skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It seems like tons of people here are talking about actual real big cities in the US that have microscopic caps, though.

The internet isn't limited to a big city though, everything isn't mirrored in each large population center, that data has to cross vast distances.

And population density increases the need for more and more cable to be deployed, if you're feeding a podunk town of 5,000 people but NYC has 28,000~ people per square mile, San Francisco 19,000~ people per square mile, Chicago 11,600~ people per square mile.

Population dense areas are going to have a higher data consumption, a higher data consumption means you need that much more infrastructure at any given moment to handle peak.

Then factor in the United States has the 3rd largest number of internet users in the world, an estimated 292 million [1] and it is much more difficult to serve them all with the same level of service in a country orders of magnitude smaller with orders of magnitude fewer people.

The only country in Europe that begins to compare in both population and size is Russia at 1.8x larger land area and 44% of the population. Comparing physicall ysmall countries with 5-15 million. There are only 15 countries in Europe with populations over 10 million people, and only 1 of them (Russia) begins to come close to the US in size (being itself larger). The second largest country in Europe being The Ukraine and it's smaller than Texas.

You simply can't compare internet infrastructure in a random European country to the United States. It's like saying "Smart Cars get 40mpg, I don't see why NASA's Crawler-Transporter can't do 40mpg too, sounds like bad design!"

[1] https://internetworldstats.com/top20.htm
I don't really get why this is so controversial? I mean, all of the HN crowd here must understand the idea of oversubscription, and many of us have also seen prices for dedicated 1 Gb/s connection in data centers?

Am I missing something here? Am I overestimating the costs of bandwidth, does the Netflix/CDN edge serves inside of the ISP network lower it dramatically?
Hell, you can even use DR to shift electric water heating to free up scarce power during peak A/C load.
> one can easily place the rotors above […] (which also gives better stability).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy
Early goa did have a lot of acid lines, although I dont think they strictly used 303s. I know Cosmosis used a Novation BassStation for all the lines on their Cosmology album. That album is full of acid (and thoroughly recommended, even 25 years on).
Owning stock conveys beneficial ownership share, pays dividends, etc. This is strictly worse.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321217
Great, so the old grudges never die. We all stay angry forever. We all retain a constant, simmering outrage at the ghosts of the past, and unpack them for each morning's two minute hate.

If you're brandishing your weapons, so too am I.
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> Commodore gets the short shrift in the Twitterati retelling of the personal computer evolution

Isn't that just because they had no actual impact on the industry? The Apple II was first as a mass consumer microcomputer (they even showed a prototype to it to Commodore years before the PET, when Tramiel still thought calculators were the thing). The Mac inspired every popular GUI that came after it (they all look more like the Mac than Xerox).

You could say that Commodore inspired a generation since they were so cheap and everyone had one, but you could also say that about Dell and Gateway 2000. The Amiga had amazing hardware, but so did the Sharp X68000 - still the whole concept of proprietary chips that software had to be written exclusively for has never had a long-lasting impact on the PC space.

Of the PCs and smartphones we're using today - how much of it can be traced to Commodore? The price? The method of vertical integration maybe?
So are you suggesting that if someone was mistaken in one line of reasoning or idea, that they are necessarily wrong on all?

If not... what's your point caller? All I can see in your statement is someone trying to avoid challenging an idea they don't like on its merits.

Actually, I'm surprised at how many participants in public discourse today, especially amongst the so called "educated" classes, actually are willing to make such arguments with a straight face and even give them credence. All it is is ad hominem... a logical fallacy. Shameful state of affairs. (...and maybe it was never different and I'm just noticing more now...)
It's common practice for retailers to push many of those costs (as many as they can) back on the suppliers.

For example, Walgreens expects ITS VENDORS to stock the shelves, cycle expired product, and install and replace in-store advertising. Walgreens doesn't do it themselves.

And as for sales, often a supplier is required to buy back stock that goes unsold after a period of time. It's crazy, but that's how much power retailers have.
Those damn Zimbabweans if only they made it a law that you have to have clean drinking water then everyone would have it!
fwiw, "neurotic" in the way he used it was specifically the psychology definition, where it's one of the main personality traits in people. The popular definition doesn't really match this.
Thanks for the reply, I was confusing negative yield curves[1] with negative yield bonds (in the EU) [2].

