skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that the drag is what spins the rotor, and the rotor's rotation is what makes your controls work. So when you get close to a stall, the rotor's already going slowly, and then you push forward and it slows even further. Now you have almost no control authority and the only major force acting on the aircraft is the thrust from the propeller, which pitches you rapidly forward.

I'm not sure why (given sufficient altitude) you can't cut the engine and recover using autorotation the way a normal helicopter can, but I imagine it's pretty hard to do this in a normal helicopter too if you're falling upside-down.
Bats are actually pretty cute.
Apple M1 Macbooks are now refurbished by Apple Store
I get a "please subscribe" pop-up and can't get rid of it without fiddling with the CSS editor. Anyhow...

Summary of Truisms:

1) During recessions, employers tend to lay off rather than reduce wages

2) Central bank stimulus helps recessions

3) Too much stimulus causes run-away inflation

4) Non-monetary problems like oil shocks and pandemics can cause recessions

5) Increasing population helps economies. ("Hump to de-slump?" Or immigration?)

Summary of areas of disagreement and mysteries:

1) Acceptable level of debt

2) Acceptable level of inflation

3) Effectiveness of public sector versus private sector stimulus. (The left emphasizes first, the right second.)

4) Measuring the true value of intellectual property
Because zero is magic. If you know your number of cases doubles every week when you aren't locked down, it seems as though it hardly matters what you do right? Five cases, six cases, ten cases, it's going to get out of control no matter.

But if your base is zero then double that is still zero. That's why they've pursued elimination and why it has worked.
I'm really surprised at how much dust was being kicked up despite the length of the sky crane. I thought the whole point of that was to reduce/minimize the dust that would get kicked up. I'd like to suggest that NASA use a longer cable next time :)
We partner with physicians and pharmacies to provide SLIT. If anything was to happen to Wyndly, we'd transition patients directly to these physicians and pharmacies and make sure the patient experience was as seamless as possible.

It's incredibly important to us that our patient experience is as easy and seamless as possible. We'd bring this same philosophy to any transition.
That's an understatement if you ask me. This seems much better than any other Satoshi theory I've seen.

I've always thought the best way to verify a Satoshi candidate would be to compare coding style. Presumably this guy has some open source code we can look at. Has anyone done a comparison?
I still think Evernote is somewhat the closest, though I agree their recent attempts at revamping the UI have left a bitter taste in people's mouths.

I don't mind the new iOS app so much UI wise, though its performance has gone to the dogs (recent issue for example was me trying to write a note in an underground car park with no signal - and it just would not load the note composer at all!)

The Windows app at least has dark mode now, though it's stuck in a weird hybrid of "classic Windows UI" versus "modern UI"
«Oh shit here we go again»
Yeah, TBH I just assumed it was a unique ID baked into hardware because sequential IDs are a pain to manage, but your idea would be more efficient in the base case. As far as I can tell they also transmit things like channel-specific activations, but the sequential concept still works if that is a bitmap.
Pretty sure Len thought Bitcoin was a profound abortion of an idea:

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/77358901774917632

> Right; why would they [mention Bitcoin in the cypherpunk panel on digital currencies], though? Bitcoin pretty much fails as a cypherpunk protocol.

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/81121594373709825

> That only works if you want to leave the inflated value of Bitcoin on the table; otherwise you must cash out before the crash.

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/80748374386679808

> Oh, where's #infoanarchy when you need it? I mean, we could do a serious take and do BitCoin right, you know. (P.S.: CloudCoin™)

Also, Len was a Unix guy, and whoever wrote Bitcoin was a Windows programmer, though not an incompetent one.

(And, as pointed out in other comments below, Satoshi came out of his seclusion in 02014, three years after Len killed himself, writing only one short email, to rebut Newsweek's article claiming he was Dorian Nakamoto.)
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This is a subjective question, but I'll summarize what I know.

