skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggle to believe that Bluetooth 5, which supposedly allows for a total of 2mbit/s transfer can't allow for a better codec to be used when a stereo stream of SBC is about 300kb/s. However, I'll be the first to admit that bluetooth is not my area of expertise, and my statement here is mostly driven by disbelief about the fact that we can't get better audio quality out of a bluetooth headset these days.

EDIT: Oh wait, the reason HSP uses low bandwidth codecs is because the standard makes a trade-off in favor of latency and non-blocking comms. Clearly, there are good reasons.
Journalism is basically a dead profession. People writing celebrity gossip bring in more ad revenue than journalists.

Society is not setup to reward educated professionals who report on complex topics.
Yes and no. Anecdotally, most of the SEOs and ppl who do SEO "part time" (e.g., ecomm store owner) still don't understand the foundation of modern SEO.

1. Google doesn't care about the sites. The sites aren't Google's customer.

2. More importantly, the person doing the search is the customer.

Unfortunately, most sites believe SEO is about them. They can improve how they present themselves but the "transaction" is not about them.

Google, serving ads aside, needs to maximize customer satisfaction or run the risk of losing a customer.

It's worth repeating: Google doesn't care about rhe sites.

If Google believes a site's content is a good fit for maximizing customer satisfaction, but the title isn't optimal then it makes perfect sense Google would want to optimize the title, if the title is the "gateway" to a happy customer.

Whether that's right or wrong, IDK. Whether it actually helps, again IDK. But from a pure relationship / business perspective it makes sense.
It is mostly the same parties sitting in government as back in Weimar when they helped Hitler ban the biggest competition. I am quite sure some of them even date back to our last Kaiser (not the soccer one). What is a single person to do against political parties that historically should be considered complicit in starting and losing two World Wars and survived without having their ideologies purged?
I don't think it's that simple. For HOUSE, guessing BEERS should get you WYWYW
DC is developed in last 10 years, so its not young product. TC is developed by single person and has VERY slow development - Ghisler. DC supports TC plugins, and interface is better on lots of things (ie. multi rename tool, config etc.).

I am telling you as someone who uses both constantly - the reason I do so is because DC is great but it still have one bug with network path freezing that is very annoying to me so I still use TC for that reason. Some TC plugins don't work fully in DC. That is all that is wrong. Plugin problem is rare and its not that big, but network glitch is bad. The moment it goes away TC goes away from my life too.

DC is getting momentum and the more people that support it, the better it will be.
They don't have enough supply yet for this incentive to be in effect. Once they reach the tipping point, look forward to them changing their tune. The good news is that it might actually align with the public's best interest.
You seem to be unaware that the tying claims in the Microsoft case were specifically overturned by the appeals court.
"Write great code to build stuff" is still a core part of the job.

But it doesn't really enable anyone else on the team, other than providing a model of well-structured code to follow - and most people's code is really not as great as they think it is.

I'd rather have a team of average coders who do things to enable and better each other and the team over a team reliant on a great coder or two who can't or refuses to enable anyone else.
I think deceive was created to explain the difference in intent.
How exactly would Bitcoin supplant the IMF? Are we going to crowdsource billion dollar loans on the ethereum blockchain so retail investors can help poor countries pay off debt?
>It's as if different social classes were happy to coexist in many other places, but in the US, they loathe each other, and can only interact via intermediaries.

Is it possible that the US is big enough and rich enough that it allows different social classes to not have to co exist, whereas in many other places, they have no choice but to co exist due to lack of land and other wealth?
Though this won't be as smooth, this is reminding me of the Maemo days. I had made adaptive abstractions for GTK / Maemo's patches and would develop my applications using PyGTK on the desktop. When I was ready for a release, I'd just scp the source over, do spot checking, and release my packages. That set the bar high enough for developer experience that I've never gotten into Android dev since Maemo died.
The reason "2.4 GHz wireless" is an option is the very proprietary standard right there, or rather the static pairing coming with it. The absence of Bluetooth connection negotiation/switching/… removes an entire class of bugs and annoyances.
I saw that email. David Leonhart I believe, who is one of my preferred NYT journalists.

