skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are. But then the city just ignores the "stick" half of the carrot/stick framework. Or they "lose" the contract[0]. Or they lost the sophistication war with the company's lawyers, and get loop-holed out of their penalties.

It's all very slimy or amateurish, depending on how charitable you want to be towards the principals involved.

What strikes me the most from this article:

> A consumer twists a knob at the bottom of a can and activates a cooling apparatus. In about 90 seconds, the beverage temperature drops about 30 degrees.

That's it? 30°F? So if my can is at 90°F, and I'd like a cold one, I can wait a minute and a half and get a lukewarm 60° beverage. I mean, that's kinda cool maybe, but I can't imagine it's worth whatever this costs.

[0] "In response to public records requests, Youngstown provided cost projections for just 30 of the 94 agreements it granted since 1991, saying it could not locate many of the early contracts."
In the lab, electrical conduction transmits charge but does not transmit torque.

The proposed mechanism would transmit torque but not charge.
As a teenager with a job, the cost wasn't really an issue and the launch window meant there was plenty of time to save up the difference. What killed the Saturn for me and my circle of friends were the games.

I remember we rented a Saturn with all the games from Block Buster for like $50 for the weekend and were thoroughly unimpressed. Not long after, a Playstation popped up at Media Play (remember that store?) with demos you could play. I remember specifically going there multiple times to play Battle Arena Toshinden.
Viruses tend to become less lethal as time passes, not more.
Don't be afraid of copying the master
If the government was serious about homeland security and restoring the economy they would be subsidizing testing full boat.
> Works better in spoken language I think.

And uttered by Malcolm Tucker. As a Scot, I enjoy a few well placed sweary words.
It doesn't require installing any software, which is biggest source of issues with Zoom. It also makes realistic claims about its security: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7582940?hl=en
It reminds me of LONI Pipeline[1], which was created for the need of a neuroscience lab to process images of brain scans.

[1] http://pipeline.loni.usc.edu/
In theory, yes. In practice, it would often cost more in time to actually obtain anything from a low-cost airline in Europe than the compensation was worth.

I strongly believe that if one wants the level of customer service of a traditional airline, (s)he should be flying with a traditional airline, – and paying for it.
Everyone thinking this seems to have resulted in it happening a couple days early. It's not yet clear whether today or tomorrow is a good time to short BTC.
Indeed, the actual case study is here: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49194.

But it seems unavailable to purchase.
The founder of WhatsApp made 0.5 Billion from his exit. Similar outcomes exist for other unicorns, some likely even more extravagant. What game do you think these people played?
Why do we need the FTC involved in this?
Oof. Satire's not what it used to be.
Who is watching you chat with your friends?

Industrial espionage is far more likely to be a target, and I wouldn't be surprised if alternative platforms are just as compromised.
Stanford is on quarters, so they could have graduated at the end of the winter quarter in early April.
> it's not in the Scheme standard though (as far as I know), which makes it difficult to rely on, if you are programming to the spec.

If you want to have code work everywhere and thus code defensively, yes. Of course you're not coding defensively when coding for Racket, either. But I guess I may have misunderstood you--Racket simply gives you a guarantee; as do some (other) Scheme implementations, so you get the same benefit with some/many other Scheme implementations as well--but even those "differ from Scheme (the standard)", by giving such a guarantee outside of the standard. It's not "Racket vs. Scheme implementations", it's "the (Racket|Scheme) implementations vs. Scheme (the standard)". Apologies then for my inappropriate rant about false claims.

> It is difficult to use the machine stack and have a fast call/cc. But I think Chez Scheme proves it's possible.

