skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99+% recovery rate is not "large scale sickness and death". But authoritarian governments almost invariably cause large scale sickness and death.

The reality is that lack of freedom is the default state of the world through history, and America was one of the few exemptions.

Losing that is extremely sad, and to see political opposition locked out of the process for no good reason is chilling. It means that freedom will be lost, and with it, we will see a rise in large scale sickness and death caused by governments.
Is zero good enough? The process would bank fuel produced using solar and wind during the parts of each day/night when each is cheapest.
Nuclear submarine boats would survive almost all first strikes.

If there is a new arms race, unfortunately it will spread to low orbit.

The MIRVs are probably to try to overwhelm likely missile defenses.

A nuclear strike of that magnitude would be suicide for the attacking nation however with fallout, climate change, and economic disruption. But considering both Russia and now China are being run by full-on autocrats... that's not good.
I guess stopping you defaulting on loans so losing your car and things.
I believe the argument in favor of overdraft fees is that they are essentially extending a line of credit at the moment the customer needs it. As opposed to just denying the transaction outright. I had this happen to me once well over a decade ago, and I argued with my bank to make it so I would just be denied if it ever happened again. They acted shocked as if most people would rather go into debt than be denied.
I suppose you could liquid some of your return generating assets every month right before you pay off your cc. However since 3k is a neglible amount of money to most people here, I wouldn't really worry about not having earning yield on your 3k. Also it's often useful to have some literal cash in your bank account.
Jet A from solar has been demonstrated. And will be used in huge volume, for a couple of decades, as LH2 aircraft and infrastructure are built out.
The specifics of it are dependent on the bank, but it can be more insidious than even your example.

Given a balance of $100 and 4 transactions of $20, $20, $20, $90 you can either be charged one, or three overdraft fees depending on the order in which your bank deducts those from your account. Basically, ordering from largest to smallest will cause the most number of overdraft fees.
The system that maintains the banking oligarchy is a regulatory creation. We replaced the wildcat [bank] with the fat-cat [banker].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
Yes, that's exactly what they would do. Even better (for the bank's profits) is if you had lots of other smaller transactions that day too. They would re-order everything from largest-to-smallest, so it's:

1. have $10 in your checking

2. pay $9 for steak

3. buy sausage for $5

4. charge overdraft

5. buy milk for $3

6. charge another overdraft

7. pay $2 for parking

8. charge another overdraft

9. buy a pack of gum for $1

10. charge another overdraft

11. count $500 deposit

It was truly despicable behavior that benefited nobody but the banks.
I dunno if you know this but miners get the transaction fees, so as the work gets harder the fees will go up.

It doesn't matter if there's no more block reward because the ledger still has to be "signed", and the tx fee is what will pay for the work.
assume it takes an extra 10 years due to delays and time to get some science done, I should just about make it.
Is this for small law firms or for non-law firms’ general counsel teams?

Large law firms generally have practice management systems that enable master workflow and document management systems for the files, and eDiscovery systems for the searching for relevant files for litigation. Off tire going up against those systems some are very complex and some have terrible UX.

Smaller firms generally use cloud PMS and DMS.

So I’m wondering what role this fills, what the competitor systems are..
Oh sorry, I should have qualified that one. It indeed has weakest evidence. I included it as it’s harmless, helpful for other reasons for many people, and has plausible physical mechanisms.

But yeah strike that one from the list of interventions we can be 100% confident about.

The rest though are completely certain to help given how aerosols work, so I wouldn’t go too broad with your comment.

You can physically measure both the effect of windows and HEPA on aerosols. With N95 masks they to through specific ratings for filtration of virus sized particles. And going outdoors is like opening a very large window. So physics would have to be wrong for any of those not to be helpful.

