skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason the 30% exists isn’t collusion, it’s what both thought they needed to charge to make money on 99 cent purchases given how high transaction costs were.

Even today, it’s likely they don’t make much on those 99 cent purchases, last I looked transaction costs were probably over 10%.
You may like NewCity. It's in a rough alpha state, but the whole goal of the game is to get your first skyscraper, which is actually kinda hard.
Specifically it’s the requirement that taxes be paid in the local fiat currency, with the police there to back it up. The fact that you are obligated to get your hand on USD to pay taxes has an effect of tying USD to the real economy, giving it value.

For USD it’s also the fact that oil is sold in USD, which is why a lot of foreign debt is also denominated in USD.
Increasing the sample rate will still reduce the noise.
definitely not by sitting around and asking on hn. not only is there too much overthinking around here but neither pail nor peter lurk around answering questions. its mainly wannabe office workers who somehow think that gaining points here gets them closer to becoming experts in anything.

instead do what you quoted - go out there, pick a field, do stuff in it and learn what you can either do better, different, or more of the same if the market allows. ideas come from ingredients and the more you have the more you can bake.
No, it will function just fine. Just verified with my Macbook Pro 2019 on OS 11.
They're replacing good paying union jobs with contract workers for a 3rd party company. The original jobs that are being cut are not in any way comparable to what prop 22 offers gig drivers.
Well, due to limitiations in supply, housing is market based on scarcity. There is no way to fix that without fixing the fundamental issue of insufficient supply.
On many (most) VPN connections, Protonmail prompts for another email or a SMS (due to abuse, presumably) or a non-disposable email (depending on severity)
I went back and found the e-mail. She said in it, "I was doing OK there until one of my Italian colleagues committed suicide as he couldn't take the lockdown. He was in his 20s..."

So sorry, not flatmate, workmate. If the lock-downs weren't the main cause, I'm sure they certainly didn't help.

Keep in mind Thomas Schäfer, a German minister of fiance, committed suicide by train in March as well.

Another person I know told me his daughter's best friend killed herself during the lockdowns as well, and that was during the fall.

And I'll say this too, if I was in my 20s right now, I'd be at very high risk for suicide. I've had a lot of years under me and am in a much better place right now. But if I was younger and had access to firearms like I did back then, I most likely would not be here.

This has got to stop.
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"As with Apple, the best way for Google to avoid being ordered to turn over data on its users is to not collect or retain that data in the first place. And, as with Apple, the next best thing is to give users the power to turn off that data-collection and data-retention altogether, something Google's gotten marginally better at in the past year."

Google is very aggressive in its data collection. Its scope keeps increasing not vice versa. For example, I have been experimenting with blocking some of YouTube's data collection using a forward proxy to deny certain request URLs. It appears one could do this within Developer Tools using request blocking and regex. But who would ever use that. Is it any coincidence this is not named "User Tools".

It is possible to watch YouTube videos without having every interaction with the website logged and collected by Google as "data". You will not see any ads if you do not use the Google-supplied Javascript video player. However avoiding data collection takes some effort on the part of the user. Tech companies know this, they know most people are not really "into computers" and cannot be bothered to spend time fiddling with them. We cannot expect Google to make avoiding data collection "easy" for anyone. This is no different from expecting tech companies to "self-regulate".
Here's a link to the color image https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/12/21/well/21well-klass...

I agree; the filtered image (right) is more aesthetically pleasing; but it feels much less accurate. It would depend on the intent of the image I think. If you're creating art, and using photographs in the creation, it's not a problem. If you're reporting on the world and just want to reduce the data size (or use a monochrome output medium), I wouldn't do it like this.
It’s not dollars, it’s CAD, so significantly less.
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> Facebook can read all your messages?

Whatsapp still does E2E encryption. (Same as Signal) Facebook can't read your messages. (There's still the scenario of you getting a special version of the app with that functionality disabled of course) You can also enable notification for changed signatures, which I do see changing as people replace their phones.
The truth of a story does not depend on the credibility of its narrator. To assert otherwise is the definition of ad hominem.

