skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, "it all adds up to normality". Second, hm, I'm not sure. Well, the glass on the table next to me is "accelerating", but in my frame of reference (which is the same as that of the glass) it is also stationary...?

If I drop a ball above the glass, and we consider things from the frame of reference where the ball is stationary, which (neglecting air resistance) is an inertial reference frame. In this frame, the glass is accelerating ball-wards , because of the table pushing on it, and, this force is applied over a distance as the glass approaches the ball.
So, yes, it seems that the KE of the glass should be increasing in the reference frame of the ball.

Hm, I'm confused.

I suppose if we consider a geodesic representing a periodic orbit around the earth, that the positions and velocities of various objects on earth will be in a cyclic pattern?
Source: https://github.com/markisus/aces.io
Correction: an individual income - 200k/yr as of Oct-15, 2020 [1]

> Any natural person who had an individual income in excess of $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with that person's spouse in excess of $300,000 in each of those years and has a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=8edfd12967...
I kind of doubt that doing VC without being very high profile has better risk adjusted returns than SPY. Of course this somewhat hard to calculate on the VC side due to the lack of transparency and illiquidity of the market.

But in fact that author is going about this all wrong. It doesn't really matter if VC outperforms. The point of VC or hedge funds or any other alternative investments isn't to outperform the market on a risk adjusted basis (though that would be nice), but to provide a uncorrelated return stream.

When these uncorrelated or less correlated return streams is mixed into the standard market return stream, the risk adjusted return of the entire portfolio is enhanced. This is why you shouldn't focus on the individual risk/return profile of an asset or investment, but instead focus on the entire portfolio.

A great example of this somewhat counterintuitive statistical phenomenon is gold. Gold historically has had both high volatility and low returns. However, due to the low correlation to the market, mixing in gold to a SPY portfolio and performing a minimum variance optimization to determine the weights actually boosts the return/risk profile.

If anyone is interested, I have a blog post about it: https://cryptm.org/posts/2020/07/09/alt.html
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Twitter botched moderation policies by banning NY Post story
In their defense, when you're constantly bombarded by companies rolling out the puffery claiming they are the biggest thing since sliced bread, when you run into a mere mortal's mistake, you tend to get testy.

Which is why I think everyone would have been a lot happier with everyone else if we'd just drop the damn marketing wank, and just admit we all made a thing, here's the price if you like it, and moved on.
Depends on the density of the ball, of course.
> One thing about US houses is that the property taxes are really a huge burden

Effective overall property tax rates in US states range from about 0.5% to a little over 2%, IIRC, they absolutely are not a huge burden.

> Most Europeans think Americans pay low taxes, but if you live around NY its normal to pay 40%-50% by the time you include all the extra taxes

I doubt it, though maybe if you are confusing marginal for total rates you would get that.
Here's what Google said when this same "Clear all Cookies except Google Cookies" issue happened back in 2018:

https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/product-updates-base...

This 2018 CNET article has more details:

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-promises-chrome-changes-aft...
I had to shrink the headline down from 174 characters in order to fit in the HN limit.

The original headline: Twitter botched its own moderation policies by banning a New York Post story and added fuel to the right's baseless belief that Big Tech is waging a war against conservatives

My intent was to show the tech moderation policy aspect and not the political aspect, which doesn't necessarily apply on HN.
Interesting, may I ask for some examples?

My point is moving from Excel to Alteryx, now the average population of people that uses Excel would not have the credentials to be able to stop using Excel and move to python to do the same job. I'm focusing on non-technical/programmers.
The hawthorn effect is actually a negative influence of such collaborative writing in the general population, too.
The thing is, this is repairability and Apple don't want to see it.

If you can reverse the glue, then it means there's going to be some guy who gets really good at this and sets up a mall shop where he does it for you for like 10% the price of replacement and throws in a warranty because he can.

Boom goes your profit margin.
The synopsis on them is pretty short, and a lot of it is "nope" so its pretty easy to go through to find the interesting items.
Filecoin's diluted marketcap was hundreds of billions yet miners are losing $
>nothing quite like it existed yet.

Cyclone has been around some 2002 according to Wikipedia. I don’t think a similar language (RAII + annotations + a mostly-mandatory validation step in the compiler) has had a well funded and sustained marketing campaign until rust, though. RAII also predates Rust by a couple decades.

Rust is also not very similar to itself from its early days.
A better question is why he'd take it to begin with, but I've seen enough people post stupid pics of them doing drugs that I can't fully discount it for that reason.

I mean, how many times have we heard variations on "Idiot caught doing drugs after posting pics on Facebook/Instagram/etc."?
The parts in expensive watches are huge by comparison with the parts in these kinds of electronic products.

