skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all sounds to me like capital intensive businesses against entrenched players where even the not so average consumer would likely not do more than pay lip service to it unless there was some secret sauce to this that was more compelling to the options

They neeed a good out of the park product in those markets to make any real headway. Too idealistic.

My only thought on this is that they should pivot to be like algolia , focus on Firefox being a reference implementation browser and seek their expertise to the other vendors, maybe. It’s one of the few verticals I can think of that would work strategically Without them having to pivot into things they have no experience with
I'm in India and I pay $8 for 84 days and get 2.5GB/day for those 84 days.
+1 this could easily be the story line of a Rick and Morty episode or any of the other similar off the cuff shows that are popular right now. I think that will be one of the main profit streams for things like this, you can get the weird wild stories that don't really make sense but are interesting enough that who cares and you don't have to associate your network with eccentric individuals that attract malcontents.
API everything. Nothing should exist in the public view which is not exposed as an element in the API. So, JMAP and IMAP.

No uncrypted state on backing store. I know things flow in uncrypted but once at state of rest, encoded with my keys. You can offer escrow and key management but it has to be optional. If I throw my private key away and destroy recovery keys and have no escrow the data has to be gone.

Your logs can't be that easy to wipe because law enforcement will make demands on you.
CAD is a funny area - very different. I'm still learning. It seems OpenSCAD excels when you can describe your object quickly. FreeCAD is for that as well (it has Python embedded) and when you can't describe it parametrically.

That said, a recent post on Reddit in r/openscad mentioned designing an entire car to do the Pike Peak challenge in Colorado.

We have a lot of tools and methodologies available. Picking the right one needs care and attention to detail. It's the same as the other "real world": I know my way around metal and wood working equipment and I can do simple welding. My carpentry is good first and second fix grade but not cabinetry, and I can weld stuff together, sometimes without melting both objects.

I can design bridges and roads as well and they may work fine ...
As an extension to this comment, other costs that could impact the delivery price of 1GB of total usage:

- speed

- overall saturation of tower (# users per tower)

- population density (full coverage of an area may be difficult)

- technology; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_phone_sta... which could affect federal regulatory licensing costs, technology licensing and acquisition costs and competitiveness of market to provide technology, tower density, total user capacity

This is my laymen's interpretation. For instance, to blanket the US (9.834 million km² and 36 people per Km2) in LTE would be a significantly harder challenge then blanketing Myanmar (676,575 km² and 83 people per Km2) or even Norway (385,203 km² and 15 people per Km2).

Just look at the stats for Myanmar, 86 people per Km2, and I might be able to get most of them within 300-500k km2. My subscriber base is excellent!
Makes sense, because it's modeled on your willingness to pay rather than cost. They probably did the market research and figured that people who use more than 4GB of data per month probably depend on it to earn a living, and therefore can charge more. Yet another reason why everyone should get a dual sim phone, which breaks this sort of market segmentation.
Based on what was said by Arathorn, it would be easy for anyone to perceive it that way
> And yet today in the United States, it’s basically a given that you will have a fast and reliable 4G connection available throughout the entire country, as long as you’re not in literal wilderness.

Hah. I live on a hilly forested island. One of the secondary shopping centers has basically no coverage for at&t, no coverage indoors for t-mobile, and weak verizon coverage. Sprint has basically zero coverage of the whole island. When I bike around the island, I go in and out of coverage although I mostly follow the roads.

When we lose power, the towers shut off after 3-5 hours. Of course, that's better than my DSL which turns off instantly (I have a generator and a UPS for the DSL modem, but the remote terminal apparently doesn't)

We're in commuting distance to Seattle.
You’d think or hope GCHQ could be involved - or are they already?
Thanks for this detailed and interesting answer, appreciate it!
Yet—as soon as they do, I'll probably jump to them. I'm using Zoho right now. That's the nice thing about having your email address at your own domain—I can move freely from provider to provider while using the same address!
I am in the US. I pay $80 a month for TWO phones. My plan provides unlimited calls, texts, and shared 2GB of 4G data. When my data runs out, my data speeds go to 100kb/s.
Really at this point Apple control over app store is anti-competitive (and Google over play store), having to rely on community outrage to get stuff like this turned is ridiculous.

They should create legislation to control access to all app stores to prevent this rent seeking - force app stores to treat all apps equally according to store defined guidelines (including store owners apps) - any submissions have to be reviewed in a reasonable amount of time and if declined must receive specific violations of the guidelines on which the denial is based. Also make the "no outside payment inside of apps" illegal.

