skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This means they became rich as a consequence of everyone being made better off. So I would personally value their insights.

This is, frankly, libertarian bullshit. Many capitalists have gotten rich off of making weapons, enslaving others, exploiting loopholes in the legal system, or generally rent collecting. The examples are too many to list but IBM in Nazi Germany and Enron come to mind. It's a grave error in judgement to confuse wealth with knowledge, wisdom, or ethics.
Well I'm not any authority on the matter, but I'll say my piece.

Trillion dollar companies like Alphabet are very different from a traditional mid-sized company, in that they have evolved into giant distributed failure-tolerant entities. Every part of the business is designed with risk in mind.

Any product that has no direct or indirect ability to make profit is extinguished before consuming more of the company's resources (see [1] KilledByGoogle).

Youtube and Gmail have huge indirect revenue streams, and are not likely to be going any time soon. Youtube has advertisement and addictive content. Gmail has [2] advertising and it keeps people close to the Google search-engine which has more advertising.

I think a better question is what is an event which could decimate one of the FAANG?... I can't think of any that also leave the rest of the world intact...

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

[2] https://securityboulevard.com/2019/11/does-google-read-your-....
> The metcal PS900 is actually cheaper now than the equivalent bottom end Weller TCP units and much much cheaper than the Hakko FX951 irons.

- Hakko FX951 is listed for $269.77, less tips

https://www.hakkousa.com/products/soldering/hakko-fx-951-sol...

- Metcal PS-900 is listed for $275.93

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Metcal/PS-900

The statement that the PS-900 is much much cheaper does not appear to be accurate now.
I'd like to make the book facing right.
In Japan, books are bound right side.
> The freefall of grapefruit from 10 m does not damage the pulp[1] because pomelo peel consists of vascular bundles and an open-pored cellular structure with the struts made of parenchymatic cells.

I have a Marsh grapefruit tree, fruiting now (southern hemisphere) as it happens, and I note that it produces particularly pithy progeny. (Ignoring for the moment that Pomelo is one of the parents of the modern grapefruit.)

I don't have a convenient 10 metre drop to test this, and while I have no reason to doubt the veracity of this citation, I'm now consumed with curiosity why this plant has evolved to have this feature.

I expect it's quite an expensive adaptation, and given that modern specimens are the result of a lot of cross-breeding over the years to have juicier pulp and a lower ratio of skin/pith to pulp (ie. reduced resistance to damage) it presumably was even more expensive in ancestor plants.

Standard fruit purpose is to have animals unwittingly propagate the plant -- entice something to eat the fruit, and some time / distance later, deposit the seeds in a fertiliser ball. How does protecting the pulp from these kind of damage assist with that -- unless ancestor trees were spectacularly tall, and ancestor consumers fantastically fastidious on fruit quality.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1748-3190%2F11%2F4%2F045002
What’s After 5G
Utility is a function of the person, the environment, and the thing. There is no 'utility of a dollar'. There is only 'utility of a dollar to me in this circumstance'.

So if one idolizes wealth then clearly they have assigned high utility to money in a non-diminishing returns sense. It is then rational for them to match their utility curve. Life is full of threshold systems. Given that, it would be very unusual for utility curves to not be deformed by them.

It's easy to construct a few scenarios with locally convex curves:

* You're in debt to the mafia and you will die if you don't pay them your $100k debt. You have $10k dollars. Do you spend the $10k to try a long shot of making $100k?

* You're poor and make $15/hr. If you save you will have an extra $1000 a year in savings. You will never own a home. You will never have time to study for a better job. The magic of compound interest with contributions is in the regularity, not so much in the amount. Put $1000/yr in a calculator and $998/yr in a calculator (assume it compounds 3% every year) and see the difference you get over 60 years. It is insignificant on a 60 year horizon. $2 will buy you a powerball ticket, and maybe out of this life.

* You're an immigrant. You need a few million dollars for your investor visa. Your current visa runs out next year and then you return to a slum.
Anybody else getting 8k?
> when engaged in a hot war you tend not to care too much about what your opponent can figure out in a few decades.

IDK if the allies would have had a list of gay Germans from encrypted data they collected decades prior they could have used that data for extortion. Even if it took decades of progress, they'd have had ample time. The question is, does collecting data now put you into a better position than not having such collections. And the answer is maybe to yes. Even if it's just maybe it's probably worth the investment for the DoD.
Original source: https://www.profgalloway.com/uss-university
I don't know quite enough about the field, but it's possible they're the leaders (like Python) because they're just "good enough" and they were the best options widely available when they were adopted + took off?
Maybe a damaged fruit would rot before the animals got to it, becoming offputting?
MDF: Particularly in most cabinetry. That stuff should be illegal because the cheap plumbing fixtures will invariably leak, and when that happens now your cabinet is ruined too.

