skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaf was a bad car for the average joe, too.

I'm sure it was perfect for some people - just like a smart car. But it would fall down for typical daily usage for lots of people who don't care about cars, but do have a highway commute, say.
Lego Lunar Lander Modified to Fly
I’d love to help partner on this. Coding, marketing, AWS hosting, whatever I can do. Email is in my profile.
Agreed. Greenland is 836,300 mi², while Denmark is 16,577 mi². Imagine the effects of climate change in 200+ years - Greenland could be VERY valuable and important then.
That is not the same as saying cannibalisation-aversion killed the firm.

I'm aware the industry has seen shifts.
Taking the time to encourage someone is pretty sweet too. Glad you stepped out of the crowd to say hi - I'm enjoying looking through your HN comments.
Prius was definitely a thing. And objectively not a great car, but a perfectly serviceable one for lots of people. The first "green" vehicle to do that, really.
The problem is you have to maintain it as your infrastructure goes. Pretty soon you should be setting up a staging and test environment, and then you have to deal with segmenting data between environments and it kind of spirals from there.

As a general rule of thumb you need to be really cautious not just of the initial work to implement something, but the medium term operational overhead which 1-click deploys falls into.

That said I still support 1-click deploys early on. It's just not so easy as adding a githook to trigger a script.
"just for some stupid trading" is one of the underlying forces beneath the success of all modern economies. Without it almost everything you buy would be more expensive.
I’m interested to hear about other projects that are using a similar concept. Post below if you know of any...
Compare BP with Tokyo Electric Power.
Guage blocks are for measuring things. The "wringing" thing has been used in optics for precision alignment for centuries, though nobody calls it that.
No offense to your friend, but maybe, just maybe, he didn't quit due to cultural problems at Boeing, causing him to pay back his huge sign on bonus, but maybe.. and I hate to say it, he was drunk at work and got fired, then lied to you to save face?
Nuclear power is already the safest method to create electricity.
It's not really about speed in my opinion, it's about worldwide availability. 5G requires a node at every few hundred meters, so it will probably never go beyond very dense city centers.

These LEO constellations on the other end can provide connectivity in the most rural and remote places. It would be a game changer for planes and cruises for example. Tesla could include a receiver in every car giving you connection anywhere you drive, etc.
I really, really enjoyed Rails when I discovered it and I still like it for some quick prototypes. Since finding Elixir, I haven't ever wanted to maintain a Rails app again, though.

The immutability and the lack of magic you mention are probably the two main reasons Elixir projects are easier to jump into. Even when macros are involved, you can still scroll to the top of the file, look at line with "use" or "using" in it and know exactly what is affecting your module.

With a lot of other languages, it's completely unknowable from inside one file to know where or if external metaprogramming is affecting your module.
Cold welded optical components were a part of my ph.d. thesis (someone else did the wring joint trick). As far as I know, the bits are still wring jointed together after 20 years of abuse.
Forget the melting - how do you even make any use of glacial fresh water? You're not going to start growing wheat in Greenland, that's for sure, so you're not getting much use out of it on the spot. Move it elsewhere? No one's ever accomplished the 'tow an iceberg to sell it' thing before (and icebergs are much more convenient than glaciers), and if they do, it'll be a relatively tiny industry since it has to compete with stuff like reverse osmosis.
One of the best resources I’ve found lately is the book “The Carbon Farming Solution.” [1]

If you’re interested in how different species of plants and trees compare in terms of carbon impact, different types of land-management, perennial staple crop exploration, etc, it’s really well written and researched.

Bottom line: planting trees is great, and there’s a ton of ways we can improve the land. But maybe the single biggest impact thing we can do is stop cutting down forests for grazing cattle. At the end of the day the planet needs natural, wild forests, at a massive scale.

1: http://carbonfarmingsolution.com
Because HFT firms can pay for a standard StarLink and get the same results. There are few HFT customers and you have to offer them something that can't get from your consumer service if you want them to pay commensurate to the value provided.

Your other points have nothing to do with my HFT specific comment.
We can't manufacture the sand we need (yet).
So, you buy Windows to get better hardware compatibility for your Linux system on top of whatever Windows ecosystem brings you. I did something like that with non-Windows VM's. Although I couldn't find the link, there was an academic prototype you might have liked that used virtualization to reuse Windows drivers in other OS's or VM's.

