skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not that great ideas are growing less. Is that risk aversion is rising, which is also an indication of an ageing population (e.g. Japan).

This might be solved by new funding model which are less risk averse.
Is it me or have they removed the add-ons from Chrome's/Firefox's market?
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> But can't the airlines then introduce random price spikes into their own algorithm just to abuse Google?
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If they only guarantee the price of the same airline (which make sense considering that different airline offer different quality of service), then that would just hurt Google once without benefiting the airline and in fact, it would hurt the airline in Google.

The terms are clear: When we predict the price won’t decrease for select itinerarie

If airlines have unpredictable random price spikes, then they won't be able to qualify for the price guarantee. Having that guarantee seems like a good value add and may bring more customer toward theses offers. I don't know if Google would place theses airline higher in the result, but it would make sense because that's something that someone may prefer.
I know there is probably a good reason they made it look like a Cylon, some down-forward facing sensor, but its still really funny to me.
And remember that the author Sam Zeloof was still studying in highschool when he completed this project.
I’d say it’s very likely considering China has all but admitted that its previous policy of favoring Taiwanese companies to push for economic unification has backfired. I think it’s a matter of time before China finds an excuse to kick every Taiwanese company out.
Wow! Thanks, I saw SIM800L but thought that it's maybe some add-on, because the Pi/Arduino GSM components I normally see do cost more than a Pi 3.
The prices that I'm seeing are an equivalent of US$10, but that's good enough.

I'll buy one and try it out. I see it only supports GPRS though, are there other cheap devices that support faster connections like EDGE/3+G? If one wants to send things like images from a camera, a faster connection would be more reliable.
That looks very exciting for some research environments, and for some prototyping. But a 12mm wafer is certainly going to limit what you can do, and they make no mention of feature size. In the end, what you can accomplish is determined by the process and how easily your design tools let you target the process. I am sure there is a lot of academic research that could benefit greatly. As to prototyping, I have concerns that it would be difficult to do a part on this process and transfer it to a different process for scale.
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"This light can then be used as electricity."

No. One cannot use light as electricity. One can use light to make electricity. This is not just a minor typo; it's flat-out wrong.
The bigger hurdle is the billions of people who believe climate change is real and refuse to do anything about it. Apathy is our collective undoing.
I know more than a few places that have Principal Developer positions. This is basically for senior devs who have tons of domain knowledge that companies don't want to lose.
Do you know what they are using under the hood?
Sure, but I don't think the current EC2 UI makes it too easy (and the S3 UI could only make it harder by not making public and cross account access possible at all.)
here here. i'm not as read up on arendt as i should be but that's a perfect refutation of the kind of ideas i see espoused on hn every day. the problem is that getting people to buy into this very insightful critique of formalism.
Godaddy random domain name generator in Python3
The tradeoffs Monzo made are not ones that apply to most business. For most businesses, you have a profitable and sustainable model and you want to mitigate the possibility that you sink the ship by screwing the pooch on security or availability.

Monzo, on the other hand, was default-dead, so betting the farm on a relatively unproven technology perhaps wasn't risking as much. Nobody talks about the startups that used unproven tech and sank.
There are lots of different application models the issue here is ton of rule-of-thumb regression from "redundancy is important" to "swap is okay after-all I guess."
Sure, but the premise was that it would go away if you took away ads as a funding model. I doubt that FB would simply fold and say "oh well" if, by some miraculous law, ads were no longer an option for funding. And Youtube (which is counted as social media here) already has Youtube Premium/Red, where people (at least in some countries) can pay to get an ad-free experience and some extra content.

When people perceive a value, they'll pay an appropriate price in some way (be it by spending money or watching ads), that's all I'm saying. And they appear to value social media or they wouldn't spend that much time on it. So if you remove "just watch some ads" as a payment form, I'm pretty sure that at least some will switch to handing over money.
If you are talking about agriculture, well, it was a mix of bad and horrible that every other country that adopted communism worked very hard to find a different model.
Mycroft.ai Update: Real companies ship product
your arrogance is showing: hundreds (thousands?) of tenured professors engaging in sincere discourse and investigation are not at all the same thing as homeopaths - to wit homeopaths don't publish treatises on authoritarianism.
I don't know. My former ML profs do a lot of science too...
Ok I have added some things to work on to the issues. Feel free to pick one up or add your own. :)
I don't know why they wouldn't start charging a middleman fee someday. What other value would they get from building Google Flights?
Extrapolated:

