jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It was my understanding that this is more of a seasonal thing than on a day to day basis. That is, during the summer, southern California uses a large amount of electricity for climate control, and so power is transferred along the Pacific DC intertie in a north -> south direction.

In the winter, electricity usage in the north is devoted to heating, whereas in the south temperatures are mild. The result is that power is moved back up the intertie from south -> north. In the spring, snowpack melt refills the reservoirs in the hydroelectric system, allowing it to be ready to provide power to the south again once temperatures start to climb.
Perhaps the disconnect here is between fundamentally different ways of measuring "good" or "doing good".

Your argument here and EA arguments in general are based on an axiomatic assumption that good done to anyone is equally valuable, that all people worldwide now (and in some analyses, all hypothetical future people) have an equal claim on your help.

IMHO this axiom does not match the "built-in moral system" of most people. To start with an illustrative example (obviously you can imagine many less extreme comparisons), for most people, the welfare of their child is unquestionably much, much more important than the welfare of some other child across the globe. For most people saving the life of another child across the globe at the cost of the life of their child would not be a neutral exchange of things of equal value, it would be a horrifically unbalanced "trade". This is completely understandable even for undeniably good people doing lots of good. So this extreme establishes a baseline that the axiom of "saving every life is equally valuable" can not be accepted by most people (and accepting that axiom is not a requirement for "being good" or "doing good"), there is some difference, and the only question is about the scale and of that difference, what factors apply, etc.

And coming from an (incompatible) axiomatic assumption that it's plausible that helping someone in your community can be more valuable than protecting two people with no connection to you, all these other strategies start making some sense.

Looking at this from a Kantian 'moral duty' perspective, some people (perhaps including you) have an implied moral duty to care about everyone, equally. And some people have an implied moral duty to care about their community more than "strangers". Obviously those two approaches are incompatible, but IMHO both are frequently encountered, and I don't believe that "good people" and "people who do lots of good" always subscribe to the first concept of moral duty, there seems to be a lot of good works done based on the latter understanding.
It really depends. If you want to pay 100% cash for a home then yes, high interest rates are the best time to buy. But with interest rates currently below market returns, you're maybe best off borrowing 80% and using your remaining cash for a diversified portfolio of liquid investments that will likely outperform your APR long term.

If you view homes as day trading then yeah, there's risk in interest rates. But it's a home - a place to live if it's a primary residence. Ultimately if interest rates go up I don't really care since I don't plan on selling anytime soon. It doesn't change MY monthly payment. And if I did want to sell, well I'm staying in the same market - housing. So prices would drop across the board. So yes, maybe I can't sell my home for much profit or even a loss, but my home isn't the only one affected by this. Because you're in the same market, whatever you trade it for will have suffered a price drop as well.

Likewise if you buy a home while interest rates are high and they fall. Your home will have gone up in value but so will any other home you want to buy. So you're in a similar situation.

So I'm not worried about tail risk here. You do expose yourself to risk, however, if you buy more home than you can afford and we run into rough market conditions which put your income at risk. If you can't cover until things improve then you end up like the many people in 2008/2009 that lost their homes due to being over leveraged (mortgages are leverage, after all). This isn't unique to homes, however. Margin has its risks.

Here's how I see it, and I realize I'm fortunate: If interest rates begin to rise considerably over the next decade, reversing the trend of the last 40 years (!!!) then I'd consider pulling a portion of cash from certain investments to buy a home with cash after selling my current home for whatever p&l I get - if I want a new home. Or I'd just continue to live in my home and not worry about it. After all, I view my home first as a place for my family to live comfortably and then secondly as something I could make a return on one day maybe. But that isn't my primary concern.

If anything, I'd probably stay in my current home and then buy a second home (a vacation home, rental, etc) with cash.
In nearly all of the US, it is only legal to build a city in ways that require a car for daily life. For example, it is illegal for a small grocery store to exist within a mile of my house. It is also illegal to build housing close to where jobs have been located. The design of cities has been centrally planned to manufacture car dependence, and exclude the possibility of biking or walking. It also eliminates the possibility of shared transit from private companies from being profitable. A century ago, light rail companies built entire little suburbs that allowed people to get to jobs without cars. That's not possible anymore because of legal structures that ban planning that is compatible with that lifestyle.

There is huge unmet demand for this, which is why cities are so much more expensive than far-based lifestyles these days.
It's too hard to say I think. Big players will definitely benefit a lot, so it probably isn't a bad idea, but if you could find the right startups or funds, you might be able to get significantly more of a return.
Cliffs tend to move a bit, falling slowly over time. There may be more stable cliffs to use, but the ones near where I grew up on the coast have a fairly steady fall rate (a new cm/year).
This looks like a money-making scheme from big telecom companies to me. They have to compete with faster, cheaper, more reliable hardwired connections, and can only benefit from hobbling WiFi.