Seems like there could be a market for that where it's combined with recent enhancements in efficiency targeted toward people like you that want more compatibility. What do you think?
One interesting thing about Greenland is that climate change is making it increasingly rich in a resource that’s rapidly getting scarce elsewhere on the planet: sand. To be precise, the sort of sand that’s useful for making concrete and asphalt.
The system performs much better than the existing tool of closing ones eyes and randomly picking a picture with your finger too that police have been using since the dawn of their existence. Doesn't mean it performs well because it outperforms a system that never worked to begin with like that or like drug dogs. I'm sure soon it'll be treated like it's 100% accurate just like the dogs despite its abysmal success rate. But I'm sure that's fine. So what if 81% of the suspects it points out are innocent and get harassed by police? If you live in the US, that's just as likely to be a feature, not a bug.
Quote from Neil Gaiman:

http://urbanbohemian.com/2015/08/07/neil-gaiman-on-political...

I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.

You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.

I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”
Bash on the Cloud
The solar one of worked meant I do not have to charge the car for most of the trips I did!!! Shocking.
> So your basically saying screw them all since it's impossible to include everyone?

Your disposition is needlessly antagonistic.

Moreover, regardless of what is common to every standard cable, anyone is free to put their own labels on their own cables to suit their needs. Not every solution has to be complex bureaucratic uniformity.

> I just outlined for you the most common disability, it's particularly easy to avoid since they can still actually see.

Are you even sure that color blindness is more common than blurred vision that makes it hard to discern small symbols?
Are they tho? Are they doing a better job than say police randomly checking people?

Let's actually do some crude math to try to estimate how many new cops we'd need to hire in Germany just to check out those false positive hits. I mean, what's the point of such a system if you do not check out the hits and make sure, right?

Let's assume it takes police 15 mins to check out a potential hit in person (finding the person, checking their identify and asking some questions), and they work in teams of 2 to be able to secure each other.

The Deutsche Bahn alone says in 2018 they had 5.7 million passenger in Germany per day traveling by rail[1]. Let's assume all the train stations get equipped with with this tech and let's assume their 0.67% false positive rate holds. That's 38,190 checks you need to do on innocent people, per day, or 1591.25 checks per hour.

A two person team can do 60 / 15 = 4 checks per hour. So you need to have 400 such teams at any given time. A shift is only 8h not 24h and people only work 5/7 days per week, so 400 * 2 * (24/8) * 7 / 5, so you need to hire at least 3,360 police officers (well, probably more like 5000, because we completely disregarded a lot of variables, such as vacation days, etc) just to harass DB rail passengers who were incorrectly classified as threats, nationwide. Remember, those are all false positives, not one of those people is actually a criminal the system is meant to be looking for.

IIRC an average police officer costs the state about 90K per year on average in Germany. So you'll be spending 300+ million EUR per year on harassing innocent people just because your tech is kinda shitty.

Now if those 3,360 police offers would do actual useful work instead and prevented or solved some crimes...

Also, I don't want to be that person who happens to have a similar enough face to some criminal so the face detection triggers on me all the time.

[1] https://www.deutschebahn.com/resource/blob/3992284/f9331633c...
How big is "town"?

The towns of ~10,000 that I know that have Walmarts have multiple competitors to the Walmart, and smaller towns don't have the Walmart but may have a local grocer.
I had a professor last semester who believed that Bigfoot (among other 'supernatural phenomena') is/are actually interdimensional beings 'operating in a frequency just out of our bandwidth', which was his justification for why 'video evidence' for them was always so poor and low detail/obscure. Of all things, I'm always surprised at how well bigfoot has captured people's imagination, for what would just seem to be a glorified gorilla
It's everywhere but here in Hacker News, where I'm comfortably reading on screen at 133% zoom.
You are assuming that GrubHub has anticipated every possible accusation against them and has intentionally crafted their response with respect to each and every one.

That's silly. No one has the ability to do that. GrubHub was responding to a very specific article which made a very specific claim that GrubHub was squatting these domains in order to lock restaurants into their platform. The most relevant response to that claim is to point out that they will transfer the domains if requested. The article in question did not make your "financial blackmail" claim, and there's no reason to expect that GrubHub would have anticipated it.
How about maximizing diversity? Because it is more fun for people and because it increases fitness of the biosphere as an ultimate ecosystem?

As for me it sounds better. Yes, local people could be annoyed by lions or venomous snakes, but for the most humans lions and snakes are just a curiosity that makes world more interesting.
The issue here is not "were they authorized to do this?". They were. The issue here is that their actions indicate that they cannot be trusted.

Do they require the business owner check a box "Yes" or "No" and initial next to the clause where the business owner authorizes GrubHub to operate their brand without further consent? No, they don't. That they do not implies to business owners that they cannot trust GrubHub.

That they refuse to notify business owners when they register a domain using their brand implies to business owners that they cannot trust GrubHub.

That their response summarizes as "you signed a multi-page contract that permitted us to do this without notification to you when we do, stop whining about it" implies to business owners that they cannot trust GrubHub.

