skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But the whole value of CPI is to be a forecasting tool

Forecasting tool for what? Prices? Everything about the CPI is about measuring price changes that already occurred, not to forecast future price rises. If the price of widget goes up 10% year after year, that's all CPI is going to report. It's not going to report what the price of widgets are 10 years from now. If you want inflation forecasts, you look at TIPS spreads or the price of various swaps.

Once you understand that, most of the measurement choices make sense.

>Owner's equivalent rent is basically just a survey where they ask homeowners how much they could rent their house for. So survey participants understanding of market rents may lag.

That's fine because they're essentially insulated from the housing market, so the price they pay is effectively fixed for decades.

>But more importantly, when they survey renters, they ask them what they're currently paying. So if somebody is in a one year lease, and gets surveyed in month 11, they will give a rent figure that's almost a year old.

>Finally, they only survey 1/6 of the housing stock each month. So the whole sample is not updated every month.

Again, also fine because the point of CPI is to measure the cost of living for americans, and the cost of living for americans is largely fixed months in the past (or for homeowners, decades in the past). That said, I do think only updating 1/6 of the housing stock is a bit shady because it basically applies the lagged measure twice.
I think you're either unaware or ignoring that, in both of those cases, there was precedent that people were already familiar with when those icons came out. Pause, play, and stop, for example, were found on nearly any media/cassette/tape player and served as simple indicators of the direction the tape/spool was going. The arrow to left meant the reel was spinning backwards because the tape moved to the left, the square meant stop because the reel didn't move at all, and the play icon meant that the reel was moving to the right. Add in double arrows to denote speed. Add a line at the far left/far right to indicate beginning/end.

The hamburger has no such lineage. It started as a menu icon and changed slightly but no one had any idea what even the initial icon meant without an explanation that it's a list.
I think you need more than just a YouTube video to "debunk" the nature paper that they have published and that is linked in their github. They seem to acknowledge that while there are some limitations it still is a viable source of water for a lot of regions.

What is surprising is that thunderfoot didn't lose his habit of repeating himself over and over again. I'm counting 10 videos "debunking" the same idea of a bottle that extracts water from air (which is not what this project really is, it's not a based around a bottle)& he's been beating the same dead horses for 6 years now.

Though to be fair, he's now more into into making misleading videos about SpaceX and obsessing over Elon Musk.

Edit: Actually it's just weird at this point,his recent videos and their titles are so bizarre. It's either cheering at failures or Facebook tier thumbnails
"Owning" Elon Musk. Yeah, I'll definitely stick with the Nature paper.
Zach Leatherman has my favorite hamburger menu implementation on his homepage: https://zachleat.com
> Our assessment—using Google Earth Engine13—introduces a hypothetical 1-metre-square device with a SY profle of 0.2 to 2.5 litres per kilowatthour (0.1 to 1.25 litres per kilowatt-hour for a 2-metre-square device) at 30% to 90% RH, respectively.

The upper bound is nice, the lower bound kinda hurts. I can't tell if they are tracking the night cycle and harvesting when the dewpoint drops. Is this all calculation or is there a blueprint I am missing.
So, once again Safari isn't on the list which hinders adoption.

I really wish it stop behaving like IE by being on its own.
The initial complaint was that it's technically impossible, I just gave two random options but even within CoD it's still possible to have tradable items from lootboxes.
I understand it a bit differently. They could not remove the clause (as they do not dictate the license), so the clause stays. The software is thus licensed the same way as the original repo and neither can be called open source.

Whoever sued these folks for false advertising should sue Neo4j as well.
Definitely hard to extend the original canon/continuity!

Our heroes eventually become very overpowered, with ~12y of shows resolving millions of years of space opera backstory to our protagonists' benefit, as they defeat the parasites-on-good-ol'-humans in not one, not two, but three galaxies. (Or is it 4?)

But it's such a rich mythology that if rebooted, with all the old stuff as inspiration, updated for modern sensibilities, they could have new really-fertile Cinematic Universe.

RDM's BSG was 10x better than the original, & now JMS is doing his own updated reboot of Babylon 5.

Amazon should find a bunch of people with love for, & credibility regarding, the original & have them brainstorm a giant new set of multi-year arcs, cleanup of old weaknesses or outdated elements, homages & new spins on the original core elements, etc.

They could kick off another 2 decades of gradually-unfolding, but well-adapted for the 2020s/2030s, universe- & multiverse- & metaverse-spanning sci-fi.

If anyone from the relevant Amazon/MGM group is reading this: I have some ideas!
There are a bunch of lists out there for these variants. I wrote a small one as a weekend project to learn React and AWS. People seem to like it since I've only shared it on my personal FB and it's getting hundreds of hits a day. I'll plug it here since you seem like an "rdle" lover.

https://www.rdles.com
It'd be so fantastic if the Zotero team could consider integrating their changes. I know that many probably won't necessarily need its advanced futures, but I see no risk of confusion as it's easy to use and mostly hidden in the "case" category.
Or that they just don’t see how it’s a market fit for their business.
Google has a sale on the Nest Hub but includes no description on product page
This is excellent and an answer to my deleted question on stackoverflow! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69886637/measure-time-ta...
USAF Tech School, about 1984. Fantastic hands on labs. Also showed the use of the "current tracer", which was real cool. But I have never used one since.
There was a wand that would sense current, and there was a device that you could touch to a PCB trace and it would inject a signal. With the current tracer, you could see the current disappear when it was shorted to ground by a bad PCB trace.
> 4:2:0 chroma subsample the fft

This is hilarious but I don't think it makes any sense.
I... I don't know what the Nest Hub is. Be cool if they gave me just a brief hint.
I don't see the bad faith or ill intent here (except maybe from you...). Nobody is pretending not to want to use Rust or any other language, that's explicitly spelled out in the article.

The reality the article laments is a bit more specific than just OSes being written in C. It's that the interfaces those OSes provide are ostensibly specified in terms of C, but also (because this is outside of the C standard's purview) in terms of a wide range of underspecified, underdocumented, and inconsistent C ABIs. Fortran hits this just as much as any other language- C itself hits it, and the article demonstrates this with multiple examples.

I'm not sure where you get the idea that anybody here lacks the required insight to work in this space. Because the author sees problems with the status quo, she must not know assembly or how hardware works? That's clearly absurd, look at the contents of the article (and the author's past experience if that doesn't convince you). Perhaps it is you who is lacking some context?
that's weird. I play Wordle everyday, I don't remember ever seeing this window.
There will be industrial-level amounts of waste oxygen, soon. Expect LOX price to fall as fast as peak-surplus marginal electrical power, because there will be no point in liquifying it except when power is cheapest.
Then "confirm" it over email :) . This almost always works "Per our discussion I'm getting ready to {bullet_list_of_items}"

Edit: someone mentioned using CC as well to all those involved in the "plan", that's something I do as well but didn't think about it
Two approaches that I’ve seen help with this. Should be done in parallel

1. You fix by making this a hiring signal. I like to dig into candidates until they say “I don’t know”. Great signal

2. If a task is in progress for more than 1 day, you get help from the team. No buts
I ended up with device listed as "paired" while the process have clearly failed (with a message :) ). And while incoming files were detected, request for save never followed. I've transferred file using MTP over USB, but in that case it interrupted on every action (like changing directory) requiring to re-enter "file transfer mode" on the phone.
I want to make super-fast-drying-epoxy-filled paintballs to thwart these things. Shoot their joints and shoot any sensors they have, such as cameras etc.

Just because we can build cute dancing videos of the robot dogs - they are a platform that will be used in combat - and valid counter-measures are going to be needed as well.
Wavelets were a great idea... except AFAIK we never figured out fast algorithms or hardware implementations to optimize processing them, the way we did with Fourier Transform and the FFT algorithm and IDCT blocks.
What does it mean for developers that it is patented?
Hidden dangers of duplicate key violations in PostgreSQL and how to avoid them
That was not my experience, but maybe the stuff i was eating before was even more shittier ?

Any suggestions? Particularly something that doesn't require me to live within 20 miles of you.
I really wish it wasn't Google, the spyware company that open sourced this. But rather a different company without all the bad and toxic disgusting ethics that Google has.
Largest Aztec temple was decorated with starfish
I don't see the problem with this. Imagine 5% of the student body starts asking everyone who wears shorts to put on pants instead. This annoys other students and so MIT comes up with a rule to stop annoying people by asking them to wear pants.
Probably? I remember seeing those sites that list open VNC instances on hn, which is pretty similar.
Zotero supports WebDAV and I was using it with box.com without any troubles for years. What lured me to switch to Zotero's sync and cloud storage in the end, though, is the group library function.
Here's their summary blog post:

https://x.company/blog/posts/sharing-project-h2e-with-the-wo...

Allow me to snip a few quotes: "After three years of work, the team felt confident they could build a device that would produce water for $.10 per liter; however, it would have taken significant development work and iteration to prove feasibility at $.01 per liter. Additionally, the next phase of work for the project looked to be heavily focused on hardware integration and mass production expertise — not X’s sweet spot."

And:

"Given these factors, it became clear that X wasn’t best suited to take the work forward, and one of the best ways X could have an impact now on the problem of access to safe drinking water was to share what we’ve learned."

I have no idea what the prior state of the art of modelling viable areas for harvesting was (I presume this is probably where X made the largest contribution). As the blogpost identifies... X is not really the best group to tinker with large scale, low cost manufacturing prototyping and scale up.
Alienware just shipped a 32" curved OLED PC monitor — it's clear that 5K monitors are not really going to be a thing, presumably because of GPU/connector constraints — I would assume there'll be more QD-OLED screens, including hopefully a 27" non-curved.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22966303/alienware-curved-...

A 60Hz 5K vs. a 180Hz 4K OLED, I may pick the latter, despite desperately just wanting a good 5K.
To turn it round, do you spend time looking at other people's emoji-obscured photos?

I don't, so I can't see the point of posting them because I don't imagine that anyone would look at them. But I could well be wrong.
Any OCR support?

I literally pay 20$ a month to fill out PDFs
I have no idea whether it even is a risk. My point was that it’s very hard to compare the two examples because they’re very different risk profiles, irrespective of the magnitude of their effects
I think the key message of all the debunkings is this: "it depends".

The device may work great in one condition but certainly not always like the vendors might tout.

Given the triple point chart for water, the solar power for that day, and your humidity and temperature, you can compute the max you'll condense from the atmosphere.
fyi to anyone seriously considering using these: neither is going to work as expected if something blocks the loop indefinitely. In other words, you won't know how long something blocked the loop until that thing has finished blocking. Timeouts for async code or limits on loop statements are still relevant.
I think it does speak to the power of marketing but that can mean a lot. I’m also not out here trying to get ratings, I’m making things I use and publish them because I think others will too. That’s why it’s free and ad free (and admittedly slow to update).

Also reviews can be paid for…
Women of Venice Discover Boating (2021)
> The government will no longer let social media giants decide what constitutes “legal but harmful” content, as it revises the Online Safety Bill.

I don't trust any government to decide (as they would lean towards quashing dissent or criticism), nor do I trust tech companies to decide (as they would lean towards arbitrary manifestations of their own cultures, usually based in specific parts of the US, and usually ignorant of cultures outside the US). The sensibilities of what constitute 'free speech' is not universal.

What's worked somewhat well in the UK is our regulatory bodies, such as Ofcom and Ofgem. I won't say they're perfect but they tend to strike a balance between companies' interests and protecting the public. If you're looking to define and regular 'legal but harmful' then it's better to shift that responsibility of defining and enforcing to such a body.
I felt the pain transitioning from libc5 to glibc 2 a long long time ago. Glad I never had to do that again.
And even if you can recompile everything, it's still a pain to do so, and it's better to avoid doing so. Also recompiling the software may not be as simple, for example can require modifications of its source code to adapt it to newer versions of the compiler or other libraries that changed, and of course you can't build it on an older system since the ABI changed.

This is also the reason why containers are so popular these days, ship a software with all its dependencies to avoid having to recompile stuff each time you upgrade or change the operating system.
Really hopeful for AVIF but you can't use it on iOS https://caniuse.com/?search=avif :(
> It doesn't address all the stuff that container orchestration tools address such as lifecycle management, update management, artifact management, autoscaling, networking, management access control, logging & metrics, etc.

Absolutely agree, it's just a core technology, which enables new model of operation, on which all that is necessary to run. Right now there is almost nothing.

> If you want to start faster than containers, you already can — by not using containers.

Only if don't care about security/isolation. WASM is strongly sandboxed. It's appropriate for multi-tenant systems, where containers/jvm/etc have to be run inside of virtual machines(e.g. firecracker) to get acceptable isolation.

> I suppose that's too slow for serverless cold start

Yep, half a second is way too slow for new instance per request. I think wasm startup time around 35 μs for lucet.
Only in Germany (2021)
You will also rarely regret starting with Go. It's not really a language you would use to have fine memory control and the best performances, so I'm not sure why you mention it as a response to the text you quoted. Go is more like a good balance between low memory usage, good performances, while being a very productive tool.
It's a fine line. If you want to stay employed, but not be pigeonholed, you need your company to see a future with you in it, rather than always thinking of you in the present tense, dealing with the latest problems du jour.

I think for me these sorts of pre-emptions have always felt quite jarring, so the feedback loop for me is tighter than for some.

If you bring me a novel problem to solve, I will happily stop what I'm doing and help you figure it out. For some reason I've only rarely had problems getting back into whatever you interrupted. Whereas with fire drills I have trouble spinning back up into what I was doing before. Perhaps to do with finite energy reserves.

Ultimately I credit my early successes getting promoted to Lead to this pattern, because 'novel' problems either explain a wider portion of the overall architecture to me, or end up being all hands on deck when it turns out this issue is bad and is already in production. I cannot emphasize enough how much smarter you sound offering a solution you've had 30 minutes to an hour to think about instead of 10 minutes. The developer who triages an issue is two steps ahead of everyone else who is thinking on the fly. Doubly so if you have to wrangle everyone into a meeting room to discuss things. Unless the other people are vastly smarter or knowledgeable than you, you will hold your own in that conversation, even if you are somewhat junior. And if you're instead on a par, you will excel.
really amazing, but unfortunately it caps out at the top 1%.
Looking at the source data from 2013

The mean is around $2,000

The top 10% is around $15,000

The top 1% is around $44,000

The top 0.1% is around $100,000

The top 0.01% is around $200,000

the top 0.001% is around $350,000
For t-shirts you'd have better luck at places like vintage by the pound in San Francisco if you're looking for stuff from the .com boom. If you're not local to the area you might contact a boutique vintage store and tell them exactly what you're looking for.
> It's damming to me that the Verge couldn't/didn't mention a single other monitor that has all this better tech they allude to.

I'm not sure why anyone would listen to the Verge for anything related to tech. They're infamously incompetent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFB5SlXhykQ
The ash trees are all gone around us. Some 30-40% of all of the trees in our area (central Ohio) were wiped out within just 2-3 years. I'm not sure if we'll get saplings growing back now that the ash borer has wiped out its food source or not.

Traditional wooden baseball bats are made from ash. I'm guessing those will disappear soon too.
I’m not sure when they were ever distinct things? The history of types in mathematics and programming is incredibly interwoven.

Also, it has been shown time and time again that in an expressive enough type system in a programming context, types are not sets and cannot be modelled by them.
You can't think of any examples around you of organizations that have networks?
> This is why so many Win32 methods take structs that have a size parameter that must be filled in. That acts as a version parameter

That said, I couldn't name you a Win32 that actually has more than one valid value for said cbSize member. Are there any?
Skimmed the paper on Scihub. It looks like it's mostly a review of other studies that either show statistical correlations or are about hormone levels. I.e. it directly supports their point that sex is just being used as a proxy for the thing that you really want to know. (And most of it seems irrelevant for someone with healthy eyes getting a new pair of glasses.)
> why not provide news and information that's being blocked

It's not really an issue to bypass blocks (how do you think Russians access rutracker). Especially not for a person who is capable of doing something with NPM packages.
This. They did excellent internal work, decided it's not for them, but did something good and want to share it. Just because it's not profitable for them doesn't mean it was a waste - they can use their new knowledge in other areas.
Sure but I'm still happy for the guy. I don't expect he or anyone to want to make nice things for the Internet.
As long as you're including engineers as "creatives". I agree. Too many only think that artsy/UX people are creative.
Yeah, unless Liss explicitly said he was working full-time on it, I'd very much assume this is a "the thing I was fiddling with around my other responsibilities" project.
>Do you consider that this presumption and projection may by symptomatic of a neuroticism unique to a overly loud illiberal subculture in the US?

No. I consider that not everyone in the US is completely culturally detached from the legacy of colonialism, and that some people have perfectly valid reasons to object to statues of people like Columbus.

You seem to understand the negative impacts of colonialism on an intellectual level, as a simple fact of history, but you also seem perplexed as to why anyone would care. Perhaps you should consider why someone would object to a statue of Columbus. Engage with the nuance you're referring to, by not dismissing those with views other than yours as being carriers of a social disease. Examine your own views and ask yourself why you consider it valid to keep a Columbus statue up to celebrate some of his accomplishments, but not to remove it as a statement of opposition to his other accomplishments.
Yeah, it would sure be weird if HN showed favoritism toward its host country.
Related: there are a few channels on youtube that I archive locally, and I always grab the subtitles when I do. I throw them all into a database that I can run queries against if I'm trying to remember which video something was said in. It's not a direct grep of the video, but pretty close!
Framework Friends Podcast
That's basically the default approach that's been used for >100 years.

[Patent US1783901A](https://patents.google.com/patent/US1783901A/en ) (1930-ish) shows the basic closed-loop configuration that most folks build from.

Gist is to sorb acid-gas (like CO2) into a basic-solvent (e.g., aqueous monoethanolamine), then heat it up to release the acid-gas. Then the regenerated-solvent can be reused.

Making the process closed-loop may've been more of a focus around 1930. Before that, I think there were some patents showing open-loop designs (this is, designs where the solvent isn't regenerated-and-reused).
The ad market for targeting the water deprived turned out to be smaller than expected?
When we say "plant based sequestration" we are (I for one am) not talking forests. Carbon sequestration in forests is wilfully ignoring the economic and practical drawbacks:

Forests only sequester carbon as they grow. After that they are carbon neutral. You end up with land that cannot be used for any economic purpose. (The creatures and plants that live in it have a value too, but that is not part of this argument).

After that, at some point, in a year, ten years, a hundred years, the forest burns. And all the carbon is released.

A pointless waste of time. We do it because we are obsessed with things we can count (one tree, two trees....) and fixated on the short term.

There is a better way: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00167...

Increase depth of top soil all over our agricultural land. It increases productivity and sequesters carbon. But it has no profit centre and is hard to measure, and given our "big man" capitalist culture that is the problem.

We really must stop producing CO2. That is the only answer that does not steal the future from our children
+1 to this. I like the mantra that every commit is deployable
That depends on what you consider "filtering". You can desalinate using reverse osmosis, which pretty much is filtering.