-no one can give you this advice, you have to listen and learn to discern the best decisions for yourself.

-investing is a full time job, 99% of investors will be better off not investing the time in valuing and picking stocks.

-less is more - the serious equity investors have 10-20 stock picks, and confidence in their analysis

-if it's in the media, it's being hyped, and often you're buying the uptick

-investing in yourself (certifications, your business) will have the greatest return on investment.

-don't time the market, compounding interest requires your stay in the market (I can't stop this myself, and missed the 2020 asset price bull/inflation? run)

-the easiest strategy and what I plan to move to myself is monthly dollar cost averaging of an index stock purchase, buy & hold (idea being - your time is the most valueable commodity you have)

-if you want some excitement on top of that boring strategy have 5-10% of your investments in stock picks you think are in the money long term.

-learn about the concept of "Mr. Market": the price you see is the perceived value, or the actual value +/- perceived future cash flows.

-buy a stock because you like the business and its prospects, not because you think you'll be able to sell it for more later and you'll pick better stocks. Businesses produce cash flows, and that's what you want to buy into.

-have a margin of safety.

-think for yourself, write down your stock thesis, and revisit it later - if you don't - you'll never improve without the feedback

-currency speculation is just that: speculation. Bitcoin & anything without an actual cash flow is controversial right now but it's a mix of a virtual land grab and currency speculation.

a couple resources:
The Intelligent Investor -Ben Graham (Buffett's Bible)

The Little Book that beats the Market -Greenblatt

intangibles regarding wealth:
The Algebra of Wealth -Galloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNrjrDV9-YQ

Oh and investopedia has a neat stock simulator if you want to speculate
I mean, yeah, sure. But if solving a problem is your goal, not "being number 1" or whatever then who cares about your competition. You are (hopefully) in competition against problems and reality, not other companies.
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Well put. I wish more features were rolled out as core language features before putting them in std. making things language features makes them possible. Making them library features makes them vocabulary. I’m more eager for things to be possible than I am for them to be ergonomic.
Isn't the thing to do to charge $200ph and offer "significant discounts" for interesting work. Now people have a reason to pitch you their projects and you can still charge $70ph for the interesting ones.
Completely factual post (with sources) downvoted to oblivion.

Well done HN.
Also, this statement you made.

"Ethereum goal was to allow people to build different types of dApps by opening up the number of op codes on the virtual machine"

Let me tell you, laypersons won't understand a word of this at all. :)
I recently started allergy shots, and am also on Dupixent.

I asked my allergist about this when I started shots. He said that it might help with the Eczema, but nothing is guaranteed. There is at least anecdotal evidence indicating that allergy shots might be helpful for Eczema.
https://acaai.org/news/your-severe-eczema-may-best-be-treate...

If you don't have insurance, Dupixent is like $2000 per month. Not sure whether their copay assist program will defray some of the cost. However, Dupixent has been life-changing for me. I went from having itchy flaky skin all over my body to being essentially normal.
There is a big difference between "formal positive COVID test" and "just guessing". For the case I mentioned above, tests were effectively unavailable at time of illness. But later on, multiple doctors said that from the symptoms and the follow-on illness, it was probably COVID.

Your insistence on denying distinctions like this makes you look like a person arguing a case, not somebody trying to jointly get at the truth. Which from my perspective, makes you much worse at arguing your case.
I was surprised to hear it was female suicide rates that increased. Although it makes sense why, I figured it was lonely dudes who just gave up as per the usual belief.
As someone who did 5 years of immunotherapy, which changed my life, I can vouch for this being a brilliant idea.

My allergist told me after completing the full course of treatment that <10% of patients do so because of the diligence required to do weekly shots week in week out.
Thats just for instanceof they're working on growing the capabilities in another JEP. Switch expressions are EXTREMELY powerful though.
Well, I'm sure there will be lobbying against it, but you specifically cited the example from Mexico of narcoterrorists threatening public officials so I wanted to explore that extreme scenario.

