skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Garner's advice, to paraphrase—his entry on who/whom is, unsurprisingly, long—amounts to generally understanding and following the rules, but using whichever reads or sounds better if rule-following results in awkwardness, as it certainly sometimes does (he has examples). In this case I'd judge that either works, though the more formal-register the writing the more this use of "who" would stand out.

This being a headline in the Economist—and considering that, apparently, at least some found this use of "who" distracting, while "whom" would have been at least as easy to parse and probably wouldn't have bothered anyone—it's probably fair to call it a small error.

Garner also notes that predictions that "whom" is on its way out are, at this point, part of a long tradition, and do seem to capture the trend but do not yet describe current standard usage outside the fairly informal or colloquial. IOW for the best hope of communicating well at higher-formality registers, especially in writing, do continue (mostly) following the standard rules, in this case, avoiding it only when "correct" use is distracting or strange to a modern reader.
Yeah I guess it would depend on context. If they want to use a bot for say, training purposes, it would make sense to play a role. But if I'm talking with a virtual assistant, I'd prefer not to be lied to.
Fine but the scooters are mainly replacing journeys on foot and cycle not car...
Kevin wept.
> Dark matter permeates the universe. In fact it does more than permeate. It is the universe. 85% percent of everything that exists is actually dark matter. We can't detect it, we can't see it. But it's there.

Dark matter is so cringy and one of the most embarrassing moves from physics. Instead of admitting there is a massive flaw in the models, they decided to name it.
How do these things work? They stored the password or private key?
> Alternatively they fall prey to lotteries, casinos, drugs, alcohol, or any other number of things and you're right back at square one...

This is contrary to evidence. There are people who are poor and there are people who are addicts, but the extent to which they overlap is only because of the tendency of addiction to make you poor. The bulk of the poor are not poor because they piss their money away on drugs and casinos.

Moreover, giving people stuff instead of money doesn't help the addicts -- or anyone else -- because stuff is fungible like money, only less efficiently. You give an addict food and shelter and they'll sell the food and sublet the shelter and go blow the money on their addiction. Because the root of their problem isn't that they don't have enough food or housing or money, it's that they need to break their addiction or they will never hold onto those things.

Meanwhile giving out stuff instead of money only costs the taxpayer more for the same amount of benefit, because that inefficiency is universal. You give people money for clothes and they'll buy clothes with it, even if they already have clothes, because they can't spend it on anything else. But that's just a waste of the taxpayer's money, when it could otherwise have gone to something they actually needed.
There was JFK..
Assuming it was in the form of: You pay the total value in rent, and each month $500 is added to your amazon balance (I'm assuming that's how such a plan would feasibly work in practice)... then, yeah sure. Of course, the devil is in the details, but taking the deal just at face value, yeah it's profitable why wouldn't you do it?

Even if you bought stuff you didn't need, but you could resell later for a 20% loss after fees, that's still essentially a free $400 a month just for holding onto some merchandise in your closet temporarily. That's probably worth it for most people.
Only if the quota weighs 16 tons.
More than 10% of the posts on HN, including 100% of yours, are about climate change. Could you give it a rest please? There are dedicated climate change forums that you can go to.
> Devil’s advocate here. Who’s to say they won’t use it strictly to deter drug trafficking and terrorism? Couldn’t they take steps to be transparent about what data is collected, and where it goes?

What systems would you put into place to prevent abuse?

What about bad cops who would misappropriate the intel?

What would prevent them from tracking non-terrorist/drug related individuals?

How do you prevent citizens from being followed and tracked without a warrant?

And if misuse or abuse does happen, how is that transparently shared with the victim?

This is a weak place to argue that slippery slope doesn't apply, since the government has already had a lot of incidents in the recent past where they said they weren't doing certain surveillance - and then it was leaked that they actually were...

If you could say 100% that these balloons will only ever capture data based on legal warrants - we might have something to discuss. However, I can't think of a system that would guarantee that.
What "massive flaw"? The model works for most uses. Why can't there be matter that only interacts with gravity?

Do we have any explanation that makes sense without supposing the existing of dark matter?
Haruki Murakami's novel 'Dance Dance Dance' has a character who is in a similar situation. He's a movie star who because of circumstances related to his divorce has acquired a stunning amount of debt. So most of his income goes into covering this debt. He is very bad with numbers and money, this character, and so he cannot ever figure out how much he owes and how long will the situation last.

However his movie studio rents him a high-class apartment, gets him cool cars to drive, covers various bills from shops and restaurants and whatnot as 'the entertainment expenses', can send him on the high-profile vacations, etc. They can even get him the expensive escorts, because absolutely anything can be worded to fall under the umbrella of the 'enterntainment expenses'. So in short, he can 'have' anything as long as he does not actually own it.

