skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not specifically about my father's proficiency/expertise. (There's a quirky brilliance to the way he builds this stuff, but it's unconventional. He's an electronics engineer, not a computer scientist; he taught himself assembly language when the 6800 micros came out in the 70s, and has never felt the need to learn newer techniques).

So yeah, it's more about the newer platforms having more hardware and software abstraction layers, so more things that can break and they have much higher power consumption.

In our applications, the weakest links are always the more "modern" communications modules, of which we've used Bluetooth and Cellular/IoT. In both cases, they are high-level SoC devices, with all kinds of capabilities and the ability to run BASIC or Python scripts on them. But they turn out to be much less reliable than our assembly code on the basic micros we use, and are the source of almost all device faults.

To illustrate the real-world advantage of the way we do it: our biggest competitor (a significant player that has shipped thousands of devices globally), uses a more modern/high-level platform (I don't know what exactly - it may be Arduino). One of our customers was given one to try out. Like most of our customers, they wanted data uploaded to the web app every 60 or even 30 minutes in order to have precise visibility of their soil moisture throughout the day. Ours can do that, running on just two 3.7V Li-ion cells that last for 1-2 years per charge. For the competitor product, to upload more than twice a day, it needs a solar panel, which needs to be mounted high up on a post above the crop. But that's a deal-breaker for this grower and many others, due to the use of pivot sprinklers and machinery.
What kind of recession? US is always doing good during war time due to weapon industry.
I had invested in liquidity pools (which collect fees for you for facilitating trades between tokens that you contribute), and some such pools had Tether. One downside of such pools is that, if any one of the assets in it goes to zero, all your invested capital goes to zero (though you keep the fees). It was therefore a Tether long.

I had also held a small amount for online purchases.

More generally, the reason to hold a stablecoin rather than a "real" dollar is because you need the former in order to interface with smartcontracts on blockchains. Also, to buy from merchants who sell goods for stablecoins because they're in a grey market that banks don't want to touch.

Side note: I don't know why people keep asking that question -- it gets asked and answered each time this topic comes up e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352262
Aha! Happy to provide a TIL :)

That's really the killer feature of the trackpoint - especially for touch typists.
> Other competitors apparently non-existent probably thanks to free market forces

The article goes into the reasons for market consolidation. To summarize: there's a combination of steep regulatory barriers (which inherently favor big, established businesses with large lobbying and compliance budgets), single-supplier state purchase contracts that account for roughly half of all baby formula purchases, and effectively cutting off imports. The market forces are downstream of government action, and the market in question is anything but free.
“The Perfect Diet” Can Increase Lifespan by 13 Years
We've also seen the opposite being true. In Germany, oddly enough. It was called "Praxisgebühr" and it was a 10€ fee that you had to pay once per quarter year (if you went to a doctor in that quarter). Turns out, once people paid the 10€ they got into a all-you-can-eat frenzy and visited more doctors than they normally would have done, because "well, I paid for it, so might as well take advantage of it".
Apparently Mercedes disagrees[0] and will take legal responsibility for self-driving cars.

[0]: https://www.kbb.com/car-news/mercedes-well-be-liable-for-sel...
Berkeley position paper on the future of cloud computing
It’s probably impossible to figure out who the worlds most famous face is but given that constraint we can still do a thought experiment on who we think the worlds most famous face would be. I would pick Jesus but it’s questionable if he was even real and what he looked like if he wa. So going with faces we can be certain of, Einstein seems like a solid pick. Maybe Mona Lisa if the portrait counts.
Is it possible to create a new country?

This question is more telling than the details of how the country is run, with or without blockchain.

Where would this new country exist? If there is no physical place, the "netizens" would still have to abide by the laws of their physical location, including paying taxes. This pretty much means you need land. If you have land, you need to protect it, so now you need a military.
Cool stuff! I've done some work in adjacent areas - there are huge challenges (not only technical) but great to feel you are making an impact.
I don't know about the immediate part. Some works of art I saw didn't trigger anything, until I realized the next day that I kept thinking about them (films or contemporary art usually). It also seems like these specific works tend to have had a more profound effect on me than the immediate ones.

