skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't those already exist? I swear I've seen phones that just have dual screens.
Paper: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02070778/document
> A more sound statement would be "I as a consumer am willing to pay dollars equal to twice my current premiums to get healthcare coverage while avoiding hassles while receiving routine healthcare"

Ah, but are you willing to force everyone else pay twice as much so that you can get the health care you want? That's the real question. You said you were in favor of socialized healthcare, so I would guess the answer to that question is "yes", but let's at least be honest here—the private vs. public debate is never about how much you are willing to pay. Under a private system you're free to buy as much healthcare as you can afford. The point of socializing healthcare is making other people pay.
Airbnb Leads $160M Investment into Hospitality Startup Lyric
I thought FB was generally making clever decisions up until they released, and subsequently deprecated (much of) the Graph API. Despite the many privacy issues that I didn't really think about beforehand, I thought the idea was genius: Facebook becoming a platform that offers a social layer on top of the internet, rather than just another data silo trying to keep users inside.

Even with all the privacy issues, I think the original idea has merit and could make Facebook more than just what it is now. And while I haven't thought this through properly, I think it's possible to find a way to pull off much of what they promised while respecting the privacy of their users.

Perhaps I'm wrong, and they gave up on the Graph API because they knew what would happen, but I can't help but wonder if the main reason they went the route they did is because of lack of imagination and a desire to 'make money' in a more conventional way (advertising?).
The promo price is irrelevant since it's about 1/80th of the real price.
Most pilots would feel pretty bad if they survived a crash that was fatal to their passengers.
> Compare the cost of daycare in Seattle,

As someone in Seattle that pays for daycare, that's a terrible example if you're trying to prove your point. Seattle has some of the highest daycare costs in the country, and it's largely because the overhead costs (due to intense bureaucracy) means Seattle's supply of daycare is absolutely terrible for a city of its size.
Samsung said that the units sent out are the same as the final consumer devices, for what it's worth.
That might be some, I think for many it's just being able to buy "a piece of the future today".

Whether or not it ends up truly being practical, it's a phone that looks and does things that are radically different from most mainstream phones.

People will think their fancy future folding phone is cool, and other people will probably see it and think it's interesting and want to talk about it or see it work.

Kind of like paying $600 plus a 2-year contract for an iPhone in 2007 with a slow processor, no 3G, no MMS, no copy-and-paste, etc.
You'd want that because a college degree is a 4-year delay during which the human body ages. Everything gets worse with age: hearing, eyesight, neck strength (needed for high-G pilots), etc.

That cuts the career by 4 years, meaning that a larger portion of it is training and a smaller portion is being useful. There is then an incentive to let excessively older people keep flying, meaning a reduction in the physical standards (eyesight, etc.) for the people who fly that $150 million dollar jet. Good eyesight matters more than college gunk like "Art Appreciation" and "Intro to Humanities".
> The only way to be priced out is if the city refuses to accept more people and build enough housing for people.

Which, given that it seems to happen pretty much everywhere, must be factored into decision making.

"Wouldn't it be nice if humans didn't act like humans" is the sort of dreamy optimism that kills Communism.
That wouldn't be more patriotic if by being patriotic you mean helping your fellowmen and not the current establishment.

However, it'd make more sense to help your own establishment vs a foreign one.

MS being a global company, one has to wonder how much MS HQ can prevent other branches from engaging in very lucrative projects like that.
They mention that in the video. They are looking at colleges which don't fall into that group.
In the livestreams he says things like "this is stupid", or "what the heck is this?", but I have never heard him say "YOU are stupid". Is he acting differently than normal in his livestreams?

Also, one thing that I found a bit troubling is that the employees generally sound terrified, but I've had bosses who were great AND terrifying at the same time, so I have given Wolfram the benefit of the doubt.

> He's definitely the kind of person that wouldn't dare scream at someone in real life.

What do you mean exactly here, given that in the paragraph above you said he screamed at an employee so hard she went into labor?

> He is utterly convinced that everyone around him is an idiot, and that one day the world will realize how wrong they were about his ideology and dedicate museums to his honor, etc.

Is that something that he has said, or is it hyperbole?
> If I forget to pack something when I go on vacation, the most it could possibly cost me is money

I was in an airline check-in queue behind some people who discovered they had left their passports at home. Cue near-coronary and marital strife. A relative had to break into their house and make a mad dash to the airport.

(I'm also a checklist person)
Privatization is an unintended side effect of increasing government transparency (FOIA).

Just like the combo of increased roll call votes [1] and public disclosure commissions inadvertently increased the power of lobbyists, by allowing them to verify bought politicians stayed bought.

