skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a key component of trust is believing those people are on my team

If this means you don't take an objective look at what those people actually do, and judge it by standards independent of any "team", I think it's a very dangerous strategy. The idea that "my team" should win, regardless of what it takes--that the end always justifies the means--I think has caused more human misery than any other idea we humans have had. If you find that your "team" is using unsavory and unpalatable means to achieve what you think is a "greater good", you should not accept the means--you should rethink the "greater good". Based on human history, it's far more likely that the "greater good" is a lot less than you think and will be more than outweighed by the damage done by the unsavory and unpalatable means being used.
Paywalled -- archive is not working.
If I send an email to someone appearing to expect a reply, and I don't get a reply within X days (I think X=5), Gmail surfaces the email with a chip saying "Sent 5 days ago. Follow up?"

If I receive a travel reservation confirmation email, I receive a calendar reminder on my phone a few days before the trip.

This is personalization. But years ago Google made a commitment not to use Gmail data to customize ads (after initially doing so). So there's a real difference between personalization data and ads data.

Closer to home for me, we are legally barred from using Fitbit data for ads or allowing any system (or person!) in the Ads organization to access it in any way. But nobody said we can't personalize your Fitbit experience based on data derived from, say, your Fitbit exercise history.
>> it is nice to see an example where a large company has an inherent financial incentive to behave in an a broadly pro-society manner

I don't see how Tesla is "pro-society". Tesla batteries are very costly to the environment. For every x amount of batteries they need to blow up y amounts of mountain tops. We don't have infinite amount of those.
IMO his intellectualism provides active cover for an autocratic-minded zero-sum sociopathy, which when married to his accumulated wealth represents an existential threat.

This is not irrelevant to the conception of and market of Palantir.

He is the Erik Prince of "tech" and like Prince, is a literal merchant of death.
Compare and contrast with "We will never use...'
Well, that’s a different proposed solution than why RedBalloon seems to be advocating. If I’m reading them correctly, they’re saying that you should be able to say whatever you want at work.

I’m interested in whether or not my interpretation is correct.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...

I wonder if Tesla would be as into the government imposing penalties for exaggerating the range of their vehicles. Tesla seems to under-perform their range estimates pretty consistently across models while every other vehicle exceeds the estimate except for the Polestar. Sometimes Tesla is only under-performing the estimate by a small amount, but they're claiming 15.7% more range for their "Model 3 Long Range" than a "Mustang Mach-E CA Route 1" while only achieving 1 mile more in tested range.

Tesla has often also pushed its own estimates over EPA cycle estimates claiming that their estimates (which are more generous to their cars) are better. Should a car company be able to make public claims about range based on their own models?

As you noted, this is simply Tesla having a financial incentive. If competing manufacturers need to pay large penalties for prior years, it gives them less money to compete against Tesla.

In some ways, this doesn't provide a pro-society incentive. Penalizing past bad acts doesn't alter a car company's incentives for the future beyond proving that you're serious about enforcing rules. A better incentive could be to announce that you will penalize companies for past failures, but allow them to get that penalty rebated back to them if they exceed requirements going forward. In the first case, you're penalizing them and getting a small amount of money while taking from the companies resources that they could use to invest in electric vehicles (or lobby against fuel economy standards). In the second case, you're proving that you're serious by imposing the penalty, but also providing a very strong incentive to exceed targets going forward.

I think that many automakers like Hyundai/Kia, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, GM, VW, and Renault/Nissan are looking to make major investments in electric vehicles. I would rather incentivize them about the future (and punish them about the past if they don't reform). Maybe set a standard like getting 50% of the penalty back if X% of their cars sold in 2025 are electric with an MPGe of 100+ and getting back the other half of the penalty if Y% of their cars sold in 2028 are electric (with MPGe over 100). That would give them a concrete incentive to create efficient and popular models.

It would also likely be palatable to them. GM has announced ambitious plans for its conversion to electric. If they're able to convert the majority of their car sales to electric in a short period of time, it seems less important to apply a retroactive penalty. If their plans are a green-washing campaign to keep getting sales for their ICE vehicles, they can say so-long to that cash. In the meantime, they can take out a loan to cover what they need for R&D if they're confident they'll meet their targets.
Masks and vaccines aren't either or. The mRNA vaccines have reduced effectiveness against infection (compared to hospitalization or death), and if an unvaccinated person catches it, it doesn't really matter if they caught it from an unvaccinated person or a vaccinated person - it's just as dangerous either way.
Distillation is pretty expensive, energy-wise, and if you can't run continuously [e.g. if you're trying to use cheap intermittent renewables] you lose energy in the cooling-and-reheating cycles.