Some countries are adopting this sort of approach with poachers, although (as with drug dealing) the people doing the actual poaching are generally near the bottom of the food chain and may not even be aware of the larger issues in play. I am fine with bad things happening to upper-tier environmental criminals though.
c. elegans is pretty much the only one we fully mapped. (Possibly some fish larvae, too? Recall fuzzy)

But given that we can't even fully simulate animals with exactly zero neurons (Trichoplax), I'd say the current limit is "we can't". It's literally the world's simplest animal, and we're far from understanding how it works.

So, probably no brain uploads by 2031 ;)
I'm not even in the US, we usually have worse delivery dates for everything, Apple or not. And the 16MB Pro is considered a "modification", but it was readily available in several resellers.
> What about the guy who is in a gang now but was in a different gang last year? And his stuff is in another block because his block's storage area is full? And he can't take the top bunk because he has gout(or diabetes etc) and can't climb anything?

Having a lot of unique edge cases is not really an excuse to not even attempt an adequate solution. Everything is manageable if you have a high enough view of everything.

> Do you build a dryrun option to see what a small tweak to the rules do? In my experience, probably not.

In MRP systems this is done regularly. I'm sure it's done regularly with most logistics software as well. Scheduling is an inherently difficult problem in computer science not unlike the traveling salesmen problem. There are algorithms you can employ to reduce your workload in solving the problem, but in high stakes systems even the best algorithms are going to employ at least one validation run if not several brute force attempts. In MRP systems most software has features to enable multiple schedules. So you have a production schedule, and a playground environment for finding your best opportunity cost.

> Long story short, jails are incredibly complex environments with a multitude of complex dimensions to account for. If you are curious about this, I highly recommend reading "Jailhouse Doc" [0]. It's an incredibly insightful look into JUST the medical side of prisons.

Bill Gates once said he liked to find lazy engineers to solve complex problems because they usually find a simple solution. In my experience, if the solution to a problem isn't programmatically obvious, you need to stop thinking in tangible items (or in this case, people) and start thinking in object oriented terms. For example, it is usually possible to turn a one-and-done conditional statement into a loop. There is a way to scale just about any program, you just need to view the problem from a higher altitude.
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Cases will start to go down in April because Summer, like in 2020. And every year before that for other virus.
So they will probably take a moment celebrate the vaccine "success".

But after that, something will definitely come up. Extra crazy variants, covid-ebola-bat-soup mutation, climate panic, aliens, China did it on purpose, Russia, the impending economy crash and burn (because of reddit not government lockdowns)... who knows? Stay tuned for the next episode of The Clown Show.
What’s the point of a PDF when a fax would be sufficient?
I don't know how they achieved it specifically, but there is a moment in the broadcast[0] they did where they show the umbilical on the rover and mention that it was cut. I'm curious as well how they did it!

[0] https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=1898
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Regulation only appears in the article once because it's an article about the Texas grid, which is nearly fully deregulated internally, and is absolutely exempt from all federal regulations. Reliability is formed by adjusting spot prices and ERCOT's unique-in-the-nation capacity contracts, rather than specifying any individual generator comply to any individual standards.

(Here's what 'nearly fully' means: This is the section of what oversight ERCOT has over individual producers. https://www.puc.texas.gov/agency/rulesnlaws/subrules/electri... . It's a quick read, nine pages.)
Yeah but to be fair.... who wouldn't be stunned by her beauty? ;)
Arithmetic Dynamics: Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Secrets
It wasn't the lead singer (Julian Casablancas) who had a drug problem, it was the guitarist, Albert Hammond Jr. He wasn't any better when he was on heroin, though; the band started out without it.

The Strokes mainly just hated each other after they got famous. Angles, their fourth album, was famously recorded without Julian ever being in the same room as the rest of the band.
You forgot the closing /sarcasm tag
Yeah, Haskell won't give you Rust-like performance. Very few languages will and, except for C, you won't even see them here on the comments.

