skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For the first six months you own it, the Series I bond we sell from November 2021 through April 2022 earns interest at an annual rate of 7.12 percent. A new rate will be set every six months based on this bond's fixed rate (0.00 percent) and on inflation."

As someone who's never bought bonds before, how do I know the 7.12% won't change after the 6 months of the locked rate to the 0.00% and whatever pittance they decide to toss my way in an attempt to account for inflation?

Sincere question, I don't know anything about anything.
> Is there really any secret today that would be problematic if made public 30 years in the future?

Sure. For one, that all the major earthquakes in the last 30 years, resulting tsunamis, destruction and loss of life, were manmade and intentionally caused by, say, Nabisco. Also, it would be a little shocking to the public if it were revealed there are no humans left, only alien-hybrids.
You are getting downvoted, but this dovetails nicely with my experience. I used to have not-so-good reflexes. Then I started to play FPS games a little more seriously without the usual "bullet time modes", and my reflexes improved markedly - including the ability to catch falling items most of the time, which I didn't have before.
Most of the population of Canada is within miles of the US border. For any given city, connection to the US is probably much more important than connections to other parts of Canada.
Yes. And Asuswrt is based upon, iirc, the open-source Tomato.
Otherwise they'd be paying a delivery driver themselves?
There's various levels of not belonging - this one is the best version of it and is basically an outsider perspective. Not belonging and not wanting to belonging are great, but when you don't belong and want to belong, not so much. Being actively prevented from belonging is even worse.
I wasn't saying whether it was a good thing that they should be skirted or not, whether the laws themselves were fair or not. In many ways, I probably would agree more with your sentiment than not.

I wonder if skirting the law is the best way to change the law, as it seems to skirt the law-making and law-following process. At the same time, I believe in the principles of civil disobedience, in openly disobeying a law and facing the consequences for doing so in order to shed light on the unfairness of the law. I guess I just don't know how much, if at all, I believe in the skirting of laws.
Hospital mergers and acquisitions have gone up significantly in the last decade and to make up for the increased debt load, the hospital systems are pushing practitioners to see more patients per day. Quantity of patients has increased, while quality went in the other direction.

My wife (who quit earlier this year) had to spend significantly more time completing patient charts "after work" because there was no time to actually do this at work with the push to see more patients.

Combine frustrated practitioners and frustrated patients and everyone's pissed off -- then throw in a pandemic.
Because this is buried in the post and people don't seem to be grokking it:

> Second, on November 2 we received a report to our security bug bounty program of a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package using an account without proper authorization.

They correctly authenticated the attacker and checked they were authorised to upload a new version of their own package, but a malicious payload allowed the attacker to then upload a new version of a completely unrelated package that they weren't authorised for. Ouch!
Here's an article that gives people a better sense of how severe this is. I have lived in Southern BC for 40 years and cannot remember there ever being so many simultaneously affected areas from rain.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-floods-tu...

And one on the supply chain effects: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bc-floods-rail-impact-1.625...

Some folks in Vancouver are saying they are unaffected... well what you really mean is you haven't noticed yet. There will absolutely be ripple effects. Even in Victoria we had a general "do not drive" advisory yesterday, and good luck getting a plumber if you need one this week.

I know city folks who have worked for the BC government in emergency management and are now stocking up on essentials...
The BC Milk Marketing Board has told many of its producers to begin destroying their output until further notice since there is no means of transporting it:

https://bcmilk.com/notice-to-producers-flood-conditions-and-...

Vancouver's surrounding agricultural areas, lush as they are, will now be almost out of commission for an indefinite length of time.
Yes. It's in the doc: https://wicg.github.io/private-network-access/

Of course one obvious workaround is to misconfigure your router to allocate from a non-private but unused/reserved address space. That way your internal network is also on the "outside".
Hm, I didn't mean to be talking about an "anti-everything on frontend attitude"!
> Our nation is founded on liberty.

I suspect we live in different nations, then.

