skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as backplanes go, you could go with FPC cables instead of wire-wrapping. That would fit the new components theme, but would require actual circuit boards for the backplanes.
FWIW - it was actually a pair of AfterShokz that my dad tried (as well as a different brand of wireless ones).
The Fed does not have the tools at its disposal that it did in 2008, they have been exhausted. The leadership on either side of the 2008 transition was much better at every level. Also, 2008 was a balance sheet depression that was more tractable to fix with monetary approaches.

What is happening, right now, is literally what happened in the Great Depression (with the concurrent reemergence of nationalism) and is what led to two back-to-back world wars https://www.dartmouth.edu/~dirwin/Eichengreen-IrwinJEH.pdf
I'm upset about this because I used to pay the $80/month for unlimited with the only provider in the area. Then, I got an email saying my $80 would only cover up to 1TB and using unlimited would cost me $50 more. I called them and asked about it and got lines like "you still have the same internet plan as long as you don't use as much". It's frustrating to have no options and the price of your service nearly double overnight with customer service agents who, because it's their job, regularly tell you to go fuck yourself.
And Mitch McConnell recently argued the exact opposite. When asked he said (paraphrising) "Why would we increase taxes when the economy is doing well, why would we want to hurt that growth?"

The mind boggles.
Sounds cool, but very expensive. Energy spent in essentially building sand. Instead of the current process of just finding it lying around and hauling it to where its needed.

An, no, 'solar light' isn't free. There's a cost in collecting it. And even then, it's worth something as electricity. Probably worth more than the resulting sand is (currently) worth?

Basic mining and minerals is all, entirely and totally about the cost of extraction. It has to pay.
And/or maybe it was never worth over a billion in the first place.
Morals and integrity are foreign concepts to marketers. I used to think that marketing had a place, if properly used. After working with marketers for a decade, I just consider them and their whole wretched field a lost cause. I have no sympathy, no empathy, no compassion for any of them. Nowadays I make every effort to use only paid services whenever possible. (If any Fastmail devs are reading... I frickin' love you guys.)
Competition between telcos is the answer.
In many developed countries the Telco wars/market capture happened long long ago. In most cases there were just one or two winners, who then had no great incentive to upgrade infra. In the markets were the wars are ongoing, low rates will last until some player wins.
Indeed that would offer much more for public good. I don’t see how going after the whistleblower here helps at all.
Ask HN: Aerodata system crashes cripple airports, who are they?
i was surprised to not find anything on HN about aerodata (while stranded on the runway).

does anyone know anything about the company and it's practices?
The effects of a recession have to be seen and felt on a visible, visceral level, with a limited lag effect, for it to affect people's votes. In 2008, the subprime crisis led to people's homes being foreclosed on a mass scale while big banks and auto companies got government bailouts and the US was embroiled in two major wars.

That kind of stark contrast ("privatized gains and socialized losses") is easy to grasp, and much more likely to create public outrage regardless of where people sat on the political spectrum.

Since then, there's been so much misinformation and polarization around things like climate change, international trade, unionization, public services, tax cuts, the deficit etc., that even if the markets fall, there will be plenty of blame for political parties to heap on each other, while the working classes and middle classes bear the brunt of the recession, as they always have.
For all the people concerned about Amazon's business ethics here, stop buying your stuff on Amazon too. It used to be that Amazon had solid products and eBay was just a bunch of random sellers selling random things of unknown quality. Now Amazon is more like the latter than eBay is.

I love using eBay; it puts a bit of excitement back into e-commerce when you get packages from overseas -- the stamps, the names, the exotic goods. This year I ordered from 4 different countries things that weren't available in the US. But most products on eBay are shipped domestically, and they won't slow-roll your shipping for a week because you didn't pay for Prime.
Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah
> More clicks on ads that lead to malware also leads to fewer clicks in the future, though.

I really doubt this works this way. There's 3 assumptions here, for your scenario to play out, people must pass the following funnels:

1- The person notices the malware

2- The person associates the connection between the ad and the malware.

3- After making the connection they install a non-dummy adblocker. Dummy adblockers like the one by Eyeo whitelist google's ads while actually harming the competition. It benefits them! Note: if I look up adblock on google, uBlock is only mentioned on page 2 of google and only because it's mentioned as a competitor to adblock on a zdnet article. The first whole page is dedicated to the Eyeo plug in.

I'd say very few people will get through that funnel. My experience is that when my family and friends actually seek out help with their computers, they have let it go for years until the computer is a slow mess of malware, self installed spyware in the form of browser add ons and other crazy stuff.

