skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It costs less for someone to send me a parcel from the United States by courier than it would for me to send that same parcel across town by Canada Post.

If you're looking at shipping by say USPS, then International shipping rates are determined under the United Nations Universal Postal Union. [1]

Until like 2020 it would have cost you far less to send a package from China to the US than from the US to somewhere else in the US.

Comparing the cost of domestic to foreign international shipping prices is not reflective of anything, unfortunately.

I would strongly urge you to look again at the cost of FedEx/UPS/DHL shipments into Canada. If you're looking to send a parcel, by ground, you need to add at least like $25 for brokerage. If you're shipping express, you're paying at least $70 for the package, but at least it includes brokerage.

I think this is probably just not accurate.

I just priced a 5lb FedEx Small Box going from SF to Vancouver (800mi/1287km) and it came in at $180USD/244CAD for the cheapest option.

Shipping the same box by Canada Post from Ottawa to Winnipeg (1000mi-ish) came in at $47CAD for the same service tier. $58 to Vancouver.

Ground came in at $24 which is less than the brokerage charge alone would be going international.

> Canada Post is great, but it’s not cheap for anything except sending a letter.

That's probably because Canada is bigger than the United States in land mass and has the population of California. That makes it, therefore, expensive to ship things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Univers...
Excellent points.

> It even hurts a pivotal scene in JW4 where a mid-boss dies by falling two stories directly onto his head - when I saw it in theaters, I could unfortunately sense the audience expecting the mid-boss to get back up like John Wick. Because of the non-lethal fall in JW3, they didn’t really buy that this boss had actually died.

Especially when JW took a similar fall only a few moments earlier and gets right back up.
The decision problem for ECDLP

{ (Curve_spec, P, x) : x is a prefix of the discrete log of point P on the specified elliptic curve }

is trivially in NP.
Meanwhile, Twitter had 7500 and Dropbox, 3000.
Datomic already sort of does this :) You configure a storage backend (Datomic does not write to disk directly) which can be dynamodb, riak, or any JDBC database including postgres. You won't get readable data in PG though, as Datomic stores opaque compressed chunks in a key/value structure. The chunks are adressable via the small handful of built-in indexes that Datomic provides for querying, and the indexes are covering, i.e. data is duplicated for each index.
Depicted as the mad man he is in the Corto Maltese comic taking place in Siberia
Highlights from the Comments on Nerds and Hipsters
This submission is about a search engine, not a browser.

What's to be like the Brave browser for you? You don't say much.
Or it's need-based - parents need more income to support dependents.
Spot on, nobody uses the App Store on the Apple Watch, most people either never use third-party apps on the watch or only use companion apps which are installed alongside iOS apps
This was an issue in the Python packaging ecosystem recently: https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-wit...
>they are not art, they are spam

I see, you get to decide what's art then?

How could that possibly go awry...

These Roman artifacts were mass produced by a slave owning nation too [1], probably ought to be destroyed along with the statues too, I guess.

[1] https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2009/05/ct-scans-reveal-rom...
Did they ever notice anything amiss with the phone bill?
This is a fairly good review of the many vector databases that have cropped up recently:

https://towardsdatascience.com/milvus-pinecone-vespa-weaviat...
I know I'm picturing a technology will solve education problems, but...

...can't we fund some amazing games that are... educational?
NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer
$174k...how much of that is left after taxes and paying for a second residence in one of the most expensive cities, Washington DC? $174k really isn't that much in 2023. They'd be lucky to clear $100k after taxes and housing and that's before including other living expenses.

> (And that’s even before considering how many members enter as millionaires.)

I wasn't including them as it seems obvious millionaire in/millionaire out, but could have been more clear.
It's not that, it just seemed like more moving parts. I don't know what it's going to share and what it's not, or if all purchases are eligible (as it turns out, some aren't).

