skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not magic, it's just that the USPS doesn't have to do the work of sorting them.

Labor costs in China are much cheaper than in the US, it stands to reason their cost of sorting there will be less than what the USPS implicitly charges for sorting here.
I just wrote a post yesterday about why you should not, in fact, trust cloudflare. https://www.jbschirtzinger.com/post/doh/
This is absurd. You and others nitpicking this person to death and creating false equivalencies while ignoring the content of their argument.

I too will not welcome our amoral surveillance overlords onto or into my body. I hope that is a clear enough statement for people to understand.
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They could speed up your international traffic (they don't tho).
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So many gems in this.

> Across the West, the basic problem of a corrupted productive process is becoming a quiet crisis. The reason is simple. The people that do the work in organizations are increasingly excluded from the decision-making about the work. That is why Boeing is losing its ability to build planes

The best managers simply stay out of the way of the people working, but most managers these days are in it to aggrandize themselves and cause suicides. Are you listening Facebook?
There's a difference between having a handful of dumb patents among a sea of valid ones v. having a portfolio composed entirely of dumb patents.

There's also a difference between sitting on a handful of dumb patents v. most or all of your patent litigation cases being over dumb patents.
It's not about surprise, it's about spreading awareness, and not allowing this kind of behavior to be normalized. If you think news is only worth spreading if it's a surprise, then you've been totally taken in by the shock-mongerers and by those who want this kind of behavior to be ignored, allowed, and encouraged.
I like it when my friends aren't trying to make me spend money on stupid shit every time I interact with them.
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My pet peeve is smart dead bolts. Presumably if you have a dead bolt you are worried enough about security to pay for a lock that's stronger and harder to subvert than a normal door knob lock. After all using 2 keys/locks is a hassle every time you open the door. Presumably because you don't want anyone with a shim/credit card to just pop your latch.

Most would expect a dead bolt to survive a 5 second attack from a 10 year old without specialized tools.

It's sadly common to see a $150 "smart" dead bolt with dramatically less physical security than a $25 dumb dead bolt. Some have plastic cases, easily popped off. Others have plastic gears, easily over torqued. If a kid with a screwdriver can just insert the screwdriver into the keyhole and rotate and open the door you might as well not have a dead bolt.
Not all brands, obviously, but don't assume the 'bag' itself is biodegradable.

Anecdotally, certain fancy tea bags survived an 18 month composting cycle, which I had to then pluck out by hand before spreading said compost on my vegie patch.

Be kind to worms!
You might be thinking of disqus?
I agree, it's more like a "sane default".
They aren’t bone conducting. There are little drivers in the arms that are directed towards your ears. I’ve used bone conducting headphones, and these ain’t them!

That said, I was quite surprised at how good the sound was. I think the big problem is that the style options are quite limited. I really think there should be a partnership between Bose and Oakley... the later known for occasionally chunky styling and also modularity.
I hate companies that abide by the ideological positions of the country they're from. Hopefully the US can pass a law that bans the use of any social media app that harms Freedom of Speech through the insidious use of "Community Guidelines"
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> There is no amount of study that can help a non-parent form an informed view on the subject.

> By this standard, people who have not had experience or learning in a given domain are just as qualified in that domain as those who have.

So which is it, experience alone, or learning or experience?
they picked the easiest open source solution to convert, you can be assured!
Countries with nutritious fish also have the most malnourished residents
I'm going to delegate this one to my man Sam Jackson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udj-o2m39NA
Isn't eriophora transmarina 9 syllables? (Btw, I'm in awe of people who can do mental abacus calculations.)
Yeah, I would love to have some data on that too. We have a few HomePods around the house, and even though that is more of a music player than a smart speaker, we use the voice assistant for everything BUT music.

Music is usually controlled with our phones or computers, casted to the HomePods.
Warp+ is finally here to protect your phones
I remember a few years ago I went to Malaysia. It was cheaper to send a postcard from there to the UK, than within the UK itself.
> What is the theoretical reason why US costs would be higher than Switzerland?

In Switzerland, people actually shop around regularly and change insurance providers. That probably keeps premium costs down.
I think it's extremely clear that mwcampbell is pointing to being 'headquartered in a single country' as one of the aspects they don't like about a single company having too much power. It's clear they're not advocating more headquarters for companies with too much power, they're advocating more companies each with less power.
They were and they are the original social media.

I've found more acquaintances and friends (and even more) on various online forums and chats than on what people call "social networks" those days.

