skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One clue to there not being a civilization like ours in the past, is all the oil that we found in the earth. Such a convenient energy resource would have likely been used up before we arrived, had there been an industrial civilization before.

If a future intelligent species would dig around a hundred million years from now, they'd see traces of us in the form of a radioactive sediment layer.
To be fair, you're not going to get a fair and balanced viewpoint about a product from a founder.
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I expected Silurian come from silicon but I was wrong. Once heard the idea that there might have been silicon based life on earth and all the sand we have is from that period - much like oil is dead carbon based life. Scientifically there is not much to it, I think, but it would make a good basis for a SciFi story nevertheless.
It was likely the measurement of the distance between the airport and the building that was the problem.

edit: thinking about it, it still doesn't make sense. The difference in distance would be about 2 cm over 10 km.
Can't you convert the measurement from customary to metric, or from metric to customary? Why does it matter what system the tool was designed for?

Obviously anything that can be measured in customary can also be measured in metric.
I love the way it's pretty clear this won't work.

It'll be full of people out the back, faking the experience and constantly repairing robots, for the diners to get the performance.

A great practical robot for a restaurant is a dishwasher.

These robots are straight from Disney.
> To have a tolerant and open society you need to be intolerant to those who are intolerant. Why is this new or subject to debate?

It's a somewhat gross simplification of Popper's original:

"Less well known [than other paradoxes Popper discusses] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant."

- Karl Popper, "The Open Society and Its Enemies" (1945)

Doesn't the social justice movement nowadays look rather much like Popper's second paragraph?
Something similar in python to visualize algorithms and generate videos: https://github.com/CCExtractor/vardbg
Yeah, duodecimal systems (base 12) rock!
But is the customary units system consistently duodecimal? Iirc it's not, but I might misremember.
It's not quite as simple as that because the dynamics of black hole formation in the transitional mass range seem likely to be somewhat complex. When big stars age and cool they can undergo massive dynamic changes, such as the red giant phase and triggering a supernova. Current models for these changes indicate that stars in this transitional mass range are expected to 'blow themselves to bits' to put it bluntly and not leave a remnant big enough to collapse into a black hole.

This is where the mass gap comes from. Stars smaller than the mass gap are modelled to become neutron stars, stars in the mass gap are too unstable to end up forming black holes. Only stars bigger than the mass gap range are believed to have gravity fields strong enough to overcome these instabilities and undergo complete collapse.

That's the model anyway. The discovery of an object in this mass range calls those models into question and that's why it's such as useful and interesting find. That's the short version. In fact there are several possible models, and this will hopefully help us exclude some and refine others.
Fair enough, I should have been more precise. I wanted to point out that it is not a hard technical limitation, but should have added that in that specific use case it is economically unfeasible.
Being cop is not all that dangerous job and most deaths are traffic accidents. This is trying to create a sense of it being something more dangerous then other occupations and it just is not.

There is also nothing fundamental about policing that would require 70-80 hours of work per week.
Where are those mobile phone operators building everything from scratch?

Because from my telecommunications and mobile OS development knowledge I have hard time remembering at least one.

And binary deployments? They are done all the time.
I love how these encourage learning science while playing but they leave out low income kids. I wonder if there’s a way for things like these to be available for low-income kids also?
I've switched to YouTube Music recently and it was pretty good for me. For me it's mostly on par with Google Play Music and on top of that it has a deep integration with Youtube. It allows you to play songs which are uploaded as videos on YouTube which is quite useful if some song/album is missed in the library. The only noticeable downside for me is that your YouTube Music subscriptions appear in YouTube subscriptions list which makes it harder to look for non-music stuff.
I’m on a brand new 2016 model iPhone SE A1662. Full charge capacity is 100%. I rarely get through the day before I have to charge again with moderate use.

I’ve been using a iPhone SE as my primary phone since summer 2016.

If I recall, my original new iPhone SE had great battery life. It was first on iOS 9.

Up Until iOS 12, Battery life was fine on it. With iOS 12, had to get a extended battery case; that held up As a workable solution until iOS 13.

At the end of last year, after iOS 13 came out I replaced that iPhone SE with a brand new one I bought on fire sale.

That had an accident this week, which I replaced with another new iPhone SE.

For it, I set it up as a new device, without any apps, and not restoring from any backup, I still have the same battery life.

I’m going to chalk it up to iOS background process bloat and third party background app refresh, etc.

It will be I nteresting to see how iOS 14 Holds up on the iPhone SE 2016.