In the end, they maybe triggered some kind of immediate subconscious reaction, but the actual communication was delayed.

Still, I like your definition very much.
I do not watch a film to be blown away by how brilliant another person is, I watch a film to experience a story. If the story is any good, he will not need all these convoluted technicalities. I like other films of his like Insomnia or The Prestige
Roskomsvoboda lawyers succeeded in lifting Tor's website blockade in Russia
> easily measure the actual demand in different regions

A ticket for $0 would have done it.

Still have to book for it, and probably should have rate limits like other pseudo free services (Google don't charge you for search, etc).
A writer’s divisive Doctor Who movie spent 25 years being hated by fans
Related, check out OvenMediaEngine: https://github.com/AirenSoft/OvenMediaEngine
It's such a weird "bet", though. Pay $1, get back $1 if you win, get back $0 if you lose.
The case titles are utterly hilarious, and do such a great job in highlighting the absurdity of this entire process.
That depends on whether the Meta employees were wise to the true nature of their relationship with this woman. Did she tell them what she wanted before she had sex with them? The article doesn't make this clear, but I suspect she didn't.
silly question, being USDT "only" 80B, why does it matter if it collapses? considering cryptos market cap is more than 1T, and 100B's wipeouts routine, sometimes during crypto winters (where we observe -80% across the board) or collapses such as Luna recently (>50B? no idea)

Of course, panic would happen, but still. I think people would move on, forget, and continue believing whatever they want to

just curious to read counterarguments
It’s illegal in most of Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Bangladesh

It isn’t “mainstreamed” (see original comment in this thread) anywhere. Even in countries where it’s technically legal—like Bangladesh, where I’m from—the associated business activity is still illegal, and there are strong social taboos against sex work.
The point is, it's rodonculous.
I'm not a crypto participant, but my understanding is that technically Tether doesn't promise redemption in USD, just backing by USD. That still seems like it could precipitate a crash, but IDK if such a crash would be best described as a run or not.
Maybe it's just me, but I took the original concern to be for people and objects outside the car. It's a bit jarring for your only concern to be the passengers.
> It would be interesting to see a comparison of how often humans crash vs how often Teslas crash while the car is driving "autonomously".

Again, Tesla cars cannot drive autonomously by their own admission (they always require human attention), so this comparison isn't possible.

Even if that weren't the case, there's also the issue that people only enable Autopilot in cherry-picked situations, which don't statistically represent general driving situations.
Quite disappointing to see people behave like this.
If anyone is curious about the controversy, here's the NYTimes piece on Scott Alexander: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod... It's a decent article, and the few attempts at pearl-clutching fall pretty flat.

My only gripe with rationalists is that they suck at running their own conference, CFAR. (:
Huh it feels like that thing only just came out... I had no idea it was already out a full year.

I wonder if it also offers FreeBSD support.. That would be amazing. Though it's probably a long shot especially for the alder lake version.
> Sabatini’s propensity to praise or gravitate toward those in the lab that mirror his desired personality traits, scientific success, or view of 'science above all else'...

It sounds like the way to "succeed" in the lab was by an amalgamation of personality + merit, which sounds pretty reasonable. This is one of the very common modes in which people get ahead.

If you are one of many researchers in the lab, equally capable, but you could gain an edge by flirting, sleeping with the head, etc, it behooves one to gain that advantage. And it can develop into a subtle, but insidious toxicity. It's the elephant in the room that no one points out, but also impossible to ignore, if you're considering how one's social dynamics play into career prospects.