As for the setup, it'd probably start like this: "Mom, what's your Apple ID password?" "I don't know."
> I generally like Siri and rarely experience bugs

This is mind-blowing to me because I'd guess that ~50% of my interactions with Siri are buggy. I mostly use it through CarPlay.

It even fails to call the correct contact in my phone, which should be the easiest thing it does.
You might like Reacher https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9288030/
Yeah, no, easier to block the telemetry domain than deal with such a huge risk of losing everything
I appreciate the optimism! I am not as confident.

It's true that Uber has laid off people, but, according to layoffs.fyi, all of their post-covid layoffs have occurred either outside of the U.S. or applied to Uber Freight. Uber had two rounds of layoffs in SF during 2020 for 14% and 13% of their workforce. Nothing since. (source: https://i.imgur.com/MqNYdhT.png)

In contrast, SF Lyft has gone through four rounds of layoffs: 17% in 2020, 2% + 13% in 2022, and 26% in 2023.

If Uber cuts their SF workforce by 25% in the next month or so then I'll feel better about the mutual competition. Otherwise, my stance remains that they're entering into the winner-take-all phase of their strategy.
It seemed relatively prevalent in Romania when I visited in 2018. And I didn't see it everywhere in Moscow in the early 2010s, but there was more of it than we see in the US daily. And... the other side of that is we have a lot more obese folks in the US than I've seen in various European places. We might be healthier from a smoking standpoint, but probably less healthy in other ways.
Generally codebases tend towards performing worse as people work in it, rather than better.
HN might be on the decline, but has always been an oldskool way of getting traffic to your site. It's the only 'growth hack' that is guaranteed to work every time. There are of course, multiple other ways to launch a product / open source project, but HN is fairly reliable.
Since quic sessions can be tracked by the connection id rather than the srcip/dstip/sport/dport/ipproto 5-tuple you could switch networks and have your session survive. Not sure if this implementation achieves that or not though.
Michio Kaku on the new world of quantum computing
Inversion in Movie Tropes: Introductory group theory through Hollywood movies
We had a similar situation in the UK where most of the emergency supply of masks, etc. had expired when covid started. The obvious way to handle this seems to be to make a deal with a big wholesaler or wholesalers where the government pays them to maintain a much larger buffer than they normally would. This would ensure the stock was always being rotated. The pre-covid scheme of paying some randoms to keep a warehouse full of mouldering stock seemed doomed to failure.
It kind of is, because latest versions are increasingly supportive of standard C++.

The CUDA machinery is still there, just not exposed to work with directly.
> iOS App Store: 101 million

> iPadOS App Store: 23 million

Asserting that the iPad App Store is distinct from the iOS App Store - and totally isn't in scope for the regulations - is certainly a bold strategy.

I wonder why iTunes and Apple TV+ aren't included, and why Podcasts is only counting paid subscribers. Is there some obvious reason why these kinds of services would be out of scope?
It's unclear if he means Alternating Current or Air Conditioning with AC. I hope it's the former, because the latter needs kilowatts, not the 270 W they have.

"Concrete" can also mean "the cement based building material" or "specific", as in "this specific building needs power to be habitable, because <unusual detail>" (pumping drinking water for example, which is mentioned).

The comment "because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine" indicates OP is not in Ukraine.
A contract?
That's happened to me, and it does suck. On the map inside the app, I one time watched a Lyft driver take my order, then drive to a McDonald's, then cancel my order. Weird thing to do.

The thing is, your Uber driver was probably also working for Lyft at the same time. The one who canceled probably was too. So I don't know if one company is better for that than the other, or if you just happened to get a game theorist Lyft driver by luck of the draw, who decided to optimize his expected value.
Many of things I used to use Siri for I've switched to Alexa after putting Echoes throughout my house. It's just better.
I think its about external storage: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/yjt6aq/wha...

Not really relevant if you're mostly streaming on the box or streaming locally from a file/plex server
> I believe most shortfalls in our current market economy stem from a lack of competition

That set of problem is indeed enormous. I'm not arguing otherwise. But there is also an enormous set of problems that can't be solved by more competition, but people put forth "more competition" as a solution anyway.

