skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow,that was both eye opening and also not that surprising. Of course the government is cooking the books on inflation, and has been for a long time. But I would say instead of replacing reality, they are just substituting one fantasy for another. The money itself is an abstraction and it's not possible to compare value across time except as an approximation. The paper money from 1980 may still exist in a drawer somewhere and function as a financial instrument, but the economy it interacts with is radically changed.

How do you hedonically adjust access to all the world's information and entertainment and instant communication with anyone anywhere? How do you hedonically adjust the difference between Covid with and without biotech. How do you hedonically adjust 2-hour delivery of every product imported from anywhere? How do you hedonically adjust Pacman to Halflife Alyx?
Threw out all Echos some years ago. Tired of Alexa not understanding what I wanted.
Some boats charge batteries via shaft while on sail. Otherwise diesel generators aren't mechanically connected.

What I do wonder is whether automotive range extenders can be retrofitted instead of marine gensets. Seems way cheaper.
So it should be quite easy to build.

"Oh, it's all black here too" ;)
No, as in a the graph starts from nodes corresponding to sensor inputs, with edges going to nodes that represent computations based on those, to further computations, to the outputs that drive actuators.

If only one sensor input changes then intermediate computations that don't depend on it don't need to be updated.
What's interesting when looking at the cost of homes (and cars to some extent) is the cost of servicing the loans for these items has plummeted. So you might well be buying an item with higher capital costs but the amount of money leaving your bank account each month hasn't inflated that much.

When I bought my current house in 1995 I was paying 6% for the mortgage (in the UK), if I was buying now I'd be paying 1.5%.
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$90k/year is between a good and outrageously good salary for Europe, depending on the country. So yeah, plenty of talent available for cheaper than $90k/year.
Was self-published books even considered in this assessment ?
You should take a look at https://heml.io/
From this [1] Wikipedia article it looks like there aren't new strains every year, but generally every few years there will be a new variant that replaces an older variant in the mix. The oldest variant currently in flu vaccines is from 2013, and the newest is from 2019.

That being said, the process generally doesn't change — you still grow and kill (or grow and weaken) viruses the same way, you just start from a different base strain. For already-approved inactivated-virus flu vaccines, the FDA does not require new clinical trials for strain updates, and for already-approved attenuated virus vaccines, they only require very minimal trials (300 adults to prove adequate attenuation) [2]. So they're not novel in the sense of the COVID vaccines, which needed large scale clinical trials to prove efficacy — the flu vaccines have generally already proved efficacy, so for strain updates the most they need to prove is safety.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine

2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947948/
Ideally we would need Babel less and less, but kudos to Henry and others contributors, they are making cool stuff (like ecma proposals implementations)
>> Not true, see the link in my sibling comment.

Only "not true" if there is some evidence it is not true. I looked at the sibling link and found this:

>> Will opening my network make me liable for others' illegal actions? +

>> This one is a bit more complicated, but the short answer is, "We don't think so." Click here to find out more.

"dont think so" is not convincing. Also not convincing is the broken link on the "Click here to find out more."

I dont think this should be treated lightly -- there is no reason to assume that openly sharing an internet connection is safe given the consequences of illegal use.
Very little worthwhile reading in this thread. It's mostly people complaining about something they don't understand. Read that article and move on is my advice.
However, isn't this how Bayesian thinking works? You give a higher prior to your believe depending of the source.
To proxy someone else’s use of your own network, use which you (generic ‘you’) may not know is happening in the first place because not everyone reads Hacker News or the EULA?
Wow this is crazy fast! Do you get the numbers from the episodes/podcast text descriptions?
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well ... there isn't the internet. this news is from Nature - very reputable. what is your other source? the daily mail?
See this comment, from a parallel submission:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115880
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So nice to see that I'm not the only one trying to solve this problem :D

I love the simplicity of the tool. Which means it's pretty easy to integrate it with your own personal workflow.

Great work man.
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I've actually update the pricing model now to be more suited for indie bloggers as well
Ah right, so this is more of service channel that Amazon devices can use to connect Amazon HQ? That's not so bad then, but the headline is pretty click-baity.
I explicitly state 2020. Activity picked up in March. Use GitHub search filters and it’s more apparent.

Activity graphs can be deceiving, it’s extremely easy to look busy. Actually drill down and you’ll notice a lot of the activity earlier in this year was just pull request approvals, without comment, mostly done after someone else had already approved.
If you hang out on HN a lot, I can see how you might think “most companies” are selling your data.

But this is hilariously false. Nowhere near “most” companies are selling your data.

In fact, an overwhelmingly vast majority of all businesses don’t sell your data. This is true inside Silicon Valley and even more true outside of the Valley.

