skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And because some dolts [..]

You presume to better know somebody's reasoning to do something than they do. Maybe 90 year old Dorothy is using the kettle during the illegal time to make soup, because the heater refuses to turn on - if she could afford to run it even if it did.

> [..] some sticks are needed to help ensure the lights don't go out at critical moments.

Stopping the lights going out is just one of the reasons this could be used. Another is simply to meet relatively arbitrary net zero goals (+). The energy company may choose to cut your power because you signed up for a fixed deal of £100 per month, and to service you during that time they would have to make a loss.

What's really funny is that when these smart meters were originally offered to people, they were sold on the idea of it helping them. There were critiques who were called conspiracy theorists and laughed at, now they turn out to be right.

The UK government needs to stay out of my home.

(+) Despite your feeling of net zero, somebody or something will decide when you suddenly become unable to use power to meet a goal in that moment, which could be the least useful time possible.
Wow. This is the future. I am going to launch a product based on this
Loquacity and Visible Emotion: ChatGPT as a Policy Advisor
Bing Chat and ChatGPT use '1 bottle of water' in cooling for every query
The cited article from Ken Kantzer is also very good:

https://kenkantzer.com/learnings-from-5-years-of-tech-startu...

"You don’t need hundreds of engineers to build a great product. I wrote a longer piece about this, but essentially, despite the general stage of startup we audited being pretty similar, the engineering team sizes varied a lot. Surprisingly, sometimes the most impressive products with the broadest scope of features were built by the smaller teams. And it was these same “small but mighty” teams that, years later, are crushing their markets.

Simple Outperformed Smart. As a self-admitted elitist, it pains me to say this, but it’s true: the startups we audited that are now doing the best usually had an almost brazenly ‘Keep It Simple’ approach to engineering. Cleverness for cleverness sake was abhorred. On the flip side, the companies where we were like ”woah, these folks are smart as hell” for the most part kind of faded. Generally, the major foot-gun (which I talk about more in a previous post on foot-guns) that got a lot of places in trouble was the premature move to microservices, architectures that relied on distributed computing, and messaging-heavy designs."
Because the pro and enterprise plans give you a price break based on the number of installs per month.
Sorry, where does it say per month? I don't see that.
Most of us believe managers have power and just get to boss people around.

We are in for a rude awakening to find the opposite :). There was a brilliant hardward business review article on what managers learn in their first year - if you read it and acknowledge some of those challenges / aspects on day 1, it'll put you far ahead of your fellow first-time managers:

https://hbr.org/2007/01/becoming-the-boss

(sadly, I read that article in my year two of techie-who-became-a-manager :)
Not as much as on chromium. With firefox, they only have their hands on mozilla, with the money for the default search machine, with chromium they have literally everything in their hands.
Chokeberries would made an acceptable substitute.
YouTubers can take training courses to remove warnings from their record
This is impossible without working at TikTok, and being intimately aware of their algorithm, neither of which I am. But I would lend credence to this saying because it seems to be so obvious to the users of the platform. They learn quite a lot about how it works through observation alone.
Learnings from 5 years of startup code audits
Veilid is a recently announced, general-purpose peer-to-peer Stack. We're excited about it!

We would consider switching away from OrbitDB/IPFS/Libp2p/Tor for a less mature peer-to-peer state syncing stack if it offered the following as first-class features in addition to what we have, had credible longevity, and ran well on desktop and mobile:

1. Deletion

2. Encrypted groups with removal

3. Support for linking multiple devices, and removing devices

4. Support for partial syncing / lazy loading.

It would be really nice to have all of these things out of the box, alongside state syncing and BitTorrent-style file transfer (which we have now.) Veilid is still new so we haven't assessed it yet, but that would be our criteria.

My general perspective on general purpose peer-to-peer stacks (which I understand Veilid to be) is that it will be very difficult to build meaningful general purpose platforms until we have more examples of popular desktop + mobile peer-to-peer products with large numbers of users in the wild that would let us identify all the things a general purpose stack would need to have, and that right now the best thing to do is build single-purpose peer-to-peer apps in whatever way you can (whether it's by building your own non-general stack or cobbling together existing building blocks as we're doing) and struggle to find product market fit!

The way I think about it is: would you have been able to build Heroku before there were a few successful production Ruby on Rails apps with product-market fit? Probably not! So we shouldn't expect to be able to build useful general purpose p2p stacks without clear examples of successful p2p products with product-market fit.
Great ideas all!

It should be discussed like this! It's clear that the w3w people didn't even do the bare minimum here!

