skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: Claims a future of "small, personal electric vehicles like e-bikes, scooters, or micro-cars that are yet to exist. That's it."

Our road networks (urban, AND suburban & rural) host an extremely wide range of vehicle types. While the "small personal vehicles" touted might become popular (with a tweaked road network) it's unlikely to be at the exclusion of all the other vehicle types.

Sometimes you want to put your family in a {thing} and go somewhere together. We still need to haul/move/ship/deliver things. Those requirements don't go away.
I'm confused. Is this AST search? How is it otherwise different from Github search or the internal code search my company uses?
Say you run an experiment. You get some data. From that data you calculate a p-value. The data has randomness, so the p-value is a random variable and has a distribution. By chance you can get results that look significant. By chance you can get results that look insignificant.
My favourite story about a bug in a game is GTA. The police cars were supposed to stop you nicely by braking right in front of you. But a small bug cause the cops to crash into the players car at full speed. End of the story: they decided to keep the psycho cops.
You can at least get "honest" opinions of things as well as some of the best salary negotiation / salary info available. $350k at google isn't a newgrad salary but it is a typical L4-L5 compensation: https://www.levels.fyi/
I love this question. The information density and longevity of old forums is hard to replicate on Reddit, Discord, or Facebook groups.

I’ve been spending a lot of time over at https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/index.php recently. It’s THE forum for modular synthesis in all forms and for me it really scratches the hacker/musician/tinkerer itch.
No inside information on commodities.

(However trading on embargoed government press releases is illegal. Though rather than kidnapping Clarence Beeks on the train, you can just interview the Florida farmers yourself.)
For urban planning and skyscraper enthusiasts, there are the forums on skyscraperpage.com and city-data.com.
Steve was also a lot more informal and relaxed. The current presenters just seem very "corporate excited" instead of actually enthusiastic about what they're working on.
My initial reaction is to agree with this parent's policy because I don't really like smartphones.
The problem is you just kind of need them even if you're not a big social media user.

As a grown up, I've considered giving up my own smart phone but friends use whatsapp/viber, traffic in the city is getting worse every year and an app like Waze becomes essential, depending on what you do, reading and replying to email while on the go can be pretty important.
Similarly, growing up in a society where your peers connect pretty much exclusively via social media, you simply need it if you want to even remotely fit in (like others have pointed out).
Not having a smart phone is not the end of the world (for me or the teenagers in question) but there will be daily negative consequences.

The problem is not the tech itself but the way it's being used. It's the whole reason I don't really like having a smart phone (while also enjoying many of its features).
I want a utilitarian tool that gets done what I need done.
If I use a socket wrench to remove a bolt, I expect the wrench to just do it. I don't want it telling me about some fancier wrench available or a better bolt to use in the future or anything else I didn't ask of it.

What I get instead is a platform where I can be targetted, sometimes obviously, sometimes invisibly, as a potential customer of some business.
On top of all that, you know the device is easily damaged and doesn't last very long because of a quickly degrading battery. And good luck finding a good quality battery after 2 years or even easily replacing it.
Screws are the biggest faux pas you can now commit as a manufacturer. You'd probably sell more units if some of them spontaneously combust than if they aren't all smooth and glossy.

Any attempt to make a human-centric smart phone (and underlying OS) is doomed to failure because of cost.

But hey, current smartphones is what people want so what do I know.
Anyway. Did I mention I don't like smart phones?
> The false positive rate (Type I error rate) as defined by NHST is the probability that you will falsely reject the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is true.
In other words, if you reject the null hypothesis when p < .05, this guarantees that you will get a significant (but bogus) effect in only 5% of experiments in which the null hypothesis is true.

This is just a language issue: a false positive of the rejection of the null hypothesis.
The subject of this post should be changed to remove "impossible."
If the null hypothesis is true the p-value is distributed uniformly in [0 1] (at least ignoring discrete data, composite hypothesis and other cases which are not easy).

The distribution will be different when then true hypothesis is not true (but you may also get non-significant results even if the null hypothesis is not true).

I’m not sure if that’s what you mean by “the actual distribution will be skewed in cases where it is statistically significant.”
Tesla lead battery researcher published chemistry breakthrough
Can I ask you how to increase your score?
So what they're doing is adding a option to Scylla's yaml configuration so Scylla can literally be a drop-in replacement for DynamoDB. No updates to your existing code. Scylla can be downloaded and installed on pretty much any server, so what this means is you are no longer shackled to AWS. Just deploy a Scylla instance anywhere you please, configure it to emulate dynamo's API, point your existing application that normally uses Dynamo to it, and you're up.

My current company has a monthly AWS bill of $100k. C-level people get concerned that all their eggs are in one basket. Also Dynamo is EXPENSIVE when you start scaling. We have been looking into making our applications cloud service agnostic, and Dynamo is a huge blocker.

