skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, all the time. Very rarely for a problem (my building is slightly awkward so they do sometimes call because they're stuck at lower ground level and can't get in) but routinely 'delivering your package today between 1pm and 2pm' or whatever, then often 15min before.

This is in the UK though, obviously can't and I'm not claiming it's the norm everywhere.
research, the hint is "scientist".
I'm not a fan of VC either but this is unfair.

(1) VCs have mostly funded the employment of well educated white collar workers. How else do computer science graduates get paid $120-150k 2 years out of college in the US?

(2) There are horrible employers of low skilled workers out there. You ever tried to work in a restaurant kitchen in a city like NYC? You're being paid $25-40k to do absolutely brutal work for brutal hours. Nobody talks about this because there are no evil rich investors involved - just hard working business owners. The divide has always existed. It's just more news worthy now and has a large brand in front of it. Delivery companies are at least offering some level of competition in this horrible labor market.
I've never been to one of Apple's events, but as a viewer of their videos some of those applause breaks have me convinced there are giant "Applause Now" signs. I imagine them being on more than they are off by how over the top their dialog is written. Or they fill the air in the room with some sort of gas that makes the attendees very susceptible to the RDF.

Those are much more fun explanations than just realizing they probably have plants to start the cheering in a room full of fanboys
Could we switch to cellulose and wax for take-out containers?
That’s not really correct.

Geosync is the altitude at which a circular orbit takes 24 hours - meaning it takes as long to complete one orbit as it takes the earth to complete one revolution.

But there’s an orbital velocity at EVERY altitude, and therefore there’s an orbital period at every altitude too.

If you are at a particular altitude and you are going at a different speed than the one needed for a circular orbit, you are either going too fast (in which case you are in an elliptical orbit and you will gradually increase altitude and lose speed until you reach the top of that ellipse) or you are going too slow to stay in a circular orbit (in which case you will follow an ellipse down to a lower altitude and gain speed).

In that ‘too slow’ case, if it’s much too slow then the ellipse you follow will take you low enough to hit the surface or atmosphere of whatever you’re orbiting (ie you will crash into it)
Replace "modern FORTRAN" with "mostly FORTRAN 90" then. The person I replied to was saying that FORTRAN's reputation as a old and antiquated language may not be deserved because there are new standard. My question was: are they actually used? If 99% of the C++ in the wild is C++98 and lower, C++11 and higher existing don't make it a "modern" language. Most people will work with the old version, and thus it would deserve a reputation as old and antiquated.
Apple's recent marketing campaign featuring an Apple logo made to look like a lock was an effective way to prime people to think that all other platforms (not Apple) are less secure. The recent events have been ultimately disappointed and made me just realize again that Apple does an immense amount of advertising to shape their customers.
I ended up making this (NSFW?) one a while back: https://i.imgur.com/TLASiRG.png

I found it really interesting that people discovered that you can get improve quality by including strings like "Blender HD", "Unity Engine", "HD Wallpaper".
Yeah, I'm going for Astro Slide instead. I have used a keyboard similar to F(x)tec in past (the Pro 1 X is just a rebrand, btw) with Nokia N900 and Nokia E71. It simply does not type comfortably on such a keyboard, the keys are too small (there's always a learning curve with regards to layout as it is never 100% standard qwerty). If the Astro wouldn't be available I'm better off with touch type with a second screen as keyboard. Though, do see the Pinephone hardware keyboard link posted elsewhere in this thread. It seems to be akin to the Astro Slide. At least in spirit.
The technical assessments speak about "visual derivatives". I'm guessing they mean a low resolution thumbnail.
I am talking to people on this website which is banned in 3 of the 4 countries you are talking about. Stop moving your shitty goalpost we are talking about the US, Europe and other democracies. You know what would help people in regimes? Governing bodies that stand up for them in other countries... guess who could change that.
Generally I don't think this type of language debate is useful, we aren't debating what is happening, just what to call it, and that's pretty boring. If you want to call it not burning, ok, be my guest. Hopefully my answer is still an interesting point about the kinds of violent chemical reactions that exist and could make a substance dangerous to work with in an environment without (outside, in the case of solid rocket fuel) oxidizing agents.

I'll make an exception and reply about the language in this case because I there's a broader point I want to make:

English isn't a language defined based of "X happens if chemical reactions Y happens behind the scenes", because we didn't even know about chemical reaction Y when English was invented. Moreover if you tried to define it as oxidation you'd fail, rust isn't burning, meanwhile (non-oxidizing) chemical burns, sunburns, etc all exist because they were just analogous enough to the concept of fire. If people knew about some chemical that decomposes into plasma in the 1600s, they definitely called it burning even if there was no oxidation.

