skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So buy TIPS? But the elephant in the room is that inflation isn't the same for everyone. It's calculated based on a basic basket of goods, but if you're high income, it may not replicate your spending habits. Private school isn't factored into the CPI.
That's a fair question. If the website was accessible, we might be able to learn the answer:) From the perspective of HN, the usefulness of the linked content is far less important than a person's ability to participate in the discussion. The product might not be useful for a blind user, but there is no reason for the content that explains it to be inaccessible.
Snowflakes downvoting f-bombs. Pathetic.
Wow! Growth is really really good!
No, because you are still bubbling these 17 stack frames, as OP was (rightfully) complaining about.

The only downside of exceptions is the loss of equational reasoning, really.

But for everything else, they are a superior approach to result values.
Addendum: I say you're "locked into" a bond here because most people don't consider the possibility of selling bonds (i.e. they plan to hold to maturity). However, you can sell most bonds (not directly back to the issuer but to other people). This may make the similarity between funds and ladders clearer. In the scenario 1 example, if you were to sell your bond, it would also be worth ~$99 (using the same argument as in scenario 2). In other words, the fact that you don't think of this as a loss if you don't sell the bond doesn't change the fact that the bond lost value (the comment by ThrustVectoring further down this chain says this well). If you assume the market pricing of interest rates is fair and that the market is perfectly efficient (i.e. no transaction fees, management fees, etc.), then the expected value of holding, rolling, or investing in a bond holding fund is all the same.
Wow, wildduck looks super interesting. I would try it right now if it didn't require mongodb
What's your monetization strategy? (Really nice pitch deck btw)
This is just the same "cartridge with EEPROM" technique that's been prevalent in consumer printers for literally decades, so it's not surprising it was applied to a totally different product.

It's an ongoing cat-and-mouse(!) game. It used to be a simple counter like this, but now the printer manufacturers are starting to use (mild) crypto.
And in some systems, horror stories are way more common than others.

The simple fact is that I don't know anybody from my European family or friends who would willingly switch their system to the US one. And as a very well insured employee in the US, if, hypothetically, I had the option to use my European health care in the US, I'd switch immediately a well.
… and Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing
I'll add, Craig Wright is essentially claiming to be "part of a team" that invented Base58 encoding (without even realizing that is what he did) and is now trying to wiggle back out of what he said.
Configuration can be find in the DIT, Active Directory does it quite well. But you're right, even say with Active Directory, certain key knobs are outside of the DIT. The problem I had with OpenLDAP was that if you fucked up, and it wouldn't start, how are you supposed to be able to fix it if the config requires the service to be running. It wasn't very well thought through...
Doesn't this mean VGS becomes the single point of failure and a larger target for malicious actors?
It absolutely is relevant. Imagine being born into a body of your opposite sex and having to deal with a society that isn't advanced enough to realize the binary genders arose out of industrial revolution for productivity efficiency to benefit the few. It still is this way but we don't have factory with prison like buildings to work in but we are all still feudal subjects.

I'd like to also point out that there is a very real cabal of HN nicks that is actively doing drive by downvotes on specific topics centring around LGBTQ+, immigration and ICOs.

I started seeing this back in 2014 and it correlated with the rise of r/the_donald. There are even amino groups that specifically coordinates such attacks. For instance, the Damore threads were really interesting. Within the first few hours of posting there were a lot of comments seemed off for HN userbase, defending trump and Damore's manifesto. Counter comments were flagged and downvoted.

We know reddit is under the influence of shills and HN is not exempt.
H(ssn) just kicks the problem downstream.

- If H is a simple cryptographic hash function, it's not resistant
to brute-force attacks to recover the SSN
- It's not revokable

What we need is something more akin to a Credit Card number. Something like an abstraction layer. It might even be implementable as a UUID.

If you need to revoke it, you can do so since it's not cryptographically tied to anything.

