skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trading on information like this must be useless after this Bloomberg article.
Acorns in the Middle Ages
I don't dispute there is a problem with law enforcement in the US.
Here is my correlation between QQQ and major sector ETFs going back to 2005 when Bond ETFs were introduced.

QQQ 1
XLK 0.9952440282
VCR 0.9813656495
SPY 0.9774334512
VHT 0.9749607257
DIA 0.9738966572
XLI 0.944646275
MDY 0.9418372572
XLP 0.9340495871
XLU 0.9322048846
VBK 0.9749569179
TLT 0.8238447288
IEF 0.7459539935
LQD 0.7698459752
VNQ 0.7211819234
SHY 0.5117276512
GLD 0.4880148474
XLF 0.4715141612
EFA 0.2721585482
XLE 0.04648142997
No. Unless you run your nuclear power plant at high capacity factor, the cost of power from it inflates unacceptably. It's an economic issue, not a technical issue.
138-year Sagrada Família construction delayed even further
<picture> is needfully complicated to some degree; it’s gotta be backwards compatible with browsers that don’t support it. This is less of a concern with <audio> and <video> which were not really supported before (though a Flash fallback was not too uncommon for a time.)
I call bullshit.

The US DoJ might say they want end-to-end encryption, but only so long as it doesn’t interfere in any way, shape, or form of whatever they want to do to people in their prosecutions and persecutions.
Good catch. It should read 100 million years, not 100 years. Website is updated now.
About 1/2 a kilometer. I stopped the car, removed the handle, and drove back to the gas station.

The attendant had been outside, so he saw it happen. In fact he had pumped the gas (this was not self-serve).

And when I came back, holding the nozzle in my hand, he was dumbfounded.
It is a reference to how quickly we are depleting our carbon budget to avert certain levels of warming.
People from 43 countries moved more than 130 km using just a mouse
> ...Notion as a CMS

> ...complex private Notion API

> serverless wrapper based on Cloudflare Workers.

I'm sorry but, you could have used Wordpress or Ghost for this, rather than vendor locking yourself into 2 different platforms and especially using a private API that is subject to change.

I hope nobody would ever seriously think about doing this.
I'm pretty sure you can add multiprocessing parsing of csv with Python and Pandas. I think I've done it before.
An informative response instead of an ad hominem would be more interesting to read. What does make that comment bizarro and techically incompetent ? Honestly asking.
> Taylor said in an interview that he's willing to pay up to $500.

I wonder what the shipping cost of those heavy monsters are.

Me, I've used CRTs for 25 years. I have zero nostalgia for them. I don't want to ever use one again. There's nothing about them I prefer.
This categorically not true. It does exactly the thing it's supposed to do. Yes, it is best that potential users wait for now, but that isn't because it "doesn't do anything".

What it _doesn't_ do currently is provide an API which would allow it to be plugged in a similar way to Webpack (not exactly the same, as the deliberate aim is not to cover every usecase, as Webpack allows). This is a requirement for wider adoption as a competitor (rather than just as the module bundling step). Plus the tree shaking needs work, though I think that is less important than has sometimes been made out.

Parcel may have a simple API for simple things, but it's extremely slow and generally suffers from exactly the same issues outlined by OP.
This video of Mr. T saying those exact words begs to differ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHXhGEIAXpE
What is the better alternative?
Yup! I'm currently running a b2c solution for a client that's grossing ~$3 million/year using Python + sqlite3 behind nginx.

I work for another shop that scolds me for even suggesting using something else than k8s. How can a persistent file system possibly scale? Lol. Ironically they're grossing -$3 million/year.
> Target date retirement funds aren't new?

