skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been actively using Reddit for 5+ years and I recently left Twitter after 10+ years.

In my opinion Reddit can be a fine social network if you are selective about the subs you read. It has a degree of granularity that Twitter simply doesn't offer, and most subs are heavily moderated.

The last few years my Twitter timeline was insufferable, and it didn't have a trivial solution -their algorithms work very hard at creating noise and upsetting people, to a disturbing point-, while Reddit allows me to improve my experience in a couple of minutes.
If you look at their where their 25% profit margins come from then no, they aren't a hardware company. If Apple tried to make a car tomorrow they would not have 25% margins on it.

From a market valuation standpoint, this is also why Apple valuation is 44 times higher than Ford's.
I'm sorry, but this feels like conspiracy-theory peddling and FUD.
What the linked site calls "evidence", is are at best "hints" or "possible signs". No evidence anywhere. Instead, you have wildly weird texts like section 8.3 ("A Note on Biowarfare") that literally just reads "This document does not make any attempt to link the work done at these laboratories as part of a 'bioweapon' or "bio-warfare" program.". It's completely and utterly disconnected from the rest of the text. Why even bring it up? Just so you can throw the word "bioweapon" out there?

Plus, the site always seems to see "causation" whenever there is correlation, and never even stops to admit that there's the possibility they got the chain of causation backwards: if there was a lot of coronavirus-carrying bats in the region wouldn't it make sense to build a research institute there? And publish on all the findings? The site goes on to cite papers and job postings that are exactly the kinds of research (and job postings) you'd expect from a site that focuses on coronavirus related research. Yet the linked site makes it sound ominous, when it is utterly mundane.

So one has to ask who actually produced this site to begin with? To quote the page:

> "We are an anonymous group of researchers"

Very convenient. In other words, no-one with a serious research background could be convinced to put their name on this nonsense.
Lithium Ceramic Batteries are fairly forgiving, it looks like: https://youtu.be/kJXRyWQgOY4
This is why there is a big difference between skepticism and conspiracy. A skeptic digs deeper to gather more data and facts, a conspiracy loosely joins a few data points and makes a poor conjecture.

Conspiracy is political ammunition, skepticism is healthy debate and gladly welcomes more data.
This is not evidence of anything in particular, without some Bayesian calibration:

- What other kinds of virus research besides coronavirus was done at the WIV?
- What proportion of coronaviruses are anyway derived from bats?
- What were the outcomes of the instances of poor PPE/safety measures with regard to containment?

Without this calibration, all you've written is innuendo.
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The French word has kept the root too : "condensateur" !
> and will be

strong doubt.

laws are by definition supposed to be „soft” and not hardcoded. see the smart contract hacks.

this simply doesn’t happen in law, because the spirit plays a large role, and the spirit is something that cannot be coded
Naïvely, I would think that having audio engineers in-house from companies like Harmon and Burmester that specialize in car audio but specifically to Tesla's product line would produce better, cheaper results than paying those companies to white-label audio systems.
It’s not the lithium which is dangerous with li-ion batteries though. It’s the flammable liquid electrolyte. That’s what gives you explosions and fire. I think the lithium does make it harder to put out after it has caught fire though, but it’s not generally the reason why they catch fire.

With next generation batteries, some have been shown to be completely fire proof, as they don’t all use the same flammable electrolyte as Li-ion. With some, you can cut them in two without anything happening.

I’m not at all worried about the lithium in lithium metal
batteries. The key is reaction rate. A pure chunk of lithium metal can be dangerous because all the metal is available for reacting to happen nearly instantly. A microsopically thin slice sandwich between non-reactive materials is not a big concern. With catastrophic damage you may have thermal run-away. But fire departments in countries with high share of EVs, like Norway, have already shown they can handle it well, and they consider EVs far safer than gasoline cars.
Realism is the problem. BMW and Volkswagen are boring. Not much to hype. They just sell cars not tech nerd dreams.
I see a lot of these appeals for ignorance in these conversations. There's so many obvious reasons why we'd want to learn to truth, such as learning how to prevent it from happening again and to determine if gain of function research is too risky.