Saline in the nose does have well establish physical benefits in the nose. However, the nose’s biology is a complex system so pointing to the physical system is not as simple as measuring a reduction in aerosol particles. But these physical properties were in the back of my kind when I included it in the list. Nonetheless an oversight not to qualify it so thank you:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarti...
Thanks for the advice! So I invented a faster way to learn chess. The solution was simple: I found necessary conditions for various chess blunders and trained myself to recognize them during play.

Here's a simple proof: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13unaqOo02sA4kiBFayoQ01CS...

I shared the technique with a friend, and he doubled his chess skill within 10 hours of training. That is, he went from better than 35% of players to better than 70%.
I’m a huge fan of this framework, and also Tella.

Great product and thank you for providing the highest quality video + screen recording solution out there!
Rousseau would agree but then again it's irrelevant.
> Credit is useful for the single use case of buying a house.

If you can exercise self-control with spending, you can use a credit card for almost everything. I think Dave Ramsey advises you're less likely to spend money if you use real cash, but for some people, this is not an issue at all.
Ask HN: Are there proxy credit cards?
I don't know if this exists or is even possible, but it would be great to have proxy credit cards that I can enter for things like recurring payments so that I can set it to forward payments to my credit card.

This way if I ever need to change my credit card I can just change it once rather than having to update my card info for each service (the proxy card remains unaffected).

Another usecase would be for viewing all the subscriptions in one place and being able to cancel them (block them) there, or set payment to something other than the primary card for a specific subscriptions.
Amex pays me over a thousand dollars a year to use my credit card (which it takes from the merchants as fees.) I kinda feel bad about that, but I know those fees are built into the price and if I used cash or debit I’d still be paying the same price, just not get the reward.

But if they accepted lightning payments, I would pay them in BTC.
Mirror anywhere
My last bank (US Bank, don’t bank with them) did this in a way where in one day where I had only one transaction which could overdraft they charged 6 overdrafts even though my net would have been positive. If I wasn’t (at the time) skilled at ~~kicking and screaming~~ advocating for myself I would have been out $180 plus whatever 30 cents they had calculated I went negative. Which (again at the time) was the difference between whether I was gonna be homeless.
> A growing chorus of voices within the astronomy community is championing an alternative: a peaceful, sustainable and egalitarian vision of space, which keeps an eye on the injustices and inequalities on the ground. ‘The larger philosophical question is “Are other worlds there for human use or are they sovereign unto themselves?”’ Lucianne Walkowicz, an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago...

Some general Stanislaus Lem vibes.
It feels unreal to me that we have so many hours of video of The Beatles at work, not to mention all the released and unreleased studio recordings.

The Beatles are probably the first artist(s) in history who will be both studied for centuries and there's hours of audio/video recording of them at work.
$500 is not much of a barrier to people with only viasat options.

My starlink has been noticeably better over the last few months. I don't know if it's more satellites or better software to avoid the few trees I have obstructing.

I'd guess they haven't done much for mobile/moving dishys with this, it's probably all just cost reductions over the original design.
Tqqq is a derivative of the the Nasdaq-100 Index. The danger of Tqqq is that it will fall towards 0 if the index starts to move sideways for a long time or it falls for a considerable amount of time. If the market dives for a short period and recovers then it will recover along with the rest of the market. Percentage wise it will fall deeper than the index but compounding will eventually bring it back to profitability.

It's not for the faint of heart since even in a relatively small downturn it falls hard. During the last index downturn there was a day in which tqqq fell over 9% and kept on going down but now it's recovered and it hit a new 52 week high.

The fund is a high risk high reward investment. I would not avoid it but I would invest the high risk portion of your investment funds and hold it until retirement. It should be small enough so that it does not impact your finances if it suddenly goes to 0. I don't think you should avoid it but you need to be very careful on how much money you invest in it since you can lose it all.
Yes, which country are you in. Curve is one if youre in the UK.
Under the Federal Rules of Evidence (referenced elsewhere), photo manipulation by CSI technicians is allowed, so long as those technicians can be there to attest to the methods and algorithms they used, and they can show the before and after steps at each stage and explain exactly what happened during that stage. This retains the digital chain of custody for the image.

