skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't buy the spec unless you have a business reason to. 802.11 specs are available to most members of IEEE. Whether it be your personal membership or through your school, work, a friend. A membership is like 200 a year.
Unless they are fixed.

Charge a high pet licensing fee if they are not.
The argument isn't that 23MB/s is so outrageously fast that it must be from a USB drive and couldn't be from the internet. The argument is that 23 MB/s is a peculiar number because it is so close to USB 2 max throughput (480Mbit in spec, but practically closer to 280Mbit due to bus access overhead and underlying storage limitations.) It's not at all unreasonable to expect that a USB2 mass storage device would cap out around there for write speeds on a larger USB 2 flash drive.

What's more relevant is the jitter on the timestamps. IF it was just an average of 23MB/s, I'd agree with you. But what I suspect is that it's sustained 23MB/s with little variation.

Putting aside wild theories about the timestamps being intentionally modified to represent a USB transfer, a sustained 23MB/s with no variation is awfully characteristic of a USB transfer.
Seems... questionable
Wondering the same thing. Can’t see any upsides for the user.
Agreed. Lawyers (and by extension, the legal system) must exist to ensure order and keep the system fair for as many people as possible. They don’t always achieve that goal, but removing them entirely would make things 100x worse. My favorite example is the ACLU.
> It wasn't clear if Zappos did anything beyond customer service.

But ultimately, isn't that what Zappos is? Their bread & butter? Footware is a commodity. Ecomm stores more or less a commodity. Fulfillment? The same.

The key point to being unique? Service. A lesson more ebusinesses wpuld be wise to learn.
As one, he says surveys are 100% useless, which is not entirely correct (there is a time/place for them).

Second, he says customer interviews must be face to face to be valuable. That is patently false, and even dangerous. In a face to face setting many people feel social pressure to conform and there is a strong interviewer bias. A mix of in-person and online methods is essential to get an unbiased read.

I’m on vacation right now, otherwise I’d spend the timing outlining my many criticisms of the book...
This is flat out wrong, the market would cross in this case.
They allowed him to speak. The mods also made it clear that unsubstantiated claims (from users or the guest) would not be productive and would devolve - yet he did it anyways.

I think it's safe to say the audience was aware of his POV, so expected more than regurgitation.
Certainly. The trail on the map between Warsaw and Moscow doesn't follow the actual route. That one enters Belarus more to the South.

Trains in the Baltic states are really irregular, so it might be faster to wait for the visa. The train between Poland and Lithuania only works on summer weekends nowadays, the train between Lithuania and Estonia goes only every 4 days due to some complication in Latvia, if it even reaches Estonia in an unbroken connection at all. Either way it's so impractical that you might as well forget that it even exists (as my fragmentary memory proves).
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Hey HN, I'm reposting this as I completely messed up the previous submission with the repo permissions.

As we are working a lot with event data at RudderStack, we realized that exploring and working with them has some special challenges, mainly around understanding their schema.

A lot of the information that you need to know is not usually captured on the database schema. For example, the different values your event attributes or even the event names are important information that you need to understand your data.

For this reason we built a small visual SQL Generator. What it does is quite simple, it allows you to browse your event data and visually define queries based on the event data and attributes that can be aggregated on your database.

At the end, a SQL query will be generated that you can use to interact with the data using any tool you like.

Currently Snowflake is supported but as we use the tool internally the rest of the cloud warehouses will be supported soon.

I hope you find it useful. In any case, constructive criticism is more than welcome.
Up until 2 or 3 years ago, you could directly travel by night train from my (relatively minor) home town Freiburg to Moscow. There are direct trains from Paris to Freiburg or Frankfurt (where the night train also stopped), so this could've saved the layover in Warsaw.

https://www.bahnbilder.de/1200/wlbm-172-am-ende-eines-777062...

Note that there are already regular freight train connections from Duisburg, Germany to China:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Trans-Eu...
The stories about this introduced me to the concept of a vaccine-derived polio.

Basically, the weakened form of polio that is in the vaccine, which usually survives in your GI tract for a couple weeks before being eliminated, can be passed onto others if there is a lack of basic sanitation (polio is primarily transmitted through infected fecal matter). If this is in a community with low immunization rates, the vaccine-derived virus can survive much longer than intended. This can actually provide a benefit to others, because they will achieve some level of immunity from the weakened virus. However, if the weakened virus is allowed to circulate for a long time (>1 year), it has the (unlikely) chance to mutate and become less weak.

Of course, the number of severe polio cases that have been avoided by the vaccine vastly outweighs the number of vaccine-derived cases. But I thought this was an interesting concept!

> ...more than 13 million cases of polio have been prevented, and the disease has been reduced by more than 99%. During that time, 24 cVDPV (circulating vaccine-derived polio virus) outbreaks occurred in 21 countries, resulting in fewer than 760 VDPV cases.

