skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They printed money starting in 1930? Yup, the dam. But they didn't print enough.

And Bernanke didn't print enough fast enough -- we were in the Great Depression for about 12 years and nearly that long in the Great Recession. Bummer.

You are correct about the threat of inflation. But we know how to stop inflation: Reduce the money supply, e.g., by raising interest rates. Then the member banks will return their loans from the Fed.

So MMT stands for <i>modern monetary theory</i>? Uh, I tend to avoid any theories from economists and stay with simple observations.
>-1Gbit/s data rate

>-1ms latency

So better than current top of the line 1Gbit stationary fiber? 20 people maxing single base station, and dont forget the xx GB/month data cap. What you describe is maybe 7-8G.

But just for fun: phones will become thin clients if/when we eventually reach ~100Mbit _unmetered standard data plans_ as a baseline. The idea of phone OS might vanish, handsets will be treated as fancy skins for your cloud data instance. Commodity hardware, no more $1K smartphones.
Love me some Bassnectar too.. a Subpac might help you out with that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Before or after automation?
It's 92% contrast, and passes Web Content Accessibility Guidelines at the highest AAA standard for contrast. What more do you want?

https://contrast-ratio.com/#black-on-rgb%28246%2C%20246%2C%2...
There's a bus station across from my studio / coworking space. I can see people waiting for the bus and doing either: 1) staring into the void 2) looking at their watches 3) desperately glancing in the direction where the bus is coming from.

I figured that it'd be nice to let people know when the bus is supposed to be there. So, I installed a 28" display on a monitor stand, installed the stand on my window frame, turned the monitor to face the bus station, and show the up-to-date arrival time in a very big font (the buses have GPS; the Pi gets the real time info from the local transit authority).

This is in Montreal. Some info here [0]. And a little video [1].

[0] https://greg.technology/#bus
[1] https://youtu.be/pc16oPb5zW0
Hah - I just yesterday spent an hour disassembling my Pasquini Livietta to figure out what was wrong with it. Replaced the group head seal and now the thing seems to be happy again. The thing is surprisingly trusty as long as you take care of it, and I had a thought that I bet I could keep it running until I can pass it down to my kids.
Many towns have found that heated sidewalks actually save money vs snow removal (when lawsuits from slips and falls are included). The main problem with it is public perception its a wasteful luxury item instead of the money saver it is.

> Holland also calls its heating system a money-saver, saying it has reduced slips and falls, requires no snow removal, salt or sand, and has extended pavement life.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/01/30/a-new-canadian-city-f...
“How to change your mind” has a chapter on how psychedelics work in the mind. They appear to inhibit the brains Default Mode Network. The DMN is the part of the brain most active when people are not otherwise engaged or doing a task. I’ve taken this to mean it loosens the rigidity of people’s default mental state. This maybe how addicts are able to quit addictions after a session with a psychedelic-their DMN loosens up enough to let go of the connections reinforcing the addiction. So, I’m not sure how that would affect the DMN at a low dose over a log period of time. Maybe it’d help people avoid logical traps, such as addictive behaviors?
Hands on with Apple's first public beta of macOS 10.15 Catalina
I wouldn't underestimate your English skills. What you've written here is perfectly serviceable.
for me, it is actually a big eye strain trying to read this font.
I use one to receive GPS signals. Whenever I'm <500 meters from home, it turns on my air conditioner and starts making coffee.

Not fully automated since I still have to put the capsule in the morning, but works great.
Yeah, I've thought that the reputation on psychedelics regarding enlightenment and such things is a bit overblown by culture and different promoters. I'm skeptical that anything of that nature would reveal itself if you didn't have prior expectations of it.

That's not to say the experience isn't worth having though. At the very least, it shows how fickle our brains and our perception of the world around us is. Also, I've never laughed so hard in my life, so that's good.
I have multiple but the one I use the most has Kodi installed. It's connected to a projector and I basically use it as a media center streaming files from one of my desktops over the local network.

