skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to follow the primary public company in this space - MFIN - fairly closely. This article seems off base and to disclose I have zero investments in the area. The issue here is that when taxi fleets were a regulatory rationed monopoly then the medallions were worth a lot. When tech disrupted hail cabs that collapsed. There really isn’t a private sector “villain” to pin blame on for this. And yes for many years the big owners of medallion fleets had excess influence over the regulators due to classic influence wielding. That blew up when residents of places like NY were vocal that they like Uber-Lyft versus the old system.
A line-of-business application where I work was recently upgraded to be responsive with a number of useful client-side JavaScript features added. Nobody in their right mind would use it on a mobile device but it's nice to be able to resize the browser window instead of dedicating one monitor to it. And the JS library they're using for the dozens of large data tables in the system is so much more pleasant to use than the ad-hoc server side filtering and sorting they had before. I can't think of a thing they did that seems frivolous, except maybe dropping the Internet Explorer requirement, and I'm not complaining about that either. ;-)
Do you have better support for this statement than what the authors of cited paper have?
You did, after all, dismiss a whole paper with a glib remark.
Which is why we're taking our sweet time accepting it.

This is pretty much our world in a nutshell. Wherever you start digging you run into the same level of insanity, abuse and lies to gain more power using whatever means possible.
Some countries manage better than others. Perhaps they'll profit from electricity or hydrogen exports in the future.

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstruction...
Visualization of peom is an interesting topic. I would treat them as paintings instead of text analysis.

I would try natural language processing.

The obvious challenges are:
1. Most Chinese stanza have same length of each line, which often sacrifice some elements.
2. Rhyme requirements sometimes reverses the sentence order. As Chinese semantics is loosely related to prepositions.

I believe some inference and tuning are required to detect the subtle sentiments and ambient, create elements and match them with a painting.

write to rayhu007@outlook.com if you would like to discuss.
It depends on your use case. LevelDB is way too sloppy about memory allocation, threads and I/O, which may not be acceptable for an embeddable database. I got to the point once where every daemon on every node using LevelDB had to be restarted daily from cron.
> Before the last few rounds of hyperinflation they could have just as well bought USD and been 70% better off. Yes if you cherry pick entry points in retrospect you can justify any position no matter how crazy. If these poor Venezuelans had only realized how valuable bitcoin was before it mattered you know? Or literally any other asset class that’s done well lately but hey don’t let me spoil the surprise.

The only reason I cherrypicked a time period was to demonstrate that you were cherrypicking a time period. If you want to talk seriously about evaluating it as an investment, there are two ways you could go about doing that. One would be to look at it's value since inception, which makes it literally one of the best investments on the planet. The other would be to pick a hold length and evaluate the sharpe ratio for holding the asset over all periods of that length during its lifecycle (e.g. take all 1-year long daily returns streams, and compute the sharpe ratio of each, thereby obtaining a performance distribution for the asset that suggests what your expected risk-adjusted return would be, on average, for buying it at any point during its lifecycle).

I do have the data to do that analysis, but not on the computer i'm currently on. However, I think we both know how good it will look for Bitcoin. If you doubt that, i'm happy to actually run it in a day or two.
What this leaves out is salary spikes by job hopping.
If I get 100k at the startup and 10k more at another company and the startup gives me options of 20k, (regarding both give me similar raises for simplicity) it seems the startups offer is easier.

However if after 2 years I quit my job and take another offer for 150k and the startup won't counter, its a loss of 20k I get by being the 2 years at a startup instead of at another company. Even worse when regarding that the early stages (unless you love that lifestyle) of startups is stressful I'd always go to another non-startup company unless I do actually like the product at a startup and see myself in it.

If money isn't a purpose then the way should be. People as purpose is an argument but honestly I'd just not work somewhere with ass people
It also seems to ignore strike price and the scenario of an acquisition where only the VC and founders get paid.
I understand that and agree with you, but the wording of OP implied a gasoline engine is so heavy it would have a significant impact on the equation - with current technology that's really not true. You can find inline-4 engines in modern vehicles that weigh under 300 pounds, whereas the motor and inverter pack in the Model 3 weigh 350 pounds.

Even so, this is all trumped by the fact that the battery pack by itself weighs about 1,000 pounds more than the motor.
Curiously, the website of the software in question has been using the same design since at least early 2003

https://www.turtlesoft.com

https://web.archive.org/web/20030420115300/http://www.turtle...
Ah yes the darn cheque "printing business" is another side of this anachronism.

Whenever I needed cheques (some 10 years ago on my "developing country" bank) I would just go to an ATM and it would print me cheques on the spot, just pick how many you want. No extra fees. (Of course they became obsolete with time and direct transfers between accounts, also for a very cheap fee)
Walkability goes hand-in-hand with density. Density tends to occur close-in as a consequence of land values being higher.