I think similarly for OSB, and don't believe a word about how its a good building material, but thankfully i've only seen it crumble once so far. Mostly I suspect because its not been in to many buildings for 30+ years of heat and moisture cycling.
Also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23903596
Also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901635
The CPD was founded in 1987, but Ross Perot didn't run for President until 1992. How can the former be "born out of" the later, when the former happened five years before the later did?
This article read like a puff piece that I got little more out of than "value your users and build good software". It didn't seem like it offered much substantial or specific advice.
In any major city really the solution is to never lock anything up in public that is worth more than $400 or so. I have two road bikes, the insurance replacement value of each would probably be $3000, and I wouldn't even dream of buying a lock. I literally don't even know where my lock is. The last time I saw a lock was when I put it in a box of stuff on a shelf in my garage 10+ years ago.

If you have a nice road bike with very clean tires people generally will not mind you bringing it into places with you consistently.

No matter how good your lock is, if somebody REALLY wants the bike (for the value of its components) they'll just saw the frame in half.
At least it eliminates the majority from contention.
CloudFlare doesn't use Google ReCaptcha anymore. They use some Blockchain Captcha thing now.
The thing is someone else participating in that same study may read that and experience an unintended placebo/nocebo/antidote effect. You are not supposed to dicslose you are in such a clinical trial. The ancestrals misunderstood that as not telling the test subject that he is being tested. You could also neutralise that consent effect by making the group of consent broader than the group of study, by adding two more controls such that one group (reverse intervention group) takes a drug that acually worsens the disease (I see the possible objections, but this alone will make the study complete faster), and one takes just nothing (neutral group-those would be sent back by telling them they are diagnosed negative, but actual diagnosis will be recorded in their files), in addition to a placebo group.
I'm guessing he'd bust out a blowtorch and make short work of it.
First of all, this is super super super cool.

But also... I'm super confused about the nighttime imagery.

Looking at daytime imagery from this afternoon over the US, everything looks legit -- it looks "real", shadows from clouds get longer as the sun gets lower in the sky, shadows on mountain ranges change, etc.

But as soon as it transitions to night, all realism goes out the window. Urban areas are absurdly bright, clouds are still blindingly white on top, the pattern of lights don't change even a tiny bit throughout the night... it's like it's no longer using photos but combining a static nighttime image with radar-detected clouds drawn on top. The gradient between daytime and nighttime also seems highly artificial.

Do other people agree that the nighttime imagery is totally simulated, not photographs at all? I'd just kind of like to see a version that showed real nighttime imagery, even if it was mostly super-dark (but they could HDR it which would be fine too).
What makes Stripe good now is what made it good way back when they first launched: Handling payments sucks and they make it suck less.

The design, etc. is the gravy on top of a successful runaway train.
> they consider having a Bloomberg Terminal a mark of status

I think this is starting to change. I'm a Bloomberg user and I'm lower status than some of the non-Bloomberg users, such as high level software developers, at my firm.
I think they are installable both with cargo install and brew install, so it doesn't really matter :D
Sword players will still be interested...
I love the idea of being able to visualize the state of everything while it's running, for me, that's the killer feature I'd love to see in other languages.
Not the Kindle. Looking for a touchscreen e-ink display I can use with my Raspberry Pi
As an alternative approach, I mounted my 2012 Kindle PW, a raspberry pi, and my split keyboard (diverge 2) on a folding guitar stand.

And I mean, it works: https://i.imgur.com/FNbKA0b.jpg

Vim certainly makes the latency tolerable.
Are you going to make that explosive sensitive to shocks? Otherwise, how is it going to ignite? And if you would do so, you realize how dangerous that is, right?
Looking at the paper, the material is 13mm ceramic spheres (about the width of a finger) suspended in a foam of aluminium and a small amount of titanium. The bike lock would have to be quite thick, particularly the armour around the locking mechanism.
Venturing a guess: Make up a unit test that runs on all relevant functions of the class (I.e. type) that the object “2” belongs to, and pick functions that pass the test.
Nobody will stop you in San Francisco.
> I think your reply proves my point that it's not really about democracy at all.

I never said it was about democracy!

> It's just about a fervent defense of the current undemocratic and unjust private property relations.

I would characterize it as a fervent defense of British constitutionalism, tracing back to the Magna Carta, but yes, the current system of property relations is a part of that.

But it seems like we're not in any disagreement about my original post: I expressed worry that Marxist ideas were resurgent. We seem to be on the same page about what I mean by "Marxism." And you don't appear to disagree that those ideas are resurgent--and therefore my originally stated worry was not baseless after all.
the "Smalltalk" word is missing from this page and the main one, interesting marketing move :)
Huh? Plenty of things go in landfills that won't go away for many lifetimes
Yup, 7 year old me... carrying wood from the back forty and stacking it for the winter. Looking back I can't imagine my parents thought it anything but "busywork" for a kid with to much energy.

