skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the context of a population over this range, a couple hundred thousand and a couple of thousand butterflies isn't as big a difference as you'd think, particularly over the time frame we're looking at (a few decades). I'd be surprised if they avoid extirpation (local extinction within a range) at this point - Western Monarches have habitat loss, terrible losses from pesticides, and now climate change really kicking in.

To be pedantic, I don't think this is an example of sophistry. It may seem that way from your perspective, but I'd have to be in coordination with IUCN, which I'm not. I think in this case the logical fallacy would have to advanced by a single person or group. Also, perhaps since it's a relatively new word to you, you don't know it is considered insulting?

To recap: IUCN made the claim about a population of 1,914/99.9 percent drop in population, which was mistaken (I found the source of the error from misinterpreted numbers from https://xerces.org/ further down, if you noticed). I made the separate claim that their error doesn't really matter, because both are almost equally dire and there is little difference between the level of urgency/intervention required to prevent functional extinction. I still stand by it.
Probably India.
except for the inevitable "this laptop is uncomfortable to use" "this laptop causes infertility" etc; etc;

If you want sustained performance (greater than 5 minutes of sustained load) then just don't get this laptop. For bursty workloads (as is standard for ultraportables) it's perfectly fine, you'll never even notice there was a thermal cut-off.
Quoting a Slashdot comment:

splutty - "Still funny that China apparently has better privacy laws than the US :)"
Postmortem Sperm Retrieval Is Turning Dead Men into Fathers
https://archive.ph/rpY3r
Well, I choose not to post anonymously. As a result, I am more careful about what I "say" online, than many (Actually, a lot of folks that think they are "anonymous," are not, in fact, "anonymous," if a Big Dog gets pissed at them).
Whoa whoa whoa, don't besmirch Costco like that!
I KNEW people would ask this ; it was a major aspect of the story for some reason. They kept making reference to how these "ultra orthodox jews in brooklyn" were doing some revolutionary marketing/profiteering on the interenet/amazon specifically and how they were making a fortune doing so...

It was _fundamental_ to whomever wrote the piece...

So I mentioned it here.

Sorry I failed your "anti-semetic triggers" - FFS.
Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port
Smart idea. I could find a use for this.

But I have to say that I hate the word 'unlimited' when it comes to a service business. It works for software, but it is impossible for a service business.

If you got just a handful of clients sign up for this then unlimited tasks could turn into hundreds of man-hours.
Bol.com has put themselves in a bit of an awkward position by being at the mercy of third party resellers, but all Amazon just seems to sell the stuff you can get in the German Amazon with slightly shorter delivery times (for some things).

And at least with Bol.com you only need to deal with (sometimes dodgy) companies in the Netherlands, whereas with amazon you haven't got a clue where it's coming from, and a lot of it just seems to be stuff from alibaba at a big markup.
All our docs are available here https://docs.tryvital.io/ happy to help you onboard, the animation on the home page is just an example. We'll slow down the animation speed going forward.
I've been less trusting of WireCutter reviews lately. Still see so many of these strange brands listed when I go in to read a review, combined with no real long term testing. Lack of long term testing makes me not trust Consumer Reports as much either.

I still use their reviews as a reference point, but for a lot of things I don't really go for their top selections.
I’d like to see a strong new center.
I understand the non-repeating patterns. I just don't see how a regular 3D lattice can produce such a pattern. Unless the light source creating this shadow is a point-source rather than a parallel one?

I guess I'm just looking for confirmation on this thought: A parallel light shone through a repeating 3D lattice will always produce a repeating 2D lattice.
I think part of the problem is that on that page there is no obvious way to see any information about the seller. I just see a single brand name “TIKROUND”, which looks like one of those fake Chinese names mentioned in the article.