Claims asserted may nonetheless be untrue or may not be as strong as claimed. But that requires careful, critical examination.

I'm perplexed by this reaction, as if reading something with a critical eye is impossible. Or, worse, that reading something by someone without a particular status or pedigree might become as infectious as SARS-2 itself and turn us into zombies or something.
It could be that no one disagrees with them because they're always right. Another possibility is that there's only so much "attribution" business to go around, and the customer is always right. The very idea of worrying more about who walked in the open door than about closing the door is a sure sign that "politics" has taken over completely.
Don't know about Vons nameplate stores, but their Pavilions stores offered delivery in the early/mid 90s. It wasn't as heavily used as today but did keep two fulltime employees booked up constantly. Since I no longer live in Southern California, I don't know if Pavilions has maintained this service continuously but suspect they have as it fits very well with their upscale customer focused business model.
Assange did not allow the Pentagon to redact names. Specifically:

“...Assange wrote that WikiLeaks would consider recommendations made by the International Security Assistance Force "on the identification of innocents for this material if it is willing to provide reviewers."

That’s from your salon.com article.

So Assange would “consider” redacting (not promising anything) and only if a group from the United Nations identified “innocent” names. There’s no mention that the Pentagon has any input at all. And there’s no reason to think anyone at the ISA should know the names of undercover intelligence agents in those documents, especially the documents completely unrelated to Afghanistan... since the ISA was involved only with issues in Afghanistan.
>> 1. The inventor would pay the R&D costs with no good way to recoup them, because he'd be competing against knockoffs who didn't have to make that investment, and can price accordingly. You'd be putting the actual inventor at a disadvantage.

>> 2. There'd be no incentive for inventors to actually publish designs for their inventions. Most people who argue against patents as a concept forget is that to get one you have to publish plans for your idea openly, which makes it much easier to copy. The limited monopoly is an incentive to part with that information. You'd end up leaving the public domain poorer.

> So what? They would just need to sell the research at profit instead of subsidizing it with future monopoly revenue.

That doesn't actually address the concern; it just moves it around a little.

So, there's at least two cases to consider: something that was difficult to develop and either a) easy to reverse engineer or b) hard to reverse engineer.

With (a), why would someone pay for the research when it's just going to be cloned by their competitors for free? It's the same situation the inventor is in.

With (b), why would the inventor ever publicize the research behind the invention or product? It'd end up being a trade secret, and probably be monopolized (for potential a longer period) or lost altogether.

For instance, with 3D printers, maybe instead of them becoming ubiquitous after the patent expiration, the inventor kept the technology secret and used to start a rapid prototyping company. Maybe they couldn't keep that up forever, but it's quite conceivable they could for longer than a patent term.

> And remember how putting a 3D printer in a box to keep the material warm has been patented? Suuuure, wouldn't get discovered independently.

That's not an argument against patents, but an argument against the current threshold of patentability. Also, there are a lot of things that only seem obvious after you've seen them done.
This.
Google has had it in for affiliate sites for as long as I can remember, and they specifically dislike thin content. While the site has ~250 words of value editorial at the top of the pages I've looked at, the descriptions of the products themselves are extremely thin (~30-50 words), and would likely fall foul of this Google policy:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...

"Pages of product affiliation where the majority of the site is made for affiliation and contains a limited amount of original content or added value for users."

Also, the site may not comply with this policy:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...

"Sites that copy content from other sites, modify it slightly (for example, by substituting synonyms or using automated techniques), and republish it"

While I have seen much poorer quality affiliate sites than this ranking in Google, IMO this model is on borrowed time. I think the way to survive in this market is by increasing the value:affiliate ratio, and diversifying income sources, so affiliate revenue isn't the sole focus.
Of course sovereignty and overall data security should be considered. My point is that a blanket "no outsourcing" rule is daft and counterproductive.
How do I apply? The careers link on your about page leads nowhere.
Author here. No, that is called z-coordinate. It's not possible to get z-coordinate by just finding the distance between me and the user.
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This grocery store chain had delivery at various times going back over a decade. It has nothing to do with the pandemic.
To speed things up: http://constructortheory.org/what-is-constructor-theory/

This is what the video talks about. I don't like this video much. It's tedious and lengthly.

