skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not vented so much as just not air tight-- no reason to make it air tight, and the inside of the pen is by no means sealed, as you can tell if you've ever taken one apart (or had it explode inside your bag). The parts just don't fit that well together. Which I guess is a vent in a sense, although that's probably not the main design consideration. The (obvious) exception being the space pens, which do have some pressure chambers. They solve the vacuum issue by being pressurized, which has the nice benefit of letting them write upside down.

I imagine they've made it viscous/non-Newtonian/whatever (not sure on the technical fluid mechanics term) enough such that gravity pushes/pulls it down towards the tip but prevents it from flowing the other way.

Edit 1 (just before getting in the shower): Removed references to air pressure, as I don't think that makes a difference.

Edit 2 (post shower): Air pressure might a difference after all, it depends on where the seal is. If there's an air tight seal on the tip end (which there might be, if that's how it's kept from leaking) then air pressure might add to the "only goes one direction" effect.
agree. USD inflation is sorta meaningless. way matters more is the CPI, which is not necessarily correlated with how much money there is
Interesting! Not a critique, but these seem to have a "broadcast tv quality" to them, were the network by any chance trained on the TV show?
IIRC didn't Apple or Google start banning apps that did this?
Seconded. Despite being a genuinely challenging and complicated process with countless moving parts, it was written to be as approachable as possible. They didn't feel a need to "prove" how hard the work is by writing from deep within the weeds.
If you're going in that direction you might as well use visa or instant ach.
despite tons of covid stimulus and fed intervention, CPI still very low
> properly planned

> well-planned

For these reasons requiring proper planning on the individual level is why the US require certain foods to be fortified.
Personal interactions with an acquaintance in real time might be beneficial for some things, but as a spectator, written back and forth is much more efficient.

Prime example is how HN comments contain a wealth of information compared to the articles they link to. I gain absolutely nothing from hearing or watching someone speak, except for wasting my time. I’d rather read their transcript and the ensuing discussion for a quicker, more balanced view of the situation (assuming the people in the discussion are qualified to discuss).
What is this Taproot about?
What if it cost you $100 to buy bananas worth $1? You’d trade using something else.
Just temporarily disable strict blocking for advertising.com.
What on Earth is what3words' business model? Did they expect to own the concept of using words as coordinates?
The inflation rate is a measure of price changes of a large basket of goods. In a real economy, this can be affected by a number of different (but connected) things—the expansion and contraction of credit, the velocity of money (the rate money flows through the economy), foreign debt (esp, debt in another country’s currency), and so on. The dogecoin chart only shows base supply, which is not really a complete picture of economic function.
Very cool. Now one my favorite text editors also runs on Android :)
I think that's what the "optimize for Web" checkbox does
You're right; it was uMatrix. Still crap though.
You know about https://www.google.com/save aka https://www.google.com/collections right?

Some details: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9217379?co=GENIE...
I have no idea if it is true, but, in Egypt, my guide (who I will say was wonderfully knowledgeable on historic matters), stated that the reason many properties had rebar extending upwards (e.g., it looked like there were more stories to be added) was related to tax policy. I forget the full detail of her explanation, but there was some different kind of tax treatment if the building was "finished," so there were a number of approaches to not "finish" a building.

Edit: From some subsequent Googling, it appears this tax explanation was, at least, historically true in Egypt. There are reports that this policy may have changed in the early 2010's.
My bad. I misunderstood your comment to be about an internet archive type project for pager messages.
Not sure what you mean here. Opening the original link in an incognito window yields full text of the article (maybe you are out of free articles, and they are counting?) Submitting articles to archive.is or archive.org serves the important function of maintaining an accurate historical record, and prevent link rot.
> I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant/suponea

Unless you're (a) swimming in money, (b) have some kind of strong (and free?) legal/financial support behind you to battle such a thing, (c) are not in the US, or (d) are so poor that you have nothing to lose anyway, this sounds like a rather incredible claim. Most people facing potentially massive lawsuits would probably cave.
Isn't this just the thing a patent would solve? Does What3Words have a patent on their grid system or not?

