skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think targetting depressed teenagers with something that makes their depression worse is bad.

But advertising mental health apps or government intervention programs doesn't seem intrinsically unethical within limits.

It's almost like the actual unethical item should be regulated!
> The trick is that air compressor is attached to a big vibration damping weight, mounted on big springs, which are mounted into an oil filled heavy steel box, which is itself mounted onto rubber feet

So easy... If it was that easy, it would have already been done, but...

1) compressor are maybe 100lb of solid cast steel

2) owners need to fix mechanical wear, not simply "replace the whole thing" - head gasket fails, gauges fails, hose leak (think thermal expansion / contraction), oil need to be changed, etc.

3) refrigerator system are sealed, air compressor need to pull air from the outside (ie. it can be DIRTY), which means lot of the noise actually come from the intake
Venus is the closest planet to earth. In average should be Mercury, but you get the point.
Repo_watch: Manage watched vs. unwatched GitHub repositories
Yes, this is something the 45th US president did quite well
Mods, could this be substituted?
Maybe this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rt.com/usa/523097-school-ma...
I'm not sure. What fraction come "because of the logo?"
Perhaps you need to read slower? I see no comment denying that a coup was attempted in any of the parent comments.

The too comment didn't mention the topic at all. The reply to that comment that I replied to mentioned the "recent almost successful coup attempt" and I responded to that comment by pointing out that we came nowhere near a coup beinf successful.

So you, and a large number of other posters, are so locked into the mindset of partisan bickering that you cannot communicate effectively anymore. This is a serious problem that will significanly hurt our chances of preventing similar events.
http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub
You can trivially clear lines with infinite S-pieces or infinite Z-pieces.
1 is just the cost of living in a world that isn't static.

2 is what I'm suggesting to mostly avoid if you can.
> Cut a pipe on the back of a fridge and it'll run open circuit just fine

Try to run a plasma cutter, or a 1" impact wrench out of a fridge compressor...
How We Manage New York Times Readers’ Data Privacy
Wow I never noticed that. I wonder how they do that. iOS activity recognition only offers "automotive", and Android has "IN_VEHICLE" and "TILTING". You could classify motorcycling pretty easily offline with sensor data but I'm not really familiar with how motion data is collected, and how often.
unless your platform is better than shopify or your fees are 90% less, I don't see how you can compete
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; ... there is nothing new under the sun.
Between this and ramming critical race theory down our throats, California state government has been hellbent on a rampage to push parents like me to private schools or send the children out of state entirely.
The author of Hatetris did a quick look into this: https://qntm.org/tetris
Jan 6 was just one battlefield in a larger war. It was a last-ditch desperate attempt, where the actual "war" of Trump trying to invalidate the legitimate vote had already been lost.

That this entire war had a very slim chance of actually succeeding is an entirely different matter altogether.

In the past there was at least a broad general consensus that no matter how much we disagree or dislike each other's policies, we respect the democratic institutions. There were hickups, sure, but never on this scale. Over 100 members of the house voted against the certification of the election results.

Who knows what the future will bring; it may sizzle out, or it may grow in to something ugly. Either way, dismissing it as merely "politicians grandstanding" doesn't strike me as doing justice to the severity of this.
If hacker news had tags, the "anxiety" tag would be increasingly active these days (prions anyone?), but I feel like this right here should worry people more than it does given how many devices most people carry around at all times with an over-confidence in life because they use a password manager and SMS for 2FA.
Please avoid posting Google AMP links when normal URLs are available.
With inflation and cost of living rising so much, is 400k pretax really "insanely rich"?

I can barely afford my house and car, which middle class people of 50 years ago had no issues affording.

Aren't there many more people out there making 50M a year who should be targeted before I am targeted?
Georgia law enabling college athlete endorsements allows schools to their money
> The recent COVID crisis is an example where QALY based evaluations (which may well have gone either way) were summarily considered "putting a number on the value of a life".