In the end this character kills himself, due largely to the inability to exert agency over his life. And that if you read the book in the face-value 'no-mystical' mode, otherwise the outcome is rather worse.

So to answer your question, going into the infinite debt for infinite reward does not really sound attractive.
It's about the priori. The common slippery slope you mention comes from people who believe that historically government abuses power to the extend that they can get away it, and whoever claims otherwise are the one that needs to provide evidence. Of course if you have the opposite priori, then you will ask for the opposite kind of evidence.

I tend to go with the former, since liberal democracies are rarer than totalitarianism and the like.
This comment takes the cake for me
I keep hearing electricians say that they can't detect bad splices which how most residential electrical fires start.
The opposite narratives are just as plausible: it weakens its hold because it -has- to add its name to signal the connection; that it is so poorly intertwined with the core product that they slapped the Facebook name on it; that it’s so unclear that the product is “from Facebook” they have to literally change the name of the product for that express purpose!

It makes sense as a typically clumsy move as it’s embarrassingly obvious pre-scrutiny posing.
> Do we have any explanation that makes sense without supposing the existing of dark matter?

Why not just go with "God" /s? Being unable to explain things doesn't mean we should pretend to invent some. It literally is, in this case, the name for that which we cannot explain, without being forthright about it.

> The model works for most uses.

Newtonian physics also worked for 100% of cases for centuries.

The "massive flaw" is that a massive "85%" of the universe is composed of this thing that our models can't explain and our solution was to name it.
$50 dollars for something that may be less safe. No thanks?
"Lots and lots of web developers still use 'bad' 'old' languages and technology."
Cougars in California appear to be afraid of human voices, not surprising as we are their largest threat. Convincingly demonstrated by this research [1] PDF [2].

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13344
[2] https://wildlife.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Suraci_...
Autotomy
The difference was almost entirely the size. The US used to have very few cruisers during the 70ies, but the Soviet Union had a lot of ships that were much smaller than US cruisers, yet designated as cruisers. So the US simply redesignated all large destroyers (i.e. the entire Ticonderoga class) as cruisers, arguing that the larger size enabled them to e taskforce flagships. But the difference in size between the Ticonderogas and the first Burke's (build 15 years after the Ticos IIRC) was only roughly 1000 tons and by now the 3rd generation of Burkes is as large as the Ticos were.
You can ask for cache deletion at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals?pli=1, I've just done it yesterday and today the caches are marked as deleted/refreshed.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/
None of these examples help us survive. Humans are highly adaptable and live in nearly every climate. We don’t need to evolve. Unfortunately our staple crops are far less adaptable, and we’ve already done a very good job at extracting what we can from the available pool of genetic variation. Plant pathogens are however often good at adapting, and will quite possibly thrive in changing conditions. Yet somehow we’ll have to feed an extra 3-5 billion people in the next 30 years in this rapidly changing climate. As I’ve said in other threads, it’s not obvious how we’re going to do it, and if we struggle, there’ll be serious political instability, which is almost always bad for those going through it.
That's just them doing the silly thing they ought not to be doing. What synergy exists that causes Calico to be better off as part of Alphabet instead of as an independent company?

What if I want to invest in Calico but not Google, or vice versa? All it's doing is making the market less efficient.
I've ha-ha-only-seriously described Hollywood as a complicated, interrelated set of financial instruments which as a by-product also produces movies for a while now.
I think this article is pretty fair. Some serious problems need to be solved for these scooters to be green, but it does seem like a very real possibility that they could be solved.
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Does "taking a bath" in English include showering?

I didn't take a bath for at least a year, only showers and quickly washing my armpits with soap in washhand basin
It's ... complicated. And there's more to the dynamic than that.

One of Clark's observations is that modernity -- not just capitalism, but technology, logistics, healthcare, interventions, etc. -- not only create poverty but make it survivable. A reason that persistant conditions of abject misery are sustained for lifetimes and generations is that they don't simply kill those affected (by disease, starvation, accidents, warfare) in a few weeks or months.

His book is part of a series edited by Joel Mokyr on economic history and progress (much of what Cowan and Collison are calling for), well worth looking at titles. Robert J. Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is another title, and more generally in 3what I'd consider a larger literature including Polanyi's The Great Transformation and Joseph Needham's work exploring what's come to be known as "the Needham question" -- why China, which developed a phenomenal set of technology and scientific knowledge, catalogued exhaustively in Needham's Science and Civilisation in China, didn't then proceed to have an industrial revolution similar to that which eventually occurred in England.

