skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a short term renter who tends to move somewhere new about once a year inside of the USA for work. I have been choosing where to live primarily around the speed of the ISP available in the building. I have had 1Gbit for the last two years and would never want to downgrade.

It's a national embarrassment that we don't have this kind of access in more places.
The cost of CAFE isn't proportionate to the amount of C02 saved. If you build exotic sports cars, for one example, you have to pay far higher CAFE penalties because of their worse MPG averages, yet your customers drive their sports cars far few miles and use much less fuel than the typical cars.

Worse, because you don't have any small commuter cars in your lineup, you have to pay more in penalties than another car company that does. Assume Company A specializes in SUVs, and sells 1M a year. It pays a big penalty for their poor mileage.
Company B makes nothing but compact commuter cars that get high mileage, and pays zero in penalties for its cars it sells a year, as it should.

Now company C, builds SUVs with the same MPG average as company A, but has an licensing deal where company B makes 1M small high MPG commuter cars a year for C to resell under it's brand. Company C now pays little to no penalties, despite selling the exact number of gas guzzling SUVs as company A. And those small cars would have been made and sold by company C if the licensing deal didn't exist.

CAFE is a dumb law, and a bad solution to the problem of emissions. It's a big reason for the bankruptcy of US car companies during the last economic crisis. US car companies were bad at making small cars because their labor costs were so high, but they could make big SUVs and bigger cars profitably because labor costs were proportionately less.

CAFE would be much better if it simply applied directly to the car you purchased, regardless of manufacturer, and was an annual tax based on miles driven and MPG.
Person A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

Person B: "But my uncle Angus is a Scotsman and he puts sugar on his porridge."

Person A: "Ah yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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Two big aerospace companies ran out of fluid recently. Southwest airlines cancelled basically all their flights from Chicago yesterday because they ran out of Deicing fluid. They can use your same excuse! Something tells me Southwest failed at a much easier task, though.

"Southwest has 'multiple glycol deliveries' scheduled for Monday and expects to resume 'close to normal operations' at Midway, she said."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/11/de-icing-flui...
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This is practically the thesis of IPFS.
Primarily speed. Secondarily, the ability to display full-screen across a 27-inch display.
I did some research on this before building my current system (see parent comment). At the time I bought the stuff about two months ago the A8 and A10 CPUs (pre-Ryzen generation) for AM4 looked like terrible options. Looking at CPUs, the whole series of currently shipping Ryzen don't have onboard video, and I wanted a 1500X because I knew I could overclock it by at least 200-300 MHz with little effort.

Almost went to an Intel 8th generation Core architecture and Intel's integrated video. But the performance difference between intel onboard and a $80 to $90 geforce1030 was significant. I wanted to build something that would still be able to play ridiculously high bitrate HEVC.
It’ll be a slow chip away and then a mass migration catalyzed by some event. The chip away is already well under way.
I dont think this is great. The article didn't mention the massive health risks wrestlers face, even risk of death or long term impairment. The WWE has tried a little to reduce those but the smaller or more hardcore promotions probably still are doing chair shots and flying headbutts or other dangerous moves.

I love wrestling as a performance, and it is a art, but the cost of it is in the wrestler's bodies, much closer to boxing than football. I can't really love small promotions where they are probably giving themselves serious conditions that will manifest twenty years down the road for less than minimum wage and the vain hope the WWE will scout them.
It is worse than unnecessary. If people start irrationally doing things like recognizing the '+' then that creates facts on the ground which rational reasons for others to have to recognize the '+' -- except nobody really knows why anyone is doing it or what semantics anyone else is using. Thus the whole thing evolves into mess.

So please don't do that. Respect the bytes that be!
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I could certainly reduce costs, but that would also mean no pressure to reduce prices or invest in improvements.

This is essentially the situation we have in many markets where there is only one or two ISP choice(s): mediocre (or worse) service and inflated prices.
That engine uses tetraethyl borane (TEB), right? Do they have to first ignite the turbopump and then ignite the main engine?
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> Why? Because unless you're working at MIT or CERN that's how labs in the real world work. Everything's broken and you don't have any funding but you still have to publish.

That's close, but not quite the real issue.

The lesson is to document everything. Repeatability IS an issue even if no one is going to repeat the experiment--because YOU need that information to make any progress. It allows you to isolate to one thing, change one thing, and see what the result is. And THAT is the core of debugging.

I wish I could send every programmer through a physics lab class. The number of times I have had the following conversation with software people is staggering:

"Well, I did X and it didn't work."

"Oh? So, what was it supposed to do before you did X and what was it supposed to do afterword?"

