skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a science fiction novel it was pretty huge--selling over 125,000 copies[1] in its first couple years, and is ranked near the top 10 of all time. This list [2] has it in 12th place overall, but a lot of the others on the list have also been movies, which raises the profile of books a lot.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/02/21/...
[2] https://best-sci-fi-books.com/the-bestselling-science-fictio...
Simple answer: drone noise is a combination of narrow band and broad band noise. The narrow band frequency comes from the RPM of the rotors spinning, but the broad band noise comes from the turbulence inherent to propeller lift production and the frequency cannot be contained to above/below human hearing.

The overall magnitude of the noise production can be reduced a bit by using lighter vehicles (less thrust needed) and more efficient propellers, but it's never going to be quiet unless we do away with propellers, which is very unlikely to happen.
I suppose it never occurred to you that the "issue" could be an example of a battle in a culture war.

The culture here is capitalism. Capitalism is a worship of capital and its acquisition by any means. Including pushing for new fuels that give 25% of people cancer, or by breaking unions that are trying to prevent East Palestines, or by classifying people as "independent contractors" to avoid paying for benefits, or by swallowing up competition, or by then attempting to thwart a costly antitrust lawsuit by "accidentally" losing evidence.

Google's culture was "don't be evil", and then capitalism happened (see above) and we get the parent remark: "the only evil to a capitalist is loss of capital"

Now what was it you were saying about a dress code?
The logic is sound, biofuels can even theoretically reach negative carbon emissions by burying husks and similar.

Corn is just not the best plant for the purpose. Soy or hemp are two better examples, especially for biodiesel.
The music industry cartel structure has re-formed multiple times since the 1950s. If not necessarily with the same participants, then with the same dynamic and general shape.

I've noted this previously using Charles Perrow's description in Complex Organizations (1972, 1985), here:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31254795>

The idea that technology is not socially or politically neutral, and specifically that it very often acts as a power multiplier, is widely understood, if not particularly accepted among HN's commentariat.

See Langdon Winner, "Do Artefacts Have Politics" (1980) <https://web.archive.org/web/20110626114826/https://innovate....>

Some HN discussion here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321090>
You know, I've never felt the urge to bike down the sidewalk, and I don't think I ever see anyone else do so.

But that's probably because my area has decent cycling infrastructure, so that means I have a place to cycle without fearing for my life besides the sidewalk.
"Operation Elop - The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones"

https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52...

Note - full book on medium - it makes my Firefox on Android cry...

> This page hosts various alternative formats of the Medium book Operation Elop which is an English translation of the original Finnish book Operaatio Elop. You can read the story of this translation project over at Nokia People, a forum for ex-Nokians. The English translation is made available for free, with the permission of the original authors, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

https://asokan.org/operation-elop/
TRS-80 Model I???
Congress does not pass regulations, they pass acts of law. The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government.
Labor laws are localized to the state you work from. That's already covered in case law. Just because a company is incorporated in Delaware does not mean they get to skirt local state labor laws when hiring employees from those states.

If you lived in State A, where non-compete agreements are legal, and signed a non-compete agreement with your employer, then that should be enforceable, because the employer can always take you to court in State A. That's how everything is done in this country with regards to legal differences between states.

I'm not sure why you're capitalizing the word TRADE. It's as if you think because the FTC has the word trade in it, that it has the authority to enact laws and invalidate legal agreements that have to do with any kind of trade.
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Sounds like the best option for a standing desk is to add one of those walking treadmills then. For me though, whenever I'm using a standing desk I move around a lot; I almost never stand still.
The process for making laws matters. In the USA, a law made by the Supreme Court is the whim of an individual. A law made by the President, or a department director, etc is also the whim of an individual.

I agree with chrisco255 that things this important need to be done right. Nobody can rely upon it until it is properly done.
> I lost 150 pounds

Ah, that explains it. You had a serious moral failing and you corrected it.
At least we know the malware wasn't produced in Switzerland, because if it were, it would've told us.
snail.mail@gail.com

Everyone thinks .com is so desirable; but just think, she could have: snail.mail@gail.mail.
I'm not interested in debating Russia's motivations. I'm talking about what China literally said they oppose. They said that they oppose military alliances.