Scylla is a far superior database anyway, so I think we're going to begin trying this out.

Great job, Scylla team!
> “The market knows the future and has already completely priced it in” is disproved every time the market moves

Well at best you can know the future probabilistically. The fair price of flipping a coin and getting $2 on heads is $1, but once the coin is flipped, you have new information, and the fair price is either $2 (if it landed heads) or $0 (if tails).
Faces in Yesterday's Apple Event
Did you anyone notice the race of speakers of yesterday's Apple event? A lot of Asian faces. Even a game company from China presenting. I guess Apple execs wanted to say "in-your-face Trump". After the ongoing trade war with China and all these racist rhetoric, I guess that was a very nice message.
With this move she forced him to lie about it as well. Like teenagers are really great at appealing to authority.
I don't have air pots. I've been thinking about buying them since a long time, but I really don't have a good reason to other than that it's new and shiny. At least when traveling I'd still have to carry my current earphones for both my Switch and to connect to the airplane's entertainment system. I'd rather have fewer things I can lose or forget it simply have to find a place for. It's not a problem in everyday life, but I'm on airplanes a fair amount and the is never a good place for stuff like this.
Can't you disable overdraft?
> Engineering culture at Google is vastly different than Amazon

How so?
Could Uber make their new employees sign non-compete agreements after the law is passed? A lot of drivers drive for both companies now. Will this restrict drivers to drive for just one company?
Thanks for the explanation, based on the way Krebs worded the post I couldn't tell what actually happened.
Cheap phones provide the same functionality, they just do it slower.
I had the same issue about 10 years when I was applying. My stepfather was a physician so technically household income was high. However, step-parents are not responsible for none birth children unless legally adopted. I have heard of parents divorcing on paper, moving their kids to disadvantaged areas on paper (true story), etc.

Despite being accepted to top engineering schools, I got mostly a full-ride to my local state flagship. To this day, I am not sure if it was the best or worst decision I made. I still made it to a top company without debt, but I have a feeling that any future education (e.g. a top MBA) is going to be hampered by this not to mention how certain things are basically excluded (e.g. venture funding, certain jobs).

One thing to remember is that a good percentage of those applying to top schools are coming from expensive private schools that are about as expensive as the university tuition, so to the parents that already paid 12 years of $70k tuition, 4 more isn't a problem.
You can't currently do that can you? If you can, please tell me how because I would love to know. :-)

If you mean that this could be implemented, then great I'm all for it. From a technical perspective it doesn't seem like it should be difficult. I'm under the impression it doesn't exist most likely because the banks don't want it to. Hence the benefit of using cryptocurrency.
Yes, that's what backscatter means. (Incl. Reemitted) Usually this is more accurate but requires higher doses (not necessarily received) for good quality images, advanced processing and sensors. Used sometimes as backscatter CT or in scintigraphy (looking at people who have been given radioactive contrast).
I like iphone11 pro.
This is an Atlas Shrugged moment, if I’ve ever seen one. I know Uber and Lyft would not do it because they are public companies and other reasons. Yet, it is my opinion, that they should. They should fire everyone in CA.

Why?

Because this is preposterous.

These companies started with the premise that people could sign-up to monetize free time by driving others using their vehicles. That was the deal, the contract, if you will.

Nobody forced drivers or passengers to participate in any way.

The system was the very embodiment of freedom: You do as you want, when you want, if you want to. And you can also stop and not do it if it does not deliver value. This applied both to driver and passenger.

This move represents the use of force on the part of government to unjustly interfere with the free market. It’s the continuation of a slippery slope in CA that will eventually cause this State’s politics to become indistinguishable from that of a third world country.

This is also wrong because, as far as I know, it is the first time government uses force (because that’s what laws are) to materially change the business model of public companies.

Uber and Lyft should fire everyone in CA immediately. That’s the only power they have. If they don’t move to force a repeal these politicians are going to mess with them until the end of time. If you have ever had the “pleasure” of dealing with the State Board of Equalization you know precisely what I mean. It’s hard to believe, but, yes, they are worse than the DMV.

This might also mean that, by extension, it will be dicey to hire anyone in CA for gigs. Be it a graphic designer or coder, if the potential exists for trouble people will simply hire out of state out of the country.

As Ross Perot famously said, paraphrasing...that huge sucking sound you hear are jobs leaving CA, if not the country.

For Uber and Lyft it might mean accelerating their transition to robot cars in order to get rid of people as soon as possible.
That's the thing.

All of our legal precedent about privacy, law enforcement surveillance, commercial data gathering, etc, really dates to the 1800's and early 1900's when things were fundamentally different. There is a qualitative difference when information can be automatically processed in aggregate.