WiFi 6E is necessary and potentially revolutionary for indoor spaces. If you’ve ever lived in a large apartment building, then you have probably seen the huge number of neighbor WiFi routers with varying signal strengths interfering with your WiFi connection. I’ve found WiFi to be completely unusable for gaming for that exact reason, and have to use a MoCA adapter instead.

WiFi 6 helps, but most devices on 5Ghz are still not on WiFi 6, and won’t be for a long time. Any non-WiFi 6 device on the same channel will interfere with the more advanced devices.

WiFi 6E not only introduces a new 6Ghz band where every device is using WiFi 6, but it also has significantly more channels, allowing for more routers in a limited area without interference.

On top of that, it has higher speed and lower latency than even WiFi 6 on 5Ghz. I’ve seen some claims that it might be used for wireless VR headsets, though that remains to be seen.

This is a technology apartment dwellers don’t even know they’ve been dreaming of, and it should not be delayed.
Which comes right back around to the idea of who you're writing code for. I suspect much, possibly most, of the time it's not purely for yourself, but for your team, or other Co tributes to the project, or thr person that has your job a few years from now, or even you a few years from now.

Just because you have the entire system in your head right now, will you when you revisit it a year later to add a feature or fix a big? How much time will it take to internalize completely? Tests allow you to know less about the system overall and still make assured changes to smaller portions of it because prior you (or someone else) has spent the extra time to make sure any mistakes are caught early and easily.

The go-to counter to this is that you should really know what you're doing and understand the system you're working in, but that's often not only infeasible, but impossible for one person (how well do you know all the libraries you're using?). There are plenty of codebase out there where I think no one person can internalize it all and understand it well enough to always make food choices, and since you'll have to choose what you want to remember, a helpful tool to make sure you don't violate some important facets of how it works is useful.

Now, much of this is about testing in general, but if you think about it, there's a lot similar about writing new code and coming into a large chunk of code that you need to alter but you have limited understanding of or poor recollection of. The same things that keep you from violating how it should function help your design a coherent functionality in the first place.
We ask people not to do that because it's important for readers to see the original provenance of the article, e.g. in the site name displayed to the right of the title.

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If the original article is really not available anywhere else on the web and is interesting enough for a good HN thread, posting archive.org is ok.
Not the most helpful answer in the world, but I've generally found Amazon to be cheaper than iTunes, so I don't think that this is really anything new.
I find your brown is a little too dark to go with the black text. Try f1e9d9.
Used it at the university, liked the idea of the language, but implementation was sadly lacking. Not an easy language to debug.

I haven't read that particular book, but I imagine Prolog was included because it being a declarative language fits a paradigm of its own.
There has to be more processing done than the simple 'it adds up' explanation because of a number of problems.

1. The TCP checksum is a 16-bit checksum so you can't simply permute the characters in Connection and always expect to get the same answer.

2. The position at which Connection starts may not be on a 16 bit boundary and thus the permutation would have to take into account this positioning.

3. The header could be split across packets making this much harder.

In the example given nnCoection makes sense because the 16-bit words nn and Co have been swapped which will not alter the checksum as long as Connection was starting on a 16-bit boundary.
- I Heart Huckabees
- You, Me And Everyone We Know
- Juno
- The Straight Story
- My Neighbour Totoro

Are all straight forward feel good movies.

- Caché
- The Lives Of Others
- The White Ribbon
- The Fountain
- Amores Perros
- City Of God
- Fargo
- Dune
- Castle In The Sky
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Festen

Make you feel good simply by the presence of their across the board brilliance.
That's the vagaries of capitalism. Can't have your cake and eat it.

Once you believe in Capitalism, there will always be systemically important companies - whether it is Google, Amazon, etc. or Banks - that should something go wrong with them will require a bailout of some nature.
Agree w/ wvenable. That's my point.
If you exclude people under 18 then 45MM is a lot closer to 1%.
What's scary is the level of your indoctrination. North Korea has been surviving decades in almost complete world isolation, because it opposes capitalism. It's not mordor, it's a society with a structure that is not compatible with western capitalism. Everything you think you know about has been filtered to hide any positive aspects of such a society and to exacerbate the negatives. This was done to Vietname, to China, USSR. This was done to Obama during the healthcare "debate".