"Social" is about interpersonal communications. Ads and tracking are - arguably - irrelevant implementation details, not some inherent property of "social networking". User engagement is (and good communities always have it), but artificially trying to boost with ethically questionable profiling technologies and various dark patterns isn't.
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wake up and stretch 6am

watch netflix to 7am (halt and catch fire currently)

respond to email to 8am

get kids to school by 9am

do stuff to warm up brain to noon (chess or axis&allies)

idle brain, lunch, then cappuccino and tiramisu to 1pm

be very productive to 6pm
Url changed from https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49826155, which points to this.
I like the "dumbphone" + e-ink display use case but I don't like the SAR claims and the claim to patented technology.

The patent itself just describes yet another antenna design [1]. May be good, may be bad. Linking it to "low SAR values" is, in my view, snake oil.

You can reduce SAR by making the antenna more directive (i.e. not radiating towards your head) but then you'll lose coverage: imagine you have to rotate your head so that your phone always faces a cell tower. You can't reduce SAR and keep coverage.

Even if SAR is higher in other phones, there is no evidence to prove that such radiation is dangerous.

The company has posted dubious blog posts in which experts are propped up [2], seemingly to convince consumers that "radiation is evil" or something.

I wouldn't have much issue with this kickstarter campaign if it was just a dumbphone with an e-ink display. But the emphasis on scientific nonsense (all radiation = bad) triggered me to write this.

The kickstarter reached its $100k goal. Congrats to them.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9900411B2

[2] https://mudita.com/community/blog/5-emf-experts/
When I was in middle school I first learned the basic idea of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and my instantaneous first idea was that we should assign a unique prime number to each attribute that a biological entity can have, and then multiplying together the prime factors for all the characteristics would give the unique integer ID for that biological entity.

So if having a limb is “7” then some creature with three limbs gets 7^3 in its prime factorization, and so on.

Obviously it is an incredibly stupid idea, but 12-year-old me was quite impressed by the thought of it.
Layoff.com Vd TeamBlind?
Which one is more reliable for layoff news
I was going through terrible times with my partner. I suspected he was cheating and I needed proof of this to back my claims. I couldn't continue with this. All I wanted was to be sure of what was going on before I make any decision. I don't make blind conclusions; I always want to see the proof for myself.
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as we all know, it's a private platform and they have no obligation to host speech that violates their guidelines. nothing to see here.
I'm not advocating for using it as a sole defense, I'm saying it can cut down on log noise and won't hurt. Relying on security by obscurity is stupid; reducing the amount of information available to an attacker is smart.
FWIW, Wiktionary notes it as "usually derogatory", and to my ears it makes it sound like you are saying you are inherently better than them (which I'm sure is not your intention). A word best avoided in my opinion.
Man why would anyone install code like that.

It’s script you can just read it guys, everyone fights so hard for open source and no one bothers reading anything.
Nice of Treasurer Douglas Patterson to use his secretary's number and not his own!
The full Peloton monthly subscription is $40/mo and $20/mo for basic. The home bike starts at $2,250.

They have 1.4 million members. With a market cap of $8.1B, they're worth about $5700/member. $5700 gets you a bike and over 14 years of basic membership.

To me, it sounds like they needs more growth to sustain that valuation.
Then imagine that there are some people who can't afford the food they need in the grocery store and are going to die.

Alternatives and transparent pricing isn't going to make brain surgery affordable to the average consumer.
Thanks (for both replies)! I do have a lab plan as well (6 transferable accounts at $2460 per year) but as you've pointed out, that isn't a one off cost. The problem I have with the one-time purchase is recurring costs for storage, hosting, etc. as it's a web based SaaS. Nevertheless, excellent advice... I'm going to have to start researching my options on one-time pricing. Thankyou!
They don't really need to see the system reformed, just that they want _this_ patent invalidated.
Then what exactly does first to file even mean? If you and I both invent something, but I invent it a month after you do and file for a patent first, would it be granted since I'm the first to file, or could you invalidate the claim by showing that there was prior art - specifically, your prior invention of the same thing?
Psychometric testing is widely used in job recruitment
So images are indexed by topic, theme, and individual. Sub-setting the transfer on any of those indexes violates the patent?
There must be more to it.
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The "Premium Tax Credit"[0] was a centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), and widely publicized by the media and Obama. ACA exchange premiums are not affordable for most of the people it was trying to help without the tax credit.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/individuals-and-fami...
vB has made heavy use of eval() for years, it’s used thru the bbcode parser, template and plugin features. I haven’t dug into the vB5 code base much, my heavy use ended in the 4 range. But this hasn’t been the first time it’s been exploited, and I suspect won’t be the last. When 5 was released we were already turned off to vB and it’s overall direction and settled on sticking with v4 until Xenforo matured more (the creators of which were original developers/architectes of vB 1,2,3.
Security is usually a lemon market. The buyer can't really tell if its secure or not, depressing what people are willing to pay, which makes it bad business to invest in making a secure product.