Haskell can have a reasonable high performance, but if it's you main concern, or if predictability is important, you need a low level language.
Unfortunately that hypothesis might hold true for all engine manufacturers which is a pretty chilling thought.
> $2000 stimulus checks so that money has to come from somewhere. It's easier for politicians to print new money

printing money out of thin air, vs borrowing money (via gov't bonds) are different things. I believe the US borrowed this money for the stimulus cheques.
Plus, realistically in a case like that you're paying for him to...

1. Answer your call
2. Book off part of his schedule
3. Drive to your place
<do the actual work>
4. Bill you and collect payment
There’s a less drastic compromise: Power company sends a text one day ahead of expected stress, with news that tomorrow’s price will be 3x normal. Enough to focus customer attention, but without threat of financial ruin.

SDG&E, in California, offers such a plan (layered on top of conventional TOU terms).
45 USD an hour is quite a lot outside of the USA (even just outside of silicon valley?).
I am wondering how much is this a maintenance issue during pandemics - planes are likely flying less often, exposing some issues from standing still; repair crews might not be available all the time or suddenly overloaded and because of these factors the rate of incidents rises?
> to this day I can't wrap my head around the need to unwrap almost every single variable/function/whatever.

Think of Result as (foo, err) bundled into one thing. result.unwrap() is then equivalent to:

if err != nil {
panic(err)
}

And the ? operator is:

if err != nil {
return ..., err
}

You don't need to unwrap (or ?) everything, just things that return a Result -- which is the same as functions which return an error in Go. The advantage of Result is that you can never forget to handle the error because the compiler requires you to get the value out of the Result in such a way that you have to handle errors.

Don't get me wrong, there are complicated things in Rust, I just don't see how Result-based error handling is one of them. This is also not a new idea, many languages have something similar.
Marx here speaks about industrial bourgeoisie. He has also praised the "promethean" nature of the capitalist.
The issue was rolling blackouts caused by insufficient capacity and lack of winterization in generation stations. I know people who lost power for 48 hours in 14F weather. We have at least 21 dead.
Yep, very similar experience here. I find listening to music from that time period just makes me melancholy (err...no pun intended), so I mostly avoid it now. I'm not sure if this is because it brings me back to that time, or if it's the general mood of the music itself...probably both. I guess it makes sense that the music of a given time would reflect the general mood of the people coming of age at that time.

I don't know where else to go with that thought...ah whatever. ;)

EDIT: fix typo, because of course
In general, an incoherent, racist screed does not provoke thought so much as it does contempt.

Hence why this article was flagged.
It could go that way. But the idea is that Massachusetts might charge EVs extra license fees because they want to replace the lost gas taxes whereas Montana and Mississippi wouldn't. Massachusetts already has different and higher pollution regulations (typically based on California's).

Other states might want to do the same, although the fees would probably differ. So the idea is that 10 or 15 states cluster around one solution for a department, 20 for another, 10 for a third and the rest go their own way. The states would have a lot of power in being able to replace working solution A with B or C. So there's 3 or 4 DMV vendors, there's 3 or 4 unemployment vendors, some for contact tracing (my state of Oregon still hasn't implemented the Google/Apple tracing), and so on.

The current situation is that you know a potential replacement will be late and over budget, you just don't know exactly how bad it will be. And Accenture and IBM like it that way and are very adept at persuading the decision makers that they're very special snowflakes and can't use an off-the-shelf solution.
I'd bet this was a feature to support their in-store kiosks where people could play a DS and see the output on a TV. It'd be a lot cheaper and easier to pull some DS machines off the production line and reflash the firmware than to engineer entirely new units just for the kiosks.
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> That's an unusual claim

It's really... not. For people that have actually written big things in Rust. We keep repeating it, but we try to cautiously, tread carefully, lest we be accused of being part of this dreaded Evangelism Strike Force we keep hearing so much about.

