skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why vision checks require a doctor at all. In the end, they're just relying on your responses anyway: "What's better: A or B"? In fact, I'd go further and say it doesn't even require another person.

I, for one, am glad to see this bill.
I don't think Apple is very keen on upgrading a piece of software they intend to completely phase out after a few years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylic_acid

is a precursor to and a metabolite of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid). It is a plant hormone. The name is from Latin salix for willow tree
>Big Objects was the idea that in the future, basic doing stuff level code would be fully replaced by bought or open source objects that would plug in in standard ways to industry wide interfaces.

Isn't this the same as API's as a service?
4. Please don't buy Shopify. They don't have a messaging app.
I’ve successfully bought contacts online from multiple vendors by putting down a disconnected number as my optometrist.
A Pixel phone with this feature would be reason enough for me to upgrade from a Pixel 3a. Just let me play games via HDMI out and a bluetooth gamepad.
"Foucault’s ideas gave rise in the 1970s and ’80s to philosophical postmodernism, a movement characterized by broad epistemological skepticism and ethical subjectivism, a general suspicion of reason, and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power. Postmodernists attacked the attempt by Enlightenment philosophers and others to discover allegedly objective moral values that could serve as a standard for assessing different political systems or for measuring political progress from one historical period to another. According to Jean-François Lyotard (1924–98), for example, this project represents a secular faith that must be abandoned. In La Condition postmoderne (1979; The Postmodern Condition) and other writings, Lyotard declared his suspicion of what he called “grand narratives”—putatively rational, overarching accounts, such as Marxism and liberalism, of how the world is or ought to be. He asserted that political conflicts in contemporary societies reflect the clash of incommensurable values and perspectives and are therefore not rationally decidable."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/political-philosophy/Foucau...
Your examples are hilarious and you can imagine how I missed those. Pretend all the photos were reversed, and those were the only two people of color on the whole page. Google would be (rightfully) chastised.
Quiche is a custard though the Wikipedia entry does not mention any non savory versions.
See below; this S-corp "reasonable salary" thing was called out to me as an audit flag by my accountant, and other people have stories of friends being audited. It's not worth it (and the ethics of it aren't great; most people can't work for S-corps they own, and can't avail themselves of this "favorable treatment".)
I understand that the bleeding is a serious concern, but does that have an immediate, potentially fatal or life changing impact - or does it happen with enough warning that you could stop taking aspirin and/or get medical assistance?

Anecdote time!

My dad was on a bit too many blood thinners—a prescription, and aspirin.

He’d been feeling weak and a little down for a week. On a Friday night…bam, passed out, in the bathroom, and hit his head.

Went to the ER. When…I’ll elide details…using the restroom, he had a huge GI bleed. They had to put 2 units of blood into him in the ICU.

So, yeah, bleeds can be bad. As bad as a heart attack? No, but they really can sneak up on you.
It's a common way to write an auto-biographical article.
> will be curious about how it benchmarks

Benchmarks are meaningless and they also took the time to mention that in the presentation too. As you mention, the Pixel 5 did fine even with the mid-tier chipset. The reality is that phones are rarely CPU bound, and most of the heavy tasks are done by specialized cores anyways.
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I think think really depends on your business. Are you selling hardware, or SaaS? B2B can be $400 or $500,000 / yr per deal.

I've done half million dollar deals that take 8 months from first contact to close, and I have had deals of $30k / yr close without me ever talking to the customer. I sell Software and services to SMBs and Enterprise accounts.

The larger deal (with a F500 company) had contract negotiations with multiple levels of executives and stakeholders on their end. They decided our solution was right for them after about 3 months, and spend 5 on contract and implementation. This probably could have gone smoother, but would be impossible to automate IMHO.

We have a fairly low level of sales automation. It works for SMBs, but not for the larger clients. A lead, at this point, stays with the sales person until it's closed when it's handed off to an account manager.

The most tedious parts are the back and forth, waiting on legal to approve and redline a contract version.
“Nepotism”
They should have used their `.google` TLD. It would have expressed some level of authenticity.

- store.google

- pixel-offers.google

and so on.
Unless it's 5 years of full on-time Android version updates it doesn't count.

"We patched a few zero days" should be the norm, not something you mightily announce as something grand and Brave.
100% this, get an accountant and maybe a lawyer. It is very, very worth it.
They also get around it by first handing you a prescription that doesn't have your pupillary distance noted. It's such a passive-aggressive bullshit move.
This language reminds me of the infamous Thai cave rescue. Look how public opinion turned on Elon in that instance.

There are a lot of differences here, of course.
> Never seen anyone using a Pixel out in the wild

Maybe you just haven't met anyone with one or even noticed people who do own them. I've owned almost every pixel phone. In my opinion, they're some of the best Android phones available with great cameras and less crapware pre-installed.
They accept prepaid gift cards as valid.
I usually just search for "contact lenses EU", check they ship to US (most will list this in their FAQ) and pick the cheapest.

