skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK, some do advocate having surgery. But plastic surgery is expensive and scary, whereas "Mewing" is a pretty basic set of exercises you can do for free.

If you want to get more psychological about it, perhaps there's a difference in attitude between surgery, which could be said to be constructing a falsehood to cover up the (literally) ugly truth of your own relative inferiority, versus Mewing, which is pitched as more akin to a workout regime to fix something that was unwittingly done to you by modern living. As such, your current face becomes the falsehood, and Mewing is how you reveal the real truth of how you should look.

This might seem to be over-analysis, but I think, in these kinds of communities, narratives matter just as much, perhaps more, than actions. The problem these people have isn't just their situation, but how they feel about the situation. The depression, sense of inadequacy, etc. These feelings can be relieved by explanations that say it isn't you that's wrong, it's the world that's wrong, but that you retain control enough to fix things through the application of will.
> Checkout is unavailable while we observe Shabbat. Please come back when checkout reopens at 9:00 pm ET Sat Aug 22

Huh, I guess this never crossed my mind, but makes sense. TIL.
in USSR it meant sacrificing the plane.

Anyway, looking at those explosions these days it usually reminds me that the total produced nukes by both sides - 100K+ - was sufficient to send an Orion style space ship to the closest star with 1-3% of the speed of light.
I'm actually just now gearing up to homelab a Matrix set up! I'll keep this in mind.
They make you pay what they can.
With most comments being a paragraph or less, I think social media is done for unless it finds a way to put up a wall.

One thought is the subscription model of older social media sites, such as Something Awful. Pay $5 to get an account. Break the rules, get banned, pay another $5.

That's a lot of friction for your most valuable consumers, though. Marketers want users that are less discriminating.

Another is a shift to video and multimedia-based social networking. TikTok, Instagram, Twitch. It doesn't save the comments, though. I'm not sure how long we've got before the videos themselves can be generated with a high degree of novelty.

AI is going to change the game significantly. We're perfectly timed for a technological change of winds that enables new upstarts to challenge the incumbents. I'm kind of excited.
I'd consider all future progeny, "humankind." It matters not what my grandchildren look like; only that they have the opportunity to partake in the beauty that is the conscious experience of this Universe.
This whole video is a fascinating window into Soviet engineering culture of the time, with lots of juicy shots of classic oscilloscopes and the like. I would give my right arm to see a similar video of their space program.

If, like me, you were confused by the propeller blades being black on takeoff, despite being painted white earlier in the video - only the backs were painted, as the aircraft was flying away from the bomb on detonation.
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Here's a piece on the origin of the quote:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
Apparently, lots of businesses are happy with this approach. They keep using it.
That kind of argument has been made many times: a flawless spec is already code.
I'm doing my part in the US by not paying for a single byte of mobile data. They will have to bring the price down for me to consider it.
This is really great guys keep going ! It is amazing to see IDE fellows (I'm IDE alumni) working on something that can help many people during these lock-down times.

In terms of feedback for me it would be great to have group challenges or teams of people joining in for a workout.
Show me another place with 100,000 100k+ jobs.

There aren't many markets like this in the US and they're all expensive. NYC, Northern Virginia/DC. Overheated, maybe, but not by much.
I've looked briefly at the 8088. As you know, the 8088 is a modification of the 8086 with an 8-bit bus instead of the 16-bit bus. Here's a quick summary of the differences:

Looking at the dies, the 8086 and 8088 are completely identical over most of the die. For the most part, I can look at the 8088 die if something is unclear in my 8086 photo.

The biggest difference is the bus control logic, which is entirely different (as you'd expect). This is in the upper-right corner.

The 8088 has a 4-byte instruction queue instead of a 6-byte instruction queue, so there's a bit of wasted space in the register file there. The queue registers and control circuitry are slightly different because the 8088 needs to access half of the word at a time.

I saw a couple of microcode differences, but I don't know if they are related to 8086 vs 8088 or are bug fixes.

Some of the pin driving circuitry is different, as you'd expect, since only 8 pins are used for data.

To summarize: is the 8088 a completely redone chip? No. Are they the same chip with a jumper? No. Most parts of the 8086 and the 8088 are the same, but some parts were completely redesigned.
This is great. But additional and important context is speed. Knowing coverage would be a plus as well.

Slow with mediocre coverage might be inexpensive but that waiting (and swearing?) comes with a cost.
I'd wonder how they're accounting for 'unlimited' plans. In Ireland, for instance, about a third of people would be using Three, and most of their plans are 'unlimited' (in practice, there are limits after which they'll throttle you, I believe, but they're high).
Formerly in telecom infrastructure; this is correct. Due to the way roaming works, pre-LTE you’d be routed back to your home country while roaming (still the same way on LTE depending on network config).
Can you point to a source that says labour costs are the reason for high Telco prices? The ongoing maintainence of a tower seems like it would be fractional to operational cost.
Not quite that simple, Amazon tried to buy Whole Foods last year and has basically failed to get traction on groceries.