It's rather difficult to find electronic locks, even for safes, that aren't obviously less secure than traditional options.

Which is pretty sad considering that an electronic lock could be substantially more secure if it was designed well.

The stuff that is reasonably secure, like kaba-mas products, are quite expensive because its catering to a market that simply isn't buying on price.
This is one of the reason why USCIS has taken such a tough stance lately, abuse of the system by few bad apples have ruined the whole H1B immigration process for legitimate candidates.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough because I'm seeing a lot of the same comment here.

At some point anybody who's producing statistics and projections has to decide what's more important between accurately predicting the future and changing the future. Is being truthful more or less important than being revolutionary? It's fine and noble to want a better future but it introduces a bias into projections and how they're reported.

Carl Sagan was more than smart enough to know that society was likely to learn the dangers of smoking and to act accordingly. I'm guessing he had his public prediction which he put in his book that deaths due to smoking will rise to ten million but if you asked him over coffee when he wasn't driving home a socio-political rant about Big Tobacco he would probably produce a lower number more in line with what has actually happened.

If this sort of convenient number selection happens in a lecture about baloney detection we should probably expect it to happen in other places, too.
> Does anyone here actually use voice control commands in public (at a coffee shop, on the sidewalk) like the ads for this are suggesting? If so, does it feel awkward?

I use Siri — with the AirPods or Apple Watch — in the coffee shop I am usually at all the time. I live in Brazil, but have everything set to English, so maybe that is what helps me not feel awkward.
Ok, but you're asking us to trust your opinion, and your opinion on data, coming from a position of being angry about where you live. Whereas most of us choose to live somewhere that makes us happy.

But anyway, I'm sure there are great reasons to discount the corruption studies and the studies of quality of life.

I haven't seen any of them in this thread, though.
HN's title rule is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." When a corporate press release uses an anodyne title to deflect attention, that's misleading—so it's well within the guidelines to change it to something more accurate. The main thing is not to overcorrect by sensationalizing it the other way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Anyone interested in this would do well to watch Kubrick's Boxes. The whole documentary used to be on youtube, but it seems now there's only a trailer and some clips from it.

The article this HN submission links to focuses on the movie that was to become AI, which Kubrick started but never finished, and which was ultimately directed by Steven Spielberg.

Another project Kubrick started and never finished was a movie on the Holocaust, which he abandoned after hearing that Spielberg's Shindler's List was coming out. There were stills from that unfinished film in an exhibit on Kubrick at the Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Reading comprehension fail.
An order of magnitude is 10 dB, which LoRa can provide through coding gain. 10x the range for the same power should be possible with LoRa.
Please check this YouTube video it explains the idea behind the website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNedCqBNZG0

I have spent so many months/years developing this idea, and I want to hear what others think of it, shall I continue?
The abstract of a patent means almost nothing.
Amazon needs a different look for their own products' pages. Something about an item with zero reviews, the same style of photos as the off-brands they sell, and a wall of plain text phrases like "immersive sound" makes them seem really cheap.
Some more relevant numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective_lens#Lens_materials

The general trend is that higher-index materials tend to have lower Abbe numbers, but there are exceptions. Polycarbonate is a cheap and popular mid-index material that's widely recommended on the basis of its mechanical strength. Its index of refraction is 1.59 and its Abbe number is 30, but there are numerous materials with a similar index of refraction around 1.6 and substantially better Abbe numbers of 41-42, or materials with a significantly higher index of refraction (1.67) and Abbe numbers that are slightly better than polycarbonate.

Zenni and EyeBuyDirect don't want to promote awareness of chromatic abberation, but they do make it easy to know whether you're ordering polycarbonate, and they both have 1/6/1.61 index materials with better Abbe numbers than polycarbonate. Zenni uses one of the Mitsui MR materials for their 1.6 lenses.
Your ISP can see the endpoints you are connecting to regardless. So you get a strict reduction in privacy.

Has cloudflare ever gone to court to fight an administrative subpoena? More than a few ISPs have.

DoH seems like fine technology. Tying it to cloudflare is kind of shocking, since many technologists have long suspected that cloudflare is regularly being used to intercept traffic.
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"due to some unspecified magic your network performance will increase"

In this post, they say that routing over cloudflare's network can be up to 30% faster because they maintain more efficient routing information than the public network:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/warp-technical-challenges/
Next up Telegram!

