skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some methods that are patent encumbered and the only source of ways to decode them are with tightly controlled modems/decoders. This is especially the case with the advanced PACTOR modems and some of the digital voice encoders. The FCC considered patented methods to be open even if there are no available methods to decode them.
Umm. Women are buried at Arlington. Pulaski was buried in Savannah because that’s where he died.
Because strong companies don’t worry much about short sellers. You’ll never see Apple complain about them (and if they do you know Apple is having cash flow problems).

Companies complain about short sellers when they’re having cash flow problems and are dependent on the public markets to raise $ (by issuing new shares or in a bond offering), dto fund their operations. Short sellers can increase the cost of the company to raise money (eg if the company has a bond offering they may have to pay a higher interest rate if tons of shorts effectively lower the share price of the company).
Capitalism needs bounds: A good economy without bringing sh*t from China
Even though Morgan Stanley denies short-selling, I'm really trying to understand the legal issue they'd be under even if they were.

The various news articles are terribly written (esp. the original nypost article), so here's what I can tell as someone with some knowledge of Lyft stock:

* Lyft's market standoff agreement is written loosely. Often such agreements enumerate a wide range of prohibited behaviors with the underlying stock during the lockup, banning all sorts of direct or indirect sells, hedges, hypothecation, etc. of the underlying stock. Lyft merely bans "selling or otherwise disposing" the company stock.

* Lyft has claimed (in emails to investors) that any transaction that transfers "economic interest" of the stock are prohibited.

So:

1. Via "https://nypost.com/2019/04/05/lyft-threatens-morgan-stanley-..., It looks like Morgan Stanley might have created a vehicle/security that inversely tracks Lyft. So the Lyft investors aren't per se shorting Lyft; MS is. This toes the line (as it is an indirect short), but I'd love to see legal experts weigh in.

2. Even then, I'm finding Lyft's position hard to rationalize. How does an agreement to ban sales bar any form of economic interest reduction? (e.g. buying puts, writing calls, hypothecating, etc.) I would think investors could execute equity collars on their Lyft position all they want per the agreement (and Morgan Stanley could be their counter-party), but Lyft is claiming otherwise.
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Can we just get something straight about the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant?

Although it was a 1960's design, the reason it failed the way it did was because of one design flaw...

Its backup generators were not placed up on the hills above it. Rather, the backup generators were situated below sea level underneath the reactor buildings. DERP.

Fukushima Dai-ichi survived the Magnitude 9 earthquake. It did not survive the tsunami because said tsunami overcame the tidal wall in front of it, and then the backup generators got flooded. But for that one event, if the generators were placed up on higher ground, the outcome would have been so much different.

I have first-hand knowledge, due to..

1) Knowing the area. I lived in my Japanese father-in-law's mountain house, situated 1.5km out of Miyakoji-machi, Tamura-shi. That town was just inside the 20km evacuation zone from the power plant, the mountain house was just outside at 21km - myself and my family lived in our own house in the outskirts of Koriyama city.

2) My (now deceased) Japanese father-in-law was president of the Hitachi subsiduary company which built Fukushima Dai-ich No.4 reactor, which wasn't operating at the time of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami but did suffer an explosion thought due to hydrogen gas from the spent fuel situated in the Spent Fuel Pool in its upper level.

3) Mentioned in point (1) above, I owned a house in Tobu New Town on the Eastern outskirts of Koriyama city, and I was working at Flextronics in Koriyama at the time the M9 quake occurred - things got a tad 'exciting' at the time. I should write a book.

My point is that nuclear power is safe, as long as all disaster scenarios are taken into account - in Fukushima Dai-ichi's case, for some reason (possibly financial?), it was decided that the tsunami barrier was sufficient (it wasn't) for the job, and at some point in time it was decided that placing backup generators underneath the buildings was sufficient - that unfortunately did not turn out to be the case :/

And lastly, I still fully support the idea of nuclear power.
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It's hard to use a system in an emergency if you're not used to using it in general. This goes for everything from driving to manually deploying a rollback to your software to ham radio. If we really need encrypted communications in emergencies (and I buy that we do, tbh), we should be using encrypted communications for everyday conversations so we're comfortable with how to turn it on, what the failure modes are, how we handle authentication and key distribution, etc. And I mean everyday conversations, not just emergency practice events.

See also this USENIX paper about how police with encrypted radios (who are legally allowed and generally expected to encrypt their traffic all the time) end up turning off encryption because it doesn't work reliably or easily: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec11/tech/full_papers/C... I have trouble believing that in a disaster, any significant portion of hams will manage to set up encryption.
Could you add split-peas to your analyses? They're the best value food I've found - 25% protein, and 1/3rd cheaper than lentils, at least where I am.
I think this can be a win/win. Higher levels of carbon dioxide mean more plants, and more oxygen, which leads to bigger animals. And nuclear waste leads to mutations ...
Fear is the death of reason.