The only reason I see why we should want to remain ignorant is it will possibly embarrass China.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc:

By the 20th century, the "k" spelling was more popular in the United States, while the "c" variant was preferred in the UK. Consequently, in computer terminology today it is common for the "k" word to refer mainly to magnetic storage devices (particularly in British English, where the term disk is sometimes regarded as a contraction of diskette, a much later word and actually a diminutive of disk).

So in the mid eighties there was a distinct color/colour kind of split between disk/disc in the US/UK. And someone immersed in the world of restoring data from magnetic storage for a distinctly UK computer of the eighties? Eminently sensible for them to use the UK term, when everything on the computer is going to be saying "INSERT DISC 2".

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There are also some notes in that page on how Phillips/Sony's choice of "disc" for the CD has ended up with that being the common choice for optical media vs magnetic; back in the eighties this convention was not yet established. And then there are also sections for disc/disk in medical literature, and in disc-throwing games. English spelling is weird.
2020: The Year Medicine Lost Contact
Yeah, but only one of them is a noble gas that is rarely bound into molecules that would be found in solid form. As a consequence, it tends to just leak out of the atmosphere without a lot of sources for replenishment.
"Wuhan is ~1000km away from SARS spillover zones. Its human population was even used as a negative (no SARS) control group."

Via @Ayjchan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1394327680456220672?s=20
Typical clinic grade at-home diagnosis kits use these sensors:

- Nasal breathing via a light-weight mask thing around your nostrils

- Heart rate and blood oxygenation via a pulse oximeter on a finger

- Physical orientation of the body (an acceleration sensor)

- Something around the chest that records contractions/expansions
I’ve been using Umami for Killed by Google for the last eight months. I’m very happy with it. Provides me with just enough data for insightful decisions.

Here’s the public analytics page (all time ~675k page views, ~575k visitors).

https://analytics.bale.media/share/s1Q7twme
Is it? Since the beginning the science has been in conflict with politics (or the Church, or the Kings/Emperors before democracy). Notable political/social opposition to the sciences are well documented. Couple of examples: doctors washing their hands was a controversial issue [2] and how being able to eat "higher-class" food killed thousands of Japanese, who rejected eating other food even when it was known it was killing them [3].

[1] https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2020/09/18/what...

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/handwashi...

[3] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-e...
Forgive me the joke, but maybe it is because the borders are dynamic.
Agree. Thanks for this feedback. I'll put it on top of my backlog. :-)
There doesn't appear to be any regional association with the WIV's research on Bats. WIV studied bats fro all over China and notably isolated the likely center of the 2003 SARS outbreak to a set of bats in Yunnan. The institute was founded in 1956, long before Coronavirus research started in earnest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology#SA...
> video game systems that used interlacing, like the n64, playstation, and up until the hdmi era, did not usually do this afaik, opting to instead drop the frame rate to 30fps with 2 fields per frame, so they really were in many ways the worst of all worlds.

480i Nintendo consoles (N64, GCN, WII) all had many 60FPS games. The 30FPS limit was almost always because of the relatively underpowered hardware. Some N64 games even ran at 20FPS!
I built a few in the past, typically with a friend or two, but they were dying together with the initial hype/interest.

So, lately I tried to focus on bigger challenges and set up companies to handle the os project. My passion is security which I think should be more open. Cryptography is pretty much open nowadays (meaning everything we use crypto-related is likely open), but many other areas in security are not, e.g. authentication.

First project SoloKeys: https://github.com/solokeys/solo

An open source security key, FIDO2 certified, open hardware and firmware. Profitable, revenue selling the hardware + kickstarter campaigns.

Second (newer) project Saasfrom: https://github.com/saasform/saasform

A modern auth system for SaaS, with teams & payments. Revenue will come from cloud solution. Just started, onboarding the first beta customers.
This keeps getting parroted but is largely not true for the NYC Subway. The fares make up $6-7B of a total $15B in revenues due to sheer volume.