I think a clarification is that a lot of U.S. citizens agree with putting a number on the value of a life but they value lives by the amount of wealth a particular life owns. What they actually don't like is the perception of having to pay their own money for other lives that they don't particularly value while simultaneously discounting their own risk of catastrophic medical costs. Irrational self-dis-interest, to coin a term.
A think this is a brilliant hypothesis. It makes a lot of sense
ISO has it as 1/42042042042042 of a "library of congress"
Hmmm... people also trim fingernails to different lengths. There are also artificial finger nail extensions, although I think those can clearly be left out of consideration.

I think to accommodate such variables the standard would really need to consider only the nail plate that covers the finder itself, not any overhand resulting from growing nails out longer.

Further, I would propose we settle on a single finger to use. While all fingers are important, the dominant role of the pointer finger makes it a clear candidate.

Really, if we're moving to a nail-based benchmark for generating transistor density metrics then these details really need to be, um... nailed down.
Plenty of room. At the bottom
I think it's not perfect, because (I believe) Spanish /t/ is usually denti-alveolar and not fully dental. I don't think there's a way to express that specific aspect of it, though I'm also not a linguist so I may be mistaken!
Let's not forget phrenology and eugenics!
Obligatory link to Louis Rossmann’s recent Right to Repair fundraiser. Please consider donating if you’re interested in helping legislate for more open/repairable hardware.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lets-get-right-to-repair-passed
where & how is the 'configuration' encoded? [we don't know, right] Is this why string theory requires higher dimensions? Also when I see the term 'harmonic oscillations', I think of plucking a string -- it seems so elegant for the physical particles to be manifestations of higher dimensional ~~vibrating~~ oscillating strings :) (thinking of flat-lander analogy)

gp's premise about learning with the multi-particle landscape first sort of blew my mind.
Most of the article seems to be missing. There is an opening paragraph but the rest of the page is just site chatter.

Google cache has a full version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

tl;dr: It's paragraphs spent gaslighting people who are trying to preserve Section 230. There's a few potshots at clueless anti-230 trolls, in order to provide a veneer of balance.

Past that it's the usual anti-230 hit piece where bringing risk to countless small sites that accept comments is super okay - as long as it allows [BAD THING] to be deployed against a handful of major platforms.

It's all an exercise in justifying massively lopsided collateral damage. Decimate the village in order to bruise the powerful who also reside there.

Pols and other interests who have been unhappy that ordinary people are freed from message gatekeeping will be pleased with it.
it seems like prosthetic teeth are pretty good, definitely a better simulacrum than prosthetic [anything else]
You can hint the compiler: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/likely

Or you can use profile directed optimization, as others mentioned.

In my test recently it reduced branches as a whole by 30%, according to perf stat ./a.out
Aspiration is a separate phenomenon. English also has unaspirated plosives — they just mostly only occur in word-final positions, like the <t> in "pat", and they are not contrastive with their aspirated versions.

What I was talking about was how the Spanish /t/ has the tip of the tongue just a bit further forward, so that it touches the back of your teeth. English /t/ is, for most people, purely alveolar, so there's no teeth contact.
Hardware Boot Selection Switch
Better AI is always a good thing in PvE, but as you say, hard to do.

I think the immediate future is asymmetrical roles for humans.

For example, one side is playing FPS for a Kill/death ratio basically, the other side is a single person playing RTS for a win/loss ratio.

IE Mechwarrior team deathmatch. Team of multiple human FPS players against a single human MechCommander-with-basic-AI-team.

It'd give scenarios more flexibility and allow for human intelligence to combat the meta.

And allow the FPS people to get a 2 or 3 to one kill ratio.
A TIL of my own: it seems not to be allowed in C.
(I'm so glad to see this reply, because it means I was successful at describing the referenced mindset and have inspired a discussion of the viewpoint itself. Even if I'm not sure how much of it I agree with myself, that's a win.)
As a former child, I don't think I've ever bought or considered buying something because of an ad.
It used to be surveys few could voluntarily filled out that were interpolated onto similar demographics, or based on purchases.

