skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you do think its acceptable to be a distracted driver, because plenty of other people are also distracted and don't bother adjusting their mirrors ahead of time.

I don't think people should pull over to the side of the road to change their AC setting or change their radio. Lots of cars these days have auto climate controls. Lots of cars have media controls on the wheel. There's practically no excuse to touch a single button or knob or screen control on the center console when the car is in motion.

You're saying its necessary to play around with the stereo. Its not necessary to change anything with the radio that you can't do from steering controls while you drive. You may want to do that. People may want to eat a sandwich while they drive, but that doesn't mean it doesn't distract them. Maybe they think its necessary to text someone they're running late while they're driving. That's a common thing people do. I guess by your standard of "a normal human being does it" then its OK. Something tells me you'd probably think its not a safe thing, texting and driving. So maybe your standard of normal people do it all the time should probably be adjusted?

I haven't even had to adjust my AC once in the last several dozen trips, and I definitely don't live where there's only nice weather outside. You shouldn't need to adjust it either. I haven't needed to make any kind of minute adjustments to my stereo outside of changing to different presets or hitting next track or turning the volume up or down or using my voice to change what playlist or artist I'm listening to. I set all my presets of the stations I care to listen to ahead of time and make playlists of the music I like and I don't need to mess with the stereo while the car is moving.

You're bringing up the NTSB and arguing you can easily multitask and the NTSB agrees with you. You're wrong on that one. Don't drag people into an argument unless you can actually cite them.

> Many drivers believe they can multitask and still operate a vehicle safely. But multitasking is a myth. Humans can only focus cognitive attention on one task at a time. That’s why the driving task should be a driver’s sole focus.

https://www.ntsb.gov/Advocacy/mwl/Pages/mwl-21-22/mwl-hs-05....

The NTSB agrees with me. When you're operating your vehicle, "the driving task should be a driver's sole focus." Not messing around with the stereo. Not adjusting the air conditioning. Not playing around with your mirrors. Not adjusting your seat. The sole focus of the driver should be driving the car, what I've been saying all along. Please show me a citation where the NTSB says "its perfectly fine to play around with your stereo while you're driving a 4,000lb death machine 110 feet per second." I imagine they say nothing of the sort.

Why do you think it is OK to be distracted with buttons and knobs when driving your car?
She has openly and repeatedly called for laws and policies that restrict and damage what it means to be a trans person. She has openly and repeatedly insisted that "biological sex" should dominate "gender preference" for individuals, even if and when those decisions would harm the individual in question. She has openly and repeatedly engaged in bad-faith and strawman arguments around things like bathroom policies, availability of transition information, and what motivates people to transition. She has openly and repeatedly insisted that transitioning is completely choice-based, a statement entirely at odds with well-researched and well-documented information about gender dysphoria.

Imagine if someone claimed those things about being homosexual: it's down to biology who you have sex with, not preference; it's not safe to allow homosexuals into a bathroom with people they are attracted to; teenagers should not have access to information about homosexuality; homosexuality is a social trend and not a personal choice. I would, very rightly so, be labeled a homophobic.

The only reason you might think she isn't transphobic is that if you, yourself, are transphobic and don't want that label to apply to yourself. Unfortunately, bigotry is bigotry.
> So what's the point of it then?

I mostly use mine to find my keys or wallet, or be reassured that they're in my office and not lost when I've gone home without them.
reminds me of when I visited Bangkok with a bunch of friends, one of whom was a smoker. by Thai law, cigarette packets had to have pictures of organs blighted by smoking on them (I think it was lungs and gums), and I wondered if that would really be a deterrent, but he said it was actually offputting enough that he found himself not buying cigarettes as much as he would otherwise have.
Compiling 6502 assembly code with ACME in VSCode
Oh, also I just got a hot tip from a buddy to look into Ruby Jard, a visual (but still terminal-based) debugger with a whole slew of features. Haven't tried it yet but it looks really neat-o.
Do you know of any good resources that explain why smoothing should be used?

My intuition is that in your given example (stock prices) smoothing would probably be doing yourself a disservice as it would hide the optimal hour or day of the week to make purchases/sales.

Is it mostly related to the timeframe of your analysis and needing to trade off near term precision for longer term precision?
Time to buy slide rules.
I've found OKI to be pretty good too.
> And most importantly, are they OK?

i wanna know this too!
Would 6 Pis be able to handle more than 1g? It says that they got around 70MB write and 100MB read. 2.5/5/10 seems like it would be a waste unless I'm overlooking something
Or from another point of view you're now hit with the higher bill even if you choose to pay by a more efficient method. It's debatable whether the EU's rule actually helps cardholders or whether it just protects the card networks and their overpriced payment schemes.
Playing PayPal'd advocate, that's a lot similar to home made "give me money to finish this personal project" and you're expecting a faceless service to go spend 5 min on one of the hundreds of thousands of claims they receive every day. Including of course the ones where you actually sent the money to your friend who already spent it out of PayPal, and PayPal has to front the money for your chargeback.