[1] vs voice votes, show of hands, other secret ballots
I thought it was an error. There's a bunch of pages matching the title but not on hackernoon. For ex https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AMP+pages+will+now+show+original+U...
They can always sell
There's a thousand different reviews available but I've been a fan of Wirecutter for almost anything they've taken the time to review and I've had pretty good results so far.

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-dash-cam/
Buying a company out is much cheaper than it disrupting you .
Many of the best pilots in history had no university degrees. Chuck Yeager famously had none. Jacqueline Cochran had none. Amelia Earhart dropped out of Columbia. Charles Lindbergh dropped out of UW-Madison. Howard Hughes dropped out of Rice. Hanna Reitsch dropped out of medical school at Kiel.

If the idea is simply use willingness to pay for / put up with university as a proxy to test seriousness and dedication, why not ask prospective aviators to get full-face tattoos? Surely that stunt would prove more dedication than a college degree, and waste less of everybody's time.
If you have lived in the Washington DC Metro area, NoVA means Northern Virginia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Virginia
What is the experience of a brain without a body? It's probably nightmarish.
Displays often come with a plastic film attached so it doesn't get scratched during transport. Maybe they assumed it was like that, and that Samsung was being overly cautious?
The only objection to Amazon opening a facility in NYC was the tax breaks it got. Otherwise, no one in NYC would have cared much at all.
If they went this route, they could run the compute at the edge; that is, in space, perhaps in another sat in a higher orbit. Thereby avoiding one trip through the atmosphere improving their latency advantage even further.

The real trick will be acquiring rooftop space at the exchanges for the uplinks.
that is the norm, for that person and it's perfectly within his right to announce his experience. You falsely imply that it's anyone's duty to share in the misery of the human race or the consequences that come from believing in the supernatural. And the "priveleged" term is just a dog-whistle for a political agenda that has no place here.
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Both apples security and privacy I'd say are industry leading...

Sure, you might still say it isn't good enough, but I personally trust them to make the right choices for me, even if they don't inform me exactly what those choices were and what tradeoffs were made.
The area I see these firms get a ton of work is in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) work. TONS of companies run their HR / Finance / Sales / etc departments on things like Salesforce and Oracle and whatever, and there are huge numbers of consultants whose jobs are to build custom installations over and over. I've never worked in the field, but my wife did. It's definitely reaaaally different from the way that the rest of the software industry works.
So one day we will wake up in a world where government skunk works developed the technology under our noses deploying it without proper oversight. all under lock and key of courts and laws similar to those that established FISA courts.

No thank you. The tech world needs to acknowledge that the real danger is facial recognition will be developed outside the public eye, without the input and oversight of the technical community that keep the Orwellian nature many suspect in check.

Which means, lead from within. Push companies that want to work on this technology to engage with law makers to insure that privacy rights are respected. to insure the technology does not false incriminate and when unsure it is enshrined in law that it cannot be used to do so. Lead within to establish limits of the use of the data, how it is stored, and how it is guaranteed to deleted within a set period. Limit how law enforcement or other government agencies gain access or use the data. There are no whistle blowers when we are not involved

tl;dr

we either lead in making sure it works and respects our rights or watch as its done in a back room deal with intelligence agencies and the hawks in Congress.
> There has been a rise in Seattle restaurant prices, but that was clearly due to the many new burdens placed on them by the city government.

Not clearly. Much of the Seattle boom had a lot to do with Chinese investment. This recently took a downturn, with new Chinese politics and policies. Investment crashed, along with a bunch of luxury services and businesses (within the last year). Now you have areas that were traditionally high income, fueled by a combination of high-tech, medical, foreign investment, etc and fewer and fewer jobs and opportunities. The areas like Bellevue are struggling to keep expanding the high income standards without collapsing under the low-income needs and with fewer resources to power the bubble. Talking about AMZ is an abstract, since anyone blaming AMZ has a misunderstanding of the economics, for a partisan fairy tale. A high tide caused prices (and taxes) to rise and not all of them have fallen with the economic churn. While some of it is the govt, not all of it, imo.
That's quite the extraordinary claim. Is there any evidence to backup that assertion? As far as I'm aware nobody knows what a living brain detached from the body actually experiences.
Nothing current I'm afraid. There's an old summary page: http://phoenixbureau.github.io/ReGPGP/ which links to some old software and a blog.

I tend to get side-tracked a lot but I'm making (slow, very slow) progress.
Worth checking this out. Banks are actively working on improving the customer experience through 3DSv2 https://stripe.com/en-IE/guides/3d-secure-2
Imo Smartphones and tablets in general werent ever made because someone starting from 1st principles thought this was a good design.
Its was just, heres some cool gizmo we can flog to people.
I wouldn't want to be dealing with itchy eyes and sneezing when I need my full attention managing the airplane in combat. The hay fever drugs make one dizzy (and it says on the label to not take them when operating machinery). (I have hay fever. One nice thing about getting older is my hay fever symptoms have steadily declined. They were rather bad when I was fighter pilot age.)

