skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a combination of both.

Consider Rivian which just went public at ~80B valuation (on revenue of 0, mind you). They raised ~10B dollars through investor capital and can now use that to create factories, hire employees and so on. Further, they can issue more shares down the line to finance their growth.

I agree that consumer demand is required to grow aggregate revenues/earnings, and create a stably higher economy. But in theory using investment capital to invest into productive capacity puts upwards pressure on wages, thus longer term consumption.

However, when capital is misallocated it may not result in productive growth.
which simply reinforces the idea that it's not a market. credit cards, too, are generally capped.

the rate always maxes out the legislated cap. so it's not really dependent.
> does the person just doing a "hash-table lookup" on "the right answers to pre-prosed questions" actually understand.

The person doesn't, but the (person + hash-table) system does. This is not weird - presumably whoever wrote the hash-table did understand Chinese. The whole point of using a room for this thought experiment is that we're no longer talking about a person, we're talking about a "machine" consisting of a person, a hash-table, and some kind of input/output system.

The hypothetical computer is the same. The CPU does not understand Chinese, but the whole computer as a system does, because part of that system is actual knowledge that came from someone that understands Chinese. When people ask if a computer is intelligent, they are not asking about one particular component, they're asking about the computer as a whole. Just like when you talk about a human's knowledge and abilities, you don't ask about particular sectors of their brain, you ask about the person as a whole.
> how the US government can constantly solves very tricky real world problems that impact our lives

What are some recent examples? Especially dealing with technology?

I can think of a bunch of counter-examples where the government did not do a good job of regulating:

* Rural broadband failed

* Net neutrality failed

* Healthcare.gov was a fiasco

* Wireless spectrum auction never got us municipal/rural long-range wireless

* NASA's duties have largely been outsourced to private actors

* State DMVs are a shitshow

* Election integrity failed

* They can't figure out what to do about online disinformation

* Warrantless wiretapping: both unconstitutional yet ineffective, as in 9/11 and the lack of data sharing between agencies

* Foreign military misadventures, our traditional forte: Afghanistan, Iraq, both abysmal failures

* Healthcare: a joke compared to every other developed country

* Education: pathetic and getting worse

* Social programs: Welfare, what welfare? inequality and homelessness getting worse every year

* Infrastructure: crumbling

* Clean water: only for rich white people

* Immigration: heh

* Covid: lol

* Renewables: haha

* Nuclear: let's pretend it's not there

On every major policy front, the US government has been a disaster for decades. I'm no libertarian by any stretch, but our government is a complete shitshow compared to any other developed democracy. We have neither the leadership competence (decisionmakers and legislators) nor the engineering talent (career civil servants) who can tackle something as diverse as nuanced as IoT security, or arguably, digital security in general. Give them 20 years and they might be able to catch up to 1990s netsec, and by then the manufacturers will be two decades ahead and foreign intelligence services even further beyond that.

Our government is doomed, and taking us down with it.
IIRC, these two did exactly what they are supposed to. They always had implied backing of the government, meaning basically this.

The issue was actually mortgages not backed by either of these, which however were still securitised and traded as if they were. When housing market slowed, evictions and defaults mounted, investors in FDIC et al were fine, the mortgages were backed.

It was all the other ones that went to 0 and caused the all-planet financial meltdown.

So if anything it’s good to see that the credit expansion is going through these entities.
Subscription Services Features
Looking at subscription services like Recurly, Chargebee, Billsby, etc. Can some of you talk about what it was like to integrate with them?
That is how I learned too, however I believe the point of parent was that you can memorize it as "opposite over hypotenuse" and "base/adjacent over hypotenuse" OR you can have a realization that they are constant ratios in a right angled triangle.

It's subtle, but I think it's a very valid point since I too never thought it in terms of ratio, merely in terms of here's the angle, this is what you need to find, you apply sin/cos/tan and get the answer.
I mainly use big standalone ones that provide enough to be worth it, and far more than I'd build myself. Things like MathJax, JSXGraph, Plotly, and D3 when I properly learn it. Not coincidentally, those aren't too hard to use without NPM.
Did someone suggest that?
There's more:
> vulnerability that would allow an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package using an account without proper authorization.

> We determined that this vulnerability was due to inconsistent authorization checks and validation of data across several microservices that handle requests to the npm registry. In this architecture, the authorization service was properly validating user authorization to packages based on data passed in request URL paths. However, the service that performs underlying updates to the registry data determined which package to publish based on the contents of the uploaded package file.
I love this story, but for somewhat different reasons than most.

