skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this is a sign that value in the stock market is largely disconnected from current value?

it's entirely speculative. On the face of it, all it's saying is that a lot of people believe that tesla will someday be the largest US carmaker ever.

We can go even further than that though. People don't invest for the fun of it, they invest to make money. While Ford might have an awful lot of cars, owning a handful of shares is not going to make much money beyond predictable dividends and slightly above inflation year-on-year growth. There's not much room for future growth in Ford, so people are unlikely to ever buy shares at a high price.
My point is that the article is worse than just having a link to the paper. It just says it might lead to cures for diseases, better self driving cars and lots of other abstract sensational nonsense. It could be used as a template and any new machine learning paper could just be linked to it.
It's think it's pretty common when billing for time when the base rate is high. Lots of big law firms bill in six minute increments.
> as part of cryptographically secure PRNGs (though most of the world has moved on to stream ciphers for that instead)

My understanding is that plenty of stream ciphers are based on hashes. For example each block of the stream can be hash(key + nonce + block counter + constants) that you xor with your plaintext (or don't, if you just want a CSPRNG).
Personal Capital or Mint. Can't really go wrong with either.
Mobile here means laptops and netbooks, not phones.
Plane took off and according to Iranians had a 1 in a million chance engine fire. The plane continues to fly, it has multiple engines for redundancy.

The video showing a missile hitting a plane and later catching fire and crashing. Pictures of a missile at the crash site; shrapnel damage on the plane for sure. Unclear if it's legit or not, but lets say it's legit. It was shot down.

If it were Iran who shot it down. Why were there multiple people awake in the middle of the night recording a dark sky on the off chance Iran shoots their own plane down? If it were the Iran government they wouldn't want evidence like that.

Why were the Americans so quick at being able to say Iran shot down the plane?

Is it perhaps because (label group here) had an Iranian AA missile to use in Tehran. Had their agents record the missile attack so that they could blame Iran?

That's the more likely story.

Interesting how Trump was very untrumplike calling for peace earlier.

Interesting how there were no American citizens on that plane.

Not sure who did it.
Concurrent filesystems, high availability systems etc
There was never any intention to make America great. It was just a phrase used because it's what people wanted to hear and they ate it up.
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There's a product called a reverse mortgage that accomplishes the same thing. Having the government offer this instead of foreclosure nullifies the "I lost my house because of high property taxes" argument, but there's no need for the interest rate to be especially competitive. If you can get a better deal on the private market, go get it.
First, no he isn't. Second, the book we are talking about (again) is a textbook (this view isn't remotely controversial btw - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Theory_of_Employme...). Economic Consequences of Peace is very good, a lot of his stuff aimed at the general public (Persuasion/How to Pay for the War) is good...General Theory is not.
wow I'm really surprised to see San Diego on the list of "underperforming" markets that was cut. seems like a huge red flag for the industry if that's true.

no city have I been to had more scooters everywhere than San Diego. and the city has been very accommodating in the sense that they created designated scooter parking areas. it's almost the perfect city for scooters: almost always warm/sunny, very flat, not great public transportation infra.

left wondering what happened.
I used to be bullish on ebikes for commuting, until I started buying secondhand ones barely a few months old on craigslist at steep discounts for my own family.

In every case, the owner had a change of heart and switched to a scooter. Why? Because the ebike is huge and heavy, needs dedicated locking, parking etc. Often there isn't room for it on the bus/train. They all found the scooter way better for last mile style commutes.

Scooters are a fraction of the cost, capable of similar speed and range with less user effort and have virtually no maintenance. You can carry them easily into an office, and they weigh a fraction of a typical ebike. They fit much more easily into trains and buses. Long term, I think last mile commuting will surely be won by a scooter style machine.

I still think ebikes have a huge role to play in future of transport, but I don't think it will be last mile commutes as much as some expect.
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First track your expenses. Put them into categories. Trim if necessary. Then budget. Save at least 10% of your income. Better if it’s 25%.

Categories would be housing(includes utilities), transport, food, children(or pets or parents or ‘others’, if any), fun, medical/emergency(if not covered), taxes and insurance, savings.

You will see that some are fixed and some can be variable. You can only trim those that are variable.

Automatic transfers for the fixed and recurring expenses.(these can have a fixed ceiling. Like for utilities or gas etc).

For the variables like food and fun, assign different credit cards to them. That way you can track exactly how much you spend on food and when you change your behavior, you can figure out if it’s working for you and even make changes in the short term.
So, your rationalization is because you're already doomed you would have the rest of us die off just so to satisfy your poorly informed bias for Nuclear energy?

