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by jimrandomh 2y ago
This is what happens when government officials are too severely ignorant of economics, and try to make things cheaper by decreeing prices. They decree a price for something that is below what it costs to provide, and all the sellers stop se
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
> "Most people don’t want to live in Manhattan or similarly dense settings. I’m not sure why the state or voters felt it would be okay to take away local choice or why they thought it would be easy." If that were true, apartmen
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
The project tells people to put a line in their zshrc which fetches and runs a script. To spell out why that's worse than a normal auto-updater would be: it enables the server operators to distinguish users who have installed it in a w
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
The reason you can't get heart rate data from Oura is that they don't want people looking at it except in aggregate, because then they would notice the accuracy problems and data gaps.
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
That's a small observational study from 1993, with p>.05 outside of the subgroup analysis. Whatever search strategy led you to it is severely flawed.
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
Typical usage of blood glucose monitoring (by diabetics) is simultaneously safety critical, and only borderline good enough accuracy. There's a standard metric for accuracy here, MARD (mean absolute relative difference). There is a lon
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
"Inefficiency" is a dishonest euphemism. This is the result of corruption. The former SF public works director is in prison ( https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-san-francisco-pu... ), but SF city
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
No. High-mileage drivers have a reason to prefer electric vehicles, since they're cheaper to operate per-mile than gasoline vehicles.
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
It sounds like calling it a "strike" is kind of misleading, because the workers who are "striking" aren't Tesla employees, they're employers for _other organizations_ who are refusing to do their jobs (for thos
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Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly getting tons of unblocked spam in Gmail?
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
This headline is intended to deceive people who don't know how much energy smartphone batteries store. They avoid using standard units (kWh) because if they used standard units, the number would look small, and they want to make it loo
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
They haven't yet demonstrated that they can accurately steer it during reentry, nor that they can maintain communication with it in order to activate the FTS if they need to. So they're aiming it at a big empty patch of ocean, sin
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
Starship is funded by NASA and built by a for-profit corporation, like SLS is and like the Space Shuttle was. The difference between SpaceX and the contractors that built the Shuttle and SLS is that those contractors kept their CEOs' n
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
When it comes to distance from an exploding rocket, inverse-square works in your favor. It's relatively straightforward to calculate an upper bound on how big the blast can be based on the amount of energy in the fuel. (I believe the c
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
Getting too close is dangerous, but they won't let you get close enough to be in danger; the safety perimeter on these things is set quite conservatively. Exploding on the launch pad is very expected and planned for.
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
Given that Twitter is the target of a lot of manipulation attempts, some of which come from intelligence agencies, having a .onion service seems like an actively bad thing. This seems like the sort of thing that a spy who snuck through the
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
> "Three ex-SpaceX supervisors told the publication Musk would have yellow machinery repainted to black or blue and some workers were told not to wear bright-yellow safety vests when the billionaire was on-site." This would be
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
Don't forget, every time a bribe changes hands, there are _two_ criminals: the one who paid the bribe, and the one who received it. SF city bureaucracy is notorious for using flimsy pretexts to destroy projects, which is exactly what y
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
I'm also in the "still using Yarn 1.x" camp. The problem is that yarn is installed to the global path by a package manager from outside the Javascript ecosystem, which means that the same install of yarn is shared between all
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
This is an interesting source of evidence, but I think the analysis might be wrong because it only accounts for the direction of lateral motion, and doesn't account for the fact that the main direction of travel around the moment of im
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
This is interesting as a gimmick, but it seems wildly impractical compared to charging a power bank from an A/C outlet in a public place. I expect most homeless people would rather have a power bank that's larger or cheaper than o
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
(I also submitted this as an Express Comment in the proceeding. If you agree, consider also filing a comment.) A lot of issues around IoT device security are hard, but there is one simple and easy piece of policy that would be a big win: Ma
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
Previous discussion on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DgzdLzDGsqoRXhCK7/transforma... and EA Forum: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ARkbWch5RMsj6xP5p/... Both previ
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
It matters whether the CCDH's accusation was true or false. US free speech law, in practice, does usually protect liars. That's generally a good thing, because there's a lot of grey area. But I think it's terrible if we,
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
Browser plugins that access your email are a very-high-risk category for malware, so much so that if I see an ad for one I wouldn't personally give it the benefit of the doubt. Combine that with A/B testing for different product i
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
> The quotes and other horror-scenario errata also come off a little thin. If Hinton really, genuinely believes the world is ending, then why is he working on the generational successor to backpropagation [1]? That paper was published 27
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So, downtown SF has a lot of vacant commercial and office real estate. They'd like people to convert some of those vacant storefronts into businesses. Ok, now consider it from the perspective of a would-be businessperson considering se
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There is a difference between disagreeing with predictions about the future, and accusing the people making those predictions of lying about their own beliefs. This article does the latter. And, ngl, it's been pretty wild watching the
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by jimrandomh 3y ago
> buying bankrupt crypto podcasters I haven't heard of anything like that happening; what is this referring to? Are you claiming that a podcast was secretly sponsored rather than natural?
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The established norm is that scrapers have to download robots.txt and support the standard robots.txt features, notably including `Crawl-Delay` which sets a rate limit. This is the established standard by which websites tell scrapers what t

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