skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can grow pretty much anything in California. Soil is great, perfect weather for a wide variety of crops, and the dryness actually helps with pests and disease if you have another source of water.
I often see a great deal of contempt for users here on HN, why should Facebook etc. be any different?
The problem with AMP is centralization. The problem with centralization is deciding who gets to talk about what subjects. Centralization provides perverse incentives to restrict this.

That email operates as a significantly decentralized, federated set of privately run servers cuts the gordian knot of having to decide what is allowed.

AMP is a step backwards for everyone in order to make up for the terrible performance of mobile networks and smart phones.
Not to mention the competitor will most likely have to do without the subsidies SpaceX received from the government.
Great guide! Another reason to be familiar with this stuff is for data science: splines in particular are really useful for fitting a linear predictor where you suspect some of the marginal relationships are nonlinear, but you don’t have a strong prior on what the nonlinearity looks like.
How much telecom traffic goes via satellite vs. ground towers and fiberoptic cable? What percentage of capex cost for a telecom is rocket launches? I have absolutely no clue, but I feel it would affect this analysis greatly.
assuming any "kind" of spline before you have your data is jumping the gun; if you have 20 points, then anything under a 20th order polynomial is not guaranteed to actually fit your data, so: how lossy do you want the fit to be? You could use a poly-whatever, like a catmull-rom curve, or something based on B-spline
I agree with the sentiment. I am willing to pay more for my beans, but brew my own coffee at home and at working using a good burr grinder and an Aeropress. The lower temperature and higher pressure method makes such a smooth cup without bitterness that you can actually start tasting the coffee. I like the analogy of the camera-- you can buy a great lense, but if your hand shakes then the picture won't come out well.
> He got less than 5% support.

....support in what, exactly?

This is a pretty vague statement.
> I personally enjoy the freedom of having to fear being shot

Small victories I when you have to worry about literally all of nature trying to kill you ;)
That is.. I've never thought about it that way, but makes lots of sense. TIL and thank you.
You sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_South_Afric... doesn't have anything to do with it?
This amorphous right commenters on this thread seem to think Damore had not to be fired, he didn't have. That's what employment at will means.

You don't even know whether I think his termination was reasonable. All you know is that I believe --- and so does the NLRB in this instance --- he did not enjoy special protections against unreasonable termination.

What I find especially funny about this is that Damore is a conservative, lobbying for more protections for conservatives in the workplace. But employment at will isn't just a conservative value --- it's a signpost conservative value, one of the basic principles on which we organize our market economy. It is, in conservative thought circles, one of the pillars on which American entrepreneurship rests, and a reason that the US excels over Europe in commercial dynamism.

Damore is in this instance a conservative the same way the nihilists in The Big Lebowski were nihilistic. But he gave up his toe! He expected a million dollars!
Does anyone really use suspend-to-disk? It takes awfully long to write 8-16 GB of data, then awfully long to read it back. It is much faster to just boot, than to restore from suspend to disk.
Filling out web forms in emails sounds like a dream come true for phishing shops.
> So if you come across a method name that does not clarify enough for you what it does, and there are no comments to help, you might start by getting your questions answered, and then add comments that help clarify things.

And the logic for not renaming the method is what exactly?
> As for Huls, he is finishing up his fellowship at the hospital this summer. Wherever he ends up, he is certain he will find new cases to challenge his curiosity, cases he hopes to solve.

No, he won’t, because only early stage residents are given the freedom from economic realities to spend hours digging and thinking through records. Docs aren’t paid for their time, nor even for results - and their employers (read: hospitals) have no intention of going into the red.

Do note the key to this diagnosis wasn’t finding a brilliant or deeply experienced path: it was about putting it into the hands of a curious trainee, who had the time to chase that curiosity.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it many times in the future: when it comes to complex patients, there’s enormous value in chucking insurance out the window and just paying the doc for their time. A moderately clever doc afforded more than 7 minutes to work on a case can solve a lot of problems.
That quote doesn't support the statement "women are less capable", since it refers to 'distribution of abilities'; whereas 'less capable' would usually be interpreted as a statement about averages.
Those are great examples because nobody is totally sure of those things either.