This is why they are so desperate to shift the framing of the argument from "GrubHub broke trust" to "GrubHub was legally authorized to act this way". They aren't willing to change their behavior, and so instead they simply try to reframe the news with a press statement.
BMW ultimately is in the business of selling cars, not preserving a brand legacy. All the German brands are doing the same — AMG and S aren’t what they once were. Even Porsche GT cars are more pliant and daily-able than ever.
MoviePass says it will go dark for 'several weeks' to update its app
Thank you for the reasonable discussion contribution, a rare thing around the fourth.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/19496773.pdf

Well according to this paper lohc still has a better energy density then batterys and we would loose the recharge waits.
Also existing infrastructure could be reused and it allows the indefinite storage and transport of renewables, if created at source with no additinal conversion loss.

As far as i know there are several varieties in research - with one condensend form (which isnt liquid- sorry im not really a expert on this) - beeing a factor 10 energy denser.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09268...

I think this one is the paper..
I can not say how serious these technologies are driven. The trad car companies have a lot to loose when the car is reduced to 4 engines and a steering wheel.

I still think lithium ion batterys have some use- as birthing help to alternatives, who would otherwise be stuck in development hell.
Electric car or not, a very low tech but effective approach is to use a decent sunshade. Quick to set up, and have been shown to lower the internal temperature 20 degrees or so.
I wonder how (3) is going to affect Altera, given TSCM (thus Xilinx) is already at 7 nm?
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but I assume it has something to do with arguing about choosing the alternate source of fact on top of the discussion about criticism of wikipedia, which is used as a source of fact.

This is not a winnable debate, but differing views exist.

This is an incomplete list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversie...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_o...

https://www.quora.com/Am-I-the-only-frustrated-former-Wikipe...

etc.

The dubious nature of wikipedia's editing is recorded within books and articles from over the last decade that are casually discoverable from google. AFAIK, anyone who implies they aren't aware of the biases of editors, are either willfully ignorant (since this is covered under multiple topics within wikipedia itself) or trolling.
I dont think bigfoot or "large cat" sightings would capture the imagination of Africans. In Africa they have other mythical beings, which in some cases are large reptiles.

A lot of sightings are proven hoaxes so the out of focus images no doubt were intentional. I doubt an extra dimension reptile would somehow be restricted to a random lake in Scotland. Now if people started sighting Nessie in London...
I've been wondering about remote cell towers as well. When I'm out in rural areas I'll regularly get 'LTE', but my downloads will be considerably slower than when I'm in a city (despite a much lower population density). My assumption is that it's very expensive to get highspeed internet out to these locations.

This should enable cell phone companies to place a tower as long as they can run power to it (and solar panels might be an option for really remote towers).
This is a really nice video if you are interested in measurement precision for manufacturing:

Machine Thinking:
Origins of Precision and first project introduction
https://youtu.be/gNRnrn5DE58
For latency at LEO, we're looking at below 50ms, going as low as 20ms. For bandwidth, it obviously depends on load and usage. SpaceX's satellites each can handle 1 Tbps, so it comes down to how they distribute and price it. At 100Mbps and 3000 satellites, that's roughly 10 million users. Obviously not all users will be using that much data simultaneously.
Really? They seem equally readable to me.

I can't tell why a sane person would care much one way or the other, other than the way sane people care about vim vs emacs or tabs vs spaces or Kirk vs Picard...
Denmark did sell the Virgin islands to the US in 1917, so it's not unheard of.

I think that back in the day, Denmark was keen to have a US base on Danish soil, hehe :)
(Also selling land and citizens probably became tabu, as is today)

I would suspect that later it became the reminder of former glory...

But in future, we'll likely have to give it up, if it ever becomes profitable on it's own.

(Unless, Greenland somehow becomes profitable by using it's ties to Denmark, for trade, etc..)
The trees can be gasified and turned into biochar, and buried into the soil to capture the carbon and improve the soil quality (while generating electricity and heat). Then new trees can be planted in their place. Or they can be used to build buildings which sequesters carbon similarly (albeit for a shorter span of time).
I strongly agree.

I wonder if it would help for a new kind of union to arise - one that exists only to guarantee good wages for its members -- to force companies to direct more profits toward wages instead of towards stock buybacks.
I pull 750Gb a month max across 5 people so this is fine. Thanks for the heads up however.
Both are great platforms, but ... how many of those customers who reported running on PostgreSQL did so because they didn't know they could use MySQL, or just took the defaults?

Image from: https://scalegrid.io/blog/2019-database-trends-sql-vs-nosql-...
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/36de94d737212dfc0daad17...
Vehicles getting bigger is a trend in general across all manufacturers and all vehicle categories, from the Toyota Corolla to the Lincoln Navigator. I think the only car I can think of which hasn’t gotten bigger and heavier over the years is the Mazda Miata.
Licensing deals do bring new energy to public coin offerings
Why old-fashioned licensing is key to the return of retail investors to coin public offerings?
3-letter marketing gimmicks have proven no trustworthy enough.
License investments bring transparency and a hoping light at the end of the crypto tunnel.