Looking through my email receipts, I've used:

lenstore.co.uk

visiondirect.co.uk

contactsexpress.ca

specsavers.co.nz
Many states have that rule though.

In California, for example, you can't buy prescription glasses without an active prescription.

I found this out when my glasses broke on the weekend and couldn't get replacements before talking to a doctor -- none of which had availability for several days. So I suffered from headaches and poor vision for several days thanks to this ridiculous regulation.
I always saw it as a tight-coupling with whatever framework you are working with but a loose-coupling with whatever library you are working with, but I like this more. It's much more emotional, almost psychological horror to a programmer.
The bigger issue is that a prescription alone is not enough to order new glasses, you also need pupillary distance measurements in order to ensure the lenses are ground correctly. Many many optometrists will not provide these, only the legally obligated prescription. While for most people who have minimum prescriptions you can use a phone app or similar to get a rough PD, for anyone with serious prescriptions even minute variations in PD can prevent proper vision correction.
Oh, I don't know, maybe because those two things have nothing to do with each other.
I used the spice rack hammer for the dog house because I don't really know how to make other hammer factories and the one from the tutorial (that I cant seem to find how) only makes spice rack hammers.
In fairness it is getting (very slightly) better.

A few years ago the phone co's would sell a phone today to your parents that was already 1-2 version behind especially if the phone was released a year or so ago. And then NEVER update it over 3 years outside of (maybe) some security updates.

For some reason, a month after iOS is released, phones from Apple, including older phones still being sold, are either sold updated or can be updated.
Yes, a house frame is closer conceptually to a software framework than a hammer, but I don't think that's relevant and would only undermine the rhetorical effectiveness of the analogy.

The purpose of an analogy is fundamentally to describe some unknown thing (the subject) by comparing it with a different, known thing (the analog) that shares a common attribute with the unknown thing. The value in the analog is not in how many attributes it shares with the subject, but in how salient it makes the particular attribute you wish to highlight.

Consider when a boxer is described as having a "glass jaw". Here, the subject is the boxer's jaw, and the analog is the material glass. It would be pointless to complain the analogy is a bad analogy on account of the fact that glass is translucent whereas the human jaw is not. The point of analogy is to highlight that the boxer is vulnerable to impacts to his jaw. The value of using glass as the analog is the readiness with which we can conjure the mental image of glass breaking; the translucency is irrelevant.

Likewise, the point of this analogy about hammers and frameworks is that the author wanted something simple that would just work, and what he got was an over-engineered mess that requires considerable yak-shaving to get it to work. The fact that a hammer is more like a library than a framework is irrelevant, the point is that a hammer is something simple and familiar.
I've had Pixel XL, 2XL, 3, 4XL and 5. They've all worked 3-4 years (I pass them on to various members of my family). The only one I had any issues with was the 4XL, with the back plate peeling off, and Support just swapped it for me after 5m online chat.
The Hacker Noon article was released in 2016.
I'm amazed you even noticed.

going through it some look pretty white though. ill be the first to admit that i'm not particularly good at classifying people, but this one in particularly looked like a white male

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s6bCli03aqnY_KvZoPaTgiFqCj...
New Algorithm Searches Historic Documents to Identify Noteworthy People
there are also "vector cells" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00761-w

Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-020-0336-9?proof=t
This is just how product announcements look these days. I want to say this was popularized by Apple but I don't have a source on that.

If you doubt that, here are some quotes from Apple's new product pages from yesterday:
'most powerful', 'scary fast', 'scary faster', 'best display ever', 'super fluid'

Not to mention the product names: 'pro' vs 'max', 'liquid retina', ...

Yet I don't see people complain about those.
That is both beautiful and sad.
It would crash.

A dirigible requires a temperature difference between the ambient (surrounding) air and the air inside the lift bladder. Or the same temperature but different density.

The heat of the lava would create an area of lower air density which would result in a significant loss of lift as it crosses.

I guess you could compensate with a high altitude crossing, but it still sounds dangerous.
Who is this "everyone"? Taking a look at the announcement thread here on HN, the response to these machines has been extremely positive.

I can't really find any criticism of the machines themselves. Negative comments are directed at Apple for pre-existing customer-hostile behavior like their repair policies.
Thanks. I don't know very much about it. From the little I saw (years ago), it seemed like it was standard/common to at least have wetsuit, goggles, and dive belt. If I remember correctly, they even had safety divers stationed at various depths along the rope. Which I guess would make this mostly useless in actual competition.
Each major release of Android has an explicitly stable kernel internal ABI, meaning that shipping binary drivers is much more viable than it was before.
I can get out of my office chair, stretch, and then return back to my seat in a minute as much as I'd like. An 18 wheeler has to exit the highway, find a place to park that accommodates large trucks, put on the brakes, Climb out, walk around, and then go back to the highway. All while not being paid a salary but being paid by the mile.
https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/distribution....

