skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Google G1 has been my best experience with a phone to date. I loved that keyboard and have been searching for a phone to scratch that itch ever since.

There are a few devices that are in the physical button niche still, but from smaller companies and on crowd funding platforms. Their specs leave a lot of room for improvement as well and there is there is risk the device is never produced unfortunately. The two that have the most traction right now are the Pro 1X and the Astro Slide 5G.

The Pro 1X is a second generation device that has a bad history with order completion. There are customers who ordered the first generation years ago who never received a phone. They bumped their order to the Pro 1X and are still waiting.

the Astro 5g on the other hand is from Planet Computers. They've successfully produced a couple devices such as the Cosmo Communicator.

I'll hopefully be getting my Astro this month after backing the project since November bof last year.
More like one in 50-100 million brilliance, and such people do exist. It's a statistical certainty they exist. Terrance Tao for example.
The Impossible Task of Repossessing 236 Planes
I think you missed the entire premise of Litebulb — they are avoiding Leetcode-style testing in favor of development tasks on the real business codebase, and quickly ramping up environments that are based on your business' proprietary dev stack.

Many software companies opt to avoid leetcode-like interviewing entirely. If leetcode and prepackaged, recycled, self-contained code tests are your workplace's primary process for hiring, then I don't think this service is for you at all.
Britain has around 1.4GW of battery storage installed and around 20GW in planning. They are easy to install and mass producible.
I have a philosophical issue with the embodied energy critiques. Primarily, it is that individuals who are trying to push the world in a carbon free direction would also likely prefer that the goods that they consume also be manufactured using carbon free energy. In essence it feels like they are taking the blame for decisions made by our predecessors when they are the ones trying to fix those bad decisions. In a sense, the blame for the embodied energy belongs to the previous generation that chose to use carbon based energy, with the exception for individuals who are advocating for the status quo. In that case, they should be accountable for it (not that they would care anyways).

Additionally, these analyses rarely take into account positive second order effects. For example if someone puts solar panels on a northern facing roof in Canada, they are unlikely to ever realize a breakeven point, and the project might not offset the embodied energy of the system (and associated emissions). But that purchase means more revenues and jobs for the solar industry. And in turn that means more investment and more economies of scale.

Basically, if we want to transition to a carbon neutral world, it is going to require a lot of people investing/purchasing projects/goods that do not make sense economically and might not initially be carbon neutral after accounting for embodied energy. Without early supporters we can only rely on government subsidies (which we already do, but obviously not enough). I personally don't think the free market can solve climate change, but if it is going to have a chance, we are going to need a lot of people to make these types of purchases/investments.

Also, another thing to consider is that the inverters lifetime is going to be directly correlated to the operating hours. So if the OP wants to hook up his exercise bike to the grid (assuming it is legal in their area), and then down the road decides to get some solar panels, that inverter will work perfectly fine for that purpose and have minimal degradation.
Could you be thinking of Kevin and Kell (https://www.kevinandkell.com/)? The species don't quite match up, but the general description and the time period do. (And it's still running daily strips, making it the longest-running web comic!)
Looks fun! I have played this with friends when we gathered together, but a web app is a good shout when you cant meet together!

Some feature requests:

- Random games so people can play together with random people

- Timer feature to limit the thinking time
women had an advantage over men in regard to memorization. this helps greatly at learning.
I do not care if my arbitrary diet happens to exclude some perfectly safe and fine ingredients. I literally could not care less about that; I am limiting myself to some relatively known subset of foods. Xantham gum has not been used for any long length of time. If someone would like to replace it with a traditional fruit skin gum or whatever, then I would eat it.

You seem to think that I'm arguing that I have the optimal diet, or that if you can prove something I don't eat is safe, then I'm wrong. Obviously, trivially, there is something invented in the past 2000 years that is safe and fine to eat. I just choose not to eat that. I have literally not made an arguable claim in this thread other than stating what my diet is. When you call my diet irrational or unscientific, you fail to understand that I explicitly distrust and ignore nutrition science. Yes, it's naturalistic and unscientific; that is intentional.
> I think many people eating up the media right now think resistance is great but they mostly think that because they’re thousands of miles away in their cozy condos ordering uber eats.

In the end, it doesn't really matter what we think. If you think resistance isn't worth it, it's your fellow countrymen you need to convince—not us. If Ukrainian resistance dries up, then foreign support for that resistance will dry up as well.
Original Sim City had the same issue?
Highway of Death
Only speaking for myself here, but I thought 2021 was much better than 2020. With that said, it is better in the sense of "This shit sandwich tasted a little better than this shit sandwich".
As a matter of fact I have those exact features planned! Thanks for the feedback!
I'm also using Qalculate! and never had an issue with it. Maybe I don't require complex enough calculations but whenever I want some quick basic math, it's a quick keybinding away and there's a history screen below the input screen so sometimes I don't even have to type anything to see the answer.
Callsign Gorgon 11 and 12.

