skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon needs something sticky included in prime. An email or very generous photo storage. This is what keeps many people stuck with Gmail and outlook.
Else amazon is soon going to see huge drop in prime subscribers.

From the comments here, looks like fast shipping and streaming are not sticky enough for most people.
Which backdoor APIs are you referring to? I have done extensive Office scripting and everything you can do through the UI can also be done through the public COM API. I've never found anything missing.
Interesting. The GOP has such a track record of being anti-regulation/pro-business that I find this conclusion counter-intuitive. When was the last time the GOP fought to ban automation?

Although, then again, I could absolutely see some members of that party railing against AI in public, then quietly killing all attempts to regulate it. The first analogy that comes to mind is the way the GOP comes out against off-shoring in public but rarely does anything about it.
But why is it obviously 4 ? Is it equally obvious that if the small disk was rolling around the inside of the large disk then the answer would be 2 ?

If you already know the relationship between distance traveled by the center of the small circle and number of rotations, then of course both answers (for outside of circle, or inside) are obvious, but the inside case doesn't seem intuitive.

btw, it seems they were intending "3" to be the right answer, but the wording isn't even close to what it'd have to be for that to be the right answer!
The average consumer isn’t paying attention to this stuff.

Literally: as long as it’s faster, longer battery life, and better camera, they will buy it or upgrade to it. It’s a status symbol.
> phone turns off

> victims
I worked in it 20 years ago building diagnostic and networking tools ... arm was certainly around but there was also what I talked about. Things probably changed since then.

Here's kermit in space ... coincidentally in a 20 year old article. Software I wrote supported diagnosing kermit errors.

https://www.spacedaily.com/news/iss-03zq.html

I guess now I'm old.
That is a good idea for a perception campaign against this kind of practice. Calling it "Cultural Appropriation" might trigger more people on the progressive side to get involved...
I don’t think this is an issue of everyone needing the same preferences so much as a straight forward economic one. In the US we dramatically subsidize cars.

One of those subsidies is free parking. That preference might not even be obvious if you don’t point out what are negative outcomes from that subsidy (for instance many progressives will demand parking mandates to get housing built, trading 1 real preference, equitable housing for one that they don’t prefer, cheap ice ownership).
the true test was realizing it was a time waster question one should skip

I remember something similar on the LSAT. Odious practice; if you get a wicked problem in a professional context, you don't have the option of just blowing it off. Of course, you could say it's about learning to prioritize with limited resources, but that's meta-gaming the applicants and selecting for corner-cutters. There's a place for corner cutting; in emergency situations it's sometimes the right thing to do. The problem is that selecting for corner cutters also incentivizes exploiting the system for less noble motives.
The Apollo Guidance Computer was the best technology when it was designed, but it was pretty much obsolete by the time of the Moon landing in 1969. Even by 1967, IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computer was roughly twice as fast and half the size, using TTL integrated circuits rather than the AGC's RTL NOR gates.
From what I've heard it's still usually "preventative" because we can't confirm that the rabies infection will successfully infect until it's too late. So we vaccine anyone with (very) likely case.
No vaccine in existence actually prevents infection. Rather, it primes the immune system so the battle is typically a total rout, the invader losing very quickly and the patient never noticing. That's what they got against Covid/Wuhan and the world actually did achieve herd immunity--against Covid/Wuhan. (The Wuhan strain has been extinct for some time.)

Unfortunately, it turned out to mutate quite rapidly (like the flu) and soon the battles weren't always a rout. It still reduces severity, though, and thus is still used.
California's Push for Rooftop Solar Power Goes Dark
Operation Clambake has a lot of information about Scientology.

https://www.xenu.net/

There is also an excellent documentary, Going Clear.
So, same as every year then?
Something I enjoy in SimCity2000 is that you can avoid the traffic problems by not making a complete network of road connections between the residential and the jobs. This works because commuters can 'spawn' from a single residential tile despite pulling from the pool of residents on the entire map! So you can zone single residential tiles on isolated industrial road networks for minimal traffic issues.
A similar tool that I love: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
Why should we take the meaning of revolution in this problem not as the contacting point to meet the circle again, but just as the pointing the same direction? I think this is the source of confusion here.

I'm not the native speaker of English and I might take the meaning of "revolution" very absurdly here. Just curious and I have to ask this. :-)
Couple of likely reasons:

1. Process limitations (no high voltage devices, poor analog characteristics, limited resistor choice, etc)

2. The skill set for power device/analog IC design is very different than digital design (and harder to recruit for as the talent base is relatively small).

3. On chip power converters universally suffer from poor inductor quality which trashes your efficiency (thus increasing cooling demands as well).

From a business perspective it would be quite risky and likely not cost effective.
Do you have a citation for that?