Something that was conspicuously absent from the paragraph regarding the unvaccinated vs. the vaccinated paragraph preceding it:

Risk stratification by age. When talking about the vaccinated, he calls out the "even in people over age 65".

There is zero question that vaccines reduce the relative risk for people under 65, however, it should be noted that the absolute risk for healthy people in this category is orders of magnitude lower purely by virtue of their age. Unhealthy people in this category should be vaccinated, of course.

Just an example of narrative bias creeping in, even from the relatively top-flight Leonhart.

Anyway, not disagreeing with you, just calling out a specific example of why the journalism on COVID has been, primarily unintentionally, misleading.
The problem is that technical people who clearly see these issues suffer from echo-chamber paralysis. They complain to each other from behind their keyboards, but never take action.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has done interesting work. But this is something different. His contribution was updating Knight's uncertainty for the modern world
"Then innovation #2 at the actual startup was the ad auctions..."

I don't think Google quite invented those, GoTo/Overture invented ad auctions and pay-per-click, but missed out on patenting them. Google did improve on the idea, with the second-price auctions.

https://slate.com/business/2013/10/googles-big-break-how-bil...
I replied to c-st. USB memory stick.
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Escaped left parenthesis and two backslashes, or a cross section of a phalanx?
OP stated, verbatim, that smartphones are "becoming legally required".

I understand the slippery slope argument, even if I think it's kind of alarmist, but... I mean, come on. Present tense?!?! We are sooooo far off from a legal mandate to carry a smartphone that I'm not even sure how to politely react to this statement.

> it's not unreasonable to think we might end up in a situation like this.

This is perhaps a good use of the double negative, because it's certainly not reasonable either.
Wordle will become the new todolist
Recognizing that naturally acquired immunity exists for tens of millions isn't the same thing as encouraging people to intentionally catch covid to gain natural immunity. Failure to differentiate between the two is just another way the injection maximalists look out of touch or unempathetic.
Reminds me of the Pocket Chip (https://opensource.com/article/17/2/pocketchip-or-pi) which is a pretty fantastic little device that shouldn't exist.
If you are only looking for a quick fix to sleep you are correct. I would argue that decent sleep was almost incidental to all the other positive changes taking care of yourself will make in a persons life. It's a holistic everything is connected philosophy.
$15 is a pretty good guess for per-unit cost of mass-produced RPi0, I reckon.

Look at the price of "WH" version with superficial changes that cost pennies to add (wifi chip and 0.1" header), and (used to be) easily obtainable with no limit on the order size. Or, at least that was the status quo before the the great chip shortage of 2021.
Microsoft's OS runs Google's Apps on Amazon's app store.

Screw up Apple.
Wholly agree that transportation and energy usage of coal/natural gas should be our primary target.
Hey, Thanks for your feedback. That's an interesting point which we never thought about.

When you say endorsements, do you mean same thing as "Recommendations" feature on LinkedIn or something different altogether?
I highly recommend reading this series if you think obesity is a personal failure:
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...

Obviously, yes, medical conditions do place burdens on health systems. That's why we tax cigarettes highly. However, in spite of considerable public health initiatives, the obesity rate continues to rise...
Oh that's said. I've got an email today. I am now looking at other alternative. Do you know any self-hosted suite and/or better way? Thanks a lot.

PS: I used to be fan of zoho.com but I also gave that up.
Will charging for posts lead to higher social media content quality?
My favorite part is how on Monday mornings when I have a meeting I can just 100% count on one of these things happening:

-One of them will have a dead battery, even though they've been in a perfectly clean case that charged it yesterday and will charge it tomorrow.
-They will no longer be paired with my phone for some reason.
-They will pair with my phone, but just not recognize that they should be the primary audio output and calls will just play on speaker phone.

