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>We can't charge people, for instance, 30 cents per month (as in your example) - the fees or processing your card (or paypal payment) would be larger than that.

You can - you just need to eliminate the card processing from most transactions in these cases. Allow users to top up a balance with a minimum buy-in that meets your processing threshold, and decrement that balance as services are consumed.

This does require some degree of effort in terms of implementation and accounting, but it drastically increases the appeal of your service to small businesses and personal users.
I'd probably pay for a filter that distinquished editorial from reporting.
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And what do they do with these human assessments then? Of course they feed them back to the algorithm so that it can improve. In effect it is still humans influencing the search rankings albeit indirectly. So it is a bit duplicitous to say that "it is the algorithm that decides" when there are humans providing learning data for it.
How is that better for you? I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make and I'm interested in your opinion...
Yeah, seems like rubber wheels rubbing the paint off within a weeks use would kill the illusion pretty quickly.
My partner and I were just talking the other day about what it might be like to live in abq, what the major industries might be for tech, what Intel's got going on, etc.
There is a much older, smaller - but public - study done by MSR a long while ago as well: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/what-ar...
1. This is a big community and I haven't noticed this in every thread.

2. Google hasn't changed - so until they do, I suspect they will continue to be criticized.

People generally will continuously criticize things that continuously screw them over.
There is a brand of Norwegian raw dog and cat food that is imported into Sweden. I'm a little bit paranoid about this outbreak even though I have cats and not dogs, so I'm holding off on purchasing it until the cause has been established and food ruled out.
Because they are used to looking at the sky and looking at weird, odd or abnormal phenomena in the sky. They are therefore better equipped to know whether something strange in the sky is just one of the many strange natural phenomena or if its something that might be of alien origin.
I wonder if it could be contaminated food/treats similar to the duck treats from China a few years ago.

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/news-events/fda-invest...
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This talk is by the author of fasthttp[1]. Note the caveats that come with it. Also, it is nowhere near as widely used nor established as Vertx.

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTxoBN41dYFB...
I would be very surprised if that car could meet crash-test standards to be sold at large scale. If you don't have to meet crash test standards, you can make a much lighter car than you can today.
One of the companies in the article, GrantTree, is run by swombat (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=swombat). It's an interesting perk. I can see it being amazing for staff retention, but only if your staff are the sort of people who really want to work at the company. It definitely wouldn't work for a lot of companies.
From the article I posted:

"Using the URI is the most straightforward approach (and most commonly used as well) though it does violate the principle that a URI should refer to a unique resource. You are also guaranteed to break client integration when a version is updated."

So versioning with content headers is useful when

* it's really important that there is a one to one mapping between a URI and a resource (not /v1/customer/1 and /v2/customer/1 URIs which both refer to customer 1). I'm not familiar enough with API construction to know why this might be important, but maybe system clarity?

* You have far flung clients that are not easy to update (iot, mobile apps, software that needs to be manually configured) and you want all clients to always go to the same URI (perhaps for whitelisting through a client firewall).
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As a counterpoint (also discussed in other threads below), often few other people want to bid on those keywords, so it's not as expensive. It's still a crappy thing to do.
You can. These are called Challenger Decks.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/challe...
"WOULD" of course... damn spell checker...
Ugh, thank you for reminding me about the mess surrounding SFPs.

While I enjoyed building a SAN back in the day, I did not enjoy sourcing the correct components and making a dozen different brands of hardware play nice together.
In the video from the article it looks pretty realistic from a relatively high vantage point (drone several meter high) but from the regular driving position it's still pretty flat and at best confusing. Is this the case when seeing it live?
>My small midwestern town just put vertical crosswalk markers in place on the lane lines right in front of my house. This makes life terrible because I live on 1) a major road right off of the freeway that takes a lot of commute and out-of-town traffic because it is 2) the route to the goddamn hospital. This means that the ambulances have to do crazy things to get around the people who have nowhere to get out of the way due to the signs, and more traffic backed up due to people inappropriately stopping at the signs. I also watched a rear ending at one yesterday. These signs are literally dangerous on multiple levels.

But now someone's desire to have slow traffic is satisfied and they are no longer pestering the local government who is no longer pestering the highway department. That's mission accomplished as far as they care. Making the local transportation infrastructure not suck is not a metric they are evaluated by so all the second order effects are irrelevant.

If you're lucky the marker will have a snow plow accident in a couple months and it will never get replaced because everyone will realize it actually made things worse.

