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news.ycombinator.com 10mo ago

Ask HN: Best way to get daily top HN stories and comments on a Kindle?

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www.reuters.com 1y ago

America's largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI

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xn--youvebeengivenfreeaccesstothisarticlefromtheeconomistasagift-c261b.youcanopenthelinkfivetimeswithinsevendays.afterthatitwillexpire.meetscotusbot,ouraitooltopredictsupremecourtrulingshttps 1y ago

ScotusBOT: Economist's AI model that predicts US Supreme Court decisions

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techcrunch.com 1y ago

AI bots are'juicing engagement'instead of being useful,Instagram cofounder warns

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

What's peoples experience and view of StartEngine?

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www.wsj.com 1y ago

McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station

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www.theguardian.com 1y ago

Why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 2y ago

Content farm impersonates 60 major news outlets, like BBC, CNN, CNBC

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Wenja: A fictional language based on Proto-Indo-European language

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www.cosmos.esa.int 3y ago

Gaia's first black hole discovery: GAIA-BH1 (2022)

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Science fiction movies that are appropriate for 12 year olds?

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www.psypost.org 3y ago

Attractive female students no longer earn higher grades as classes moved online

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Boltzmann Brain

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www.newsweek.com 4y ago

Fungi Appear to Talk in a Language Similar to Humans

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How will you prepare for a Covid-like disease in the future?

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Cheating in FPS by using a second computer to move mouse

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dten.com 6y ago

A dedicated zoom device with 27” screen and 8 microphones

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What is the best bank for an early state startup?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

How to Start Back into Programming

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www.tlnt.com 7y ago

Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High

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www.indiatoday.in 7y ago

An American is killed on island where people are protected by law against murder

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

Prison is no place for a woman – even as an officer

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www.nationalgeographic.com 7y ago

The Milky Way devoured a dwarf galaxy 10bya.we can still see those stars

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1492 is the default frame size set by unifi on wan pppoe. You neither need to know such esoteric details nor need to set them. “It just works”

You can also modify your frame size: Unifi Devices - Gateway - Settings - MSS Clamping.

In my view , unifi gives you all the power and very good defaults at a very reasonable price. Their nearest competitors (eero on consumer side and ruckus / Aruba on business side) have less features and more price.

That behavior has changed a lot in the past decade. Apple actually documents their roaming thresholds.

The signal has to drop below -70dbm for ios and -75 dbm for macos for the devices to consider roaming. Additionally, the difference between the two AP has to be 8db for ios and 12 db for macos.

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/wi-fi-roaming-sup...

IMHO, these are good defaults. Apple devices are optimizing for stability over the “best” possible signal.

What you might consider awful signal difference between the two APs might not be. (e.g. a mac device at -75dbm need to find another AP with -63dbm or better.)

Apple has handled its response, including the proposed App Store changes, to the EU's DMA with aplomb despite the law being an assault on Apple's brand promise.

Most of the companies that are complaining fall into two categories: # Small companies who did not exist before iPhone and / or will not thrive if an open platform like AppStore goes away # Large companies with their own agenda to push their own platforms (almost always worse for consumer from privacy platforms)

I have no issue with big companies like Google, Spotify, Epic battling Apple but how suddenly so many common users have become open critics of Apple when they have dog in the fight is a victory of PR of those companies.

I call bullshit on this one.

Apple allows a Parent / Guardian account to reset the password of a child account. I do not have to do anything. I can just go into my iCloud settings and just reset my child’s account right away. Also, Apple does not allow you to create a child account (below 13) without having a parent account attached to it.

My guess is that you lied during account creation and created an adult account for your child and then you handed that account password and the reset mechanism to your child and he /she lost BOTH of them. In which case, Apple should still help you but I would say - you are more at fault here than Apple

i do not know why you are being downvoted. coinbase is not market maker - in the traditional sense of the word.

“market maker” has a very specific meaning. just because they can “move markets” or “list coins” does not make them market maker.

I do not know which one was/is the most successful.

In terms of real-world use cases - I am familiar with and excited about WindingTree. https://windingtree.com/

They are building a platform to make the distribution of travel products (hotel rooms, flights and more) - arguably digital tokens with real-world value - more inclusive.

They did an ICO with a token called LIF that I bought at that time (not to dump later, but because I could identify with the problem and wanted to support them)

I imagine things wont be much different except Greeks and Romans and Egyptians (and all other ancient civilizations) might have invented one more “God” for the black hole.

As a matter of fact, many ancient civilizations have “Gods” for the point where moon’s orbit intersects with Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_node

In Hindu mythology - we have two “shadow planets” and gods called Rahu and Ketu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahu these points are no real planets or moons - but are given the same status.

You probably meant it in tongue and cheek way (I can’t tell) but I think a lot of our fear / hesitation / denial about how useful these models are is buried into this idea that perhaps we are not special and not fundamentally different than these models.

I used to do the same about 15 years ago.

I was living in DC area but was traveling to Bay Area every week (mon to fri) for work.

I always booked fare in reverse with Friday evening departure (from sfo) and Monday morning ( from DCA) return. A Saturday night “stay” apparently made it a leisure fare which was way cheaper than Monday to Friday fare which was way more expensive. (Like 4x more). [ this was United Airlines btw].

My understanding is that this does not work anymore (at least for US domestic). Airfare are all priced for one way (return fare is just the sum of two legs).

However, difference between what business travelers pay and what leisure travelers pay is huge (see hertz rental prices or Marriott hotel prices for saturday vs Monday).

So, I am not saying the crypto community (or Coinbase) is right or wrong here. But it's not as clear-cut as OP makes it out.