North Korea has withstood decades of economic isolation, and yet it lives and its people live much better than citizens of Somalia and other great capitalist nations, not that anyone would let you know. You're not freeing North Korea by isolating it and starving it, you are killing it, and the people. You say it doesn't tame much to control many, but this applies to the West as much as it does anywhere. You have a set of values, and you are in harmony with enough people, you can work for them, with them. The same applies in North Korea, and USSR (where I'm from). The country is a single company, the CEO might be eccentric, but people do have jobs, work hard, have education, healthcare and believe in communism. What they don't have is Hollywood, McDonnalds and Fox News. And this is why you want to "free them". They have nuclear weapons not because they are evil, but because they know what US does to countries people like you believe need to be freed.
Nice setup. I've used vnc before, not x11vnc so I'm not sure if it's similar. But vnc seemed to require a lot of bandwidth to run. But it's definitely nice.
Hey tejay!

My name is Matt Pierce and I work for Hired here in SF. (Check out hired.com) I am leading our efforts in building out our Contract Category. I would love to chat with you if you are available over the next couple of weeks? I specifically have questions about the value based pricing vs. hourly, etc. I know the guys over at gun.io and we actually just chatted about the same topic. Would love to get your perspective. Let me know if/when you are free?

Cheers,
that's why i feel there is a ceiling for just web developers. what about dba admin? systems architecture aws specialty? Obviously ML works but you need phd in math for that.
That really doesn't address what I said.

"People themselves are one of the least reliable sources you can use to determine what it is they actually want."

I'm not sure the idea that people are bad at predicting what they want makes a lot of sense if there's nothing to show that they're bad at it.
Most suffering is unnecessary, that is true; there is, nonetheless, a level of suffering that drives me to improve myself to avoid it - and I suspect this may be universal.

All things in moderation.

Young children, for instance, can suffer terrible emotional distress when they do not get their way. One can be compassionate for that suffering while recognising they must go through it to learn and grow.

If suffering is the gap between our expectations and reality, necessary suffering is the amount required to calibrate our expectations sufficiently accurately.
I found it quite useful to try and socialise a bit on zoom. We had a weekly movie night where we would both watch a film with some other friends - shitty action films or crap 90s films where everyone could just talk a bit of shit and have a laugh. But I would also have a weekly zoom with some old friends where we’d sink a few beers and catch up, which sort of more or less replicated the effect of actually getting out of the house and spending time with other people by myself, which (as backwards as it might sound) I find to be a pretty important part of being in a couple. Absence makes the heart etc etc.
There is many STM32 cpus, which ones are designed for use in life support applications?
And yet, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, are valued in US Dollars or other established currencies…

This is no different than a dollar being priced in gold terms or the pound sterling being priced in terms of silver when paper money was relatively new.

A dollars were originally redeemable for $20.67 [1] and then later $35 per ounce of gold [2]. This ended when we got got off the gold standard in the 70's.

As bitcoin becomes the dominant non-sovereign store of value, we’ll slowly start to reprice things in terms of satoshis (sats), the smallest denomination of bitcoin [3].

Sats are already the standard on Cash App and other apps and services that exchange fiat for BTC. It's just a matter of time before all fiat is priced in terms of sats.

[1] http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/1900mar14....

[2] https://livingnewdeal.org/glossary/gold-reserve-act-1934/

[3] https://medium.com/in-bitcoin-we-trust/talking-in-sat-rather...
It is misleading to suggest that an implementation of TCO follows directly from the instruction set architecture: it depends even more on what calling convention is followed [1]. gcc supports several calling conventions for x86 [2].

In the Scheme world, often a hybrid stack-heap calling convention called Cheney on the MTA is used in which all calls are tail calls [3].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_convention

[2]: http://redstack.net/blog/x86-calling-conventions.html

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12776198
Your last point rings true.

What’s the solution here? Prevent companies from using engagement as a metric? Do you want to be recommended random 13-views videos on YouTube? Because that’s what you get.

I don’t know if I’d like to lose good recommendation algorithms because of bad apples. However I don’t like bad apples either, they rot the whole batch.
How does one of these things identify civilians or hold a place like Baghdad? Armies occupy. Those weapons destroy infrastructure and people and not much else.

Or do you use them like drones paying soldiers to run them from a container in Kansas. In which case you have the soldier still.
I absolutely agree that leadership at Boeing was responsible for the deaths but the fact that we can’t get it right for (comparatively) petty crimes means we are unable to get out right for the big ones. I’m of course referring to the sheriff in California who has not been charged for corruption and has not been forced to resign:

Previously on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193699

They didn't even touch the Sheriff.

> Sheriff Laurie Smith, who has the authority to issue CCW permits, has not been charged with a crime.

Either i. the sheriff knew about/was in on this scheme and must be put in prison or ii. the sheriff didn't know about how her number two was soliciting bribes using her authority to grant/deny licenses and must resign because that is just gross negligence.