Fraud management is hard. Most actors in the domain are also jerks, but that's orthogonal to it being hard I think.
I cut myself the other day with my kitchen knife. If only I had a prescription!
Sounds like there’s a hearing problem epidemic around the world. What’s causing this?
I was thinking more along the lines of someone standing behind you with a cattle prod.
I appreciate the explicitness, so indeed I would.
> The police were always about fighting crime for the rich.

If you are inside a Starbucks, ordering latte’s and working on an expensive laptop, you are rich.
I concur, for example, ENS domains are memorable, secure and the whole contract is decentralized. And you can send Vitalik eth at vitalik.eth
Putting aside the HP bad discussions, they've had a tank laser printer on the market for a few years now. A few of them, actually. I know because I had to sell this crap. It used a special "plunger" toner refill kit where you set it in the hole and push down. It wasn't that great of a printer, expensive, and a potential mess.
I just want the touchscreen buttons for a choice to be separated on the screen by more than a finger’s width.
Every yes/no choice is right next to each other, and driving and hitting 1cm^2 a millimeter away from another 1cm^2 is not good UIX.
> Secondly if this is true and you stole a bag, all you need to find the air tag would be to hold an iphone close to it for a few minutes.

It’s not that simple. I have some AirTags that I keep in my kids school backpacks and they don’t trigger other people’s phones at school.

Nobody at my office gets warned about mine…

I believe it takes much longer than a few minutes and other factors into consideration.
I appreciate the joke. :)
Funny, cuz trans women are assaulted and killed by the dozens in men's rooms and there might have been two cases ever of a man dressing as a woman specifically to enter a female bathroom and assault a woman.
EBay is also a monopoly, and so is Paypal.
> Singing is strange, you can't really see what other singers or yourself are doing. With the piano you can take a look at your teachers hands, but with singing you have to go on a kinda of exploration into sensations in your body, with the teacher as an experienced guide.

Actually the same is true for playing the piano as well. Piano playing is not as intuitive as people believe because it is not just the apparent vertical movement of fingers hitting the keys. Rather, it actually involves the entire lower arm from the elbow down to the finger tips working together. What you see as a concert pianist’s fingers moving up and down is a lot of the time actually a series of very rapid and infinitesimal wrist rotations and learning these rotations actually require piano students to feel the subtle muscle sensations and movement associated with those movements.
hostnames: yes. subdomains and similar things like txt records: no.
> in any way a privacy company

More than the alternatives.
I wonder if one day in the grim and distant future, we'll displace aliens using this registry akin to how US land was repossessed from the native people and then occupied by US citizens. That'd make a good sci-fi book.
Thanks for posting this, great stuff. I haven’t seen anything from “raganwald” for a while, probably since I last bought one of his books.

I have been fairly lucky in working for mostly well run companies. It is a bad dynamic when critical parts of a company are cannibalized to help other less important teams, when legacy teams don’t get credit for keeping the lights on, etc.
I can't speak for this printer, but I have an HP Neverstop 1001NW which uses a similar tank-based system. The container of toner that came with it appeared to be entirely dumb.
I know when I did some RPG Maker XP hacking they extensively crammed stuff onto Object, so I suspect the culture is not limited to Rails.
> There is utterly no need for VISA/MC.

Unless you're a visitor who doesn't have access to the local system.

As a traveller, it's now possible to travel to other countries and never touch local cash, because everything can be paid for by credit card. In the US, tips have historically been the outlier, but while Venmo is increasingly taking over, that's not something you'll have access to without a US bank account.
I'd wager an aging population and the advent of portable music players like the Walkman.
Depends whether you include costs for healthcare, education and housing.
Seems weird that I can't easily order eyeglasses in whatever prescription I want. FDA, please fix that next.
Embedded Web Services / EWS is their name for their web configuration interface. I don't think it has anything to do with GP's concerns.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_2029438-1929621-16
I think you're missing the part where they are in the trying to figure out how to relax that constraint phase (they have not yet) and having trouble in paradise.