It seems like if you already have high yield bonds, the value will continue to rise, as people exhaust other low yield options... however isn't this total value capped by the yield+face value? I don't really know how bond pricing works, but if you bottom out the yeild, or anticipated yeild... you should only be able to make the face value back or someone is buying negative yields.

EDIT: I _guess_ the bond reaches "maturity" in a much shorter time, which is perhaps your point. "1.68%" over 10 years is shit compared to "1.68%" over 1 year.

EDITEDIT: Also assumes you are not going to be eaten by inflation, which could push you into negative yeilds.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/invertedyieldcurve.asp
[2] https://qz.com/1647791/12-trillion-of-negative-yielding-bond...
Do you think that the current pharmaceutical prices in the US are the result of fair market valuation?
A shallow sentiment. Every policy should be weighed on its merits. This would suck, plenty of other policies would be fine.
the direct literal translation would be: tolerance: just difficult. einfach in german is used frequently when in english you would use just: just do it -> mach einfach

i do believe that in english simply can always be used in place of just, it's just less common so tolerance: simply difficult has the same meaning and sounds better as a book title.
Amazon: "We can see what other markets charge for these goods and it's more than we charge. And the free market's failing. So, there's nothing to worry about regarding what we're doing."
Supposedly Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

I think that applies here.
That's correct, it's something like four particles per cubic meter.

> "fingernail-sized or smaller bits of plastic", often microscopic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
Building a GraphQL Server on the Edge with Cloudflare Workers
Thank you! I've been looking for this for ages.
Vichycons and Mass Shootings
Personally I prefer the dry version of SEC fillings. More to the point and with less marketing and PR crap. Also shows you that the finance department is filled with dry professionals, and as much as these finance people can be a pain less professional ones are real curse especially if form matters more than function. Like at my current gig which apparently won an award for their annual reports, the report mind you and not the reported figures. I tried reading it, if you ask me at least 75% are fluff and of the reminder a lot is just lacking substance.
Indeed, the Germans remain good at "serious". It's just much more English-language derivative than it was pre-WWII. Today, I'd call their academic thought 5 years behind English-language academic thought instead of 5 years ahead of like it used to be.
The “Exchange rate” is the kurs(Danish) when the loan is for instance at kurs95 that means you only get 95% of the loaned amount. Effectively the investor gets a bigger principal than was actually loaned. Depending on invester pressure the kurs goes up, but It’s typically close at 100, and a lower rate loan is then opened up, since investing in a kurs100+ loan means taking an emidiate hit on the principal owed, which is bad for investors even if interests pay back the gap over time.

And true, even with negative rate this loans kurs plus fixed costs still mean you are still paying the bank more than they are loaning you.
New Data: Electronic Cigarettes: U.S. Imports, 2016-2018 [pdf]
I liked this comment from below the article.

> I prefer to live in a free but insecure world than in a perfectly safe but not free world.

Which I interpret to mean, we're free to use whatever protections we see fit. But institutionally we can't promise security, since bad actors will always exist.
No.

Statements about mathematics can be objectively true.

I would point to this book as an illustration of the limits of statements about human reality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armies_of_the_Night

Mailer describes what he observed when he participated in anti-war march. In some sense this is completely subjective, but it is more accurate in that he is describing what he experienced first hand as opposed to surmising things based on what other people said.

In the second half of the book he writes the kind of story which you would see in the newspaper which fits the standard of "objective journalism" but because he is reading what people wrote about what other people said, he is having to make many inferences, some of which would be necessarily wrong.

When somebody says there is an objective way to view a social situation they are trying to gaslight you.

For instance, Ayn Rand subjectively experienced great pain when the Bolsheviks killed her family and took their stuff; she named the philosophy based on that experience "objectivism" to negate the voices of people who disagree with her.

"Strict constructionists" often oppose themselves to "postmodernism" but their postmodernism is one of the most toxic around. You just can't say "the founding fathers" meant exactly one thing when they wrote the constitution because it wasn't "the founding father" but rather a compromise between different people who meant different things.

