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France Investigates Temperature Spikes That Led to Big Payouts on Polymarket

nytimes.com
2 points·by chrononaut·3 miesiące temu·1 comments

Acoustic Eavesdropping via Mouse Sensors

arxiv.org
4 points·by chrononaut·9 miesięcy temu·0 comments

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chrononaut
·17 dni temu·discuss
Ah, what a perfect opportunity to link one of my favorite old Youtube videos, which is an animation of a significant amount of telemetry captured by Huygens as it landed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZC4u0clEc0

I always loved the presentation of the information.
chrononaut
·23 dni temu·discuss
Sorry, I am not familiar with Alipay, at least in the use case you're referring to; How do you exactly pay for 2 servers using Alipay from a CVS?
chrononaut
·28 dni temu·discuss
It does in the last 2 to 3 seconds. You can see the Tesla driving into it as the video ends. It is a weird spot to end the video.
chrononaut
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
and I imagine out of anyone on HN, dang probably frequently searches for instances of dang. Sorry dang.
chrononaut
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I am not sure if it aligns to the approach in OP's article but it's the last ~minute or two of the linked video.
chrononaut
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
As an aside:

> OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, ..

I didn't expect their revenue to be that high, but I suppose it's also unsurprising.
chrononaut
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
> The devices will not carry the band support needed for these markets.

Their technical specifications state:

> Cellular: 4G + 5G with dual nano-SIM and global roaming modem configuration[0]

Is that implying "global" is actually not global?

[0] https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
chrononaut
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Normalization of deviance also contributes towards unethical outcomes, where people would not have selected that outcome originally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
chrononaut
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Naked option trading is certainly the worst of the three from a financial risk perspective for the beginner.

Although polymarket would do the best at "attraction" towards the average uninformed consumer because the bets and how to place them are far more understandable than the various option trading strategies.
chrononaut
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
And unfortunately I don't think they plan on making those models public.
chrononaut
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
For the most part, the purpose of the long haul Amtrak services isn't to make it economical go from one end of the line / one major city to the other (e.g. NYC to Chicago); It's to provide a transportation service for all the intermediate, rural stations who might not be near an airport or have any other public transportation options.
chrononaut
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Green users are recently created accounts.
chrononaut
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
A lot of these old services used the email address as the fixed user identifier making it much less likely (certainly for those bucket of services) that he'd have a user-facing option of changing it.
chrononaut
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Which areas or circumstances are you observing otherwise?
chrononaut
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

> That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

Surprised this hasn't been posted within a comment yet :)
chrononaut
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
> No, [journalists] know what they are doing ... Carefully calibrated, highly-selective use of (often, quite awkward) linguistic constructs does not happen unconsciously, it is a deliberate, knowing choice.

The incredible vast majority of people in the world are acting in good faith. The way you are framing this is that nearly all journalists are acting in bad faith, which makes me believe the arguments of the parent ("The journalists don't think they're writing these stories to amplify the police narrative") more so than the argument you're making here.
chrononaut
·11 miesięcy temu·discuss
The N900. The best mobile device I've ever owned.
chrononaut
·11 miesięcy temu·discuss
Just a note for readers that the Jolla C2 cellular modem only supports European bands, so if you're in the US you're out of luck on that front until they release a new model.
chrononaut
·2 lata temu·discuss
> it appears this is a proxy.

Yes, that IP address appears associated with witopia[.]net, specifically vpn.singapore.witopia[.]net points to that IP address.
chrononaut
·3 lata temu·discuss
That's what I most remember too from this.