A tiny balance jewel might be 0.6mm in diameter. The smallest surface mount components are now (I think?) 0201 metric - i.e. 0.2mm x 0.1mm. Plus a balance jewel is not a two-terminal component that needs to be soldered in place.
To be fair, you could make it return by using other forces of nature, e.g. by blowing said air from above.
Yes, it would.

A solid ball (filled sphere) is just a union of many shells (hollow spheres), so the theorem still applies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
You could also set up something like Pi-Hole.
Maybe for salary but not for TC. I suspect median TC in the bay area is close to $250,000 just because of how many people are earning $300k+ at public companies.
So despite the fact that Google is attempting to retrofit a hardware abstraction layer into Android without breaking backwards compatability now, the comparatively much simpler job of adopting one from the start was just impossible?

This is a very poor job of excuse making.

The point stands. Google's poor decision making led to a much higher volume of electronic waste on a yearly basis than any imaginable level Airpods sales ever could.
That isn’t seeing many versions of the animal. It is merely processing the one training sample over several seconds, because it takes a few hundred milliseconds for the human brain and visual system to process an image, and several more seconds for the brain to analyze and memorize key features of the sample.

Standard machine learning systems don’t work like this. No matter how much time they’re allowed to process a single sample image, they are unable to learn to classify it. There are of course machine learning systems that work more like humans (facial recognition is a notable example), but they’re the exception not the norm.
I wouldn't say it's incorrect at all. From the point of view of a photon, no time elapses between its the origin and destination endpoints.
A way that I could see a Blockchain relevance?

Well, once you had developed a tool for automatically generating Domain Specific Languages (presumably based upon getting the tool to educate itself about the domain in question) you could try to get it to develop a language specific to the Blockchain domain (perhaps intending to come up with an alternative to Solidity?).
> occasional reports of dislocations

(My wife treats hypermobile people... dislocations are prevalent there, in many many joints.)
If I throw a ball straight up, it loses speed. The speed at the top of the parabola is exactly zero. So how is the change in speed explained if there is no force involved? Even in a straight path, a change in speed implies a force acting on the object.
> For the other forces (e.g. electromagnetism) can we say that there's _no way_ to exhibit a transformation that causes charged particles travel on "straight" lines?

Gravity is peculiar in that there is only one type of charge and it's exactly equal to the inertia quantity. If you try to do something similar to the other forces, you'll get really complicated models, with hidden dimensions and things that don't interact the same way with them.
*One focus, of the the two foci.
I'll stop you right there when I say that the firm I work at is a global finance and consulting firm and has globally started shifting to using data analytics tools such as Alteryx over Excel.

The barrier to entry into Alteryx is nowhere near as difficult as say python or R for finance teams and consultants.

It is also seen as a mark of status to master a data analytics tool which improves a particular process either within the company or at a client.
Here's another 'though experiment' I like which some people disagree with, by not understand reference frames:

Light always travels in straight lines. Even when light is experiencing a gravitational lensing and looks to us from earth that it's bending around a star or whatever, from the perspective of the light beam itself, it's moving in a straight line. It's entire reference frame is bent compared to ours (relativity) but nonetheless the correct view is that the light is still moving 'straight' in it's own reference frame.

Also if the light wasn't moving straight that would mean it's changing direction, which is the same as an acceleration, and a beam of light traveling thru a gravitational field feels no acceleration, because it's not accelerating. Again from this view you can say light is moving straight and experiencing no acceleration, just like an object in free-fall doesn't 'feel' any acceleration, even though they are accelerating from the perspective of some other reference frame other than it's own.
This is the one I have: https://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Contoured-Adjustable-Comfort...
Have used for 1.5 years now.
Has any papers been written describing/modelling spacetime as a fluid?
You also see diagrams of space time as a plane with the gravity coming from the dip in that plane. But that model would hold in a 360 degree view, so I think we should model spacetime as a fluid with the density of that fluid going rise to drag and therefore gravity effects
No one is servicing the movement of a $200 watch. Just cleaning / oiling by a skilled watchmaker costs at least $200, and repairing any damage would probably cost closer to $1000.
No, it is a market whose supply is controlled by planning and zoning codes.

There is nothing supply-and-demand about improved real estate.