Therefore, there is a natural association between high property values and walkability.

I hope the paper takes this into account. It could just be that people with more money live in more desirable locations, which end up being more walkable too.
Isn't a qualified digital signature in an e-mail is also appropriate, since unless explicitly excluded it can always take the place of a paper signature? There's been BGH decisions confirming that a qualified digital signature is required. (but maybe courts don't have to support it, and that only applied to courts that offer email communication?)

Sadly, the entire infrastructure around digital signatures is woefully underdeveloped here, despite the legal basis existing and being fairly sound. Hey, let's give everyone an ID card that's a smart-card capable of digital signatures... and make the certificate an expensive add-on. facepalm
Well Dualit are still making them manually, and seem quite successful. Repairable and last decades.

Sage have tried for the market of "premium, but made like crap really". £120+ for a regular toaster with added LEDs, displays, etc. They sell purely as they paid a celeb chef for their adverts.
> The danger in the constant back and forth of poor nutrition science being hyped up in the media, reversing last week’s headline, is that eventually the general population just gives up, and stops listening/acting on ANYTHING coming from this expert group.

That is exactly the goal here. To confuse the public, discredit scientists so that people just throw their hands in the air and just eat whatever they want and are used to.

For example, the tobacco industry had this famous memo that said "Doubt is our business". For 40 years, they never had to prove that smoking caused cancer. No, all they had to do was to create doubt due to contradictory studies, and the public would be confused and just keep smoking.

That is the goal with these studies and headlines, it's to confuse the public. The study they made actually said that there is a link between eating meat and a series of diseases.

It was the incredibly unscientific conclusion that its not worth to stop eating meat to avoid disease since people like it so much that caused the headlines, not the actual science of the studies.

Climate change, human health and animal welfare are all 3 huge reasons to not eat so much meat, the science is clear.
This is my problem with the principles... they're not actually actionable things to do, though I guess there's plenty of actionable advice out there that people choose to ignore.
It depends on the audience.

Personally, if something will make a low occurence event marginally safer, I might not care. That's what this paper is saying.

Perhaps a scientific paper isn't the place for that (an article about the paper probably is) but that translated data is still relevant to a certain perspective.
True, but this supposed "Definitive Guide" has plenty of references to Objective-C where it does help. My point was that I'm not an expert, and I see things missing.
You all really took this question and ran with it in a way that totally avoids answering the practical question at the core — how good are these batteries going to get over the next 20 years?

The answer is really, really good. Fast charging, long rang, 1 million mile lifespans.

Add on top of that the ability to connect into a smart grid and earn money by buying energy off-peak and selling on-peak, and the ability to double as an emergency generator for your home.
> There are companies that will pay near FANG levels (maybe 10-15% haircut)

I don't agree with this statement that companies outside of FANGs don't do Leetcode interviews.

Leetcode disease has spread to almost all corners of the industry. everyone everywhere is doing leetcode interviews.

> without subjecting yourself to onerous completion of hundreds of LeetCode problems.

Sorry but this is bad advice.

>we use recursion and trees

ok but doesn't everyone though?
Roads, sidewalks, bridges, public transport, education (+ buildings), public libraries, emergency services, hospitals, ( ... the list goes on) are all heavily subsidized by the government here. You could design taxes such that these are all funded by the users but it is much easier to have a VAT that funds them all (at least partially). It's not like you can point to a piece of plastic on your chair and say the government made it, but the whole chair ending up inside your house was made possible, partially, by the government. I think it's fair to pay a bit for that.
Land Value Tax is not the same thing as property tax. LVT is a tax on the unimproved value of the land. That means when the owner builds something on the land, it does not affect the tax. Instead, the tax increases when the value of the land increases due to external factors, such as a new light rail transit line is built.

This means that a wealthy person owning an empty lot in an expensive part of the city pays just as much tax as the condominium owner next door. This encourages the empty lot owner to build and collect some rents in order to offset the tax. This ultimately increases the supply of real estate and puts downward pressure on rent.
I found the article to be a sad tale, rather than defining it as baffling. The answers to most of your questions can be found in the article, which describes the latent demand for medallions, allowing the opportunistic speculators to swoop in. It was aided by the city, which no doubt welcomed the additional revenue, and didn't do anything substantial to prevent a bubble from forming and exacerbated the misery. The effect of the pump and dump was compounded by the victims, who share a common thread, and their stories pepper the article. This vulnerable group was targeted for it's high susceptibility to any number of cons, and were also the most likely to ignore the zeitgeist of the app-model.