The 2021 NYC budget is $88B. Hiking all taxes across the board 7% is a political nonstarter.
I noticed that as well. Should be an easy fix. :-) Thanks.
I don't think these discussions are about the bug, but rather about being wiped out by what the vix did that day.

Which leads me to what I think is the real fuck up. Not only the index was also live during after hours, but the fixing used as the basis for the formula for the next day was set at a time after trading hours. I am not 100% sure but I don't think this was the case when the index was initially published.

What that meant was that to replicate the index, the market-makers of the XIV and other short-VIX ETNs had to hedge themselves in after-trading hours market, i.e. in a much less liquid market. And that's when the short-squeeze happened. Now would that short-squeeze have happened during trading hours when there was more liquidity? Possibly, you would need to ask a market participant. But at the minimum it made the problem a lot worse. And I am surprised no one got any heat for that.
Advertising a yearly rate would make it more recognizable as an exorbitant rate. Though, in the same vein, banks should also disclose similar data for their "fees".

Kind of like how grocery stores like to sell two different sizes of a product and give you the price per ounce on the first, but only price per pound on the second. Makes it difficult to compare. They are hoping you will choose the larger, even though it is often more expensive per unit.

As for why someone doesn't come in and sweep the market with lower prices, that's because price is hidden. So how could a competitor undercut the price when it is difficult to compare?

But i actually don't think the payday lenders are the real problem. My guess is that they have pretty high default rates and I would be interested to see what their average margins are. The real issue is that there isn't a better option, perhaps created by regulation to better serve poor and under banked communities. Provide that, and the payday lenders will disappear overnight.
Didn't it only start happening, like, a year after people daring to wrongthink (that the virus wasn't of entirely natural origin) were persistently being called Trump-supporting Nazi conspiracy theorists?
>>Oh, how convenient. In other words, no-one with a serious research background could be convinced to put their name on this nonsense.

Appeals to authority are one of the failings of modern science, The data and facts should stand up to independent review no need for "credentials"
>Convincing the public to spend 50-70K on a car

The Model 3 SR+ starts at $39k. For a while, the Model 3 SR was available by special order for only $35K [1] but it did not include autopilot (Autosteer+TACC) and other things.

For $39K it's actually a tremendous value. If you plan on keeping it for more than 5 years. It will actually beat a comparable Accord/Camry Hybrid in terms of TCO.

"Calculating insurance, maintenance, repairs, taxes, fees, financing, depreciation and cost of electricity, we get the true cost of ownership for the Tesla Model 3 which is $25,209."

2020 Tesla Model 3 SR Plus: $25,209

2020 Toyota Camry Hybrid : $36,571

As for reliability. There are already plenty of really high mileage Teslas out in the wild. Like this guy who put 800,000+ miles on his 2014 Model S: https://twitter.com/gem8mingen

Sources:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-_t29bciw

https://www.wheelsjoint.com/toyota-camry-vs-tesla-model-3-co...

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/25/tesla-model-3-vs-honda-...

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/27/tesla-model-3-vs-toyota...
There is a new XIV-like ETF just launched called SVOL. It reduces the exposure level and hedges risk with options (XIV ended up collapsing!).

https://www.simplify.us/blog/volatility-premium-harvesting-r...
Here is a single reference: https://www.middleeastobserver.org/2016/07/12/pcbs-reports-g...

"Do you generally call things out as being untrustworthy for claiming that the top 5% is among the highest in a rank?"

The reason I consider this claim "misleading" is that I never see the "one of the most densely populated..." phrase on stories about Paris, Kathmandu, Seoul or any of the hundreds of more densely populated areas, yet I constantly see it in reference relatively much-less-densely-populated Gaza. When I start seeing news stories that read "The mayor of Hoboken NJ, one of the most densely populated areas of the world, opposes a measure that would increase affordable housing..." then the phrase won't make me scratch my head anymore.