Generally the word "real" is a bad smell, because it is often used to reify something which is fake. See the concept of "hyperreal".
I understand that the article is trying to simplify the topic for a general audience, but there are some things that are just plain counterproductive (even if the article clarifies what they mean later):

> New Proof Settles Ancient Question of How to Simplify Numbers Like Pi

The title, obviously. This should say "approximate", since we're not simplifying pi.

> Under what circumstances is it possible to represent irrational numbers that go on forever — like pi — with simple fractions, like 22/7?

Never, unless you're approximating.

> He proved that for every irrational number, there exist infinitely many fractions that approximate the number evermore closely. Specifically, the error of each fraction is no more than 1 divided by the square of the denominator.

The first part is obviously true and should have been merged with the second part.
The last Mayan sacrifices were probably as late as 1697.
Mindblowing Photos of Steve Wozniak
Chasing a test failure in our gRPC-Web test
I also know a number of people in the scene who lost their sanity through drug abuse. It is sad, but when you are partying and abusing yourself every weekend for years on end something is going to give.
They've always been legal persons, otherwise they couldn't be on either end of a court case. They can even be charged criminally. That's what corporate personhood generally used to mean.
If you read Ray Dalio, he seems think think the next recession will be a "debt supercycle" which could be worse than 2008. (this could be him plugging his hedge fund, but he's semi retired, and really has no more money needed to make personally) Note also that recessions have been growing longer each cycle. IMHO it's related to the bottom 99% having been getting paid smaller and smaller portions of wealth, and so a base resiliency of economies become weaker each cycle.
> 1. Chinese has very few distinct syllables compared to other languages, even including tones. Thus, many words in speech are multisyllabic to allow for disambiguation.

This is true of Mandarin, but Classical Chinese had mostly monosyllabic words with many more distinct syllables and maybe wasn't even a tonal language. The exact pronunciations are obviously unknown except by reconstruction from descendant languages, but it's unlikely that ambiguity of pronunciation was much of a problem when the texts were written. It does however affect works of later periods written in Literary Chinese, trying to emulate the style of the classics they were quoting.
It's a buying opportunity!
A quick web search says that may have been due to manganese in the water, which turns black when it oxidizes.
> normal liquid savings account that's paying 2.25%

Yes. That's what an inverted yield curve means. Liquid funds are "more expensive" than long-term funds. That's why things are inverted right now.

The long-term expectation (over the course of the next 10 years) is that savings accounts will drop. That's why people are willing to "only" be paid 1.6% for a 10-year, because its better to be paid 1.6% for 10 years... rather than 2.25% for this year (and then only 0.5% for the next 9 years).

In essence: the bankers are taking the opposite bet you're making. When the bankers are making a move, you probably should think about the future of money... bankers probably know more than you and I do.

EDIT:
> Why would anyone buy a less-flexible product that pays less?

Because they have a pessimistic view of the next 5 to 10 years. When big-money starts to make these pessimistic bets, its a recession indicator.
What you're saying is probably fairly accurate though I don't like to accept it.

We're in a world full of people grabbing and using as much as they can with no care for what that means for themselves never mind other people. Unexamined lives. People would have to change habits that are nothing worth fighting for to begin with.

I don't care for seeing the sights, though I do care for the world to not become some sort of theme park terraformed (... ha) nightmare for humans to survive.

The answer for me is going to be to continue to do my best regardless because to do otherwise would be barbaric. In a lawless world I wouldn't become a mass murderer just because society allowed it.
The NYT arguably popularized the technique when its 2012 "Snow Fall" won a Pulitzer [0]. My impression has been that, thankfully, people have realized that scrolly-heavy stories are more trouble than its worth. But it wouldn't surprise me if it's still seen as a way to signal "This Project is a Big Deal" even at the cost of accessibility. At least nowadays, most of the project's individual articles can find plenty of traction through non-landing-page clicks (e.g. social media), so the risk of poorly-used landing page is less of a concern than it was 5+ years ago.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/new-y...
I looked at the chart you provided, and calculated the difference between 12-2pm and 4-6pm usage, which seems to be only 13%.

Is this really such a huge hurdle in itself? I'm curious, not trying to be dismissive.
You are making the error people always make with personalities like Trump.