I think this is a much bigger dilemma than you think, and you should rethink your Life in general. The alternatives (renewables) that exist may not be perfect, but they are worthy candidates to at least be able to comprise of most of our energy needs.

But, if I'm honest, this is probably the same selfish mentality that can rationalize having a Humanitarian crisis ongoing while simultaneously being able to vie for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. How the Human mind can rationalize such a tragic fate, is beyond me.
They cost $300. Maybe bird gets them for $200. Even if you cut the cost down to $100, that's still $100 a month per scooter to run the network.

https://qz.com/1561654/how-long-does-a-scooter-last-less-tha...
Someone did buy it it!

> Creation Date: 2020-01-09T19:37:01Z

Registered with Gandi, ironically enough...

And the domain is meta! Response from HTTP GET

> Location: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822
As already mentioned by toomuchtodo, YNAB (You Need a Budget)[0] is fantastic. It's been my go-to for a few years, since before they released the web version. It's paid, but to me it's worth it for direct importing of transactions from my accounts.

There are, of course, a few free options that do a lot of the same things, but YNAB has been working for me for a long time and is well worth the money.

[0] https://www.youneedabudget.com/
The thing is, there's no reason why my wife can't take the scooter with her, into the office. It's not like she's riding a moped, or even a bicycle!
This was something that was brought up in some sort of efficiency review that was recently done. More concerning than New York City Transit having too many lawyers is that all the sub-agencies duplicate these departments... so there is a team sitting around at the LIRR, MNR, etc. doing similar things for their sub-agency. It is not an efficient organization.
I am speechless. I can somehow forgive the 60ies and 70ies, when awareness of the long term effects of certain substances and technologies just started to build up. It took us long enough to deal with the damages done in those times, there are still buildings which have to be decontaminated from asbestos and other harmfull stuff. The ozone layer also is just barely recovering thanks to the ban of the responsible chemicals.

I also can understand, that banning a substance takes a while for establishing good alternatives. But once a harmful substance is finally removed from the production chain, why would one want to bring it back, knowing exactly what this is?
You know, I hadn't considered that. This distinguishes nnn from Broot. I would revise my comment if I could, but in the absence of that ability, consider this my correction.
It probably hurts profit margins, so as far as business are concerned it's unsafe to them.
It's hard to tell what the exact effects will be but it sounds like the final rule was more restrictive?

Also this should have [2018] added.

https://archpaper.com/2019/04/epa-issues-its-final-asbestos-...
No, but I do code sometimes in my spare time or I am sometimes able to utilize my work time to contribute if it's functionality my company needs from an open source project we're using. It's not like you have to sign up for 8-hour shifts in open source software development.
r/personalfinance’s guide is worth its weight in gold: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics.

PocketSmith holds my personal budget. It takes some getting used to and dedicated time to learn, but it’s been well worth it to me. YNAB was too simplistic for my needs, however it may be just the right fit for someone else.
Unfortunately, whenever these kind of lawsuits happen, a lot of people defend employers and say if worker could not have handled the work, they should have quit/looked for another job. Even if an employee doesn't file a lawsuit but refuse to be abused, other employees complain about the person standing up for themselves.

Years ago when I was naive and passive, we were ordered by management to work on Saturday to meet certain deadline. One guy simply said he cannot work on Saturday. The manager with dumb look asked why, the guy replied I got plans. Manager asked about other weekends, and this guy simply replied I got plans. Manager didn't know how to respond he left. Afaik, the guy never got in trouble. But rest of the team that worked Saturday complained about this guy being not a team player and how he should not be software developer if he cannot do a little bit of crunch time. I didn't know better I thought I was hero for putting in extra work. Of course, a few years later we were laid off. I learned my lessons.

Sometimes, I wonder if there is some sort of conspiracy by big businesses to spread narrative that anyone can find a better job if they don't like their job. Crunch time is normal, abusive policies are normal, etc
Sounds interesting! Thanks for the link!
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I honestly think it was less any type of Wintel conspiracy and more that platforms have network effects. Between Palladium not working out and Microsoft actually making Windows NT for some RISC ISA's, there wasn't actually an Intel/Microsoft conspiracy to dominate the industry together. They each wanted to separately dominate their part of the industry and both largely succeeded, but MS would have been just as happy selling Windows NT for SPARC/Alpha/PowerPC workstations and Intel would have been just as happy to have Macs or BeBoxes using their chips.
Did you read my comment before writing this?
Tbf it's my understanding that at one point in NYC all asbestos removal was controlled by the mafia, but obviously Trump completely misunderstood the issue and repeated whatever stupid nonsense came up in his head.
The question you almost always want to answer about the relationship of the subway to the surroundings is "where is the nearest station entrance" which the system map cannot and should not answer. Any other question about that spatial relationship is essentially trivia, as far as a transit system map is concerned.