More here: https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/q-a-detail/what-is-v...
The instruction is very clear and precise. It says to read all the questions. Not to answer them (or answer them right away).

Therefore, if you follow the instruction, you end up reading question #10 following the process, within the time it takes to read all the questions.

Now, that instruction might seem controversial, but it really isn't. If you have the time, its a good idea to read content well, before dealing with it further.
It’s definitely not. They drive by a house, turn around, deliver a package there, then turn around again, and keep going.

I don’t know the operation so I can say exactly what is happening but I would imagine some of the factors are: poor mapping software, poor routing software, poor training, high employee churn.

Ever since Amazon began delivering in my neighborhood it’s been a disaster. Packages frequently say out for delivery and don’t show up for two days, after saying out for delivery. Packages frequently sit at the “distribution partner” for days. Delivery targets are missed frequently. Packages are just chucked into the front yard. All of this was pre-COVID. It’s obviously worse now.

Prior to Amazon delivering, my packages typically came via USPS. The target was pretty much always made and I can’t remember a time where I had a rash of issues.

Aside from all the issues of tracking and delivering packages, I generally find the Amazon vans drive more erratically and the drivers typically seem rushed, distracted, and overall less knowledgeable of the roads and respectful of the fact that it’s a residential road and not a divided highway as compared to FedEx, UPS, and USPS.
BLUF: it takes more than one man with a vision to create a tech ecosystem. It takes rich nerds who want to invest locally and stick around. Las Vegas will never have that.

I have lived in Las Vegas for 24 years. We moved here to raise a family because it is my wife's home town. (Her father was a scientist and manager with the federal government.)

I was and am in tech, working from home except for two years with one of the very few successful tech startups in Las Vegas from 2000-2001.

I wanted the tech-oriented revitalization to succeed, but it it hasn't and we are moving to Utah ("Silicon Slopes").
That link is broken.
>While every informed person I know thinks it's a bad idea, and every organization consulted massively criticized it as mass surveillance, a huge majority of our nation's decision makers apparently disagreed.

Why would they agree? The whole thing is made to profit and empower them (as government and decision makers).
Sounds like improving airport security and getting to and from the airport would pretty much solve the issues here.
No they won't, unless they are flat out lying. They can lie, but considering they have many customers all over the world, mostly big companies with big legal departments, it may not be the best for their business.

Palantir produces data analysis tools, this is basically Excel but for bigger data sets. Microsoft doesn't get what you put into your Excel sheets (not really sure now...) and neither does Palantir with their platform.

They probably have some sort of telemetry to monitor how their tools are used, to "improve user experience", like most large software vendors. But it is not related to the data being processed.
> 1. Filesystem timestamps are a reliable indicator of transfer speed, mechanism of transfer, or anything at all

How do you figure they're not? Can you explain this?

Obviously they can be modified after the fact, but you seem to be presenting a wild theory that the timestamps were presumably modified after-the-fact to represent 23MB/s. That's a wild unfalsifiable theory with zero evidence. The most likely and reasonable explanation is that the timestamps line up with 23MB/s because they were actually transferred at 23MB/s.
I hope you've recovered to full strength. Burnout (and mental health in general) is not talked about nearly enough.
> I'll start caring about chilling effects on speech again ...

That's ok, responsible people will take care of it while you're busy supporting fascism.
To be fair, a vast majority of it is in options, to which we don't know the strike. Seems like Robert L. Muglia was just awarded stock outright however.
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That's exactly right. The best bookstore in town shut down. The best coffee shop is still there, a wonderful place, but not much else, sadly. (Disclosure: I am a 24-year local in tech who really wanted it to work.)
They’re a consulting company, not a tech company.
Talked about it a few years ago on Reddit. Feel free to check my profile to contact me. I love talking business.

https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3gbx78/til_th...

https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3gbx78/til_th...
Would it be possible to substitute this for GPT2/BERT? Or is that a different type of language model? Can the pre-trained language model be fine-tuned? I’m using DeepSpeech to transcribe long-form lecture audio, and have just assumed there would be a massive improvement once they noise-harden the models with 1.0.
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Reminds me of the story of how Three Dog Night got their name.

Apparently it referred to Australian Aborigines using three dingos to sleep with on very cold nights.
It's a limited unsatisfying list for me.

Allowing only extensions monitored by Mozilla is against the great free internet spirit that Mozilla was functioning under till now.

If I want only monitored stuff I may as well switch to Google...
the GP is saying that across a sufficiently large population... you will have cats escaping (some subset of the population), and thus a feral population will eventually form.

It does not necessarily need to be your cat that kicks this off.

