skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saltwater is a very poor dielectric between wires (it is a high resistance conductor actually). An AC line would have a low efficiency because the dissolved ions transport a leak current between the wires. Around a DC line, electric field just generates an ion gradient once when powered on (and assuming the insulation doesn't experience electrolysis).

Long AC lines in air also have a finite resistance between wires, but it is much higher and not much of a concern.
Clubhouse Media to Acquire the Tinder Blog
The point is that people assume that nuclear deterrence can be achieved by snapping fingers.

China would invade well before Taiwan gets to the point of second strike capability and even a proper first strike.

Taiwan can be essentially evaporated in a first strike, there will be little to no advanced warning and unless they station their nukes off the island they will never be able to build a sufficient deterrence.
As the New Yorker will tell you, rather grumpily, it's not an umlaut: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...

> She [journalist] said that once, in the elevator, he [style editor] told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.

The lesson is, it seems, don't mess with the not-umlaut.
I've linked to it in the past but I think it's relevant again.

"Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies", 2019. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342908
So we can expect it to proliferate like silicon valley adtech companies.
That, and the hyper-individualism of capitalism makes it super hard to AFFORD that collectivist goal of perpetuating the species. Housing is much more expensive, as is healthcare, which are two things you need when starting out as a young family. Lack of collective bargaining power compared to the 50s means starting wages are also much lower and jobs are less stable, so it’s harder to take that leap to add another person to the household (which requires probably another room plus thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in medical expenses which as a young person could be the same as an entire year’s income).

So I think the challenge is a kind of selfish individualism from both the left and the right, although of different types. And let’s not even count the cost of schooling (which the right wants to burden the parents for).
And it’s not like everyone in the past was some gentleman philosopher. Is Survivor pablum? Arguably. But I would certainly say it’s more edifying than…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear-baiting
I remember playing around with Multiplan and 1-2-3 in the 80s but the first time I saw Excel I knew I witnessed the birth of the greatest SW product of all times, ever. At the time engineers still spent a lot of time writing crappy one-off homebrew scientific apps and Excel really helped as a first platform for calculations you didn't want to do on your calculator.

It's hard to imagine now but at the time PCs were command-line only and the early Excel versions, at least the one I saw, booted up a runtime version of Windows just to run Excel. I'm not sure whether they ported it over from MacOS to that special version or what but it was shocking to see.
>and not make world a better place even if they pretend .

I think MS made computer adaptation over the world significantly faster, but I'm not sure about it.
Counterpoint: Most people get WAY more value out of their Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max subs than they ever did paying Comcast $200 a month. And at a fraction of the cost!
I do think you're on the right path. There's a list of things as a manager I appreciate about pingpong's potential:

1. More personable
2. Ability to check on remote employees indirectly
3. Seems like it can lead to more meaningful company communication
4. I don't feel I need to organize a video chat to convey things that may be harder to convey via text. It's nice to have a quick option to record and send.

These are the items that are preventing us from implementation into our daily. We have a small team of 8 people (3 designers, 1 customer service, 3 operations, 1 marketing)

1. We'd rather have a one stop shop for our communication (ie. ability to send files & code corresponding with the video)
2. Currently just resorting to a facetime call or slack video call

Regardless - I'm still going to push my team to use this and get some more feedback as it seems your team is using it more frequently than slack.
Actually, isn't it the case that the first to market often fails, and it's really the second or third to market that usually has the better investment opportunity?
Googlers are like toddlers with all the toys in the world: they quickly get bored and move on.

I'm reminded of Paul Graham's essays about this and payments ticks two of the major themes: it's both unsexy and it's a schlep. And that's why Google won't succeed in this space.

Apple uniquely seems to have maintained the ability to tackle these problems. I remember when Apple Pay launched and was derided (here and elsewhere) but every few weeks there'd be another announcement where another group of financial institutions were brought in to the ecosystem. You keep plugging away at that, customers will start using it and after years of schlep you'll have mature payments infrastructure.

Google chat apps were a meme internally even when I was still there (2017). Deprecating Hangouts features, copying Slack, creating new orgs to make the same mistakes all over again (but hey, lots of people got promoted). It was a joke and still is.

And all they had to do was copy iMessage. That's it. Apple had the foresight, market power and wherewithal to push iMessage onto resistant network operators (who were all too happy to continue nickel-and-diming customers with massively profitable SMS charges long after any cost arguments had disappeared).
I expected this to be complaining about the loss of complex literary writing in favor of more simple, sensationalist style. It's not.

