skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The analagous situation with convenience storea is: If any convenience store chain was able to prevent other convenience store chains from operating in a geographic area, they would have a monopoly in that area

This breaks down as there's no "physical area" preventing anything.

You can get an Android phone whether you're in Alaska or Miami or Tanzania. In fact it's easier, and most of the billions in the planet (including high income earners) do just that.
In less than one minute, this post went from #4 to #12, suggesting anomalous behavior. https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/27120460
For any defintion of intelligence, you can improve at it. Whether that's your ability to solve problems or your ability to score well on puzzles.
Use Monero
Tech side: according to https://aws.amazon.com/iot-core/features/ the physical network seems to be implemented using LoRa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa which has a range of up to 10 km in perfect situations (so more likely 1 km in urban environments)

Edit: actually maybe Amazon uses a proprietary version of LoRa: https://enterpriseiotinsights.com/20201208/channels/news/lor...
> He goes by Alex C. Lee on Quora, and he told me that he took the test twice and scored 96 and 98. (One hundred is dead average on many tests.)...Teachers and parents get impatient, Lee explains, and even use epithets; moreover, a tendentious intelligence hierarchy from the American eugenics movement still casts a long shadow.

> Lee has trouble following directions, including the rules of games....“It's impossible for me to ‘pick up’ something,” as Lee puts it. “I'm not a fast learner. When I learn a language, I have to systematically study, writing it down and getting familiarized.”...As for Lee, he just graduated from law school. “Despite my double-digit IQ,” he told me, “I'm actually eligible for Mensa membership. They accept anyone with an above 95 percentile LSAT score. I've got a 98th percentile LSAT score.

I have a suspicion that as a kid Lee was placed in certain boxes by his parent(s) and teachers, i.e. the "Low Intelligence" and "Low Motivation" boxes, and those stuck with him throughout his life. When you're labeled as something so young, it'll stick with you.
You can still purchase healthcare insurance through healthcare.gov, for up to 60 days after losing employer-supplied insurance, whether you were fired, or quit.

Also, the enrollment period is extended through August last I checked due to COVID. So, basically you can just purchase your own after leaving, if you want.

Or you can go COBRA, but that's hella expensive.
Data scientists take data assets that were not designed to be used for a particular task and set them to be used systematically and with integrity for that task. It's something that comes from having lots of data in enterprises which can be exploited to create value, but can also be used to make very bad decisions and confuse the hell out of everyone. Using data and using data well are two very different things.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/02/...
There's two thousand of them for every ton, so yes! :-)
You'd be surprised what someone who runs a food truck or works in real estate "needs" to project "success".

Actual protip: get out of your tech bubble for two seconds and talk to some real business owners.
Not bs. But there is both a real GIGO problem, and a problem with under specification. It's certainly easy to propose DS analysis that are unlikely to have much return.

Thinking "data science is hot, we should do that" is different than "we have all this data and don't understand what it means". The latter is more likely to lead somewhere interesting.
New Shepard < Falcon 1 < Falcon 9 < New Glenn

Where does Falcon Heavy fit in that progression?
But what if he merely sent the Bitcoin from Coinbase to another wallet first - say a brain wallet he knows in his head - and then transfered the Bitcoins to the hitman?

Wouldn't that be enough for him to be able to say "no i just bought some weed sorry, jail me for a month. i dont know why that person then went on to try to kill my wife."?
Give it to charity
It's an oversight for sure. I agree that the writer should have asked the question "do we do this, too?" but didn't. At least not in writing. It would have made for a better, more rounded argument.

But that's a pretty small qualm. At worst it means the article wasn't as good as it could have been, but that's about as far as I would take that qualm.

At least as I understood the article, the maxims they put out there should be applied equally, not conditionally anyway.

But that's a failure as a thoughtful writer, not of a dishonest person or editorial process or body of colleges or an entire media industry—but those are the kinds of comments that are proliferating the larger thread.

There are a lot of accusations about dishonesty. That's pretty heavy-handed, even if the writer is on the editorial board. Being on a panel of editors does not magically make one all-seeing, even if we think that would be best.
Mismanaging hundreds of thousands of dollars of charitable contributions goes a bit beyond petty drama in my opinion.
The existence of "reasonable alternatives" is largely irrelevant. Firefox is a reasonable alternative to Chrome, and yet very few of the people I tell about Chrome's tracking switch - they just don't care. Same for Protonmail/Gmail, iOS/Android, Linux/Windows (yeah, yeah, not everything runs on Windows - nobody I know will even attempt to dual-boot and do what they can on Linux), dumb/smart TVs (yes, reasonable dumb TVs exist - the Spectres, most notably). This is a willingness issue, not a lack of reasonable alternatives, in the majority (not all) of markets.
Yes, it has been; the question whether QT allows for superluminal transmission of information has a firm negative answer, AFAICT. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation#Non-tech...

