skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VP in my org does this, and it really disarms the room.

She’s big on that exact phrase of “this could be a really stupid question, but…”

She’s also really good about making sure other people are rewarded for doing the same by reassuring someone asking what might be a dumb question as, “that’s a a great question and I’m sure others were wondering the same…” before responding.

Great leadership, IMO.
> Launching a new global currency by giving a share of it to every human on earth

A share of nothing is still nothing.
> Food delivery is very low margin and companies have realised there is pretty much no money to be made here as an expensive middle man

Somebody should probably tell that to the millions of public market investors who have bought into these public companies worth tens of billions of dollars.

https://www.google.com/search?q=doordash+stock&oq=doordash+s...

https://www.google.com/search?q=uber+stock

https://www.google.com/search?q=grub+stock&oq=grub+stock

In fact if you're sure there's no money to be made, you could short them all and make a killing. Have you done that?
I understand what you mean when you say "pseudoscientific bullshit," but it might be better to simply say "non-scientific" in the sense of "beyond the ambit of what science is designed to explain."

The problem of "being" (why there is something rather than nothing) is similar. It's not just that we don't have a physics explanation for why anything exists in the first place; it's that physics may not be able to answer that kind of question at all.

None of that is necessarily "pseudoscience" or necessarily bullshit (though it's easy enough to find examples of both).

I am skeptical of the circularity of the argument, though. There must be a "physics explanation" because physics explains everything. And we know that, because if physics can't explain it, it doesn't exist. And we know that, because physics explains everything.

(Not accusing you in particular of making that argument . . .)
FTU is great, though startupees should be warned that it does not support ISO exercises in the AMT calculation, and you probably won't find that out until you get that far through your taxes.
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This isn’t new. Google messed with YouTube (and Maps) on Windows Phone which is now many years ago.
I frankly had the same impression. It felt it was less about the willingness to look to stupid, but rather the stupidity of people who surrounded him and their inability to see this individual's brilliance.

Perhaps this is an unkind reading, but particularly the laptop scenario felt telling that this person might feel above explaining why they might prefer a laptop which comes in a smaller box.

On the surface that is very much a ridiculous request, regardless of how sensible it might actually be. Surely that shouldn't stop you from making the request, but you must understand that someone is merely doing their job to make sure that you understand what you're asking for.

If I go to a tuba shop and ask how many litres of ranch dressing it holds, I'm not going to scoff when the salesperson reminds me that it isn't a fancy brass bowl.
Pro tip: when you see a string of mush words, like navigate, negotiate, access, pathways, marginalized, manifest, and discourse, you can safely skip the article.
Well, a subway but much, much worse, realistically. It's a 'subway' that has a lower capacity than a decent BRT line.
This comment doesn't have much details and is not really constructive, it would help if you could mention specific things that are bad, and could suggest individual steps to improve them.
I'd be nice if the author would provide some answers for the "stupid" questions that the readers will inevitably ask themselves when they read about laptops and the size of the boxes they come in. Or how else will they acquire a better understanding of the point the author is trying to make?
LG WebOS has a YouTube TV app and the search button in the remote takes you to the global search function. This doesn’t seem to cause any friction between google and LG. Because YouTube TV seems to work everywhere but on roku I tend to blame roku here.
It might be called a revolution if Intel could get that performance boost while nearly doubling battery life and eliminating thermal throttling
Which is the second country?
Price of eyes on the black market skyrockets, coroners and morticians start driving around in lambos.
Welcome to the world where I can just do wtf I like with the software at my disposal without middlemen trying to get their cut ...

wakes up

Don't worry about it, Roku ... I use your devices around the house and if I ever need a youtube on bigscreen, I just share direct to the "smart" TV instead ...

Hey youtube, or whoever is causing this, you're just making yourselves look dumb to consumers who will either be angry at your or just bypass your dumb stance on the matter.

Edit: I remember the old days with disdain, but does anyone miss the Microsoft days? I know I know ... but at least I could force my machine to do whatever the hell I wanted. Download an .exe and get on with it ... phew, actually, I'm forgetting the bad things ... but at least it was "open" and I had control. Kind of. You know what I mean.
This is probably my favorite response, because I literally made the exact point as the original comment. Any difference in the quality of the argument, such as it is, is purely invention on your part.

Which of course, is the point: it's a stupid argument however you look at it. If you up vote it, it's only because it confirms your priors, not because of the quality of the point (non-existent).
Finding friendship as an adult is an unspoken challenge. I’ve had a little success, but it’s still much more of a challenge than I ever considered when I was younger

I recall hearing a story on public radio about a person who moves frequently between RV parks, and said that everyone there makes friends immediately because you don’t have time to feel people out.