I've actually known a person who buys a computer every couple of years when it 'gets slow' simply to avoid maintenance. The few that I know from IRL relationships that do use an adblock, mostly use adblock by Eyeo, simply because of the domain and ranking on google.
Check-In Security Vulnerabilities Put British Airways Passengers at Risk
Turn your Tesla into a CIA-like counter-surveillance tool with this hack
"Instead, Tumblr has a new chance to redefine itself in 2019 and beyond"

So, Matt commented in the other thread that NSFW content is not coming back due to the difficulties around hosting and processing adult content (payment processing, advertising, everything).

Where does Tumblr fit in 2020 between Twitter, Medium, and Instagram? What's its medium?
2 things.

1. you're tilting at windmills here, I gave no opinion on what I think the result of AI will be.

2. You didn't understand the comparison to religion.

You could literally take your arguments and reskin them as religious points.

One could even imagine this exact discussion happening when humanity first discovered drugs. Because they feel good all of humanity will eventually be hooked on them, yada yada yada. Only that presupposes that there's no value in procuring the drugs themselves, because the second you have to have a certain segment of the population procuring those drugs you have people who: 1) have a lot of power, and 2) have a reason for existing outside of simply taking drugs. In other words, the argument is a contradiction itself.

Now, if an external force had been able to get all of humanity hooked on drugs in a very short amount of time (and takes care of the procurement), then the predictions would be possible because procuring the drugs is no longer valuable for humanity.

The dangers of AI are not that we're slowly going to lose ourselves as we all become mindless zombies watching entertainment. The danger is that, like the drug example, those who procure AI are going to have a lot of power, and if AI itself ever becomes independent of humanity then we could lose all control over our own destiny.

And to loop this back to the religion comparison, there are always people in this world wanting to impress their worldview on others. Which is why your arguments can be reskinned so easily as religious arguments. They use the same techniques you're using here.
>You can get a giant 4K TV for well under $1000.

Not sure how that is relevant to my comment, but the 2017 nominal median income per capita was $31,786 in the United States. That means even a $650 television is more than a week's gross pay for as much as 40% of the US population.

Most of us are quite content with even 720p too and just because something is 'under $1000' doesn't mean you need to replace a perfectly functional television.
It was originally used as a label for high performing tech companies from an investor's perspective[0], and from there adopted by software engineers and other employees who work or aspire to work for those companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Apple,_Amazon,_Netfl...
In terms of space, yea. I mean there's a cycle of expansion and contraction that happens in time.
Psytrance is already a sub-genre of trance; this site doesn't reflect trance as a whole.
> My synopsis: The only way to understand text is to learn the original language.

Exactly my approach too, hence why I learn Sumerian for instance.
Also note that we are speaking of Chinese philosophy here so the language to learn is Classical Chinese, not Mandarin. Few people would jump into that without at least some knowledge of a modern Chinese language, but it can be done (notably by reading Pulleyblank book).
> Let’s pretend the Big Tech companies build something robust and unbreakable (impossible) for the US govt.

Didn't Chaum write up a quick-and-dirty spec specifically to stop that little parenthetical from being repeated?

Edit: I guess it was more than a quick-and-dirty spec:

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-a...
An interesting thing happened a bit ago related to public companies and how they must account for leases in the accounting standards update 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). For lessees, any leases that are over 12 months in duration will need to be presented on the company’s balance sheet as a right-to-use asset and corresponding liability for the obligation to pay rent.

So if you are a public company; you can rent space from WeCompany at an 11mo period and you can magically reduce your liabilities vs signing your own office space. While this may seem like a small change, this change could allow execs to improve their financials with accounting gimmicks.
Okay, I’ll get my shorts in. What date do you think everything will collapse?
Have heard the worst things about Nestle, and that baby formula fact does not seem surprising.

I agree it could be on the national interest of a country to forbid nestle formula given like that (or, for that matter, basic internet given by facebook). Also, the nestle case seems more clearly exploitative to me, because they meant to deprive women of something by giving them the formula.
The Crisis in Political Science Education
There's an additional barrier when it comes to classical Chinese: Written Chinese underwent a vernacular revolution in the early to mid 20th century to make it comprehensible to more people but until then written Chinese is nothing like what spoken Chinese is like (my guess is that because written Chinese started with ideogram rather than phonetics). You can still see some examples of this when you encounter something formal in Chinese like wedding invitations. Despite being fluent in more than one dialect of Chinese and having some reading fluency, formal Chinese is incomprehensible to me.

Or take for example: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: https://ctext.org/sanguo-yanyi/ch1

Even if you can't read Chinese, note the regularity of sentence/phrase lengths between commas, etc. People don't talk like that. And this is a work of fiction, not philosophy. It's meant to be consumed as a popular work by the educated.

Or Art of War:

https://ctext.org/art-of-war/laying-plans

Although being a military manual, it wasn't really meant to be easily read.

