skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to include that boilerplate to satisfy approval requirements

The underlying elements of a computer : processor, RAM, input, networking are interesting systems to a patent examiner

Even though you want to talk about the thing in your head that does a very specific application describable in one line you have to include that systems stuff
If employers can deduct more for health insurance than private people, it seems unfair and rigged.

Payroll taxes are another matter to me, that's mostly window dressing. Either employer pays the tax to the government, or pays it to employees and they pay it to the government. The outcome is the same.

I think payroll taxes exist mostly to hide the amount of taxes they pay from the population.
Who would (have their customer) pay $40 for insurance on under $100 (retail) of product?
Plenty of titles at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes_in_fiction
How Social Media Is Killing Your Relationship
Isn’t the page size specified in the PDF?
It depends on the country but I agree.
Being programmable money I expect better solutions to come in the future.
This is a recent and interesting one https://blog.trezor.io/shamir-backup-the-revolution-of-priva...
> I think the ideal use case for a MVP is exposing it to a limited subset of users.

This. So much this.

MVP has a key role in product development - but its place is not necessarily at the phase of "launch it to the public with a marketing campaign." It comes before that.
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I know a few women that use Tinder: they are alone, late thirties and never got anything serious out of Tinder, but they use it to reassure their attractiveness by the continuous flow of likes they get. It is a morale booster, nothing more.
> Addressability has been superseded by the ability to search.

In some respects. In long-form reading on the web it can be pain to keep track of where you were up to.

And searches can be awkward--but not impossible, of course--because of multiple search results for search terms.
In the long run, anything that reduces wasteful government expenditure will tend to reduce tax burden.
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There is addressability on the web, yet creators are hell bent on removing it. the id tag lets you navigate directly to content on a web page. However, in an effort to try and find some good examples, every long form news site and magazine I checked forgoes them in favour of random class identifiers.
The message that “Every business is a software business” - spoken ~20 years ago - might be sinking in.
Well, if we are going for generalizations, everything is a scam, until it isn't
I think the most obvious way to utilize a close-to-earth black hole is for space-flight. By utilizing the Oberth effect [1] it is possible to gain extra kinetic energy when firing engines very deep inside the black hole's gravity-well (while performing a sling-shot). The Penrose Process [2] may also allow for some kinetic energy boost.

Unfortunately both effects do not seem to offer the kind of multiple-orders-of-magnitude gain required to make interstellar travel practical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_process
The only major remaining website that tries to match people based on interests is OKCupid. And even it is changing every few months. Unfortunately, the success of Tinder and move to mobile phones first ruined most of the dating websites, which try to emulate its success. Because people mostly use phone nowadays for dating websites, long profiles are mostly gone, sending long letters is gone, many conversations are single sentence now. Also, instead of matching based on shared interests/values, most of the matching is based on "swipe left/right on photo".
Agreed. Well, Sol consciousness is already disturbed by occasional comets, isn't it? :)

The use as an energy source, however, would even outlast the lifetime of the Sun as a star.
It also made it that most guys never get noticed, because women have thousands of likes to go through.
Yup; I think an important aspect to look out for with locks is whether or not you have to damage / destroy them to get in, because if they do then you have evidence of a break-in meaning the insurance company will pay out. If you have a burglary (for example) done by shims or lockpicks they can claim fraud / no evidence of a break-in and not pay out.

I'd even go as far to say that for burglars it's important to leave traces of a break-in so that the victim can claim insurance.
It might also be an age thing, younger women have no problem meeting people IRL. When I used a couple of these sites, including Match, when I was in my late 40's and I had no problem setting up multiple coffee dates. Nothing came of it and I met my wife at the running club.
Ah, but we don't really have "Market-driven investors and rational governments" in the West anymore, not since the 80's :

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-private-equity-should...

And Macron was really an idiot when he thought that asking the poorest people to pay the most for the ecological transition was going to fly...

But isn't this also a symptom of an energy trap - the government itself not having any slack left for long-term planning ?

http://www.lecourrierdesstrateges.fr/2018/11/04/augmentation... (fr)

(Note that, in the end, the above seems to be very similar to issues in Egypt - government balance taking a hit due to less income from fossil fuels - well except that the Egypt issues are more dramatic, being caused by the country becoming a gas importer instead of exporter...)
Actually I believe new horizons had a pretty primitive propulsion system and achieved most of it's delta V from a sling shot around jupiter.

More recent solar sails and plasma based propulsion systems have achieves significant improvements since then. If it was a priority I don't see why would couldn't go 10x as far within in the next decade.
It takes substantially more delta V to send a rocket into the sun than to send it out of the solar system entirely. Getting a rocket to a particular object in the outer solar system may take more delta V than either of those options unless you're really patient.
VPN.
Flight Shaming plays a role in declining air traffic
> You can't 'spread it around' without taxing more.