QT does not allow for mass transfer, it's purely about information. So, no ansible for us yet.
Given the crazy high amount of laser power this requires, maybe placing a satellite close to the sun, and having it focus solar radiation, would be better than an earth based laser grid?
In the future, assuming humanity becomes space-faring, it will be mind boggling to everyone that some people consistently argued against the idea.
It isn't that amusing. It just shows that HN isn't a monoculture.

This is why comments complaining about HN monoculture get upvoted. Because a large enough piece of the userbase agrees with both sides. If they didn't, those comments would just get downvoted and you would never see them.

Kinda funny how that works. "See, lots of people agree that HN is a hivemind!" Proving it's not a hivemind.
Ask HN: Why are emoji banned on HN?
It seems that emoji (and possibly other Unicode text) will be automatically removed from submission and comment text.

Is there a reason for this?
My brother's wife is one of these folks you talk about, with the "keeping kids out of school" and "leaving deliveries on porch for 3 days".

Very well said!

What I'm very curious about is what makes me perceive risk so much differently than these others. I'm wondering if it's conditioning (I spent a big chunk of my life building houses, and therefore climbing on extension ladders and walking on roof trusses was a daily ritual), childhood (I was in unstable environments a lot), or just brain wiring from birth.

A respondent on your comment mentioned a willingness to "outsource judgement to news sources" and even better "outsourcing judgement to political rivals and adopting the opposite viewpoint by default". This is a phenomenon that I anecdotally notice is intensified with educated elites. My brother's wife went to Cornell, never struck me as particularly creative or novel, but just has a great work ethic and follows what books tell her to do. She's a born rule follower, and follows conventional wisdom to the point where it borders on comical and often, defying common sense.
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What exactly would the benefit of licencing a tool like Babel under GPL be? It would be completely moot. Using a GPL transpiler isn't going to confer GPL virally onto the code that you run through it.
Luckily I observe this from the perspective of having a happy marriage, which happens to be incredibly frugal compared to two single people living alone. A house for two people who enjoy being together does not need to be larger than a house for one person; although you need a larger house when you have kids. Of many objects you only need one piece, because you are not using them all the time. Cooking is cheap; it requires time, but if you spend that time talking, you don't really mind. Minus those expenses you had in the past simply because you felt alone or bored.

The expenses of two people living together are almost the same as of one person living alone. The extra expenses are mostly for the kids (including the mortgage for the larger house). Which means that if one person has a good salary, the other can "early retire" immediately. Or if both have good salaries, they can save half of the income, and perhaps retire as soon as the kids become independent.

A divorce throws all of this out of the window.
Highly recommend. One of my favourite books from last year, probably the most surprising one. It reads like one coherent book, not just a collection of short stories.
Interesting to see Tile on the list of devices. Tile is in a rough spot since Apple launched their product that is exactly the same but with a better network, better integration and better fine accuracy. Give me a sliver of hope for their future. Tile is doomed if this initiative fails.
(Sorry, I was editing while you were replying.)

I take your point that it isn't an intellectual honesty issue if the author didn't know; it's just an embarrassing gaffe. I also take your point that one should be scrupulous about using terms like that only where they're warranted. I appreciate your defense against unfairness! usually I'm the one posting those, and it's interesting to be on the other side for a change. You outdanged me :)

On the other hand: if the commenters have pushed back as you say, surely he knows by now. If he knows, then why has the article not been updated? That would be an honesty issue, no? This isn't some minor inconsistency, this is NYT behaving markedly worse than the leading example criticized.

I think I'd disagree a bit with this too: "At worst it means the article wasn't as good as it could have been". That doesn't take into account the externalities. For example, it damages credibility.

If I map this into the HN space and imagine some sort of comparable scenario, it's unthinkable that we wouldn't post something saying "Ok you guys, you got me, mea culpa."
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i would not mind seeing cloudflare go away. havingto wait x second before viewing webpages or solving puzzles is annoying
Migrant caravans are organized–and scammed–via Facebook and WhatsApp
Too high. You can take a train from the edge of Manhattan to Harlem, about an hour trip for what, $2? How long would that same trip take during the day via car? 45 minutes maybe?

EDIT: clarified starting position
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Is it a diesel?
If that happens I’d rather buy and install my own kit.
I don't know about any experimental proofs that either time or space is definitely discrete, or definitely continuous.

