skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe its more commercialization ala moneyball metrics on all media. They get analytics that tell them certain content gets more ads, ads feed the bottom line so that is what they do. Same for movies or "free" content on video services like youtube, twitch, etc. those go by the number of views. They have optimized their revenue funnels and counter culture things just don't pay.

The corporate consolidations have made it a conflict of interest for them to investigate themselves essentially (i.e. will you ever see stories on ABC that cast Disney in a bad light?)

You could say its ripe for a revolution but then you will have people asking how to monetize that revolution and you are back at the same problem.
decentralized ownership hasnt been tried at scale before bitcoin.

most wont care about it until their digital purchases start getting sunsetted without migration, and then they notice there is an alternative.
That's funny wordplay, but atmospheric carbo is clearly the intended implication.
Depends how complex the query/procedure is.

Naive approach, replace delete with select and see if you're surprised at the results.

More mature approach, especially in an environment where engineers are running bulk changes against the database, you don't do bulk deletes. You change that delete into an update that marks things for later collection.

One tactic I've seen that worked, assuming you have straightforward relational tables: you add a "marked for deletion" column whose value is an identifier for the single run of the bulk job you just did. Then you can query rows with that value in that column to ensure it had the desired effect. If you're satisfied, you run another bulk job which doesn't re-run your original query.. it just deletes rows with that "marked" value.

Lots of places rely on schema-enforced foreign keys and cascading deletes though. In that case, my recommendation is: don't.
Google glass and wearables.
Roman Empire is a biggie. The Weimar Republic is the most obvious.

I guess we are now arguing 'Austrian Economics' vs. 'Keynesian Economics'... This is a fair simplification. As long as you hold real assets to protect your wealth, the government's debasement of the currency (modest inflation) is of no concern.

Clearly, when a person lives from paycheck to paycheck the only concern is "Can I buy food next week?" and "Can I pay the rent on the 1st?". Wealth preservation and modest inflation is not on the radar. However, it is still hurting the man that earns $12/hr, no matter the modesty of the inflation.

Just look around right now. Is the current inflation rate modest? Did everyone get a raise to account for the CPI going up? Will everyone get an 8.5% raise next year?

In my opinion decoupling the currency from anyone's "control" is the key idea behind Bitcoin.
The thing is, it becomes progressively harder to look good as you age. And once you start getting out of shape that adds to the disadvantage. People hit 40 and this combination of factors causes them to just give up.
The santions are resposible for starving women/children. Should he be in prison for helping children eat?
I thought “we don t really know what caused it.” Now you’re saying we do?
> the phone was probably held in a high quality tripod

Why is a high-quality tripod needed? You can just set the camera to be on a timer so that it's not shaking (from you touching the shutter button) when it captures the photo. I think it's also possible to use an Apple Watch to trigger the shutter.

> It is also likely that hundreds of dollars worth of software was used to edit each of these images.

Do photo contests typically allow entrants to heavily edit photos?
VR is strange because it's already culturally successful. I would point to the ideas from the circa-1980 books

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22617.Seduction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

and then how there was a craze for it in the early 1990s (like this failed TV show)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR.5

then there was The Matrix and by the time Sword Art Online: Ready Player One came out people were taking it for granted.

From a hardware perspective modern VR headsets are "good enough", the success or failure on VR depends on (1) software that is compelling and (2) will VR use ever "move the needle" compared to reading, tweeting, watching TV, conventional video games, ...
Once you find the N nearest neighbors, why consider only the 0th order (locally constant) model, which is what KNN assumes? Instead you can use a larger N and fit a local linear regression. I have tried this on synthetic data sets, and it works pretty well. This is common for 1D regression but not regression with multiple predictors.
No, because (a) other automakers are already required to sell through dealerships or in-state locations (both of which Tesla lacks in OK), and (b) it would apply to other direct-sales automakers like Fisker and Rivian.

It just happens that Tesla is currently the only direct-sales automaker actually selling cars directly to consumers.
Young and depressed? Try Woebot The rise of mental health chatbots in the US
Yeah I know about Isomorphic labs. My point is that talent Alphafold will draw is more valuable than potential drug discovery profits.
To add to that, and perhaps educate your downvoters a bit, it can be very hard to imagine why or when such strict processes are helpful without having direct experience with organizations of sufficient scale. It literally boggles the mind but the process truly is king when there are hundreds (or thousands) of individuals working on a single product.
IIUC you have a 2hr grace period to edit or delete an HN comment. So your aside here could be replaced by a correction instead.
Yes!

