skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are more willing to spend other peoples’ money than their own. News at 11.
Some examples, including both software and dedicated hardware options:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-airplay-receivers-that-are-c...

https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect

https://www.airserver.com/
Five productivity pitfalls of going 100% digital
Maybe that just means that we need to design more beautiful cities that better integrate art and nature, rather than the facsimile of it by way of advertising and sensory overload. These ads are the city equivalent of restaurants/pubs turning on loud music for ‘ambiance’ while unintentionally ruining the experience. After a while everyone just accepts that is the norm, and then people wind up staying at home (or retreating to suburbs) thinking its the whole act of going out that is unpleasant, when it’s really just a bad pattern that was settled upon.

My sense is a city - and people - needs time to adapt to these changes, like when the volume is turned down suddenly and the restaurant takes on an entirely different vibe. It’s at least a few minutes of some adjustment of lighting and people adapting with more hushed voices for a new ambiance to stabilize.
Basically, when one of the two parties in a transaction conducted in USD is the US government, all “typical” financial concepts/terms have to be completely redefined. Take for example interest rate, the most basic and straightforward single number in the terms of any loan. It’s really not “interest” when you’re buying government bonds because it’s a fiat currency and you’re going to be paid back in the same. It’s more like buying rights to shares in a shady company on an unregulated exchange that vests after n years, with the hope that decisions the company makes pertaining to issuance of future shares will not “unfairly” dilute your stock (after all, the stock isn’t “split” in the normal sense) beyond what you’re set to gain in the terms of your options... while simultaneously betting on the waxing and waning of the currency’s global usage and adoption subject to foreign policy, investment domestically and abroad, etc. all on top of attempting to “play the market” and win.

I don’t know if it’s even possible to fully grasp the sheer complexity of all the factors, let alone the factors themselves.
The idea not to save data to disk means that they have to be kept in RAM, and Chrome will take even more of it. It's fine if you have an expensive system with tens of gigabytes, but what if you have only 4 or 2 Gb?

Also, why save energy when you are on AC power most of the time?

I remember that watching a long video on Youtube in WinXP could take as much as 400 Mb of RAM. Are they going to increase memory consumption?
No, because they extrapolate from their experience that all the problems have to be "exceptional cases", when there's good arguments that a lot of problems at WF are not that, but systemic problems and outright fraud causing damage to millions of people.
Yes, but if your application assumes that it should use 100% of my RAM, it's being antisocial. Don't assume that I don't have more important software that could be utilizing my RAM in ways more important to me.

That's what drives me up a wall whenever people use the "free RAM is wasted RAM" argument; the assumption that RAM unused by your software is unused by me.
i don't see how it's a bad thing.
Fracking may be a bigger climate problem than we thought
Probably because Chrome was built not to assume enormous amounts of RAM.
Cholera, dysentery, and many other waterborne diseases exist naturally in untreated water that hasn't been "meddled with" by humans.

The death tolls of historical urban outbreaks shows that you would MUCH rather drink the treated water.
I always thought 1 for long distance was because that's the country code for the US, or maybe those two things are related?
These days on some websites you can sometimes find "One Weird Trick to Cheaper Rural Broadband" ads by Althea. The phrasing is certainly interesting.

@woah?
On another hand, imagine the original computers on which unix commands were designed for weren't restricted to 300 baud teletype terminals. Are you really willing to wait 3x or 4x the time to read something as the print head goes WHACK WHACK WHACK across the page. Going through print ribbons like crazy? Wasting paper?
When I watched high-resolution videos on Youtube with Chrome, its process could take about 400 Mb of memory or even more and swap out other processes.

> and as long as Chrome doesn't lock the memory range, the OS will swap it to disk anyway

Swapping in/out is random access and is very slow (< 1 Mb/sec) compared to linear reading/writing unless you have SSD.
Median strips and easements are a possible siting location.

Shade awnings over car parks another.

The challenge with solar power really isn't sufficient area for siting. It's low-cost installation and low-disturbance environments which ensure long panel life and low maintenance costs.

Solar panels have a useful lifetime of about 20 years, due to numerous degredation mechansims (it's not just one), from fogging of the transparent surface to cracking, glazing from dust and sand, hail impacts, broken circuits, etc. NREL (the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) in Colorado have published research on this.

Engineering low-cost, long-lived, readily installable and replaceable panels would be a generally advisable research direction. Looking for extreme siting locations (e.g., high-traffic highways, or even sidewalks), or even, counterintuitively, greater efficiency, is relatively unimportant as compared to total costs and lifetime.
Weirdly after switching between many self hosted options, including Nextcloud News which lasted the longest, I ended up putting rss2email [0] in docker and configured it to SMTP (it can also deposit them onto an IMAP server directly) articles to my address. I then have an inbox rule that puts it all into a folder and another that deletes items after 7 days. If I want to save an article, I just move it into my "Archive" folder.