Farmland, maybe.
You lost me completely when you said Miami is less broken politically than San Francisco. Have you spent much time in these places? Miami is a mess of planning and corruption with none of the modern industries like tech that create quality employment for the middle class with reasonable wages, quality healthcare, and partial ownership of their employers. After decades you still can’t take a train from the airport to the main destination (Miami Beach). They won’t even admit climate change is happening as the state suffers worsening floods every year. In fact the governor has banned the use of the term “climate change” to help avoid the issue. You must be pretty far to the right if you’re going to argue Miami is working well
Chemistry can help. balance its cost vs the cost of the stress making you worse / slowing your healing, and it may be a bargain worth making... or not. We haven't got Fukitol(tm) but the natural pharmacopeia offers many options and human genius has expanded that beyond the bounds of absurdity.

we mammals are good at ignoring things, too. Ignore the things you can't do, enjoy the things you can all the more. Ignore the things you can't prevent and ignore the regrets of the things you couldn't do.
1) Christine McVie bought s similar mansion in Kent, England and spent years and millions remodelling it. Unless she had a lot of writing credit (how you make money in the US music business, aside from touring), it might have been a large chunk of her fortune from Fleetwood Mac. She listed it afterward:

https://fleetwoodmac-uk.com/wp/fleetwood-macs-christine-mcvi...

2) Everything is hard with an old mansion. For example, often they used lead sheets for roofing. So you need to fly in a lead roof craftsman. Then a stonemason. You get the picture. What owners do when they find a problem is to say budget 25% per year of the roofing problem, etc. and stretch it out, unlike a normal building.
I think you just run into it faster in Rust: I tried making a simple REST HTTP server (like 60 LoC) using actix-web and it pulled in over 200 sub-dependencies and took something like 10 minutes to compile.

This toy program written using Boost.Beast or something similar would compile much faster. Of course I would have spent all day setting up the library instead of waiting for it to compile...
> The creation of lists/communities-of-commonality that can transcend any one server/delivery-path choice seems the purest option, with the most headroom for generative expansions. It should be most possible in identity-based, server-oblivious systems, like Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).

Who will moderate these cross-instance communities?
I've had MS for probably about 5 years now. Thankfully my case is relatively mild, but it can still be both disruptive and stressful at times (especially during my first few attacks, prior to formal diagnosis).

I spent a lot of time obsessing over it and the rest of my life was suffering as a result (it really exacerbated my trouble sleeping into a serious problem). In order to combat this I mostly tried to spend my time either being productive or doing whatever recreational activities my condition would allow.

Over time, as I started to eliminate worries (diagnosis, medication, learning what would cause flair-ups and just generally coming to a better understanding of it), it's become more or less routine/normal. Can't say the same will apply to other people, but that's how it has played out for me so far.

Best of luck and apologies that I can't give a more helpful answer.
The Fraud of Monetized Western Medicine
Best video I've seen relating to the conspiracy behind cancer fraud and chemotherapy lies...
As mentioned below, one way to think about it is that EM only affects charged particles (and depends on their charge), whereas because gravity is acting on the underlying space-time it has a universal effect on everything (including light).

We can pretty much boil EM down to: like charges repel, unlike attract, strength is charge1*charge2/distance^2. What about magnetic field, photons, QFT etc?? None of this exhibits effects which could be described as stretching space-time either.

But we cannot do the same with gravity. An explanation like the above but for gravity (which is traditional Newtonian) leaves out many, now observed effects such as:

-> time dilation (GPS relies on this calculation) (measures time stretching and contracting)

-> gravitational waves (LIGO) (measures space stretching and contracting)

How do we _know_ any of this? People propose theories, those theories are then tested against experiment. AFAIK to date there is no experimental evidence suggesting EM stretches space, and no theory proposed that includes such an effect and correctly matches experimental data. That's the most holistic answer (but unfortunately one you just have to believe unless you have a lot of spare time!)
You'll need to provide space for seals and gaskets, either reducing battery capacity or increasing size.

I think if anything else, we shouldn't be attacking Airpods for their construction. There is bigger fish to fry like Macbooks, and often quoted along with Apple - John Deere and their tractors.
What a fantastic video.
We encrypt all our video and it's not even good encryption.
Quick search for "party affiliation by education" yields:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/04/07/party-identi...

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/wp-content/uploads/site...

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/educat...
Couple decades ago I had a boss who in corporate meeting threaten “jokingly” that he would have me hack them if they didn’t get X done. All good fun for him.

Earlier in the day I had someone trying to convince me seriously about hacking a bank.

I had to pull boss aside and let him know it wasn’t joking matter.
I had the skills back then to do it. I was terrified of people trying to use me to do it.

That fear kept me out of info sec, so it would never come up. I didn’t want to know how.
Radioactive Oats: MIT and Quaker settle cereal suit (1998)
Maybe they emulate a canopy with some kind of tarp while the trees are growing?
Having professional standards bodies for interfaces has actually been proposed - in another bill! S.1084 - DETOUR Act, introduced 2019-04-09.

Full text (only 1800 words!): https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/108...

It was written to get rid of dark patterns and deceptive interfaces. The official summary says: "To prohibit the usage of exploitative and deceptive practices by large online operators and to promote consumer welfare in the use of behavioral research by such providers."