It highlights that the true business driver is that personal interconnectedness: author's friend had good relationships with both restaurant managers and drivers. This is what has allowed an MVP to be successful, not the kludgy "product".

Sure, this product still needed to be built for people to be willing to continue to work together, but businesses of the sort have survived for years on spreadsheets and similar "implementations".

Some of these constraints do not hold on the internet, but you still need to catch the attention of the right folk to get that word-of-mouth moving (which is why we see so many "Show HN" posts here: there're plenty of people here who can do that for others).
As an anecdote, I live significantly East of Vancouver, but most of our goods come from the port of Vancouver. Things are going to get really interesting, as these roads will take a while to be repaired.
I don't get it, because of course the company running the MMO has total control over who gets to wear what hats, there's no decentralization introduced by NFTs beyond perhaps making it easier for people to use it for a bit of money laundering.
hey, sujay (one of the authors from the paper) here! happy to answer any questions about the paper/system.
Wait a minute now:

I've been to Vancouver before, but I"m completely ignorant about the supply chain there.

We're talking about a metropolis of 2.5 million people. What's the impact on food supplies, fuel, etc? Very curious. Is it primarily coming up from the US???
$27 per gallon gasoline tax (CCCT)?
Let's hope it migrates further south and relieves some of the California drought. Any meteorologists have a sense of the weather patterns at play here?
Feynman's 1981 "Simulating Physics with Computers" is one of the first mentions of how it is (naively) exponentially expensive to store on a classical computer the quantum state of something with n degrees of freedom (a molecule made of multiple atoms). He suggests (vaguely) the notion of a quantum computer. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=simulating%20physics%2...

It is less known that a Russian scientist made similar remarks at the same time.

This "Science" news blurb pops up on google as an intro as well https://www.science.org/content/article/quantum-computer-sim... . Although it makes you laugh when you notice that the principle was suggested in 1981, formalized in the mid 90s, initial experimental successes in late 00s, and today we are barely simulating 3 atom molecules. In our defense, it was a 100 years between Babbage, passing through Turing, and getting to something like ENIAC. And a few more decades before the PC.
At least ice wine is shelf stable for years, right? It's not like it's gonna go bad; it'll just be a little bit of a delay until it can be sold.
How Whistle blowing can damage your career?
A friend of mine was associated with a start up, which was later acquired by an MNC

By the time, the acquisition was complete, my friend had moved to another company in search of his career goals.

During casual meeting with a old colleague, my friend had overheard a conversation that his old colleague could be involved in data theft or competitive activity to his existing employer (MNC).

So my friend has disclosed the MNC’s CEO that some such activities could be happening in your firm. It was a responsible disclosure or a type of Whistle blowing.

After all these years, my friend had applied to the very same MNC and was qualified in the interview, but his offer rollout was rejected…

To his surprise, he contacted every possible lead. It turned out that, as his Whistle blowing did not result in any satisfactory findings. The MNC has decided to blacklist, the whistleblower(my friend) from recruitment.

Do you feel this is fair, for being honest Whistleblower? Who had asked to investigate? Do comment on the thread below.

My friend is a seasoned Product Manager with 10+ years of experience. If anyone wishes to contact my friend for a better offer he deserves do let us know your interests below.
Docker Did Change the World
When Young Elvis Met B.B. King
It's entirely easy to make crypto legally useless for legal transactions. The fellow making you coffee won't take crypto if he can only use it to buy drugs. This doesn't mean it will happen but conflating encryption and crypto is poorly considered because we have a long history of regulating commerce.
Very cool project!

Do you know if there are any benefits of growing hydroponically compared to the conventional (farming) methods? Is it economically interesting? Is it more sustainable?
Bilibili, China's YouTube, Joins the Open Invention Network
I wonder if Paxos is actually considered hard to understand by academic computer scientists, or if it just happens to be harder than most of the algorithms that practicing software engineers regularly try to understand.

Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer who doesn't understand Paxos.
Can anyone explain to me why even new products have a maximum character limit? I frequently see 16 or 20 maximum characters. If you're hashing the password, why does it matter?
Stick random() in there somewhere for each iteration, print it out? Then the optimizer won't be able to just jump to the end.
The article in question.

https://practicaltypography.com/the-cowardice-of-brave.html
Check out https://databricks.com/product/unity-catalog when you get a chance. There are other solutions in this space as well.
Tesla is reportedly shipping new Model 3 and Model Y vehicles without USB ports
Extra user fee on some kind of SAAS?
Has anyone read Jane McGonigal's books on the subject? I read "Reality Is Broken" a while ago but I don't remember the conclusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McGonigal
The real question is how much material you'd need for a ~80000-km-sized vertical structure that the lunar elevator is expected to be. The ~1:1000 factor in the largest dimension required can't be good for a practical elevator.

