skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody at every college is saying that it could work if the students behave themselves when they're not in class. Then in the next breath, they say: It can't work.

Oddly enough I went to ND for grad school, though it was many years ago. The campus was isolated from the surrounding town, but not completely isolated.
That's still not semantic though, hn isn't a linear log. It's a tree. Linking to comments by I'd isn't really useful
Their financials are public and are a simple search away. They already have a 9 figure rainy day fund.
How was the LTE signal with a good quality antenna? LTE is already faster than this, assuming you can get at least a half signal.
yes, that’s the dictionary definition.

you’re also ignoring that you’ve proved the rest of the world that investing in US is not as safe as everybody thought so. it may byte you in the near future (i don’t wish that, though).
It's because there are political incentives to make voting difficult. President Trump has even said that the GOP is hurt when it's easier to vote [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/30/trump-vot...
> Which includes preventing people from funneling the money to their friends.

Wasn’t the whole Pocket debacle exactly this. The people behind Pocket had friends at Mozilla who signal boosted them and later acquired them?
I'm flagging this post just because of this comment, doesn't sit right with me.
Please don't start this again. HN is a site for curiosity, not repetition (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) and particularly not flamewars (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), which are the most destructive form of repetition.

The GP should not have posted flamebait, and the repliers should not have taken the bait.
That it's technically superfluous doesn't mean it's practically useless.
Will do, thank you! : }
Yeah, this is very annoying. It's not every company, but it's enough different companies to be a problem.

PayPal (a company that more or less constantly moans about phishing) operated www.paypal-special.com which is a tremendously phishy-looking name, but it was a real PayPal site until they shut it down.

One nice side effect of WebAuthn binding credentials to a dnsName is that you can't change domain names without trashing all the credentials. It's mechanically impossible. So when yet another marketing genius wants customers to go to some-daft-marketing-idea.example instead of your-actual-website.example they can put fluff on that site if they want, but any sign-in or other credentials stuff will need to happen on your-actual-website.example anyway.
It's that simple going up to maybe 70% of energy consumption. As you note we're still in single digits. Until we reach critical points where large scale storage becomes truly necessary we still have time to get things that work in small scales up to mass production. For example batteries and Power-to-X technology. The only thing missing is political will to address the problem.
I have no interest in a pointless debate about the semantic difference between the passenger compartment Vs rear crumble zone and what "safety critical" means, no do I over the word "common" in "common vehicle glues."

If you're going to read my post with the worst possible interpretation then try to correct that uncharitable reading, I just have no interest in a discussion.
We're gathering abundant evidence by now that outdoor gatherings aren't a source of infection - whether they're protests (the anti-mask protesters didn't incur spikes, either) or beach days.

We've got lots of evidence bars are problematic, and MN opened theirs right around the same time the protests were getting going.
Makes you wonder if buying a Tesla to scrap for parts would be worthwhile at all.
A counter argument is that personal computing is an extension of the human mind, and therefore data secured on personal computing devices should be subject to the usual 5th amendment protection against self incrimination.

I don't foresee courts being sympathetic to this argument any time soon, so it is up to us to design technical solutions that protect this right.
It would add a lot of force to your comment and its conclusion if you could cite a webpage making similar concrete recommendations from prior to this incident.

[I'm not doubting it exists-- I mean the above sincerely. Your point would be a lot more forceful if you showed it wasn't hindsight bias.]
If a party in Germany wanted to do the same thing, it would make voting more difficult in rural or urban areas, or east or west, or similar, depending on where its support was. This sort of manipulation of outcomes via some form of discrimination is _possible_ everywhere. The US does seem unusual for a developed country in that there are major organised attempts to _reduce the number of people who vote_, though. And possibly unique anywhere in that senior elected officials have mentioned this in the context of it being a good thing.

Generally, in a democracy, more voting is, at least publicly, considered better (in private, of course, some party officials might disagree, but the backlash if they tried to _do_ anything about it would be unthinkable).

I actually wonder to what extent this is a function of how democracy developed in the US vs everywhere. At least in the popular mythology, voting went from available to all male members of the ethnic majority, to all members of the ethnic majority, to everyone (this isn't actually quite true; a number of southern states had property qualifications for whites pre-civil war). Whereas a more common pattern of development elsewhere was the vote for practically no-one -> the vote for a very few (property qualifications) -> the vote for all men -> the vote for everyone. Most people in Europe will need to look back no more than a few generations to see where _their_ family wasn't able to vote, which may cause people to be more defensive of the institution.

