skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ECB charges banks -0.40% to deposit money with them. These bonds are currently yielding -0.14%. Rates are not low enough to the point where physical cash is a thought. Rough estimates are a deposit rate of -0.75% where you would make more by holding physical cash.
What I recall from the texts of mainstream yet highly respected and rigorous historians like Beevor or Sebag de Montefiore is that Zhukov was painted in a mostly positive light.

Who is on the other side of the controversy?
The Blackbirds don't look too expensive, and Talos' hardware in general is about as open as it gets (putting even the x86 market to shame, let alone the PowerPC Apple desktops).
The stereotypical HN reader (age 20-40 tech professional) should have three to six months of salary in cash (interest-bearing savings/checking/money market account), rest in low-cost equity index funds (I use 60% VTI / 40% VXUS).

Gold is, IMO, a disaster preparedness thing you buy after purchasing a shotgun, ammunition, and a month's worth of canned food. The main use case for gold is as highly portable physical wealth - in highly messed-up situations, you retain at lease some ability to engage in limited amounts of commerce to get yourself to a more stable situation.
The bay area is already in a downturn per california association of realtor data. La/oc/ie is mostly flat. Rural california is a mixed bag.
A normal process goes like this:

- Researcher finds bug

- Researcher discloses to vendor

- Vendor fixes (or not)

- Researcher discloses bug publically once vendor has fixed, or after X time (whichever is first)

This is roughly how Project Zero goes, and it's a good mix between giving the vendor the opportinity to fix it and deploy the update before it gets exploited.

It's very naive to assume that bugs can be fixed before others can exploit them. Bugs take time to fix, and the process takes time, especially when dealing with large enterprises.
They absolutely are frauds. Every time someone comes up with some new "breakthrough" like this, whether it's a new motor, or a new internal-combustion engine, it's a scam.

Also, I'm giving a lot of "salt back" because I'm an electrical engineer, so I can see how all this stuff is total garbage. You're obviously not. I've even worked on 3-phase "DC brushless" motors and their controllers, so I do know what I'm talking about. This stuff about not needing a DC-DC converter is BS. Of course you don't need a "DC-DC converter" if your motor is AC, which every motor without a mechanical commutator is. You still need some type of power control circuitry to drive the motor; you can't hook it up to a battery!

>Every time I've replaced my car battery, it's been because one cell failed after I let it deep discharge. Except once where 2 cells failed.

If you did a deep discharge, the other cells were degraded too, you just saw the cell that failed first.

>But you don't have to use that bus architecture. It's mechanically simpler and more robust.

Yes, actually you do, unless you want to have ridiculous currents at only 4.2V going to your inverter, which would be stupid because you'd need bus bars and would still have high resistive losses. This is the whole reason we have batteries with series-connected cells instead of parallel-connected cells.
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/section_9.16
Good point. For purposes over a quite-small space, it's not a huge difference. However, I was quite surprised the first time I saw a magnetic declination map. Before flying I had never really considered the difference at all.
LLVM bitcode is far worse than WASM bytecode as a standard binary interchange format. It is intentionally non-portable and unstable by its designers.

Google tried using it for this purpose with PNaCl and it wasn't great. Apple makes it work by strictly controlling the target hardware they use it for, and with massive investment in the toolchain.
I love this argument because it exposes that voter legitimacy is not based on any sort of logic or evidence, but based on feeling more secure about it.

It's especially ironic.
> AFAIK, Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of hiring a 16-year-old prostitute.

While that's true of the substance of his sweetheart plea deal, there was a lot more involved than that, which was also widely reported on.
Eating the Shadow
Ask HN: Let's make an open source/free SaaS platform to tackle school forms
I have 4 kids. I am filling out all the start of school forms for each kid. I have to fill out these same forms each year. Are you doing the same thing? Let's make this year the last year we are manually filling out forms -- let's build a SaaS platform for school forms. Community built, open-sourced, free.

Brief sketch of the idea: survey monkey + docusign, but with a 100 pre-built templates for K-12 school situations. Medical emergency form. Carpool form. Field trip permission form. Backend gives schools an easy way to customize and track forms. Forms are emailed to parents and filled out online. Parent's information is saved so that any new form is pre-filled in with as much known info as possible.

Anyone feeling the same pain? Anyone want to join with me and do it?
@dominotw: See the parent article =)
I'm not sure the founder sees it as a tech or real estate company but something more:

>In 2017, Neumann declared that WeWork’s “valuation and size today are much more based on our energy and spirituality than it is on a multiple of revenue.” He has long maintained that categorizing WeWork as a real-estate concern is too limiting; it is a “community company” with huge ambitions. “We are here in order to change the world,” Neumann said that same year. “Nothing less than that interests me.”
Your post is a logical fallacy - it assumes that other countries have the same history, laws, political structure and modern problems as the US does, which is a verifiably false assumption. Your list is also flat out wrong. Voters in Canada are not required to have ID.