Basically, he pastes part of a New Yorker article in Hemingway, a tool that evaluates the reading level of a text and flags it if it's more complex than a ninth grade reading level. Spoiler: the New Yorker piece has too many big words and more complex sentences than what you'd write to target a ninth grade audience. He then does this for a longer New York Times think piece, also written in a New Yorker-like style.

What do you expect? These are not news articles, these are think pieces, even though one of them is published in the New York Times. They're supposed to be literary, which sometimes means having words more complex than a ninth grade level and sentences longer than what Hemingway would write.

If you tried this on an actual news article, where the style is often simpler, you might get a different result.
Lesson is multiple channels and capture email addresses.

Good news is you could probably start again and attract the followers by advertising on Instagram. Given how much you were making I’d swallow pride and give it a go. But get their email addresses via an opt in form or something!
Quick question - since it's South Texas and I can see the Gulf of Mexico in the screenshot... isn't that a little close to the water? Not just maybe global warming + sea level rises but storm surge from hurricanes.

Or is that not a concern? Anyone with more knowledge on the topic could share?
Their mainnet PoS network went live last december. The aim is to turn off PoW next year.
Worse as it is specifically designed to run on GPUs.

They would like to switch to proof of stake and plan to do so next year.
I figured out how to do this years ago, even before I worked at Microsoft (and pitched it while there a number of times).

It wasn't easy, and there was a lot to figure out, but the end result is starting to look pretty simple:

https://youtu.be/vn2aJA5ANUc?t=145

https://github.com/publicdomaincompany/copypaster
The problem is laymen care about cost of living, not CPI. But news agencies commonly talk about inflation with CPI rather than an actual cost of living. Which is what matters to people living ordinary lives.

Given this, the answers to your questions should be obvious. The answer, as far as laymen are concerned, is 3.5%. Improvements don't matter either. If we eliminated every car other than a Porsche, as far as laymen are concerned then car inflation went up by around 150%.
So you don't like the writing in The Economist? I do think it aims to be precise and clear but I certainly wouldn't say it aims to be boring.
CDC: Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People
> An asset that cannot be confiscated by the government

It might be intractable to confiscate bitcoin by attacking the math, but why wouldn't governments just put people in jail until they pay up? With adequate control over the internet, governments would be fairly able to track who's transacting.

Moreover for the vast majority of people on earth would still have basically zero money relative to the emerging bitcoin oligarchs. It would be a grossly unequal society, where there would need to be some non-math-based approach to getting money from the wealthy to redistribute to the less fortunate.
I'm a big fan of bitcoin and a few altcoins, including some PoS. But I feel like you are understating bitcoin's security. It has been very well tested and has a large bounty - both in its market cap and value of transactions that have not been susceptible to any double-spend attacks.

Other coins might sound good on paper -- adding new features but introducing serious design errors that have yet to be discovered because they're not a big enough target.
MS Exchange server hacked/0-day exploits
Well. Have fun inventing the protocol where we all just agree to play nice w/o military force (incl police) or PoW. I'm not really sure how this would work
As I posted elsewhere in this thread, start by thoroughly understanding and tracking your expenditure patterns including healthcare. Then add some additional buffer for known expenses (kids education, long term care, big ticket maintenance etc). The savings you need to retire is at the minimum (25 * expected
yearly expenditure) + buffer.

In my case, I way overshot my savings needs: my current net worth is about 60x my typical yearly expenditure.

I was well paid in my career and saved and invested at least about 70% of my income.
On Finding Stillness in Chaos
I think MS is making a postitive step in allowing loading js/ts libraries via node as part of it's programming model compared to just using VBA.

This could be very powerful. It would help Excel to be repurposed to potentially something greater....

Of course, Google Sheets and Apple Numbers should tap into that same functionality...
“Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind, and so it’s not a great climate thing"

The article doesn't compare electricity usage of other transaction methods and their relative qualities on balance to energy consumption. This makes it difficult to evaluate Gate's claim. Maybe he said more in Clubhouse but as it stands its an assertion without evidence.

For example, my assumption is that paper checks would have relatively high overall energy consumption and that society has thought the costs worth it.

In the larger picture, the article and Gates apparently see electrical utilization as waste, which seems short-sighted. For example, computations performed with geothermal energy available in Iceland can support people around the world. Or similar to a co-generation plant bitcoin mining could be performed to soak up base load that must be used during off hours.
Do you work in the blockchain space now? Is there a way I can get in touch with you?
In my case, at least, I try to get more direct statements even when I understand the intent, to hopefully reduce misunderstandings in situations where I fail to pick up on the real intent
I’m a $200/hr freelancer. Here's how I find clients
I don't have a blog. I'm not popular on social networks - I barely use any. I don't contribute to open-source much. I have no famous friends introducing me all over the place. Oh, and my clients are not really interested in recommending me to other clients because they want as much of my time as they can get. At the end of the day, I'm a total introvert, and I'm not good at sales. I had a hard time finding clients... until 2020. You know, the pandemic, the whole world struggling with financial problems, investors holding the money, businesses are starving... and I'm suddenly thriving the way I never did before.