There's also the example of history; most of Europe's 20th century totalitarian regimes screwed with voting early in their development.
Aha, saw that myself an hour ago too. Wish I'd downloaded Fortnite now when I could. Thanks for the correction.

The Google survey I received specifically asked about experiences as a developer with the Epic Store, whether I thought customers would pay a subscription fee for access to the Play Store & Android updates, and whether I would trust the Play Store & Android if they were no longer owned and run by Google/Alphabet. So it will be fascinating to see how the court rulings change the tech landscape.
Constraints. Using simpler, less powerful tools; self-imposing arbitrary design restrictions; publicly committing to tight deadlines; etc. Makes your brain go into must-beat-this-game mode, stimulates creativity, and channels your energy.
I know the person who is working on an implementation of this in GCC. However, it is still early days and the implementation is not ready for public consumption. Other than that, I've only seen this transformation on academic papers.
Having this kind of network is a good thing but the idea that any kind of satellite or wireless can replace wires is just fantasy.

Delivering just 10Mbps to 100 million customers is over 900 Tbps. There is absolutely no way a satellite network can clear that kind of downlink bandwidth. And that's just a tiny fraction of the market.

Physical cables/fiber represent several orders of magnitude more capacity and always will. So satellite is great for remote areas or unique situations but absolutely not a substitute for running cables.
But Apple does blatantly MITM urls into their own proprietary walled garden! Just a few days ago there was a HN post about Safari On iOS 14 redirecting from certain articles to Apple News. It was, of course, quickly flagged away from the front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24113056
If I actually believed that I was the customer, and not the product; yes.

Obviously, that depends on a lot of things, but something that would recommend, cache/archive, catalog things I find interesting/care about. I would be willing to pay for something like it. I already pay for pandora, I'd absolutely pay for something that expanded my knowledge base.
Of several friends, we all got about 1.5 to 2mbps over LTE there. But the ping was worse... So I used the DSL :)
What are Trump's policy achievements and how have materially improved your life since 2016?
It means people don't value curiosity, don't care for science or anything that requires intellectual rigor. You'll never be able to host any kind of technical meetup here, no one would care to come. At least on the outer islands, maybe in Honolulu on O'ahu you could.
This really isn't a reputable news source - this blog literally exists to pump the share price.
I think the point is that outside of some big sites like Reddit with /r/ that over time the actual path has become completely meaningless and is just a site-specific chunk of data that sometimes happens to be a permalink useful to users but often is just a way for the site-operator to organize their stuff.

This whole thing is just a reflection of the trend that URLs just mean actual.user.path.domain.tld/server/route#client/route
Epic has sued Google over removal of Fortnite from Google Play store [pdf]
Basically, incompetence. Happens everywhere, but especially in places where people just don't care much about anything (I am from such a country).

People who stored the fireworks didn't know about the ammonium nitrate, not their problem.

Welders didn't know anything. They just came to do their job.

Safety standards are just not a thing in many places. It's even considered a joke among many workers - you gotta work fast, not care about your ears/hands/eyes/cars/surroundings etc. It's sad.

People managing the warehouse also didn't know about what's going on, and likely didn't care enough to find out.
I saw this as a teenager and never have I sobbed as hard as I did watching a movie. It was devastating and I too will never watch it again, even though it's a beautiful movie.

In contrast, I must have watched "Spirited Away" at least 50 times and have gifted it as present to the young ones in my extended family. Not only is the animation compelling but so is the story, the characters and the soundtrack. It's a message about resilience and adaptability and encompasses the spiritual and the fantastical.
Maxwell was essentially doing this with activated charcoal, weren't they? While it might be surprising to many of us, I doubt it's that surprising to anyone working, or even investing, in this problem domain.
Wow I often feel that way when I do most things! I think you just have a passion for programming and it is your hobby in addition to profession.
> None of the carmakers do R+D on basic materials and are limited by the commercially available alloy formulas.

Materials research has been constantly reducing car weight for decades, at the same time that safety was improved and production costs reduced. New aluminum and steels are developed every day.

For example, the development of high strength steels have been driven by the automotive industry. The contribution of Tesla is merely anecdotic at this point.
Right up there with "checking if there's a gas leak with a candle".
> That said, I’m pragmatic about the proprietary back-end. DockerHub and GitHub are insanely popular and they are completely proprietary.
You see this in Orange county, too. Garden Grove and Westminster vs. Irvine.
they posted 2% decline in revenue in Q2 2020, which is not included into your graph.
Better than LTE pings? That makes no sense to me. LTE ping should be <25ms if the target server is close to where it terminates which it typically is with speedtest.
It's ok to name the party. It's the republicans fighting to suppress voting rights.
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Hopper is a mobile first travel company aimed at making it simple and stress free for users to book travel. We predict Hotel and Airline prices, and help customers optimize for price by advising them when to book, and when not to book.