But sure, they "just work".
“Americans say, 76% to 11%, that Facebook makes society worse, not better, according to the survey.” https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/10/business/cnn-poll-facebook/in...
Amazon AWS shifts in its seat
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Betterment has ~$30bn AUM. Neither that nor Wealthfront's $27bn AUM are considered a lot in that industry. My brother-in-law works at a midwestern wealth advisor most have ever heard of that manages $10bn. There are a lot of small firms the $1-$10bn range.

And those advisors typically take 1+%/yr. At 0.25%, Wealthfront would have had to have $40bn AUM to have equivalent revenue, not to mention WF took $200M in VC money to build it.
Or Zim [0], the file format for giant offline-readable Wikipedia archives.

[0] https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM
> Now, it could very well be possible that being vaccinated improves your outcome even once you've already developed symptoms sufficiently severe to require hospitalization. However, I'm not sure there's conclusive evidence suggesting that is indeed the case.

Current data seems to show that fully vaccinated people who require hospitalization have hospital stays that are 33% shorter and are also about 33% less likely to die (despite having more comorbidities on average than unvaccinated hospitalizations).

So, if you have one bed left, and can put either an unvaccinated or vaccinated person in it-- all else being equal-- the vaccinated person is less likely to die with hospital care, and is more likely to free up the bed for someone else soon.

(We don't know, though, if you deny hospital care to both what the death rate for each would be-- here's where you have to guess. If you assume both die without hospital care, then you should give the bed to the vaccinated patient).
It's not that strange, the fact that fear (bias towards inaction) and hope (bias towards action) seem slanted towards fear was commented on by Machiavelli. He explained that the most people, when confronted with uncertainty, will choose to do nothing. TBH, I don't think that most people go out for runs because they've weighed the air pollution against the health benefits of exercise, I think they do it because they feel like running and it doesn't reach the point of an executive-function thinking-about-the-pros-and-cons decision.

The inflammation thing is probably true. Here's a random study. Don't do anything that keeps you in a constant state of injury!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390758/
After Russia takes over Ukraine then who is next. Maybe a nibble of Poland.

No reason to believe Russia will stop so long as counties signaling intent to let them continue.
> While the percentage of female lawyers has increased slowly over the past decade (31% in 2010 vs. 37% in 2020), recent gains among people of color are minimal. Just 5% of all lawyers are Black, the same percentage as 10 years ago

Statistically closer to 2%.

I am all for having a female black supreme court justice, if they're the top candidate. But, it has to begin with better representation at the grassroots level first.

It is admittedly higher at Ivy law league schools it is 0.73*11 = 8%, but these are representative of the sub-25 yr old population which isn't being considered for the role.

With 1/9 being 11%, having 1 black person on the supreme court would be the closest to accurate representation. From the perspective of equity, black people are not underrepresented in the supreme court.
Has it continued to outperform Wealthfront during the past couple of weeks, where the markets have been trending more downward? Curious if SoFi has a higher-risk 'high-risk' setting than Wealthfront, in which case you might expect them to take more of a hit when the markets go down.
How to build an online community to fight climate change
I like the rocket idea.
I guess I should have expanded: a watermark is useful to reduce the number of possibilities of who could have released it. Over time, the more information is gained, the closer you are to a singleton (the result of the intersection of sets). Whether that takes 1 or 10 watermarks does not make a real difference over time, especially when specialized websites release thousands of such PDFs.