How so? I've put together a notification system that monitors jobs all over the most popular freelance and hiring platforms. It informs me when someone posts a relevant job request. I filter all the incoming info to get those very rare, most relevant, and most lucrative jobs that I want. So the whole thing ends up sending 2-5 emails with job details. When I see something extremely relevant - I contact the person. I'm always getting a response. Because, you know, I'm the best suiting candidate who sends a personalized message among the first ones, not a random bozo sending the same message template to everyone.

So, I think maybe someone else could find this useful? I'm building a SaaS where you can create a filter and start receiving the most relevant job requests right to your inbox. I'm looking for early testers. If you want to get some, shoot me an email to [redacted] with the subject "job notifications." Pls, describe your case in your own words:

- which platforms you want to get notifications from

- what is the hourly rate (or fixed price) range

- what kinds of filtering you think would get you those most relevant jobs
See also https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/paper-dresses
He's not wrong, but so is any power utilization that doesn't come from green (or geothermal, or nuclear, etc.) sources which don't produce tons of carbon as a byproduct
It's common to use multiple allocators in some domains; game developers often use a bump allocator[0] which is reset at the end of every frame.

[0] https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/1080235671883841541
Who can point me to a comparison site where the different crypto transactions are displayed in kWh?

Everyone keeps saying it’s bad but surely this differs between coins/tokens?
Issue to me is that we should not be content with having the literacy rates existent before the XX century.
Blockchain =/= decentralized, read: Tether. Most popular stablecoin, yet one guy holds the power to create, alter or delete wallets/coins. Something that runs on the blockchain can be controlled by a singular entity.
By this same logic, we can ignore Bill Gates saying COVID is bad. Or that literal cancer is bad, for that matter.

I don't see how this logic is useful.
The average person in 1921 certainly was not reading the New York Times, if they were reading anything (which is doubtful).

In any case, the complaint being made (which I'm not sure that I buy) is that it's _more_ poorly written (and thus hard to read) today, not _less_.
> That does not sound like you are up-to-date with what the official redux tutorials currently recommend for writing modern redux. https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-8-modern-re...

--- start quote ---

import { combineReducers } from 'redux'

import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux'

import thunkMiddleware from 'redux-thunk'

const composedEnhancer = composeWithDevTools(applyMiddleware(thunkMiddleware))

import { createSlice } from '@reduxjs/toolkit'

...createSlice will automatically generate action creators

--- end quote ---

It's.... it's not better in any way?

> Redux goes the "signalling" way, MobX goes the "observing" way, both have their benefits and drawbacks.

I like Svelte's approach. Where they figure out which things are being observed or changed at compilation/transpilation time and generate code for that case specifically.
Cool. Great. Platform effect sucks.

...But what, exactly, is OP supposed to do about it? What leverage do they have in the world to change the way things are?

Realistically, when you’re building a startup, you use the tools you can get. Perhaps OP did not sufficient hedge across multiple engagement platforms but based on my experience, it’s very plausible that they tried multiple platforms and only found engagement on one.

The action they were taking was even to better understand their underlying demographic, presumably to approach they demographic from other marketing vectors because platform effect sucks.

Should OP simply ignore the opportunity because they haven’t been able to engage on another platform?

The problem with a monopoly is precisely that the monopoly’s users don’t have a choice.
Those of us who are aware of the antitrust case against Microsoft, as led at that time by Gates, will have a hard time with this. Not to invalidate what he says, but OMG the chutzpah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
OMG .... I wish there were rewards ... something. Exactly this comment! Good job.
you're asking or deciding?
if you know for sure, even then it doesn't matter if Bill Gates agrees or disagrees with you?
Ask HN: Is there any right to online privacy?
In the audience measuring field, the number of projects promoting a focus on privacy is every growing. They all share the same underlying primitive. As soon as the collected data are anonymous, then individuals' consent becomes implicit.

Is it that obvious?

Would you accept your car to collect anonymous driving data without your prior consent?
Would you accept your OS to collect anonymous usage data without your explicit consent?

Why should we accept our online behavior being analyzed anonymously without actively giving our consent?

This is not a question about the current state of the law; it is not about its past and future evolutions. It's even less about legitimate interests.
It is about individuals, at first, and their absolute right to privacy.