You might disagree with China's perspective or think they are hypocrites and that's fine, but that doesn't change the point of what they said
With the reforms since then, I think the general modus operandi now is that lectures do not require attendance, however almost every course has tutorials with attendance and weekly assignments. If or how this is enforced is completely up to the professor though, and some do not care.
What major enterprise customer uses Google as a chat service?
That's what I always felt like why keto helped me. Instead of just eating, I was now looking into everything. Almost 10 years ago, I went from 115kg to 86, and I had no issues keeping the weight.
But is it even needed, you can put the paper filter directly at the opening of the mug, or a normal sieve found in every kitchen also works and then no paper needed. Wikipedia says Hario has perfected their product from 1980 until 2004 WTF?
"*Sake not included."
That speed is kinda eyebrow raising, as the CUDA version can do 1080p in seconds.

If you are the dev, have you considered SHARK? Vulkan performance seems to be excellent on AMD cards: https://github.com/nod-ai/SHARK/tree/2f36de319a52479039c7ea0...
Let me humbly suggest Rebel Yell.
Report finds almost half of Tennessee hospitals risk closure
The biggest thing is that safety standards vary for what the congress defines as a “truck” vs a “car”.

Trucks are moneymakers and the big 3 automakers historically lobby hard to stop changes. Change = lost margin. Up until the 90s, full size pickups had saddle tanks that were likely to explode in a side collision, for example. Doors didn’t require crash safety reinforcement, etc.

A lot of that has been addressed by regulators, but the hood height thing has not. Car hoods are designed to catch and roll pedestrians. A low speed hit will hurt and probably result in injury. With a newer pickup truck, some of which require cameras to even see the road in front, you get knocked down, crack your head on the pavement, and likely get run over.
I agree with this sentiment but in this particular case, with the personality that Putin projects to the world, it seems like appeasement would just encouragement him to try to take more.
People can just voice/video call and write memos.
The wage-price spiral theory of inflation is bunk. Inflation is caused by the devaluation of excessive printing of money.
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> That rhetorical imbalance makes it safe and straightforward for power politicians and police to argue that they should get to read everyone's emails.

The fundamental problem is that given any permission (an extension of trust), individuals will--100% of the time--abuse it in the absence of oversight.

It's not a matter of if/when, only a matter of to what degree. But being individuals, we are empowered to choose how we grant or revoke such permissions to other individuals. If you stop trusting your spouse, you can revoke their access to your email.

Government is a superset of Individuals. There is no greater clique they are accountable to. Any permission extended (surrendered) to it is an implicit conversion of ownership. If you stop trusting your government to act responsibly with surveillance, you can't revoke that permission. It's no longer yours.

...like the toy you hand over to the playground bully because he "just wants to see it for a second." He was polite enough to state the conditions of release upfront-- but nothing on the playground compelled him to actually abide by his own terms. You find out too late he's a liar, and if you're lucky, you'll get your toy back, when he's done with it, and likely in pieces.

It's frustrating trying to protect children from amorphous threats whose access methods are abstract, virtual and obfuscated by incomprehensible technology and encryption. The question is always whether we maintain absolute anarchy or accept nanny-state dystopia.

Maybe it's time we consider kicking kids off the internet altogether before surrendering any more personal rights to a bully with the weight-class of an entire institution.
I've received a few emails from Dang and can confirm it's a very human interaction, even if he is slapping your wrist for behavior that breaks site norms.
That's their argument in this proposal, but it's quite a dubious one that I suspect even if they issue it, will get litigated all the way to the Supreme Court.
Yea, I suspect it has a pretty low effect in terms of calories, but it helps immediately bring your blood sugar back under control within <5 minutes of walking or so. At least that's what my experience is wearing a CGM for a few weeks now.

That's maybe the magic of "walkable neighborhoods." You just walk over to the store/the cafe/the restaurant real quick, and then you walk back. It was only maybe a few hundreds steps, but that's enough to put away a ton of the glucose you just dumped into your bloodstream.

It is shocking how little walking is necessary to have a massive impact on glucose. 500 steps or so is easily enough for me.
Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite novels, and I loved Snow Crash and The Big U. I find I find his current stuff unreadable, but I can't put my finger on why.
I view this less as circular logic and more as a bell-curve. At the extremes, bragging and bravado likely come with limited to negative results. But identifying that there is a region of optimal show-offy-ness seems expected.

As for the market optimizing for this, i agree to an extent, but i think it might be more base than that. People in general seem attracted to this sweet spot in both business and romance. It follows that the market would similarly optimize for that.
I agree. You'll get a bunch of anecdotal replies going on about how their particular use case blah de blah, but the majority of people I know with these huge cars have absolutely no need for them. I've got 3 kids and a bunch of animals, pick up a bale of hay or straw regularly, tow a trailer occasionally for garden landscaping. And we've got a 5 door saloon.

