skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It all depends on the market elasticity.

Let's say your gadget costs 100,000 and only sells 50,000 per year. So, someone can say it doesn't make sense to try to do the capital investment to build a factory that churns out cheap gadgets that only cost 35,000 - because the market is only 50,000 per year. That wouldn't be a good analysis. Of course, the market size is different if the price point is different.

Satellites are expensive partly because launches are expensive. For example, you can't easily launch another satellite if your old one fails, so you spend a lot of money trying to make sure your satellite is very reliable.

Now, there are new satellite manufactures doing them in a more agile way, using as much off the shelf components as possible. They sell the data on the internet. Your satellite project doesn't last twenty years like it would with NASA or ESA or the militaries. More likely only a few, and you iterate a lot, making upgrades to successive satellites, meaning more revenue with every, better, satellite.

Typically these companies use shared launches (many satellites from different companies on the same launch), managed by a launch aggregator. They use vehicles like the Indian PSLV.

Source: Finnish Satellite Workshop, attended a few times. https://spaceworkshop.fi/
This is a disaster for lots of people who signed a "shadow rent" contract and now owe their landlords.

I know quite a few friends who won't be able to pay.

In many cases this essentially doubles their rent.
Second that, I'm using DDG in the FF. Have also enabled the same for the kids. Wife still protests but I'll switch it when she's sleeping.

Before writing the above I did double check this as I was not sure. So it is a sign that there is not much difference from other engines.

Localized results (in Ireland) are not that great though. But with time I just changed the ways around search queries. It is not really an issue anymore.
Nice edit.

How do you justify your $1000m valuation of a company that generated $700m of PROFIT in a single quarter?
Exploring DTC for Fresh Produce Businesses
the official shorthand that literally nobody uses?
The CRUD way of thinking for Rails controllers according to DHH (2016)
This is one of the travesties of drug enforcement and has compounded inequality in America. The imprisonment of the poor for nonviolent drug offenses continues today. That a wealthy drug user would laud this as a good outcome of drug policy is honestly flabbergasting, but perhaps shouldn’t be.
Have you SEEN the utter volume of terrible books, music, visual arts, and so on? Taste and quality does not dictate whether something is an art form.
Definitely not the case for the people I know. One trip caused permanent psychosis in one case.
> but as long as someone lives in those new apartments (who would have lived in Berlin anyway), it helps with the housing shortage and prices.

> At some point in the chain that means there's cheaper housing available.

Not at all: if you tear down a cheap apartment and replace it with a more expensive one the overall availability of cheap apartments decreases.
That is interesting. So it is a bit like reducing your attention, and expanding awareness?

What you described sounds very similar to the effects of mindfulness meditation. The idea in a sense is to increase awareness - that is, sensing the world as is, without the filters or influence of mental objects. The theory is that meditation can then help you free yourself of past negative conditioning that is no longer relevant and to be more present.

It would be interesting to see more studies on both, but I understand that many things to do with the mind and subjective experiences are difficult to measure and therefore to study.
> As the industry pays well, on time and demands results, their construction sites are staffed to the fullest amount possible and complete astonishingly fast.

In my opinion, compared to other countries things that would be built within 8-12 months take 2 years.
Alternatively, the US has long demonstrated its unwavering commitment to competition above all collateral costs. I vastly prefer EU-style digital governance to US-style, since the latter always seems to end up in an Orwellian dystopia (that is worse than the other dystopias).
Does it offer multi-language support, or is it English only? I couldn't find that information anywhere.
Getting started with the AWS Cloud Development Kit and Go
>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/getting-started-with-...
Going from 15 to 13 is noticeable. You should definitely try it before committing
Perhaps they were susceptible to it, then. Permanent psychosis though? Is that really a thing?
Play an Infocom text adventure. Art, computer game, no picture.
I think the pared down bit is important: the whole point behind EA is to increase giving to some types of organization at the expense of giving to other types of organization based on success metrics. So if leading EA initiatives are dissuading (say) giving to electrify Africa because of a lack of efficacy data or wealth of existing funding, they might event be having a quantitative negative impact on those particular causes. If they instead promote an already exceptionally well-funded AI research project their friends work for whose impact on Microsoft's share price is much easier to quantify than their impact on preventing Hypothetical Cyberpunk Future, then that's a questionable/bad decision under their own utilitarian framework. Even if they're generating enormous interest in philanthropy and analytical rigour overall, the bit where they might be discouraging people from choosing better causes than the ones they choose is a problem.

Ultimately people have a right to donate their money to the causes they want whether it's having a quantifiable impact on reducing human suffering, taking moonshots on interesting speculative stuff or funding their ex-roomate's creative pursuits, but the whole point of the E in EA is to prioritise the former over the latter.