"I dunno."

"THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO X AT ALL?" <bangs head on table>
Add an English and Spanish audio language.

It's really not hard. The real problem is that because it's closed-source software, the user must rely on the creator to think of every edge case.
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Yeah, I find the sentiment that this is hard to implement without it being YOOGE tech debt odd. There are so many ways to get it out of the way, including just querying through a view if you can't come up with an app-side solution.
> Yes, and occasionally, you might have to get a guy with a backhoe to come out and do some work. That's $1000.

I can rent a mini excavator for a weekend for <$200.

> That's assuming that you don't need a new line, which would take a perc test and a new permit.

What permit?

> It's several hundred to get it pumped every couple of years, I think I'm remembering in the range of $600 and just shy of 3 years between pumpings.

I had my tank pumped last month, it was $160.

> Then the well needs power, and someone needs to do the generator in a power outage, or you get to chip in for a spiffy one with an autostart, and the only time the well head ever acts up is on national holidays when if you can get someone out, it's 3x overtime.

When I was on well water, our pump could (and did) run off a car battery and an inverter when necessary.

> You know, I kind of like city water now.

I just bought a home that's on city water, but has a septic tank. I'm prevented by ordinance from replacing the tank, but I'll do everything in my power to keep it as long as possible. It's far easier and cheaper than paying for city sewer even without including the costs of hooking up to it.
> And the EU acts as judge, jury and executioner.

Now, now, you make it sound like a single human actually endorses those three roles. Any state (or group of states) is judge, jury, and executioner. I also write and dictates laws…

And that's okay.
Nope; check out open-source LTE tower projects. Surprisingly cheap these days! Totally within range of individuals, especially for the kind of hardware that only needs to serve rural areas.
Of course they are only allowed to use the data for the purpose you gave it to them. How does that not make sense?
Thanks! It does sound like the project you described would have been a great use-case for Haiku, e.g. how you can author custom/logic-bound SVG animations with Haiku, then pass live data into a Haiku component to update those animations via React/Vue props.

I'd love to see the project you made, if publicly available, as we're always looking for use-cases to drive our development. (You can mail zack@haiku.ai)

Oh, and my colleague Taylor wrote some more thoughts about "Lottie without After Effects" from a designer's perspective, if you're interested: https://medium.com/haiku-blog/lottie-without-after-effects-9...
I’m not a rocket scientist, but the Navier-Stokes equations are nasty; the best we can do is model what happens, assuming that we can exactly predict what will happen, which we can’t. Temperature, pressure and humidity of the air the rockets will fall through will not be exactly known, and all will affect how the rocket moves.

And even the best of modeling will not guarantee that reality will behave as predicted. Suspension bridges, for example, often need some ‘tuning’ to remove resonance after construction.

Bridge engineers, knowing that, often won’t even try to spend time and money to exactly predict bridge behavior. This may be similar: they may just have thought it would be faster or easier, maybe even cheaper to do the experiment than to work on exactly modeling their engine.

(The center engine is different from the others, but it also could just be statistics, with the amount they used giving a probability slightly below 1 of igniting one of these engines, and this being their unlucky day (given that they already have quite a bit of data from earlier launches, that is not too likely, but it is something I would let an engineer look at)
Please cite a believable example in modern times.

I'm pretty sure that if this was an actual option that the Ecuadorians would have jumped at it.
> about 328 feet from the floating platform

Someone doesn't understand precision.

(That's 100 meters, so "about 300 feet".)
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I remember my 2 unit physics Lab Class, barely. We did the Millikan Oil Drop as one of three of the horrendous experiments we had to preform. Jesus.

The experiment, in brief, is to irradiate tiny oil drops and then tune a pair of charged plates until you can get one oil drop to levitate. Since electrons are unitary in charge, you can then back calculate the charge of the electron based on the charge you put on the plates.

The set up is that you have a microscope, an oil atomizer to make the drops, the charged plates, and a small radioactive source to put electrons on the oil drops. Spritz, open the lead chamber, irradiate, look at the drops in the microscope, tune the charge, repeat.

Numerous problems emerged:

Myself and my partner were pretty blind without our glasses, which you have to take off to use the microscope. So we could see nothing. (found this out on the first day, fuuuuun)

The oil drops, when imaged, are about the same size as your retina cells, in the given microscope. This means you can never be sure that you have an oil drop or your eyes are just too noisy to see it. (found this out by the end of the first week)

The room must be perfectly dark to see the oil drops in dim light, also you must take data on a computer or by writing somehow. (found this out on the first day too)

The small bit of radioactive material was made radioactive in 1961. Given the halflife of the sample, my banana was more radioactive (found this out in 2 weeks)

The plates weren't connected to anything. (2 weeks wasted)

The oil atomizer was meant for baby oil, not vegetable oil, as was given to us and wasn't actually atomizing anything. (another weeks wasted)

The end result was, well, nothing.

