skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 10% over the exchange rate between Pentali Marcograms and US dollars. You know oil producers trade in dollars, right?"

You are off by three orders of magnitude, which is pretty amazing.

Forex markets have incredibly tight spreads measured in pips, say 1-4 pips, where 1 pip = 0.0001.

The reason why dollars are important is that people store the results of their oil sales in USD assets. What a good is purchased with means nothing. Where you store the proceeds of the sale is what counts.

This goes to that oh-so-tired phrase 'petrodollar', which many autodidacts misuse to signal a lack of understanding of both forex markets and oil economics. What "petrodollars" means is the dollar holdings that oil exporting states maintain. It does not refer to the currency oil is purchased in. It comes from eurodollar, which signifies dollar holdings in Europe, and not the purchasing of European goods with dollars.

Once we get that definition right, we understand it as a synecdoche for US hegemony in reserve currencies -- e.g. where foreign central banks store their wealth. The actual currency oil is priced in - or anything is priced in - means nothing. What is the point of saving a pip in the forex markets if you are going to be losing .1% in bid/ask spreads when you try to store your wealth in an illiquid bond market? No one -- absolutely no one - optimizes for reducing forex costs when deciding in which nation to park their wealth. They are much more concerned with questions like "Is it legal for me to purchase these bonds? will my wealth be confiscated in the future? What kind of fees do I pay when I buy these bonds?"

The reason the world wants to store their wealth as dollar assets is because the US has a reputation for openness to foreign investment, rule of law, political stability, upholding foreign investor rights, and amazingly deep capital markets that can absorb large foreign inflows with very low spreads. So the bid/ask spread when trying purchase a few billion worth of U.S. bonds is much more important to explaining US financial hegemony than what some random country demands as payment.

I think the no. 1 reason why people get this all wrong is they still want to think we live in a world of specie flows. But there are no bearer assets in international trade - you can't take it with you back home. Your foreign trade profits are going to be stored in some custodial account in some other country. So trusting that country is a big deal. People who think trade is conducted with gold nuggets don't see this custodial account problem, and that's why they don't understand why the U.S. is a global reserve currency. That's when all sorts of conspiracy theories about oil sales, or aircraft carriers, come into play as they try to understand the U.S. role using the ideas they are comfortable with.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument.
It's not a huge deal in my opinion, it's the same decision Hacker News arrived at right?
GDP decline of 2-5%, recession: Chinese real estate is 70% of household wealth, and 30% of GDP. Likely these #s are worse, since the government obfuscates data. Home sales is already down 30% y/y.

Pressure on tech and other industries in China: Xi Jing Ping will officially be a dictator, come party congress 2022. Tech and real estate are industries owned by the oligarchs of Shanghai faction, which is against Xi Jing Ping.

Even more societal lockdowns: In the last few months, there were silencing of a #metoo incident, scrubbing of a famous actress from internet, removing discussions of evergrande bankruptcy, and disappearing/reapperance of alibaba's ceo. Look for more of these.

No war attempt on Taiwan in the near future: between real estate collapse, economic decline, coal shortage, food shortage, inflation, huge debts, and covid waves/lockdowns, CCP won't have any appetite.

Suicidal war attempt on Taiwan: CCP may get desperate when riots broke out, or need a victory to focus its citizen's outrage elsewhere. Then they'll face the combined forces of western countries, and will have to suffer through economic sanctions.
Agreed, it's equally beautiful and heart-wrenching. What a read.
YouTube complicated things by having the dislike button double as a literal "I don't like this" and an "I don't want to be recommended videos like this in the future." When you dislike a video, it stamps it with a public seal of disapproval, even if you're just trying to avoid a recommended piece of music on YouTube Music.