Another one is used more like a custom IoT hub/gateway for various BLE (and even some LoRa devices).
For me, it's a way to bridge two interesting topics: electrical engineering & software development. I was lucky enough to spend 4 years at National Instruments building Multisim desktop and then a web version (multisim.com).

A lot of cad and simulation tools are as complex as video games. But the development cycle doesn't have the work-life balance issues that game dev does.
I don't doubt the experience, but the fact strikes me as impossible.

Everything you "see" around you, that your eyes are not pointed directly at, right at this moment, is 100% visualized, in full perspective and living color.

So, unless you have extreme tunnel vision (which does exist, but they can't drive, or read at any speed), you have excellent visualization capacity.

I am forced to conclude that you have, instead, very strong suppression of non-sensory-driven visualization.
Ask HN: What is the difference between README and API docs?
What should be in a README and what should be in the API doc? When was the last time you read/write a README? what about API docs?
"Too much money".

My Silvia paid for itself vs. $5 coffee shop lattes in under a year.
Agreed. Similarly, the whole internet of shit phenomenon looks a lot like environmental pollution to me: People cutting corners and shirking responsibilities to increase profit leading to an internet environment infested by botnets and worms...
>"Either Cloudflare has some pre-existing beef with Verizon and is using this as an opportune moment to dump on them"

Indeed. And that's not going to help them or their customer's in the least the next time they need Verizon's cooperation to resolve an issue. You would never see this type of behavior on the NANOG mailing list which has been on the front line of communications between ISPs and providers for BGP issues since the beginning of the commercial internet. It is very much a "community" with reciprocal respect and professionalism, things this blog post was devoid of.
If you break the economy badly enough the ability to effectively police (polluters or anything else) goes down with it.
I read it as a reasonable and slightly humorous way to acknowledge that the author is a human being and may have been (justifiably?) in a bad mood writing the post because lack of sleep does that. No idea of how sensible that suggestion is or isn't in this case but didn't really think it was derogatory. A human being is not a machine. Sanity-sleep might be a better term for it but nobody uses that whereas beauty-sleep is in common, albeit ironic, usage.

Let's all take our sleep seriously, yeah? :-)
You should have the option to pay for the aggregate and get support across all the accounts, it only makes sense, really.
I agree, this doesn't seem like it really belongs on HN, it's a very generic theme with a bad font choice that was chosen based on the font being used on pixar.com?!? . Maybe if this was a theme that had something interesting based on research or some interesting theory behind it, then yeah, it would be of interest on HN.
And those 3rd party libs can dynamically load other files via script tags. The first level does not even have to change for dynamically loaded scripts to change.
Agreed, but for most of the country, $200 is an unbelievable amount of money to spend on earbuds. Even among many of my tech friends, the thought of spending more than $30 on a thing that they will inevitably lose or break is stupid.

And this is coming from a guy with ~$1000 headphone setup at work..
Fossil fuel will be phased out when economically rational. Look at what natural gas did to carbon emissions in the US [0]

Some Gov intervention may accelerate the change. But overall I’m weary of their efforts.

[0] “Natural gas, which emits about half the amount of CO2 as coal, is being used more extensively due to its lower price and is displacing coal-fired generation...” https://www.c2es.org/content/u-s-emissions/
In a sense, every aspect of the universe really is truly profound, and any small humanly observable part recapitulates the principles sufficient to derive larger scale behavior, if we have faith in science anyway. Really paying attention to anything is a valuable learning experience.

Education helps develop the language necessary to explicate such profundity. E.g. the behavior of coupling between different "forms" of energy at the same energy level suggests that it really is all vibrations, in one completely valid and predictive model of the universe.

A person describing something they lack the language to describe does sound stupid, as you might notice when someone ignorant talks about a field of your specialty. Or when a child talks about adult social interactions which they observe.

