skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The day they add exact play timing to football is the day it transitions from a show to a sport, which would take away like 50% of its followers. This uncertainty is what makes people angry and contributes to its success.
They've done some of that in the past. The United States had a half-cent coin until 1857. When it was coin was eliminated, it was more valuable than the penny is today[1].

There is also a US $1 coin. They were widely used in Equador when I visited in 2005, because their currency was pegged to the US dollar. I spent a day in Miami on my way back home and I left a few as tips. People were very confused by them. It seemed kind of funny to me that a US coin was more commonly used outside the US than inside.

[1] See CPGrey's "Death to Pennies". https://youtu.be/y5UT04p5f7U
This! It is incredible that no one else so far has commented on this. I read the post and it seems that there is no accountability. What of your victims? The emotional toll of being sexually harassed can follow someone for the rest of their lives.
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It takes a while for the public to react, just like it took a while for Enron and Theranos to be exposed. The market is irrational and the cult of Elon is strong - there’s too much hype, and it clouds people’s judgement.

Also fewer people know these facts than you might expect. I dug through Tesla’s SEC filings to find out, which are hundreds of pages of documents. It took me at least 10 hours of reading. Doing the due dilligence is time-consuming, and it’s really easy to just roll with a speculative opinion, as you’ve seen from many comments in this thread.

Based on my recent experiences seeing friends fundraise in YC, there is a lot of easy money going around, possibly because the low interest rate has pushed investors to look for more profitable investments through Silicon Valley, and money from Asia is pouring in.

Corporate debts is also at an all-time high - there is $6.3T in corporate debt and a cash-to-debt ratio of 12%, a record low. This means that companies are taking an unprecedented amount of risk, so maybe Tesla numbers are relatively less shocking in comparison, but I'm not optimistic it will end well. See junk bond defaults from the 80s.

By the way, Tesla bonds are considered junk bonds. They're officially labeled as B3, or "Highly speculative", and only one rating above "Substantial risks".
Yes. This isn't physical addiction. It can cause a mental addiction if you use it for that purpose, and the anxiety over going without can keep you awake. You see it in people with PTSD.

edit Curious why people are objecting to this as I have personal experience in the area. Vivid dreams are common any time you go without dreaming for a while, it's not a sign of a physical addiction.
They are in the business of Internet service, whatever that means. If there are things legitimately beyond their control, then pricing and/or claims of service must reflect that.

Instead, we see many issues of their own making (monopolies and refusal to invest, mainly) that make it hard to sympathize.
> “She told me to come back home. So I did,” Pohl said. “At the time, I wasn’t sure why she did that. I was still in that whole miserable phase, smoking at least an ounce of weed a week — two ounces on a good week.”

Yikes. You can do just fine on one gram a month at today’s potency. Two ounces a week is 8 grams a day.
>Standing under a freezing shower might sound like the quickest way to bring your temperature down.

>But your body will react to a dramatic change like this by trying to preserve heat.

>"If I'm hot and I go under a cold shower, I'll shut down the blood flow to the skin and trap the heat inside me rather than let it escape," says Tipton.

>As a result, he says, it's better to use water that is in the 20s Celsius than water that is in the 10s.

>"It's better to have a warmer shower that is cool enough to lower the deep body temperature but is warm enough to allow the blood to the surface of the skin."

Is there any proof of this? Even if the body makes adjustments in an attempt to mitigate heat loss, I have doubts that these adjustments manage to make lukewarm water more effective at cooling than near-freezing water. That seems backwards, but maybe it is just contrary to my intuition. If 20 degree water is more effective at cooling than 10 degree water, how does 5 degree water compare? What if you shower in -10 degree liquid? Is 25 degree water even more cooling than 20 degree water because it is even closer to normal body temperature? I would like to see an experiment.
Isn’t it curious that HN throws its arms wide in support for those with mental illness, but as soon as a situation doesn’t fit that mold the compassion completely disappears?