Both Planck length and Planck time are way too short for current experimental techniques.
Yes, see my estimate for another skull: http://johnbokma.com/blog/2016/08/20/verifying-the-weight-of...
Respectfully, and sorry to HN readers for prolonging this thread, but curiosity compels me to ask , were u being ironic? or why would such drivel make you want vote to for the one person I cannot bring myself to name.
Maybe they mean this? https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
My 11-year-old son is absolutely obsessed with SCP stuff. Never in a million years did I think I'd see something about it here. Wow.
In people like these and haven't tried playing the game `Control`, you definitely should. It is very heavily inspired by the SCP project, and is a super fun and interesting game.
They can raise wages, and some companies already have (Chipotle). But they will pass that cost on to the consumer and now your worker's raise is negated as inflation eats it up.
If something was faster than photons and could carry similar information, we'd probably evolve to see those instead of photons. So it seems more like a semantic question.

On the other hand things get really weird if we say the fastest way to transmit information has speed in some way a function of that information (e.g. frequency). https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/00/PM.html
> Wow, sounds an awful lot like a typical event loop from a game engine.

Or Arduino's loop() method, where all the code just runs in a loop "forever."
$8.50/hr? I can hire a human driver for that price.
They dont have to follow the law, they have full immunity https://www.motorbiscuit.com/stolen-3-million-ferrari-f50-ge...

"If you assumed that the FBI got completely off the hook for this Ferrari F50 crash, you’d be correct. According to Jalopnik, Motors Insurance decided to file a lawsuit to recover $750,000, the F50’s market value at the time. However, the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly denied the claim and decided that the insurance company was not entitled to any payment."
HNers may well have flagged it after clicking through to the symbols and picturgrams.
Yes you can do it with any money.
What's your point?
Fair enough, I am sure there are even worse ways to waste money, but that isn't a great reason to waste some of it in this particular way.
> A spring under torsion is heavier than an unwound spring

Does it have more (invariant) mass?
> Starting in Rust 2021, closures will only capture the fields that they use

Holy shit yes. Thank you thank you thank you. This fixes my biggest annoyance so far!
The only definite side effect I had was a sore arm after each Moderna dose. I was actually happy that I had at least some side effect after the second dose because until then I wasn't actually sure that I had really been given the shot.

The nurse was a talker, and distracted me from watching what she was doing. I didn't see the shot go in, and I felt absolutely nothing. I only realized it was done when she said I did not bleed at all and didn't need a bandage.

Every other shot I've ever received I felt, but every other one I was also watching when it happened. Now I'm wondering if feeling them was imaginary, something my brain made up because I saw the jab and expected to feel it.
You can envision any universe you want, but it would be pretty tough to do this honestly... You'd have to break almost everything familiar.

You can rule out universes with light having a propagation speed greater than information for obvious reasons but, for less obvious reasons, you can also mostly rule out a universe with the same physics as ours but a lower light propagation speed. The only way to make that second part not true that I can think of is to give photons a very small but non-zero rest mass. Otherwise, it's hard to reason about it at all.

To proceed, I'd then assume there's still lorentz invariance but with the information speed rather than light speed. Additionally, they'd have to be pretty close in value to produce what we see.

The big sticking point I have though, is what on earth the electromagnetic force would look like in that scenario. I've no idea.
The legal precedent isn't that Apple doesn't have a monopoly.

There is no legal precedent on whether Apple has a monopoly. The law is entirely agnostic on whether Apple has a monopoly until it is put to a judge.
I don’t dispute that. However, a video snippet has the potential of disqualifying many prospects before they’ve interacted with a hiring manager because of their short video —which I hold gives them the short shrift.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210511131438/https://twitter.co...
Actually, I'm sorry too. I just realized I had a brainfart while writing that example and forgot to make the point I wanted to make. I've fixed it now. (It was supposed to work with any-arity tuples as well.)
Congratulations Aly! It's Peter Gault from Quill. What's next on your roadmap? What are you hoping to achieve over the next year?
Project CHIP gets a new name and so does the Zigbee Alliance
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"Man Used Bank of America to Pay Hitman in USD for Wife's Murder, FBI Says
An FBI agent explains how a BoA account led the agency to the suspect."
I was a CS major around the time these were new, and we got a dozen of them for our computer lab. At the time we had a huge computer lab full of PCs (386's or 486's I think) and a darkened back room with a dozen SparcStations. At the time, I didn't know anything about Sparc or even Unix, but I did know that the English majors descended on our computer lab first thing every morning and took every available PC. However, the SparcStations in the back room were almost always available. I ended up learning, out of necessity, how to do my assignments on them, since computers were then still too expensive for me to be able to afford one of my own. Well, around that same time, a new research project called the World Wide Web was taking off, and they hooked all of the Sun workstations to it. I lucked into discovering "the internet" in the early 90's because all of the PCs were already taken.
As someone who daily drives Nova... it depends. Plugin support is vastly better than it was 6 months ago but there are still tons of quirks (from a Typescript-first developer POV). If you're willing to code your own plugins or contribute to open source you'll find yourself a lot happier.

