skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an interesting study, that, if I'm interpreting it correctly, reflects what I would have expected: you give someone a new medical treatment, and they have a chance both of imagining symptoms through placebo effect, or attributing any unrelated symptoms to the treatment. So real "adverse effects" take work to uncover.

I also want to make the point that the article takes what I think should be a simple point with data backing it up, and makes it super confusing both by terminology and by information overload. It would be great to see a simple chart that compares real and placebo effects concisely, instead of the current presentation. Maybe I've strayed to far from academia, but complicated is not better
We don't understand fluid dynamics either; doesn't stop us from modelling it.

Also, I wasn't trying to equate computers and brains, or ideas and software. I just picked the example to show how “post-genome” can make sense as an idea. It's not an applicable analogy.
Curious where you went to (at least geographically, if you don't want to share details) from "NYC companies".

I'm in the NYC area, and the delta between companies in NYC vs. elsewhere nearby (i.e. NJ) is huge both in terms of options and pay.

I have a few friends in NJ that explicitly refuse to work in NYC/Manhattan because of the horrible commute/transit situation. The downside is that they seem to have very limited options in terms of companies they can work for in NJ.
I think the irony is that newness is irrelevant once it's being used at a certain scale. You can battle test more in an hour than you could a small scale project in ten years.
Just out of curiosity, what do you feel about outsider art ?

Or mixed media art that is more abstract ?

(I will admit, I have a bias as I tend to like things like tonalism, but I’m also very attracted to muted abstract at times. )
Mobile gaming is mostly crap, sure, but it is still quite profitable. I think the parent was referring to having a successful mobile platform like Google or Apple so that Microsoft could skim their commission off all those mobile games.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3163657/did-...
"The Omicron variant of the coronavirus could have entered the Chinese capital Beijing via contaminated mail from Canada, the city’s centre for disease control said on Monday.

Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, said the city’s first Covid-19 patient to be diagnosed with the variant had received a letter mailed from Canada on January 7.

“We do not rule out the possibility that the person was infected through contacting an object from overseas,” she said."
The loading page alone was worth the click.
Even Game Pass without Cloud gaming is bargain. I surprised that it also come with cloud gaming for free.
WinWorld has DOS Plus and Concurrent DOS from DR, maybe you could ask the maintainers or forum dwellers there.

I found exactly one post on the forum, listing various finds from eBay, that says "Digital Research - FlexOS 386 System Builder's Kit, Release 1.42, 1988 - 5 Box"; unfortunately the linked item is gone by now: https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/comment/164410#Comme...
This is true for most consumer tech (whether software or hardware) nowadays. The primary objective is to get "engagement" out of it. Any useful work the product might be doing is the bare minimum needed to convince the user to "engage" with the product.
Student Built Free OS Dollar Cost Averaging Bot for Crypto and Beat Competition
I've made no claim to the contrary, and I agree at the very least that any proposal for direct democracy would be quite complicated even if it sounds simple.

But that doesn't really have bearing on what I said. Voter opinion on individual issues is merely one metric we can use to evaluate how well the "will of the voters" is being represented. Another one, more focused on representational government, would be whether most voters are happy with the vote they cast, or whether they feel they had to compromise and vote "strategically".

These questions are important for being able to discuss changes to our system. For example, posing the question of whether RCV/Condorcet would represent the will of the voters better than party-controlled primaries plus first past the post.
For my kindle paperwhite I simply plug it into my computer like it's 2010
The cost of childcare overshadows the earning power of these employers. It’s a loose loose situation
Some of the largest battles of World War II involved nothing more substantial than moving goods from point A to point B, or stopping the other country from moving their goods from point A to point B.

Logistics is the lifeblood of society and cannot be taken for granted even in a civilian sphere.
The simple answer to all these questions of "what will happen to people currently working in industry X or job Y" is – they will retire, and won't be replaced. Those studying or entering the workforce will see the reduced opportunities and pursue other career paths.

Automation isn't going to happen overnight. It is a generational change.
A list of certified UNIX operating systems: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
A Funeral Director Takes In Bodies That Social Stigma Leaves Unclaimed
The license in Linux case is for distributing Linux (and the module). You can create modules with whatever license you'd like if you're not distributing your work. In Wine's case you're not distributing Windows so it's not the same.