It's a clunky, confusing UX that gave rise to the inevitable highly upvoted "Who in the world would dislike this?" threads on so many popular videos.
Google drive business also offers infinite storage
Such a good read. Gonna have to keep an eye out for her memoir. There's starting to be a flourishing of SE Asian voices with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ocean Vuong. I hope more come, especially more women. Hopefully more cinema too; it'd be wonderful to have responses to the America centric and sympathetic portrayals of Vietnam.
No, no, no! They are referring to Cambodia or Catalonia or Castlevania. Maybe even California or Carcinoma.
A company with almost zero vehicles on the road is worth more on paper than Ford and GM. Very concerning.
I believe that's become standard practice in the last few years. For example: https://www.microdrones.com/en/integrated-systems/ge-industr... or https://kairosaerospace.com/methane-detection/
if only it were that easy.
This looks nice! It could be used by indie game makers.
The solution to this is stricter anti-trust laws. The FTC is honestly outgunned when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Part of it is manpower and salaries, and part of it is by design (regulatory capture).

However, Intel is not that much to blame here. GlobalFoundries bowed out of the node race on it's own.
There is always bias in the userbase, people usually watch content on their side of the political agenda for example. How do you know the so-called "brigade" isn't actually bringing things closer to public opinion?

Also are we talking about global opinion? A lot of people outside of the western world aren't as big fans of LGBT for example, so if we want to make things more objective those videos should have even more downvotes and hateful messages. And if we're being consistent with what google currently does, these videos should be banned sometimes for hurting others (ex. religious) feelings. People are ok with downvotes and banning, but only if it panders to their current subjective moral fashions.
JIRA is shovelware.

In that it solves problems for one user (project managers) by shoveling it onto another user (developers or admin assistants).

It solves some problems, but it could definitely do a better job of decreasing overall tracking work required, instead of just moving it around.
> A cybertuck is a car for programmers who make too much money and want to feel like Robocop.

I thought the cartels and war lords were the target market?
You're not exactly being charitable to the person you're arguing against, but taking your slippery slope at face value, we already have a generation of adults who basically grew up with unfettered access to online porn, and sensationalist headlines notwithstanding, we're basically fine, or at least not any more fucked up than baseline. (The first half of the 20th century saw people grow up with decades of carnage, so the baseline is pretty lenient.)
Many people probably felt the same with Google Reader or any feature Google killed.

If you read the comments in detail you will see that people describe how they used the dislike count. It's therefore not useless.
> the rational response here from Uber will be to raise the cost of every ride slightly, in order to cover the added cost to transport people with disabilities.

And ironically, one of the reasons a lot of people like Uber is because it's cheaper than cabs... because it ignores regulations. Complying with regulations has a cost.
It always is.

Year after year thousands of bright young minds just come to the valley to build and innovate. Just look at Musk, it was either PayPal or military service during Apartheid...
Does anyone know of a method for extracting images from the FlashPix (.fpx) format. I think user-friendly support for the format was lost when Kodak went bankrupt. However is the format itself overly-complicated.
Unless a different county was meant. Although I've been thinking for a minute - nothing except Canada came to mind.
history would beg to defer.. esp when fed said themselves: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/upshot/inflation-economy-...
Its likely that the OP means that the 'qualified applicant' criteria would significantly drop in order to increase acceptance rate.
At least we know how Ford can screw things. With Rivian we don't know even that. Yet, Rivian's valuation is higher than Ford's capitalization despite many unknowns and far far smaller production rate.
It is important to distinguish between tar the format and tar the utility.

tar the utility is a program that can produce tar files, but it is also able to then compress that file.

When you produce a compressed tar file, the contents are written into a tar file, and this tar file as a whole is compressed.

Sometimes the compressed files are named in full like .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 or .tar.xz but often they are named as .tgz, .tbz or .txz respectively. In a way you could consider those files a format in their own right, but at the same time they really are simply plain tar files with compression applied on top.

You can confirm this by decompressing the file without extracting the inner tar file using gunzip, bunzip2 or unxz respectively. This will give you a plain tar file as a result, which is a file and a format of its own.