OTOH, a lot of the old coal boilers were converted to heating oil, and more recently I think people have been converting some of them to NG.
If your attacker is wielding a grinder or a drill, and you don't mind wearing a 2-inch-thick metal plate, then sure.
Nectar+Sleep+Mattress+Coupon+$250+Off
That’s not unminus, this is:

https://www.unminus.com/
That's brilliant. It reminds me of people who have written about how disappointing magic tricks generally are when they're revealed, because you think "I could have thought of that" but you probably couldn't.
> The blade is gradually eroded, and eventually rendered ineffective as the force and energy of the disc or the drill is turned back on itself, and it is weakened and destroyed by its own attack.

What about an angle grinder disc made of this new material?
We definitely mind, we're just too polite to tell you. Knowing your friend spends thousands (plural) on their bike makes you feel bad about not wanting their "clean" tires, which definitely didn't roll through dog turds and cat pee on the way there, on your floors.
What is the practical implication of that? "Strong opinions, weakly held" means (IIUC) make a decision, but be open to changing it if data points to it being wrong. It helps avoid the trap of looking for perfect data to make a perfect decision. Can you provide a practical application of "weak opinions, strongly held"?
It unfortunately doesn't work because people in general don't get that knowledge progresses and what may previously been considered a truth, no longer is - and that should be how it works because we learn and grow as a civilisation.[1]

But it's not - people don't accept that what they were told previously is no longer correct. A good example is the current arguments around mask wearing. By originally saying don't wear masks, that has stuck and a lot of people think either you lied originally or you don't know what you're talking about - ideas made worse by being promoted for political gain.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
Efficiency is only material in terms of something.

To provide a devils advocate to your last point, people could be most likely to respond on keyboards because a keyboard is an cost - efficient option for the majority of potential responders.

However there could be other tech that is more time - efficient. And for someone with an advanced condition such as ALS, it would be extremely inaccurate & inefficient in terms of either cost or time to use a keyboard for any sort of input where a high level of accuracy is required. Whereas a speech-to-text software connected microphone or some other system would be far more efficient in those categories for them.

All this to say that no, simply because one person replies to your post with a keyboard adds not one shred of validity to the vast over-generalization that "the keyboard is the most efficient input device we have".

I shall also now further assert to, in addition to disproving your central claim by counterexample, to have also disproved your ending statement (also by counterexample), by first, disproving your absurdly general central claim, and second, having done so using a keyboard as the input system for my response.
The podcast did not indicate what phase of trial this was.
> But given a mean and variance, ...

The subject of my comment is, "Why are we given mean and variance?" If you take, "We are given mean and variance" as a presupposition, then you are having a different conversation.

The big problem with the maximum entropy argument is that if you apply some transformation to your data, you will end up with a different maximum entropy distribution. For example, you may choose to express your data in terms of rate (events / time) or period (time / events). Maximum entropy won't help you here, you have to have some kind of theoretical understanding of the underlying process that justifies your choice.

The same is true for normal distributions and mean / variance, but it's such an "obvious" choice that people forget to justify their models. My experience is that the premise of the CLT is much easier to justify, and you can use that to support your use of the normal distribution.
refusing to provide your services to someone is not censoring them. did they black hole their dns entries in 1.1.1.1? did they steal their domain name? no. companies fire customers all of the time.
Product management kept changing the requirements!
Flash the flashlight in a sequence corresponding to the most recent hash on the bitcoin blockchain, then take a hash of the video and send 0.00000001 BTC to that address from a wallet associated with your personal identity? Would pretty much prove that a specific person recorded this video between two fairly close together times, and the blinking lights would probably do things with shadows that deepfakes aren't great at replicating (and retouching the video to fix those artifacts would make the hash not match).
Federal agents can enforce federal law anywhere in the US. They don’t need the state’s permission to, for example, arrest someone for vandalizing a federal courthouse. What you’re referring to is federal agents enforcing state law, which is also allowed but requires registration in Oregon[1].

That’s not a defense of the current situation; we should be putting more limits on what federal agents can do (like requiring them to identify themselves during an arrest).

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-heck-are-federal-law-enforc...
You may be interested in reading about "wicked problems" which are a well studied limiting case of the situation you describe.
Infrastructure for the one we have here in .au, which started out as a copy/paste from the .sg opentrace app's git repo, is minuscule.

The only backend touches that apps do is a few login/register APIs when you first launch it, and if you ever test positive and agree to send your data it sends a big json blob to an AWS Lambda nodejs function that pretty much just uploads the json to S3.