Chez doesn't seem to be using the machine stack either. I've tested with this code and "ulimit -s 1000" on Linux and it runs fine:

(define (conc a b)
(if (null? a)
b
(cons (car a)
(conc (cdr a) b))))

(define (iot n)
(if (negative? n)
'()
(cons n (iot (- n 1)))))

(display (length (conc (iot 10000000) (iot 10000000))))
(newline)

Note that it can still be using a stack built from "machine" or C style arrays as building blocks--that's what I meant with "Some Scheme implementations allocate stack frames more efficiently than cons cells". Gambit falls into this category as well. But you can't have a single uninterrupted C style array as the stack (with no copying during GC like Chicken does) and implement call/cc efficiently. So I'd still say that implementing Scheme including call/cc efficiently means moving away from the stack controlled by ulimit -s, and once that is done it's easy/natural for an implementation to also offer unbounded stacks like Racket does.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/48857/former-head-of-cir...

> Matuszewski told On the Brink's Nic Carter that the idea of tethers driving the price of bitcoin significantly higher is "not true whatsoever."

> "I say this as someone who created and redeemed billions of tether over the course of my life and specifically created it in 2017," he said.

> In short, Matuszewski affirmed that there were incentivizing events for the generation of Tethers. Bitfinex didn't print Tether out of nowhere either, since Matuszewski said he himself was one of the drivers.

> “I can tell you that billions of dollars were sent in to make it like that," he said. "I can 100%, without question, verifiably guarantee it happened. I did it, I was there...That money wasn't just being hypothecated. It wasn't just coming out of thin air, that was happening."

I worked for Circle, I worked with Dan, and I can guarantee you that Dan (former head of Circle Trade, the second largest crypto OTC desk) knows his stuff, and Tether is nowhere near as sketchy as your posts and conspiracies would have you believe.
Just because you have antibodies does not mean you cannot spread the disease. Antibodies relate to your own body's ability to resist an infection from what I understand.
The block reward has been cut in half. So if they were mining for 0 transaction fees then their revenue would be cut in half, but nobody does that. The actual change will thus be less than half, and it's possible transaction fees will increase.
Indeed, the ultimate limit of quality is governed by quantum fluctuations... and incredibly, we're already "there".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520655/
Yeah, specifically the GM plant in Lordstown, which is not in city proper but is in the metro area. They made Chevy Cruzes there. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/podcasts/the-daily/genera...
Instead of using iCloud sync create an account with their service and log in on both devices with the same account. My wife and I have been using it this way for years and it works really well.
This page is classic Apache project in that I read it and have no idea what it does. Can you high level explain what this thing is really for?
I simply measured the time it took from the introduction of DES to when it was no longer "recommended" and substracted the years since AES was standarized, then added a decade of margin of error.

It does not sound to me far fetched to think that AES will be similarly "unrecommended" in such amount of time even if there is absolutely no evidence right now.
Hour No-Sleep Challenge
Yes, the HW can do that, and I've made them personally. Ubports will be able to make/receive calls soon if it does not already.

Though if you just want a phone for calling, you can get a dumbphone. I have that and it beats any smartphone anytime, including pinephone. "Charge and forget about for a month" is an unbeatable feature for people who don't call much or receive many calls.

I also developed a routing configuration for pinephone audio https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/audio-pp.html#toc-voice-call... that will eventually make this a very fascinating device and allow features (https://xnux.eu/ui/voice-calls-app.html) that no iPhone or Android will ever give you. So PinePhone has a potential to be a much more interesting phone device.
It's not that the problems couldn't be solved that way, it's that they don't necessarily get any simpler. Adding an external micro and all the support it needs is added cost, maybe added real estate, power budget and very often, it makes the solution more complex and less reliable.
I'm certain that's the right decision for you. But for those who spend time understanding markets instead of mythologizing them (and assigning any unpredicted movement to a boogieman), there is absolutely alpha to be had, and the market is not so easy to manipulate as many (almost exclusively non-quants) believe.