Updated:
They have an active US patent. Why didn't they try gunning him down with this instead of the IP letter?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9883333B2/en
Inflation can be increases in prices, and it is used in this way by most modern economists, except hard money economists to whom inflation is by definition the increase in money supply irrespective of prices. In this sense, inflation is what causes price increases but isn't price increases. The article is talking with this second, or original definition of inflation.
> What happens when the transfer fees are orders of magnitude more than the value being transferred?

you're missing the demand curve. As fees increase, transaction volumes go down, until there's an equilibrium. The opposite occurs as well: if transaction volume dries up, the demand for block space will decrease and eventually the fees will drop.
Thank god iOS doesn’t have vibration support, we simply don’t want it
With tech-giants' toll booths every 100 meters.
> building infrastructure for them

That's what they're discussing, SJW.
My personal opinion of W3W, while a cool experiment, has always been: over-engineered. To hear they're raising their hackles is disappointing.

From Amateur Radio: Maidenhead grid squares + NATO phonetic alphabet are technical but adequate for purpose. It's hard to confuse "Foxtrot November Zero Three" with "Delta Mike Zero Four" even if you're communicating over a VHF/UHF satellite flying overhead in LEO.

You can get more or less specific by adding or removing symbols. Eg: "EK64ab" or just "EK".
It's a challenge to log radio contacts from all of the major [AZ##] grids. https://twitter.com/GridMasterHeat
New grads don’t make 200k a year. There are some rare exceptions. Top kids from top schools. Very occasionally a quite special kid from a non-top school. It’s not normal.

And IMO the majority of 10+ Yoe engineers are actually 1 yoe * 10, or more usually 2 yoe * 5.
On Reddit's mobile web page, after clicking the 'continue in browser' button, go to hamburger menu -> settings -> "Ask to Open In App" and uncheck the checkbox. Removes all the 'reminders'.
Perhaps Reaper's hackability/flexibility (e.g.scripting/API/js DSP programming language) is its "thing"?
Japan has been trying to create inflation for decades by monetary expansion, monetizing their debt, zero interest rates, all the tricks. It has mostly failed. It is _not_ the easiest way to cause significant inflation.
Great article, it really is a layer of separation for me for people who are critically addicted to games.

I just find no pleasure, and I don't understand the online forum and discussion around these lootboxes, EA games, pay to win stuff.

I guess people really are just east to get addicted and consume.
>For that matter, what stops individual exchanging private keys instead?

add a few more steps (to prevent your counterparty from cheating you) and you got the lightning network.
How cute, people still thinking lightning network doesn’t work. Just 18 more months, my friends, then Bitcoin will crash and prove all of us HN boomers correct.
This one? https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/
No. Fees are currently about 10% of total block reward, https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-fee_to_reward.h...
I don't think I would call this a dark pattern as much as just false advertising. Putting an asterisk that links to teeny fine print where they say "a month is not a month" does not absolve them, and if there were enough money at stake (guessing there probably isn't) any competent lawyer should be able to get a good class action out of this.
Ironic. That’s actually exactly the portion of the quote that made me post the comment.
>It is _not_ the easiest way to cause significant inflation.

Or maybe they're not solely interested in causing inflation, and are concerned about other effects as well? eg. preventing hyperinflation. If all you wanted to do is cause inflation, you can do so very easily with helicopter money.
Inflation is a function of supply and velocity, not simply supply. Concretely, the M2 supply is 15X higher than it was in the 1970s but inflation left each one worth 1/7th. [1]

Supply is only half the puzzle. No cryptos actually take into account supply and velocity when attempting to control inflation which is something any economist would tell you is trivially flawed.