Amongst a range of products built to reduce the stress and complexity involved in travel, we, for example, back our price predictions by offering users the option to freeze a specific price (we cover the difference if the price doesn't drop quite as far as we predicted). We've been helping users who are forced to travel during these challenging times by scaling out capacity for our "Cancel for any Reason" product, and are gradually rolling out other products in a similar vein.

We've raised 70m in funding in May, and are well situated to survive the pandemic. We're looking for senior engineers with iOS chops.

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My understanding is you can't go to a junkyard and bring a Tesla back to life, cause they own the software. Course wonder if someone determined enough could make it work at minimal like a normal car (no self-driving). Reversing the firmware is probably a bit of effort though (I don't think reversing anything is ever truly impossible).
Thermodynamics as a subject is taught in two entirely different traditions, the engineering tradition and the physics tradition. I've taken courses in both traditions and I personally find that physics tradition explains a lot more.

When I took engineering thermodynamics, the focus was on solving "practical" problems, and I never got a good understanding of what entropy was. The point of the class was not to teach physics, though. The point was to get engineers to solve thermodynamics problems (like heat engines and cycles). The primary thing I remember from that course was looking up things in the tables in the back of the book and converting between Btus and other units.

I only understood entropy after taking a statistic physics course. The course's explanation of entropy is basically the same explanation as the article. The point of that class was entirely different than the engineering course, so the professor spent several lectures going into detail about what entropy is and how it relates to everything else. I never had to do any table lookups in that class too.

Side note: you can easily tell what tradition you were taught in based on the sign convention in the first law of thermodynamics you learned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics#Si...
Voting is really the absolute minimum you could do to effect political change.

You can magnify your influence by not just voting but also volunteering for and donating to political organizations, getting involved in local politics (such as running for office yourself or sitting on local boards), becoming and organizer yourself, and educating yourself and others on the issues, organizations, techniques, history, and people involved in politics.
I'm not really convinced. In C++, you could start your hypothetical format function with static_assert(formatter<T>:: exists) or similar and get a very similar error message. (In C++ template terminology, a class like that is also called a trait, funnily enough, but that's just a convention rather than a language feature.) I think you could use C++ concepts to check add part of the function signature, but the functional difference would be very small. And none of these – including Rust traits – help you with compile time checking of format specifiers.
Ya, the 11Mbps side of it is very disappointing. That's pretty in-line with slow DSL and existing satellite connections.

The latency will be interesting to see too, since that was the boldest claim Musk made with this venture. The article seems to have cherry picked the best speedtests to show in their graphic - I'm curious what real-world in-application latencies are, ie. inside Call Of Duty Modern Warefare or something similar.
You and the GP commenter are both simultaneously correct.

However, I think your estimate of 1% is far too low. Hang around in seedy Discord chats, IRC channels, or Facebook groups (or on second though maybe don't... it's an interesting but inadvisable hobby.), and you'll see "degenerate" thrown around as a synonym for "Jew", "Muslim", "homosexual", "transexual" constantly. These usages are fully normalized, even among those who aren't professed neo-nazis but just identify as alt-right and trade in crusader and viking memes and spam "DEUS VULT" in chat.

The adoption of the traits of the crypto- prefix (you can infer what the suffix that usually goes with is...) are a defining characteristic of the modern internet right. They are very savvy to what they can or cannot say in "polite company" or in public, and will deliberately muddy words with multiple connotations (because the in-group can distinguish which is being connoted by context, even if you can't).

In a high visibility context you'll get "it was just a joke bro" or "I just meant like gangster rap and sexualizing minors, do you have a problem with that?". But as soon as they return to more insular spaces, "degenerate" is common currency for referring to races, religions, and sexualities seemed inferior.
LEO is not as much of a problem as higher orbits. At the height that Starlink operates unpropelled debris falls out of the sky relatively quickly due to drag.
Stanford student here. The answer is _yes_ -- afaik, they've extended the deferral deadline to August 19th to give people enough time to make a decision.
I'm not the author, but DNA can be used to encode data. Interpreting your question another way, the parameters of each solution are data, and they metaphorically evolve like genes.
If you have comcast you're probably in range of a T-Mobile tower. Maybe consider their fixed 5G instead. It's coming to my area and Comcast started launching a flurry of deals to try and lock existing customers into a two year contract.
The only real use the path has left on a URL is as a permalink sometimes and for non-computer people it's not clear at all when it is and isn't. I've been sent to many "did I forget to get anything" texts with a link to somesite.com/cart.
Setting partisan politics aside, I don't agree with the idea that you committed a felony == you're mentally unfit to vote.

