skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, suppose as proposed that the H2 in an object couldn't survive the journey. What makes us certain that Oumu is interstellar? Haven't seen that convincing argument (in human-readable form).

Voyagers I and II are leaving the solar system; they got the kinetic energy to do that. I'm not convinced that all plausible histories for that happening within the SS without human assistance have been explored. As for the makeup of the object ... that will remain hypothetical. Maybe if we'd seen it sooner ...
There are definitely some benefits. If people are trying to sneak stuff past you if benefits you to not explain what you found or how you found it when you reject things. If someone submits an app containing shady things X, Y and Z and you just respond "no dice", now they have to either remove all of the shady things they were doing, or try to guess which one(s) were detected. They can proceed by trail and error, but in the process they will reveal a lot of their secrets because Google can compare the diffs of the submitted apps to learn about other shady things that the developers think might have triggered the rejection.
Tried it in the '80s too, here's an ad from around 1981

https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/All-programs-you-need-sma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29
Infantry only helps tanks when the opposition is close; if your opponent is using Kornet/Javelin type launchers and maneuvering after launch, the infantry won't matter a lick. What does is artillery matched with UAVs to spot the hunter/killer ATGM teams.
> Also many of your favorite video creators may already use services like LBRY and Bitchute.

Or moving to Nebula. Somehow https://watchnebula.com/ gained a lot of attention recently with maybe half of my yt subscriptions also publishing there. (Or maybe it's just my bubble)
Yeah, but the problem is, how were you to know at that time that this was the one that would strike it big?

Every one of 1,000 young startup-y aspiring entrepreneurs thinks he/she is the next one. If you could bet right, you should become a VC.
"All but" means "almost" or "nearly". (Most of the time -- as usual English has exceptions and inversions for this.)

In this case I think it means "nearly".
> They should create legislation to control access to all app stores to prevent this rent seeking

I agree that the situation is really bad, but I do not trust that governments would be able to set laws and regulations to control such specifics of app stores.
This is such an unenlightened comment, in an era where money buys political power (Lessig's "economy of influence" might be worth looking into).
Seems like a very one-sided article that focuses predominantly on health risks and points out that relocation might not have been warranted and seems to suggest that this shifts the calculus.

There's however not just health risk but also economic risk. There's different estimations of how much the entire Fukushima catastrophy cost but estimates range from dozens of billions of dollars to hundreds of billions[1]. And even if relocation hadn't been mandatory I'm not so sure regions that get the stigma of being radiated would survive anyhow and I can imagine a lot of voluntary exodus and as a result further economic and property damage.

Regardless of what particular number one picks, it was economically absolutely devastating.

[1]hhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clearing-the-radi...
The desire to survive and expand is not a human trait, it is a natural result of evolution. Any successful evolved species will have this desire because those that don't, don't get anywhere.

Interstellar civilizations are unlikely to be biological, but evolution still applies. All it takes is for one civilization in the whole galaxy to decide to build Von Neumann probes, and they'll have taken control of all unoccupied systems in the galaxy in short order.
It doesn't matter! Don't give them the power to!

There's a Richard Feynman quote from the Challenger postmortem: absence of a particular kind of failure in the past doesn't guarantee absence of the same kind of failure in the future.
Although, the benefit of having cheap mobile internet / Fiber broadband plans is - you can have multiple redundant backup services!

I spend a few months a year in Mumbai, India.

I have a truly unlimited 300Mbps fiber connection as the primary source ($25/Mo), a second 100 Mbps connection from a different company as backup ($10/Mo) and my mobile LTE as the third backup ($10/Mo). AND my international roaming US Google Fi network as the 4th backup for $10/GB :)

This setup does work pretty well for me.The backups have come in handy at times.
Cold fusion generally refers to a fringe research area, sometimes outright scientific fraud. Basing speculation on it moves you into space opera territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

What you're referring to is simply... practically useful fusion (beyond commercial breakeven). Which is obvious from the context and does not require an extra qualifier. The same way as fission isn't referred to "controlled chain reaction fission" in casual conversation.
Well, at least Apple doesn't take a cut from restaurants for Apple Pay.
No.

"Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions"

Moz will likely pocket $400m to $450m a year between now and 2023 from the arrangement, citing internal discussions held earlier this year.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24156813
Analyse the fundamentals. Thats what hedge funds do.
On twitter, im fairly sure AMP links are not hosted by Google. They use a standard developed and pushed by google but I believe the pages themselves are not served by them unless they are accessed from google search.
I also really enjoyed Inbox
What's so usable about Google docs? I mainly use Excel and the Google docs version is unbearable in terms of ui speed and more limited in functions.
FDWs are a powerful feature. We’ve done a lot of work to make scaffolding them easier, if you use sgr. One of our earlier blog posts includes an example of making an FDW for the HN API and packaging it as a Splitgraph mount handler. [0]

There’s also this great post about using FDWs for parallel query execution, by David Grier at Swarm64. [1] They seem to be doing cool things with FDWs too.

Personally I think proxies are a really powerful abstraction in general. Cloudflare and Twilio are two examples of companies built around proxies.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/foreign-data-wrappers

[1] https://swarm64.com/post/scaling-elastic-postgres-cluster/
It’s interesting to see this as #1 just now. It’s a little tangential, I’ve actually been doing a lot of researching on the recent changes to Search and fallout that users have reported + some further research into my own anecdotal change in experience of Search results for the better part of the day; plus it’s something I’ve been researching on and off since the beginning of 2020 when I noticed a significant change in the quality of search results I was getting (I.e. trying to search for web pages, published resources that I know are on the web and that I’ve located with Search, prior, and unfortunately, having a harder time with that. Plus there’s some other UI/UX changes in that time frame, too). That said, I have essentially come to the conclusion that I need to pivot away from Search and find/use one of the other search engines or risk further diminishing return within a number of research tasks. :(
I was wondering what happened to it! Makes sense, weird uncanny eyes might be ok in a work conferencing tool but I think FaceTime is used for too many personal and intimate calls for it to be acceptable.
Are you suggesting that Oumu was some sort of Oort cloud object that was disturbed into a hyperbolic trajectory? That seems a lot less likely than Oumu originating outside of the sun's gravitational influence.
The same way politicians build bridges and operate air traffic control systems: by hiring experts to do it.
Incentives change. Right now there’s zero incentive for a driver to log in at remote location at weird hours - they go where and when the riders are. If you’re guaranteed a minimum pay just for making yourself available, all of a sudden logging yourself into a system at 2 am in a sleepy suburb is basically free money.
Fermi said it first.. Not gonna happen. And the panopticon can not prevent the abuse of new exponential. A fine mousetrap to catch a species in..
I've got almost 12TB stored in my Google Drive so that alone makes it basically impossible to switch. There's no other provider I'd trust with that much data for the price (G Suite). As much as I'd love to switch, it's just not worth the headache IMO.
Less cheesy -- actually one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Rr4xIUYr4
Agree with your first point, but Protonmail is at least a marginal improvement.
That's what people say but we produce many orders of magnitude more toxic chemical waste which is dangerous forever. The fact that nuclear waste becomes safe over time almost seems like an advantage (over other forms of waste at least).
"The App Store guidelines ensure a high-quality, reliable, and secure user experience. They are transparent and applied equally to developers of all sizes and in all categories." - tim cook

i can envision a scenario where apple legal, in preparation for their battle with epic, gave that statement a critical look. after realizing the myriad of exceptions and omissions they have in app store enforcement, they decided they need to run a clean up campaign immediately and the WP app simply ended up a casualty of this process.
> I personally thought it was reasonably clear.

Well I must be mad because I still can't understand it from your explanation. I know it's against policy to take them to the smaller museum and this is why he was fired... but... why?

Why did they make it against policy? Why do they not want to work with the other museum? Why do they not get along?

> basically to pretend the small museum does not exist/is not worth visiting

Why do they want to pretend that the small museum does not exist and is not worth visiting?

There's like ten fundamental and completely unexplained why's still left after your explanation. I don't know how that can be 'reasonably clear'.
I'm confused. Doesn't iCloud mail require an apple id, which in turn requires a lot of your pii?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204316
It hogs my gaming machine! Come on, Microsoft!
It's a terrible idea for humans on our planet because we are squishy biological beings whose life is intrinsically dependent on the biosphere around us.

Self-replicating hyper-intelligent artificial beings presumably will be able to redesign themselves to match any target environment.

Note: This is not a moral judgment. I obviously think it would be awful if some AI gray goo consumed the universe and wiped out all the unique forms of life. But I think that's a rather human value and I don't see why the AI would share it.
Aerogel Meets 3D Printing
Human factors are always an issue. In the US there's a lot of regulations that are being relaxed to allow nuclear power plants to continue to function. This is the issue I've always seen.
Yes, but they aren't scared of bombs but instead hidden tapes.
>for my Canadian internet plan.