Suddenly HN calls the entire life of an unknown man into question, denying any benefit of the doubt.

Until the post that provides the real context, of course, which is something completely unanticipated.
Why is it not more trivial to auto-route around those kinds of events?
IP itself doesn’t, that’s BGP. I’m not sure what it’s limitations around large links going down are though.
By that definition, hydration is addiction.

Refined carbohydrates (sugar, flour) are definitely addictive. If you have the normal modern diet full of sugar and flour and you quit them cold turkey, you will be sick and miserable for a few days, while your body adjusts. And if you quit carbs enough to go into ketosis, and then "cheat", you'll be right back on the insulin-spike bandwagon. (This is not to be construed as an argument in favor of keto diets, or against carbs!) And unlike water, your body does not need refined sugar or grains. You can live just fine on meats and vegetables.
given the scale of our fiber networks, i'd expect coincidences like this.

the more cynical side of me says that an intentionally crashed truck looks the same to outsiders as one that was crashed to cut the fiber line.

but i really don't think it's the case that there is foul play here today. this is where calculating p values comes in handy though.
I work in a mapping related field and I’ll be honest I’ve never considered that part of navigation. That’s a really interesting idea for making navigation better. Taking into account elevation and quality of road.
And yet, any search on Apple devices is super weak
I'm glad to see the penny gone. They were more trouble than they were worth. Why do you say it was too soon?
I'm picturing plenty of bundled optical fiber cut in two.
How big are these bundles ?
How can they repair the optical fiber (i.e. how to reconnect each single fiber to its previous half ?)
Do they have to reinstall a section of cable ?
There's some merit to the idea that you don't "find" your passion (i.e. what you mean with deep work) but that you "develop it"

Find something you enjoy doing but would like to get better at. I suggest coding/drawing for starters. Then buckle up and put in the hours. You WILL suck and it WILL suck but once you get the hang of it ...

Try www.drawabox.com
> it would be hard to manage it without knowing what it was.

If you wanted to remove all Google data from your phone, surely it would be enough to just display the app name.
Couldn't this be solved with CloudWatch events?
Hey @dang -- why do you tolerate ageism here? Certainly you don't want fodder for an age discrimination lawsuit against YC do you?
People don't wake up with nightmares and covered in sweat if they don't have a cheeseburger in the last 24 hours.
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I have the usual reservations about tether: that bitfinex doesn't actually have the reserves or that one day it won't be able to get actual dollars where they need to be to keep it going.

But seriously, why does the financial press get away with constantly inventing causation?

"Bitcoin tumbled following the report."

Great insight there. And also the Earth continued spinning.
Yup, we had a microwave that will happily take out Wifi in a 200' radius.

Every time I go through a drivethrough there's a 70% probability that my 2-meter radios breaks squelch even though I've only got it tuned to licensed amateur bands.

Long way of saying that RF is hard and amazing it works as well as it does.
Yeah, I think it's important to remember this. Remember when MySpace dominated social networking, and MapQuest dominated online mapping? Google Maps kinda came out of nowhere and blew MapQuest away.
Still true!
> I wonder where these people live where they don’t experience homeless people begging for their change daily.

Most places in the country? You appear to be in somewhat of a bubble - you really should get out once in a while.
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I do fiber runs and whenever possible it is strung up on poles. It is far faster and easier than doing underground cabling because there are no utilities or gas lines or what have you to possibly hit. More of the stuff put down 15 years ago was put underground but a lot of it now is just lashed around current telephone lines.
In many cases BGP does its job just fine at layer 3. But budgetary constraints and financial reality for the cost of really huge interconnection mean that a cut may result in a 100 Gbps PNI peering session between two ISPs filling up and flat-topping its traffic chart (very, very bad) when the traffic re-routes. One example is that as a result of today's events there was apparently major packet loss and congestion between HE and Comcast in the NYC area.