Now advertisers can track you directly where/when you go, without your permission. Your search and purchase history forever remembered, your location verified, your friends identified.

With such level detail we will soon have custom pricing to maximize profits.
I think they meant bootstrapping a life not a business.
Banks loan from their availabile capital no? They don’t just make up money for loans.
I dont have an issue with this specific case, more the industry shift to rent seeking. Cars have subscriptions. Next your thin client hardware needs to pay rent to work. It is a slippery slope and claiming virtue doesnt decrease the gradient.

Also, history tells us when companies say they wont be evil... they mean "not yet". It is a middle man power play pure and simple.

The rest feels like classic SV/startup window dressing to get the job done.
SkyNet/SiaSky?
Then I guess you don't really understand UNIX either. Software modularity is a necessary part of the UNIX philosophy, but it's far from the only part. If it was that simple, then Windows would be UNIX thanks to COM.

But that's not really the topic at hand.

> It is going to eat traditional finance.

Why should I believe this? Even if high transaction fees, bad UX, and non-existent scalability weren't significant barriers to adoption, why should I believe that traditional finance won't simply co-opt successful defi projects?

The fact that traditional finance does not do some things that defi does has nothing to do with technical capabilities, and everything to do with legality and market sizes. There's no grand conspiracy afoot -- traditional finance would let you do a lot more with your money than you can right now if it was profitable and legal.

If you're telling me that defi is going to "eat traditional finance" because traditional finance won't touch unprofitable or illegal activities, then what are you really saying about defi's prospects?

> There's nothing illegal about participating in crypto.

No one said that crypto is illegal. Tax evasion, on the other hand...
Wow, that's really interesting about the affricates! Thanks for sharing! :)

I get the continuous vs discrete aspect for sure, but you'd think we'd at least have different symbols for each place of articulation! /t/ crosses four different places (dental, denti-alveolar, alveolar, post-alveolar) and the best we can do is cut that down into two groups of two places with the dental diacritic which says "some teeth contact". I think if I were to design such a transcription system from scratch, I would try to make it at least possible to express each place/manner combination, but that's just me!
Wow, you really are determined to make this a flame war. Well, I don't engage in them in general, and HN has a low tolerance for anything coming close, so I'm walking away given that you are not willing to engage in civil discourse free of insults.

I will point out one more fact though: VP Pence made it out of congress mere moments ahead of the mob, part of were hunting him with the goal of hanging him. That seems like a close enough call that the "barely" modifier is not completely unreasonable. If you want to reply to that aspect of the situation without resort to insults or other inflammatory rhetoric, I'm not unwilling to entertain your point of view.
Cool, I hadn't seen the MNT, thanks for posting. Frame Work appears to be 70% thinner and about 30% lighter so probably appeals to a different buyer.
I think the catch is the amount would be 10-20x what you're estimating. FB makes something like $10/user/month by itself.
Wow, I thought he was full of shit when I heard this years ago, but I still had some respect for the guy.

This is like watching an old Kevin Spacey interview.

Where does very publicly cheating on his wife and building a company where drivers routinely poop in bags fit into this bullshit framework?

At least he's obsessed with his customers, right...?

Want to reduce regrets when you're 80? Read what people actually say on their deathbed, e.g.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/top-5-regrets-of-the-dying_n_...

Definitely no "gosh, I should've started that startup to opportunistically crush competition in the name of customer-centrism".
> there was a flippant, reactionary tone to anyone criticizing Theranos

That's inaccurate. No doubt some responses were like that; "anyone" is an extreme exaggeration.

The internet hivemind (which is all of us) leaps from a few data points to anyone, always, everytime, etc., surprisingly seamlessly. Truth be told, one can even substitute "single" for "few" in the previous sentence without too much loss of fidelity—but perhaps it's cynical to insist on it.

