skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My situation is, likely, a bit different. On the familial side I required it to participate in sharing of data. Those who didn't want to use it (none) couldn't participate. Nobody really minded and when I explained why - everyone thought it made sense. I also happen to be surrounded by family who trusts each other in their respective fields and I happen to be the only one in a technical position. So, by default, my opinion has weight (good, bad or otherwise). Easy sell there and it costs all participants $0. There's about a dozen users in this group that are active.

Friends and colleagues are a different tact. I work in a space where Signal makes sense for what I do, people already get it. There are people I work with that I've incented to start using it based on Signal groups they couldn't participate in otherwise. That worked well, but bootstrapping that is the hurdle. Some didn't know what Signal was and didn't question it at all when I suggested it (probably not the best approach). Looking at my Signal "Insights" for the week and I'm at 97% encrypted messaging. The 3% is service messages being delivered via SMS and one person I've texted that I've only recently started interacting with. I've used the "I need to send you this securely" a few times, which has also worked well. In those cases, since the barrier to entry is just installing, it's rarely been met with resistance.

I'm not sure these help. I'd like to think I've trickled Signal out to hundreds of people over the years. Keep in mind when I started with this it was RedPhone/TextSecure, so it's been years. Consistency is a helpful driver.
A blunt front isn't that bad for aerodynamics as long as it's rounded enough for the air stream not to separate. A lot more can be gained at the back of a truck. Like this: http://learntoflyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/4-5.png
Wait until this person realizes that money is a lie anyway, too!
How to Prevent Depression (Transcript)
For time management, the rough approach is to allocate a fixed % of the remaining time and increase or reduce it, mostly depending on the stability of the evaluation with increasing search depth.

Games are played on the same computer, with only one engine analyzing at a time.

The graph shows each engine's evaluation of the position for each move in the game. The red line is from a 3rd engine "observing" the game.
Leaving out the actual financial information makes this post a little useless. Before I can imagine it, I want to know if I can do this or if I need to be a trust fund baby.
That would cause the whole thing to wear out in no time. I don't think any contact scheme would work for this kind of application you'd get all of the headaches of motors with brushes but on a tiny scale. Spark erosion would destroy the traces. Part of the elegance of this design is that it is non-contact.
> It's because difficult problems are hard to solve.

Most software development does not involve difficult problems however - other than how to comprehend the stitching together or "complected-libraries-du-jour" via maximal indirection.
There can be value in simplicity - fewer things to break and easier to repair.
Seems like a dumb question, but I find that even BLATANTLY_OBVIOUS_WARNINGS are so much more effective if there is a 'why' that explains the danger.
All other bluetooth headphones and soundboxes I've ever tried were in fact much worse than Bose. Some of them I didn't even manage to connect to in like a 20 minutes attempt at parties before just giving up and finding a cable or just using the laptop's soundboxes.
I have heard of it but haven't really looked into it.

There's something appealing in the physical labour of feeling and manipulating the clutch and gearbox, that a simulator might not capture, but I will it check it out.
The little risk you take by getting the vaccine is more than offset by the far lower risk of getting the disease, which has all kinds of implications.

Since it was approved for children by the FDA I assume they did rigourous testing
The video for module 2 seems to be missing. Here is a similar talk that is about the same length on the exact same topic (survey/overview of of HDC/VSA) by the same person (Denis Kleyko): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EOJrDD1bMs
This is the reason I backed the Lynx R1[0] headset instead of buying an Oculus - no way in hell I'm going to sign in to a Facebook account on a device with bazillion cameras for inside out tracking!

I'm sure many of the supporters of other independent VR hardware project (such as Simula VR[1]) are of the same opinion.

[0] https://www.lynx-r.com/

[1] https://simulavr.com/
But over long enough time it _must_ be somewhere where somebody can provide Computational power and
evergrowing storage capacity, right?

So.. not anywhere.

Or can the data be available in a highly fragmented fashion _and_ still be useful? I just can't imagine any content system that does not end up being centralized or highly inconvenient.
> It could be because they want to try your app. It implies nothing about long-term goals.

How does "use" imply long term? Is trying an app not at attempt to make use of it?

> It's forcing a user who only wants to try the app to lie

I didn't even notice that as I wrote it, but you're absolutely right. "skip", "continue", or even "not now" would be more neutral. This stuff really gets in your head without you realizing it when its so pervasive.
It is incredible amount of time you invest in development... However, as father of tree, I'm not into apps and generally I would never ever look for "life hacks" online. Maybe I'm too old, but I prefer personal sharing with other families or even talk about fatherhood with other friends in pub. It is actually very stress revealing to socialize IRL. More screen time makes me more anxious. Sorry about that, just my personal opinion.