Or when traffic re-routes, a major ISP will temporarily congest its own intra-AS city-to-city links on a few key paths, for their own router-to-router interfaces.
The tyranny of the rocket equation has done an order of magnitude less damage to the progress of human space exploration than the mind-blowing waste of the Shuttle program.
Question: are you trying to read Android notifications? Or perhaps read Alexa notifications? I would think you can pretty easily write a skill to feed you a unified calendar (you'd need to do the calendar unification on your own server, though).
If you were to use Go you would know that the GC is indeed pretty fast, on part or faster than Java / C# in many scenarios.
What if it goes out of circulation? Is it legal then?
How many people are going to attend it? The prospect doesn't mention that. Or who the organizer is. What's the track record?

Judging by the prospectus it's the first conference you've ever organized and you cannot make any predictions about the turnout (or know it's going to be lackluster).

If that's not the case then you haven't communicated it[0].

Otherwise 500$ as the cheapest entry point is unreasonable. Quite frankly at this stage, as an unknown brand - they're the ones doing you a favor.

I'd lower the prices AND make it clear they can participate without paying a dime. You can charge $$$ next year/iteration.

[0] you mention some luminaries - well I don't know who these people are. a simple byline like "who created <library x> used by <y> people around the world" would go a long way.
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Siblings or silos: How do open data and FOIA work together?
Well, rockets sure, but we have other propulsion technologies that aren't governed by the rocket equation: solar sails, magnetic sails, and laser propulsion all come to mind. And even with momentum rockets, ion drives, fission rockets, and fusion rockets are massive improvements over the standard chemical rockets we use today.
Coins seem largely used anymore for tax. How common would any coin smaller than a quarter be without a percentage-based sales tax? Virtually every price is close to either the $.50 or the $.00 mark -- it's the tax that creates the need for more combinations of change.
Rampage and Guardion: Vulnerabilities in modern phones
C-Reduce has been a godsend at my job. I work on the tool that converts C/C++ programs to our internal database format for https://lgtm.com/ and I regularly have to investigate issues we have handling large open-source projects. C-Reduce is the difference between having to debug megabytes of (preprocessed) source code and a few tens of bytes. Great job by all involved.
> Yeah, I’ve nothing better to do than roam around fixing maps. It’s not like I have a daily job or anything. /s

No one said it has to be your job or passion. I've fixed a couple of areas in OSM, but I've probably spent no more than a few hours working on it in total.

> It the same argument when someone talks about an issue with an open source software. The response is, “The source code is available, go fix it yourself.” It doesn’t work that way for anything but trivial issues.

Fixing a map for a locale you're familiar with is orders of magnitude easier than fixing a bug in an unfamiliar codebase potentially built with unfamiliar technology. That's assuming you know how to code in the first place.
Is it "application specific" if at a certain point in the future 60%+ of all applications are written in WebAssembly?

Java never got there.
Are you from Singapore? You would not get fined in the US, unless you were poor and/or black.
Spin is raising a $125M security token offering
The thought of that was on my mind for a very long time. But the fact that I have no money coming in and no money planned is starting to take over all my thoughts. I'm in a giant panic and this blog post was written from that perspective.
Or just a mirror ahead of the spacecraft!
"However, now that it's done, I have a repeatable, single-button way to cook the recipe again (minus the egg cracking and food processing)"

So... basically minus all the actual work?
one does what one must. it's wrong-headed for companies to not hire based on an offense that is immaterial to them.
Interesting trend of offering explicit securities (i.e., not utilities) and backed by real assets (in this case, Spin itself).
The purpose of the mint is to give legitimacy to what is a fiat currency.
Many people waste their lives away with a wide variety of things, that doesn't make them physically addictive. Mentally addictive yes, but that's a separate thing.