I don't really care about individual corporate -- or LE -- surveillance actors if the data is partitioned over many and requires real subpoena power or active, limited sharing. If there's thousands of cameras owned by homes and businesses in my town, and everyone uses the pictures on their own for their own purposes, and law enforcement occasionally asks for and/or subpoenas the data when it'd be particularly useful and there's at least some suspicion-- that's great.

On the other hand, when we automatically read license plates and form a big database about where everyone goes every day, that's not so great. When individuals are all subject to mass-scale surveillance that we use with data processing and machine learning to manipulate those people-- that's not so great either.
Not in CA
If Capitalism Is Our Future, What Will It Look Like?
Apple is the largest technology company in the world
Even though it does not look this way now, I think this is a seminal legislation that in time will move small startup scene out of California for good, due to what you have described. I have the same experience, bootstrapping a software company that initially could not afford an employee payroll and administrative/legal burden. Where do we go next to start non-VC companies? Oregon? Texas?
I think Deutsch is doing a very good job of explaining exactly the concept I'm trying to explain.

But you still have to peel back the words to think about what kind of mechanism they are describing, which Deutsch is trying to communicate. You can't just complain that he says "reality contains parallel universes" without accepting that he's taken the time to map "parallel universes" to a well-defined concept.
> To be fair, the WHATWG HTML "Standard" is also nothing more than a Wiki, or even just a collaborative space where everything can change at any time.

well unless you're waiting for the second coming for someone official to come along and bless an RFC, all standards are born of a collaborative space where everything can change at any time. Versions are just snapshots, and good luck if you want to stick with one forever (hows that TLS 1.0 server going to work out after March 2020?).

Anyways, if you want an official© W3 spec, here it is in HTML5 https://www.w3.org/TR/html50/links.html#other-link-types, HTML 4.01 https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links, or hey, even back to HTML 2 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1866#section-5.7.3
This article is deluded. Apple practically creates its own weather and rules the news cycle through these events. Because poor Charlie is bored is hardly a reason to give up on a formula that creates billions in sales.
It doesn't support USB-PD only QC3.0 [1]. I won't buy anything that uses a proprietary charging.

[1]https://shop.fairphone.com/en/accessories/usb-charger-eu
The funny thing is, UBC,UT, McGill and Waterloo are virtually unknown outside of a select few circles in the USA. Waterloo is fairly well known among programmers in Silicon Valley and that's about it.
> He is seeing the p-value as a random variable that can take values from 0 to 1 and follows some distribution.

That is the frequentist point of view!
Interesting, thanks for the link. I wish there were some comprehensive list or taxonomy on these kinds of scams.
And people say crypto exchanges are bad because of exit scams. The same thing essentially happened here, except the authorities are actually investigating.
Which is why big medical x-ray machines have active liquid nitrogen cooling or solid co2, and also huge heatsinks.
There would be an avalanche of Epstein stories anyway. The tech angle just adds to it.
Thank you, LoC!

As a casual reader of history, I was surprised to learn that the Aztecs (more properly, the Mexica) have recorded their pre-Columbian history. It is very nicely summarized in the book "A Rain of Darts" by Burr Brundage [1].

[1] https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/brurai
This article actually only serves to demonstrate how ideologically-possessed and out of touch the New York Times has become. They’re basically yelling at Apple for not making their keynotes “political enough” (for values of “political” equal to “Progressive,” of course)
Going rate, last I heard, for a sham marriage to get a visa is about $15k CAD.

There are also investor visas (if you have $400k to drop into the Canadian economy), startup visas (if you can secure funding from a specific set of orgs), and the NAFTA TN visa, which is a rubber stamp visa for US and Mexican workers.
Dark energy has a bit of a weird history. Initially Einstein included it (or rather something like it) in his equations for general relativity because it fitted nicely and otherwise a static universe would eventually implode, only later it became clear that the universe was expanding and Einstein famously called this parameter his biggest mistake, except that in the current theory the value is very much not 0 (although annoyingly it's a lot closer to 0 than quantum physics says it ought to be, so much so that this has been called the worst prediction in physics).

So yeah, the debate about dark energy is responsible for 'Einstein's biggest mistake' and 'the worst prediction in physics'. Either way it wasn't simply a case of "let's just give our error term a fancy name and call it a day".
That solves one problem and creates another, as our current economy assumes at least as many new young people to support the elderly as now.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the problem is insurmountable, but it does actually need to be dealt with somehow rather than just hoping tech will save us when we need it — that approach works fine right up until it fails catastrophically.
This is an impossible bid. The HK exchange is mostly owned by the government of HK, and thus the Chinese government. It will never be approved.
It's misleading when it's not correct.
Sure, but at least you'll still be able to pay rent etc without late-payment fees. A single overdraft fee is way less bad.
This is a common misconception, but terribly incorrect. Talk to a lawyer.
It also looks to me like something made by a beginner. But from that impression I have the opposite take: why write this comment at all? Your comment only will serve to discourage this person, who is just getting started and not sure if they should continue down this path.