Yeah I don't pretend to be a pro to know what constitutes "new", other than for example "many 2020 target date funds were created 2005-2008 at the major vendors" - is that "new"? Is 15 years "tenured"? shrug Compared to an index fund going back to 1980, I tend to think that's "new" in the long term skyline of mutual funds.
My insurance company never asked for my car's color. I don't think that's a common practice over here.
U.S. Marines Conduct Offensive Air Support Exercise
What Is Left?
”That's fine. We can look at entire states. 0.18% of the entire population of New Jersey has died from Covid. 0.17% of the entire population of New York has died from Covid. And does anyone think nearly the entire population of NJ or NY has been infected already? No....And, of course, incidence rates in the rest of New York state are lower than NYC. What does this mean?”

Any number of different things: it could mean that the deaths are overcounted (which seems likely in any case; we keep finding examples of “covid deaths” that are better described as “deaths with covid”). It could mean that there’s uncertainty on the IFR estimates, and it’s a bit higher than the point estimate. It could mean that New York City has a higher percentage of elderly and poor people who died at higher rates than average, which you can’t extrapolate to other populations. It could mean that the virus burned through the most vulnerable population already. It could mean that policy and medical decisions made early on in the pandemic were tragically misguided.

Or, it could be some combination of the above.

Point being, the Santa Clara study was a lot closer to right than wrong, and dismissing it, and the people involved, because of politics and methodological mistakes is a cheap shot.

When it came out, the media and “experts” were routinely claiming that this virus had a fatality rate as high as 3-5%. So I don’t particularly care if they were off by a factor of 3 (~0.5%); they were much closer to correct than anyone else at the time.
NuScale has given up assembling their reactors in their factory.

https://losalamosreporter.com/2020/08/22/get-out-of-the-fluo...

"In answer to a question I posed to Nuscale at the town hall we have learned that the plan to save costs by fabricating the modules at a remote factory and shipping them to the Idaho site has been abandoned. The artful response to my question said that Nuscale engaged with approximately 40 … pressure vessel fabricators worldwide and … determined that Nuscale will use existing factories … in lieu of building its own factory.

The major module subcomponents will be manufactured at multiple manufacturer locations and shipped to a single location for assembly prior to installing into the facility.” This signifies the failure of one of the major cost-saving features of the Nuscale project, which was to forestall this exact scenario."

The cost of that project has already escalated 70%, btw, with three towns dropping out and the output only 30% subscribed. I think there's a good chance it will never be built.
But they are trained to lie about their sources when illegal tools were used (parallel construction)...
For bicycle, in my case. Sorry, should have specified. Bicycle infrastructure is awful where I live so I need to spend a lot of cognitive effort just not being killed by the road. In that mental state I can't follow very complicated directions, so I prefer bigger roads!
I still miss my MusicMatch Jukebox - the paid version, before yahoo took it and ruined it.. I paid for 7.1 I think - then yahoo forced an upgrade - ruined it imho - and thier tech support said the only way to get back my old version that I had paid for was to do some registry hacks..

And whichever tech had the good visualizations back then - it might have been windows media player - or maybe winamp - but there was a plugin that actually had visualizations that changed in different ways with the beat and sometimes other parts of the various frequencies.

Not sure this is my favorite forgotten tech, but first to mind.

Seems computers / programs / OS's have needed so many updates and the time it takes - it's really ruined what use to be more fun imho.

Wish I kept all mu c-64 floppies - archon, jumpman jr, little computer people, MULE..

I do want minidiscs back - a new blue ray type version with backwards compat would be nice.

Im going to think of more I'm sure. Oh how progress ruins things.
You can already host sales meetings in your website with Heyhi. You just need to create a Scheduled meeting from the dashboard; Heyhi generates a link (with your website domain) that you can share to your guests !
This is great, it would be fantastic if this site had an API available.