As an Asian man let me say this: Stop pandering! It's quite obvious that height is a huge advantage in the NBA. (Also note that biological differences are not necessarily genetic, because I have a guess that you are going to cite diet next.)
Tell you friend to watch What the Health [1]. Sure, it provides a somewhat biased view on the topic of eating too much meat, but it is thought provoking anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Health
I couldn't find this issue on the QEMU bug tracker.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/

Since you encountered it and I don't yet have AMD hardware to test, would you mind reporting it?
This depends on water being well-priced in California (i.e. not subsidized, reflective of opportunity costs and externalities). I don't know much about water in CA, but is this the case?
Yeah one can definitely imagine a future where SpaceX kills their payload-to-orbit delivery business in order to streamline operations and free up resources to focus on a) revenue generation from the sat network and b) the "get your ass to Mars" program. It'd be a risk from a diversification perspective but I could see them doing it once the sat network hits escape velocity wrt projected revenues landing them to cash flow positivity in the Mars program.
Most tokens are implemented by ethereum contracts, because it is the simplest way to implement such thing, but they don't have to be.
You want one cubic polynomial segment? Or you want to figure out where to put variable knots to approximate your curve with a particular number of cubic segments? Or ...

Try reading Raph Levien’s PhD thesis starting at page 135 http://www.levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf

That is about converting a specific type of curve to cubic segments, but can give you an idea of the considerations involved.
The UI and JS run on the same thread, but you can offload some work to worker threads: https://docs.nativescript.org/angular/core-concepts/multithr...
You can't really use liquids around plasma. You can try to have liquid lithium behind inside a solid container, but wall thickness directly relates to wall lifetime AND you want the thinnest walls possible to maximize tritium production.

Worldwide Tritium production is on the order of 1 lb per year, that's not going to cut it when you want to scale up.
"Talk about an economic moat -- to compete on margin you'd first have to become a rocket company. And not just a rocket company but one who has technology to re-use rockets, which likely is a ways away from becoming replicated, nevermind commoditized to the point where it evaporates from costs."

It's even worse than that. SpaceX is using micro satellites for its network; they can launch them for "free" (just the cost of extra fuel) as a secondary payload on any of their launches where there is excess cargo capacity.
If anybody from Watsi sees this, we've spent years working on and perfecting offline-first distributed data sync, we've released it as MIT/ZLIB/Apache2.

We've had navy warships running the system on ancient hardware, and lots of people in the Open Source community have run it on low power devices, like raspberry pi and dirt cheap android phones.

Would love to chat, my email is in my profile.
I just had a quick check on Google but no luck; has anyone calculated Starlink's intended cross section bandwidth?
You’re mixing two separate questions. One is whether your boss has the freedom to hire and fire as they see fit, where the answer is yes except for certain protected classes. Their money, their rules…

If he’d sent out a memo saying any management initiative was wrong and they were stupid he could be fired for it in the state of California. He just wouldn’t have been able to turn it into cash from right wing causes.

The second question is whether this is science being squashed as his more emotional supporters frequently claim. I don’t think there’s any reason to conclude that since this was a really lousy attempt at scientific analysis remiscent of the creationists who try to sound science-y but are ideologically prevented from actually practicing science.
No. Any company can use existing satellite launch companies to launch their constellation. You don't need to be a "rocket company" first. There are plenty that can do this on the cheap - ISRO for example.
I don't know either, but considering the complete lack of existence of the kind of network SpaceX is proposing, or anything close to it, if it's not deployment costs it would have to be some other factor coupled with operating a ~1000 sat network.
I don't understand the underlying chemical reaction, but the vinegar:Dawn mixture alone did not get the boyfriend's tub clean. I had let the mixture sit in the tub for like an hour too periodically doing test scrubs. It wasn't that it wasn't working, it was that scrubbing wasn't clearly only doing a half job.

Once I added the baking soda, like I said in a different post, the grime came off like a banana peel with much less effort on my part.
Wow my googling failed me miserably above. The now-dead sibling reply lists a dozen or more countries in that category.
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Is it possible at the proposed orbital height that global latencies could end up being lower than fiber? Have they specifically mentioned satellite-to-satellite links?

For a worst case example, take New York City and Perth, Australia (rough antipodes). Would the orbital infrastructure allow for the only ground connections to be the end points? How many hops would be necessary?

Space comms are just so damn exciting to me. No atmosphere to mess with your lasers, no fiber optics to limit you to 2/3 light speed, no watery weather to contend with...
that really doesn't sound so bad. at least curiosity piquing enough to work out more of the economics and impact of using reverse osmosis water in agriculture.

