skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like an opportunity for some sort of crazy Facebook-VPN. Can you encode data in facebook posts and tunnel over it?
PTU – Pressure, Temperature, Humidity
Radio sondes measusing Pressure, Temperature and Humidity up in the atmosphere are called PTU-sondes. But the acronym doesn't work. Also Humidity doesn't have a silent H as far as I can tell. Does anyone know the history for calling this a PTU sonde and not a PTH sonde?
The company WeWork is going public, and, as part of becoming a publicly traded company, they have to file documents saying what they make, what they lose in expenses, etc.

The S-1 document has that info, and it has been released. There are a lot of red flags, such as a $2 spend for each $1 made.
In the end, Google should care. If a search for "best car engine oil" got your product featured, that means you won a sale. But assuming the sale happens completely offline, Google lost its opportunity to inform you of the search, and of the succesful search->sale conversion.

That means your marketing department can no longer justify investing money in Google SEO, which means less optimization towards Google's crawler, which means less reliable search results, which means less Google searches in the long run.
Both those towns are small fries compared to Boston. Why not compare it to the Arctic?
I disagree that it's misleading, because the reason is not stated.

"Books" may not be correct in this context because it's been a single one thus far, but if another antisemitic book appears, they'd probably delete it too, so I'd argue it sounds more like a norm than a one-off event. By removing a book they didn't like, they opened a can of worms, so to say.
Let's put aside my own failings of sensitivity and similar. I acknowledge them and that they are a barrier to criticising other people.

If they have rejected what you say then in many cases they don't want to explain why because that gets at the very reason they are rejecting it.

"I wrote it" isn't a valid reason for rejecting an offer of a code review.

"We're using this tech" even though the boss-man mandating it doesn't understand its cost or benefits. He just read an article on XSLT and we have to use it.

"If you run this script every night it'll report those errors in the morning and you can fix them before they hit the customer. Response: "no", and no system was put in place to prevent them.

All real examples. There is no obvious reason for many rejections, and I suspect a lot of the time that's because there is no good reason. If there is, tell me! then I can understand better. But that's rare.

(Another rambly answer I'm afraid)
What is he telling people they can do? Other than stand up straight and ignore the crisis until they’ve cleaned their rooms? (I’ve already read the book.)
Consumer ISPs are effectively bandwidth resellers: they buy in bulk at wholesale rates, split it up, and sell retail quantities to individuals. Wholesale bandwidth is generally billed based on the peak transfer rate during the billing period, and not a fixed price.(1) You also can’t assume a fixed network capacity- ISPs will buy enough equipment to maintain service to their customers instead of having brownouts. This capex cost is directly caused by higher aggregate usage from new and existing customers, so it makes sense to charge them by usage as well.

(1) This is overly simplistic; these are individually-negotiated B2B contracts, so details vary widely.
It's not a good comparision, AWS charges this to lock AWS users into their ecosystem. It's free from the internet into AWS and extremely expensive out to the internet. This is of course by design to make sure you can't have some services outside AWS.
If we had a competitive market in either place, it would be interesting to see what consumers choose. I think I would prefer the traffic shaped example, since the current tiering situation appears to have _both_ limits in the fine print with Comcast.
Four major dating apps expose precise locations of 10M users
If every customer can use 1TB, it is more likely that many customers will be using more bandwidth at the same time, therefore requiring more infrastructure to ensure their connections still provide their advertised bandwidth
Is this how these things are usually calculated?

Does a watch manufacturer say that there are approximately 255 million left arms which we can reach by post, and since our watches sell for $1000 that's a $255B opportunity?
Oh, you're Jailbroken? Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), there's one thing that's a little tricky...
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No, they don't. The upper class live off investments.

I'm not even going to look but just guess that 60K EUR/year isn't even enough to buy a house near Frankfurt or another decent sized city.

They might be in a high percentile. That only means that most people are very poor.
Of note is that "upper class" in this context is questionably defined as being in the top 10 percent of earners. I think this is misleading because I don't see someone making 3.5k as a single or 5.1k as a couple necessarily enjoying an upper class lifestyle. It's enough for a mortgage in a middle-class neighborhood and maybe a lease on one nice car (or two middle-tier cars).

I have no idea what percent of the population is actually upper class, but they usually outright own multiple houses and luxury cars, and most importantly, a significant stack of wealth that is not necessarily bound in everyday living.
> they’re blown out by marketing photos, full-page charts, and branding

Companies get a lot of latitude with the first few pages. Seasoned S-1 skimmers peruse that stuff, but save the digging in for the risk factors, financials and the accompanying notes.
I know this might seem controversial, but I feel that dictatorships and monarchies give the possibility of multi-decade or even multi-generation projects that would otherwise be impossible.