War is the art of deception and the first casualty of war is the truth.
Harder and hard to write any sort of fiction where the protagonist does anything slightly illegal, not to mention extremely illegal, and is not immediately apprehended.
And to understand scaling and extremes: FB basically uses RocksDB and/or MySQL as a low level storage layer for whatever thing they want to. (And on top they build the clustering stuff, with the particular CAP choices they think is best for that particular service/purpose.)
Lol I hate when I select the wrong text, I will definitely start using the property more often
The Democratic Party deepfaked its own chairman to highlight 2020 concerns
Is this kind of thing possible with less toxic chemistry?
This isn't an answer to your question, but can you tell me more about how you source your sims/data plans?
There was a federal investigation, but without witnesses stalled.
From their detail page:

> How much money can I get back?
Price guarantee pays you the difference between the flight price when you book and the lowest ticket price. To get money back, the price difference must be greater than $5. You can receive up to $500 back total for all of the flights you book with Google price guarantee.

That’d be pretty hilarious for an airline to explicitly dick them over for $500 a pop.
this gave me a good laugh
>"You're referring to the fact that the edges aren't really sharp and are kind of 'soft', right? Like, everything isn't 90 degree angles and is kinda rippley in places?"

Yes to both of these questions. "Soft" is probably a better way to articulate this, thanks. I'm not following the explanation of this being caused by photography however. Is this specific to photography at this scale?

>"I imagine if you were to make the same device on modern tech everything would look a lot 'sharper."

I don't have an example handy however I have seen more recent micrographs and they display the same "softness" and lack of true 90 degree angles etc.
Sorry for a potentially stupid question: why do they need to convert heat into visible light? Why can't we convert heat directly into electricity at the same time as we convert visible light into electricity?
I'm waiting for someone stick a speaker to one that just repeats "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINAAAATE!" line as this robot bumbles around whatever corporate campus it's deployed on.
Owned by a conservative in tech who is against the current technocratic fascist progressive system being pushed by many.

Makes him a target to single out for urinalists with agendas.
Uber imposes engineer hiring freeze as losses mount
Climate crisis, shown directly on power plant, in guerrilla projection
I was thinking it looks more like a Dalek...
I read about 30% of GEB. Now it makes quite a good mouse pad.
Airlines run on razor thin margins now. If they believe that people in the future will know where they want to fly and will search for tickets wherever tickets are sold (see Southwest) and they can get a bunch of free advertising and sell some expensive tickets by burning Google, I think they'd at least consider doing it.
Yeah, this was something more like Munich-Salzburg-Dresden-Berlin. I like trains in general, but Germany is sufficiently spread out that cars can still make more sense than in most of Europe.
There was also an instance when a popular streamer was live streaming a “road-trip” with himself and others in the back of an RV. When users in chat donated a certain amount ($100 or so) the driver would brake-check on the HIGHWAY and the people in the back would be thrown around while not wearing seatbelts.

How this streamer didn’t end up in jail is beyond me. Endangering innocent people for $100 and seeing it as “entertaining” is disgusting.
I agree. I am not actually vegan, as I occasionally eat meat (love the taste still), but I try to reduce meat and dairy as much as possible.

Kenji of SeriousEats does a vegan-month every year and claims that he enjoys it because he focuses on dishes that taste exciting, but happen to be vegan.

A particular favorite of mine is this Mapo Dofu that he started out making with meat but migrated to silken tofu
https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/02/vegan-food-mapo-tofu-veg...
The clock is ticking and they seem to have no plan at all. So weird to see such a massive company go public with no ideas or serious attempts at becoming profitable, ever.

Congrats to all the investors and employees who were able to cash out before whenever. Everyone else is about to get very, very angry.
You make a good point about swapping out unused pages, and I'd love to discover how to balance between maintaining the "fail fast" of swap-off and the ability to swap out never used paged with swap-some. While the latter would be nice to have that extra RAM its not worth the risk, in my world at least.
Rennet?
Thai actually makes a lot of sense. Cant understand why none thought at this even big techs
Its like if a Cylon and a Dalek had a baby.

Adorable.
So much great writing in those old western TV shows. Check out Bonanza and Gunslinger if you have the chance.
I don't see this thing surviving for too long. Someone's going to vandalize it or steal it, even with its array of sensors.
This is not a language barrier per se. Amazon is the English name for the Amazon. In Portuguese it's called Amazônia.
Gamers naively assume that hating something means anything. It doesn't. Publishers look at the numbers, and couldn't care less about what gamers feel. Gamers line up to shovel money in the publishers direction, and indie publishers that don't engage in abusive practices get left out in the cold by gamers. In the boardroom, there flat out is no evidence to suggest that resisting engaging in abusive practices would be anything but destructive to the business.
I'm aware of Smalltalk being promoted in educational settings. What I wanted to know more about was "Lisp for children" which I've never heard before.
-I highly recommend a CSA for great vegetables, delivered if possible
I do not. They are (at least where I am) unpredictable in content which increases the burden of planning meals.
"Feels weird" when she logs on to investigate serious performance problems that she's getting paged for.
ECEF is a Cartesian (x,y,z) not spherical (𝞺, θ, 𝜑) coordinate system. Units in ECEF are in meters from (0,0,0).
Couldn't care less about NFSW. YouTube is full of spam and click bait, but they don't seem to do anything about it. The top search results still include a lot of crap.
You should be fine with RPi3B+ internal gigabit NIC

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=2085...