The Space Shuttle Avionics System top level documentation specifically calls out having "no Z80's, 8086s, 68000's, etc."

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900015844/downloads/19...
It keeps DCMA violation letters from being sent to your ISP.
I can totally believe that.

What encouraged him to get the tooth dealt with?
a proportionate number of times to people leaving comments like this
That is in the UK.. in the US, no one considers driving for Uber or Door Dash a job. It is side income, or better known as contract work. I don’t see how going onto an app and choosing gigs for people can be confused as doing work for a company.
19 flights. A pretty good run!
30 year veteran here, funny enough I barely know anything about make. My first job we were building our own build utility because we had to build on windows netware, dos, Linux… soon after that it was all cmake, and I never had to use a make file for much of anything.

Only recently have I come to be kinda fond of its insanely simple syntax but really make hasn’t been a requirement to native development since as long as I’ve been around getting paid.
I can’t even tell you how many hours I’ve lost to Moria, Angband, NetHack, and FreeCiv to name just a few.
totally and inaccurately rephrased ≠ trimmed
Except that as soon as someone says 'hey X works, here's the data to prove it's all the rent seekers who have gotten happy with the alternatives will fight against its adoption. When I was younger I used to buy into the 'laboratories of democracy' concept, now I think it's more like 'meth labs of bureaucracy.'
Maybe holacracy is Valves secret, and hierarchical management is to blame?
QuestDB had a recent similar but probably clearer blog post about time-series specific SQL queries: https://questdb.io/blog/olap-vs-time-series-databases-the-sq...
Our body has been using mRNA for at least hundreds of millions of years if not billions. (I'm not going to bother to look up how far back it goes.) We have DNA to mRNA proteins, we do not have mRNA to DNA proteins.

Why should our body suddenly start doing something that has never happened? The mRNA vaccines are simply slipping some bogus production orders into the job queue, they go nowhere near the master blueprints. There are various forces that would like you to believe otherwise. Mostly originating in Beijing and Moscow.
There’s a big cultural divide between urban and rural Americans. It shows up in all sorts of contentious issues, not just this one. For example, urban Americans that would like to limit gun ownership where they live are largely prevented from doing so because of the preferences of rural Americans.
You're rate limited. So am I. Even emailed dang about it. I suppose my case is similar enough: started happening some time after some discussion that went wrong. I really don't remember which but I don't deny participating in them.

Truth be told it's probably a good thing for someone like me. HN is addictive and getting kicked out after 5 posts is essentially a better noprocrast setting. I actually thought it was the noprocrast setting at first since at the time I had just begun experimenting with it.

It's the automatic downranking of posts that hurt me. Noticed it recently. I've been trying to be more selective towards which posts I reply to but it feels pointless since any and all comments immediately sink towards the bottom of the page, unseen.

A smaller problem with this system: taking the time to write a comment, submitting it and only then being denied. I actually wasn't sure if this comment was going to go through but the timer must have reset. I hesitate to suggest some kind of indicator. It would be very helpful but it would also create a timed reward schedule not entirely dissimilar from those Skinner's box simulators they call mobile games.
Two APL Solutions to Logiker's Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023
It's always been an option to use shielding rather than rad-hard chips or in combination. RCA's SCP-234 aerospace computer weighed 7.9 pounds, plus 3 pounds of lead sheets to protect the RAM and ROM. The Galileo probe used sheets of tungsten to protect the probe relay receiver processor, while the Galileo plasma instrument used tantalum shielding. (I was just doing some research on radiation shielding.)
> It was one of the largest infiltrations of the United States government in history

Really? There isn't a single group of people more motivated than the Scientologists who've tried to infiltrate the US government?

The US government is the most powerful institution in human history. It controls more money in a year than the totality of almost every other individual country's annual GDP. It can kill billions of people in a couple of hours. The power here is staggering.

And the Scientologists with 5k agents is one of the most serious attempt at getting into the guts of that and corrupting it? Seems unlikely, somehow. I'd suggest that the Scientologists were just crazy enough that the conspiracy was unwound. US federal politicians have a totally reasonable and expected corruption problem; this probably isn't one of the most major attempts. The US army routinely purges countries, purging unfavourable records is just so small-biscuits it is hard to believe.
I wouldn't call it the standard, it's just used in designs with legacy to avoid the huge cost of re-qualification of hardware and software. It's infeasible a lot of times due to cost and power consumption. I work in the private sector in space (lunar exploration actually) and everyone is qualifying normal/automotive grade stuff, or using space-grade microcontrollers for in-house designs, with everything from 8-32bit, [1] and ready-made cpu boards[2] for more complex use cases. I'm sharing just 2 examples but there are hundreds, with variations on redundancy implemented in all kinds of ways too, such as in software, on multiple cores, on multiple chips, or on multiple soft-cpu cores on a single or multiple FPGAs.