Many were immigrant cabdrivers who could not speak English fluently and signed loans they could not afford, lured by the promise of easy wealth and a secure future.
Google Uncovers CPU Bug for Geminilake, Affecting at Least Firefox and Chrome
This is the biggest point. There are so many ways to devalue the options specifically issued to employees, and you sometimes see more overt behavior like with Zynga back in 2011 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204621904577018...

It is a fool's errand, given everything that has happened in the space, to treat options as having any serious value. Unless there's a secondary market you can immediately sell your options on, treat them like lottery tickets
That seems like a very minor connection to nationalism. Also, lots of other political ideologies put a similar amount of faith in their government. I don't see a reason to single out nationalism at all beyond maybe pushing your agenda. The real lesson to be learned from this is not that nationalism is bad but that people should not trust their governments.
> Who is paying $395k-$420k to IC hires without FAANG style interviews?

No one. I hate ppl here asserting that they landed FAANG like comps without leetcoding.
There's another possibility: The two variables are completely unrelated but we only get to observe them when some function of both of the variables is true. The classic example is two independent coin tosses that trigger a bell when both coins come up the same -- and we only think to look at the coins when the bell sounds.
Better late than never, with all the EEs they have it is sad that it has taken this long.
MLB posts a ton of video to Youtube, but the descriptions on those videos are rather minimal. That makes it hard to find a perfect example without combing through hundreds of videos, but this one is close [1]. The call here was more a problem with the transfer from sliding to standing, but his front leg does the "bounce" I was talking about that is hard to notice in the real-time replay at 30 seconds but is obvious in the slow motion replay at 60 seconds. Regardless of whether the problem is the bounce or the transfer, this player clearly "beat" the tag which is in my opinion the spirit of the rule. He would have likely been called safe for 100+ years of baseball history. Yet with video review, he is clearly out based on the letter of the rule.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3J1QEwDmmg&t=30
It's more like 2.5-3 million years for meat eating: https://www.livescience.com/31974-earliest-human-hunters-fou...
How about if it cost half the price of the regular burger?
Isn't the great engineering the fact that all toasters are made from commodity parts and are cheap and able to be had by all.
Without reading the study, this would be my first assumption.
You'll have to sort through some chaff, but most of the most compelling evidence can almost surely be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/search?q=mkultra&restric...

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/search?q=Kaczynski&restr...

I think it's a cosmic shame most people seem unable to consider conspiracy theories ("It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"), especially since most everyone seems to believe in many conspiracies, the only difference being they're covered in the MSM rather than discussed in online forums. I imagine this is due to conditioning to some degree, so I guess one shouldn't cast too much blame.
I hope some absurdly rich alumnus tightens the vice on Columbia over this behavior, as they are likely the only constituency with any power over the matter.
Besides this story, is there any evidence to say that these are solid objects rather then advanced projections? Obviously you can make projections move in all sorts of erratic ways. I can’t discount this whole thing outright because I’m an eyewitness to the phenomenon in the mid 90’s. Can the sensor data rule on this idea?
Coda, though that's being replaced by something new any minute now.

Apple News, though it's still moist behind the ears and needs more features.

Sequel Pro, though if there's a Windows equivalent my IT department hasn't found it yet.

There are a bunch of tiny workhorse utilities like FileChute, EasyBatchPhoto, and Subler. Though there's probably a Windows version of Subler.

There are a number of Mac-only apps that attract people, but it's not the 1990's anymore. People don't use a platform for a "killer app." Most people choose a computer because they like the way it works. macOS works better for a lot of people than Windows or Linux. They may also be partial to the hardware for various reasons.

They all seem to try and follow Apple’s model of only serving the happy path

Apple, and its users focus on getting things done. Productivity is highly valued.

completely ignoring anyone who needs more than that - e.g. power users.

"Power users" is just Nerd for "tweakers and hobbyists." Apple hasn't been interested in that demographic since 1984. If you're a later-day "power user," good for you. Linux awaits.

The only reason I keep a Windows box around is for IE11 compatibility testing. And Linux I only use on servers. That's because the way macOS works makes sense to me. It didn't at first, coming from Windows. But now that I understand the workflow conventions, it makes sense, and I prefer it.
On a slight tangent: when I saw the title I thought "I'll probably have to post a link to that Technology Connections film showing that natty old toaster".

His channel is really interesting; even if like me you find his style a little irritating at first it really grows on you when you see that he really knows what he's talking about. One of my favorite channels next to Jeff Cavaliere (Athlean-X).
Fair. But I'll deal with all manner of home distractions if I can avoid having to pack up all my gear to go number two (and having everyone around me see that I'm preparing for number two).
Even ordinary quality level plastics parts can often be easier to import from China there, moreover now. Even things like plastic bathtubs is a challenge at the moment. Not many options for small businesses there other than to work with garage factories, with all resulting complications.

