skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish Amazon would just stop trying to take over every single industry on Earth and act like responsible adults in capitalist society (ie not in support of monopolies).
The tokens used on such a counting-board are called jettons. I’ll second your recommendation, and add my own next step: moving on to using a slide rule. Seriously, seeing how real numbers move on a slide rule really helped give me a feeling for how they ‘dance’ in calculations.

I think http://www.mernick.org.uk/lnc/jetton/jetton.htm was a good reference I found when I first used jettons, but it’s been so many years now that I can’t say for sure. http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/juh.html has some information too.
I'm probably missing how other DNS servers update and propagate changes. I update my website's registration with Google, it's not clear how other copies are notified (or poll?) About my updates with Google.
If that's the metric, we need to outlaw letting cats outside.
For this type of HTTP intercept I like to use Fiddler and Charles.
Usually one site behind ip since when?
I got my tonsils removed in high school and it was life-changing. I didn't have oversized tonsils, but I would get tonsilitis 2-3 times a year.
Nim is garbage collected you absolute moron.
Whats makes you think they didnt have lawyers the entire time?
well, it's not so black and white as only competing on cost or price. it's true that your competitive advantage has to come from lower costs (via operations, marketing, finance, or whatnot), so you do compete with other market participants on cost.

but you also compete on price in the marketplace--not so much as to ignore your costs, as you note, since negative margins generally don't lead to viable businesses, but price competition nonetheless.

your example is the simplest game-theoretic version of price competition, which is more of a teaching model than a practical application.

(dynamic) price discrimination and other marketing tactics are typically employed to ensure positive margins even as you compete on price in the marketplace (e.g., airline seats).
what is this exactly? proxying all your data through cloudflare or just dns traffic?
I think that you missed a time term somewhere. You're looking at global energy use for an entire year. Don't you want to normalize that to joules used per time period (i.e. power) before determining how it affects instantaneous-average wind speeds?

The lowest published estimate I have seen for extractable global wind power [1] is as little as 18 terawatts in the paper by Miller, Gans, and Kleidon:

"Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences"

https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/2/1/2011/esd-2-1-2011.html

18 terawatts happens to be exactly equivalent to an annual energy output of 5.67 x 10^20 joules.

18 terawatts is the low end of the estimated range in this paper; the upper end is 68 terawatts.

[1] The authors only considered wind farms placed on land, perhaps because offshore wind was so much more expensive in 2011. Their lowest estimate is too low, even if you stick with the rest of their methodology, after adding offshore wind.
Oh thank you so much. <3

I hope your project goes well!
Spider silk! :D
Good: Echompanion (this list is more difficult)

Bad: E. Choli, Echocentric, Echoterrorist, Echromancer, Echoroomer, Echommercial, Echo-kroach, Echonvict
"Get this item tomorrow and without shipping costs when you join Prime! Free for 1 year! Click this big button to join Prime! Or click this tiny link to go to the 'Are you sure you don't want Prime?' page interrupting your checkout process!"
That's part of it. Other factors that tend to show non-obviousness include being the first to have the idea to make the gadget in the first place; serving an unmet need; combining steps/parts that convention suggests should not be combined; commercial success with the invention; the combination producing surprising results; and so on.

Proving non-obviousness is well trod ground in litigation and in patent examinations. It is often the hardest criteria to get over.

Though typically obviousness can be proven by finding two or more printed publications that in combination disclose the claimed invention.

In this example, the novelty in the claim at issue is related to using a transfer criteria that is a subject identification of the image...wherein the subject identification is based on a topic, theme or individual shown in the image. This was added as the final amendment to get the patent over the prior art the examiner cited.

If one can find evidence in [edit: one or more] printed publications that this was going on before 8/8/2008, the patent can be invalidated easily. Otherwise, it will be a slog of litigation.
I have booked Ubers through Google Maps.
Good lawyers would likely not have provided advice suggesting this course of action.
Both. The watch doesn't require a normal speaking level voice, so it's less awkward than speaking to Siri on my phone. It still feels a little weird, but people in the lab are used to it at this point.