Why does this phrase always come up in relation to Gaza and not the hundreds of other cities/regions that are more densely populated?

If we're trading references, can you show me some where the BBC refers to Paris as "one of the most densely populated places in the world?"
Yes.

More precisely, helium is an element that doesn't readily form compounds. Hydrogen does, and as such can be extracted from, say, water via electrolysis.

The secondary issue with helium is that it's much lighter than air -- this is why helium and neon are both much rarer than, say, argon (which is actually the third-most common element in the air after nitrogen and oxygen).
I think that may be a first for me in 25 years on the internet. Thanks for being so open minded!
>If we directly cut off bands that were difficult to encode

not difficult to encode, inaudible to humans

>entire spectrum

oh boy, so why does Hi-Res stop at 192KHz? clearly its not the entire spectrum. We should be encoding at least to couple MHz, right? more better!
Those two radio systems are still used. Just that many states have CORS sites that post correction information.
Industrial applications use unidirectional gateways (See NIST 800-82r2). The gateways have diode-like hardware at their core, but add software. The software acquires snapshots of industrial state, converts those snapshots to proprietary unidirectional protocols & formats, and on the external enterprise network makes the data available to enterprise users.

A common example is a SQLServer database of all industrial data that is authorized to share with the enterprise. Grab new and changed data as it arrives on the industrial side. Push unidirectionally to the enterprise side. Insert/update the data in an identical SQLServer. Enterprise users & applications interact normally and bi-directionally with the replica database.

The technology is used routinely to provide access to industrial data that enables business efficiencies, without providing access to the industrial systems that produce the data.

For more info see: https://waterfall-security.com
The sheer amount of the word "seems" and "plausible" here ought to tell you what is being discussed: what's being discussed is not primary evidence, it's interpretation of the meaning and impact, in the mind of the discussing parties

If you want to go all "judicial" on this, "on the balance of probabilities" in the context of an ongoing political and trade dispute between the parties, feels to me like an attempt to appeal to pseudo rational claims, more than an actual, dispassionate declaration of likelihood.

The article says "keep an open mind" which strongly suggests the "evidence" is equivocal. If you're not a virologist or scientist who works in the primary field, and I am not one either, you're at BEST attempting to interpret science at second or third hand. Science often uses words differently to colloquial speech. The word "must" for instance, has no normative force always. This "must" be because blah blah blah is not saying "causative" unless it actually says so. If it doesn't say WHY it MUST mean something, it's opinion. If it says MUST because of the balance of probabilities it's actually MAY in any case.
Sort of weird to have their whole one pager as an image considering that there is no alt text so its not really accessible if you are blind.
Nobody is claiming he's special or that he invented this, especially him.

And yeah these benefits may in fact be a side effect and not central to the whole spiritual journey you could go on but that doesn't resonate a lot in the West and probably closes the door to a lot of us if that's how it is first framed.

Going at it this way personally worked as an intro and has made me more receptive to the bigger picture you allude to which is a place I never would have got to without Wim Hof first convincing me to try.
> This is largely because MP3 is a crappy, old format. Try high-bitrate Opus on most samples and you're a lot less likely to get above-chance results on an ABX test, pretty much ever, at high bitrates.

On the whole your comment is great, but I think this point might be revealing of either your age or the last time your looked at mp3 encoders. LAME has been great for at least a decade now. Other than (possibly) extremely rare killer samples, you're unlikely to be able to ABX a LAME encoded track at 256 Kbps. I certainly can't, and I have pretty decent gear and have been listening to (and working on) music for a very long time.