Well let's tax more then.

> VC/PE is cheap: it is money on which taxes have already been paid and if it does not work then it's their loss, not society's loss.

Society has already lost that money when the income wasn't taxed as heavily as it could have been.

> Given the choice I'd take VC or PE based capital over a government backed fund.

If we spread money about through some kind of basic income then it wouldn't be government funds, it would be crowdfunding and community lending schemes.
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OKCupid has many fake profiles. Some are real people, just using fake pictures. Some are obvious fakes with copy-paste description that you'd see on hundreds of profiles and professional photoshoot photos that have hundreds of matches with google image search. There is a more advanced fake profile method though. It involves professional scammers writing people lengthy, personalized messages for days or even weeks, and then luring them into payment, either through some different "russian brides" website, or telling some sob story about missing money for rent and asking for help.
For-profit dating sites also share a common problem: they need to extract revenue out of you, but the more successful they are at being dating sites, the sooner they lose you as a customer.

All the problems we discuss are pretty much related to this point: They probably have good matching algorithms, but they only showed you actual good matches you'd be gone from the site (taking the other person with you). So they have an incentive to show you 99% noise and 1% signal, and some go to the length of more or less explicitly paywalling the good 1%.
You've rediscovered one-hot binary encoding with prime numbers :)
Reminds me of back when Google Translate used to be called babel. Did Google acquire them or was it just a branding change?
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw9832

paper here
That would be the good part.
The bad part is facebook/amazon/google/apple recording every thought in your brain 24/7.

I wish that instead of being financed by surveillance, you could buy an alexa/google assistant/siri subscription.
It annoys me to no end that nearly all dietary advice boils down to "losing weight". I have this metabolism where I can eat literally anything, or nothing at all, and my weight maintains exactly the same. I've never gained any, I've never lost any.

The way I've developed my diet is by observing energy level, mood, ethic, cost, convenience, and allergic-ish reactions, which my skin is prone to.

But there is near zero actionable advice on diet available to me, because weight is never an issue.
Yeah this seems pretty useless to me. Controlling pins on an FPGA from a microcontroller... Why not just control the pins on the microcontroller directly?
Azure has Infiniband clusters.
I don't see TikTok as a public forum, it's literally a place for 10 second clips of teens doing silly dances.
In all games to date, it's better both in terms of perf and aesthetics to run with RTX disabled and TAA enabled. There's a bunch of blog posts and youtube videos like [1] about this.

There's a bit of a meme going around that DLSS stands for 'doesn't look so sharp'

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DOGA2_GETQ
That seems like an absolutely awful justification for fraud.
Using Tinder's premium features with a little of CSS
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If you removed the earth, except for the moon the solar system would change very little.

Sure if the earth came between Jupiter and it's moons there might be some chaos, but the likelyhood of that is minimal. Even if it did happen we would notice, but the earth massed black hole would be very unlikely to make it into the inner solar system at that point.

The earth is a minor gravitational force in the solar system, most likely the effects would take significant time to notice... well after the nearest approach. Small gravitational tugs take many samples and significant time to notice. For example the outer solar system still doesn't add up... and we have no idea why.
Doctors aren't allowed to help people to recover from drug dependencies. If a doctor opens a clinic that gives people access to non contaminated drugs with a dosage that is controlled by a trained professional then it will be shut down because people get jealous that their tax money is spent on keeping junkies "high" when in reality the dosage gets lowered successively until no adverse health effects remain and the "high" almost completely disappears but still satisfies the dependency enough to prevent them from seeking out black market drugs. What most of the population also fails to realize is that the health effects of black market drugs are almost trivial compared to the financial damage they cause which has a far greater impact on the lifestyle of that person. You don't become a criminal or a prostitute when you spend $50 on "medication", but it's pretty much guaranteed when your "medication" costs you $1000 per month. For most people that's the difference between being homeless or not.
How weird, yesterday, someone signed up using my email on match.com and firstmet.com, what a coincidence...
Step 6 is the difficult part these days, specifically finding companies not built using this system.
Plus fully functional anatomy, ready to produce offspring, and no use of hormones or antibiotics. No bodily modifications without approval, including docked ears or tails. I need to see the GMO certificates.
> Amazon says it’ll publish the protocol so that other device makers can also integrate it into their devices.

