skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DDG also depends on Bing somewhat.
Where I live, cycling is much cheaper than public transport and astronomically cheaper than driving. If you have lost wages and still have to go places, that's important.

You're assuming that there's a choice between supporting an economic recovery and supporting cycling. I don't believe there is, certainly not when it comes to return on investment for €50 per person.

I see increased mobility, decreased congestion in towns and cities, less pollution and less income lost to transport costs, not to mention the health benefits from more exercise.
Hi, sorry, but I don't have time to answer all the questions (because each answer would have to be at least 10x longer than the question, so my answer would have to add up to at least 5000 words)! However, these are all good questions and I would urge you to check out a resource like Physics StackExchange (the physicist's equivalent of StackOverflow). Many of these have been asked before, and the new ones could get very informative answers.

> - Maybe I don't fully understand why LIGO needs two arms. If you had a clock that could accurately measure light wave crests, could you do it only with one arm?

Yes, that's absolutely right. The two arms cancel out the frequency fluctuations of the laser itself. If we had a perfectly stable laser, we could make do with just one arm.

Regarding the question about what stretches and what doesn't, I think the general rule is that rigidity prevents "stretching". For example, a hydrogen atom in expanding space would lose momentum over time, because it redshifts, but the atom itself wouldn't get any bigger. There's no need to invoke a higher dimension here, just some things are rigid (like laser cavities and the Earth) and some things aren't (like electromagnetic waves). In fact, in general invoking higher dimensions without a strong reason to is discouraged when discussing general relativity, simply because the math is already very complicated in 4D.
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As he should - It's invaluable knowledge he's trying to share.
* If we're talking about Antifragile. I haven't read the others yet.
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“I’m counting” deaths by the sources I linked.

The article is figuring 9x-44x worse by taking the worst week of covid and comparing to same week of seasonal flu.

I’ll rephrase my original downvoted question, do you think there will be 10-30* million deaths of covid this year? If not - then the 9x-44x is total bullshit.
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That is juxtaposition of terms is unfortunate... but thank you for clarifying. It's still IP, just in the form of a specification for physical components.
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> to perform two simple, necessary tasks for a cyclist; replace a tyre/inner tube, or replace a chain

Never had to do either of those things, driving a bike almost daily throughout the city to school, hobbies, friends,... The few times my tire went flat, a short visit to a mechanic cost alsmost nothing
Can you say anything about the reasons? I read that Cliqz only had a few 100.000 daily active users, which indeed seems low for a product with so much venture backing.

I still don't see why the investors would pull the plug right now, as clearly they should understand that it takes time to build a Google competitor. Then again, Cliqz has been at this since more than 10 years (7 years under Burda) with seemingly little traction, so maybe their patience just ran out. That the publishing industry apparently lost a large share of its ad revenue in the last months might have been a deciding factor as well.
I don't see a "than" here. These vouchers are also a cash injection into French businesses and workers, and specifically ones who are both important from a policy standpoint and yet likely to get heavily beaten by the crisis, since everyone delays repairs in a crisis.
Yes, but then any edges that should have been sharp get rounded too.
I don't know... is it wise to piss off Skynet? (I wouldn't) ;-)
If you only need it for 1 project you can cancel it after you're done, might even be cheaper than whatever the lifetime license price would be.
Unless they were there when they grew rapidly, a FAANG pedigree isn’t worth anything. It’s easy to ride the wave when the money printing machine is already set up.
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The coronavirus is going to with us for a long time; we're unlikely to get a miracle cure or effective vaccine anytime soon. On average American adults are about 27lbs (12kg) above their healthy weight. That means if they start losing weight now at a safe, sustainable rate then most people can be down to a healthy weight in a year or so.

Obviously there is a huge amount of individual variation but most people can take steps to improve their individual odds of survival.
New or used?

If new - the best bet is to call your local dealers and talk to them. I'm aware of many dealers that haven't turned a unit in 3 weeks now, they need the business and likely will be willing to give you a great deal because they need a move inventory.

If used - I would wait until some of the auction houses re-open and try bidding on a car. If that's a little stressful (it can be) then I'd look at Carvana, Vroom and Shift (depending on your geographic region).

From there I'd look at local used car dealers - don't let them game you or try - Carvana/Vroom/Shift all recondition to a Lexus CPO (Certified Pre Owned) standard you just can't legally say that if you don't have the approval from the manufacturer (another weird quirk) - you should be able to find a like for like vehicle between Carvana/Vroom/Shift & a local dealer.

Whoever gives you the best deal take it, but both online and in-person dealers are marking down inventory.

If you can wait a few months, the prices will be lower with all those vehicles come off-lease.