I will be glad to get in touch with you if you really need to make it there, and you are really ready to pay. For a project under $100k you will likely pay a fee from 10% to 20%. Disclaimer, this is not a binding commercial offer
Also discovered this on a previous thread on HN;
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14940606
https://www.searchgita.com/
A beautiful tool that lets you search for particular cantos from the Tome.
So don't include information that isn't necessary. rm name/age/gender.

If it's the organization's in-house medical number, that should be okay. It's literally a random identifier number. Or better yet, use a visit number, test number or result number to avoid linking them together.
I've bought Scrivener twice now and have never actually used it — but it's so beautifully made. I just want it to still be here when I finally get around to it.
I don’t have much experience with this, but I’ve been reading a bit about it last days. As far as I can tell:

- Concurrent reading has always been possible.

- Reading while writing is possible when the relatively new WAL mode is enabled, at no significant cost.

- Writing still results in a lock, and other writers can decide how long they’re willing to wait on it.
I'm not accusing Cloud Flare of violating the GPL.
Also from a Perspective [1] in the same issue, which I also found useful:

An imitation circuit

Animals, including humans, rely heavily on imitation and social learning, yet we know little about how this process operates in the brain. Zhao et al. used optogenetic manipulation of a synaptic pathway connecting auditory and vocal motor circuits to implant song memories sufficient to guide song learning into young zebra finches (see the Perspective by Clayton). Activation of this circuit overrode learning from live tutors. These experiments define circuits essential for social learning of songs from tutors and show that such memories can be localized.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6461/33
Sounds very cool. Howvever, when you transform the data using PCA the interpretation of the signals are different right? How do you approach that problem?
> How would "speed camera apps" encourage illegal behavior?

If almost all speed cameras are in the app, then you can just slow down near the cameras and speed everywhere else.

If there's no app, you don't know where the cameras are, so you need to be careful everywhere.
So, you have to toast two pieces at once?
If you look at the various testimonies of MK Ultra victims now surfacing, it's clear that the program is ongoing.
Thus my first suggestion that we get independent reproduction of the results :-)

One of the most common such "observability" functions is that humans tend to pay attention to things they find interesting.
A few thoughts on this:

* There's a slight monopoly danger of having so many batteries manufactured from one source, although Tesla would be better than say, an oil company.

* Can we please get standard battery form factors, voltages and connectors: like AA, AAA, C, D, 9 volt, etc, but in a larger size similar to lantern batteries and car batteries?

* Can we please get batteries with built-in protection circuits? I want to wire them in series or parallel at any voltage and have them "just work" and never explode. Bonus: please do this with solar panels as well.

* Can we please get batteries with prepaid postage or a recycling refund (similar to aluminum cans) that can be taken to any post office, propane exchange or even gas station for recycling?
> Estimate the valuation of the company

Good luck with that.

Also, you need to factor in that the probabilities of the start up becoming significant (IPO / become profitable / survives) are probably way below 1%.

At the end of the day, you don't go to a start up for the money but for the experience. Any other intention is guaranteed to not work out.
Historically, at least in the Netherlands (and it seems also Germany), you get the eye test free as "service" because before or afterwards you'll then look for a frame that you like. Of course, under GDPR (or previously the DPD from 1995) you are totally entitled to learn what data they have about you, but going to get a free eye test and then ordering cheap stuff online is just a jerk thing to do.

I read in this thread that elsewhere on the planet, they're not free, and then of course you get the values. Would be super weird to pay for a test and then not get the result. (Nobody likes vendor lock-in.)

I've done eye tests before and not gotten glasses because it turned out not to be necessary, but it always felt really shitty. I always asked how much it was, as an offer to pay, but was never asked to pay anything. I'd be in favor of paying for what you use to avoid both guilt trapping and hard feelings.
I disagree completely. If software genuinely hasn’t needed to be updated since 2000, it’s solid, dependable. It’s a hammer. I use the same hammer I use today I used 20 years ago.

It’s a tool, not a gimmick. Think the UNIX tools used billions of times a day we don’t even think about.
This is exactly what’s happening in cities across the world including suburban Mumbai, where I live.

Ride shares like Uber and Ola, a myriad delivery services, and privately owned rickshaws are choking the city. We’ve basically handed the city roads over to last mile logistics and ride share companies to the extent that one can’t safely drive in the city because everyone else on the road has a delivery/pickup deadline to meet.

It has gotten to point when I get calls from people I barely know asking me to teach them how to drive so that they can work for Ola/Uber/Last mile logistics.

Eventually, we’re all going to become shut ins because the alternative is to risk life and limb trying to share the road with people who are trying to play chicken with each other just to get somewhere a minute earlier.