skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually say, "please ask stupid questions, because if you don't then you'll run off in the wrong direction and work on the wrong thing for a week before the next review, and you'll have wasted a lot of project budget."

At my work, there's a bad combo of senior folks who whip off vague instructions in a single sentence, and junior folks who are afraid to ask questions. I'm in the middle, and I try hard to demonstrate that it's fine to badger the senior folks with questions, and to check in with them constantly. The senior folks like it because it gives them confidence that you're working it out. But some of our straight outta school colleagues just don't do this ("Gotcha. Sounds good!" is a very common email reply from them) and it leads to confusion down the road. After giving them the "ask questions" talk two times, I usually give up on them.

Also, in my position, I often have to review and edit reports that are largely written by electrical engineers and architects, and they all probably think I'm super dumb. I read the reports as the target audience (often non-subject matter experts), and so my comments are things like, "What do you mean by this [basic EE concept]?" I don't preface it with, "I know what this means, but the client might not, please elaborate..."
Don't take this the wrong way, it must be scary to do a Show HN, so high5 to you, but...what's the appeal of this over a Carrrd, Wix or Squarespace which already has a good UI / drag and drop editor and has all the redundancy, SEO compliance and user access management in-built?
You could simply have said, "I can't come up with any examples," and skipped all the rambling text.
> Might encourage them to actually improve things for the people.

The history of unpaid and low-paid legislatures (of which there is quite a lot) does not really support this idea.
Apple now moved on this by the smallest possible amount. They‘ll allow media apps (like Netflix and Spotify) to link to their own payment system on the web. Though the details aren‘t quite clear afaik.
The problem is that in the case of memetic evolution the "fitness" of an idea to propagate is inversely correlated to its survival value to humans. So lots of terrible ideas have become - and continue to become - mainstream. If we think fake news is bad now imagine what it will be like in the future.
Is arbitrarily pointing out “fyi this is a CHINESE business” the new “fyi this is a JEWISH business”?
Well not really. The preprocessor is part of the compiler, so it only needs set a flag to tell the compiler proper to enable std::vector.
I'm thinking about giving up on the web almost entirely. It's increasingly clear that the very machinery of the the HTML standard itself makes it impossible to defend against this sort of spying.
Nuclear power has been topdown and hierarchical. These women want to change that
The ruling(which Maddow won): https://timesofsandiego.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MADDO...

The specific details are Maddow was talking about a journalist from another network(OAN), and said something like "This person is literally paid by the Russian government to produce news stories". Maddow's team argued that it isn't slander because no reasonable viewer of her show would take that statement to be truthful despite the confident/clear language it is expressed in.
I only skimmed the discussion and original post, but "training" didn't jump out at me from either. One can distinguish "ideas": neat new apps for iOS that will make money, or, say, string theory or quantum chromodynamics.

The first requires people to pay attention to how people are using their phones and, probably, how business operates. But then, Angry Birds was probably a hack-inspired project so maybe luck's a component as well. The others require a whole lot of background in math, physics, a sense of what is beautiful in these disciplines and some idea of how the current models work. Way more effort, and not really subject to a hack attack.

Both are facilitated by intelligence, opportunity, etc. But I wonder whether people are interested in or appreciate the amount of spade work involved for some areas. If you want to work hard AND make some bucks, work on material science (catalyst design, high-temp superconductors) or try to understand the human immune system and how it could be modulated.

Lots of coding in there, and the winners are heroes who will be feted worldwide. Oh, I'll throw in another one... A critical skill in Pharma is, to be blunt, patent breaking. If one can determine that two molecules are sufficiently different to be outside a patent but sufficiently similar (biochemically and physicochemically) to be active at the same target in the same strength or better... I should point out that modern drugs can make several Billion a quarter once on the market.
Disclosure responsibilities for Federal judges extend to spouses and any family living in the home IIRC, I would imagine this restriction would have similar coverage.
I wonder how many normal people are on twitter in the first place. I typically wait for news aggregators to share the thread with me. I don't need to drink from a firehose when a cup of water is all I need.
> Look at what has happened in Afghanistan where after 20 years of Western intervention, the country has reset to its 'default' almost overnight.

Unfortunately The Project For a New American Century did not include Predator drones armed with Kindles preloaded with Wikipedia.

I realize I am over simplifying this here, but Afghanistan was mostly a DOD project when it should have been State.

> We need to just skip to the end game: education for women, contraception, abortion ...

I can agree with this.

> incentives for having zero/one child,

This appears to be built-in to education and economic growth.

> no food aid.