Even in Silicon Valley, most companies understand that selling products and services to customers is more profitable than trashing a customer relationship by selling a customer’s personal info to third parties.
So, if I buy a so called Smart-TV (not because I like it but because traditional ones are getting harder to find) but don't set up it on my home network so it can't phone home, it could scan around anyway and find other open devices more than willing to participate in my personal data exfiltration?
If the Amazon project succeeds, I would expect in a few months most home devices manufacturers, to partner to implement it so they have a way to circumvent users choices.
What do you think about the Article?
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Is energy efficiency actually similar to M1? I'm not aware of any Ryzen-based fanless laptops
Right. I can see how that could be useful in some situations but presumably it wouldn't work very well for a very dynamic situation like a rocket in flight (changing height, orientation, fuel, thrust every millisecond)

And you still need a control loop to look for sensor changes? Its just a way of caching most of the computation?
Just here to point out this idea (no spoilers) is a major plot point in the Oppenheimer Alternative, the newest book by famed science fiction author Robert Sawyer. A good read.
It is sensationalized, but it could have a bug and not a designed behavior. This could have been a software bug or a rare combination with hardware or environment conditions.
> But even if Musk hadn't chosen to become a public spectacle, that doesn't give him the right to treat others the same way.

Of course.

What I’m saying is, I don’t expect the famous to be able to empathise with the rest of us, not that it’s good that they can’t.
Brandon Sanderson is a terrific author when he completes another author's series. He is more lyrical when he is forced to adopt another author's style. Otherwise its paint-by-numbers fantasy.
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Most people pay because babel is useful and they want to support the project.
Funds going to wrong hands is different deal.
Can someone explain to me how ARM expect to protect its IP if it doesn't publish anything about it?

I was under the impression that in order to protect IP, one has to either patent it or copyright it, thus some form of publication must be made. If ARM does publish technical documentation (1), ARM has a way to prove infrigement or prior art whenever someone else tries to use their IP without their approval. If ARM doesn't, how can they prove anything?

(1) Obviously, if they publish the tech. docs, they might as well help driver implementors, might they not?
Show HN: Router is up to 463 times faster then Pecee Router
Mine is matrix homeservers maintenance [0], but it's not 100% passive, requires around 1-2 hours per week. Service "just started", so income is quite low for now.

[0] https://etke.cc
> a 32x20 array of tile indices

Oops, that should say 32x30.
I can't help but feel that this is only a net neutrality issue because we've already given up on letting people freely choose what kind of mesh-networks (if any) their devices get to participate in.
I'm not American :) The UK and Australia both have this problem.

I think it's less to do with the actual costs of the divorce, and more about converting one household into two. All the equity in the house gets split up, which usually gives a decent deposit for another house for each partner, but nowhere near enough to pay off the whole mortgage. Each partner needs enough rooms to host the kids during their shared custody, so a family of 4 goes from needing a single 3-bed house to needing two 3-bed houses. They need two cars, instead of being able to survive on one. If one of the partners gave up their career for the kids then there's alimony to pay. And so on. The legal bills are like icing on the cake.
I never had one, but didn't some of the later HP calculators do this? ( the 48? )
Most countries don't have the concept of caps at all except for cellular connections(for obvious reasons)
What a great question! It's using those descriptions to surface podcasts that frequently mention those topics, yes.
This would really benefit from a text-to-speech component. I don't know if a capable one exists yet, but surely it will soon.
Why an A/B test? Everything Apple and Tesla does is brilliant, everything anyone else does is evil. Thank me later.

Putting that in the HN FAQ would prevent new users losing karma points.
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One of those frameworks you mentioned is React, so that’s not quite true. Elm is cited in things like Redux, but React was first deployed on the Facebook website a year or more before Elm was even first released. And FRP has been around much longer.
I've come to the same conclusions as you.

To me this is one of the main social benefits of platforms like YouTube: you have unlimited access to the greatest "critical thinkers" there are. In times when transmission of knowledge is being heavily challenged ("disrupted") by the constantly changing technological landscape, it is great that you can sit down and enjoy hours of in-depth courses and lectures on all imaginable topics.

Part of it I guess is that the amount of "sensitive connection" is greater than when reading a book -- something about seeing the person establishes a deeper connection.

If I was provocative I'd say there are many online father figures for disoriented people (though it's obviously not all positive, e.g. "PUAs").
I guess anyone on life support would die swiftly.
Right, but since you typically want timing guarantees (for example, "respond to change in measured acceleration within 20ms"), you'd often end up structuring and resourcing everything for the worst case (everything needs to be computed) anyways... which means that your graph optimization didn't end up saving any resources.