A more similar case would be Oracle vs. Google over the Java API.
I guess you haven’t heard of a Sawzall. Who even needs a door?
I'm still playing older games. What new games do you recommend?
I really wonder about the payoff in the continual cat and mouse game here. At some point, you are going to be paying a sizeable sum to your devs to try a lock out a relatively small amount of technically capable people who will circumvent the system rather than pay a subscription fee. I agree making a little harder once probably convinced a few people to pay up...but after that it has to be diminishing returns and eventually negative returns. I wonder what the tradeoff would be if they marketed their system was one that as open and you could do so many things with it. Like, imagine if the commercials showed how you could use your treadmill but also connect to any app you wanted, like Netflix. To me, that would be a big draw.
There was a discussion on tenure length in another topic a month or two ago.

I'm curious what you would think about someone who's stayed at one company (same role, same team, maybe some minor increase in responsibility and rank) for 5 years? 10 years?

Would you view someone like that better or worse than someone who has multiple n <= 2 year stints during that time?

My observation recently, having been through interview loops and having stayed at my previous company for 7 years, is that longer tenures seem to be perceived as bad these days at tech companies...possibly worse than multiple short stints. Perceptions of expert beginner syndrome, 1 year of experience * n years instead of n years of experience, laziness, lack of motivation, etc. being typical reasons given.
From the articles previously posted, much of what's being targeted and stolen are shipments destined to wholesalers and retailers, not consumers.
DigitalOcean appears to no longer accept Discover cards
I'm a United States resident. I attempted to sign up for a $5 droplet today using my personal Discover credit card. Despite the DigitalOcean UI clearly indicating they accept Discover, upon submitting the form I received the error "We encountered an error processing your card. Please try again." I used their PayPal option instead (ugh, PayPal is evil) and PayPal gladly took the same card and charged it. I was able to order my droplet.

I then emailed support and asked them what was going on. I got this reply:

> Due to a disproportionate number of fraudulent transactions originating from your bank or card issuer, we can no longer accept payments from this institution. In this case, you will need to use a different credit card or use PayPal in order to make a payment.

My Discover card is issued by Discover themselves; there is no intermediary or third-party involved. Does this mean DigitalOcean no longer accepts any Discover cards? Speculating here, but perhaps Discover themselves or whatever payment processor DigitalOcean uses cut them off from accepting Discover cards?

What gives? Has anyone else seen this?
>>Wow, it sounds like they did eat the costs, 3 out of 3 for LA again. That does seem rather thorough.

'they' didn't eat the cost of anything, 'we' are paying the cost thru higher prices on everything we buy.
The "pros" for nextjs seem believable, a non-bias piece /s
Another way to look at it is that it isn’t about stopping criticism if the criticism has no effect. Serious boycotts can be very effective, but “criticism” from politicians can be meaningless.
2. FB promotes content with the fastest growth of attention: upvotes, downvotes, comments. It's the opposite of HN, basically. The most engaging content doesnt have to be divisive, but since the majority are emotional beings, and have little interest in abstract thoughts, they react better to emotions. Maybe in a few centuries, the majority will be more concerned with thoughts, and less with emotions, and the equivalent of a flame war will be snarky scientists exchanging with obscure arguments about correctness of some irrelevant theorem, e.g. NP-deniers would reject the NP=P equality, NP-protagonists would support it, and the moderate minority would advocate for a middle ground - that neither statement is provable. Those moderates will be dismissed as Goedel-ists.

3. FB is like a big open club that admits anyone and everyone, and all events take place in the only hall room. Predictably, it turns into a shouting match and FB has to ban some members, and by banning some and not others ideas, the club necesserarily turns into an echo chamber.
I feel like I am forever having to hack together things to parse json to csv. It feels like there is never an easy path (indeed jq is frustrating, I usually end up just solving in python)
I'm not sure what you're looking for, but a fun problem I ran into one day (one that I solved, but ultimately we went a different route) is to find an existing key in a js object, and insert a new key/value js object after that key.

For example:

const userdata = [
{
name: "Emma",
age: 21,
hobby: {
reading: true,
gaming: false,
sport: "tennis"
},
class: ["Java", "Go", "Nginx"]
},
{
name: "John",
age: 22,
hobby: {
reading: true,
gaming: false,
sport: "football"
},
class: ["JavaScript", "HTML", "CSS"]
},
]

const newdata = {
knitting: true
}

And then, the task is to make a utility function to find "name: John", then "hobby" and append newdata in the "hobby"object. Try to apply immutability. Try to do without the overhead of JSON string conversion.
probably https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29987342
Talon has an EULA that is enough to send me scrambling for the hills: https://talonvoice.com/EULA.txt

Meanwhile, the meat of this speech recognizition is Vosk, which is just Apache-2: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/master/COPYING
Yes. There was a report about it recently. Don't have the link at hand.
it took me far too long to realize you have to drag the operations to recipe area and not just click them. /facepalm
> Where I live, people routinely leave bicycles and scooters outside when running errands

Just plainly asking: what's the situation with social welfare where you live?
I live in South Jersey. Can Confirm. It is nothing like North Jersey/NYC border.
That $3.2 billion works out to roughly 0.01% of the federal budget. Plus much of that money just comes right back to the US economy when it is used to purchase American military equipment.

