skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know why you're being downvoted, but I share the same sentiment with you. My first road bike was also from a Sports Basement and got nothing but top-notch service. They certainly got my repeat business.

Bike snobs are probably like coffee snobs, where the bigger the store, the more it's vilified.
You lost me the moment you referenced TimeOfIsrael for a news about Hezbollah!
> Seriously. I don't understand why there isn't a movement to regulate ISP's like utilities at this point. Why aren't mayors and governors running on this as a major plank?

Politically untenable in this climate. There's a certain subset of the population who will claim that any type of regulation they disagree with is communism, and those currently in power have no problem boosting those voices to prevent ISPs from being regulated.
I would hope that in cases where a weapon is being used, the actual police are dispatched, since that is no longer a mental health case and actually just a full-blown violent crime.
Yes, but these figures weren't written in scientific notation so we can't tell. Especially the trailing 0 on 110 is ambiguous because people often write a 0 there where it really is 0 while the convention is that a 0 means it's unknown.
Can we be intellectually honest? These are not "high-capacity" magazines - they are the standard capacity magazines the firearms were designed to work with.

The 10-Round Limit Magazines are Low Capacity magazines, are not standard, are often the source of feeding malfunctions, and in many rifles - are cumbersome to use/remove making for an overall more dangerous situation for all involved.

Ban "Standard Capacity" magazines? Bad guys do not follow your laws.
I think the economic perspective is that there is no "base" or "real" price. Each transaction is unique and is legitimate as any other.

You can take that set of transactions and apply any number of narratives:

* The sale price is the base price and that others are gouging is a narrative that you can apply to the set of transactions.

* The full price is the real price and sales are a delightful bonus that you give to people who show that they care more by hunting down the sale.

* The full price is the real price and sales are a charity you give to those less able to afford that price.

* The sale is the real price and the full price is a way of milking the rich who are too foolish or lazy to get a good deal.

Etc.

But the transactions themselves don't provide enough data to determine which of these narratives, if any, is closest to the truth.
This makes me think they should have pivoted Blockbuster to a hostel / low cost hotel experience. Could have small rooms / shared baths that center around a living room where you can do movie night with other guests. I would be a customer.
Wow. I remember when Audrey Tang (formerly Autrijus Tang) -- now Digital Minister in Taiwan -- was an active figure in the Perl community. She started a bunch of Perl projects and even wrote one of the first Perl 6 interpreters (Pugs) in Haskell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
I've used it for years before Windows Update pushed the new Chromium-based one. It worked well for me, was faster and consumed less memory than the new one.

The only problem with EdgeHTML was google abusing their monopoly, read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824
So what's the procedure like? Pull them apart and then put it out?

Exactly. Besides trapping heat in, the hay also forms a fairly effective barrier against water getting inside. If you don't rip the bale apart to fully extinguish the seat of the fire, you just wind up right back out there.

You can see the process underway in this video, where a bunch of hay bales caught file while on the back of a truck being transported. Scroll a few minutes into the video and you can see where they brought a front-end loader out there to start ripping the bales apart.

Using a "wetting agent"[1] also helps, and some departments will use store bought dish soap, like Dawn, for that purpose (purpose made firefighting foam is kinda expensive).

https://youtu.be/z1_pAH34wAo

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant
if ideas don't matter, explain Uber and the dozens of copy cat apps that launched right after all over the world. Why didn't they launch before Uber was even thought of by the founder?
Sure, but if I'm thinking along the same lines as the OP, is all of the content truly new or different? Or is there a lot of redundant data in those updates?
Do you want them metered like all other utilities? Why do people assume it will all be fast and unlimited? It may have claims that it will be but suddenly there will be service issues and the only way to be fair is to meter. You get people who will abuse any service and with them you get calls to make it so they cannot.

Why aren't we treating that way? Because they are still so new relative to other utilities and for the most part a large number of people don't find the internet as useful as people in our fields do. You would be damn well surprised how many families there are where only the kids see value in the net.
Thank you for post. Sorry for the struggle. The hope is that this is temporary, studies have shown that missing a year of education dissipates into noise after 10 years.

Although, that was during a time when that 1 year wasn’t just full of netflix (hopefully this is only very rare, and that most parents aren’t just having the young watch TV all day).
With that there is no credibility to the blog being actually generated by GPT-3, or at least being heavily cherry picked.
Wow! paulirish on HN. I assume you have the best of intentions, I'm a massive fan of your work on DevTools and web.dev.

It's just hard to digest that this will always be the view of Google especially with its ads, search, android and chrome market share (monopoly). Google has conflicting interests and it's hard to digest "Chrome knows the fundamental importance of a diverse browser ecosystem".
NYPD Used Facial Recognition Technology in Siege of BLM Activist’s Apartment
No! A flawed patch is not the equivalent of "taking a dump" in someone's yard. Proposing a flawed patch is not a contemptuous act, it's not insulting, and it is not injurious. Treating it as such is the problem.