We got nothing. Not for lack of trying. I think I slept about 2 hours a night that whole quarter, the rest of the time was spent in the lab and on HW for other classes. My partner and I discovered that if you put your thumb over the co-ax of a high voltage, low current powersource it would zap you something fierce and keep you awake through the early morning hours. I also discovered that taking 2 ibuprofen per Rockstar will lessen the jitters of the caffeine enough so that you can read your own writing later on. So that's nice, I guess.

Stay in CS kids. Physics is for idiots.
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It's not "fuel" in this case, it's the highly reactive compounds that are used to ignite the engines (TEA/TEB are pyrophoric, so they ignite spontaneously when exposed to air).

The precise amount they'll need depends on how quickly and reliably the engines restart. If the engines take a couple extra shots to light, then you may run out.
I see so now are literally extorting.
Not crazy, no, but surprising that they have ~300 employees.
There is another possibility you could try and that is employing an electrodynamic tether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_tether

As the earth's magnetic field reaches the moon a lunar space elevator tether could be constructed to intersect this planetary magnetic field. This giant wire then acts as a dynamo to convert the kinetic energy of the moon to electrical energy. By slowing down the moon you can create direct electrical current. How much current is dependant on how long the tether is and it's internal resistance. Try the back of the envelope calculations. This would be a rather large figure.
While the manual for my DSLR doesn't specifically refer to this use case, reading between the lines it sounds like using a jpg encoding for atomic-scale image capture isn't recommended.
The article claims that p2p traffic is dropping and quotes percentage numbers which appear to be a percent of total web traffic. This doesn't actually tell me if p2p traffic is dropping. It only tells me that its not growing with - what I would expect is a growing pie of internet traffic.

Furthermore, I would consider the source (plagiarismtoday.com) when choosing to trust some of the items in this article. I've never heard of them - but my initial inclination is to believe they have an agenda.
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It's all part of their one-size-fits-all approach.

They want to make sure everyone uses their software that runs on their overpriced hardware, and DRM is yet another way to enforce that.
This is not an example of bikeshedding. Bikeshedding is fighting over trivial details in order to delay or avoid a decision (perhaps subconsciously)

This is an example of gaming the system in order to steer a decision in a particular direction. It is an example of organizational politics - perhaps even of corruption
There is no legal way around ignoring EU VAT rules and selling to EU customers (no matter where you or your company is located). If you do business with EU end customers you have to comply to EU VAT rules. Just telling you how it works in theory.
About $5 million and long production time.
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Why would they sign up…ever? What's the value proposition? Will their parents have left in a few years?

When I joined Facebook (~2006/7) there was a very clear value to me: my and my college classmates could send messages, collaborate, and organize events.

Now it seems like a wasteland, I really have no idea how I could put Facebook to work for me, and since not everybody I need to collaborate with it is on Facebook (some are very opposed to it) it's useless as a platform for organizing events compared to other event-planning platforms. Why would anybody ever need Facebook?
Indeed; it reads like some kind of bad manifesto.
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Scroll until you see the first thing you saw the last time you checked the app. Do that every time you open the app and you'll never see things from before the last time you checked.

It's absurd that it's necessary, but it works 100% of the time for me since they moved to non-chronological sorting.
Mobile health applications put millions of users’ privacy and security at risk
I have zero moral qualms about pirating things that the copyright holder refuses to sell at any price. If they don't want my money, I'm under no obligation to give them any.
the whole EU? Too big to withdraw from.
I routinely buy one shrimp because I don’t like shrimp but I cook it for my baby as part of getting her diverse foods.
> > Voice search is already huge and I imagine it may be even bigger. I see Amazon as a threat to Google in this area.

> LOL. That is like saying Apple (iPhones) are a threat to Google (Android) when it was Apple that first brought touch-based smartphones to market.

Google brought voice search to the market long before Alexa.

It's true that Google was later than Amazon in incorporating voice search into the smart speaker form factor, which would be relevant if GP had identified the area of concern as “smart speakers” rather than “voice search”.
That is one of the most poorly written articles I've ever read. Aside from the jarring punctuation marks littered throughout, why is there a Kodi logo next to "Streaming Piracy?"
No problem, even tough it has been working great for many years and I am not looking for customers, investors on employees, I still consider it as a side project that grew in the same way as a startup, (using similar tools and strategies) and making me constantly more money than my “real” job without supervision and giving me the freedom to retire any time I wish to do so...
That's an interesting approach, and really seems like it would cut down on the amount of work required in the home to provide such a significant speed upgrade over traditional ADSL. Thanks for enlightening me!