Not saying you're completely incorrect but there's room for a lot of companies in retail doing a lot of different stuff.
Interesting. Didn't know it had to be carried outside the drop plane.

The control setup is very Russian. The arming and detonation were remotely controlled from the ground. The pilots couldn't go bomb someplace else.
I was worried about this. I'm small potatoes but we make an open source app that can connect to self-hosted or paid-hosted services. So if they could have forced WP, they could have easily forced me too, now there is a baseline set.

To even get approved we had to make sure the App doesn't offer any sign-up or even billing info at all. And still went round and round for approval explaining how paid services, if any, are completely outside Apple realm.
> Are you expected to run 25 extensions?

Yeah, that makes the article unusable. They should've split the list to 'must have' and 'others'.
Have you watched Motonomad? I guess Adam Riemann was lucky with the timing being allowed into Sinai.
The GPT-3 paper goes into this. They consulted experts:

The assessment was that language models may not be worth investing significant resources in [by state actors] because there has been no convincing demonstration that current language models are significantly better than current methods for generating text, and because methods for “targeting” or “controlling” the content of language models are still at a very early stage.

The paper has more details.
Beyond the usual arguments about "the US is big", poor competition is probably a big part of it. US telcos have a lot of lockin, with very long contract lengths, poor acceptance of prepaid plans, and "family plans" being common. All of this makes it less likely that people will move network, so there's less incentive for telcos to actually compete on price.

EDIT: On the "US is big" point, it's notable that pricing doesn't really follow population density in Europe. The UK has four times the population density of Ireland, but only fractionally cheaper data. Germany has similar population density to the UK, but far more expensive data (though I wonder are they looking at all extant contracts or something; data recently got a lot cheaper in Germany).

All three countries have comparable household earnings. Sweden has a third the population density of Ireland (less than a tenth that of the UK!), slightly higher average data cost, _cheaper_ minimum data cost, and comparable household earnings.

In general, any attempt to explain this via recourse to population density, income or GDP fails in the developed world.
As a black person I'm going to swallow my disgust at the fact I had to read that this drivel evening and point their own study is clearly stating the opposite point they made, that IQ tests are not measuring some sort of inherent intelligence difference in races

You attribute a position to me that I did not make, and do not hold. You then criticize a straw man of your own invention.

My position is that IQ scores reflect actual intelligence. However the environment that you grow up in is one of the biggest drivers of how intelligent you will become. Therefore population differences in intelligence are mostly attributable to differences in environment, not genetics.

That said, the position I hold that you don't like is that there are population differences and those population differences have a significant impact on real lives. I don't like that either. However that is what the data says, and I'm strongly in favor of accepting unpleasant realities rather than sweeping them under the carpet.

You will note that the article that I linked to supports all of my actual positions.
I'm glad that Apple backed down this time.

> What’s more, Mullenwag told us that he had previously offered to strip other mentions of the paid plans out of the app (even workarounds like when a user views a preview of their own WordPress webpage and then navigates to WordPress.com), only to have those suggestions rejected by Apple.

Having to remove those kinds of work-arounds is part of what bugs me about apples control over the app store.
I think it appears slow because of the scale and the distance involved. It's actually moving quite fast(several km in a few seconds).
> Another way of looking at this is, no one is going to be able to redeem all the Amazon stock there is for cash at this price, that only mark-to-market is wrong.

Maybe, maybe not. Amazon’s daily trading volume is about 3 million shares, and there are around 500 million shares outstanding. In 150 days the entire market value of the company trades.

It would be weird if the whole thing was sold at once, but there would be people interested in buying. The company has real value.

https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:AMZN/explorer/volume_avg_3m

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/shares_outstanding
The Perils of Empathy (2016)
For e-mail I use kolab. Nothing special. But covers email, calendar and a little storage for a fair price.
I assume you're somewhere other than the US? Usually when I go out to eat I end up with two meals: the half I eat at the restaurant and the other half I eat the next day.

American portion sizes are ludicrous but most restaurants won't ever bat an eye at wrapping up the rest of your food for you.

Even a $200 per head restaurant will do it. The only places that won't are the high end places where you're getting a $400+, 19 course tasting menu (+$150 or more per person for wine).
> But more importantly, it's not a game that's defined by it's release; developers are clearly following the service model

Are you sure? Got a source for that?

The french developer company Asobo has typically been launching one great-looking, abysmally performing game per year so far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asobo_Studio#Games_developed

Why would they spend more than a year on MSFS?
Both.