This could easily be used to digitally zoom in on an image, for example.

Where things went sideways here is the prosecution expecting to be able to use pinch-to-zoom as testimony in court, when they should have actually gone through the standard CSI process of producing a digital zoomed image.

Now, to be honest, I think they should have been able to use pinch-to-zoom. If they lose the case because of this problem, I hope they can get a mistrial declared and then go back with the proper procedure.

Otherwise, the prosecution just plain screwed themselves over.
If you think this is fun, go read the story about Austria imposing lockdowns on unvaccinated people.
You would swap out the batteries after every flight, and charge them while waiting for the plane to come back. Replacement is an inventory maintenance problem divorced from flight dynamics.
The transaction re-ordering to maximize the amount of overdraft events should have put execs in prison. Out of all the obviously corrupt, mal-intent, direct consumer harming practices this was quite near the top.
I’ve spoken about it a few times, but admittedly haven’t done much in a while.

I’m working on a very widely featured user mode ISDN stack, primarily in Erlang, with bits of C and Java sprinkled in. In the end it will support DAHDI compatible interfaces, osmo-e1d interfaces, generic terminal adapters, that one ISDN chipset that was sided in certain AlphaStations (when i get my hands on one) and is designed so anyone can expand it to support their hardware interface. It also will support a wide variety of protocols as the the standard LAPD, Frame Relay, and X.25 in the D-channel.

Currently most of my design problems are around hardware.

For example, if I want to do H.320 video conferencing I require channel binding. I’m not sure if any of the hardware interfaces I have support that natively, and have not done enough research to see if I can “simulate” it in software. Also BRI uses a special hardware interface for connecting to the local loop known as the U-interface, which is common in Terminal adapters, where both my current BRI hardware and most of terminal equipment(phones, etc.) tend the use the S/T interface.

I had a number of other project ideas and come up with new ones every day, but outside the above idea, I’m giving up programming as a hobby until I can give it up as a career.
Right; the culture wars are less “the culture wars” and more “don’t offend the kids”. You can make a choice to offend them, but then you’re not worth as much as an entertainer. I’m not sure many 13 year olds in 2021 even know what Monty Python is.
Remember Target and Walmart used ISIS for their payment competitor to ApplePay? Ha.
The vast majority of people aren't that dense, and in fact, a lot of people actually have a reasonable sense of humor.
I have never once carried a credit card balance or paid a cent in interest. My credit score is over 800 which is pretty much maxed out. The only things on my credit history are a few credit cards that I got to establish credit history, and my mortgage, which is why I needed a credit history.

So I got 3 credit cards and used them each during each month so that I would established on-time payments on all three and boom, I had perfect credit after a couple years and qualified for a mortgage. I didn't use any credit before I decided to buy a house in my 30s so I had a completely empty credit history prior to that, apart from a library that reported a lost book. So it just took a little while to get my average account age up and my number of on-time payments above some threshold.

Now if you don't use the card at all, it is less effective at establishing credit because you don't get the on-time payment history or balance. The credit bureaus just get reports of on-time or late payments, balances, and delinquencies/defaults, etc.

You will be given the best rating at a small non-zero percentage of your total available credit being used each month, but it doesn't have to be carried.