Btw, fatherhood has so many attributes. But definitely not "lonely".
> I've always had this pointless desire to get a non-synchronous transmission truck driver's licence. I just think it'd be fun learning to drive an 18 speed crash box with double clutching and clutch brakes. However, there's absolutely no reason for me to get it.

> For now, the rational part of my brain is keeping this in check.

You're not alone! I have the exact same desire.

I have a lot of friends that are recreationally pilots or boat captains so I don't think it's that strange.
I don't think the general hype was that Starlink would replace existing ISPs everywhere. It was always understood that this product was for rural/remote areas that don't have direct lines for internet connection.
Reading between the lines here too, but worth emphasizing "anything which particularly piques my interest" & "would also be spending some of my time making sure I had a full pipeline of gigs lined up."

Correct me if I'm wrong Colin, but I'm assuming some of the discount between max_rate and your rate is the value you see in not having to spend time on boring projects and hustling a constant stream of gigs. Aka discount for quality of life and work.
Author here. Thanks for the feedback!

Agreed that net metering was deliberately designed as a subsidy, and that there was nothing hidden or underhanded about this, it was (and remains) all quite overt.

And yet. The inspiration for this post was a discussion on my town's email list, where a lot of people were talking about net metering as if it were the natural and obvious way of doing things (and thus were very upset at the proposal to weaken it). They either never heard that it was designed as a subsidy, or have forgotten (whether through motivated reasoning or the simple passage of time).

I think this is a form of tech debt. You have an algorithm that's not adapting to new circumstances, the clean solution is too difficult / expensive, so you just hack some of the parameters of the existing algorithm to give good-enough answers in the current circumstances. Eventually everyone forgets the history and assumes those are the "correct" parameters, and resists changing them even if the system has moved out of the circumstance under which the parameters gave an OK result.

> the author is complaining that the retail price of electricity doesn't reflect the variable costs

I think you mean "doesn't reflect the fixed costs"? And yes, it might have been better if I'd taken the time to introduce the terms "fixed cost" and "variable cost".
> Instead you have hyperdeflation. Wonderful.

How and where? At worst, it's gradual and predictable. Where is the central planning of the bitcoin supply? Hyperinflation on the other hand is as a direct result of the control of a few in the matters of an economy. Not the same.

> Let's be honest: you don't have access or any control over the underlying crypto asset either. 0.00002% is really 0%.

I don't know how to response to this 0.00002% != 0% just like $20k != $0. There is nothing wrong with saving. Whether it's speculating or not is a completely different matter. Let's not pretend no other assets are speculated on especially given the degree of novelty.

You are ranting about derivatives being bad, which I agree with. I'm giving you an option that decreases the effect and increases the options for opting out of derivatives. One of the reason derivates and bubbles are so strong is precisely because of inflation and central planned economy. Meme stocks sparked primarily as a result of short time preference and centrally planned economy.

> Again, wrong. Banks are required to hold a portion of their assets and loans in hard currency. This is the fractional reserve system.

Here's your "fractional reserve system":

> As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions. [0]

> backed by [insert government here].
> custodian that is overseen by the government.

I'm sure the banks and governments are very friendly and wouldn't ever have incentives that are to the detriment of others.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm....
He was originally regular banned at some point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787916
Just like many product reviews on Amazon get 1 star or 5 stars depending on how fast the delivery time was...
Although lately the phenomena has decreased, at least it's the feeling that I have when I periodically lose some of the time of my life to smile while reading "funny" products reviews on Amazon.
And the people at that company who enjoy developing attacks more than they enjoy defending against attacks would just leave and form a new company, that would then sell its attacks to the highest bidder.
> Do chess engines strategically use up their time depending on the complexity or the criticality of the position?

Yes, this has been something engines have started to optimize. Some engines that don't do this well can be beaten by "flagging" (i.e. making pointless moves rapidly) once they run low on time.

> Do both chess engines have equal machine power, cores, IOPS, CPU model, RAM, etc?

Last I remember, the goal was to give engines roughly equal computational capacity. But it would be tailored to the engine, e.g. AlphaZero getting something with more GPU(s) and StockFish getting (at the time) more CPU(s) - at least for the final matches.

> They're showing a game with an eval bar

For me, it shows the current evaluation of both engines (numerically), as well as a graph with up to four engine evaluations (the two contestants + up to two "commentators").
Ok, here's what I think this is.