Also, there sometimes ARE interrupts meshed in with these main loop based systems (for whatever reason). They just aren't predominant. If your willing to through more hardware at things, you can typically always transform anything into a buffer.
That website is absolutely bogus. Maybe it's been set up to make people think they should be earning less than they are.

I just had a look at the median salary for median salary for a physician in Gothenburg and it comes up with $43k annual. I know for a fact that a full time general practitioner earns ~7k euro a month after working for a year and general practitioners are on the low end payscale of doctors. There is also not a lot of variation, because health is predominantly provided by the regional government. If people work in private practices they actually would earn more.
Looking at some of the other numbers all the ones I know about are around a factor of 1.5-2 too low.
yeah, modern miui seems surprisingly well thought-out and designed in some areas, with small details like rippling animations
"Amazon does not charge any fees to join Amazon Sidewalk"

Not to the end customer anyway. To organizations and developers building on top of the APIs...

Completely against this idea though its a shame its not... "Get paid for hosting a network using the devices you purchase from us"*

Lastly, it is a cost albeit negligible to the end user who installs the device (power, bandwidth, etc).

*I know it wouldn't amount to anything but its a interesting way to think about it.
The one company that I know personally that was hit by ransomware, and paid off the attackers, managed their own backups Which were encrypted as well. IMO, it's not just the importance of backups, but of having third party, redundant, off-site backups.
Current title looks like clickbait to me, I'd replace it with the subtitle, "A reflection on 1 year of writeydrawey".
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What does “without 100ms” mean?
name one original thing apple has done that is even good, besides the original ipod? even that isn't! original
There is an interesting discussion here about responsibility. An employee is obviously responsible for his own well being but it seems that companies aren't putting in much work.

A good example is working from home: now it's the employees responsibility to find a good environment for working. The company now has several responsibilities less... I couldn't care less for that chair or desk that the company offers. Work environment isn't about where I put my butt and my computer. Hopefully working from home will become and option and never a mandatory thing.

Anyways there is more and more responsibilities on the employees and less on the employers (at least it feels like it).
Literally no one said you are misogynist pig. One called it "taking offense at a book that celebrates the achievement of a woman, and to question the accuracy of it without having actually read it". I said "bias" in response to someone who called your comment win.

You grossly exaggerate reactions and what people said.

And you are in fact taking offense on her having freaking article about her. That is it, the article exists is the issue here.
> helps devices like Amazon Echo devices, Ring Security Cams, outdoor lights, motion sensors, and Tile trackers work better at home and beyond the front door.

I hope they inform their customers that filming and recording public spots or other people's houses in Europe requires advertising the presence of CCTV and adhering to data protection laws.

I have a feeling that in the coming years the number of neighbours suing each other for this kind of thing will become more prevalent.
I don’t know what his goal is for Doge. Maybe he has a serious plan, or perhaps he just likes the attention. Regardless, it worries me that a man with such influence spends so much time manipulating the market (crypto or otherwise). Let’s not forget that this was the same reason why SEC forced him to leave his Tesla CEO position.

With great power comes great responsibility.
Pretty sure they use a language without a garbage collector for the control software. Probably C or ADA. Look at the FAA specifications for more guidelines. For airplanes it's DO-178C I think, not sure about rockets.

EDIT: One of the coolest projects I saw in recent time was CoPilot, which is a Haskell dialect that compiles down to C control loops which are statically guaranteed to run in constant time and memory. There is also arduino-copilot for if you want to play with ultra-hard real time software but can't afford an entire rocket.
Yes, this stuff is nice.

But it is worth noting that these control loops can often have some sort of memory, so you normally need to test over multiple cycles - you usually have a test vector to load in, and watch for the response vector.

Trivial example would be if you had a PID controller implemented into your main loop. Your main loop would be storing the integral and "previous" error term.
> we settled on $11,000 per month as a baseline salary for working full-time on open source.

> For now, Nicolò, Henry, and Jùnliàng will all be paid a temporary rate of $6,000 per month. This doesn't solve the problem,

I used to donate to Babel, before they made it apparent they are just interested in funneling the money to one developer. 11K per month?! That is absolutely bananas and same reaction I had the last time this came up, but this time I cannot do anything as a reaction as I've already pulled my funding.

But my guess is that a lot of people feel the same way, as the donations seems to be going down. 11K per month could pay for many developers if you hire people outside of Sillicon Valley, which since you're doing open source, you should really really consider.

Open source is not "VC fueled develoment" and I don't think we should go that way either. Make your operation nimble and survive on little, otherwise you'll soon disappear. Optimize for sustainability, not for paying the one of the highest salary in the world (minus SV bubble of course).