The country is going through a mental health problem, there are numerous signs of this. Marijuana is one of the poor ways that people deal with this, but it's not the cause of the issue.
It's not intuitively obvious at all, since each replication of our cells leads to our chromosomes getting ever smaller until presumably it starts eating into genes that do useful things. Unless it's intuitively obvious to you that you could live without genetic material at all, it seems quite obvious that -- given current biological processes -- there is a limit, even if that limit is longer than where we've gone before.
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Trump’s actions raise fears about access to government data
The brain is able to change well into adulthood ("neuroplasticity"), and that includes mathematical/scientific/abstraction centers. There are plenty of folks who didn't get a great start in STEM, but through hard work and dedication, they pushed through the inherent frustration in learning STEM.

While some people might be born with a proclivity for these activities, I wouldn't say any individual could not get into science. For the truly uninitiated, check out Planet Earth, Blue Planet, or Cosmos. For the novices, check out your local astronomy club, ask scientists you know to explain their work to you, and don't be afraid to ask follow-up questions. Get into reading science articles in the popular press, and use those to find links to the real research articles, which will be VERY hard to read for beginners. Feel free to skim those, look at graphs/charts/evidence, and read the abstract/conclusions rather than the intro/methods and the whole thing. Finally, check out some MOOCs or local community classes/continuing education.
Yeah I understand aerial lines carried by those large towers shown in that image, but utility poles that can get hit by trucks seems problematic. Partly for accidental incidents like a truck crash, but also partly because of how easily it can become an attack vector.

I guess the plus side is that utility pole lines are probably the easiest to fix when cut.
Vending machines would be problematic.

Most soda machines are charging $0.60 or $0.65 these days. Rounding to either $0.50 or $0.75 would be annoying.

That said, I think it'd be totally reasonable to eliminate all coins other than the nickel and quarter.

(If I really had my way, I'd also eliminate dollar bills (replacing with a dollar coin that doesn't suck, replace with some more valuable and small.... like dime-sized pure copper. Then eliminate all bills except the $5, $20, and $100).
It'll certainly be the wealthy's greatest accomplishment. They get to live forever off a permanent underclass of slaves. Congratulations, you have 'fixed' humanity.
I meant that it's disingenuous to portray small-government proponents like he did by using a strawman of someone upset at a clear government power. It adds nothing to the conversation.
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I throw all pennies and nickels away or leave them with the cashier. I don't pay with cash all that often so it adds up to a few dollars a year.

One wonders how much retailers spend paying people to fetch pennies and nickels as change, or waiting for people to dig out the right number from their pocket or purse. I am sure it is an order of magnitude larger than $69 million.

Obama's only objection to removing the penny was Abe Lincoln. Let's put him on the dime, and Roosevelt on the $20, and Jefferson on the $50, and Grant on the $2. Andrew Jackson's descendants may have tears, a trail of tears.
Why would you need to see the name of the street?

And this is the heart of the Google philosophy: Second-guessing the user, rather than delivering what the user asked for. A map is a tool, not a guessing game.

You're much more likely to pull open a map to go somewhere instead of learning about street names in your own neighborhood.

If I'm in my own neighborhood, I'm probably not using a map. If I'm somewhere new, I pull out the map. Maps 101.
Aerial fiber (ADSS or lashed to strand) is like 1/15th of the cost to build per km compared to underground, 40 inch buried trenched.

A lot of the fiber built during the dotcom 1.0 boom with VC money was trenched along railways or pipeline right of ways.
I grew up with no AC in a location that got very warm/humid in summer. A fan was it.

Now I have a family member who grew up in Hawaii and consequently with AC turned on alot.

When it gets a little warm/humid and no AC is available, it's absolutely miserable for her. But I'm just fine. I mean it's miserable but I can pretty much function normally. She can't.
He did say 'self-identified Nazis'. He's talking about people who call themselves Nazis.
And 15 °C overnight is considered "too warm", really?