Keep in mind that with Hertz filing for bankruptcy that other rental car companies aren't that far behind, so there could also be a massive influx from those folks needing to liquidate some assets.
One specific example doesn't make the whole set of journalists who need to communicate with others over the internet. Consider that during a pandemic, people are limited in travel, and over the internet is the de facto way of communication.

Do you think that a system like this won't be abused in targeting journalists trying to expose corruption? Surely that's a big issue.
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back in the 199x i felt great coming into our small office with 30+ of 20-something guys like me crammed in coding and playing network Quake and the Rammstein blasting in the office over the Quake rocket explosions. Best productive years. These days even mere presence of 20-somethings on the team gives me headache :)
“Rise and Grind” employers push that because they’re understaffed for their goals. It’s not for your benefit
When I first read that, I too was inspired by it. But I don't think it aged well. Cyberspace ultimately isn't a space, any more than there was a "telephone-space" or a "telegraph-space" before that. Blind techno-utopianism is an understandable but erroneous reaction that keeps happening, and it generally ends up being ridiculous: https://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Ninetee...
I like how their cheapest plan is $350/mo. Seriously.

It’s a bold move to price something beyond $9/mo and it’s so refreshing to see.
Avago's datasheets were thorough and easy to understand. Pixart datasheets, if you can find one, are incomplete and full of grammatical non-sequiturs and ambiguities. I really miss Avago.
Well, I would like to see directly into the Nuclear plant itself please.
As every discussion about bullshit jobs or frontend frameworks, or hardware abstraction VMs (recently, WASM) will easily show, we are swimming in accidental complexity. And even when it's not obvious, every general advance on science or technology is fundamentally the removal of some complexity that everybody just adapted to like if it was essential.

So, no, it doesn't have to live somewhere. It can be created and destroyed, this happens every day. Probably some of it can not be destroyed, but nobody knows what part so any article about it will be useless.
This is a mis-characterization of this particular title change. He changed it to the subtitle. The part

>unless it is misleading or linkbait

Is what applies here. The resulting title is likely to lead to a better discussion, which is part of what HN is about.
RegExr [0] does a great job of showing individual highlights even when they are in a sequential string. You can try to implement this if you want instead of showing a callout with a note to let the reader know that they highlights should be on individual characters.

[0] https://regexr.com/
Last time I tried to grouch that grouch someone pointed out how the the ratio of amibiguously-named projects to all projects approaches unity. Try it yourself, it's fun:

C

Go

Swift

Java

Python

Haskell (named for a guy)

Curry (also named for that guy)

Icon

Self

Lisp

...you can go on aaaaaall day...

Eiffel

Octave

Factor

Joy

Julia

R

...
True, the actual magnitude of the problem is probably somewhere in between the two extremes. The point of my comment was to battle an increasingly often-used fallacy where people spout numbers that look large out-of-context and then scream about the sky falling based on those large numbers. You could say something like, "Ten MILLION planets get sucked into blackholes every YEAR! This is terrifying!" (I just made those numbers up for illustrative purposes), without looking at what those numbers are relative to this just creates unnecessary panic and motivates people to mis-allocate precious resources that could be spent on more urgent problems.
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Smash Notes has the summary and transcript: https://smashnotes.com/p/the-failory-podcast/e/how-3-failure...
Living here in LA/OC, virtually every big mall parking lot in town is packed to the gills with new auto inventory parked head to tail. The SNA airport parking lot is also being used for the same thing.

Turnover on vehicles is bananas.
That's one of the reasons I like it too. feature/ticketid-short-description makes it super easy to determine what the branch is for and what originated it as well as keeps it organized in most Git GUI clients
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How scientists lifted the shadow from Louis Kahn's most famous building (2017)
That's like saying that implementing a scheduler using coroutines is silly. Yet people do it all the time. * You may keep moving the goal posts all you want, your original claims were wrong and they stay wrong.

Can't you just say something like "I like coroutines more, they are so minimalist and elegant, and yet they are equivalent in power to cooperative multitasking!". I'd actually subscribe to that notion. But not your overblown claims of objective superiority.

* One has to wonder why so many people crave a scheduler, when they already have coroutines? Maybe because having a scheduler makes certain things easier than naked coroutines?
I don’t buy the idea that dealerships benefit communities.

It's a method of spreading the wealth. The model increases the number of people employed and businesses involved, both directly and indirectly, exponentially.
I'm not sure if the manufacturers are against it. It is complex. Dealers are the human face of the company. Someone to talk to in your town if things go wrong. Assurance that there is a mechanic that can fix it if something breaks (not just the engine, there are many other parts that can breaks. Assurance someone will be able to get the parts you need.