Suddenly the value add of the store streamlined experience has to be justified vs. other payment options - and you'll see the fees drop significantly closer to market level (and it will still be profitable for store owners and they will still invest money in developing/maintaining it).
Your post here exemplifies why apple's behaviour is so problematic - you're left trying to adhere to a set of rules that even Apple can't manage to enforce consistently and correctly, facing the risk of having to pay an unexpected 30% tax on sales (and effectively have to raise prices accordingly).

Hopefully this logic is enough to get Apple in bother during their antitrust suits and Investigations - it seems quite ironic they are getting into scuffles 2 days before the first hearing in the epic case is scheduled (iirc - for the restraining motion).

It would be nice if small businesses and innovators could get on with innovating, rather than ensuring they comply with arcane rent seeking behaviour by a giant that won't let you distribute your app without offering them their cut.

Google is little better though here - their old Android market terms even titled a clause "non-competition". Unsurprisingly this has disappeared - I assume this doesn't comply with their "avoiding antitrust" dictionary of banned phrases.
Napkin math: That column of dirt went up ~20 km in about 30 seconds. That's almost twice the speed of sound.

Incredible how its size makes it look slow.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/22/21397424/apple-wordpress-...

Thankfully, they've reversed the attack... I hope Apple loses to Epic, they go way too far and this is just another example regardless of back-tracking.
Probably less than half of the $95m. AMZN opened at double its IPO price, and climbed up from there. The only way you could have gotten the IPO price is if you had a major account with Morgan-Stanley or the like and had a good relationship with them (i.e. you did a lot of trades so they got lots of commissions).

But yeah, there was still plenty of time for anyone to make a spectacular investment in Amazon.
The biggest scare for me personally is the cost of healthcare in the US, especially as one grows older and complications out of our control arise (e.g. cancers, mental degradation, etc.) Of course there is something to be said for being truly patriotic and sticking around to make life better for you and your countrymen that live in your nation, but I a huge concern there is that the country is already under too much influence from the super-wealthy, and its nigh impossible for an average person to make the change they want to see.

Anyways, that's why I've looked into dual-citizenship. I agree with one of the premises of the article: the cost of healthcare (and basic necessities) for Americans is too high, and its a good idea to diversify your hedges and get dual passports/citizenship if you can.
You're not likely to even find full-fat grep on such platforms (only busybox)
I would have settled for a simple bar chart... these ring plots are useless.
Oh, wow, this is great. Seeing all this in detail is really interesting. It's even better after seeing the static, low-quality pictures on Wikipedia and then watching this and seeing that they are in fact part of a high-quality, video capture of the bomb. I can't wonder how many similar "secret" projects have such good documentation and videos of them that haven't seen the light of day yet…

Edit: no, really, go check out the Wikipedia image of the bomb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba) and then watch the video. They have the recording they pulled that exact picture on the top of the page from, except the quality is significantly better in every aspect. (If you're impatient: https://youtu.be/nbC7BxXtOlo?t=1780)
Consider that they backed down only when it became a popular news story at exactly the worst time for them to have it (because of Epic).
"Cash" might mean someone with several properties with Equity Lines of Credit on them that they can draw on immediately.

E.g. own 5 properties, each 50% mortgage, 50% equity, and 30% of equity immediately available keeping max LTV under 80%.

They could immediately buy 1.5 equivalent properties and work out the financing later.

They might even get better financing terms because they negotiate without the pressure of "I need you to give me a mortgage, otherwise I can't buy this hot property".

If you received two identical offers, 1 contingent on financing, the other cash, you'd take the cash offer.
But surely being single is different than lifelong singleness and lack of intimacy. In fact many singles continue to date and have sex.
Why do you say it phones home? How can I confirm that?

Anyway doesn't all that stuff apply to Samsung and Apple equally
Ask HN: Why does DocuSign auto scroll to the next signature page?
I get that it helps with completion rate, but seems to be purposely hostile toward the user actually reading the any of terms to which they are agreeing.
It has ever been thus. Back in the day, when film still ruled the world and B&H's main claims to fame were grey market and East European cameras, they were widely known as Kosher Kamera in the enthusiast world. Back then, you needed to be careful about the day and time you posted a mail order as well. (The prohibition extends beyond working to causing work. While they didn't consider mail in flight to be their responsibility, any order postmarked between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday was, in a sense, their fault.)
I'm sure they'd be shot down if they inexplicably deviated too far from their course as well.
It looks like policy is to strip most of what's outside the alphabet unless it falls into known permitted keyword matches - and I expect X-Y would always match X Y.

Doesn't explain why users cannot request no results in some categories they are turned off by. Most search engines offer that option in some way - except the porn versions. It's more strange the more I think about it.
Admin != staff. Staff are those that work with professors and students directly. They’re very hard workers and keep the system moving smoothly, and get paid poorly.