The problem is that many men are incredibly smart and nuanced in being capable of hitting just a bit too low, glancing just a moment too long, stepping just a half-step too close, insinuating with just a teency amount of overstepping boundaries, while maintaining the illusion that everything is above board and with plenty of plausible deniability. And to be subjected to that type of environment, as a woman, is this subtle non-verbal gaslighting that feels impossible to criticize or pinpoint without coming away as being perceived as delusional. However, women all around feel it, but this behavior hasn't necessarily been labeled yet.

Even more challengingly, these slightly lower bids, are a built-in "feature" of human relationships and connection. It's a part of this dance we use to renegotiate relationships. But there's also unspoken and hidden contracts at play, where temporary advances, while not welcome with enthusiastic consent, won't be punished as long as they are temporary and ephemeral.

Sabatini, likely never grossly crossed certain boundaries, but it seems that his behavior, choices and the air of his presence was just underhanded enough with enough women, with enough persistence, that finally multiple women would step forward.

I'm willing to speculate that there was likely an unspoken contract between Sabatini and Knouse, where Knouse may have believed herself to be a much more serious connection to Sabatini, while Sabatini, over time, unveiled a growing disinterest in her. I'm also willing to bet that Sabatini had a seduction playbook of some sort that Knouse likely realized, either on her own, or in concert with other women, and finally retaliated to "protect" other women in the lab.

Confounding this is that it's also very likely, that he had plenty of excellent and non-underhanded relationships with other female researchers who are quoted to vouch for him and his excellence.

With the given story, it's impossible to pronounce judgement that he should have lost his career or that he was assaulting women per se, but when there is a pattern of women #meToo'ing to a person of power, there's a tremendous amount of signal pointing to something more underhanded going on.
is right. Still alive.
There’s a clear trend of migrating from SUSE to RHEL in Sweden at least
Mar22 Tug News: TeX Live Pretest, TUGboat, Conferences, CTAN
Yet we have "medicine" that you can buy that in fact is not at all effective (Phenylephrine, for example).
Not sure if I'm just missing the sarcasm but almost all companies have been hiring based on the same working style of 5 days a week, 8+ hours, in office, open workspace for quite a while. What's the problem with choosing a different set of strongly opinionated defaults?
> do other cars do that?

No.

But other car manufacturers are not claiming to “drive you from LA to NYC with zero interventions”
Is it possible that it doesn’t serve YTs interests to have a recommendation engine that works best for the end user?

I honestly think they just experiment with it a lot. The variety of videos that are recommended for me don’t seem to follow a pattern.

Maybe they know my brain better than I do.
I often snore when I sleep on my back. So I always sleep on my belly and don't snore. This developed before I even finished high school. I have never been (and am not) even slightly overweight.
I think the data is a little off here. The average low in La Paz is never below 10c as author shows here.
Heya, since HN is a worldwide website, I think language or locale differences may have led you to misunderstand my post.

The post actually does not contain anger, and is a well researched list of things russia actually has done and is doing.

As well, since they are facts, and not emotion, and since those facts together (even 2 or 3 of them alone, much less all of them taken together) constitute genocide, my own rightness or wrongness is irrelevant to the fact that russia is engaging in genocide.

Though Ukrainians are no doubt thankful of prayers for them in the face of russia's genocide, and your sympathy for them is no doubt appreciated, so thank you <3
A poor cope for being forced to use a media consumption format. In order to make full use of the ratio ill-suited to productive work, you are compelled to adopt a specific workflow involving two windows being open at all times. Great, that stackoverflow search page can stay open. Do yourself a favor: pivot one of your cursed resolution monitors and open a source file on it in full screen. That is how many text rows you lost in the war on general purpose computing.
> because they / Matt often acknowledge uncertainty

Great pun! :D

They also will present the strengths and weaknesses of various 'competing' theories. For ones that have been shown to be incorrect, they still present them accurately and well and explain how those theories led to our current, more correct understanding. For ones that are still being considered they will tell you evidence for and against.