I assume you mean the aid-based long term plans, which have proven problematic. Famine aid should be given in my opinion.
Users of a lot of Chinese TVs and other products running Android: "first time?"
Oh no the horror.
That invites short term decisions to pump up markets. I think the Fed should be concerned with long term health of the economy.
NYC, LA, Oakland, Baltimore, Portland, and Minneapolis at least

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9625629/REFUND-poli...
India crosses the milestone of 1 billion COVID-19 vaccinations
The CATL LFP batteries Tesla has been using already have only gone in the SR+ model, because they couldn't fit enough for the necessary range in the LR and P models, so in practice they do seem to use more space.

As far as I know they're not prismatic, they're using the same form factor as the NCA and NMC cells in those models.
No, the problem is rejecting experts in place of loud-mouthed pundits, who either make crap up or cherry-pick outlier expert viewpoints without telling you they are outliers or bringing in non-outliers to counter.
> Does anyone think the SEC will take similar actions against elected officials?

No, because the SEC doesn’t have authority to do that.

Congress did that, once, but then delayed it becoming effective until finally they decided to repeal it.
It’s the same problem as CEO pay. But measuring success is even harder.
>"Believe it or not, some people go into public service with the desire to serve the public."

If under "public" you mean riches who buy those "public servants" in bulk using legalized bribes and cushy corporate jobs after terms then I would agree.

I am sure there are few good exceptions but they do not paint the whole picture.
By the end of it I realised everyone thinks he's stupid. He is intelligent though.
Why should Google get a cut for a payment made outside of their app store?
In most markets, LG and Roku are quite competitive and within a few percentage points of one another. In South America, a less mature but fast growing market, LG has a significant lead over Roku with 23% market share. But in North America, Roku is the market leader with 37% market share, to LG's 4%.

Globally, Roku controls 30% (down from 33% in 2020).

https://www.protocol.com/roku-global-expansion-conviva-data

"Home electronics" covers a lot more than streaming, and even a portion of that revenue could account for users with an LG TV who use a Roku device instead of WebOS. It's not a good comparison.
No they're paying billions
I don't think it's quite that. IMO from knowing some anti-vaxx it originates from a rebellion against power more-so than any actual belief in conspiracy. It seems to come from being fed up with being told what to do AND from distrust in authorities (arguably warranted). Conspiracy comes as a post-facto rationalization for some as far as I've seen.

I believe policies like vaccine mandate and the overzealous anti-anti-vax crew are paradoxically aggravating the issue. Making it a partisan issue also seems to force people on the defensive and harden their (potentially unfounded) beliefs, forcing them into the "other camp."

EDIT: My hypothesis on why it comes more from right-wing rather than left-wing people is exactly that right-wing is anti-government power (or more freedom of individuals, usually).
Absolutely - that's exactly what I do. I have a playlist manager, navigation and so on. You can use a mouse, but it's designed for keyboard operation; there's a lot of hotkeys.

Hang on - you said "from local storage". The video is played from server-side storage. If it was on local storage on the client, you could only play it on that client. So I take it you meant "local to the server", in contrast to online video resources.
Maybe this is a reflection of the 16 inches higher thermal envelope?

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/21/new-macbook-pros-high-p...
"Hardened wood" = wood cellulose + glue
Please stop being so hostile to other users. It really doesn't add anything. You have made some factually questionable comments yourself, and I say this as someone who has worked on JIT aarch64 translation very similar to Rosetta 2.
That interpretation might be a bit inflammatory. But at a minimum, it's certainly the new "fyi this is a JAPANESE business."

How'd that work out for the generation of manufacturers that used it as a veiled insult?
If you're rich, it's called being "eccentric", not "stupid."

When I turned 40 about 10+x years ago, I started wearing garish colors and weird jewelry, and styling my hair differently every few months. I'm talking mullets, or perms, with yellow blazers, leather bracers with gems, purple pants, rings on all fingers, red shoes, bright green shirts with zebra stripes... I rotate everything routinely.

Now people expect I'm going to say weird things and look at me suspiciously.

Random people start friendly conversations, local people I see when I walk to the store tell me the look forward to seeing me.

It's called not giving a fuck and it feels fantastic...
Basswood is a hardwood because it's a flowering tree (angiosperm); softwoods come from conifers (gymnosperms).

Balsa is a hardwood, too.
thank you for this extremely important correction. I was reading the comments instead of the article and wondering in the back of my mind how the Fed even had jurisdiction over Congress.

sure hope it remains visible in the comment hierarchy.
I agree! I yet have to see a touchpad as good as Apple's, for example!
We're thinking through how to follow up on this post with additional signal-boosting throughout the year, point taken about exposure value to small projects. We'll keep that in mind!

Thanks for Nim and keep up the great work! :^)
I wonder if there's any legs in algae or seaweed. Wouldn't take up valuable land to grow and is fast growing.
You don't say this is. You say "this may be" a stupid question.