The thing is, once you agree that some words are subpar or need translations, you can do a 1-to-1 mapping.

The problem with What3Words is that supporting the original word set will always be a pain even if they release a v2 word set with a 1-to-1 mapping (I believe they've already released versions for other languages?)

re: Geiger- parsing it could trivially accept misspellings of words
Citation? That auto-driving cars exist. That is not in doubt. They auto-brake for road obstruction; that can be observed in any number of youtube videos. Such experiments are conducted by highway safety boards; Tesla famously failed some of them.

It would be more helpful to post comments that illuminate the issue or introduce new ideas. "You so stupid" is not one of those posts. Try to do better.
You'll own nothing, eat the bugs, live in darkness, spend your wagey coin and you'll be happy.
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More discussion last week over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37400305
oof >.<

assuming not a Microsoft employee on the Excel team
Maybe because it's paid monthly no matter what, as opposed to yearly plans?

> You will be invoiced monthly based on the month’s install data. Invoicing will be the same method as for your Unity plan subscriptions, though it will be monthly regardless of your Unity plan payment cycle.

I'm assuming that $0.20 is paid every time it's downloaded based on their wording, so that could introduce a new way to harm competitors. Buy their game and uninstall / reinstall on loop?
And COVID infections increase you risk of developing type 2 diabetes:

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/verified-covid-19-infe...
It's interesting that the Guardian was so famous for their typos (in the 1970s) that it earned them the "Grauniad" nickname.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian (2nd paragraph)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/12/guardian-200-t...
Let's put a stake in 'great man theory' altogether. More brave geniuses have died fighting in trenches, excavating mines, tilling fields than the celebrated lucky ones did in their comfortable death beds. Celebrity culture continues to perpetuate this nonsense even today.
I'm not sure "convention over configuration" is in itself a problem. Opinionated defaults and patterns don't have to lead to incomprehensible abstractions, but I guess it takes some restraints.
What is the SEA region?

Edit: thank you to those replies.
"Standard monthly rate" above that section of the fee table.
Unfortuately pedantry is all too frequent, and haunts this site like a specter.
> e.g., in case of death

You don't really need email in that case but this is why you organize your life to let those that come after you know what you have.

> someone else could register it and start receiving my emails.

They could still do that if you die and the executor of your estate decides to not renew the domain or email service. You're dead though, what do you care?
ah thanks for that, Im was wondering how it makes their financial position better. Losing this case imo would knock them out completely
Even with tons of new users, how would Mozilla be able to fund continued development of Firefox?

Mozilla will need to find a way to raise funds.
Interesting take on why super-apps continuously fail in the west: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G6RDzPadLQ
I'm a big Elixir fan, but unfortunately Phoenix is starting to suffer from an overuse of LiveView.

LiveView is great, but it's sort of becoming the default way to render everything--even static pages! TFA is a good example of this, where they use a Live view to render...a static list of icons.

The problem with this is twofold:

- LiveView is not free. It seriously affects people with unstable connections, for example. It creates a new class of silent bug at the client/server interface, where the client just sees "broken" pages (instead of 500 pages).

- It adds cognitive overhead. We bloody know how to do server side rendering. We've been doing it for 30 years (!). It's a good model. Don't make me learn something else, please.

Phoenix, which is a jewel of a framework, is risking becoming an "SPA-like" framework, with a new paradigm, and a whole lot of overhead to learn, footguns you've never encountered before, bizarre failure modes, etc.

I mean, TFA even has a section where they talk abut an obscure but that "...is a doozy, so I will save you some hours of debugging."

We don't need this!

One of the things that made Phonix/Elixir great is how simple and opinionated the core team has been. Conventions are Very Strong, but not magic. Unfortunately, LiveView is so cool (it really is!) that no conventions were built around it and it's now used for everything.

IMHO LiveView should be used with a very clear heuristic:

- If the page is static, render a static page.

- If the page is dynamic, and the content changes depending on calculations happening server side, use LiveView. It truly shines here.

- If the page is dynamic, and the content changes depending on actions performed by the client, use JS.
This is genius, but distresses me. I can see this being a huge success for TikTok.

I don't have an account and never will, but there's almost a guaranteed slam dunk for them here.
Perhaps missed in the discussion so far is that the Unity Personal license (the one that's free up to a certain sales volume) will now require an always-on Internet connection to use.

That's a change from the past, and the FAQ doesn't provide a reason why. My guess would be analytics over licensing, but who knows really.
In the "symbolic AI" area it is so common for results to just be forgotten for 20-30 years and then come back.