And don't try to use the MTA map as a guide to New York City, it is woefully geographically inaccurate. But it still looks like it might be right, so it is in fact quite misleading.

The responsibility of a transit system map is to tell you about the transit system. It should do that above all else.
> Does anyone actually think this is a profitable market?

I recall a study in Paris last year (iirc) in which they concluded that the useful life of these scooters was shorter than their individual rental break even points...
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Indeed. Croatian coastline. Possible game of phones?
Saying that you do not own your unique genetic code is not much different than saying that your ears, eyes or kidneys are not yours, and might be helpful form others, so anybody could take them. Think about it.
Thanks for the link mauricio! That's very interesting and makes a ton of sense. Gonna have a lot of fun playing around with BLAKE3 for different things.
I don't think there is any claim that the same instrumentation is used for the Union Army cohort -- even basic details like whether the temperature is taken orally or axially: "Whether the temperatures were taken orally or in the axilla is unknown; both methods were employed in the 19th century although oral temperature was more common".
You can see before and after MRI imaging of areas with injury and then healed. Obviously we have to define the process of what is being talked about when saying "stem cell treatment" and determining degeneration level of tissues, along with health of the individual - and therefore the health and potency of their own stem cells, are other factors to consider.

I'd say the bigger issue is filtering out the bad-greedy actors who jump into this space, who are piggybacking on the excitement generated from of word of mouth from patients who have benefit greatly - from clinics who have protocols they follow for what they know works and what won't work.

I have been getting stem cell treatments from a clinic in the US for a few years now to treat many different areas of injury (limited number of areas they can treat due to limited amount of fluid they have to use after aspiration and post-processing) and from my own experience, and that of speaking with other patients in waiting rooms (and even hotel lobby) who have returned for additional treatments - it certainly works, heals, regenerates tissues with the right protocol and condition. The most painful injection spot I had was a ruptured, torn disk, in my low back - I am doing that area again on the 16th of this month, as part of a number of areas, because it helped permanently reduce radiating pain from that area greatly; I plan to do an MRI of area a few months after this next treatment to have post imaging.
This is the question that should be higher up in the thread. This whole discussion makes no sense. Photons carry no hidden identity.
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How much time spend do you estimate you'd log logging the time spend of logging your time spend?
It has a lot of advantages. Now when a criminal steals my package I alert the police immediately with 100% return rate so far. Before Ring, I would go home and search for a package for thirty minutes before realizing it was stolen. I'll gladly pay $3 a month for this service, it pays for itself. As far as privacy, I don;t have the privilege of a gated community to keep thieves out so this is the next best thing
I will no longer give Lime any business after I hopped on a scooter with 30% battery and it died within less than 5 minutes. I was late for work, and my only option was to unlock another Lime scooter after the first died, costing me extra $ for the unlock. I communicated this to their support team and they refused to give me a refund, telling me that I should check the battery life before getting on a scooter (shouldn't 30% enough to go 1.5 miles?)...I expressed my frustration to the survey following up the support and still no refund for the unlock fee. It may seem silly, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back and I uninstalled the app.
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/figurati...
In Wellington, New Zealand Uber (Jump) replaced their entire scooter fleet a few weeks ago after just six months of operation, their main competitor (Flamingo) will probably have to do the same as their scooters now look worn and tired vs the Jump ones. Lime has been booted out of a couple of markets locally as they had safety issues, all those scooters are probably in a land fill somewhere.
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Follow-ups to your comment have responded to your analogy with discussions of lock-picks, firefighter exceptions, and safes vs doors.

The point I think you were trying to make is that it's mathematically possible to create a cryptographic lock that's inviolable. This is a different way of thinking.

I agree strongly - it's one thing to have a process or rule on what to do, and another to build a system that forces the processes and rules to be followed.

(I say inviolable, but I'm aware you can typically defeat a cryptographic lock by taking a crowbar to the physical locks watched by your Ring doorbell and subsequently using the crowbar on the person whose mind holds the key to said lock...but that's not the lock's fault.)
nope, joined in 2012
This is pretty neat; I had the impression that they were going to make something like this, but kinda put it out of my mind after hearing nothing about it for years.

I found an old Friendly Robotics lawn mower robot on Craigslist and purchased it for $50, thinking of using it for my lawn but I never got around to doing anything with it. Mainly because I couldn't think of an easy way to detect the perimeter of the lawn without an edge wire!

I guess it's not an easy problem to solve.