Increasing competition is valuable, but it's not a panacea.

I'm far from convinced that this particular problem can be solved by more competition for a few reasons, but the primary one is this: the established players have shown that behaving this way will maximize profit. New players in the space have a greater economic pressure to do the same than to do differently.
How is it that Brave managed to build an indexer and remove dependence on Bing in less than two years but DuckDuckGo hasn't been able to do it in a decade.
I use both. Brave is better for the "chromium only" wonky websites/webapps. But the whole altruistic privacy thing is kind of undercut, at least optics-wise, by all the crypto/gamification upsell present by default. Not good when your supposedly privacy-focused browser requires extensive fiddling in the settings to shut everything off on initial install a-la Windows 11...
Just because the first iPhone didn’t have GPS, it doesn’t mean GPS didn’t exist in phones before then.

I had this phone before the iPhone existed and it had GPS.

https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=824

It came out in 2005:

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-mm-a900-sprint-review/
Second this. I De-Googled/De-Dropboxed my life about 15 months ago with the help of Syncthing, and a third-party cloud backup provider (the '1' in my 3-2-1) strategy, and I haven't looked back.
They contribute to it; I don’t think it’s fair to say they own it? It’s certainly nothing like Swift or Go for example.
The iOS of Synthetic Biology Is Here
>Cigarettes are some of the best evidence we have that we don't need prohibition to change behavior.

It only took over 60 years, entire generations, and millions dead. Meanwhile giant corporations profited immensely, literally advertised to children, and made up shit science and fostered a general anti-science and anti-intellectualism vibe among the ones who need education most. Glad avoided prohibition for that! It was so beneficial to society to allow people the freedom to inhale literal poison for the benefit of an insanely addictive, mild stimulant, with awful withdrawals, all while poisoning the people around them.

What a goddamn victory for liberty.
>> Maybe you need a higher IQ to write math proofs than program because you can't easily test proofs like with code?
I suspect that people with higher IQ can probably write code with fewer errors when no testing is done.

I don't think that's it. As a rule, the tests we write for code don't prove anything in the mathematical sense. They are more along the lines of "OK it didn't break with an input of 6 or 7, now let's try 8". IOW we treat the code like a black box and see how it responds to various inputs.

Mathematical proof is a different kind of intellectual activity. It's about showing that one fact is a logical consequence of another. You don't test a proof because the proof is the outcome of testing. But that testing is almost always as general as possible. In code, you might test that a given function works with the numbers 1-100 by trying 1 and 100 and simply assuming that it'll behave the same way for the numbers in the middle. This is often adequate, and it's probably the best you can do anyway, but it's not a proof (except for those specific inputs).

A mathematician would instead analyze the implementation of the function to show that it's logically guaranteed to work for 1 <= x <= 100. But then the proof would only exist in their head, or on paper, in human readable form. Can you write automated tests that analyze code in that way? Maybe but that's beyond me.
Clojure in general is all about passing around little maps of data and in particular not using OO to model. So Datomic naturally continues that by returning maps of nested structures to represent your query results and does side-step the ORM completely.
I'm not sure either, are they referring to the shitty new home screen courtesy of Google? That comes in separate of the firmware.
Smoking on airliners was always the craziest accommodation for mass addiction.
In the early days of the web MySQL was extremely faster than anything else because it was an ISAM file with no support for transactions. That was OK for many people that self-hosted the db on the not very powerful CPUs of the time.

I remember people stating that transactions are useless, and maybe they are for some workloads, see the success of MongoDB years later.

The transactional engine InnoDB was added in version 3.23 [1] in 2001 [2] .

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MySQL_database_e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
> In my experience it was almost always a matter of the hardware being stretched way past its limits.

