skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not coincidentally on trending:

Streisand Effect
Looks cool! As a non-pilot, I would be really interested in learning what this does.
> Seriously, they should fund less shows but really make sure they're quality shows. They should act like HBO in short.

I doubt they would, it's seems opposite to their business model - try to beat the odds w/ lots of content and A/B testing everything.

Netflix seems to be sitting in an awkward position between YouTube and HBO. They need to pick winners to compete w/ HBO, and production/licensing costs have to be cheaper to compete w/ random YouTuber producing hours of content.
Was that actually implemented / tested? I remember hearing about it but I never saw anyone mention or test it in any reviews. Does it actually work well?
They pulled it from all their other iPhones and kept the price the same. I think it's pretty clear it's profit for Apple.
I can't think of an instance where my 20-30 wpm typing held me back in a messenger chat - if anything, my typing speed in enough to present the other person with a wall of text, something to be avoided if you want to have a dialogue with someone.

And yeah, someone who speaks in full paragraph or essays is unusual. The average transcription of an extemporaneous speech shows a lot of "uh's", backtracking and so-forth.
This doesn't sound like a consumer protection issue to me. The fees are transparently listed in advance of attendance aren't they? You can choose to pay them or decline to attend. Different from a hotel where you get hit with unexpected fees when checking out and it's too late to negotiate or decline to stay.
You're implying that there are zero use cases for public cryptocurrencies other than as collectibles. This couldn't be further from the truth. There's a thriving decentralized finance ecosystem on Ethereum with more than 10B in value locked away. DeFi is an application that's only made possible because of the existence of an open public smart contract protocol. You're being very disingenuous.
> Indians (and Chinese too I think) for example, generally have some amount of implicit respect for 'education' (there is a goddess of learning and education in India) and for teachers.

I can confirm this is true of Chinese.
I'm struggling to see how this story is evidence of anything.

Steve Bannon—one of Trump's chief cronies—provided a mixed bag of allegedly stolen content from a laptop with some easily contrived "evidence" against Biden and Trump.

There don't seem to be any direct ties even to Hunter Biden, let alone his dad. Publishing this is a gift to Trump.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure rhymes.
The research group's definition of remission is, IIRC, "the diabetic no longer needs to take meds", e.g. metformin.

But this doesn't mean they're cured. For example, they can't binge on chocolate cake or pizza.

Instead, rather than using medicine to control their blood sugar, they use a strict diet & exercise.

I'm a type II diabetic, and when I saw my doctor with a good A1c (5.8), she said, "Another doctor wouldn't be able to tell you were diabetic looking at these numbers. But make no mistake: you can't go back to your old ways of eating, or else it'll all come back. Those days are over."

My metabolism is permanently broken. The symptoms are in remission, but I'm by no means cured.
The first search result that shows up is the open source Algolia alternative that a friend and I have been working on - Typesense: http://github.com/typesense/typesense

Got a pretty good chuckle that searching for "algolia" on an Algolia powered search engine, returns our open source repo as the top result when sorted by popularity!
That is another story entirely. It's a very low bar and that still doesn't make the cut. Like a car dealership except with no rules...
This is not an honest statement, unless you have access to their pricing and costs.
This is Apple so expect a lot of comments on why Apple is great and why this anti-consumer move isn't actually anti-consumer but pro-consumer.
Then they should have dropped the price of the phone, no? At least, they should have bundled it in some way, considering that very few people probably have a USB-C brick designed for charging iPhones.
HTS will stop superconducting once a certain amount of energy is added. This energy can be in the form of heat, magnetic field, electric current, or mechanical strain. If you keep the HTS colder you can accommodate more of the other forms of energy. I do not know if sound would disrupt superconductivity but since sound is a form of energy it is very likely.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50266-1
it's honestly irrelevant about the credibility of the emails and other data at this point, its the blanket censorship of this article that's now the real story.
What do you mean in tangible and concrete terms? How has my life been made worse by these laws? You need to explain that because these abstract concepts don't seem to motivate people to action.
See also their accidental leadership in "consumer privacy".
If they wanted to be enviroment they would have switched to USB-C.

I'm personally happy about the lack of charger, all my Apple ones go into a drawer never to be seen again.
It's worth noting that HN flags are user-sourced, so unlike on Twitter that doesn't necessarily reflect administrators stepping in to kill the discussion.
If it was comparable we wouldn't need regulation to protect consumers.

Voting is answering a direct question. Yes or no with direct results. Your purchase isn't like that, they're not votes. Business behavior is decided by what is more profitable. That also assumes there is a choice to be made. There's nothing you can do if all options behave the same way.