If leading EA organizations are inconsistent in the standards they apply, that's a problem for those particular organizations, and if it turns out that future AI risk and basic services for poor people tomorrow simply aren't readily comparable, that's a problem for the whole EA optimization framework.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institite of Anthopology, Human Heredity and Eugenics is the place responsible for conducting the scientific racism used by the nazis to justify the holocaust.

At that place, they studied the work of American eugenicists, like the founding president of Stanford University, David Starr Jordan. And they received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.
That's not how politics works in the UK. We have first past-the-post, so individual policies mean very little.

On top of that, the Conservatives made an election pledge to build 200,000 starter homes in 2015 election and apparently failed to build a single one. It's easy to claim you'll build houses and then do nothing, like it's easy to claim you'll reduce immigration but it just keeps going up.

The last election in 2019 was mainly about Brexit and the general public's perception that Corbyn was unsuited to being the Prime Minister.
TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022
> ....but man, that's way more than I'd expect.

He uses ConvertKit. It's amazing the total is only $130, given the popularity of his site.

From 3001 to 5k subs is $79/month on their basic plan and $111/month for the pro plan. No idea about larger lists, but they're not cheap.
A lot of the ideas mentioned in this article have been incorporated into SocketCluster https://socketcluster.io/ - It's an end-to-end RPC + pub/sub client/server library and it provides a versatile API to manage backpressure.

This point is particularly relevant:

> Exerting backpressure is why we don’t retry except at the ends of a system. If we’re going to fail, we want to propagate that failure information to where it can be used.

This is an excellent observation and why SC is an end-to-end system which extends all the way to the end user (as opposed to Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, STOMP, NSQ and MQTT... which are all designed to be used on the backend in a permissioned environment and do not extend to the end user; they require an additional communication and authentication layer for last-mile delivery). If a message fails to be delivered, then the end user's client is the one which should re-submit the message.

The principle of putting most of the control in the hands of end users has been at the core of SC's design since the beginning.
If you want an example of ignoring local law, how about the East India Company? They formed their own army, took over part of India, and set up their own government.
1. See 2.

2. Bitcoin was always a dumb idea from the perspective of building a business or an economy on it.

3. Anyone who really looked at Bitcoin in 2012 could see it was not a realistic replacement for PayPal unless you were thinking about paying on a place like SilkRoad.
> A common trick was to pair the rent contract with Renting some token furniture for completely unreasonable

That's a problem with the Mietpreisbremse, but not so much with the Mietendeckel, which also sets limits on furnished flats. You also can't just throw in an IKEA BILLY shelf and call it furnished (in the words of my lawyer).
KidX Classbox – Eductional toy for preschool and kindergarten kids
A few years ago I would've agreed.

Today I'm leaning more towards - "so what?".

As long as there's obviously enough space to waste on detached houses and land speculation in the middle of the city, it can't be all that bad.

If it was really such a big deal, "someone" would've paid "somebody" already to relocate the animals "after business hours", if you catch my drift. There's more going on behind the scenes for sure that we just don't know about.
, KidX Classbox was developed from needs brought on by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Covid-19 has disrupted the world, pushed schools to an all digital experience at home, accelerated change and adoption of technology unlike anything else. KidX Classbox will serve the needs beyond the pandemic, as worldwide teachers and students have now embraced digital learning, and there is no going back. Sadly, digital solutions lack the multi-sensory and physical interaction that is needed for proper child development and learning. KidX will fill this need with the first ever interactive video/hardware system, allowing real video interactive learning to go beyond the screen. Get ready for KidX's transformation of the early education and play space.
Thanks for posting this!
I distinctly remember this post way back in '12 and was wondering why no one posted this on the Coinbase IPO thread.
It's like witnessing a moment in history.
The "solution" of installing an extension is a bit shortsighted. Google can and will just remove the possibility for extensions to block FLOC in the future, when it's deemed profitable to do so.
NIMBYism, environmental regulations, building codes and lack of money and interest by the state.

Berlin had the nice example of a few square kilometers of the Tempelhof airport field being available. Public demanded to make it a park instead of constructing housing.

Almost anything with a tree on it is impossible to build on, and even if there is a building permit for the housing, attaching it to public transports like the S-Bahn or Subway is next to impossible nowadays.

Building codes in Berlin are not much weirder than in the rest of Germany, but they also serve to make constructing housing harder. E.g. there is a strict limit to building height, which limits buildings to 5 storeys (iirc) even in high-demand high-density areas.

Money is especially tight for the state of Berlin, while they get subsidized with lots of money from the other states (Länderfinanzausgleich), they still cannot afford to construct much of the necessary housing or the associated infrastructure themselves. Private investment usually will go elsewhere because the political environment in Berlin is poor. If there is rent control in Berlin and no rent control in Hamburg, of course money will go to Hamburg first.