> You are proposing the imposition of your ideals onto someone else, via theft, under the penalty of governmental violence/incarceration.

Is this your opinion of all taxes? If so, I'm surprised you manage to function day-to-day.
Why artificial intelligence will never compete with the human brain (2018)
My internet-first bank’s passwords are limited to 8 characters. I'd take password rules over this idiocy any day. I reported it maybe 5 years ago and of course radio silence. I bet they plaintext it.

Oh and of course I also have literally 4 different digit-based pins to do operations.
i have been running a 4-digit nixie clock off NOS russian tubes non-stop for a few years now.

two of the number tubes burned out in that time, one shortly after turning it on, one a year later.

they were socketed and I bought spares so replacing wasn't a big deal, and the 4 tubes socketed in now have been working for years, but ymmv with anything that old tho spares are cheap to carry for such a nice piece :)
I like to think of my App as a collection of Pages. While it does "stuff" we think of implementation Page first.

Then clients say your app is fast and responsive but what they really mean is that we've not built an obese chimera.
How I Got My Brain Back
While we are at it, looks like spotify.com is using a mix of NS1 and GCP for DNS.

spotify.com. 172800 IN NS dns1.p07.nsone.net.

spotify.com. 172800 IN NS dns2.p07.nsone.net.

spotify.com. 172800 IN NS dns3.p07.nsone.net.

spotify.com. 172800 IN NS dns4.p07.nsone.net.

spotify.com. 172800 IN NS ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com.

spotify.com. 172800 IN NS ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com.

spotify.com. 172800 IN NS ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com.

spotify.com. 172800 IN NS ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com.
Numitron tubes are way cheaper, way lower voltage, and much easier to drive than Nixie tubes. They are still visually very similar in terms of the retro steampunky look.

For anyone who wants to try to build something similar you can easily buy Numitron tubes on ebay from eastern europe suppliers.

P.S.A. Please do stay away from Nixie tube drivers if you are not confident/knowledgeable about HV circuitry
DAO's are a good concept but still have flaws. I just don't think blockchain is refined enough just yet...

I'm personally working on just a basic ERP system to manage Cooperatives (Housing, Consumer, Worker), that would reward people for consuming, working, volunteering, etc with 'tokens' good towards rev shares, maybe health benefits, and ability to vote for company officers, etc... It'll have everything to manage ecommerce shops, restaurants, grocery stores, property management, etc.. as 'modules', kinda like ODOO, but for managing employees/users/consumers it needs to get the reward system right and make it modular enough so each co-op (SaaS/Multi-tenant) could have their own rules, etc....

It's for building a more democratic org, but still is centralized at least the DB parts, as it allows better control... I could see maybe rebuilding parts on the blockchain, and implementing some sort of crypto w/ UBI and a tax that really benefits those who spend more, and hold less of the crypto, but it'd need be sybil-proof, so would probably need some centralization for verification of identities.

the app will also have tools for voting, w/ ranked choice and weighted votes (people w/ different roles can have heavier weights), and maybe even have settings like those 'weights' be voteable by the group, say the CEO is petitioning for 20:1 ratio for voting power, so maybe you setup the vote to allow just pick a numeric# from 5-20 (or some other min/max range) then the average is what gets picked, etc... even for voting for new company officers - maybe every two years a vote is triggered the winner has their roles and permissions automatically switched, and the loser has them revoked, etc...