Assertive alpha signaling and mammalian dominance gestures tell the parts of our brain that haven't changed since we were small tree rats that "this person knows what they're talking about, trust them, follow them." These parts of the brain are primitive and emotional and can easily override the rational mind. This is why charisma tends to beat substance even with audiences that really do know better.

Trump is assertiveness and dominance gestures and nothing else. There is no "there" there. He has no special understanding, no strategy other than "assert dominance" which all he knows how to do, and no plan.

Our only salvation in this is that many of the leaders of other nations are similarly empty.
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There are only 7 days because on Day 8 God saw the AWS bill and realized the unit economics were doomed from the start.
More money is loaned to the rich than is to the poor. So this is giving more money to the rich than it does to the poor.
Oh, indeed. Please flag this one.
If that's the case, 99% will be booted off the platform and they will have to meet certain numbers of visitors and engagement every month, or lose their job..which is what unionizing means.

If I were google, I would also get control of their users (they would now be the companys) and youtubers will no longer be able move to any other platform while working for Google.

You can't expect the freedom of running your own business with none of the restrictions of a job.

I never understood the need to take away the ability for someone to truly run their own business and have freedoms and restrict it down to a corporate job, by law.
Social Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health: UK Millennium Cohort Study
It would not be worse than 2008. since what happen in 2008 is known, by definition it is already prepared for and backed into global risk assessments.

It can only get worse if there is something that was NOT present in 2008 will manifest itself.
Statistically, the only months with average declines in the stock market since 1950 have been August and September. If I were you I'd hold out 'till Oct. 1, and not a day longer. Two years and two months isn't that much worse than two years, and you'd really kick yourself if you turned out to be right after all.

Also, setting a fixed date will probably help you come to terms with it psychologically.
Ballistic parachutes. They've been a safety feature in composite aircraft like the Cirrus SR22 for a long time.

Useless on commercial aircraft, great for small, lightweight personal transportation vehicles.
Largest Contentful Paint metric is otherwise known as the Time To First Accept The Cookies Dialog Paint
Oh no, I realize this all too well. In fact I warned about it since two years ago, saying something along the lines of:

"Tech companies need to stop screwing over their users as if it doesn't even matter if the users don't like what they are doing. The users aka the "fans" are what often protects them from regulation, because many are quick to defend such companies. But if the companies purposefully try to lose this goodwill with idiotic actions then there will be nobody there to speak for them in the end. In fact, the people will speak against them."

I will defend encryption, of course, but I will not "blanket support tech companies" just because certain regulations put certain internet freedoms at risk.
"Instead, Tumblr has a new chance to redefine itself in 2019 and beyond"

I feel like the same thing was said about Napster at some point as well. It's going to take __a lot__ of resources for Tumblr to overcome its status as yet another formerly-hot-but-now-a-has-been (e.g., Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, etc.)

Trumblr had its moment. It had its time. It had its audience. They are all in the past. The odds of it making any sort of comeback - in a Van's sneakers sorta way - are slim (read: close to zero). The cool kids of today just aren't as interested in a brand like Tumblr.

Tumblr will wallow around for bit and then Automattic will merge it into WP.com, or at least the WP platform with a (name) rebranding of some sort. I suppose that falls under MM's "redefine" but somehow I don't think so.
Come on this guy is the president of the US people need to stop calling him ignorant and dumb just because they don't like aspects of his persona (racist/greedy/cunning/divisive). He is surrounded by aides and business people giving him information and trying to forward their own agendas. He's not just sitting there thinking "wouldn't it be fun to start a trade war to look tough".

I respect Krugman as an economist but not as a political pundit, he needs to dig harder than resorting to the age old "don't ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity". There is already some simple logic (trade war = tough = re elected) behind the decision, I just believe there is more to the story that we don't see.
Glass uses less energy per kilogram by a factor of 3 or so, according to your source. But plastic bottles use an order of magnitude or two less material, so still use less energy per bottle.
To be fair, many industries have incentive to predict good markets.

Automotive, luxury, finance, etc... None of these benefit from recessions.

These people need to sell you, that you will have a job tomorrow.
Difference is, one is about the populations health. Given that the US is backwards when it comes to healthcare.

Given the sea of corruption inside the US since it is an oligarchically run state where the citizens basically have no rights (if in doubt look at IP law).