skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you need angular sand for electronics?
"snake eyes" is the value '1', '1' with two six sided dice. In the gambling of games of Craps it means the player instantly loses their bet.
Walt Whitman in Russia: Three Love Affairs
Dogs love to eat vegetables that have already been eaten, digested, and eliminated by other animals.
> That's not to say that I have particular confidence that the system is being deployed effectively, much less ethically, but your dismissal is unsound."

If it cannot be deployed ethically (which you seem prepared to concede), then it's not fit for purpose and is therefore not a real accomplishment.

My dismissal is that the error rates make it unsuitable for real use by real police officers. So no, my dismissal is not unsound. If it hasn't already, the purpose in practice of this machine will devolve into confirming the unfounded biases of police officers harassing the innocent (e.g. ADE 651, as mentioned by another user.) In the real world, devices like this are not fit for police work. Full stop.
But if someone find diamond in the dark side of the moon, would you sell USA or just al to evil communist for money.

Would you sell your homeland?
It seems the search is only by name. Is it possible to add a view that shows the funds sorted by which ones are most friendly to climate change proposals?
The parent was saying that viruses might make an individual stronger (within their lifetime), which would be interesting and maybe novel.

In contrast, disinfectants might make a bacteria population stronger over time, but as you said, individual weaker bacteria die off (darwinism).

(Edited after 8 minutes to clarify.)
No. Pandas is a powerful tool, but a poor api / user interface.
I've been running this since 1995 - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk. Most of the stuff on it isn't public (lists, home photos, documents) and I can't imagine not having it.

It's super lightweight and yes, I still use HTML tables. Because they're easier to understand 5 years later than div tags.
https://now-terminal-iznvtpneyk.now.sh/
It refers to getting two 1's when rolling dice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_eyes
Safer or safe ?
> The Switch not truly embracing USB Type-C makes me grumpy.

In the end, it just shows how little standards actually matter to anyone. Are you going to play Smash Bros. on your Playstation? Nope? Then it doesn't matter if they get USB Type-C right or not. Is your school district going to buy a TotallyLegitPi from AliExpress instead of Raspberry Pis? Nope? Then in the end, it doesn't matter. Marketing wins over technical excellence.

The other problem is how incomprehensibly complex the Type C standard is. Another comment thread says it's 300 pages. Nobody is ever going to get that right unless you ship someone a conformance kit and it flashes green to show 100% compliance. That is the fault of the USB consortium, not the individual implementers that couldn't get every detail in 300 pages of technical documentation right. You can't throw Postel's Law away and expect your standard to work. A lesson for us all!
Cool, because I'm trying to plan for humanity's distant future, not just 50-100 years from now.
I don't follow. You're implying "US style shareholder capitalism" is poison to other cultures that try to adopt it, but why then do you think it has worked in the US?

There's clearly something unique about the US in that nearly half of the capital in the global stock market is US companies, and the gigantic, relatively young, public companies are very disproportionately American (FAANG, etc.) Is it obvious to you what it is, because I've never heard a convincing, succinct explanation.

Here's a illustration of how skewed the world stock markets are by country:

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/56a627a158c32379008b4...
Another potential issue here is that if using the Pi as a client with a C-C cable this could confuse the device at the other end meaning it wont connect as it thinks it is being charged (will be seeing if I can get this to occur over the weekend).
It depends. 22 years here. I’ve had stretches of months I did 16 hours a day of programming, including weekends.. Literally roll out of bed, code, eat while coding, sleep. Most productive I’ve ever been, was in a complete flow state. Was my choice though, not mandated.

These days I do it for 8 hours or so, and not on weekends, other than weekend / weeknight research. This is remotely though, so it’s easy to get in the flow state.

In an office, forget about it. Those days are about team building, relationships and planning. I don’t expect to get much coding done on those days.

But if you’re tired, definitely take a break. If you can truly achieve a flow state 8 hours passes in what feels like 10 minutes. It’s such a cool and strange phenomenon.

But for it to work you have to be intentional. Mute slack, close email. Batch those at the end of the day if possible.

Nothing like the feeling of being super productive and getting tons of high quality, high leverage work done from the flow state.

I’m lucky in that my manager is very smart and “gets it”, because he’s been there too.
at what price though?
Low noise, small palette, straight lines, good use of space.
Basically textbook Tufte philosophy with a good eye for proportion/symmetry/rhythm.

The scuttlebutt doc linked elsewhere in here is even more impressive IMHO. Kuodos to the designer.
He is not complaining about a reverse transaction, but a movement of money from his account without telling him
Iridium has global coverage (you can make phone calls from the South Pole) but isn't LEO so there's a latency issue. Starlink is LEO and will have faster rates & lower latency, but won't have global coverage since the orbits don't go over the poles (sorry, Amundsen-Scott!).

