skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like the shoe shine boy giving stock tips in 1929, or the stripper with 6 houses in 2008 -- it represents the exact moment of "peak taxicab." Every major point in the story is now invalidated:

Medallions being valued over $1 million is a pipe dream today. Today they are worth about 11% of that. https://www.crainsnewyork.com/transportation/mystery-buyer-s...

The green cabs exist.

Teslas were just approved for NYC taxi fleets. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-model-3-taxi-cab-ne...

Taxi emissions have been reduced dramatically:
"The scientists report that overall fuel efficiency of the medallion taxi fleet climbed from 15.7 to 33.1 mpg, and corresponding estimates of nitric oxide (NO) and total particulate (PMT) exhaust emissions declined by 82% and 49%, respectively."
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/05/20190530-taxis.html

Nobody claims the medallion system was perfect, or that owners did not attempt to exploit their value. But it did provide a functioning cab network that was safe and predictable for decades. And despite holdign a lot of power, medallion owners are not immune from government regulations and competition aided by technology.
Those pictures don't exist since that didn't happen
I use a Pimoroni case with an open bit where the CPU and various other chips are. I also have a small heatsink on the CPU.

The machine doesn't throttle under load even when I hammer it with a compilation job on all four cores.
Because it isn't transparent to the purchaser that the stock comes from an illegitimate seller.

So as a hypothetical example: Rolex makes Subarmariner watches and sells them on Amazon, and KnockOffWatchCo makes counterfeit Submariners and sells them as genuine ones on Amazon. I order a Submariner watch from Rolex through Amazon. However when Amazon sends it to me it grabs a watch from a bucket that contains intermixed submariners supplied by Rolex and counterfeit submariners supplied by KnockOffWatchCo, even though I purchased it from the legitimate seller.

This is because Amazon treats items with the same SKU regardless of the origin of those items.

This leads to two problems: the first is legitimate sellers being blamed for selling counterfeit goods. The other is the damage to brand perception. "Oh wow my Rolex watch sure keeps terrible time, I guess they've gone down hill".

So in the case of eBay if the seller sold me a fake product and I could identify that it is fake I could dispute that I received the advertised goods.

With Amazon I could do that too, but I would not buy through that seller again even though they weren't actually the ones who provided the item.

Does that make more sense?
Out of curiosity, what is the limiting factor of the free tier on Zapier for you? You need more that 100 runs per month, or you need multi-step workflows?

Perhaps https://www.integromat.com/en/ would work for you.
That’s pretty wild. Do you remember what breed?
I thought this had been discussed before and was able to find a thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588901
I've noticed this community gaining popularity on Reddit, and I think it is so unbelievably selfish. Because you are personally unhappy with your existence, you believe that the existence of the human race should not be allowed. They believe that simply being is inherently taxing to the point that most people would rather not.

The most obvious question to ask an anti-natalist is one that they have also banned from their communities: why don't you kill yourself. They claim that the instinctual fear of death is so strong that it is an unfair ask. What about the instinctual drive to reproduce? What about the desire to exist that most people possess?
That's my theory. Every cat I've had had some level of addiction to licking/chomping plastic. All kinds of plastic, so I don't buy the made-with-tallow theory. Grocery bags, cling wrap, rubber bands, 6-pack rings. One of the current ones likes to chew holes in the plastic shower curtains. Little freak. :-)
It's hard in a sense that it requires some regulatory body that proactively monitors the market and issues directives (and then enforces them if they aren't followed). But that kind of thing is exactly what we have governments for.

(I should note that my politics is that of inherent distrust towards all large entities, whether they're governments or private entities. I would prefer the society and its economy to function on the principles that preclude either from existing at all. But regardless of that long-term goal, there's a question of what to do here and now, with the society and economy that we have. It's going to have monopolized markets - and proportionally sized governments are needed to be a check and balance on that.)

As to your second question - well, why shouldn't they? And how much is that overhead in practice, if we're talking about not picking one company out of many? The more socially unacceptable such discrimination is, the more attention to its violators - i.e. well-publicized blacklists, among other things. I seriously doubt that, in your particular example, a company that does that wouldn't be infamous for that exact reason.

And sure, there are people who would disagree with that. This is fundamentally an ethical question, and there's no single objectively correct answer to it; I merely gave mine. Some would say that anti-discrimination has to be enforced even in a truly competitive market, when there's no demonstrable economic harm, purely as a matter of principle. This kind of disagreement is meant to be resolved through a (hopefully) democratic political process.
Afaik it's also a (the?) major source of funding for esports companies as well so if you're going in to the esports space then there's a very good chance you're going to have to dance with that devil at some point. Football at least - I don't know about horses - seems to be able to support itself off of viewership. Whereas the last dota tournament I watched had "Betway" at the start of its name.
If only there were a network of airplanes you could fly in all around the world with the flexibility to book at a moment's notice, that might be compelling.
<<I don't see this fund producing anything interesting.>>

It produced this announcement, which is interesting by evidence of people, including yourself, engaging with it.
> The absolute worst thing you can do is to tell that person to shut up and leave the discussion while allowing other people to keep attacking them in some way.

