skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thriving cities outside of California (say Atlanta or Dallas) have valuable real estate in central locations just like in California cities.

Unless things have really changed recently, this isn't true of, say Houston. It was mostly sprawl for most people, and no real functional inner core. There is the inner-loop vs outside, but it really isn't the same dynamic as other big metros (NB LA is it's own weirdness).
Let them eat cake was a monarch's response to being told the starving poor had no bread. She offered to let them eat cake, as that's what she had been eating.

Your version would only make sense if the rich were previously serving lattes.
I think a huge chunk of bad privacy outcomes arise through data retention policies and aggregation across many sources.

To operate, a phone company might need to know where you are calling from and who, a doctors office might need to know your medical and contact info, an isp might need to know your ip address, a dating website might need to know your ip address, your chat app might need to know your contact list, your gps might need to know your precise location at this specific time.

Do they need to know them for years though?
And once all this info is aggregated, how personal is the information that can be learned?
Goodbye Gunka
There is no need for a partnership beyond the one that allows Facebook to be hosted in the App Store. I think the point is being ready on day one to take advantage of whatever Apple delivers in this space. Facebook switched from web-first to mobile-first/native relatively slowly when the first mobile App Stores, and I think the point is they don't want to be second movers in the future.
I don't trust twitter and every time they ask for my phone number I just kill the app and restart it to hide the unclosable pop up asking for my phone number.

SMS is a terrible 2FA anyways
yeah, fair enough, they seem useless
Ask HN: Is it common for VCs to ask founders to sign a non-compete?
Since most VC money and tech startups are in CA where non-competes are not enforceable it seems like it would be mostly pointless but I am hearing mixed opinions. Also, I know everything here will be "IANAL" I am just curious what other peoples experiences with this have been.
I think it’s due to the substantial difference between New Shepard and Falcon 9. New Shepard has a much lower payload capability and is not able to go orbital. Therefore the landing of the Falcon 9 booster is a significantly greater challenge than the landing of New Shepard.
Base on the costs of transferring data into AWS being much cheaper, I wonder if a reverse transfer protocol could be designed with an adaptation of binary search.

You divide your data in blocks of, let's say 100 Mb, the receiver creates a block of random data and sends it to a process running on AWS. The process has to answer, higher, lower or exact (and then both parties move to the next block).

Probably it will be very slow, but it will lower a lot the bandwidth usage for egression.
> Still tries to force cortana on me despite my computer not even having a mic.

For what it is worth, Cortana has been basically entirely turned off in either 20H1 or 20H2 on new installs.

> It places ads in the start menu.

It's less annoying about that if you pay the $99 for the upgrade from Home to Pro.

> Case in point. Click start, settings, and look at the window that pops up. Where are the settings to add a new wifi AP?

Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi > Show all available networks

Though that just opens the window for you that you'd get if you clicked the Network Indicator button directly on the Taskbar which is the fastest/direct path. (It wouldn't have occurred to me to try to path to it from the Settings app, though it is interesting that you can.)
There's the opportunity cost to throwing away your organization's knowledge of AWS, though. Everyone will have to learn to do things the bespoke way on your bare metal. So developer productivity could decline.
Editing a 1GB File at 3000fps
There is a sort of numeric tragedy of perception that happens with app stores and other environments where a curator is filtering fraud but also sometimes nuking some good apps in the process.

As users, we only have any visibility into three numbers:

A. The number of good apps that make it through the filter. (True positives.)

B. The number of good apps that are caught by it. (False positives.)

C. The number of fraudulent apps that make it through the filter. (False negatives.)

B may be larger than C, leading to the perception that the filter does more harm than ngood. But we are getting caught in a base rate fallacy. To really understand the filter, we need one more number:

D. The number of fraudulent apps caught by the filter. (True negatives.)

My impression is that average people have no idea what a huge sea of garbage, fraud, and bad actors is swirling out there on the Internet. The number of bad people is relatively small, but the volume of malicious hot garbage they are able to spew out is incredibly large. I wouldn't be surprised if every false positive (a good app like the one here getting caught) was balanced by a thousand true negatives (bad apps being filtered out).

With rates like that, the filter is clearly vital. But we don't see the full picture, so we never really know.

One piece of anecdata we do have is what unfiltered ecosystems look like. And they seem to universally descend into roiling cesspits of porn, hate speech, warez, etc.

So while it's very important to continue being critical of gatekeepers because they wield disproportionate social power, it's also good to be mindful that they aren't all bad. Notice how these days hacking always seems to be about phishing or email attachments? Everyone seems to have forgotten the days when worms in executables downloaded from the web were a major attack vector. That dwindled because the major OSes put these filters in place.