When we planned a long trip we thought maybe a larger car would be useful so we test drove a bunch of SUV things. They don't even give you extra space. The room across the backseats is actually less, and the boot space is more vertical. I'd rather have the better drive.
It's called nondelegation doctrine. The rulings pertaining to it have not been consistent but it generally holds true.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/nondelegation_doctrine
You don't need real name and home address to send a marketing email..
>I don't like the idea of censoring a technology because it could show bias without an acknowledgement of the bias present in all information.

Ok. Bias is present in all information. I'm not aware that anyone was denying that, but there you go.

Is that acknowledgement sufficient or will you require an explicit disclaimer to that effect in every conversation had about the subject, for the forseeable future?

>Where is a source today of unbiased information?

I don't believe anyone claimed there was one. Do you believe the existence of an unbiased source of information is required before any attempt can be made to correct the bias in any specific source of information?
Computers are, LLMs are not.
It gets deeper and deeper into the whole nuance of this all: when I say "run as well as E10", I mean the ECU is now running at different timing than it would with E10, the injectors are running at a higher duty cycle across the RPM range.

But modern engines will happily run like that for a long with no outward issue (especially if you're not someone that strains them), so some might argue that it's "running just as well".

I strain my engine, so it's not what I'd consider running well.

(Also all that is about E20-E30. "technically it's running well" won't continue all the way until E50 when at E30 you're already seeing the ECU needing to cope in the logs, and that's across many cars, not just my 4 series)
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And when I say ethanol as a fuel is a farce, I mean zooming out at the whole exercise, not on a personal level. It's amazing in my tank, easily providing as much of a performance boost as much more drastic options like messing with emissions equipment. Even adjusting for energy, it is still cheaper than 91...

But again, zooming out, for most people the performance difference is negligible because for them it'd be E10 vs E0, not E10 vs E30+. And they're paying a lot of money into the ethanol system for this marginal benefit:

- Ethanol is heavily subsidized by taxpayers at production, at its "natural cost" the energy difference would make it more expensive gasoline: https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/laws/ETH?state=US

- Ethanol is subsidized again when its blended into E85 instead of E10, but most consumers are only even able to get E10. Even the physical pump dispensing E85 gets an additional rebate!

- Because some of the subsides are only for fuel over 10% ethanol, E10 which most people have no choice in taking actually ends up more expensive than both E0 and E85! In times of need we end up dropping the E10 requirement because of that: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/biden-waiving-ethanol-rule-i...

- The food that they do need, regardless of what they drive, competes with biofuel for farmland which is absolutely insane:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/03/23/196198/ethanol-b...
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/exclusive-britai...

- And then as this article shows, we're not even getting an environment

So at the end of the day, regular people using E10 are seriously getting nothing positive from it, but paying into it in multiple ways.

Overall I'm happy I can fill up my tank with E85, but the machinery around it is the literal definition of a frace.
This is a perfect use case for VR, specifically crappy VR, motion sickness is now a feature
No to your question, i wouldn't call 19th century GB a military state. But the US is one, i would agree.
> I think there's a solid human rights reason to be involved in the way we are.

The US is literally prolonging the conflict by shoveling guns, “advisors” and intelligence into the fight. It’s nothing but a proxy war, using the Ukrainians as pawns. And the longer it goes on, the more territory Russia will expect/need to keep.
As far as I can tell, the regulation would ban all non-competes paid or unpaid.

They do specifically request comments on how to handle highly paid or highly skilled workers.
Unless the Fermi Paradox is rapid societal destruction from AGI? This is what Eliezer believes who was just yesterday hanging out with Sam Altman.

Civilizations can't get out of their solar system because they invent unaligned AGI first that paperclip-optimizes them out of existence for something else.
Yes, they are an unelected executive branch bureaucracy. They don't have the authority to invalidate long-standing labor laws arbitrarily.
Nope.

That’s well known bunk from alt-economics. Convenient to Austrians and Libertarians who get to blame the government (again), but wrong.

Money supply is only one factor in a complex system.
Yea. I think a lot of it is cope/helplessness. Clearly "we" as a society don't know how to stay lean or get lean, and it's not fun constantly being reminded of something that you feel you have no control over. Or being told that it's unhealthy.
Yeah Cryptonomicon (1999) was good. It had great parts but as a whole it wasn't great. Way too unfocused. In that aspect a preview of things to come.
Agreed. My company actually has a presence in Poland, and it's still a challenge to hire local full-time talent.
From your link:

>"The company faces mounting competition from China’s Huawei and Finland’s Nokia as well as weak emerging markets and falling spending by telecoms operators with demand for next-generation 5G technology still years away."