Especially considering Bitcoin is built with the property of scarcity to mimic gold. :-)
Of all things keeping the energy transition back, steam turbine manufacturing is probably very low on the list. I’m not aware it’s an issue. It’s an old and proven technology.
I'm having a hard time reading this paper without hearing you-again's voice in my head.
Appreciate the link. I also like encrypted cookies. I've not used them before, but i was really tempted because .. well, they seem an elegant low-cost way to achieve it.. iirc i was a bit unsure how to avoid any pitfalls with the encryption side of things though. Ie i don't want to allow encryption to bypass security because i chose/made a bade encryption method. Really depends on how general purpose the encryption for the cookies are. If it's very general then i suppose i can take any encryption library, but even many of those are notorious for footguns heh.
There is a difference between ‘unregulated’ and ‘poorly-regulated’. The more defensible position is that regulation never works as intended; it just benefits those that can hire the most lawyers, and state power is used against their weaker competitors.
We have some of those in our little town.

They are built like miniatures of other buildings, like the brewery, the water tower, a manor, etc. Quite cute :)

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/sormland/miniatyrer-av-byg...
Assuming the app that's using the microphone would still need to have hardware access to be able to switch back on when someone unmutes themselves, couldn't there be a higher level API within the OS that still allowed hardware access but wouldn't allow input through so that the audio couldn't be captured in third party apps? Seems like this is an OS issue that Microsoft, Apple and Linux team need to work on if that isn't already the case.
Get a Coinbase card and load it with 5 USDC. Go to your diner and buy your coffee with no conversion fee. What's the difference between this and the diner actually accepting crypto?
Interesting related paper by Jeroen Fokker: The Systematic Construction of a One-Combinator Basis (1989)

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19....
Not always. Pay for various games on Xbox, paid onedrive storage, pay for office licenses for the whole family, trip some false positive and still get your account banned with everything in it. You can talk to a wall or ask a judge to force Microsoft to give a reason, but then they can't actually show the reason because that's against some law in another country or something. It's fantastic. (Dutch, unfortunately) https://tweakers.net/nieuws/194930/microsoft-moet-blokkade-n... https://tweakers.net/reviews/9094/account-geblokkeerd-wat-nu...
you can be epicly early and epicly wrong. in that very thread:

> Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.
People engaging in acts like this should automatically be no longer considered to be part of the 'in group' but part of another group called 'criminals'. And in this case a very special kind of criminal: one that knowingly aids a regime that is beyond despicable.
I'm struggling to find a free alternative, the others (Franz, Rambox) seem to be crippled until paid for. I wouldn't even mind paying, but their entry level tiers are around $6 a month.... Seems high for what you get
This is not how enterprise software works. Audited data privacy is a core selling point of enterprise communication systems like Slack and Zoom, which are able to charge a lot of money for enterprise licenses and have very viable business models. You're right that this may not work in the consumer space, but that battle is already lost -- there are myriad free communication options available to consumers such as messenger calls, facetime, etc.
You might enjoy http://www.toontalk.com/ for something more like manipulating data. (I played with it years ago before the web version was made.)
No, they claim no moving parts for the generator, but refer to engineering designs that use pumped liquid tin to move the heat within the system. Clearly the challenge there is building a pump that can handle liquid tin at 2400C.
I don't entirely agree with the framing of this comment, but I'd like to share an expierience which is related.

A couple of years into our relationship my significant other finally realized, that if she wants me to do specific tasks in our household, then thats her desire and not mine. I.e. that I for example leave "a mess behind in the kitchen" since I am totally fine with that, and its only her desire to have a cleaner kitchen, and not some general rule I had broken.

This lead to a huge change in our relationship. Since then she mostly starts negotiating rules that we both can agree upon instead of starting a fight. I am very thankful for that.
I would say the people of NK are the victim of anything that further strengthens the regime there.
Most of the time, audio that a videoconference app receives while the mic is unmuted is going to be a lot more useful for surveillance purposes than the audio the app receives while it's muted. If you're so concerned about the app knowing when you're eating 82% of the time, why would you trust the app at all?
This is an interesting point. Other than various "products" baked into their existing platforms (Reels, Stories, etc.), has Meta successfully launched any new stand-alone product? Genuinely curious, since Instagram, Occulus, WhatsApp, etc. were all purchased not built from scratch.
Nothing to forgive. TFA was probably written to provoke as much reaction as possible, as is common nowadays. The way it's structured, it can get people who oppose the action and people support the action engaged by either calling it a just decision (what a traitor!) and a silly oversight (He was just giving a talk!).
Microns Went from Zero to 2,800 Newsletter Subscribers
you all are being disingenuous by the mere highlighting of “who used nuclear weapon”, as opposed to “who is now able to use”.