This is largely just how human memory works, but I pay close attention to it because it deeply affects this community's perception of itself, and that is a big problem because such false feelings of generality skew sharply negative.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

p.s. I completely agree that we need to have substantive discussion about these things.
If only there were more people like you 30+ years ago...
> what do you think would have happened if the rioters captured every single congressperson? what if they were all killed?

Then Congress would have been unable to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, at least until the states appointed replacements. Meanwhile Trump would have been shouting "I really won". That still doesn't add up to anything close to a successful coup, unless the newly-appointed Congress people change their votes based on fear for their lives.

What it would have been, though, is potentially the start of a civil war. It would depend on how determined (or deluded) Trump was, to carry on the claim that he won, and how many people in the population believed it.
Got it. Will look into it.

I've never used Fastmail but it looks great.
I don't know if I'd say it's Graham's best essay ("Beating the Averages" still ranks as one of my favorites), but reading this most recent essay, I was thinking of Elon Musk.

Say what you will about the guy, and there's an argument to be made that Tesla at least is incremental and not a crazy new idea, but Musk co-founded Paypal and is now pushing limits in spaceflight.
Channeling Mitch Hedberg: There used to be hills here. There still are, but there used to be too.
In no way did I do what you're claiming. Please unflag my post.
As an American, I knew about Straya but this is the first I've heard of Strine. Or should I say Murican :)
I looked up this guy and apparently there's one of three things intended by this comment. Either you're complimenting me (but the emoji and throwaway nature of the comment suggest otherwise), you're insulting me by calling me an economist (not exactly a common insult, but it's definitely not a favored profession), or you're comparing me to someone who's dead (which is terrifying and probably not what you meant, but who even knows with today's trolls).

Of those options, I think you meant this to be an insulting and dismissive comment, wherein you jokingly compare me to a dead man in order to weaken or diminish the views represented in my detailed writeup of the 'unspoken' viewpoint referenced upthread. If so, you will find that Hacker News is not a reliably effective venue for that sort of manipulation of others. If I'm wrong in my interpretation, I of course welcome clarification. :)
Heh, I remember being roundly mocked here about 10 years ago for disputing the idea that 22nm was the end of the road. 'Maybe 16 or 14nm, but then the laws of physics intervene.' I should have put down a bet.
What’s the best Mindstorms set to get? Is the latest “Robot Inventor” the best or is that only for robots. For example the modern set doesn’t seem to have shaft encoders?
tip: don't try to make all your lines perfect. You'll have to sacrifice some lines if you ever want to complete one.
How do you read the content of this website? Everything jumps around as you scroll.

https://streamable.com/ymqe1c
> I think "attacking" Crazy New Ideas is how we develop them, iron out the kinks and test our understanding.

Criticism is the crucible in which crazy new ideas are forged into crazy viable ideas.

> However, the main problem I have with with this article is that it divides people into domain experts and the rest.

Let's be honest: in this day and age "the rest" are far too vocal and need to STFU on things which they have no knowledge. Sure, domain experts can disagree - let them be heard, but the know-nothings should be given zero attention.
In every question that I tried so far, the correct answer was the happiest of the multiple choice options. For example, if the question is, 'how many kittens have a warm place to sleep?', they would offer,

10%
40%
70%

And of course the answer is 70%. They never offer,

50%
70%
90%

Nor,

70%
85%
95%
The Soul of Erlang and Elixir – Saša Jurić (2019) [video]
Dogs Are Even Smarter Than You Think
Most businesses fail. Why do you think that is?
The paragraph about broker dealer requirements is about that

A requirement which did not spring from nature but has no usefulness for fungible consumer products and simply hasn’t been revisited

Without clarity from regulators it is impossible to simultaneously comply with FTC consumer regulations and SEC investor regulations as they are incompatible regulatory regimes which alter how things are marketed, promoted, traded and accounted for.