What can I say, I refuse to use a phone without flat sides, no headphone jack and not of a reasonable size. I could take a few of those exceptions but all three has been a no go for me. Really the new “meh” battery life is the only complaint I have about this device.

Really excited for the rumored iPhone 12 5.4 inch since it may be about the same size as the old SE; with flat sides.
At least you got pictures, I couldn't work out which of the 30+ Javascript domains I had to enable to see anything at all.
Think about the error in the distance of the building to the airport, not the error in the height. You can imagine how that error in the distance could be a few feet, which would take the build height into a category of maximum height that was many feet lower. The error in the height is irrelevant in this case.
I am currently evaluating worldbrains memex for firefox. It let's you full text search your visited sites the results can also be included in a google search via the plugin. Sites can be annotated, tagged.
For the last year or so I have been working on a ML-based trading system in the domain of crypto with two friends. I made more in 2 months than I used to in a year. This is after thousands of "full positions swings" and millions of trades (short and long). We are now experimenting with different classes of trading strategies to reduce risk.

We would like to find 1 or 2 more people to work on this project, we need people who can tolerate risk and skilled at data engineering: data pipelines, psql, pandas, numpy, data visualisation, setting up servers. Ideally also skilled at machine learning / deep learning and who has tried his hand at trading systems.
If interested, my email is in my about info.
You don't have to do most of those things if you just care about writing and creating a hobby site, which geocities was used for.
Really nice concept the size should rejoice people looking for a practical, streamlined and small smartphone...

BUT

Why on earth did they have to rippoff both original iPhone design and the watchOS appscreen??? I hope for them that Apple have learn yet that it's not worth the energy suing a small player. But still it's maddening that they can't thing of something else than such obvious copy-paste approach. Next time hire some designers to produce something more original for the love of earth!
The device was released in Oct 2018 though, so at the time it was the newest Android version (9 was just released, probably too late in the Palm dev cycle).

The $280 price tag is a biggest show-stopper IMO (and according to the Palm website that's a "sale" from the $400 price tag, although I never quite trust that). I paid $70 for my basic Android device (Samsung Core A2) and that works just fine as well (with some minor caveats/limitations of Android Go, such as the screen not lighting up when there's a notification).
> All I want is an Android between 5 inch and 6 inch, something the size of a 2016 iPhone SE.

That's much larger than the SE (4" screen, 125x60x7.5 mm, 110 g compared to 5" screen, 140x70x7.5 mm, 150 g for the 2020 SE). Which is a really nice form factor, and well suited for apps, but not so good for web browsing.
The first image on desktop shows it next to a credit card[0], but the credit card is mostly hidden so it's hard to notice unless you check the text blurb (literally "About the size of a credit card.")

[0] https://i.shgcdn.com/6796ca42-cd39-47de-855a-9a5bbb1aa92a/-/...
Openreach is not the only game in town in the UK. Virgin Media has their own extensive broadband network (hybrid fibre/coaxial). Smaller fibre-only ISPs such as Hyperoptic, Cityfibre, and Gigaclear also have their own physical infrastructure.

And wireless providers are now competing pretty effectively with consumer-grade fibre. (I'm happy getting 400 Mbit and streaming 1080p Stadia lag-free on Vodafone 5G for £30 a month - who even needs fibre!)
That's an excellent observation. Are enough people angry at Facebook for not interfering in public discussion?
Random Thoughts:

1. If it is shipping with Android 8 - an old version of Android. What are the chances that it will ever see any updates?

2. My wife would have been the target audience for this form factor - pre Apple Watch. Her phone is her least favorite device. She will leave it in the car in a heartbeat. She won’t think twice if she leaves at home.

But now, she has a cellular Apple Watch and AirPods with a third party ear clip. She doesn’t have to carry any phone.

3. The battery life is atrocious. Even the Apple Watch has better battery life for normal day to day use.

4. I seriously doubt it has 16GB of memory - the cellular Apple Watch does. That’s more than enough for local music playback without using cellular.

5. This is the Zune of phones to me. But, yes I realize that the cheapest entry point to our setup - phone + Watch is $800 if we did get A cheaper headset. With AirPods it would be $959.
Thanks that looks good will take a look!
Signal also limits file size and type. You can't even share a video much larger than 100mb.
We already have a layer of radioactive deposits that's used as a boundary of the nuclear age.

If The Event happens now then I imagine nuclear waste dumping sites (which often try to account for deterring far future exploration) and plastics in regular rubbish dumps would be indicators of our civilisation.
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Surprising how little publicity ECMO machines (Think heart lung machine without the heart) have had. They are rare but seem to have a much higher success rate 75% than ventilators 35% for covid ICU patients - so even though they cost twice as much $100k, they are well worth it on a cost per life saved.
That entire generation of consoles, the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii (and then arguably the Wii U) were all some form of PowerPC.