The point is not that anyone with the same question should feel stupid; it's that I don't care if anyone thinks I am.
On the plus side, you have a process and in theory it works, or you would be looking elsewhere.

You might have lost a day today, but how many days have you gained thanks to these tools the last month?
> It's not volume, it's vertically integrated agility. Can't get Continental radar hardware anymore? Tesla updates their vehicle software to use vision only.

You say that like it's a good thing.
If I understand it correctly, that would mean targeting very specific audiences based on genre and similarity to other artists a user listens to?

Correct. Indie labels are beginning to realise this and the good ones are bringing huge returns - and in turn being bought up by the majors. The majors also do it very well - you just don’t always see it so clearly because they are able to invest so much more broadly. But all the majors have numerous sub-labels/imprints with their own experts. The biggest strength of the majors is that they are now aggregating so much audience data that they can jump on trends way in advance of wider awareness.

That doesn't seem to be a core strength of current big 3 labels. Their approach is using radio and mass exposure, getting a top 10 hit etc. We should see a big disruption in their business then.

Radio is a smaller part than it used to be. But this is definitely an advantage that the majors have. What gets you radio play?[!] Good numbers elsewhere. What gets you good numbers elsewhere? Great marketing. What gets you great marketing? Cash.

It’s really difficult for indies to compete on the “big media” arena. But that’s been the case for decades, so they don’t. Also - majors tend to go after “guaranteed mainstream” which is “major media” friendly. Indies don’t - but that’s not to say that there’s not a very healthy business to be made out there in the lesser known climes.

[!] You need great songs too, but that’s pretty easy for major labels because their A&R teams can pay lots of songwriters and producers to work up tracks and really polish them.

But yes, the model has been disrupted significantly over the past decade and as a result the majors have invested heavily in harnessing expertise from outside the traditional “music industry” pool of talent. If you’ve got consumer brand experience or have run data at a tech company you’re probably more likely to be in demand by a major record label than if you’ve got 10 years doing something inside of music.

I wonder if youtuber/tiktoker have replaced musicians as the personalities young people connect to.

In terms of name recognition I wouldn’t be at all surprised. I worked with some YouTubers - not A league, but significant - a few years back. They wanted to do a single. I was ASTOUNDED by the numbers they got. Most early recording artists could not come close. All their sales & streams were driven through YouTube & Instagram. To have a fanbase who care enough to go from one channel to another and actually transact is the stuff of dreams for most musicians. What was most astonishing was the promotion of sales to streams - sales were way way higher than a “normal” musical release.

There’s been heavy investment from music companies into influencer agencies - and it’s no mistake (as seemingly negatively referenced in this article) that musicians and their execs are looking to this space for inspiration.
in many, many cases the bad stuff is already illegal, and it's the investigations and prosecutions that are missing.
I whole-heartedly agree with you. People love to demonize who they disagree with, assuming that disagreement is just a proxy for the fact the others are idiots. In reality, it is merely that they hold different values, their source of true facts they believe in are different and prioritize different things.
There's no need to get a new TV, unless your Roku TV lacks HDMI ports. Mine has plenty.

I've been thinking of moving away from Roku anyway though, because they seem underpowered. Most of the apps on mine are a bit laggy, whereas my AppleTV is smooth. I've even noticed jittery playback on high-quality 4k content, even though my tv is ostensibly a 4k tv.
Don't think it means you need a new tv. Just got an Apple TV box, or a Google one, or whichever you prefer since it seems your not stuck on using roku tv's service.
It's all good to blame the private companies like Intuit here, but what really needs to happen is that the politicians and bureaucrats who took their money need to be outed.

A market will always have rent seekers, and people will always look for shortcuts. It's the job of our elected officials to ensure that doesn't happen.
A bad look when Alphabet is selling competing devices like Chromecast (at least partially competing) and then pull YouTube from Roku devices.
Yep 100% agree with you - see my last sentence. Just trying to clarify that the issue here isn't that idle power consumption isn't important, it's the nonsense math.
Hi Senator, congratulations on the election results!

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The article seems to say that these are the BYD Blade batteries so it would be prismatic, unless the article is wrong
CEOs make $20 million a year and have done crimes like insider trading. Lots of congresspeople are already independently wealthy.

I don't think a pay raise would impact it at all
Yeah... I don't want to make this stuff, I want to use this stuff.