In some places, buildings are designed on the assumption that temperatures at night will be significantly cooler, and give the building an opportunity to shed heat collected during the day. When that assumption is violated, the building remains hot and continues getting hotter each day, which is dangerous to people inside.
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It depends on the legislation, but in general: NOPE.

You have to treat stolen data as a stolen object. Even if you get them by legal means (eg a robber sold you a "you didn't know" stolen object with a legal contract) it still remains a stolen object and as soon as you discover/know it is stolen you must return it to authorities or the proprietary.

In EU for the data you must get the consent even in third party "reselling" even if you already had it for your own use.

If stolen there is no way you could use that data legally because the property is both of the users and of the company/entity from which they were stolen and you are not authorized to treat it in any way.

It is different if the data is public domain/interest (eg for the case of the journals, they just release data that authorities made public). But, indeed, an authority must decide so
"24 hours without antipsychotics and I become schizophrenic".

"I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest the underlying problem might not be the antipsychotics".

See the problem with your phrasing?

Lots of people deal with anxiety, anger management, and other relatively mild psychological malfunctions by self-medicating (or prescription medicating) with THC. That's why it gets prescribed as medication for these things. THC is effective in many cases, with very few side effects, relative to other medications.

I have friends who are "marijuana addicts", who are pretty horrible to be around when they're not stoned, but fine when they are. They can be social and do their jobs. So, um, what's wrong with that? I am quite happy for them.

edit: I should add that there's this Puritan tendency to treat things like anger management issues as a moral failing rather than a medical problem. So medicating rather than moralizing is seen as a character flaw. Personally, I deal with ADD. I've been formally diagnosed, and it's measurable and measured. I don't medicate for it and I pay a price for that - it puts limits on my activities and decisions, to shield my life from the problems ADD can cause. I don't medicate because the medication has caused side effects that were worse than the condition, for me. If I thought THC would help me deal with my ADD (it doesn't), I'd be out fighting for a prescription.
Don't forget this bit, either:

> Many Western human rights organizations alleged that the high conviction rate is due to rampant use of conviction solely based on confession. Confessions are often obtained after long periods of questioning by police as those arrested may be held for up to 23 days. This can, at times, take weeks during which time the suspect is in detention and can be prevented from contacting a lawyer or family.
What voice synthesis backend are you using?
Copy that. Getting into semantics, from the descriptions here, one could describe the withdrawal symptoms to be physically/practically significant for some cowards.
That was fantastic and enlightening, thank you.
They can be sizable depending on the type or how many fibers are run. Marine vs terrestrial are different as well.

Repair depends on the type of cut, too. Aerial run? Buried? Did the fiber get damaged as a result of an underground gas explosion in a nearby vault that caused several meters to fuse together? :)

Often, a splicing is necessary - that involves using special equipment to re-align and fuse the damaged pairs. Slack in the run can be used to bring the damaged ends flush, or a segment can be added to couple them.
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Most of the problems raised in this paper from 2015 have been acknowledge by the JVM architect in a 2017 talk[0] , and are know in the work of getting fixed.

JVM is getting Fibers , Non Mutable Array (which would prevent from race condition) and other important upgrade to make the VM safer and faster.

Obviously this will take years before being ready.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMk5KoUIOy4
My dad used to do this for AT&T (mainly for train derailments if I remember right). As I understood it, he would cut/polish the ends of the glass and glue together. The process may have changed since then, it’s been about a decade.
"I only smoke Sativa"

Devinitively a factor in my experience. Sativa usually makes more active, indica more stoned...

But it is also about personality.

I could not smoke everyday. There are times when I do, but that only works to a certain point and then I have to stop, or I would not do anything at all anymore.

Persons close to me actually smoked themself to death this way.

My main takeaway is, if my mind is thinking a lot about ganja, then it is too much. I like to do things. And quite some activitys can be improved being high, but it should be about the activitys, not the smoke. When the focus goes to smoking for the sake of smoking ... then it is wrong in my experience. But you seem to be doing it the right way...