Gorgon: "[T]hree sisters who are described as having hair made of living, venomous snakes and horrifying visages that turned those who beheld them to stone."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon
Why not all of the above?

Our process involves:

1. Create work branch off master
2. Just prior to PR creation, rebase against master (check build requires this)
3. Automatic check build passes
4. Human code review passes
5. Squash all work branch commits & merge to master

Our policy is that we don't give a single shit about intermediate commits that occurred from the perspective of reviewing master commits. This would be a ton of noise because every developer works at a different pace. The work branch commits are sometimes useful lenses at code review time (depending on who's work it is), but never really beyond that point.
going to utah for pycon. this got me stoked up on it
You don’t need proofs, but you still need an intuition for why things work the way they do.

Otherwise you will be lost as soon as you leave the textbook territory.

Proofs are just one way to build intuition.

The best way to learn applied maths and get intuition is an “Introduction to Maths for Physicists” 101 course.
The Wayback Machine has got your back: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225092808/http://www.userfr...
Some people are indeed really hard at work at creating a false equivalency or apathy. But it is to be expected on a public forum now. The kremlin is going to use western's freedoms against us, while granting their own citizens none.
I've had issues with reflog that were not easily solved in the past, and wasn't clear what the fix was.

Also tagging is better than writing it down. Like initials+date.
I feel I should point out a bit of pervasive misinformation.

The clickwheel is entirely based on tech from Creative. Apple paid them royalties for their patents. Creative used parts of their touch technology (albeit in a vertical configuration) on several of their own music players. I'd also note that sound quality on Creative devices was much better than the ipod.
I don’t think cheating prevention is in scope for a tool like this and neither should be.

Any decent employer puts the new hire on a trial period first. During the trial period, the employer should task them with real work. When the candidate doesn’t deliver, the employer can let them go. When they do deliver, the employer can keep them.

In both cases, does it really matter if they cheated their way in or not? No. Preventing cheating is the wrong place to optimize.

While we’re here, dumb memorization of LeetCode style Q&As instead of deep understanding of underlying principles can be seen as cheating just as well. Doing actual work is better in every way.

And many employers already do exactly this coding work already, just manually. They make up a problem themselves, and give you a time limit to commit a solution without checking if you’re cheating or not.

Litebulb just automates this, by taking over the creation of the problem and the analysis of the solution. There’s lots of advantages of the centralization of this, like creating more problems, fixing and updating existing ones, etc.

Provided the problems and the analysis are as good as advertised, I think Litebulb has a great value proposition. I wish them success and hope they can have a lasting impact on the hiring process for software developers.
Oh! During the .com wave they were part of my daily news round before getting into the office.
> You don't need to censor the nutbars, and it is ok to call them that.

I fully agree. Both sides can call each other nutbars and both sides should not be censored. One person’s nutbar is another person’s geniusbar.

Profit motives and understanding the finances of the media platforms is useful, but it does not address the search for truth and fact beyond the important detail of monetary motivations of the people behind the opinions. Truth and fact takes hard work. It requires access to all sides of the argument/topic, which censorship denies to people, creating a one-sided view that many times does not represent the most accurate view and in some cases has been manipulated (not always for monetary returns) by the dominant forces interested in the matter.
Control + double F works with few of these modern forum softwares that override it.
I posted a link to there just four months ago¹: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226164056/http://ars.userfr...

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29095031
These moves should probably be considered in context of the UK's collapsed/collapsing ability to produce energy [0]. These stats are a bit laggy, but it looks like they're being choked out of any sort of industrial relevance to anything.

It is hard for me to imagine how that doesn't translate into a crisis of living standards. Either they're directly losing the ability to secure people comfortable lives, or they are losing the ability to export valuable products and becoming more vulnerable to foreign pressure. They literally can't have goods and services without energy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom#O... - the table here is a jaw dropper, looks like they are deindustrialising.
> MacOS is really bad abut this sort of thing. It fails on discoverability.

It's not just Macs. Just about everything in "modern" UIs fail discoverability.
Bitrot is a thing, getting random bit flips/etc past all the ECC and data integrity checks in the storage path is much harder.