Verizon rips out the copper network interface from your home and replaces it with Fios gear all the way through, which always felt like overkill though I know they do it partly to suck you in to their TV offerings too. I wonder how much the extra expense of this last 100 feet of the deployment (from telephone pole to house) holds back more broadband penetration.
They are also bringing gigabit by end of 2018: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/chart...
> But almost all of it absolutely optional.

The cost of someone looking after your children while you go to work is not optional.
I like that the author acknowledges the incredible success Apple has had with their software development, and the debt they owe to NeXT. NeXT came in because of the failure of Apple over many years to develop a new operating system. After the acquisition of NeXT they developed a lot of really successful updates to that OS, and some good products and some bad products. Maybe they have gotten to the place where they were in 1996, where they need a major change to revitalize their thinking. I don't think there is a great example of thirty years great years of continuous software development.
You are probably right that individual users won't be pursued but that's more of a political issue than a legal one -- torrenting via such a big site is certainly not legal. Even though the new 2013 criminal law indeed allows for downloading and uploading (this part is new) if no income is generated -- but you are missing some very important words which are there ("indirectly" and "income" -- not profit!) and some which are not. Be very careful with legal texts, the wording carefully and deliberately omits mentioning whose income it is -- the tracker site you are using generates income via ads and donations.

How do I know it's deliberate? Because some twenty years ago it was me who informed the Hungarian public about downloading being legal if no income was generated -- even if upload was not --- in a series of articles in Chip Magazin after a very long interview with Artisjus (the Hungarian collective rights management agency) and they have had at least a significant role in wording the copyright law then (if you would want to be a less careful journalist you would even accuse them writing it) and I'd bet anything they have had ... some ... input into the current law as well.

Do note the tracker sites themselves are illegal, this has been established last summer by the highest court in the EU. http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc... (change the doclang argument to HU to read it in Hungarian).
If I am following your last two paragraphs, you object to physicalism because it recognizes only one kind of 'stuff', yet it is fine that, under objective idealism, "'mind stuff' is the best 'thing' that we can use to describe everything." Is that not inconsistent?
Interesting, I would have assumed that was a service they just paid the airport for, rather than one the airline handles itself.
1. GDB can instantiate classes, but it's a bit wonky, I agree. You have to evaluate malloc manually and then cast the pointer to the right type and call the constructor. You can write python scripts to automate this.

2. That's good.

3. You can generally compile with -Og -g for faster execution while preserving enough of the program's structure to make sense of what's happening.

I can see how it can be useful though. Do you have to prebuild every cpp file, or just the one you put "#include INSPECTOR" in? Can you include inspector in more than one file?
And some of us spend tens of thousands building themselves a network. Experience has shown me however that I'm in the minority. Almost nobody values their Internet sufficiently to want to spend that much on a connection.
Based on my own experience and the fact that I hear similar complaints often, FB’s News Feed team is seriously out of touch with users and what we actually want to see on there. I can only assume that they’re chasing tiny abstract metrics of engagement, and focusing more on the experience for advertisers than users.
There are plenty of uncomfortable topics that gets glossed over in high school. Censoring these books at the high school age is great.
Never understood pro wrestling even though I watched it when I was a child (limited stuff on TV in the 70's.) and forgot about it until I watched the GLOW dramedy series and they kind of spoonfed the hows and whys of everything to the viewers and it clicked - it's a live action soap opera or play with very athletic performers. These indie wrestlers and the story told in the fictionalized account of the start of GLOW have a lot in common.
this takes the cake for great desktop backgrounds.
No it's not. You're misconstruing my statement to make a cheap semantic point. An "audiophile" grade product is the product that best reproduces sound for that class of device. If we were talking about headphones, then a $5 or £5 headphone wouldn't be audiophile grade because the components to accurately reproduce the audio can't even be found for that price, much less the whole package. In this case, we're talking about a class of product - wireless smart speakers. If there were enough of them on the market, we may be able to separate these into budget, consumer, and professional. The point is that the HomePod offers the best sound reproduction in its class.
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Oh dear God why did I read those while eating ramen
IBM used to have a no-layoff policy. Managers used to have Acrylic desk paperweights. People were loyal as children to IBM back then. in 1995 they hired a non-IBM president (the cookie-monster). Layoffs followed. People stopped being loyal. IBM tanked. Surprised?
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