Your mileage may vary but overall I'd give it a 9/10 in speed and UX but a 6-7/10 in usability compared to Webstorm or VSCode with the right plugins.
This is certainly true although I'm not sure where it has been written up. A 10G/40G copper (twinax) cable can go 7 meters, for 25G/100G it's 5 m, and for 50G/400G I think it's only 3 m. Considering bend radius and connector lengths, 3 m is not far at all.
That's metro to metro where economies of scale dictate mass transit, but what about rural to rural, or rural to metro where there are no mass transit? What about last-mile? Last-mile is the most expensive step for parcel carriers even.
Will it cheat on the safety compliance tests?
Could we make paying a ransom in these settings illegal? That would guarantee that ransomware was no longer economically tenable.
The part that's way harder though is that at least in a game engine, you know the absolute world state and when you make a change to your world state, it happens exactly as you wanted.

In dynamic systems, such as a rocket, robot, etc., reality is fuzzy. Your loop is mostly about "what is my best guess at my present state" and "what is my desired next state". You make changes to try and get from A to B but you may not exactly achieve B. You may have not even been in state A. The error propagates back into your next guess of state, and this repeats forever.

Sensors like GPS give you an absolute position but they're imprecise. Inertial navigation is extremely accurate in telling you the change from a sample to the next, but as your position is the second integral of your acceleration, any error compounds quickly (admittedly the quality of the INS available to people willing to spend 10s of millions of dollars on a vehicle FAR exceeds what you'd be able to put in a car). Some rockets have even used ground based radar measurements uplinked to them to further improve position estimates. They probably still do this, I just don't have any hard data on current launchers.
They probably mean 8chan rather than this.
This is an unfortunate view, because Cloudflare is a better actor than most of their listed competitors. And the puzzles you are dealing with are merely settings that Cloudflare's customers have decided on, based on the assumption of risk based on how you choose to access the web.

Instead of pitching a fit at Cloudflare, encourage and promote positive views of Tor-based browsing, privacy-respecting browser settings, etc. There's an unfortunate reality that people want those Cloudflare settings because they stop a lot of malicious traffic, while allowing the vast majority of legitimate traffic. As we move the window of legitimate traffic to be more privacy-respecting, you'll see the boundaries of such behaviors are forced to adjust.
I could just hire someone to drive for $7.25/hr or rent a whole car for $24 a day. Nope.
Now now. Calm down. Such broad statements diminish womens contributions to society up to this point. I have 2 problems with your statement.

1) Which women are you talking about specifically? Be clear. Over generalizing is a weak argument.

2) have you considered other factors and situations. Wealth, race, social status etc? Or are genitals of particular intrigue to you?

3) This one is weak but I'll add it anyway. War has been a constant, ever-present threat to all communities. Dont you think that it may have had an impact?

Your view in this matter doesn't strike me as well thought out. More like a knee-jerk reaction fueled by some loopy narrative you've read or heard somewhere. Things are rarely black and white.
> Here's a fun question: how much of what Starship is doing would have been impossible in the 70s?

Probably a lot. The Raptor engine uses 3D printing, which I don't think was a thing in the 70s.

Modern CNC machining wasn't a thing either.

Nor modern design and simulation software.

Or computers.

I mean, maybe if you really wanted to and money was no object, something Starship-like would be doable, but it'd be more expensive, harder to design, harder to build, carry less weight and likely uneconomical. But the very point of Starship is saving money.
The analogy is between the cost of moving to a new physical area and the cost of buying a new physical device.
My father used a foil as part of insulation and the wifi in that house is amazing.
Show a little sympathy; those $500 million yachts aren't going to buy themselves. ;)
Matter is the foundation for connected things
Ironic advice given what this post is about :}
I own hand me downs I use for testing but they are usually in a pile on my desk and not actually in use.
I look forward to the first competitor to undercut.
There’s a cliche that when you’re under real life stress, you fall back to your training. It’s a cliche for a reason. The whole purpose of training is to install these behavioral programs, whether in self defense or in a law enforcement or military context.

I remember reading a comment on AskReddit from an Iraq veteran. They were clearing a house and walked past a stairway. He checks the stairway and there’s a guy pointing an RPG directly at him. Without even thinking, he shoots and kills the guy. This was his first real combat engagement, and he said he was kind of shocked that without any conscious thought his training just sort of took over.

There’s another anecdote about the training thing. I forget where I heard it from, but the guy did lots of martial arts and knew the techniques to disarm someone attacking him with a knife. Anyway, this guy gets attacked with a knife, and his training just kicks in, and he successfully disarms the guy and takes the knife from him. And then—because this is what he does in training—he immediately handed the knife back to the guy, who stabbed him. That’s a pretty dire illustration of the point, I think, but people under stress can be extremely stupid exactly because they are executing whichever program got imprinted into their brain.
You can read more about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26662154
Not all new grads are the same.