skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> There were no interest rate hikes between 2006 and 2015, and interest rates have been at zero for 8 out of the last 13 years.

Right. The increase in 2005-6 was what set off the 7'8 financial crisis. I never understood that one. The previous cuts seemed like an over reaction to the tech bubble popping, but the rapid rise was even worse.

I thought they were very slowly raising rates prior to Covid, but using housing market to judge how slow to raise them.
I agree 100%
The tech community gives solid and reasoned warnings against the law, and they are ignored.
Google warns against the law, and caves.
Facebook warns against the law and stands up. I think FB and Google and Twitter are the only companies that can really win this.
Facebook didn't back down. Good on them.
> Help desk work seems the most promising / practical

Send me a resume, adam@numsp.com
> Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry says that Texans find massive power outages preferable to having more federal government interference in the state's energy grid.
* https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-woul...

I bet they don’t. If they did they don’t now.
Right - it was able to apply more resources on the problem because its underlying system created more surplus.

I don't have the skills necessary to evaluate the accuracy or relevance of that argument, but it's not inconsistent with the facts.
I can’t even begin to imagine how you’d calculate that.

We’ve got some vaccines that work, a few that don’t, and at least one candidate that looked promising but was abandoned for problematic side effects (false-positives on HIV tests).

You can’t just divide those out though, because all of this work was done in systems where people expected thorough testing. In a world where we didn’t test, the ”honest” attempts might not be as careful and there would also be a number of outright scams.
thanks for the tip, but they aren't powerful enough to support ExamSoft's spyware.
> Epic can't create an alternate store on iOS. At all

And I pray it stays that way.

I’m sorry mate, but the reality of the situation is that your wishes mean nothing and Apple owes you zilch. You don’t like that, feel free to go somewhere else.

You imposing your views on all of us is not freedom. It’s the opposite of that.

You want open software? Linux is a thing, I should know, I use it every day.

You want a walled garden? Well you should be able to have that choice, too. You want to take that away from me while pretending to do it for the greater good, when in reality it’s just a selfish desire to impose your will on others.
It seems like you're thinking purely of net economic impact.

As someone in Texas who just got their power back and no longer has running water, I'm having a real hard time not posting a really vicious retort here.

Pure capitalism without any humanism is really quite gross and frustrating.
Curious to know how gmail does this. If I open an email without downloading external resources, surely gmail knows that I opened it and doesn't punish the newsletter publisher.
I've been playing around with this map and a similar map of population density[1]. I wouldn't be surprised if this cell tower map was almost one-to-one match to a light pollution map: the contrast between North and South Korea is just as stark in the radio as in the visible!

But generally you're right, if you zoom out on the population density map, there simply isn't that level of distributed population Central Europe as anywhere in the United States. Europe is more similar to parts of India, China, and West Africa/Nigeria. It looks like the US most closely matches parts of Eastern Europe or Western Russia, but the US cities are substantially more suburban and "fuzzy". Aside from the stark difference between Kiev and Atlanta, in terms of population density the Eastern US seems most similar to Ukraine.

[1] https://luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/
why cant ctci be supplemented by youtube videos? perfection is our enemy and many non faang jobs dont do LC interviews
Why are you excluding the feature phone market? Obviously the smartphone market cannot support an infinite number of incompatible options, but you always have the option to have a feature phone with Java ME applets. Significant portions of the world rely on those, and believe it or not they do their banking and so on with apps on those devices too.

What does the Android vs Apple vs Featurephone marketshare look like?
Why would anyone want to use a filtered platform? Are there people who really want to restrict themselves from being exposed to ideas they would be challenged by? Or is this purely about restricting access to unauthorized ideas?
I always enjoyed dwm [1] the most, but I have since switched to a wayland environment and with that I am now using sway [2].

