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Ask HN: What do you get for the Farnam Street membership
Would like to hear from folks who have had or are currently paid members of Farnam Street.

What are you getting out of it that you wouldn’t if you weren’t a paid member.

Would you recommend it for someone who is a Uber curious individual who loves to learn about different things and accumulate knowledge in general?
Yes, but that will be 3 days after the warranty expires.
Mercury free tuna would make my life so, so much better. Please.
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https://www.cascade.org/node/49423

https://www.cascade.org/node/49478

https://www.cascade.org/node/49493

https://www.cascade.org/node/49512

https://www.cascade.org/node/49526

https://www.cascade.org/node/49543
Actually that is a link to a terrible PDF-rendering web page. This is the original paper.

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~comarhaider/publications/LT...
Apple deluxe trend + market dynamics communication IMO
The developer could ask people to tell him/her when they donate (on the developer's behalf) to a charity the developer suggests. This would have the same effect as showing the developer that her/his work has value.
Is it even rootable? If not, that's a huge amount for a device you don't actually own.
Donald Trump delays tariff hike on Chinese goods after 'great' trade talks
Show HN: Geoga – Deep learning in browser for a motion controlled fitness game
The easiest way to deploy ML models to production
I've always had a hard time deploying ML models into production. The traditional approach is to use Flask, Gunicorn with Nginx. This requires a lot of setup time, and it's slow!

https://www.panini.ai/ is a platform to serve ML/DL models at low latency and makes ML model deployment to production from few days to a few minutes. Once, deployed in the cloud it will provide you with an API key to infer the model. Panini is developed in C++, which provides very low latency during model inference and the model is stored in Kubernetes so, it is scalable to multiple nodes. It also takes care of caching and batching inputs during model inference.

I have also created a YouTube tutorial on how to use panini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCz-fi_NheE&t=

Please let me know what you guys think.

https://www.panini.ai/
Which is... odd, really. Buying ground beef, you’re putting a fair bit of trust in the supply chain, too.
Former magazine and newspaper editor here.

One thing that is worth mentioning is that Hilde's dad is a journalist and presumably has helped her hone her skills. Which is not to take away anything from her own accomplishments, but merely to point out that she has access to advice and guidance that not every kid journalist is going to have, and so I think she probably knows better than most how to keep out of trouble.

But one thing that is important to note is that while the officer is absolutely incorrect about it being illegal to publish video of a police officer's face when it is recorded in public, he is correct that giving false information to an officer who asks you where you are going -- even if they don't have a good reason for asking and if it would be within your rights to refuse to answer -- can be a crime.

Granted, if you tell a police officer you're going to visit a friend, and then on your way there you notice something worth reporting about and never make it to your friend's house, you probably have a good defense. At the time you spoke to the officer, you had ever intention of going to your friend's house, and so you were speaking truthfully.

But having a good defense doesn't mean that you can't be charged with an offense. Particularly when it involves a small-town cop who seems to be power tripping.
Just buy anything that's not labeled non-GMO. Non-GMO is a value add so companies will always voluntarily disclose this information.
It is cool. But I think it will probably end up as gimmick to wow your friends, but not a feature that you would use regularly.

Definitely not worthy of the price tag.
I'm vegetarian. I never bring it up, but when other people find out about it they will not shut the fuck up about it.

They will tell me why they aren't vegetarian, they will ask me why I'm one, and they will tell me about all the vegetarians or vegans in their lives who they claim won't stop talking about it. I suspect that's more than a little projection.

Meat is just a part of some people's identity, just like sexuality, religion, and politics. And they react along the typical spectrum of reactions for those things.
I've always been confused that due to time dilation, everything from the perspective of a photon happens all at once, yet there is an order. If time is effectively dilated to the point that time has stopped for the photon, what happens in the year of travel over a light year of distance?
"Should I work at a startup?" Eh, maybe, but be skeptical of their promises.

"Should I work at a startup that puts developers in private offices?" Hell yes!
I think Webgl, and other JavaScript API on top of Webgl are the way to go for 3D on the Web.Like banylonjs.

This is what I use to do this : http://free-visit.net/index.php/fr/demos/les-frigos-de-paris
From 3G on, every base station is authenticated and virtually all traffic on the air is encrypted.

There are issues with stingrays - but these happen due to protocol edge-cases before authentication is established. [Edit: this paper uses side channels to collect information, but that's what a sniffer can do]

Every base station is authenticated.

In most countries, all connections are encrypted.
Do You Know How Much Your Computer Can Do in a Second?
Mainly because a 1st gen phone like this will have lots of custom components inside that are probably machined in-house, which limits how many they can make. It then becomes rational to put a high price tag on it, to make sure they don't sell out in 5 minutes and to make the most revenue.
Suppose you have a family.