Modern government gets replaced every few years, and each seems to suffer from 'not legislated here' behavior that makes them cancel slow-growth projects created by their predecessors (especially in times of financial crisis)

There are huge downsides to monarchies and dictatorships, but that's one of the few upsides that I haven't been able to see in Democratic systems.

With huge problems facing our civilization regarding our ecosystem and climate, the solutions might require multi-generational solutions.

Also, does anyone else think that a democracy might not work on a multi-generational interstellar ship?
> can the reverse happen with space events where light reaches you then something else?

I read that as: Can something come along and snuff us out after we've observed the light wave component of the event, such as a shock wave of some sort?
WE owns WeWork / is WeWork (think Alphabet and Google).

They run co-working and remote office locations. Perfect place to be if you're a remote worker needing on office or a small firm or start-up, hence the HN discussion and interest.
Just speculating here. But it could be easier to find a closer Greek translation than a Chinese one. After all, a lot of the words we use in English have Greek or Latin roots.

So I can see how it'd be more difficult to get the author's meaning across in this case. There aren't always accurate translations of a concept, which convey all the meaning correctly. And at least with German or other languages, it's not unheard of to actually use the word in the original language and give it a definition, rather than translate it. Which seems harder to do with Chinese than with Greek/German/Latin.

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Similar latitude actually. My house is concrete block though so it tends to resist temperature change a bit.

Also keep in mind large buildings will resist temperature changes even better than houses due to their size. Less surface area per volume.
Sometimes the difference is doing it publicly versus privately.

Hey, I noticed in the meeting, you did this, have you thought about trying this?

As someone in consulting for a long period of time, i find people think I'm more genuine if I provide it privately, that way it doesn't come across as a power play.
Plus, it’s Switzerland. They’re surrounded by friendly NATO countries. Their Air Force has office hours and relies on France/Italy outside them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/feb/19/swis...
Yup. My USG and US-8-60W both run hot enough to not want my hand on for very long (the power supplies are pretty warm too).
This is a solid step towards making universal healthcare a reality. Remember, universal healthcare != socialized healthcare. The US has “universal food”, as does Australia. Food isn’t just “free” for everyone.
Please note that in Germany and many other European countries, the net income is usually after taxes and mandatory insurances like health insurance, pension insurance, unemployment insurance or long term care insurance.

For a married couple without children, 5160 EUR net income per month then equates an income of over 100,000 EUR per year.
> Is this how these things are usually calculated?

Yes, it’s a run-of-the-mill back-of-the-envelope TAM [1] estimate. The point of this number isn’t to value the company. It’s to identify obvious limits to scaling.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_addressable_market
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Nobody in the history of electronics use has ever meant to write ducking except when discussing this very subject.
what you're spouting is just religion all over again.

There will always be a certain segment of the population that are into drugs, into religion, into politics, into the mindless entertainment provided by youtube, ad nauseum.

But it will never be all of humanity, or even most of humanity. The trash still needs to be collected, the electricity still needs to be generated, the food still needs to be made and distributed. And the country still needs to be run.

The ones doing these things are going to understand the reality enough to value doing them.

The danger of AI isn't in a long slow destruction of humanity, it's in a flash event that wrests control from us such that we can never regain it.

Now, whether or not that can, or will, happen is up for debate.

But this argument about how AI is slowly going to destroy us because we're all going to slowly start valuing what it tells us over "real life" is just the same old morality arguments surrounding religion reskinned. It just means you understand their perspective, or their need to enforce their world vision on others.
We can guess about it or do some science:

https://introvertdear.com/news/introverts-and-extroverts-bra...

The folks far on each E/I scale have brains that work quite differently. They prefer different chemicals with different effects. There's more or less of certain structures. There's a different, longer pathway for introverts. Might be more things we haven't found yet. So far, they're neurologically different followed by different behavior that's a consistent default despite their environments.

From there, I can agree that introverts can improve at interacting with extroverts by investing energy into doing it better, desensitize themselves a bit, etc. It will still drain their energy because their brains work differently. They'll be acting the whole time while others are just casually talking in a way that builds their energy using a different chemical.
Remember, universal healthcare != socialized healthcare. The US has “universal food”, as do most developed nations. In these countries, food isn’t just “free” for everyone.
Yes it’s true. Every restaurant on GH has a contract with them. Some only choose to be on one platform. Unless something changed in the last 6 months, I worked there for a long time.
Ancient Greek and Sanskrit both have complex detailed grammars that leave little room for ambiguity. The language of the Dao De Jing has a minimalistic grammar, where more has to be inferred from context.
This is pretty much how McDonalds controls its franchisees and in fact makes money. While I agree in this case "The We Company" should actually be holding the buildings (as it's a workspace holding company), it's a good way to ensure limited liability to the company and allow the founder to exert control (not saying it's a good thing for share holders).
At home, let's say you have a gigabit switch connected between two machines.

