skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common frequency. Someones blocking them?
No opium is the new opium
In the long run nuclear jets could be really useful for the exploration of planets that don't have free oxygen in the atmosphere like Venus, Saturn, etc.
You can find the current system status and its history here https://www.gsc-europa.eu/system-status/Constellation-Inform...
This thread's so full of FUD spread by the aptly-named Truth campaign, and this one (and its parent) takes the cake. Eventually the fight-fire-with-fire approach they took to combat big tobacco is going to bite us.

While you're probably right about primary carcinogens, the tobacco plant pulls radioactive isotopes like Po-210 and Pb-210 out of the soil and air, and those concentrations have been growing as Polonium levels rise in soil from years of fertilizer use[1]. So to say 'it's not the tobacco' is a very dangerous comment.

Moreover, cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death for smokers, not lung cancer, and while extracting nicotine from tobacco and vaporizing it in a PG/VG solution might mitigate risk of the latter there's no reason to believe it'll do anything for CVD. If anything, without the MAOI in tobacco that increases the nicotine's effect, on average folks vaping probably have higher levels in their bloodstream than folks that smoke.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270238/
> "Anderson adopted the nomadic life partly out of necessity... He started making jewelry — wedding bands and titanium plugs, like the Space Invaders ones he’s now wearing — but it wasn’t enough to live on."

> "Today, he runs a warehouse, packing products for other Amazon sellers, and spends half his time on the road chasing product."

Not to be too judgmental. But it’s always sad to hear about a maker having to do something else out of necessity that is arguably less beneficial to society or themselves (not being able to user their talents to produce something).

What kind of jewellery would this guy have been able to offer if he wasn’t schlepping product between retailers to make ends meet?
If only the nuclear industry, or its remnant, were as good at making reactors as it is at making excuses.
Please, a bit more diversity!

"Property is theft!"

-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft!
as per https://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/electronic-arts-deluxe...

> and does not give you the right to license it to third parties by posting copies elsewhere on the web.
So it's not gathering when we pick berries because the plant prepared them for spreading its seeds, not for us to eat and end up in our trash. Or we take the tree where the bird nested in, or the beetle, or the abe? Or when we take whatever else we take that something else prepared for another use?

It doesn't fit nicely in our societal view of "yours" and "mine", but whenever you take something, whatever it is, you are almost always taking it away from something else. Surely "thieving" is gathering. It's just a kind of gathering that society has decided is not okay, except in all the cases where society says it's okay, like taking the animals home, or the native humans, and so on.
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The Epic Take of the House of the Century
Getting "addicted to the internet" is like getting addicted to glasses or getting addicted to cars. It's a vehicle and the special thing about it is where it takes you.
In america the standard airco setting is 18c to accommodate people in business suits. Given that London has a pretty big financial sector (with a lot of suits) they might have something similar. The same could hold for parliament.
Yup, and these days Dropbox seems to be doing their best to show people that they should have just gone with sshfs after all.
> https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop#cachingproxying-google-spr...
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Well, religion for most people wasn't a passion either -- that was just for the zealots.
I visit 3 to 5 times a year. It's not that unsafe, in Cairo at least, as police reaction forces roll around in Jeeps and I have never seen people want to make such a fuss to get their attention; foreigners used to be interesting but stuff is so bad I feel tourism took a nosedive and over the years people don't bother foreigners has less of a payout and nothing really matters anymore. I feel the big cities must have more risk, unless we are talking Sinai where people are actively fighting the military and Egyptians not directly in that zone avoid.

Westerners continue to make vastly more than local counterparts, and those 40 pounds buy less in 2007 than they did in 2019 (6LE:1USD,17.8LE:1USD, it was even crazier for foreigners when black market currency flowed freely and was stopped violently, including dragging exchange owners and seizures by police in ... 2018). Letting foreigners say stuff like this and rationalize it is part of how we helped passively ruin it.

You are right. I do read a lot into it, but stuff like this has been bothersome to me for what you can guess is 10+ years now. That we all go wow, look at this foreigner's insight into Cairene culture in 2019 with pieces like this just makes me sad.

Those organized trips are fun, but it limits the people and experiences you have. I understand we gave limited time on this planet and vacations in foreign countries are scary and uncomfortable so the effort and risk/reward is high unless you're a crazy person like yours truly.

I said elsewhere I will read his Chinese stuff and have my sinologist friends read it with me too see if it similar and I overreact.
Absolutely, the phones themselves are only messengers

The real question is something like what are the implications of small-group level intimacy, but on a global scale. Just for starters - there are very many questions raised by this recent capability.
yes, i don't have a phone :)
Sounds a lot like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight. That’s the Wikipedia but the other accounts are maybe better reads. Still, not sure how you can be considered a hermit if you’re always out burglarizing. You’re more of a homeless burglar then in my opinion. Interesting stories though.
Regularly consulting reference materials and editing your work are hallmarks of a good writer. It enables continuous improvement.