Moving the decimal point to account for the cost of housing, L6 is just ~$45k at FB/Google. That is not something to get excited about.

Yes, it works out differently if you are happy to rent a garage with a roommate. In that case, the pay only needs to be adjusted by a factor of 2, making the L6 have ~$225k at FB/Google. Enjoy your shared garage.
SEC firm claims ASD agrees Iran hacked Australian parliament
I may be misremembering (and the situation is a bit different now, lending credence to the idea that I'm misremembering), but I think Bram Moolenaar used to request that people donate to the children of Uganda and send a post card to him. For people who would like that donation, I think that would be awesome: make the donation and send an email saying that you did it. This should provide the motivation you are looking for. Rather than a notification that money when into their bank account, it's a notification that it went into a bank account that they value higher.
Strandbeest Evolution 2017
There is a guarantee of the order of causally related events, just not an absolute timing. All observers will agree that Alice throws a ball which Bill later catches, but different observers will disagree on when these events occurred exactly. They will however all agree that the order is Alice throws, Bill catches, and none will see Bill catch a ball that Alice later throws. To use the lightning bolt example from Einstein, different observers will disagree on the timing of the strikes, and whether or not they’re simultaneous. If one of the bolts strikes Alice and she goes flying though, everyone will agree that the order of events insofar as Alice is struck before she’s launched.

This all assumes no FTL or CTCs of course, with either you would lose causality and events separated by spacelike intervals could influence each other.
Most phones are disposed after 2 years so they probably factor that in.
That's the bug in PostgreSQL. The fix is to not do the the fsync() in a different process that used an FD opened separately for the same file.
While the dispay on the outside is nice, having a soft (bendable) material on the edge of the phone has to be prone to scratches, no? And then when you unfold, you'll have scratched middle of the display, which has to be the worst place to have the scratches.

While not that nice, having display on the inside of the phone at least protects it from scratches.
Was the Samsung display manufactured in China? If so, what did they expect?
Maybe this is a helpful link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
if diversity is good for America, why don’t those same people call for Americans to be able to live and work in Africa, Asia, and South America? Why are they not calling for a minimum percentage of white people on boards of companies there?

It seems like diversity = less white males.

White males have brought our species this far. We enjoy living in an advanced and free society. Why avoid hiring purely on merit?

What about diversity in the migrant intake? 76% of H1B visas go to Indians - majority males. Why not set a diversity quota starting there? (Eg 60% of visas must go to women, no one country can have any more than 5% of visas.)
I did a double-take on seeing "Journalist, 12" so I checked out her site:

https://orangestreetnews.com

Impressive for an independent journalist at any age. To pick a beat and stick with it takes guts and grit. And she's finding incredible stories, the kind of stories I'd be interested in reading about my own neighborhood.

Then I found this story:

Just to prove my point I am republishing the story I’ve been asked to take down that was originally Published January 4th. Thank you.

EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT THE ORANGE STREET NEWS

Twenty Four days after the Orange Street News turned revealed evidence that there was a drug dealing, prostituting accomplice to the November car theft the Selinsgrove Police Department has confirmed that they are investigating.

https://orangestreetnews.com/2019/01/22/note-to-dealers-osn-...

The video at the bottom of that story shows an interview exposing drug use at a local high school. A source says that drug sniffing dogs don't enter classrooms, and kids know that. Therefore, they're taking the drugs to class to avoid detection.

Every story I read seemed to be covered from a wide variety of angles with original interviews. It's just amazing.

Still, it's not hard to imagine that original reporting on drug cases, robberies, and the like will not sit well with those being exposed. This kind of stuff can get real dark really quickly.
Based on the paper, the title is clickbait; it does not talk about intercepting calls at all. It does mention that one of the attacks in the paper can enable "further attacks", but if call interception was one of them, I'd imagine that they'd say so explicitly.
You forgot about antibiotics use - unlike with traditional approach you can grow cell culture in sterile conditions.
> GPS was actually designed from the start as a dual military and civilian system

No, what prompted GPS to be opened to civilian uses was KAL007 being shot down by the Soviet Union. [1] 269 killed, including a US Rep.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
When more isn't more: carry-on bag size (2017)
It's essentially an evolutionary explanation, so the problem domain is anything that increases reproductive fitness, yes.
Does the Mandelbrot set exist? We have a mathematical description of it. It's easy to write software to create pictures "of it". Mandelbrot himself wrote software to create an image of it based on his definition - prior to knowing what it looked like. Indeed, he was surprised at the complexity of what he saw. Did that set of points exist prior to a human stumbling on its definition? Does it exist independent of someone rendering an image of it? I would argue that it does exist - and always has - in some form.
> First ability to scale development teams

Except the scaling breaks down because suddenly everyone is bound by tight apis making change very very hard. The potential for services written in entirely different languages makes reallocating dev power less efficient.