What about the proposed Amazon (Blue Origin?) system?
Is this the Casimir effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
They referred to HFT only - how does it contribute to "success" of modern economies?

It just sucks out value due to stock market implementation.
As far as I'm aware coal (particularly coke) plays a vital role in the production of steel, so I don't expect we'll do away with it anytime soon. But it's very frustrating to see coal being given a free pass by critics of nuclear, particularly when those critics call themselves environmentalists.
In general I think it is an interesting idea. There has always been an economic issue with hardware manufacturers who were unwilling to expose too much information in an open source driver, and security issues of running a binary blob at ring level 0 in the kernel.

Microsoft puts itself in the middle of that by certifying a driver through a vendor sign up / certification process, and since it doesn't require the vendor to release source, the vendor can keep that information secret. As a result you have more drivers for more hardware created under the "Made for Windows" driver development plan than you do from enthusiastic reverse engineering efforts in the Linux camp.

To the extent that you can capture the value of Microsoft's oversight without having to pay the 'tax' of a Microsoft OS, you add value for the end users.
> I don't think I've liked a technology this much ever and I'm honestly surprised it's not already more popular than it already is.

I think a big part of it has been a lack of learning resources. A major part of why I started my site and YT channel was the frustration I had learning Elixir in 2016. Phoenix was even tougher. At that time, even the paid resources were mostly out of date. I found about 70% of everything I came across (books, videos, blog posts) wouldn't compile on Elixir version > 1.0! The changes in Phoenix 1.2 and 1.3 were a similar story.

The one exception to this was Dave Thomas's Programming Elixir book. I bought version 1.2 and he religiously updated it (for free!) all the way through its current version. I never found anything in it that didn't work on the current version of the language. Well done, Dave!
It's very likely that standard Starlink plans will downlink traffic as close to the customer as possible to reduce lateral utilization, but HFT needs to route traffic on the constellation all the way across the Atlantic.
> Greenland has vast untapped mineral reserves

So does Northwest Canada, which is much nearer to well-maintained infrastructure for actually moving those resources to places that want them. Siberia is chock-full of places where the mining industries shut down not because they ran out of things to mine but because it was no longer feasible to do so once the subsidies stopped.

Greenland may have mineral resources, but they are nowhere near the top of untapped resources when sorted by economic exploitation abilities.
Alaska is much warmer. Only a few sheltered coastal bays on Greenland can sustain any trees at all. Meanwhile, Sitka and Ketchikan often enjoy snowless winters. This is due, I believe, to the Aleutian ridge blocking the transport of cold water from the Arctic (contrast with the Labrador current).
Once they have their own satellite-based cell network, they can take another stab at launching a mobile phone. The Amazon Fire2 phone will be able to use this proprietary network. Amazon could then go for entry into mobile markets by selling phones with data service included free, trying to become a third major mobile platform.

Alternately, Amazon is developing their Alexa-fronted Internet-of-Things (home automation, etc.). This network could serve those devices and make their setup easier. (No need to connect them to your wifi network. Amazon could claim their IoT is inherently safer because they control the entire network that they operate on, so your security camera won't get hacked. (Note that Amazon owns the Ring doorbell products.)
That’s a lot of big claims with nary a citation in sight. Their software might not be consistently amazing (you might want to demonstrate that you understand how many different things they work on) but it’s not clueless and I’d especially want to see support for the idea that they don’t know how to design circuits. I mean, AMD is competitive now but they sure seem to be working hard at it – are they clueless too?
It can be helpful in those situations to join a team you learned about from someone in your professional or friend network. That way you can ask questions without being penalized.
How did you manage to call them?

I've been fighting a similar issue. I woke up one morning to an email that my account was permanently suspended, along with several family members' accounts that don't live with me. All of our accounts were shut down at the same time, with no reason given. None of us had used Paypal in months, and I haven't received money on Paypal in years. We can't get a hold of anyone to find out what happened.
I remember learning about Pike nearly twenty years ago. It made some decisions that seemed odd then but which seem rather modern in retrospect. First of all, it was a scripting language that had typed arguments. And second of all it allowed multiple types as arguments and returns -- for example you could define a function int|float sq(int|float x) {return x*x;} that would do the right thing for ints and floats but still error out on strings.
Are you considering “having cheaper stuff” actually progress in terms of humanity ?
Netflix could lose almost a quarter of its subscribers if it started running ads
I absolutely love the idea! Unfortunately, I have a young child and little free time so I can’t be of help, but best of luck!!
Insurance companies here have worked out that they save money by cloud seeding outside of the cities to minimize hail damage in more populated areas.
I haven't worked with Clojure, but one of my subscribers wrote me contrasting exactly that:

Wanted to thank you again for making these videos, I learned a ton and I'm really into Elixir now. If only there was a way to use it at work!