> setuptools will detect at build time whether Cython is installed or not. If Cython is not found setuptools will ignore pyx files.

> To ensure Cython is available, include Cython in the build-requires section of your pyproject.toml:

[build-system]
requires=[..., "cython"]

> Built with pip 10 or later, that declaration is sufficient to include Cython in the build. For broader compatibility, declare the dependency in your setup-requires of setup.cfg:
If an industry’s strategy to keep itself alive is keeping the distance between your eyes a closely protected secret… the end appears near.
Probably the reporter assumes most people consider the whole "spinny thing that keeps helicopter in air" package to be one thing. Turbine, rotor and all.
The ISA is roughly equivalent to an API. It specifies how to talk to the chip but does not define how it is implemented. Apple has done a lot of custom design of their chips to optimize them for use with Mac OS and Mac software. This is not just Apple copying a chip design.
Let's take DOGE and SHIB as an exammple. NY residents can trade on Coinbase DOGE but not SHIB, eventually they will let SHIB too. You are incorrect in saying NY 'forbids' it, they just require it to be 'registered' which leaves the various platforms one of two options: 1. Cut out NY, 2. Register.

Most platforms choose the former, and even if a platform chooses option 2 it takes time, money etc etc. Now, even tough DOGE was widely traded in the entire US it was not allowed in NY at the beginning of last year. So what happened now, did it become a 'better' coin? No! Will SHIB be a 'better' coin magically once it's 'registered'? Of course not. Point is, however much you hate crypto there is no point to this restrictive law.
Didn't public opinion swing against Elon Musk for trying to insert himself into an already on-going rescue and then called one of the men who did rescue the kids a 'pedo-guy'? That's something I'd expect from a 13 year old on xbox live.
I'm about to switch in the other direction because there are iOS-only apps that I want to run. Plus, because of higher resale value, iOS devices cost less.

I already have an iPad which is probably my favorite device to use. I might end up taking another look at Android when Google finally releases their Shortcuts clone.
Python also has a really nice pattern using classes for this. I've heard it called the supply chain pattern before.

class MyClient(HTTPClient):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

def do_some_networking(self, arg):
super().http_get("server", arg)

class MyClientWithDI(MyClient, MyHTTPClient):
pass

client = MyClientWithDI()
# Will call MyHTTPClient's http_get
client.do_some_networking("/status")
> They are absolutely not commiting fraud - that is a total lie.

If I write an email to them asking them to cancel an account, doesn't that constitute legal termination of my authorization to continue service or charge me?

Unless the service agreement I signed specifies a specific way to cancel an account - in that case my agreement to it constitutes authorization unless I jump through their hoops. Argh.
About ten years ago, I remember getting low-balled by most coastal tech companies while living in the South. Absurdly low-balled at that. I wonder if this kind of activity is related to this kind of scheme.
Does this relate in any way to us getting cheaper hearing aids?

A pair of bluetooth streaming rechargable ones is about $3000. With Transparency mode and the latest software for AirPod pros, you can adjust the frequency distribution, and get what seem to be servicable hearing aids for $250.

What I'd like is proper (medical) assessment and fitting, but of cheaper commodity aids that are much much better made with better apps than most of those on the market now.
Without stirring up any controversy I think we can confirm the giant island of plastic in the Pacific ocean is caused by humans.
You forgot the part where people under 21 years of age aren't allowed to drive big rigs across state lines.

Electronic logbooks are the main reason drivers lost wages recently. Turns out that the market had adjusted to an equilibrium that expected drivers to fudge their log books, and once the ability to fudge was removed, the absolute morons who fill the ranks of logistics companies wouldn't up their rates and the market equilibrium was broken. This caused drivers to leave the business.
It can't be overstated how absolutely dumb the average desk jockey in the logistics space truly is. Having had to deal with a few different companies over the years (Hapag Lloyd, various CPG companies, Marten), there was no contest in offices with just straight up low-IQ but cocky jocks filling the desks. A brother-in-law is in the transportation industry, and he routinely uses fancy words he doesn't understand on calls (I hear them when I'm visiting) and nobody on the call is capable of calling him out. A recent example was when he was saying that "we need to work on improving the linear regressions on our deliveries"........ I tried to explain to him that the term wasn't what he thought it was, and he literally couldn't absorb what I said. He is in charge of hundreds of millions of throughput for a massive food corporation whose products are in every household in the country. Near as I can tell, the entire industry is a bunch of mediocrities with spreadsheets spending most of their days in meetings comparing their numbers and getting yelled at when they don't line up correctly.
I simply don't understand this Python packaging insanity to this day. I tried, even released a few modules on PyPI. Why can't it just make sense? Like Ruby gems? Like Rust packages? Even Javascript packages are easier to understand. It's actually easier to make a PKGBUILD file for my C project.