For most of the time that I worked at amzn, it was really just Jeff, Shel (Kaphan) and myself, with Mackenzie apparently do the accounting somewhere else. The three of us were a tight threesome back then, and we knew that we were building something very new and quite possibly momentous (in particular, the idea of what we called "almost in time" retail, aka "we don't have it in stock but we can it for you really quickly"; of course, that idea has largely gone away these days).

Jeff had much bigger dreams from day zero than most people acknowledge (basically, to be the Sears of the 21st century), and Shel and I both knew that.

On the other hand, day to day work involved mostly the same old problems, there were the same conflicts (i excused myself from all discussions about website design because it was clear that Jeff and I were never going to agree about almost any of it), and the whole thing felt as if it could have folded up at any moment before about (say) October of 1995. After that, there were more people on board, sales were skyrocketing, and it was clear that it was a thing.

I left amzn for many reasons, but in part because it was obvious to me by the fall of 1995 what kind of company it was going to become, and I wanted nothing to do with that. I still don't, which is why I've spoken out a bit more publically about the company over the last year or two.
Apparently all current attempts resulted in very, very uncanny valleys. This thread mentions some current attempts (searching hn.algolia.com for 'gaze correction' will return additional threads).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24151123https://news.yc...
Certificates are still perfectly valid, but most stock is “dematerialised” and held at a central securities depository, like DTC - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_Company

This allows transfer by “book entry” rather than mailing the physical documents - much like an electronic bank transfer.
What horrible carrier is that? Even in the US which has high cellular data costs it's usually $10/GB
They're not. They're deluded if they think anybody in Western Europe is paying $3.13 per GB in 2020. ;-)
Forgive me if I misrepresented fusion energy as a technology; my understanding was that the implication of "cold fusion" was simply "sustainable fusion." i.e. the all-in energy cost is less than the energy output at scale.

I think that's most people's understanding of "fusion", generally, Matter -> Energy, but "cold" is the qualifier of, "we've created fusion reactions before. We just haven't sustained them in a net-positive fashion."
I'm Italian and I pay ~9 euros per month for 130 GB of uncapped 4G mobile Internet, so I can't really complain about it. Some new offers I've seen are as low as 6.99 for 100 GB + infinite calls. A few days ago I told this to a friend of mine who lives in the UK and he was shocked because he pays a lot more for like 2GB a month.

I guess healthy competition can really be good for consumers when it works as it is supposed to.
Makes me think that at some point showing a restaurant menu with prices is soon going to get the ire of Apple for suggesting an offline monetization that they aren’t a part of.
Interesting, My partner (of 5 years) I met on OKC and she is objectively more attractive than me.

I was however attracted to her because she filled her profile in properly describing her outlook and the things she found interesting and it was grammatically correct (somewhat ironically given she is Hungarian and English is her third language).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2I/Borisov
The tool I use has three user types: Maker, Editor, and Viewer. Only Makers can make the kinds of changes that would be code. Editors can manipulate the underlying data. Viewers, of course, get read only.

The nice thing about this model is that it implies there's a bar to be a Maker and other users can't break your work. You need to be able to reason about concepts like DRY, star schema, cardinality, etc. As a Maker in my org (15-30K people depending on where we are with the pandemic) I can support many no-code apps painlessly in addition to my primary responsibilities, whereas one CRUD app on Heroku had me feeling spread pretty thin.
I think you need to distinguish here between "core business" where you generate your competitive advantage, and everything else. In your core business, were you are going to make the critical difference that determines why your business or organisation exists, shooting for the most finely tuned, unique solution that maximizes that advantage - or at least, enables capability to do that - is critical.

For everything else - I agree. The more bespoke you decide to be the more pain you create for very little value.
I always took the claim of routing keys and messages in different jurisdiction to be about not writing them to storage in those jurisdiction, not about not having them in RAM.

the idea being that there can be an internal policy to shut down the server and wipe the ram but it is harder to do with drives.

I also have a question since you probably can answer: can E2E offer a similar user experience to what normal telegram chats offer?
Trump is really good at saying the quiet part out-loud - even if indirectly. Just today leaked quote from 2016 about lower black turnout.

"The president acknowledged in a 2017 meeting with civil rights leaders that he benefited from Black voters staying home."

Combined with Trump campaign's deliberate (they bragged about it in the press) paid media to convinced AfAm voters to sit the election out it's pretty damning.

Might not be as direct a quote as you're looking for but it's literally the first off the top of my head, from today only!

Another good recent one is a lot of vote-by-mail quotes from Trump.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/21/trump-black-voters-...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13434246/donald-trump-ta...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/30/trump-vot...
> It can also be hard to empathise with; everyone has been single at some point, and on the whole, most peoples' experiences dictate that it's probably not as bad as being poor or disabled.