If I did not have a doctorate in chemistry, I might totally dismiss some stinky longhair ranting about coupled vibrations. But I do, so hearing this I am more likely to participate in a dialog, help anchor the metaphor in the physically observable, and maybe even learn something unexpected.

In my personal opinion, a little belief in profundity leads people take better care of their environment (including social), pay a little more attention to the world immediately around them, and find a little more existential meaning in the everyday quality of things.

Of course, people do go crazy and ignoring that isn't helpful. But the real harm is in action, not in belief. Some religious people feel compelled to do charity work. Some religious people fight wars. Some religious people stand on the sidewalk and preach in rags. The first case is objectively good, and the third case is mostly harmless.

Instead of framing profundity as an inherently problematic sense, maybe we could frame it in terms of getting trapped in local minima and of acting inappropriately. If someone believes they are Jesus Christ reborn, for example, maybe everyone else is also Jesus Christ reborn and nobody needs to make a big deal about it!
Student: bad, corporation/government: business as usual.
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Researcher behind smartphone “horns” study sells posture pillows
Bose SoundSport Wireless. Much better sound and still comfortable to wear.
That's like groundhog day.
It's critical for the internet to work. Actually, some types of emergency services rely on it.

So this level of negligence is dangerous. Shouldn't there be criminal charges? Or at least some kind of legal action.
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I'm no fan of James O'Keefe, but some of the direct quotes are much more incriminating than this response makes them out to be:

> “Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.”

She may have "used some imprecise language" but I have no doubt that many Google employees do indeed feel like they should use their company's influence to prevent "the next Trump situation."

Also, there's no way she wrote this on her own. Google's PR machine is very proactive, and the enormous collection of messages she received when she landed undoubtedly included a stern warning not to say anything more in public. She may have written part of this, but at the very least it was a team effort.
Hi, i think it super cool! I misunderstood that I need to login to download at first. you can hide 'sign in' button into create page.
They can't possibly expect you to actually pay anything like that, can they? I think for having our first kid (including well regarded obstetrician and a two week stay in the NICU) we paid a total of around $5k. Three cheers for civilized countries with real healthcare!

Not to mention the way they over-serviced you sounds downright exploitative. I wonder if the staff had been covertly told to use as many consumables as possible?
College student here with a part-time data entry job. I have automated nearly all of it using Python, Selenium, and a few nasty bash scripts called by periodic cronjobs. Recently purchased a 3b+ for the task so that I can travel without worrying about AirBnB wifi speeds. If I need anything I can just SSH or VNC into it from a coffee shop. It just sits next to my router and blinks all day doing my job for me! Best $35 I have ever spent.
> Custom-fit ear molds - where an audiologist pours goo into your ears, lets it harden, and then sends those molds off to be made into headphone attachments - are the only way to use earbuds in a safe way.

Where does one get those and how much does it cost?
The BART screeches with the worst of them (especially the trans bay tube — you basically can’t hold a conversation in it).

I heard from someone that rode it when it was new that it used to be much, much quieter.

So, I’m not sure I buy that the current level of screeching is by design, and not due to lack of maintenance.
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Isn't that directly contrary to GP's claim of "look at how ridiculously powerful our computers are and they're still so slow" though? Of course slow computers are slow.
Externalities are free market opportunities. The fact you've been 'data saturated' convinced that all things began must end in known qualities is pathetic. That's how market's are born.
I don’’t think Cloudflare is going to get any business from Verizon anytime soon.

This may be as a professional of a “Hey Verizon, you don’t know what the fsck you are doing” as I’ve seen.
This is awesome work and thank you for doing this for public without asking.

P.S. does the transit authority offer an API or is this prone to breaking when they change their page layout?

[edit: I just read about the rumor on your webpage. Clarifies.]
I read Dave Thomas' book cover-to-cover like some kind of legitimate nerd :) It was very good.

For understanding genservers there's The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook, as well.