You can also see the description of compressed tar files with the “file” command and it will say for example “xz compressed data” for a .txz or .tar.xz file (assuming of course that the actual data in the file is really this kind of data). And a plain uncompressed tar file described by “file” will say something like “POSIX tar archive”.
Lots of embellishment in this article, very little substance or detail on what is actually being tracked.
It’s definitely not small. I’m not particularly political and anecdotally my recommendation bubble has atleast 30% of politically “triggering” videos. These videos don’t have to be explicitly political but just involve a person that can be considered a “trigger”. I mostly watch videos on wood and metal working.
There is some write-up in the feed-owner FAQ. https://feedmail.org/feed-owner-faq#poll-rate

Currently we poll feeds 1h by default, up to every 15min if the website has a cache header, and as slow as every 24h if the cache header asks us to (basically "caching" the poll for that long).

I will implement WebSub soon to get real-time updates for feeds that support it but I have a couple of UX items to clean up first.

And yes, we do coalesce on the backend if a feed has multiple subscribers.
Just barely. There have been a few close calls, lately.

Exports aside, those happen in 'good times'.
> This format was very interesting because it was essentially "resolution independent"

When I read that, I thought it is because it is a vector type. Usually "resolution independent" images, from my understanding, are commonly vector type since it can scale infinitely like SVG. However, I couldn't find information online whatever .FIF is a raster or vector type. I saw one that said it shares similarly to vector images, that didn't confirm anything for me. So I would incline that because .FIF is a vector type, please correct me if I am wrong. It so hard to find this information and wondering if my google-fu is getting rusty.

EDIT: Whelps, it turn out my google-fu is getting rusty. I managed to find the information and I am wrong. It is a raster type[1].

[1] http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Fractal_Image_Format
Most folks throwing around "socialist" in a positive light in the US mean it like "social democracy", as in the Nordics or various European social-democratic parties.

The socialist-socialists—having known a few—usually just say Marxist or communist to describe their position, in my experience. "Socialist" only means "like Venezuela or East Germany" when a Republican is saying it, not when people self-describe as socialist.

[EDIT] and yes, to head it off, even Norway has intelligence services, sure—but they don't have Stasi.
They can both be valuable from a student perspective; GSoC from my experience is a full time gig during that time.

I don't how many internships Google has but SoC is 1-2k people a year

Google Internships from Google's perspective is people that they may want to hire. Summer of Code the candidates are chosen by the participating organizations so it's a wider range.
If the interest was negative, then paying the money now is additional cost compared to paying it years ago.
Probably your first line is what caused the confusion.

>The simplest energy storage solution is your hot water heater. Turning on everyone's hot water heater when there is surplus electricity, and turning them off when there's a deficit, is a very low cost solution.

People want a storage solution, not a surplus use solution. Using peak sunlight or wind to heat water isn't going to be useful for a factory or server farm. The only thing that sort of load shifting helps is to diminish peak load.

Yeah, it is probably a great idea to charge your electric car during the day at work as opposed to at night. Maybe a good idea for hot water too, until you have company or teenagers who manage to use up your water in the afternoon.

The pile of rocks to store heat sounds like a nonstarter to me, unless you plan to retrofit a bunch of houses and hope that the heat stored isn't depleted faster for any reason. Otherwise broken pipes at best and deaths at the worst. Not sure how much space you would need for something like that but seems like a problem for small apartments, either the heat leakage would overheat the place or you wouldn't store enough to keep warm.
16 year old me bypassed this and all other monitoring by running a patch cable from the cable modem directly to my machine when up to shenanigans.
>Right now they are projected to sell more than 1M cars in 12 months