I would think it might not hold up so feasible for non-cash crops, but at first glance that seems pretty cool that you might be able to use reverse osmosis water for crops. I guess you just have to convince/get farmers to give up their cheap water ha.
I used to be a mid level manager at a small regional somewhat-niche retail chain. The last few years they have started to heavily focus on employee knowledge. Hiring full time staff whose only job are to be product experts to help customers, introducing huge amounts of product knowledge courses. They know they can't beat the big boys on price so they are trying to become THE local place you go to talk to someone about this specific niche. It has been working out very well for them.

The niche doesn't even really matter here. It could be car stereos, music, books, alcohol, grocery, whatever. I definitely think the path to survival for small retail shops going forward is going to be expert level knowledge and customer service. The days of people patronizing your store just because its physically nearby are numbered.

edit: Also, and this is totally anecdotal, but I personally shop at several places that aren't quite the cheapest (though none are TOO relatively high priced) but I continue to shop because the staff are far more knowledgeable than I and their assistance is well worth the extra ~10% in price.
Which is odd, considering the plain language of the Sherman Anti Trust act not only makes monopolies illegal, but makes pursing a monopoly illegal. Has there been any laws passed that override this, or have the courts been unwilling to enforce the law as it's written?
Colonizing Mars must not happen until we have a definitive answer as to whether there is or was native life there. The answer "there was life until Musk landed" is not going to be acceptable.
While I agree, I've also found that it can be a danger. I thought I was all about the functional programming until I used languages that 'required' it. It was only then that I realized I'd been using non-functional escape hatches all over the place.
It's open season on everyone in virtually every American workplace. Why won't you acknowledge this? You're a reasonable guy. We've had dinner together!

What's happening here isn't a shift. What you're demanding is a new special protection for "people who can defend their position scientifically".
Thanks, that was fascinating to read (even allowing for my poor french). That is the kind of data I'm looking to get out.
Monitor their communications so you know exactly what software they are using, then drop a 0-day on the forged site (I find it very unlikely that GCHQ don't stockpile Firefox/Chrome escapes and Windows/Linux priv. escalations etc.). There's little an individual can do against such a targeted attack without completely airgapping the machine which A) probably isn't viable for a network/software engineer and B) GCHQ are probably determined enough to gain physical access if they deem it necessary.
As I recall, horses killed people at much higher rates than cars.
My argument is about margin and replication costs not about if there are alternative routes towards replicating SpaceX's network, given enough money. Of course if you had infinite money you could burn up hundreds of rockets to get your network in place using existing providers. But my guess is that money is going to flow literally anywhere else if, for example, you will be spending 10x money as SpaceX just for table stakes of getting your satellites in orbit.
They just announced it's being pushed back to Wednesday.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/964937069901447168
>Enough people are coming out saying it's a terrible idea...

In the tech sphere, posting on blogs linked to by sites like HN. The fact is that 99% of gmails users will never see the push back and have no clue what AMP is. Unless the actual experience is just terrible, most users will be probably enjoy the added functionality without thinking about the concerns we have.
There was a coffee-in-California discussion last year at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14436704.
I was married for a lot of years. My marriage was a case of opposites attract. We argued incessantly about everything but personal belief.

It took us a lot of years to get to the point where we could go furniture shopping and communicate constructively in order to agree on a purchase instead of fighting about who would win this one. We often were focused on entirely different attributes in our decision making process. For example, attractiveness of a bookshelf might be my focus. Sturdiness might be his.

Once we got past knee jerk rejection of each other's first pick, it was entirely possible to find a bookshelf that satisfied both his criteria and mine. But that required us to be able to communicate effectively, something we didn't have mastered when we got married at age 19.

When you do surveys, you find that the majority of people are both antiabortion and pro choice at the same time. Most people feel that abortion should be a last resort, not standard birth control. But they also feel a woman should have control over her body and her life and should not need to prove she was raped to choose to terminate a pregnancy.

Pollsters with a political agenda know this. They can survey the same people about the same issue and come up with data to support either antiabortion laws or pro choice laws depending on how they ask the questions.

Most people are not monoliths and not rabidly polarized along X social fault lines. The inability to safely talk to "the other side" means people can't learn to speak in a more nuanced way and can't build bridges.

I'm not 19 anymore. I see no reason to pick bookshelf A while hubby picks bookshelf B and we fight about who gets what they want. I am much more interested these days in finding out why he likes B, talking about why I like A and then looking for a third option that is satisfactory to both of us.