The most awkward time is when the raise-to-activate doesn't work for whatever reason and I have to say the same thing again.
I don't really understand how they screwed this one up. I don't really think their closure has much to do with the child abuse stuff (Snapchat had their fair share of controversies), but rather their focusing on their nonsense ICO -- not sure if this was idealism, stupidity, or greed.

Kik filled a fantastic niche shared by both WhatsApp and Snapchat (and to a lesser extent Instagram), how did they drop the ball?
Hard comp-fi: a new fictional niche?
It seems to me much of the problem is that the nuclear energy industry was build up in the old days of fossil fuel electric utilities, and so is modeled to fit into that. It just isn't structured right for the new world of global climate change, renewable energy, and electricity storage.

Maybe one of the new nuclear technologies that is being worked on will turn out to be a help in the new world. But I am not going to wait.
Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012.

What's to be surprised about exactly? This sort of thing is the norm.
And yet for all that, Medicare is vastly cheaper per capita than private healthcare. You get more service for less money? Sign me up.
I wonder what’s the graduation rate for medical school? You’d think it should be difficult enough to flunk out 2/3 of the students (like engineering), but I’m guessing that is not the case.
> I’ve been wondering what they both share in common, and suspected that both forms of dietary restriction mean cutting out most hyper palatable ultraprocessed foods.

I'm back on the weight loss train (lost 60 pounds about ten years ago, and have to take 40 off again that I put back on slowly) and like last time, I mostly avoid these ultraprocessed foods simply because they're all way over my calorie budget.
We see them dotted across the hills when driving through parts of Northern California - they're beautiful!
International mail is aggregated by China post, and they pay the USPS for the last mile.

The aggregation that USPS gives domestic shippers a discount for involves actually doing all but the last mile of the shipping process - taking a large group of packages to the appropriate shipping area. This is a process that would require a shipper to have a fleet of long distance trucks (something large and medium sized US shippers have).

If you're claiming China Post does this in the US, I think you need serious references. And, as I mention above, it ultimately doesn't matter. If China Post is doing this, they would be doing it for free because the total cost we're talking about individual shippers paying, in shipping things from China, is close to the last mile cost that USPS charges domestic shippers.
Linux Plumbers Conference 2019
What weird list is this?
Perth, Australia, count the cranes has been a pretty good indicator for 40 years now.
>Even though this feature came with some amount of darkness

I could guess at what you mean, but don't want to be wrong. Could you elaborate on what kind of darkness you were referring to?
I could see some use in fitness tracking when playing a sport where you'd be asked to take off a watch (pickup basketball, for example). But that's why I think there could be a market for it - its value prop is simply that it's both extremely low profile and connected. The Oura ring is simply too expensive for me, but I think I'd pay $130 for a wearable sleep tracker that integrates with Apple Health that provided me high quality data about my sleep quality.
Ok I'll bite. What's your response to my obvious retort?
Why I'm Worried About the Repo Market
>Life itself feels so frustrating when it's wildly cheaper just to buy more crap from China than to recycle stuff from within North America.

It's really an astonishing situation, but I guess the purpose was to subsidize China and other countries in order to help them develop economically, and to increase imports. It seems to have worked, so we can probably end the program now for China at least.

What's interesting is that there doesn't seem to have been a lot of debate or media coverage before now.
Like the way Amazon subsidizes shipping to drive retail stores out of business?

How are retail stores supposed to compete when Amazon will ship for free! Eventually, there will just be Amazon, and then watch prices skyrocket!
It's not a strawman. Marriage has no effect whatsoever on consent.

>It’s much less likely a sexual assault accusation will happen in a marriage.

Do you have data to back this up?
> Except going vegan often involves massive increases in ultraprocessed foods.

err no it doesn't.