There is also no political will to fix the above.
Interesting to see his business pivot that eventually happened.

His original motivation (Bitbank) was a "WesternUnion/Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/Stripe" payments processor using bitcoin. At the time bitcoin was ~$5 instead of ~$60000 today.

Instead of that, his Coinbase is more like a forex market maker. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market

It was other entities (e.g. Blockstream bitcoin Lightning Network) that pursued the "small payments" space.

So the only constant theme was to do something in the cryptocurrency space.
> From the little I've watched ABC on youtube they are pretty biased.

So you know next to nothing about the ABC but you nevertheless have strong opinions about it.

> Very pro UK and anti EU.

Prove it. Show me all this supposed anti-EU stuff.
Or you call those event's part of the "the early middle ages." Or just say sixth century. The Renaissance refers to like a fifty year period, comparing that to a millennium middle age is half the problem.
Berlin Rent Cap Unconstitutional
Absolutely not. Investors fight with tooth and nails to keep the prices up because it's more profitable than building.
mrustc for bootstrapping, rust_codegen_gcc (which doesn't seem like it would make stage1 much harder to compile) once the rest of the compiler has been brought up, isn't that the more realistic plan?
Starlink hasn’t proven the business model, has it?
High mandated standards on Fire/Noise Protection, Insulation, accessibility on new buildings make it really hard to build "cheap" rental apartments. With the mandated standards in place there is little to no cost difference between high cost and low cost residential buildings.

Those standards obviously have their benefits or are unavoidable (fire protection) and result in new housing being high quality. But they make it hard to address housing shortages in a non long term way.
The end result of these things is that it makes it harder to account for and pay taxes. More of a cognitive burden on everyone for no real gain.
Even with cannabis, states have no FDA that is prepared to do studies and I just wish a basic level of known side effects were listed from the actual FDA which they do for studied and much more harmful drugs, because they were studied

When you add all the other scheduled drugs that have no state level recreational framework, then you no studies and you also have a compounded supply chain problem where nobody knows what they’re actually consuming

There are molecule combinations out there which can cause instant parkinson’s disease

nobody can give a real case about “the friend of friend” who went crazy because of the illegality and imagined or real liability

and its not fair to say “this drug is perfectly safe stop fearmongering, oh wait you should have known about your family history of schizophrenia never mind then lol too late, but everyone else dont listen to that person” this isn’t directed at you, just a collection of things said in the psychadelic community pretty reliably

bothersome.
I switched to Brave/Safari combo and DDG about a year ago and Signal for messaging. DDG seems to work very well for me. I only resort to using Google is DDG can’t find what I am looking for and that doesn’t happen too often now a days.

As for Chrome, I simply don’t see any reason why anyone would use it over Brave. Brave seems to come pre installed with lots of privacy protection.
> It led to a huge decrease in rental supply.

This was artificial though, as landlords were waiting to know the outcome of this ruling. It's not like the apartments just vanished from existence.
> It's controlled by a company that is in really bad shape financially

I mean, we can bitch as much as we want on what TQTC is doing with the open-source license mess, but their stock went from 8$ in 2018 to 100$ ...

http://www.nasdaqomxnordic.com/aktier/microsite?Instrument=H...

They acquired froglogic a couple days ago:

https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/sd-times-news-digest-qt-acqu...
That argument starts to lose some of its power when DDG is recommending the extension specifically to block FLoC.
Now we have experimentally established the half-life of French nuclear-powered submarines.
I use Jekyll [1] to build my blog (link can be found on my profile). I have a bunch of custom plugins written in Ruby.

I am currently hosting my blog with BunnyCDN [2], but for a static blog you can go with any host basically.

Most of my content is written in Markdown [3] or Jupyter Notebooks [4], with some org-mode [5] sprinkled in. I am rendering the Jupyter Notebooks to HTML with a custom Jekyll plugin I wrote.

For comments I am collecting them with a simple CGI script and processing them locally on my laptop. Spam filtering is done with Paul Graham's algorithm [6]. I then bake the approved comments into the HTML so that it can be viewed without Javascript.

[1]: https://jekyllrb.com/

[2]: https://bunny.net/

[3]: https://commonmark.org/

[4]: https://jupyter.org/

[5]: https://orgmode.org/

[6]: http://paulgraham.com/spam.html
I often hear how bad antibiotic resistant bacteria may be but how much of a pandemic potential do they have?

It seems that once you remove the antibiotic, the resistant strain is quickly outcompeted by the one that is not. And it seems to match the fact that you typically find resistant strains in places with lots of antibiotics, like hospitals and countries where people and livestock are given antibiotics when they shouldn't, but not that much elsewhere.
Yes, that might be the case. I'm just comparing to the average German construction site.
I tried HP EliteBook 840 which is 14' and which is big enough for me, so I assume 13.3 shouldn't be much worse.