As for the track, I suspect it might be (order-of-magnitude-wise) similar to existing maglevs on Earth. On one hand, you need to reach higher velocities, higher precisions, etc. On the other hand, any supporting structure can be substantially more lightweight (much smaller gravity, no corrosion resistance required, etc.).
Maybe don't insult people whose experience with depression is not exactly the same as yours?
There is Vivaldi. I used for my work daily driver and it been working well for me. One thing I like about it that it didn't have the bloat from Chrome and Brave.
Yes that was not suspicious material. We'll see if there is a revolution in the freed up land of the next world war's peripheral looser, whether they are more appropriately developed.
I notice you've used two different programming languages to express application logic. A the high-level, you have automations, which are simple but look very limited in terms of capabilities (i haven't studied this part in great detail, but does its support things like looping, arbitrary conditional expressions, and an abstraction mechanism like user-defined functions?). At the low level, you have JavaScript to do fine-grained data manipulation, which is often necessary to take care of details like computing summaries of data or transforming between different formats.

I've seen this approach used in a lot of different workflow systems over the years, and it's always struck be as awkward. Have you considered designing the automation language in such a way that it is sufficiently expressive to cover the full range of needs for apps, from the high-level aspects to the low-level details?

The approach I prefer to use is to pick a suitably generic language (generally based on a formal process calculus and extended with useful primitives). I'm on my second round of doing this now (first as an academic research project, now in industry) and in both cases it's been based on lambda calculus (and in the industry project, based on Scheme). The language constructs and model of computation are identical whether you're implementing high-level aspects of the workflow logic (a sequence of steps, with optional conditional branches, looping etc) and low-level aspects (iterating through a list of numbers to compute the sum). One language + interpreter takes care of both. I discuss this approach in Chapters 2 and 3 of https://www.pmkelly.net/publications/thesis.pdf.
I hope to live to see a similar article someday on building the Saturn V or even Concorde, both systems built by hand with minimal to no computing and neither buildable today.

(though modern alternatives exist, just as modern alternatives to the Götheborg exist)
The Chinese Room is useful as an idea or model, even if you don't agree with the original interpretation. I am fond of the view that the room is potentially conscious, with human or machine worker. The worker should expect to understand the conversation they are mechanically carrying out no more than your individual brain cells ought to expect to understand.
That’s a pretty silly thing to say in such a blanket way. R&D creates entire new segments of the economy.
Two years later, you still can't be superuser on DigitalOcean Postgres clusters
> It seems like many people in this thread are missing that poor people are often underwater in debt, so lower rates help them.

...only if inflation rates are on the way up (ie. higher than expected). on the way down (ie. inflation is lower than expected), they lose out.
> I'd say this site's cookie banner is less sucky than others, actually.

So a cookie banner which makes the entire page unreadable without showing, you know, a cookie banner is less sucky than others?

I had no idea there was a cookie banner. Was the unreadable text supposed to give it away? Most cookie banners show some text which lets me approve or reject cookies.
That's an excellent point - using the channel maps at the site I linked to above, there is nothing to stop someone with a scanner keeping informed of FSR traffic.

Just one other point: on an FSR an average person's general sense of traffic "right of way" is generally wrong and can result in some terrible accidents far from help. To wit: the bus crash involving UBC students outside Bamfield.
This is a late reply, but I'd check out Unix: A History and Memoir by Brian Kernighan. It came out late 2019 and it was his recount of what Bell Labs and Unix was like in the early days. So much neat history there - I highly recommend that book.
They can apply group policy to make it work then.
now account for $500 cost of living. or $100, which is lower than almost anywhere in the world. A will be broke while B won't even notice.
The title feels a little too specific. Mumbai also floods pretty much every year.

https://thewire.in/urban/mumbai-heavy-rains-floods-reasons
I believe in personal responsibility. If someone wants to use 1234 they should be allowed to.

America is strange, any rando nutjob should have access to firearms but US corporations are terrified of being sued.
So they can get better jobs? Rimshot.
> road closures did not affect roads to the US

The storm that hit which caused the flooding which closed the roads also hit the Vancouver-adjacent parts of the US, so some of those are closed as well.
Game theory and economics show how to steer evolution in a better direction
> There in-app marketing messages are cringe-worthy[1] and there isn't a way to opt-out

Aren't ads opt in?
Your story was great! I also really enjoyed the mobile version of your site (haven’t had the chance to check desktop yet). Font style and size, line height, colors all made for truly enjoyable reading experience.

