jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Those F's aren't the same as the one in "F = ma" though. The one in "F = ma" means "the (vector) sum of all forces on the object".

You can write down, as you say, a bunch of contributions like F_spring and F_damp etc. that can be functions of other variables like x, v etc.

"F = ma" then tells you that if you sum up all the forces (F_spring, F_damp etc) you have an expression for the acceleration.

This gives you an equation of motion that you can solve to find out how the object will move given some initial state.

Basically, if you know the initial position and velocity, you can compute acceleration at that time. Then you can figure out the position and velocity of the object a short time later, and recompute the acceleration using these new values. Then you can step forward again, and again, for as long as you want.
I like how he made up the word "unsubstantiative" and you just rolled with it.
It's actually worse than that; any possible definition of race is incoherent in the face of pedigree collapse, so that people who believe and act as if race were a social construction are wrong, in the same way that people who believe and act as if horoscopes predict personality and psychics predict the future are wrong.

A social construction is a shared fantasy; it's something which doesn't exist but which humans emphatically insist is real. To use an analogy, a reflection doesn't exist either, but that doesn't stop a mirror from causing animals to act as if they were standing in front of themselves. (The photons are real; the illusion that they produce in the mind of the viewer is not.)
Just like how the real world has shadow-banking to serve the marginalized, so should the internet.

I'm keen on the idea that a vibrant portion of internet commerce should be opaque to governments. Perhaps not the best place to start a formal business in; where you have to think about accounting and taxes, but it will be a boon for ad-hoc informal businesses.

I'd like to think of it as facilitating the primordial soup that will give rise to new ways of doing things.
Outstanding. Are they software rendering at the client and shoving raw images? Remote GPU from scratch strikes me as an even bigger job.
Just because I looked this up for another response, here's California's law:

"12024.2.
(a) It is unlawful for any person, at the time of sale of a commodity, to do any of the following:
(1) Charge an amount greater than the price, or to compute an amount greater than a true extension of a price per unit, that is then advertised, posted, marked, displayed, or quoted for that commodity.
(2) Charge an amount greater than the lowest price posted on the commodity itself or on a shelf tag that corresponds to the commodity, notwithstanding any limitation of the time period for which the posted price is in effect."

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

Westchester County, New York:

"3. It shall be a violation of this code:
a. To stamp, tag, label or otherwise mark any item of consumer goods at a selling price greater than the selling price advertised or displayed for that item.
b. To stamp, tag, label or otherwise mark more than one (1) selling price upon an item of consumer goods offered for sale in Westchester County unless the prior selling price is unmistakably deleted or obliterated or is otherwise marked so as to indicate clearly the prior selling price is not the current selling price.
c. To sell or offer for sale any consumer goods or services at a greater price than the price displayed or advertised therefor."

https://consumer.westchestergov.com/consumer-laws/consumer-c...
I believe Mozilla's strategy is to develop new features in Rust on Servo, and then swap them out into Firefox as they go. That way users don't need to change, since they realized that users never would.
..cos he couldn't receive dp's anymore ?
Right, the store must honor their advertised price... however, they are not required to give away mispriced products. That would be ridiculous.
There are physical limitations on socket sizes and construction that can allow owners to reasonably upgrade the equipment without damaging it. There are design limitations on arranging components in such a way that they can be accessed. Also the majority of users never open their machine; why should they have to pay more so the privileged few can pay a little less for storage and RAM?

As someone who has recently assembled a commodity PC (Mini-ITX) and someone who has fiddled with RPi hardware, I can see the disadvantages facing a consumer hardware manufacturer attempting to satisfy a tinkerer's urges. Notebooks, all-in-ones, and Mac Mini-sized desktops are just at the edge of serviceability, and clearly the mobile and tablet product lines are well beyond it.
Looks like I woke up on the wrong side of the fence. I'll show myself out.
Episode 9 Synopsis: In this episode, Nathan Millard from beSuccess joined us in a conversation on the Korean startup and investor ecosystem and provide the perspective on how the major players (Samsung, LG and SK Planet) are shaping in South Korea. The surprise is that PSY's Gangnam style is the startup style, where most of the startups are located. We also chat about Samsung's recent troubles in the smartphone market and how Kakao Talk is defending against the onslaught of Whatsapp, WeChat and LINE.
cuda is designed by nvidia, to lock software and applications to use Nvidia's hardware. Cuda is the core of Nvidia's business model. Cuda is the reason why Nvidia has the guts to charge $5000 for a data center or Quadro card when that card uses nearly the same silicon as the consumer versions and customers will still have to buy their cards.

Its like Apple sell you the iPhone, but also the iOS APIs and application model so you can run iOS apps. Once you run iOS apps, you are in Apple's ecosystem, both the ISVs and the user are hard to leave. Its like saying when will Apple officially make iOS APIs and libraries run on Android phones. Both will never happen.
E-Ink's patents are only a symptom of the deeper problem.