Why using email? I switch between phones, OSs etc and it was a bitch to find decent clients for the self hosted options on each OS. I can generally get my email everywhere, via ActiveSync on my phone, WebUI, thunderbird etc. And since I host my mail, the data never leaves my network :) It works really well, though I do sometimes feel like RMS having web pages emailed to me lol

[0] https://github.com/wking/rss2email
It's unlikely to be a goal for people with a service animal. It takes years and a lot of money to train a service animal - it's not a quick fix.
The American Museum Is in Crisis
The cost of consistent recession hedging is prohibitive and larger than the benefit you’d receive, because of arbitrage (if it was cheaper than risk, you could invest risk free).

See: https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/White-Papers/Pathetic-...

If you could hedge a recession, we’d have no recessions :)

Hedging only works if you have short time durations (eg you wanna hedge specifically in October, because you have a big bill due then), or if you’re the one providing the hedge and capturing the Volatility Risk Premium.
Aqueducts have been suggested as siting locations.

Benefits:

- Reduced evaporation losses.

- Extant rights of way / property rights.

- Extant technical infrastruction, including power transmission for pumps, etc.

Not that this is the only siting location to consider, but it's a reasonable candidate.
WeWork is the junk company that only exists to funnel investor money to the founder via his other company.
The problem with this is that consumer Internet access is priced based on the assumption that it will be "bursty". Heavy users are subsidized by light users, both on a moment-to-moment basis and overall.

Reselling consumer-level Internet access to means you're taking away the users that would otherwise be subsidizing your service (because they're buying from you instead) while still expecting the local ISP to shoulder a large share of the costs for bringing your packets to their final destinations.

That issue goes away if you pay for a dedicated line (IE, explicitly contracted reserved bandwidth) to an IXP or place somewhere will sell you bulk transit, and you're paying for that too. That's fine. The problem is with expecting to make a profit by being the ISP to your whole block, based on a $100/mo GBPS fiber drop.

Not to say that the ISP mono/duopolists aren't loathesome--excessive market power is the root of... not all, but lots of socio-economic evil. The economics of telecommunications is complicated.
I have 4 Gb of RAM and most of time it is utulized over 100%. Not a very pleasant experience with modern Electron apps and reactive HTML5 sites.
They didn't want to.

Be very wary of motivated reasoning.
The linked article explains how longer certificate validity times cause issues when compromised certificates aren't revoked (as they often aren't). Limiting the lifespan of certificates reduces the potential fallout.
It usually is not.
But delaware
It’s a general fact of mathematics:

If you know a set, U, has an average A; and a subset, S, has an average B < A; then the complement, U - S must have an average C > A. Otherwise, there’s no way for the partition to average out to A.

The sibling poster is correct: if you know a group underperforms, then the complement overperforms as an ensemble. In your example, you should buy everything but MSFT + GOOG.
> You can compromise the sex toys in the same way because, again, they don’t prevent you from just uploading your own code.

To the plug? If you have a programming device or the firmware enables it. I don't think this should necessarily be changed in the interest of open firmware. Sure, a client app probably focused on threats from the other direction, even if this application strongly hints at the dangers from the backside. Or maybe that motivated a relaxed approach in the first place. And if the vulnerability is in the SDK from the BT-chip, the plug developer isn't even the culprit.
Hedging via options is guaranteed to cost more than the benefit you’d receive, over the long run. This is due to the volatility risk premium (the insurers against risk must be paid, and will price it to come out ahead).

See https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/White-Papers/Pathetic-...

But no, you cannot hedge away risks of a recession - for cheaper than what a recession would cause.
>They just shouldn't be de facto required to do so.

I haven't read anybody saying you should be required to if you don't want to. Yet a lot of the responses are angry as if that's exactly what was suggested.

The line I quoted about "people like you", I was mainly objecting to reading one sentence from someone, responding with "people like you.." and thinking that's ok. You don't know anything about them, I assume. Imagine someone speaking to you like that? Or maybe that's how people routinely speak to each other in your world, and it's perfectly fine. I hope not.
A WISP, at scale (50 users or more), should have a cost per user of about $10/m. You can oversell bandwidth considerably, more than most people realize. I've specifically seen an 80 customer wisp reporting their peak time is only 230mbps. This largely makes sense as you people streaming video is going to be your biggest usage, and that really only average 15mbps at the worse. A $1/mbit for ISP bandwidth should be doable in most areas, and since it's wireless your costs per user are actually rather low, given a good tower.

But WISPs do make the most sense in areas where there is no good alternative (only DSL or Dish).
Weaving two arrays, keeping relative order
Aston Martin Is Getting into the 'Evil Lair' Business
When I first saw that video I thought, “this has to be a joke right? They can’t actually think that is feasible.” And here we are…
Mmm, what I was arguing for is that a manager ought to have sufficient experience that they can substitute for and work as any individual under them.