By all means investigate the sources if you wish, but don't peddle conspiracy theories without any actual evidence.
Final Comment on this: after moving it to a slow mechanical drive the query speed dropped dramatically, as expected. What was almost instantaneous on the SSD took anywhere from 40 to 120 seconds on the slower drive. However, previously the dumb full table scan took anywhere from 120-240 seconds on the SSD and I never even bothered trying on the slow drive!
I believe you've described a major chunk of Slack's business model.
Perhaps the "people" who helped create that wealth should have some say in how it's spent
You are still missing the point. The problem was not the idea. The problem was the way that idea was communicated. The problem was not that every potential group was not listed. The problem was that only two groups were listed. The problem was that there was nothing to even insinuate that the same argument applies to anyone outside of those two groups. The problem was that someone readying the original argument can interpret it as belief that closeted LGBTQ people should not hold political office due to some personal flaw. I never would have commented if OP listed more groups to make their reasoning more clear or said their list was not all encompassing.
Using an iPhone doesn't magically put you above the law, so yes, society in the wider sense does tell you (one of it's members) what you can't do with your iPhone after you bought it. Apple is part of society in more or less the same way, benefiting from what society provides and expected to follow the rules set by society in return.
I think Australia benefits from royalties AND taxes. The best way is taxes and a tough audit. In addition, the wages paid to the employees are also taxed, so add it all up and Australians do very well on their minerals.
Royalties are bad because they flow constantly and when prices fall and the mine makes zero taxable profits, they then close the mine until the price goes up. With non royalty, just the taxes, production can carry on and wages get paid. Wages BTW, are far more than any royalty or taxes.
This exception already exists in current regulations.
I'm assuming that Pulaski had external male genitalia, but the skeleton had a "female" pelvis?

The article quotes Prof Merbs saying "The skeleton is about as female as can be." but doesn't seem to say in what respect it was female, which is a weird omission.

The family seemingly avoided infant baptism, in which traditionally a child might be stripped naked, so the likelihood of external genital abnormality seems relatively high.

Lots of chromosomal changes result in amennorhea in females. I'm just surprised there is no speculation as to the exact nature of the persons phenotype, particularly their chromosomal makeup.

Female pseudohermaphrodism might explain having testes but being biologically female; similarly true hermaphrodism (eg due to mosaicism, having 46,XX and 46,XY karyotypes).

But perhaps they were male with partial androgen insensitivity syndrom (PAIS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_androgen_insensitivity...), I'm not sure how that presents itself skeletally and Wikipedia doesn't appear to have any info on how chromosomal abnormalities effect skeletal development. It doesn't seem too wild to imagine a male with PAIS might have a "female skeleton" as skeleton differentiation develops through puberty, at least one doc I read [oup.com link] indicated - but not explicitly - that AIS would lead to a female skeleton.

Some sources:

* https://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/39/5/803/5052770

* https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Partial-androgen-insensi...
The therapy kills hospital's IT in order to cure the patient?

That's impressive!
Privatization of the railroads neutered a lot of their utility in much of the US. I remember taking my first Amtrak in Illinois to Chicago and experiencing that my train was delayed for 3 hours because the tracks were privately owned & slow freight trains had priority on the majority single track rails. I later learned that such delays were typical.
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Communal ownership of the means of production? Social democratic redistribution schemes are not socialist.
It's not sustainable. Your brain needs downtime, just like you can't run everywhere you go.
Yeah, but Banksy sucks, and his shit is boring.
that was what the RUGs were supposed to do, but it was easily gamed and I don’t see why this wouldn’t be either.
The only advantage it offers, IMO, is that it allows patients with a greater variety of needs (like more nursing skill and less or no therapy) to receive care. For example, the end stage cancer patient who can’t withstand much therapy but isn’t ready to accept hospice.
Lexus usually tops the reliability ratings even above Toyota. That’s why I was surprised.
Piracy actually rules
> More interesting: Apple’s evolving brand promise. The old Apple promise was that you don't have to worry if the tech works. The new promise is you don't have to worry if the tech is scamming you. Everything Apple showed was about curation, safety and trust. No tracking, no scammy ads, no loot boxes, no weird credit card charges. And Oprah.

