skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to the thought experiment: if you are in a spaceship with no windows, are you accelerating, or stationary on a planet with gravity; you can’t tell.

Though if you are constantly a accelerating, with the earth stopping you, what is your instantaneous speed? The faster you go, the more time dilation.
I sometimes work in electrical panels and they have markers with numbers on for terminals, wires etc.

One day I was head in a panel trying to work out a problem and realised it had got to the point where I could not get my head far away enough from the wire markers to read them.

Got a set of clear bifocal safety glasses for about $14, made life heaps easier.

Apparently you can get stick on bifocals that you can apply to any glasses as well.
How apropos of the Bloomberg article it is that when I search for her in YouTube the top results are targeted at people wondering how much she earns.
> but the technology behind this (FIB, microprobing, etc.) has been steadily dropping in price

Isn't it more of a cat and mouse? The defences also drop in price and increase in availability?

As usual, old tech is becomes vulnerable. Hopefully most people will get the chance to upgrade to the latest and greatest before attacks get too easy and destroy the old device.

I wonder what Chris Tarnovsky is up to these days...
I don't disagree. My argument is that getting the technique right on certain exercises is harder & have a higher risk than others.
I usually go to Ocean State Job Lot or Home Depot. There's a wide selection for $1-2/bulb. I like Cree or Philips as brands.
I bought a raspberry pi specifically to run pi-hole, with the assumption it would be able to YT ads but, as far as I can tell, it doesn't. It's been good at blocking in-game ads though. Another bummer is that it only works on my home network.
PG&E here in Northern California does offer net metering -- sell to them when the sun is up and buy back at night, guaranteed a wash in $$. Good deal for us.
Even less growthy than that... lots of people buy bonds, right?
The good news is, we know about the disinformation.

The bad news is, the public is either too stupid or too far in partisan denial to care.
Ah I had that experience on Azure. With aws we have paid support so when we have issues and raise critical tickets they respond in ~20m but azure. When they were still doing sql server as a service I lost access to my database. Support told me there was no problem. The azure insiders forum said others were having issues. The support wouldn’t even acknowledge I couldn’t access the database. 2 days later I finally got access again randomly. I never got a response to why this happened. I’m just Glad this was a non production application for some contract work but they ended up wanting to go aws over the experience.

I Guess at the end of the day we all experience different levels of support from all these providers.
Thank you for clarifying that. That is exactly what I meant but obviously failed at communicating.

Leaning forward is okay while doing squats. A heavy weight causing you to lean forward out of your position is bad.
Oh wow. Personal preference is thick in that last statement there. I can't stand places with wet and dry seasons. I can't imagine wanting to live somewhere without snow in the winter. "Great year round weather" is a value judgement.
A Glimpse into the Future of Front-End Engineering
Definitely recommend LaTeX:

- Templates: https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/

- For generating the resume, and minor custimizations: https://www.sharelatex.com/

- For generating the resume, and advanced customization: http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/
curl https://tiiiny.com/js/index.js | grep quote\" | sed -e 's/.*: \"\(.*\)\"/ * \1/' | sort
Someone's never managed a supply chain before
Marxism doesn't have to be undemocratic. Isn't the losing pattern here - dictatorship vs democracy, not Marxism vs Capitalism?
I think intelligence gives you the background of ideas, philosophies, and history from which you can, if you are motivated enough, be inspired by when working on creative pursuits. I am likewise not terribly convinced that the correlation is as high as the GP asserted.

Also, I think that creativity usually comes from two ideas that no one really considered could be combined together, but someone did, and pursued it. The people who are best able to capitalize on that are those who are experts in more than multiple fields, like polymaths, and can use the knowledge from one field and pollinate in another field of expertise. I.e. polymaths, who I would expect to be some of the most intelligent people out there.
Laptop was my first thought as well; most of mine easily run under 20W even with a screen, and they're almost all x64.
The user can request I delete all of the data related to them without “undue delay”. Are you ready to purge all references to certain IP addresses in your logs? Don’t forget backups.

GDPR blows up a lot of assumptions we make about writing software and managing servers.

https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/article-17-right-to-era...
What problems do autonomous vehicles have in geospatial awareness?
> the effect of flat revenue on both their ability to make bond interest payments

If your revenue is flat you had no business selling a bond.

The purpose of a bond is to buy a jump in regular revenue. If the jump doesn’t happen you default on your bond. Or you sell assets and eat the cost and try again with a better plan.
> Not long after I returned I discovered that not one but both of these companies were acquihired by Google when they opened an office in SG.

Do you mean the 2 companies were both acquihired by Google when Google opened the Singapore office?

Since that's many years ago, out of curiosity, do you mind sharing the 2 companies' names? Thank you.
Just adding my name to the rolls of people for whom the setting defaulted to "off." Facebook loves to A/B test these things, which you'd think people would applaud.