[1]: https://dwm.suckless.org/

[2]: https://swaywm.org/
Kerosene heater is common heating method than heat pump in Japan cold area. But nowadays heat pump increasing share because it gets efficient and kerosene heating is bad for air.
Especially it's prohibited to use on better insulated house, and heat pump's power is enough for such house.

I believe why natural gas heating is not popular is because they are a bit expensive and gas pipes aren't common outside big city. I'm getting curious why gas heating isn't popular even in big city (Sapporo). Your assumption (earthquake) looks reasonable for a part of reason.

Maybe gas heater is hard to install/uninstall and never use except winter. So we don't want to put all year on small house is reasonable.
Not my first choice, but how ill-advised is just installing it and uninstalling it before and after the exams?
Appropriate username.
Yup, and given that we have largely managed the pandemic extremely well as a society with a competent government that has a publicly funded health care system, I think it's unlikely that Facebook preventing us from reading the news via Facebook is much of a concern.

We were a large consumer of news before Facebook. We will be a large consumer of news after Facebook.
>... all the people accusing him of being a nazi.

This is no different than schoolyard name calling and is so juvenile. I just can fathom the thought process of someone that takes it to this level. If this is how someone believes they can win an argument, maybe it time for them to do a little self reflection.
A significant amount of it is, yes.
it's just way better to grift your employer. when salaried, the less you actually work, the higher your effective wage. shrink that denominator!
Thanks for prompting me to read about HAM!
I definitely count Fairphone as such. They build long-lasting android phones from responsibly sources materials. They closely monitor their manufacturing chain, make sure people are paid well, and release updates for many years (with as much software in the open so the community can take over). No new phone every 2 years.

The banger? The phones are fairly modular and serviceable (10/10 ifixit score) and they sell spare parts for years even after they stopped selling them. Moreover, they freaking made an upgraded camera module for people to pop into their phones instead of buying new ones.

https://www.fairphone.com/en/impact/
https://www.fairphone.com/en/story/
... What?

The cost of electricity is not a constraint on the size of hospitals. And there are plenty of states who are part of the national grid, with cheaper electricity than Texas.
Ignoring the west. Has what you described ever existed?

I think maybe Lean techniques as practiced by car builders. But even there, change is slow.
The legislation is about the source of the news, not the traffic source. They'd have to pay if it was shared outside Australia.
> There is no known, credible evidence that a banzai skydive has ever really occurred

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_skydiving
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Not even for Fred Wilson.

This one is anemic, and upvoting "because Fred Wilson" is a poor reason to upvote an article.
A Bitcoin miner is not more or less efficient than a resist backup heater attached to a heat pump. I guess it would be bad for them to be somewhere that's not in a house, though.
The use cases that come to mind are sharing previews of code snippets on platforms that don't support code formatting/highlighting like Twitter or Medium.

The cleaner fake UI of this site, uncluttered by any warning or other editor glyphs, and the auto-resize make it slightly more convenient than an editor screenshot I suppose.
Facebook pulls news content for Australia
Pre-pandemic, there'd be 2-3 hour long periods with stop-and-go traffic inbound in the morning and outbound in the evening on Fresh Pond Parkway (2/3/16) in Cambridge.

I'd say that traffic is easily 30-50% of pre-pandemic levels now. Afternoon backups in front of my house are almost entirely gone and morning backups are quite a bit lighter and shorter.
The role of "Management" is supposed be the oversight and allocation of human resources and other assets towards the completion of the org's stated goals.

This is the one thing that *never* seems to happen.

What does happen consistently is that management simply gatekeeps between two major classifications of subordinates, climbers and the productive.

Making sure to 'partner' with the climbers in order to share credit for their faux accomplishments and make sure that the productives stay right where they are to keep the machine from completely exploding before that manager can move up and on.

Bad management and truly poor leadership in general is just pervasive in public and private institutions.

In GOOG, APPL, and MSFT it is 10x.
The Oatmeal fights back, snaps photo of cash, sends money to charity (2012)
So after reading this article, I wanted to set up some type of automated alert that would email once the rate reaches a certain threshold.