While Howey's test is well-known, each crypto asset can be argued to pass or fail for different reasons:

1. The biggest issue is what constitutes a "common enterprise"? Most federal courts (but not all) have defined it as a horizontal structure where assets are pooled. (https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159597203.pdf) Coinbase can argue that a straight purchase of a crypto token has no "common enterprise" because there is no pooling of assets.

2. It's not trivial to prove that profit for a given crypto token comes from the "efforts of the promoter or third party." Who even is the promoter of a distributed token? What identifiable third party's efforts is the profit in the crypto sale even dependent on?

3. Finally, is there always an expectation of profit? How is buying a vanity NFT different from purchasing a vanity domain that I do not use? What about a vanity NFT avatar I want to show off on Twitter / Reddit / Telegram?

It's a complex case with lots of nuances. Whichever way courts rule - it will set new precedents.

What we have here is different from the allegations that the SEC has made against other crypto entities, which were mostly about mixing consumers' assets, insider trading, improper disclosures during promotions or even straight-up money laundering.

Those cases were not going to set new case law. This case will.

India is a developing country. Are you somehow under the impression that the US army will attack a coffee shop in New Delhi if they stop taking US dollars?

Even in those parts of Mexico and Caribbean countries where the economy is heavily dependent on US tourism - and the US dollar will be accepted at retail shops; the price difference between paying in dollars and paying in local currency is going to be against the US dollar, and for any significant transaction, you will be better off paying in the local currency.

More to the point, it is true that a considerable part of international trade is conducted in USD. It is also true that the USA tries very hard to keep it like that (more so through economic sanctions than the military might), but it's hyperbole to state that any country that does not accept USD will get attacked.

For example, India and China buy a non-trivial part of their oil in roubles and have not been attacked - so far.

in US - and specially for federal crimes - its very routine for the courts to give some time for the person to report to prison.

This allows the person sentenced to get their affairs in order.

I know somebody who is sentenced for 10 years. The court gave him 2 months which actually is not enough for all the items he need to wrap up. To give an idea, this person needs to:

- sell his house (who will pay the mortgage now that he is in prison) - sell his car - donate / get rid of his clothes and most of his belongings (or leave them in care of family / storage) - cancel all the subscriptions and utilities - take care of any medical needs - inform all the people who might reach out to him so they can communicate with him - more…

On the correction system side, they also need time to figure out where to send this person and create the space there: - If the person sentenced has any medical needs they will ask for a “medical” facility (connected to a hospital) and usually nicer. - the person sentenced might request a correction facility that is closer to his loved ones (the guy I know requested and going to a facility in Texas even though he lives in Florida as his closest relative is his sister who lives near that facility) - other factors include doing tests / analysis to figure out should the person go to level 1 security (minimum) or something higher; is the person considered a risk to other inmates? are other inmates considered a risk to this person (common for cops, sexual offenders etc)

Of course, if the person is considered a flight risk or violence risk - they will just send him/her to the nearest county jail and then figure out the rest.

Overall, a lot of logistics and consideration is given to an inmate - specially in a federal system.

Zero Trust SIM 4 years ago

This is not a problem anymore. I visit about 4+ countries every year (hello IMF / World Bank contracts) and have done 43 countries in last 6 years (on Google Fi, T-mobile and Indian Jio).

T-mobile includes 5GB / month of full speed international roaming in virtually any country in the world. (15 GB for $50 after it).

Getting a new local e-sim does not scale when you visit multiple countries or area in a jurisdiction which requires ton of documentation (including a local address or contact they can verify). Even then, it’s complicated.

For example, just this year I learnt that a local Indian e-sim (pre-paid) will not work in state of Kashmir in India or parts of Xinjiang in China.

This (and similar issues) is the main reason that I donate a non-trivial (10%) part of my earnings to ACLU (and 2 other) organization.

Our rights and freedoms do not come without struggle. And they sure do not last without somebody constantly defending them. And it’s only bravado to assume that we can stand against the might of federal agents as individuals without dedicated organizations fighting for us.

Please donate to ACLU - as much as you can.

I work with non-technical people who cannot install (or does not want to) or build anything on their regular machines.

The best option would be rather create posts in a browser or iPad.

Is there a way to set up a stand alone blog (which is not on “community-linked” content platforms like Medium) that DOES NOT require installing and compiling or even a personal laptop?

This is great advise. I do #1 and #2 but not #3. I use sendgrid.com for #3. They have one of the highest (if not the highest) deliverability rates in the world and mails arrive really fast (faster than gmail).

As a bonus: I get to see report which of my emails were classified as spam or not opened.

Also, first 100 mails per day are free (which has been enough for me so far).

QSBS allows way more than $2M/year of tax deduction.

- 10M cap applies to per entity per year per transaction. so if 10 of my investments every year have gain of $10M each - I pay exactly ZERO DOLLARS in state and federal taxes on this $100 million income every year.

- On top of it, If I make more than $10 million in a year on one transaction - there are ways to split this gain over multiple years (via deferred transactions) or over multiple entities (via trusts and LLCs)

I know on good authority that most GPs in venture funds pay very little capital gains tax due to QSBS “loophole”.

What if the “license” to use FSDM belongs to the user and not the car? What if the original owner comes back and claims that he bought the license and he should be allowed to use it in his new car rather than go with the old car? Is that an unfair demand.

That is how it works for my Tesla. I bought one of the original 10000 or so Tesla and they came with unlimited supercharging. Tesla told me that I will have unlimited supercharging even if I get a new Tesla which I think is a better solution than it going away when I sell the old car.