skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the calm responses trying to explain refraction to those folks, but some people just won't be convinced...
Do you think the American money is nicer and cleaner than Russian money? It's all the same.
you're right, had a brainfart there. in that case it's much more reasonable at $65/hour.
There is interesting linear regression analysis in the folder above, between issuance of Tethers and the price of Bitcoin.
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What is this?
it wants an email address without saying what it is.

Have we forgotten that people actually want to know what things are these days?
Oh just hand over your data suckers, it doesnt matter what its for, we just want your essence.

Go away!
Even when Wikipedia does link to the original source, that has minimal benefit to the original source. Very few Wikipedia readers follow the links through to the source, so Wikipedia essentially replaces the original.
PSoC is an underrated line of parts. Now that they've dropped the wacky 8051-alike used in the older models and switched to ARM, there's a lot more you can do with these things.
That's a pretty lazy answer. Why not last year, or the years before? Bitcoin is nearly 10 years old and monetary policy has been "easy" that whole time (in the US and Europe). Why is it taking off this year in particular? What is the deal with the slew of ICOs? I am not sure what you mean by compound interest. Are you trying to make a pun, e.g. compound hype or referring to financial interest rates?
Never heard of Trumpet Winsock before. Found this.

https://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/

http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/news/3-latest-news/17-ma...

> As a result of some recent discussion about Trumpet Winsock and its use during the early 1990s, a group of users at Hacker News have decided to donate to Peter Tattam in appreciation for their use of Trumpet Winsock during the early years of the Internet.

> As a gesture of good will, Peter Tattam, the sole copyright owner of Trumpet Winsock, has also issued an amnesty on any copyright infringement by all users (individual and corporate) of Trumpet Winsock indefinitely for use prior to Jan 2011. He does however reserve all other rights in the copyright of Trumpet Winsock. Please note that Trumpet Winsock is still available for sale and is NOT free - should you wish to continue to use it, you should order a registration key from us.
The market should sort it out is deeply naive wishful thinking. Numerous sites block copy/paste, block password managers from functioning well, still have password rules from the Pleistocene let alone the most recent NIST recommendations. And those companies are worth more today than 10 years ago. So no, it really doesn't get sorted out. To the market, this is a detail it simply doesn't care about.
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I'm guessing most gains are from increased demand due to investor speculation.

When you look at the crypto usage for practical purposes there aren't too many yet. That tells us it's mostly people buying and holding.
You're right, but they go through the Gulf of Suez which is still an extremely busy area.
You can burn coal, yes, but once you add a chimney you're not getting 100% of the heat like you would by building a fire on your living room floor. It's an energy tradeoff vs dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. And I assume they're worse pollution-wise than a power plant.

I'm not sure what the efficiency on those is today. Article from 1980 [1] mentions 74% for a good quality stove, it's possible they've improved, but I doubt there's been as much development work on coal burning stoves as there has for gas fired furnaces.

[1] https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/1112/111256.html
What seems to be missing in the market is the ability to only pay for the setup and maintenance operations, but use my own existing cloud account and resources instead of running multi-tenant or in some other company's cloud account.

Basically as if I hired a contractor to install, monitor and upgrade, but automated. Existing services charge too much since they resell VMs and storage, while also being less flexible with access and performance.

There's also the rise of Kubernetes (with operators, helm charts and persistent storage) that takes away much of the complexity. By version 2.0, it should be able to easily make any legacy single-node system into a fault-tolerant service.
This happens to me enough I’ve gone through three iPhone screens and one iPhone camera. I now keep my phone in a wallet case with an extra protective screen. There’s no attraction for me to have an iPhone with more glass
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Why wouldn't they be? They know where their bread is buttered.

I think eventually the pendulum will swing back to better uses of the internet than trolling and crappy media
Do they all have direct access to every other device, memory and hard drive connected to your computer. Genuine question, I'm not sure but I would have thought they have to go through the main processor to access those devices.

However with ME and PSP they have complete access to everything you do on your computer. It can record your screen, monitor your traffic, connect to the internet, etc
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I wonder if there's manufacturers that are offering this kind of techniques to other parties nowadays. I did hear that Apple bought all of the output of a German CNC machine maker for the iphone and/or macbook bodies for a long time just to be able to ramp up production.
Performance tuning, scaling, troubleshooting, etc. We had terabytes of active data (as opposed to warehoused data).

For example, if a disk fills or is fails, adding a disk to a mySQL setup without causing downtime is a pretty involved process but in RDS it is one config change in the admin. It does the same process just AWS put a huge amount of work into automating it.