I love making libraries but this Python packaging stuff is just so painful. Such a shame, Python has a really nice module system. There's one feature that I love though: editable mode. Finally I can develop and use a library at the same time! I've been trying to accomplish this with git submodules since forever.
$2K for the cheapest possible build. Add in a couple upgdades (1TB SSD, 32GB RAM) and it isn't hard to hit $3K+. There are great machines but a bit too pricey for my liking.
Lead acid batteries have a high rate of recycling in part because there are a limited number of standardized sizes, and a lot of each size.

EVs have not yet achieved as much volume and settled on standards. But that will change. Probably quickly at current growth rates.
Brilliant short article about decision making in general, and in medical uses as an example.
The aspirin example is great for everyone to read, because it is so ubiquitous.
Yeah that's a basic problem of the approach. I'm going to create a public gateway service for spork (similar to IPFS gateways). You lose the end-to-end encryption by using a gateway, but then only the serving user needs to have spork installed. I figure that can help with asymmetric adoption.

Long-term, the Hyperswarm & Hypercore stacks will need to have whatever apps/browser-extensions available, and then the featureset will hopefully be compelling enough to make them worth an install. Spork isn't the end-point.
The thing I think sucks about this design decision is that I always like to have a phone case with a card sleeve on the back. Seems like the camera band makes such cases inconvenient or maybe even impossible to design.
"Gnome (and Wayland) is broken, and this API must be changed."

Again I would say no, that's wrong, it's just not currently meant to run on your hardware. If you know how to change this API then please help. AFAIK there is no one working on this currently. To solve the problem, it really needs someone who is committed to getting it working on the type of hardware that you have and who can champion that use case. If that's not you then you'll have to wait (indefinitely) until that person shows up, if they do at all.

Also, shadertoy is a really bad test case as those are more like demos, they aren't optimized and are just made to show how much you can do by computing things on the fly in a shader. A real program you'd see in production would make better use of GPU memory and wouldn't hammer the GPU cores so hard.
A bit off topic but as much as we can praise the return of some ports on the new MBP, it's amazing to compare with products like https://us.vaio.com/collections/vaio-sx12
Are you kidding me. Are we going to now accuse IKEA of cultural imperialism since their furniture uses Swedish names?

Whats wrong with just taking random foods from around the world?
Great to hear you found a solution. I believe Neurolens is focused on treating exophoria where the prism correction required is different at near vs. distance. In most patients, the correction required at near is greater.

The Neurolens are also unfortunately very expensive and seems to not be covered by insurance. But I think most people would gladly pay out of pocket to get relief. I surely would.
Would be great to specify that this covers specifically OpenBSD. First sentence of the article:

> The way OpenBSD authenticates users is quite different from other Unix-like operating systems. Most other systems like AIX, Solaris, Linux, the other BSDs, and MacOS, use a framework called Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM).

OpenBSD does some things very differently, and whether you like the way they do things may be a matter of taste. However, when the OpenBSD people do something different, it’s usually carefully reasoned, cleanly implemented, or at least thought provoking.
Vision checks have also changed a lot in the last five years or so. I have a pretty strong prescription and always used to do rounds of reading charts and "A or B", and now there's a machine that scans my eyes and gets it very close to right, with an adjustment or two at the end.
10 years ago woulda been 2011ish? I dunno, he was pretty deeply technical at the time. He had a pretty solid background in distributed systems.

I mean, yeah, he certainly had some terrible opinions about code - that .NET one included. He was also pretty anit-automated-testing, which drove me nuts. But just because he had some bad opinions doesn't mean he wasn't a serious technologist. Perhaps a good coder, but a bad software engineer?
It really has gotten incredibly heavy handed. Their entire marketing campaign for this phone seems to primarily focus on social engineering.
Installing an EV charger (which are supposed to be installed in every new house built in California) versus consulting fees for an enterprise software build out are not apples and oranges, it's apples and horses.
Oh no thank you! I'll look around and get a 2nd opinion. Kindness evidently does exist over the internet :)
I'm honestly really happy with USB-C. My phone, laptop and tablet charge the same way. I bring one charger and two cables, so I can pack much lighter than before. Each device can serve as a power bank for the others. My monitor serves as a powered hub, so there's only one cable connecting everything to my laptop. I use the same charger for everything from my camping lantern to my computer. I don't have a big box of cables anymore, nor do I pack 5 different cables when I'm on the move. It's very convenient.

It only becomes a problem when I leave my bubble. I usually travel without my adapters, so I can't borrow someone's mouse, or plug something into their TV.

Then there's the issue with cables and chargers. I have thick cables and 100W chargers, so it's never a bother, but it's not a trivial thing for the average user to make sense of.
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