As usual, when something is working like it's supposed to, people incorrectly think it's doing nothing at all.
Or even tens of thousands of times per second, according to an Analog Devices article: "Don’t Want to Hear It? Avoid the Audio Band with PWM LED Dimming at Frequencies Above 20kHz" (https://www.analog.com/en/technical-articles/avoid-the-audio...).
Of course. Undercover agents within ISIS pretending to be morality police.
In the real world people care about both actually.
That really is an amazing organization.
I'd rather have JC Denton usher in the new dark age than allow this raving lunatic control more of our lives.
The original version of my post called out that you cannot actually see Cloudflare's pricing without an account, that link was the best I could find. Funny to be calling out their competitors for pricing when they won't even publish theirs...
They buy up competition to stay alive, it will be a much longer time that they stay around.
When logging with Twitter, it requires access to:

- access to all tweets, lists and collections

- access to profile and account settings

- access to all the accounts you follow, mute, block

Not one thing in this list is necessary.
I have similar feelings. I've never seen a company burn so much goodwill for essentially nothing.
Bored like Peter Gibbons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_1lIFRdnhA

Maybe you need a promotion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af8DVIZ5LX4
I know someone that refuses to shutdown his startup. He loses 500-900k/year on it with no end in sight. His other company makes 3M/year. So he can go on for quite a while.
In practice they want nothing to do with the poors so they cluster into "good" school districts.
I've always referred to this as a roach motel model.

Most proprietary vendors do various tactics under this to retain customers via lockin, versus actually good products.

Software file formats serve the same for proprietary software.

"Cloud" vendors provide easy API services that have no analog to on-prem, so that migrations are painful. And the Great Egress is a painful problem with AWS.

Roach motel indeed. They check in, and they don't check out.
Musk was not the founder of Tesla nor the originator of the Roadster-buzz business model, but point taken.
I think Instagram has more staying power than TikTok as TikTok users start aging and the next generation moves onto their own platform. There's a good chance I'm wrong, but my guess is that publishing videos of yourself as a primary communication format gets less appealing with age as social circles shrink.
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I hope you are right. As sp3000 mentioned, it was pulled from Amazon. Walmart still has it for now. There is a store about 40 miles from me that sometimes carry these.
You've repeated this in a few places in this thread with this same sort of conspiratorial air, but when you are talking about south of 10W total consumption (sometimes south of 6W!), a watt is a very significant amount and has a very large impact on overall battery life.
Delighted to hear you agree! It's been a pain for operators in every market I've worked in so it's not a small problem but starting on HN is a good first step. Send me a DM and we'd love to chat. We've launched in the UK and gathering supply/demand for US so let's chat and see how we can help
I understand the point you're making and I'm sympathetic to it, and the knee-jerk reaction that people who do anything seriously bad are irredeemable - but I think there's a distinct difference between the different "skeletons on their closet" that makes it not the slippery slope you're worried about.

There will be plenty of figures for whom "something bad" is just generally being rude/an asshole their whole life, for example - and that's quite different from actively furthering the systematic persecution of people based on something they can't control like who they love.
>If people want to live in a single family home in the suburbs, why not let them? It's not like the US is short on space.

1. The main complaint you hear is R1 zoning, which doesn't just permit single family homes but MANDATES single family homes. This is wasteful lunacy.

2. If single family homes can pay for their requisite infrastructure without external subsidy, then by all means. If they can't pay and expect others to pay for them, then we need to have a conversation on the topic.
Yes, in Second Life. [1][2]

[1] https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?utf8=%E2%...

[2] https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GD-Flag-Pole-280-in-1-W...
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No. There's an old wishlist of items but there is not plan to ever implement them or any other hard forking behaviors.
You can delete Youtube and open it in Firefox, if you want in a private tab.
The first time I heard that name (as a non US citizen) was in a documentary about breitbart.com founder Andrew Breitbart, who apparently did not like the guy. I found this article about Podesta (on breitbart, so take that with a grain of salt, or an entire salt mine): https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/11/04/remembering-an...

Looks like Podesta is everything the 'Drain-the-swamp' Trump supporters hate. This deal is probably fueling a lot of debate on their social platforms right now.
Geocities had a WYSIWYG website builder, so yes there was some software involved. It's how I learned how to build my first website when I was 12.
There is cultural transmission between animals too. Like here is some whale song spreading from Australia out into the Pacific.

https://youtu.be/P99CR4y-TYw

She looks like she is delighted btw.
There is really no such thing as "too cheap to meter" and certainly not "limitless" power.