I find this hard to believe. An Intel 486 from 30+ years ago could run Doom full screen with nearly instant key press response. A 6502/6510 C64 could repaint the entire text screen each frame. Why would today's auto hardware require 500ms to respond to touches on a static menu?
Same gameboy experience here
This paper is quite good: Why Johnny Can't Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts
> The reality is Apple deeply cares about releasing a polished product

This is absolutely untrue in the Tim Cook era. Apple releases buggy hardware and software all the time.

This article talks about how they released a bad product and know it. Siri is significantly worse than both Google Assistant and Alexa, and even those are comically bad sometimes.

Bugs in iOS and Siri give me rage aneurysms every single day (coming from a long-time Android user who just wanted a small phone).
I was in DC for business 2 weekends ago and had 3 Lyfts cancel on me. Never had that happen before on either platform. Checked my rider rating just in case and it's 4.97. Really frustrating to deal with, especially when timing matters.
If a gift card could influence future work decisions I personally would report it as the company does not need much to relieve you from duty if there is even a hint of impropriety
Not sure if they still do this, but when I first started learning, front and center of the documentation was telling you how to do it in a mobile app, then JS SPA app. The use case of a backend API+JS/mobile frontend was buried. And it was all stupidly named. It wasn't blatant like 1) MOBILE APP FRONTEND 2) JS APP FRONTEND 3) API BACKEND + FRONTEND.

So for me, mobile wasn't relevant, SPA wasn't relevant, and my use case, the third one was hard to find.
They publish peer-reviewed articles in decent-quality publications.

How you judge the latter is tougher and very domain specific, but each field usually has 1-2 "target" journals where the best work goes, and another 2-3 "second choice" journals that aren't as prestigious but still have good works. Usually the research topics going to the second choice journals just aren't as sexy as the work that gets into the target journals.
Your phrasing makes it seem like the people answering have the job of "keep up with the rate of incoming of questions." So, if there are a lot of incoming questions, they must reduce quality of feedback, since they are spread thin.

Personally, when I answer a question it's because I want to, and feel I can be helpful. I have no skin in the game with regard to the site's overall ability to keep up with incoming questions. So, I take as long as I need, and do as much hand-holding as I feel is appropriate, not governed by external pressure.

But I suppose there are professional moderators and such who really do have that external pressure, and thus have incentive to give curt feedback, or even to drive people away — thus reducing that pressure, making their lives easier.

As a SO user from the early days, I do miss that feeling of mostly interacting with people doing it "for the love of it," rather than governed by efficiency.
Can’t say whether it would be a good idea but it probably wouldn’t be a bad one.
As H. L. Mencken said, "there is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."

A full bus is indeed far more efficient than a car. But buses run pretty empty most of the time. As https://reason.org/commentary/does-bus-transit-reduce-greenh... estimates, in 2009 buses emitted nearly double the CO2/passenger mile as cars! Prioritizing buses, meaning adding more, makes that figure even worse. And therefore as simple as the bus logic looks, it doesn't actually work out to better in the real world, in most American cities.

There are ways to fix that particular problem. But the place to really start is in housing permitting, NOT the streets. When you get sufficient density of housing in one place and work in another, then mass transit becomes efficient. But people involved in traffic planning seldom have the authority to overcome NIMBY obstacles to building denser housing. And so they have to operate under constraints that make additional mass transit a generally worse option.
LineageOS on my Samsung Galaxy S5 also has a setting for which network modes to use.

Oddly enough, since the 3G shutdown, I have to set it to LTE-only to get service. Auto 3G/LTE results in no service.
Gah, my mother has a few Echoes dotted about her house and it’s the only inanimate object I feel compelled to tell to shut the hell up on a regular basis.

Give me a direct response if warranted, otherwise a simple chime or acknowledgement. Multiple years into ownership no-one wants a “by the way…” with upsells to other Amazon services.

It’s even worse if the reason you were talking to it in the first place is to turn something down so you can actually speak to someone.
Better sleep hygiene as well
Stops signs don't do anything in my neighbourhood either.