Hacker News doesn't let you respond to dead comments, so this isn't true.
DARPA’s Angler Program Awards Contracts to Advance Autonomous Underwater Systems
Actually, no. I do marketing for a lot of SMBs and startups that offer tech and service solutions not offered by the incumbents. Without ads there's no way for them to get people access to their superior products.
Also, if that isn't convincing, number base. Even if we carefully defined the units such that Planck's constant is 6.6e-34 in base 10, it would still follow Benford's law (especially because that's a constant having a big exponent) for other number bases.
Looking at their options it looks like they are simplifying room mate finding. It's a nice value add to be able to work with a steady landlord while only renting a bedroom, it helps shield residents from the cost burden when a room mate moves out and makes it simpler to move into a larger house with more rooms ( and potentially better location ).

In Boston there's a scarcity of 1-bedroom units relative to 3+ bedroom units - it's common for folks to live with a few roommates as the typical cost is ~1/2 of the 1-bedroom equivalent and generally easier to find.
Unless they want Apple to buy them.
I'm willing to accept that but I think it would still lower the amount of income significantly. Sure people would still pay for custom porn or specific clips that are hard to find (though even then I'd suspect quite a bit less than they do now), but they probably wouldn't join any subscription based sites for example.
I understand from a corporate perspective the need to step away from potential scandal and public outrage, but this decision only creates more obstacles and misfortune for the people actually being abused.
This is the company providing watermarking technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimarc
Understanding RSA Signature Validation for JWTs
It works if you assume that the units are arbitrary. Suppose instead of people you're measuring heights. If there's going to be a distribution of leading numbers in random data, it has to be the same in feet and in yards.

To convert from yards to feet, you multiply by 3. Anything starting with 4 or 5 will always start with 1 after this multiplication, as will lots of things starting with 3 or 6. So starting with a 1 has to be as likely as starting with 3, 4, 5, 6.

The same sort of thing has to work if you multiply by any number. Benford's law gives you the distribution where this works.

The fact that this is scale-invariant means that it's not about preferring smaller numbers of things. It's just that the number of items in the range 10,000-19,999 is as large as the number of items in the range 0-9,999. Slightly bigger things also tend to start with ones.

This all just assumes that the distribution of leading digits doesn't change if you scale your data, which I find intuitive enough to be satisfying.
So basically the 21st century equivalent of a boarding house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_house
To me, it makes sense for a class-based OO language with first-class functions and (unlike, e.g., Java) available direct external access to data members to do what Python does because it reinforces the distinction between function members and methods.

Perhaps more importantly, it makes even more sense in a language like Python where classes are (unlike many, especially statically-typed, class-based OO languages) first class objects to do what Python does, because of the relation of methods to classes. It also, to me. makes unbound/bound methods slightly more intuitive.

Now, I too was initially thrown by it because I'd used a bunch of OO languages that did it the other way first, and for quite a long time.
Trapped interferometer makes a compact gravity probe
> ... an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data.

That's about leading digits only.
Follow up - More about JWK and Certificates https://medium.com/@software_factotum/validating-rsa-signatu...
Not talking about dead comments, talking about the rate limiting that's selectively applied to certain IPs/accounts.
>But for this particular area of study, I trust my own observations/life experiences more than any research. I'm sure you and many other HNers will hate that answer, but I stand by it.

Good for you! Don't let facts get in the way of your feelings.

>As to your second point, if shallow and transactional sexual relationships becoming more common does not seem to you like a downside, I doubt we will ever see eye to eye on this.

You need to provide a downside for this that doesn't involve your hands getting tired of clutching pearls.

>I'm unwilling to go into more detail as sharing my opinions on topics less controversial than this has resulted in real life threats more than once.

It sounds more like you're unable to go into detail without offending people because you say ignorant shit that people can easily defend with research.
So... You are advocating that your hiv status should be hidden from your romantic partner? ;) More seriously, unified health record sharing is inevitable, especially if we are to move to universal healthcare. Would you be against a different entity hosting this data, or just Google?
well, they produced this announcement which you obviously found interesting enough to write a lengthy take down.
On the contrary - you can't prevent intolerance from spreading without a perfect Panopticon police state. That's precisely why Europe is failing at it so badly, despite all their hate speech and extremism laws. Organizations like AfD can dog-whistle in public to avoid crossing legal limits, while still fundamentally communicating the same ideas. You could crack down on that if you had a pervasive surveillance state monitoring all private communication, but they aren't willing to go there.