If absolutely nothing else, there is a limit on the number of powerplants that can be built, and certainly on how fast they can be built.
Under Computer-Aided Design, I'd might be worth adding OpenSCAD?
https://openscad.org/

I'm not sure how it stacks up in the business space, but as a programmer that has to do some 3D modeling from time to time it's been great.
> "A computer on every desk" has become an internet node in every pocket.

That internet node not only isn't an equal peer in the global information network (thanks to simple things like NAT, but also more insidious problems like increased battery drain when P2P apps are active and the OS killing background apps "for your convenience"), but it is also a telescreen that you carry at all times and even pay for its upkeep.

You can keep this democratisation of technology, if that's what it looks like.
I'm looking forward to third party assets being tradable on the Bitcoin network again.

My contribution to the gradient of behaviors on that network was one where the Bitcoin asset was only used to cover transaction fees for the actual money being traded.

The whole "merchant adoption" thing was always a squirrel to me. When merchants will accept stable value assets more readily, or use those stable value assets for settlement, just like the US regulator greenlighted a few months ago.
Lyre Bird of south australia sings like a chainsaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ
> People should vote with their wallets.

That only works in efficient markets, which, obviously phones are not. An oligopoly where the barrier of entry requires like a billion dollars to spin up new phone hardware, a new OS, and an app ecosystem is not a place where effective competition is going to occur.
The metric is basically just confirming that people who are good at writing tests in high school continue to be good at tests in college.

If a college thinks an SAT is not a good way to judge candidates, maybe tests in general aren't a good way to evaluate their own students.
Most of these apps are just dipping mustards around HOTP/TOTP, so it's a standard protocol. There's an ecosystem of standard applications around it; Twilio, Microsoft, and Google all make pretty popular ones.
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That second point is very interesting. Beyond reading code / SLA for the lib, I'm not sure there's an easy (read: time efficient) way to understand what data points are used for what purposes currently. At least it seems that would hold for a lot of services.

Am I missing something here?
Conversely, there's also so many things you can do in a perl (or awk/sed if performance or avoiding malloc by streaming data is necessary) oneliner in a shell script if you know some cool tricks. It's crazy how many resources are thrown into stuff like hadoop (literal ironic elephant logo) clusters to process CSV when dinky tools older than I am can zip through that data 1000x faster just by keeping it in the processor cache on my laptop

https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_perl_oneliners/cover....
I use verizon prepaid, my plan is 5 gigs for 25 a month (which is plenty of data for me and a really decent rate rivaling walmart-type plans), and I just upgraded to the TCL 10 5G UW phone which cost me <$300. Runs like a dream, competitive with phones that cost double that.

Postpaid is basically a scam, the plans are just more expensive AND you're on the hook for X amount of years, in exchange for small upfront savings on a phone (but not even in all cases).
> I'd think it was stupid to fill a 747 with ping pong balls and think about something else

This man never heard of a Fermi estimate, or encountered one in a problem set.
I’ve tried that path before but SafetyNet makes it hard. I can’t use my banking app for example, and for better or for worse, I wouldn’t be able to access my work email either.
This is nothing but pandering.

Mercedes-Benz like many other car manufacturers are probably buying regulatory credits. Building more electric cars offsets the amount of credits purchased from tesla.

Going full electric is believable on the the Mercedes-Benz car line (and this might be a company killer move, not everybody wants electrics), but trucks are still very far IMO. From what i've seen so far electric trucks are not yet as cost effective.

The range on electrics are still a problem for some. As long as your drive is shorter than range, it's ok, but when you have to do a stop to recharge, it really adds up to your trip time and seems to be the biggest deterrent
LHA was released as freeware and included some source code to help with porting, whereas PKZip was released as shareware and as the article mentions, it's hard to find actual implementation details around i.e. it was probably easier/cheaper/smarter to go with LHA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_(file_format)
1) That happens INCREDIBLY rarely right now

2) Many of these incidents are from people are also putting things in Lagrange points and Geosynchronous orbits, and similar 'crowded' areas of space - unlike these constellations. Think jostling for space in downtown Manhattan, vs being fine having a place in Kansas somewhere.

3) Right now it's mostly a demolition derby out there, with only minimal traffic handling/control and the occasional 'haha, I got you' intentional satellite explosion/missile test.

As noted, even with all those factors, it is still incredibly rare. Only a tiny handful of problems have been tracked to orbital collisions with anything man made, and that is with us putting all sorts of things (including 'off the books' military top secret satellites, nuclear reactors, random bits of micro satellites, etc.) up there since the 50's.

Months is pretty quick for this kind of thing - and remember, unless it gets energy from some kind of serious-delta-v impact (or other delta-V adding type of event like a high energy explosion), it will lose velocity and DROP in altitude if the orbit remains circular. If the orbit doesn't remain circular, especially at LEO, it will have to dip significantly into the atmosphere to get to a higher altitude at any point in it's orbit, meaning even faster degradation and burn-up.