Failing that, a base32-encoded random string (without = padding) with an optional checksum would do the trick.
Facebook used to have a RSS feed, but was shutdown: it's not interesting to Facebook that users spent less time on their plataform. AFAIK RSS feed are currently only supported by https://fetchrss.com/, but it's paid or ad-based.
That's a fair point! I tried installing the pre-packaged conda Tensorflow package, but it was expecting CUDA 9.0 and CuDNN 7.0. The ones I had finally managed to install were 9.2 and 7.2... hence compiling it from source.

I should add that as an addendum to the article, though, great catch!
Supremacy of North America in Organic Feed Market Will Persist
Excuse my ignorance, but does the term "idpol" have a more specific meaning than as an abbreviation of "identity politics"? If the article describes it, it's after the paywall, and a quick Google doesn't quite clear it up. The reason I ask is that it sounds like you're using it to describe a liberal movement I haven't heard of, but I could change the identifying nouns in your post and it would describe the sum of my anecdotal experience instead - the salient difference being not that I feel the opposite way that you do, but that I have always assumed that this experience of mine is not representative of broader reality, and that the problem is (at least similarly) pervasive on all sides of political divides.
> configuration becomes as complex as LaTeX itself.

I've been a happy user of LyX for about a decade and I have to agree whole-heartedly with you here. Creating a new document in LyX invariably starts with me copying a previous .lyx file and deleting all the content because the preambles and associated settings are very large.

I suppose I should just make a template, but copying and pasting a file is easier, and I like the analogy with a mother dough...
Who said they were gathering less data? Do you understand how an email mailbox works? Those emails are still there, just like they are with any other email service.
If you make money off them but save them more money than you costs, it is still towards their benefit. The only problem occurs when you start working with the hospital to create even more arcane bills that you get into immoral territory.
It’s pretty straightforward math! I did an M:N implementation in Elixir via on shamir’s key sharing [1]. As you say, there’s no real standard for how to pack the hash bytes for even basic Shamir’s and so I followed Hashicorp Vault’s impl and tested it to their test data. Multiplexing an entire file over this wouldn’t be too hard, but the index/hash table would be need a good protocol. Wasn’t there some cloud storage systems tried using M:N at one time..

Plus the recombination computation can get expensive over lots of data.

1: https://github.com/elcritch/keyx
Like in Education the glut of "Administrators" is certainly not helping.
Yeah this tokenization stuff is already used all over the place, (for example, Stripe does it for you with credit cards, giving you automatic PCI compliance).

I think the innovation here is that instead of being part of carrying out the rest of their business, tokenizing and keeping the real info safe is the whole product here. That seems smart to me.

The dumb part, of course, is that we have these bearer tokens (SSN and CC numbers) in the first place, without constantly rotating them. There's some amount of rotation with CC numbers when the company detects fraud and sends you a new card. But for SSN, it's unconscionable that they're both the username and password.
The application looks amazing.

The music on the demo video makes me anxious, however.
Makes sense, you typically need to raise temperature more in the winter than you need to lower it in the summer.

And you need heating non-stop in winter, while in the summer half of the day is enough many times.

Also, most people have heating, but only some AC.
Ideally, this is solved by a different health insurance company offering lower premiums, same as vehicle insurance. Obviously, there are some nuances in the health insurance market that make this difficult, but other than taxpayer funded healthcare, no one has come up with a better option.
Informings: Discover Your News/Art Project in Russian Espionage.?
No.

I mean, maybe high-level aggregate data like "X% of users got emails about shopping" might still be in some spreadsheet somewhere, or in people's brains. But no, I can't think of a way any personalized data would still be around.
I'm not going to say the M-word, someone will *maybe* say it in ... *either* case.