Your vote doesn't matter if the two options you vote for are the same. Often not true for politics, frequently can be true when making purchases
Few reasons

1. Natural curiosity. Amazon is big and successful and highly optimized. There's a reason for their strategy approach and presentation so I'd be curious to understand it and learn something.

2. It is suboptimal from my personal perspective as a consumer so I'm wondering how can it be / why isn't it optimized. Am I a weird edge case? Am I not falling for some trick I'm not even seeing?

3. Is the state of the art not as far along as I thought it might be?

Etc :)
Earth: Final Conflict

Season 1 was amazing. After that, bleh. At least in that case it sounds like executive meddling was the culprit.

On the other hand, The Expanse keeps opening whole new everythings that make what came before tiny but also essential. No second of plot is wasted. They could loosen it up a bit with a bottle episode or two to develop the characters more though. I could go any number of seasons if they could maintain the quality.

And then there's the new Lost In Space. They're going to end it in the next season at exactly the right time. Pacing-wise, it feels like a three-part miniseries. Just enough room to build a world and develop the characters without overstaying its welcome.
Saw this and was not pleased. We do not need to go back to the days of tying phones and carriers. At least they are still coming unlocked (except ATT installment plans), but this is NOT a move in the right direction, Apple.
I've never been much of a 'car person' in that I didn't care at all what a car looked like, and always went for the lowest price. But in late 2017, my bitcoin holdings were going for nearly $20k per, so I decided to buy a pimped out Tesla Model S, and of course I think it looked and looks very nice, but again, I thought the 1996 and 2006 Saturns I had previously bought looked pretty nice too.

Question, if I may: do you think the Tesla Model S was in good taste when it came out in 2012? I believe that there's only been one or two relatively small exterior design refreshes since.

Thanks!
Yes, but I don’t think you understand what’s being described. Dam methane production is based on the amount of organic matter being added by the river which is effectively a constant over time. It’s effectively the same process as cow’s methane where decaying plants release methane in a low oxygen environment.

The issue is you don’t get an accurate number for the amount of methane in the atmosphere from a dam by multiplying average annual methane release by the number of years it’s in operation. Thus the the rate of doesn’t correlate to future global warming making such statements absolutely meaningless.

PS: Also, all of this is assuming the study adjusted for what happens when the dam is not there and nearly the same process occurs when the river dumps into an ocean somewhere.
Ability to invent things that narrow AI might not be able to very well.

If, as Thiel and others have pointed out, ingenuity is slowing down, then in order to solve aging it might be necessary to have AGI invent the things for us to solve aging.

Would be curious if someone was of the opinion that we can invent the tech to solving aging ourselves and what resources would be needed to do so or if that process requires AGI first due to the barriers of solving aging being too great for us considering the resources required.
Also interesting that they provided a dedicated summary of the topic for the related trending hashtag https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HunterBiden&src=trend_click&...
Agree this fees non-Apple and the screen time allotted to the VZ guy was cringeworthy. Feels like a big sell-out.
> nearly impossible to do a like-for-like price comparison between two manufacturers

Not really.

https://shop.ford.com/build/f150

https://www.chevrolet.com/trucks/silverado/1500/build-and-pr...

The price isn't obfuscated. Manufacturers even publish nice tools that transparently explain their pricing model. The pricing is necessarily varied because the product configuration is varied.

Dealers are a whole different story; I agree dealer protection laws shouldn't exist, and manufacturers aren't really a fan of those laws either.
Second giant 'murder hornet' escapes after it was captured by scientists in WA
Is it? Because the factuality of the story seems like a pretty big deal here. If it's completely bogus, how is it different from any of those Russian trollfarm posts that the US government was worried about?
Twitter is perfectly within their rights to remove content they consider to be spam or not fit quality guidelines as is the case here.

Not really sure since when Twitter is required to host and aid in the spread of garbage
The pattern seems to repeat itself with variation, and information travels between bangs via gravity waves - i forgot who said that but it seems to be an idea at the top of the physics professors. Really too bad i cant pull up that citation.

You wanna know something funny? Immortality is actually an issue of how you look at things. Once you start seeing yourself as the “we” organism, as humanity itself and beyond it .. the sheer absurdity of it all overwhelms you, and a feeling of “i am infinite” fills you. Its sort of the feeling we get when we die, since the ego reveals its nature and yields to the self.

(I had sort of a near death experience, it was quiet eye opening)

So immortality - the one we can actually achieve is a shift in thinking. Non trivial yet trivial since its „the truth of what is“ as the tao would put it
> Then they should have dropped the price of the phone, no?

But it's a different phone with different components? Are you expecting that the price should otherwise be exactly the same? That's never what happens that's not a reasonable assumption.