On the other hand, policing actions is much easier, because the more consequential ones are also the more prominent - you don't need a surveillance state to deal with them, you just need a reaction force.
And then there are the ones that are back-loaded.

They zoom straight to 99% and then stay there.... Windows install programs, I'm looking at you.
The current problem we have is the energy imbalance between incoming solar radiation and outgoing thermal radiation, since a growing proportion of the latter is blocked.

Any quantity influencing this balance could theoretically be used to get back to the old point.

The discussed options are either solar radiation management which lowers the amount of incoming radiation or carbon capture which would allow more outgoing thermal radiation to escape.

The first option has ideas such as stratospheric sulfur injections (increasing albedo leading to more reflected incoming sunlight), deploying a sunscreen in space or simply painting areas white. (It should be noted that humanity has been causing albedo changes for a long time simply by changing land cover. Forests have lower albedo than fields, for example.) The problem with the ideas is that they are very unstable. Many need constant renewal and management to be kept active. There are also side effects apparent in the model such as changed atmospheric circulation patterns for some of them, and the ocean acidification due to dissolved CO2 etc are not addressed either.

The second option, carbon capture, can be achieved by different means. Basically, carbon needs to be stored in one of the sinks available. The natural sinks are the biosphere (quite small, but increasing it will help) and chemical weathering. If we wait long enough, chemical weathering will lower the CO2 concentrations sufficiently. [0]
So one of the ideas here is to increase the speed of the weathering by increasing the surface and availability of the the stone to weather. Others are increasing the biomass sink by planting more of it or fertilizing the oceans so the algae can grow faster and take a part to the ocean floors.

Then there is technical carbon sequestration, which needs energy input (you're talking about this, right?). Where the energy comes from shouldn't matter as long as the carbon emission is smaller than the sequestration. I guess all renewable energies and nuclear should work fine. (Maybe there will be a better technology at some point in the future as well, but better not rely on it.)

However, now this carbon needs to be stored, which is a problem in itself. Ideas are simply pumping it into the ground, for example depleted natural gas fields (unstable!) or changing it to other forms which needs more energy. (Any energy that can be changed to chemical energy is actually removed from the system, but that will probably not be very much. I'd have to check up on this though, I've found my intuition is not that good yet for these numbers.) There is not a lot of money in it yet, which makes research slow. This is still most probably our best shot.

All but one scenarios of the IPCC-1.5°C report have carbon sequestration from 2030 - in 10 years - (in the worst case on the order of half of current emissions!), and the one that doesn't uses biomass capture. We cannot reach a path of <= 1.5°C warming without it. [1]

[0] https://skepticalscience.com/weathering.html

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM3...
Right - I didn't notice a footnote. I just saw your comment / reply on the article. It's a fair label, just wasn't clear to me!
Did Micree Zhan Embezzle Bitmain’s Property? Jihan Wu Rails Against
Dtack Grounded (on m68k, 1981-1985)
If you do manage to find a solution, I'd love for you to share - I have this exact same issue.

For reference, re-installing FF doesn't seem to fix it, and I have neither NoScript nor uMatrix installed (although do have uBlock Origin).

(I've been meaning to troubleshoot it for a while, and if I manage to track down the issue, will let you know).
Growing up I remember my dad living in boarding houses.

I like the idea, I feel that communal living will be the future. We are tired of being lonely in our 4 bedroom homes.
Probably bad reporting
It would become much harder for challenger companies to unseat incumbents.
>> It's too slow

>In my recent experience, payments confirm ~5 times within an hour or so.

Really not fast enought for the camgirl/camboy use case
No, taxis are bad because companies try to squeeze the maximum amount of money while providing the least possible service. They could provide a good service within the term of the regulations if it were their focus.

Where I live taxis are regulated yet provide a decent/high quality of service. And it’s true even in cities like mine where the public transportation network is crap (bus based).
> A simple example is the amount of money it pours into the BYU education system.

You mean the university system named after the guy who led the Mormons to Utah after Joseph Smith died? The one that's owned and operated by the CoJCoLDS? Gee, no connection or bias there, no siree.

There's an emphasis on acquiring "knowledge" and "wisdom" if and only if it happens to agree with Church doctrine and avoids being critical of the Church in any way. "Brigham Young University exists to provide education in an atmosphere consistent with Church ideals and principles."; BYU's words¹, not mine. Those principles would obviously include those outlined in scripture, which consequently includes enforcing Mormon doctrine as "the truth" with little to no room for compromise; this is consistent with BYU's Statement on Academic Freedom², where said "freedom" is implicitly (if not explicitly) stated to be only for those who believe in and obey the Church and its teachings to the letter. The AAUP has described at length³ BYU's frequent infringements on academic freedom for its faculty (typically by punishing those who teach things that might make the Church look bad, even if those things are factually correct).