I have yet to see a significant source of usable "waste" heat that's not already being used for something else. Low-grade heat isn't helpful--you generally need reasonably high temperature differentials in order to power large-scale industrial processes.

[Disclosure: I've invested in Prometheus Fuels, but don't speak for them.]
Is this a safe assumption? The majority of our federal budget is spent on social security, health care (more than half on 65 and over), and defense. According to this research, only 8% was spent on safety net programs in 2019: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/where-do-our-fe...
This uses the lightning network. The energy cost of a lightning payment is orders of magnitude lower than bitcoin.

This kind of usage actually demonstrates bitcoin's valuable use case (a base layer for final settlement) whereas in recent years a lot of energy was being burned effectively just for speculation.
> Other countries have solved these problems.

> There is no silver bullet.

> On the contrary,
That'd be http://victortemprano.com/. Super nice guy.
Oh sure -- I just meant that it's a pretty common tool for people who have or had farm animals.
Depends on the application, but if you do, it won’t pose a problem:

* you have more options than with RF (optics or phased array)

* you’ll get better angular precision at a given transmitter size
You can't prove it's illegal if you stop it from ever going to court.
Looks like Theranos to me.
Students last year were complaining about Respondus, and it’s privacy invasive nature, now chrome supports features similar to it. In response to this my school allowed teachers to give easier tests to students using Respondus since they could be sure they weren’t cheating and allowed more complicated tests to be made for those refusing to use Respondus. Maybe with this they’ll recommend chrome and allow a medium difficultly test to be provided to those students.
That was then and this is now. As they say, past performance is no guarantee of future results
I don't have any evidence, I just assumed it was being used for that from other discussion on this post.
https://devurls.com/
https://techurls.com/
https://sciurls.com/

(and others from the Browserling folks)
The fact that this hasn’t been flagged off the home page over the last three hours is impressive.

Typically Count Dracula posts get the hammer rather quickly.
Apple's Texas Problem
> How can that work?

Theranos 2.0 ?
It would be great if Firefox for Android supported multiple user profiles for syncing. I use a work and personal profile on my desktop, and in edge mobile.
Sure they do. Your pizza delivery driver won't take that job if they lose money on the gas. Then the pizza place has to either raise their rate or cover their gas, which they would then pass on to you as an increased delivery fee.
Sounds amazing. Congrats for building this.

Looks like your website has a bug - try entering a house number which is non integer (Like say B-123) Submission fails with error:
```
{"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":"ValidationError","data":{"errors":{"houseNumber":["houseNumber must be a `number` type, but the final value was: `NaN` (cast from the value `\"B-123\"`)."]}}}
```

It's wrong to assume that a house number is always an integer. My address has an alphanumeric house number. I have been in apartments without a house number (Instead they may have an alphabetical name. Something like XYZ House)
Nice! Looks very useful. But I can't help to think that this is tool that will be used infrequently.
I think that this is meant as a "hack" - if you have two keyboards lying around and don't want to (or can't) purchase a new one. If you can, then yes, getting an actual split keyboard is far better.

However, the Dygma Raise has neither ortholinearity, nor concavity, nor a good thumb cluster (it's flat, not tilted to fit the actual strong muscle movement of your thumbs) - all of which improve ergonomics. See the Dactyl-Manuform for a build that has all of these three things.
I'm curious, is the Moonlander enough of an upgrade over the EZ to be worth dropping that sort of money on a second keyboard? What are the big differences you've actually noticed having made the jump?
Impressive. Does this count as a benefit that Zuck owes taxes on? Or does FB write it off as a loss that reduces their tax burden at no cost to Zuck?
Yeah I'm specifically talking about CoinBase's approach. You're right that RedBalloon would seem not to be in favor of the "No political discussion at work" policy.
There are, nonexclusively, three major things required for a democracy to function in a heterogenous society:

- A secular, pluralistic public forum,

- A professional respect for the opposition, and

- The ability to disagree in one area without affecting other areas of a relationship.

Right now this comment section is failing on all three, and proving why, despite whatever one's personal views are, job boards like this are necessary to prevent the destruction of the respectful opposition that allows democracy to thrive.

Just remember, when clamoring for censorship and destroying someone's career because of their beliefs, that every weapon we create can be used against us.

Turnabout is fair play, as they say. Today it's ostensibly truth beating hoax when the left is suppressing anti-scientific fringe views about pandemics or climate change, but yesterday it was also ostensibly truth beating lies when the right was suppressing gay rights, and tomorrow the pendulum can swing somewhere completely unexpected once again.