One trustworthy indoor cat steward can get away with it; a large enough population will naturally contain some careless people, or even surprises (hit by a bus)
I look for a bathroom which I can still access and use that. This can either be a public restroom or a friend's place, lately.

When I was going into this lifestyle, I was worried about it, but it's largely a non-issue.

When out in nature, I prefer to shit in the woods. It's an experience everyone should try, there's something primal about it I can't quite explain.

I don't use toilet paper because I think it's rather gross. Prefer to wash my butt clean right after.
I'm sure I'm missing something as I have no experience with these tools/software....

When you turn your head to the right, the screen in front of you shows the view to the right but now you're facing to the right and you can't see the screen in front of you anymore?

How do you setup your battlestation to best use this?
This is again absurd.

You have simply regurgitated a series of numbers without evidence. Meanwhile:

The Mueller report and grand jury indictments against Russian state actors, the intelligence community's public statements, and the bipartisan assessment of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence all dispute these coincidences.

Your numbers do not make sense. You write 480mbps, then you write 280mbps, but 23MB/s is 183mbps. It's also a perfectly reasonable sustained speed to get for a file transfer over the internet!

As Patrick Lawrence's source described:

> “Transfer rates of 23 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) are not just highly unlikely, but effectively impossible to accomplish when communicating over the Internet at any significant distance,”

This is obviously false, obviously disinformation, obviously wrong. Anyone could prove it wrong in 2017, I did, and I emailed, wrote, and tweeted at Patrick Lawrence and The Nation in 2017 and it was never retracted. It doesn't belong in any reporting, period, let alone reporting on the hack of the DNC servers.
"information wants to be free".

Does it though? I mean, I feel that trite little saying misses the point. Even in normal society we have obfuscation, camouflage, deception, data dumping, signalling.

Plus data isn't just something one generates and consumes ad infinitum. It takes resources, those resources generate additional layers of data, and then the reciever/ interpreter requires both different levels of sophistication, sensitivity and mutually exclusive risk/reward trade offs in how to access, use and interpret said data.

Already there is more information available on most people than any individual can access or consume. I don't think having "even more" is going to solve any problem...

perhaps it's more accurate to say information is like water. Its generally leaky and gets everywhere, but that doesn't mean that lakes and rivers don't form. And while it's notionally plentiful, that doesn't mean it's equally accessible or utilised by everyone or that different players don't have equal levels of ability to exploit it.
His evidence is incredibly flimsy at best and his point about transfer speeds is flat out wrong.
With the same distance, Montreal could get a high speed train to New York City. To me that would be a no brainer.
This language has some interesting properties. Here's a code example featuring a user-defined event that triggers a handler. This kind of callback-oriented indirect application at the language level would be nice for async programs.

from @std/app import start, print, exit
event loop: int64
on loop fn looper(val: int64) {
print(val)
if val >= 10 {
emit exit 0
} else {
emit loop val + 1
}
}
on start {
emit loop 0
}
You mean services, right? Products have been out of fashion in SV for quite a while now.
It does get plenty of love. It's just that out of all the Infinity Engine games, it has the most changes and lynxlynxlynx is developing GemRB almost on his own for the past five years.
The engine was already outdated at that point, so they added in graphical changes and switched to the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, so it takes more love to support than the other games (save for Planescape: Torment maybe, which was forked before Baldur's Gate was even released).
Considering longer lifespan, better health, and seemingly equivalent happiness, it's arguable that not keeping a cat indoors is cruel.
This method may also compromise the structural integrity of the banana after trying to spread PB on it.
I will say cats are crazy escape artists. We had to confine ours after a move to make sure they didn't make a mess or escape while we reassembled our house but the room didn't have any doors so we piled up boxes and they just got better and better at escaping. This escalated to one of our cats jumping up and slamming a box off the top to make his escape.
I transitioned to this lifestyle gradually over the course of several years, starting with apartment-job-cat, through couch-surfing and short-term rentals, living out of a van, and then finally total freedom.

I chose to do it because I wanted to have more control over how I spend my time. I realized that I was spending most of my time on someone else's schedule, building someone else's dreams, rather than working on my own.

I also have a very high priority for sleeping. I generally sleep for as long as I want to, which sometimes means several times per day. This does not mesh well with having a job.
Imagine being a russiagate conspiracy theorist in 2020
This is why I am on Kindle as well. I enjoy the "Whispersync" Audible/Kindle integration and multi-device support.