The admin I’m talking about are the “provost of XYZ”, who don’t do anything worthwhile, but take in massive salaries, and keep pivoting universities away from education to “student satisfaction”
GPT is both general purpose and stateless. Lacking another mechanism, it's the requirement of the prompt to request a particular genre of response if that's what you want.

There can be no such thing as a bad prompt from gpt3's perspective. A bad prompt is one where the user has a specific purpose which is not expressed. It's bad because you know beforehand that gpt3 can not align with it.

Someone pours grape juice into a bottle and becomes worried that is not safe to drink. GPT3 correctly grasps that there is a hidden context to this weird prompt, however when given no other information it guesses that this hidden context is something known only to the hypothetical character in the prompt. I would probably do this too.

When you give it the correct context (this weird prompt is a logic test) then it gives you the answer you expected.
It is a problem, but not in the extent this article or people make it out to be.

There are 3 nation wide 4G networks, every home has old landlines.

What is a true problem however is the political unwillingness to force cell providers to cover areas with very little population.

It is not economically useful to invest in very rural areas, if you would have to invest 2x to go from 95% population coverage to 99% (numbers made up).

The conservative party (CDU) is "business friendly" to the persistent detriment to quality of life of a majority of citizens in a lot of areas.

T-Mobile was part of the Deutsche Post when it was still a government organization and it is still a big shareholder.
One of the biggest issues with Google play store review is they won't actually tell developers which rule they're breaking, as you point out.

This is so incredibly developer-hostile that the fact developers keep using the play store pretty much helps make the case they're acting in an anticompetitive manner.

It certainly is interesting to note Google removed the title "Non-competition" from clause 4.5 of their developer agreement some time ago. It's still in the archived version on archive.org though, from back when it was called the Android market... Removing the title but leaving the clause intact doesn't mask the anti-competitive behaviour!
I agree that it feels really confused but if I can get it running one day with the ability to save my sessions, I would gladly flip between this and X+i3 for my daily driver.

What I see offered here is a way of mapping a huge, non-software project more loosely than a strict classification-based directory/file structure. Specifically I've been slowly fleshing out my own fantasy world with lore and history. I tried the live demo and I can totally see this meshing really well with the part of my brain that likes fiction because it can be a little messy.

I also think the friction of learning a new UI would be a benefit here in reducing the amount of "laptop fatigue" which keeps me from writing less technical stuff after wrestling with a bug all day.
Not everyone is consistently anti-shame though. There are a lot of people who oppose slut shaming but, with great lack of self awareness, use prude or virgin as insults.
Not only that, but at peak times in rural areas where people use mobile broadband as their main connection, Three internet slows to a crawl. I suspect it's the backhaul from the mobile mast but I'm not sure.

That's what's always missing from these tests, reliability. It's more important than data cap and speeds.
I thought one of the main issues arising with the "alien tech" theory is that this object was moving too slowly to ever make it to our solar system in any timely manner? Thats not to say it couldn't have slowed down prior to us finding it, but if its a detached light sail why wouldn't the alien probe have detached it at higher speeds to have less mass to slow down?
I don’t think there’s any possible interpretation of my comment that lines up with what you said...
I don't see Uber as class- or luxury-related at all. They have all kinds of customers. Sure they have affluent customers but e.g. college students actively seek each other to split Uber fares too. Many people would prefer to drive instead of taking an Uber, but they do the latter because often there's something preventing them from so (like lack of parking space, or any car to begin with). Are cars luxury upper middle-class commodities now too?

And when utilization is high, ride-sharing is arguably more carbon-friendly too. The same affluent folks you're talking about could be driving a car instead of sharing rides with other people if they were left with that option. Even if you think ride-sharing is somehow a sign of affluence (which it very obviously isn't, if you've lived in other countries where entire cities function on hitching rides with strangers every day), you shouldn't want to discourage it and look on people using it with disdain.
Yup and clustering effects are still real. Eventually we'll come out of the pandemic and companies will want to be near there biggest customers.
Can this be used inversely to find dead code?
I thought you were going to say that’s the the discarded lightsail from a probe that’s thousands of years old, and all we were never the target of it. It’s just space trash now.
TikTok confirms it will sue the Trump administration
> I was the 2nd employee at the company

I encourage you to write down everything you remember of your experience there. You don't have to publish it, but future historians will surely find it very interesting.

People are always eager for anecdotes about the early days of Apple and Microsoft, but surprisingly there's very little about Amazon.
I'm astonished that they would release this video. Even 60 years onward, this test is still beyond the capabilities of many nations and so it's surprising to me that this wouldn't remain classified. It goes into quite extensive detail on the logistics and planning and even shows footage of the bomb with panels removed.