The ultimate idea is using it to create syndicated co-ops that maybe share some mutual aid benefits among users/consumers/workers of other co-ops... For e-commerce for example store owners could opt to include their stuff in a marketplace, so their products are distributed like Amazon's marketplace...
Net Power Delivers Electricity to Grid in Major Technological Breakthrough
Currently I can spin up a webserver and offer a blog for my friends without paying anyone to host on my own network. If it's powered by crypto will I need to pay to do the same thing?
Interesting, I don't see arris (ATT gateway) on the list. Not sure if that's because there's no vulnerabilities or not as well known?
grep --perl-regexp '^[a-z]{4,7}$' /usr/share/dict/words | \
shuf -n 5 | tr '\n' ' '

Although maybe just 2 or 3 words would be best for avoiding a support agent skipping the question.

bless clench moraine
Basically little more than having a bathtub and claiming you've built a computer that does 600e23 node fluid dynamic calculations. But a lot more expensive.
Absolutely - the bit of work actually makes a fair amount of sense if you're doing multiple pans and set up a good spot to work on it (and already have the power tools), but it also depends on where you are. Sanding down your cast iron is NOT something you want to do inside an apartment.

A decent carbon steel pan will probably set you back 2-2.5x the cost of cheap cast iron or half the cost of fancy pre-smoothed cast iron, and you can be doing things like flipping hash browns right away (not recommended in cast iron....)
not a password rule but: i use a password length of > 40 characters because why not? signing up for paypal worked with that no problemo until i had to sign in again and the login input ignored everything north of 20 characters or so. It worked after removing the maxlength attribute :(
Detect Objects in a Serverless Twilio Video App with Tensorflow.js
Another economics maxim:

"Things that obviously can't go on forever; will go on for far longer than you would believe...but when they stop, they also stop faster than you'd think."

Also:

"The market can remain irrational far longer than you can remain solvent".
Crossrail aims to start Trial Operations “within days”
The vulnerability list seems to be CVE data filtered for routers, grouped by vendors.
You write that? Nice.

Yeah everything is for survival, construction of ego and neuroticism. Depression too.
Have you heard about https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords ?
Formulas for boundary layer turbulence derived century after phenomenon
Proof of work is inherently going to trend towards more power use. I’m not sure why you don’t think it’s as “debilitating as a problem as most people believe.”
The maybe next best thing would be

[1] https://interlisp.org/ &

[2] https://github.com/Interlisp

This 'also ran', but with much less hype. And because the stars aligned right, the full source is out in the open, without any legal hurdles.
Uses 5% of the water (few losses to evaporation)

Time to harvest is typically 2-3x less / faster.

Yields are 2-3x in volume (targeted nutrients, more hours of "sun")

Can grow small without a yard (ie Condo, Apartment, Townhouse)

(https://www.trees.com/gardening-and-landscaping/advantages-d...)
This is the real issue. Excess cash poured into and competing for assets. Having 90% of your money available to invest vs 10% creates a massive difference in real outcomes.
Related to some of the comments here, we are building PolyScale.ai https://www.polyscale.ai/ which is a global database cache. This solves regional latency and read query performance (concurrency), whilst maintaining the transactionality of the origin database.
It's owned by banks but run by government appointees. Most Americans who watch the news and follow finance understand it's a public-private hybrid structure. As Lyn notes, this isn't unusual. Many national banks are not owned by the government, including Swiss National Bank.
> introversion

It is not a skill-set :) You cannot develop introvertedness. It is a natural thing; it is the nature of the person. You could try to change it but it is very difficult.
Ask HN: What are the best tools to calculate a startup valuation?
We're a pre-seed startup and currently working on our valuation before approaching investors. We already calculated our business case for the next 3-5 years. Any tools that could help us come up with a fair valuation? Or should we just use e.g. the DCF method?
Approximately,

You "actually understand" if in saying words, w, about a situation, s, the reason, r, you say those words counts as as an understanding of s.

So if you're asked, "what is the weather today?" and a system replies, "its sunny" -- it only understands if the reason it replied was because its saying "sunny" had come about because it understands sunny sitations; and therefore has a justfiied reason on this occasion to say that this occasion is sunny.

If I ask a NN trained on a trillion documents, "do you like what I'm wearing?" it cannot answer. It can say the words, "yes I do!" but it cannot have a reason to say those words. It's just a "weighted average retrievla across a compressed dataset of a trillion documetns".

The question isnt "on average, what -- historically -- would a generic person reply to the question: do you like what i'm wearing?"