Congrats on both fronts!
Microsoft Ditches X64 App Emulation for Windows 10 on Arm
The pipes you mentioned are microwave conduits (for various control signals).
It's very relevant if you ever want to do serious ML or anything other than SQL. Of course Snowflake wants you to think that you never need another platform. Every customer knows that's not the case.
TIL that „The Federal Reserve […] is an institution that is mostly privately owned by banks“

Maybe my view is too European on that, but are Americans aware their federal money supervision system is run by banks and how can they possibly be okay with that?
I hope you will excuse the naivety of youth but could you elaborate on this? Clearly you are worried about something. I just don't understand what the issue with going underwater is IF AND ONLY IF you have the assets to pay off the loan in its entirety.

I don't understand why having 100K house + 120K mortgage + 120K assets is worse than having a 100K house.
Some of these TLDs are insane. This is about as obscure as ".horse"
Discloser: I am the co-founder (https://notesnook.com)

We used to ask our users 90% of the standard password requirements (min length 8, 1 special character, 1 digit, 1 capital etc). The result was a lot of people forgetting their password and having a really bad first impression. We were following "best practices" but the user didn't care.

In the end, we took out all the requirements except one: password must be 8 characters long. While we knew this wasn't recommended, especially for a private note taking app, it was a necessary choice because a lot of people either just modified their old passwords or used new ones which they forgot and got locked out. Good security but...if you also get locked out, what's the point? As for people who used password managers, it doesn't matter either way.

A lot of people sign up just to try out the app. Nothing serious. Nothing too critical. If they get locked out after their first usage, it's goodbye from them. I think there are a few things apps can do to improve security without annoying the user too much:

1. Show user a notice inside the app if the password is below a certain strength threshold, recommending them to change it.

2. If the password is reused or compromised, show a permanent warning either on startup or somewhere noticeable inside the app.

3. Promote use of password managers during sign up (and other places)

Ultimately, it should be up to the user to decide if they really want to change their password or risk having their account comprised.

None of these are tested though so I am not sure what the UX would be...
Secret Spots in Berlin
Reminds me of routerpwn.com
It's a symptom for major depression. DSM-5 criteria:

> Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day

Depression could conceivably present as a person who loves video games but can't find the energy to play them anymore.
Google's claim was widely criticized for being an unimportant and uninteresting benchmark, making the quantum s*premacy claim nonsense.

Later research proposes that an exascale-level supercomputer could simulate it in "dozens of seconds".

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03011
this is neat and i have thought of that

but it does not authenticate you against the homeserver and does not grant you the access token, meaning the application would not be able to access Matrix APIs on user's behalf
> I have to guess you are using a meaning for "judiciously" that is unfamiliar to me.

My mistake. I meant any less judiciously.

> It is a fact that "incredibly" has had a longer run as a generic intensifier than is usual.

No it isn’t. If it was, you’d have some evidence to show.
Reminds me: Dyn is now under Oracle.
umm... I just randomly checked and this person also seem to have packages which are of few lines. for e.g. I checked `is-fn`:

export default function isFunction(value) {
const type = Object.prototype.toString.call(value);

return type === '[object Function]' ||
type === '[object GeneratorFunction]' ||
type === '[object AsyncFunction]';
}

This has 120k weekly downloads: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-fn
And India and the US did just that.
Previous discussion (from less than 24 hours ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29234098

It came with the actual title, although arguably not the correct one.
TMBT but FWIT TLA's WHW and EHW but JK.
This would still parse as "random letters and numbers" to your typical support agent, no?
Paper cited in article:

The economics of managing evolution

Troy Day, David A. Kennedy, Andrew F. Read, David McAdams

Published: November 16, 2021

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8
To me the 'boonies' in Canada is west of Timmins, East of Wawa and North of Desbarats in Ontario, and anything North of Kamloops in BC. The roads in BC are very critical infrastructure, there aren't that many of them to begin with and there are a lot of choke points on the downslopes of mountain ranges where you have to pass through, unfortunately it looks as though that's where the road outages are.

Canada is an amazing country scenery wise, but it is also a very thin veneer of civilization on top of a very rugged countryside and it doesn't take much to turn it from workable into unconnected islands overnight. Let's hope that they manage to keep the power running and some way to keep those communities supplied because with winter on the way that can get ugly really quickly.

Canadians are usually pretty self sufficient but without roads I'm not sure how that would work.
https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/ansi-wrap