I understand that many large institutions are constructed in a mechanism you describe. In many cases, these managers are technical enough that they can substitute any individual working under them. There are also many cases where they are not sufficiently technical.

Nonetheless, if a manager’s purpose tailored towards prioritizing, fighting for projects, and assisting ICs career growth, I am not convinced that that manager is necessary as I am not seeing his value. Prioritization ought to be intrinsic for everyone and is more a collaborative choice, no? Why does a single individual (manager) decide priority?
Android found a kind of solution for this by agressively killing processes (while saving their state). This seems to be effective because developers are not motivated to help competing applications, they want to have all resources for themselves.
Yeah, like welcome to tech.
Mechanical equipment, and freight, tends to fall onto tracks. Axels need lubrication, there are hydraulic fluids, potentially septic drops, and bulk containers (coal, sand, gravel, metal, scrap, grain) also leak from bins. None of these do much to improve efficiency or lifetime of solar panels.

Rail has adjacent easements. These have traditionally been used for complementary technologies, e.g., telegraph and other comms routes (which share a need for continuous rights of way, and provide a utility to the railroads themselves for communications and control services).

There are reasons you might want to avoid certain co-sitings (e.g., unarmoured petroleum or natural gas lines adjacent to rail trackage). But solar could well be a reasonable adjunct.
The scientific and mindful approach to encourage and sustain inspiration
My point is that when the resource is available, it can't be intelligently used? Heck, shouldn't you just let the OS call the shots and simply say, "I've got ephemeral data for you to keep warm."
You can use ML to optimize for the vocals e.g. like noise cancellation. The upside of this is that you will almost certainly get crystal clear voice output (since 1) you have the known music piece, may not be the exact copy but the signal is there 2) the voice is clear since the music is background music). The only downside is that clear voice is not the same as original voice and it may sound unnatural, but you won't have crackling or any of the other artefacts of traditional filter. This is purely in theory of course, I have not tested it yet.
Yes, because different borrowers receive different rates than would otherwise occur. That distorts the discovery and prioritisation of opportunities in the private sector.

In particular, it elevates rent seeking over productive risk taking.
Yeah I don't believe I've ever seen a json parsing problem in 11 years of software development.
I wish we would put more effort into policing the police, but for some reason, cops seem to stick up for each other even when a crime may have been committed.

I believe that most cops are good, but the position definitely attracts people who like violence/power. I don't know the solution here, but there has to be a way to help good cops get the recognition they deserve without forcing them to betray their fellow officers to eliminate the bad.
The comment ghaff replied to said "If you don't have the desire to do this after work you probably shouldn't even be in the field".

If people that do not want to do it shouldn't be in the field, it's pretty damn close to a requirement.
hypem.com

Been a great source of new music for the last few years.
The custody bit is inconsistent at best.
The guidelines for traveling with firearms only mention a "hard-sided container", so if your regular suitcase is sufficiently hard it should qualify. For ammunition, they do require a box specifically designed to carry it.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunit...
It sounds like it was mostly about the founders not wanting to continue maintaining a business that was not a unicorn. There was someone else on HN that posted about a similar company but decided to buy back equity and continue maintaining it.
Car controls are a good use case for voice control (as long as it's guaranteed to be processed locally and recordings are not being sent to the car company).

The Mercedes EQC has voice control, but they need to move to a different triggering phrase. They're using "Mercedes" currently and that has too many false positives, particularly when someone is trying to review the car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JTew1D5Tk8
I read the article as a "just buy a low cost whole market index" - which seems to be the most common advice out there.

Assuming your randomness generator was fair and you bought enough stocks, your 'buy stocks at random' strategy, if you bought enough stocks, would eventually get you that maximally diversified index fund, I think?

I mean, I think the difference at scale is all in the weighting; if you bought one share of a random ticker on every throw of your random generator, you'd be overweight stocks with high per-share values vs. just buying, say, a basket of VTX, VXUS and VWO, which are weighted in more reasonable ways.
What next IAAS(idly as a service), DAAS(dal or dosa as a service), SAAS(Sambar as a service). I mean it takes someone with NO cooking skills except making coffee everyday about 30 minutes to throw everything into instapot and simmer it in a sauté pan for like 10 minutes. I saw someone starting a Rasam/Curd rice as a service not too long ago. And people complain that Silicon Valley has peaked.
Vitalik Buterin: Reading List
Do NOT fly into Massachusetts with a gun. To have a gun in MA you must have a MA gun license
Mobile Digitizing (MobiDig) Manual [pdf]
Thanks! Excellent comparison chart.
Sad thing is, I am not sure at this point if my framework is more powerful than this or not. I think mine preserves the semantics of “sql execution plan” better than CSVKit, but I might as well be wrong.