They've run into all the issues and nuances elucidated in this thread. They have been receiving pretty intense feedback from people who have stopped using their product because of the concessions made. They've clammed up in response and are losing even more people because they are not clearly articulating the changes to their users (many of whom would be fine with it if communicated transparently and respectfully). They have people who desperately want usernames but also not if it means what Signal is proposing and admit "okay, you heard my request and tried, but hmm let's not do that I don't like this PIN UX and it's not what I wanted when I said I want usernames". And they even saw their product forked the minute it became clear what they were doing: https://getsession.org (blogs start Dec, 2019 which is around the time Signal started messing around with secure value recovery stuff, at least publicly).
they did - however, the only devices able to seamlessly detect airtags are ios devices.
I gave Manjaro a try a few years back. It wasn't too bad, actually. But then an upgrade made it impossible to boot into the desktop, and there was no fix. So it was bye-bye Manjaro. Sounds like things have gone downhill with the distro. Too bad.
They also aren't that great in humid climates. They will cool the house, but the air is still damp, leading to mold and other damage.
It doesn't feel like it's gotten worse to me. It feels like there's a lot more effort to diagnose kids with hearing trouble and to make hearing aids less stigmatized. More discreet devices make them a compelling option for folks who are self conscious.

But it is the case that headphones _have_ been damaging hearing for a long time. The rise of MP3 players that could blast audio was a known cause of hearing loss even as it occurred.
Only Apple allows anyone to track anyone all over the world for $20.
Absolutely false. Tailscale is a darling exactly due to merit. They’ve earned every ounce of my love just by their product being so damn solid, easy to use, and elegant.

It. Just. Works. And it uses WireGuard. It solved every issue I had with WireGuard, which was mainly access control, user provisioning/auth, and device clients.

I’ve said it before, I’d happily pay them more than I pay now for 10 users.
I think the biggest waste is lack of interoperability and usablity of libraries and code between languages.

There is SO MUCH CODE out there. To some degree that is a bad thing, but there are genuinely good libraries in other languages that would be nice to more seamlessly utilize in other languages.

Generally, there isn't a "best of breed" movement to actively track which implementations and approaches to things (json deserialization/serialization, http client, regular expressions, high speed I/O, algorithms and data structures.

Instead, good approaches organically move around, or are at the whim of the steward of a language recognizing and pushing for some new language, approach, etc. Often good approaches or libraries or interfaces are shut out from another ecosystem over nothing more than dogma or reactionary hated in the worst case.

Instead, if one language gets a good library, you either interface at the OS level or you have to migrate to that language if the library is that critical.

The JVM was close to this, with Jython, JRuby, Javascript, Groovy, Clojure, and lots of other languages runnable within JVM code. Ultimately, notably Ruby where the JVM was the fastest runtime for Ruby for a time, rejected that approach.

But I think it was the right approach fundamentally, if the politics got in the way. LLVM may have that potential, but it seems to tied to compilerland. OS-level interop seems generally a failure, either because of OS balkanization or other concerns.
Some comments suggest this application only works while it is open, and will not passively notify you of trackers in the background. I don't know if that's true, or if it's just due to some phone OS killing the background process to prop up battery metrics.
Ahh, that's interesting.
Also: I put them all in my bag, also my kids when I travel… and on one occasion an elderly father in law.

Worked great.
To quantify that, I get about 2500 sheets on a bottle of black ink, which costs £9.
We have all this tech and 4k videos but voice audio still for the most part is terrible
> it’s absolutely a good start.

Depends on why you think it's good. If you think it will hollow out PRC industry and will lead to collapse of CCP into Third Reich leading to collapse them you will probably be disapointed. CCP _wants_ PRC companies to expand in region because it's "cooperative" sourcing strategy that helps PRC geoeconomic posture by increasing dependence. Especially in Vietnam where PRC control over Mekong = influence over Vietnamese agriculture and energy via Laos hydogeneration upstream. The TLDR PRC moved into Vietnam long before tariffs, and while tariff dodging is nice perk, it's mostly another layer of influence/control over Vietnam.

> supply chain will be completely destroyed.
...
> clearly prohibited by the Gov

Ergo why PRC supply chains won't be destroyed because apart from getting rid of polluting light industries where value:externalities do not compute, most relevant strategic supply chains will be protected in PRC for domestic use. I have family / friends who run factories as well, the ones in lowend got fucked whereas the ones higher up supply chain are doing fine. Those levers introduced last few years to prevent capital flight is why PRC is managing the eco crisis fine... a crisis by the way they chose to initiate (i.e. real estate) like past deleveraging efforts specifically because they have more lever to prevent actual crisis. But yeah people don't like the wild rides coming would be wise to look for excape plan, but it's going to be harder and harder to escape with much. Lots of people going to be fucked, while lots will continue to get rich, which is to say, same old China since the 90s.
The echo is one of the few tech gadgets I use everyday. I'd be willing to pay a subscription fee to get rid of all ads. I hope they start offering that as an option.
without being disrespectful, the installer that does not fail is the red hat / centos / alma / rocky installer. btw, archlinux user here
> Isn't a power emergency exactly the time you want your battery to be full?

The point is to prevent the sort of power emergency that'd make you (and everyone else in your area) need said batteries.
I’m having trouble relating to this post. General linux questions on a search engine end up on the Arch Linux wiki quite often.