I think people are overly hard on Facebook honestly, such that they assume ill intent with everything including assuming it's just default on for everyone.
Go to Apple store with reporter. Buy phone. Have reporter take selfie and set passcode. Take phone, unlock, show reporter selfie.
Why should they? Let the developers who don't want to use metal pay them.
I'd be careful with "simple facts." Rarely do they turn out to be simple. Show me the evidence that dense urban areas are economically AND environmentally more efficient. The environment part seems especially suspect.

To a large degree we're still living in the shadow of the industrial revolution, when workers flocked to cities for work. As a telecommuter, my quality of life is a thousand fold higher than my co-workers in the D.C. or Dallas metro areas where it seems many people find themselves alone in a sea of humans and chronically maligning poorly planned mass transit.
[video]City Brain: Help Our City Think Deeply by Big Data and Cloud Computing
> what is the "it," that forces this change?

At this point “it” is here. All that’s missing is sales and maintenance infrastructure. Maybe some product-level design and engineering. Basically, Tesla’s business model.
I think you missing the point. As you say there is no way to know for sure what the ‘correct’ price is for your product. One customer may be willing to pay $X and another $5X for the same features, but you need to find the number that maximises your profits across your whole customer base. As such most companies effectively just pluck a number out of the air and see what works.

Patio11’s argument is that most companies are charging a safe number that works, however that number is too low. By charging more, yes you will scare away some customers, but the customers who are concerned about price aren’t the customers you want.

In your case, say you cloned something like SendGrid and charged half the price. Their big customers like Airbnb or Uber effectively don’t care how much an email costs to send, they just want to guarantee that it is sent. So if you manage to score a customer like that, you are leaving a lot of money on the table.

On the other hand, the customers that do care about price are likely going to be lower quality, maybe they are sending bulk newsletters which if marked as spam will damage your company (as your IPs will end up on blacklists) - meaning more work, and more cost, cleaning up their mess.
We have a personal experience to share. Posting from a throwaway account for obvious reasons. We have a product in aws marketplace with decent traction. We have also gone jointly with aws for some big opportunities in government space. They have started thier own competing product in the same space and started sabotaging our joint opportunities with large customers. AWS marketplace is a big idea engine for them to identify profitable opportunities and copy the products ruthlessly. Our stomach twiches as they copy every one of our features including the UI.

It is unfair for startups but i guess that is business. I think dropbox moved away from them for right reasons.

Think twice before listing your products in aws marketplace. You will be thier next victim if you become profitable. AWS for startups is the biggest joke of our time.
Lots of people like being in a right-to-work state. It means not having to pay a private tax to a corrupt union that mostly serves to create dumb rules that cause problems. If you are a decent worker, you don't appreciate rules that make companies lay off the newer workers first, preventing the lazy ones from being eliminated. Hardly anybody likes having to bring in an electrician just to plug in a power strip. The idea that I can't move a large box or a desk (due to being hired for some other role) is absurd.

The states you speak of are the ones most friendly to home schooling. You can teach evolution and anti-abstinence all you want. FYI though, there are creationist engineers. I've met many.

I'm not sure what you mean by "bad" family planning. I don't see why you should care what other people do. Maybe I am "bad" for having 11 kids, but I won't force you to have that many.

Right across the hall from me is an engineer who left SF. He uses his AR-15 at home in his yard. (might go over badly in SF, you think?) He keeps goats and lots of chickens. Clearly, he does in fact "want to live in those places" instead of in SF where he grew up.
Jevon's paradox probably only applies to some types of power usage. Industrial consumers will certainly consume more if its cheap, but a more efficient toaster doesn't mean I'll get two toasters, or toast more often. I already have more toaster capacity than I'd ever need.
And can they hit a $300 price point after factoring in the price of the case, the hard drive, the optical drive, the power supply, and everything else? At the same physical size? And the same noise level?
Ask HN: How important name of a project is?
Yesterday, someone opened up an issue on Github for a project that I maintain (CaptainDuckDuck) with this title:
"Change the name to "Captain" so that I can ask my boss if we can use it".
https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck/issues/194

Do you not look at the project if it doesn't have a sophisticated name? How important do you think the name is?
Ask HN: Best way to get started with web programming for non-programmers?
They should start using F2FS, instead of patent encumbered exFAT and Co.
Contrary to what Tech-Noir is slinging, I’m not a mod or trying to act like one. At this point I’m just flagging and moving on and wishing that the article posted didn’t trigger so many people’s pro/anti-communism kneejerk.
Pretty much. One of the metrics optimized for was profitability of repeat business. You want that inflection point where you get as much as possible from the customer while still leaving them solvent and up to date on payments. This is where having all that data was essential - you can build models and determine what the inflection point would be, in terms of payment terms for a specific customer. Traditional payday lenders do not have this data - they would just try to impose the biggest APR and penalties on a customer and rely on collections to recover as much of the "fictitious" (fictitious in that their business plan presupposes they will not be able to collect the majority of it) debt as they could. Collections is expensive and eats into your margins.
Echolocation could help blind people learn to navigate like bats
Patreon take a 5% cut of donations. A band with an exceptionally good record deal might get to keep 15% of CD sales. The numbers are fairly similar in most mass media - under historical distribution models, middlemen kept the lion's share of revenues.