Does this project belong on HN? Probably not. Does your comment contribute anything? Definitely not.
When using ScreenSharing on the Mac, CMD + Tab used to switch between apps on the local Mac (like using any other app). Which means, to switch apps on the remote Mac, you needed to use the Dock or some other method.

Then at some point a few years ago, CMD + Tab changed to switching between apps on the remote Mac, which also makes sense since you're working on the remote computer. But then you need another way to switch out of ScreenSharing on the local Mac.

Then for a year or two, it seemed random which computer's app switcher you'd yet.

Now it seems to take into account whether an actual window on the remote computer has been given focus since switching over to ScreenSharing or not. I can't quite place the logic, but it seems to do what I expect most of the time now.

I have no idea which of these scenarios was actually the bug and which is/was the feature.
Yes, I also hate it when Apple forces me to leave everything I am doing and watch their keynote. Only if I had the choice to not watch it.
I shot most of a City Council campaign this summer with just an iPhone. Took a DSLR to like two big events because I needed telephoto, but all our other official photos and social media stuff was phones.

If I'm shooting something for a billboard, yeah, I'll go get out a real camera. Almost anything smaller than that can absolutely be done on almost any modern flagship phone.
People have to eat, nothing is free in the US. People generally do whatever their best option is. If the best option is below minimum wage, that's what they do. Why is that the best option? Zero-to-no tariffs and, consumer goods produced overseas by slave labor. No reason to hire domestic workers. Even McDonalds has touch-screen ordering now.
How does this affect AirBnb hosts?
QAit AI Learns by Interacting with Its Environment
I don’t have to read the article; it will look like corporatism. Unless you mean current corporatism when you say capitalism -
>Going by that standard, 95% of all Russian peasant farmers are "Russian Agents" and that's pure ridiculousness from any angle.

Oh please, you're the one being ridiculous. I think we all know there's a line between farming for the good of civilization and actively working to push an agenda. C'mon.
Show HN: Universal – 600 UI cards based on simple design system
Using a Robot to Detect and Collect Garbage in India
Super Mario Bros Warpless World Records
It's not an "echo chamber" if you just don't want to talk to people with polar-opposite views. You're not going to have a productive discussion between, for instance, anyone on the left and a group of neo-Nazis. Excluding neo-Nazis from a discussion doesn't make it an "echo chamber".

As for being heard, maybe the problem is no one wants to waste their time and breath dealing with people with such different views. When literal decades have gone by and those people still cling to same views, there really isn't much point in trying to change their minds now.
So you stopped at Blockchain just above the title? ;)

Here's the IPFS [1][2] and Outline [3] copy after bypassing the paywall

1: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmX6TTwqk4H6mKoKXHRGHYu22GZaCim9VBNtGdr...

2: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmX6TTwqk4H6mKoKXHRGHYu22GZ...

3: https://outline.com/96CLhZ
If you want to encourage drivers to drive enough to offset overhead costs, there are other ways besides traditional advance time-slot based scheduling. For example: (these are not mutually exclusive)

- Setup incentives (e.g. bonuses) so that drivers get paid better after they have offset the overhead costs for a month. Perhaps this could be setup as a sliding scale or threshold system.

- Reward (but do not mandate) drivers for scheduling certain times/dates in advance (e.g. to optimize driver supply)
The article couldn’t have been written about Google or Samsung, because what the NYT is saying is that Apple keynotes, once considered capital-N News by the press and public, now have all the excitement of a Samsung press event. They ascribe this to a lack of innovation in the iPhone but I think it’s really just the lack of Steve Jobs. The iPhone releases have always been about speeds and camera quality — Steve Jobs just had the star power of an entertainment celebrity and got people interested in these releases in a way that is not sustainable in his absence. Now it’s back to “Mega Corporation releases new product lineup.”
yeah that was my point.
What happens is you get people "day trading" in a period of time when there's an extended bull market and they think they're geniuses / financial whizzes.
I had an idea similar to this. You look at where the statistical performance cliff is. Are the 90-th percentile students that much worse than 99-th percentile? After a certain level, it's a lottery.

It's already the case where the vast majority of students applying to these schools have near perfect scores, so a lottery makes it fair.
In the US anyone with your bank account number can debit your account irreversibly?

In Europe (with SEPA Core) we have 8 weeks to reject any debit even if the entity issuing the debit has a signed mandate to debit the account.
I can't believe those drivers are that short sighted. They would be just gone if L4 autonomous driving becomes a thing, and they are definitely pushing those companies to there much faster now.