For instance Datalog was developed in 1986 but when I got interested it in 2006 I found it was really obscure, by 2016 there was some literature and a few good implementations and it is rolling on.

There were those old "rules engines": many of the classic expert systems were developed before the famous RETE algorithm and even then there were RETE implementations that were terribly slow because they didn't use hashtables! When that stuff was fashionable people thought 10,000 rules were a lot, today it is more like 10,000,000 rules are a lot and I'd credit that more to algorithms being better than the computers being more powerful.

Similarly since the mid 2000's there has been a revolution in SAT and SMT solving which goes back to the very early (1960s) work on trying to solve problems w/ logic it is just now we succeed instead of fail. (It's a lot like the neural network revolution and used the same method of competition as seen in TREC and visual recognition.)
There’s a lot of health and beauty supplements.
Ah, I see what you're saying, but in the linked FAQ it says, "Creators only pay once per download."
Can you talk about this more? :) Why is that the case?
The big problem is that apparently if you have a phone number linked to your account, it can be used to reset your password even with TOTP 2FA enabled which to me, is bonkers: https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1700659107764785336

Twitter was requiring phone numbers for a while for account verification and I had mine attached from pre-history, but have obviously removed it after people have been pointing this out as an attack vector.
Socrates then, by a series of ignorant-sounding questions, forced the others into such a mélange of self-contradictions that they would finally break down and admit they didn't know what they were talking about.

It is the mark of the marvelous toleration of the Athenians that they let this continue for decades and that it wasn't till Socrates turned seventy that they broke down and forced him to drink poison.

It's seldom pleasant to be (accurately) instructed in your own ignorance, particularly by someone pretending not to know anything. Asimov's theory that Socrates' death was a result of his habit of patronizing everyone rather than the actual charges is plausible.
Or if you explicitly prefix the hostname with http://
He talks about working two jobs but this was during Family Ties & Back to the Future, 6 years before his symptoms. He describes sleeping in the car but no mention of illness. At best it's "can't be good can it?" and "confused about which set I was on" but no mention of sickness. Were this to be a cause, and I don't there is any evidence to suggest it is but I feel the doc wishes to insinuate so, it would be a stress/sleep/overwork type risk factor.

I would note the irony that you bemoan people for not believing something when the evidence you cite isn't there - it suggests more caution is required! From my own reading, that sums up the topic: people are open to viral theories but the proof just isn't there yet so believing it is premature. Parkinson's remains poorly understood in both mechanism and cause. It is said to be "a combination of genetic and environmental factors which might include pesticides and head injury". I imagine post-viral consequences could fit within head-injury type risk factors but we are not at a position to make statements of fact about such things.
According to the study linked in the article,

> Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality.

So, we should start culling feral cats.

The statistic about extinct birds was done in Australia, and included foxes, stoats, rats, and other small mammals, as “alien predators” contributing to the killing of birds in Australia.
Phones of that era and later get WebView patched through Google Play, so they'll get the update.
> otherwise what would be the point?

The exploit could be a PoC that at the moment does something noticeable but relatively innocuous. If there was a sandbox exploit that is already exploited along with this one, I'd expect this announcement to have been held back until when (or after) the other is announced.

ACE & RCE bugs should be taken this seriously even if another (as yet not known to exist) bug needs to be chained with it in order to do _real_ damage, because for all we know a black-hat out there could be sat on such a bug hoping no one else notices (and therefore it gets fixed) before something like this comes along to provide the other half of a really serious zero-day PitA.
I have a simple-ish webapp to write that involves basic CRUD, hookup to the Stripe API for payment, a hookup to Twilio for SMS texting, some kind of cool image gallery display UI and well that's about it.

I've built several apps with Rails years ago that are still running on the web. Is Rails something I should look at using again, or are there other choices that would be better to look at? If so, which ones? I'm more familiar with Ruby than I am with PHP or Python.
They are not only arguing in favor of neoclassical architecture, I have met plenty of people who believe that Bauhaus is the only standard of beauty and that every space should look and feel like an Apple Store.
Just to echo sph, get an Omron device. Don't waste your time and money with the many random brands.

Omrons are accurate and reliable, and most new models like the Silver have bluetooth and with the Omron connect app will share the data with Apple Health if that's your platform, or you can just keep it in the app and it gives you trends and insights.
I am not an expert in mosques or churches but apparently you are. So can you explain the different purposes? Also two of my examples were Abrahamic so let's just focus on those for now. A mosque, a church, Jewish "temple" or synagogue, are all according to you, for quite different purposes.