In my experience, it's not remotely close, been poor is far worse than been single.
Of course towers are a fraction of operating expenses. It was just an example of one piece of the puzzle. All labor costs in Myanmar are far lower, from marketing to lawyers to retail store staff.

And as I said, there are other reasons such as consumer surplus (rich people can pay more, so they do).
Walmart is growing, and hits over $500B revenue a year. Growing at that scale is impressive.

Tesla sales luxury cars during an economic recession. Walmart sells cheap food and household goods.

I’d buy Walmart stock before Tesla if I had to choose a long position on one or the other.
Cell phones were widespread in Europe before they become so in the US.

In the "Bell System" phase US landline phone service really was "best in the world" because you had some public oversight over a private monopoly.

In 2000 in the U.S. you could pick up a landline phone that wasn't paid for, call the operator, and get your service turned on that day. At that time you could wait a few weeks in Germany to get a line installed or you could go to a cell phone shop and walk out with "a handy".

In the mobile age Europe pulled far ahead of the U.S. where mobile phones were held back by the stigma that texas oil wildcatter rich jerks had car phones in the 1970s.
Ok, I don't know how else to ask and I'm seriously not trying to be an arse but how do you? I'm genuinely interested as it's something I've been struggling with myself lately.
Yeah, this isn't right. I pay (New Zealand) a hundred and something a month for 100GB 4G or 5G if you can get it.
Eliza comes up a lot in these discussions. I’d like to know if would have the same results today, now that chatbots, video games, phone robots, etc. have given millions of people the mental model of getting responses from a box with no thoughts. I expect it would very different from running the experiment at a time when the only things that could talk back when talked to were other people.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18908998
Looks like a decent resource to recommend to semi/non-techies.

That said ..
DNS recommendations are limited

VPN providers should be researched oneself

Brave isn't my top choice for privacy. Company seems sketchy.
You need to build coverage for a huge portion of the population to get a license in many western countries. So all customers in the less densely populated countries have share that cost.

There is also strict requirements on uptime and huge fines for telcos in western countries if the service goes down, even for just a moment. Needless to say that creating a resilient network costs a lot more.
And cost of land and permitting
Blockchain backers seem to take it as a given that centralization is bad. But when pressed on why, the best answers I have seen are “because centralization is bad”. Well, I guess that’s not 100% true; the first answer is that we shouldn’t trust authority. Why? Because authority is bad. Why? Because authority is bad.

But as this article articulates so well, that’s a red herring. Like, you can come up with all sorts of wild scenarios where central authority can be bad. But ultimately, these are scenarios you’re unlikely to encounter in the real world, and if you do, there are much simpler solutions.

Blockchain technology always reminded me of that XKCD about cryptographer expectations vs. reality (https://xkcd.com/538/): it’s solving a problem that only really exists in fantasy for 99% of the population.
California wildfires in heat wave prompt evacuations – photos
I've never understood people who stock up on baked beans and hide in bunkers either.

You're right though. Maybe between the people who have facebook accounts they used to say bad stuff about dictator du jour and those who don't have facebook accounts at all they'll definitely go after the latter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And, maybe there won't ever be a fascist dictatorship in the United States. After all, right wing populism is getting more and more unfashionable these days.
Lucky you, just take an Uber and witness its superiority to the LA transit system.
Same. I could probably de-Google pretty quickly—my primary email is on my own domain now—were it not for Google Voice, which I rely on daily. And since I have to rely on it, might as well use the rest of Google's services, since they're so damn convenient.
ALL businesses do
We have evidence of causation here. Research during the 1960s shows that IQ tests do a better job of predicting future job performance than other measures, such as interviews. As a result, many companies began to use IQ tests for hiring.

This ended with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.. The fact that IQ tests resulted in hiring whites at a higher rate than blacks was deemed a violation of the Civil Rights Act and so the practice was banned. The correlation remains true, but it is illegal to hire based on IQ.
> Throwing an exception is an example of a “non local exit” which Rust also implements (in terms of “Return”).

They are not isomorphic. Return always hands control back to the caller; you can emerge from an exception inside any arbitrarily higher scope, and the proliferation of weird edge cases (what happens when I throw an uncaught exception in a constructor or destructor, the exception safety guarantee hierarchy) are good evidence for why this behavior is too complicated for its own good.

> Like it or not, any serious c++ ffi must accommodate C++ exceptions

Obviously this is the case and I'm not trying to say otherwise. I already said so upthread, but it seems to me that the least complicated way to do so is to wrap wrap foreign C++ function return values in a Result<T> (unless they can be statically proven not to throw), and report errors to C++ through some kind of Either-ish box. Then the C++ caller can decide whether they want to handle the error then and there, or throw an "idiomatic" exception.
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