So let's all be more tolerant of one another, because reasoned, respectful disagreement is the fundamental force that allows democracy to exist.
maybe if the government is the one manufacturing the beanie babies...
West Virginia Governor is angry he didn’t get a job coaching HS basketball
This is crazy money, yeah, for us.
> the Govt tries to avoid Lehman moment by preemptively starving liquidity to Evergrande

This reverses cause and effect. The government could afford to starve Evergrande of liquidity because it has control of the banks. The risk of systemic contagion was thus limited.

The American solution rhymes, but is different. The U.S. can't force banks to lend. But it does, post crisis, regulate systemic risk. The downside of this approach is in underscoping. If Coinbase or Tether cause a financial crisis tomorrow, China would be able to respond while the U.S. would need to devise something new. (The upside is it limits moral hazard and preserves the rule of law with respect to foreign investors.)
Perhaps interestingly this visualisation technically depicts only half of the Fourier transform. The full transform adds the exact mirror image of each circle to cancel out the horizontal movement (which is usually drawn vertically, but this visualization swaps the real and imaginary axes).

This means that what this visualisation effectively depicts is the analytical signal [1] which is what you get when you use the hilbert transform to 'recover' the imaginary part of the original signal. This transformation is convenient as it allows you to determine the instantaneous phase and amplitude at each point in time, so you can calculate a frequency and volume for every single moment in time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_signal
I'm having a very hard time imagining a scenario in which I would feel the need to tip someone for a Tweet.

I understand why I might want to pay someone for, say, a Youtube video, or a substack article. But is there really enough value packed into a tweet that I'd want to send someone money for it?

Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough. Or maybe the answer is porn.
Some additional context here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/epic-games-announce-fu...
There's a Trailer Up for a Coding Manga
I don't even understand what they are doing here. Do they vet companies? Is there anything about this job board that actually promotes free speech, or is it just another job board with some branding?
> We have woefully inadequate public transit here, save for outlier metroplexes like New York.

Yep, and the only areas that have good public transit within the USA also happen to be very expensive... Something the working class poor and lower middle class simply cannot afford to even live near.
I've often wondered if I could justify a crypto mining rig if I used the waste heat for something, literally anything, useful. The tech is interesting and I want to for the sake of "doing something cool" but the environmental cost has me iffy on ever trying.
I find this argument interesting because, to me, it leads to endorsing a view that we should be using goto and conditional jumps instead of for/while loops and similar structured programming elements. I mean, the former are more explicit, the latter implicit, since the compiler converts the latter into the former. Having maintained a fair amount of unstructured code, I'd rather stick with the higher level languages since they allow me to express my intent more clearly. Which pushes me to using recursion where it's appropriate and the language has appropriate facilities to handle tail call elimination.
How comprehensive is this? I don't see a tribe that a neighboring city is supposed to be named after.
When I bought a new laptop a few years ago, the first thing I did on it was install Firefox and browse Reddit. After about 20 minutes, an ad (I'm guessing) tried to serve me a drive-by download. So yes, ad blockers are essential. If a malicious ad does damage to you, you have essentially zero recourse.
C# or java, if you are Node developer try TypeScript
This is simply not true anymore, at least not across the board. In fact, many games run better on Linux than on Windows—it depends highly on the title.
I'm saying the assumption when someone says, "increase the gas tax" is that such a system is only viable if a subsidy for the poor is part of it.
This is pretty comprehensive in some geographies with glaring exceptions like Southeast Asia where there is no mention of the hills people who typically were driven out of China and into SE Asia. The Hmong are probably the most well known since there is a pop in the US.

The Black Sea area probably has had too much turnover to be useful. India is also underrepresented.

Come to think of it South Africa also has a history of displacement by colonialists and also others looking for opportunity in the wake of the colonialists.
Implemented in the same spirit as this:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2307...

It would actually reduce inequalities because the revenues of the tax is redistributed directly to every individual. Since rich household polluting more than the poors, the 7 lowest deciles should actually be better off.
> nothing we can do can currently avoid this.

Unless you scope "sophisticated" as "can compromise hardware we currently believe is secure", we can get to the point where the only mechanism is a hardware keylogger (which is something made far more complicated by, eg, using a Bluetooth keyboard). This has a few problems:

1) It's relatively easy to detect - you're adding a new physical object
2) You're only seeing a small amount of what you want to see - you have no ability to inspect the data on the disk, and if the user is using MFA then getting their passwords doesn't get you much
3) Exfiltrating the data isn't easy. Either you need further physical access to extract the object, or you need it to broadcast data occasionally and that's another thing that's going to make it easier to be detected

If you're able to move from "A physically present adversary can compromise the system in a way that gives them complete access" to "A physically present adversary can log your keystrokes", that's a win.
Shifting the cost onto the delivery service is actually good. Pretty much all delivery is done by a few large companies. The only exception are things like Grubhub/Doordash which put the fuel costs on the individual worker. A fuel tax across the board would no doubt just result in a price increase that would compensate the drivers since it would be a uniform tax.