I really want to have something super light now.
It's a strong, clear message. And it worked even better in a time when the vast majority of people had nothing but their health and lives to lose.
> Search with DuckDuckGo by Default — install, and we'll set your default search engine and homepage to DuckDuckGo Search so you can start your Internet searches without being tracked.

First bullet point in the description.
From what I've heard, the problem here is a bit with expectations.

Institutional investors have higher expectations of return of investment and are more likely willing to forego a small rent in the hope for a larger future rent. They have more deep pockets.
And on top of that, expectations from an international market, which Berlin did not match. Investors are expecting that to change in the long run.
And the funny thing, with a limited supply in housing and an increase of investors with such a behaviour, it is a self-fulfilling promise.

The number of empty apartments in Berlin is hard to guess. Not an expert in that matter, but from a quick search, the number is anywhere between 0.8% and 2%.

Yes, it is important to have apartments empty for some time, so people can actually move, but as I understand, that is excluded from those considerations/statistics. We are looking at apartments which are empty for more than three months (which is theoretically illegal in Berlin).
but it is already happening:

https://decrypt.co/48025/bitcoin-mining-pool-that-censors-tr...

Big pools need to buy cutting-edge equipment and use huge resources, they have to abide by regulators.

Most users would be unaffected because they just "hodl" and only care about the price going up + encouraging institutional adoption. Bitcoiners don't really care about making transactions.

The lack of privacy built into the protocol makes this inevitable. You're asking miners to willingly help move illegal funds while regulators watch
v4 is adding search and recommendations, but I suspect it will not be as good as YouTube's simply because YouTube is run by the global king of search and PeerTube is developed part-time by one developer and open source contributors and funded by grants and donations.

However, PeerTube's secret sauce is putting the hosting power into the hands of the users, so for content creators with their own audience already in place who get whacked by YouTube's moderation algorithm, this can outweigh the benefits of the search/recommendation algorithm.

And this isn't just controversial pundits. Even the Blender Foundation got their videos blocked through a perfect storm of poor UX/support which spurred them to host their videos on PeerTube: https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...
I thought about making an aggregator when you can only downvote, so that only "surviving" posts would appear.

In general most users don't upvote because they're not sure they agree with a post or article or really want it to have more visibility.

But I'm betting that most users would prefer to express their disagreement or negative sentiment if it was the only option, and say nothing about things they agree with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminationism
who what why when where how

ever notice how all these stories lack that?

all?

look, don’t respond to why that might be, but lets just all push for the study and a legal framework that allows for said studies to exist
Cruise lines seem to have survived just fine and are starting operations back up (for vaccinated passengers). And if you believe that all publicity is good publicity they should have no problems filling those ships
is Alzheimers akin to Depression in the sense its a umbrella term/abstraction?
Even if HN would was more pro BTC back in the day you and most others would have sold a majority of BTC when the price started crashing from the 20K USD peak
I'm not taking about that kind of test, I'm talking about coding tests for interview. Majority of mine has been either light pairing or take home, not the "standard" leetcode type.
I will write a longer practical guide for Berliners affected by this. It should go live today or tomorrow on allaboutberlin.com.
> decriminalisation

no only recreational legalization would do that
DDG has ads though.
I've never heard anybody refer to Firefox as Fx, but I've seen FF used as a shorthand for Firefox a lot.
Comment from that post.

> Because bitcoin worked out so well. Have fun with that, dude.

> No thanks. I'd rather sell sugared water.
I have been learning Japanese for about a year now, so I don't have that much experience reading Japanese text yet [1]. I'm aware of some of the visual differences between Chinese and Japanese fonts, but I have not yet had trouble reading Japanese text set in a Chinese font. If you have any specific examples for Kanji that are difficult to recognize in a Chinese font, I'd be interested.

[1] Although on the other hand you could argue that I'm spending more conscious effort reading Japanese text than a native speaker would.
I'm not sure how long ago you looked, but that definitely isn't the case, both from research and personal experience.
To be honest though, for the general public not using adblockers, is FloC not better privacy wise than your traditional cookies?
Okay, then the lack of housing.
My company forbids using Teams for data that would be subject to GDPR. Guess they don't trust the Privacy Shield, but it still boggles the mind why we didn't go then for a solution that can be deployed on-premises.
there is a suspected overlap that both communities talk about

check it out
Types are not associated with expressions in Python: evaluating an expression produces a typed value, whose type, and not only its value, depends on the type and/or values of the inputs. Example:

def comparativeInsult(a,b):
if b>a:
return "try again"
if a>b:
return a/b
else:
return None

The type is, for all practical purposes, a part of the value of a Python object.