Ease of use != ease of learning.

Rust is hard to learn (unless you have a deep ML/Haskell + C background). But once you're up the curve, it's a very expressive + productive language. Refactoring and maintaining large projects confidently is a breeze, and creating powerful abstractions that can be safely leveraged by large teams of programmers... just works.
> they are willing to invest their assets until the rate of return is also close to zero.

which is how new jobs are created - from this mechanism of investment (and acceptable returns from it). The problem is whether these jobs produce value in the future, at a greater rate than the returns being expected by the owners. If the excess returns are all captured by the owners, society wouldn't have progressed forward. But if these jobs brought more value than just the ROI, then it's a good outcome.
Phone gaming never quite took off outside of the freemium stuff. And gaming is a hard business for new entrants.

The most likely path would’ve been if an existing gaming company made a handheld that was also a phone, but Microsoft doesn’t have a handheld entry, Sony’s Vita go down well, and Nintendo is just not really interested.

This thing also costs $699, which is quite a bit more money than say a Switch. In fact a Switch is pretty much the cousin of a phone, hardware wise.
Sorry, my confusion!

I expected your link to take me to a page that contained a simple list.

I also assumed that trypaper.io was the domain for a note-taking app called Paper, and that you were intending to link to one of your pages on that service. :)

...

Please forgive me for leveraging my confusion, for which I take full responsiblity, into a critique of your page design, but in the hopes that something here might be constructive...

I would have been less confused if the page headline was static instead of rotating/frequently incomplete due to animation/"difficult" to read. Something like "Financing your SaaS" would seem to cover all cases, maybe with a rotating subtitle without the backspacing animation so that the full content of each entry could be read in a glance?

Also the background of white with a pattern of pale blue dots made me think "note paper/note-taking app". The domain name makes sense for this also, but it was the background that forced the idea to front of mind.

Again, I'm sure this is a me thing and not a you thing -- but if others exhibit similar confusion, that's my best guess as to the cause.

...Now I will read the content on the site. Thanks for humoring me.
Maybe if the cryonics thing works out, but that's a long shot.
Fact is that under the current system, once you make it to the top there are a whole myriad of ways for you to rake in more money than the average person will ever see in their entire lives, year over year, while producing next to zero genuine value for society. In this case, the SPAC can be seen as regulatory arbitrage that’s taking advantage of the Tower of Babel of regulations around raising money from non-accredited (read, non-millionaire/politically-connected) investors.

This fact is what makes the typical framing of the “should billionaires exist?” debate so asinine. Do “Billionaires Build” [1] as PG claims they do? Sure, some do, and in particular the ones he comes into contact with. But under the current system, it’s also often the case that Billionaires Built, and now Billionaire Grifts; Billionaire Lobbies; sometimes Billionaire Basically Never Did Shit Besides Wield Political Influence. And this applies to lesser-yet-still-extremely-high degrees of wealth, too.

Even if your average Trump supporter or socialist college protestor can’t detail the precise mechanism of this injustice, they can smell the stench emanating from this swamp of undue privilege. The recent wallstreetbets uprising was a more knowledgeable reaction against this breed of arbitrary self-dealing.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/ace.html
Thanks for the summary. There doesn't seem to be any way of getting around the Bloomberg paywall, outline.com doesn't work either.
> But the "grid power" needed to run the reactor's control systems, etc., can almost surely be generated by the reactor itself while it's online, right?

In theory, yes. But in practice, most nuclear power plants are required by law to trip offline if their local grid goes down or even experiences a minor disturbance [0]. Nuclear power plants always have onsite diesel generators to run pumps, operate control rods, and shut down the reactor if needed.

Nuclear plants are notoriously finicky about offsite power quality because they take a long time to ramp up and down and the consequences of e.g. losing cooling are potentially disastrous.

[0] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/yang2/docs/bick...