skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they are not wearing badges and identification of which agency they are operating under the authority of, then the laws should be that they are not legally operating as federal officers. That's the point. I'm allowed (in many jurisdictions) to defend myself with deadly force if necessary against an assailant. Without properly identifying themselves as federal agents, they could be any random person who bought camo and tactical gear at any random gun shop or military surplus store.

Federal agents should be required to clearly identify themselves as such.
This all seems premature. If someone manages to invent a computer that works on atomic effects then there will be a lot of development of new algorithms based on whatever that computer can do.

There is a very good chance that regular classical computing would be greatly speeded up by such an invention. Just the ability to do things on atom scale would be a huge breakthrough.
The full name of the subject is "mathematics"; a plural. "Maths" is a logical shortening of it. "Math" is actually weird.
You only pay the R&D costs once. All you're saying is that you have to put a lot into R&D, but that's all on the I side of ROI. It was the same with SpaceX, the I part was huge. The question is whether you can make the R part work. And if you have scale, then the R part moves differently.

It's the same with the first car you build. The first Tesla Roadster cost tens of millions to make. The second Tesla Roadster cost half that.
Think about insulin pumps, cataract surgery, LASIK/PRK, or any type of surgical augmentation for disability (limb replacement or hip replacements) - we are definitely improving and upgradeable, it's only a matter of degree.
Ask HN: What would you do with an acre of land?
I'm certain that some folks here have a really intriguing ideas for land use, and I know for sure that there are some agtech people here. So, what would you do with an acre (or any amount really) of land?
I'm sure it's a massive fire inside their walls right now. A tweet over 24 hours ago is definitely not going to bring confidence on any progress. Speculation will fuel a lot of negativity until an official update is provided.
I've contacted PayPal asking to be unsubscribed from having a monthly email about my zero account balance with them. They said they couldn't unsubscribe me.

I don't have any details other than 1 credit card with them... So I'll never have a "balance", so their email is spam to me.

I never signed up for correspondence from PayPal about this. That they refuse to fix it is weird.

I get exactly zero bulk email in my inbox... Except for this PayPal nonsense.
Wikipedia describes it well [0]:

Deflation is generally regarded negatively, as it causes a transfer of wealth from borrowers and holders of illiquid assets, to the benefit of savers and of holders of liquid assets and currency, and because confused pricing signals cause malinvestment, in the form of under-investment.

In this sense it is the opposite of the more usual scenario of inflation, whose effect is to tax currency holders and lenders (savers) and use the proceeds to subsidize borrowers, including governments, and to cause malinvestment as overinvestment. Thus inflation encourages short term consumption and can similarly over-stimulate investment in projects that may not be worthwhile in real terms (for example the housing or Dot-com bubbles), while deflation retards investment even when there is a real-world demand not being met.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Effects
The reason that the article doesn't go into that sort of thing is it was written for the general public. I am not expert in this area. I do know that over the years I have read a great many articles for the general public that refer to scientific study of infant-mother interaction. If you are seriously interested, do some research and read up about it.

Let me add that, I do understand that people in the therapy field often make claims that are unsupported by scientific research, and so I can understand that you are suspicious in this case. But this field is different, there is lots of sound research.
Also used in the UK. Bob can be an auntie too.
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Should have? Just because 'floor model/return' and 'only the box was touched' fall under the same umbrella doesn't mean you should treat them the same.

A discount would be unreasonable, and getting your money back wouldn't improve your situation at all. Unless that was some kind of collector's item rice cooker.
A rather apt analogy, because you can see countless signs of non-equilibrium behavior, chemicals, heat, and other things (you really have never seen any, say, birds while flying?) that tells you you are not on a planet devoid of life.
> How great would it be in 30 years if you had great evidence that people who are in the prime of their careers have done embarrassing things in their youth.

Yes, Facebook does exist. I've written about this before. People who don't have a past with vaguely embarrassing things they did and goofy photos and the wrong friends and so on are not future politicians, they are ghosts and their future is as foreign intelligence agents. Do you know what sank Prime Minister "Call me Dave" Cameron in the United Kingdom? Was it the unverified and likely fictitious stories about a pig - similar to events from a popular a TV show? The family tax scandal? Something he did at school or as a young man? Photographs of him dressed like someone from a different century? Nope.