Are you sure they don't have a number of similarities?
South East Asia.
This raises the question of why passion and empathy are so in vogue these days.
I clearly said that one could learn for free anything they need. Don't you think one can't learn Big-O notation and algorithms outside college?

I know graduates who are not good at picking a right index type
I would be very interested about the architectural possibilities of the BEAM you mentioned. Also the speed of the BEAM is not as bad as is often mentioned, definitely not when you start looking at problems/tests with lots of inherent concurrency. Also the sequential speed has markedly improved with the new ASMJIT.

Also problems with GC basically don't exist when running Erlang/LFE code, at least you have to put a lot of effort into getting problems with GC. A lot! And, of course, the BEAM does automatic load balancing over multiple cores which is another problem gone away. We never have to think about the class of problems like "I have my system set up to run on 2 cores, how should I modify it to run on 4?".
Here’s the source of that statistic: https://dariuszzdziebk.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/upload...

The number does sound high, and the paper acknowledges that, but I guess something published in Nature should be taken seriously.

I’ve only had time to barely skim it, but it appears that they might be saying the majority of the issue comes from un-owned cats that roam free, not cats that live with (and are fed by) humans in a house. I think they took data on the number of kills per cat and then multiplied by the estimated number of cats.

Edit: I also looked for rebuttals or critical review, and came across a defense of the paper by the same authors, which has references to the criticism: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-018-1796-y
It's like just for you, right? You're not making them wear the headset, are you?
Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps
It was a 3m film, the curtains were just emf fabric sewn in the back of regular curtains and they block the light more. And yes, Wi-Fi and cell still work, we left floor untouched. I can no longer pick up neighbors Wi-Fi in that room. My neighbors are about 150 m away, rural. I turn wifi off at night in my house.
What the user probably means is that just because he said this publicly doesn't mean he meant it. Steve Jobs was great at marketing and was well informed on what potential buyers wanted to hear.
> If the US were to only allow those most capable of fixing their own state/country to flee to the US, is this a moral policy when we have the knowledge that it extends the harm of a bad system in need of reform?

> Those left behind are the most poor and incapable of helping themselves.

That's pretty much the reality now. Look no further than Russia: there are millions of Russians in the US and Europe in all sorts of science and engineering positions in universities, JPL and NASA, and the aerospace & defense industries working on the same sort of stuff that is deciding the war today. The brain drain has been a very real issue since the iron curtain fell.

But let me stop you right there: that's dangerously close to paternalism and denying the people who would be allowed to come to the United States their self determination based on some ham-fisted attempt at geopolitical fairness is not only immoral but will only end in tears. Humans simply aren't capable of social engineering at that scale without huge unintended consequences and reams of collateral damage.
Big Knight Capital vibes...
I wonder if installs could be faked? So find a project that has revenue of the 200k and then appear to install it couple million times... Is this sort of scenario considered at all?
Must have spyware in the runtime.

Watch your games get auto removed after the developer goes out of business or doesn’t pay RENT
i've seen recommendations about setting the oven at the lowest temp possible, and then leaving the door slightly open. i've also seen electric only ovens be able to set lower temps than gas only. i've only ever dried herbs in the oven because of the temp issue. for everything else, i just bought a dehydrator that can be set to the lower temps.
They're a storefront that charges ~30% and they're pretty dominant in their market.

They make enough money —they're practically printing it— to never need investment, and they don't seem to piss it away like your FAANGs.

Which is all to say, even down the line, why would they risk it all for more money? Might seem naive but private ownership allows them to maintain this course.
I was writing up a huge list of other things you need as well, but I'll just say that being a manager was a massive eye-opener for me. Prior to that, I thought I was doing all the work and didn't think my manager was doing very much. I was very, very wrong. But what's great about the experience is that you come to understand how valuable a good manager is, and how to be a more effective IC.
I've used the incandescent light in my oven to keep sourdough starter warm before. If the wattage is too low, you could hack together a simple thermostat driven relay and a larger light bulb run into your oven.
Each religion is a way to extract money from the community built around it. This is done via a variety of donations, compulsory or semi-voluntary. There has to be a justification for it, so the community is told that the money goes to the temple construction fund which then turns into a temple maintenance fund. Those who run the fund redirect the funds to their own and their friends' pockets.
Any regulation aimed at reducing the odds of accidental death has been fought tooth and nail by the industry and its lobbyists.

So not all that weak, really.
Archaeologists reveal largest paleolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia