skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder if those are more recent.

Oh, definitely! When I first started driving (which was, eek, more than 20 years ago) there was no such thing as prepaying for gas, at least for all the pumps in my area. You pumped the gas, then entered the store to pay for it. I always told the cashier the amount I pumped so I'm not sure if they would have the amount you pumped on their register or not. There were warning signs saying "drive offs will be prosecuted."

Year later, around 2004, I started paying for gas with a credit card at the suggestion of a friend. At first I was super uncomfortable doing so because a casual observer from a distance wouldn't be able to tell if you actually paid for your gas if you didn't enter the store. I'd take the receipt so I had proof I paid if anyone accosted me.

Shortly after that, around 2005-ish(?) I started seeing signs that said "cash transactions need to prepay."

Now I don't see any signs because prepaying is the standard procedure now.

Another difference between now and back then was kids (teens and preteens) would regularly pump gas for their parents (or whoever was driving). Not me, specifically, but I had a few friends who were always expected to pump the gas and pay for it if they were in the car. It was one of their assigned chores.
Because this has come up twice in the last few days, here's a quaint introduction to the different kinds of sugar (glucose, lactose, sucrose and fructose) from a movie called "That Sugar Film".

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=344221859759175 (Apologies for the FB Video link, the exact excerpt isn't on Youtube).

tl;dr:

- Glucose good in reasonable intake

- Same for lactose (unless you're intolerant)

- Sucrose (i.e. table sugar) is 50% Glucose and Fructose

- Frutose is bad.

Longer version: Fructose is naturally quite rare, and presumably we've adapted to that; our bodies can only process small quantities effectively. It's also the sweetest and (implied?) most addictive of the sugars. These days we can manufacture it though, so it turns up in just about every sweet processed food it can.

EDIT: After watching the lecture linked by sul_tasto below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29849184) it seems it's just a question of fructose quantity and prevalence rather than the body processing it differently from other sugars.
Billing renewal is a major feature. The ultimate problem here is that renewal behavior didn’t have adequate test coverage.
> Definitely convinces me we have not yet even begun to touch the boundaries of what’s possible in music.

Yeah, but we're drifting in the opposite direction. Grid, 4/4, 440Hz and 12ET are the game if you publish anything these days in the western world and it's probably harder to do something different than it would be centuries ago.

I can't wait to hear something popular in 13ET, but probably won't happen in my lifespan.
You are a true crypto punk — gm
Nope; scientific pitch is entirely an equal-temperament tuning. The only thing it does is makes it a bit easier to remember and calculate specific pitches.
You seem to be doing the same thing ...
Yeah, because "free" trumps any paid service! They don't like it because they think WhatsApp / Telegram / iMessage are "free" - they ignore that connecting to these services is not free as they obviously still pay for the "data". Telecom providers have figured out they can more money by selling data than SMS or voice service. And that's why they deliberately price SMS or Voice service higher.

(Ofcourse, another factor is that SMS hasn't seen any feature upgrades. It's only recently that SMS has been upgraded to RCS. RCS has the potential to compete with WhatsApp / Telegram / iMessage etc.)
Instead of encoding your URL scheme, did you consider switching to POST requests with the query parameters on the body? Presumably that would have made your caching solution require some rework?
Nah. There was a lot of nothing time in school. Make core hours like 930 to 230, and keep the extra curriculars at the end of the day.
Little did the author know WASM would come to make the analogy more accurate
How do rich people who aren't yet filthy-rich enough to have their own bodyguards deal with personal security in these places?

In the US, if you hypothetically had, say, $10M net worth, you'd be best to not let anyone know, and stay under the radar.

If you have a billion then it doesn't matter, go all out and hire your own 24/7 security team.
you're arguing with a straw man because the equivalent would be to automatically harass everyone which ever bought this kind of shoes or maybe even had the audacity to buy second hand

This is something that doesn't really translate well between the online world and real life, because the mob mentality is the default on the web. That's not the case for real life thankfully - at least not where I live.
Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro
This flavor of debunking reminds me of mocking someone who is deliberately engaging in self-parody.

Of course this isn't Atlantis, but perhaps the purpose of these videos is to stimulate the imagination. Perhaps in another time these content creators would have written a fantasy/adventure novel, like Clive Cussler. Instead we have 'fringe' YouTube videos.

The format requires the theory to not be presented as fiction, but an imaginative "what if" scenario. It doesn't require unquestioning, dogmatic belief. This is where the institutional dullards go off the rails. There is a paradigm difference they can't appreciate.

Next we'll have fact check censorship asserting that the Earth is indeed round. At this point truthiness itself has become unintentionally self-parodying.

Which is the greater faux pas? Believing in an indulgent fantasy scenario out of an over eager desire to stimulate one's imagination, or humorlessly insisting that such a fantasy is worthy of debunking?
I think that just emphasizes we need better desktop application sandboxing.

If I could trivially say this app does not get network access, restricted to this file system directory, can only read the supplied file, etc why should I have to live in fear? Granted, now that everything "needs" the internet quite a few of those limitations are meaningless, but I can dream.
So depressing that studies like this are the state of academia. Do we need to cut down the number of studies so that each one can be higher quality?
Product tactics. /1 write a friction log
> The EVM and smart contracts really are amazing technology that I hope any technical person could appreciate

I'm a technical person. Virtual machines and languages are a dime a dozen, and EVM is no different.

Moreover, Solidity was such a laughable attempt at a programming language that even first version of Javascript was better.
Well Dutch care about their culture, not American Hollywood, mcdonald's, English language and American values that have taken over the world. And that goes for every European country small or big.
I don't know for sure, but I'd guess they don't do file hashes because image hosts so often change the file you uploaded. They might compress it, remove unnecessary metadata, or add their own metadata. All of that would change the file contents, breaking the hash.

A permenantly verifiable has still doesn't really solve it though. Someone can still change or remove the file later, even if you downloaded the original before you now have a transaction with a bad URL but a good hash. You can't update the transaction to change the URL, so what would that mean for anyone wanting to buy the NFT from you?

There's also the much bigger issue - say we solve the above problem as well. There are no legal protections for NFT ownership and there is nothing stopping people from just copying the artwork you own. What's the point of paying so much money for the right to kind of own a piece of art that anyone can legally copy and use?
> 2. Don't use high level ORMs. Stay (reasonably) close to SQL. And yes, it should be SQL.

In my experience using any ORM will bite you sooner or later and you'll end up bypassing it and writing SQL manually. Last case we had were a couple queries that went from double digit seconds to instant as we rewrote them natively.
I guess I conflated my points. I fully support the vaccination effort and agree that the unvaccinated are placing a disproportionate burden on health care facilities, etc. Indeed, given the dwindling capacity at hospitals, I think we should consider placing the unvaccinated on a lower priority than the vaccinated who have non-covid health care needs.

It’s the masking policies that seem inconsistent and often ridiculous to me. For example, my kids have to wear masks at school all day and while playing on school sports teams. My daughter was forced to wear a mask while running cross country outside last spring, which I found downright cruel. At the same time, the students are all allowed to eat and talk to each other at communal tables in the cafeteria every day. I know school administrators have a lot to juggle, but still. I find these inconsistencies everywhere.

As a member of the vast majority who is lower risk, I’d like to know how much longer I’m expected to accommodate these restrictions (lockdowns, closed facilities, canceled events, failed businesses). It’s been a long time and covid isn’t going away. New variants will continue to emerge. Are we really supposed to go on like this indefinitely? Living with a heightened state of public fear? Is it reasonable and good public policy to base all decisions on one factor, to the detriment of all other social and public concerns? I guess maybe I’m going too far, but I’m tired of living like this, and typing into the void makes it feel like someone is listening.
True. If anything it's a failing of civil engineering though, I guess. My area is nothing but subdivisions connected by high speed hiways.
Substitute it for "reinventing the internet to have APIs and usable UI/UX as a default, not an afterthought", much closer.
This type of libraries often sell themselves as high performance featuring bunch of fancy practices, yet in everywhere I had seen people using them, some of the mostly inefficient code are produced, yes that includes Facebook.
As far as I understand it, it isn't a number shown or a total. Instead each basket gets a bar with green-orange-red zones, and the sizes of those chunks on the bar is what's changing. This makes it possible to see your ratio of high vs low footprint items, without being too much influenced by the size of the basket, such that one can follow their own trend over time.
Was the Prius ever intended to be an evolutionary step toward widespread EV adoption?
You don't need advice or skills, just need action.
This is a reference to the Fortune 500 companies like Square, Tesla, and Blackrock that hold thousands of bitcoin on their balance sheet.

You can see the current tallies at https://bitcointreasuries.net/
You're not fully trusting them. They can't change the content.
According to the internet's resident music theory explainer Adam Neely, they're peddling this crap. https://youtu.be/EKTZ151yLnk
> which was lower but not in a significant way

But if "result [was] lower but not in a significant way" means "result was not proven to be lower", how does saying "lower but not really lower" make ever any sense? It seems to me that such nonsensical formulation ought not to be ever used by anyone.
This is one of the few things that people seem to take their privacy serious on and I don't get it, possibly because I'm too poor and trust the social fabric too much to worry about people using my tax return to scope kidnapping me.

The information is inevitably less detailed than what gets siphoned off to Credit card companies and their downstream data processors, less detailed than the ad tracking which monitors my everyday life and less than what people already share on social media. And the state already has your info!

The only thing that changes for me is that now you can't lie about your finances anymore, so no actings above your station and no acting humble while being rich. Naïve but serious question: what are the serious downsides aside from "my social circle would collapse in jealousy and rage", which sounds like a problem with the social circle?
Please don't just throw out an opinion without explaining the reasoning behind it.
It seems like an April Fool's joke to me. The dramatic narration overlaid on lumpy terrible-looking cars made me laugh out loud several times. I mean, I'm sure what they're doing is technically impressive but the results are downright awful. All the cars look like they're beaten to hell and back and I honestly wouldn't be able to pick "KITT" out of a lineup of any other black car if it weren't for the cylon light on the front.
33 people and that goddamn awful significance testing? And not even randomized? Pure citation bait.

Edit: to highlight the problems of non-randomizing: it's not just the frequency that changed between experimental conditions. The conclusion could just as well have been "heart rate drops on second hearing" or "everyone's heart rate drops 4.8bpm in one day". I think that especially that last conclusion will make you think it can't be true, but as a hypothesis, it has the same status as the 440/432 manipulation.
If uBlock Origin deploys it, and makes it a default, it will be automatically enabled for 5+ million users on Firefox.
Supabase is a good option these days.
Thank you so much for this! Such a wonderful story about my favorite movie!
Nice write up, I am glad that you had such a fulfilling internship and chose to share your experience with us.

In your post you mention working around the browser’s maximum URL length. Assuming this is due to the size of the URL parameters containing “data items”, did you consider POSTing the data instead? Also, could you elaborate more on how your solution is able to reconstruct the query on the backend after reducing the URL length by 50%?
"was lower but not in a significant way"

By convention, this means "indistinguishable from", so reporting that it is lower is an unsupported claim. They would be equally justified in reporting that it was higher, ie. not at all.
Seems about right, dropped a drop near me and it followed the path I expected.

Quite a trip to the great australian bight from northern New south wales.

https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/?lng=151.75636629...
Absolutely! I remember looking at some houses on the south side of Donner Lake and somebody said the nickname for that area in the winter was "Siberia", because it spends a lot of time in the shade. I bought the suncalc app on the spot to double check -- and sure enough, they were right.

This tool does a much better job of telling the story. I wish it would've existed at the time!
Think of it this way:

Each door has 1/3 chance of containing the prize, that never changes, so your choice has a 1/3 chance of being right and the unselected doors have a 2/3 chance. Again, these facts will never change, you'd surely agree.

So once one of those unselected doors is opened, the remaining door has a 2/3 chance because you now know which of the unselected doors you must chose to capture the 2/3 chance (because the opened door has been revealed to be empty). Those pair of doors still contain the 2/3 chance, you just know which to choose now.
The threshold for significance lies in the eye of the beholder. A particle physicist might not be satisfied with anything over 0.01 %. A social scientist might be happy to see 10 %.

The 5 % number you mention is completely arbitrary and often woefully inappropriate.

Look at it from a betting perspective. Can you earn more than 10 × your investment if the null hypothesis is false? Then anything less likely than 10 % is significant.
I guess this is a Rails thing where people treat the db as a just dumb store.
Apart from other more ideological considerations, there are two obvious practical ones:

* having people know you have more money than they do can make them jealous of you; it might also motivate family members to ask you for money and to feel angry with you if you don't share it

* having people know you have a lot of money can make them interested in robbing you or in kidnapping you or your family members for ransom (especially in developing countries, but to some extent anywhere in the world)

Those seem like considerations on par with those people might bring up around other kinds of privacy interests: information that can make people feel negatively toward you, and information that can incentivize people to target you for harm.

(edit: I realized these issues are both more focused on how much money you have rather than on how high your salary is -- stocks rather than flows -- although the two are often correlated)
Not another prediction story. 2022:The Year of Web 3.0 – Trends&Opportunities
Boost even has variant2 which comes with another set of design tradeoffs
The social graph is 90% of the value of a social network and the hardest resource to build. Without it an exact copy of Facebook built by someone else is useless.
I wonder. Perhaps by choosing the second or third quartile I’ll get more equity for a much lower price in companies that perform only marginally worse? Or, with some luck, even better? Like trying to find alpha in founders who are women or people of color and may get statistically less attention but have equally good ideas.
How about editing or colour grading a commercially-released movie?
That makes sense. Are you at all concerned about not getting promotions as quickly in the future, or being more easily replaceable, etc.? I guess I'm under the "up or out" mindset, especially in tech with the ageism factor. I would love to do exactly what I'm doing right now for the next 30 years, but I don't know if that's possible--that mindset keeps me on the train, so to speak.
Yeah, so I did implement the ability to POST the data. However because there was a need to be able to just share a link with someone and see everything they saw, so I had to somehow fit everything into the URL. I can't really go more in depth without divulging some info on the type of data, sorry!
Haha same reaction here, it's awful. When you search for another pic it gets better.
So corporate is already trying centralise a wanna be decentralised payment option. How long before we’re back to where we started.
this is a really weird competition.