Telling someone they "should not be anywhere near Linux kernel development" and to "just go away" is degrading and contemptuous.
Reasons _not_ to become a developer and how to find alternative career options
Any evidence to suggest that HN crowd distribution doesn't lean towards Pareto?
Feel like this is similar to a future self-driving Google car depositing me at my destination, but without telling me the address itself. We're here.

For me personally, this makes it official, I need to keep my guard up at all times when using anything Google.
He never said they were...
I know the former head fire marshall of a major European city (2M inhabitants). The stories about root causes have made me extra fire safety sensitive and it is a continuous source of frustration to me that others don't take this stuff as serious. Cheap power adapters are somewhere near the top of my paranoia list, anything rechargeable battery operated a close second.
I don't think google -wants- them to use the chromium stack. Currently they can point and say they have a competitor, if gecko dies then they can't.
That's one way to look at it. The way I see it is that these partnerships prove that companies don't need to collect and share private data to make a buck.
Naaa. They are making up space for ads and chrome extensions. URLs are important, to the difference between a home page and other pages or will never know if you are redirected.
Nope, even with 100% lockdown, it still spreads because we aren’t an island country. It even got to Auckland now, through freight! You can only delay the inevitable (unless a vaccine is developed in the next few months)
SEC Enforcement of Insider Trading Dropped to Lowest Point in Decades
Another interesting detail is the mandatory twice-a-week testing for anybody who will be on campus (and of course, mandatory facemasks). If you're going to have people on campus that's probably the safest way to do it
Let me be clear, I do not. I think the U.S. government in its state can barely run itself. It appears to be actively working to be as net harmful to the general populous as possible.

I genuinely believe in Amazon and its humans. But at some point in the distant future internet infrastructure will be so ingrained in our lives that it IS our society, and I want to live in a Democracy.

I want our representatives to continue asking powerful companies how they're handling our data, and if they're becoming too big, and all of these things. I see this as a fundamentally good thing.

I don't believe that AWS should be handed to the government, that would kill AWS. I believe that when something becomes critical to the public we should talk about what that means, and how we stay safe.

Amazon holds themselves to an incredibly high bar, and I really applaud them for that. It made me proud to work there when we talked about how critical the work was, and I was awed to see how far we would go to recover from disaster.

But Amazon has this saying about relying on mechanisms and not best intentions, and relying on Amazon's best intentions is foolish as a citizenry; we should continue to question them. And if at some point in the future we realize that AWS is more important than the self-governing society that we live in we should ask whether that is okay.

Tech companies have become some of the most powerful entities in the world in short decades. In generations they could become the world. We shouldn't rely on their best intentions.
Startup is simulating school reopening with agent-based Covid-19 modeling
thank you Cameron. Just pushed update to site last week. Appreciate the feedback. Working on it now
Okay- that makes more sense, gotcha. So you'd be OK working with somebody on a project, regardless of their actions outside that project?

I don't think I would. For example, if somebody liked to spend their time skinning small animals alive and posting the videos on YouTube, I don't think I'd accept a job at their company. That's just a bit too far for me!

But if it's not for you- well, guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that one.
One of the major goals of Unicode was to support round trip conversion from all the widely-used character sets into Unicode, and then back out again. In particular, supporting popular Japanese character sets was important for technical and commercial reasons.

There was a lot of weird stuff in the world's character sets.

Emoji were first used by Japanese cell phone carriers. They were encoded as Shift JIS characters, but in incompatible ways. The Unicode Consortium had no real interest in this until Google and Apple basically said, "If we're going to have to support all these character sets, could we please standardize them?"

I think it's just the reality of standardizing the world's character sets. A lot of weird legacy stuff will slip in, and other countries will want to standardize things that seem unnecessary. Personally, I'm very thankful that somebody wants to do all the exhausting political work of coming to a consensus. A few snowmen are small price to pay.
I recently was wrestling with MediaSync on my side project to make a direct link generator for reddit videos. For those who don't know, reddit videos (https://v.redd.it/8ac6uk4bbxg51) play in reddit's custom video player. After some digging, it turns out that reddit hosts the audio and video streams separately and syncs them together on the client side. I eventually was able to implement media sync (though it doesn't cover all cases), and have tremendous respect for those trying to solve the same problem.

Here is a demo of my media sync implementation - https://vreddit.vercel.app/?vid=8ac6uk4bbxg51&q=2
The Fast of the Virgin Mary: Evolving with Egypt’s Coptic Society
By "before" I mean "before you account for royalties from the app store. Of course you wouldn't expect R&D to pay for itself in the first year.

