skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just in the middle of launching an LTE-M based device that contains a primary power source (a 12v vehicle battery) with a supercap for backup power when the battery dies.

Average power at the moment is around ~3mA to keep an LTE-M module (using a QCOM chipset) connected to the network in DRX mode. Bandwidth wise, LTE-M gives us between 500bytes and 3.5KBs per second on the AT&T network - its not terrible and the byte cost is also "low" from AT&T.

LTE-M network coverage is good - same as AT&T LTE as far as we can tell (as LTE-M is just an extension to the basestation feature set and doesn't need new infrastructure).

Only when AT&T starts to support eDRX and PSM will "a month long" battery be realizable for portable products like this.
A better view would focus what kind of government control. Are we talking about a government where legislators are entirely and exclusively dependent on the votes of their constituents? Or are we talking about a government that merely presents the facade of a democracy while actually being dominated by corrupt cartels who use its power to extract rents and squash competition?

Because I promise you, "government" behaves very differently in these two situations.
Sounds just like the US healthcare and education systems.
Most big trucks and farm equipment are automatic now (source: family of truckers and farmers). The takeover was quite recent but I don't know any truck companies buying manuals these days other than owner-drivers who are enthusiasts about their trucks too (eg the type to modify and do them up).

I'm a massive car nut, I've owned and (amateur-)raced dozens of cars over the last 20 years and always went manual, but a couple years ago I switched to auto due to a bad leg and honestly, if my leg miraculously got better, I'd stay with an auto. Modern automatics are amazing. They shift faster than I ever could, and performance autos can still engine-brake into corners etc. I'm very much a convert for pure performance reasons as well as easy/comfort reasons.

I don't want manuals to go away though, and I don't think they will. There's lots of car manufacturers that still cater to small niche groups because these days with populations the size they are, a small niche group is still enough people to profit off. I think we'll still see performance cars and motorcycles with manuals for many years to come, but all mainstream/bulk cars will be auto only.
My understanding of the US prisons was that many people with mental issues end up there instead of proper mental health care [1].

I can imagine that people with mental issues are also more likely to end up in inns and brothels. These people remain problematic after closing those locations. Even more so with factories as you already pointed out.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/saving-normal/201303...
neuroscientists have been using "ai" for basically ever. except to them it's not "ai," it's just mathematical tools for data analysis.
Your spouse does not have a free pass, you and your spouse have agreed that the family has one of you working and one not. It doesn't require justification beyond that being the mutual agreement, and mutual agreement is how marriage moves forward through time.

Being married doesn't disqualify someone from the workforce, but not working for an extended period of time through the above mutual agreement does leave them with little work history, possibly reduced education, certainly reduced experience, etc. They made those decisions in the context of a reality that is changing due to divorce, and that change can have radical life results. As such, having a default agreement whereby that change is not abrupt and immediate is perfectly reasonable.

A prenuptial agreement modifies this by setting different expectations up front, and allowing everyone involved to adjust their decision-making process.
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Thanks for the advice! It’s tempting when you look at a map that shows lines running nearby to think it’s easy to plug into but it makes sense that the last few hundred feet are probably very expensive.
Most women in a relationship will emphatically tell you when they want to get engaged, married or have kids.

They also have a biological clock to have kids before they're 35, and most listen to that clock.

Men don't have that clock, so there's different types and levels of motivation.

In my case, I wasn't interested in having kids until my late 40s, when the circumstances were convincing (responsible partner, as late in life as reasonably possible.)

Although I prefer being around adults, I understand that kids are doing their job when they require attention. I find my "clone" to be a plus overall, though expensive.

Career-wise, I vaguely thought having kids would be an advantage somehow, but I was incorrect. In the USA, companies don't care about employees ("at will employment"), and the same is true about your family.
Dry water in cosmetics just takes a little compression — you rub it on your skin and you get the liquid within and some insubstantial amount of byproduct from the coating the liquid was stored in.

Also, the coating is gas permeable, so you could boil the liquid out.
The code and data is here:

https://github.com/KamitaniLab/DeepImageReconstruction

Not a hoax.

Your comparison to Deep Dream is quite apt, for good reason that you clearly don't realize-

Deep Dream is an attempt to "enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia"- Pareidolia being a "psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus". So yes, this project is affected by a real life "deep dream".
Ignoring that your average first-grade teacher is an employee of the State rather than of any kind of private entity ...

... it's a question of ephemeral facts. In a given area, companies who employ software developers, able to retain personnel who perform to those companies' subjective satisfaction, by paying them $X; and analogously for private schools in the same area it is $Y for first-grade teachers. How does $X compare with $Y, today, yesterday, and in all the millions of possible tomorrows?