You send 1gbit across the link. Does the power consumption increase appreciably?

The Internet at scale is just that but larger. Perhaps there are 50 switches/routers between you and your destination.

The issue comes about when you have a 10gbit bottleneck and customers want to send 15.
Cell phone batteries are actually a terrible example here though, because they're not designed for longevity. Pretty sure most of the deterioration happens at the extremes, so if being designed for longevity they'd probably only have half the available capacity because it'd be capped at both the top and bottom of the range so they never went above 80-85% and never below 35-40%.
sending a NOTAM isnt hard... you could put in a permenant notam.

Also you wouldnt need a laser just a really bright searchlight
Apple needs another of their performance-focused releases, like that one where one of the biggest features was reducing memory use. For MacOS and for iOS, focused on reducing system latency in both cases. Both are a lot laggier than they used to be, and the power of the hardware under them barely seems to matter.
My (limited) understanding is that the limit is only applicable to movement through space. The expansion of the universe is not bound by the limit, as it is expansion of space itself. Thus it seems incorrect to talk about a “universal speed limit of causality”. Am I missing an essential concept?
I don't think you use a lot of bandwith, seeing as you never had a complaint.

I had a complaint from plusnet that I was in the top 1% of downloaders. I complained back that there will always be a top 1% of downloaders even when you get rid of them as that's how percentages work.
They are an NYC (does anyone still call it Silicon Alley?) company.
Do you download 10 new games every month?

I dont understand why y'all are downvoting this; it's an honest question.
> cares more about the opinion of the coworker next to them who always mocks corporate lingo

Don’t get me wrong here but in my experience the people who haven’t drank the koolaid can often see the forest through the trees far more clearly.
60k euro puts you in the top 0.11%[0] globally in terms of income.

"It would take the average labourer in Zimbabwe 71 years to earn the same amount."

[0]http://www.globalrichlist.com/
As the joke often goes, it predicted 14 of the last 8 recessions.
He also makes the excellent points that keeping them in the air is very energy intensive and that they pose a risk to those underneath them, in case of failure or something falling off them.
Ya, but could you source 8000 of those today at a reasonable price?
As a parent of young children, this honestly terrifies me. I know how addictive social media can be, and I'm trying to teach my kids how to set their own boundaries, but I don't know how to properly respond to problems caused by addiction. I don't believe in involuntary confiscation, but I may resort to that if my child loses my trust, and once I take something away, I lose whatever trust they have in me.

Does anyone have any good resources for dealing with this type of problem constructively? I know building trust in the first place is important, I just don't know much about what works with older children/teenagers. My current approach would be to treat them like an adult and have them come up with their own disciplinary measures.
There will always be a top 1%. That's how percentages work.
Super cool!

I wonder why both clouds and ocean show up as black instead of as actual white and blue imagery respectively.

Are they saving money and bandwidth by not sending back "useless" imagery? Or something else?
>Nearly 100% of solar power, of which there is a tremendous amount in Texas in the summer, is going to waste. Most of the wind, of which there's a lot in the plains of west Texas and the hills of central Texas, is also wasted.

It would be interesting to see a source on that, since there still seems to be investment in window and solar. But yeah we need storage to soak up that excess (whatever it is) when it exceeds use.

until better storage comes online.
GP already told you: living off ownership of capital.
The USS Barb's story is amazing. It is detailed in the book
Thunder Below! The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey who was the commanding officer for 5 deployments. Another good book is Sink ‘Em All Submarine Warfare in the Pacific by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood who was the US Navy commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during World War II.

Both discuss the torpedo problem and are available as Audiobooks. Fluckey says in his book that they installed stiffer springs in all torpedoes before sailing on his first deployment as Barb's captain.
Has it ever inverted but then a near term recession never followed?
I think it is worth pointing out that a lot of this, 'artificial stupidity' is simply a problem of scale. People may think of Google as a leading Ai company and in many respects that is true, but is so many others it is not. When Google utilizes a model it has to work across billions of users where the margins are tiny on each user, the models have to be damn simple. The industry has far better than what Google offers in most cases but because of Google's scale, stupidity is all they can afford.
Great documentation, but strange that they include a screenshot from a Windows application...
German economy shrinks : https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/14/business/germany-economy-...

UK economy shrinks : https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/09/pound-plummets-uk-economy-shr...
But the variance in the cost of living globally is also huge - so just comparing income doesn't really make sense.
> If that isn't upper class what is 0.01%?

A statistical threshold. Europe has a landed aristocracy with political power, tax and social advantages and investments to last generations. The upper class lives off investment income. The middle class requires income to achieve its goals (if not survive).