One of my favorite things about Elixir is Erlang/OTP. It's as if you're in Disneyland and everything's nice and colorful. But sometimes you go into a basement and you discover the entire thing is built on top of ancient Jedi ruins and these immortal, powerful forces lurk just beneath the surface, at your disposal.

Clojure is the opposite. It's all nice and fine as long as you're in Clojureland, but then you look behind the curtain and it's a huge pile of cards and matchsticks that hold everything together, and the glue is made of mutable state and classes.

And man, the tooling. I can't say this enough. It took me about 3 seconds to create a new project with mix new to get the unit tests and everything set up for the flatten challenge. I don't even know how to set up unit tests in Clojure, and I've been playing with it for 5 years.

So basically OTP == "ancient Jedi ruins" :D
The link originally pointed to a different article and was updated to mine later hence some slightly confusing comments on here.
Great comment. This is easy stuff:

* If someone from a marginalized (or tbh, any other) group says, "Please call me XYZ", do it

* If you use the wrong term, briefly apologize and use the right one instead.

That's all you gotta do.
I wonder what the short term and long term consequences of the buyback ban might be. It could probably an interesting debate topic over drinks that could go on for hours ;-)

Short term, it will probably lead to equity market tanking, especially if it is not coordinated with the rest of the world capital market.

I guess I'm more interested in long term impact on how companies operate, compensates executives, manages assets. Dividend will still be allowed.
It’s not likely but definitely not impossible.

https://youtu.be/2UHS883_P60
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I'm more worried about the future sudden need to stop supporting the existing internet once a few companies decide we should just use their new space internet, that seemsnlike the more profitable longterm play.
How'd you figure out the draw from your various headlights? Bulb specs?
I'm not completely familiar but I get the sense that building a snap package isn't that much of a hurdle if there's such a big need for a renamed fork.
Here's one I posted today showing how tunnel boring machines work. More civil engineering than science, but I found it quite fascinating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20364474
Buying and selling of large territories between countries has been very common throughout history, so a blanket statement like this doesn't hold much weight. Much of the United States was bought rather than conquered, and China is doing the same today.
As an aside, I’m curious: who do you think will do to PAN what they did to Checkpoint and other firewall vendors? If PAN is not innovating, who is? Thanks.
The reason for the limit is actually quite stupid. PayPal does store the hashed version of your password as is required of any user database that is part of a payment processing system. However, because PayPal has been around so long your password is transmitted to the server using a two-way encrytion scheme so that the server side can consistently apply hashing without requiring client side code to do so which makes things much harder and requires more bandwidth to be delivered.

Bandwidth concerns finanlly brings us to the reason that paypal limits the password size to 20. PayPal uses an authentication scheme that stores the encrypted password client side and requires it to be resent with every request (or at least used to). Because the password isn't hashed before being transmitted, and is present with every request, they limited the size.

All of this was designed and implemented more than 10 years ago and even though both the bandwidth concerns and the need to send the password with every request are both outdated and paypal has likely updated to newer systems that remove these concerns entirely, companies rarely re-examine these kind of hard coded limitations unless they are legally required to.
It will have to be something like this that gives best possible latency for a higher price.
Rock critics are so myopic. There was an entire psychedelic techno movement that kicked off in the 1990s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRgWA0MQrdk

There's a whole 'Space Funk' genre as well but the article doesn't mention George Clinton or any of the numerous other artists in this field.
Yes, when everything becomes cheaper we can pursue greater technology. Having a 5GHz computer would have been impossible some decades ago; now they can be used for scientific research by anyone who has $500.

Ultimately price is just a measurement of how many resources it takes to make something, with the currency added in as the medium of exchange. A product being cheap means it is now easy for us to make; the previous price of the now-cheap product will be taken up by a better product.
I am an anarchist, so I do oppose any form of capitalism. Why? This beautiful text gives all the answers :)

http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html
It’s a true static IP; been paying $12 extra each month since 2003. It’s Consolidated Communications here in Kansas City, and never had an issue running servers. They actually still provide Usenet too. I keep it static as I have some SDR hardware I want easy access to.

The only thing that sucks is the way asymmetric 100/5 service. I could get 300/30 with Spectrum, but I don’t want to deal with that headache, and they would charge me business class. Google and AT&T are dragging their feet on fiber. It’s a few blocks away still. Seems they move a block every few years.
I would prefer a heatsink and no fan (moving parts, extra power).
That sounds like an interview estimation question.

Presume total extinction due to climate emergency.

GWP = annual gross world product.

r = estimate of risk that we kill ourselves through other means per year e.g. 1 in 100 due to nuclear war.

Presume zero growth (e.g. world growth is offset by population growth, environmental damage, discount rate).