There are tons of fields that have high demand for 3d simulation environments. To date, they have either had to build one from the ground up, or leverage (and pay for) a game engine. Game engines have some inherent problems in these domains because they do not solve for the same kinds of problems-- they solve for game physics and pretty environments. They also can make it really to translate what I'll call 'CAD' models to a 3d space while maintaining strict dimensional accuracy. I have no idea if Omniverse actually solves for this kind of application, but it looks like it might attempt to create a 3d environment much more fine grained control over physics and representational accuracy.
Cal Newport's "Digital Minimalism" addresses this common use-case scenario.

1) Remove the apps from your phone and log out on mobile browser, making each future login a concentrated intentional effort. (You can leave Messenger if that might be used for emergency contacts).

2) Use www version only.

3) Choose a time when you're going to sit by your home computer, and use social media for some pre-determined time slot, let's say 30 minutes.

The social networks are very good at serving this use case - showing most important content first, and relegating the junky stuff further down the feed. This way you won't miss any baby photos or wedding announcements, but will be spared from your uncle getting into a heated political discussion.
My thoughts exactly. This process seems difficult to understand without understanding the costs involved.

Many, many people dream of living in the woods. The costs are usually unknown or prohibitive!
> In the EU there are maximum driving hours for truckers which means they often need to take rests and the infrastructure needs to support that.

The same is true in the USA.
We're talking about a typical 1 Gbps (non-PoE) LAN port on the router, so you could plug in another computer hardwired (or a switch).

The jack is pennies, and the rest of the chips to support the extra Ethernet interface are still readily available. Version 1 of the router had a LAN port (labeled AUX).
Early adopters have early adopter problems. Are you genuinely surprised Starlink doesn't support something they didn't claim to support and that most users don't even need? Complaining about "beta" labels, which everyone knows are meaningless?

FYI: I unsubscribed because of this video (previous to it showing up on HN). It's obviously disingenuous clickbait. Look at the title alone. And it even goes into a pointless discussion about Elon Musk that has nothing to do with Starlink itself. Lots of good technical YouTubers avoid this crap. I was surprised you felt the need to engage in it. I'm not mad, just disappointed :-)
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I'm not so sure about that. At 200 Km altitude that the footprint of the satellite wouldn't be all that large depending on the phase array arrangement. It might not be able to swing that far sideways and still get enough signal strength. These antennas don't move physically, the use phase based signal steering (black magic to me).
I don't have any particular love for Facebook, but it remains the best way to share my underwater photography with friends. That's a positive reason. I appreciate how they give me a convenient distribution platform and it's all free.
I personally don't think so.
I owned Apple Magic Touchpads and Keyboards Gen 1 and now the new ones and I have them plugged in.
You still get that 1-5 seconds delay in connection.
In UX even a delay of few milliseconds can degrade the experience.
Ok wow, that last point really fascinated me:

> most cars are more aerodynamic in reverse than they are going forwards

I tried to find more about it, but I could only find two sources. The first was a Mythbusters episode about a particular Porsche, and the second was a Top Gear episode about a different car. Can you point me to an article that substantiates this?
It seems like neither, his account was publicly and explicitly banned "for using HN primarily for political/ideological battle".

I'm guessing people vouched for his post here, despite the fact that it's really continuing to do the same...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787916
I'm guessing because they give you protection without actually catching the potentially harmful virus in the first place?
It only figures. They do pretty good coverage on it at all at forbiddenstories.org
“That is also why Australian highways feature well-known road trains – extremely long distances and straight roads allow semi-trucks to pull up to four trailers.”

Driving around double-trailers in Indiana always made me anxious, so I had to see this unnerving statement in its reality, and I found this article [0] that talks about Australian road trains. Evidently they are used on single lane roads in the Outback, which makes sense. But, I am still wondering, as there must be some warehouse to transition to single-trailer loads or else they wouldn’t be able to safely do last-mile delivery?

[0]: https://www.smart-trucking.com/australian-road-trains/
> So, should managers code, design, and in other ways contribute in some way to production code or design? Sure, I don't see any reason they can't. Just understand the boundaries and stay out of other people's way.

Has this person been a manager? The amount of time is takes to keep up to date enough to make a net positive contribution is non-trivial. Doing this on top of management responsibilities? Good luck.