So after converting from Musk time to human time, this means it'll take 5 years?
This seems like a really good thing for the dealership. They are able to operate with ~0 inventory and ~0 inventory holding costs.
They haven’t around here, speaking as someone who just had the oil changed on two vehicles for the second time this year. The prices here are the same as they have been in recent years, but I don’t use Groupon.
You have to protect the emperor’s new clothes.
It's not needed on Hacker News since it displays comments in order based on score, and greys-out comments with negative scores.
Because the channels they want to protect are politically aligned with YouTube.
The corollary is that wasting users time more aggressively is more likely to instill resentment and platform abandonment. Definitely a two edged sword.
You are getting macbooks swapped out at apple? I'm not a power customer either, they just take the laptop away and tell me its ready next friday. Sounds like the fixes they do then and there aren't hardware issues in your case.
ImageMagick may have support:

https://github.com/ImageMagick/libfpx
SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flinging launch system
liked the product but beware the new subscription model. Stopped using when it had major issues syncing - there are better alternatives Joplin
PEP-able?: Request new 'fn' format specifier to specify argument relations
Hi,

Proposal:

def is_between(n1,n2,n3):
fn"is number {n1} between {n2} and {n3}"
fn"{n2}<{n1}<{n3}?"

# the token "fn" immediately following the def statement, speficy the
descriptive text
# multipe "fn" specifiers describes multiple ways the funtion can be invoked
# the "fn" statement is at the same indentation level as the def statement

return (n1 > n2 and n1 < n3)

.
.
.

# if "fn" statements are found indented and not immediately following
def statement, indicate function invocation.
# function can be invoked using descriptive text specified in "fn" statement.

if fn"is number {value} between {valid} and {low_threshold}":
print("underflow")
if is_between(value,low_threshold,high_threshold):
print("in range")
if fn"{low_threshold}>{value}>{high_threshold} ?"
print("overflow")

Comments?
The article is paywalled, but available on other non-paywalled sites.

“Europe is in danger” but “a separate threat assessment is confidential”?

Diplomats rumor about “failing states on Europe’s frontiers” but don’t dare identify them?

Diplomats do however suggest the EU, or some subset, will unilaterally send “peacekeepers” to these non-EU regions? Aww…you really shouldn’t have. Like, no, you really shouldn’t. (Former European colonies roll their eyes.)

The UN won’t, NATO won’t…for some unknown reason, only the EU must send troops? Under what scenario will UN/NATO not respond but the EU be justified in intervening militarily? And if the EU, or some subset, unilaterally sends troops to Nation A, and Nation A or an ally sends hypersonic missiles and bombs an EU country, is the entirety of NATO then obligated to respond? I would guess the EU will say no for now…until NATO (USA) is politically forced to intervene after EU bumbling and more Americans will be added to the 104366 American dead buried under European soils as a result of European military “activities” in the 20th Century. Every one a mother’s son, and now daughters can join them too! The USA wouldn’t want to be seen as isolationist, after all.

When has the US heard that tune before?

Wisely, Biden is basically staying out of it, in spite of what the article suggests. “You EU work out the details” is diplospeak for “it’s your (and your citizens) funeral, bub”. Actual funerals, BTW.
All is not lost, as the dislike count is not independent of the number of views and the like count.

Specifically, if a popular video has a small number of likes, one can safely assume that it has a large number of dislikes.
They never push me other messages just for these meme stock IPOs I've never heard of.
It’s a business decision. Based on view count vs like/dislike ratio a lot of these videos are obviously brigaded. Most people aren’t engaged enough to represent themselves in the like/dislike ratio. It doesn’t make sense to bury them for the vast majority.
> But it doesn't mean these engineers live in their remote bubble.

They kinda do. Mentoring, for instance, will happen with employees of the US corp. You'll effectively have the best devs in the foreign country mentoring early career Americans at HQ.

> The other path is for these higher level engineers to move directly to high level positions in local firm. You'll see a junior engineer by EU standards move to a CTO like position in a local company or startup.