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo iperf3 -c XXX.XXX.X.XXX

[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 37.9 MBytes 318 Mbits/sec 0 257 KBytes
Darpa launches incubators on cognitive dissonance detection, quantum computing
so they'll make them harder to destroy...or put them 30 feet up in the air. Sadly, we're screwed. This is staying
It's production ready, folks have been running it on production and will be running it on production. Sure it has issues from inside the cluster. But if you secure it and it's not accessible from outside, it's good to go. Probably more secure than trying to run 500 boxes at once.
I'd rather not start compiling a list of password-username database thefts, credential stuffings, identity thefts, forged paper signatures, the time lost to inefficient paper procedures, secrets stolen due to how hard it is to encrypt things etc. etc. etc.

Of course we have to be disciplined, but other things can't even remotely reach the security such a solution provides. Your comment has very FUD-y undertones, rising concern about a very minor thing if you actually look at how much it solves and how much better it is compared to other widespread applications.
Hateful voices are identified by passionate assertion.
The passionate asserters arrogate to themselves the power to bound the conversation and otherize dissenters.
Wow, they even let you simulate and control pedestrians? Between that and the pre-made, 3d, urban world to use as a testing ground...what a practical approach to getting these chops under your belt.

You can even simulate weather!
Can't find the discussion now on GitLab, but I recall comments claiming that Azure Pipelines is very flexible, and GitLab CI's new task DAG should be modeled after that.
Great! The headline should be: eBPF now even more insecure. What go possible wrong? First arrays, now loops.
Ottolenghi has some damn tasty recipes. The aubergines/eggplants here are so good that I find it hard to leave enough for lunch the next day
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/jul/20/yotam-ottolengh...
"statistical significance" - it has too many problems. A colleague complained once, that his test kept alternating between statistical significant and not significant back and forth. I know it's not how it is supposed to work, but most people using it don't know (or care) how to use it. My opinion: just don't use this concept at all.
While this story isn't traditional "Hacker News" it's a very engrossing, compelling, and well written article.
See this article https://www.sciencealert.com/new-study-brings-receipts-to-de... which is an excellent overview of Tenkanen's paper the subject of this thread. It also puts the competing ideas about cosmic inflation into perspective.
This is all very interesting and amazing, and kudos to the person for being able to do this - but I think we need to take a step back here a bit; this doesn't look like something that "just anybody" could replicate.

For one, this person seems to have some very advanced knowledge of some very advanced processes - I am not even sure where one would gain such knowledge from easily, though they do seem to have access to MIT in some manner. Regardless of how it was gained, this knowledge of some of the very basic processes and advanced tools involved would be foundational to this entire enterprise (and it seems this person went to the trouble to build up to this - but what foundation of knowledge they had prior to that point seem unknown?).

Secondly, they appear to have something more than just a simple "2-car garage" - unless the camera perspective is really skewed. The building they are in looks to be like a large steel fabricated unit, 40'x 20'x 12' - my numbers might be off but it doesn't look like a simple garage or workshop, but rather something you'd either pay a lot of money for to have erected on your (likely sizeable) property, or its space at a leased business/industrial complex.

Third, from what I gather, much of their equipment is resold industrial surplus off ebay (and probably other places); I know of one company, local to me (Phoenix), which sells online via ebay such equipment (Equipment Exchange) - assuming they are still in business. While what they sold was inexpensive - even at "pennies on the dollar" you are not talking small amounts of money, because some of that equipment is anything but inexpensive brand-new. I'm sure there are other vendors as well for this kind of equipment, and if you know what you want and need, you can probably strike some good bargains, but I still can't imagine this being budget friendly for most people.

This all adds up to what seems to be a "hobby" that would require both extreme dedication (time, energy, and knowledge acquisition) and considerable monetary resources to implement. Not something that just anyone can do - it's not a "maker friendly" endeavour. Maybe it can be miniaturized and simplified now that it's been "proven" to be possible, which is a great thing in itself (after all, it was more or less done with 3D printing and home CNC). Though I am not sure how far that can be taken - then again, people have fabricated some quite complex stuff before...