Meanwhile people definitely refer to fusion as "burning", e.g. see this stackexchange question with lots of links to wikipedia and the like which refer to different kinds of fusion as burning [1] or ctrl-f burning in this wikipedia article [2] (which is linked from [1]).

[1] https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/43907/hydrogen...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis
Except that you miss the part where solar and wind need normal power plants to provide power when they aren't running.
Terrific analysis & framing. Thank you.
> It should be dismissed because it shows the old “victories” were simply a happenstance of labor supply and demand.

Sure, but not in some exogenous passive way. Market power distorts heavily, and organizing is essential.

> It is exposing the fact that there was not really a victory in the sense of it being codified into law.

No, it was caudified into law. But law, especially a moribund poorly-written elgacy codebase like our law, is no substitute for ongoing power. That is a fundamental illiberalism of our current society, like it or not.
> Google does reporting on how many National Security Letters requesting information about it's users that it responds to annually.

So does Apple[1]. Apple gave data on over 31,000 users/accounts based on National Security Letters in the first half of 2020 alone[1].

> Why doesn't it just ignore them?

In the first half of 2020, Apple provided data to the US government (non-FISA or NSL) about 9,000 times, and responded to requests for data with the data about ~85% of the time, and 92% in cases of "emergencies"[1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
Yeah I learned about this forever ago, but as usual, its money that talks. People don't like their houses burned, and so fire suppression policy is dominant. Only now that we are having super-fires that people are opening up to it.
> Nobody talks about this because there are no evil rich investors involved - just hard working business owners.

Remember, it's fashionable to bash on "Big Tech" these days.
Plastics production is pretty terrible even if it ends up in a landfill.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
>Those periods of near zero production can last non-trivial amounts of time no realistic battery could provide for

There are many options (electrochemical, gravity etc) for grid-scale energy storage of various durations that are commercially-viable today. 0-8 hours tends to be the most needed duration in the US but there are solutions that can store power for days or weeks without losses. Even in a 100% nuclear or gas-fired world storage is critical. During the Texas blackout both nuclear and gas assets failed due to the cold temperatures.
> Monopropellants don’t burn, their just one of mangy exothermic reactions.

Gave a fairly full reply to this over here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28121336
> at a level that’s not sustainable for management to fix

Management gets thousands of dollars every month from each renter. They could absolutely fix it if they wanted to. In this market, they don't get punished for not fixing it, so they let it go and pocket the difference.

Normally I'd be with you here. It's gross what some people think is acceptable in common spaces. Slumlording is also pretty gross, though, and I tend to think it's the larger evil here. By a considerable margin, too.
Yeah. And it fails the "make the easy way the right way" test of language design.
You've got YC one-itis. There are a zillion other places to raise money. Any one funding source says no 98% of the time, it has nothing to do with you.

-a 55 year old founder who just raised a $20M Series A
- A sneaker cleaner kit, to keep my sneakers clean with no effort.

- A 15000 lux day lamp, because my apartment is pretty dark, why causes some sort of depressing feelings over time

- A Brita Water Filter Pitcher, which replaces all the bottles of water I needed to buy and carry.

- Magnet app (mac OS) to organize windows quickly with keyboard shortcuts.
well make sure to take plenty of pictures, you will cherish the memories of them lurking, hiding and giving you the middle finger for the rest of your life
I’m no expert in all things Apple, but this whole thing seems, to me at least, pretty un-Apple like. It would be easier to rationalize if this was actually a directive from, say, a certain large nation who said “if you want to continue to do business here, implement this capability” and what we’re seeing is Apple trying to spin it as a feature or in some sort of positive light.
This is misleading because it does not represent outsourced production nor accumulated emissions, which is related to building up wealth to a point where greener solutions can be afforded.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-...

The US is supposed to do more given the damage it has done, but has been and still is dragging its feet. Same applies to the EU.
the blades move sideways
The most likely attacker against proton mail are various law enforcement or intelligence agencies.

Such agency can force PM to modify login process to derive password from submitted form, or to just switch private keys for non-encrypred ones, because the user won't even notice it.

Truly secure entity just wouldn't have private keys on a server at all. Users would have to go through an an uncomfortable process of generating and uploading keys to clients, but they would be truly safe.

To sum it up, you can't really have security and convenience at once. besides skipping a proper key management process, PM also mail skips such important steps as verification of email partner identify and key verification, so you have to trust PM that you are really talking to a person you think you are talking.
>I assume it wasn't from the vaccines

Why do you assume that? What risks do you believe vaccines to have and not have?
Curious to see how regulations upon “servant economy” (I think this is just old-fashioned expropriation / “primitive accumulation” at work) capitalism will play out in a nominally socialist context. Regulators in China have begun tighter regulation of the capitalists [1], given exposure of the abuses [2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/china-market-regulator-boos...