The practical effect of this distinction is people over whom employers have power versus those over whom employment, if it exists, is electively pursues.
Yes, the costs are proportional to the bandwidth, but people want a fast connection at a low price, so ISP's sell a fast connection at a discount and limit how often you can use it through traffic shaping and/or data caps to still turn a profit on it. The business plans are often unlimited, and typically priced a multiple for what's the exact same technology as the home plans underneath. If you want to know what unlimited bandwidth really costs, look at the price of the business plans.

I think ISP's are often undeservedly painted as the bad guys. Yes, some are profiteers, but most are just turning a normal profit, just like any business. The only way for them to compete on price with other ISP's is to also impose caps, because what they charge is just not enough to fund the infrastructure for a dedicated connection with guaranteed bandwidth.
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The mechanics of deferred rent are fascinating here. They have 2.8 billion of deferred rent on their balance sheet. See note 11 and 17
Buy a car in the UK now have these special loans where it's not a lease, not a purchase but somewhere in the middle. You buy the car but you can't drive it more than X miles a year. And after a few years you have to pay a lump sum to have the car or give it back. So it's kind of like that.
As was discussed on a previous post, the top 10% by wealth is a far more interesting definition.

If you have a 40-hour earned income job you are almost certainly not upper class.
yeah, this number seems high. It might not look high to the overseas visitors to HN, but in Europe that's well paid!
Yeah, no. There's a fundamental difference between Tesla and Amazon in terms of their profit potential. Super misleading to say that Tesla 'just doesn't want to profit rn'
How do you go about getting them? I can't find a site that sells UK internet under the name bahnhof. There is a swedish site that doesn't accept UK addresses and an english site that is selling data center orientated stuff.
Note that it is €5.160 net income, so that's about €100-110K/year gross income in germany ($110-120K).

Gross income in Europe is also after pension contributions and employer taxes.
> Consumers understand quantity billing much easier than bandwidth-percentile billing, which is how the wholesale market is priced.

"Data used between the hours of 11pm and 9am do not count against your data cap." Not difficult to understand, cell phone companies used to do it all the time with minutes.

(Times made up, adjust for real-world peek.)

Personally, I think it's relatively obvious that data caps on cable internet connections are not related to the cost of service.
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Is everything subjective?
It costs pretty much the same to live in a tin shack with no running water or electricity and eat rice and beans for every meal everywhere. This whole "cost of living" thing is a rationalization to make westerners feel better.
"Class" is intrinsically culture-specific. I'm not sure whether "global upper class" is a meaningful concept.
That… is certainly an interesting approach. Did you look for particular characteristics?

My wife and I had a son this year, and took care to give him a name that would work well in any situation. He has two given names (we do too), so he has a backup name in case the first one doesn't suit him later on (my wife uses her second name, because her parents figured it suited her better after a year).

We didn't use any technology beyond the publicly availalbe Dutch database for given names in use, but we did look for a pair of names that would look good on a resume as well as work well in daily conversation. They are old names that should hold up well regardless of what is en vogue at the moment.

I hope he likes them.
Investments are not limited to physical things.

People making 100+K per year pretax are making money off of investments in education etc.

PS: For more physical examples, a stripper can deduct cosmetic surgery from their taxes. http://backalleytaxes.com/is-cosmetic-surgery-tax-deductible...
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> But wouldn't new ones be created?

Of course. Do anything and you create new ecosystems. Building the Maine dam in the first place created new ecosystems. They just aren't (1) beneficial to us in any meaningful way and (2) represent notable loss of a pre-existing ecosystem we value and want to preserve.

I don't see the hypocrisy there. You're trying to treat this as an absolutist thing (e.g. "riparian environments must be maximized at all costs") and color it as "reactionary environmentalism", when the truth is that it's a value judgement with specific evidence (e.g. "we fucked up the Kennebec river and we should fix that shit"[1]).

[1] More properly, given the article that no one here seems actually interested in reading: "We fixed that shit 20 years ago and, wow! It's fixed even better than we hoped!"
60k NET EUR is a lot of money tho
Let's hope for a commercial during the next Super Bowl.
Yes, globally, but that’s a completely different story in Europe where this story is based in. The global upper class is not the same as upper class in germany or in italy or in finland.
> No, they don't.

Yes, they do. Because it is defined in relative terms -- as the top 10% by (net) income.

EDIT: Why do I get downvoted for a non-emotional, purely factual comment that provides additional information?
I would never invest in WeWork, but no, not at all. A Ponzi scheme takes new investor dollars to pay the earlier investors’ “returns”.

Taking new dollars to grow the company to generate future profits is actually the definition of “investment”.
Red flag company spends $2 to sell each red flag for $1.