Substantially every crypto talking head conflates supply increase with inflation, but they are not the same thing, not by a long shot.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2014/september/wha...
Archive link: https://archive.md/QmkvE
> Yeah, they can't find enough labor because they want to pay people $15 an hour in an area where the median home price is $572,000.

No, as in, can't find skilled labor for a good salary. The notion that only unskilled labor is sought after is incorrect. Good people are always hard to find. Smart people are always hard to find. But most workers are average, and it is hard to find a job that can support a half million mortgage for the worker who is average.

What is also true is that there is skilled labor in shrinking industries and that labor is not easy to transfer to other skilled industries. You can take a smart person in logistics and convert them into a highly sought after programmer with enough time and the right attitude, but if you already have a family then you can't handle the dip. Skill mismatch is a real problem, particularly given our penchant for outsourcing. But I don't see why meeting the mortgage needs of half million dollar homes should be the yardstick by which you judge a labor market.
I've seen and heard of this in Mexico and Latin America as well.

A lot of US housing styles, such as saltbox and narrow townhouses, are also attempts to game older versions of the tax code
There are many non-Sikh Punjabis.
Difficult to say as they are not 'actually' printing money tho they call it that, they are just creating bank reserves and since they are not used as money they don't generate inflation, not as measured by the cpi anyways.
Inside baseball. Talking about music like dancing about architecture.
Claim: Parks Ambassadors work to ensure the city’s parks are accessible
The Big Question: Can India Find a Way Out of Its Covid Nightmare?
Connecting to an Azure AD / Office 365 account from a desktop application will pop up a dialog box with a small hidden blue link on the bottom left corner to "log in to this application only".

The big button in the usual OK position will let the organisation manage your device, including pushing software to it and remote wiping. Even if it's not their device. Even if you're just logging in to one app, one time.

Microsoft is blatantly using dark patterns to inflate their InTune numbers, at the expense of user privacy and choice.
> We shouldn't be looking to Apple as our biased replacement for a government;

Who is doing that?

Governments have so far completely failed to manage intrusive tracking.

Apple isn’t acting like a government. They are simply recognizing that this is an attractive service and providing it.

> they also, for example, pull apps that poke at how iPhones are made in sweatshops... that they occasionally move to do something someone finds valuable doesn't exonerate them or forgive how much power they have accumulated.

This is just generic Apple hate and not relevant to the thread.
So is letting you know about old.reddit.com a bad thing?
I'll never understand the model of the L.A times putting everything behind a subscription wall.

Sure maybe a handfull of papers like the NYT or WAPO could pull it off because they are designed to be a one stop shop. But once you are into the second tier, what am I supposed to subscribe to 100 different newspapers so I can occasionally read an article from them. At least the LA Times is kind of big. I've seen much more egregious examples than that, for example the Mercury in SF.
> the only painting is of the scatological variety from the sole residents: crows.

This was weird.
Why do people today use "cancer"? Isn't that offending to people with cancer?
Salesforce owns Marketo now. My company is using it along with our Salesforce org. Integration is pretty seamless. Although we do have to train users on how to write in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 which is what Marketo is using apparently.
You understand that this is very unusual right? I mean, mere seconds of googling can show you that the average house price in the U.S. is about 270K, not 570K, and the average purchase price is not 35% over-asking unless there is a sudden epidemic of people under-asking and misvaluing their own homes.
Is this a GDPR violation?
A fixed[1] money supply is barely a concept at all in more recent analyses of the monetary system.

[1]: fixed over the short run.
If a star is traveling that fast (let's say 85% the speed of light), and it emits light, is the light traveling only 15% faster than the star?
Just require everything to be sold using a preferred number for volume/mass. Some countries have these laws already.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_number
You have to buy a specialized backup product like Ownbackup or Spanner. These in turn, utilize Salesforce's bulk apis. Salesforce does not let anyone touch the underlying databases.
This is likely attributable to savings rates being at near all-time high in the US causing velocity to fall off. If people are saving not spending, there is no additional demand for goods, which means their prices do not rise, and inflation does not materialize.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
If you live in LA presumably the LA Times has local, relevant news so might be worth subscribing to for some?
I am fairly sure that people with cancer would agree that cancer sucks.
I suspect people with cancer have bigger and more real-life issues to worry about than other people's word choices.
>transactions can accomplish complex code without appearing any different from normal transactions

What could go wrong I guess. Are there distinct advantages to this?
> we're addicted to change, and we have no judgment about how much change we need and where.

