skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm sure it depends on where you live

If you have tenants in NYC right now who aren't terrible, I think you want to keep them because there are a bunch of empty apts

In NYC if you want a good apartment right now, you can significantly underpay for the next couple of years (if your lease is up), but a lot of people whose leases are up are leaving

You make a good point, though. There will be a large shuffle for the next few months (and probably gradually back in the following years), so whoever "makes shovels" for moving will be in a good position
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I’m gonna start wearing my cycling jerseys and bibs everywhere I go in tennis shoes now.
I wonder if a tower with a larger array of Starlink antennas could connect to multiple satellites and get more performance than the pizzabox-sized consumer receivers
> The federal government is supporting the economy in an unprecedented manner to an unprecedented degree, to prevent it from collapsing until the virus is fully under control. All economic statistics reflect this unprecedented massive economic support.

And while this is true to an extent, it's also important to note that the government is supporting some parts of the economy (corporations, the stock market) significantly more than others (workers, the unemployed), and with the failure of the Republicans to agree to a new stimulus bill that wasn't 99.9% "bail out the wealthy and grant immunity to corporations that force their employees to work without adequate safety measures", that latter part is going to start showing in a big way, real soon.
No. They didn’t say build a new protocol to rule them all.

On the contrary the argument was to build a locally minimal, but sufficient, protocol that doesn’t try to compete with other locally suitable protocols.
You could just freeze a cup of water, and then stick a penny in top of it. If you ever come back to find your penny embedded or at the bottom of the cup, you know your freezer thawed out at some point
I actually went through this last week. The problem is that, if the power goes out (presumably without advance warning), a bunch of triage to basically turn your freezer into a cooler for critical items is going to cost a bunch of the stored cold air.

I'd probably go instead, if you have a cooler, with buying a few bags of ice if you can and quickly pulling out high value/especially perishable items and putting them in the cooler.
Lots of people missing the core thing here: savings rate.

When the propensity to save increases it reduces consumption. Falling credit card debt, reductions in mortgage delinquency, those are all trailing results of the increase in savings.

People are spending less with most people's income staying steady. This money is flowing into assets and reducing debt.

In normal times this would be a welcomed reversal of the American trend. Yet this effect is temporary and instead will only serve to hurt the velocity of money.

"Why is there no inflation despite massive printing?" is also a common refrain. Here to the savings rate is to blame. With less consumption the velocity of money has shrunk and the effective money supply shrank with it. Thus the FED's insane money printing is in part only there to counter act the deflationary pressure. Again: everything comes back to the savings rate.
Why do you assume there is an evolutionary basis for this? Evolutionary perspectives might be helpful for understanding broad genetic characteristics of entire populations. But it isn't even clear if absolute pitch is heritable, let alone anything more than a random variation with null survivability benefits.
I was only expecting something like OTP enforced by bank (not a choice by customer). Yes, I get the SMS / insecure transport problem, but other countries do this.
"Edit: wow, fastest downvotes in the West are coming immediately after posting in this thread. Like, less than ten seconds passed."

Wow, someone is so out of touch with the culture and the conduct code of HN that they worry about the scoring system and neurotically complain about it publicly ...
This is about 1-2 months old (dated Jun 14th)? 5.8 is out already. https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
Not that I agree with this but here's Nick Bostrom basically arguing for the end of encryption

https://www.businessinsider.com/nick-bostrom-mass-surveillan...

IIRC the argument is basically that as tech progresses it will get easier and easier for any one person to destroy the planet. According to Bostrom the only way to prevent that is no secrets and ubiquitous surveillance.
This sounds like Bitcoin.
What exactly has JK Rowlings said that is "hateful"?
Pointing out an extreme outlying example does nothing to contradict my assertion. A single example does nothing to negate what is obviously an overall trend.
> 27 hours in a garage and not a basement
Qaul: Internet independent, decentralised ad-hoc wireless communication app
The pandemic proved that remote work is viable. And some people will now be able to do it permanently.
Scale is relevant. It’s why people don’t typically make down payments on houses with sacks of nickles.

And why people don’t wire funds to buy a bag of snackums.
Where do you get ice if you are out of power?
> without resorting to weird solutions with raspis dangling temp wires into the freezer ...

Well, I had a solution up till that line. There's gotta be an elegant way to set something like that up on top of the fridge out of sight with clean cable management into the freezer.
I suppose they already have a complete log of all your transactions, so may as well make it function better.
The podcast makes the suggestion that encryption doesn't have to be universal. If most communication were through unencrypted channels then policing would be easier, and the use of an encrypted channel would still be possible for critical communications (although may draw scrutiny).