The following generation though everything switched to more commodity hardware, with the PS4 and Xbox One using x86_64 processors and the Switch using an almost off-the-shelf SoC from nvidia.

EDIT: Gamecube was also PPC.
How about the inch. I know when you say your height, in US, you use feet + inches. And inch is defined also in regards to meter (2.54 cm) but also in regards to foot (12 inches == one foot). The what kind of foot is used, and does the inch then varies in length as well?
Thanks, this was what I was looking for. I can totally understand it's easier to cut up a plank if it's twelve inches, in thirds, using customary/imperial, as you get even numbers, compared to with metric, where you'd end up with 0.33... meters for a one meter plan. However, for a 1.2 meter plank, you'd end up with 0.4 pieces. So while I understand how it's beneficial, I don't quite understand how it's beneficial.
> I also feel there are good people that are in the movement of BLM.

There are good people in any movement, especially if it is sufficiently large enough. And you will certainly find much virtue even in people advancing vile causes if you take stock of their character apart from advancing the vile cause.

Social justice itself is a pile of toxic thought patterns trying to fight for goals that are by and large good. They just do it twelve different kinds of wrong. If a person doesn't think there are good people protesting on the streets and in the movement just because they genuinely care and want to see things better, I'd posit they should go get some new eyes. They just have a nasty brain virus infection.
Yeah, just look at how easily these mechanics calculate a distance: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pikrntjcbyw
I think Adams got it wrong.

what we've learned until now is that, if such an information processing device would have existed then any sufficiently advanced civilization would have been using it to mine crypto currency.
It’s even more confusing than that. They use the British system prior to imperial standardisation, so one has both US customary and imperial units of inch etc measurements. Which is why volumes and amount of sub units are different between the two.
You realize you are in the minority right?
What do you mean "for a while"? AFAIK most smartphones are still based on ARM SoCs.
The zune of phones as in the best device made in both hardware and software quality but just too late to the game to get any traction?
If battery life is only 9 hours for music playback, I can’t imagine how bad the battery life is when using it as a hotspot.
It doesn't load for me in Chrome either.

In the function fetchRedditStories, it looks like that the callback param in the catch is named `e`, but it tries to log `error`.

Checking the network panel I'm getting a 200, but I'm pretty sure it's failing anyway because of the ReferenceError
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Without shared libraries, the only way to do plugins is via IPC.

Sure it is more secure and probably preferable in modern times, but it also slower and requires more hardware resources, specially when one scales it with desktop software running hundreds of processes, each for their own plugin sets.

There is no free lunch as they say.
The exact sizes are all arbitrary, in practice the are all in even fractions of some base unit: imperial an metric tools simply fit together poorly because they’ve been made in slightly different sizes
Mix of battery aging out and possibly more background activity.

The gen 11s have rather good battery life (I rarely dip below 50% at day's end even though I use my phone a lot) — though some folks have apparently reported drain issues — but they have almost double the battery capacity of an '8.
Your assumption is not correct. The secret answer is that you (and all home customers) are simply beta testers for enterprise customers.

Worked in enterprise, windows computers there only update on the week end or when the administrator decides to force an update overnight (they send a notification firmwide that all computers will be rebooted).
Stop Using If-Else Statements
Please re-read - those figures are from deaths from hostile gunfire not traffic accidents. 89 officers died in the line of duty in 2019. Offenders used firearms to kill 44 of the 48 victim officers. Only Four officers were killed with vehicles used as weapons - the traffic accidents.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-release...

My apologies, your second statement is fundamentally false in a very deep way. There is no metropolitan city in the US where the police are not overworked.

But perhaps we have disconnect in meaning - what do you define by policing ? My definition is the maintenance of law and order. But I have observed that activists refer to it as simply keeping the peace. These are two fundamentally different things. Tyrants and Crime bosses keep the peace far more effectively than the police.
It makes sense from security point of view, but it definitely is much more resource intensive.

Imagine something like InteliJ or Eclipse, where every single IDE plugin is its own process doing IPC.
Do you have a concrete example were a weaker memory model would allow you to avoid memory coherence traffic?
Would a phone this cheap even have the hardware for secure face unlock or is it just a 2D system? Would it work in low light conditions like modern face unlock systems? In the post Covid/mask wearing era this would be the perfect time for a reversion back to finger print sensors.