Society benefits when people can find a safe sandbox to begin that communication process. It does not have to be a case of which side wins and which side loses.
It’s a lossy compression issue:

How to approximate a curve within a given error threshold with the minimum number of control points.
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I would guess it costs more money for now, since now we can expect an increasingly long period of disease and disability before death. This period is made possible by improved medical care and palliative care, which is expensive. For example, a dementia patient might cost $300k over 7 years. Medical guidelines (enforceable by law) include many intended life extending therapies such as antihypertensives, antibiotics, anti-blood clotting agents, and so on. By extending unhealthy life, these increase the total amount of care. And as I said that care is getting more expensive. So it's a double whammy.

However, if and when life extension technologies are developed then we'll have preventative maintenance for the human body. Many common diseases and disabilities will be avoided plus we won't ever reach the geriatric care phase. The periodic choice would then be between more extension (relatively cheap) and assisted suicide (cheap). So this would save money.
You're missing my point. They haven't built their business collecting data. They were just mitigating risk. I am not talking about businesses collecting personal data. Just a normal company that doesn't want to worry about compliance in the early days (even though they are probably compliant). I specifically said "It's not that they are companies that track you".

When ready, they will be able to enter the EU market quite easily, but at least with capital and size they can do the work necessary to feel comfortable in their compliance. Until then, EU citizens don't get access to the company. This is what I mean about regulations favoring the larger companies. It's almost always the case.
It's an interesting question.

I think the trap here is that productivity entails the exchange of hard currency. In some societies activities like childcare, household work, shopping, gardening, etc. are uncompensated labor often done by seniors. Historically, they have also been conduits for preserving knowledge and educating new generations. But things are changing. Seniors' productivity as a cohort today will probably diminish with increasing lifespans, decreasing healthspans, and being a larger proportion of society than has historically been the case.
That's the retail price of the coffee and a whole lot of layers of people/businesses are involved between the grower and the retailer.
It's similar to, although much larger than, Iridium. Building it is one thing but making it profitable is another, as it making people accept the latency tradeoffs of satellite.
>Why is California so fascinated on agriculture which is extremely water intensive? Coffee is up there with Almonds as far as I understand the situation.

Check the Netflix documentary "Water & Power", it gives a good reason to consider why.

Essentially, people trying to control the water.
I've been hotspotting with Verizon for my primary internet connection since January 1. I'm currently paying $100/mo for their "unlimited" plan, which gets me 600kbps, or approximately the slowest viable tier of terrestrial DSL for which people usually pay in the neighborhood of $20 a month.

If I want to pay $10 more, I can get "beyond unlimited", with 4G hotspotting -- but only for the first 15GB, and then after that it's back to 600kbps again.

I'm canceling Netflix shortly because it's a miserable experience on this connection.

I'll be signing up the day Starlink becomes available and dropping Verizon to the cheapest plan they offer. Even if it's a little more expensive than what I'm currently paying, it'll be worth it just to give the middle finger to these bastards.

Heck, might even have a celebratory barbecue.
>The major question isn’t motive, it’s just “did you get caught...”

I'm not in a position to know, but I find that unlikely. Say GCHQ was using Belgacom to spy on some Belgium based terror suspects ignoring Belgian privacy laws. Would that really be the same as if they had been spying on the Belgian government or on EU institutions in Brussels? I think not.
Like how prices weren't that high as people think, and then citing 37 documented examples of people that than paid what amounts to the yearly wage of a master craftsman for some bulbs (and those are just those that they could find documented) -- as if those are not crazy prices still.

Or how the author says that bulbs were exchanged in neighborhoods and taverns and such, to brush off the craze as "small scale", and then goes on to say how specialized exchanges emerged in most cities, with experts in such trade etc -- without seeing the contradiction.
I'm curious as to why you think elections for judges is a bad thing? I'm not advocating for that system (I'm the first to say the US system is completely fucked), but the only other way I know of is by getting appointed, which also seems like a terribly corrupt system to me.
I don't want to ban you! But HN has the rules it does for a good reason: if people routinely break them, other users will do even worse. That way leads to the destruction of the site.

Think of it as an optimization problem. Even if all your points are correct, posting like you did above is to choose a local optimum (maximum sharpness for your points) over the global optimum (having an interesting community based on curiosity). That's a bad solution, especially since it's easy to make your substantive points in a civil way.
That's because you're papering over the abuse that Amazon already inflicts on workers and rural communities and you need to make up for the the logical hole left by a bad-faith deregulation starting point of your argument.