We only brought in the consultant for an average of a day every other week but that adds up and we had to bring in 0 people after switching to RDS.
Came here to say this, first of all a modal prompt about whether I want to view the website or download a mobile client. Then a series of jerky animations before a dead-end when I refuse to give an email address.
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For starters, the OSM PBF file format is not a protobuf file! Instead it's a collection of protobuf files inside each other!

You can read more in the fileformat: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PBF_Format

There are other problems, specific to OSM and not PBF/protobuf, like needing to store the locations of nodes until the end of file because they could be referenced anywhere in the file.
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They did a study a while back to see if fullerenes were toxic in mice and they doubled the mice life span. Lots of research outside of the U.S after that. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961212...

Nobody cares about this kind of research in the U.S because it's a synthetic substance that's not patentable.
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A world where an offline, encrypted data file offers exactly the same security level as an offline, encrypted memory cell.

You invoke side channels -- what about these side channels:
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/trezor-power-analysis/
> I say companies refusing to pay enough for labor, then complaining they can't find workers.

They'll pay any amount for labor up to the point where the cost of the labor outweighs the additional profit for the company that the labor will induce.
Even if it isn't nefarious, it's often unwanted. I usually turn around if I have to provide my email to see some sort of whitepaper or sample because it means I will have to later unsubscribe from whatever email list I was put on and hope they don't share the list with others (which happens, often).
I was a bit surprised by that as well. If you scroll further down the page, there are less expensive options. The eBook is $39. Paperback is $49.
Looks the same to me...
More likely it proves how financially weak AMD is.
"How is this different from websites that think it's okay to force you to abide by ridiculous password restrictions (e.g. 6-8 characters, must include digits, upper- and lowercase letters, and special characters but no quotation marks or any known SQL keywords)?"

If the Chrome team could figure out a way to force all of those sites to change their password restrictions through a Chrome update, they probably would.
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Kyle Bennet leaked this almost a year ago:

https://hardforum.com/threads/from-ati-to-amd-back-to-ati-a-...
You know who is a big user of JS? Who is using more, and more complex JS on their websites?

Google.

Google is also the pusher of some of the WebAPIs that will give browsers more access to your system (e.g. WebUSB [1])

Do you think Google is breaking JS to make themselves using less JS?

[1]: https://wicg.github.io/webusb/
- Increased connectivity to SA and surrounding countries (Angola, Namibia and Mozambique come to mind)

- Shorter latency between India/SA and US/SA

I agree, it doesn't seem very important w.r.t India-US data transfers
How correlated is Bitcoin price to the stock market rise and low Federal Reserve rates?
>If you know somebody's basic decision making capability is damaged and you intentionally abuse that damage to your self satisfaction

Wouldn't this include a lot of advertisement? Simply informing a person that an option exists wouldn't fall under it, but so many advertisements use psychological tricks that take advantage of common flaws in our decision making patterns.

>If you know bombarding a person, whether or not in a state of reasonable deciding capacity, with messaging to influence that person contrary to their objectives or in excess of a reasonable period of messaging

And this fits advertising even more.
"preconceived notions" is a euphemism for "profit motives".
I'm in class so I can't post as detailed as I wish, but there are at least three links in this comment section from much more credible sources that might inform your opinion more. I recommend the New Yorker article first. You need to segregate your emotions from your reasoning. Having a misinformed opinion is not a crime, but it is correctable. My chief issue with your comments is, as I stated before, your general implications and assertions, particularly in regards to China and Best Korean competency. I too am still learning just how isolated, geographically, ideologically, and intellectually, the Juche government of NK is.

Don't hear what I'm not saying: I think you are ignorant of some of the facts, not incapable of understanding. I see now that my initial comment was overly petulant and could have been more constructively worded. I will post some links I find helpful when I get out. But should you gave the time there are some enlightening docs on documentaryheaven.com (their site is a huge mess) about Best Korea. Be well.
Similar story behind JPMorgan Chase: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/About-JPMC/document/...

The Bank of The Manhattan Co. had an
unusual beginning. Burr led a group of
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obtaining a state charter for a company
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laws of the United States.” Burr then
used that provision to start a bank.
Is it so hard to sync up bluetooth headphones? I've done it once per headset I bought on my phone and it was a simple process. Children do it everyday. I suspect Doppler Labs failed to thrive for other reasons.