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People get busted because they're sloppy. DPR, for example. From what I've read, he made at least five major OPSEC errors.

- Back when SR1 was starting, he got a visit from the FBI about fake ID that he had ordered, shipped to his actual address in SF. And he basically admitted that he bought them from SR1.

- He posted to at least two sites about SR1, using accounts linked to his real name.

- Logs in a SR1 server pointed to an IPv4 address that he used in SF.

- Apache in a SR1 server was misconfigured, such that errors were accessible via clearnet, instead of via Tor onion.

- He worked in public with a FDE laptop, which contained everything about SR1. Including IDs for all staff. And he didn't take steps to enable emergency shutdown.

And about Bitcoin. One of my favorite mixing services, Bitcoin Fog, has handled huge amounts of Bitcoin, from various thefts. And nothing has ever been traced, to my knowledge.

Finally, where do you get "businesses trying to be legitimate"? Maybe their customers are legitimate, but why would you say that about the bot providers? They could just have a credible cover operation.
You might think the comment is "overall appropriate and constructive for the forum" because you don't realize that it is sarcasm. The intended meaning is completely different from what you imagine it to be.

The opposite can also happen, particularly when somebody has a belief system very different from your own. You might wrongly assume that the comment is sarcasm, when in fact it is thoughtful and substantive.
This is part of the reason why you commonly see cymbal players in orchestras use an oblique motion for a crash rather than a head-on direct motion.

Bringing two symbols together directly along their axis of rotation risks getting them stuck together like suction cups--the crazy part is that even when holes are drilled to release the near vaccum between two stuck cymbals, they remain glued together by the forces described in this article.
... according to GrubHub
Indeed. Fretting over the possibility that Greenland is easily taken is forgetting that it still must be taken. Denmark is stitched in to various alliances and treaties, and anyone who would take what Denmark has must withstand the ire of its partners. After all, what is power, but a lot of memories of agreeable conversations and the meaning we attach to ink stains on paper?
In the text of the article there are words: "we could always roll snake-eyes in the evolutionary crapshoot" I'm not an English native and I cannot grasp the precise meaning of the "to roll snake-eyes". What does it mean? Does the rolling of snake eyes somehow different from rolling human eyes? Or maybe snakes cannot roll their eyes(?) and... I don't know.

Would someone be so nice to explain this, please?
Please don't tell me to consider suicide for myself. I do contemplate it a lot, I'm not very happy on this planet. I won't reproduce though; ain't no thang.
Unfortunately you can't get off fossil fuels by buying a car - they contain embedded energy of which a large percentage comes from fossil fuels.

If the lifetime of a vehicle is say 400000 kms, I calculate that a new Prius emits less CO2 than a new Model S if manufacturing etc is included.
Yeah. As much as I respect gwern, I think here they’re underestimating the importance of the human aspects like national pride.
"Rolling snake eyes" means rolling two ones on six-sided dice. In many games that's a bad throw, as it only adds to two out of a possible twelve.
Or for the lazy, here's Destin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-xMCFOwllE
Especially following WWII, in which Denmark offered no resistance.
Too late now; it was over a year ago and in another country; Didn’t bother keeping the dead watch when I moved. I also had enough time with it to discover that I, personally, didn’t get much value out of the “smart” features.

This happened during a hurricane evacuation and I went to an Apple store several states away while waiting for the airport at home to reopen so I could find out if there had been any damage (fortunately not). Of all the people I dealt with during that experience, Apple’s employees were uniquely unsympathetic to my situation, and I decided I didn’t want anything to do with them ever again.

The proximate cause was probably an impact as I treated it like the sports watch it was advertised to be. The separation wasn’t a failure of the glue, but a crack that traveled around the weak part of the glass where it is curved downwards to meet the bezel. There was a tiny nick that was the nucleus of the fracture that could have been caused by anything (in my case, probably some clay on a tennis ball).

The biggest issue for me was that I didn’t want to have to baby something that fragile, especially when it’s supposed to be a fitness object. And the completely professional, but uncaring and robotic, way their representatives handled the situation.
I couldn't say, I paid less and less attention to Boeing as they receded further and further into my past. Everything I said above is opinion and nostalgic lament.
Edit: Oops - somehow missed the other post mentioning this book. Sorry!

These are covered with a charming personal story by Simon Winchester in his book The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

It's reviewed here:
https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/the-perfectionists-how-pre...

and the audiobook as pretty good too.
You know it's tough to live or grow anything there now, but I wonder what climate change will do to the summer temperatures in 10 years. Could we see summer temperatures being warm enough to support agricultural crops.