The question is if the systems likes what I'm wearing. Its replies are only "actual replies" if it can see what i'm wearing, has experiences/preferences for taste, has some aesthetic judgement, has a disposition to like/dislike -- etc.

No ML system on the planet, in this sense, has any understanding whatsoever. Interpolation over historical data is just a means of compressing history into parameters, ie., its a compressed lookup table. That isn't ever a /reason/, exactly, if a person simply used such a table -- they wouldnt mean what they said
In what way? I'd be curious to understand what it is you value about them, but your post reads more like marketing than a satisfied customer story.
As much as I hate saying it even a simple token in a url parameter might be ok for a prototype.
Haven’t read that yet but I read “House” by him recently and it was quite good
Trump Decision to End Solar-Trade Loophole Is Overturned by U.S. Court
If you never sign up for their school and just do the things required for the refund, you'll easily land a job.
Of course not, the dao hack is a case in point.

I am happy the ecosystem is spurring growth in formal verification.

It's still the wild west and I encourage anyone interested to swing a lasso.
You are reading incorrectly. Her argument is that the fiscal policies are disincentivizing all labor, which indirectly incentivizes industries that have less dependency on labor, whether skilled or unskilled. She also does not phrase it as a conspiracy to sabotage the working class for no reason, she claims that this is a side effect of maintaining USD as the global reserve currency, a system which benefits some people and afflicts others.
> The branching feature is really good idea, it allows you to confidently run migrations with no downtime

So this branching feature is one I still don't understand properly.

Let's imagine my startup is big enough to warrant a PlanetScale database. Hundreds of rows are written every second. When I branch, are those writes applied to the original and the branch? If so, what happens with migrations that mean the incoming writes no longer work? Or is the "confidence" it gives not about full migrations but about knowing that if your migration fails the original DB is still working?
Less or more it’s likely to happen, and could have been expected 2-3 years ago.

Especially with https://github.com/facebook/prepack. They want to eventually ship pre-compiled components rather than React.createElement() to end user
Holy smokes. The router I used for many years has 79 listed vulnerabilities.

I got a used Ruckus earlier this year and it's been great.
"In the wake of the extreme weather events that continue to devastate First Nations across BC, the First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) calls on the Provincial government to declare an indefinite State of Emergency in BC, effective immediately."

https://www.bcafn.ca/news/fnlc-calls-state-emergency-due-unp...
I think the Overton Window has shifted to the right.

I've been explicit in saying that I am not a fan of the Democratic party. They are not above reproach.

What's interesting is I never hear any complaints about the GOP from those on the right. Nada. Nothing. This is not whataboutism, it's that these complaints read as tribal warfare, not a search for the common good.
Perhaps more people should be aware about “LUN Number” defined by the SCSI spec to be… not a number.
Yes!! With music I used to debate whether I should do A or B, and spend a long time debating whether I wanted an album of genre A or genre B.. and then not write anything. Now I write both, one (or both!) will sound how I wanted, and then move on
And they still have internet available to travelers?
>"On web2 music artists only get 18% of the revenue."

Centralised "web2" solutions like bandcamp.com give the artist 80-90%. You don't need "web3" to be fairer to artists.
JPMorgan Fights Tesla over Warrants
you raced pro? Far out! Did you have a mechanic handling your tire gluing, or were you doing it yourself. If you did it yourself was it worth the hassle? I say this as someone who spent an hour this morning cleaning a chain with two different solvents, a brush, and an ultrasonic bath just so I could dip it in boiling wax in the hopes that I won't have to clean it so much in the future, so I'm not making fun of how you spend your bike maintenance time.
GPT-3 isn't there yet, but yes, a robot with the book from the Chinese Room experiment would form a system that understands Chinese.

I agree that the person is frivolous, that's why it's strange that Searle asks whether the person in his thought experiment understands Chinese. That's irrelevant, what matters is whether the room as a whole does, and clearly it does.
Looks great indeed
I thought this chart captured the modern economic angst really well:

https://www.lynalden.com/wp-content/uploads/dollar-crisis-in...