My comment was somewhat hyperbolic, but it is indeed the truth. I know it's an unpleasant truth, and I know it conflicts with what the Church has taught us both, but it's a truth that unfortunately we can't afford to ignore.

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¹: https://web.archive.org/web/20070927051804/http://ce.byu.edu...

²: https://web.archive.org/web/20070204112544/http://fc.byu.edu...

³: https://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/27EB0A08-8D25-4415-9E55-80...
While attempting to verify this, I was surprised to learn that bc has no built-in factorial function, even in the mathlib.
Here's a historical example of an American court deciding matters like that, from the era when our antitrust laws had teeth:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/370/294/#tab-opi...

But then, those laws literally got Borked:
https://promarket.org/how-robert-bork-fathered-the-new-gilde...
Yeah, things like subscribe star exist in part for this reason, and there are plenty of groups that discuss alternative technology, such as this news org https://reclaimthenet.org/ or this group https://gab.com/groups/377 (though the last two mostly focus on political content)
Dorms are only appealing when they are filled with young attractive peers, not washed up aging adults whose ambitions and dreams have been crushed by the reality of the real world.
Ask HN: How will trust-busting affect small and medium businesses?
Thought experiment: Let’s fast forward 10 years. Regulators have swooped in and broken up Big Tech. FAANG is broken into tiny little pieces. Does that give us boot-strappers a “leg up” (see what I did there)? What industries and services will open up for competition? Where should we be when the chips fall to benefit the most from this effort?
What kind of rate limiting are you seeing? In general, I feel like once you've started feeling the need to post more than once every couple of minutes, then you're more than likely diving in to a nonproductive discussion. (And note that this is different than normally posting more often than that: I am specifically talking about "I need to reply to these four people who are nitpicking me, and I need to rebut their comments now", as opposed to "I'm going through a comment thread and commenting on whatever seems interesting; I would be fine with making this reply at a later point in time".)
The answer to bad regulations is not necessarily no regulations. The taxi medallion system was broken and in need of an overhaul. Replacing a broken system with a ridesharing Wild West is not optimal.

I agree that there needs to be a lot more investment in mass transit but in the meantime governments shouldn't be turning a blind eye to regulating ridesharing.
zero y-mins are usually recommended to show both the absolute values and relative variation at the same time.

Based on my own experience, the number of plots that are misleading because they do not start at zero is far greater than that of those that are insufficiently informative because they do start at zero.

That alone is not a reason for "banning" non-zero ymins, but it is definitely a good reason to more critically evaluate their use.
> The absolute worst thing you can do is to tell that person to shut up and leave the discussion while allowing other people to keep attacking them in some way.

Are you forgetting what we're talking about? Keep in mind you replied to my comment claiming I was wrong, and have since been shown to be wrong yourself.

Edit: This is what I see when I try to comment at all on HN for the next ~1 hour: https://gyazo.com/d8ae5c6c5675919f4366b1ce928ad016

Dang is not a good shepherd of HN and shouldn't be in the role that he's in.

Edit: and now this is flagged. How dare I represent an alternative viewpoint of how dang is performing...
Can someone explain the following:

> Before we verify that the teleportation circuit works, let's briefly discuss one of the most common questions about quantum teleportation: does it enable faster-than-light communication?

> At first, it looks as though it may – after all, Alice is able to transmit her state |\psi\rangle∣ψ⟩ to Bob, even if he's very distant from her. It'd be quite marvelous if it enabled faster-than-light communication, since that in turn would give rise to many incredible phenomena, including the ability to send information backward in time.

> But while it would be marvelous, it is not possible. You can see the trouble if you think closely about the protocol. Remember, for Bob to recover the state |\psi\rangle∣ψ⟩, Alice must send Bob two bits of classical information. The speed of that transmission is limited by the speed of light. Without that classical information, Bob can't guarantee that he recovers |\psi\rangle∣ψ⟩. Instead, what he has is a distribution over four different possible states. And while I won't prove it here, it turns out to be possible to prove that with only that distribution over states, no information is transferred from Alice to Bob. It's a pity, but that's the way the world seems to work.

Specifically,

> Without that classical information, Bob can't guarantee that he recovers |\psi\rangle∣ψ⟩.

and

> it turns out to be possible to prove that with only that distribution over states, no information is transferred from Alice to Bob.

Why is no information encoded in the distribution? Why can't it be statistically gleaned?
> Political affiliation is not a protected class in the US.

It is in California (which, obviously, is located in the US).