That doesn't means they have to like the dealer model, but there are real advantages to it.
> community bicycles and docking stations,

I have yet to see a place where those have worked very successfully - they seem to very quickly fall apart and into disuse. In China, it is even worse.
If there are any investors reading this - maybe it's a good time to reach out?
Of course, you're right. To be honest I clicked because I was confused as to when James Bond himself used a IIc - only film from the era that I remembered him using a computer was in the opening of License to Kill, and I was fairly certain was an IBM PC. What I got was a pleasant surprise!
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Interesting. Too bad the careers page does not load properly.
DDG doesn't operate their own index, they use Bing.
Will the candidate be paid for the work (the third 'win')?
Last time using it is 1981. Still relevant today in ML era?
Oh my. Thank you for finding these. I would pay a fair bit of money to have a docent of some sort take me around these places in VR.

I can't actually visit Egypt anytime soon.
How come the stock market is not pricing in the catastrophic pandemic that will hit us 2039. Or the massive earthquake of 2027.

That's just BS, you can make up any number on that timeframe.
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Not really. Academia has it's share of assholes, but the probability distribution of encountering assholes is pretty similar outside of academia too.

Thing is, it can be very brutal if you are flaky. It has a very low tolerance for bullshit/lack of expertise and people will not hesitate a second to call others out on it - even in public.
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As a German, to me the name always sounded scammy.
The auto sellers regulatory captured a bunch of states decades ago

No. It wasn't regulatory capture. It was about competition.

The same thing happened in the United States with movie theaters, television production, alcohol distribution, etc...

There's a reason that bars aren't owned by breweries anymore. There's a reason that movie theaters aren't owned by the production companies anymore.

"Reglatory capture" is a fun HN buzzword, but if you study history, you know why things are done.
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I suspect they weren't doing well and are using this as a cover. With many states opening up as we speak, the could have ridden out a small down turn and come out the other end. You might argue that a lot of people are going to be without work and won't be buying new cars in the next while, however, were those their customers in the first place?
This AI did invent anything in a vacuum. There is some analogy to a fitness function that drove it to a result. It is not self aware.
Seems like DDG would be going "we're an obvious candidate to benefit from that".

Or maybe not, I have no idea the technical details.
Interesting, I'm bullish on Hydroxychloroquine (not because of any political reasons) but everything I've seen on it working has to do with using it as early as possible (so as close as the onset of symptoms). This study appears to have only administered it to critically ill patients which I would expect to have less of an effect.

That said I'm not going to be mad that it appears to have worked for the critically ill (something I have not seen anywhere else really). However, this NOT a randomized-double blind, they say at the end they still need to do one of those to be sure but a fatality rate of 18.8% (with HCQ) vs 45.8& (without) and a p<0.001 is very good news if proven true. Remember this is a pre-print, NOT peer reviewed.

It's interesting that we aren't seeing very many studies done with early HCQ dosing. Antivirals like Tamiflu (for the flu) only really help if administer very close to the start of symptoms showing up. We have seen a few Remdesivir that specifically break out when the onset of symptoms was, I wonder why we haven't seen the same for HCQ? Could it be the price difference between HCQ and Remdesivir?
man all those maverick companies that deign to allow developers to choose their laptops must be screwed, then... (xP)

as to non-engineering / technical staff, though i am general allowing people who care strongly about their setup (for good reasons, mind you), while having the vast majority of people (especially the ones ambivalent about setup who simply want the smoothest possible experience) on a constrained, non-fancy-whiz-bang-corporate-it-3000-or-whatever setup. i also freely acknowledge that there are extra costs to this mindset, and people are fee to assign their own values/prices/costs to these things as they see fit (all other things being equal).
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You likely won't because of the actions people are taking, so there won't be as many people who actually get the disease. There were nearly 200 thousand confirmed deaths from Covid-19 worldwide in April, and that's with much of the world under lockdown. There would be many many more without the lockdown.
US consumer spending plunges 7.5% in March, reflecting virus
Thanks for sharing your view, I appreciate it! The point you mention was a large factor in my decision. Most of my former colleagues and advisors also "abandoned" superconducting quantum computing later to work on more fundamental research again (e.g. inventing new types of qubits) as they weren't interested at all in the engineering aspects of building a quantum computer. Personally I always enjoyed applied research so I think I would have had fun working on "engineering" problems as well, on the other hand I get to work on challenging computer science problems now too and in addition I can mostly decide myself what to work on (as long as I turn a profit, though). Maybe I'll return to QC after my current startup, which I think will turn out better than the last one!
I personally applaud Valve for braving to support as much hardware as they do. Even having built their own VR headset, they support a wide variety for their latest software a tacit show of support for the relationship of their customers and the VR ecosystem.

Perhaps this is anticipating Apple's upcoming move to a potentially new micro architecture that's been reported on -- I suppose if Apple thinks they need a software moat, they'll find a place to trench one up.
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