> Realistically, vegan food prep takes a long time

err no it doesn't. If you are cooking actual food, then it takes no more time than cooking food that you are add meat to.
> Cooked uses whatever ingredients are available now. Processed uses only ingredients are available in bulk year round.

So if I make tomato sauce in the winter out of imported tomatoes from south america, is it processed?

>Cooked is stuff a human can make. Processed is filtered by what fits in a factory process.

If I build a robot to make me breakfast, is the food going to be "processed" instead of cooked?

>Cooked is food that you trimmed the manky parts off while peeling. Processed is 5 tons of tomatoes dumped onto the ground by a truck.

I once went to a super foodie restaurant and ordered something like a $20 appetizer which included some kind of braised carrots that were not pealed and still had the stems and a bit of grit from the soil on them. Were my disappointing carrots "processed"?

>Cooked is food taken as a whole. Processed is treating food as resource to be refined into separate components, then ignore all the non-profitable components and concentrate the obviously useful ones.

If I go to a restaurant and get some food prepared by ordinary line cooks that don't give a shit about their job besides just getting it done, is that food processed?

>Cooked is food you would make yourself. Processed is what a company would make to sell to maximise money.

If I get really good at making cookies and start selling them do they automatically become "processed"?

What would I have to do to avoid that "processed" label?

What would I do that would tip me over from delicious home-cooked cookies to worthless processed cookies? How big the ovens and mixers are? Where I source my ingredients? A specific kind of oven? Cooking machinery?
How would that ever happen? They're operating on the same bands and are limited to the same wattage restrictions as everyone else. It's not like they purchased some private band that they can do something unique on.
There's good software to extract voice from audio though! One time I had this webpage [0] open, forgot about it, until a colleague started a phone conversation from the other side of the open space, my laptop's mic picked it up and I got his sharp voice in my headphones.

[0]: https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/rnnoise/
Have you ever been to a movie theater in Viet Nam ( I can't speak for the rest of SEA )? It's incredibly common for people to talk to each other in a full theater and use their phones (at high brightnesses). I suspect it's because not much care is given to being able to hear the dialogue in the movie since everyone is reading the subtitles anyways. Complete culture shock compared to the US.
Surviving the Technical Interview
If anyone visits Japan, I highly recommend visiting

http://www.fournines.co.jp/collections/2020/

The Frames are absolutely the best I have ever seen in my life. They can get expensive but absolutely worth it. Got a pair of these that are made of titanium. They are so light you forget you even have glasses on.

http://www.fournines.co.jp/products/detail233.html

They may have a shop in California.
As places move to outsourcing their lens production they can offer more products, since they aren't physically doing it in-store. The handful of discount "while you wait" places, do indeed, have more limited options but it is fast.
I'd personally be happy with email and ssh at low bandwidth if it worked everywhere. I don't stream video while I'm walking down the sidewalk or driving.
Weight affects fit and comfort. Coatings affect clarity and durability.
I have never seen anyone say "Hey Google, Hey Siri, etc" in public, don't think this product will do well
>Kik filled a fantastic niche shared by both WhatsApp and Snapchat (and to a lesser extent Instagram), how did they drop the ball?

Kik actually provided something WhatsApp (I'm not sure about Snapchat) didn't: the ability to chat fairly anonymously without needing to provide a phone number. It sure was full of bots though.
I think that you're in agreement; he seems to have meant that it was important that Cloudflare clarify to users that their IPs will not be masked.
If you search for directions, and select the mode of transport icon that looks like someone hailing a taxi, Uber and Lyft options are still displayed; the option hasn't been removed.
These seem terrible
Tesla has two calculations:

1) Is demand outpacing supply? Yes? Great, therefore...

2) The more cars we can build, the more money we make

3) The more EVs on the road, the more demand there is for Teslas.

That’s about it. That leaves them with two opportunities: A) scaling manufacturing, and B) encouraging EV adoption. That’s part of why they spend so much effort making the cars appealing, super fast, etc.