In other words: the beauty of the free market is that we don't have to answer those questions normatively/prescriptively in any one central place.
Acknowledging that I know nothing about psychology or neuroscience...

It's interesting that they were not able to extract good images from the test when they just asked the subjects to imagine the pictures. I speculate that is because the vast majority of people are able to recognize images of things, but not produce those images.

For a simple example, see this article about people trying to draw a bicycle. Before clicking, try to draw a 2D representation of a bicycle -- the wheels, the frame, pedals, handlebars, etc. You'd be surprised how difficult it is. https://road.cc/content/blog/90885-science-cycology-can-you-...

I would be very interested to see them repeat the experiment on e.g. artists who specialize in photorealism, or asking an expert on a very particular thing to imagine that particular thing (e.g. ask a violinist to imagine a violin). I wonder if that would yield more recognizable results than asking a random grad student to visualize a lion's face.
> but no automatic will ever give you the same kind of engagement or connectedness with the car as a manual with three pedals will.

Good- I'd rather you focus on the world around you.
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What's right, if drivers are doing it, is to zipper at the point of the merge.

But that's a big "if" -- too many drivers are like your friend, and work themselves up into a blood-boiling rage at the thought of someone "cutting" by engaging in proper zipper merging. Tell your friend the problem is he's thinking of the merge as a competition with a "winner" (person who ends up in front) and "loser" (person who ends up behind), instead of looking for the option that maximizes efficiency for everyone.
Evan actually makes $16k/month [1]. Wow. If only I could figure out how to make a quarter of that from my open source work, I'd be in business.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/evanyou
Roughly speaking, you will.

https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2018/data-on-display/mobil...
Rugged individualism
Capacitors are blindingly fast in both charging and discharging compared to chemical batteries, and are much less susceptible to thermal variance in performance to boot. Their downsides are greater mechanical fragility, greater self-discharge, and comparatively terrible energy density.
A few things. (1) If the payload is shorter than the key length (e.g. 128 bits) then crypto is actually really strong (and easy). For long payloads, you need to work a lot harder. (2) For doing a public key handshake, you can do it without a huge packet using one of the elliptical curve algos, but for any public key handshake you need a reasonably short duration of the handshake in order for it to be adequately secure. That's a bigger challenge than the data size. Low power LTE Cat M1 or NB-IoT systems aren't any better at practically serving low latency sessions than most LPWANs are. (3) "secure elements" should be called "insecure elements" when the items they are installed in are remotely operated in public environments. (4) Carriers tend to use TCP/IP with LTE, which is more of a limitation than a benefit, because it prevents any manner of broadcasting. There are a lot of applications that can be low power if they are broadcasted, but will never be low power (or easy) via TCP. (5) The direction LTE has gone, in my opinion, makes it undesirable for a lot of applications. It is nice for low-volume monitoring applications. So in a sense I think LTE as a LPWAN is really the great solution for niche use-cases.
I agree with the engagement aspect, but I'm sure dual clutch equipped cars are just as fun to drive. I rode a motorcycle with an auto-shifter, I didn't miss using the clutch (on up-shifts) one bit.
It's more effort to push the clutch in and out between stops (keeping the pedal in doesn't take much effort, it's moving the pedal that takes work).
To be fair, most of those "strangers working minimum wage" have been doing the job a while, and are more experienced with driving all kinds of vehicles than you or I would ever be. I worked A/V in a hotel for years, and being a car nut, I hung with the valets during breaks to chat cars, and a lot of those guys are in the job because they love cars and want to drive as many different ones as they can.

Yes there's always the chance of a valet who hasn't got a clue, but there's a chance of that in any job you've ever had contact with. We're just very attached to our cars (rightly so, mine is my prized possession!) so we're suitably and rightly nervous when handing them over. I'll do valet parking, but my car has a valet mode that limits the horsepower and is an auto so I don't have to worry about fried clutches anymore.
Is that why hunter gatherer societies didn't have poverty? Is that why communist countries weren't poor? How is that working out for Venezuela? Capitalism is literally the only thing in human history that has ever lifted large numbers of people out of poverty.
The ones whose families don't value education as highly: the poor.
The woman in this story is handcuffed by her decision to have 3 kids.

Show me the 20 year old dropout. Explain why he/she can't devote themselves to self improvement.
> Spoiler alert: the best setup is to hole up in a nice town in Canada working remotely for a client in the US.

Do you have experience with this? :)
We're in a post-Theranos world. Companies are going to be getting a little extra scrutiny.

Also, as near as I can tell, Theranos got their later investment rounds by being willing to wildly lie. IIRC, they claimed something like $100e6 of revenues where the actual number was approx $100e3 [1]. That is probably going to (slowly) lead to criminal liability for some of the principals.