But, please do soldier on.
I didn’t pick this up from their landing page. How circular is this? Meaning how much iron are they losing during the capture phase? The language makes it seem like a closed loop but I assume there’s still some loss?
> In other words, Google is accumulating data on its own users’ search queries, location data and contact information. Pinterest is doing the same with its users on its site and app, while TikTok is gathering information on the people who are on its app. The New York Times also does first-party tracking.

> The rise of this tracking has implications for digital advertising, which has depended on user data to know where to aim promotions. It tilts the playing field toward large digital ecosystems such as Google, Snap, TikTok, Amazon and Pinterest, which have millions of their own users and have amassed information on them. Smaller brands have to turn to those platforms if they want to advertise to find new customers.

It seems a bit disingenuous to mention they do first party tracking and then leave themselves out of the list of entities that have the playing field tilted toward them as a result.
Augmented Reality – No apps needed
My current employer uses Jira but we seem to have not been affected by this. Hopefully those customers affected are able to press Atlassian for improvements from notification time, backups, usability etc.
The cherry blossom video is incredible.
> We can have a heat pump with a COP of 3.5 or so. Let's say we put in 1kW of electricity, and take out 3.5kW of heat energy.

A heat pump COP of 3.5 or higher or happens only at relatively low delta-T between the source and destination temps of the heat pump [1] - like the delta-T typical for space or water heating. The COP degrades exponentially with increasing delta T as it has to work ever harder to pump heat against an ever higher temperature/pressure (assuming thermal storage with a fixed volume with few losses).

The refrigeration cycle can't raise temperatures even hundreds (much less thousands) of degrees C - otherwise we'd already have heat pump stoves and ovens.

This is coincidentally also one reason why all else equal, heat pump clothes dryers (which are great) take a bit longer than conventional technologies to dry clothes: they only reach about 50C (vs 70C-75C for standard gas or electric resistance dryers).

> Push that back into the heat pump and, violà, 1kW of free heat left over!

Because the COP degrades with the delta-T, it bottoms out at 1 (an electrical resistance heater), and in your scenario, you end up with 1kWH in, and 400Wh out, so a theoretically 40% efficient battery.

Minus the electrical generation, and at much lower temperatures, your scenario with a heat pump + thermal storage does however describe how the new domestic thermal heat batteries can work with heat pumps [2].

1. https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/heat-pump-efficiency-rati...

2. https://sunamp.com/
This could be crowdsourced. Imagine some sort of reporting network of volunteers, running the simple program (memory allocation and periodic checks) on any hardware they're loaning time on, and submitting their location and altitude as well.
How is this possible?

"more than 80 percent of California jobs paid under the median income"

I can see under the mean or average, but median? How can 80% be below the median when the definition of median is 50% are below this value?
No doubt California has many problems but describing these as if they're isolated to California or merely the result of local political actions is disingenuous (but is what you expect from this right wing site shopping right wing talking points). The US overall has a problem with rising poverty and wages not keeping up with the cost of living.

The US overall has a problem home-as-investment standing in the way of actually providing people housing. These manifest differently in different places. Texas doesn't have California's outrageous housing costs but Texas has people in jail for not being able to pay medical bills when they get sick - both are manifestations of distorted costs of various items (coming ultimately from the Fed inflating the dollar and related factors).
Not in a negative way. You want to trust engineers to always have changes built and tested before they go to production, but when something egregious happens you need to go back and see what went wrong. You can choose to interpret that as control, but really the only alternative (often cited) is "Well that shouldn't ever happen, so you don't need tooling to support that situation".

And that is not a useful way of thinking when you have real engineers writing software that people depend on.
Google employees warning about the impact of highly-paid engineers entering lower-cost locations. That’s entertaining.
This talk from Atlassian aged well
https://conferences.oreilly.com/software-architecture/sa-eu-...
I don't see how any of the points you raised makes the destruction of TSMC facilities less of an deterrent.

A deterrent doesn't have to be 100% effective, it just needs to have a deterrent effect.