Also, it's worth noting that despite the slowed traffic the situation is probably more hazardous for pedestrians because the traffic now takes more of their time and attention.
In my opinion we have a long way to go before we actually understand many many of the skin diseases. Dermatologists appear to me as the most clueless doctors out there. Their only weapons seem to be cortisol and biopsies. Maybe I was also just unlucky.
That’s how they rag on juniors, they never tell them the answer!
On the flip side, they'd probably be more fun to hang out with.
The severity of Chernobyl was greatly compounded by the fact that the Soviet government went out of their way to conceal the severity. The response to Fukushima had no such operations in place; the response was swift and well-organized and evacuations were rapid and deliberately more severe than the situation seemed to warrant. Monitoring was also used to detect elevated radioactive isotopes in drinking water and other secondary effects to prevent them from causing more widespread damage.

That said, is it your belief that if the government had taken no action to protect the civilian population, that the impact would have been similar -- "no consequences to humans" as you say? Don't confuse the severity of the scope of the accident with the casualty list; the disaster was very serious and should not be underplayed. And most of all, it should force all of us to reconsider our assessment of the potential damage that can be done by failing nuclear power plants.
Isn’t a mystery disease wiping out dogs (and cats) the cause for the original Planet of the Apes?
This already exists, although not for Teslas. It's called V2G (vehicle to grid) and it's already happening in the UK with the Nissan Leaf.

Not only is this a backup for a rare outage but it makes you money by charging when power is cheap and selling back when expensive. Occasionally the price of power goes negative and you are paid to charge.

https://electricinsights.co.uk/ is good for exploring the energy data and pricing.
I don't have an answer, but I remember Go programmers on Quora swearing up and down that (the Go convention of) using single-letter variables is ingenius and leads to great code ... although none of them could give a single example.
I’ve always wondered how much money consultants made off the “cybernetics” buzzword in the 60s and 70s.
Is there a name for that feeling of not having enough time to learn everything you want to learn? I have that pretty constantly. Other than that I'm doing great.
yeah I'm going to buy a quiche lorraine off amazon and serve it to my date
Going to public school in Wisconsin, I remember being taught about fragmentation and how it let brood parasites like cowbirds have better access to the nests they sneak their eggs into, which leads to the death of lots of chicks from other species. Wisconsin still has lots of forest, but with so many roads and fields cutting through them, they just can't support the same level of wildlife.
Two companies(nvidea, AMT) make similar products and hold a roughly 50:50 market share. both are doing well, both are selling units.

nvidea grows greedy and hires shady accountants to commit tax fraud, enabling nvidea to keep more after-tax money.

next year, nvidea has more money to dump into R&D -- they build a better product, and charge more for it. market responds, nvidea grows richer, ATM suffers losses.

nvidea keeps stealing money. has more for R&D, and more for marketing. nvidea buying sponsored reviews. keep building reliable products. more money for support staff.

ATM operating with a smaller budget every year. still improving, but not growing.

nvidea has even more money for R&D. more money for aggressive marketing. more money for sponsoring studios. "our art was built with nvidea products, and is best enjoyed using nvidea products".

the practice of stealing money to further growth to eclipse the competition by any means is hella old.
Note: in practice, almost no one uses map, filter, and reduce. Those are almost 100% replaced by list and generator comprehensions in code written in the last decade or so.

The difference between split and join is kind of weird, I'll grant. I'm not sure why it was done that way.

`sort` is in place. You're telling an object to order itself: "hey you! Sort yourself!" `sorted` returns a copy of an object, but... sorted. You're asking for the sorted version of that thing.
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You are completely wrong:

1. He IS a journalist.
2. He IS being tortured.
3. Flight risk? Justifiable, imho.
Habitat loss may be reversing now due to urbanization, as population growth has slowed (and largely stabilized or even declined in the developed world).

I'm guessing as those little rural towns in Japan become increasingly abandoned, animals are moving in.
Do researchers work for free?
This is still too high. If we use Regus as an example of what a sustainable version of this business looks like without being leveraged to the gills and having a CEO of questionable ethics, a ballpark value of $8-9B is more accurate.

I have a strong suspicion that no matter what valuation they post, the company will need significant restructuring to stay alive as soon as the next recession hits.
Also, don't forget the gear to capture the electricity isn't free, is more stuff that can break and incur maintenance fees, must contain purified metals and other non-zero carbon emissions, and so on. Trying to break even on all of this off of human labor is a silly game to play when there are so many other better opportunities. And that $18/yr is already inflated by enough factors that $1/yr is probably a much better estimate.

Same for these solar panels on a car, too. Solar panels aren't the nicest things to manufacture right now. Putting them on a platform this poor is silly when you could put them somewhere more effective. If they were dirt cheap and harmless to create, opportunity costs might be less of an issue, but even today, they aren't dirt cheap and the aren't harmless to manufacture. They should be used effectively, not for show or feelings.
>The most important, basic, recurring issue of the day was money in every form. Every opportunity to get something for one price and sell it at a higher price, was the priority and the topic and what was important.