I’ve wondered if there was something to that - I also wonder if I could do it in such a situation.
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> Alex Blania, Sam Altman, and the Worldcoin team

O brave new world, that has such people in it!
I get that Sonos, Roku, etc are in a tough spot but this business is structurally to be a good, cheap, dumb terminal. It's no use for Roku to try and get in the way at this point, it just reinforces incentives for players to undercut them with branded sticks (Chromecast, fire tv, apple TV...)
I dunno, the Norse settlers were apparently getting a lot out of trading red died cloth for native produce and if it hadn't been for the altercation that somehow grew up around that cow or bull the possibility of trade might have drawn a lot more Norse in, the way the fur trade did in French North America.

But then again farming populations can expand really fast with low population pressure. The 13 colonies were seeing their populations double every generation just from natural fertility even before immigration.
I have always been of the opinion that it's the schedule, not the clock!

You need to change the schedule if you don't like the hours. Changing the clock does nothing!

If the point is that business are closing too late so we lose too much daylight during winter, then we need to tell businesses to move their operating hours earlier.

My gut says that we decided school should operate 8-3 and work 9-5 for a reason. If we were to move the clock permanently by an hour, why wouldn't those times just shift as well?
What if you don't have eyes?
As-if you can ever actually hash a biometric and expect it to match in the future. The whole idea of a hash is that a tiny perturbation makes the output completely different.

It almost by definition cannot work for biometrics.
This is price discovery in action. From the dealer’s point of view it’s worth jacking up the price that they are willing to take because some consumers will just pay it. Other consumers will try to bargain and they’ll find a (slightly) lower price. When someone just pays the first price the dealer says, the dealer makes a few thousand more than they otherwise works have. This is the same reason there are food coupons. Very price sensitive people will go out of their way to use them but others will pay full price.
By (1) purchasing anonymously from retail sources, and

(2) having researchers with anonymous retail samples verify through decapping and inspection. I believe der8auer in Germany does die shots -- it would not be a bad idea to kick start this kind of research for community assurance purposes.

It's difficult to prove there's no hidden logic, but it's also not trivial to hide complex logic needed to introduce covert undetectable vulnerabilities (probably around things the RNG source or crypto).

Also assuming you're a high value target, otherwise this is mostly going too far.
AWS WAF's Dangerous Defaults
That's a subprocess and not the thing we started with (that's analogous to me imagining myself... its not the same self that is doing the imagining), the assumption here is consciousness is single threaded.
I don't see anyone calling BS on this, so I will point out the conflict of interest. This is a startup claiming their solution is better than anything you've seen before using in-house 'research'.

FTA:
A new study by Wang... The cathodes were made using a patented recycling technique that Battery Resourcers, a startup Wang co-founded, is now commercializing.
The IRS doesn’t get to make these rules, that’s up to congress and then the president.
Free coins for scanning your face on a blockchain and it will be there forever? Absolutely no thanks and no deal.

This is a definitive edition ponzi scam.
We used to have these things called bars and churches and parks. Dating apps kind of ruined them though.
Roku should drop the API and just scrape YouTube from the client side. What's Google going to do, block everyone's home IP?
> So, again, Apple only discussed scanning the iCloud Photos portion of their cloud service some time in the future, but NOTHING is being scanned now.

I acknowledged that. The point is that they admitted this is an oversight because they are already scanning iCloud Mail. Their intentions are exactly the same as Google's. They are merely less competent. Apple is also a surveillance capitalist, as I explained in my previous post, giving several examples. iOS even splits the privacy settings of Apple's apps from the privacy settings of all other apps to make it harder for users to control what little Apple lets them control.

> Google also buys a copy of everybody's credit/debit card transaction data so they can spy on your real world purchases as much as they spy on your online life.

Apple gets the exact same information for transactions completed with Apple Pay. Users have to opt in for Google to see this information. Once again, exactly the same.

> I don't know why you're still trying to pretend that Google's cloud service is separate from Android while Apple's cloud service is not separate from iOS?

I already explained why. I don't have to use Google services on Android. iOS ties me to Apple's privacy nightmare. I listed several other examples of Apple data collection on iOS that are unavoidable. Android, even in builds provided by Google, has none of those problems.
Every food delivery service I've tried has been a nightmare. They don't check the food to make sure it's correct. It gets tossed around and mangled on the way.

I had one time where there was someone else's order delivered to me; literally their name was on the bag... the delivery person grabbed the wrong bag. Then I tried to get them to fix it before he drove away and he told me to call the restaurant. Trying to get refund from the delivery service was nigh impossible. I wound up calling the restaurant and the dealt with getting me a refund and the correct food.

I no longer use food delivery at all, unless it's provided directly by the restaurant. Otherwise, I go pick it up.
> but unfortunately it appears to quickly devolve into actual, very firm beliefs for many people.