What is a "Canadian internet plan"? Service is far different in rural Northern Ontario than it is in Toronto.
Agree with fluidcraft here. I don't want to discount the importance of numerical analysis, but the different preprocessing and analysis packages that I am personally aware of make substantively different decisions about how to proceed. For example, a psycho-physiological analysis, a connectivity analysis that tries to show how connectivity with a seed region changes in response to task condition, done in SPM will deconvolve the BOLD signal in the seed region to get at a purported neural signal, while in FSL, the condition regressor is convolved with haemodynamic response function. Both are "correct" in that in an ideal world you should get similar results doing either thing, but in the real world you very well may not. Similarly, different packages may make different assumptions about smoothness of brain regions in calculating whether the size of a cluster is significantly above zero.

And even when you use the same software package, there are various things you might do differently, parameters you might set differently; even the order of certain operations maybe switched around. A classic example of that has to do with slice timing correction. Since fMRI slices are acquired at different times, a typical thing to do would be to interpolate the slices so that you can treat them as if they were acquired all at the same time. However, motion correction between volumes, in which subject motion is partially corrected by jiggling around each image until they maximally overlap each other, can be done before or after slice timing correction; but the consequences of that is that motion artifacts can propagate through volumes in different ways depending on the order you do it in; but neither order is definitely better, because it matters how much motion is a problem in the scans, and how long it takes to acquire a volume (e.g. tr 2 seconds), and so on.
Robert Spector documented a lot of the earliest stuff in
his book "Get Big Fast" (he even managed to speak to quite a few of the actual people involved).

One of the problems with properly documenting the first year or so is that the people involved mostly don't want to talk about it, or want to turn it into the stuff of legend.

The one person who was there for the full first 5 years besides Jeff (and Mackenzie, to whatever extent she was deeply involved, which I never sensed was a lot, but I may be wrong about that) doesn't like talking about Amazon publicly (though he did a little for a recent PBS documentary). Lots of other people came and went during that time (including me), and we're all a bit like the blind folk feeling out the elephant: we know part of the story, but not the full picture.

Jeff himself doesn't seem very interested in talking about the early period, or if he does, it seems important to him that the story describes a trajectory that obviously connects with what was to come (which is not entirely unfair).

The people who stayed for the long haul generally don't want to talk, it seems; the people who left mostly have not-so-positive stories to tell at this point (partly because of the behemoth that the company has become).

Personally, I think that Amazon's complete failure to take the high road in creating the model of retail in the 21st century is the more important story than details from the early days. The appalling treatment of employees, the conflicts between operating a marketplace and being a seller within that marketplace, and the general emphasis on our lives as consumers instead of the more important roles of citizen and employee .... this is what's really important about the Amazon story in my opinion.

Oh wait, it's HN. You want to hear about how I pushed and pulled C++ objects to and from Oracle in 1994, and how integrated that into NSAPI, amirite? :)
They can't lock me out of my account if I do it myself first!
> Because drivers, generally speaking, are not well-informed of their costs.

I dunno, going through some forum threads on UberPeople shows exact opposite - drivers meticulously track their take, expenses, etc. - there is even a cottage industry of tools giving them all sorts of data analytics in exchange for the ride data.

Anecdotally, I’ve seen one driver keep a spreadsheet of various gasoline brands and his mpg (my destination was near Costco and I casually suggested he use it to refuel, and got an earful on how Costco was in his top 5, but not the best options to refuel).
I always recall an Apple patent[1] from years ago that posited interspersing the camera pixels with the display pixels. I wonder where they got with that...

[1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7535468B2/en
You ditch all the microservices and develop the app like a normal human being.
I went basically the same route; got rid of my Google account (GMail, Android, etc.) and switched to an iPhone. The only things left where I indirectly use Google (see below) are precisely Google search and YouTube like you.

> Then there‘s the search engine. I tried hard to replace Google Search with DDG, but I have to admit that Google gives me better search results. Still I would love to leave this also behind.

I have the same experience; I’ve tried switching multiple times, but at least for scientific topics, I find DDG far inferior to Google Search. My current workaround is to use StartPage.com, which is just a website that searches Google for you, but without letting Google track you.

> Finally there is youtube for me. Ain‘t no alternative I know about.

If you don’t need to actively publish or comment on videos, you don’t need a Google account to get most of the convenience of YouTube. Personally, I just use a good old RSS client to track my YouTube feeds in the same place I track other content (e.g. HackerNews posts). If you say that you use iDevices, I can recommend “News Explorer”, which syncs your feeds via iCloud (in contrast to all the RSS solutions that require a separate sync account).
I don’t know why this is being downvoted. It’s the truth, except that it doesn’t happen just in India. Every country has their own version of this.
Yes but in those cases would you really be looking to be Frugal like this? I figured the underlying assumption is that this is a tip for regular folks
>Important point. I was talking to my brother in India. Last month internet service was down in their building for 4 days. Unlike folks who go apoplectic over this, he understands that 3rd world prices do not come with first world service quality in practice.