I know of many desks still using excel to run/update models which are almost always consumed by human traders.

This is a very antiquated and generally fragile system that has a very steep learning curve with very expensive maintenance in the form of what are often called "Junior Portfolio Manager" or "Analyst" being mostly responsible for waking up before the rest of the team to log in, make sure the spreadsheets were/are updating, and fix any issues.

The "scheduling" for these systems is usually a manual start or in more sophisticated teams, a scheduled job on a windows desktop (which fails ~30% of the time for unknown reasons)

I personally know several people that started this way, survived for 3-5 years and then moved to larger/more successful teams or companies that had the resources and knowledge to actually solve these problems.

Anyone thinking about going this route would be better served by picking up some basic Python.
It's a convention for scientific reporting. Your trades are not bound by this convention.

The parameter value is not arbitrary. It's a convention arrived at after hundreds of years. If it were arbitrary, p=0.999 or p=0.00001 would be just as good. We've settled on p=0.05 being usefully convincing but not crazy demanding to obtain by experiment with noisy measurements.
These are learning materials for a (now discontinued) competition[0] which has already pivoted to an online learning community.[1]

The original ModelOff competition site links to two alternative financial modeling competitions still in progress.[2][3]

[0] https://www.modeloff.com/

[1] https://www.fullstackmodeller.com/

[2] https://www.fmworldcup.com/

[3] https://financialmodeling.org/
> If you are using JSON RPC APIs (which most people do) there is nothing that locks you to Infura or any other provider.

How do you switch to another provider in Metamask?
There was a really public fight for years between the federal government and some states about the final repository of nuclear waste without any conclusion we officially still don't have one. Besides that we have a mine full of leaking radiation barrels because we were one of the few countries that did not drop their early nuclear waste into the ocean. There were also some pretty rough clashes between police and people demonstrating castor transports that were televised publicly. We also got a lot of fallout after Tschernobyl with mandates like don't eat forest mushrooms or lettuce from your own garden for years after the incident which helped our green party to establish themselves as a big part of our political system.

They were part of the government for 8 years under Schröder and again now. They are the third biggest political party in our country for a long time now.

All that combined made everyone pretty skeptic for nuclear power.
It's not a joke, US payment systems are hot garbage (as are bank apps). Much if the rest of the world has been doing contactless payment for 5 years already.
Definitely not great... I bet that in a few years I bet it will be shockingly good. Experts have probably been working on it for years, and now that they've chosen a sufficient model structure with effective convolutions and whatnot, it's just a matter of tweaking the parameters and feeding it more and more data (3D scanning tools are making this easier as time goes on too).
The problem with traditional authority models is that the authority may disappear or be subverted. In regions with unstable governments you cannot rely on the government to keep saying that your house is your house.

This is why I think the really valuable and underserved use case of the blockchain is decentralized identity. You can prove you are who you say, you’ve studied where you claim, you’ve worked at the places on your resume, and do this in ways that cannot be subverted or lost. This would be invaluable for refugees who often struggle for months or years with proving they are who they are.

For people that live in stable countries with reliable governments and strong enforcement of contracts this does not provide much value however, and I think this is why this subdomain of web3 remains underserved.
It's more about the number of students than the quality of the science. More science being done = more bad science. There's reason to be skeptical of overall quality, but I would hesitate to rush to any judgements based solely on what makes it into your news feed.
depends on the desk and division. Global markets does there execution business to drive price execution improvements, liquidity seeking algos mostly.

QIS - quant investment management services is more asset management using data science.

they dont do hft, thats more Millenium or point72, maybe citidel.

end of day they use tech to drive reduced cogs and keep in clients. the front office folks bake off against Morgan Stanley, UBS, et all to offer bespoke products that are ' new and sexy omg wow '

slang is neat insofar as access is concerned, but as one former CFO once said WHY TF U STILL USING SECDB?
There's a difference. You can drag someone out of their house without consent, but forcing a transfer requires consent. Does this difference matter?
The average U.S. checking account incurs $9.87 in fees per month (2014 data):

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201407_cfpb_report_data-... (PDF, page 9)

While there are fee-free checking accounts in the U.S., many of the largest banks only offer paid checking accounts that qualify for a monthly fee waiver if certain requirements (such as an average/minimum daily balance, an amount of monthly direct deposits, and/or a number of monthly debit card transactions) are met. However, U.S. credit unions tend to have more consumer-friendly offerings.