^ this
what kind of cars did people you know buy? Nissan leaves with small batteries and poor cooling tech, or early Tesla models (which were much more expensive than the Model 3).

Frankly I'm surprised the number isn't higher. It bodes well for the new class of vehicles like Model 3's and Chevy Bolts which have longer range, better cooling tech, better prices, and faster charging options.

As the charging networks get built out, the retention rate will only improve.
It started out as a fun joke, but we found out that when you cross a joke with a actual working cryptocurrency, you get a cryptocurrency, and it doesn't matter how ironically we used it way back when since the similar bad stuff is going to happen as with other cryptocurrencies.

No worse than NFT's, sure, but NFT's are crazy.
Gal Gadot Starring in Cleopatra
> You going to pay for my tow?

How often have you run out of gas? That's a stupid mistake you make as a kid once and it never happens again. Running out of charge will be little different.

And next gen EV's like the Hyundai Ioniq 5 will be able to give other EV's a top-up.

> The increase in cost to the apartment complex that's going to get passed straight to me on top of the cost of the electric vehicle?

Tax credits in the new infrastructure plan should cover most of the cost. And if costs tons of money to run power to every stall you're paying the wrong electrician. Even 115V power sufficient for most city EV drivers, but a dryer outlet is better.

> How about maintenance?

One of the main advantages of EV's is that they need far less maintenance.

> Because I can't haul even my cheap little straight load with a Tesla.

All the EV trucks coming on the market will tow a heck of a lot more than gasoline trucks will.

> you know what kind of vehicle is going to deliver it? Surely not an electric one.

Short haul delivery is an ideal use case for electric vehicles.

> Electric vehicles make sense in the big city.

Electric vehicles make a lot of sense out in the country. You've got lots of room for solar panels so you can save a lot of cash and are no longer dependent on fuel deliveries. Electric motors deliver tons of the torque that is crucial when doing real work.
Well the study was from 2012 to 2018, so the numbers are probably even better nowadays.
1 in 5 motor-propelled owners in California switched back to horse and buggy
My family hailed from East Punjab before the Partition and wasn’t (and isn’t) Sikh.
Ah yes, the famous bigotry against... people who are happy to throw criticism without making any effort to obtain understanding or context.

Truly a marginalized group.
If you just do an occasional key/value lookup, you don't need 1.2 MiB of WebAssembly. [1] That might already exceed your total database size.

I'd solve it via sharding: divide the database into N pieces via range- or hash-sharding. [1] Choose an N that's large enough for each piece to be reasonably small. When you look up a key, fetch the shard of interest.

You can put each piece into separate files (a little simpler to code, and most static servers will use pre-gzipped files for "Content-Encoding: gzip requests" easily, but you waste more disk space due to internal fragmentation) or one file (with range serving and an index of the byte range offset for each piece).

The format for each piece can be anything, eg json (simple) or an sstable-like format (more efficient). [3]

[1] Content-Length of https://phiresky.github.io/youtube-sponsorship-stats/sql-was...

[2] hash-sharding means: piece[i] has all the keys where hash(key) % N = i.

[3] https://github.com/google/leveldb/blob/master/doc/table_form... although they just say "formatted according to the code in block_builder.cc" instead of describing the most relevant part.
> Brave post!

Not commenting on op’s point, but let’s be honest - saying that Facebook is evil on HN is as brave as saying that Fox News is evil on CNN.
A professor friend of mine told me once that one of the secretaries was lamenting that "even garbagemen get paid more than I." Curmudgeon that he was, he suggested that she quit and become a garbageman. She replied in an offended tone "no way would I do a filthy, disgusting job like that."