It would be great to get an understanding of its performance specs. I may be able to specify hardened wood in place of steel, aluminum, magnesium machined parts in high-end ecologically conscious consumer products... but not without some understanding of the engineering specifications and a source of material.
Perhaps someone will start a “Speaker of the House” index fund which the officers from the Federal Reserve can buy, since they won’t be able to buy individual stocks.
That was the methodology for the research. The paper shows that specifc types of chemotherapy related damage can trigger desirable immunological responses, so I'd guess the end
goal would be a regular chemotherapy regimen that trigger that response. The end of the abstract hints at that by saying the research provides a strategy for increased efficacy, rather than claiming to be a potential treatment or adjuvant.
it's not though. I read both articles before posting. there's certainly overlap, but there's difference as well.
This feels like something that should always be enabled when you're plugged into AC power (maybe only automatic when you're at 100% battery).
would be great if its active when plugged in and deactivated when on battery
Was curious about this, and from some quick Googling the US isn't much of a contender for lawsuits per capita, but a lot more of our GDP goes to law firms and litigation than any other country and we have one of the highest lawyers per capita.
Alternatively - maybe it's not so great that government is so big and central and has so much power. Politicians are gonna find ways to corrupt that power no matter what.

The same could be said for megacorps.

Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world. China and Chinese SOEs are going to be big and powerful and centralized for the foreseeable future no matter what - and if we don't have anything to oppose them - that doesn't seem great either.
There's a Twitter bot for that:

https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp?lang=en

From any tweet in the thread, mention us with a keyword "unroll"

@threadreaderapp unroll

And it converts the entire thread into a blog post on their site.
The thing is, just like with genetics, we are not the arbiters of good. A meme might look bad, but if it spreads itself such that it doesn't die with it's last host, it is a good meme. Like viruses, some burn through their host population and go extinct, some cling on but are still detrimental, and some increase fitness, and now we get into the distinction between a parasite and a symbiont.
Just added a calendar event for April of next year to check these folks out. Thanks for the suggestion!
> Someone once told me that a stipulation for public service should involve converting all your holdings into index funds only.

For most elected officials (that have broad scope of potential jurisdiction and thus are almost impossible to avoid conflicts of interests), blind trusts are probably even better.

For most public servants, even those that have decision-making authority that could potentially raise conflict interests, disclosure and recusal rules are probably all that is needed (and, actually, lots of public servants have no decision–making authority that is likely to even require that.)

Appellate and Supreme Court judges could arguably fit in either category; trial court judges seem squarely in the second.
Coincidentally, David Ricardo's argument against England's Corn Laws a generation earlier (again dealing with import restrictions) gave birth to the economic theory of comparative advantage.

A simple example of this argument does lead to all or nothing and makes a very strong mathematical argument that anything else would be disadvantageous.
coeheranch is certainly an interesting way of spelling coherence.
Frank Denis has an elliptic curve PAKE built on top of libsodium called CPACE. The implementation is less than 150 lines of C

https://github.com/jedisct1/cpace
Don't forget that all Congress members and former members get a fully vested pension after only 5 years in Congress, which can be collected at age 62, or even lower ages for longer time served.

However, the Fed is distinct from Congress. Not sure if the Fed also participates in FERS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_pension

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Employees_Retirement_S...
I don't think so, though perhaps it should more accurately be phrased as a COMMUNIST CHINESE business. That is why people care, because the CCP has an aytpical way of doing business that comes with its own risks and potential problems. It really has everything to do with economics and nothing to do with race/nationality/heritage.
>you are clearly chastising an account whose first language is not English

Why do you think this? Their spelling and grammar show few obvious mistakes to me, and after reading your comment I looked at their history and they seem to be an American for at least twenty years.
So Google is using YouTube as leverage to convince Roku to do what they want, not just YouTube TV. This is literally a cable/network pissing match, except with streaming.

Fuck 'em both, honestly. Neither one is an innocent party.
Latinus in HN suffragia vincit, sed non est nisi hoc
Imagine somebody thought omitting the return statement and doing whatever the compiler likes is a good feature to have.
there's only one Fox News. there's only one Trump. your comment would have been reasonable in 1980. it's 2021.
This messed me up so bad when I finally hit material I needed to work at even a little. Years and years and years of getting things instantly, with no effort whatsoever. Lecturing about the same thing again for the fifth day in a row, but I had it the first day? Cool, I'll draw cartoons and still answer any questions you ask me. Hand me a test? No problem. A-grade work in 5 minutes, read my book for the remainder of the hour. My stupid kid brain (this was... age 13 or so? Maybe 14?) was sure something horrible had happened to me over the Summer and I was now an idiot, when that stopped being how things worked. I wouldn't be surprised if I could have been diagnosed with actual depression, from then through my early 20s, mostly due to that and the follow-on effects.

I've since learned this is a super-common experience for gifted kids and one of the things really good gifted programs focus early on mitigating. I gather kids smarter than I was may still experience something similar, but not until they burn out hard and very suddenly, around Sophomore or Junior year of a challenging degree program.