I just stopped by their site and saw their farewell message. I could 50+ people in the photo. That's 50 salaries this startup had to absorb every month. If we assume 100k real cost per head (recruiting, pay, benefits, etc) then we're at $5m per month on salary alone. If it took 2 year from idea to product, then you're in the hole $120m. If you sell these headphones with a markup and post-everything margin of $30 per set, which seems reasonable, then you need 4m in sales to break even. That's a serious amount of sales to push through.
ARM basically made CPUs a commodity and Apple is still killing it by designing their own best-in-class version so I wouldn't be so sure about RISC-V.
Bing has allowed OSMers to trace from their aerial imagery for years. Having proper aerial imagery is like night and day for mapping.

It used to be Yahoo aerial in the early days.
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The question asked was how do these policies make money for the airline. I've given the answer to that question. Whether you personally care about that or not isn't really relevant, since it wasn't your question.
Yeah, I have had my sysadmin email me telling me that my server has reported a few ECC errors on one of the DIMMs. That was done at IME level. Told us exactly which DIMM to replace, made it very easy.

Likewise, I have had him email me to tell me that a hard drive in one of the hardware RAID arrays had failed. No main OS involvement.

There is a use-case for this stuff. What is evil is how it is switched on all the time on everything when that is unnecessary.
Only if you use the plugin and the password manager identifies fields correctly.
>This is reasonable when machines list a maximum reward of say 10,000$ and then it says has someone win 2000x

I disagree. It should be trivial to code a machine to not display a number greater then it's maximum bet.

Forcing slot makers to honor their machine's output will incentivize them to better bug test their products.
True that. Good point ;-)
Hey there, I'm the writer and I'm definitely guilty of exaggeration on the title. My goal was to push back against this popular narrative that it's something intrinsic about hardware that kills these startups, not strategic errors or poor execution. Hardware is less forgiving, but I'm not sure it's meaningfully harder to build a new gadget than take on Facebook or Google in social or search.

My first job was at an HW startup and I launched a dozen hardware products. It's tough. A screw-up at a single soldering station in Shenzen can screw-up a deal years in the making with Walmart. Overordering materials means you have to lay off friends.

But saying "Hardware is Hard" is an oversimplification.

When we say that to explain the failure of HW startups, we miss a lot of important nuances. Hardware is hard, but that's not the primary reason most HW startups fail. Almost all of the high-profile failures we see in hardware are companies that are trying to be the "Apple of X."

In this post, there are two hardware startups, valued at nine-figures, that are essentially bootstrapped. Hardware was hard for them too, but they managed to win with very little in the way of resources.
The scary thing is that as companies get bigger and more powerful and there are fewer small companies who can compete with them, this will only get worse.
Surveillance will become the norm; once all the big companies are doing it, employees will be forced to accept it as normal. That's basically the trend.

Soon we'll have slavery again; except instead of your status being determined by your race, it will be determined by how much empathy you have.
People who have empathy for others will be slaves of narcissistic, greedy corporate assholes.
Function extensionality: does it make a difference?
Would that have even helped here? It seems like it's an OS process that's leaking the user's IP, not the Tor Browser.
He takes the same item Walmart would discount in a localized area and makes it globally available. Someone browsing online doesn't know said item is on clearance in Backwater, Flyover State. Sure he has probably made some mistakes and bad purchases, but anyone worth their salt doesn't do it again. Take small risks and see if it sells. When you find a seasonal item or hot seller, you replicate it. This can wipe away any mistakes you made. This plus amazon fulfillment handling the inventory problem, might work well.
Russia since the creation (26 years ago) was involved in:
Transnistria (war)

Nagorny Karabakh (war)

Chechnya (2x 'official' wars and still going)

Georgia (war)

Ukraine (war)

Montenegro (coup d'etat)

And as for economical blockades, they've did that to almost all their neighbours:

Belarus

Estonia

Georgia

Lituania

Latvia

Poland

Ukraine
For sure; I think for many people that have to make a presentation, the message they want to tell is organized in bulletpoints, and they think of that while making the presentation, adding bulletpoints as they go. The presentation then becomes their own speakers notes, the crutch for their presentation.

The alternative is to, if you need that crutch, write down the presentation in bulletpoints, memorize it, and make an accompanying / illustrative presentation alongside it. That requires a bit more effort and practice though. And if you have enough practice, if you have your message in your head already, along with the structure, you won't need the crutch anymore.