For what it’s worth, I think your examples are nuanced questions about fairly sophisticated terms. I look up similar things all the time, and I am a native English speaker, have a first-class education, and write regularly for my day job.

Don’t sell yourself short!
If the "medium is the message" (that is, the medium dominates and enforces its norms over everything transmitted, e.g. by forcing people to echo bubbles, polarization, and centralized control by its very design regardless of what content is transmitted) then the messenger is the culprit -- and we should shoot the messenger.
> Look if you’d rather do that than buy credentials online for a dollar or two then you’re just being unreasonable

Individual solutions to collective problems are immoral in my belief system. Thanks for your messages, though! they motivated me to donate 50 EUR to scihub. Even the smallest donation counts!
Interesting that the Wikipedia article you linked, within the first paragraph, completely refutes your premise that HFA is a diagnosis applied to some individuals with above average intelligence, as well as social struggles.
Emphatically yes
I’m looking for a invoicing solution in google sheets. Currently I have invoices using templates in sheets, but I also need statements.
Ok sure but he's in jail now so you don't need to worry about people normalizing the behavior - so why not talk instead about the hermitude itself?
Downvoted because people are terrified of the noosphere, or because our borg flavored implementation isn't what Teilhard de Chardin had in mind?
I only heard of him recently and just went through his presentation about Unums, available on his page. Great stuff, highly recommended.

http://www.johngustafson.net/presentations/Unums2.0.pdf
With no obvious examples on show, and no obvious way to find out the result, I decided to test this. I gave it this URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com

I think it's having a nervous breakdown ... not sure if I should try to stop it. If I click the close button does it terminate?

Who knows ...

After 10 minutes:

Crawled: 367

ToDo: 4960

Another ten minutes gone, number still to do is still rising ...
Lossless encodings don't throw anything away that was present in the original source file; if you start with a recording chain that can store 200,000 samples per second from an adequate microphone, you can resolve 100KHz - epsilon frequencies. Typically, though, the source files that pass through lossless encoding have previously been limited to 22KHz.

Lossy encodings, on the other hand, all work on the basis of a model of perceptibility that throws away information deemed less perceptible.
As YouTube’s AI improves, bad videos are less likely to be reported
Adblock+ with some lists, Privacy Badger, and NoScript can wipe all FB interference. A solid hosts file can also add one more layer to eliminate exposure to FB, Pinterest, and other fancy trackers.

Btw, yes it is easy. I have stopped using FB for so long that in order to log back in to delete my account they are asking me to be verified via "friends" (people I haven't worked with or talked to for years).
One huge difference: Dropbox was a mass market product while this is (presumably) for developers who want to iterate fast.
Fines are always going to be a slap on the wrist to FB. The purpose here was to set precedent, but I don’t see it discouraging FB or any similar existing company to change their behavior, because that would also require them to change their business model. That’s not going to happen until users stop using their service. Ultimately the net effect of this fine is to provide a roadmap for future companies in how to formulate their business models. The problem there is that tech will always be ahead of regulations by its very nature.

Btw, anyone know where that $5B gets put to use?

Maybe it should subsidize our taxes so that we can benefit from some of the value we have generated for FB as users. Kind of like a refund for allowing them to monetize our personal data.
Regarding pumps and pipes, the Moltex design avoids them entirely. Liquid fuel is contained in vertical fuel rods, open at the top to allow escape of gaseous fission products (some of which are strong neutron absorbers). The pipes are mostly immersed in a pool of molten salt coolant.

https://www.moltexenergy.com/
Or the fine turned out to be exactly as expected and the stock went up because the uncertainty about the fine was resolved
Reading. Always. I absorb information so much more effectively via text. Audio is too slow and too easy to inadvertently tune out.
You can split a ride, then crop. Strava's features in that area are actually excellent.
Apparently the vanadium stuff is expensive. Guy here arguing for Zinc. https://youtu.be/UCwJqMOiLs0?t=275
Gpudirect is one of the last differentiators with pro version consumer cards. The 2080Ti allowed use of tensor cores on consumer cards, so I would bet they'd never enable gpudirect, since they need something different.
I think someone is refusing to return a slab to someone.
I typed Apache and was thinking GPL, totally my fault.

Over the years I have sought council and been advised by multiple different attorney's that for a closed source commercial product to avoid certain licenses, like GPL and others. Apache in fairness is not one of them, my bad. MIT and Apache are the two we have used and included in projects in recent memory.