Here (as parent mentioned) you have battery companies investing in a battery company.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/theranos-president-exaggerat...
Why do you need to get married to have kids?
Usually women are biologically programmed to want kids more than men, and men are programmed to want to have more love making than women.
I think a lot of people just do it anyway (just like a lot of people make love anyway even if they don't really want it), but usually don't talk about it as it's taboo.

I decided not to probably have kids, as I son't think it's worth for me, but this is a very personal choice.
Still waiting for the Spotify of news sites. I guess it's harder than it is for music?
I'm not making that argument, though that is often the reaction I get.

My argument is that you should understand when you're choosing to compromise the user experience, why, and how compromised it is. For example, you should know roughly how much worse the user's battery life is because of your decision. That makes the decision an informed one, based on your goals, budget, time to market, and so on.

To claim a decision born of necessity comes with no compromises is delusion. That delusion might not kill you but it points toward muddled thinking. That's dangerous at the best of times, doubly so for a startup.
What is poverty in noncapitalist countries a result of?
That depends massively on which state you're a resident of.
I use PostgreSQL as a document db using Marten.
I think if you drive a manual the OP sees it as being _more_ involved in driving and more aware.

There are some situations where driving a manual incorrectly is more dangerous (clutch coasting) but others where the extra control is better (Ute off-road).
That works in many areas, but no chance anywhere which has much traffic.
Article fails to make a point. Jobs are the solution to poverty, hands down.
That's a really hard problem to solve, which is why you don't see lots of solutions. DASH7 has been around for a few years, and it addresses the technical aspects of this problem, although it still probably needs another year to mature to the point where it's easy to integrate. But if you have a high volume application, it's an option.
It's not a cap, you're just throttled. If they advertise unlimited 4g or whatever speeds then it already is illegal. No one does that though, they just say unlimited data
That's great in a single lane. What happens in the real world when the moment you leave a gap, the car in an adjacent lane cuts over to fill it?
> standard 110v or 220v outlets

That isn't the standard, at least not in North America (120V/240V) or Europe (230V):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country
Embedding an language runtime for something like C# is never going to improve performance. You’re still bound by the speed of the browser engine, and now you’re layering an extra interpreter on top.

Projects like this are exactly what the author was complaining about - good for .Net developers who don’t want to learn JS and Rust, bad for user experience.
Good point, I guess its just somewhat porous. Still missing selective transport but we're reaching now.
https://readthedocs.org/ ?
> I didn't see this discussed in the article, but IMO the main driver is the availability of student loans

People always say that, but I have my doubts. I did some Googling to try to find costs for some well known schools over time and was only able to find historical tuition data for Stanford.

Stanford's tuition has been increasing faster than inflation as far back as the data goes (1920), almost linearly on a log scale [1]. There doesn't seem to be any big change in growth starting when loans became readily available.

[1] https://imgur.com/fXnjDNn
> I truly believe that stop and go is caused by automatics.

A simple hypothesis like this is easy to test: does stop and go traffic exist in places that are predominantly manual transmissions?

I live in Asia and I can tell you unequivocally that, yes, stop and go traffic still exists even when every single person has a manual transmission.
> One should never read literature for it's plot.

Says who? What if I want to read literature for the plot? What if the excitement of what's going to happen is what I care about, and the characters are just a side thing?

What if some days I want to read for plot, other days I want world building, other days I want character development?

> Learning the plot of a literature book should have no affect in its enjoyment.

And if it does affect it? Should we tell people not to read that book?
They are rare in larger vehicles as well. Only Ram still makes a manual for their deisel heavy duty, and they detune the engine by 200 ft/lbs of torque. Automatics HD trucks do not disengage/spool down the turbo when shifting, which is important when you are pulling large loads up a hill.
Just hiding how many jerks a company has until after the interview process is complete is not effectively any better - it could even be worse for people, as they could have had signal to avoid the jerk. The absence of evidence of some behavior or signal is not equivalent to it not being present at all.

In my experience, most companies have jerks - I’m not convinced it’s even avoidable reliably, as people come from many walks of life, and sometimes the walks form people to be jerks.

I work at Apple, where I’d say that jerks are a very low number of people I’ve interacted with (maybe a couple hundred employees so far) - I’ve seldom seen a company beforehand with less jerks percentage-wise, much less have processes that help with descalating arguments & deal with them quickly.
We're in a post-Theranos world.