Which, ironically, is not much different by how several very celebrated literary authors where in their everyday life...
m-p-3, i am so glad you verbalized this, it is crazy how only few people understand this. Instead tax evasion beeing a shame infront of society, majority regards it as a virtue.
For these kinds of radars, there won't really be any signal against the sky and, lets be honest here, nothing is going to be looking at the SR-71 from a top down aspect. In a tail chase situation though, a missile would have to fly straight at the exhaust which would give the aircraft some cover.

There's a bit of reading between the lines that needs to be done here though. The aircraft is already shaped to deflect radar waves from a tail or nose on aspect but the part that's very hard to 'stealth' is the insides of the engines, especially from the rear aspect. Turbine blades and all the other geometry inside tends to act like a radar disco-ball and leaves even many modern aircraft vulnerable. By making the exhaust radar absorbent you fix this issue.
I recommend you try Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). I had to drink the ugliest medicinal tea imaginable for a while, but after that my skin problems had miraculously disappeared.
In city where i live, most people just buy yearly pass, so no need to fiddle with money even if it is not free.
I’ve been taking my skateboard on public transport and its been a boon for me. You cut walking time in half which is huge, and I can stick it in between my legs on a cramped bus and take up no more space than if I didn’t have it. My neighborhood is pretty flat and skateable, but if you had more hills the electric skateboard market is pretty saturated now with a lot of deals second hand.
The algorithm is a randomized algorithm and we're assuming we're picking a good hash. The probability of that event is exponentially vanishing, so, in expectation (which is the runtime we're looking for, as we are analyzing a randomized algorithm based on rejection sampling) it is O(1).

In the worst case analysis of this rejection-sampling algorithm, the time for table look up and insertion doesn't even factor in since you'll have infinite run-time.
I was always into RPGs as a kid, and when I found out the US missed out on tons of them, I got into reverse engineering the games and fan translating them. I worked on Dragon Quest 5, Der Langrisser, Mother 3, etc.

Around 2004, I learned most of my code didn't run on real hardware, but ran on emulators. I found out why (the main reason: writing to video memory while the screen is drawing), and submitted patches to the SNES emulators of the time to work like real SNES hardware, but they were rejected because too many fan translations already relied on the old mistakes.

No one back then seemed to care about how accurate emulators were, so I set about writing my own SNES emulator with the goal of making it as perfect as possible, and it kind of spiraled out of control from there. Within a few years we were decapping chips to extract coprocessor firmware, I had to emulate the Game Boy for the Super Game Boy cartridge, the GBA CPU for this one Japanese chess game that had an ARM CPU in it, etc.

I guess I just really like the challenge, and never stopped adding more systems over time. The more systems I emulate, the more I already have most or all of the chips used in the system emulated. Eg ColecoVision took me an hour because I already had a Z80 core, a TMS9918 video core, and an SN76489 audio core. I can definitely see how MAME turned into what it is today now.

These days, the emulation is the easy part, and organizing all of this code (around 600,000 lines and counting), and getting all of these really unique pieces of hardware to all work in the same GUI, has become the challenging part. I have this really elaborate tree-view of the emulated systems to support zany things like the Genesis "Tower of Power", a complex scheduler that tracks timeslices in attoseconds, practically a full professional DSP stack for mixing multiple audio streams, Reed-Solomon decoding for CD systems, etc. I'm always learning new stuff, and there's always more to improve. I worry that I won't be able to wrap up higan in my lifetime.

There's not a lot of money in emulation, at most I've been offered $2500 for commercial licenses, but showing my hobby work to my employers landed me my last two jobs in software engineering, the latter of which is in Tokyo, Japan. Emulators literally got me halfway around the world. And I even got to work with the developers on Stephen Hawking's voice machine software at one point.

There's been some downsides, and I had a lot of maturing to do over the years, but on the whole, I wouldn't trade this hobby for anything.
Yes, time and again people working in such sites and doing testing have said that they work greatly...
Please, explain how Julian Assange is a journalist.
This is pretty serious, though not surprising. The cell communication standards have long been subverted for ease of surveillance. Remember GSM A5?
http://fairphone.refr.cc/jamess

I'm not sure they are supported in the US but it looks like you are well aware of that.
I must have missed something with Fukashima. How much land area is going to be literally lost (sumberged in water) due to it? How many cities? How many species are projected to go extinct because of it?