In the end I am not a lawyer either and my core point still is the same, a major question for whether to use a 3rd party library still is around what license the library is released under. And it is usually best to get advice from an attorney for any of the more complex license models.
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It's even done regularly in some cases, various US airlines take "offline" card transactions and process them later for food & drinks.

There are of course limits on how big an offline transaction you can take intentionally or unintentionally and probably the airline wears the full cost of failed transactions in this case.

Doesn't matter that much when its for a $5 coffee, plus they know who you were if they really wanted to chase it down.

And as mentioned electronic terminals absolutely have automatic offline modes also.
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Did you mean 'building a proper non-cardboard houses'? :)

(I wonder if there is a study on house sturdiness and longevity in Europe vs USA - there seems to be a huge difference. Are US houses considered a single generational (to be bulldozed instead of inherited)?)
The “2-Minute Rule” of Code Cleanup
That's not what the link you provided says.

The new Galileo frequency is just as hard to jam as the original frequency. The change was made to allow blocking or jamming of one GNSS without affecting the other.
MVC Song (WWDC 2003)
Regarding comparison to Equifax, I think it may not be equitable, which isn't to say that Facebook doesn't deserve the fine. I think they do. But Equifax does too. Facebook shouldn't forgo their fine because someone else got of lightly.
Relevant quote from the previous talk from last year:

"(4) The unreleased tools needed to build and test Inform were far worse, some being huge Perl scripts which were just mazes of twisty little passages. They were nowhere close to being releaseable in quality. One reason Inform hasn’t been open source in some years is that this infrastructure was such a mess. But not being open source is an existential threat right there."
Yes, but it could also be earlier. Call it conspiration or not, its only how i think about it. All know what corruption is, and what it can cause. Some govs. know these facts earlier as well. Also the stateleaders had know that carbon outblast should be reduced years ago. But money was more important, than human health. Then they started with creating new fuels. Specially jet-fuels. Oil money = easy money. New technology has beeing supressed from big companys for decades. Think on ford and hemp. Some are questioning about the IPCC, do they know that one of their heads, is an oil-friendly lobbyist? Do people realy know that geoengineering is an ongoing thing since the 70s? That there are international regulation rules from the WMO, how states should handle their climate. While whole world is watching at boeing since 2 crashes,blaming it on outsourced program code from india. No one is taking a closer look at the jet-fuels, wich also can corrupt these sensors, and produce a wrong software reaction. Years before, boing had trouble with juels. And the biggst thing in my opinion, do researches and climate scientists realy know what chemicals are used and what reactions they realy cause when out in the air, or when NOT fully burned(engine-problem).

Big evidence that this is nearly impossible! There are materials you cant detect them with laser, cause they are only in traces in fuels, for example. Also they are not an object in climateobservation. Do people know how many diffrent chemicals, carbons, hydrocarbons, in these new experimental jet-fuels realy are? I quess, not. This boeing type was already in the air 2 years ago! Then it started crashing? So many planes fly 2 years long and this never happend before? They werent tested before? There were selled more than exactly 500, who stay at ground now. Whats with the others? May they use another fuel? Someone know that NASA takes it to the MAX programm, startet jan 2018? Boeing was included in these experiments. NASA takes it to the MAX, with boing MAX. Also in germany. Its about experimental jet-fuels. What if one of these experiments is going wrong? Because of an unpredictable reaction. You rly think, they came up and say then: Hey folks we destroyed out atmosphere a little, but its only about the watervapour and the global watercircuit. Because the air is so thick now with these parafin and jetfuels, that water reacts now in a diffrent condition. But no stress were working on it. Now sucking carbon out from the air, is the next big thing. Even big oilcompanies started with.
Good morning. And whos gona be blamed? An indian software guy. All these other possible things, are faded out. Because some big fuel-deals are running. Tink about it.
Technical writing should be clear and concise. Always try to convey your core idea as directly as possible.

Here are some resources I find useful for this:

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/

I’m intrigued by https://www.grammarly.com/ but it sends everything you write to their cloud service, which is completely unacceptable to me. If I can’t use the tool for proprietary and private writing, it’s useless.
Maybe some areas of woodland should be sectioned off for people who want to live in a self-made cabin and sustain themselves. No developers or renting allowed, just solitary people and maybe communes.
In other words, you also haven't come across any actual evidence of harm from vaping?
This looks like Material Design.
> These days people are starting to see the downsides of relying on the cloud and are moving to private solutions.