But this is a very specific skill, if you're not doing regular presentations you won't acquire it. There's a lot of people that travel the world doing conference talks, they can reuse the same material a few times if need be, spend more time preparing, and just know their exact message. Getting paid to do presentations instead of having to do it as a side-thing does make a difference.
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Hardware is hard imo due to:

1. Cost and pricing models. This is very difficult especially when you're not big enough to place larger production runs. You don't have economies of scale here. It's expensive to manufacture just a few boards at a time.

2. Manufacturing/supply chain points of failure.

3. Hardware points of failure (buggy vendor chips etc.) which could easily derail a project. Hardware isn't as malleable as software too.

4. Long product development times. Your first version of the product can quite easily stretch out to many months or even years. This is a huge risk from a shareholder's perspective.

To gain some context into hardware manufacturing, I recommend reading:

The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware by Andrew Bunnie Huang.
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Those things need to be strictly timeboxed. Assume your audience has a 15 minute attention span, maybe per subject / team. If you can summarize it in 15 minutes then you're good. Shorter is even better. Longer might work if you have a really interesting subject, but usually, product demos etc aren't, especially if they're a recurring thing.
> same with apple - "now we'll ignore user-scalable=no and screw every responsive webapp out there"

Maybe because 90% of responsive webapps would be better implemented as standard html websites which would improve performance and help preserving battery.
I don't want to be that guy, but nothing here seems outlandish. A website is actively violating US law, didn't show up to defend itself, and now facing an injunction. The same happens for foreign entities that do not comply with US law.

I'll be interested to see how far this goes, and if any ISPs start blocking the site. With the whole Net Neutrality debate, I'm curious to see if the ISPs change their stance when they start getting ordered to block sites.
> evident in some parts
I'm not surprised at all. My observation has been that teachers - even ones who are brilliantly good as teachers - are abysmal PowerPoint users. Every one I've seen has made the same kind of mistakes:

- Way too many slides for the time available
- Numerous slides that with both paragraphs of text and elaborate diagrams
- Slides that cannot be read at all by the audience because everything is too small
- Reading verbatim from slides in the presentation
- A firehouse of information that is impossible to remember or even follow
- Zero narrative flow, no sense of what are key points

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I think one of the simplest ways to illustrate this is with sounds. Humans who spend their early years in an environment devoid of certain sounds lose the ability to differentiate those sounds. The classical example that many seem aware of are Japanese speakers who have trouble distinguishing l and r sounds. Every language has some sounds missing, and so any given person should be able to find two sounds they can't distinguish unless they were raised in a multi-lingual household from birth which covered all the sounds.
>> others will do just a monkey job using magical APIs.

Isn't that what most of modern software development is like already?
Many common use cases have been implemented in frameworks, and usually a developer's job consists mostly of tacking pieces of framework together. The days where a person single-handedly implements a state-of-the-art game from scratch are long over.
On the other hand, you could still create a game by yourself using all the available open source tools. You can still be creative and do exiting things all you want, the type of work is just different.

Also, you don't have to be a genius to understand machine learning either. But you do have to learn some math!
The teacher is probably also just using a formula, judging the presentation by technical points instead of contents or as a thing to make the actual presentation better. A shame, I'm sure your son will be able to do presentations that aren't judged by technical points soon enough.
Coq is intuitionistic, classical proofs cannot be expressed. Mathematicians almost always (unless intuitionistic math is your niche) use classical proofs.
True that this is worse! But you still don’t know if someone is going to be reading it or if it will be flagged. The relation I was trying to make to panopticon is that workers will live under constant fear.

In regards to the math, I don’t believe that humans perceive risk with such objectivity. If the cost of being observed is high, then even a low risk may impose constant anxiety. Of course, perhaps criminal behavior selects for a group that tends to undervalue the costs and under estimate the risk.
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The init system seems fine, its all the cruft rapidly attaching to it. Case in point: Breaking sighup behavior and killing processing aggressively because GNOME was too buggy to close out normally. And yes, I'm aware there's currently a toggle switch for the behavior.
As the operator of a website old enough to still have a "webmaster" email address, it can be hard to remain relevant in the age of Google's search monopoly. Their algorithm has become the de facto gatekeeper to the entire Internet, and it happens to favor newer content over old. Consequently it favors those crappy flip-shop[1] sites where "writers" find quality content, perform a mild thesaurus modification, and re-post it. The original source, where the actual research and writing occurred, is stomped into insignificance.

Yes, perhaps I'm slightly bitter, why do you ask?

Between that and the "Wikipedia wall," boutique websites have been an endangered species for some time.

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flip%20shop
That does, thank you so much for the feedback