How can I get more information about the seller!? I scrolled through the listing twice and couldn’t see any way to get more information!
musk can't credibly refute such an argument as you describe unless he owns a majority of shares or can convincingly make the case that the holders of a majority of shares agree with him
Because it's not just the big things that are the same; it's the little points of style that a "marketplace of ideas" wouldn't think to share or copy.

You'd expect, if you allowed someone to study your notes before a test, that they'd possibly end up using similar turns-of-phrase to yours on the test. You wouldn't expect that they'd end up learning to perfectly duplicate your handwriting. It'd both be too hard, and not worth it, to do so; and they already have their own handwriting style. So why would they?
> If that was the case, then Google would not have been sued by the Department of Labor.

Correct, Google was not sued by the DoL for overpaying women.

> Top performers routinely get discretionary refreshers of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of RSUs (on top of their regular annual refreshers).

Well aware ;)

> The fact that you believe the discretionary limit is a few hundred dollars indicates you don't know what you're talking about.

So what you don't appear to realize is that in the situation where Google found themselves to be overpaying women, this applied specifically to L4 SWEs, and only in regards to base salary. The difference was found to be around $400.

Just to be really, really clear here: your average L4's manager is probably an L6. There's significant restrictions on what such a manager can do with their discretionary comp, and 500-1000$ in base salary really is the upper limit for what they can do. Anything larger would require escalation to a director or a VP, and even there, the amount you can move a base salary is relatively limited.

I realize this makes the entire narrative you're pushing here fall apart, but that's the reason I think it's so important to make this clear to you. From someone who actually has knowlege of the circumstances, you're pushing a sexist conspiracy theory. Don't do that.

> Do you not realize that the <5% of Asians in your city are still applying to jobs and colleges across the country?

You're missing my point. You've claimed that white people are unaffected by AA. There's a university in Bumfuck. It has practically no Asian applicants, because the population is low. Are you claiming, categorically that every school like Bumfuck U is unable to engage in affirmative action because the don't have an Asian population to discriminate against? And if not, what group does their policy harm?
I'm aware. It's difficult to have a causational discussion with someone continually using correlational evidence.

If I say with "provide a reason why Elon is necessary to the success of the company", and you respond with "Look at the success of these two companies he led" that's completely tangential to the question.

So in exchange for "doing better" answer a simple question for me: What specific actions did Elon take that led to the success of Tesla and/or SpaceX?

I've provided several specific actions that were to the detriment of Tesla, so it should be straightforward to do the inverse.
I would personally say that while marketing elements exist within the essays, they are more like an attempt to influence the industry he operates in (tech focused venture capital) to as much an extent as he is capable with words alone.

His essays strike me as appeals promoting a certain manner of thinking that he wishes to impart, while also naturally acting as marketing simply due to his own default mode of thought being deeply entrenched in entrepreneurship.
People who don't want to do paperwork are unfortunately at the mercy of those who do.
That kind of unimportant stuff is usually found on ebay for much cheaper. Usually things that cost no more than $10 or $20 on Amazon sell for much less on eBay. The trinkets category. I make a point of not engaging with that category on Amazon. It's the least I can do to feed the monster less.
How do you accurately include those sqrt(n)’s in your analysis?
Well, you could also use newegg, bhphoto, alibris, discogs and etsy (gifts) - which are all, like Amazon, purely online retailers. Each of the alternatives beats Amazon in its particular niche, and pretty much always has. But Amazon is convenient because it sells everything.
You've answered a question I've been asking myself for the past couple of years: Why is Amazon trying to become AliExpress? AliExpress already does a good job of being AliExpress.

The answer is that Amazon has quietly pivoted: Their new business model is

1. Buy stuff from AliExpress.

2. Mark it up 5x-10x.

3. Profit!

Amazon probably hopes their customers don't notice they can get the same stuff from AliExpress much cheaper. Which they won't because only about 1% of Amazon's customers have even heard of AliExpress.