Even the Apple Watch has better battery life when used stand a line for a run. Heck my old Garmin GPS watch from 2011 had better battery life.
Thanks for both of these comments.
The US uses different bolt threads than the rest of the world. Just today I had to buy an 1/4 inch long 8-32 threaded screw to fix our stroller. The 8 refers to a standard diameter in the US system, and the 32 means "32 threads per inch".
Sorry React, but I can’t keep up anymore
Average meal delivery prices in second tier cities approximate or exceed 20RMB per meal. After ingredients at least 15RMB or 75% of that is potential margin. Roughly, this demographic covers at least the higher earning ~60% of the Chinese population or 840M people if you can scale it. Now, according to various sources food delivery networks currently deliver USD$35B/year to 400M unique users in China. Replace that with robots and you are talking faster itch scratching, better personalization, higher reliability, more choice, higher cleanliness, 24H availability, smoother experience (no "where are you I am outside" phone calls). So, forget your $10,800/day figure. Think USD$35B/year = ~USD$100M/day, discounting any growth. Now grow that, value the market position and lock-in in addition to the cashflow, and you have an idea of the real opportunity... that's how we see it, anyway.
Awesome work! I have a question about it - how can I get in contact with you?
This is ludicrous. Can we switch to the metric system already?
> every pharma company has a decent bunch of PhDs building machine learning models for a variety of reasons. Those models aren't as headline catching but rather they improve certain unglamorous business processes by X%. Taken as a whole that adds up to a lot of value for those companies.

This!

Although I am not an expert in AI field or AI-based methods, I have been working as an s/w engineer / plumber / fireman in projects deploying some AI-based methods and models in production. These methods are nothing catchy, that would unlikely get into headlines, nothing like self-driving cars, etc. But they are just pretty effective applied in a quite well defined scope improving parts of existing processes. These would be considered by many as 'boring' and are related e.g. with improving the data acquisition processes, such as, improving quality of text extraction from images or improving recognition of named entities from free text by using a tailored neural network model in the system. Nothing big nor fancy, but for the business it makes a significant difference.

So, on one hand, yes, there's a lot of hype for applying AI-based methods for just anything and wanting to show to investors using the keywords for getting more $$$. But on the other hand, having a well scoped use-case with clear understanding on what method and why, it can bring pretty good results. However, as a community, we are still trying to catch-up with all the recent advancements in AI-based field, and trying to understand when to use XYZ and why over well established 'classical' approaches. These are / will be another tools in our toolbox and this fact cannot be ignored.
There is a preproduction unit review and it looks promising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxUDmGHl7Eo
A star could form in that mass range, but we don't think it could remain stable enough to collapse at that mass range at the end of it's life as a star. Our current models indicate we would expect it to blast off enough mass that the remnant would be too small to undergo complete gravitational collapse. That's why finding one is so interesting and useful.
Not sure I agree that a computer without touch is broken, since I have managed to use one for 30+ years without a touchscreen.

I assume this what made him develop the Windows 8 with the appalling touch Start menu, which everybody hated.
Because back in the day, iPhone have ripped off both home screen and Today application's designs (which was a very useful third party tool which provides an overview of your day with relevant notifications) from PalmOS.

In other words, design goes both ways. There's no ripoff from my point of view.

If you ask me, they've applied the paradigm in a pretty neat way, which was Palm's strong point back in the day.
> Octopus reproductive organs mature due to the hormonal influence of the optic gland but result in the inactivation of their digestive glands, typically causing the octopus to die from starvation. Experimental removal of both optic glands after spawning was found to result in the cessation of broodiness, the resumption of feeding, increased growth, and greatly extended lifespans. [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Lifespan

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/198/4320/948
Yep! A codebase has so much “culture” in it-it reflects the values and the experience of those who wrote it
The clarification of what’s in and what’s out was in 2017: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

Gitbook predates that’s so it may have been grandfathered.
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I run my logic on the client and the server, and I'm not doing it wrong.

Your techniques may work for you but don't make the mistake of thinking they're universal.
" About the size of a credit card."

Write above-the-fold.
Yes, twelve is a wonderful number. You can get a half, a third, a fourth, a sixth. Those are very useful.

Ten only lets you get a half or a fifth. It's a much sparser set of subdivisions.

The same is true if you compare a yard with a meter. There's nothing wrong with either measure, but a yard gives you a lot more factors to work with.
Hm, some interesting design decisions with the Jelly 2 there. In particular, if that comparison table is right, it's more than 16mm thick - I daresay none of us have seen anything like that since the flip-phone days. And the payoff is that you get quite a chunky battery for the size. I imagine there must be a few people here who would happily take that.