I use reduced to mean non universal.
I don’t think that’s the point anyone’s trying to make.

$15mm probably isn’t enough to make big systemic changes to humanity and Oliver’s donation surely alleviated a lot of suffering and should be applauded. However, Gates has resources on a very different scale than $15mm.

Especially with billions to deploy to try to do some good in the world, it seems reasonable to me that someone would attempt a more ambitious plan that essentially tries to address the root cause of something rather than addressing symptoms.
Not only did it take two atomic bombs, but there was still an attempted coup to continue the war after the second bomb was drooped. [0] On top of that, the tendency for Japanese troops to feign surrender as cover for suicide attacks, and the particulars of the attack on Pearl Harbour, plus some racism all added to a combination of justified and unjustified mistrust of the Japanese military and the chances they would adhere to terms of surrender without having an occupation force in the home islands.

I hope I wouldn't have dropped the bomb on a populated city if I were in Truman's shoes, but without the benefit of hindsight, I'm not positive I would have decided differently.

On a side note, Japan is a wonderful country, particularly the countryside. My wife lived there for 13 months while we were dating, and I have many fond memories of trips around Japan with her. Lost wallets more common than not are returned to the police with money still inside. One of my colleagues once saw a man in a business suit sleeping on a park bench one morning, obviously drunk, and someone had placed the man's dropped phone and wallet on his chest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
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Depending on freezer contents.
A test with the freezer as full as possible with just water would be interesting as a best-case set of data points to compare against.

I always keep containers full of water in the bowels of my refrigerators/freezers only removing them when the space is required for food. There's not much sense in keeping empty volumes of air in a refrigerated space.
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'You' do exist. Your imperfect perception and cognition does not erase your existence.
You can easily be out of power and the grocery store a couple miles down the road not be.
Such data might be interesting to look at, but as long as the freezer does its job (aka keep everything stored within it fully frozen), what's the point in having that data?
I am using Sharepoint as a front end development platform. I am working in a secure environment where the installation of software is forbidden. Sharepoint lists provide me a database, REST API, and forms. Yes there are extreme limitations in this approach but I have made it work for me to provide some layer of accounting and analysis and just about everything is customizable with just a little bit of JavaScript
The cylo drone, my dad's radio
Long time reference. See for example https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS672US689&hl=en...
Wear gloves, keep it in a paper bag or cardboard box, etc
Absolute pitch is heritable in the sense that nearly everyone is born with it.

The theories I've heard are that we are born with absolute pitch and develop relative pitch later on, losing absolute pitch at around eight months old. We also develop the ability to associate octaves, so C and C' start sounding "alike" at some point, but this happens because we are exposed to music which treats them as equal.

I find it hard to believe that it would have "null survivability benefits"--it seems pretty useful for distinguishing the sounds of different animals.
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Here is the Wikipedia article on this experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)

The Wikipedia article states:

> "The Pride of Lakewood", a 2010 episode of children's animated series Arthur, was loosely based on the Third Wave experiment. In it, students who form a community pride group become fascistic.

I watched Arthur when I was in elementary school, and when I searched up this episode, I think actually remember it! Wow, back then, I totally missed the allegorical message... Possibly because I hadn't learned about fascism yet.
It makes me think we're dealing with a misunderstanding here.
I literally don't believe you can honestly not be aware of examples. To the extent that I suspect you posted this in order to gather all the low hanging fruit. Fair enough!
Yeah, but that explanation runs afoul of "why is it better during the pandemic?". Those "emergencies of some kind" are in fact no less likely now than they were in January (unemployment is of course much worse!). Yet credit card debt has been going down. It doesn't add up.

My money is still on the "the pandemic shut down vacations and boat purchases" argument. Obviously some people need to float emergencies on cards, but by numbers that's not where the money was actually going.
> [...] how do we get people to help themselves get out of the path to war?

Philosophically I find this revolting. Who are you, or me, or we to say what some other society should do? That should never be the goal and I don’t think anything good comes from starting with “other people are wrong, we should fix them.”

I realize I’m putting hyperbolic words in your mouth here but the point is nobody should be trusted with that kind of power.

> Surely, we have the tools and desire, don't we? I hope.