It's popular to shit on cryptocurrencies these days, and they certainly have their shortcomings, but they are still fascinating systems and the markets are even more interesting. Instead of intellectual discussion, people seem to flood the comments with hate and jealousy, presumably because some people made more money than them due to presumed luck.
I was under the impression that string theory was inherently un-provable.
@dang it's supposed to start with "96 hour" but the parser stripped the number. Sigh
I believe I've read about people in developing countries with high inflation in their government's currency rely on bitcoin but I don't know how true that is. I've never bought anything with bitcoin and I hope I never have to.
> In short, Matuszewski affirmed that there were incentivizing events for the generation of Tethers. Bitfinex didn't print Tether out of nowhere either, since Matuszewski said he himself was one of the drivers.

Great! Then an audit should be right around the corner, yeah? Or did we forget when their last auditor quit [1].

> "I say this as someone who created and redeemed billions of tether over the course of my life and specifically created it in 2017," he said.

Tether's terms of service: "The right to have Tether Tokens redeemed or issued is a contractual right personal to you. Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves." [2]

Translation: Redemptions not guaranteed.

> I worked for Circle, I worked with Dan, and I can guarantee you that Dan (former head of Circle Trade, the second largest crypto OTC desk) knows his stuff, and Tether is nowhere near as sketchy as your posts and conspiracies would have you believe.

I'm sure the NYAG disagrees. [3]

Likely in no small part because one large market participant doesn't validate a fraud. They would be hugely incentivized to provide Matuszewski service so that he could go on record and say exactly this kind of thing. I'm sure the same quotes could be attributed to big players in the Madoff case.

So, in short: [audit needed]

[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/cryptocu...

[2] https://tether.to/legal/

[3] https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-york-ag-finds-it-perverse...
I'm also a startup founder and I try to stay disciplined in keeping a can-do attitude all week. The main principles I try to stick to are:

* Uplift with gratitude

* Take breaks

* Breakdown overwhelming tasks

* Celebrate small wins

* Be clear on your motivation

Breaking down tasks is one of the most important ones for me. I find that if a task isn't well-defined or small enough, I dread starting it. I've started doing "braindumps" on any task that isn't small and actionable until I get there.

Post for more details: https://link.medium.com/PSWM5I8Vo6
The ESP32 can do that too. Note that PSRAM is a lot slower than the embedded SRAM, so if you need to access that memory a lot, you're going to have a bad time.
The grid layout and having chip(let?)s communicating with the four neighbors reminds me a lot of TIS-100 [1], I'm wondering if the game was inspired by this chip.

Hopefully the real chip is easier to program :-).

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/370360/TIS100/
HN's own patio11 has an excellent long explainer on Tether: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
> sore throat, post-nasal drip, wildly varying body temperature, and lower back pains. In hindsight those are COVID-19 symptoms.

> the person I live with took the same Abbott Architect antibody test from LabCorp today so that we can

where did you get the test and how much?
For anyone interested in the code behind the halving, I had some fun dissecting the GetBlockSubsidy() function that takes care of halving & ending of block subsidy [1].

It continues to amaze me that I struggle to set up a 5-node database cluster without one going out-of-sync or split-braining every few weeks, yet the bitcoin network manages to keep thousands of miners in-sync. This has to be the best example of eventual consistency in a production network.

[1] https://ma.ttias.be/dissecting-code-bitcoin-halving/
Retirement Calculators for Engineers
I'm not quite ready to open source this project just yet as I believe I possess some trade secret-level intellectual property. I might be wrong about that, so if anyone can find a calculator that can do what my calculators can do then I'll gladly open it up. That being said this is a 100% client-side app and I'm not collecting anyone's data (other than Google Analytics). I just wanted to share this project here to solicit feedback from smart people and help everyone get a clearer picture of their retirement.
Very informative and transparent. This should be the standard everywhere.