Even assuming that competition for entertainment spending is entirely zero-sum, then the disintermediation of the arts is destroying a lot of jobs for middlemen but is increasing the amount of revenue that goes to artists. Even if the pie is static or shrinking, artists are getting a bigger cut.

I'm not saying that everything is sunshine and roses, I'm not saying that everyone can become a creative professional, but I think that the situation is definitely improving. Barriers to entry are lower and there's a much larger middle-class of artists who aren't internationally famous but are making a good living.
How much of what you describes is there mere fact of being remote VS having different types of jobs/engagements?
Hey! This really piqued my interest, could you explain more about the makefile part of this? I currently use Pandoc to convert a folder of .MD files into .HTML files with the same name, and have begun modifying the templates and making use of the YAML metadata you can add. I really like working with markdown like this, and it's perfect for Git.

Here's an example of the kind of build script I use currently: https://github.com/tomhodgins/responsive.style/blob/master/s...

How would you build the contents of the /src folder with pandoc and your makefile?

Edit: for those looking for an example of the result of one of my Markdown -> Pandoc -> Git -> Static Hosting workflows, check out this page:

- Static HTML: https://responsive.style/techniques/child-element

- Markdown Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomhodgins/responsive.styl...
> I don’t think it’s an accurate representation of what a good investment for most businesses should look like

So, honestly, what do "good investments" look like then?

If anything I think the only problem with shark tank's portrayal of investments is it that it doesn't explain to the audience that it's wide viewership is the largest return for most of the founders on the show. Every founder who goes on the show knows this, but it's the "dirty little secret" that the audience isn't aware of.
I’d like to hear more about what problems autonomous vehicles have in recognizing traffic situations. I want to build a platform for V2V communication and mapping
The basic proposition of the article is true (not many people make much money off AdSense from YouTube) but it’s really poorly written and full of misinformation and omissions. One horribly incorrect point:

> Buying the same equipment used by Casey Neistat, a popular YouTuber, would cost $3,780.

Not even close. That would but you one decent professional 4K camera. Not remotely “the same equipment he uses”. He and other top creators use tens of thousands of dollars of equipment. But you don’t need all that to get started, you can get started with your phone as many do.

The big thing this article barely touches on is this; there’s more and more creators who are successful by basically treating AdSense revenue like a Christmas bonus. They rely on Patreon, merchandise (shirts, etc) and sponsorships. You can find sponsored videos on channels with less than 100k subscribers.

The real story to me is if things keep going this way, what’s the incentive to even enable AdSense on your channel? Just stay ad free and earn money elsewhere like James Townsend & Sons channel.
Fascinating response. I think you're dead on the money. Extremely pertinent remarks about the cost of art and literature in days gone by.

What YouTube does, therefore, is allow people to dabble, it makes it easy to upload content and a video format whereas before you'd somehow need to work your way into tv or film assuming that industry was located near you. Now all you need is a decent net connection, a bit of talent, a bit of a work ethic, and you can make a go of it. Will you succeed? Hell, probably no–but maybe you'll be more towards the lucrative end of the power law distribution. But yes, for every PewDiePie there are tens of thousand of also rans.

Look Ma! I've got global reach. But people's attention span is finite and their interests are limited and the way they find out about stuff obeys certain rules. Because of this we get that odd creature, fame.

I think that digital technology and internet and communications technologies have lowered the barriers into the arts and also to consume art. I do fundamentally believe that. That has to be a good thing, doesn't it? But that doesn't mean that art in the digital medium is going to buck social laws.

Could you tell me is there any one or two books I should be reading to glean more of the same information you have provided?
The way to Hack SCR888
The problem with all real estate development is all the profits flow to the developers and all the costs flow to the existing residents (more traffic, infrastructure, etc). I am surprised that anyone is in favour of development in their neighbourhood unless they are a developer.

The solution is to share the benefits of new development with the existing residents so they gain from development. Get this right and communities will be fighting each other to have developers come in and build new houses.
Paying to turn people's A/C off for 15 min is more efficient than having a bank of generators used for 15 min, 2 days a year. If it works, it's much preferable.
Node.js and the Web Tooling Benchmark
>In the end, the only options are: bruteforcing passcodes on the original device while attempting to trick the device into allowing more than 10 failures, or prying open the Secure Enclave to obtain the Unique ID — both options a lot more complicated than just cloning the data and trying passcodes on it.