If you want to know when treasury bills reach 2%, I figured out a way to do this. My brokerage account doesn't have an easy way to set alerts on t-Bill price changes, and an extensive search on Google has not resulted in any tool that allows me to track the specific ticker (TMUBMUSD01Y) easily online.

The only thing that seemed to work was to use this website scrapping tool (https://www.wachete.com/wachets) to listen to this website (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DTB1YR).

You can program the scrapper to look at the value change of the yield and set it to trigger an alert once it passes a threshold. I set up 0.5% and 1%.

I don't read financial news regularly, and it'd be helpful to get a heads up when this is happening. If anyone has a better way of doing this, please let me know.
It really depends. Some kinds of equity at firms means you get a percentage cut of monthly pnl. Some kinds of equity you can sell. Some kinds of equity are, for all intents and purposes, worthless.
My car's never been broken into when I'm in SF. I just realized my car might be crappy.
> School is child prison. It's forcing kids to spend their childhood - a happy time! a time of natural curiosity and exploration and wonder - sitting in un-air-conditioned blocky buildings, cramped into identical desks, listening to someone drone on about the difference between alliteration and assonance, desperate to even be able to fidget but knowing that if they do their teacher will yell at them, and maybe they'll get a detention that extends their sentence even longer without parole. The anti-psychiatric-abuse community has invented the "Burrito Test" - if a place won't let you microwave a burrito without asking permission, it's an institution. Doesn't matter if the name is "Center For Flourishing" or whatever and the aides are social workers in street clothes instead of nurses in scrubs - if it doesn't pass the Burrito Test, it's an institution. There is no way school will let you microwave a burrito without permission. THEY WILL NOT EVEN LET YOU GO TO THE BATHROOM WITHOUT PERMISSION. YOU HAVE TO RAISE YOUR HAND AND ASK YOUR TEACHER FOR SOMETHING CALLED "THE BATHROOM PASS" IN FRONT OF YOUR ENTIRE CLASS, AND IF SHE DOESN'T LIKE YOU, SHE CAN JUST SAY NO.

This needs to be said.
It was clear at the time that other vaccine candidates were working at least as well: Pfizer/Bio-NTech got its EUA the same week AND didn’t mess up HIV tests. Seems like a pretty straightforward decision to me.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03570-0
To what worries me the most is of learned helplessness.
I’ve come to accept most of what you mentioned just because no-one else seems to care, why should I?

NOTE: AFAIK them problem wasn’t in wind turbines, someone said renewables actually overdelivered on what was budgeted for them.
Power doesn't corrupt. Power enables. People corrupt themselves. Otherwise agreed.
The article's author clearly has an ax to grind if an unsubstantiated "botched Covid vaccine rollout" accusation is thrown into an article about this winter storm and the power grid. In reality, Texas has one of the most effective vaccination rollouts being tied for the tenth-highest percentage of available doses administered. A friend of mine who's employed at Moderna commented that Texas's non-micro-managed approach to vaccinations has proven quite effective. I do wish that Texas's power grid were more resilient, but that is an entirely unrelated topic.
I don’t think that’s the implication at all. The implication is that some people are blaming wind generation for this shortage because of a few iced over turbines. When the cause is a system-wide failure to prepare for cold weather conditions.

I don’t know how to reconcile your claim of “wind power cratered” with plenty of other sources claiming “wind power generation exceeded expectations.” It makes me suspect you are not arguing in good faith.
Do you have a better demonym to suggest?
The URL preview would be a killer feature for sharing on social networks.
at current trajectories could the govt afford 2% in 8 years? we seem to have reached a point where the system requires the money printer.
Australia is a vastly different country in 2020 than it was in 1964.
Early in my career, I worked for a company that was run by the British. The CEO was a fairly classic "toff." Erudite, aloof, sarcastic and remote.

The management was terrible.

At that time, TQM was a new buzzwürd du jour, and the company decided to do a TQM exercise that involved the CEO, sitting down for "frank and open" conversations with employees.