I did not know about CSVKit three years ago; but I don’t think it would take a prof. developer to build it too much time either.
>If you don't have the desire to do this after work you probably shouldn't even be in the field is how I look at it.

That's extremely rude? Deeply insulting? I don't understand. So touchy. The guy isn't allowed to have that opinion, or express it? Why not allow people to have their own opinion? ..What if you read, say, Stallman or Linus or [insert your programmer hero here] saying the same thing, would you think it was extremely rude and deeply insulting?
The only people who don't like the DJIA are nerds who are annoyed that such a simple model works so well at approximating the whole market:

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/vtsax/charts
One of those grey areas is that there's a large portion of people who do pixação that see their art as an art form.

As an aside, I remember a short Brazilian documentary on São Paulo's "reverse graffiti" (doing a drawing or mural by skillfully removing dirt from a dirty wall, so that the white spaces create an image) where the police detained the artist doing it, despite the fact he was literally cleaning the wall.
That's all over the place in the Czech Republic. Really the best way.
You can never be sure that it is a fraud until someone is convicted. Convincing the company that you are the CEO of to pay you personally $5.9 million dollars for the trademark "We" (after you started the company and called it WeWork btw.) could be considered defrauding investors if the trademark "We" was not really worth $5.9m.

It's not fraud until someone wins in court. And not all cases of fraud are pursued.
This change doesn't affect YouTube: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=984851...

which I understand means YouTube will still write to SSD...
There may not be a “Nemo effect” but it did seem like there was a “Dalmatian effect” in the past.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/14/us/after-movies-unwanted-...

It seems like after the releases and re-releases of the 101 Dalmatian movies, the demand for Dalmatians as pets went up. However, a lot of them were later abandoned to shelters because they were more work than people anticipated.

EDIT:

Here is an archive link to the nytimes article http://archive.is/4Cp6W
One valid threat model for revenge porn is, I trust this person now, but if we break up I might not trust them anymore. So Snapchat disappearing messages do actually solve that problem. (And more generally, "I trust this entity now but they might become compromised in the future" is a model with some precedent in encryption, cf. forward secrecy and deniable messages which are for related, similar problems.)

It's also not unreasonable to hold that the additional effort of taking a photo of the screen falls into the locks-keep-honest-people-honest category. Of course nobody believes that a lock on their front door will prevent a sufficiently determined attacker from breaking in, yet we all lock our doors. (And we wouldn't say that "change the locks" is useless advice against an ex with a key.)
Where do I find out more about the “operations” layer that lies between strategies and tactics? This isn’t something I’ve seen in modern (non-military) strategic planning.
While this is very good to study before a technical interview, over time however I can see that this alone is going to make it 40x harder to differentiate say 100 candidates that are all perfect at interviews in general, that we are going to start asking ridiculous Oxbridge-style interview questions and expect perfect scores to advance 'good' candidates.

Perhaps companies will start asking candidates to construct mathematical proofs of data structures, algorithms, formulas and common equations from university-level entrance examinations just to do a mobile app or a web dev job.

As soon as that happens, the 'ideal candidate' companies will be expecting to interview would be a very prodigious candidate, former math Olympiad champion and decorated with titles and research papers in their name.

You guessed it: 𝔜𝔢 𝔬𝔩𝔡𝔢 𝔩𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔢 10𝔵 𝔡𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔯.
> "More than its cash-burning ways, WeWork’s IPO will test investor tolerance for made-up accounting metrics. You might recall “Community Adjusted EBITDA,” the gauge WeWork devised to measure net income before not only interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, but also “building- and community-level operating expenses,” a category that includes rent and tenancy expenses, utilities, internet, the salaries of building staff, and the cost of building amenities (which WeWork has described as “our largest category of expenses”)." [0]

Hahaha. I think its pretty fair to say that this is not a Generally Accepted Accounting Practice measurement. (non-GAAP)

I've only visited a We Work location once, but it really felt like a VC funded startup - particularly the amenities. Without the amenities, it would have been just another depressing office.

0 - https://qz.com/1685919/wework-ipo-community-adjusted-ebitda-...
Ohm's law is an empirical law that only holds in certain circumstances. A classic exercise is measuring the current and voltage across a lightbulb, plotting it, and measuring the slope of the line. The slope is the impedance. Then you turn up the voltage and watch the line turn into a curve, which is where the law breaks down and doesn't apply anymore. The engineers treat it like a definition and assume linearity over all voltage.
Oddly enough, I'm an architect for a company that makes scientific equipment. Mostly hardware rather than software. The software team is its own independent entity.

I'm usually present at every stand-up. Realistically, the engineers tend to be fairly specialized, not multidisciplinary, and are not up to speed on quantitative engineering, so my role in defending and adapting the architecture is continuous throughout the project.