> Secondly ability to scale the infrastructure

Anyone who's run a bunch of microservices in production will tell you this is a lie, it becomes a constant whack the bottleneck microservice mole. Not to mention the operational overheads of managing multiple microservices.

> Yes it means dealing with eventual consistency for at least a few usecases

> With microservices you get vertical sharding out of the box

Wtf...
I think it would've made far more sense to have two bezel-less LCDs butt together than try to get a flexible one to work without fatigue damage over time, but then again, I don't work in the marketing nor planned obolescence department...
I predict you can decide for yourself what you want to purchase and the free market will address this problem without the need of any concern.
Why not accept donations then redistribute them to those causes?

Also I recommend https://www.givewell.org
The CPython Bytecode Compiler Is Dumb
I've looked into buying a System76 laptop (and probably will at some point this year), and it's definitely an issue for me as a consumer. Debian and Ubuntu are known quantities; I'd like to know why Pop!_OS is even an option, and whether I'm losing out on something I might want by not selecting it.
Crazy like kids doing stuff with computers they impossibly can understand at their age.

Kids should do whatever the hell interests them? Whether she is pushed by her parents to do this or it is her free will, is hard to judge just from that article. It is however not impossible.

I knew a guy who has an incredible passion for chess at a young age. So much so, his parents had to push him to do anything but it. He later studied electrical engineering and turned oit fine.

I knew a guy who was constantly pushed to be the best in his sports team by his father who happened to be the trainer. His son had incredible potential, but his father was terrible, yelling, just blaming everything on the kid. We lost a lot, because we were often one or two players short and he punched his son for that in front of us more than once. This son turned into an alcoholic, and then lived with his father who separated from the mother. He was 20 when he shot his father (who was also a hunter) with 12 bullets and then shot himself.

Don’t force your kids. Guide them. If they have genuine fun to do stuff that is to hard or too grown up for kids, show support, help them understand it. Dont push them to hard unless it is the little push they need because they are afraid. Don’t decide what is useful and what isn’t. They need to learn deciding that for themselves
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I don't understand why you think 3000$ per seat is asking too much. If there's a market for cheaper products just build it. After putting in the work, you might actually think 3000$ is cheap.

I have never used IDA Pro but maybe the licensing comes with some sort of support agreement?
He was using a ZX Spectrum. People might be interested in https://www.worldofspectrum.org with old magazines and games and everything Spectrum related.

My main side project right now is a 3D libretro front end with Lua programming. One of my plans is to create a virtual 80s microcomputer lab with 3d models of C64, Apple II, Spectrum and maybe a few other things as well as virtual programming manuals and floppy disks and of course the emulators running on the screens. The Lua code can read and write the emulator memory so it will be possible to create a C64 demo that manipulates 3D objects for example.

Th problematic thing for the Lab is copyrights related to content. I'm not sure how I'm going to solve that. But if anyone is interested what I have so far (without the copyrighted content) is totally programmable with Lua and free. https://vintagesimulator.com
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Absolutely. It would make more sense for them to require all registrars to offer proper 2FA (i.e. SMS don’t count). This is something they have the authority to do and that would have a meaningful impact on security.
I remember one day as a teenager, sitting in class bored at high school, I was suddenly struck by the question–"why am I I, and not somebody else?" It felt so profound, so immense.

But yes, if materialism is true, probably the question is empty. However, if some other philosophy of mind is true (there are many other options beyond just materialism and Cartesian dualism), maybe it means something. And, if one has this sense that it is profound rather than empty, that might give one a reason to prefer some other position in the philosophy of mind that treats that question more sympathetically.
I got rid of my phone for 3 years and my employer (between failed attempts at startups) was appalled that I would even consider this. They became irate but eventually acquiesced. It's weird how much people can't understand how others don't want their addiction. This doesn't happen with heroin, or other drugs, just technology.
It can’t be stated enough: photons don’t have a perspective. Talking about what a photon “sees” is a non-starter. It’s also important to note that light follows null geodesics in spacetime, and while on paper that can look like no time elapses between emission and absorption, it still can’t tell us what it would “be like” to be a photon.