Historically, written Chinese was the realm of the well educated Chinese, not meant for the masses.
Your general point is accurate. It's generally not acceptable to leak such info.

But this is only a HIPAA violation if it was leaked by medical personnel (or some other covered entity). At this time, we don't know who leaked it, so we don't know that HIPAA applies.

The article suggests it probably doesn't. It was apparently reviewed and found to be some third party, not EMS personnel.
The other common case (not applicable here) is a loss leader: sell something at a loss in the hope that the customers it attracts will buy high-margin items at your store instead of the one they usually frequent.
Its easy to beat the market. Just say you did!

But seriously, there are always outliers who got lucky. For every one that gambles on a dark horse, there are 1000 who lost that way. And the winner is always, always certain that they knew what they were doing and luck wasn't involved.
Gears 4
Approximate size
117.53 GB

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/gears-of-war-4/9nblggh4pbb...
Whoa! Super cool, and masterfully played. I would love to get some more details on the tech involved though - how was the visualization created? How much of it is added to the video in post-processing and how much is real-time (it seemed like the actual lights on the piano keys was real-time but the Guitar-hero style scrolling lights were post-processing)?
An Overview of Reinforcement Learning
On the other side, I'm in a very low paying, but extremely secure position. I was looking at making a move soon, now, with all the talk of recession, of I'd better just keep my head down.
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If your are talking about the first one in the list - that is a very good location in Germanys most expensive city. Your link is a new building, so it immediately looks quite a bit fancier. The Munich place would probably get a new kitchen by whomever spends 800k on it.

I think you have to click through a couple of places to get a better feeling.

It's also insanely different between countryside and cities.
Back home where my parents live, you could build a really, really nice house for that money. That's probably triple of what my friends back there spend on their homes, and those are really nice already.
This is not true in my experience. I work for a medium sized CPG in their eCommerce department. We were clearing many millions of dollars through Amazon 1P a couple years ago, but it was nowhere near 20% of our business. Amazon asked for ridiculous price cuts and we walked away. It hurt but there's no point in selling on a platform through which we are not profitable.

On a personal level I hate Walmart and their business practices. Not much of a fan of Target either. But, on a professional level, I'm excited to see their marketplaces take off. Amazon is absolutely horrible to work with and their tools for sellers are obnoxious at best. I'd love to see some real competitors in this space.
Connectivity in Machine Learning Infrastructure
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> Thus it seems incorrect to talk about a “universal speed limit of causality”. Am I missing an essential concept?

Probably. Why would points becoming more distant due to expansion of space be a counterexample to the speed of light being a limit on the speed of causal propagation? Spatial expansion doesn't move anything, so it can't propagate information.
I've gotten Gimp working pretty nicely by using some theme packs or something that make it look and function more like photoshop. Agree on the rest though. I use LaTeX, markdown, or google docs depending on intended audience.
This is all the more surprising given that inflation in Denmark is running ~1%/year.

That means the bank is absorbing a real loss of 1.5%/year on the deal.

Meanwhile, the housing market is roaring:

https://tradingeconomics.com/denmark/housing-index

It would be one thing to see negative rates in a declining property market and/or in a deflationary environment.

However, negative rate mortgages are happening in what looks like a normal economy with low inflation and red-hot housing market.

Somebody is very wrong about one or more of the following:

- the future direction of the housing market

- the future direction of interest rates

- the future direction of inflation

Edit:

Google translate sheds some light. It appears that the Danish equivalent of "points' clouds the picture:

> Total repayments before tax DKK 277,392 (on a DKK 250,000 loan) - of which total interest and contributions DKK 8,264 changes in the exchange rate will affect the size of the amount paid out.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

Low, but not negative.
The ports that receive -stable updates in CVS. That usually means important security fixes, chosen at the discretion of both the port maintainers and developers building stable packages. The @OpenBSD_stable Twitter account may be helpful, ports tagged OPENBSD_6_5 are stable updates, and should receive updated packages.

https://twitter.com/openbsd_stable

Also a full list on the mirrors.

https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/packages-stable/amd6...
It's amazing to read this. I can't help but think about the trajectory of discourse today in the context this quote:

"An arms race leading to a war was schismo­genesis on a grand scale, with no correcting feedback"

This feels familiar to the trajectory of discourse in some social media societies. The 'correcting feedback' are just mirrored tactics used to widen divides.

A newly politically awakened individual peruses the tenet listicals of two parties. He finds he likes 6 tenets from one and 3 from another. He wraps up his opinions in a bindle and sets off to join the conversation. If he brings up any of his traitorous opinions to his new community, he's met with a surprisingly concentrated method of "debate".