Even with speedy free delivery, Amazon's profit margin by marking up AliExpress stuff is probably quite a bit higher than it was for the old Amazon.
We've partnered with a number of labs in the U.S. and have a physicians network that covers all 50 states, that allows us to write doctors orders if your customers meet the pre-requisite requirements as agreed with our doctor. Once you're signed up, we'll have an onboarding call, where we discuss what your testing requirements are, typically it takes 3-6 weeks from inquiry to going live with your patients.
They actually make pumps that run off of power tool batteries. No rigging required. E.g.
RYOBI One+ 18V Hybrid Transfer Pump P750

They also make battery-to-12VDC adapters, and there are plenty of 12v barrel jack fountain pumps.

Don't even have to break out the soldering iron!
Perhaps you don't know it's considered insulting to say "Perhaps since it's a relatively new word to you" ?

I've known the word "sophistry" for a long, long time, Throw. And I'll stack my erudition up against yours any time at all.
They're taking control at the central government level. It's been up to the local government to provide water but the central government is taking control as a small minority of local water supplies have been poor performers. I'm very dubious that this will improve anything. Most places have great water at very low cost. Normally this sort of a move will simply mean more red tape and less efficient systems.
The elegance of the fix makes me wonder if the original design had a thermal pad in that location, but a lawyer decided they could avoid more liability by crippling the CPU speed instead of burning laps.
I think this is something barfed up by a GPT-3 model trained on OANN, Fox News and 4chan.
First time I used airbnb host cancelled on me for no reason. I've never used it since as I just don't trust hosts anymore.
This checks out though. One of the Stripe cofounders was obsessed with Lisp.
You may remember this tree from Casino Royale.
Well, I distrust Amazon for anything electrical or buy my electronics and optics from the fine folks at B&H Photo, which is owned by a (Satmar) Hasidic family. Sure, that means I can’t shop on Saturdays and have a much deeper knowledge of the Jewish high holidays calendar than I’d normally care to develop, but I don’t worry about a counterfeit battery blowing up in my face or a SSD upgrade for my computer being a 16GB flash card fraudulently reprogrammed to advertise itself to my computer as a 1TB one.
> Do you believe that sponsorships are worse that targeted digital advertising?

With podcasts, it seems people are now trying to get the worst of both worlds, with dynamic advertisements from a pool based on who you are + the ads are read out by the podcast creator. I can't say that either case is worse than the other, but they are bad for different reasons.

> Do you believe there are any Youtubers who have acted ethically in accepting sponsorships?

There exist some that have clear transitions, declare in the first sentence that it is a sponsor, repeat at the end that it is a sponsor, and say explicitly in the ad-read that it is not their opinion but a script. That is certainly less deceptive. But unfortunately, this is not usually consistent. Some of their videos will do it well, and some do it poorly.

> It's purpose is convenience, not any higher moral objective

With "full video" labels (https://blog.ajay.app/full-video-sponsorblock), I've started to delve into the fixing bad declarations world. Full videos don't skip anything, but just inform the viewer what to watch out for. I want to make a wiki-like system for organising more precise biases in the future as well, and allow people to know which where each opinion in a video comes from.

Another fact I'll point out is that we sometimes get complaints that certain sponsor sections are incorrect, even though they totally are correct due to them not knowing it is paid promotion. An example is dbrand, which pays many top tech people to randomly mention their name in reviews, usually without much disclosure.
You mean like this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_... ?
Or maybe this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima... ?
Maybe certain genes facilitate a particular strategy to evolution. And part of an organisms phenotype makes the species evolve in a particular way that gives genes an advantage over successive species. Adapting to the evolutionary environment. And naively birds are different. They can fly great distances in a single lifetime and cross many different habitats. In the time dimension that is very different to a plant or a small mammal. Not sure if that actually makes a difference though over such long timescale. An insect family can spread across the world just like a bird can.
Amazon itself does that with "Amazon's Choice" brand or whatever. They use the stats of top selling items, clone it for cheap, and take all the sales.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-i...
I'd watch the various Great Plains aquifers. I think the main outcome of drying isn't going to be thirst, but hunger, and that's the area to keep your eye on for when that'll really kick into high gear. Those aquifers were on track to dry up absent climate change, AFAIK, from severe overuse by agriculture.
That is 100% what the gig economy is about. Just like 'surge' pricing with Uber/Lyft. These people are renting out their homes, why not make the most money as possible? Is it scummy? Sure. Illegal? It's capitalism. You can't knock someone who can earn a substantial amount more money with THEIR private property.
I have been living in Airbnbs full time since march, and only had one cancellation — but the host helped me find another accommodation with a huge discount so it clearly wasn't a scam. But I've been living in Asia and Europe whereas most of the negative comments seem to be about US.
I'm sure if you google around you'll find some articles but, from my perspective as an aerospace engineer who used to work on C-130s: It's an absolute workhorse.