Your list is also without sources and presenting an oversimplification of laws to the point of being presented in bad faith, with intentional misrepresentation of the original data. Your list is a lie of checkmarks, intended for propaganda and not to inform the reader.
Both having gold stored somewhere and gold mines assume in the event of the collapse of civilization they’d leave the assets as is.
Should it be enough to apologize and move on? I would say that such apology is empty. There should be that part where people who were affected are made even as much as possible, where we reflect on what was supposed to be done differently and make changes for future.

There was really no one who voiced disagreement at the time? If no, why? If yes, what did happened to their career and status in the organization? How were they argued again, how did the fight at the time went? Were they retaliated against at the time?

All these things matter and should matter, so that next time people voice dissenting opinions in case like this and are listened to.
Biggest Perception Challenges for Autonomous Vehicles
P.S. On the acceptutils page, check out the POP3 hole I found :-)
Did you link to an abstract of a pay-walled article? Where are the conclusions?

>In this paper we review these implications of nicotine use and also examine the role of nicotine in the development of several cardiovascular diseases.

That would be nice to read. I can't find anything conclusive that would suggest it is a significant risk factor such that should be outlawed in the name of protecting adults from themselves.

>As linked up-thread, e-cigs appear to have slowed or halted the progress of smoking cessation efforts, and are seeing substantial uptick in teens. They're a major public health danger.

Yep, they have, and it's a shame. That doesn't mean the correct course of action is to take it away from adults. I am all for further regulation of companies who make the liquid. I am not for banning them, scheduling them, or outlawing flavors that don't taste like crap.

I started smoking when I was very young. E-cigs are the only thing that helped me to quit. You take them away and, guess what? People go back to smoking cigarettes. Some of us just like to smoke and will always do it.

>Beef isn't addictive

You sure about that? Perhaps not chemically, but there are many examples of food addiction. Why not ban everything that is potentially harmful?

I understand that food and nicotine aren't on the same level, just as you knew heroin and nicotine aren't. It's not "whataboutism" to hold the opinion that freedoms shouldn't be handed over at the first sign of a negative affect Your argument seems to boil down to "but think of the children!".
This article is completely inapplicable since all the dating services that have network effect have moved to a mutual match: one does not get to offer a non-visual ( typically first image ) USP before there's a clear indicator of interest.
I didn't claim it was a good binary format - I just claimed GraalVM supports it, which it does.
Nashville tn is one for sure. Apparently the downtown has been revitalized by hipster culture and 'the liberal agenda' as the locals would call it.
Under a proper federalized system, that shouldn't matter unless one lives in FL. Let them handle their local issues how their voters see fit; they have voter initiatives there. The only people that have issues with the way things are done in other states are people that want to use the federal government to impose their standards and values on people living 100s or 1,000s of miles away (I'm ~2,000 miles from D.C.).
I think the telegraph system in the UK was a state owned or controlled monopoly.

Lol, I tried searching to back this up and this popped up!

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25101819?seq=1#metadata_info_ta...

I read stuff like this is it feels like the West has utterly forgotten things that were well and clearly understood 100 years ago.
This is more of a regulatory issue than anything. Airspace is very strictly controlled in both countries.

Further, outside of NA and Europe, GA is simply not as commonplace and in many cases like China/Russia, it's because it's (for all intents) inaccessible. Besides being heavily regulated, it's also relatively expensive, even by first-world standards.
There is nothing particularly wrong with derivatives. They were just the vehicle used to commit a massive fraud on retirement funds. Like a truck full of boxed goods being shipped to a store, where the people packing the trucks were filling them with garbage (and occasionally drugs) and fronting the door with "real" product, then paying the inspectors to not even look in the back of the truck.
Silicon Valley: Season 6 – The Final Teaser
Don't play games with me.

It's not an insult to be stupid. Yet we don't go around commenting about peoples intelligence or what they know or don't know do we? Let's be utterly clear, you made a rude and insulting comment about my intelligence. This is not a choice I made on how to perceive your statement, it is a choice YOU made to be rude. You made the additional choice to feign ignorance and play word games like this.

Games are for an audience, to help others decide who is or who isn't a winner in a game of wits. Unfortunately this is the internet, I don't care what another person thinks. If your goal is to communicate with me or convince me about something rather than play a game or perception you have failed completely.

There is ZERO possibility that I will address any of your points. There is zero possibility of any meaningful debate between you and I once you made the choice to be rude.
So... https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=150000+miles+%2F+%2825...

That shows about 57 tons of CO2 over a 150,000 mile lifespan of a conventional (non-hybrid) car - even more if you assume a larger lifespan.