Israeli aid has nothing to do with why the US is "floundering". If anything, bickering over small potatoes like our foreign military aid budget instead of focusing on larger issues like the necessity of our own military budget likely is a bigger contributor to us "floundering".
> But yeah, not many games between AAA and indie. :(

Lot of those studios between AAA and indie have closed or have been bought up, by Paradox, Microsoft, Tencent, Embracer/THQ Nordic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lehi_operations

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

Terrorist or freedom fighter depends on which side you're on.
Does TSMC allocation work that way? Surely a client like AMD is paying up front to ensure capacity.
Search space size is no longer a great heuristic of how difficult a game is for the latest in AI approaches. For example, an RTS game has an absolutely enormous search space as well (effectively every unit of several hundred can move in every direction for every single tick of the game clock, many units have spells and many spells are meant to stack with other spells) and Alphastar is a convincing demonstration that this is not out of the reach of current AIs. And you similarly have imperfect information where you don't know what your opponent is doing unless they are sufficiently close to your current units.

Even the meta-game/deck building aspect doesn't seem all that insurmountable as it doesn't seem fundamentally different from say a build order other than that it cannot change dynamically on the fly.
> The natural portion of your hands to bluff with is the absolute worst ones - you don't want to bluff with your middling hands because you have some small chance of just winning a showdown when it checks around.

I don't understand this logic, can you elaborate a bit more? What do you suggest to do with middling hands then?
> Tesla also makes components like seats internally.

For the same reason. Vehicle seat are, for better or for worse, typically model-specific. Before there was Tesla there was nobody making Tesla seats. Would anybody be surprised if they start outsourcing that soon, given that they now have enough volume to attract third party suppliers and seat manufacturing is certainly not their competitive edge?

> A lot of companies just outsource that and lose out on the profits, it is one of the reasons tesla has such high margins.

Vertical integration increasing margins is just an accounting trick.

It costs $5 to make a widget, the widget maker sells it to the car maker for $6, the car maker sells it to the customer for $8. The non-vertical car company has a $2 unit margin, the vertical car company has a $3 unit margin. But to get it they take on all the risks and expenses of the widget maker.

If making widgets is a commodity market then the $1/unit is going entirely to fixed overhead (otherwise someone would charge less and gain market share). Taking on the fixed overhead in exchange for the $1 is breakeven and increases systemic risk by reducing supply diversification. But on paper your margins increase by $1.
Should all speech be up for vote? Should all opinions that the majority disagree with be banned?

I believe weakening protections such as free speech, which are used by the vulnerable to call attention to their plights, is much more likely to hurt Jewish people than allowing ostensibly antisemitic expression to exist
This comes up constantly and is pretty easily refuted by opening pretty much any app on an Android or iOS phone and observing just how many pages of the system shared libraries are touched by even the most trivial apps. You can do this by e.g. purging the FS cache, disabling readahead, launching an app, and then observing how many code pages are resident.

All of that code would have to be brought into app binary itself, making mobile apps even larger in code size than they already are. Dead code elimination could eliminate some of that bloat, but I doubt it'd eliminate much of it, given that we're only measuring resident pages to begin with.

Only allowing static linking might make sense on servers (it certainly makes deployment a lot easier). But it wouldn't work on mobile devices without significantly changing the way mobile apps and OSes are architected.
Training sites are probably going to be your best bet to improve quickly. I see Run it Once was mentioned. I've personally used Upswing Poker in the past and they had some great resources. Bart Hanson's Crush Live Poker videos are great too but I can't vouch for the training course.
Oh wee. I knew most of this thread content. And I actually read most of it here already.

For some reason I just downed on me tonight : we ‘re stuck with chrome, Firefox is gonna bail at some point and safari will stay in Apple pocket.

Is that a fair assessment ?
Absolutely agree that they're bad actors, but it's also unfair to say "motivation here in this suit" when they were defendants who chose not to settle based on a good chance of prevailing on the merits as they did. If we vilify parties for defending themselves in court, even when we disagree with their choices, we make it ever so slightly more possible for might to define right.