This was a data processing company. The product was engineering. I was a [fairly junior] software engineer.

During our "fireside chat," he asked us to mention the problems that we saw with the way management was working.

Most gave mealy-mouthed drivel that amounted to "Everything you're doing is fine. No need to change."

Then it got to me. I mentioned that, from where I sat, engineers were treated as "second-class citizens," despite being the bread and butter of the company. Managers were treated as exalted, flawless beings (I was probably a bit -but not much- more polite. It was a long time ago). I indicated that all we really needed was a tiny bit of respect.

What I do remember, is him, taking off his glasses, which was always considered an awful sign, and admitting that he did, indeed think of engineers as "second-class citizens." Absolutely not a word, indicating he considered that a problem.

The TQM exercise didn't survive much longer, after that, and quelle surprize, nothing changed.

I tend towards cynicism, here.
Creditors certainly bear risk of default. In fact, isn't that why VC exists?

If banks were insulated from the consequences of their lending, wouldn't you expect them to loan to risky startups?
As a Texas resident, let me be the first to say that this is a lie.
As a Texan without power since 2am Monday morning I just count my blessings that we aren't subject to federal oversight. Just imagine how horrible that would be! My house is 20 degrees right now. With Federal oversight, who knows how low it could go!
When, specifically (i.e., as of what date?), do you think the risks of COVID were well-understood enough to be properly explained and emphasizes?
Re: "How do you do this without changing the way we program?"

Let's change the way we program. If we outgrow trees, we've outgrown trees. I don't know if existing code will be easy to convert. It's kind of like when OOP IDE's fell out of favor for web stacks: the old OOP classes couldn't be reshaped for web because the web is state-poor and OOP is state-rich. We had to dump OOP libraries and stacks into the trash.

Re: "What does the query language look like and how do you expose this to the user? This is especially challenging because the query language needs to serve so many different roles."

I suggest using existing RDBMS and SQL. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel unless inherent flaws can be found in RDBMS for code management purposes. I haven't found any yet in my little experiments in "table oriented programming".

I take that back a bit. Different UI components/widgets will have different attribute structures. It's hard to change the schema every time a new widget type is added. Possible solutions include Dynamic Relational, or a Windows-Registry-like "attribute tree" for UI models. Attributes of UI widgets then could be accessed like:

setAttrib("screenX.widgetY.maxHeight", 37);
// context-based shortcut:
setAttrib("currentWidget.maxHeight", 37);

The second form is handy because instead of writing explicit loops, event triggers may be used traverse and customize per-widget behavior. The traversal mechanism will create a reference to the "current" item per behind-the-scenes looping to simplify path references. More samples:

// sequence control (display order):
setAttrib("screenX.widgetY.sequence", 47.5);
// deactivate:
setAttrib("screenX.widgetY.active", false);
// alternative:
setAttrib("screenX.widgetY.status", "inactive");
// more uses of "status" attrib:
setAttrib("screenX.widgetY.status", "hidden");
// Grid samples:
setAttrib("screenX.grid4.row.7.col.9.value", "foo");
setAttrib("screenX.grid4.row.7.backGroundColor", "green");

Helper API's would probably simplify grid path management.
Frozen one way or another. It’s their inaction that led to this result.
I have heard good things about The Book of Shaders https://thebookofshaders.com/

Their editor is pretty cool: http://editor.thebookofshaders.com/
https://blog.britishmuseum.org/a-sip-of-history-ancient-egyp...

https://wearebeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/bottles1a.j...
I heard it from the CenterPoint person on this podcast iirc:

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/town-squar...
> This gets more important the more complex a project gets. It is possible, for example, to build high-speed rail between Boston and Washington for a cost in the teens of billions and not tens, let alone hundreds, but not a single person involved in any of the present effort can do that

With bold claims of being able to build high-speed rail at fractions of the cost of official estimates, I expected the author to be somehow trained in large-scale construction or other civic issues. From their bio, it appears they are a pure mathematician who took up a side interest in urban issues.