They can self sustain a virtuous cycle with just A) but if they scale manufacturing enough B) will eventually matter.

They want China to steal their IP. They also want China to help them build factories. It’s really a win-win for them.
Yes but what about the not so rare times explained in my original comment when returns on tangible private marginal assets become negative (on a risk adjusted, liquidity adjusted basis)? During the financial crisis of 2008, the tailor rule put the natural rate (a rate correlated with private marginal safe asset returns) at as low as -4%. In those conditions, having a currency that returns 0% risk free gets you way above market returns and blocks a lot of private market assets from existing. It's indirectly, a huge subsidy to people shutting down projects, laying off people and hoarding government paper instead. It's basically the government shielding savings from the private markets and causing untold economic damage through economic idleness and unemployment. It's a subsidy on job destruction.

At least a private currency like bitcoin or gold will tend to become volatile in these conditions (which increases its risk and reduces its "risk adjusted" return). But if ever crypto coins were to become popular enough for governments to deem it worth it to use their powers to reduce their volatility, it could certainly put the economy into a gridlock like it did when they tried to artificially stabilize gold.

The fact that crypto coins in a free market tend towards increasing volatility makes them not very good as a medium of account to negotiate contracts and conduct business. It makes them not useful as a currency.
Someone would have to figure out who to call an identity thief, who purchased the goods, who to send the bill collectors after, who to serve for a lawsuit, etc.

All the company has is an email address and a bunch of other incorrect information.
The comparison is nonsensical.

To counter, I can make a vegan soup in a pressure cooker in 5% of the time to make a meat pie from scratch.
I work in a sector where to build a single factory it takes many billions of dollars and half a decade; if you wipe the competition, for the next 5 years you are free to ask for any price you want, by the time competition appears you are loaded with cash to kill them again.
Not at all, Reagan was a guy who managed to proudly use the strength of the US without being a moral degenerate.
Cool, now you can actually scream at people about your political and religious beliefs instead of just angrily typing
welcome to common sense....
This is a great point more people should make. There’s nothing “America first” about preserving the inefficiencies of a system just so that very wealthy people from everywhere can get care and leave (and ultimately specialists would anyway still exist, even if their treatments aren’t covered by Medicare)
The Uber CEO's business is 'sustainable'.

The Uber investors and drivers? Not so much.
> this course of action

Which course of action?

Closing? Doing an ICO?
Finally!! Ditch google to dirt.. and go with alternatives!
Google is evil and privacy abuser!
Bose does Frames, which are bone conducting sunglasses. https://www.bose.co.uk/en_gb/products/frames.html
Just because it goes in your mouth doesn’t mean you metabolism and store it.
No, it's somewhere in between. They're not injecting at the local level, but they are sorting it (depending on the exact program).
I use the Trachtenberg speed system of mathematics to do mental math. I can reliably do any 2 digit by 2 digit number and most of the time do 3 by 3 digit numbers. Does anyone know if it’s possible for an adult (I’m 26) to do better with soroban training? The book I had as a kid (translated from japanese) said I would never get good at it after the age of 12.. but that sounds kind of defeatist to me.
> I don't really trust the Android permission system very far.

Me neither. That's why I only install apps I trust.

I also would like to have a rooted phone but browsing through the xda-forums and dealing with all those hacks and softwares from unknown sources never felt really trustworthy to me either.
Two out of three sexual assault allegations involve incidents when the person was not in an established intimate relationship with the person: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/sexual-assault-victims/

Again, when did I ever say that “marital rape is OK”? I did not, and it’s a strawman to claim that I did.
In the "agile" practices I believe it comes from, I think it was actually basically only intended to answer "How much will we probably get done in the next week" or two or three at most, never to estimate an entire 'project'. Matching your perception of where it works and doesn't.

i think? Anyone confirm/deny?
Groups of—shall we say—fringe interests of dubious (or outright extra-) legality.
The second half of your post is survivor bias.