QED
I got that captcha somewhere recently, and I found the UX appaling as a first-time user.

"Slide the control to complete the picture". I interpreted it the first time as looking like the old iOS slide-to-unlock convention: "Once I slide the control over, it will complete the picture correctly." Now, this may be a well-intentioned accessibility thing, but it wasn't obvious that the slider was connected to the puzzle piece in the same way.

This was reinforced by the fact it was a bit janky on my entirely overkill rig, so the puzzle piece was moving out of synch with the slider until after I had overshot and failed the CAPTCHA.

I always wondered if we had much hard data on both the efficacy and the necessity of captchas. If you're not selling 3080s, you probably just need the most minimal deterrence to auto-scrapers-- the old "seven + 4 = " CAPTCHA probably does enough at a very low processing and accessibility cost.
This is unlikely IMO. There is no local Kannada-English dialect and even Kannada speakers with weak English would know how to spell it.

My guess is it’s because English (Canada) comes first, before English (United Kingdom) and English (United States), in the list and most people in India are just selecting the first one (en-ca) without preference to any locale.
Similarly, SNES games were more responsive than modern games and have zero loading screens.
JavaScript Array vs. Java List: Common Actions
Where I work, we are planning to ditch our very expensive web portals and mobile apps to go all-in with Salesforce. We plan to build several Salesforce lightning communities to be used as our front-end portals. Salesforce will convert these communities to mobile apps as part of our contract. Along with the base Salesforce org, we have Marketo (marketing), Service Cloud (customer support), Financial Force (ERP), Tableau (BI), Tableau CRM/Einstein Analytics (analytics), B2B, and Mulesoft. The only products I question are Financial Force, B2B, and Mulesoft as they are very expensive for what you get.
Problem solving in NASA is a very different story compared to problem solving at Facebook.

NASA hires rocket scientists to build rockets. Enough talent existed in the military working on that stuff, even before anyone started day dreaming of flying to space.

Facebook on the other hand hires computer scientists, programmers and an assortment of random over-energetic mindlessly ambitious buffoons (too ignorant to fully comprehend how ignorant they are outside their domain) to work on Sociology, Political Science and Social Psych problems.

What solutions can anyone expect?

Many of said created problems are barely studied by domain experts at such scales.

So expect solutions to always be half baked and create their own new issues for a long time, before any real breakthroughs happen. Its like waiting for Meteorologists to announce they have finally worked out how to control the path of hurricanes.

Ofcourse the difference here is Meteorologists dont create and inject chaos into society. Facebook does and is well rewarded for it.

Its high time they are punished.
Meh you could take that position, or you could recognize that the charging networks are sparse, and we are only just now getting EVs with decent ranges at decent prices.

I certainly couldn't deal with a Ford Focus Electric or Nissan Leaf. But a Model 3 or a Bolt has >3x the range and they charge faster.
We did a 3000km trip (6000km round trip) in an electric vehicle. The computer told us we'd need to make 9 stops to charge in each direction. We ended up stopping 18 times for bathroom, food and sleep stops. The Tesla is a far superior experience for road trips than a gasoline car is.
No an open device does not automatically mean insecure.

Proper security controls should work even if the schematics are open. If they don’t, that is a security defect whose ownership falls under the manufacturer.
It's very common in Morocco also. Rebar sticking out of the roof of many regional buildings.
I feel like this comment is getting the thread really off track.
That works to a point, but there are many subtleties to electric playing, especially lead, that just don't apply to an acoustic.
They don't breed true, but it's not nearly as bad as that video makes it out. I've grown dozens of avocados from seed over the years, and the majority of them have good fruit.

They aren't the same as the parent I know (and who knows what variety they pollinated with) but it's still a lot of fun to plant one and see what you get. Worst comes to worst, you'll still have a good rootstock!