In my case I experimented with it for at least a year before I decided to jump in, my "experiments" are here: https://github.com/pmarreck/elixir-snippets (I tend to use single-file dev for exploring simple ideas; this is not a general pattern used in the community or anything, it's just something I discovered I could get by doing)
Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms (1987) [pdf]
I use Cryptomator to protect my documents within my Dropbox.
I would read it if medium would let me. Do many people pay to read on medium.com ?
I think someone mentioned clojerl [1] already.

There are alternative methodologies and languages that are similar to BEAM and Clojure otoh. Perhaps not comparable to BEAM when it comes to concurrency. Racket + ZeroMQ for those kind of problems, immutability and concurrency, is a very interesting combo though.

Sidenote: You could run on Javascript runtimes with ClojureScript, but given your statement, I don't believe that is interesting to you :)

[1] https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl
Not all hosts give you control at the OS level.
I highly recommend PYNQ. It comes with a Jupyter interface through an ethernet port that lets you interactively program and execute. Of course, actually designing the RTL overlay is the hard part, and you'll need to get comfortable with Vivado to do it properly.

http://www.pynq.io/
Has anyone used it for any car-related mods? I share my passion between coding and cars so I'd love to push some boundaries there if anyone has tried before? Gauage display from sensor units, just a cool OS display for music, or maybe something cooler?
I lived in RTP for 9 years. Never could figure those people out. Anywhere outside the cities everyone talked like they had a mouthful of marbles. Nothing really cultured going on there, just hoi polloi.
I wonder if the AWS Route53 VPC resolvers work in that same way for internal VPC DNS resolution.
Sorry but I've never felt that Amazon is completely operating in good faith with regards to allowing users to manage their costs. The proof of that is the fact that they still don't have a page where you can see the price of an ec2 instance alongside its stats. I've been wanting to see that for ten years and they still haven't added it.
">70db = cumulative harm"

Wow, had no idea. Just looked it up and it's indeed correct. I had been going off the 85 db standard, which:

1. Is only for work exposure, assuming quiet elsewhere
2. Will nonetheless cause hearing loss in 8% of people when at workplace levels over a lifetime of work.

https://www.quietcommunities.org/noise-level-hearing-loss-pr...
Python MyPy – Advanced Usage
Pricing seems high to me. A sub $10/month plan that lets someone check 30 files once a day or even once a week would be useful.

Plenty of small companies have god awful Wordpress sites with a ton of insecure JavaScript files. They don’t need to be checked every 10 minutes but they do need something to check.
Don't most party stores have helium tanks?
> Given market share of Chrome, WebAssembly and Flutter, you should hold on to that "thankfully".

WebAssembly doesn't need COM because it's integrated into the JS engine and uses the same JS engine bindings.

I don't think anyone, even Googlers, seriously thinks that native Dart is going to make it onto the Web at this point.
For temperature only I prefer the 18B20 sensor. They’re very easy to interface with and they can be at the end of very long wires.

Adafruit has a bunch of sensors that work over the i2c bus; they’ve included python code for accessing the data as well, which makes it easy to get started.

There are sensors out there for everything. Absolutely everything.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1782
It’s not like a research, and it’s just like a kidding. I’m also suspicious that the person who conducts this ‘kind of experiment’ is a discriminator. Because of the difference in cultures, every country adopts different ways in connecting with each other. It’s not appropriate to use email as the only media between each others. The method used in your ‘experiment’ is not fair. Also, the design of your ‘wallet’ is ridiculous. If you didn’t explain it to me, I believe that no one will recognize it as a wallet.
We got headphones for the kids recently and they're deliberately volume-limited so that even at max volume the sound isn't too loud. It's probably just a resistor in series with the speaker coil, seems like a simple enough solution.
Just like a busy restaurant drives more traffic, seeing a larger dollar amount or more patrons may encourage further donations.

Patreon also has decent message distribution channels and makes subscriptions easy for both sides.
iOS 13 is adding this and displaying the data in the health app. Though I think it's just an average headphone level, not moment by moment. Also unsure how they're calibrating it for non-apple headphones, and or AirPods gunned up by earwax.
You are right. I don't know what your parent comment is talking about.