All you have to do is make sure you don't pay it off too early. Just wait until the due date, and pay off the statement balance, not the full balance. If you pay it off mid-month, before the end of the statement, or paid the full balance instead of what is due, you may get a zero balance reported which is a slight temporary hit to your score, but not that significant. I found that it was best to have a few cards with a total available credit at least 5 times my monthly spending. That way the reported balance ends up being <20% of my total available credit which is near the sweet spot. If I am going to do a refi on my house i might try to micromanage it to somewhere close to 5% for a few months ahead of time and get a few points added to my score, but once you get your score up around 800 it doesn't really matter if it is up or down 10pts or so. I found that as my average account age increased, the swings from slight differences in balance were smaller.
Costs change. Cost of synfuels will only come down, as solar electric continues to do.
I thought that was what “closing the gap” was. In fact, in the podcast “Nice White Parents”, they’re explicit about that. It about preventing advanced classes and tutors so the achieving kids can commingle with the struggling kids.
Maybe you should focus on targeting users who you can write high-quality content for, or invest in quality translations. Don't use machine translation as a crutch.
Yeah, mostly the inflation of living in toronto.
Mothman Seen in Chicago
Can you explain why you prefer TQQQ over buying LEAPs on QQQ? The spread on the latter seem ok, the leverage factor is under your control, and volatility drag does not reduce your returns (though implied volatility causes fluctuations). I don’t quite understand the market for TQQQ.
> you really start to feel the air resistance and it becomes exponentially harder to go beyond 45kph

Nitpick: it becomes cubically harder. ;)
What I mean is that for customers, secured credit cards and debit cards have roughly the same risk, but banks have obligations to offer checking accounts fairly but offering the equivalent credit-building account is up to their own discretion. It’s considered lending even though they’re lending the customer their own money.
Yes they reordered transactions to maximize their money. E.g. you have $495 in the account, and you spend:

-$5: $490 left

-$5: $485 left

-$5: $480 left

-$500: -$20 left, overdraft fee of $40, $-60 left.

They will reorder it as:

-$500: -$5 left, overdraft fee of $40, $-45 left.

-$5: -$50 left, overdraft fee of $40, $-90 left.

-$5: -$95 left, overdraft fee of $40, $-135 left.

-$5: -$140 left, overdraft fee of $40, $-180 left.
I believe that this is why Amazon contracted with Kohl’s and certain other stores to act as drop off points for returns, so that the stores could do the repackaging and then Amazon could just send a truck to pick up the bulk package.

No special inside information or anything here, just my personal opinion.
https://fireinabottle.net/the-scd1-theory-of-obesity-part-1-...
Seconded. Highly recommended. Just beautiful stuff. Just started a series that includes code and approach, which makes it even more interesting IMO.
Seriously? Adsorb it. You have to move a lot of air through your system, but that just costs energy. With solar cost still in free fall, it will soon be cheaper to get CO2 out of the air, add hydrogen extracted from water, and deliver CH4 or larger molecules, than to get them out of the ground.
Bro you just need some solar panels on top all this charging stuff is for the birds.
This is cool. What I particularly like about it is the use of grey to show which tiles were previously occupied. One change you might want to consider is making left click free-form draw and then right click could drag the grid.
Okay so all you need to do to comply with this law is collect working hours.
Can't you just:

def __iter__(self):
return iter(self.a_list)
http://archive.today/MROLK
I made one that emails you at night time, asks how your day went, then click a few boxes on what you are tracking. I can send you the repo if you are interested.
So that’s 7kg extra for your 2150Wh, over the original 500Wh battery? So around 250Wh/kg?

I’ve been planning a velomobile that I can live out of, and I’ve been interested to observe that by the time you get to one kilowatt hour, I can’t find any Li-ion batteries at all: they’re all LiFePO₄. https://au.renogy.com/renogy-smart-lithium-iron-phosphate-ba... is then about 1280Wh (12.8V/100Ah) for 11.8kg, 110Wh/kg, around half the specific energy (though I haven’t excluded the weight of the controller electronics or any differences in casing). But I understand LiFePO₄ will live longer, and is generally safer (less prone to thermal runaway and whatnot).

I’m guessing you were going with Li-ion because you were working in the Bosch ecosystem (and potentially for weight as well), but do you happen to have any wisdom to offer about the differences between Li-ion and LiFePO₄?
I think it was more like

1. have $100 in your checking
2. pay $10 for steak
3. buy sausage for $5
4. Buy a ticket for $99

You think you get one over draft fee

bank reorders it as

1. have $100 in your checking

2. Buy ticket for $99

3. buy sausage for $5

4. Pay 10 for steak

Get 2 over draft fees. Add more transactions in between the ticket purchase to increase the fees.
To be fair, debit card offers a few advantages over credit card:

* Debit card allows to set granular spending limit (e.g. $100 per day). So you can protect the potential amount that a fraudster can spend with your card.