Just wanted to say I see what you did there. Nothing insightful to add.
If stdout is unavailable, should that really be fatal? Perhaps it should be considered an unusual equivalent to piping to /dev/null.
The whole warped part of this is that the consumer has no way to anticipate cost in advance, and often the individual providers (doctors, nurses, etc.) don't either. Shouldn't the burden be on the insurance company to investigate and discourage excessive billing? Or are they too strict as it is, leading providers to play games with billing?
Holy, I forgot about that one! You're totally right and I'm surprised it's not one of the main arguments for this push for HTTPS.
Is it just AR? Or is it something different? All the hype for so many years showed console level graphics in the ads but the real videos show low quality android level graphics.
Hard pass. I hate having any kind of seam underneath my working surface. This product is made entirely of seams.
> It has unarguably changed the world.

How so? I see nothing in my day-to-day life that's different because of Bitcoin.
But the GP’s argument was that AC is good because it made populating places like Texas possible. But was it worth it to populate those places in retrospect if it depended on a technology with known negative externalities?

Similarly, the personal automobile made urban sprawl possible. But is sprawl and ensuing car-dependency a good thing all things considered? Many would say no.
> it's obviously hard to compare them to LyX.

Org-mode is certainly not directly comparable. But the output you get from Org-mode is comparable. Org-mode has excellent support for seamless export to LaTeX and LaTeX-generated-PDF, and many use it for writing, e.g., academic papers. Output is as beautiful as any other LaTeX tool, depends on the styling you build in. Here, e.g., is someone who modified LaTeX output to have an "Edward Tufte" look, once you incorporate the mods n your Emacs init file, conversion to this output happens automatically from the plain text Org file export:
https://damitr.org/2014/01/09/latex-tufte-class-in-org-mode/
I have a life-time commercial license with digital blasphemy. Other in-game art work is commissioned and well paid for.
How does that make it untrue? Health insurance companies are supposed to compete with each other based on their premium prices, and the insurance companies with lower premiums (and hence lower costs) will win more customers.
There's always a bigger fish. So likely the moment I move I am unhappy again.

But I see your point.
As "vetinari", you need it for the console.
Lolwat the entire purpose of Arbitration is to give a massive advantage to corporations.
Generics are just syntax sugar around `interface{}` [1] well hopefully the runtime JIT optimizes things for me.

I'm rather impressed that when `go` actually implements something I wanted they still manage to implement it in a way that is hacky and has massive trade-off's while literally avoiding doing the bare minimum to improve the compiler. Its disappointing.

[1] https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf... go to efficiency
fluoroquinolones are nasty stuff... should be reserved for extreme cases, like anthrax poisoning, etc... where the benefits outweigh the cons.
CNCF to Host TiKV in the Sandbox
If I were paying for Netflix (it’s free from T-mobile), I would be paying roughly $55 for all of the streaming services we have DirecTVNow, Hulu, and Netflix. On the surface that’s the same price as bundled cable. But with cable I would also be paying for multiple cable boxes each month, network access fees, regulatory fees (not state mandated taxes), etc. by itself that would be an additional $50.
> LyX is also quite slow on very large documents like dissertations.

Have you tried it again in the last year or two? I've found that scrolling, for example, has become a lot faster since I first started using it.
> I want to go one further: WHY does a regular user need to buy a human-readable domain name, maintain it, and pay for a hosting company to host on that domain?

Because there's no interest in that. Getting a domain name is already cheap and easy.

> Storing chunks of encrypted data using Kademlia DHT or similar [...]

I've yet to see any P2P system have low latency, high speed and high reliability.

> All underlying URLs would be non-human-readable and clients would display (possibly outdated) metadata like an icon and title (this metadata may change on the Web anyway). Storing and sharing could occur using QR codes, NFC bluetooth, Javascript variables, or anything else. For static files, the links could be content-addressable.

Why?

> The only “downside” is the inability to type in a URL.

Good luck saying to your friend the nice webstore you got your hoodie from is [insert non-readable non-pronounceable url].

> and third party private ownership/stewardship of user-submitted content would be far less of a foregone conclusion

This is unacceptable for law enforcement

> If you are intrigued by this architecture, and want to learn more or possibly get involved, contact greg+qbix followed by @ qbix.com - we are BUILDING IT!