Support for any tenet claimed by the opposition proves you directly support the opposition's atrocities. Modus Tollens, QED.

Having a mixed plate at the political buffet is a recipe for being called things like 'racist', 'lazy', 'authoritarian' maybe 'baby murderer'. What he's called depends on where he's talking and what shade of grey he's discussing. No neurons are rubbed together about the specifics of your transgression. They don't need to be! By my radicalization conjecture, if we can associate your opinions or ideas with the opposition, then they are horrible anathema. It's not about context or meaning, it's about flavor!

Few would be cowed by this immediately.

"No, I do not support the wholesale slaughter of all baby giraffes because I like going to the zoo. You must be a rare internet denizen to draw such an extreme conclusion!" The proof is then repeated to you in different words, probably by a different person.

Didn't you hear us? Support for any tenet claimed by the opposition proves you directly support the opposition's atrocities; it's almost worse -- really. Modus Tollens, QED.

There's two ways out of this cycle, be cowed in mentioning unsavory things you support, eschew the whole game all together.

If you signal that you're eschewing, you're greeted with "the world is political, it affects your life, you can't escapeee" and other bright "corrections". Also, the politically disenfranchised are responsible for <opposition atrocities>. The only people who aren't responsible for the destruction of freedom, happiness, and rainbows are people who aren't in this list:

1. The opposition
2. Centrists, moderates etc
3. The disenfranchised

Who remains? Hmm.

I wonder what x% who participate in those koan factories, naively thinking it's a discussion, would be driven to violence after a few months of having <flavor> = <pure evil> drilled into you. It's like chinese water torture, but people participate of their own volition!

It's nice to read something new that corroborates and simplifies a hard to articulate uneasy feeling I've had for the last 10 years.
Author here. We raised the money, bought the laptops, and published the manuals.

Fix away! https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Toshiba_Laptop
No, it’s worse. You are not shadow banned, people just don’t care about what you have to say.
>For me it's not a framing issue. I get upset by that sentence the minute the total receipt goes above $80/mo.

So are you upset by the fact you can't get unlimited internet for a reasonable price, or that the ISP advertised $80 month and you had to pay $130? If it's the latter than it's purely a framing issue.

>To whatever extent that's true, it's because of an ISP oligopoly and active lobbying measures that prevent creative solutions that might improve quality/decrease costs.

That seems entirely orthogonal to having bandwidth caps. To the company and society as a whole, having crappy service and gouging 90% of the users for $100/month and 10% of your users for $150/month is the same as having crappy service and gouging all of your users for $105/month. If anything the first option is "fairer" because users that use the service less pay less.
This is actually a surprisingly terrible way to sell Internet, and it's amazing to me that so many people still argue that this is how it should be.

If you don't use the Internet much you should pay less for Internet, but you shouldn't be artificially restricted in how fast the Internet works! Throttling is terrible, and the fact that people literally wait for an hour for a Windows update to download because they have cheaper Internet is... kinda dystopian.

We should push ISPs to provide all customers the fastest possible speed their network can do at the time, instead of artificially throttling them, and then charge them for usage.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/walmart-and-sears-get-lowe...

>The recently published 2017 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) for retail stores and websites shows that customer satisfaction is down slightly overall from a record high posted in 2016. The retail sector slipped 0.3% overall from an index score of 78.4 to 78.1.

>Department stores and specialty retailers lost the most ground, likely due to continuing satisfaction from shopping online. Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) dropped one point to 71, the lowest among the department/discount stores included in the survey.

>Among supermarkets, Walmart again finished dead last with an index score of 73 versus an average of 79 and a high — for Publix — of 86. Costco scored 83 while Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and Amazon's Whole Foods both scored 81.

>Walmart also was the lowest scoring retailer for health and personal care stores, with an index score of 75 against an average of 79. Sears' Kmart stores tied with Kroger for the top score of 80.
What is hilarious, is they already do. Apple services in China are not run by Apple, but by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/apple-moves-chinese-icloud-encryption-ke...
The supporting study:

Flavonoid intake is associated with lower mortality in the Danish Diet Cancer and Health Cohort
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11622-x

"Dietary data were collected using a validated 192-item food-frequency questionnaire, mailed out to participants prior to their baseline visit to one of the two study centers. Participants were asked to indicate their usual frequency of intake of different food and beverage items over the past 12 months, using a 12-category frequency scale that ranged from never to 8 times or more per day."

So... 50-65 year old participants in the study responded to an annual 192 item questionnaire for 23 years. Quick: How many blueberries did you eat in the last 12 months and how frequently?

Anybody see an potential problems with this type of survey approach? Virtually guarranteed to be wildly unreliable.
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> investment community's realization this might not be true

Took them a while to see what everyone else can see in plain daylight...
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