Which was in turn in a post-Enron world. The one sure way to make sure that crap can keep happening is to pretend that something has really changed, so it can’t happen again. It can, stay vigilant.
It's actually educational attainment [1]

[1] https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/how-does-level-education-rel...
Excellent post -- a rarely understood truth. For low power wireless systems, still, though, the bulk of the energy is spent in TX and RX. But realistically the quiescent power drain still needs to be in the sub 5uW range to deliver long life on a small battery. A lot of GNSS and LTE SoC's standby in the 50uW range, which is just too much. Most of the LTE devices I've surveyed (M1, NB-IoT) are expected to be attached to MCUs, but they implement internally a small linux platform. Obviously, that makes it hard to get down to 5 uW.
Can’t wait to be dead, personally. Hope you stick it out, sounds like you want to build a better life for yourself. You should.
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You're the reason why I inherit project that uses only ES and then end up doing relational schema in ES because they didn't use relational database in general.

If you had to choose between PostgreSQL or ElasticSearch then you have no idea what you're doing.
MRI market is very small and regulated as of today. Wider adoption of reasonably simpler devices would change everything, just recall how crazy expensive computers were in 1950s.

Among useful applications I would imagine, for example, the fast image-based information retrieval - e.g. useful for recommendation systems (in other words - Netflix could invest in a 'imagine anything and we find you a movie like that').
It's happening already. Verizon just announced $50 unlimited home internet: https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/11/verizon-5g-home/

> Priced at $50 for people who already have Verizon wireless and $70 for those who don't, it's promising speeds of "around 300 Mbps" up to 1 Gbps, with no data caps.
When your website has a "loading screen", you fucked something up.
Feynman wrote about this in one of his books. it's really hard to understand how someone else understands something. but you can say, well imagine it's orange and spherical and kind of hairy, and they'll have a picture in their mind you can kinda work with.
Every HN headline: Think you know something?  the opposite
Does it have to shake our very foundations to be interesting enough to click on? This seems to only result in people grossly exaggerating the results. I’m simultaneously immune to surprise and cynical about anything claiming to be novel.
$17,000

And only ~50% of students had student loan debt.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2017-economic-we...
Yes, I worked remotely for both US and Canadian clients. Dealing with Quebec clients is a pain (need to file their sales tax, _in french_), otherwise it's been a smooth sailing. Just remember that you're a contractor, not an employee.
I think it was a blog post by Michael O Church, though I don't have the reference to hand.
Two problems:

1.) If you have to pay people to give feedback, you're doing something very wrong.

2.) If you interrogate a customer who cares enough to give you candid feedback, your odds of ever getting candid feedback from that customer drop to near zero.

The quest for meaningful feedback cannot overwhelm the need to serve customers and treat them well.
Hmm. Do different humans produce relatively the same brain images for a given scene? If not, I’d imagine training this would be a real PITA.
Why not both?

I have two manuals and an auto, the auto is used for the commute to work while I have a racecar and a four wheel drive (to take the racecar to the track). The auto is lovely when you have a coffee on the go, and the manuals do a far better skid.

They all have their merits, it's purely down to individual choice and don't see any need to try and justify it.
Hm, and these are nanoparticles too, right? They could conceivably pass into all kinds of tissues and end up in unexpected places. Silica is pretty inert, but I’d still be leery.
I didn't want kids until I was 14 and my mom had an oopsie-baby. The intense love I felt for my baby sister changed my mind. And I wasn't wrong -- despite many, many, many drawbacks to having children, I love them just the way I'd hoped.

But I think people are so different that I definitely would not try to up-sell kids. At least so far, it's like having a 24/7 job, while I have a full-time job.

(Or as the rest of the comments say, women all want all the kids and all your money that's just science...)
is it better than the search without ads?
How are we all the richer for shipping being slow and unreliable? Do counterfeit goods make us all richer?
No, it's usually much less for GNSS. The secret to low power GNSS is to find a way not to have the receiver on much of the time, but that's very possible. LTE has less flexibility in overhead energy, because there's overhead enforced by the network.
In this particular case, the fault wasn't in any one component and was subsequently hidden and then revealed due to the complicated interplay between multiple modules. This is usually where case-by-case testing breaks down and you have to turn to other methods like fuzzing to elicit these behaviors.
Of course, that's not all they have in common. Being difficult to automate, they are vulnerable to Baumol's cost disease.
It's part of the natural move towards a centralized web. You want a website you can trust that delivers good content, as do other people, increasing the load on the host beyond minimal finance resulting in ads. That said a lot of sites aren't that trustworthy and don't deliver good content but are riddled with ads to try and make money
Your inability to imagine something is hardly an experience worth sharing.
For the startup plan and using a custom domain, is it possible to enable https (let's encrypt)?
Please add a toggle that inverts the function of the app and instead emits keyboard noise cancellation chirps.
> all you can reasonably do as an individual to prevent this outcome is try to vote for decent political candidates and do your best to be good to the people around you.

There’re many non-free countries. There, all you can do as an individual is to move out.
That doesn't sound like differential equations, it sounds like discrete math.