I'm a bit surprised (and disappointed) something similar does not exist for the Bay Area.
Definitions of Mathematics
Yeah, Hacker's Keyboard makes a big difference, but I still only hit the right key 90% of the time, because I can't feel the keys with my fingers, and I can only hit a couple of keys per second. There's a big difference between making a typo once every 40 characters and making a typo once every 10 characters, especially in a vi command!
Integration of Firebase analytics in a Vuepress website
You don’t have to install any software to use Zoom.
I don't think so, after all there was a soft-fork (SegWit) and a few hard-forks (Bitcoin Classic most famously) just to address the high volume of transactions. I think the creator did not anticipate bitcoins becoming so valuable. The high value means that people are only willing to pay small fractions of the block reward as fees, because that's worth a lot of money.
Any GI index which is not determined on an individual level is likely to be useless.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.001

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2014.16658
Hence the kiss
PHP has multiple ways to mix HTML and PHP, that’s part of its design. The simplest way to put a block of HTML inside PHP code is with the heredoc string syntax. As of PHP 7.3 heredocs allow indenting of the closing label, fixing the slight ugliness of heredocs.

You can also just switch in and out of PHP to an HTML block.
Though I'm not sure why so many people were hinged about Tether (albeit the average solidity of its peg meant it's legit); the positive effect of this is that we now have lots of different stable USD coins: Coinbase, Gemini, TrueUSD, Binance all have stable coins with a total cap of over $1bn. Sure it's much less than TetherUSD $6.3bn but it's roughly 16%. Much better than the total monopoly of tether two years ago.
I mostly agree except that convenience is everything. Without the distribution a video is just a string of bits. if nobody can find it, it doesn't matter what the content of the video is - it doesn't exist.
I for sure didn't imply it would run smoothly on 1920p, that's a high bar for a MacBook.

Using lower res is not the end of the world imho, I do it on iMac all the time.
> “When I read Helmholtz for the first time, it seemed so odd that you were not at my side and today, this is not getting better. I find the work we do together very good, healing and also easier.”

Note that this was written when they were both undergraduate students and would study together.
I forget how long we ask for between duplicates, so maybe it's OK, but this also appeared closer to when it was written: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18526261 .
How Tech Is Helping Remote Workers Survive this Sh**
I can't tell which spawned which, but there's a related discussion in r/DataHoarder about an extension that does that: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ggyzoy/is_ther... in which Webrecorder was mentioned yesterday
Seems to me like pretty intuitive terms. If the test is not sensitive enough, it may miss some cases and have false negatives. If the test is not specific enough, it may be triggered by something different and have false positives.
If you're talking about GPS location, then don't use application software that reports your location. MicroG+LineageOS will suffice.

If you're talking about tower based location, there is no way to significantly spoof your location since you can only connect to local cell towers.

To mitigate the latter, what you actually want is a phone with smarter software that will communicate over Wifi most of the time (rotating macaddr of course), perhaps with the option to turn on a cell radio in case you really need to communicate out of wifi connectivity. Hopefully the freshly built software stack inspired by new platforms will end up being conducive to this usage.
I think the poster is referring to the "electron gas as charge carrier" but personally I'm not exactly sure how things fit together.
There are drawbacks that you should consider. Many of the repair mechanisms that exist, which later on become deactivated, are turned off for a reason.

It's important to understand that renewed growth is synonymous with cancer. The older you are, the greater the risk you face as your fail safes and redundancies begin to fail from corruption due to accumulated mutation. It's often better to completely turn the thing off, which is exactly what your body does, after a certain point.

The older you get and the more you age, the more you should focus on preventing the development of cancer over anything else as that will likely have the greatest impact in determining your life expectancy, assuming you continue to stay active, eat properly, and get enough sleep.
Well we were talking specifically about reducing calories by something like 50%, which automatically cuts out sugar, grains, probably meat. But what really kills it for me is not being able to move, dance, play sports.