For those that don't know, Whispersync is easily the Kindle's "killer feature". It syncs your location in the book across all devices (I use iPad, Kindle Paperwhite, and iPhone, Sonos, Alexa, etc). So if you read a chapter on your phone, and then go to your Kindle later that night, it will keep you in the right location. But even more impressive is that you can skip in and out of the audible versions at will as well, and stay in sync. So I can literally read a book on my Kindle one night. The next morning I can read a chapter on my iPad. Then I can jump into the car at work and listen via the Audible CarPlay app in my car. Then I can read more on my iPhone via the Kindle iOS app while I wait for a meeting to start, then I can listen to the Audio version on my Alexa in my office, come home and listen to the Audio version on my Sonos speakers while I cook dinner, and then go back to my Kindle as I settle down in bed for the night. Seamlessly staying in sync across all these devices. It is really awesome, and makes the Kindle worth it in my opinion.

The new Kindle Paperwhites also support Audible on them via bluetooth headphones and you can listen while you read along.

I literally just purchased a book about 10 minutes ago and added the audible narration. I don't maintain an audible subscription because I have found that I can often buy books + audible versions bundled together for the same price (and often less) than a month of Audible. So I prefer to just buy them ala-cart with the kindle book bundles. It is a better deal.

I realize that I sound like a fanboy, and I am. I'm a huge fan of the kindle. It isn't perfect, but until another ecosystem can match the audible/kindle whispersync feature with apps on literally every device (including smart speakers, ai devices, etc) then I will stick with Kindle, even if the books are more expensive, because it is just easier.
I think the key part is that your topic config is stored in version control.
Disclaimer: I work on asset bundling at Google, but unrelated to Chrome's work on web bundles.

One problem with asset distribution is that bundling (good transfer compression, efficient full download) and fine-grained loading are fundamentally at odds. Both Google and Netflix depend on dynamically combining chunks into responses today. Web bundles makes this possible using platform features and potentially also adds proper cache invalidation on top of it.

It's not quite there in the current specs but being able to send ES module graphs in web bundles does have properties that are hard to replicate without it. This isn't really related to users sharing URLs, it's more about the behind-the-scenes of loading assets for a page that got loaded using a traditional URL.
Fancy sharing the docker (compose) file? I'd like to see how that works.
Yea, you guys are right--the region really has it all.
Agreed, I've met one of these people and discussed this trait with them. He described it as an obsession, something resembling OCD that he was literally unable to function, or would go crazy, if he didn't sit down and do the work his brain was forcing him to do.

Before we talked, I was jealous of such people. Now, I consider myself lucky to be free from that burden. Life is all about tradeoffs, nothing is given without taking something else away.
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Google maps says 300km / 3hrs center to center. I know many people do ~130 on that highway --> 2:20 ...
> How do you figure they're not? Can you explain this?

Filesystem timestamps are based on local clocks, various command line arguments and tools to package up files can manipulate those timestamps, and there are ways to simply _set_ them to whatever one wants.

That the alleged transfer speed was 23MB/s is not proof of anything on its own, and it certainly isn't proof that it's impossible that it was a hack.

The allegation from Patrick Lawrence's 2017 article in The Nation, since repeated by countless grifters, has consistently been:

> “Transfer rates of 23 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) are not just highly unlikely, but effectively impossible to accomplish when communicating over the Internet at any significant distance,”

This is so laughably false that you should immediately doubt anyone who repeats that as if it were a fact.
It's pretty easy, just ensure that all cats sold for anything apart from breeding are desexed, and have significant penalties for allowing unregested animals to breed.
> I don't understand how that's any different than Google?

With Android, at least you can sideload the apps, and firewalls can be circumvented fairly easily. As for laws, well, not all laws are to be obeyed.
At an unimaginably low standard of living.
Several Kobo modules (at least the Aura One, which I have and love) come with Overdrive built in (I think they may have bought Overdrive). You can browse and borrow right from the device although its a little clunky. But you can also browse through your libraries interface and everything you borrow will be downloaded the next time you connect to wifi.
Vegas summers are brutal no doubt. There is a fair amount of hiking and climbing in the Spring Mountains though, that's generally nice in the summer. But in town the heat just never lets up for several months. It's not uncommon for it to be 95+ degrees hours after sunset.
Is anything in our life really a choice?
next time I'll put the obligatory part last, so the real comment can be better seen. You did read the whole comment, right?
That sounds like a gift haha. It would definitely not work well for most programming gigs (sprint style, kanban board, small estimated tasks with regularly reported progress), but in the right niche you could do stuff that most of us can only dream of.
Las Vegas is great for outdoor activities. I've lived here for 24 years, out west toward Red Rock, and we do a lot of hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, camping, skiing/boarding is close at Mt Charleston. Soccer teams, excellent parks. Even Pickle Ball LOL
Most of the time if someone speaks to me in a non-casual context, my brain is constantly navigating the pathing process you describe. Although language is often not ambiguous, most people do not make their meaning as explicit as necessary to avoid confusion.
That's why I don't use their reading app and use a custom OS.