I think this show is what made me realize that physics isn't one unified whole, but rather a lot of different models that are all somehow wrong (but still better than what they were built on!), and that there's conflicting evidence for each of them.
It’s just money. It’s a commodity. If I can get a better deal on a house if I pay with crypto, I’ll do it—don’t need your approval, really.
Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert
If you read the article it is certainly more nuanced.

* The money is going to a Top University.

* There are strict limitations about how the images / brand can be used. I especially like the idea of not mis-quoting and fabricating quotes associated with Einstein.
There are many, they just all tend to suck.

Either they miss images that are the same but not really (Eg two different jpg save of an original), or they catch false positive.

Then you find something that works great, but it ends up requiring manual usage to be reliable, which makes my 20+ years of photos archive unusable.

Then you try to find the same for movies and video file, and it's even worse.
There's this misconception that Assembly language is old and obsolete, and there is nothing further from the truth, and I consider it the ever-present programming language.

Sometimes, when you do the performance profiling of your software, you can find bottlenecks for which your programming language could be the issue. I'm particularly a fan of the ctypes Python library, libffi and similar. Android NDK is a brilliant piece of SDK to get closer to the metal in terms of performance.

Assembly language is not old; it just evolves with micro-architecture.
> It is subsided by the taxpayer.

That used to be completely true, but seeing the US government consistently spending 150% of its revenue every year make me doubt that. Money printer and price go brr

At least Germans are getting train tickets and not shiny new drone missiles.
If I was driving I'd aim to arrive pretty early too (random traffic happens).
Fixing the toilet flush.

Trying to make my wife happy.

Entertaining the kids.
Class or social standing aren't the right lens for this, I don't think Warren Buffet vs. Three Dollars would fly in court.
For what it's worth, I use Firefox Release on Android, and can still use uBlock Origin as an add-on. (Unless you meant the other "uBlock")
Who is the world's most famous face then? Hitler? Mona Lisa? Michael Jackson? Hide the Pain Harold?
What about buses? Are they also super-punctual?
tl;dr - "it" is a replacement part for an old time punch card machine
Ah, same thing happens to me all the time. You are right, second one seems more intuitive and many tools old and new use this pattern.
Lots of interesting drop-in chip replacements in the retro computing world these days.

Two I can think of off the top of my head:

- FPGA 6581 to replace a Commodore 64 SID chip.

- There's a drop-in sorta Z-80 so you can run CP/M on the TRS-80 Model 100.
I will definitely be watching this. I think there would be more p2p stuff if there was an equivalent to the traditional design patterns shown in Enterprise Integration Patterns.
If you just sit in Tether sure, but the ecosystem of stablecoins gives you access to DeFi yield opportunities with much better "passive" interest than bank deposits or treasuries, so the bet is a little more sophisticated than dollar for dollar.
> This is a 1950's era argument

Sometimes societal evolution takes a wrong turn and embraces ideas that are maladaptive. For example, in the Netherlands, the Muslim immigrants who are demographically ascendant for the most part embrace these “1950s” ideas, and are outcompeting the Dutch folks who have embraced sexual liberalism.
There is history of breast cancer in my family and anything that can be done to improve outcomes has to be highly commended. I did however have the same question and this

> to at least get a second opinion on their mammogram.

for me makes a lot of sense, even in developed countries where you get a result but want extra assurances.

It would be interesting to know (assuming you have the data, even anecdotally) if the second opinions using this overturned professional ones and from those how many were corrected an original false negative mistake.
Away from screens, I'm doing hobbies I picked to actively keep me away from screens. On a motorcycle, I think my ego gets sufficiently preoccupied with keeping its physical host alive, and so then the rest of my mind can wander. Depending on flow state, the mind speaks language, symbolic memories, or in sufficiently intense activities, those disappear entirely and it's just sub-second sensory immediacy.