Edit on downvotes - is my surprise at its declassification misplaced? Does every teenager these days know how to plan and carry out a 50 megaton nuclear test by reading Wikipedia?
In the US Jevons paradox is in play with debt and rents. Baumol's cost disease also means debt and rents are slowly snuffing out other types of economic activity.
General AI probably would learn in real time by most definitions, but setting that aside for a moment I was more referring to gathering production data then using it later. You can gather then re-train, isn't that what Google is doing with our voice data for example?
Someone having a 1GB plan might, because of the base costs. But of course someone with a larger plan wouldn't, which makes it impossible to get a meaningful "average" here (+ the question if you value phone minutes/SMS or not). Comparing pricepoints of similarly sized plans would be a lot more meaningful.
I'm sure that I said things you did not like. But what, specifically, did I say that was wrong? Can you identify a falsehood? Please be specific.

And before telling me that it is false, please read the link that I gave. Digest the information in that link. And be sure that you're criticizing me for something that there isn't data in support of.
> people who wholeheartedly believe in kindness, compassion, and empathy. In almost every other context.

Equality of outcome for all animals, but some animals are more equal than others.
>> Throwing an exception is an example of a “non local exit” which Rust also implements (in terms of “Return”).

> They are not isomorphic.

It was never claimed that “return” and “throw” were isomorphic. Only that they are both examples of non-local exits.

> good evidence for why this behavior is too complicated for its own good.

That’s a nice opinion but I wouldn’t consider that evidence except under the loosest definitions of the word. By the same reasoning I could claim that being able to invoke “return” at any arbitrary point in the function is evidence that return is a complicated feature.

Just like “return” exceptions in C++ have a statically defined set of areas they can branch to and the invocation of throw is well defined w.r.t. to object cleanup. Admittedly those landing sites are more numerous than “return” but not different in their more defining properties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua
Might be worth noting that the author seems to be firmly in the Pharo camp, while Squeak enthusiasts might insist they have the true Smalltalk successor.
What happens when you need 40 micro-services running to render your frontend?
Title doesn't seem to match the article's contents. It concludes:

> If there was a meltdown tomorrow in the UK, France, US or elsewhere, it’s likely that our failure to adjust our thinking in light of the experiences at Fukushima and Chernobyl would mean we evacuate too many people for too long. People would die as a result.

Indeed, evacuate too many. The "learning about the risk of nuclear" we did "for the first time" is a study about the effects of the evacuation versus if they had stayed. In both nuclear disasters we ever had, the overreaction was apparently huge and it cost many thousands of lives in direct and indirect consequences. It might be a bit too soon to say, but in a way, the long-term repercussions of overreacting (expanding fossil fuel burning in favor of nuclear, the public reputation of nuclear) will likely be felt for generations. I'm not sure we'd ever have made 1.5°C, but now we definitely won't. (We have to still limit by how much we go over, of course, but it would have been great if we could avoid the tipping point.)
On Losing Everything to the Climate Crisis, Except for Hope
Agree with you and fluffything entirely. I can't believe this is an argument - it's basic logic. That the "rust community" can't see this is absolutely WILD.

1) C++ may be unsafe

2) The rust bindings are safe

3) But the rust bindings call potentially unsafe C++

Yet... it's controversial to want unsafe{}? unsafe{} is there SO THAT YOU KNOW that the rust compiler can't assert soundness.

Absolutely bananas.
I got into crypto because of all the problems which technology companies and governments created which made it impossible for me to succeed in the mainstream tech industry. Crypto industry is no walk in the park, but I can speak from experience and say that success there is definitely possible. I would think that people like Mark Andreessen and Mark Zuckerberg have a pretty good view of what's wrong with the current mainstream tech industry given that they have been directly benefiting from its flaws. Even if they had come into their situations by accident, by now they would have figured out what's going on and that would make them bullish on crypto. I don't think these people have much ego when it comes to business; my experience is that they will switch sides at the flick of a switch and follow the money as soon as it's profitable.
Quoting the article:

"While a few other substances (like solid neon) could potentially explain the coma-free acceleration, hydrogen was the best match for the data."

It doesn't have to be hydrogen. But to explain acceleration from solar heating it does need outgassing, and the outgassing has to be in a form that we can't detect (no comet tail). Stone won't have much (or any) of that.
Just to add, while technically it's 4G, it's hard to rely on that and most of the time the speed I get is less than 2-3mbps and the connection is really unstable(lived in multiple places all across India). It was much better when jio was just launched due to less users. But now it has become race to the bottom and there is no way to get a good 4G connection in India.