skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually a really good way to look at it. If turnover is really small, you only need a very small number of wealthy buyers to keep driving the price higher. Everyone else kind of doesn't matter.
I’ve heard that but he’s never had a problem.

On another note if I had a daughter, I would be more careful. I don’t think anyone is going to bother my 6 foot 200 pound son.....
> I did claim that making their site have a partisan recommendation algorithm is not a good idea and may be bad for society.

So who gets to decide what is good and bad for society?
I just did a unit conversion of the OP comment. 500 miles = 800km. The 3.5 is to convert weight in kg to lb, then convert miles to km to match the unitless number in the original (2.2*1.6 is ~3.5)... the units don't make any sense, but it's just a rule of thumb

I don't necessarily agree with the rule of thumb, I was just converting it into units I could understand and thought I would share it with the community. They do line up approximately with injury-avoidance running shoe wisdom (replace every 400 to 600 km), so it seems plausible. I think it would depend a lot on the individual (i.e. I hike in trail running shoes, so I should replace more frequently than someone who uses heavier duty boots - might just want to replace insoles occasionally?)
Sales is something you can (and should!) learn to do. We're all selling, all the time. Even now, over the internet, I'm trying to convince you of something - that's all sales is. Want to switch a programming language at your company? You'll be doing some selling.

Contrary to popular perception, sales (especially B2B sales) is not at all about using the "magic words" or "tricking people" into buying. Sales is about effective qualification - that is asking the questions that give you confidence that you'd be able to complete the project you're speaking about, while also ensuring that the person you're speaking to is convinced that you'd be able to complete the project.

If you have a technical background, you have a massive advantage over someone with "sales skills" when it comes to selling whatever your technical expertise is. You can answer the hard questions! You know how people in that role think. This is a huge advantage.
Then again, not everyone wants the same thing, just like some people value their annoyance much higher than others (making a more expensive purchase actually turn out less expensive).

People are weird. But that is fine.

To me, the AirPower mat seems like a really hard thing to make. Qi charging needs concentric coils, but AirPower as a Mat needs a reconfigurable matrix to do what it needs to do.
Thank you! I am not stepping away fully, just acknowledging my limitations and putting more focus into less things. I’ll still be doing some docs and doing core team work for the foreseeable future.
"As we focused on ictal odour and not on pre-ictal, we did not make assumptions on seizure-alerting abilities of dogs, or on the timing of such anticipation, in this study."

Would be far more interesting if they could get it to work before the seizures. It's not terribly surprising to me that they can detect post-seizure odor, it's a pretty violent physiological event where I'm sure all sorts of things get secreted. It would be remarkable if they could pick up on a pre-seizure odor like how is described in the introduction....
> it could run forever in an evacuated chamber?

Space?
It's not so simple. Wide-area active-passive-rotation jammer drone swarms will disable any advantages of smart missiles, drones and stealth. You'll resort to dogfighting again. Furthermore, people always forget that in order for smart missiles to work you generally have to continuously shine a radio beam at your target for quite a while which kills any stealth advantage you have provided the adversary has the tech to detect it.

And all of that is only in case you haven't already been hacked or spied on by other means.

There were a few public talks on youtube from relevant engineers about other possible countermeasures but I can't find them now. But the summary is that while war planes take 20 years to build, most countermeasures can be coded and iterated in a week on some existing platform as new info becomes available. Usually in the form of coordinating a swarm in certain ways and synthesising radio signals for different purposes.
I think the mea-culpa announcement "This isn't going to be shipped", is better than stringing it along for months and leaving people in the dark.

Your right though, their main problem was announcing it too early. There are probably legal ramifications to this.

Back in the day "intelivision" announced a keyboard component for their console in ads. They didn't ship.. It kept slipping. Then the FTC (government) started fining them for false advertising. So they finally released one (It was junk, we had one).

"Complaints from consumers who had chosen to buy the Intellivision specifically on the promise of a "coming soon" personal-computer upgrade, eventually caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), who started investigating Mattel Electronics for fraud and false advertising. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision
NATO was founded to keep the external peace, i.e., keep out the Russians. The EU and its predecessors was founded to keep the internal peace, i.e., stop the Germans and the French from going to war.