A small bug, I can't click on the footer of the website ( About Us, etc.) because the images keep auto-loading and pushing the footer down again.
Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants being sold
Probably still worth it to convert to a binary format, assuming it's read more than once or twice and is bigger than 10 MB or so.
Haven’t seen any other mention of this in comments but the sound of CRT’s used to drive me mad, particularly CRT TV’s. If I walked in to a house where the TV was on, I could often hear it from the entrance!
This news is over a month old. Portland needs facial recognition. It has criminal rioters regularly breaking the law without any consequence. The city’s leadership is allowing violence in the name of political goals to continue unchecked, and is weakening their police department’s ability to uphold the law and enforce it equally upon everyone. Having facial recognition would at least help a department with limited resources act more efficiently. Instead of relying on random luck and memory to spot a suspect while on patrol, it reduces the search to potential matches that have a much higher likelihood of being apprehended and charged.

Those concerned about false positives should keep in mind that there is always a human in the loop to confirm matches - which makes the overall system ultimately no less accurate than a human’s ability to spot a suspect randomly. It doesn’t make sense to arbitrarily limit the use of technology here any less than it would to ban a police department’s access to electricity or other utilities.
You either believe in having a police department (in which case you want it to be effective and efficient) or you don’t believe that and are okay with police being abolished. The gray space in the middle doesn’t make logical sense to me.
Also programmers tend to type pretty fast after getting some experience. It's disconcerting enough when code completion slows down the editor, not sure i could stand a screen that can only refresh every full line.
250% hourly rate shows those companies highly values the devs time.
Hi all, I’ve elaborated on and pivoted to include more information. This is pre-MVP with the sole purpose of whether or not it could solve a problem that many of us have encountered or will encounter.

Thank you again for taking the time to check it out and for providing any/all feedback.

I appreciate it.
>Windows has backward compatibility solved better than anyone. I can still run 1990's code on Windows 10.

Naa, especially old games work often better with wine then with Win10. I even can run DOS code from 1990 without any problems (trough dosbox)
Additionally: Please stop using Javascript as an essential
component in the rendering of non-interactive pages.

It’s trendy these days to require client JS for every old webpage, even ones that work just like webpages did in the pre-JS-all-the-things days.

This breaks graceful degradation, uses more power and bandwidth, takes longer to load, and is a security risk, for little or no benefit.

Please stop doing it.
Europe regulations are different than US regulations and are more stringent, as pointed out in the article you linked. I focused on US rules for the article on my site.
Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed (Parts 1 and 2)
This excellent video delves into the economics of nuclear power plants and compares them with the alternatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_BCz0pzMw

Although nuclear energy is profitable of the LONG term, it is financially infeasible over the short-to-medium term.
A lot of the old portraits of men show one hand inside their jacket. What is that symbolizing?
Of note:

> The experiments were carried out in the dark, as UV light has already been shown to kill the virus.
It largely is a dichotomy, because nuclear power largely makes wind and solar redundant. Peak energy demand occurs right around or after sundown. If we're going to fulfill this demand with nuclear, then we could just run the nuclear plants all day long and build no solar or wind.

Solar and wind are a good complement to natural gas. We can dial back the gas when the intermittent sources of energy are producing. This both saves carbon and money, since fuel is a substantial portion of a gas plant', operating cost.

By comparison, a nuclear plant costs just as much to run at maximum capacity all day long as it does at partial capacity. If you have enough nuclear plants to full peak demand, which coincides with the trough of renewables' generation, then just run the plants at full capacity all day and skip building renewables.
Eh. If retail investors are investing in the same direction "just for fun" then the real institutional investors will just short their bet.
But the fundamental difference is that LCDs are static. Like, if you have a static image on screen, it does not refresh. A CRT is always refreshing at x Hz.

On LED backlit displays, it's the cheap PWM brightness controllers that can be noticeable. They're supposed to pulse hundreds of times a second to maintain the brightness setting, but as you go lower, it can be noticeable and tiring on the eyes.

On LCDs, refresh rates matter only in constantly changing pictures, like movies and games.

On a CRT, you're exposed to the constant refresh flicker even if you're editing a file or reading an article.