Probably no reasonable human being would assume that Quantum Mechanic as we know it is the "holy grail" of physics. We came up with it within 100 years. Can we explain everything? Of course not.

To me, the fact that we have the uncertainty principle and schroedingers cat already prove that we basically built our understanding of physics on the premise that we can never understand it. We were basically throwing the towel and saying "yeah this is it". Advances are made through measurement and verification. How do you understand something that you can't measure, because the measurement changes the system?

It was pretty obvious to me when I studied physics that this is 100% not how the world works. It's a model, like everything else. In the model of quantum mechanics, which undoubtedly is one of the most impressive human achievements nonetheless, we have essentially complete uncertainty on the quantum scale. We can not peek beyond it and it doesn't give us any insights into how to peek beyond it. It is, in a way, the end of the line.

And like any end of the line in science, it needs a radically different thought or model, to overcome. I always found it amusing how physicists, who really should know better, actually believe that quantum mechanics is how the world works and that this is it. I always was with Einstein in rejecting Quantum Theory. It's a nice model. But that's really all it is. A model. This is not how the world works and we have come to see its limitations. We need something better if we ever want to leave our solar system and colonize space. Even Einstein fell into the trap of thinking that Quantum Mechanics is more than a model. "God does not throw a dice". Probably he does not, but it's the best approximation we could come up with. He should have refuted it and looked for something better instead. Who knows where we would be now.
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Get your own domain for ~$13 a year and then forward your email to Gmail or another online provider you like. If Google kills your account you can forward it elsewhere.

I recently started using the startup https://hanami.run to forward my mail. It's a brand new startup that I read about here on HN and the creator is super helpful.

Edit: I realize that parents Mom and my Mom are not going to do this, but us Hacker News types should.
> If a user is not specifically on that page, they are not listed in the section.

I'm consistently seeing some of the people nearby across multiple times opening the page, some of which weeks apart.
Most of these problems are industry wide, poor work life balance is the rule in tech jobs, and jobs that are better have such high competition almost nobody will actually be able to shop around.

Flexibility can be built into union contacts, and its unlikely each of the 100,000 people will have entirely different and opposed interested to you
I mean that's what investigative journalism is. Do you only read political pieces written by political scientists? Or articles on accidents & disasters from experts in those fields? The author cited experts & scientists, asked them questions and well... investigated?

I just don't see how that's problematic, and while I don't usually think that appeals to authority are fallacious, suggesting that only scientists should be listened to regardless of the arguments presented by the author is a perfect example of a fallacious appeal to authoritity imo. Especially when the author presents quite a few scientific sources to support his claims.

You can obviously argue that those sources are not valid, which is obviously possible and even likely, but we should focus on attacking the argument not the person presenting it, seemingly in good faith.
And honestly the security is "good enough" for what I do, which is chat with friends and family on it.
> temporary

It has been 10 MONTHS!. 10 FUCKING MONTHS. This isn't temporary anymore. There is literally no end in sight. Canada, the UK, and parts of the UK have INCREASED restrictions. Everyone is saying, "Well they didn't lockdown hard enough the first time"

This is morally reprehensible.
> Maybe, instead of an exclusive monopoly, ownership of IP grants an inventor a share of revenue from any products using that IP for a limited time, like a royalty or a license. Then they could make money while the community innovates on their idea.

I think that's a reasonable idea, and I believe it's called "compulsory licensing."
My RAM pack was liberally held in place with blutack - I saw something in the last month or so about a ribbon cable extender that fixed the wobble disconnects. That would have been great on day 3 of typing assembler into a REM statement - we only had one TV in the house. Probably where my penchant for working in the middle of the night comes from still :-)
Map cells are the best solution available for 90% of locations, but they don't help with the 10% that's close to map borders. If an user randomly jumps between two map cells you know they live at the boundary. Generally there is often noise in GPS signals so it's likely that person will jump around.

Furthermore, if a person uses multiple services, and each service has its own cell layout, you can check all services a user is member of and then find the intersection. Ideally services would standardize to one single cell layout. So Apple's idea of doing this cell partitioning at the OS level is really good.