I understand how people can have fulfilling lives after losing the ability to do those things. Would I voluntarily give them up for a longer life? Probably not.
Have you tried react-router v6 alpha ? The API is minimal and easy to understand.
Twitter Appoints Dr. Fei-Fei Li to Board of Directors
An excellent example of "knowing yourself". Bravo for the improvements!
My prized possession. Beautiful work. Implemented in a clear CD case.
>But, these types of communities really need to embrace white-collar workers and not keep praying for a blue-collar comeback.

Lot easier said than done. Famously, Racine Wi tried to get legions of white collar workers. The result was similar to what we see outlined in this article. Only instead of spending millions to get blue collar jobs, in Wisconsin we spent hundreds of millions to billions to get white collar jobs. End result was the same, basically, a predictable crash and burn.

Here's reality. These places are a tough sell. And until these places are willing to accept the fact that they are a tough sell they will continue to be easy pickings for slick corporate attorneys in dark suits.
But along with those who move would come more tax dollars, which means better schools. There's a bit of a chicken-and-egg effect but the mechanism is there. People without kids could very well "pave the path".
This is called 'hot desking' at companies near me, and is vaguely demeaning to employees insofar as it means they no longer even have dedicated space to call their own and are forced to be desk nomads at their own company. It's also presented as a positive offering flexibility, when it largely seems designed to cut floorspace costs for business which seems deceitful. Hopefully, COVID kills this idea entirely.
Fashion Designers Are Thwarting Facial Recognition Surveillance
Price of Bitcoin around the world in the local currencies
A little panel I did. Source on github, what do you think?
I had never seen a fresh fig until my thirties when I moved to the West Coast. The insides are so alien looking that it creeps me out (and let's all agree not to think about fig wasps). But, my God, what a divine fruit. They are truly heavenly. One of the rare foods that is near perfection all on its own.
Think of it this way. Why can't you just go and write the code to solve all the big problems in one day?

Because of the context switch between problems. Each one requires more energy to think about and switch to.

Each night is like preparation for the next big context switch.

One thing I do that helps is I set little 10-30min timers and say "I'll do this in this time". Gaming your time helps a lot.

But things like coffee and drugs are just taking energy away that you would have later. So it's not a net gain.

Sleep/naps are the best reset mechanisms IMO.
Same, but s/high/elementary/
Is being 40 and not being able to play tennis or go on long walks because you're too calorie-deprived that different from being 80?
I have friends in VZLA that use it in the current cash crunch / hyper inflation. Also know people in Peru/Colombia that use it as a transport layer to get money home into Venezuela.

Also, see valiu.co
Opposing anecdote: I liked the music. It made the video feel nostalgically educational, which is the feeling I get from the whole site.
> And ~0.2% of NYC is dead from coronavirus by now

You're confusing NYC and NY State numbers. .1% of NYC is dead from Covid at the moment. Which leads to an IFR of 2%, an IFR which falls in line, if a bit above those expected in South Korea etc.

> Inciting public panic is a different kind of harm from inciting public complacency, but it's harm nonetheless. I urge you to correct the misinformation you've posted above.

I agree. Can you explain what about what I've said might incite a public panic? I believe all I've said is that everything I've said can be traced back to two basic assumptions:

- I think it's reasonable to believe that the IFR is among the high end of expert estimates

- Naive reading of many serology studies leads to the conclusion that something like 80% of Covid cases are completely asymptomatic. This is likely untrue and believing it leads to dangerous conclusions.

> Even though the total positive rate--which would include both true and false positives--in serology studies in most other cities (which haven't been hit nearly as hard as NYC) is far less than 15%?

Indeed, in most it is. And then there's the study that showed 60% positive serology in a city in France, and 30% positive serology in Massachusetts. So yeah a 10% or 12% false positive rate in a serology study is completely feasible, given that the French study probably had a 40% false positive rate or something equally ridiculous.
Maybe an artificial, intentional fistula like they do with cows to study and monitor their digestion.
> It doesn't matter what people on HN say, as long as the market agrees.

"It doesn't matter what those crazy geologists say, as long volcano hasn't exploded yet."