It's not wonder Babel is going the way it's going, as the economy you've setup for yourself is nowhere near sustainable.
Beware that Google Data Studio's PostgreSQL connector is severely limited as it is not meant for this type of work. I suspect that other BI tools may have the same problem. For us, BigQuery made a lot more sense.
The European Commission will first deny that any measures are necessary. Then when it’s too late they’ll keep saying they’re “on schedule”.
A scientist who doesn’t use sources effectively and accurately themselves is not to be trusted as either an authority or as a scientist. It is the greatest sin for a researcher.
This is so true. If a company has any wellbeing programs or even "free lunch" or "pizza Fridays" it's a big red flag.
It basically means they don't pay enough for you to afford a pizza or lunch, not to mention a private therapy if stress gets onto you.
Probably some managers are feeling guilty they pay so little, so they come up with these virtue signalling schemes. It doesn't bother them that they take private jets for a quarterly getaway in Caribbean, while employees spend extra hour before work to make sandwiches, because they can't afford going out at their lunch break.
Everybody was playing GarticPhone while the author was developing "the game that almost died".

Things developers are the worst at:

1. Market research
The 1980ies did not have foil sailing which is just incredibly inspiring. And that in turn is most likely enabled by carbon fiber manufacturing having become somewhat mainstream (and much better), even if it may not be entirely impossible to do in steel.

Also, for industrial applications (and for recreational without self-imposed restrictions), high frequency automated active servo control is now very much in the realm of practicality. Back then it was all self-stabilizing, which led to some very bumpy rides.
Are you referring to the TV show?
It gets really annoying when people talk about $200k and well above because most of them are not "senior engineers" they are in some sort of technical management role and if they are engineers they are in a FAANG company where they get stock compensation.
>You don't work in gaming because you want to make the top salary. You work in gaming because you love games

That's just rationalization. Gaming companies earn ridiculous amounts of money, especially the ones that do it through microtransaction model. These companies would have no problem paying FAANG-like salaries if they had to do so, but they pay less because they can get away with it.
You shouldn’t mix levels of abstraction in your functions
I think the often cited problem is that if a national electricity grid goes down, its a very long and complex job to get them back up again, especially if transformers are damaged.
Ask HN: What’s the best thing to specialize in for creating startup?
Next month will be my 5 year anniversary of being a professional software engineer. I’ve worked at two FANG companies with lots of really talented people and soaked up some stuff.

But I think it’s time for me to begin specializing with the aim of striking out in the next 5 years. No delusions of grandeur, but I like the idea of doing my own thing and especially creating something that is useful to people. I feel like I’ve learned a lot of general software development practices, but no ultra deep, highly relevant skill. I’m kind of average. I like people enough to not be shy. I like basketball, politics, and the same standard shows most folks do. I cant think of any thing that I have a niche in.

I’ve tried to read some intro to ML books, but haven’t been convinced that it’s the way or really swept away. Maybe I’m wrong? Read a bit about smart contracts but still not seized by interest. I’m not a dilettante. I love computers, but I think the days of low hanging fruit are kind of gone and just being a computer guy isn’t enough.
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In the U.S., there was a study, with results published by the EMP Commission, indicating that as many as 90% of people could die within a year as a result of a pulse event hitting the electrical grid.[0]

I don't know if the same extends to other places, but once distribution and sanitation systems break down, which are heavily dependent on electricity, it'll become pretty clear very quickly just how ill-equipped we are for a world without reliable electricity.

[0] http://www.empcommission.org/
The OS that the article says will be installed, Unity OS, looks like it's just Deepin but forked by another company, backed by the government, and not open source, right?

I've recently been looking into checking out Deepin because even with all the distrust in China, open source is still open source and I think it's amazing that an open source scene seems to be flourishing over there as well, at least in some form.
Was hoping to see some more photos of pitfall
> The foundation of the Royal Society of London in 1660 [...] The society did not admit female fellows until 1945.

Withholding education from women for centuries was a profoundly stupid social and religious convention that harmed the progress of civilisation.
Keep in mind that most taxes and benefits are missing there, so it's better to consider US salaries as payroll costs in Europe.

In my fairly liberal country (Estonia), 75k eur a year renders around 42k eur a year take home, really great salary living costs wise but taxes still take a large chunk.
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The net result of pipeline shutdowns is that more fuel moves along rail and trucks. I don't think climate activists want that, unless they are true anarchists (and I suspect many are)
Good point. Can't argue with that.

That's the problem with software, it's hard to measure productivity.
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because deep down the majority just want the same bullshit repackaged over and over, look at game franchise it's never as good as previous games ;D
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