Consider: why wasn't Panasonic able to capture all of the patents for LCD displays? If "patents" explained the problem, then why are high-resolution color screens so cheap?

IMO, the answer to this question is that there are simply more ways to implement color LCD displays than there are ways to implement e-paper displays (as far as we know).

Other firms could design electronic-paper displays, but they're all going to work basically the same as E-ink displays, so they'll run afoul of E-ink's patents.

FWIW, the LCD "tech tree" got wider after the early 1970s patents started expiring in the 1990s; that's when LCD prices started to fall. Maybe the same will happen to e-paper when E-ink's earliest patents start expiring, but it's no guarantee. As long as the tech tree remains narrow, E-ink could control the market for decades more yet.
Some do exactly that, but worse, horror stories of capacitive droppers being sold as iphone "cube" chargers seem to be 100% true.
They try force you to watch/listen/engage into sales dance with their sales people.

Typical for overpriced products or middlemen-driven sales pipeline
Filing taxes is a solved problem in many countries so it's very disappointing it's still so difficult to do in the US. I'm glad to see open source engineers taking matters into their own hands to disrupt this corrupt industry.

If milestones and a growth path can be clearly planned and communicated, I think many people would happily chip in to help fund a project like this.

Something like this page would be nice:
https://k9mail.app/2021/02/14/K-9-Mail-is-looking-for-fundin...
Agreed that matrix.to is a hack - hopefully the matrix:// URI scheme will get off the ground shortly and render it unnecessary. Meanwhile, the Spaces video is up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzUfS08lMek :)
Quebec has a lot of hydro. Quebec is actually the one NA state/province where I personally do not mind the fact that insulation and how to heat your house are really inefficient and sucky if you compare to some parts of Europe for example. That's because the cost has already been paid mostly. As in people relocated, methane released from vegetation suddenly being submerged in water, animals displaced etc.

I don't know the actual numbers behind the impact of flooding forest lands for hydro dams vs. burning coal but I would gather the longer the dam is usable the more favourable this equation becomes for hydro power. Any pointers to studies welcome.

Quebec is exporting its power to the US and there were some projects in the process of approval recently. I don't remember how far down the powerlines were to extend but definitely not all the way to Texas. Possibly even terminating in Vermont already.

Quebec is also prone to power outages in winter storms though I suspect that power transmission to the US would be much less affected by this than local distribution. Much easier to down a regular wooden above ground power line with trees growing all over it somewhere in Quebec proper vs downing a large metal power line going cross country in a basically 'clean shaven' corridor or through farmland.
Does OpenBSD really use (A)RC4 for its PRNG? That seems... quite bad if so.

Edit: They have fixed it, and it now uses ChaCha20 (but is still called "arc4random"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random#OpenBSD
> (I did finally get tired of analysis paralysis and ordered a telescope last month. A StellarVue 80mm triplet refractor. There are long lead times these days for telescopes so it'll be a couple months before I actually receive it.)

Congrats on the new scope! Excellent choice. Welcome to the hobby. :)
> EASA has underestimated SpaceX from day one.

EASA is the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. I think you meant to say ESA, the European Space Agency? But ESA's not that relevant here, as the European governments fund and develop launch services through Arianespace, a consortium of space industry companies led by the French aerospace companies Airbus and Safran.

Correction aside, I agree with your point that Arianespace did underestimate SpaceX.
Apologies I was perhaps too much tongue in cheek, there was no offence meant.

On the other hand, you too are arguing against points I haven't made. I'm not saying the imperial system is bad on it's own. I have no opinion on this. Anyone who is used to it will find it intuitive. However, saying that it's somehow objectively more geared for humans is also incorrect, because as I wrote it is exactly as convenient to use for people used to metric as metric is for people used to imperial.

> the turning point between very warm and hot is literally built into the system at 100F. If you think 30C is hot, you’ve clearly not spent much time here in the summer... and it doesn’t feel really cold until you’re down around 0F anyway

Again, this is subjective. 30C is hot for many people in the Nordics, and business as usual for someone in the tropics. The same will apply whether we use the imperial system or not. But I personally have no intuition how 0F or 100F feels like. It's all subjective (how it feels like).

I was merely arguing that trying to lean on subjective/intuitive feel for the units to make a general case of them being useful for daily life is still just subjective. Imperial is intuitive for people who are used to it and highly unintuitive for anyone who isn't. Conversely, metric is intuitive for people who are used to it - even for daily life and imperial is not.
not necessarily seafaring people; the migration was over land, possible due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum
I'm more interested with the main product, Fly. Is this like Linode or Digital Ocean?
I don't understand the Interface, can't use it.
I don't like freelancer

I don't really know why
It’s not about using the app, I just wouldn’t have upvoted the HN post. :) So it may not have been seen in the first place.
I noticed that too. If you scroll through the entire diff, it looks like most of it is the removal of those seemingly unrelated things.