Really though, what Linux distro has better documentation than Arch?
IMO, blockchain human-readable naming generally creates a single coherent namespace and are thus "centralized" in terms of Zooko's Triangle. The singular authority is vested in shared consensus, but is singular authority nonetheless.

The real answer to Zooko's Triangle is to do human-meaningful name lookups as little as possible. For instance, in an ideal world I should be able to run a nameserver that stuffs all of ICANN's TLD pollution under an .icann label, such that I could type "blog.google.icann" to access what is currently called "blog.google". References to other resources would be specified with decentralized non-human-readable (ie cryptographic) identifiers, and outgoing links intended for human consumption would also have a relative hint so that my browser could turn the cryptographic identifier back into a human readable identifier in my own namespace.
How many records are we talking about? Can you view them as a list in a web interface? If so and given no other alternatives, I’d try to scrape it out of their web UI.
In the US you can only do over the counter reading glasses. Far sightedness correction is prescription only.
Does the price matter?

Otherwise that’s not new / exclusive.

I should be able to track my things.
Annual GDP of a country != the current sum total net worth of its population. Deleting the poorest half of the US population would destroy the annual GDP, which is built on the labor of said population. Theoretically, as the GDP of a nation grows, so does the quality of life of its population through better access to everything money can buy. It kinda doesn't matter how many billionaires there are if the rest of the population is still able to buy air conditioners, health care, sturdier houses, pay taxes, and generally afford the things that make the climate the least of their worries, as there are super diminishing returns on quality of life past a certain income level (all other arguments against billionaires are outside the scope of this comment).

Developed countries are quite well equipped (as in they're rich enough) to be able to adapt to the changing climate as needed. They can buy air conditioners, build dikes, choose not to build houses in areas prone to climate disaster, etc., all if which is insanely cheaper than attempting to reduce global temperature (though that's not an argument against any attempt to reduce global temperature). Making under-developed countries richer allows them to stop doing the "worser" things that aggravate climate change and make their populations unhealthy (like burning wood for a lot of their energy needs).

(This comment is just an elaboration on the arguments in the book I mentioned—not me being an expert.)
Concerts, headphones, combat, industrial machinery. You name it.

Hearing loss is cumulative and the statistics are mind boggling. ~20% of people in their 20’s have hearing loss.
Super useful. Thanks for this.
I have personally never regretted using tools that were dismissed as "toys" by the mainstream devs. Including HC, VB, and Arduino. I've got a VB5 program running in the factory that has had virtually zero failures in use for 14 years. I even hand-translated a curve fitting routine from Numerical Recipes into VB.
It's not that hard to learn how to get into the secret "technician-only" settings screens on existing CPAP machines. They can't be that dangerous. I've fiddled with mine (the technician told me how) and the worst I've done is give myself an uncomfortable night's sleep. It's an airhose with a not-particularly-strong seal gently squirting air into your nose, not a chest tube.
In my dad’s lifetime we went from fighting a bitter war with Vietnam to building our most popular consumer electronics there. I wonder what we will build in Afghanistan in my retirement years.
>to prop up battery metrics

The primary reason is to increase user privacy from apps constantly logging everything they see while in the background.
Apple’s criteria was that these were important enough to fix that they released an out-of-stream OS update for them.
The original was longer, and had more context.[1] His example of the loss of general knowledge about writing video drivers was a particularly good one, in my opinion. We're building far more complex systems, we need tools that offer a better impedance match to the people who build them. Working with source code is like hand editing schematics.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
> Writing glue code and boilerplate is a waste

> Why not use a framework?

These 2 sections highlight exactly the problems I've been trying to solve with Molecule.dev. I agree with the author that software development has somewhat stagnated, and I believe something like Molecule.dev is the future. It isn't perfect and there's still a lot of work to be done, but I'm certain it's headed in the right direction. The codebase is currently in the process of being repackaged (it'll be an MIT licensed monorepo) so that developers can more easily play with it, and so that it can be more easily integrated into existing systems, as starter apps are not a frequent enough problem to build a scalable business from. This repackaging is taking longer than normal because all the investors I've spoken to apparently don't see the value in it (yet), so I've been looking for contract work to stay afloat. (Know anyone?)

> Testing and Correctness

> I want simpler testing

I built something else in early 2020 to address this exact problem as well, TestFront.io. I haven't touched it in a while (so don't sign up) but I may return to it eventually. It's open source. I've tried many testing tools/frameworks and none of them quite do what TestFront.io does. There is a pretty similar tool which someone turned into a very successful business (actually can't remember the name of it now), so there's definitely some value in it, but from what I saw when trying it, it's still not quite up to par with TestFront's granularity and ease-of-use. I'd like to return to TestFront some day, but for now there are bigger fish to fry.