So if you have a watermark that associate files with the time they have been downloaded, and download it from multiple networks etc. at the same time, and remove the diff from these versions, you'll still have the time-based watermark in the resulting file, so you'll leak when you downloaded it.
Back in 2015 I put some of my money into wealthfront, despite the market doing well at the time, my wealthfont fund which was heavily stock balanced did somewhat poorly. This was over a year's time so not short lived by any means. I pulled my money out and invested into stocks I chose and never looked back(typically get 10-15% returns a year). I would like to hear other people's perspectives about how their wealthfront funds did as my colleagues did the same as me and left wealthfront as well.
Of Covid or with covid? With omnicron being so widespread my sense is it's almost impossible not to catch it in a hospital.
Looks like the link format changed. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1950
If one of the goals of the vaccine passport is to partition the vaccinated from the unvaccinated (i.e i don't want to put my patrons at risk by allowing someone sick to enter my shop) then I suspect fraud is at the bottom of a long list of other more important issues that undermine said goal.

In order for vaccine passports to be effective, they need to be full-scale, uniform, and zero-tolerance. For ex. Australia does this high effect.

But in the U.S. every state, business, and household has a different set of rules and they've been making it up as they go. This has resulted in numerous non-fraud scenarios where the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups mingle, and supposedly exchange the virus. Ex. Grocery stores, schools, holiday dinners and parties

Our approach has been so federated that I can't imagine any meaningful improvements can be attributed to the passports. Inversely I can't imagine any real negative effects can be attributed to fraud.
Website is built with NextJs. The models are all built with NodeJs--custom backtester framework, and the execution framework and data fetchers are also in Node and leverage a few open source libraries and currently only works with Interactive Brokers.

We just launched mid December, and currently have 16 paying subscribers and 178 free members. MRR about $2500. The Platinum plan can be either implemented via API, email notifications or a managed account in which case after some legal paperwork, we set up a second user in Interactive brokers with trading authority that executes trades based on the signals (hedging via ES futures).
> In 1993, you couldnt do fractional shares, or auto-invest, or pie-based investments. In 1993, you couldnt purcahse $500/wk of BRKB/AMZN/TSLA because there was no product like that short of paying a mutual fund 150bps. You couldnt tax-loss harvest (like with WealthFront)

Fractional shares are a day-trading tool. Apart from that, yes, you're citing real innovations. (Others include a dramatic reduction in trading costs and ETFs.) To the broader point, none those are unique (any more) to the robo-advisers.
>'Doom for trackballs' would not run on trackballs,

I wouldn't put that past Doom porters :D
Non-rhetorical question: did the change in the ruling party in the US (in early 2001) come between the original case and the dropping of the claim?

I'm wondering whether the cause was more "a new head of the relevant department had a different attitude towards antitrust enforcement" (or possibly even "a different attitude towards Microsoft") than "the prosecution realized how shaky the argumentation had been".
Let's remember that the best case for vaccinated people is Covid recovery. Wilful ignorance of the best case would be unwise.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/new-covid-variant-detected-in-a...

> "Omicron is acting like a super booster," Unnasch said. "People who have gotten omicron are going to be really well protected against infection, not just disease moving forward, which is a really good sign."
this is a fine approach. but you can beat it because of tax/fee reasons
Been using it for nearly a decade and have turned many people on to it.

I wrote about it some years back on my ugly blog:
https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/12/tech-tool-tidbit-zim...

[edit. It said I turned many people into it which assumes that there are people out there who are Zims. Space invaders notwitstanding.]
Great! Whatever gets your job done.
I've had the polar opposite experience with the Nothing Ear 1:

- I can't seem to use them for extended periods of time without running into this issue where one earbud stops playing audio entirely and I have to fully reset them to fix it.

- The audio completely cuts out every 5-10 minutes for a brief (like under a second) moment, leading to these annoying gaps in whatever I'm listening to.

- After pairing, the audio will sometimes be extremely low quality, output in mono or not output sound at all; usually unpairing and pairing fixes this.

- Firmware updates have done nothing to resolve these issues.

I tried reaching out to Nothing support to try to return them but have been unable to get a response. These headphones are unusable and probably the worst tech product I've ever purchased.
Shadow: Rent a beasty machine accessible from anywere
I went back to wireless specifically because I was noticing issues on that hub. I went to the trouble to setup control plane to disable wifi when Ethernet was plugged in, and zoom performance tanked. Going back to wifi solved it. I think that the adapter was dropping packets, but I never bothered to triage since wifi works great in this house.