Is it possible to quantify "many people"? Like, what percentage of people that are ostensibly flat earthers are actually genuine flat earthers vs. trolls? I would guess trolls make up the majority of internet flat earthers.
> I get that it's subjective

It is not subjective according to the scientists.
Eritrea but somewhere I heard Liberia does too.
I disagree, painting policy issues with a simple brush of "calculate X & Y and see which is bigger" completely ignores the behavioural components at play. Homo Economicus might respond to financial incentives as expected, but in the real world they can motivate (or demotivate) in ways that aren't captured in those calculations.
Seems a lot harder to make 2 changes instead of 1. Especially when the second change would have to be individually apply by every workplace.
Not the OP. In my case the client want many all-in-ones.I proposed a small CPU to fit into the notches on the back of a Specific monitor. I used an Intel Compute stick which only needs power, an HDMI cable and a powered USB hub.
This gave me an All in One Computer functionally for less than half the price. It also had the benefit of being up-gradable by swapping out the Compute stick for a newer model. When the client saw it he thought it was an all in one and thankfully appreciated the cleverness. (Financially, I got the contract)
Booster dose of Pfizer vaccine shows 95.6% efficacy in Phase 3 trial
Uber is basically the McDonald's of hired transportation. There are limitations, the experience definitely isn't premium, but its ultimately a fairly consistent purchasing experience that works most of the time.

Regular taxis? Sure, download this city specific app. Or one of the two city specific apps. Or call one of the local cab companies and find out you picked the one that doesn't consistently dispatch to your hotel so you end up waiting around with zero feedback. Or maybe you call and they show up in five minutes and its great.
thats the interesting part! Can it be done as a team.
In the end, wouldn't it result in much the same thing?

Assuming that we want everyone to know that we're waking up earlier in the summertime and closing up shop later, it would be preferable to coordinate this, right? We couldn't want all banks and shops and things closing at their own time. Or schools starting two minutes earlier every single day as we approach summer, to match up exactly with the sun, right?

So we could coordinate it all to happen in one big step. We'd say "Hey, from March 14th onward, all public schools are now going to be starting at 7:30 AM instead of 8:30 AM, and banks will open at 8:00 AM, and post offices will close at 4:00 PM.

And then we could so the same thing in the Fall, backwards.

But then, with nothing forcing private businesses and private schools from following this, wouldn't we get some horrible mismash? We'd have to call up every restaurant before making a reservation: hey, do you follow personal summertime hours? Banks would have their own closing hours, your older kid's public high school starts 1.5 hours before the private elementary school instead of a half hour, etc etc..
Yup, already providing artificial scarcity and FOMO in case it becomes the next Big Thing that goes up tens of thousands of % in fiat money value.
Indeed. The twitter algo seems so basic. Not a single week goes by without a cringey "html is a programming language" or "which is your favorite language, javascript or python" pushed to the top of my feed, with thousands of likes.
Learning during a meeting where you were introduced as the software expert even though you only took over the solution last week?
One has to start wondering why things don't work so well for Muslims anywhere in the world.
And that’s 95.6% efficacy relative to two shots! Relative to no shots it must be like 97%. Wow.
The phenomenon of the exaggerations of "Jewish space lasers" and "horse paste" is an interesting topic.

There's a perfectly reasonable point to be made in each case, but many of the people making it feel the need to overstate the case and make it even more absurd.

I think it's because mockery spreads faster on the internet than a simple debunking. And so the thing being debunked is turned into its most extreme form. Perhaps even a step or two beyond a valid interpretation of what's being asserted by the subject.

So with the Mockery Maximization Principle, you get a meme that can spread very quickly and discredit the target at the same time.

The problem with this technique is that it can backfire if people start repeating it as what was actually being asserted. For example, the horse paste meme has backfired when it came to Rogan and the CNN doctor. When this happens, now the debunkers are on the defensive and they don't have a great way out of it since they're no longer on the side of accuracy and truth.
I've found the opposite to be true. Knowing how I would solve a problem in more than one language has made a number of things easier over the years. Heck, if you look at Symfony's (a php framework) Validation API https://symfony.com/doc/current/validation.html they are implementing a Java JSR ( https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303 ) using PHP constructs.

Ideas can cross pollinate between languages, but not everything translates well.
Yeah, I think the other thing that's made me shy away from it more as I've gotten older is asking the "stupid" question, getting a jargon-laden response, and realizing: this person isn't equipped to communicate the concept. It can be pretty exhausting to be the questioner in that case.
Absolutely true. And it's worse.
But that isn't Uber's job.