If you want to go in that direction though, then this could help. As you approach c, length contraction in the direction of travel is extreme. In “theory” a photon doesn’t really travel at all, the universe is flattened like a pancake in the direction of its travel. There is no time for events to occur “at once” and no year passes on a lightlike curve. A photon is emitted and absorbed without a “subjective” interval, so talking about what such an interval might be missing that point.
> The only thing slowing us down really is things like pipeline takeaway and labor shortage.

I am under the impression that this field has pretty well paid jobs. How is there a labor shortage in a mature industry with high pay?
One suggestion and one question:

- Consider using a tool like Dash to create an offline cache of docs so you can turn off WiFi and still program effectively https://kapeli.com/dash

- What freelancer community did you join?
Eventual consistency makes everything even more complicated and I am by far not the only one who says so [1].

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/why-you-should-pi...
I wonder if there is a thing like Patreon, but the money goes directly to foundations you choose.
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I recall as a child once that I literally thought the following:

> I can accept that the universe can give rise to agents with RI or AI. I can even accept that as a consequence of this, some of these agents may have self awareness. I am such an agent. Yet, I struggle comming to terms with the fact that "I" am aware of myself.

I wish I could live long enough to find out how.
> he is correct that giving false information to an officer who asks you where you are going -- even if they don't have a good reason for asking and if it would be within your rights to refuse to answer -- can be a crime.

Twice in the video, Lysiak appears to begin disputing the officer's claim that she told him she was going to a friend's house:

"No, I didn't say..."

"I wasn't going to my f..."

And twice he cuts her off.
I didn't know that. I figured the webcam was removed since the 2nd batch X210s had them.[1] It looks like the 2nd batch chassis is the X201, not the X201s.

1. https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/1019773411688570881
"I think this is dumb" isn't substantive.

Why you think it's dumb — maybe even with links to supporting material? Totally different story.
This particular trend -- not only not asking for contributions, but openly denying them (often in advance, and when none were ever offered) for a better cause -- is a rising tendency across virtually all of Western society. Watch any challenge with a monetary prize and invariably they'll turn the sad music on and demand that the contestants regale a tale about the old grandma in the old country, or the kid's club they want to donate to, etc (obviously not the hot tub they really plan on buying, or the better SUV). If a kid has a lemonade stand they can't just want to buy a WOW membership, they have to promise that it is for some good cause. Etc.

Honest giving is great, but undermining the value of work to do so isn't always constructive. In this case presumably the hypothetical people who would have given him cash are also in a good place financially.
Heat pump water heaters exist.

"Heat pump water heaters use electricity to move heat from one place to another instead of generating heat directly. Therefore, they can be two to three times more energy efficient than conventional electric resistance water heaters. To move the heat, heat pumps work like a refrigerator in reverse."

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/water-heating/heat-pump-w...
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The officer ordered the reporter to leave the area "for her own safety" because supposedly a mountain lion was in the area. But the officer didn't order any non-reporters to leave the area.

Is the reporter required by law to comply with that order?
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Why do you have to use Python?
Supporting your point, YouTube claims to be backing off its "clicks at any cost" model.

As has been mentioned previously, our business depends on the trust users place in our services to provide
reliable, high-quality information. The primary goal of our recommendation systems today is to create a trusted
and positive experience for our users. Ensuring these recommendation systems less frequently provide fringe
or low-quality disinformation content is a top priority for the company. The YouTube company-wide goal is
framed not just as “Growth”, but as “Responsible Growth”.

[1] https://blog.google/documents/33/HowGoogleFightsDisinformati...
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The solution I prefer is EVs with enough range for 3-4 hours of highway driving, that can regain a decent fraction of that range in the duration of a 10-15 minute toilet break.

Alas, we don't yet have battery tech that combines a 3-4 hour range with recharging at 16x the rate it discharged at, at a price people can afford :)
Lex Fridman has a great interview with Jurgen here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FIo6evmweo

He presents this idea during the interview. It makes sense in a way. But it also makes me wonder if embodiment (whether real or virtual) of our models is necessary for them to fully grasp the contextual relevance of the information they are processing. E.g. does having a 'me' or 'I' provide a semantic anchor for everything that it processes and a 'router' if you will to get from seemlingly disconnected ideas.
Compared to camel, giraffe, horse, zebra, gazelle, whale, dolphin, human, shark, eel, (most) bugs and worms, elephant, ... etc., I've got to say that whoever came up with pigs and cows were doing their job properly. They taste better than all of the above.
I originally thought the same until I started building ML pipelines. The best would be a direct implementation of first class module systems to handle infrastructure.
If we can get the US government to stop subsidizing meat so heavily, and prices for meat go up, people will eat less meat. I'm convinced the only reasons why it's consumed so much is due to artificially low prices.