Apple doesn't rely on the royalty revenue to make iPhones profitable (and shouldn't be allowed to).
Vernor vs. Autodesk, Inc
Interesting video, especially with a drone over so much hot air. Amazing how much land is already gone. And the truck itself is just a memory while plenty of the bales of hay are still sitting around unharmed, you can really see the 'R' value at work there.

It almost looks as though the fire started in the truck itself or on one of the rear brakes, was there a report on the cause of the fire in this particular case?

edit: amazing coordination as well, at one point working on the fire in four different places.
Who said users can't be told about the system?
Ya, that’s an outlier, over a quarter of people drop out of college because they can’t handle following directions.
In one case, I sold a car and the buyer wanted to pay only part of the price at first. I was young and trusting so I agreed. He never paid it. Yes, I thought I was helping him because he wanted a car and was short of money, but no, I wasn't expecting to give him free money. Now I know better, I wouldn't do that, but it's usually naive people who get ripped off. If everyone had a good clear understanding of every situation involving money, nobody would get ripped off.
And/Or if purchased during last year's "Freedom Week" (as part of the initial ruling in this case)
Blocked by Windows Smart Screen Filter. Curious way to manage a release.
You're not. These studies draw an arbitrary line for what counts as broadband. And they typically ignore wireless and satellite options. Most people will have a cable, a DSL, and several wireless options.

The profit margin of the large cable companies reflect that. They're pretty much middle of the pack for the S&P 500. It's a capital intensive and relatively low margin business.

Look at Google Fiber. They had cities falling over themselves to get it and huge consumer demand. Ultimately they abandoned it because it doesn't make enough money.
You are totally right. And it will take me a very long time before I want to have investors again (if ever at all).
That's remarkably well done, but the underlying principle can be summarised as "regression towards the mean" which is not so difficult to understand.

Now explain this: when the sheep are cooped up in one box you can extract energy from the system. This becomes apparent if you imagine the boundary between the boxes is a fan. As the sheep move from what is a high pressure on one side to 0 pressure on the other they will move the fan. Attach a generator to the fan, and you get energy out.

This configuration, with high pressure on the side low on the other, will happen every so often through random chance. Admittedly not very often, in fact so rarely it's useless to us. But in principle we have a perpetual motion machine.

We don't, of course. But why not?

And more to the point is the 2nd law nothing more than a statement of averages? By which I mean "order always tends towards disorder" is in fact false. We will every so often see order arise from disorder. So the 2nd law is not really a hard and fast law, any more then "you always loose when gambling at the casino" is a hard and fast law.
My understanding is that the FCC is very partial towards existing ISP. If I'm correct, how likely are they to negatively impact starlink accessibility to end user? Do they even have such power?

I would very much appreciate if someone more knowledgeable could give her opinion.
Europe appears to be also accelerating into a second wave as well[1].

[1]: https://time.com/5876132/europe-coronavirus-second-wave/
> The OS shouldn't be permitting inappropriate behaviour by apps, regardless of where they came from.

Sure, but they all do.
I’m very skeptical that 60% of all people prefer to work from home. In my experience, it’s a small but vocal minority who don’t value the social component of an office. I think work from home should totally be optional, but why do work-from-homers assume that everyone else likes to work that way? I do not.
I’ve been learning rust (and my first lower-than-python language) these past six months by writing a game boy emulator (it can run Tetris!!!)

It’s been one of the least frustrating most satisfying programming experiences of my life. I don’t think there’s a better language to learn while learning how to write an emulator.

Combined with the plugin for vscode, it’s my wingman that points me in the right direction whenever I want to do something stupid. The compiler errors are amazingly descriptive for a newbie.

The limitations it puts on borrowing And sharing references forced my emulator to take on a design I hadn’t planned. And completely unaware, months later, I’m uncovering so many reasons why I’m so glad I was pressed to do it that way.
Business Improvement Districts are expanding across DC. Whats a BID anyway?
I think (perhaps) a better comparison is we don't allow people to shout fire in a crowded theater. Every right has some limitations, otherwise laws and government are irrelevant.
Most of us prefer the isp not going which IPs are going through so they can't QoS the stuff we like to the lowest. Although I suppose they could they could do the same with any traffic they can't readily identify and just throttle anything that looks like a VPN.
I asked the same question to my professor when I took thermodynamics as an undergrad. In that class we are told that a particle in a box of size 2 can be in twice as many places as a particle in a box of size 1. But in real analysis we learn there are just as many numbers between 0 and 1 as there are between 0 and 2. The answer I was given, in true physicists form, is hand-wave it. There's an intuitive notion that twice as big means twice as many places to be, therefore just accept it and let the mathematicians cry over our abuse of the reals.