The EC&SC was political from the beginning. The idea was to intertwine the economies so much that war becomes a lose-lose game. So the economic integration was always a means to a political end.
I think they're down about 5% year on year, but after routine gains of 5% - 10% a year, I wouldn't really call that a soft crash. We'll see what happens in the coming months.
Can you try it with Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega? It's sung without any instruments, and an early version of MP3 reportedly was a disaster on that song.
Germany (EU?) gives you 14 days unconditional return for online purchases, and brick and mortar retailers usually match or surpass that to stay competitive with online retailers.
Computer Scientist Wants to Put a Name to Every Face in Civil War Photographs
If orbital mechanics were this unstable, we wouldn't ever manage to have any sattellites up in orbit around the Earth (or have the Earth orbit the Sun, and the Sun orbit the centre of the galaxy..). The important part of your orbit is the sideways velocity (For example, the International Space Station orbits at around 27,600 km/h). Let's say you're launched from the ISS (and that the ISS's orbit is perfectly circular), straight down towards the Earth at about 30km/s. Initially, you'll get closer to the Earth, but at the same time your orbital velocity will increase as you're going down, which eventually ends up sending you back up to the same orbit as the ISS (although I'm not sure if you'll end up ahead of the ISS, behind it or right back at it). You'll have an upwards speed of 30km/s, and will keep going up at a decreasing speed until you hit some maximum point, and start coming back down to repeat the cycle. Your orbital path will end up tracing out an ellipse, and at no point will you spiral in or away.

Ultimately, to actually come back down to Earth you have to burn off a lot of sideways speed (especially if you don't want to be going too fast when you enter the atmosphere). And, to leave Earth's gravity, it takes quite a lot of acceleration too.
The economist is far left? Have you seriously ever picked up that magazine?

The economist is socially moderate-left (mostly socially progressive, but less so on certain issues such as Palestine, and generally not devoting time to fringe opinions at all) but very, very free-market oriented. The closest political orientation to them is "classically liberal", or in US terms, "libertarian", or "moderate Republican".
I didn't read the article, but I could bet that not obsessively reading HN (and/or linked articles) is one distinguishing trait.

And on that note, back to work :)
I find the divisions quite entertaining. At least they don't run the risk of pressing the wrong button when voting.
Paul Vixie thinks more people should be running their own DNS servers
Build a Dyson cooling toroid around it? (Said the design team)
Hi! This uses data from this site: ev-vin.blogspot.com, and allows you to filter it by state, added images, etc.
I think you misunderstood jackschultz's post. They were encouraging people to seek medical treatment if they encounter symptoms similar to what jackschultz experienced.
Why, bearing losses do not matter.
Do you really not accept that some people (many) may just actually believe in free speech and not be arguing in bad faith, be a bot, brigade...?

That was a pretty normal position to hold on the US until about 5 years ago and I’d say it still is.
eh? The back of the watch itself is flat.

John Gruber says he saw a prototype backstage of an event a couple years ago, put his watch on and it started charging just fine, incidentally.
Early Lessons in 360-Degree Video
Thanks, that explains why there were no prices, just a signup form :)
> 1. You definitely don't need to form an LLC. I'm still a sole proprietor all this time and it's working out fine.

I did this for a while, but it starts to hurt around tax season. There are advantages to being incorporated and then hiring yourself as an employee for a minimal wage. With the way you're doing it, you're paying employment taxes on your entire income. With an LLC, you can pass the majority of it through without paying that.

> 2. Personally, I'd hold back 35%+ of your income for taxes and expect to pay taxes every quarter.

That would be the responsible thing to do. I just end up paying yearly, paying the interest penalty, and using January+February+March for taxes. Probably should get my house in order at some point.

> 3. 2 months of savings seems really low.

Agreed.

> 4. Billing style really depends on the job you're doing. A lot of my work is billed hourly due to the nature of what I'm asked to do.

Yes, but I do pretty much everything I'm able to not bill hourly. Fixed Budget > Monthly Rate > Bi-Weekly Rate > Weekly Rate > Daily Rate > Hourly.
> Maybe counter intuitively the harder someone looks the easier it is to direct their attention.

The Monkey Business Illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY
I do because I'm stating my own personal views. You do as well, when you are stating your own views. Why do people keep trying to depict people stating their opinions as advocating some sort of government sponsored program forcing their opinions on others? Has discourse really gotten to the point where we just assume that when people state their views they are always implying that they want these views enforced on others?