This is an extremely good point. I'm a technical person, I love open technologies, but I've invested in Apple devices because right now we have no choice but to put trust in one major tech company or another, and Apple is the only one I have an iota of trust in not to screw me over. They're smartly capitalizing on a culture shift of tech-skepticism, and I'm not ashamed to say that that sales pitch works on me. Their competitors would be wise to take notice.
Patent protection, law enforcement, safe international finance and goods market access are just some examples of "govt services" Apple benefits greatly from.
ugh, don't use lombok. it's terrible in so many ways. Either switch to kotlin or use the AutoValue or Immutables libraries.
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>It says in relevant part that “our directors, our executive officers and holders of a substantial portion of our capital stock and securities convertible into our capital stock have entered into lock-up agreements …pursuant to which each of these persons or entities, with limited exceptions, for a period of up to 180 days after the date of this prospectus, may not, without the prior written consent of J.P.Morgan Securities LLC, (i)offer, pledge, announce the intention to sell, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of our Class A common stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for our Class A common stock ... or (ii)enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Class A common stock or such other securities.” That captures not only share sales but also options, swaps and other hedging transactions, whether settled in cash or stock, and it is pretty standard language.

From https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-04/token-...
Then you'd have to count all the accidents on every scientific and military reactor, not discounting naval reactors and especially in the early times, up until ~1975.

Can I remind you that that's almost 60 years ago and we're not talking about military?
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"Socialism is when the government does stuff, and the more stuff it does, the more socialister it is."
That's less true for low end phones. People design software and websites for the average to slightly below average phone.

When you buy the highend they become average in a few years which is completely useable. However, low end phones quickly fall behind the curve and only keep dropping.

Now, that’s not to say the phone will physically last longer. Just that having headroom becomes more noticeable over time.
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Coming out of World War Two we had a serious glut of manufacturing capacity. Planned obsolescence gave us a bottomless pit to throw that capacity at.

If instead we’d had a glut of skilled labor, we’d have had people making intricate customizations to durable goods to adapt them to the owners.

But... not only didn’t we have that glut of skilled labor, but skilled labor is beneath a lot of people. It’s déclassé. And I’m starting to think that if we don’t get over that we’re going to be in for a world of hurt, not just from overconsumption but also from underemployment.
What's that got to do with it? There are more than just 2 possible financial/political systems.

Any particular communists you have in mind, there are few extent groups, kibbutz dwellers appear to be reasonably environmentally conscious.
> Polluting LEO to the point where we endanger our ability to get off the earth is extremely myopic.

Not a notable risk here. All this debris is short-term. If the Chinese satellite had been at the same altitude, all its debris would be long gone by now.
For better or worse, the "delta" concept has become to mean "you made a good point on the opposite side that I hadn't considered" and still serves a useful function in that context.
The wildlife isn't exactly thriving, but I guess getting dosed is better than human contact for most species: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/science/nature-adapts-to-...
> mind-bogglingly idiotic parents who raised him the wrong gender as a "whoopsie" and never thought to question it.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear of parents who really wanted a boy, birthed a girl instead, and decided to raise her as a boy.
I'm going to save everyone some time here. acidburnNSA is a reactor scientist (he pops up in most of these nuclear threads). He's leading you on because your information is bad. Fact is that food didn't get to dangerous levels. (I'd trust the domain expert)

Pulling from __ph__'s link (and a google translate).

> The consumption of 200 grams of mushrooms containing 3,000 becquerels of cesium-137 per kilogram results in a load of 0.008 millisieverts.
This corresponds to the radiation exposure during a flight from Frankfurt to Gran Canaria.

> In Germany, it is not permitted to market foods with a radio cesium content of more than 600 becquerels per kilogram. For self-consumption, this restriction does not apply.

(may notice here how overly cautious we tend to be with radioactive dosages.)

> If venison or wild mushrooms are consumed in normal amounts, the additional radiation exposure is comparatively low, but avoidable.

To summarize the article:

Wild mushrooms and some wild life may have higher than normal radiation levels. Take caution if you intend to consume vast amounts of quantities. You'll probably be fine, but why risk? If you are only taking "normal" amounts then there is no concern.
How about we put the reactors in the middle of the desert, then there is no danget of killing a city and no risk of nuclear material leaking into the sea. You really don't need that many people to staff a reactor and if you really do, you can always build a train so people don't need to live close. I know power transmission is an issue. But we have gotten a lot better at that as well, with things like that big DC underwater powerline from scandinavia to the middle of europe.
> Even though Morgan Stanley denies short-selling, I'm really trying to understand the legal issue they'd be under even if they were.

The issue (and, yes, the drafting of the agreement you point to may make this murkier than would generally be the case) sounds like tortious interferenxe. Supposing MS did create a shorting product for Lyft pre-IPO investors, and supposing that the pre-IPO investors are, as a class, prohibited from engaging with that product by contract with Lyft, and supposing MS knew about that prohibition, that would seem to be the issue.
I can read the article, I was merely providing the information asked for and letting people come to their own conclusion.
I've got nothing to hide. This is my real name. Yes I'm in marketing, I'm known in the industry, I wrote about ad blocking [1], built an adblocker, spent 6 figures to test alternative payments [2], am part of every initiative to make ads better [3], and have spoken with senators to push for regulation. Does that work as a disclaimer?