What sank Dave was assuming that voters wouldn't destroy their own country to spite people they don't like (including him). A depressingly ordinary political tale, that could come from any era in history.
No, it's still a mirror, just spread over more than two devices. Size overhead is still that of a mirror, ie quite a bit higher than that of raidz.
I'm sure Apple, Microsoft and any creator of an operating system or platform does too.
I think you are misunderstanding what the $20 refer to. They are what the customer is paying to the company for a single billable hour. That money is not only used to pay the developer but usually the rest of the company too. Sales, marketing, accountants and other employees that aren't directly assigned to a project or are waiting for their next project will have to be paid from that billable hour as well. You can call them greedy or whatever but usually they get away with a 50% cut or sometimes more. Ok, now you are left with $10 which represents the labor cost + office space + equipment needed by the developer himself. So the employee gets paid $6.66 per hour before taxes but the customer is paying $20 for that.
the article read “tailored to the needs of the beef industry”

and jesus wept
Timezones are the huge one, as sadfev already mentioned. Not everyone wants to (or can) be entirely nocturnal for four years because of a 11-13 hour time difference and perform well at intellectual pursuits.
My app: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/face-juggler-plus/id482482373

I believe it was the very first (much copied) automatic face swap app

A-hole’s app: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/face-swap/id555094868

Bit of background to making the app in this interview if anyone’s interested: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/face-juggler-6f79cf6f...
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I'd argue that some of the difference between a pilot license and a driver's license would diminish if the difficulty of a driver's license more accurately reflected the challenges of operating a heavy vehicle in close proximity to pedestrians and other vehicles.

At the current standards, apparently the only hard requirement is a pulse.
Absolutely agree. That's why I said "claim". Pretty unbelievable, and not really applicable to real life. I guess his point is "think out side the box".
Yes, those are great features for compliance. But you seem to believe that your AWS instance is indeed yours. IAM is a concept built on top of lower level primitives that you do not control, but Amazon does.

I'm not talking about Amazon SSH into your EC2 instance - but of course they can do that also - at will, without you authorizing it.

Lower level disks, logs, hypervisor, telemetry, etc.. are accessible beyond your control.
I don’t quite see how you can spend only $10 million in capex and get 1 million passengers per year. With 4 passengers per flight that’s about 700 flights per day or about 1 flight per minute. That’s a lot compared to existing heliports that handle 50 or so flights per day. Even with a 15 minute turnaround time you will need parking space for at least 15 aircraft.
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I would say https://cognitect.com/blog/2014/7/22/transit is a better option, no?
What makes it reportable is that the company is running not only the service (Gmail) but also the platform (Android) it uses to monitor its competitors. That's not something most companies can do.
To be fair, this is how most technology proliferates.

In the mid-20th century, airline travel was an endeavor strictly for the rich. Today it is also accessible to those in the middle class.
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Is "Praise Bob" still a thing?
"Who's on First" is a well-known comedy skit about baseball. Who is on first base, What is on second, and I Don't Know is on third.

https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg
I've experienced this in the opposite direction: depression and anxiety have been effective at preventing life goals.
Would posting this on internal Wiki & publishing the link to all employees a reasonable alternative during COVID?
Hey did you ever go to 35 Chinese Restaurant (it was just a little further down the street from Yuri in that bank building)? I've been trying to find where they moved to and have not been successful.
My friend from Alaska took him about 20 years and his wife putting her foot down to give up on the white gas stove for that reason.

Diesel trucks often have a diesel powered coolant heater and pump for that reason as well. Turn on the heater and you can shut down the engine knowing it'll start again. And so you still have cabin heat.

See random sales website.

https://www.webasto-comfort.com/en-us/heating-solutions/off-...
> What I think is ridiculous is to jump to the authoritarian/soviet comparisons, especially when the US is in the midst of a horrific authoritarian violent crackdown by a militarised police force.

I mean, this too warrants authoritarian/Soviet comparisons, does it not?

Besides, what happens when someone who is ideologically aligned with the angry Twitter mobs takes the reins of power and has the full force of the government behind them (including that militarized police force)? Can you not see why people might be concerned about systematic suppression of "bad" thoughts and ideas from the top-down (apropos the Soviet comparisons) in that scenario?
> I think I would like newsletters if I had a separate system just for them.

You've basically described a RSS aggregator.
Well my option is to remove the possibility of labour cost arbitrage through tariffs/customs duties.

Like, I'm Irish, so I have benefited from this trend for my whole life, but that doesn't make it right.
The article is satire.

The thread is nothing but nerd sniping.

There is no technical context for time defining “decades” that is anything other than nominal.

The fact that people are so hung up on this detail is itself evidence that it has no concrete philosophical foundation. Any definition you care to toss around is arbitrary.