If I'm understanding correctly, obtaining the unique ID would simply mean the strength of the AES key becomes the point of failure? (So a strong password means FBI doesn't get in)
Hey!

We clearly have a lot in common with Quip. The main difference as of now is organization : Quip is organized exactly like a google Drive, with nested folders while Slite uses channels. It makes the content accessible, permissions easy to manage and actually shows your team important changes of the content.

The other thing really different that we're building is integrations: Quip focuses on in-editor integrations (which are great, we're working on those as well). But for the rest, unlike quip we keep a simple markdown-compliant (& thus universal) format, which let us fetch and push content to all your toolchain.
Does Amazon use tenant metrics in order to set product strategy (decide which AWS customers to attack)?
I have at some time or other agreed with pretty much every view here, ranging from:

- full rewrite replacement
- piecemeal separation of a function (e.g. search)
- in-place migration to a desired design
- side-by-side incremental replacement of functionality

Each has it's merits, although I tend to believe developers lean toward remaking everything themselves and thus try to consciously give more consideration to alternatives. The most interesting is the side-by-side one where we could run non-mutating requests through one (Ruby) or the other (Go) for performance measurements, or through both for correctness comparisons monitoring all metrics during the migration.
I built a python version recently, it uses the serverless library to deploy to AWS. https://github.com/nickromano/serverless-ping
Is college worth it? Goldman Sachs says maybe not
It seems like we should see a bunch of people "voting with their feet." Trouble is that on net people are mostly moving out of California and New York and into places like South Carolina, Idaho, and Tennessee.

http://www.businessinsider.com/state-domestic-migration-map-...

OTOH they are also moving out of Wyoming and Kansas and into Colorado and Oregon.

What to make of this?

Maybe... people mostly go where jobs and cost of living and social connections line up, politics either direction just isn't a great predictor?
For anyone interested about the attitude of various Soviet-sympathetic people in the West during the 20th century, I'd recommend reading Scott Alexander's book review of "Chronicles of Wasted Time" [0]. I admit I haven't read the book itself but the review seems to do a good job summing things up.

Basically it's the autobiography of Malcolm Muggeridge, who grew up in a socialist background, becomes a journalist and goes over to Stalin's USSR to report on the amazing new progress being made, only to realize just how false all the reports are -- and what's more, how unwilling his target audience would be to hear it:

[quotes from the review]

>although it is clear to him that the Soviet economy is struggling, every dispatch they are given to send home declares that things are better than ever, that the Workers’ Paradise is even more paradisiacal than previously believed, that the evidence is in and Stalinism is the winner. It doesn’t matter what he makes of this, because anything he writes which deviates from the script is rejected by the censors, who ban him from sending it home. He is reduced to sending secret messages at the bottoms of people’s suitcases, only to find to his horror that even when they successfully reach the Guardian offices back in Britain, his bosses have no interest in publishing them because they offend the prejudices of its progressive readership.

[...]

>His final break with the rest of the enlightened progressive world comes when he decides to do something that perhaps no other journalist in the entire Soviet Union had dared – to go off the reservation, so to speak, leave Moscow undercover, and see if he can actually get into the regions where rumors say some kind of famine might be happening. The plan goes without a hitch, he passes himself off as a generic middle-class Soviet, and he ends up in Ukraine right in the middle of Stalin’s Great Famine. He describes the scene – famished skeletons begging for crumbs, secret police herding entire towns into railway cars never to be seen again. At great risk to himself, he smuggles notes about the genocide out of the country, only to be met – once again – with total lack of interest. Guardian readers don’t look at the newspapers to hear bad things about the Soviet Union! Guardian readers want to hear about how the Glorious Future is already on its way! He is quickly sidelined in favor of the true stars of Soviet journalism, people like Walter Duranty, the New York Times‘s Russia correspondent, who wrote story after story about how prosperous and happy and well-fed the Soviets were under Stalin, and who later won the Pulitzer Prize for his troubles.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/11/book-review-chronicles-...
I don't think prop 13 is a libertarian wet dream. It was simply a short sighted tax revolt. The only reason I'm hesitant to put the libertarian label on it is because it uses policy to pick winners and losers. If it were to decrease taxes proportionally or remove them, then sure, I'd call it libertarian. I agree it's complete shit though. It creates all sorts of broken incentives
Either? Former citizens presumably get an increase in quality of life in a lower cost of living area, and California has a richer (newly imported) middle class.

The ones that have it hard are the ones who can't afford to stay and can't/won't leave.
I'd be interested in that! I wonder how much it would cost to just host and serve via s3...
Source for the ring of fire image at the bottom of the page: http://eventhorizontelescope.org/simulations-gallery under "> Accretion Disk"