TON whitepaper was full of so much nonsense that its hard to even comprehend any alternative basis in reason outside of "moneygrab!"
welcome to the internet where people can post whatever they want

you know this doesnt actually stop the murders right? does it feel better to get outraged at the site instead of the murderer?
Seems to be almost noise cancelling. The Verge did a hands-on[1] on the feature and was able to cancel out the noise in the room filled with people.

[1] Starts at 20 seconds in @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDN2RRaY1po&t=20
I think the HN crowd is well aware.
Maybe protocol was too specific of a word. 'Network' or system? Arguably Facebook is an example of this.
OP meant searchable public group. In discord you need an invite link, and there's no way to search by its name.
Does this mean we can add leftpad back to npm?
that was like their major claim until they dropped stormfront and 8chan but they didnt drop all the other sites
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Ive been drinking a lot of https://songtea.com/collections/aged-tea/products/aged-formo... lately but it might be overpriced. :)
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I think scientists use something called the NOVA food classification. If you do some google searches, you can find information, but I haven't found anything that feels really definitive.
Consumers using grocery insurance would have no real say or insensitive in what groceries they get - it doesn't matter if all they need is some chicken and a cheap wine. All the grocery store sells are filet mignon and Dom Perignon, and that's what everyone gets.
On an unrelated note, does anyone else get the feeling that the vBulletin website looks similar to what a Microsoft Support scammer might refer you to in order to download Remote Desktop software?

https://www.vbulletin.com/
> I've never heard a non-parent make a remotely sensible criticism about parenting

Really? What about children of truly abusive parents (who are not themselves parents)? Are their critiques of their parents as parents not remotely sensible?

I'm not at all in favor of people aggressively policing the parenting practices of others. I just don't think Dunning-Kruger applies at all here, because everyone (except orphans) has some significant experience with the practice of parenting - even if it is only as the parented, you can still form cogent opinions about the practice. It's not some high expertise domain like programming, it's literally human nature.
Honest question, is this supposed to be written tongue in cheek? I can't convince myself whether it is or it isn't.
But do those users actually make the app any money? If not, there may not be a lot of real value there? Or at least, not enough to interest the kind of buyers capable of taking on the technical and social maintenance required.
As fast as a local CrashPlan backup can restore based on the storage medium.
Yes, in a heartbeat. Privacy concerns aside (though that is a huge factor!), I tend to use more niche software that isn't supported at all by most of these "smart" devices. I have a phone running Ubuntu Touch and I've preordered the Librem 5, for example.

While I might be willing to try working on support for a new device provided its interfaces are documented, I have little desire to buy an expensive new device knowing I'd have to reverse-engineer the thing before being able to even use it.
And replace them with a whole new set of headaches, like difficult typing and copy-pasting.
Expect they're not breaking anything at all.
Just what we need, a new system with the name of /e/ which will make information and discussion of it unsearchable on the web. WTF.

I thought only Google did that, name things and projects for common dictionary words. You'd expect a search company to know better.
I once took over a Wordpress site and the prior dev told me that he just torrented the plugins.

It took me all of 15 minutes to find code injections appended to the bottom of the code files.

...but that wasn't the interesting part. Since it was a very popular SEO plugin, I actually took the extra time and reported the attack code wordpress security scanners and the torrent site.

A month later I checked back and the plugin had been re-uploaded, but this time with the attack code heavily obfuscated and much more subtely hidden within the plugin.

...and this time when I reported it to the torrent site, the site admins banned me and actually IP blocked me.

tldr; The only open source code getting reviewed is heavily used stuff.
I'm sorry you took such offence to my comment. I guess I should have quoted the statement that I was replying to within the overview section: "Recently, the use of low discrepancy sampling [Jarosz et al. 2019] and tillable blue noise [Benyoub 2019] has been used by Unity Technologies, Marmoset Toolbag and NVIDIA in real time ray tracers."
There are people who can't afford groceries now - we don't fund that by having the government pay for all groceries for everyone.
For some additional anecdotal data points:

- I use mine exclusively for music.

- My mom uses hers for a mix of home automation and music, but seems to be heavier toward the latter. Sometimes she'll play Jeopardy with it.

- My grandparents use theirs exclusively for home automation.
Funny, your example was that people without kids have NO idea and their opinion has NO value. Not that it has LESS value.

Then in your "given domain" example here, you're falsely claiming that we think the qualifications are precisely equal.