Does that actually happens? I mean, I can see that a senior engineer at FAANG matches the level of some local companies CTO, but will these local businesses really give out such a role to an engineer barely in his 30's? That's of course if he hasn't transferred to HQ yet...
I'm realizing my phrasing was too critical. I think it's a very good thing that Makani explored that "design path" and shared the knowledge acquired with that level of details.
I would also say that rigid wing has more potential for AWE, but I am pessimist toward 'fly-gen'/'energy-kite' solutions, because when dealing with a gas as bearing medium reducing weight seems a reasonable and trending rule of thumb.
It's difficult/too-vague to compare designs with substantially different ramifications, some of which are still hypothetical, but it's maybe worth if it leads to a better understanding or general awareness.

I am curious, do you know why Makani went 100% 'fly-gen'?
From by biased point of view I would say that it was easier to bootstrap (more control agency, easier take off and landing) but harder to scale.

I tried to skim through the 1k+ pages 3 part report available from Makani (https://x.company/projects/makani/), but it doesn't seem to speak much about the considerations which when into that early design choice. Do you know more?

Is it possible to summarize them or it's an organic set of reasons which cannot be untangled nor simplified like often happen when dealing with complex systems?

[Mechanical Engineer here]
Here is an easy example to understand the utility of the dislike count:

Imagine you are looking for a How-To video on something very common but specific, such as changing a car part or Windows setting, and that when you search for this you are given dozens of options. All of these options are 20 to 30 minutes long and 90% of them are either inaccurate, out-dated, or automated click-bait. This lower 90% will have a disproportionate number of dislikes. Each time you click one of these videos the dislike ratio can save 20+ minutes of your life and this benefit is multiplied by dozens of videos and tens of thousands of viewers.
> To slow down or stop attacks, we limit requests made by a specific user / IP. [...] While that confirms that we can limit unauthorized and bad users who make too many requests, the testing failed because we also blocked the simulated good users on the same IP.

I don't understand the problem this is trying to solve.
In the test setup both good and malicious actors are simulated on the same IP address (which coincidentally might also be a real world situation).

So you're trying to load test - but failing because you get throttled/rate-limited - which is good.

But how does Squid help in this case - doesn't it just mask away the actual load by caching content?

In that case are you actually testing the ControlAPI load - or how good Squid's caching is?

Aside from that - pretty interesting read. Would live to see a bit more technical detail and depth for the next blog post!
The Japanese poured pointless sweat & blood into WW2.
So much it destroyed the military dictatorship and turned the country practically pacifist for a few decades.

Sometimes losing a war is actually winning. That's the positive message about WW2: it cured the losers of glorifying war.
Maybe Afghanistan can do the same?
The secret is to not actually make anything. Then there is no disappointment and bad news.
Depends entirely on how long ago I wrote it, though.

Maybe it's a style thing, but I tend to have a lot more trouble with "WTF does this (leaky, inevitably) abstraction actually do and where does that actually happen?", when reading code, than with too much code.
I would argue that the TRS-80 model 1 was more significant as the first home computer: $400 instead of $1300. Like the Apple-][ it also was usable out of the box, it just lacked color.

http://www.trs-80.org/was-the-trs-80-once-the-top-selling-co...
why shipped? He flew his engines himself.
I've definitely had at least a battery swapped then and there. If it's anything more than that yeah I guess they're defaulting to swapping it. I'm not complaining about the policy!
I don't understand the valuation of these electric car companies. They are completely nuts. A good design doesn't make it valuable.

Take Rivian for example, the car is not out and we don't know if they can even deliver the vehicles as promised in Jan 2022. That means we have no idea how crappy or how good the vehicles will be. Even then a 100b valuation is just nuts. For an electric car the biggest parameter is the charging network. These guys have nothing. So all those adventure trucks are only useful around the city and nothing else. Why are people thinking this is 100b worth?
> "hide the like bar, and nobody watches my videos because most people who hide their like bar are asshats."

Why do you think that is the case? It's probably because the actual cases of people being dislike mobbed are *way* rarer than the case of people wanting to hide that their content is garbage.