All available evidence is contrary to this point.
The article breaks down the cost of a latte from a couple of different coffee shops as the cost of the coffee and the markup to cover non-coffee costs such as labor, rent and marketing. What is lacking in this break down and is important in determining the sincerity of the concern expressed by the coffee shop owners is how much of that markup is actually to cover non-coffee expenses and how much is the profit margin. Are the coffee shop owners in question making 5% or 500% profit? The answer to that question is important in evaluating the response of the retail coffee industry to the issue and evaluating if changes to public policy are needed to address the issue.
I always thought it was "opiate of the masses."
you might be interested to dig into who "opium of the people" comes from. he's somewhat political!
Begging for alms was not just a way to obtain food. In the Buddha's time, it was a method to keep one's ego in check and also to dissolve caste and class boundaries.
It seems like the situation was resolved in the best way possible. It is not that Galileo was harder to jam, but that jamming Galileo would also mean jamming their own GPS. So they settled on using different frequencies, which means you can jam one without jamming the other, and vice versa.

Also, possibly as a result of these negotiations, the US said they will stop using selective availability for GPS.

For me, that's the best solution for everyone, at least in times of peace. And in times of war, well, all bets are off anyways.
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There is also IfcOWL, the RDF (semantic web / linked data) representation of IFC. It'll allow you to use standard tooling (e.g. SPARQL and storage engines). https://technical.buildingsmart.org/standards/ifc/ifc-format...
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internalized by regulation would imply that the externalities (eg. Climate change) are effectively factored into the cost of producing power by burning coal due to the cost of complying to imposed regulations.

This still isn't the case in most of the world.
It's a fascinating subject. And not easy to find good reading material about.

So thanks for the book recommendations !

I wonder: in most of these stories someone who loves solitude goes and lives his life.

But is there any reading material on how to learn to love solitude ? To learn to be in solitude ?
Markets will factor in all known information ahead of a fine such as this — the possibility that it’s coming and some guess at the size and impact. In doing so, this would depress the price of the stock leading up to any news.

Let’s assume that the estimate for the fine was exactly on the money — $5B. In this case, you’d still expect to see a jump in stock price due to the removal of uncertainty. Uncertainty can pull down prices just as much as bad news.

Throwing out any opinions of what Facebook did, the size of the fine, etc. this is the type of simplistic reporting that gives the news media a black eye. It also happens quite a lot with science reporting such as an article last week on tube that could isolate sound based on its shape. The author made many leaps that were ripped apart on HN.

Any particular instance won’t get noticed by the majority, but eventually an article will get published to an area of your expertise and it’s just glaring. When this happens enough times, you begin seeing the news in a much more nuanced and different light.
Company Risk/Liability trumps usability.

If we need to nuke your machine from space, much easier it’s corporate property.

> https://www.cfodailynews.com/how-a-single-stolen-laptop-cost...
> So I wonder what the software that's running on mainframes does differently than the software that's written for ordinary computers.

Not change.
> So it's not gathering when we pick berries because the plant prepared them for spreading its seeds

The plant isn't someone.
Doesn't this precedent open the gates for class actions?

That seems more important than the actual fine.
Incumbent car companies seem to have recently realized they are about ~2 years away from being put out of business by Tesla. In the past two weeks we've seen the CEO of BMW step down with speculation it was over BMW's botched EV strategy. Now the VW / Ford alliance on electric and self driving.
Given that VW was caught cheating emissions on a global scale, and far worse than other carmakers, i find it surprising that anyone on hackernews would consider buying their cars.
If anything north of 70F is too hot for you, you have a medical condition which should not be solved at the building scale.
Indeed. Nobody cares how awful the tools are - something that exists, is open source, and can be improved is infinitely better than that which doesn't exist and has to be reverse engineered.
Phones are the opium of the masses; religion is the methamphetamine.
Seeing as his account is 11 hours old as of my writing this and that this is his only comment I have a little paranoid-detective feeling that this may be from PC, just an alt account, even if not they are clearly a very angry person
German car makers are an enormous source of pollution in Europe. I am shocked anyone wants to buy their cars anymore after the emissions scandal.
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> The AI works by taking advantage of small bubbles deliberately incorporated into the glass, as well as embedded impurities such as graphene. As the light waves reflected off the handwritten numbers pass through the glass AI, they are bent in specific ways by the bubbles and impurities. This bending process focuses the light onto one of ten specific spots on the other side of the glass, depending on the number presented. (...)

> Training the AI involved presenting the glass with different images of handwritten numbers. If the light did not pass through the glass to focus on the correct spot, the team adjusted the size and locations of impurities slightly. After thousands of iterations, the glass “learned” to bend the light to the right place. (...)

This sounds pretty much like they're training a neural network.
Not sure how you calculated 2-5 months. We're already in Q3 (Jul/Aug/Sep). Q3 ends in 79 days. So it's "0-2.5" months away.

They've continued to push that it will be released in Q3, even more so recently. And they've started producing daily videos of different software running on the dev kit. One of those videos also showed the actual phone, not the dev kit.

So although it says hardware is "TBD", I don't believe that is the case, and it seems very clear to me that they are confident, and intend to, release before the end of September atm.
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