potentially space faring civilisation runs out of their sun? And can't adapt to live in system. For us that would still be at least few billions of years if not more with proper preparation.
Hi, I'm the creator of Manyverse. This part definitely needs to be clarified/improved on the UX side, and we know what should be done (we had a UX project dedicated to this: https://www.manyver.se/ux-research/ ) and we'll work on it soonish (still this year according to our roadmap). SSB is an invite-based system, and this is very important for community safety, this is what makes SSB really stand apart as a nice social network.

If you, or anyone reading this, wants to join our community, send me a DM on Twitter @andrestaltz with a short comment on who you are and what you're interested in, and I'll invite you if you seem trustworthy and friendly.
Technically they could be smoking hemp. The nature of probable cause is changing due to hemp being fully legal nationwide. If police officers can't be sure it's marijuana, how can you.drug dogs no longer hit for marijuana due to hemps legality, don't want to taint there use for other drugs. They can't tell the difference between 0.3 THC (hemps legality).

We cannot smell the THC, only the terpenes (aromatic smell compounds). There's a wide variety of terpenes, garlic , blueberry, strawberry, skunk, are a variety of the smell combinations that Are possible, it really is limitless. These smell combinations are possible on hemp, and marijuana, only a lab can tell the difference.
You obviously haven't eaten at a Tim Hortons (in Canada at least) in a few years, their food is atrocious. And it keeps getting worse as they flail about trying to catch market-share.