It is pure bikeshed, and this is what gives the article its glimmer of truth that validates the satire.
I buy a lot of stuff from amazon and only on 1 occasion did something like this happen. Bought a 16Gb DDR4 SODIMM, mind you from the warehouse deals (half price!) and a 4Gb module arrived. Opened a case with Amazon and they sent me a second one, but this time the correct size...
There seems to be a web client in beta. Top right of their homepage, the "login" link. You might have to create an account on another device but you certainly seem to be able to use it from the web.
Have you ever eaten at a restaurant? Bad food and bad service are a thing too. I'm not one to complain or make a scene, but if I have a bad time, I'm just not going to come back.
Post-quantum RSA, 1-terabyte keys: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/351.pdf
Because we have decades of experience with the existing engine & fuel types, but very little experience of battery powered aircraft?
So don’t mention where you are? As long as you don’t have a window in frame, work the same timezone hours, and have decent internet, I think you can sidestep this issue.

That said, I don’t think this is as big a blocker as you seem to think. It’s a different issue in the sales process.
> People ran all sorts of scams, most commonly putting a $500 video card in a $20 box. I’d catch them all of the time, but if you reported it you had a chance of losing commissions when loss prevention people interviewed you.

Wait, what? The loss prevention people wanted you to not prevent loss?
Per https://smartasset.com/taxes/all-about-irs-form-1040ez, Form 1040EZ is discontinued; there is only a single redesigned Form 1040 for all filers to use.
Did you read it? More than half of the least corrupt countries are in EU. Most corrupt country in Eu appears to be Bulgaria, and it does not make it into the more currpt half of the list.

The countries that are properly corrupt are Russia, etc.
I really don't know how to avoid overcompensating for failing to "see it coming" in 2016. I was not as confident as many people (reading Scott Adams, at the time, at least made it more of a possibility.)

Now, I simply can't picture the guy not being reelected, no matter how many poll aggregator I can see.

So, my rationalization is that polls are just getting it wrong, again, and are pretty much useless, but that the silent majority will, again, surprise everyone. We need brain scans rather than poll, quickly
If that is the case I don’t think it’s policed at all. You can’t copyright or patent an idea so people just do what they want - at least when you’re an indie developer.
I was providing you evidence of why people might think that. I am not a stakeholder in this conversation so I'm not sure what your "infurate" comment is meant to provoke.
While this is common wisdom on software teams, and it’s good rookie advice, it’s also good to know if people are feeling the need to shout “I told you so!” on any kind of repeated basis. It’s not only a sign that there’s something wrong with the proclaimer; it’s a sign that there’s something wrong, period. Maybe the team isn’t listening to well-reasoned arguments, or maybe there isn’t any way to get good enough data to make a decisive argument ahead of time, and the team should listen to its individual members’ intuition more. In the absence of objective* data, intuition is actually quite valuable and it’s important not to discount it.

* objective is key, because if there’s too much data, you can find some that says anything you like.
I think you're splitting hairs here. The greater issue is unaccountable, internet mob justice, of which "cancel culture" is one part.
Honestly I’m not even sure Amazon is a particularly good place to get books anymore. Amazon made it possible for publishers to make out-of-print works widely “available” but when you order such a book you might get one from the original run (printed with offset printing to a generally high standard), or you might get a “print on demand” book with terrible quality with vague, feathered letter shapes and plates which look like they came out of an inkjet printer running low on ink.

Apparently Amazon’s own print on demand service produces high quality books but it is impossible to know what sort of book you are getting until it arrives.
That sounds like a "true green revolution". Moonshots are, to me, technology projects supercharged by heavy investing to bypass present market forces.

Sure, perhaps your age may indicate a preference for that kind of project but DDE was 70 when he started the moonshot so it's less likely to be age and more likely to be a predisposition to that sort of thing.
Note, the submission was a joke and the paper was humorous but not a joke itself. It presents a new factorization method for example.
Build a fence first.
It was good because it made me 100% sure I’d done the right thing.
Housing and education are both represented in the CPI. Housing alone is almost a third of it.
This type of vehicle could be a game-changer for emergency response and rescue though.
No comment about the broader picture but there have been very smart people who have quit academia and gone into industry for whatever reason. Maybe the most famous is Jim Simons (he had an exceptional mathematical career before going into finance) but I know a few more examples.
I want to know where my customers physically are if possible for a variety of useful reasons.