I doubt they will pay cert costs for other companies. Maybe they’ll provide a pre-certified package though.
TikTok opened a window into China’s police state
Yeah Cable TV wasn't like that, but what's better, money or more money??
The rough transcript is devastating. How could Trump not know that?
Apologies for the broken format. I thought HN would let me use newlines rather liberally but I was obviously wrong.
Create a profile of an average looking guy, then create a profile with a model looking guy. The first guy will have zero girls messaging him first and will get 5% reply rate, the second guy will have girls throwing nudes and phone numbers down his inbox.
Yes, but according to LockpickingLawyer they are still vulnerable to prybar-leverage attacks.
FPGA are WAY more flexible then a microcontroller is. You can literally just use your FPGA as a microcontroller if you want.

Reprogramming them is not a chore at all anymore since you can write stuff for them at a much higher level of abstraction then you can for microcontrollers. Complexity only really starts once you start having issues with timing closure or are forced to implement an DDR SDRAM controller. This all heavily depends on the toolset you are using.
I don't get why Match.com, OkCupid should converge to a Tinder-like working model if they share ownership. I guess that there are different niches of people for those different websites/apps, no?
> the tea bags released microplastic and even smaller nanoplastic particles — and not just the hundreds or thousands Tufenkji had been expecting.

this is a misleading title. if one microplastic is a thousand nanoplastics then obviously it's going to be trillions of nanoplastics and billions of microplastics.

> "We were shocked when we saw billions of particles in a single cup of tea," she said.

So if you get this "bubble tea" with tapioca balls in it, are they macro particles?
Goes to show the climate change we're facing can only be properly countered while (mostly) maintaining nowadays' lifestyle if we, as societies, take caring of being less "every man for himself" and work more toward a solidarity-based world-view. Basically, we need to stop pretending and start acting the Human Rigths we created about 70 years ago. Individualism has failed, animosity culture has too. A simple solution would be to have the global power grid more connected: when it's winter on the north, it's summer on the south, so the winter countries could easily get energy from say, Sahara's Desert's solar plants. It's just an example.

An interconnected sustainable grid would foster the necessity of developed countries properly paying back to the atrocities committed to to underdeveloped countries, with things such as:

1) Investing in development, education in such countries

2) Investing in sustainable energy generation there

3) Subsidizing the costs of much 1st world technology in order for those countries to rise out of extreme poverty

Again, just simple examples; used African continent but could be extended to many other places. We need a "Green New Deal" because extreme capitalism has failed to a point we're now facing our own extinction if things continue like they are. Sure, sounds like wishful thinking, or something that would require some kind of ultimate class-based warfare, but I do believe this path can be achieve without a bloodstained revolution. The alternative is to be enslaved by the plutocracy and eventually to die off as a species, in the far future. Or bear arms and get your hards dirty, but I'm not an advocate for that.

What Greta has said in the UN, I agree with her: the current way dominant classes are acting upon the world's most damning issue seems to be a simple act of looking with a blasé face and not caring. If the wealthy believes all those billions are just going to watch as life becomes utterly difficulty on this planet, they may find not everyone is as peaceful as I am.

In short, there's no sustainable future with the way capitalism operates currently.
> Then again, I find Lipton tea absolutely terrible regardless of the shape of the bag.

I was gonna say, they literally taste worse than the cheaper paper-based tea bags. I mean loose leaf is nice, but those plastic pyramid things are just shit.
I wonder why they don't limit the number of messages allowed per day. Say you only get 2.
I don't think you understand.

There are people going to work every day in China doing the job of censor and they reckon they are doing something good and patriotic. Even at the level of policy makers, the censorship is there in the first place and continues to be there because many legitimately think it is good for the country.

Without being educated on a topic, you're unlikely to figure out most things about it on your own. Without an education in rights and civil liberties, you're unlikely to conclude on your own that censorship in principle is bad.

If you want to make a difference, get off your high horse and construct an argument against censorship for someone who wasn't educated in a Western country like you were.
It's the paradox of choice. If you get to pick from many, and people are just a photo + description, it's easy to get more picky than you'd normally be.

If someone asked me if I want to date an overweight woman. I'd say no. But if I met a great person, and she happened to be overweight, it wouldn't really matter to me that much. So, within limits, I could accept being 'lied to' on a dating website.
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I attempted to repair a coffee machine that had a short that left a black burn on the PCB. Replaced the parts around it and it still wouldn't turn on. Likely the power surge destroyed a lot of things.
I mean, there is a middle road of convenience made out of not-Lipton tea in paper bags.

It's not as good as loose leaf, obviously. But it's also not dust with flavourings.
Maybe, but shaving almost 5 seconds off a 5 second query can be quite realistic for some pathological ORM queries. I use ORMs for the simple cases, but it's definitely worth cutting them out in the complex ones.
Because of broad signal spectrum LoRa has a built-in problem of handling large number of devices. I hope Amazon came up with something narrow-band, like SigFox.
> Turned on? Stallman just didn't learn

Same words a nazi would have used...