The true answer is that "quanta of energy" is not a simplification. The idea that physical variables like energy and position come in discrete units is the quant in quantum physics. If you imagine the position of a particle in a box of size 1 to be discretized into n states, then a box of size 2 really would have 2n states. So all of your concerns are moot because quantum mechanics replaces all the uncountable sets with countable ones.

But this still leaves us with the issue that Boltzmann did all this work before quantum mechanics existed so there must be some useful notion of "bigger uncountable infinities". The answer, as far as I know, is that you can always approximate classical physics with finite precision variables so long as the precision is high enough (replace the reals with floats). The idea of counting states works for any arbitrarily precise (but still finite) discretized variables, and as far as physicists care an arbitrarily precise approximation is the same as the real thing.
> hoping Apple kicks FB off their app store

If they start by kicking what you don't like, then next time they'll kick what you use every day, and nobody will be able to prevent it, because it already became norm.

Freedom (including market freedom) is much more important than personal preferences.
PC XT was my first computer, and when I think of owning one, I immediately go to how loud and slow the 5 1/4 floppies were.

I'm sure I'd just roll my eyes as I hear the disk lock in place and start burping mechanically.

This is one of the huge benefits of the FPGA setup, you can make a first pass on real hardware if you want, but once the data is read in, you can keep it side loaded in an SD card and never deal with the slow peripheral again. Taking a modern IO device back in time is really kind of awesome.
You may be confusing anecdotes with statistics.
Sure, I have no problem with calling all advertising unethical. A lot of software A/B tests also land in unethical territory too.
there’s no such thing though-
all organizations are political. You can pretend that libertarian technocrat capitalist is neutral, but that says more about your politics than anything else
Also for privacy in general from the ISP you use. It's nice to decouple your traffic from what is happening in that traffic. Only facebook/amazon/etc need to know where I'm headed on their particular website.
Interesting article from Joel spoolsky on unicode and character sets.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
No, I don't. If marriage would be a millenia-old tradition of status of same-sex pairs, that propagated into the legal system, and in the year 2020 there would be a petition to make the same status apply to different-sex pairs, and I would be a vocal proponent of that petition, I would still not see what's wrong with being opposed to that petition. That's his opinion, he has all the rights to defend it. And I would still despise anybody who has trouble understanding how active rivalry on one topic may co-exist with active cooperation on some other topic.
Transient uranium nanowire structure when forming UO2
At my college appartment we had a fishbowl with glass fish in the window, which at the right time of year focused light just right on the couch. We saw a wisp of smoke one day, but there were several little burn marks in a line from previous days.
Initial versions of Starlink would reflect so much light that they would overwhelm significant areas of the sensors. If the reflection issue is resolved with the new sun shades, then the satellite trails can be removed during post-processing.
Actually it was in a weird part of Costa Mesa. No one had fiber close enough and the cable provider wanted thousands to install the cable to the premises. You can be a block away and get cable or Verizon/Frontier
>Nanoscale mechanism of UO2 formation through uranium reduction by magnetite

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17795-0
Isn’t that why 25% drop off after the first year? They move on to jobs that take 10-20 years off of their life spans (manual trades, high stess, etc.)
Probably flux at first, and after some time an equilibrium. People get used to all kinds of things - change or die, for companies and careers alike. Worrying about this will be irrelevant after some time. Too much concern on this kind of suggests to me that a significant portion of people’s pay is based on the perception of productivity derived from interfacing with many people at work, but not necessarily producing a lot more for the company than saliva.
It won't because people that currently use firefox would definitely switch over to chrome/chrome-based browsers then.
Oddly enough I’m the exact opposite here. I’m pretty down on the whole vote by mail thing, just because I cannot trust the local USPS to get things delivered in a timely manner. We’re talking tens of lost/damaged/late items where I’ve had a grand total of one lost and one damaged UPS package in the same 10 years or so. (I was a former heavy eBayer)

It’s gotta be regional, because I’ve heard stories like yours about all of the carriers. Problem is there doesn’t seem to be a way for a mere mortal to effect change if your local couriers all suck.
You might be right, but where are you getting the 2% from?
Are you thinking of just emoticons, emojis, playing card symbols, and snowmen? There's more than that I'd question.
Yes, it is. I (not op) live in the UK, and have the same situation but they are all resellers. Presumably the company I buy from (a snaller, self claimed "clean" company) pay a base rate plus some ount specifically to the sources they claim to generate from, rather than a company like EDF or Scottish Power who will likely charge resale + profit
But you’re missing the reality of the situation. Hypothetically cable is better and cheaper but in reality it isn’t because of corruption and the fact that cable has to occupy a physical space which forced the involvement of governments which makes everything terrible. Starlink will finally provide good competition to these bastards in rural areas... im in Des Moines metro area where cable sucks for no reason. I can’t wait.