[1] Example: https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16726923...

[2] Example: https://xiphos.com/product-details/q8
Find me actually showed me the zoning, but not search.
The Vision Pro becomes wildly popular at least to a subset of the population. It’s continuously sold out and people scalp for absurd prices (or try to, idk if Apple will prevent this in some way; by absurd, I’m talking minimum $10,000, maybe over $1,000,000). Some people become addicted to it like the immersion trope, they don’t care about anything else anymore, stop participating in life, neglect their health, finances etc.. It brings up new old discussions about the dangers of VR immersion.
I'm going to pour out a shot tonight. That's one hell of a run!
It primes the immune system to be vigilant for certain patterns. That's a vaccine. It is not altering genes, it's not gene therapy. It is not otherwise boosting the immune system, it's not immune therapy.

The fact that it's target isn't realistically transmissible has no bearing on it's nature. We don't give people rabies vaccine to people to keep them from spreading it, either. In humans the R0 for rabies is exceedingly close to zero in any society that understands what rabies is.
Remarkable comparison! I'm surprised it had only one parity bit per 15-bit word. Even on Earth today we keep two parity bits per 8-bit word in most of our servers.

> IBM estimated in 1996 that one error per month per 256 MiB of RAM was expected for a desktop computer.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111202020146/https://www.newsc...
I appreciate the succinct detail they go into regarding how the concept of “learning styles” has been debunked. I’ve always considered myself more of a visual learner, and seeing posts here and elsewhere about this supposedly not being a thing has never sat well with me (though I never delved into the actual research).

Turns out I do in fact agree with this explanation; that it’s more about what’s being taught that should dictate the how:

> While learners have preferred styles, effective instruction matches the content, not learning styles. A science class should use graphs to present data rather than verbal descriptions, regardless of visual or auditory learning styles, just like cooking classes should use hands-on practices rather than reading, whether learners prefer a kinesthetic style or not.
That future sounds great, though it's possible that consumption will remain the same, but a sizeable portion shifted to ad-free alternatives (Ahoy, me Hartie's!)
Prime does give unlimited photo storage (not videos).

Probably the one perk keeping me locked in.
It seems they have clouflare support, but must be misconfigured somehow? Also rails? 1.4 secs seems like a long response time, even for a rails app. I guess even the pros get websites wrong sometimes :-p

Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Cf-Cache-Status: DYNAMIC
Cf-Ray: 83be9f774919fa8a-SJC
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:54:35 GMT
Server: cloudflare
Status: 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger
X-Runtime: 1.42775
My mind was blown recently discovering Tubi with so many great movies (many of them classics and highly rated) for free (with occasional ads, of course) and I regret having paid for Netflix and other services in the past.
I had the same query and instead of just scrolling down, I copy and pasted the paragraph into Bing chat and asked it what it meant. It got it right, but I probably should have scrolled farther first lol.

It's retrieval augmented generation
Exactly this. A lot of the systems had built in analog computers. It’s a lot cheaper to build then now with electronics but you need more computing power to do things that were previously done mechanically
You need highlighting pens! I have a couple of them to circle anything significant--a bright circle means "this is probably interesting!" It makes searching vastly easier.

The other thing is to date every page accurately. Notes are a time series.
industrial revolution intensifies

east sideeeee

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/may/12/blowing-wind-...
A previous commenter asked “Are ranchers in Colorado uniquely unequipped to adopt any of the solutions used by ranchers elsewhere?”. I interpret this as snark and was answering in kind. Here in the western USA ranchers have been very, very adept at dealing with predators, human and otherwise, for 150+ years. It’s the stuff of movie and TV legend, most recently in shows like “Yellowstone”.

The options are restricted mostly by law and local custom.
Weird. When I went to cancel earlier this year not only was it much simpler than I expected, but I was given the choice of pro rata refund or let it keep going till the expiration date.

Thank you, California!
Is the project still active?
> The Anker PowerPort Atom PD 2 USB-C Wall Charger CPU is 563 times faster than the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer

Wild to think the thing that charges my devices could be programmed to put a human on the moon
I agree. If the public domain was as important as copyright, the problem of piracy would largely go away. It's people, living in the midst of the public, that think they have a god given right to create works of art solely for profit. Art is meant to improve the public good. Making money from that work is only a byproduct of your contribution to society.

Since everything is ass backwards, its no wonder people pirate content.
> I recommend the Leuchtturm 1917 Notebook for this kind of stuff.

Just bought my first one last week. My previous notebook is full and I'm eager to try it out tomorrow!
> in the US, no one considers driving for Uber or Door Dash a job.