If you've ever been up close to a museum fighter plane, they're in good shape. The leading edges are all smooth and polished, everything is sleek and in good condition. Line Hercs are not that. They're usually dented and covered in carbon from the exhausts. The leading edge of the wing is like three feet thick. It's a Mack truck with wings held aloft by furious amounts of horsepower.

It's dependable, reliable, and versatile. These things survive being shot at, being landed on gravel, ingesting birds into the intakes, ingesting sand into the intakes. You can start a Herc by putting another Herc in front of it and running the engines up so that the prop wash buddy-starts the aircraft behind, like bump-starting a car rolling downhill.

There are dozens of variants from the gunships to the EC-130 Compass Call and friends which carry serious business ELINT gear for secret squirrels to do secret squirrel shit with. You can put RATO pods on it. You can use it for SAR. You can drop bombs from it (and not even by throwing them out the ramp, which you could also do). You can use it to refuel fighters and helicopters aerially. You can put skis on it and land it in the show. You can parachute from it. It's not a jet, but despite being a draggy brick of an aircraft it'll still pull almost 0.6 of Mach while carrying two hummvees. Also, those hummvees can parachute from the aircraft.

There's a reason it's so widely-used [0] and that reason is because the Herc is groovy. It's the unsung hero of nearly every military operation carried out by NATO and friends since the 1960s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lockheed_C-130_Hercule...
Agree. Very few execs are good enough to base capital allocation decisions on gut feel alone though. “It feels like we are short on internal audit” versus “a firm our size should be doing these 10 audits per year. An audit takes $y and if we don’t do it, the consequences are measurable with Y….”
The Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

The People's Democratic Republic of Korea is neither of the people, nor a democracy, nor a republic.

New Mexico is neither new nor Mexican.
Young me would have LOVED that hydrodynamic building set.

Adult me would still love it, but I used to, too.
I have no genuine hatred towards OpenOffice like some seem to have, but I definitely think the best for all would be to retire the project and have the developers join the LibreOffice team.
What donation? I'm paying for every bit that I send or receive!
By accepting their terms and conditions the user accepts the arbitrage clause.
Advertising would create value if it would only serve to connect buyers and sellers, but instead modern advertising serves to "generate demand", as you mentioned. That means making you, artificially, usually using emotions and psychological tricks, spend money on something that you wouldn't and shouldn't spend money.

We can thank Edward Bernays for single-handledly ruining the world.
eBay is also significantly more difficult and annoying to use than Amazon Prime.

I don't disagree with the morality argument, but Amazon has made things so incredibly convenient for the consumer.
Show HN: Privacy-preserving telemetry for Node.js CLIs
First time around you maybe right but this keeps happening .
Yes I agree that is how it is being claimed.

Interestingly; the first HP book was published in 1997 but the print run was only 500. The book wasn't published in the US till late 1998 and by that point hadn't even sold half a million copies.