I think the boundary concern can be resolved by some inertia system, so a person doesn't switch cells unless they are deeply enough in the new cell, at which point they won't switch back unless they have moved back deeply enough.
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SimCity 4, in addition to the density axis, had wealth. You could have high density low income districts and low density high income districts and all sorts of things. The different wealth classes demanded different services and jobs, had different commuting requirements, etc. And districts desirability changed over time as conditions changed, so you could have a formerly high-wealth condo become a low-wealth slum; the building would be the same but have a dilapidated appearance, etc.

As much as I like Cities Skylines, it kind of assumes that everyone can aspire to live in a nice high rise condo with solar panels on the roof.
Hilariously, I found myself wanting to downvote dang for criticizing this thoughtful cross examination. And more hilariously, I had upvoted both the parent comment and its grand parent.
Not really, no. But even so, I certainly hope it's unlikely I'd end up in extradition hearings to the US, charged with conspiracy.
You're probably referring to the C program I submitted.

OpenMP is only available for C, C++, and Fortran so that is why most programs won't use it. However most of the other programming languages have their own ways for doing multi-threading and many of the programs for this benchmark do make use of them.

The rules at https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... request that submitters use the same algorithms as existing programs and I try to follow that rule. I believe all the binary-trees programs are using recursive functions so naturally I did the same to avoid breaking the rule about using different algorithms.
We see that a lot in other languages too (taking curly braces as parens too).

There have been many attempts at languages that separate (or even do away with) the textual representation vs what is shown and interacted with in integrated tooling. Seemingly it has nice properties like forbidding invalid syntax. So far the common textual representation seems to be important enough to win over the AST languages.
iOS recently introduced per-app “Precise Location” toggle in Settings.

Turning this toggle off is a great mitigation for apps who haven’t fixed or clarified how they handle such triangulation attacks.
>You started from the assumption I need sight to navigate

Yes, and it was a legitimate assumption, given that your comment implied as much (speaking of those people as a minority in the third person, saying "who cares" about those, etc).

There certainly wasn't any "I am a person with accessibility issues myself, and I consider open formats for the majority more important than accessible content" implication.

>Again: why should the needs of the few trump the needs of the many?

First, disabled / elderly etc. people being able to have access to content, knowledge, entertainment, isn't just some random small thing we can just toss aside. Nor does it concern some insignificant minority we could ignore with minimal loss.

Second, putting out unaccessible PDF content is 100% certain to be problematic for people with accessibility needs.

Whereas having HTML instead of PDFs (the latter being what the grandfather suggested and you supported) is far from certain to make people "serfs" (which is a loaded metaphor from feudal times) or to be of much significance.

If anything HTML is open source and free, and implementing a browser to read basic HTML (as opposed to full WPAs) is trivial - more trivial than PDF for that matter, and with more FOSS browser engines in existance, from full-on to minimal like Links. So even at the basic factual level the concern is misplaced.
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Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by AWS will completely change software
My mind is blown by CDK and the abstractions it allows over software.

Modern infrastructure has been done via configuration files (cloudformation, ansible, salt stack, chef, docker), allowing the automation of the creation and scaling of infrastructure. This was once a major innovation.

CDK by AWS ups the level of abstraction, allowing for one to create object oriented abstractions over their complete software infrastructure. This, in the next five years, will completely change software development. We have never seen this level of abstraction, with the whole power of the AWS stack at the finger tips of the developer. How can a team justify not being on AWS?

CDK is to cloudformation as c++ is to assembly.

Templates of complete software stacks, with all devops built in, will be created and will completely automate dev ops. Whole websites can be spun up in minutes, pieces of them mixed and match with open source infrastructure templates pulled in.

Imagine a spring package where your ORM already has an aws database baked in, with the automated switching between dev and prod, profiling, etc. Right out of the box. Just a random example, but the automation here is massive

Why am I not reading more about this?
I'd certainly agree there. The eShop applet runs on it, and is easily the worst-performing part of the Switch - much slower and laggier than pretty much any site on the modern web.