While American (and a handful of other countries) do have unreasonably high construction costs for transit projects, I doubt the cost issue can be reduced to a simple problem with complacent middle management. I also seriously doubt that we can fix it all by simply swapping in new managers who promise to do it cheaper.

If we're going to be serious about this, we need to examine why American costs are so much higher than other countries, rather than simply taking costs out of context from other countries with very different infrastructure, geographical, and regulatory situations.
David Dobrik’s Invite-Only Photo App, Dispo, Generates Some Unexpected Buzz
:fry_cant_tell
If they don't derive much value from the content, then it shouldn't be terribly awful they have blocked the content. But I suspect that's not the truth. Not by a long shot.
I think there is another factor of Choice that needs to be considered here. If people were given the choice between losing power when it gets cold and saving money or paying more for more reliable power then it might be reasonable.

Power companies making that choice for their customers isn't fair. As a utility it should be expected that it is well run and stable. It isn't an easy market to have competition in due to the infrastructure meaning we can't have "cheap and unstable" options next to "expensive and stable". Where the state decides the utilities fall on that axis is the question here, I personally think they should be on the more conservative side and provide stability.

The other thing to consider are the huge knock on effects from losing power. I may be ok with getting extra cash in exchange for power outages but when the stop lights are out and restaurant freezers start thawing things get a lot worse.
"Around 42% of the working-age population with a full-time job has a 401(k) or similar plan, and those funds are overwhelmingly invested in stocks"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-stocks...
Is it also possible that they know those underneath and horizontal who will need to do the work will make it impossible?
No, I am really thinking of net impact, economic and otherwise (but the parent mentioned economic output, so I was replying to that point)
I don't currently pay for news. I would be willing to pay extra for a subscription to a reputable newspaper if they would assure me that the money wouldn't go to the editorial board.
I'm pretty sure you can't side load apps and games on a ps4 or ps5. Both are AMD x86 hardware running a derivative of FreeBSD.
Considering that he's blaming renewables for the outage (versus offline gas capacity, which was the real culprit), I am skeptical of any other claims he makes. He seems to be pushing an agenda.
Facts are negotiable, as the deep divide in the U.S. illustrates. Heck, look at the extensive video coverage of the attack on the Capitol, and how little agreement there is at the grass roots on what that video ultimately means.
Without verified data we are all speculating. Profit incentive is always strong no doubt.
Well said. Nino Rotta’s contribution to Fellini films is as invaluable as that of Morricone to Sergio Leone
Rick Perry is a member of the political party that has controlled Texas for 20 years now, so there is nobody else to blame.

I, a Texan, would welcome regulation when it comes to electric power. Please.
For All Mankind is an awesome show, can highly recommend. A very interesting take on how the space race could have gone. Also has some thoughtful insights into how society was in the 60s (well, I suppose that depends on the telling). Starring Joel Kinnaman was also in the 1st season of Altered Carbon (which is what got me to try this series).

Season 2 coming out Friday, looking forward to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)
>To what worries me the most is of learned helplessness. I’ve come to accept most of what you mentioned just because no-one else seems to care, why should I?

Yeah I'm definitely at this point right now five years into this and this would be the import of my comment really, just, why does no one care? Cause when no one cares about the whole, there's no hope of collective, rational engagement of problem-solving. The Hannity/Texas bit could be proabably be further fact-checked.

But perhaps it all comes down to what Chépe said on _Narcos_, "being an adult means accepting things you wish weren't true"

Edit: originally wrote "there's hope of rational engagement"
Ex-Stadia developers dish on Google’s mismanagement and poor communication
Over the last year Tether has looked more and more like fraud. I was reading this article covering some of the recent developments since Tether's failed attempt to suppress discovery by New York's Attorney General

https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid...
Google to pay Murdoch's News Corporation for stories