And actually complying with SEC regulations means there is no where to trade it. There is a joke amongst securities attorneys about the Howey Test which is the premier securities framework from the Supreme Court “if Howey wanted to comply and register properly as a security how would he? Well he couldn't because they’re fucking oranges”. And that reality exists for digital assets today, yet the market is there and the risk:reward is extremely favorable.

But what you might be missing from trying to nitpick specific regulations: The SEC will never ever ever fulfill its mission from Congress of protecting crypto asset investors by sanctioning crypto asset issuers, it will only hurt the investors in the current reality. Whatever it does in the equities space is not applicable here as the SEC's arbitrary adversarial actions provide the opposite of confidence in the crypto market and facilitating capital formation. It understands that part too which is a contributing factor for why its actions are limited pending modern direction from the legislative branch, and its prudent that you understand that as well.
Some other advantages:

- Things might be less likely to break. Certainly the default settings are the most likely to have a test case associated with them. How likely is it that there's a test case around the unique combination of the 35 parameters you've configured that are relevant to the particular operation you're attempting?

- It may be better. A number of times I've heard of some odd default and thought "that's obviously wrong" but given it a chance and learned to like it. Definitely change things that really are important to you, but vendors often put a lot of effort into making good defaults.

- If you're a developer, a less configured system is more likely to be similar to what an average user uses, giving you a more similar experience to them.
You should clearly not enter a market you do not understand, because you'll probably lead you to bring a knife to a gunfight.

But your conclusion about mass-market is too broad, this is not a single thing and can really depend on your definition and perspective.

Apple devices can be considered mass-market or niche.
Hi all, I was invited to repost this (originally posted last year) to be included in the second chance pool!

The USGS created topographic maps by hand from 1884 to 2006 (when they started making their topographic map series digitally). I stumbled upon the fact that all 183,000 of their hand-drawn maps were digitized and uploaded to a public S3 bucket [0] in Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF format [1].

Because they're in this format, it's possible to quickly mosaic images _on demand_, in a process called "dynamic tiling" [2]. The dynamic nature of it gives you a lot more flexibility, because you aren't creating static tiles once.

In contrast, the hardest part about this project is the time variation. The USGS created many different scales of maps at many different time periods, so figuring out how to combine them into a few mosaics is quite tricky. With more time invested in this, it would be ideal to have a search capability to show user-specified time horizons. (Edit: I talk about this process a bit more in the Github README [3]).

More recently I've been spending time doing similar dynamic tiling projects, but focusing on satellite imagery, to enable analytic processing of satellite imagery in the browser [4].

[0]: `aws s3 ls s3://prd-tnm/StagedProducts/Maps/HistoricalTopo/GeoTIFF/`

[1]: https://www.cogeo.org/

[2]: https://kylebarron.dev/blog/cog-mosaic/overview

[3]: https://github.com/kylebarron/usgs-topo-tiler

[4]: https://www.unfolded.ai/blog/2021-04-28-raster-layer/
Good grief, I'm angry and stressed even though I was just interacting with a simple hostile algorithm. I felt personally attacked. This thing has fascinating psychological implications.
I've been thinking about this, there are so many crazy/interesting stories in the crypto sphere that you could fill volumes upon volumes. I wish they were reported more, hope someone picks you up on your offer.
Yeah, normally companies carry out a stock split way before the price reaches this level because having such a high price makes trading and holding their shares a bit of a pain. Berkshire Hathaway is just unusual in that Warren Buffett considers this an advantage. Also, I guess it's not the kind of company that usually has wild fluctuations in its share price - Buffett usually seems to go for boring businesses with steady returns.
Mini Japanese Phrasebook with Audio
Armed BLM Terrorists Attack Motorist
FUCK BLM! FUCK YOU IF YOU SUPPORT THEM!