All in all, I'm happy with LCDs. Even in games, they're enough for me, I'm not that competitive.
The article is open access under Creative Commons: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/41/eabc8662
It's 99% actual 12 year old who somehow managed to set up a robinhood account. Not even joking, if you read some of the comments in the threads you can just tell.
Antifa is a terrorist organization and should be destroyed as one.
Very similar experience, after a bit of research it was clear the 'global hum' explanation loses out to the much simpler explanation that it's an internal effect.

I too found exposure to loud noise supressed it (e.g. regularly suppressed for a couple of days after nightclubbing), also only 'audible' in very quiet surroundings (even lightly touching an earlobe caused the 'hum' to cut out).

It went away after life got noisier (kids'n'dogs).
I use a normal desk lamp and point it at the wall behind my monitors. Super easy, cheap, and effective.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B083DG5CK1/
Does someone know why they don't split the cookie storage equally by the top origin?

I mean, wouldn't that take care of a whole class of attack vectors and make cross-origin requests possible without having to worry about CSRF?
Forget about the stops if you go somewhere else. If you put earplugs (finger) in your ear and volume goes down then it is external.
Yes, the benefits are substantial. I used to have a static web site served out of a Dallas data center, with a great network connection, from a powerful bare metal machine that did nothing else. Sitting in Austin, it felt instant, equal to localhost speed, until I tried accessing it while traveling, especially overseas.

It's not just geographic latency you're addressing with a CDN, you're also reducing the number of network hops. It's not uncommon to experience higher latency going from SF to San Jose datacenter just because you're on a "wrong" ISP. A good CDN usually has a POP on the same network as you.
> If you can submit a measurably faster csv implementation to cpython (without breaking existing code of course) I can guarantee it will be welcome whether you’re a first time contributor or not.

I wouldn't be so sure. Search for `site:bugs.python.org "maintenance overhead"` on your favourite search engine.
Yes, there there is. You are looking for t is called Cappuccino. One of its developers literally wrote a rant about with the exact same complaint. It requires a significant buy-in though, it is written in another language, objective-j.

- [0] https://www.cappuccino.dev/

- [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20140326112535/https://randylueck...

- [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5415585
The Hornsdale Power Reserve and What It Means for Grid Battery Storage (2019)
"Fraction point" and "fraction (or fractional) places" might be a decent alternative that clearly works in any base, while also conveying its purpose.
That's great! I'll take a look first chance I get.
It's not a false dichotomy. Beyond a certain level of renewable penetration, nuclear's business case degrades, as the price of power is depressed too often for the NPPs to earn their keep. Nuclear and renewables are both inflexible sources, in their own ways, and they both use up the grid's capacity to deal with inflexible sources.
Guys please make a pizza box Oxide.Computer workstation :)
That user account was created over seven years ago.
Literally every modern pistol, including Glocks are semi-automatic.
The best time to build nuclear would have been in the 1980s.

However, when we tried to build again back in 2008, it turned to failure. In areas with highly supportive populations that want the nuclear jobs in their community, with an NRC that changed processes to try to make it easier to get approval, we are still 12 years in, way behind schedule, and 2-3x over budget, without a solid feel for when we will star pushing electrons with the new reactors.

Last I heard, NuScale is hoping to hit a cost of $55/MWh. That's about the current cost of wind/solar and the storage to make it dispatchable. Meaning that by the time they finally ship, it will be a more expensive option for firm low-carbon energy than the current options we have.

So not only is NuScale aiming at a not-so-desirable target, by the time it can deliver its first 10GW, it's quite likely that the renewables will be curtailed for much of the year, meaning that we have extra generation capacity that goes unused, which is likely to spur a huge round of economic innovation for that energy.