It's entirely valid to say that tech companies' censorship or forms of manipulating views is bad while acknowledging that this is their legal right. This comment applies just as much to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19525998
> Edit: Maybe your comment was sarcasm :)

I still appreciate you putting in the effort to explain. Have an upvote!
It is for me and, (again, my assumption) probably for most of HN. When I don't like stuff I'm just annoyed by it taking up space and if I somehow end up watching it, it's only for the few seconds it takes me to close it.
In the center console of my car. Extremely convenient and useful to just drop the phone there and go, rather than having to plug and unplug it repeatedly.
Just to make sure, as there is conflicting information in various (more or less) trustworthy places, will apps using SAF have full rw random-access to files (contained in the tree to which they were granted access), without additional latency, and will the interface be available without Java (e.g. if you're using C/C++/Go etc.)?
Did you read the Bill? It does not eviscerate any contractual restrictions regarding trade secrecy.
Tadpole I am pretty sure did the N40, and then IBM did the 800-series themselves right?
I think what he's saying is the smart move for investors is to keep the process going (buy property, see appreciation, capture gains upon sale, re-invest gains to buy at even higher price point) until it goes bust. By "continuing to pump in capital and re-leverage based on equity", the prices will continue to go higher until they bust.

When prices go bust, you take your hit on your portfolio, but even then you probably made a ton of money in the process even if you lose some equity at the end.

It's a little different for a homeowner since you need a home to live in (if you don't want to sell does it matter if your home drops in value?). However, it will still suck if the housing market bubble pops and that $1.8M house you bought is now worth $1M, but you still have a $1.2M mortgage to pay.
Maybe an obsolete objection. "Just use coal for god's sake. All these electronics - bah!"

I think they have solved 2-wheel control. Lets move on.
There's a fascinating documentary called Born Rich[1], which was made by the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, where he interviewed his friends who were also born in to incredibly wealthy families. It was interesting to see how differently they all reacted to it, some embracing their wealth and partying like mad, others rejecting it and trying to live a normal life. Highly recommended.

The documentary's director and some of the participants in this film and its sequel, The One Percent[2] (which was not nearly as good), got in a lot of trouble for talking about their family's wealth, presumably because the ultra-rich families really don't want a lot of attention. The blowback included lawsuits, and, if I'm remembering correctly, an adopted daughter of Warren Buffett's got disowned by him after her own participation in The One Percent, where she talked about him and what it was like for her to be part of his family.

[1] - https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Born-Rich/70008257

[2] - https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-One-Percent/70092779
> Because what that scarf yells at all those who do not wear it, through the voice of all the "believers" is "harlet, wrench, slut".

That's a problem with that religion-dominated subculture, not with the symbolism itself. The notion that women should be shamed for the mere act of wearing a particular piece of clothing shuch as a headscarf is just as toxic as the one you're reacting to in your comment.
In regards to free-speech you might be right, but I actually feel like HN is somewhat of an outlier with online debate/discussion, because I actually have changed my mind on things based on peoples' posts here (not even terribly long ago).
Alexa Down?
If it's the company bus, does that mean you are on company property?
Do you have data that isn't a blatant ad campaign consisting of pithy statements from a wealth management company trying to scare people into letting them manage their money?
List of Sundial Mottos
From what I understand, many people who are potential targets of swatting (high profile live streamers, etc) notify their local PD. I'm assuming following that, if a call comes in, the PD will take a more relaxed approach. This of course is a double edged sword, but it's at least something.
Also fun to point out that Erik was given the title "Tetris Master" for this paper: https://erikdemaine.org/images/tetris_award_large.jpg
I'm in favor of independent voluntary certifications (and testing labs, and similar) that encompass a large number of associated features and properties. I shop at places that have good return policies, and I like the resulting incentives to not sell products that will generate many returns. And I'm strongly in favor of having enough up-front information to know whether you're in a buyer-beware as-is situation or a "you don't need to check very carefully" situation, and make decisions accordingly.

I don't want to prohibit the equivalent of "This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY".

> And generally you can avoid it for bespoke items. It's not a barrier to personal deals.

I'm not just talking about bespoke or "personal deals", I'm also talking about "crowdfunded, we made 6,473 of them, but we're not a big company". Or "here are some schematics to build a piece of hardware, I'm not making any promises about the result". Or any number of other situations in which the choice is not "write and provide a repair manual or not", it's "develop the product or not".
I think an interesting lens to view this issue through is that of Marsh vs Alabama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

Money quote:

> The State attempted to analogize the town's rights to the rights of homeowners to regulate the conduct of guests in their home. The Court rejected that contention, noting that ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion." The court pointed out that the more an owner opens his property up to the public in general, the more his rights are circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who are invited in.

Another phrase I've heard recently is along the lines of "a company's ability to refuse to do business with you should be proportional to your ability to refuse to do business with them".

It's not too much of a stretch to liken some of the big platforms and service providers we have today to company towns. While, strictly speaking, one doesn't have to (live in a company town)|(subscribe to Comcast), for some large segments of the population who (live in economically disadvantaged regions where the only jobs are available via the Company)|(are forced to choose between dealing with Comcast and cutting themselves off from social and economic activity), that's not much of a choice in practice.