TSMC itself also doesn't want to be subjugated by a PRC invasion. It's not just a play to protect US interests. Not sure what the motive is to portray it like that.
I don’t think it’s a minority position, but we haven’t figured out how to make it work yet.
Georgia Power explores multiday battery project with Form Energy

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
I wrote a radio station-style audio playback system, because I didn't like the tiny few that existed for Mac OS
Marrying a successful and ambitious 20-something in no way commits one to be fine with the same ambitious person uprooting family’s life a decade or two later and moving to the other side of the world. Family is about shared sacrifice for its well being, and sometimes (in fact, usually) one needs to sacrifice their career for the family. That’s life.
Use a headset with a hardware mute button.
People are not communication professionals. They are not ATC nor even pilots.

Still, PTT is the solution, preferrably in hardware. Not supported in sw anyway by e.g. Teams. In hw it keeps the mike-on symbol lit, and the device powered. Always having to push prevents ever forgetting to do so.

Discord's input handler sucks, uses semantic keys, not keycodes. Can't be mapped to an otherwise disabled capslock. TS and mumble can do that. Compared with those Teams audio looks like a toy.
Not traditionally, but if viewed as a style, like functional programming, most every language can be used concatenatively.
I think you've got part of the answer here, but are selling it short. Jira is the most complex task-processing rule engine that is also easy enough for a small team to operate, and also has the broadest set of integrated tools of any offering.

You can use Jira as a simple Scrum board, a Kanban board, or you can build enforced-process monstrosities. You can build customer-support / internal-helpdesk workflows, or even model internal work-item-oriented business processes, etc. Now, as you point out, just because you can doesn't mean you should, and many orgs fall into the trap of making issue workflows overly-restrictive. But most companies (I believe) choose Jira before they choose those hairy task workflows. Startups with zero process use Jira.

Also, you can integrate it all together to give good-enough dashboards/roadmaps, good-enough (for some, not me) docs integrations with Confluence, Git integration with Bitbucket etc. -- while there are big issues with these systems, I think it would be myopic to ignore the real benefits of working in one integrated stack where every design doc you write has dynamically-updated labels and auto-complete for each issue you type in.

For context, I use Jira for tasks and don't love it, found Confluence to be really annoying and so I don't use it, and prefer Gitlab to Bitbucket, but I think you have to recognize these unique selling points. If all Jira had to offer was the rule engine it would not be as widely used.
There are other comments mentioning technical and social drawbacks and limitations of today's concepts of cryptocurrencies, so I'm going to respond to this one point:

> It would be interesting to know why the status quo financial system is held in such a high regard? Especially in light of the continual debasement of the dollar since it was decoupled from gold.

Note: a few years ago I worked with a team developing an automated central bank intended to manage a cryptocurrency replacement for the monetary system of a sovereign state. You might note that no country has actually implemented this yet.

The status quo financial system is held in high regard because it works, and has contributed mightily to the prosperity of people at all levels. People mostly concentrate on its problems, which is good: those problems need work. But we have plenty of experience of the gold standard and its significantly worse problems. One of the points of today's cryptocurrencies is that they should behave like gold.

Long before bitcoin (or even before Chaum's work) smart people did "going back to the gold standard" analysis in the hope of justifying it. I've read papers on the costs and consequences of warehousing gold, for example. So people have really thought it through...and it sucks.

At a macro level we need simply look back at history. We have financial crashes from time to time, which is used as an argument for gold. But look at the period from the 1840s to WWI. They were wracked by both inflationary spikes (due to gold strikes in California, the Yukon, Victoria, etc) and deflationary depressions (when their economies outgrew the gold supply).

The asset base of a modern economy is much greater than the world's gold supply and anyway grows much faster than that supply becomes accessible. If your money supply can't grow in proportion to the asset base it represents, you can't possibly monetize your assets, which impoverishes everyone, even the wealthy.

And to make things worse there's an absolute amount of tokens like bitcoin. Though you can trade fractional coins, there's a floor at which the cost of validating the transaction exceeds the denomination. So for it not to be a destructive deflationary medium you need...different currencies alongside it, which in the end just means...fiat currency.

And that's simply a taste of the problems at the macro level.
Nice to read that they have a dedicated team for notifications for 5 years running.

Too bad it's one of the crappiest notification experiences I've ever had. They either ping too much, or they don't ping at all. Settings are extremely limited.

Like, IRC clients could get this right 30 years ago.

Having recently moved to MacOS too (my first time, having used GNU/Linux since late 90s), combining that with one-direction notifications makes it even worse (basically, Slack will shoot notifications for a bunch of messages, but actually getting into Slack and reading those messages does not kill off the notifications so you have to hunt for those "Clear all" disappearing buttons: whoever said Macs have good UI?).
3-2-1 Backup: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/