The communication between a development team and the rest of the company is complicated. Navigating this requires both a skillset completely orthogonal to writing software and a lot of time.
I feel like an outlier in that I find bookmarks extremely useful. When I start a new project, I create a bookmark folder related to that project. I bookmark any web references I looked at during the course of that project. Then later I can remember "Oh yeah I did something like this in X project." and go peruse those bookmarks. I actually find it pretty fun to go back to old project folders and checkout what kind of stuff I bookmarked in the past.
> the idea that the now unfalsifiable Milgram experiment is still taught in every university psychology dept should be outrageous

I agree with this point in general, but the Milgram studies have been replicated many, many times so potentially not the best example.

The Stanford Prison Study, on the other hand...
Well, if my net usage from the grid were to drop to zero, without solar (say because I used a gas generator or whatnot), I’d basically be paying the utility zero too (modulo some small connection fees). The utility still wouldn’t save on any of its fixed costs though. What net metering with solar does is simply make this option much more practical.

The straightforward solution would be to fund major infrastructure costs using something other than volumetric pricing. But it’s easier to just impose fees on solar.
Next time you should check the conversion rate your bank applies versus the one Google shows you and you will see that while your bank seems to be charging pennies only it probably charges 2-3% of the full transaction sum on top of that via the conversion rate.
Is this supposed to be an approximation of a foreign accent or something?
I mentioned it in the previous review (just linked from the article). If only it were that easy :(
> No, it's because programming requires a mental model of the software and most managers don't have that. Add in constant interruptions and the inability to focus and you have a recipe for disaster.

This is so strikingly true. I try to explain to people who want me to pause a job and do something else that in my head I have this large, abstract structure of what I am trying to build, that is in an abstraction that itself is ephemeral -- it doesn't map nicely onto black boxes or pipes or anything. It is whatever works at that moment, and it requires me to tour it in my head all the time for it to exist at all.

But to me it isn't a question of focus, strictly speaking, because focus doesn't explain my interaction with that model. It's more a question of relaxed, constant presence; it's about having blur over other stuff. If I can inhabit that model in my brain without having to worry too much, it starts to work itself through while I am doing menial tasks like washing up or laundry or cleaning.

As soon as the business side of my freelance life takes over as it sometimes must, I am suddenly on the outside of that abstraction looking in. And no amount of detailed notes or documentation or diagramming will help me back in quickly.
The same could be said of critical reviews of HughesNet. Its value is usually in being the least bad of a limited, very bad options. That doesn't make the critisism any less valuable.

Say I'm considering moving to a rural location. One of my barriers to moving is the quality of my internet access. Along comes this fancy new Starlink service and I might be tempted to think "problem solved". But reviews like this allow me to anticipate problems with the service and reconsider moving altogether.

If Starlink is the least bad of your bad options, then this review probably just isn't for you.
Covid vaccines have less side effects than the virus so are still superior option, hence the praise.
Speaking of CAISO they have a cool website with electric prices for much of the western US http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/prices.aspx
Author here. I agree with your caveat wholeheartedly. You've expressed it better than my "don't get in the way" comment. Don't take on critical path work is key. By all means fix things on the edges that are not time-critical or would not cause conflict during review.
It's even possible that one of the companies was spying on the other one.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Google's Smart Reply, along with most (I think all?) of Google autocomplete features, uses a neural network:

https://research.google/pubs/pub45189/

Are you saying that in general statistical modeling is not the same thing as truly "understanding" a concept? Your original comment seemed to suggest that there wasn't utility in this kind of model--which I disagree with--but if you are more generally saying that this is not the same as human intelligence, I think that authors would probably agree with you.
Say anything about "extreme and swift gentrification", but that's a side-effect of success. At least Texas does not have the restrictive zoning and NIMBY politics that make gentrification so much more of an issue in Blue states.
>In Europe Semi-trucks are limited to 90 km/h

Wow! That's slower than almost every freeway speed limit in the United States, barring some urban spots.
It never was though? Not the site. Some subs might've been, but the site overall never was. Most I've seen is having to leave some subs I used to frequent because the mods became crazy, and their madness definitely didn't lean right. Most I've seen of odious subs like that is people complaining of their existence, but they didn't contaminate the rest of reddit.

The place used to be far more liberal both in the sense of openmindedness and in the sense of people having the ability to tolerate people they didn't actively like. That atmosphere is mostly gone.
Another source on the "Jake brake" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...
Perhaps. But perhaps news outlets are singling out Israel for whatever reason. So i feel quite uncertain.
You realize store evaluation is just a PR and is mainly used as a control tool.

I mean, how could something like this happen if there was any real security?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost