skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you are a software company and you buy another software company or you buy a product from another software company, you do not intend to maintain their software. You are purchasing the users, and adding them to your own userbase. That's the only reason to buy a competitor.

Sometimes there are some token gestures, but it always boils down to "we can't compete to gain these users, so we'll buy them."
Probably the implication is that with really cheap funding (bonds) they can swash buckle across corporate america and buy stuff? It's most likely a coincidence. Google had $120B of cash on its balance sheet at 12/31/19.
We need good diagrams that show the virus in a small drop of water with labels showing what we mean :)
Would they really? I bet most people wouldn't want to go into space. A lot of people can now bungee-jump, fly their own planes, fly in a balloon, paraglide, deep dive, yet how many do any of these things.
$349 for a phone that will get full OS updates for 3 years works out to $9.69 per month. That's pretty solid.

The competing Apple variant (lower res HDish screen but much faster CPU) is the iPhone SE 128GB for $449. It will probably get OS updates for 5 years which works out to $7.48 per month.
Mission Concept Review is a milestone in NASA's Program/Project Lifecycle: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_sy....

It sits between the "Concept Studies" and "Concept and Technology Development" phases.
That's accurate: they're the standard in much of the rest of the world due to their lower operating costs.

I was using "Euro" only to help people picture the things, it's a common way I've heard them described.
Thinking about moving the site away from Netlify (2019)
A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]
My experience is that managed services are either way too expensive or badly managed enough that doing anything different from the basics is a endless source of problems.

That "or" is not exclusive.
shrinking profits
The difference between this and a tax is that the taxes' exact height is known beforehand, and the government is not actively involved in creating the reason why the taxable sale is taking place.

"Sell your business below value, give us a nice cut, or otherwise we'll destroy your business" is not a tax, it is extortion, exactly the same thing that those mafia gangsters supposedly do to restaurants.
This seems like an easier problem to solve than converting to H2.
Do you see spikes in usage during large puzzlehunt events?
As a hunter in Wyoming and a tech guy, this is _the_ off-pavement GPS/mapping platform. If you haven't heard of them, it's because you and their target customers don't intersect. They have a ton of customers and a growing fan-base.
I'd assume ethanol would be converted to something like kerosene, since that's what jet engines burn anyways. But without regulation I don't see the incentive to use biofuels. They're significantly more expensive and don't offer any performance benefits. Hydrogen has the same problems btw.
Your tax bracket could change also if you lose your job or retire, or suffer other losses.
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I'd prefer one made by Google that just matches the phone and the curvature of the end. I don't know why I was downvoted...but some people don't need the headphone jack, but still want a reasonably priced phone. A simple fix is to just sell a plug that matches the phone.
There are a series of useless programs designed to extract value from companies and shareholders while appearing to be valuable to the company. You have the leadership training, pointless certifications, morale building offsites, accountability consultations, and sales conferences.

Personally I always look at stuff like this with a deeply skeptical eye. I suspect a lot of them are run by friends and family members of the corporate leadership that is deciding to purchase them. Either that or a group in the company has a budget for training that is "Spend or lose it."
This analogy is a mess at this point. The stealing of a car is an action that can be done with a single perpetrator. Lobbying requires both the lobbyist and a politician. I'm not sure what role each different group plays in this stolen car analogy.

Much of society participates in the lobbying side at some level. I don't think it is appropriate to single out specific instances of lobbying as immoral or to shame all of society for participating. We should instead be focusing on the one side of the equation that is easiest to change, the politicians.
I wish this article actually ditched Legos and used actual examples from existing UIs. There is something to be said about fighter jet cockpits, avionics controls, understanding of haptics in older cars, power plant control boards and subway control rooms, crane operator interface, bulldozer UI, CNC machine HMI and a whole bunch of UI systems that exist out side of consumer space.

For some reason (I blame sci-fi authors and their vision of future), consumer space is eroding rapidly with touch screens. Consumers will eat up marketing bullshit when it is wrapped in a scifi wrapper, with "Now a touchscreen interface!". This is sadly eroding into things like professional oscilloscopes, and even cockpits!

They're cheap, easily reconfigurable (this is a bug, not a feature) and it makes the bean counters happy - "Oh you mean the $48 BOM can be reduced to $7.50 with one touch screen and 1 UI software contractor for 4 months! And we can market it as a cool thing without users noticing? Holyshit, you're promoted."

That said, iPhone is nice. It is rare exception, I don't know how Steve Jobs saw this, but this is perhaps his genius. iPhone + touchscreen interface totally makes sense. Blackberry folks flaunted their physical keyboards and yet, iPhone won. This frankly surprises me. If it was year 2005, I would have bet on Blackberry over iPhone. Everybody did.
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Apple shipped the ARM powered Newton in 1993.
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Would you please stop posting generic ideological comments to HN? It looks like you've been doing it repeatedly. It's against the site guidelines because it leads to repetitive threads which are tedious at best and nasty at worst. This site is supposed to be for curious conversation and those things are not compatible.

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As the sibling comment said, I was referring to WiFi. Should have clarified that.

Sure, if you're wired, there's no benefit to upgrading your router.
> Some people think it is important that we not abuse assistants. They believe abuse will make us cold or abusive to each other. I do not agree.

And then he provides four bullet points explaining exactly why we should not abuse assistants...
The most important point Firefox people forget: it is better to be a good browser than bad Alexa.
Link to the HN thread referenced in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817

Pour one out for the bottom comment that actually noticed it was written by GPT-3.
A fully accurate headline and article, also reported on by all major NY newspapers, albeit under less clever headlines.
Yeah, I think hydrogen is a few decades too early. Maybe if there is real regulation limiting GHG emissions or high oil prices hydrogen will make sense, but until then I don't see how it can be made to work.
That's a good technique for removing all possible excuses. It might take some effort in the beginning to actually follow the reminders, but as you said, after some training it becomes easier.
I have an infared thermometer I've been using for cooking, and it often gives readings that vary quite a bit. Now some of that is measuring the actual variance of temperature at different points in the pan / pot / etc. But I've also pointed it at myself and got readings that weren't super consistent and definitely weren't core temperature - I think I usually see around 93 on people with it.

Generally those readings can vary a few degrees even if you are using it well. It's just not made to measure fractions of a degree.

So I was wondering how infrared could possibly work... Not really surprised it doesn't, but the stats at how bad it has been in the past (h1n1, Ebola) are shockingly bad. I guess I was hoping there was some medical variant of these thermometers, which is accurate in the 95-105F range, and the cooking thermometers just sacrificed accuracy for range. But it sounds like that's not the case.
Yes it has an effect. In a tight labour market, any restriction on the number of people who are willing to do your work will increase your costs.

Eventually, you might start to ask "why" and change some things to bring the costs back in line.

For example, I know lots of people (including me), who refused interviews with Uber post harassment revelations.
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I just moved from pixel to iphone, and the thing I miss the most is the "trusted bluetooth device" mechanism to keep the phone unlocked. I used to have that enabled for my garmin watch, and it kept my phone unlocked for up to 4 hours.

This was way, way better than face id or fingerprints during covid (eg, face id does not work b/c of masks, fingerprints don't work b/c of gloves).
Alphabet is selling some record amount of corporate bonds, which OP states they're using to finance this purchase (and that they raised 12.8 times this amount so there's plenty left to make more acquisitions).

More detail on Alphabet's bond sale:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/al...
Good one, very insightful. Inflation should definitely be considered as well.
I've done a handful of these things, and they seem categorically different from being in space: even low Earth orbit _feels_ noticeably different from skydiving etc (I'm also making the assumption that it's safer than eg paragliding). I suppose we're just starting from different assumptions about what captures the imagination of the average person. At the very least, I'd be surprised if the average current spaceflight customer was more driven by status than by excitement about space per se.
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What was the process for finding leads for the cold emails? LinkedIn Sales Navigator? The biggest problem for me when cold emailing is not knowing how many cold emails should I send inorder to gauge the results. I mean the number of people should I reach to know if my cold email campaign is not working.
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Interesting, I've never had that work for me. I would just go to sleep.
Excellent, this is now a top option for me!
"I wonder if such a legal mechanism exists which automatically triggers FOSS licensing upon acquisition or bankruptcy"

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that could be, but i'd note that a 2->0 PM2.5 count drop is likely not material to health as opposed to, say, a 20->2 drop. and furthermore, the time-averaged PM2.5 count while home is more relevant than the minimum absolute value.
It doesn't have to target you directly in order to have a significant negative impact on your life.
Because I am missing daily commute
This is more reason then ever to flash a generic android image.

Google does track your wifi and have amassed a huuuuuge library of SSID name, freq, mac addresses and this is what they use alongside IP geo location for google maps and other services.

It's good and also bad. And if you restrict these things, you "look" like a bot so you have increased friction to accessing information!

The looking like a bot, makes sense I get that and ddos prevention but it goes in a circle, doesn't it?

iPhone is not the answer either, but an iphone w/ no google apps doesn't mean you're free from the ecosystem.
Essentially we are talking on Usenet with better responsiveness and a bit more moderation. I think it remains to be seen if responsiveness actually increases the quality of dialog (personally I suspect it's mixed; better in some ways, worse in others).

That's not a lot of real improvement for 30 years.
Does anyone know how effective home filter purifiers are? I have been going to my office because of AC.

I am about 20 feet from my partner. He keeps his door closed I keep mine open. I bought two purifiers/filters one for each. they say HEPA but I have no idea if that's true. I keep mine running all the time even overnight. I'm young and healthy so likely risk is low but still being hot might be a worthy trade off.

One commenter below says HEPA isn't even effective
This is already solved in most server-side frameworks by using a schema migration tool. Heck, even wordpress has an easy way to automatically update a table's schema. The development of these tools in nodejs land are probably stalled due to nodejs community's obsession with nosql databases, but I bet there are several solutions available right now to handle this task.
As anecdotal as this is, take it with a grain of salt:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rss
Thank you so much for watching it, and for the tip on putting a small part of it. You are right, I haven't thought of that. I can't edit the link now (unfortunately!) but yes, I will be following this advice for the future. And I am glad you liked it, its one of our favorite projects. It took a lot of self restrain and patience from kids (and adults haha!) but it was very rewarding at the end:) Let me know if/when you try it!
This started with the 3, which I returned for that reason, opting to stick with my Pixel 2 XL. I bought it at launch, and it still lasts me over a day with full charge.
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(put the air purifiers in the bathroom it seems...)
Do you wanna say a few more words about this? I thought that `v[1:10]` always causes allocation but `view(v, 1:10)` never does. Is this not the case, or has this changed?
I'm in Europe. Interested in your comment. Got a source, or any further info?
I think the key leap they took to generate revenue was to build out a fully-baked, batteries-included product based on their open source library. Sure you could build out the components in Tailwind UI yourself, but a lot of people will pay the $250 to have a solution that "just works".
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Sometimes it is. I was heavily involved with a decision between Datadog vs New Relic (plus a few others) at a former "unicorn" startup. We definitely did not want to run the server-side ourselves, but having the client libraries be open source was a major advantage for Datadog. It let us extend them to support our very old Django version and homegrown SOA framework
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Slightly off topic: Why don't cell networks get shut down more often during large protests etc.?

It seems that police use cell phones for internal communications pretty extensively -- Even when there are encrypted radio systems or channels.

My guess is that UX of encrypted radio is generally terrible, and that it's a nightmare to distribute keys to all multiple agencies that might be operating in an area. So departments configure encrypted radio for internal use, but when there's large scale activity they need to fall back to cellphones for guaranteed un-eavesdroppable comms
That's true nothing ever follows a straight line from where you start to where you want to end up. You can't get away from the oscillating, but I do believe you can minimize it through practice and techniques.
I completely agree; it's an alarming trend that's used to sew ignorance. Blindly following experts clearly isn't an antidote to that, which is all I was trying to express originally.
According to this review the 4a has a rear-mounted fingerprint reader:

> Google carried over the rear-mounted fingerprint reader of the Pixel 3a. Color me a fan. The 3a had a fairly deep divot with a different finish on the fingerprint reader itself. Google made the Pixel 4a’s fingerprint reader blend in better with the body. Both the reader and the rear shell have the same matte texture and black color, and the back of the phone even curves inward towards the reader to make it feel more cohesive.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-4a-review-1140...
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