In language, it's a lot of comedy (e.g. How could you tell if someone you already knew was wearing a disguise? How would they respond if you asked them? How would you know they aren't? What if they're lying? When you solve a catchpa to prove you are not a robot, how sure can you be, and who are you trying to convince, really? etc.) then, it's ethical and religious questions about power and politics (What is a just war? Is deception intrinsically more moral than violence? Do leaders have a divine mandate? For what are we accountable in regard to good and evil? What is the substrate of our experience? Is "The Simulation" just language?), and then some of what most closely resembles adolescent metamathematics (What are the most atomic operations and what property of the universe makes their number finite? Is complexity an artifact of geometry? What isn't a graph?)

The rest is too long to get into, but essentially it reduces to whatever deepity is sufficient to distract me from doing the work I'm probably supposed to be doing.
There's a conflation of issues here. I agree that "FSD 'beta'" is pushing it as advertising goes, and probably on the wrong side of the line. I don't accept that advertising copy makes operating a car more or less dangerous.

Tesla's system does more than the average level 2, so it's more useful. This may also mean operating it is more dangerous, but that isn't a given. Has it been demonstrated? If it has, I'd like to see that.

It seems to be mostly taken for granted in this sort of conversation, and it seems like if it were demonstrably the case, there would be a pithy blog on that subject online. I can only say I haven't seen that, but it could easily exist, this isn't something I focus on.
Think of all the "medicine" that we have that came from folk cures or supplements.

A lot of supplements/nootropics don't work, but a lot of them do. The issue is more their efficacy and safety.
It was about half that size in 2007
> I suspect that one of the issues with Reddit is a large number of regular visitors who lurk. No account, no login, never post, never upvote... but spend hours a day on the site. Serving them means that features for actual active contributors have low priority.

They would be shooting themselves in the foot because the lurkers are looking for posts and comments. Prioritizing contributors would keep lurkers engaged longer, watching more ads.

Also, never underestimate the need of people to voice their opinions. Controversial topics will tempt lurkers to contribute.
I have MacOS, where is the sqlite file?
https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile Would be one example. You can subscribe to premium features and all the stuff is open source.
Your casino chips are fine until the casino blows up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombin...
> lawsuit against a box

I just can't make sense of the "vs" in the case titles, in what way is the object fighting back? Why is there a case at all and not "here is a list of contraband seized at the border" ?
Pollution is connected to 9M deaths worldwide each year
Can somebody explain why the NYAG required that they publish quarterly attestations given how little reliable information they actually provide? What was the point?
If a reply hadn't quoted it, I'd gladly change the phrase from "magical conservative thinking" to "unsubstantiated speculation."
I live in a village 15km from the next big city (33th in terms of population).
If I take the bus it'll take 40min because they take the longest route and stop at every little village with multiple stops each.
The next town is 5km from my village and about the same from the city and the train takes 7-13min, depending on whether it's an RB or RE (they have more stops). Both train and bus arrive on a 30 min schedule from roughly 05:00 to 01:00.

Edit: As a student I pay 90€ for a "semester ticket" once every 6 months.
I do not understand how the great tools of RAD development in the late 90's never came back to rule the web. Maybe not in the first few eras, but today in the age of component and react and vue and... It's like RAD without the tooling.
I didn’t know this, thanks. This is preposterous. I was already strongly opposed to civil forfeiture but the shaky constitutional foundation makes things even worse (if that was possible).
Short informational twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/johnrossmd/status/1527045028417241088

A slightly alarming note on COVID’s effect on the immune system:

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1527103604590465024
Einstein is more famous than Jesus and Mona Lisa.

40% of the world population are from India and China (a Non-Jesus country).

Kids at a very young age are introduced to Einstein in pretty much every school. Mona Lisa not so much.

In fact, growing up, I didn't know about Mona Lisa till about age 20
How so? Unless you own a router with CALEA capabilities and specifically configure it to log all of your data, it's not going to snitch on you.