[2] https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/riders-03042021131132...
>It's very easy to understand that content on a physical disk I own will not be scanned by some government-friendly surveillance program, and content I upload to somebody else's servers will. I am comfortable with [subsets of] my files existing on both sides of this distinction, but only because I understand it.

According to Apple, the only content being scanned are the images you are storing in iCloud. So how is this breaking your rule?
Yes and no. The problem is that in WWI, the fronts were miles deep. There were several connected trench lines backed by guarded supply, artillery, and HQ positions along with the reserves. Those breakthroughs that did happen (which never actually included cavalry, IIRC) tended to bog down, giving the enemy time to bring up reserves and counterattack.

Cavalry and machine guns don't really mix.
If you set up this VM, there's a tiff image of a young Scott Forestall hiding in the AppKit framework resources. See if you can find it.
Not a good summary. Some more informative links:

• http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla#The_Basic_Law...

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570448 (as someone else linked)
The early european colonists & explorers reported vast pristine forests covering the land. There's some evidence to suggest that these were very recent second growth, the diseases from the europeans having wiped out 50-90% of the native american population, and having spread much faster through the continent than the europeans did. Without the native americans maintaining the land with controlled burns and rotations, forests quickly regrew over their pastures and plains. Of course, by the late 1700s, colonists were themselves clearing forests and converting them to farmland.
The tether needs to go past geosynchronous orbit to act as a counterbalance
It feels like unreasonable search and seizure. That's my property that is being searched constantly and without a warrant to make sure I'm not committing a crime.
When I used to play I found it more convenient to travel long distances using nether portals.
Richard Stallman's positions are actually more pragmatic than that. Here is how he describes them:

> I firmly refuse to install non-free software or tolerate its installed presence on my computer or on computers set up for me.

> However, if I am visiting somewhere and the machines available nearby happen to contain non-free software, through no doing of mine, I don't refuse to touch them. I will use them briefly for tasks such as browsing. This limited usage doesn't give my assent to the software's license, or make me responsible its being present in the computer, or make me the possessor of a copy of it, so I don't see an ethical obligation to refrain from this. Of course, I explain to the local people why they should migrate the machines to free software, but I don't push them hard, because annoying them is not the way to convince them.

> Likewise, I don't need to worry about what software is in a kiosk, pay phone, or ATM that I am using. I hope their owners migrate them to free software, for their sake, but there's no need for me to refuse to touch them until then. (I do consider what those machines and their owners might do with my personal data, but that's a different issue, which would arise just the same even if they did use free software. My response to that issue is to minimize those activities which give them any data about me.)

> That's my policy about using a machine once in a while. If I were to use it for an hour every day, that would no longer be "once in a while" — it would be regular use. At that point, I would start to feel the heavy hand of any nonfree software in that computer, and feel the duty to arrange to use a liberated computer instead.

> As for microwave ovens and other appliances, if updating software is not a normal part of use of the device, then it is not a computer. In that case, I think the user need not take cognizance of whether the device contains a processor and software, or is built some other way. However, if it has an "update firmware" button, that means installing different software is a normal part of use, so it is a computer.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
I think the national park service fully accepted the idea that we should let fires burn around the lsat great Yellowstone fire, maybe 1990ish.

I don't know that they speak for the US Forest Service though. Between the different national level parks and forest services and then the state level ones, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are still a lot in the active suppression camp. Then there are municipalities where people can basically live in the WUI and the idea of preserving only structures is further complicated.
Fair I guess on that note I've promoted people to managers that other didn't considered lesser or equal from technical stand point. Usually reason for that promotions were either better product/business sense, more clear ambitions and a bit of luck for joining early enough.

I've observed that feeling that the middle manager is not great relates to whatever subordinate is great at, let's say one is great architect and knows everything about aws and manager doesn't. But the subordinate doesn't event realise strengths of the manager in understanding underlying business value, managing stakeholders, and enough technical knowledge to make right tradeoff to deliver business impact.

One successful experiment we did in our team was to share majority off manager project responsibilities with IC developers for specific projects. The resulting comment from IC to manager was: 'wow I honestly thought you just slack off all day, now I understand how difficult your work is'
> Are these new companies taking advantage of this ancient zoning?

Somewhat? Overall I'd argue no. We know gig economy companies are most "profitable" (i.e., light less money on fire per transaction) in dense cities, so I imagine if they have a magic lamp they'd wish for people to live in denser environs generally.