* You can set it up to send transaction details via email on every purchase. This is a lot more convenient than, say, checking the credit card statement at the end of every month.

I actually prefer using debit cards for daily expenses. For me, credit card is almost exclusively for online purchases.
I'm not sure why you're discounting Chromium, which powers Electron which makes it trivial for anyone with web skills to deploy desktop FOSS. Am I missing some component of your take? [edit] As far as how polished the UI is, your mileage may vary, but the avenue is there.
Meta ETF Crosses $250M in Assets Under Management
There's a few options out there, the most common method is solvent absorption [1].

There's also a YC backed startup, Prometheus Fuels, that's trying to commercialise a process using carbon nanotube membranes for CO2 separation [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130508220516/http://www.uk-she...

[2] https://prometheusfuels.com/
There’s a certain point where neglect becomes malice. The bystander effect has a name for a reason; it’s not the obvious way humans should behave.
You can use racket-mode to run a Racket REPL in Emacs, and it works the way you want. I use Emacs for all my Racket work, and it's a nice experience.
I am on my fourth rewrite on my in house web application. I am using ruby’s Sinatra with react as the front end. Including graphql in my front end and back end was easy. Querying the api was made easier with the “GraphiQL” app
Agreed. A little bit before the NYT purchase is when I noticed them starting to go down hill. And after that, it was just really bad. I don't even go there any more.
Good pay is relative. What’s good pay to you?
Some questions on auth. We have one cluster with a large number of databases, all with automatically provisioned and rotating credentials for service roles using postgres password auth. Currently, clients connect directly to the db cluster (there's a tcp lb but no pgbouncer etc)

In this case, I'd like for services to continue authenticating as previously without changing authentication method, just switching address.

Should I use password_passthrough/auth_query? Does odyssey need pg credentials itself? Is storage_db referring to the db where odyssey stores internal data for itself...?

I guess I don't get why a connection pooler would need to handle auth, much like an HTTPS proxy doesn't need API tokens itself.
Interesting article. I'm curious how another debugging feature, reverse stepping works. Does anyone have a source on that?
The US Federal Reserve is building an instant payment system (FedNow) that goes live in 2023 [1] [2]. Payment providers are moving upmarket and to features that stave off churn (my analysis here) due to expected revenue destruction caused by a free alternative being available (a US version of SEPA). This is alluded to in the second half of this blog post.

If payment revenue (interchange and the like) declines, and net interest is insufficient for providing large swaths of US deposit accounts, something is going to have to give (community and megabanks have a ton of pull in Congress, and neobanks are beholden to someone with a bank charter).

I’m not in payments (but in adjacent financial services), so I’m happy to be corrected if any of this is wrong.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_faq.htm

[2] https://www.frbservices.org/binaries/content/assets/crsocms/...
I’ve had Amazon deliver my packages to the wrong address.

This is why I wish they were required to take a picture of all deliveries.

That way I could contact them, have them pull up the picture of the wrong house, and have them compare that to all the other pictures of all the other deliveries.

Then it would be a lot easier to make them either send a new one to the right address, or they have to go to their misdelivered address and pick up that package so that they can send it to me.

Sigh….
> Are there alternative tools that focus on rewriting code to maximise performance while keeping error below some configurable bound?

There are! See followup work by @pavpanchekha and others on "Pherbie", which finds a set of Pareto-optimal rewritings of a program so that it's possible to trade-off error and performance: https://ztatlock.net/pubs/2021-arith-pherbie/paper.pdf.
It's a VIX inverse ETN that collapsed a few years ago. Lot of people got burned.
no search feature. and these are PNG images not text files.