Estimates I can find for the embodied CO2 of an EV car are around 10-30 CO2 tons. A smaller hybrid would be on the lower side, while an EV SUV would be on the higher side. Also, instead of looking at the entire cost of the CO2 from the car, we should really be using the additional CO2 over replacement, by subtracting how much C02 it takes to create the alternative, a conventional car. Let's just look at the battery. This thread shows Tesla batteries require about 5-14 tonnes of CO2 to create: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/6sm6rs/the_rea.... Compared to the 57 tonnes of CO2 from a conventional car's lifetime, we're somewhere around a factor of 5-10x better for EVs.
Geant4 should have been open source a decade ago.
I still don't understand this at all. Is all this money that's being parked in almost no-yielding bonds just going to stay there forever, never to be used?

What does this say about the state of the economy or the expectations/psychology of whomever buys them?

There's either something very hard to understand that's happening to the world economy, or it's just a strange phenomenon that people pretend to understand but don't.
I can see your perspective, I don't think you are wrong. I bought my house in 2014 and thought the very same thing.

I eventually made the decision that my house is not an investment, it's a home, which will I will use for shelter, and that I do not plan to sell for 20+ years. So long as I can afford to make the mortgage payments and not be house poor, I will be reasonably happy and this should work out.

Through that lens I figured even if the housing market were to collapse, I will have 20 years to make up the difference.

Right or wrong, this helped me frame it in a way to so I remove the timing aspect.
> I hope GOG and HumbleBundle get a nice boost in sales.

While there are some DRM-free games, majority of games on HumbleBundle are sold as Steam keys, so you still need Steam to launch them.
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Benevolence does not imply anything about payment, but the interest in another's well-being.

http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Ethics_Benevolence.htm...
Call your local TekSystems or similar software body shop. They likely can toss you in a crappy job you won't like in a big enterprise IT environment... but you'll be getting a paycheck.
> It's ridiculous to assert that it doesn't exist in practice due to lack of evidence when in reality pretending to be someone else to vote leaves virtually no evidence.

If it's happening at any significant rate, without perfect knowledge of which eligible voters won't vote (or have someone else try to steal their vote, which is just as bad for the prospective vote thief), it leaves quite tangible evidence in the form of people presenting themselves to vote under names that have already voted.

The absence of this occurring fairly strongly indicates that vote stealing by impersonation isn't a thing that happens at any meaningful rate.
Politicians' stance on cybersecurity a future voting issue for 79% of US voters
Hi! I'm part of the team who made this tool. You can use these kinds of waves to create various designs, something similar to https://www.netlify.com/, or https://www.shopify.com/free-trial?ref=onepagelove.
If the policy is "don't accept money from American child sex traffickers that abuse American children", then fine, return the Epstein money and ask for the head of everyone that took money from him.

If the policy is "don't accept money from anyone abusing children (or at any rate people under 18)", then I suggest that a lot more due diligence is required.
Ten, maybe 15 years ago there was a spate of ACM topics about scheduling algorithms. I have some speculations that Apple incorporated similar logic into their laptops and phones, based on some brags they made about battery life improvements.

The observation is this: The faster you draw power from a battery, the less efficient the battery is. Therefore peak shaving goes a long way toward extending battery life. So a motor that is 10% more efficient may increase range by 12%. Or give you the same range with a battery 15% smaller (~100 lbs for some EVs).
The MP's in the UK are elected by popular vote though.

I agree you would have to have the same standard for voter registration.

One way of improving the current system (from an outsiders pov) would be to make electors all faithless and having parties switch to One member one vote and do a way with registering.
Initial jobs reports are rough estimates that come out fairly quickly. Over time they get revised either up or down as more data becomes available.
Hi @jnordwick: I talk about this in another response and in the parent article.

Individual time intervals are also spread across the cluster. So if you are collecting data from a lot of, say, sensors, servers, or financial instruments, then reads/writes for the same time interval are then parallelized across servers.

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-a-distributed-time-...
Same here. I have around 100k in cash that is just building up and that isnt even factoring in my gf's cash. She also has a cash stockpile for a downpayment. We are waiting for a correction to buy. Both of us live at home rent free so that helps big time. We are in a good position to buy.
~ a brave take on crypto tribalism
Whole Foods CEO on plant-meat boom: Good for the environment not for your health
I agree. As a user, I do not care who is at fault much, but I do expect the platform you provide to be somewhat secure.. especially after you are told it is not.

I basically uninstalled Steam client after first 0day was found. At least with gog I don't have install galaxy. But thats a different rant..
I am picturing an interview conducted by the 'news team' at The Onion, interviewing a sage brush somewhere in Wyoming, because it's more important that actual people in, say, California.
Yeah I've seen that too, and that's at least one point in my reasoning as well. I am not really sure what factors Zillow is specifically using to predict that, though.