For the moment, I think that line of "inescapable enough to warrant restriction of property rights" falls to include infra providers (think cartel ISPs, some PAAS, DNS, maybe CloudFlare if you squint) but not platforms like YT/FB. That's probably down to my bias towards technical solutions over regulatory intervention - there's at least a reasonable hope of displacing YT/FB with decentralized platforms, but short of mesh radio you're SOL if your only ISP that offers >56k doesn't want you.
Thanks for facet, it looks promising. Although it's limited to US candidates only?
Thanks for the detailed answer!

So basically if I’m used to threads as a general cross-platform concept in higher level languages, I’m probably relating to pthreads?
That's branding 101. Conspicuous consumption, perceived quality due to marketing, brand loyalty ... quite a few reasons.

Same reason people buy $1500 plastic Louis Vuitton handbags and belts.
Been waiting for this for a long time because I always forgot to recharge something every day...

Hope this does not happen to Mac Pro.

Thinking about the subscription stuff recently it seems they do have some strategy shifting recently.
They were likely downvoted because...

> 150,000 tons of plastic are tossed into European waters per year. Single use plastics make up about half of that

Regardless of the worldwide issue, the poster themselves states it's 50% of the plastic in european waterways, why shouldn't europe care about reducing 50% ?!?
This is an interesting graph - the proportion of men aged 18-30 who were celibate for the past year doubled in the past decade: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/Qalq8rTTOBvGnlWtfAt_R...

My first thought is that the “incel” crowd will grab on to this, and I wonder if they have a point. My next immediate thought is to wonder if the online social networks that have risen catering to that group might actually be the causative factor - men who feel unable to attract a partner instead find some level of companionship in these groups, creating a self-reinforcing cycle.

I suspect the answer is a bit of both, though. Tech has likely had a profound impact on the dating scene for this generation, and it likely is more difficult for less attractive men to find companionship.

For the purposes of disclosure, I’m a 36-year-old male who met his wife at 14 and married her at 21. My experiences are atypical for my generation, and I feel like I see these issues from an external perspective.
“Capitalizing on a proven market“, or maybe just simple, old-fashioned web "surfing". Following the links deeper and deeper into a topic originally found on hn. Hundreds venture off into the rabbit holes, a tiny fraction feel they found something worth sharing back to hn.

Most likely a bit of both, you are not alone in noticing the pattern.
Well, only if you can keep fighting a defined enemy who is at all vulnerable to a traditional conflict. An enemy who is globally distributed and just targets vulnerable energy and water infrastructure over the internet is much less targetable with air power.
What does "day rate" usually imply in US, 8 hours?
Oh, and a SAIC Galaxy 1100 arrived today. Still running HP/UX but as TAC-4. MIL-SPEC goodness.
Do you have a source for that, that isn't the pithy unsourced statements from a wealth management company in an ad campaign?
This kind of stinks, but it's good to see Apple doing right by its customers. Telling them something will come that won't isn't right. And if they simply can't deliver a product, then they shouldn't make a half-baked attempt.

They've recently caught flack for the problems with their keyboard, which is a hard thing to get right. This time, they chose not to deliver a marked-up, fiddly, overheating mess to their users, and we ought to credit them for it.

It takes a lot of guts to admit you can't do something; a little more corporate humility might just be a good thing.
I recall reading the army wasn't a fan of the F-35 replacing A10s because of the reduced loiter time.
How many times did you see this magician perform? If just the once, then it’s also possible that the magician just lucked out. I know of magicians who will always ask an audience member to think of a card as the first thing, just in case they happen to pick the card that the magician knows is the top card (by briefly peeking or by having it set up). If it is, then the magician looks amazing. If not, then the magician performs another trick instead and the audience is non the wiser.

I don’t know how what you described was performed, but I know that magicians often leave themselves multiple outs in case the audience doesn’t do what they want them to.
It's still a pretty normal position; I think a vast majority of Americans openly support free speech. Fear-mongering idiots like Sargon of Akkad and Ben Shapiro and Stephen Crowder and Stefan Molyneux and Jordan Peterson work very hard to make you feel like "all the SJWs are trying to regulate everything you say OMG!" because that's how they get their Patreon money, but in reality it's a lot more nuanced.

I personally think that you should be allowed to say whatever the hell you want, and I do think it's a little BS when YouTube bans people for ideological reasons. That said, I also don't really get mad at YouTube for it, because it is a private platform, and frankly I don't think most people here would argue that YouTube should be classified as a utility.
Which deal with things like rubbish removal - UK councils are MUCH more limited in scope than US cities.
Such discouraging words. Like literally everything a human has ever made, it takes _time_ to get it production ready.