Oh this is an ad...
The way modern heat pumps work, I can't answer your question yet. What's the outside temperature? Let's say that taking your room from 15C to 20C takes 1.0 energy unit. If it's 15C outside, then I can use a heat pump to gain a bunch of efficiency, say only using 0.2 units of electricity to heat up the inside by one unit. If it's 25C outside, I can do the same in reverse, but I do have to also cool the A/C. We'll say taking the room from 25C to 20C when it's 25C outside takes 0.25 units.

The problem happens when there is a big difference in outside temperature. All of the gains of heat pumps disappear. So cooling from 25C inside to 20C inside when it's 30C outside might take 0.5 units of energy, which is a pretty common case. Heaters generally have to deal with much bigger swings, though. It's not uncommon to heat from 15C inside to 20C inside while the outside is at -10C, which takes (asymptotically approaching) 1.0 energy unit.

So the inefficiency of the A/C producing heat does matter, but not as much as the difference between the desired temperature and the outside temperature. The rate of heat transfer of the house also depends on the difference in temperature. Keeping a house 10C cooler than ambient takes less energy than keeping a house 20C hotter than ambient.

Considering that temperatures on Earth vary from about -90C to 50C, and humans like to keep indoor temps around 20C, cooling is generally more efficient than heating.
I reckon an equal area projection for a full hemisphere would lead to some unacceptable degree of distortion. It's hard to say exactly but it shouldn't be too difficult to see that a cube is closer to a sphere than two squares stuck together.

Edit: it may also be easier to figure out which squares are adjacent when using a grid based on a cube.
Yes India do need many more such companies that help in better governance. It is not easy to manage a diverse country of 1.2 billion people. Yet are discussing non-trivial things like names.
Yep, this happened to my wife - she needed a fairly intensive and costly surgery and was told she was in-network and covered. It turned out the person on the phone was wrong and she ended up having to cash out her entire 401k to pay the 20k+ bill. We learned a lesson about the US healthcare system with that one...
Also the cover photo I think is taken in Singapore on the service road behind Boat Quay about here https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@1.2868298,103.8492369,3a,75y,...

(though I couldn't get it exactly right on streetview)
after you login with facebook, there's currently an in-game sign in, so you don't have to login with facebook after that first time.
> Edit: I've also noticed on HN that sometimes I will get downvoted really hard for no clear reason and then two weeks later HN will magically transform my downvotes into upvotes. Not really sure why that happens, maybe a wave of bot banning?

Yup, I've seen this more recently but now the cycle is faster. My comments regularly get downvotes but then later in the evening they turned into upvotes.

Also back in Dec 2017, there was a huge wave of people shilling on reddit for ICOs and subreddits would regularly post what "HN users think" and "how to correct them".
Yes, look up the Coefficient of Performance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Performance_consider...

A typical AC can take 1 kW of input power and remove ~3kW of heat energy from the room. The outdoor part of this system is heated by 4 kW, because you put the high-power stuff outside, where it's unimportant to performance. You can't thermondynamically make an AC work if it's purely in the room.

With resistive electric heating, you put in 1 kW of heat and the room temperature increases by 1 kW of heat energy.

With a heat pump in heating mode, you can put the inefficiency to use, using a 1 kW input to extract 3 kW of energy from, say, the ground, and putting 4 kW of energy into the room.

Two main problems with the argument: Cooling, as you say, is typically 30->25. Heating is often 0-25, requiring 5 times more energy (though we should be doing this in Kelvin...) Second, heating is super easy to do thermodynamically by just burning dirt-cheap natural gas. For a Michigan anecdote, I paid about $150/mo to keep my house cool in July, and it's typically $100 to keep my house warm in January.
Where exactly would you draw the line? Should farmers live alone in bunkhouses like loggers do? Farming and farmers are tied to land for years, decades. They need innumerable support services, from pilots and engineers to kindergartens and dentists for their kids. I'm hard pressed to point to any job in Iowa that doesn't in some degree support farmers and farming.

Then add all those involved in resource extraction, mining/oil. Their jobs are location dependent too. They also need services.