It’s worth mentioning that my setup has very, very low latency. Lag between me and the speed test server in city is 5ms wired, 10ms wireless. My router is way overpowered for what I ask of it, so throughput and latency tends to be very good.

To be fair, my wifi setup is a bit … extra. I’m running 5 APs, two switches, a controller, and a dedicated router, with a dedicated AP for my office that’s a combo wired/wireless outlet. I’ve turned it down so that it’s basically only serving my office, and it has a dedicated cat6 backhaul to the network cabinet, no sharing airspace with other APs. If I hadn’t gone to all this trouble, I’d probably upgrade my hub and go wired.
Their computer sells stuff and then buys stocks that are heavily correlated to the sold stock.

Later, it unwinds the imbalance to avoid realized gains and wash sales. Doing that without impacting long-term returns is one of their biggest value adds.
Same but replace Emacs with Emacs.
If you like, you can appeal your $50 fine as well and drag it out for years. It just doesn’t make financial sense to do so. That’s why these cases take years to play out: the courts are slow, and every appeal and motion just adds time. In the case of David v Goliath trials (where it’s you against a multi-billion dollar company) have lawyers that take advantage of that in the hopes of getting you to give up…
There is likely very few people, short of the names on the federalists list, that the Republican party, and McConnell would willingly vote for. Compromise in this country is dead, except for the raising the debt ceiling and increased military spending.
Honestly, the whole Bluetooth pairing process is an industry-wide failure. I'd throw out all the pairing logic industry-wide and say "Connecting to Bluetooth peripherals requires NFC. NFC-tap a Bluetooth device to its host to connect".
There are a lot of fancier note taking tools but I keep going back to Zim. Been using it for years for private offline note-taking for work. I use quick notes and journal shortcuts many times a day to quickly jot down a followup note/idea/question in meetings. It's also my GTD system with tasks plugin. Love that it's just text files so I can manually edit them, version control, sync in private cloud service, etc. Never worry about losing my data.

There are a few quirks I've gotten used to over the years though:

- Pasting code will be garbled or auto-create tags unless you use the source view plugin or paste verbatim.

- Takes a little configuration out of the box to get just right, system dependencies, links opening in right browser, plugins, shortcuts, fonts. But once you get streamlined it just works.

- The syntax feels a little strange to me but I rarely need to edit raw files. I could also export to Markdown if I ever wanted to migrate.

My last tip, templates are awesome. I have ones for all kinds of things, like interviewing, 1-1s, and architecture design outline.
Having a federal ID might make sense if you're voting in federal elections, but there are no direct federal elections in the US. People in the US vote in state elections, and the states then vote in the electoral college.
That's their annual tech spend. Most of that goes to keeping the lights on. Not a lot of innovation.
poof! you're a zim.
> Obama is already 60. They will probably go for someone younger.

100%. Ever since O'Connor they've been leaning heavily toward younger nominees.
Not really. Various groups may disproportionately take up health resources, but the risk we're talking about is acutely overwhelming health systems.
this isn't uncommon outside of scihub/libgen as well. I use Google Scholar to search for citations of scientific articles and they'll often have links to pdf hard-copies hosted by university servers. I see Penn State University a lot. Polish universities too, but I'm blocked from access as I dont' have a polish IP
It is a fashion and convenience tool. Poor sound quality. Comes with the general Bluetooth problems.

The funniest problem I had was on the subway and some bored kid next to me opened and closed the lid back and forth. For some reason this spammed my phone with connectivity messages to the point that I could not use my phone.
I'm also super curious by what you mean by unproductive. My answer will depend on our definition of it.
I don't get it, is this just some sort of experiment for messing with forums or is there an actual product here?

I can't even buy a keyboard for $15 anymore since inflation took off.

So yeah if in fact this is a real product I'll throw a few bucks at it to help make it happen.