Can't fix crap drivers, no matter how hard we try.
Ubuntu for ARM
I've set Brave Search to be my default search engine for private windows (incognito mode). I've grown annoyed by the cookie consent dialogs and captchas that are presented to me by Google when I open Google's search engine in a private window. Brave Search doesn't have those annoyances.
I myself got into game programming by moding Quake and StarCraft. I’d guess a ton of people who ended up as programmers did this. So I think you’re right almost no students did anything with computers, but I’d say easily 50% of people who could code at all tried to make games and often school computers were all we had. Thankfully the computers had unbelievably bad security so it wasn’t super hard to get stuff going :)
> There are virtually no new applications enabled IMO with 5G speeds vs LTE speeds/latency, assuming they are both not congested. 100mbit/sec LTE with 20-30ms latency is fine for nearly everything; gigabit with 5ms latency on 5G doesn't really change much, at least for the next few years.

This goes both ways: how can anyone possibly make (let alone sell) new applications when practically no consumer has a good enough connection to use them?
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-fanalyzer is still only suitable for analyzing C code. In particular, using it on C++ is unlikely to give meaningful output.
"
Not this time, maybe next time ?

It's a pleasure to have it for C still
Thanks for asking - Designer helps make design for social media and other daily use cases like postcards, event posters etc. super easy

Suppose you get an idea for a tech event and want it to stand out - you would typically go to design tools and find the right template, add text and images and then drag the elements to ensure design looks good overall.

Designer aims to simplify this - you could just share your idea "a tech event about AI trends" and Designer will find you the template, images and even title (using GPT). You can then just review and make simple edits and you are good to go - this should save you a lot of time.

I would love if you would try the product (you just need to login with your Microsoft account) and share your thoughts on what you liked/disliked :)
Do you take the cap to downtown? If so, why do you take a cab over the Link?

I have taken a cab ones, but to Fauntleroy, and I was missing a ferry (which I missed anyway because the driver took a weird way). However, the transit options to West Seattle aren’t nearly as good as to downtown though.
Thank you, what a brainfart I had :(
The Library of Congress collects films
Use FTP and SFTP as alternatives to S3 for legacy apps when S3 is not an option
Not a decade goes by, not a decade, without someone mentioning Koyaanisqatsi.

It's in my top 5 "must watch" movies.
Next gen Transformer to me could be: Imagination is all you need.
The chance of either party going along with impeaching a justice "on their side" when the opposing party controls the White House and Senate is approximately zero. This is sort of like proposals for various things that involve constitutional amendments: unthinkable in the current climate.

Maybe there's a level of wrongdoing where their own voters would demand it, but I think it's generally more likely for voters to demand hard-nosed partisanship.

Not that these particular allegations really get anywhere near the level where this would be a question.
Oral Sex Stoking Throat Cancer ‘Epidemic’ in UK and US
Agreed, which is why there are processes to remove them. My point is that those processes fail because the people charged with undertaking them are political. So, more politics is not, in my mind, the solution.
It’s not a “force”. I’d argue that it’s more to do with lowering entropy.
When I was in the fifth grade we got a few G3's in our classroom. We were supposed to rotate small blocks of time throughout the week so we could have "research" time on them. I was the one who found CroMagnon Rally, Bugdom, & Nanosaur. They didn't let us use them much after that!
Can you rate them if they cancel?
This is about the Brave Search engine, which you can use in any browser:

https://search.brave.com/
The Apple Watch will automatically install the watchOS app for each iOS app you install on your phone by default, if a watchOS app exists for the iOS app. I don't know if the auto installs count towards user visits to the watchOS App Store. I don't think I've ever used the watchOS store, and my watch is full of apps.

https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/get-more-apps-apd99e3c....
https://archive.is/kzsKb
This sounds like something designed by someone with exactly one semester of college or high school Econ under their belt.
> Lysenko

You're sympathetically comparing him to Lysenko, which only proves my point: both were unscientific charlatans legitimized by leftists, to the detriment of many.