I hope you're factoring in error rates. Because right now Google, with its billions of dollars to spend on geolocation, tells me that my laptop is in Albuquerque, and my phone is in Los Angeles. Neither are within 500 miles of either.
Returns are sold in pallets to resellers who accept the risk. But amazon shouldnt be selling returns if they can't or haven't verified the item is correct and functional.
You didn't provide evidence. Larger lot size absolutely does provide more value.
Purchases are good in the short term. You can evaluate them and pick the most suitable. Once you have settled with one product and know what you want it may make sense to work on optimizing your business with a custom fit solution.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/627.pdf
The curated model works well if you trust the editor. Eventually it turns into a newspaper
I didn’t get close to 1000 responses, maybe a few hundred, and it wasn’t just the feedback that was useful, those few hundred people I regularly conversed with were the real champions and evangelists for the business.
None of this addresses the question though. Nobody doubts the existence of unreasonable customers who leave bad reviews for dumb reasons. That doesn't change the parent comment's fact that the study unwarrantedly infers causality from the statistical correlation between bad reviews and popularity.
> I would strongly argue against your claim...

I would genuinely like to read your arguments. Or somebody else's arguments about this.
It wasn't that quiet, it was fast and below radar
This is a good essay, but I don't think he gets it quite right. I agree with the horizontal axis: conventional vs. independent but I don't think the view he presents of aggressiveness is quite accurate.

I do think that a major axis for classifying humans is the extent to which they desire to impose their views on others through coercion. This seems to be partly what Graham is trying to capture but his description doesn't seem to quite fit. In particular I have a hard time thinking of anyone who wants to impose their own independent-mindedness on others through coercion. Typically they just want the conventional minded to leave them alone so they can work on their independent ideas and hopefully prove them right. Of course they may want to convince a few people, such as investors, of the value of their ideas before they have been proven, but that isn't the same kind of coercion that the aggressively conventional-minded employ to silence dissent.
> Who wants to have a mortgage on a house that is going down in value every year?

I do. That's how housing works in Japan - you buy a house to live in, not to save money or invest. Older houses have lost their value (largely due to perceptions of danger in old housing stock - until the last decade or so, increasing understanding of earthquake/tsunami safety meant that houses wouldn't meet current building codes)

That (combined with adequate housing stock, less zoning restrictions, and negative population growth) means that even in the biggest cities, housing is fairly affordable. You buy a house because you want the control and the permanence that comes from owning a house.
> there's the obvious problem of "what happens if the government is intolerant?"

Well, I guess that at some point you have to accept one risk or another. Any system can fail in one way or the other.

I personally don't like laws limiting freedom of speech; but I also don't like angry mobs that openly and proudly exercise intolerance of anything that falls into their own entirely subjective definition of intolerance.

I would like the state to protect me from those who try to set the limits of freedom of speech as it suits them; but I understand that if the state wants to take from the people the power to silence unacceptable speech, then it must provide some minimum guarantee by taking it upon itself. Best of all would be no laws, but education and common sense, and of course tolerance, from all parts: but again, what do you do if that fails?
A percentage is a percentage...
It's annoying, but it's pretty standard in commercial databases: if your competitors refuse to allow public benchmarks, all it can do is hurt you.
The one area where I have had success with this approach is with music. Various services will have public playlists that random listeners have put together. If I find a list that has a number of songs I like on it, there's a good chance I'll find something new I like on it that had never been suggested by one of the algos.
What kind of analysis are you looking for? How much these features are worth is subjective and the general aviation market is super small and not exactly growing. Don’t get me wrong: everybody I know loves his SR20/22.

My comment was not dismissive of the innovation by Cirrus (which I think is great).

It’s about the costs getting it into the market and having it certified.

Imagine you buy a car for 50k USD. Now, you want an airbag and a better infotainment system. Not a problem. Price is now 250k. Is an airbag and a better Infotainment system worth that premium to you? I can’t answer that for you. But this is what we are dealing with in general aviation.

And it is not 1MM USD in Capex... It is 1 MM USD premium per PLANE.

And again: there is a reason why you have the B747 and 737 for like 40 years... Because exactly of that certification nightmare of new airplanes.

Now talk autonomous electric vehicles with passengers. How should the math ever add up?
One of the biggest issues with deflation is it creates a high floor on interest rates. Even if the nominal interest rate was 0, the real interest rate would be 2% severely limiting the Fed's ability to fix recessions. The current federal funds rate is 0-0.25% and with an inflation rate of 2% that gives us a real interest rate of -2%. If we had 2% deflation then the real interest would be 2%. That's a 4% difference in interest rates, which is huge.

The demand destruction comes from individuals and corporation saving more money instead of spending or investing it because they get a 4% better return in one scenario than another.

The biggest purchase individuals make is buying a house. Surely you can't argue that paying a 1-4% higher interest rate on a house wouldn't noticed by consumers.