No, I don’t think we do. And if we did they would be more devastating than nuclear weapons. The closest thing is social media.
Yeah people could and would cheat but there are already similar laws about hiding evidence. It would be better, not perfect. Way better.
Typically wherever you buy it they will have small Styrofoam coolers next to it. It typically comes sealed in thin plastic bags. Get it home, put on a glove, and throw it in your freezer. Any glove is fine as long as you're not standing there with it in your hand. There are several grocery stores that have it available here.
Just make sure to cover the cup so the ice doesn't sublimate away.
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Methane breaks down much faster than carbon and methane leaks can be mitigated. You don’t have to have them.
Wear gloves when handling it-- don't touch it with bare skin. Store it in insulated containers, but don't seal it in an airtight container. Maintain adequate ventilation. It will sink to the floor and displace oxygen.
You can buy giant bags of ice really cheap at many gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores, wallmart, etc.
So you know when that assumption is false.
Coal leaks methane too. A while ago there were people here pointing that even more than natural gas; I'm not convinced, but both are on the same ballpark.

Anyway, methane is a short term problem. It's CO2 that is long term.
You guys might enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-default_theory
Freeze cup of water with some red food coloring in it. Turn upside down. If you ever come back to a freezer that looks like it’s covered in frozen blood you’ll know.
No, sorry. You can't float a conspiracy theory, cite an unrelated point as "evidence", and then demand that I be a professional virologist before being allowed to tell you the argument is inapplicable.

This doesn't make sense because nothing the Russians did in 1977 (before the invention of PCR!) to culture an existing wild virus tells us anything about what the Chinese were doing in this virology lab.
I'm finding a sudden interest in reading letters/diaries from during WWII, when people didn't have the benefit of hindsight.

It's true that people don't have the same information and perspective as they will later, but time also warps and obscures aspects of a period when history is being made.
A lot of people are uncomfortable with the concept that the best possible outcome should be considered a crime.

(And I'm not limiting this to the circumstances under discussion -- I'm talking about the view that, no matter what situation you're in, there should be a way out that isn't a crime. Such people will, for example, object violently if somewhat incoherently to the fact that, under Qing Chinese law, a man ordered by his father to commit a crime had no way to get out of that situation while following the law: following the order is illegal, but so is disobeying the command.)
Some of the dumbest things I have made have been the most useful. Thanks for posting this, appreciated that the first commit was when you made this comment so you got it online specifically for people in the thread in case they would find it useful.
I'd have to do the calculations but wouldn't you be better off with a solution that just barely froze at freezer temps? Because of latent heat of melting? i.e. you want it to freeze--just at as low a temperature as possible given the freezer temperature.

Your basic point makes sense to me though of course thawing isn't even.

ADDED:

Doing the calculation. It takes 334 joules to melt 1g of water vs. about 4 joules to raise that same gram of liquid water 1 degree. Freezer temp is supposed to be about -18 degrees Celsius.

So the latent heat of melting is a bigger deal than a few degrees of raising liquid temperature. So you should have ice packs maybe somewhere in the -10 degree range which is what I assume commercial ice packs do.
Restaurants have existed for millennia. It's just that you didn't get to choose what you ate. It was whatever the cook had lots of that day.
Just the day to day life of being a white male tech worker in the bay area? This is definitely not an area where alternative views are welcomed, it is either conform or be ostracized.

If the J.K. Rowling thing came up in a group setting, and you stated one of the central points of this article: that there are biological differences between the sexes, people would slowly back away from you. People who have known you for a long time would throw you to the wolves rather than get taken along with you. Is that your idea of free speech?
There is a big difference between attacks usually that leave signs of tampering and attacks that leave no evidence.

Picking normal locks leave easily discovered evidence. I once even detected a lock at my office had been picked when I put my key in the next morning and noticed it felt different!

(I learned it had, in fact, been picked-- because after that happened I asked on the company chat and one of our security people responded that he'd picked it the night before for reasons)
I always heard this as an upright cup of frozen water with a penny on top. If you come home and the penny is inside the ice you know the freezer went out.
All else being the same, the more mass in in the freezer, the less that a given inflow of heat will warm it. If 10 heat units enter, they will warm 10 kg of uniform contents much less than 100kg.

If you have extra space, using it to store something dense that has a high specific heat and is inexpensive is easy: use ice. (Glaciers take a -long- time to melt!)
I absolutely think GraphQL will be the way forward once it evolves a bit further but I have 2 immediate concerns with this:

> As we've seen, we could attempt to use GraphQL to execute scripts, including conditional statements and even loops.

There's a lot of things many technologies could be made to do but using GraphQL in this manner does not appear particularly readable nor maintainable. I can envisage a more evolved form of GraphQL might appear that looks more elegant for this type of work but as things stand this feels like it should be an anti-pattern.