Nuclear was our alternative to the biggest environmental crises we have ever faced. The baseline consequences of not using it are worse then the tail risks you cite.
I think that we need more of this sort of thinking, but I'm not sure how much more.
Glad to see Magnus on HN. Also check out ArtCloud (www.artcld.com/browse) if you're interested in technology that's disrupting the Art World.
Moving people through town one by one and 20 feet apart burning 95% of the fuel just to move the vehicle is not efficient. Busses cram like 60 people in the space of 2-3 cars on the road and with a per person mpg of over 300.
Wait, are symmetric ciphers guaranteed to cycle through the full space of block-sized numbers when applied to their output like that? I thought that was just "close to" true?
>2 wrongs don't make a right.

I agree. But if you look at one of those wrongs and don't actually think it is wrong, then it may mean the other wrong isn't wrong as well.

My point is NOT:
1: TCG booster packs are like loot boxes.
C: Therefore people should have a problem with loot boxes.

My point is:
1: TCG booster packs are like loot boxes.
2: People don't have a problem with TCG booster packs.
C: Therefore people should have a problem with loot boxes.

The inclusion of the second idea is very important.

Also, as someone else pointed out in a different comment threat, the problem seems to be with the way virtual currency is used. In this case, that is a chance that has no analogy with TCG booster packs, and as such my argument doesn't apply.

>For example, people who say "I didn't wear a helmet when I was a kid" are being irresponsible. No, you didn't. But thankfully, science, data, and time have shown us that wearing a helmet makes far more sense for our health and safety, so that's what we do now. We learn, we change, we adapt. It's part of the process.

In this case, what is being said is that you should've wore an helmet when you were a kid, but we can't go back and change the past. Imagine if science instead said that in the past people shouldn't have worn helmets but kids these days should. I would definitely want more information. But in this case, both past and present are being condemned so there is consistency.

>So, Pokemon, and Baseball cards, etc, were all gambling.

They are still a think, but I don't see people calling them gambling even today. Thus my question about a potential lack of consistency.
Yeah, the dead dogs all have the Providencia alcalifaciens bacterium:
https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/MRWR00/Har-ventet-i-13-ar...
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>are some of these shorthand for well known math concepts that make it unnecessary to have a more descriptive name?

With context, I would agree that it's unnecessary to have a more descriptive name. N is the population, n is a sample in the population. However, without the context and experience which makes these values recognizable, they're exceptionally unhelpful.
Nice! These points seem like things you might want to put on the web site. (Did I miss it? I think I read through all of the public tech details/support pages though.)

Btw: I found https://secured.fyi/Backup/rsync.net while googling this topic, it seems at least partially incorrect.
A skateboard works even better if you are using transit imo. Twice as fast as walking and you can stick it in between your legs on a crowded bus.
MM is a financial abbreviation. It used to be "the standard" but nowadays they also use M.

Compare with the "M" in CPM, which is not the roman 'M' but the French 'Mille'.

So, "M" is sometimes ambiguous. In this case it wouldn't be, but I always use mm or MM to mean million, and bn or BN to mean billion.
>Java the programming language is in the TIOBE top 5, not OpenJDK.

Yes, I'm obviously familiar with the distinction between language and implementation.

My point is that regarding Java, it doesn't matter, as there's a single (well, 2 if you count Oracle - OpenJDK as different) and an insignificant assortment of others.

The concrete implementation of "Java the programming language" actually used by enough people to put it in the TIOBE index is the Oracle/OpenJDK one.

If we took all the other Java implementations mentioned, called them a different name (e.g. Jakarta) and added their users together, the new "language" user-base wise, they wouldn't even have made it to the Top 100.

(Google's Java-copied Android APIs aside of course -- those do have tons of users and matter)

>Apparently mixing languages with implementations keeps being a thing.

Apparently the distinction between language and implementation is pedantic in most cases, where the alternative implementations are niche products and hobby projects, and as far as one is concerned Java is 99.9% a specific implementation.
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> [...] Metal is one year older than Vulkan [...]

Is it really though? Vulkan is based on AMD Mantle which AMD gave to Khronos. AMD Mantle (2013) predates Apple Metal (2014).
Wasabi was the same way when I was trying to find a secondary cloud to host personal backups.

$6 /mo minimum storage charge, and they have a 90 day minimum. That, combined with the free trial ending as soon as I put my credit card in meant they tried charging me $18 for the GB of test data I uploaded... I should have read the fine print more closely, apparently.
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That phosphor image looks great! I wonder if it could be used to train a style transfer neural network to create a filter to replicate it?
One interesting thing is that the video at the end of the article shows a car speeding past it (coming quite close t a child) and then slowing down at the next (ordinarily painted) crosswalk.
Also on this list: write your own toy programming language, even if it's just an interpreter that builds ASTs. Nothing broadened my view of computer programming more than that.