> that his behavior was counter to his very cause.

His behavior is his, you are you to think that yours is better?

> who wants to go into the office that has "knight for hot ladies"

I would!

Because I can recognize a joke when I see one.

I would not work with you though, because you're a fucking wazzock.
Another idea would be to use the black hole as a gravitational lens to construct a large telecscope. I wonder what the focal length and the effective lense diameter would be. Also the orbital velocity of the image sensor (in orbit around the black hole) might be too high to make this useful.

See also [1].

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/25498/the-sun-as...
If you're looking for hookup, and you're attractive, Tinder works well.

If you're looking for dating, OKCupid works well, but you need to work fast. Arrange a meetup/coffee date within 3-4 messages. If you talk to someone for weeks without meeting, it's unlikely you'll get anywhere.
How do you avoid the monthly fee?

I guess I would like to know the hardware setup involved in a large area to avoid any fees. Can you give a theoretical infrastructure requirement?
If you have proof, you should provide it.
Nobody:

Companies owned by Foundations for 150 years:

Every company making revenues doing impact work:

Tech companies: We're going to prove that capitalism and impact aren't incompatible ideas! We even formed a B-Corporation, it has a different letter so you know we are serious! You have to work below market because you love our vision!
That's like the restaurant trick to always seat the few customers by the window so it looks like a thriving and popular business.
I bet he tells them what happened
You know, my first foray into the world of Big Corpo people was when I met this guy studying at <pretentious arts uni in London>.

He was looking for ways to use blockchain to help regions with unstable currencies. Well, he was doing his Ph.D, actually on that topic.

So he would approach people and suggest they all meet up and have this think-tank somewhere in North London.

Now imagine you've got about 20-30 people sitting in the same room: and they are all engineers, regional managers, financiers. Not a single person has _any_ idea what blockchain is.

They were all meeting weekly to have this hours-long discussion about how they could possibly apply this thing blockchain to solving issues in the third world countries.

> There were many attempts to create virtual money which cannot be shit down, and all of them dated before Bitcoin failed due to government intervention. Bitcoin solved that, and the simplest solution was the wasteful proof of work.

One of his ideas was to create virtual money. But they forget that _secure_ proof-of-work-based money would require the same amount of initial investment (mining hardware) as if you simply went and bought several tons of gold and then issued a currency supported by that gold.
There are now multiple apps with lots of private groups. I wonder if a directory of groups like this is useful http://groupchathub.com/
Yes, not scam, but there is none which returns something back to the society. There is therefore no use case.
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Novell?

IPX/SPX, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPX/SPX
yep, IRC comes to mind as the ultimate walk down an endless street of strangers. It has its place
No, but the fact that it does work somewhere gives it a huge advantage over completely untested plans.
Same for me. Uninstalled because of this. I feel for those people that won’t understand that the app that says they will get faster speed is the one slowing them down.
some groups will auto-kick inactive users. or require manual approval to join . that makes them a different use case than subreddits
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For coffee???? o_O
Searchable (history) and notifiable. Really that's all IRC would need right now to catch up. And a dead simple app, kik was actually pretty close, groups were even named #groups. All other features are gimmicks.
To be objective you should have mentioned that US Department of Defence did a similar test and they did end up claiming that M-discs lasted for longer than regular discs.

It looks like someone took over the production of M-Disc (wiki: "The debt holders subsequently started a new company, Yours.co, to sell M-DISCs and related services."), not sure about Syylex. Syylex seems like the perfect solution (making discs in glass, the material that is routinely used in chemical labs due to it's inertness), but the problem always was that it cannot be burned at home...
For the first time man creates something digital that cannot be copied.

chx: Scam!
LoRa can provide rough location data by tower triangulation, similar to our current cell phone location. Obviously not as accurate as GPS but better than nothing!
Do you by any chance have a link to that video, or remember the name? I'd very very curious to see it.
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They have software patents in many (most? all?) EU countries. The only thing they don’t have is patents on software code itself, which the US doesn’t really have either. See: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/11/15/epo-publishes-revised-...

The main criteria in the EU is whether the method embodied in the software is “technical.” (Image recognition as opposed to say a business method.) See: https://mewburn.com/resource/patentability-of-business-metho...

In the US, under Alice, Section 101 has morphed into a very similar analysis.
If you double a number and add 30% on top, you could just add 160% to start with, or multiply by 2.6. Since we are talking estimates, you would be similarly well served with just 3x :)
Zigbee can operate at 900 MHz giving you long range, although almost all common devices sold are in the 2.4 GHz band.