Back in the 90s, all mp3 encoders were shit. Xiph's Monty, in the post you link, mentions being able to distinguish between them using only their results as a party trick. Even in the early 2000s you needed 256-320 Kbps to have a shot at transparency. But now, most music is transparent at `lame -V2` settings, which gives approximately 192 Kbps results. I can still ABX a very small number of songs (last I tested), but even these go away by `lame -V0`, which is the highest quality VBR mode. HydrogenAudio, a trustworthy source as far as "audiophile" claims go, says that anything from `-V0 to -V3` should be transparent under most conditions. https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php/LAME

AAC and Vorbis are certainly better codecs, achieving transparency most of the time at closer to 160 Kbps. Opus is even better. I've never been able to ABX a 128 Kbps track, and music sounds great even at 96 Kbps (for stereo!). There are supposed to be killer samples for all four, forcing them to require a higher bitrate to achieve transparency, but interest in finding these seems to have dropped.
Relatively speaking, absolutely.

Both those and other formulations (mostly lithium cobalt oxide) have ionic lithium, hence, lithium ion.

This uses metallic lithium, which again, reacts explosively in the presence of water. The danger of 'standard' lithium ion chemistries is, as a sibling comment mentions, that the electrolyte and anode are flammable. LiFePO is much more stable and unlikely to burn, relative to lithium cobalt oxide: but neither of them will straight-up explode if a naive fire department sprays water on them to try and put a fire out.
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You don't want to know what the Dells are capable of doing. My XPS 15 2020 literally got on fire somewhere on the motherboard - not even a battery thing. Then I decided to go Apple only.
I believe that Italy origin story was not credible. Snopes goes with Wuhan as the origin.
This is not exact. The merge is definitely being prioritized and the current target is Q4’21 / Q1’22. Developers have chosen to perform an early merge by using the ETH2 consensus layer to validate ETH1 blocks, it’s a pretty straightforward process were both ETH1 and ETH2 clients co-exists with minimal changes. There is already a running testnet. More info https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/01/20/the-state-of-eth2-janua...
The EU imposes a 10% tariff on imported cars. That makes EU built EVs more competitive within the EU.

Tesla is building that Berlin factory to decrease shipping costs and time and also to not have to pay the tariff.

Perhaps more interesting is that the more popular EVs in Europe are hatchbacks. Hatchbacks are more popular than sedans in many European countries. Tesla is missing a car to compete in that segment.

The current normal of competition between countries is to allow foreign car companies to build factories in their country. I bet that if a country's car industry faces an existential threat, the country will tilt the playing field further in that country's car companies favor.

I do not expect that Tesla will be allowed to wipe out other country's car industries. It may be allowed to become the preeminent EV maker (which it already is if you count by market cap). I think that Tesla will need to try to win in other areas: EVs for countries without strong car industries, energy storage, self driving cars, etc...
AirPods Max and AirPods Pro Don't Support Apple Music Lossless, Apple Confirms
>a couple of days ago the spread was $1000 on BTC

Are you using coinbase or coinbase pro? The former gives much worse spreads than the latter, because coinbase is acting as the counterparty. I can't be bothered to check coinbase's spread right now (captcha wall) but on coinbase pro the spread is one cent. https://i.imgur.com/uZHDy4X.png
s/pro-sook-agency/pro-spook-agency/
That’s a little scary. If those covered the globe, you could see and track anyone anytime they left their house. This gets dystopian fast. Imagine the ad targeting. Or “sorry, we notice you haven’t been to the gym all month, we have raised your insurance premiums 10%”
After KAL007 was shot down by the Soviet Union in 1983 Reagan announced the fuzzy GPS signal would be publicly available. The US government didn't turn off Selective Availability until the late 90s.
Dear battery technology claimant,

Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology and is just around the corner from taking over the world. Unfortunately your technology will likely fail, because:

[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.

[ ] it will be too expensive for users.

[ ] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.

[ ] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.

[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.

[ ] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.

[ ] it has too short of a lifetime.

[ ] its charge rate is too slow.

[ ] its materials are too toxic.

[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.

[ ] it is too minimal of a step forward for anybody to care.

[ ] this was already done 20 years ago and didn't work then.

[ ] by this time it ships li-ion advances will match it.

[ ] your claims are lies.
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