I had considered a bunch of options, a few of the ideas I had were:

1. Some kind of camera or color sensor, looking downward, to detect "green" vs "non-green" - assuming the grass was green and non-grass would be some other color. That would work ok for most of my yard, but my lawn in front doesn't have an "edge" with the neighbor's lawn - so it would mow their lawn, too - not what I want.

2. A passive perimeter, consisting of a bunch of spaced (maybe 6" between?) magnets - I thought maybe plastic golf tees with a rare-earth magnet glued on top would be ok; then use hall-effect sensors on the robot's perimeter to determine if it had crossed over the line of magnets.

3. This one was more to detect cut vs uncut grass - but use some kind of humidity sensor; assuming cut grass has higher humidity than uncut grass, "sniff" the ground and avoid uncut (drier) areas. The problem with this concept, mainly, was in not being able to find high-speed humidity sensors/detectors.

At any rate, I never followed through with any of this, but maybe someday I might return to it? I am curious on the cost of this iRobot lawn mower, though. I'm guessing 4 figures, given what I know about the price of their vacuums (which my wife loves; every time one dies, she buys a new one, and the old one I save for my future Roomba army to take over the world with).

If my guess is accurate, then I'll just have to put off buying one, as it will still be cheaper to continue to pay my landscaper to cut my lawn (and this robot won't trim trees or bushes yet, so...)
> Buy notebook with keyboard without Esc key.

Won't help. True addicts know of C-[.
Ask HN: Customer endorsements / use of customer logos on website
This post [1] created an interesting discussion that seemed like it should have its own Ask HN. It seems that quite a few young sites will post the logos of its customers (potentially implying endorsement / commercial relationship). Are there best practices for doing this (if at all) and what advice would the HN community have for a startup seeking to promote itself by use of customer logos.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21998632
I have worked in couple of places, mainly largest banks, as a contractor Java dev.

Your freedom is directly proportional to the trust your manager has in your good judgment. If you can build the trust and convince the manager (indirectly) that they don't need to handhold you and it's better to use their time to focus on other things you can be doing mostly the stuff you decide needs to be done.

From my experience, in case of FB moderators, these things happen because of some kind of corporate scarring. I guess somebody or a group of people seriously exploited their freedom and the management instead of trying to actually understand and solve the problem used shotgun/lazy management to just outright squash the problem along with every team member's freedom.
Facebook does this so often (lip service with no real practical effects) that we can't consider it to be helplessness anymore. A company so routinely ineffective at fixing its mistakes must be lying about actually believing they were mistakes.
Whats the story on those?
> isn't Uber still not profitable on a unit economic basis?

Uber still has money to burn and is trying to grow even more. They could likely be profitable if they wanted, pretty quickly, by limiting spending/expansion.
Standard library packages can be declared "provisional": https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0411/

The PEP says "A provisional package is one which has been deliberately excluded from the standard library's backwards compatibility guarantees."

But there's no equivalent for language features, AFAIR.
The domain name was a big flag for me that it may not be genuine.
"We had to be in Avail status at the exact start of our shift or be counted late. For example, if I was scheduled to be in at 10am, I had to be in Avail at 10am. Meaning I had to take care of booting up computer, etc. before then."

This has wage and hour lawsuit written all over it. See "donning and doffing" litigation.
The ublox zed-f9p is probably the most cost effective right now at 200$
Compared to a car parking on the sidewalk and totally blocking it which happens so often?
Trump has disdain for the EPA, and one reason why Scott Pruitt was chosen was because of his disdain for asbestos regulation.

> During Pruitt’s confirmation hearings, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey asked Pruitt whether he would allow the EPA to ban asbestos. Pruitt responded evasively, saying he would seek the “input of a wide range of stakeholders to ensure sound and inclusive rulemaking and not to produce or dismiss comments from one particular entity.

https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safe...

As for the larger picture of why republicans are going this way, this book explains the trends:

"The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump"

https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safe...
It's probably not stupidity, it's corruption. Near the end of the article it makes a note that the largest asbestos mining and export company is Russian and now stamps its products with Donald Trump's face.
Then in that hypothetical you just pay a little more for an uber/lyft. That's the benefit of not being locked into an asset.
I know.. I had to use it via USB for a few days when the USB-C/TB port failed on my laptop until it was repaired.
Why not watch the video? Was that not 'proof' enough for you to type this comment ?
unforeseen is the army of charging slaves that patrol the city at 4 AM for a few extra dollars at their own expense. E-scooters launched through shop windows and into streets after bars close.
Excellent questions indeed. I started an Ask HN in case anyone wants to comment there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22004803