You'll also need a HEPA filter to filter out pollen, just a dust filter won't do it.
> Because there isn't enough supply.

No, Seattle proves that even if you get everybody with a pulse building apartment buildings, you still can't build enough supply to soak up the excess capital.

For example: Why is there a shortage of daycare in Seattle? There's no shortage of space for it. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/developers-struggle-to... There's no shortage of demand for daycare - https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/you-should-get-on-... . And all those Amazon employees are flush with cash.

"Daycare centers will just pay more for labor, to hire more people" you say. "This money will trickle down to everyone that way" -- except it doesn't work that way - https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/broken-economic... . Just because Amazon people can afford high rates, doesn't mean everyone can. So daycare becomes broken for everyone, despite the "benefits" of the extra cash.

It turns out that situations can be more complicated than "ECON 101: everything is just supply vs demand". I'm using daycare as an example above, but you can repeat this for lots of things (healthcare, housing, transportation, etc). This is how high income earners can "break" an economy with higher cost of living, despite not doing anything wrong themselves. And this isn't a hypothetical situation, this is how the problem is actually playing out today, across most mid-sized to major cities in the US nationwide.
Perhaps but a particular private company can establish reputation that would ensure whoever graduates from it actually has acquired the knowledge and skills listed.

In fact I even believe that teaching and skill/knowledge-certifying companies should be separated entirely. A person should be able to acquire knowledge whatever way they find comfortable (e.g. choose a company that would teach them or study entirely on themselves if they are sufficiently resourceful) then go to a reputable institution that would test them and issue a diploma.
There is no legal requirement to maximize shareholder "value".

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shareholder-value.asp
If you're going for clamshell, I think I might prefer a Psion 5 type of device.
As someone who lives in NoVA, I'm disappointed that I didn't see this. The Washington Post has an article about this as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/04/17/large-mete...
True. Though I think there was a lot of misinformation about the Amazon deal. Lots of people thought that New York was actually giving Amazon 3 billion dollars, when in reality it was just waiving 3 billion worth of taxes over several years. It's like discounted rent as a move-in incentive.
It's definitely a mixed bag. Someone above asked if you would rather live in a city where everyone makes $20k or a city where some people make $20k and some make $50k. The missing part of that equation is obviously cost of living. The latter sounds nicer in theory, unless it drives the minimum annual price of housing to $25k. In which case prosperity becomes an existential threat to the people making $20k.

Now, with the right mix of upzoning, public housing, rent control, and social services, the threat doesn't have to hurt anyone, but in San Francisco and in Seattle we're not doing remotely near enough to ensure the people on the low end aren't hurt by the prosperity.
Why would people pay you if it's already opensourced? Do you envision a redhat kind of support system?
Not sure why you are being downvoted, it is true.

There is no "innovation" whatsoever if the technology doesn't work. Apple and other makers have been playing with the technology and understood the risks of putting this device out there. Samsung ignored these risks for the sake of press, and now the customer pays the price.
In the book, the guy with the "Nuclear football" basically runs away at one point, but yeah, I'm not seeing a non-nuclear response. Tit-for-tat is the entire basis of MAD.
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Has it been demonstrated that if housing supply is less restricted, developers will want to build more? Is it always profitable for them to do so? I would think this is more complex, in that even if there were opportunities to build residences, it may not make sense to do so for a developer or property owner unless there were significant financial incentives to do so.

I mean if I told you, "hey build apartments. Hopefully that means all the rents will go down." -- isn't that actually a disincentive to build, as not as much $$$ could be made after costs of development?
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> The only way this could be worse is if they started exploding, too.

Give it a few months.

This is like a 1980s plastic lunch box. The moulded hinge always snapped in half after about 3 months regardless of what you did. Cue optimus prime letting your lunch out all over the floor.

I think they are failing because it was a fucking stupid idea.

Edit: If anything I want NO mechanical components on any handheld device I own because in the last 40 years of my life everything has broken mechanically eventually. Home buttons, volume controls, connectors, battery holders everything.
> The fact that the company is not ramen profitable in 7 years (including last 3 years of dedicated effort) means it may not be a source of income for a while.

This is always a flag for me for something that needs to be investigated. Personally I think the idea the guy took to stick with CoCalc was interesting but at the same time he should really really consider hiring a CFO, someone who really understands where the money comes in and how it goes out.

Such a person could tell him exactly how much "lifetime value" is needed from each customer in order to make the company a going concern. Sometimes that number is "impossible" in that it is way more than one believes they could get for the product. When that happens, you have to take a serious look at whether or not you're looking at a hobby or a business.