> considering that very few people probably have a USB-C brick designed for charging iPhones

This is not a truthful statement. It can be charged by Lightning, which plugs into any USB-A charger. Anyone buying an iPhone has that.
Facebook moves to limit spread of dubious Hunter Biden laptop story
Working also in that space, designing floaters using such tools... which software was it?
Totally agree about inside/outside the system. I'm in this org and we won an unlikely major victory this year (not voting rights but still cool) because our city councilor member has a clear understanding her power to negotiate and legislate for positive change is virtually nil, but her power to agitate and build mass movements to bring pressure is high. Unfortunately almost no other orgs/elected officials embrace this strategy right now (yet).

I think the article neglects this fact for some reason but the actual tax legislation that was passed was written by Democrats, not us, and they try to frame it as their own idea... but the reality is they passed it literally the day after we announced we had enough signatures to put our somewhat larger tax on the ballot, in response to it.

https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/07/09/amazon-taxed...
But what about Google include Verizon's mmWave in the Pixel 5, even the Google Store version, increasing the price by $100? Strangely enough, the 4a 5G on the Google Store doesn't have it, but there's a special Verizon version of the 4a 5G that costs $100 more. I honestly don't understand why they didn't do the same thing and sell the Pixel 5 for $600 on the Google Store...
David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, a Theory, around page 524 or so.

> The mechanics and tradesmen who became the foot soldiers of the American War of Independence represented themselves as producers of the wealth that they saw the British crown as looting, and after the Revolution, many turned the same language against would-be capitalists.

> When US President Abraham Lincoln delivered his first annual message to Congress in 1861, for instance, he included the following lines, which, radical though they seem to a contemporary ear, where really just a reflection of the common sense of the time:[189] “Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

> In 1880 a Protestant “home missionary” who had spent some years traveling along the Western frontier reported that: “You can hardly find a group of ranchmen or miners from Colorado to the Pacific who will not have on their tongue’s end the labor slang of Denis Kearney, the infidel ribaldry of [atheist pamphleteer] Robert Ingersoll, the Socialistic theories of Karl Marx”
They most certainly did - like having Maps go out half-baked because they couldn't get a contract for what they wanted.
I personally think WAY more money would be needed.
For what it is worth, I noticed that there are a lot of little bits added to the phone with the 12 however. The display is an OLED like the Pro, honestly the new phone seems like a lot of bang for the buck. They even came out with a smaller $100 cheaper model.
Sender sends video as a base quality stream plus a delta to the next level quality and plus a third stream which is the delta to top quality. Server passes on either 1, 2, or 3 streams according to bandwidth
Whatever the reason is--are corporations obliged to pass cost savings to the customer, or is their objective to maximize profit margins?
> Netflix is not very good at seeing things that don't show up in the data.

This reminds me of Battlefield 3. The designers of Battlefield 3 used data mining a lot to drive their decisions, particularly around multiplayer weapon balance. For a long time the competitive players said there was a balance issue with the M16, but the designers were adamant there was no issue because they didn't see any particular issue in the data. The M16 was used a bit more than the others, but it was also the weapon everyone started with and had unlocked. So they thought everything was fine.

Then, after quite a while, someone made a video clearly highlighting the issue. And then the designers finally took a closer look and found that gosh darn, there was a bug in the weapon stats. The M16 did not get less inaccurate when you got hit, unlike all the other weapons.

So if you equipped a M16 you were significantly more likely to successfully return fire, compared to the other weapons. Like an order of magnitude. Which significantly increased the chance of surviving the firefight if you were a moderately competent player.

Of course the competitive folks had figured this out quickly and predominantly used the M16, but they hardly made a blip as a percentage of the total player base so it didn't really show up in the stats.
> Vast majority of those jobs don’t rely on the network effects of major SF/NY/Seatle hubs.

If you reduce the need to maintain both a worksite for people and a home, while you will increase the need for labor to maintain/service the home and supporting infrastructure somewwhat, it will probably be less than the reduced demand for labor to maintain and service the worksite. The initial effects of a large scale shift to telecommuting is going to include a lot of net physical service/maintenance/support jobs lost.
Response: "Oh yeah I know, the team that made that really sucks. How about that local sports team?"
All hail Hashi-stack!
Season one I loved–it was novel and very original, unraveled the plot over time, had character development & an amazing ending that tied it all up in a bow. It was a clear and beautiful beginning-middle-end arc.

My complaint is that adding another season doesn't enhance a begging-middle-end story arc that's already done, especially when it clearly was tacked on and not part of the original story.

What I'd prefer? Give the creator a blank slate and let them make another amazing story, rather than saying "this Ducati is great–keep adding wheels!"
Unless I'm mistaken, in a way they were caught a second time, since their web site was not updated to make clear their E2E offerings.