Once people have served their time they deserve to rejoin society. They are imperfect human beings, but human beings nonetheless. Plus stuff like drug offenses count as felonies and I don't think those people deserve to be ostracized for a lifetime.
uBlock Origin can block a lot more things than a DNS-based blocker can. Some websites load ads from the same domains they load content from.
Obviously Tesla is getting a much larger bang for their R+D buck. That comes from the incredible amount of talent they are able to attract vs. legacy automakers.

That is pretty close to what they do. Modern car companies mostly do integration and final assembly along with some marketing and finance. Vertical integration in the American auto industry died with Henry Ford until Tesla revived it. You could argue that Toyota is somewhat vertically integrated with the cross holdings they have in some of their Japanese suppliers.
Grandparent might be referring to the fact that the founders' vision of limited government was of a government much smaller than what we have today with much less interference in people's lives. If they were alive today the founders would likely be shocked at just how much the (federal) government does and how much it impacts daily life. Since the government was expected to do much less than it does today, voting would have a much less significant impact on people.

Concrete examples that did not exist at founding include:

- social programs (welfare, social security, unemployment benefits)

- high levels of military spending/military industrial complex

- income tax

- many of the executive branch regulatory and other agencies

etc.
It would probably help with rodent and insect problems though...
Yes! The Pyra will start shipping finally in September! I think it's been 6 years in the making?

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/its-software-this-t...
Bluetooth? I would assume direct wifi, ie Airdrop. Use Bluetooth to initiate it but handle the data transfer over high bandwidth wifi
So one thing I've never understood is how you can "count" microstates, or bits required to describe them, when the relevant physical parameters all seem to be real numbers. For instance, a gas of N atoms is described by 6N real numbers (3d position and velocity) regardless of how hot it is. The article talks about quanta of energy, but that seems like a simplification at best: a given interaction might be quantized, but quanta in general (e.g. photons) exist on a real-number spectrum, so it's possible to have an uncountable infinity of energy packet sizes right? (That's the point of a black body, right?)

What am I missing? Is this a weird measure theory thing, where hot objects have even bigger uncountable infinities of states and we get rid them all with something like a change of variables? If you told me spacetime was secretly a cellular automaton I could deal with it, but real numbers ruin everything.
How Complex Systems Fail

https://how.complexsystems.fail/
Starcraft? Wow nice, what was the progression to that point, I assume it was not her first game
Is there any scientific discovery with a longer gap between prediction and validation?
Where did those particles come from? Is there any scientific theory for the beginning of the beginning? A friend who studied physics told me that there's no reason that matter/energy couldn't have just existed forever. I don't find that explanation satisfying. If "entropy always increases" is a universal rule, then there must have been a time where it went from zero to non-zero. If "matter cannot be created or destroyed" is supposed to be a universal rule, then the mere existence of matter seems to contradict the rule, rendering it a non-universal tautology with vast but nonetheless bounded application.
Plotly JavaScript Graphing Library
To be honest it doesn't even have to be that high level. Corruption can stack: you bribe the guy at the customs so it is declared as sth else for example — suddenly the AM you are storing is mountain dew. Or you bribe some other clerk to not file it in a certain category. Suddenly it is not dangerous.

You could even imagine a chain of corruption (=paid lies) to lead to such an outcome. Assuming the on-paper representation of a world a corrupt society produces is accurate enough to base meaningful decisions on them is very optimistic at least.

What was extraordinary was the scale of the blast and the human tragedy it produced. But the fact that it happened wasn't very surprising to anyone who knows a bit about the Lebanon.
> by cynical MBA middle management who saw their opportunity to loot and plunder once the founders were out of the way.

Mitchell Baker, current CEO, _is_ one of the founders. From wikipedioa[1]: "Baker was instrumental in the creation of the Mozilla Foundation"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker
I used ReasonML and Bucklescript for a self-contained part of a massive Typescript project to try it out and it was a joy. Here's hoping more people find out about it and it gets some more widespread adoption.
Given the caliber of the talent that was let go, this re-orientation sounds more like a lobotomy.
I'm also a big fan of Sunsama for my day-to-day. The recurring tasks, subtasks, and task backlog are nice additions.
I think the easier version of that is AMP gets favored and AMP only serves Google ads. I never really thought of that being the endgame, but it makes a lot of sense now that you say it.