I type this while at work (military) with two doors open to outside. There is a pleasant breeze passing through the office. This weather holds for more than half the year. But if one more person moves here, driving up my rent again, I'll start running the AC just to speed up climate change.
Sweden’s FemTech Bootcamp names 10 female-led startups to First cohort
What is the monetisation scheme of Gmail now? Just a free enticement to buy the G-suite?
Take a look at microg. I use it, it supports FCM. Ok so I'm still using Google to some extent, but the amount of information they get out me is vastly reduced and similar to Apple.
I think our misunderstanding comes from different meanings of the word efficient (or applying it in different contexts). I think the more accurate word you're looking for economical. Heat pumps for heating may be 5x more economical (use less energy overall, but they aren't as efficient with it), but resistance heating is 100% efficient (if we look at the efficiency after the electricity has left the socket, all that energy turns into heat inside your house; 100% efficient.)

And while heat pumps are transferring energy, there is loss due to inefficiencies. If you're trying to transfer heat from inside to outside, especially when outside is hotter than inside (like in almost every AC scenario), you need to spend energy to compress a refrigerant, cool it, move it inside (meanwhile it's gaining heat during the entire transfer process) and then use it. Also, components like the compressor and radiator fan aren't 100% efficient, and will be giving off heat.
Honestly, that's fair. In my experience Google does a lot toward being trustworthy since it's in their long-term best interest. But at the end of the day I'm just some random guy on HN comments, so you're right to be skeptical.
A friend suggested to me when I was approaching an age a multiple of ten that it's good to check achievements, but not to hold yourself to any particular moment that they should have been completed by, that ages are milestones, not truly deadlines.

From the article's conclusion:
"I went back and recommitted to my “to do list,” but with one major edit: I deleted “by 40” and added “inshallah” (Arabic for God willing.)"
It's not a bother if the amount is that small. I currently make ~180k including stocks. Then I hear AirBnB guy that gets ~230k including stocks, or an Uber employee getting ~280k including stocks.

This annoys me beyond reason. I can't keep job hopping around!
This isn't to challenge Russia or China, that war will be fought at least initially from behind a computer screen and if they do their job right the other side will take some huge blows where it hurts before the first bullet is fired - civilian life: utilities companies, internet infrastructure, communications & satellites, etc. A soldier is trained to have a harder life. How about your average Joes?

This is aimed squarely at selling to allies and at projecting power in some random corner of the world that couldn't respond in kind even if they wanted to.

All the fancy tech all sides are parading is mostly for propaganda reasons. How useful is a drone that relies on GPS signals that to this day are easily spoofed or jammed? How useful is an ultra-expensive stealth fighter that's not invisible to enemy radar?

A war between peer-countries is not good for the wallet. Unlike small wars against enemies that are more likely to fling rocks at you [0]. Then you get the chance to equip your (also rock flinging) local allies with your tech, assist them in fighting, etc. For a price of course.

[0] relative power compared to big game military.
Now I see why the author had so much trouble.
> Medical debt is the least concerning type of debt for most lenders.

Just another data point, a large property management company I used to work for specifically exempted bankruptcies due to medical debt when calculating applicant credit scores.
You don't have to speculate. Since nVidia is a public company their 10-K tells you everything [1].

"GPU business revenue was $2.77 billion...OEM sales included $289 million related to GPUs for cryptocurrency mining."

289/2777 = 10.4%

[1] https://s22.q4cdn.com/364334381/files/doc_financials/quarter...
Was this for your own house? Or for someone elses? If the latter, how did you get into that business?
In the case of geothermal heat pumps they work well regardless of outside temperature and are even more efficient at both heating and cooling.

The nice thing about cooling, its greatest demand typically coincides with the best time to collect solar energy. Solar is perfect for offsetting the a/c, they are a great combo in sunny warm climates.
What "Yahoo servers" are you referring to? As far as I'm aware, Yahoo never provided cloud compute services -- the only Yahoo game hosting I'm aware of was for their own in-browser games.