Having filesystem level protection is good, but it its like going from 80% to 85% protected. That is because the most critical part remaining unprotected in a traditional RAID/etc system is actually the application to filesystem interface. Posix and linux are largly to blame here because the default IO model should be async interface where the completion only fires when the data is persisted and things like read()/write()/close() should be fully serialized with the persistence layer. Otherwise, even with btrfs the easiest way to lose data is simply write it to disk, close the file, and pull the power plug.
The sort of bug that could have been caught by unit tests I suppose.
Sad. Made me think of other sites I'd visit for similar content.

The Bastard Operator from Hell (BOFH) is actually still around and new content being written.

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
This article (linked) is a fun thought exploration of alien psychology/motivations as understood by us humans, given the history of our interactions ("known interactions" so to speak) with the aliens:
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/03/social-ufo-stylized-f...
> They could be, with RF and laser equipment running reasonably-advanced software to spoof such sensors.

How would such RF and laser equipment spoof sensors that are thousands of feet in the air and moving at hundreds of miles per hour and moving in unpredictable ways? Radar is off the table--that would presumably have been detected, right? How would our spoofer spoof multiple sensors, separated by significant distance? Remember that some of these events involved multiple aircraft and ships, all of which saw the same data on their sensors. How could the spoofer engage all of these targets without its physical presence being detected by the various players, with all their various systems constantly searching?

Spoofing seems possible, but it seems like some kind of pre-planned hack would be the least offensive flavor of that particular theory. But even then, some of the pilots swear they saw these things with their own eyes (sometimes multiple people in a single aircraft, sometimes multiple people in different aircraft), which casts doubt on the whole 'spoofing' idea.

Of course, the most likely answer is that these reports are some simply untrue. If someone has an impossible story that you can't independently verify, there's no good reason to believe them.
It's published in a journal that PubMed[1] indexes. The journal itself is about "research on all aspects of entropy and information theory" [2] which is why the paper is about estimation.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(journal)
Think of all the CO2 you'll be exhaling from your exercise.
the former can take any number of forms, the latter is a very specific set of political arrangements that leverage the former, but aren't bound by it either (hence why so many Russian oligarchs were putting their money in various other jurisdictions, in any number of legal, if altogether off-putting ways...like buying UK football teams, swathes of residential and commercial properties, etc.
It makes some sense. The electric grid will not be able to support everyone going electric for many decades until the wires are upgraded, so there will need to be a good stopgap so the state can reach its emission goals. Hydrogen is one of those stopgaps.

My friend just bought a fuel cell car. Between the tax incentives, tax rebates, dealer incentives, and $15,000 fuel card, the car is almost free.
There's been a lot of suggestions for alternative desktop calculator programs that try to remedy some of the issues outlined. I've had similar experiences/annoyances with calculator apps, most of which to copy handheld calculators but without the satisfaction of buttons yet the power of a programming repl/solver.

I've currently settled on MathLab's Graphing Calculator[0] which has very similar design elements for any larger scale calculations. My second choice if the calculation requires estimates or units is obviously Wolfram Alpha, but the need for connectivity, lack of calculation history and speed leaves it lacking as a quick calculation tool.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.mathlab.and...
I was typing fast :)

And yeah, it looks like someone else wants to remove the "theory" part too :)
> I keep raising the $50 thinking the new price is crazy, and then people continue buying anyway.

Yes! It is your business, and you know best, but this sounds promising to me and reminds me of my situation. That is why I recommend that book. It argues compellingly that you want to sell less at higher margins, all things being equal. That gave me the courage to raise prices, and I ended up selling just the same/more at higher margins. Raising prices takes courage, and clearly there is some point where you go too far, but it's worth really pushing yourself emotionally to consider it early in the business. If I had not radically altered my pricing 15 years ago (15 years of massively higher income potential and counting! crazy) my life would be so different than it is now.

Rather than thinking of A/B testing, I would try to think of how much value your product adds for your customers, and then capture some reasonable percentage of that. Think of it very broadly (again, see the book). There is more value here than just the hardware/software. Your customers may value dealing with you instead of dell, etc. Try talking to some good customers about how much they would really pay. Some won't feel comfortable, but others may blurt out "we spent $3k on your hardware last year, and the truth is it's a rounding error for us. We just want someone who delivers a solution and answers the phone in person (or whatever)"

Anyway, I wish you the best of luck. After writing my original comment, I realized you had only been operating for 18 months. That, combined with your inventory assessment (I am in software, and have no inventory, so I didn't think of it), seems very promising!
10 years ago I found even more outrageous bug in Windows 8.

I was working in MSFT back than and I was writing a tool that produced 10 GB of data in TSV format , that I wanted to stream into gzip so that later this file would be sent over the network. When the other side received the file they would gunzip it successfully, but inside there would be mostly correct TSV data with some chunks of random binary garbage. Turned out that pipe operator was somehow causing this.