Blu-rays use H.264 High Level 4.1. That has a maximum bitrate (for a single buffer) of 50 Mbps. The average bitrate for an entire disc is usually closer to 25-30. Even the most extreme cases, like the mastered-in-4K Lawrence of Arabia, have peaks at about 48 Mbps, and average bitrates of about 42 Mbps.

If you're having issues streaming Blurays on a 100 Mbps network, the speed of the network is not your problem!
What kind of earbuds do you mean? Those incredibly expensive custom molded ones? I have some foam tipped earbuds (Tinaudio T2) and the isolation seems pretty good compared to other earbuds I have previously owned but nowhere near the 1000XM3 active noise canceling.
I use it do Anki on my bike ride to/from work. Wrote some scripts in Python. They take my deck, convert it to speech using IBM Watson’s TTS. Then i made a small PCB with 4 buttons that is fixed to the handle bar. That way I can interact with the program.
Assamese already was facing a sealed indictment on other charges related to the Manning dump, charges that the Obama administration carefully drew up to avoid any 1st amendment implications. The charges being discussed here, being brought by the Trump administration, are the charges with first amendment implications.
Initializing through explicit constructors e.g. `func NewSample(a, b int) Sample {...}` can also add a compile-time check. Of course the onus is once again on the developer to remember to use the `New` funcs instead of instantiating directly.

Edit: spelling
More like if Google had to approve every new release of MS products and shoulder some blame if things go wrong. Of course, if Google blocked some release of MS product, MS could retaliate by blocking a Google product. Or either could just stall until their own product could match features.

So obviously, any block would have to clearly state the rationale. Then the regulator could choose to overrule the block, but it would be more clear then where the gamesmanship was.
This is anecdotal but I have inadvertently created FAR fewer bugs in Elixir/Phoenix than I ever did in Ruby/Rails. A lot of that has to do with the immutability guarantees and the pattern-matching and the fact that everything is explicit without being wordy... everything in this language seems designed to make it easy to grok what the code is doing, and that means fewer bugs produced.
Thank you!

As many other transit authorities, the STM [0] offers "GTFS" data (a standard feed format for transit info) [1].

Mucking around STM's public site, you'll also see the schedule information go by if you inspect the network requests. From what I've seen, their API endpoints are stable, reliable and fast. I've had to do ~2 updates in >1 year of service.

[0] http://stm.info/en
[1] http://www.stm.info/en/about/developers

[ edit: that rumor is just a rumor :-) ]
Last time I went interviewing, I found places who admitted using it. $200M revenue is nothing to sneeze at, for strictly optional infrastructural software.
Actually, it might be better to be who you are, isn't that the moral of My Fair Lady?

Most of the people I work with in the Fortune 10 are educated idiots. Corporate communications, especially e-mails contain egregious spelling and grammatical errors. It's constant. I have very little respect for most of these people. They believe themselves smart but in reality are merely average or even slightly below that.
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There is very little evidence for the efficacy of any of these compounds in humans.
That's probably the right explanation. Thanks!
Show HN: Making of My Arcade Cabinet
Well, I am all done with the first part of my final thesis, so I've been looking at old projects and posting them.

I remembered I built this arcade cabinet and recorded a good part of the process, so I decided to make a video and put it on YouTube.

sorry, I don't have the 3D files or the schematics for the controllers anymore.

https://youtu.be/aE-GRG0AwyM
China’s Biggest Startups Ditch Oracle and IBM for Home-Made Tech
If an EU user tries to make coffee we redirect them to a "this content is unavailable in your region" page so I think we're 100% good to go with GDPR compliance.
I know of someone who had to go in front of an internal audit committee of some sort due to unauthorized access. He did it during a demo, not really thinking it through. They were convinced it was unintentional, and he got to keep his job in the end. He was telling me it was definitely considered a termination-worthy thing, and was legit worried about losing his job.