In my reading, the DETOUR act says that large online operators (defined as services with more than 100M monthly active users anywhere, not just in the US) may not use misleading interfaces or unclear wording to mislead the user. It also says that they can only conduct behavioral experiments (e.g. A/B testing) if they have an independent review board registered with the FTC and have informed consent from the users as well as routine disclosure to the public of experiments being done. Finally it says that online large operators may form professional standards bodies, and that those bodies should develop on a continuing basis guidances and bright line rules for developing their technology products in a way that does not impair user autonomy or induce compulsive behavior in children.
> Yes, some users really do migrate there to avoid censorship or bullying

Literally
It can range from trivial to impossible.
Full disk encryption does not play well with hybernation on laptops, for example. There is also very limited support for hardware encrypted ssd...
And even though it can potentially be a few arch commands away, you need to do a lot of reading to understand what you're doing and make informed choices about your setup. Which is hard.
It has a lot of stuff I've been looking for as well, but it's still missing one important (IMHO) view - the graph/network view, like this: https://imgur.com/a/KrWqYGS (hopefully the link works).

This is taken from an old project proposal of mine, done in OmniPlan 3, and shows causal dependencies between components more than time-based scheduling (like in GANTT chart)
2% times 20 years, you’re looking at a huge tax bill over that time span.
What would be the upside for SoundCloud?

Anybody making any sort of music has already dabbled with a number of tools, has preferences and tastes in this area, some dearly paid-for gear, etc. Offering an entry-level DAW won't make sense. A pro-level DAW could be a welcome upgrade for some, but...

But audio is a low-latency thing. It's hard to implement from within a browser, to say nothing of running VST plugins. It's damn hard to maintain a proper desktop app even for one platform, and it will always miss some feature a competitor has.

And SoundCloud would invest into it for what reason? For what bottom line gains?

I fail to see so far.
Gmail can also ban you
Looking at earth timelapse the whole area has been expanding for a while https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=30.46781,31.89686...
How is battery life and suspend/resume support for Thinkpads?
CU on Urbit. :)
GM to run robot cars in San Francisco without human backups
In case the profile pic of the author didn’t give it away, I’m pretty sure “he” is a “she”.

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/yun-fang-juan

Gender neutral language can help avoid this kind of bias.
You need to se it like this: iPhoneApple is selling off it's charger operations to someone else (it is important that they are different shareholders). Once the companies are split up, iPhoneApple won't want chargerapple to have an exclusive contract, since their phones are worth more if chargers are cheaper. So the only reason they would want to give an exclusive contract to ChargerApple is to sell it for more money. Considering this, they might as well sell it first and then negotiate an exclusive contract. Or hell, maybe they find someone who will pay more for it than their spinnof. At this point, iPhoneApple will realize what every other smartphone maker in the industry realizes: Selling exclusive charger contracts is not worth it.
As far as the user is concerned, imessage does mostly operate with another "open" platform, SMS. Certain features don't work for apple users texting others, but core functionality is intact. This is also because apple innovated by creating those features while retaining SMS interoperability, and RCS didn't exist at the time.
We Need More Founders
The UN's Forestry Department has a fact sheet here (pdf) with some annotated satellite pics showing the layout and species.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/35800-094f4eedb0c86a4a33be1a3d90...
Linux has been popular on the type of embedded processors the original Android devices were built using since forever, therefore the makers were writing Linux driver blobs for them regardless. To use a completely different HAL they would have had to write completely different drivers.

You can't convince them to do that in order to use a new operating system with no market share.

> Google's poor decision making led to a much higher volume of electronic waste than any imaginable level of Airpods sales ever could.

More whataboutism.
Dont expect to get tell the truth
IQ
RACE
GENDER
REGION
JEWS

on any Mastodon pod/server

Its heavly censored by Global Leftists, sjw and feminists
that cant handle factual debate
They never said naïve, they said irresponsible.

Of course something can be irresponsible for many reasons but I think there is a solid argument that making a website that works better in Chrome than other browsers is morally irresponsible because you are encouraging more users away from more open browsers. (Which I guess is mostly Firefox at this point? :'( )
Makes me think of the Library of Alexandria. Such a great, great shame to think of all the knowledge lost forever.
Hell yeah!

Wait, what...
I think this is generally true. We could go even further - the amount of Airpods vs. the amount of crap sold on Amazon for your kitchen, living room and bathroom is a few magnitudes more. Not saying we shouldn't strive, just providing some perpective how much impact Airpods has vs. the entire disposable culture we've created.
Volume of plastic from Lego alone would eclipse everything Apple makes. Do you think we need to stop making Lego bricks? Not trying to be snarky, but there are some naunces that need to be hashed out.

It is an expectation for a can opener to less than $7. With this kind of consumerism, you're barking at the wrong tree with the Airpods.

Apple gets the dirty end of the stick - It is pretty juicy to hate Apple and people love it in some kind of a deep contemptful vengence.