I would hate to get stuck with the path dependence of nuclear. Renewables are so cheap that they open up a ton more doors for society.
What is your formula? This doesn't match what I'm used to. For example, TLT has an inverse correlation with the US stock market (-0.32 according to PortfolioVisualizer.com), so I would expect it to be inversely correlated with QQQ.
I don’t see the problem? The point in breaking up Chrome and Google is that there isn’t one default browser owned by Google. Whatever breaks up Chrome and Google will prevent Google from making any browser.
“review of my decision to leave GOOG and do a startup again”
> Fed policy pumped in too much dumb money

Given fed policy, the outlook of the market seems rational. Why would the Fed not engage in expansionary monetary policy during a recession? Just so that the market better reflects how you "feel" it should look?
Does anybody know a company or institution that they trust to operate a reactor for decades with the right safety standard?
Everywhere safety is being cut back if it reduces profits.
We may have the technology for safe nuclear energy but we lack the right society.
I live in a hilly city, and the green part of the city council here ran a campaign this year were they cover 25% of the cost of an ebike (up to ~$550 for bikes and ~$1100 for cargo-ebikes). Now I see Tern GSDs and Riese & Müllers all over the place. Bought one myself, and it really removes the hills from the equation when deciding to bike or not.

They got bike counters at major routes, but sadly haven't released stats for 2020 yet. Number of bikers have been at a stand still for the last 8 years, looking forward to see the effect of COVID + sponsored ebikes when the new numbers are out.
Third-worldization of the world continues.
Yeah, you shouldn't go long in an industry you work in.
Exactly. Because it doesn't generate real value.

Lets compare to alternatives like dam and flood control infrastructure, better roads, rail, etc. I understand the real pragmatic benefits and return on investment from these. A farm field is irrigated, a home not destroyed, less fuel used in trucking, on and on. These investments generate real value because they increase the total of societal output, not just that particular factions slice of the pie. Meaning, you are finding new gold to mine, not just taking over part of your neighbors gold mine and saying you are adding value. Its not adding value to the overall economy.

Please help me, what real value does an investment like this yield for the economy as a whole? As i understand it an investment like taking part of your neighbors gold mine, not mining new ground.

Effectively they have increased their slice of the pie, in this case it is time not land, but not made the overall pie bigger.

It is interesting to think about things this way, in terms of investments that increase the carrying capacity of our economy, and those that don't.

Advertising comes to mind. The cola wars, while expensive, dont yield a net increase in cola drinking, just a relative difference between the brands. Same with beer, on and on.
> the only way to make money online, is to sell a product telling other people how to make money online

That's patently untrue. For every huckster hawking his latest course, there are 10x as many successful marketers. You just never hear about them because they run actually successful websites.

Anyone you see ranking for "best hosting" or "best website builder" is likely pulling in nearly 6 figures a month
i think i misremembered. Weird!
This is why I miss all of the old Nick at Nite shows from the 50s-70s. They seemed to have a more overt “do the right thing” plot line.
It's important to understand the original business model of IEX (and IEX's hedge fund backers) and why they put in the speedbump.

When large well informed funds want to trade large blocks of shares the price tends to quickly move against them so they make their trade at a slightly worse price. These funds would all like it if the market moved slower so that they got better prices so they made an exchange that moved slower.

The trick is that other people don't want to trade on exchanges with less up to date prices. So IEX made up a bunch of false stories about how HFTs were bad for retail investors. They even tricked Michael Lewis into writing a book/advertisement for them.

They also produced a slick video wrapping themselves in the flag/americana to try to trick people. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2OZkTesSx0
Wow, it seems like anybody else would get their app promptly revoked without recourse
I just like Cantrill, he kicks butts and dtrace them afterwards. Great Speaker!
> The world is continuous, not discrete. Therefore, like it or not, trading must be continuous and not discrete.

That is not true, there are market models where you run auctions all the time (with short but random auction end).
Bootstrapping Clojure at Groupon (2012)
I don't think GF has a realistic chance of making a workable reactor. They've already given up on the acoustic compression scheme, and the slow compression scheme they are now following has a metal post down the middle of the chamber, unshielded from average neutron fluxes that will, at the center, be orders of magnitude higher than in more conventional reactors.
Countries have long had laws about what sort of business mercenaries in or from that country are allowed to accept. That doesn't make mercenaries in or from that country 'not mercenaries.'