> The 2021 copyright lawsuit was brought against eyeo by Axel Springer [... and] was a new challenge to a 2018 Federal Court case, also brought against eyeo by Axel Springer, which was previously decided in favor of eyeo.
Let me know if that happens! I'd love an easy way to make sure my data is safe in the event Google randomly bans me :) I'll check out Pixaver soon to see if it'd work as a backup for my Google Photos!
Yup, look at that logo especially!
"Research shows" needs citations. I get that they only had ten minutes to talk, but if you are going to post a long thread on twitter, adding sources would seem like a completely reasonable thing to do. Otherwise, this thread itself could be misinformation - we have no way to verify.
This is to Danish parliament. I wonder if the research he is quoting applies to (a) a larger country (b) with a heterogeneous population that (c) communicates primarily in English (where most misinformation seems to be aimed). Since he didn't link to the studies, it's hard to know. Giving him the benefit of the doubt that these studies really exist. But I certainly think those three factors may be important in his report not generalizing.
It wasn't a real pull request - just a toy example.
I think this may be a more relevant link to the 'I didn't get paid' - and explains a little more of the veiled threats to whomever Simon Patience is from your link.

https://www.quora.com/How-is-work-life-balance-at-Apple
Where I live sounds a lot like where he lives in terms of property crime (this place is no pinnacle of law and order, quite the opposite really). People in my state joke about it being "bad" but unless you leave your $1k road bike unlocked within view of the street for a long time it's probably not gonna grow legs. You don't see people engaging in crime with a victim in broad daylight

It's a blue city in one of the bluest states in the country, if that's what you're asking. The social services are about as good as you're gonna find in the US. The city shares a border with a slightly smaller urban area in one of the lower service red states (they haven't even legalized weed yet, not that that's a service). That side of the river is not noticeably higher or lower in crime.

This rampant petty property crime problem seems to follow specific public policy, not any other variable.
I'm curious to see some screenshots with the new theme.

It seems somebody does some work on themes about every year or two.
Myth 2: Social media makes people hateful

No, research suggests that online hate reflects offline frustrations that make them hateful both online & offline

That conclusion seems completely wrong to me. Sure, there are previous frustrations, but when you feel attacked online, you become hateful as a defense mechanism… and of course, there is always some YouTube channel ready to reinforce that anger.

And this happens with almost every social media since freenode
They can always start from their old playbook with Embrace..
Dr. Oz is obviously a harmful quack / charletton. He should be called out at every opportunity, but he should definitely be allowed to continue to promote himself. Our civic duty is to make fun of him (or at least his ideas), not to censor him.
Unfortunately, his solutions are non-starters. Openness and oversight of data and algorithms won't do anything without clear ethical requirements. All it will really do is slow down iteration. Prioritizing tools to shield against of hateful content is not in the best interest of social media platforms. Sharing is the main mechanism of retention.

As for the offline stuff...we've been trying to do that since before the internet. See how far that's gotten us.

If I had any solution to offer, I'd say it's to use large platform social media to funnel people to smaller communities where most of the real engagement happens (like Discord). We're already seeing it with brands that don't feel like they can reach their whole audience anymore. Politicians can do that too.
My bad, absolutely, not sure where my head was.
That's post-processing, and it's still done. Here's why:

The satellites only know their own position to a certain precision, and there are only so many bits to express it in the data packet. More bits wouldn't make sense because the measurements aren't that good in the first place.

So what you get "live" is naturally limited by both of those things. Single-frequency unassisted solutions are usually good to a few meters, dual-frequency to a meter or so.

But ground stations can determine, after observing the satellites for a long time, where they _were_ to a much higher accuracy. It's a complicated process involving a whole network of ground stations, whose own positions are precisely surveyed, etc.

The product of that network is known as "precise ephemeris", and it's available in an "ultra-rapid" (3-9 hours later), "rapid" (24 hours later), and "final" (13 days later) version. With these data, the initial observation can be post-processed to get very good solutions. Down into the millimeters.

The RTKLIB manual has a lot more detail if you're curious.
$3,000 a month apartment surrounded by homeless people feels like a serious income distribution problem
There is a difference between
1. Anti Israel
2. Anti Semitic
3. Anti Apartheid

And it cant be decided by the majority.
Again, we don't disagree. But the purported reason for rejection was the newness of Nginx.
Being held on reasonable bail is not a violation of constitutional rights, is it? I mean I'm sure some people think it is but are there court opinions that have established this as a legal reality?
Respeecher with Alex Serdiuk – VO Boss: Voice and AI
Distrusting password managers does not implicitly trust your own memory.

There are alternatives to programmatic password managers or human memory, e.g. a paper notebook and a safe. That's not an approach I would personally take, but I imagine it's a reasonable option for someone who sees the potential danger of trusting any program for sensitive data.
I put "hate" in quotes same as the person I was replying to did in their own comment.
I don't think they meant just in terms of gaming, but the mobile revolution in terms of how smartphones took over the world and Microsoft missed the boat.