The first part of your post is pure hyperbole. There are plenty of places less crime ridden then Baltimore or Detroit where you absolutely have to lock your things or they are likely to get stolen. Pretty much any urban area in the US. Most suburbs as well if you park on the street. Kids will go down and just try doors. They have no intent of picking anything or forcible entry, just snatching the low hanging fruit.

I have lived in northwestern Nebraska so I get it, there are places where you don’t have to ever lock your door.. that is the exception.

To counter your friend: I lived in one of the lowest crime rate suburbs in the US. Stupidly left my door unlocked in an apartment parking lot overnight.. everything of value was cleaned out in the morning.
Will the Androids from the Alien Saga Exist in 2093?
Can you recommend a good bluetooth over the ear headphones w/ great noise cancellation and a pretty decent microphone for calls, USB-C, and at least 20 hours of battery life (I do 14hr flights often enough, so some buffer to use them before the flight and during the layover before recharging them for the next flight)? Those are my reasons for going with the NCH 700.

I used to think spending $350 on QC 35 II's was stupid, but after using a friend's pair on multiple flights and on walks outside I decided to get the $400 NCH 700. It costs more than the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S I use in the US, or Pocophone F1 that I use elsewhere, but they're so worth it (I use them 10hrs+ per day, so after a single month the price is quickly approaching $1/hour.)
Some vegan meals can take best part of a day to prepare. Some can be knocked out in 15 minutes.

Some meat dishes can take all day to prepare. Some can be knocked out in 15 minutes.
There are doors... and there are doors

https://youtu.be/ET9SNXpeORY
Just today I was walking down the street when a young man (16-20 years old) biked by while shouting, "hey Siri* call mike".

(*Siri capitalized by autocorrect.)
Nine years after an office party, Pepperfry is planning an IPO party
I wonder whether, in practice, sellers will apply the higher rates only to US destinations - or whether they'll just spread it across all their customers, so that the situation changes to non-US customers subsidising the US ones?
> he extended Goldman Sachs a $5bn lifeline

Not sure what your point is, he extended Goldman a lifeline because he understood what he was getting into and he was getting a good deal.

Are you implying that he does not know what Goldman does?
Here in the United States, there are two major, competing home building supply stores: Home Depot and Lowes. At Home Depot, all the doors will open up when I walk up, whether they mean for them to be entrances or exits. At Lowes, only the one labelled "Entrance". I think that sums up the two companies' priorities.
It's practically 100%. Once you're in, they'll do everything in their power to graduate you (legitly). Every incentive they have points at a perfect graduation rate.

EDIT: In the US, anyway. Things are different in, say, Caribbean medical schools.
Coming up to 20 year vegetarian. If you haven't, think about getting a pressure cooker. Beans / lentils chickpeas just became viable and quick. Soups / stews can be cooked in a few minutes and can be frozen and last forever
but since I had to work with W95 all day

There's the answer. W95 had the momentum. The "barrier to entry" for OS/2 was just too great.

Also OS/2 was very, very expensive, while W95 came 'free' with your new PC.
Am I the only one here seeing an uncanny resemblance to the Bragi Dash? (RIP)
How do you believe you can identify that someone lacks intelligence by looking at them? I would think that would at least warrant a conversation first.
Interesting - I do wonder how well that attack would work in a normal use setting where it could become much harder to brace the lock against something.
I'm having a dreadful day and I think we are probably talking past each other. I will just note that I never suggested that it's best to never help. I used a lot of provisional language, like can and may.

Suffice it to say this is a thorny problem with many potential pitfalls from both sides and I blog in hopes of providing a path forward that involves fewer pitfalls because reading my blog doesn't create a one-on-one personal relationship, which is where either giving help or receiving it can turn into trouble you didn't anticipate.

I only wish I was better at monetizing my writing. That's a hard row to hoe these days and it means I'm still writing for a pittance, which still leaves me wondering at times if I'm still a fool and a chump, benefiting other people and getting far too little in return.