So all in all - this is amazing work, and does show the possibility. But temper that with the reality of the situation: This person has some very specialized knowledge gathered over who knows what kind of timeframe, and the resources to purchase and bring together all of these tools and parts to do this kind of thing. Even with all that, they still had and have a bunch of trial and error. I'm amazed it could be done at all in a nominally "DIY" manner. Congratulations to that!
> made me realize that I wasn't as open-minded as I thought I was.

I really don't understand this use of the phrase "open-minded". Open-mindedness, to me, means being willing to question deeply-held opinions and beliefs. And being okay with other humans freely making very different decisions with regards to religion, sexuality, occupation, etc.

None of that has the slightest thing to do with trying to quell instinctive reactions of disgust to pedophilia and booger-eating.
Thank you! Flores is excellent, I loved Caprock Canyonlands, but I'd never heard of this book.
I mean you don't see Germany extrading Martin Winterkorn the former CEO of Volkswagen to US for the emissions fraud. Each country makes their own decisions. There are a whole bunch of financial criminals from India that seek refuge in UK and manage to stall extradition back to India forever.
I haven't done anything practical yet, but in our country (South Africa), we've had a law recently that forces the cell network providers to allow consumers to transfer data around.
For basic use (maybe 10 devices), I would be able to share my phone's data plan. I'm on a generous contract that gives me more data than I need (fiber at home).

For larger volumes, most providers will either allow you to pool a number of SIM cards' usage into a single account, especially if you restrict them to only connect to a private network. We have this at my workplace on most SIM cards in laptops.

There are also companies that supply SIMs to merchants and IoT folk on behalf of network providers. I'd also look into that. In most cases you end up with each SIM having its own data plan. I did some freelance work for one of these companies last year, if you have enough volume, you can negotiate pooling of data.
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In addition to the tone it was distracting that as I read images would appear behind the text.

I'm actually interested in principled criticism of weaknesses of the MVC model (I've been a fan for decades). Anybody have a good link?
There’s a used book store near where I work that has a whole section of programming books. I stop by and pick up old computer books for $10 from time to time, and I always mean to get around to actually reading them - more than once I’ve found that I bought the same book twice, having forgotten that I already own it…
This is not a facet of Texas law, or reflective of law in any other state. Sometimes jurors choose not to penalize or convict a person for homicide in extenuating circumstances. This is more about the nature of trial by jury in America, than the specific legal code of Texas.
I believe the threat are vulnerable systems.
Black Hats/penetration testers/white hats/etc. find the problems.
Developers/admins/ are the cure.

sickness, T-cell, white blood cell analogy
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Thanks for the link. I haven't explored AliExpress as we have a cap on how many items we can buy before we're deemed to be "importers" for customs purposes. I'll take the plunge and apply to be an "importer", so I can start buying from there.
Did you watch any of the BlackHat talks? We're very much talking about cybersecurity professionals - there's no faking that level of expertise. And just like any cybersecurity conference, there are people from all sides coming - likely both on the offensive and defensive sides. And yeah, of course the feds are there: cybersecurity is also part of their job.
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If you want to get pedantic, you can't "make electricity" either because 'electricity' isn't a defined concept. Usually when people use words such as "make electricity", they actually mean to refer to energy or power transferred using electromagnetic fields interacting with a conductor. But a purely chemical reaction that charges a battery could be said to "make electricity" without even involving that.

More info: http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html
Looks roughly the cost and time and space of a hobby car, right? Like a hot rod?
The attendees are the cure. Vulnerabilities are the threat.
Here's the project website: https://gameoftrees.org/
Reminds me of the motte and bailey fallacy. The bailey is personal dislike and the motte is protecting animals/children.
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I hate it when you submit a story and come to find that someone else already submitted it before you. /rant

Of course it’s a good story.
Why not? I would think lgbtqt material would be more valuable and able to bring increased revenue.

Besides people reverse ad buy to avoid certain groups. For example advertising in a church bulletin will excludd many lgbtqt factions.
Interesting to me that the attackers were well equipped in their phish and 0days, but then opted to drop fairly detectable RATs.
>to wit homeopaths don't publish treatises on authoritarianism.

If they did, it would probably be as fraudulent, moronic and evil as Adorno's was.
On topic of the HN title, there is research being done into carbon nanotube rectennas. Theoretical efficiency is in the upper 90's%. Problem is that they have very narrow bandwidth. Also as far as I'm aware, no one has even built lab samples that do decently.
The referenced twitter link shows a news broadcast of them describing it. He starts to laugh near the end of what he was saying - almost like he was going to say, this can't end well. And then she blurts out - I Kinda Like It - cutting him off.

haha
The claim of the other poster was accurate. The question of whether you were being fair or not doesn't change that.