Other than a bit of convenience, Uber is a technocracy push.
I don’t even think this is satire. This feels like the kind of made up stories that children come up with (and place themselves at the center of).
Comparing ClickHouse to PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for time-series data
If one writes an AbstractFactoryFactory where a function would suffice, I wouldn't consider it DRY. That would be a premature abstraction. And premature abstraction is the root of all evil. By wrong DRY, I meant a DRY done at the right level of abstraction, but in a way that doesn't address short-term evolution of the code. In such a case, it should be easy to change the abstraction.
maybe a better title is "how to ask questions so I can be smug later". I've done this for sure but I've never advertised it later.
Mods, update the title with 2020?
To be fair, some vaccines offer lifetime protection and many people may not have realised how unusual that is. So since I don't recall the manufacturers emphasising that these vaccines were unlikely to offer lifetime protection, I can see one might make an unwarranted assumption.

But I cannot see how one might be annoyed about it later.
Absolutely correct. That issue is all about the county, not Facebook. But when the response to unrelated complaints about Facebook is just "you don't have to use it"... Sure, it's not Facebook's fault that you have to use it. But use it, you must.
There's many links to their github page [0] which is all Apache 2.0. I'm unaffiliated with Cerbos so IO can't speak for why that license.

[0] https://github.com/cerbos
Is there any evidence that a user can't get a new wallet for every pair of novelty contact lenses they buy?
Save Standard Time
A more accurate translation to food would be something like “does it feel weird to call a physical plate of spaghetti a recipe?”
> “Look, I’m not a zombie, and I pray that you’re not a zombie,” Chalmers said, one Sunday before Christmas, “but the point is that evolution could have produced zombies instead of conscious creatures – and it didn’t!”

This statement surprised me. If evolution could have created zombies, and equally possibly could have not created zombies, then consciousness would be a weird and unexplained chance occurrence. Despite having evolution to explain how we came to exist as complex information-processing organism, we would need an additional and entirely different explanation for why we happen to be conscious.

We get a more elegant situation if we suppose that consciousness is a necessary side effect of creatures like us. Which feels no less strange and magical, even if it is simpler, and took me straight to panpsychism, and the question of whether the machines we create might be conscious, and whether we are creating them to have pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral experiences. Equally, since we can see how machines are made of smaller machines and so on, we can wonder if parts of us have consciousness and whether it is the same consciousness as our own, or if a group of people has a consciousness that experiences our world in some way but is unable to make its presence known because it exists at a level unconnected from the consciousnesses that direct human speech and action. Or maybe it has an illusion of agency just like we do.
People say that but I'm not sure it's true. As long as they all agree about what time it is at any given moment (which is something we're not proposing to change) why do their business hours even have to line up perfectly? And to the extend that they do need to, wouldn't they just sort of figure it out over the course of a week or a month and then not have to worry about at again from that point on?

Also, it would be a shift to an 8-4 working day, right, if we were going to keep the clocks on standard time year round?
Anecdotes are not data etc, but my daughter attended a friend's birthday party recently and the friend's dad told me he had been out of work due to covid so started doing Uber and was bringing in $3k/week and had managed to pay off a ton of debt thanks to that (this convo happened in SF last week). Needless to say, I was extremely surprised, as the media generally gives the impression that driver earnings are crap.
Bringing it more generally, it's a powerful tool that's simple to use.

This means it is ripe for abuse by amateurs and fools and from that comes its reputation.

It's a shame that dogmas are developed against the use of such things instead of creating a culture of appropriate use.

You see it against say php, jquery, and even gof design patterns these days.

It's bullshit. Just because some buffoons do stupid things with something powerful it doesn't mean all people that use it are buffoons
> Even if you had flexible work hours, you'd have to start early to enjoy evening sun. That's not great.

Or you could wake up later in order to not screw up your circadian rhythm and in turn lower your risks of various ailments. It would be your own choice.
I recently moved to NYC and the taxis have been a godsend--though (somewhat comically) the drivers are aware they're operating a lower-cost business.

My friend recently got in a taxi and the cabbie immediately asked how much she thought the fare would be. She said "I'm not sure, maybe $15?"

The Cabbie turned off the fare meter and said, sure, $15 it is.

The reality is that uber and lyft are just not actually competitive in NYC. And rather than wait around for a lyft coming from god knows where, through manhattan traffic, it really is easier to just walk outside and stick your hand up. It can be much, MUCH cheaper, too. When I was in SF, Lyft wanted $72 to go from SOMA to Lower Haight--not what I would consider acceptable.
We can make the steel of tomorrow without the fossil fuels of yesteryear
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> The reality is, pretty much anyone who uses a major ISP in the US has IPv6 (Comcast, Spectrum, etc. hand them out without customers even asking), and it's even more likely in other countries.

But Verizon FIOS does not, long after they should have.
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Thanks for the rec. I've tried so many apps and they all tell me "we can't service US expats". I'll give this one a try.
It's a sinecure for failed politicians and academics.