But the inefficiencies of suburbia does in some ways resemble a "broken window" kind of economy - entire businesses and industries to fulfill needs that only exist because of an intense root inefficiency.

This is not unlike health care, where entire industries spring up around inefficiencies that arguably should not exist - and the industries will fight any systemic reforms that make them obsolete.
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Definitely agree. I remember Google being unobtrusive and genuinely helpful several years ago. Then, gradually it seems to have gotten not only worse but more “consumer-oriented”. Pushing me towards businesses and products and sales pages rather than just the best “search engine” text match. It also definitely seems to favor bigger and bigger sites or more cookie-cutter sites that have likely “perfected” SEO, things like WordPress blogs, Medium, etc. Not to mention the walled gardens! Try searching for anything without getting the top hits to be Pinterest links, ads, YouTube videos, etc and not because these things are the best matches for your query but rather because these sites have paid the most to be featured or paid an engineer to SEO-ify everything for them. I’ve wanted to switch to DDG but I have a paranoid worry I’ll miss out on some good things then too.
Neural Net might be overkill as an example. Antivirus software has existed since 1980s[1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software
Nope. 2400+ pages and I'm sure none of them have read the whole thing. Feels like the Patriot Act - written by who? read by no one. Huge implications on us all.

Where is the money for this coming from? Further debasement of the currency is my guess.
Technically, Google can look directly into Android phones.

There is no difference.
Agree completely. It's a strong signal that someone has a military cosplay fetish (which very few people with experience in the actual military do), which in turn tends to come along with other dysfunctional traits. It's a warning for me that the person is not likely to be a good vendor, customer, or collaborator.
That's so kind of you. Thanks!
A Good-Sized Portion of ‘Unnecessary Snark’
So the constant upwards force is providing enough tension to keep the cable in the realm of a rigid body approximation? I would have assumed the force applied to accelerate the payload would also deflect the tether and anchor backwards (in a miniscule amount) and would have built up over successive payloads.

Not arguing, just curious. It's been at least a decade since I've messed with orbital mechanics.
Make what your users want, and build your startup. Look for hockey stick growth. If you continue doing that, it won't matter whether or not you get into YC. YC should be a "nice-to-have" not a milestone.
Wow what a bunch of nonsense. I know this is a rant but the author gets so many things wrong I can’t respect their opinion at all
Pretty much all of California matches this description. Lightning, outside of a few areas, is rare. Precipitation varies heavily, from short but wet winters to months of zero precipitation.

When europeans arrived, the state had regular fall wildfires (smoke was constant during this time) from natives setting regular fires to burn out undesirable plants and keep things useful for them. In Yosemite for instance, this allowed the land to support them with acorns from the black oaks there. Trees were monstrously huge compared to areas now, and relatively sparse and manageable. No known mega fires, although it probably still happened from time to time.

Now in most areas, it’s tangled brush and super dense and diseased trees (or just tangled brush where it is too dry for trees), with large scale mega fires and tree mortality due to disease.

Cutting down the old growth didn’t help of course - but even in places where trees have regained nearly the same sizes or were kept intact, the brush growth is a big problem. It’s natural for regrown forests to be dense, and the weaker trees die as they get crowded out. It isn’t normal for nearly every forest to be doing this all at the same time in a region due to suppression of the fires that normally clean out the junk and/or reset the clock in small areas.

Big Basin state park for instance was not logged, and it burned to the ground during the CZU complex fires due to all the built up fuel. If burned every year, it would have died out before being able to do much if any damage.
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We can at least try putting a price on fossil fuels. Actually the 1973 oil crisis had a profound effect on behavior, so yes a capitalistic system is perfectly capable of responding to something being (artificially) scarce. OPEC should really get their shit together and start another oil crisis "in order to save the world"
I agree with your comment. These names are just ways for teams to delegate different responsibilities w.r.t incident management quickly and in a way that's understood by everyone. Having concrete names for such roles is both a good thing (everyone knows who can make the call for hard decisions) and helps you talk intelligently about the evolution of such roles. e.g. "our Incident Commanders used to spend 15% of their time in p0 incidents, but that has reduced to 10% due to improvements in rollout procedures/runbooks/etc."
Last-ditch effort to salvage cryptocurrency tax deal underway in Senate
See also: "the government argued that, since the 'inspection' of the data was to be carried out by a machine, it was exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment."
Being downvoted. Let me correct myself, HN: all discoveries have been made by white people. These discoveries have been made in the last 6000 years, the only time that this universe has existed (according to the white people's good book).
I don't see how constexpr is helpful for readability. As it stands, constexpr adds a significant amount of syntactic noise. D's approach is the correct one, IMO.