I also see some changes to what looks like common arm64 code, which isn't guarded to check for Apple or non-Apple; it seemed strange to me that those changes would be ok.

I wonder if both of those things are just changes from an unrelated merge that are showing up in this diff for no reason.
Yes, in english language. Other languages have/had different names, if they even knew it at this point. There was of course a reason why the @ was on the english keyboard-layout, but it was a very different reason from the later usage as location/user-reference. Point is, if e-mail would have been invented in a different culture, there would be a good chance that the symbol wasn't even on their keyboard at the time and a different symbol would likely have been used.
There's a lot of absurd things about the war.

A cruise missile frigate was also prevented from entering the Black Sea by Turkey.
> Sounds like you might have an addiction.

Isn't that what we're talking about here?
This doesn't make sense. With SaaS, you don't possess any software, so how can you argue that you should have the ability to transfer it. What would you transfer?

SaaS is also different because you rarely pay the large amounts which make it feel like you own software. You are merely renting it.

You may as well argue that it bugs you to rent a house, since you can't sell it. Of course you can't sell it, you never bought it.
Congrats on following your gut jdbaugh. Good luck to you!

I don't know if it comes from jealousy, but I do think some people view work differently.

For me this isn't a career, it's a lifestyle. For those who view a job as a paycheck it's hard to think about it any differently.
The Pacman loading bar [1] is actually very interesting. I think it’s just a static image – doomed to be stuck at 60% forever. Since load times are low that doesn’t really matter. It’s instantly recognized for what it is and that might be all that’s needed (and it fits the theme better than those newfangled spinning indicators).

[1] Empty your cache (if you visited before), load and quickly click “Insert Coin”, you might see it for a fraction of a second: http://google.com/pacman
Congrats on the move pierrefar! I should revise my wording, my family has been extremely supportive. Perhaps they sensed I'd go this path eventually.
If you don't have a business model, it's definitely just about the exit. Or maybe the funding rounds.
The network effects are irreplaceable, unfortunately.
The first paper describes the effect of mRNA based vaccine derived serum on both variants, showing that both variants are affected about equally by the vaccine, if I’m not horribly mistaken?
I suppose managing a media org and managing a media org really is a similar job.
https://imgur.com/a/7hTCD3w
What's presented without evidence maybe dismissed without evidence.
When the subject is censorship in the United States, the First Amendment is going to come up! It's what underlies private parties' ability to control what they publish, rather than follow dictates from the government. Great-grandparent mentions laws.

As for other networks, I've used several that aren't big household names. They work fine. Some actually do "social" better, in my opinion. Some boast self-hosting and censorship-resistant features. None of them are popular. But many are cheap enough to run more or less indefinitely, given their small size.

I think "just build your own" is a perfectly valid response, since nobody's entitled to any of what a platform represents. If you send a newspaper an editorial and they refuse it, "start your own publication" or "print it up as a pamphlet" are just fine. So is just "no", without any free tips on next steps or alternatives. Nothing is owed. Nothing's delivered.

Back to the laws, there are others to keep in mind here. Not just as they sit on the books, but how they play out in practice. Nobody wants to be dealing with subpoenas, court orders, and lawsuits, even lawsuits they can probably get dismissed early on under 230, all the time. Nobody wants to be dealing with media scandals. That's what happens when crime starts happening on your servers. The costs are so high, and involvement so unpleasant, that most experienced operators tune their terms, policies, and algorithms to sweep very broadly, accepting a lot of false positives to avoid false negatives that eat up all their money and time.

From a certain point of view, I'm sure it seems Facebook and especially Twitter are seizing on illegality as a pretense for political ends. Taking that was a factor as a given, there's almost certainly some additional element of simple self-defense and cost-saving at work here. Even if you start a new platform that doesn't share their presumed political bias, the other factors will stay in play.

Unwillingness to face that explains many of the woes of specifically right-allied platforms in the last ten years. If you set yourself as "the alternative" for people the major platforms are happy to be rid of, you can end up with a user base with a really high percentage of people creating problems that are problems no matter what your politics happen to be.
But people do stupid things every day. Smoking is stupid, binge drinking is stupid, not wearing your seat belt is stupid... all have consequences. The point still remains, it is a choice people make to not follow the rules that causes most of the problems. Now, how do we get people to follow the rules better?
It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
The United States is not intended to be a pure democracy. You're basically arguing against the existence of the federal judiciary. The Supreme Court has absolutely disallowed laws around things like segregation which were supported by a majority of people--whether nationally or at a relevant local level.
My friend Phil and I worked together at GitHub where we saw how awesome ChatOps could be. GitHub used Hubot for almost everything that could be automated. While Hubot is great, we also know from using it and building on top of it how much of a pain it can be to develop for, host, and otherwise keep up to date.