Either way, I saw no ill effects for them for being caught on either occasion. Zoom is now effectively defacto and I have heard almost nobody refusing to participate in Zoom's services because of their reputation - bar technical forums such as these.
Trademark usually is the least of worries, they opensource a bunch of their efforts, I personally contributed to some of their projects as do many others. Of course portability of services isn't completely stellar with Netlify.

But I admit that the hype will eventually die up and someone else would be able to trademark their model of simple stupid website publishing, hey I guess I should do just that. SSWP here we go!
Computers would get magically faster, though. You can build standard digital circuits out of superconducting Josephson junctions, which have much higher switching speeds than semiconductor transistors. A flip-flop was demonstrated to operate at 770 GHz.
Which can be perfectly fine. I would have trusted them to make it work somehow.
I have an old SE. I'm considering upgrading to the new SE. The SE (which has already been out for months at $399) used to come with earpods and now doesn't, at the same price.
It's going to be incredibly frustrating for the average person to buy an almost-$1000 device, use it until it runs out of battery, and realize that a charger is a completely separate purchase. Especially because the included cable is USB-C, so it won't work with most old power bricks.

I feel like Steve wouldn't've let this happen... the UX is just so, so bad. It feels incredibly profit-motivated.
The fact that this article is flagged is alarming. This is a relevant news story directly related to how technology companies influence public perception.

Like it or not, the New York Post is a widely distributed newspaper in the US.

Once the precedent for censoring a newspaper has been established there is nothing stopping facebook for censoring more "upscale" conservative newspapers like the WaLl Street Journal or the Financial Times.
I found the Silk Roads hard going but I learnt a lot from it:

https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Roads-New-History-World-ebook/dp...
The 3/5ths compromise was about giving less representation to slaveholder states, and was not a moral judgment on the value of slaves.

Slaveholder states would have been perfectly happy for representation to be 1:1 for slaves vs. non-slaves.
I agree, but was trying to say that if someone is afraid that most nonvoters are uninformed (debatable), making voting mandatory would cause many nonvoters to learn more about it.
Both are relevant, and both are concerning.
A substantial original summary is original content, in the same way as it would be if it were in a blog / magazine / etc. They've also been consistent on that. It becomes something you can't factually check / has no true references.
Does it actually stop working, or will it just be slightly more limited?
> The thing is, there's no obvious answer. If Netflix didn't cancel any of these shows, it would go out of business and/or not have the money to fund future…

Netflix isn't even remotely close to that point, they're still looking for places to drop cash by helicopter.

Instead of cancelling outright, they should guarantee each production an extra half season to wrap up at a minimum. This would reverse the damage to their brand.
W.r.t. walking. Yes, it's a wonderful way to bring down your blood sugar. I once ate too much carbs, and my blood sugar spiked to 180 (I shouldn't let it get over 160, normal people's blood sugar rarely go over 120). I was able to bring it down 50 points, to 130, by walking vigorously for 1/2 hour.

> What about other forms of wheat products like semolina, couscous, etc? Other cereal grains?

I stay away from them, but I haven't done a rigorous study. I know that, as far as diabetes is concerned, white rice is terrible for you, and brown rice is just as bad.

In general the only carbo-foods I'm comfortable with are legumes (beans) because their carbs take longer to digest.
watch what happens to that bill when you tell them you are going to pay out of pocket instead of using insurance. suddenly, everything has a different price.
I clearly read it as enhanced compared to the previous versions, which used to be AES-ECB until earlier this year.

Note how it mentions "How is this different from Zoom’s enhanced GCM encryption?", which means enhanced also applies to the normal Zoom meetings which are encrypted but not E2E, and supports this interpretation.
You're wrong. Death is not a fundamental part of evolution.

Natural selection does not imply that the only type of selective pressure is survival. Death is merely one factor that affects reproduction. Further, only premature death matters directly for reproduction. Most people die long after they reproduce (or have had a chance to reproduce).

That's not to say that curing aging won't change the trajectory of the human species' evolution, but to be frank I don't really care about the human species. I care about humans. If someone said: "we should continually kill off the weakest 50% of humans to make the species stronger", I'd say that person is a monster.
Usually "From" has meant "it might cost more if you put in more storage", not "if you buy don't buy this through a carrier it costs $30 more".
Fair point. They do have a significantly upgraded radio, however. I don't remember what happened to pricing when they went from 2G to 3G or 3G to 4G/LTE, but I would not have been surprised if pricing had gone up with the 5G upgrade (in a normal economy).

That said, the AT&T/Verizon giveaway/deception is absolute garbage.
1 GB = 80 Gb. No one will be getting 80Gbps 5G speeds.
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