4 days is pretty good turn around time for most US cities that aren't NY or SF.
Punishing them because they could hypothetically do something sounds quite strange to me. Why not punish them for actually doing it, or for planning on doing it? There are tons of crimes I could hypothetically do, I hope I don't get punished for just being able to hypothetically do them.

Secondly, what are the laws about private organizations promoting candidates? If TikTok wants to promote a candidate they should follow those laws. If they obey the laws, that should be fine. If they don't, they should be punished according to those existing laws. If the laws aren't restrictive enough, the laws should be changed.
I mean, it's trained on the Internet. It kind of makes sense that the epistemological value of GPT-3's statements are essentially zero. It may even contradict itself in ways the Internet never could.
Indeed. I'd expect panics -> throw/catch -> panics... - since those both unwind the stack until they reach a handler by default - but Result -> throw/catch? No way. Making a work-alike and calling it rust::Result would be much more appropriate IMO.

Even setting aside personal taste, some gamedev platforms - even in $(CURRENTYEAR) - still default to C++ exceptions being disabled. And may throw linker errors if you try to enable exceptions, while linking any closed source third party libraries that were built with default exceptionless build settings. I've rewritten my share of exception-based error handling - just to sanely port across platforms - as a result. It's just as well - I've fixed enough bugs where exceptions propigate across a C ABI to consider them UB-bait.

There's a reason Rust lets you configure panic="abort", and a reason it gives you Result s without magic unwinding semantics, and a reason why a lot of C++ codebases have ended up with some kind of custom Result-alike.
> costs ~$15 for the same in the United States

I'm not sure where you get $15. The linked site says $8:

"with 1GB costing an average $12.55 in Canada and $8.00 in the US."

Nor do I get why you think all of Asia is inexpensive. South Korea is far worse than the US, despite a far lower median income, at $10.94 average. If you adjust that to the US, it's more like $24 (200% higher than the US). And Japan is fairly bad vs global prices as well when adjusted for income levels (around $6 to $6.50 equivalent in US terms).

Why are US prices higher than they should be? Two primary reasons. First, the two big telcos initiated (and held) the market at a very high price point from inception. The US was the first large cellular and smartphone market. It has taken limited competition, primarily in the form of T-Mobile, more than a decade to drag those high prices downward.

Second, wealth / income adjustments. Consider the Ukraine example. The US has ~20 times the GDP per capita of Ukraine in a typical year. Their $0.46 cost is comparable to more like $9.20 with a US adjustment, which is higher than the US cost. US median disposable incomes are among the highest, only comparable to smaller affluent countries like Australia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland.

You also can't sell 1gb for $10 in Ukraine, it's not a very good business model. The people can't afford those prices. The telecom operators in countries like Ukraine do not make very much money selling mobile plans.

Most telecom operators around the world operate at very thin margins with low profits. Verizon by itself generated $30.4 billion in operating income in 2019. AT&T generated $29.4 billion in operating income. T-Mobile generated $5.7 billion in operating income.

So between the three US telecom operators, that's $65.6 billion in operating income every year (best compared to Apple or Microsoft in size). The entire rest of the world has nothing remotely like that profit bonanza, outside of a select few large operators.
The Disaster Poet
Significantly less than digging up millions of tons of coal. Note also that coal is somewhat radioactive too, and there is a lot more of it, so the radiation difference is small and might even favor nuclear
I think you're just NYC-fucked. Just because the company is based there doesn't give CA any claim to income from your options. That's if the company is even based in CA. There's a good chance it's based in Delaware.
If you love Google then you're not the target audience for this. It's for people who ~~acknowledge the obvious fact that~~ believe Google is evil and want to minimize their interaction with the company.
It's a great cognitive bias. I myself was buying $5 bitcoins when I was 12 at 7-11!

I'm sure there's a million and one other amazing investments right now that I'm not aware of, but they're not obvious.
Their search results suck. Are getting worse every year.

IMHO.
Same. As far as I know, HO mobile is the cheapest one at 6€ for 70GB
The interesting game people will get to play is if Biden wins and Democrats control at least the House, do you hold onto your shares and hope the Democrats bring back the SALT deduction.
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