The layoffs are attributed to three things:

1. Competition

2. A slump in investment in emerging markets.

3. Falling spending(it's not clear from the press relase if that was just spending for Ericsson's gear.)

Additionally there was no global Telecom industry slump in 2016. Just in the US alone it was something of a boom year with lots of activity. See:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/strong-growth-potential-for-...
This is the series that first showed me that the Kindle's built-in dictionary simply omits obscure words. I wonder why. It can't take that much storage space even for a very comprehensive dictionary.
The sort of collectible one of his characters would purchase after a successful exit from a crypto startup. But it is beautiful. Also what is this new snowcrash story he was working on!?!
Probably not if they end up joining NATO (whenever the west apeses the Turkish dictator).
Similarly, most modern smartphones have an easily toggled Invert Colors filter near or adjacent to Accessibility.

On Android, one can set this as a pulldown chip.
I loved Snow Crash, but I found the tech in his book, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, to be more compelling.
Use Chrome DevTools to navigate around website paywalls
A short summary and video on how anyone can easily remove the paywall on a site, like a news website, an then scroll down to the content. A picture is worth a thousand words and the video really shows how simple this is.
I'm suggesting you have a total lack of understanding why trucks can be a necessity and not merely "the exception." I realize a lot of folks on HN work coding or other computer/technology focused jobs. There are many of us, however, who are tasked with keeping reality relatively functional. Trucks aren't optional for us. Neither are they compensation for inadequate manhood. They're tools. My tool chain is Ford and Milwaukee M12. What's yours?
Is there a study on how many discoveries made on animal models could be turned into practical treatment for human subjects (percentage-wise)? I can't find one easily.
Can anyone comment on the security implications of using a service like this, render.com, fly.io, etc vs. rolling your own infra on AWS EC2 and friends?
Rebel lost its age statement snd doesn’t have a bib expression so it gets marked down.

I like it and would happily drink it though I’m not a wheated guy.
The wife recently got some instant "espresso"-type instant coffee, and I was amazed at how inoffensive it tasted. Would never swap my whole beans for it given the choice, but it was drinkable. Methinks some progress may have been made.
Even without the politics, it's one of those things that attracts people who both need to prove to themselves that they're intelligent and exact control over others by proxy. Some people really do get a kick out of the rest of society being punished by lockdowns and having to wear PPE, and they're insidious because they believe their own bullshit.

This may come off as me being a pandemic/virus/masks/vaccine denier, but that's not what I'm saying.

There was a time when those same misanthropes might have been thumping the Bible. With fewer people in the West taking religion seriously, The Science became their new host given that it the public both simultaneously respects it and understands it even less than religion.
Almost MJD 60000: Nixie tube Modified Julian Date
As crime-solving goes hi-tech, public defenders scramble to keep up
When you're not asking for particular legal advice about a particular legal problem, CCing a lawyer doesn't result in your communication being protected by layer-client privilege.
The main source of that hype Boston Dynamics makes YouTube videos more than robots really.

We don't have battery technology good enough to make a robot operate independently, which it'd still need to do even if you kept the brain somewhere else. But the "brain" technology doesn't exist either; language models can't pilot robots.
Or the danger to cars and trucks caused by tiny bicycles, as bicyclists tend to have no liability insurance to pay for damages, to which they are frequently the proximate cause by failing to yield right of way.
That is not most devops roles.
Coffee is a fun hobby. It doesn’t have to be anything more than that. If it is, that’s OK, too. If you feel a strong need to decide whether other people are “right” when they seem more enthusiastic about coffee prep than you, and whether you might be “missing something”, consider chilling out. You’ll be happier.
Google One is bringing Magic Eraser to iPhone users
Monopolies earn their economic profits by raising prices beyond what a free market would charge, which suppresses supply, reducing the quantity produced below the efficient amount. That does reduce (real) GDP.

(You might measure it wrong and end up with an increase to GDP if it’s not in your market basket.)
It is a wondrous mechanic of capitalism, that innovation will naturally bloom and flourish, when the incentives and opportunities are available to the innovators. Hence this proposal shall indeed lift the burden of many, and new products and services of glorious nature shall grow.