Which one is it?
That work gets money to those developing countries that otherwise wouldn't be there. A person in that country does not have the tools to get the work that the person in the first world country can. They don't even have the tools to maintain that working relationship once set up. The person orchestrating the outsourcing is transferring money from a rich country to a poor country and is essential in doing so. You can say that they should send virtually all of the money they get to that country but it's hard to argue that they're doing something unjust.
never used it, so no switch. But if, then matrix over signal.
He didn't say replace. Do you only have one machine?
Now what I want to see is a real clinical study of quitting (or reducing) addictive phone use with this thing. Because fake cigarette can actually work for some people quitting smoking, why this one wouldn't? The same technique might work for video games or social networks too.
non-leisure city biking is hard. the hardest things for me to learn was

* if you are getting into a tight spot then own the lane. it is better for a car to see you and hit you then for it to not see you and hit you.

* always have high intensity blinking lights ... (in some places it's illegal to ride at night without lights)

more safety tips: https://bicyclesafe.com/
I don't know how this affects bikes, but temperature does matter for cars in snow. In places that get below freezing for long periods, the ground freezes, and snow that lands on the ground stays snow. You end up with a snow layer on top of the ground.

In places where it gets cold enough to snow, but doesn't stay cold enough long enough for the ground to freeze, the snow near the ground can melt and then freeze as more snow lands on top, leaving you with an ice sheet between the snow layer and the ground. That can be much more treacherous to drive on, and I'd guess to cycle on.
We're a hair's breadth away from using genetic engineering to make the mosquito extinct.

We have the technology (gene drive) but scientists just aren't sure if we should do it.
You might not be aware, but it is possible to change the color of your top-bar in your profile once you have more than 250 karma.
It sounds like an engineer could do this on the side.

What sort of independent consultant? Software? Architecture?

And where do you find gigs? Cold emailing? Network?
What exactly is it you think makes a union “required”? I’ve not worked for a single union company in my tech career and everything appeared to be better at every company than pretty much any other industry that I know of.
I don't think you are understanding the issue:

1. Kid can't login to google play games and can't play some games and can't save progress in other games.

2. Kid gets parent to change their age or kid registers an adult google account outside of family controls.

3. Kid can now play games and save progress, etc. In all cases, parents lose controls and kid can spend money with impunity on family account (if you change their age).
There is no such attraction, same asyour question doesn't make sense. The Delta v has to do with the net force, what's actually happening, but this "attraction" is described as "what if you took away one of the forces impacting this"

For a curvature based model, the delta v being 0 means that the gradients around each body are equal to each other, but that doesn't say anything about what's causing those gradients.

To find this "attraction", you have to calculate the curvature while leaving some sources out
> I can give you examples of rich countries that have lots of unions.

Just curious, who would that be? I am guessing some Scandinavian countries, maybe?
"An additional note, trademark lawyers are often obligated to try and sue people over trademarks, even if they'd rather not, because if they don't zealously defend their trademark, it's considered 'weakened' and that can then become evidence against them in some future case when a different party infringes."

This is mostly false as a concept, and false as written.
It's pretty much a fiction trademark lawyers use to try to convince people they really like them, but they have to be suing them now.

There is no special "if you don't sue people, you lose" defense for trademarks, on that front it's the same laches defense as anything else.

About the only thing you risk is loss of distinctiveness, and only then if you are not otherwise doing things to try to maintain brand distinctiveness.

In fact, there is a specific "doctrine of progressive encroachment" that allows you to let people minimally invade, and only sue for infringement when there use expands past something small and minimal.

Even in cases where all of this fails, nobody has "lost a mark" except to genericness (which is unpreventable, in reality). The last case i'm aware of to confront this issue, the defendant was still barred from using the mark in the future, the plaintiff just got no money damages.

boo hoo.
Do companies using Git tend to use it over SSH like personal github/Bitbucket works? If so, that's presumably a lot of noise in this genius detection scheme.
Argh, I want an invite! =)

Any tricks for getting one?
Actually, I'd say it's more snarky than "I disagree with you", it's "you haven't thought this through or you would disagree with you".

If you like analogies, consider the difference between using an old, creaky, but battle-tested codebase that handles mission-critical tasks, and saying "we should just throw it all away, build a quick and dirty open source replacement, and let people fork the heck out of it". Old crufty code contains lots of horrible crap, but a lot of it is there because it's necessary. Replacing the financial system with some kind of anarchy -- meritocratic or not -- is going to have the same effect, and we can't afford for something as critical to everyone's wellbeing as the financial system turn into an unstable Darwinian mess.

In any event, I was going to write an essay, but a one-liner was funnier.