> To run the query, there's no need for GraphiQL: it's URL-based, so it can be executed via GET, and a normal link will do.

GET requests are meant to be idempotent but once again we see the GET method to do more than 'getting' - sending emails no less! What happens when web crawlers start hitting that URL? This is a well-established anti-pattern and to have it as an example without warning people of the potential implications is only inviting junior developers to borrow this and make mistakes.
This is a spectacularly misleading paper in a non-biological journal that assumes, without any explanation, that somehow scientists thawed out a 1950 H1N1 strain and somehow, through some gain of function process, made the 1977 version.

The obvious question is, How?

In 1977 (or 1976, to produce something that would have infected people in 1977), recombinant DNA technology was new; cloning had just begun. There were very few restriction enzymes, oligonucleotide synthesis was done by hand (literally) and PCR had not been invented yet. Today, GOF studies are easy because we can synthesize virtually any piece of DNA. But in 1977, graduate students got rich because they could synthesize a dozen-ish residues of DNA and sell them (for stock) to Genentech.

What people were not doing was engineering new forms of flu virus.
In the above comment I'm advocating for honest debate, not HCL.

That debate has of course not been particularly honest: amplifying the weakest proponents, fabrication of negative data with the Surgisphere scandal [1] and fixating on studies which don't replicate the claimed beneficial outpatient (pre-hospitalization) treatment processes (low-dose HCL, zinc, azithromycin).

However none of that means HCL is actually effective, just that the public debate being prosecuted is quite weak when looked at carefully.

It could just be that once a mainstream position is established (which might be correct!) it becomes easier to engage in influencing to enforce or signal tribal commitment to the established consensus in place of continued honest debate.

I really don't want to hear about the cultural beliefs of the weakest advocates, or of studies which don't replicate the claimed treatment.

I want to see engagement with the strongest advocates, and studies which irrefutably rule out the specific treatment, and if they rule this out as just another alluring low-cost, ineffective treatment, then at least we've reached that point honestly.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/covid-19-studi...
This is actually a very good point.

Solely as a side note: London has an underground system from 1863 that is still in use today. New York’s subway (the first in the nation) didn’t get going for more than forty years later.
Having looked into a couple of these, it seems like they each have their own sort of focus, which makes sense. From my own experience, and talking to other engineers, companies use kafka for: an http replacement that lets subscribers have down time, a way to record and replay time series data, a tool for buffering to some async path, or general pub-sub event bus. Sometimes all of these at once! Each one has it's only operational patterns, so having UIs that focus on these patterns sorta clicks with me.

That said, it's been a while since kafka gained popularity, so it's surprising we've not seen any coalesce into a main contender.
When there's no airflow in the refrigerator, then it takes a long time to chill food, the reverse of how a blast chiller can chill food really quickly by moving lots of air. But maybe the water chills the air to make up for this, IDK. It would be interesting to experiment.
not all traits have to be beneficial to persist.
AFAIK the "widescreen era" of computer monitors has been driven by TV screens & TV screen marketing (non-tech and non-screen-nerd people just knew "HD" and maybe "1080p" meant "good screen"), which were driven by the desire to watch movies at close to full-frame, which I'd guess were driven by the need/desire to have a wide viewing area for seating-layout reasons. Early cinema, though, often used aspect ratios much closer to 4:3 than later films (they're actually really nice to watch on iPads), so the later, wider format must have evolved for some reason.
A shallow dive into the US banking system (2019)
That is a very interesting and clever idea. Thanks for the tip
I personally think the raspi approach is fine. If you want off the shelf, there are temperature and humidity loggers that are cheap. They’re typically wifi based and host a webpage. Some even come with probes so you don’t need to have the antenna inside a Faraday cage.
Interesting, the idea being that the air gets cycled every time you open the door?
I'm using FAST as a foundation for my atomic design revolution at my job. I'm gaining much traction!
I had this very discussion on Twitter a few days ago, wrt "smart" refrigerators. The one thing that would be legitimately useful would be a batter back real time clock and thermometer, to alert you when the power went out, and what to throw away. I'd be shocked if this feature exists on any refrigerator. Not because it's difficult (It's not. Just monitor the temperature and print a stock FDA guidance), but because it's not what a product manager actually thinks of. Instead we get cameras inside, weather, Alexa integration, Google photos, just... bullshit features. Nothing that that anyone really needs.
This is an interesting idea, would be great to see this tried with graphs.

Why don’t they do this with the ice blocks you get for keeping food cold on camping trips?