I'm looking to buy a 2br condo somewhere between San Mateo and Santa Clara (inclusive) which should probably be hit the hardest, however even 10% seems not enough - not from an affordability standpoint, but from a value standpoint, I think even with some appreciation it would be better to keep renting. And there must be a limit to how much 1-2 br condo in the area can appreciate, since I assume it will probably always be pegged to at most somewhere around what a local software engineer salary with ~3-10 years of experience could pay for a mortgage. And they are already right around that level.
The most fascinating thing is here is that the German government still refuses to take this basically free money to invest in infrastructure.
Cloud Run requires a deployed container image somewhere. That can be Docker Hub or GCR, but the image version is what it actually operates on.
The reason the United States are United is because there was a uniform consideration. You'll be seeing states secede as there will be no benefit for them to remain.
Not sure if this is helpful here's the metallica bees bit.
https://youtu.be/5O6QPTawR14?t=16m
There are massive benefits to growing indoors in certain conditions. Areas that were previously too hot or too cold could now be used to grow provided you have access to power. I one day think we will have portable nuclear generators and don't think this will be an issue. I don't think it will be economical in every situation but I do think there will be some market for indoor crops. The other factor I think of with indoor crops is with artificial you can optimize it both intensity and duration for different crops so you can also grow a bigger variety of crops in areas previously not possible. What if we could grow almonds closer to an abundant water source, or peppers in the frigid north closer to the people who eat them instead of shipping them large distances.
Interesting. My team currently uses (abuses?) postgres for timeseries data. You mind ansswering some general questions about your experience with timescale? You said 100 million sensor samples. What was the upload/download frequency? Our application is pushing hundreds of millions of rows across many different data sources every day. On top of that, we are also querying the shit out of this data to run models and we need VERY quick queries. like 10-100ms speed.

How do you think timescaleDB would handle that size and also velocity of data?
Well, they always revise the numbers. I assume it's because they send out surveys, and more answers are always trickling back in. Maybe the late responses were far different than the first ones this time for some reason?
Fair enough. Although I think a researcher would say our bags of meat often surprise us.
I'm currently in the food packaging industry and over the past few years we have been seeing manufacturing move from China to Vietnam and India. Likewise in Europe it’s moving from Poland out to Romania, Greece, and also Turkey. These decisions are largely based on manufacturing costs.
Yeah not surprised. Google - trillion dollar company can't seem to field a coherent chat solution full stop.

Corporate side - google will always provide something that is vaguely functional under whatever name/brand they call it this month

Personal side - I'll use whatsapp/fb messenger cause that's stable. Everyone's on it too...because surprise it's not a complete shitshow.

As a whole I've given up on google fielding usable chat. Even sending a screenshot over hangouts doesn't work depending on which of the 4 clients (browser extension, cell, browser separate and gmail integrated) you're on to this day. At one point the official corporate solution rolled out to 10s of thousands of people - I kid you not - was a hacked together save it on drive, share folder silently & send link over hangouts, click on link & open in google drive to display picture.

How does a company manage to ship something as sophisticated as GCP but can't get this right? Clearly they're not incompetent so wtf is going on there?
Show HN: Collaborate with anyone from anywhere on your investment portfolio
> Their client is an insecure, slow, instable piece of shit

And yet, it's still the best client out there.

If you want slow and instable(sic!) try competition. Steam client is actually fast and stable compared to what else is on offer.
Reward how? The electoral college system determines the election of president. How does one state being more populated matter? Votes are distributed equally across all citizens.
Well, the parent comment was specifically about a license for driving.

I actually agree that requiring an ID that may require significant effort to obtain for voting is not reasonable.
Whatever the goals of all the Scheming, it doesn't seem to have involved monetary wealth. :)
>for in private browsing and tabs? (Safari and Opera respectively.

Respectively. Meaning private=safari, tabs=opera.
Make sure to print out some backup codes. Also I have two Yubikeys authorized for each of my U2F/Webauthn accounts. Fortunately managing multiple hardware keys is much easier with U2F/Webauthn than with TOTP... at least with Google/AWS/Github, you can add a new key at any time, while with TOTP I had to generate a new TOTP secret and update both keys at the same time.
What's the license on the code?
Does that mean that caffeine is a risk too? Doesn't it have similar effects to nicotine? (I drink a loooooot of coffee).
It's kind of interesting how you try to use easily obtained and verifiable evidence of tampering with paper ballots as an argument against them.
This is excellent. Any way to pass environment variables?
Why Usernames Matter
This is what I could find, but doesn't corroborate the prediction mentioned above https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/
My take, after 12 years of industry C++ experience, working on code that needs to be fast: Too much emphasis is placed on gaining another 0.5% performance improvement, instead of slightly slower code that does what was intended. At least offer some safe defaults and make the bleeding edge optional.

While we are debugging things like this, people are writing servers in JavaScript and web services in Python :O No need to optimize so heavily, they will waste it anyway :)