So:

Cost = GWP / 2r
I see people online complain about fit and finish, but not sure the credibility of people like you. I own a model 3 and there is 0 issues, if you go and do a test drive then there is 80 % chance you will end up buying it if you are in the market
I’m sorry to be the classic HN “but wait” guy, but wait: technically isn’t Greenland in America?

The tectonic plate separating North America from Europe goes right through Iceland (the only place the Mid-Atlantic ridge is above water), making Iceland a “country on two continents”.

If a European country can count off-continent lands in its “biggest country” argument, don’t all overseas territories get that consideration? Are the Danes really the last large “empire” in Europe, if only by land area?

If Britain could count Commonwealth countries (they are technically all under the same sovereign), then Canada + Australia would keep GB in the top seat, I’d think.
I'm getting 403 bad request responses from cloudfront on that url
> go packages are sometimes imported for side effect

Sounds like another source of errors.
For those who can afford to spend hundreds of dollars on a receiving, sure.

(starlink, for example, will require a pizza box sized dish at what they hope will be a price of a few hundred dollars)
Why sell it?
I'm old enough to remember (although I didn't particularly notice it at the time) when headlights were standardized. In fact, I've got a car from the 80s right now, and the (pop-up) headlights are round and say "Sylvania".

I don't think that the diversity of headlights is an exception to the rule of cars all looking the same, but rather one instance out of many of designers having far more freedom than they did historically, and so there's a lot more variation in what they produce.

Fewer and fewer people are buying sedans, but it's easy to pick a couple to contrast. Take the Ford Fusion and Taurus. The Fusion is all ovals, while the Taurus seems to be made out of chamfered blocks and trapezoids. Or consider the previous generation Hyundai Sonata. The current one is generic looking, I would agree, but the one sold from 2010-2014 looked like no other sedan that I've seen.
I doubt it. Maybe in a natural pool closer to a swimming hole, but who would want those mussels to be in their bool. If they colonize the pool floor, you're going to end up with your feet being cut up.
It's also dependent on consumers being able to purchase the receiving dish, hide its installation, and the government not to jam the signals. That's a lot of ifs.
How to design a proper USB-C power sink (not the way Raspberry Pi 4 did it)
I think we are reading too much into the EV aspect of the story. At the end of the day it is all about making money. BMW are not so good at that these days. China has not been the gravy train that it looked to be and the anticipated sales growth in the world's largest car market has failed to materialise. Sad considering the lengths that BMW have gone to with the big nostrils on their models.

BMW fans still like the product however fast, rear-wheel drive saloon cars are a dying segment of the market. The once invincible three series is just not as common on the roads as it used to be.

Making SUV models in North America is a good idea for Americans insatiable desire to buy European brand vehicles and Americans desires to buy SUVs. But, no offence to American labour or supply chains, it is a bit of a final assembly screwdriver operation. The engines and plenty else comes from Germany. Some components did make it over to South Carolina but you can't say the plant is a charitable effort to hire U.S. workers or a means of tapping into U.S. automotive worker skills, it is a money making machine that gets around tariffs, Chicken Tax or not.

BMW EV cars are not strictly about being EV. The electric bits come from Bosch, the same Bosch that supply every other EV maker apart from Tesla. You just buy those bits.

What BMW did and is quite commendable is carbon fibre. They are the only mass market manufacturer making passenger cells in carbon fibre. They went into it big time with the i3 and i8.

What is also interesting about BMW is how they are owned. Most auto manufacturers are owned by the banks. They don't really own their stuff any more than a mortgage owner owns their own house. They are paying interest. To the banks. BMW are different, they own all their own stuff and don't owe the banks. This is quite admirable.

For automakers like BMW the EV market is to them what the vegetarian market is to McDonalds. Sure we should all stop eating meat and save the planet but that ain't gonna happen. Falling sales in burgers, now that is a real problem. Same with ICE cars for the likes of BMW.
Did you see any of the latest videos where he compares i3, m3 and bolt
In the bicameral mind theory (linked here in another comment[0]) Julian Jaynes proposes the Collective Cognitive Imperative[1], stating that this influences the tone and message of the hallucinations.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20366183
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_cognitive_imperativ...
I decided on an i8 over the Tesla model S. The driving experience and the interior quality of the i8 was, IMO, superior. It was a close call mind you. I even put down a 4K deposit on the Tesla.

I felt the i8 was an £80k car with £30k of tech, whereas the Tesla was a £30k car with £80k tech.

As an unexpected bonus, my pregnant wife found it easier to get in and out the i8 compared to standard cars entries :)
Planting is only effective when trees are nurtured and watered after planting. I have seen too many planting efforts over the years where, after the initial enthusiasm, there is no care for the saplings and they die off only for people to lament and blame the government.
Real engineering made a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ8xEWjnBs

I recommend watching. The channel does really good explanations.
I wonder how this 81% false positive rate compares to the false positive rate of traditional techniques for developing lists of suspects.