I believe it kind of blew up in sales through 1999 but the UK -> US lag meant most of the sales were in the 2000s.
Well, to be fair, if "these scammers are ultra orthodox Jews" was central to the piece "for some reason", the author might've been a tad on the antisemitic side. At least your (in this context overstated and seemingly unnecessary) mention of their religion makes it sound like it.
Treasure Island - since last week - just started

The Left hand of Darkness - since two weeks

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - since three weeks nearly finished

Breakfast of Champions - since a month - can't find the damn thing to finish the last chapter

Space 2069 - since two months - half way

Snow Crash - since three weeks - first chapter

Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson - two months - nearly finished

I've finished a bunch this year but you didn't ask about those...
Mine too! He was a first generation American, born and raised in the Bronx. Caught polio at summer camp, probably in his very early teens.

WAS IN AN IRON LUNG FOR A YEAR. HAD TO LIVE APART FROM HIS FAMILY FOR A LONG TIME. As immigrants working their way up from the sweatshops, and eventually running their own quasi-sweatshop, they could not leave to be with him through years of recuperation.

Recovered. Never ever wanted to talk about what he had been through. My dad didn’t even know until he was an older teen.

Post-polio syndrome arrived. No medications available to help, because there was no interest from companies in putting money into developing the medications, because no one was ever going to get polio again, right?

Contributing cause of death.
On my Samsung TV I suddenly can't watch YouTube videos over 720p anymore. Neither the app nor the TV can change the quality to full HD...
> Sanyam Buhtani does not do real DL work.

Oh wow, it seems like you have made a habit of judging people, even though you don't know much about them at all, as recently as 10 minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32197090

Despite the fake apologies, I suppose it is a habit you can't really shake.

By the way, how do you do real DL work if you have so much trouble communicating and interacting with people generally? Seems like that would really get in the way of doing anything of any import.

Throwing insults at people using their full names on anonymous internet forums as "being fake" is a special kind of toxic behavior. They really should not allow you to participate in these forums with this kind of behavior.

I've flagged your comment as inappropriate.
No, really, it's safe, and it's a good painkiller and that's it.

The Europeans have it wrong on this one.

There's no reason not to have regular dose variations at the drug store.
The example given of silicone spatulas could be particularly egregious - are they even RoHS or REACH compliant? They could be chock full of SVHCs that you serve to your family every supper.

I might send some of our Amazon stuff for testing for phthalates and find out.
The scam is enormously profitable for Amazon and the Chinese black hats. You can tell it is really profitable because Amazon will compensate you for up to $1000 for damages caused by this junk. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58163915

I believe that Amazon probably could not turn the screws on these companies even if it wanted to. It would be a massive loss to their revenue and share holders would revolt. It would bring prices up in aggregate if these companies could not sell junk on the platform.

The best they can do is play coy and hope the US government or EU does not crack down hard on them. Caveat Emptor my friends!
Geopandas adds gis operations to pandas, which is good with time series, if that helps. Can read and write several common formats.
When I used to work in the office (pre-COVID), there was a 5-story apartment building built in what I can only describe the worst location possible.

Side 1 - The busiest Firefighting station of the town on a road named the most dangerous road of the town by a local news source

Side 2 - Qdoba & Chinese food restaurants, followed closely by the busiest artery of the town

Side 3 - Shopping Plaza parking lot with at least 500 car capacity

Side 4 - our office building & post office

I struggled to imagine the kind of person who willingly decides to live in a place surrounded by car traffic, (thus air pollution and noise) at least 12 hours a day.

The complex didn't even have any kind of greenery around it, except for a few shrubs. Also, if you lived on the bottom 2 floors, you had a view of the concrete car garage of the complex and nothing else (garage was immediately adjacent to the shopping plaza)
Can someone better explain what the author means early on when they describe the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus as f(a + x) = f(a) + f'(t)dt|x -> a

I thought that the integration yields the area under the curve from x to a? So how does the that relate to the output of f(a + x) which is not an area quantity?
The amount of non sense on amazon these days has me just ordering from target or other retailers.