Concretely shows how one income used to be able to easily cover a family's expenses.

And how today a one income family is worse off today than 40 years ago in absolute terms.

And how the biggest family cost increase is healthcare, followed by college.

Things that have all been discussed in depth, but clarifying to see them on one simple chart.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5992251/ (Gender Differences in the Consequences of Divorce: A Study of Multiple Outcomes)
Video is a media format
What did you feel was cringey?
For a while, Discord had few password restrictions so 5 characters were fine. Then they changed their app to only allow 6+ character passwords.
Because we all know “Quantum Supremacy” is just another marketing term, like “Militar grade encryption“.
Can it run doom though?
I guess they really want people to apply to a lot of jobs but 460 still seems like a very large number. If someone applied to 5 jobs a day (a very high estimate) then it would take them at least 3 months before they would be able to claim a refund. This is assuming they weren't doing anything else other than applying and interviewing.
It does say there's a GUI version
I understand your sentiment, but on the flip side, if you browse around Reddit you’ll quickly see people going all in on random meme coins like SHIB with comments like “I’ll be in a resort in Bali or homeless.” The problem is if they lose their gamble, which is pretty easy considering the huge number of scams and pump and dumps, then when they are in fact homeless, it doesn’t just affect them. Because then people will say we need to take care of the homeless with social programs which taxpayers and people who didn’t YOLO on memecoins have to shoulder the burden of.

You can’t really have it both ways, you can’t have a super strong social safety net for people who lose it all and a system where it’s easy to gamble your life savings on incredibly unregulated markets and incentive all the scammers to come out of the woodwork.

There’s a reason IPOs are much later these days than during the Dotcom boom precisely because too many retail investors lost their shirt to pump and dumps which at scale leads to broader social instability.
Randomly skimming the documents, this is my favorite line so far from a document discussing funding and competition for a new recon satellite system [1]

"Mr. Duckett commented that the Governmant had been carful not to pry too deeply into this area because there were a number of "gentleman's agreements" between contractors"

Sounds very pragmatic of them.

[1] https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/MAJOR%...
I love the glass working parts especially. And the creative use of Ikea-sourced "lab equipment".
Word 97 was the last Microsoft product I purchased.
Well, not a question.

POSIX and Linux are not the same. There is no epoll in POSIX, it's a Linux addition. The BSDs have kqueue which according to some people is actually better [cf. https://www.youtube.com/embed/l6XQUciI-Sc?start=3362 ]. But kqueue isn't POSIX either. Only poll() and select() are...
I highly recommend the books "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas Antonopoulos (technical, for beginners) and "Programming Bitcoin" by Jimmy Song (very technical, advanced).
I just waxed my chain this morning. I hear it makes you way less prone to picking up road grit. Will report back.
Everyone agrees that the man doesn't understand Chinese. The sleight of hand is that Searle compares a full computer to a component of the Chinese Room, when he should be comparing a computer to the room as a whole. The man in this thought experiment is analogous to an internal component of a computer, not the whole thing.

Put another way, Searle separates a "computer" from the instructions it is running, but there is no such separation. It's like separating a brain from the electrical brain activity. It's true that a brain without electrical activity cannot understand Chinese just like a computer without a program cannot, but that's not a very interesting observation.
The loss of established growth hurts in the rainy season too as landslides worsen. In our local San Bernardino mountains here burn patches quickly turn to land or mudslides.
Racket launches an app for 99-second micro podcasts
JamaicaVM: A realtime Java-based VM for embedded software
7.12% is about as low as it's been:

https://treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res...
A shared bar I can live with but the combo menu-tool-title bar is really annoying.

It's also a GNOME design that has grown to affect things outside GNOME because it's implemented on GTK3. So even if you use a different window manager, apps still have this confusing bar thing...
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