It is always difficult to see these sorts of discussions after they have been had, especially when there was information that could have been developed earlier on that would have informed the decision, but it is not uncommon.
We have other ways to determine the nature of a falling object. Much can be assertained from its trajectory, deceleration, and luminance. It’s trivial to determine that this was not a reentry vehicle.
This is completely opposite to my experience of living and growing up in India. Overpopulation is considered the root of almost every evil afflicting India.

Poverty. Overpopulation. Corruption. Overpopulation. Poor health. Overpopulation.
> How many do you propose jailing?

How many street shitters do you have? How many people do you have who are shooting heroin publicly on the train station? Starting with those sounds like a nobrainer to me.

> first adopt a contrived definition of what a "drug" is

Sure, my statement would be incorrect if you change the definition of words I'm choosing. But you very well know that in this context I've meant drugs that are defined by the UN as illegal: https://www.unodc.org/documents/scientific/Terminology_and_I...

Sorry, I don't understand how can you claim that drug prohibition doesn't work when you have countries where it in fact it does successfully work. Without resorting to redefining words, how do you explain Japan or Singapore? Is X prohibited in Japan? Yes. Is the prohibition enforced? Yes. How easy would it be to acquire X there? Very very hard. Did the prohibition work in this case? Yes. Substitute X with weed, LSD, or heroin, or your ILLEGAL drug of choice. If the prohibition can't possibly work, how do those academics explain that? Why is that prohibition of alcohol was successful in Kuwait? You'll probably argue with word "successful", but for the sake of argument lets count drunkards on the street or talk about drunk-driving related stats: there are effectively 0 of those. Do I agree with alcohol prohibition? Fuck no. Do I agree with drug prohibition? Fuck no too. Would prohibition always fail? No.

I haven't read the exact books you recommend, but I've read other books on this subject and frankly find their argument lacking. Way too often their authors cherry pick arguments.

One of the books on this topic was David Nutt's "Drugs Without the Hot Air". David Nutt is also proclaimed as world drug expert, but his book is riddled with huge amount of lies by omission. The one egregious example was him citing Kary Mullis (the Nobel laureate for inventing Polymerase Chain Reaction) saying that without LSD he couldn't have invented LSD. What Nutt forgets to mention is that Mullis is fucking lunatic who denies existence of AIDS, denies climate change, believes in astrology, sincerely describes his encounter with glowing green raccoon (The raccoon said: “Good evening, doctor.”). Like yo ... I'm not a doctor, but maybe this has something to do with copious amounts of LSD the guy consumed? If there is even a slight chance that Mullis' mental state was caused by the drugs maybe it was worth mentioning and not just cherry picking praise?

I was able to catch his lie just because I happened to known about Kary Mullis beforehand. So this example shows that David Nutt is, in fact, very biased (duh). What else did he lie about? Why should I trust him with his claims about something else?
San Francisco politics are controlled by wealthy landowners. Progressive opponents to development make a more sympathetic appeal, but it looks like a Baptist-bootlegger coalition to me.
Sails for the most part. However, they can be made self-propelling (at about 0.5 to 1.5 knots) by giving them imitation whale-fluke-shaped tails. There will also be specialist "tugboat" drones for when ambient locomotion is insufficient.
I actually run the team behind this - really cool to see it come up here! It's a much harder problem than it sounds like at first. Our solution uses custom hardware and a lot of AI and has taken our 4 person team over 9 months to build. We are b2b for now, but that could always change. Hopefully we'll have some big updates to share soon!
That's because Apple would have spent the last 2 years saying that no one would ever need that feature, then pretend to invent it saying it was the most amazing thing ever, then remove some functionality that everyone loved to make room for it while still staying thinner than anyone cared...

When it quit working after 2 days they'd tell you you shouldn't have held it that way.
It's less cumbersome than an iPad Mini in your pocket.
How can there possibly be this much salt in my fast food salad?
The only reason that you'd want to optimize this function is if it's called frequently. Imagine you you have a text file or database with millions of numbers in ASCII hexadecimal notation. When parsing that data with this code, the table is practically guaranteed to be in the cache.

Modern processors have 32 KB in L1 just 4 cycles away, hundreds of kB in L2 12 cycles away, and MB of L3 on-die cache which still only takes 50 cycles or so. I'd trust the machine to be certain to put this 256 byte table in L1. It would probably even pull the relevant parts (48-57 for the decimal digits and 65-70 for alphabetic) of a 65 KB 2-entry table if you were calling it in a tight loop. I'm curious if you could load it fast enough to sort out cache when working with a 4-entry, 4 GB table...
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02070778/document is the paper, which contains the closest thing to an implementation that I believe exists, and the answer for n is 'so large it would never fit in memory'. This is an important result mathematically, not something intended for practical use.