The reality is that it's huge up there, and if we do even basic thinking and planning on this to not do something obviously dumb (like tangential, perpendicular, or opposite direction orbits all over the place at the same level), it isn't likely to be a significant problem; just like it hasn't been a real (as in significant probability event) problem so far.

Cosmic rays, high potential static build-up, magnetic storms, micrometeorites, etc. are just as big or more of a problem. They rarely cancel a mission or damage anything notable, but it isn't zero risk there either.
You have to give one thing to the guy, he keeps pushing, he could retire 1000times over.

What is driving him? Anyone knows him from younger years?

Most similar people(on a smaller scale) i know are money driven even though they have enough.

But at this level? Makes you wonder what his final goal is?
New public database of AI-predicted protein structures could transform biology
Genuine curiosity: why would you trade third-party assets on the Bitcoin network when you could do it infinitely more efficiently on any of the competing chains? It's by far the least efficient blockchain ergo the least efficient way to trade third-party assets.

[edit] Direct fees are lower than they used to be, and the energy cost is about now up to about $100-120 per transaction. While that's being socialized across block reward for now, when that ends, it will have to be born directly by customers or see the network become less secure.
> You don't need to ban cars, you just need to make bikes a preferable alternative.

You also need flat ground. Soccer-moms do not do hills.
Manhole covers are round so you can move them by rolling them around. Duh
My point was that even if it was all replaced tomorrow, the extra greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere won't go away immediately, and the extra heat trapped won't either.
> the world won't tolerate a nation lighting off nukes against targets in it's own borders much either.

Why do you think so? Famines seem to work just fine within borders.
Exactly. Apple executives threw macOS under the bus in the Epic trial, saying that its capability to run arbitrary software makes it unacceptably insecure (e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22444353/mac-malware-not-...). It shouldn't surprise anyone if a future macOS version requires a paid developer certificate to run unapproved apps or access the Unix layer.
With his deep ties through out the Biden Administration, it's a brilliant move. Meng should sigh a breath of relief, she will be free soon to return to China and all US Gov charges will be dropped. Look to also see Huawei sanctions removed. Hard to buy the Chinese and Russians but American Politicians will whore themselves out for the cost of a hooker, golf game and dinner, plus a couple of points on the deal.

It's so nice to know your elected officials work for foreign powers and themselves and they say the folks who stormed the capital were the terrorists.
The issue with most pure-robotics-that-make-things[0] companies is that they end up finding out that they need to iterate on the robot while the actual product gets better. It's not like software where essentially everyone can use the same spreadsheet. It's "oh, I need this panel here to have a 3mm smaller gap" which works when you're Tesla, because the product is the company, but it doesn't really work when you're just trying to make a series of robots that solve generalizable problems. Reality isn't as standardized as a Turing tape. Too many dimensions, figurative or literal.

[0] As opposed to robots that, say, fight wars. But we call those things "missiles" and "fighter jets" and "drones" not robots.
NASA decides to launch Europa Clipper on commercial rocket in 2024
Sure sometimes trial court judges make politically influenced rulings but those are usually eventually overturned on appeal.
More educated and more competitive are not the same thing.

What you want is the most talented, hardest working, brightest students. That's difficult to discern given the differences in the availability of opportunity. Scaling for availability is hard.

But it is clear that just selecting for the students who succeeded in the best environment will leave you missing out on potential. And worse, that rapidly becomes self-reinforcing, since the next generation of students will be influenced by your choices on this one.
UZH – New Algorithm Flies Drones Faster Than Human Racing Pilots
I just don't think you can call that a real value prop if it's only for when the truck is stuck or a few minor edge cases. There are many scenarios where self-driving may not work or behave erratically so if their version of teleop doesn't solve those then not sure how Starsky argued they were ahead of competition.

Additionally I think investors backed out primarily because of risks associated with operating an autonomous fleet, not the shortcomings of the tech itself.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity gearing up for 10th Red Planet flight this weekend
Do you have an opinion about https://github.com/metabase/metabase ?
Anti BDS laws in US states are so baffling to me. The idea that American citizens could be criminalized for choosing not to do business or invest in a foreign power would be laughable if so many current politicians weren't supporting it.
I would think the same way a person would posthumously: let it expire and let natural order take over or delegate ownership via legal/custodial means.

Sorry that doesn’t answer your question more than “it depends on the entity”.
> China is worse off than it would have been without the virus.

Only if you measure progress in economic terms. Nothing I've seen contradicts my belief that they are now geopolitically better off than before the pandemic.