So we built Abbot; a more modern ChatOps bot that allows you to write skills in multiple languages, share and install packages, and react to external events.

Phil was on .NET Rocks! talking about Abbot a couple of weeks ago, if you prefer learning about things via podcast -- https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1726
More privacy (LDP model) == less utility
The cheapest one you can find. Because odds are you won't get into space observation. You'll try it and find out it's not for you. That's the way interests work.

If space observation is for you, the quality of the telescope won't matter because to a first approximation all of the limitations will be in your experience. You won't drive far enough away from city lights. You won't get the tripod level enough. Not closely aligned with the Earth's pole. The clamps won't be tightened tight enough. The eyepiece won't be optimal.

I mean, you'll have trouble finding the full moon.

No matter how much you spend.

Want to get good?

Set up the telescope right outside your front door and leave it there.

Use it every day.

But what if something happens to it?

It's cheap. Buy another. They're cheap.

Because something will happen to your telescope if you use.

It will fall.

You will drop it.

Knock it over.

You will forget it's leaning on the rear bumper when you back the car up.

All better than sitting in a closet.

The way to tell if space observation is for you is by a your willingness to be bad at it.

Being bad is being a beginner.

Mastery is reserved for masters.

Being into it is all the space in between.

Good luck.
I know I may be in the minority, but I like gnome a lot.
Functions (and I assume lambdas) could destructure tuples in Python 2.x. I started my first serious Python project in 2.something before discovering it was nearly eol, and learning that all of my tuple management was broken under version 3 was quite demoralizing.

I find the mutability of values and object orientation of 3rd party libraries to be among the most alienating aspects of Python, but overall it’s too useful for me to ignore, so I live with it.

I just don’t find layering on functional capabilities to an OO language to be nearly as useful as a true FP solution. As you said, too much cognitive overhead.
Just because the original intent may have bad doesn't mean that single family zoning in and of itself is bad. There are lots of municipalities with single family zoning. Mine does. Mine also doesn't allow any commercial property. And lots must be one acre or more. The residents want it this way. What's wrong with that?
Yeah, it was funny to see a complaint about the flash of unstyled content on a plain text page that needed a loading screen, too. That said, I can't argue with the conclusion, SVG is a better choice.
Cancelling and your account being deleted for not paying is different.
I love seeing this problem tackled in YC! It's a personal issue thats effected my family & community as well, so much so that I've been focusing on helping try and solve it with Penmate (penmateapp.com). Seeing YC take interest in this speaks volumes, it's extremely motivating.

To the Pigeon.ly team -- If there's anyway I can help, lets get in touch. This definitely is a problem that needs to be solved. Best of luck!
>This is appealing to viewers who can follow what's going on and can feel a sense of accomplishment in learning a new trick. //

I don't really think that is true. Unless it's explained to them I don't see most viewers picking up on the subtly touches and strange hand/wrist holding, the body language mirroring, the use of the water bottle to distract, the placing and reinforcement of the suggestion?

Personally I think it appeals because it looks entirely like magic - "these are not the droids you're looking for" - to most observers the first time they watch. For me a great illusion is one where I can't see how it's done without at least watching a few times.

There are definitely some magicians using stooges, Dynamo is one who's pretty easy to spot, but if Brown is doing so then he's done really well to hide it as I'm sure the major news outlets would pay well for a person from one of his shows who could expose details to show it was a sham.

Brown's mix of NLP/hypnotism techniques with standard illusion and misdirection is what makes him so entertaining.
Are you suggesting that's a lot? Or just making an observation?
Its an old concept. It describes the same code running on both the client and the server. Its been called isomorphism for at lest 20 years, when it was first used in networked video games.
For everything.
CityDesk by Fog Creek. In 2003.
> I went ahead and sent the demo URL to my friend who is opening a restaurant. We’re having lunch on Thursday, when he’ll sign up for his account. It’s exactly the kind of thing he was hoping for, so he can get back to working on his restaurant and not worry about his website.

This reads more as a paid promotional piece than an objective opinion.
> The grant system completely compromises most faculty'$ ability to do anything with their decades of training besides sell themselves.

I agree that the academic world is broken, but this narrative that success -- in any field -- isn't dependent on your ability to sell yourself is problematic.

I left academia behind because I saw that it was a brutal, improbable grind, sure, but mainly because I could see that the same skills needed for success as a professor had a much higher expected value elsewhere. In academia or otherwise, disproportionate success comes to those who combine ability with self-promotion. The people who put their heads down and focus on obscure problems will always be at the mercy of the winds.
I wouldn't be surprised if the vaccine companies are funding "research" also.