Shouldn't the consent be central, mandatory, and inalienable?
The Lion, The Witch, and The Bathroom Mirror
I think a lot of military force stems from maintaining USD hegemony. If that wasn't a thing I think the world would be safer.

Although I admit I am not sure. It's a complicated conclusion & a bold claim
I am a bit surprised about: " The Lottery is considered a masterpiece of a short story, and is widely taught in American high schools."

Really? I have difficulties understanding this. Is it because it is interesting for the kids through its shock value and manageable length? But this then looks to me like declaring ketchup to be vegetables so enough veggies are eaten at the canteen.
I'm going to try to pick up Hades again. Perhaps notably, the previous games like Bastion didn't grab me for whatever reason, but it might be because I needed to let go of some preconceived gaming notions I had as a traditional action-RPG lover.
Because 99% of long articles are a waste of time that could be summarized in a sentence or two. This is why no one reads articles here or on Reddit, and just skims the comments instead.
English is not my first language, so it astonishes me that some people really think that short sentences make good writing. Anyone can write bad prose using short sentences. Moreover, by writing in this way the language loses any kind of spice, so it's not a surprise that journalism and technical texts are so unpalatable. Another consequence is that even educated people never stop sounding like they're talking to a ten year old.
I am seriously considering getting back into premium web design and management for the restaurant industry.

The lockdowns have been brutal on the restaurant market but just as after a forest fire, new plants appear that are no longer shaded, the same explosive growth potential is there for new restaurant startups.

A few hundred bucks a year contract for a simple menu website and domain name, with future service potential is an easy sell and they add up quickly into a substantial passive income.
Mining isn't exactly a fair shake either... at least in PoS more network participants are even able to "vote".

Staking better aligns incentives when compared to mining and most other alternatives.
Not an economist either, but I think I can explain that one. CPI is a single rate derived from the change of price in a bunch of goods (houses aren't actually included, as another person noted). A change in CPI tells you nothing about the change in price of a particular good in it; it only tells you how much more expensive those goods are if you bought all of them.

Just as an example, let's say milk and eggs are the only thing on the CPI, and they're both at $2. If milk goes up to $3 and eggs go down to $1, the CPI says there was 0% inflation (assuming they don't adjust for quantity consumed). So rent can go up a lot without affecting the CPI too much, as long as the cost of other goods goes down enough to offset that increase.

Here's a graph showing inflation of different goods between 1998 and 2018: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/... As you can see, a lot of "mandatory" things inflated a lot, but the increase in those costs is offset by the decrease in electronics prices.

The CPI is meant, afaik, to gauge the increase in the cost of living for the "average person". It's useful for driving fiscal policy, but it's not terribly useful to laymen, imo (and that includes myself).

Houses are included in asset inflation, I believe. Here's a chart showing asset inflation: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/...

Real wages are more interesting to laymen, I think. Those are effectively wages adjusted over time based on inflation from CPI. Using your housing example again, it doesn't really matter if a house cost $200k 20 years ago and costs $400k now, as long as wages doubled over the same period, all things equal. Inflation is fine (for the purposes of buying a house) as long as wages rise to match that increase.

The reason many people can't buy houses anymore is that real wages have fallen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages Wikipedia has some interesting info on that. In an ideal world, inflation decreases the purchasing power of a dollar, but your employer gives you more of them to compensate for that. That never happened for many people.
For centuries, Journalism was the art of investigation and power brokers. Journalists were civilian detectives and their media outlet was the badge that let them enter crime scenes. Once the information was obtained, began its next task: wielding their power to subtly craft a narrative and manufacture consent. It was a fine balance. 90% of the time you reported facts, so that you could bend the truth the other 10% of the time. The monopoly over facts, lent them this power.

The nature of Journalism has completely changed with the advent of the internet. You don't require as many people on the ground, and the access afforded to high resource high prestige outlets is not very useful. Opinions, realtime updates and news is broadcasted straight through tools like Twitter. Information is decentralized and free. Thus, Journalists role has now become to exclusively broker power. The narrative is all that matters. Everyone knows the news anyway.

This is where new media began spiralling. Pushing narratives is the only value you can provide, but the power needed to get buyin for the narratives was lent by a monopoly over facts, that isn't there anymore.

note: The collapse of the NYT specifically is rooted in an entirely separate generational struggle. This does not address it.
I think this is true, but I wonder why this olive branch of “right to exist” doesn’t also extend to the Palestinian government? Maybe the Palestinians need a stronger military force to establish their right to exist?
We hold different beliefs then :) You dont know me, but we know he has a private jet. The amount of cabon a single trip with a private jet is insane. No matter how much car you drive your whole life, you wont offset that.