As a responsible citizen I tried to report it to the right team and there I ran into problems. Apparently no one in Windows wants to deal with bugs. IIt was ridiculously hard to report this while being an employee, I can't imagine anyone being able to report similar bugs from outside. And even though I reported that bug I saw no activity in it when I was leaving the company.

However I just tried to quickly reproduce it on Windows 10 and it wouldn't reproduce. Maybe I forgot some details of that bug or maybe indeed they fixed this by now.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like Putin, his botox face definitely tries to hide any wanted emotional expressions, maybe it's a KGB thing, I don't know. Putin has been a bit too aggressive in his facial expressions after this "special operation" in Ukraine, but that's all expected; on some of the videos of Zelensky, he does not act adequately. And given he's an actor, i.e. has more control over these things than others, it really brings a lot of questions!
Haven't seen it in years, but I still remember naming the cat: "Script or Five? Which hurts less?"
I agree. If anyone wants to study "math in practice," they should pick a science or engineering track they like. Math will be included.
You don't need so many books. many of the old texts will cover many important college-level concepts in a single source.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/1957-feller-anintroduc...

this is linear algebra + combinatorics + probability + stats

If you understand the material in this one book it's reasonable to say that you are pretty good at math
To me the problem isn’t learning it, it’s retaining it.

I learned all kinds of quantitative analysis and statistics in the CFA program ten+ years ago.

I had daily sheets that I would solve equations and answer all kinds of questions. I knew them forwards and backwards. I just looked at one now on fixed income - not sure if could answer any of the questions today to save my life.

And I work in finance daily!!
I could've written every word of this. That launched a pretty fun career for me.
The wonderful world of tools made by small teams, solo-devs and shareware (2020)
Ask HN: How granular are your personal logs/activity reports?
For context I've been a coder for ~20 years.

In retrospect the first few years of my career were the cowboy coding era. We came to work, worked on tasks that we knew supported major issues or deadlines and got shit done.

Then agile ate the world and we had to create a report that showed everything the team did every 2 weeks. Shortly thereafter management decided they should get an email with a weekly activity report (WAR) Word document from each individual, detailing personal accomplishments every week.

More recently, coinciding with my employer's move to remote work, it became a daily activity report in a Confluence page. And just now, the daily activity report requirement has become even more granular, not just listing tasks worked or meeting attended, but assigning hours to each.

I'm not sure why this bothers me - I'm being paid and expected to produce work, but it also feels more and more like someone is trying to catch us out.

I'm reminded of a time when I booked a mobile mechanic to fix a couple of issues on my car. The bill ended up having 3 hours of labor, although I know the mechanic was here for 2 hours (I didn't push back because I assume 1.5 hours was standard for each task and I was fine with the overall price). Now I'm not going to do my personal timekeeping like that, but I can't help but think if I continually have to make several activity entries per day, I'm going to make some honest mistakes where I forget about task X or poorly guess how long phone call Y was.

Is this standard these days - are other employers asking for activity logs that are this granular?
Call it what you want, but what can the US/NATO do to stop civilians leaving?

Perhaps I misread your posts, but it seemed that you feel something should be done to stop them.
Every (keyed) lock is easily picked with enough time and the right tools.

Being able to carry it home, will give you our your conspirators more than enough time.
> "Cyberattack on satellite network" sounds so serious

yes agree -- third hand witness to actual ground station management of Small SATs here.. even internal engineers are locked out; multiple keys required to perform actions; closely monitored change-of-behavior networks, etc etc

beware of REALLY LARGE CLAIMS at this time -- peace out
In many scenarios, an issue that had already been abandoned / denied by technical support is suddenly picked up and fixed when I raise a stink on Twitter. For that reason I appreciate its existence
I loved that webcomic back then, also have one of his books. Sad to see it go away, although there have been no new submission for some time.
Some cartoons were quite hilarious; I had this one on the wall above my desk.
https://teddit.net/pics/w:720_5tenj3387my51.png
I was one of those HS kids!
https://archive.ph/O5EFA
Why not just save those words, and other commonly used words to a startup file? Then, you can just do

export PYTHONSTARTUP=/home/savant_penguin/.python/startup.py

and those things will be automatically loaded for you. (Edit: add that line to your .bashrc if you want to use it all or most of the time!)

If you don't want them always loaded, but rather just for a "calculator mode," you can do something like

alias pycalc='PYTHONSTARTUP=/home/savant_penguin/.python/ipython startup_calc_mode.py'

If you use ipython, then you can take advantage of autocomplete and not have to type as much, too.