I think you're also absolutely correct to call out the claims made for capitalism -- that it elevates everyone out of poverty (the poorest billions have actually lost financial wealth in recent years), that it's an engine of creativity (many inventors died broke or broken, many inventions came from uncompensated sources, including famously the one mention of either technology or steam power in Smith's Wealth of Nations -- a boy optimising steam engine function because he wanted to play with his friends), and numerous others.

The contrast between price behaviour of rents vs. wages is very well discussed, going back to Smith, who also discusses the dynamics of poverty in economic growth and decline.

But yes: the orthodox economic theology appears to have several significant gaps with reality. Including though not limited to the behaviour of poverty under market-capitalist-property systems.
Kia counts on electric-car push to meet CO2 target in Europe
Certainly this is a great CPU, but there's also a question of pent up demand. Those in the market for a CPU without a clear deadline earlier this year would have decided to either buy an Intel CPU then, buy an AMD CPU then, or postpone the purchase until July when the new AMD chips were coming out.
I think it is caused by Atlassian changing their branding: since most people did not bother to capitalize 'JIRA', they branded it as 'Jira'. By the way, I am on an older version of Confluence and it autocorrects the other way: 'Jira' to 'JIRA'.
Out of curiosity, what language was it written in?
>The thing is when it gets cheap enough, other players start enter the game too. Companies. Criminal gangs.
>Or even private individuals.

This last is the worthwhile part.
The problem isn't surveillance, it's disproportional surveillance.

That is, people in power can only control the public while they retain a monopoly on power.

Since bulk surveillance is coming, the best outcome is equal surveillance and equal access.

Postscript:
Privacy laws tend to lock you and I away from data, not powerful people who ruin lives.
I think the facepalm was meant to be "OMG this finance journalist doesn't know the difference between a framework and a language, what an idiot".

(Fwiw, the difference between the two is super nuanced and irrelevant to most journalism about tech. They're both "tools to make software". If I were a journalist, I'd also call Rails a programming language, because that's a term much of the general public understands is "a thing people use to build software with")

(so who knows, maybe the author actually knows, but decided to write for the NYT audience and not pedants on HN)
There are countries, or regions, or municipalities, or neighborhoods where the number of coerced ballots can easily be 50% or more. Voting by email is a complete no-no in those situations.

There are also countries where turnout is consistently above 70% and there is no mail voting. In the US the obstacles to voting are not having to go to a polling station: voter registration due to not having a federal ID, voting on a Tuesday rather than during the weekend, gerrymandering due to political bodies bring able to affect the redistricting process, and so on.
That happens in Berlin too.. if you're out of Kreuzberg/Mitte/Prenzlauer Berg, you're too far away
Nintendo Training (1991)
Maybe, when everyone stinks you'd get used to it and think nothing of it?
How do you not pay for an Uber right now? Your card has to be valid to be able to get a ride in the first place.
Aren't these just re-branded Feitan security keys? Any reason I should trust this over something like a Yubikey which is manufactured in a country with a slightly less atrocious attitude towards digital security and privacy than China?
The normal data export only includes summary data for each night in csv:

Type (sleep, nap, relax)
Start Time
Stop Time
Sleep Duration
Sleep Onset Duration
Light Sleep Duration
Deep Sleep Duration
REM Duration
Wake After Sleep Onset
Duration
Number of awakenings
Position Changes
Mean Heart Rate
Mean Respiration CPM
Number of Stimulations

Not sure if there's any way to get the raw sensor data.

There appear to be two terminals on the band which are not used by the normal user. I assume they are for flashing the firmware on bricked devices.
I’ve worked in an office where they gave me Windows 2000, but I didn’t mind because I could see the XP scenery when looking out the office window :-)
> If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount,

That makes no sense, who wouldn't do that. It would be more like $250 rent discount for $500 purchases.
> Google investors won't be able to invest in high-risk biotech startups if they aren't accredited. Everyday investors are only allowed to access weird investments through the left-field bets of big companies.

Only they can't do it that way, because if you buy a share of Alphabet, basically the entire value is from Google and even if one of the little left-field bets triples in value it would have only marginal impact on the overall share price.

Meanwhile if you did want to do such a thing, the better solution would be to have a fund with the sole purpose of investing in high-risk biotech startups, and then invest in a slew of them to better diversify the risk. Then let retail investors buy shares in that entity, which is all biotech instead of being a tiny sliver of biotech but really mostly Google.
Where does the article say it is against the airline's will? It only says that the airlines have never activated the camera, and currently have no plans to.
It very much cuts both ways.