Outside of specific areas where gig services are regulated - using things like Grubhub/Uber. does cause harm to the poorer, worker because after accounting for costs and vehicle depreciation the profit is less than minimum wage. I would not be surprised if the profit is negative part of the time. The way to not cause this harm is to not use these services e.g. make your own food at home.
There are a few ways to do it. First is document.hidden but that's the simplest monkey patch ever. Pass through iframe can detect some monkey patches though. visibilitychange too.

you're right! at least before it was somewhat mitigated I think?, you can measure timing Chrome used to slow down inactive tabs with rounded ms I believe I'd have to check the fingerprinting JS i wrote a few years ago.

Mouse movement is a good one too.

I'm sure there are other hacks maybe onfocus the entire window and poll it.

IntersectionObserver sounds like a good thread, there is a good polyfill library too.
Most of the world has credit and debit cards. Or, at least, most of the world where people have enough disposable income to shell out for NYT articles. I don't live in a country that deals in USD but I have a debit card and very often buy services denominated in USD.
Cars made back then were easy to fix in a sense, but broke often, got terrible gas mileage, and were largely death traps in any crash over ~45mph. There are certainly parts of modern cars that should be easier to fix yourself, but in a lot of ways they're less difficult to repair.

The engine compartments are smaller, and the engines have more parts which means it takes longer. However if you can hook up and read the OBD2 system codes you get a lot of diagnostic info that was never previously available. This can mean you send a lot less time redoing work. The real limiting factor is space. If you're not averse to Quora, there's a nice discussion here https://www.quora.com/Why-are-modern-vehicles-so-difficult-t....
> i.e. the government also has equity ownership in them.

So there are two points to make here.

1. How to measure the debt burden

There is a reason debt sustainability is measured in terms of debt service to revenue metrics as opposed to things like debt to book value, as it's much harder to sell off your company to retire the debt.

I mean, yes, China could decide to privatize all these companies and then wash their hands of the debt. But I think it is a matter of strategic importance for the CCP to control these companies. I could be wrong.

2. How to determine whether a given burden is sustainable

The larger point, though, is that it's never a problem for the Chinese government to run out of money, anymore than it's a problem for the US government. Both governments print their own money. The issue is one of economic management, e.g. is the current policy one that promotes the growth of the chinese economy in a sustainable way? This has nothing to do with running out of money as you can print money. Money is just paper used to get people to be productive. It's a just prop. The real economy is what matters. When people worry about debt, you have to translate their worries into something to do with the real economy. A debt crisis means that the pie of real resources is smaller than people thought it was. You thought you had $100 in the bank, but you only have $50. That's a big deal. The revelation that the pie is smaller is a real economy thing, and it is true even if the banking crisis is averted. E.g. you can tax people and give the money to the banks and the banks will be made whole. That's still recognizing that the pie is smaller. So when we talk about the banking crisis, we do not mean that the government will run out of money, what we mean is that the chinese people will have to bear the cost of reduced real consumption than what they had planned when they were given bonds with a promised interest rate which they thought would pay off.

And there is a structural problem to bailing out failing businesses in terms of misallocation of real resources, as politically connected bureacracies get money but innovative companies do not. That means more real resources are wasted in China. As more real resources are wasted, the economy becomes less efficient and the chinese standard of living either declines or grows more slowly than it should. That is what is at stake here. It is also a problem in the west, where we keep subsidizing politically popular companies at the expense of making the economy more inefficient. This is the main temptation of letting government control the financial system and print its own money.

Balance sheets and sustainability metrics are just bookkeeping to track how many real resources are being wasted. China (and the US) have an enormous amount of real resources to waste, so we are not going to run out of things to screw up any time soon. But if the standard of living does not increase fast enough for people's expectations, it could cause political unrest for those who enjoy spending other people's money on their favorite causes.
Yeah - it's one of those cases where effective coordination is hard.

We need effective coordination (regulation) to get outcomes that are best for both individuals and the group, but that doesn't make it easy. Risks of regulatory capture, bad regulations, and such are still there and a problem.

Policy and good incentives are hard to get right. That's why I'm happy to see them when they happen. At least in the common case capitalism allows for markets to get this right a lot of the time through company success and failure. Even with negatives there's still massive wealth creation that has risen all boats on net.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
The rich do most of the polluting? How can that possibly be true given the rich are a tiny minority of the population.
Well that answers my question about crypto waste heat and useful work.