But what does business interest have to do with discussing advertising as a concept vs implementation? We can discuss highly technical topics with nuance but when it comes to ads, why is there such a visceral and emotional reaction?

1. https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/16/ad-blocking-a-primer/

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038820

3. https://instinctive.io/blog/instinctive-is-a-founding-member...
He seems to have pioneered an early version of Wikipedia

>His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia which assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost.
Like Google+ that shuttered just days ago. I loved the Lisp and Raspberry Pi communities there. It was surprisingly productive, and probably entirely because of the features (and missing features) that scared people away from even trying it.
The nypost's articles are being written by reporters who don't understand what they are writing. The same authors wrote the original article ("https://nypost.com/2019/04/01/early-lyft-investors-are-betti...) which is full similar errors.

Obviously, if the investor engages in a transaction that leads to them to not benefiting from a rise in the stock, they've reduced their economic interest!

The answer (as I note elsewhere) is that the investors believe Lyft's lock-up language does not per se bar them from reducing "economic interest". The loose agreement only bars selling and presumably short-selling shares.
I think the problem is that the article says to imagine looking "down" on the solar system from "above" the sun's north pole. So the counterclockwise movement of Earth means it is passing another planet from right to left, so the view of the planet is left to right, from this perspective.

But that's not really how we think of Earth. We orient "up" as "towards the north", not "away". So the whole thing is backwards. It's easier to work out if you imagine viewing from the south pole, watching the planets orbiting clockwise. Then Earth is passing a planet like Mars from left to right, meaning the view is changing right to left, which is more obviously East to West.
If you haven't, make sure to watch Gary Hustwit's doc on Dieter. Really great.
Worse than a paper mill?
I knew this, but had a harsh realization once. I was moving out of a place, and flushing down the things that were flushable to save garbage runs.

One such thing was a jar of mini-pickles. The next day, I realized why that was a problem. They probably rehydrated in the pipes back to their originalish size. That toilet didn't flush properly again for a while.
You could host your WebSockets with something like Fanout (disclosure: founder), using Now as the backend. Still two providers, but only one to deploy code to, which may be more palatable.
turntable.fm was super fun! wish they had something like this now.
There are Li-ion chemistries that don't require cobalt. They don't have quite as high energy density.
How do you see fully electric cars improving over this situation you describe with low quality ICE car internals failing? For example, oil filters are no longer an issue if you opt for a Tesla.

How do you service electric cars compared to ICE cars?

Will the move to electric cars fundamentally hurt the car repair industry and will you have to go back to school to learn about servicing electric engines?

Thanks!
> But in a world where we can build out solar and wind as cheaply as we can gas plants

It might be that your world is Arizona desert.

Please do not dive into latitudianizm.
I'd assume another advantage of Michigan is the cheap bargeable salt available from salt caverns all around the great lakes.

(Or the streets, or the undercarriages of the cars...)
Spiritually maybe. The lineage between the two isn't official.
Original page from Event Horizon Telescope:
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/media-advisory-first-...
I understand that reddit wants to be the place where bored teens scroll through memes, gifs, news and screenshots from twitter, facebook and 4chan.

But I want nothing to do with any of that. I go for the interesting conversations in 3 tiny subreddits filled with thoughts I don't get to read anywhere else.

Of course I hate the redesign. When I want to browse twitter, I'll just open twitter.
EDIT: I actually read the S1 excerpt wrong.

Update: Note that it is carefully worded: "Our directors, executive officers and holders of a substantial portion of our capital stock and securities convertible into our capital stock".

What probably happened is that the company required holders of only a "substantial portion" of stock to sign updated agreements with the underwriters. Neither I nor any of my Lyft stockholding friends ever entered into such an agreement (and Lyft isn't claiming that we, as minor shareholders, did). So as far as I can tell, nothing blocks us from hedging with Morgan Stanley or otherwise.

(Original post was thinking the S1 is wrong; it is not)
> If this bullshit cloud over nuclear got dissolved they'd be replaced with much more safe design.

I've outlined above why this doesn't happen. Japan has been severely pro-nuclear in the 80s and 90s, and built tons of reactors, yet they only decommisioned a single old reactor in the 80s and 90s, according to this list [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors#Japan
Or just put the generators on stilts, in a bunker, or simply hardened them against flooding.

There were other design flaws, too, like venting hydrogen inside the building rather than outside.
Flat/Metro UI, live tiles, jump lists, dark mode. (I'm still using mine as a daily driver)