We need far less nationalism in the world. It's never led to anything good.
Noticed last night that images for on Instagram are being served from Facebook's CDN, including the Facebook favicon. I would have thought the smart thing would be to keep a lot of distance from the three brands.
The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet
The people in power today aren’t the people in power tomorrow. Even if you trust those in power today, do you trust the next 10 administrations to have sufficient restraint not to abuse their power?
I don't think Amazon even needs experiments like this to increase its dominance.

Take the apartment complex i live in as an example, last year there was a marked increase in package thefts that the residents started complaining. The management came up with a few solutions that all got shot down, cameras were a straight no from most people because of privacy implications, increasing rounds by the security was also shot down since its a huge complex and it would require a lot more people (which they implied might lead to increase in rents in the coming years).

What did everyone decide on? on-site Amazon lockers. So now the choices are that you either buy from Amazon, or risk having your package stolen. Guess what everyone does now?
I don't know. Apple has something like 250 billion in their war chest. They could stop selling stuff for a hundred years and still pay 20000 people $100k a year.
>Can vast regions in the USA and other countries be re-forested? Yes, if the willpower is there.

China and India already plant a lot of trees.

US can sit back relax and dedicate that space to more research centers and get ahead while China/India are busy squeezing their population and putting up large pieces of land for reforestation.

Not every country has to do it, not many in Europe will shell out for reforestation.

The carbon in atmosphere will have effect nomatter where the tree is.
Presumably this person? https://muckrack.com/miriam-weiner

I learned a lot about Jewish genealogy by googling that name.
Solid electrolyte batteries – the next big thing?
I will say, for what it’s worth, that the customer experience of using Brex is really quite outstanding (my current startup is a customer.)

They’ve figured out things that in hindsight just seem so obvious to a good UX, and yet we’ve all been so trained to have low expectations from the mediocre service traditional banks/corporate card providers offer that it seems outstanding.

From limited experience - the fact that virtual cards are first-party citizens, the helpful text messages you get (which include a warning the first time you use a card physically, instant text records when you use a card physically, the ability to photograph receipts and send them back to that same text phone #, and and and.)

American Express (my only other corporate card comparison) of course _could_ offer this stuff, but it’s just not in their DNA because, well, they haven’t had to innovate because they had what amounts to a monopoly on corporate spending cards. And I should note - Amex ties the credit on those cards to the founder (requiring a personal guarantee until the company reaches a certain - large - size.)

Anyway, this is all to say I’m a fan and it doesn’t surprise me they’ve having the success they are so far. Let’s hope they can do it profitably and keep it up!
If you're one of a handful of megacorps collecting phone location data, contact data, purchase data, etc, this seems like it would already be trivial. They don't need a camera physically looking at you (and they often have those too).
Electric scooters aren't as eco-friendly as they seem, study finds
Thank you! I'm not the only one on this planet who thinks the whole dark matter thing is baloney.

"It's there but we can't see, detect, or feel it. But we need it to exist because it explains some phenomina we can't figure out without it."

Baloney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9GR3ktjbNU
Sounds like a shitty platitude but yeah, this is why I fear Amazon will eventually reconsider their returns policy.
> And in a market panic, your friendly HFT shop next door is there and offering to buy and sell to stabilise the price?

Some are. It's not that they are friendly, it's just that doing so can be highly profitable if one can estimate the mispricing with a sufficient degree of certainty.

> In which market do we benefit from milliseconds pricing, compared to, say, an auction every minute?

I argue that all of the significant ones benefit. The global market is huge and interrelated in complex ways. There are many trading entities with a variety of specialties. They communicate their expertise through the markets by placing orders. It's an iterative process and a lot of information must be conveyed. The faster the entities can communicate back and forth, the more accurately the prices can represent a weighted consensus. Constraining the trading to 1 minute auctions would reduce the communication bandwidth.
I needed to upgrade my i7-3770, the 3700x was too good of a deal. I saw a nice decrease in build times, can't wait to test how it is for gaming but I havent upgraded my GPU yet. Im still waiting for the AIB RX 5700's, Nvidia pricing is ridiculous in Aus
They're using numbers from one retailer. I imagine the chip really is selling well overall compared to past numbers, but there is a high risk this isn't a representative sample, especially the part about one model outselling all of Intel.
I totally agree. Someone gets a bullet to the back of the head. I believe it will be the knuckledraggers.
The Amazon locker still makes non Amazon packages safer just by reducing the thief's reward. For example, if I forget my bike lock, I feel better leaving my bicycle in a locked bike cage with cheaper bikes that are all well locked with chains than with a bunch of pricy unsecured bikes, since there's less incentive for a theif to cut the cage fencing and take all the bikes.