I've seen plenty of posts to the contrary.

> I don’t see how going onto an app and choosing gigs for people can be confused as doing work for a company.

Well, there is a detailed explanation for why what Uber does constitutes employment in the article I linked.
I use apple subscription manager to buy one month at a time once I have enough backlong to justify it
Intel claims they did. https://twitter.com/intel/status/497927245672218624?lang=en although what's that word "some" doing in there...

And also, sigh, to demonstrate once again that when I worked in space it was 20 years ago, https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/us/for-parts-nasa-boldly-... (https://web.archive.org/web/20230607141742/https://www.nytim...)

Knowing how 8086 timing and interrupts worked was still important for what I was doing in the early 2000s. I don't pretend to remember any of it these days.
I paid for it and I use it. It informs the VO2MAX graph in my database. That is very important to me.
Having bought basic archery gear for 3 people in the last year, unless you're talking about a toy longbow, $20 is not going to get you anywhere. Even buying the absolute necessities for a basic barebow recurve setup, let's list things off:

Riser, plunger, arrow rest, limbs, string, arrows, finger tab. That's the absolute bare minimum. You'll also probably want an arm guard unless you don't value your forearms. You can't do this for less than US$150-$200, unless you find someone basically giving away second hand equipment.
I hope this backfires as did Google's crackdown on YouTube ad-blockers.

I already have a VPN and BitTorrent trackers I can rely on. I'm willing to (and do) pay for content. But I will not pay to watch ads. Amazon are scumbags who steal from small enterprises anyway; I almost welcome this motivation to deny them more of my money.
What is a "future of work expert"? How can anyone be an expert on the future?
Not sure what your point is, but if you are renting to parties who don't have sufficient income or liquid assets to pay their bills WHEN DUE, then even if they are paying you, you still have recourse to end your contract with them. The question is, how would you know (and be able to prove) with a level of certainty sufficient to justify reclaiming possession of your property on such grounds without being successfully sued? Why not just wait for them to default on their rent? Well, if your tenants gave "permission based access" to their financial accounts over to a third-party service that you subscribed to, that third-party service could tell you and produce copies of the tenant's financial statements issued directly by the tenant's bank. The point of my original post is only that this new technology will result in increased homelessness.
I have had prime for over 10 years. I think this would push me to cancel it. I think I would also think more before buying if I cancel Prime. We have also found Temu a lot better than Amazon these days. So this is a blessing in disguise.
You speak as though this is an ancient hack, but this is exactly how it still works in a lot of modern devices. https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/ab/ab_implement
Thanks for the reference! Kermit could be used locally on ISS or in a lunar mission now that I think about it, but so is/could SSH, web browsers or any modern technology. But most space exploration is robotic and depends on communication to ground stations on Earth, and that is fairly standardized. Perhaps kermit will be used on the lunar surface, and that will be a simplification compared to a web browser interface. But for communication to/from Earth and Moon, there are standards in place and it would be a complication, not simplification to add such a protocol.
The device in the article is not compatible with Visionect, but Visionect does offer digital signage devices (with even 13", 32" or even 42" e-ink displays). The prices of these devices are a bit premium but you get what you pay for.

Disclaimer: I work for Visionect
I didn't even realize one could subscribe to Prime Video alone. I wonder if it's easy to subscribe for a month at a time like it is with hbo and disney.
They say high winds and heavy waves were the cause, wouldn't that kind of weather information been a critical condition of launch?
This. A huge amount. (Well done on your successes so far)

I had to stop my sister from buying yet another $500 shitbox. Told them to get affairs in order and sort out finance to get a proper good car, something modern, and get it insured.

Finally got to a point where we got paperwork going and started filling out forms, and... Well it turns out the partner had $25,000 debt that he was hoping would just go away if he could ignore it (consoles, phones, nikes, et al)

(So in the end I got them a good, used 2019 i30 car, and helped them get it insured, and showed them that this would've been a simple weekly transaction had they had their affairs in order.)

I have a belief that "the system" wants to have poor people around, purposely keep them down. Someone's gotta receive "benefits" to keep the system moving.

This is my way of fighting against the system, LOL.
> E.g. would Amazon close your AWS account because you were spamming the book marketplace with some fraudulent orders?

As far as I know, yes. Though I’m not sure that it’s intentional so much as just emergent behaviour from a complex system or what recourse there may be.

I’ve hear anecdotes of people getting their Amazon account shut down for too many returns or similar issues and losing access to their AWS account. I’ve generally seen it recommended that you have a separate Amazon account for your purchases and AWS usage for this and other reasons.
Why is this modded down? It's absolutely the truth. The local governments here are doing exactly what their (more affluent and politically connected) constituents are demanding of them.