I don't recall how complex the login/register stuff is, but I don't remember thinking "That's gonna need heroics to register 10 or 20 million users quickly" when reviewing the code.

(If you wanna go look yourself, try here: https://github.com/opentrace-community )
Touring the American College of the Building Arts – This Old House
Worksheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CUs3HrqstC2oV3CF3_di...
Hi maddyboo, we don't support Firefox just yet, but we'll definitely support Firefox at some point! Would you mind telling us what you want to use the tool for so we can plan/prioritize features to build once we get there?
Do I understand correctly that you're suggesting Cloudflare reduces organic search traffic due to restricting search engine crawlers?
Not really. Armor made of this material has to be much thicker than ordinary steel plate. Furthermore, ordinary steel plate is entirely effective against swords, except at the joints and articulations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_lance
This is one of these HN posts where the article is excellent and the comments are meh. Go read the article, everyone!
https://youtu.be/Wimo09WV-rY?t=237
YouTube is the least likely to look at just click rates

How long someone watches a video is deeply tracked and even impacts creators revenue
Use some CSS to change it, there are browser extensions to help keep it persistent
First of all, as I understand it anyone can access it, not just google. Secondly, if you don't want to be indexed by Google, there are better ways to do that (like a robots.txt). Finally, I suspect Google would be more interested in using this as a tool to figure out which sites not to index, because they have fishy (or phishy) certs, than trying to find obscure domains that have slipped under their radar.
Or just pick the (literal weak link in the chain) cheapo lock attached to it. I'm pretty exhausted from listening to people boast about the amazing lock they put in their door, which has full-length windows on both sides. Or their super sturdy door with a generic kwikset lock. The evergreen penetration testing motto is appropriate here: the goal is simply to get on the other side of the door.
Six people have been shot and two have died in CHAZ/CHOP.
Neat idea, very similar to concept of running a chain through a pipe to prevent cutting, but in three dimensions. I do wonder what effect freezing would have on it though.
If you were "all knowing", you would've known that Python 3000 would not be backwards compatible and waited until it is released (assuming that you don't have a deadline, such as 7 days).
Maybe I don’t understand this, but unless something is encrypted, why does the downsampling have to happen at the source?

Alternatively, is there a way to encrypt something, such that you can apply a transform to the encrypted data to downsample it without knowing the contents of the file?
DockerizeMe: Automatic Inference of Environment Dependencies for Python Code [pdf]
That was grandparent's point, poking fun at the post before that for discussing Congress enforcing the law when they're the legislative branch, rather than the executive.
Not sure I follow, I take it by implication you have renter's or homeowner's insurance, in which case your replacement cost is the deductible - and $400 is a common deductible. Now, getting a bike set up the way you had yours is a pain, granted. I think it's pretty unlikely that even desperate thieves would saw through your frame, they want to be able to resell as much of the bike as they can, and the frame is a fairly valuable component...
Feel free to lead a fork with your priorities at any time.
Citizen, the App That Asks You to Report on the Crime Next Door
Can someone define "cuttable" and "non-cuttable" in this context?
What you're describing as a "so-called" leader is in fact what a good leader should do, in my opinion. It's a fine balance!
Honestly, I don't think Stephenson is a very good writer. His writing is didactic and pompous. William Gibson on the other hand crafts perfect sentences, each and every time.

I read cryptonomicon when I was 15 and thoroughly convinced myself that it was "awesome." After reading it again when I was older, I realized that I wanted to like it, because of what it said about the kind of person I aspired to be at the time.
Simpler really. No need to get the Facebook SDK, DoubleClick SDK, and Cambridge Analytics plugins set up and configured with your payment details correct and tested...

(And the MSS/GRU/NSA/Mossad will all insert their code into your app bundles without you needing to do anything...)
I have not seen that youtube video. I have worked with visionary plant teachers and explored consciousness that way, and so the idea of a different kind of cognition outside of a nervous system is not foreign to me.

I got the SharedEarth from this podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/permaculture-for-the-f...

The host interviewed someone who got 100% of his food from forage or grown, for 1 year. He did not own land, and made deals with landowners to start gardens in their front yard. He was the one that mentioned this side. I had just heard about it a couple days ago as I was making my way through listening to the back episodes of that podcast.

Maybe this is another avenue to contribute— contact the operator and see if they need help adding features.

My email is talktohosh at gmail if you want to continue this conversation off of HN.
I tried to have some fun illustrating this in a tweet reply using the Terminal https://twitter.com/apaprocki/status/1230241842928791552
Meh... if you look at SEC cases of insider trading, they usually get wind of it from the trades - out of the money calls purchased a week before earnings release and expire a week later. Then they just start talking to the people involved. Most people fold pretty quickly.