skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To note, one of groups like Greenpeace’s argument is that gov. and TEPCO are straight bullshitting the waste water composition [0]

It usually would fall in conspiracy theory territory, expect TEPCO did bullshit their facts and numbers at several critical occasions already, and the gov stays in lockstep with TEPCO.

[0] https://www.greenpeace.org/japan/sustainable/story/2019/07/2...
I was really hoping I was about to see the Exia fixing trains here lol
If it's a technical or process innovation, maybe patent protection is warranted. Then you can prototype and pitch licensing on that.
“The report is more an illustration of how GDP calculations tend to be volatile from quarter to quarter, not necessarily indicating weakness in the economy or a sign of recession. The contraction was due to a jump in imports and a drop in exports, coupled with a slower buildup of businesses’ stockpiles. On a year-over-year basis, the economy grew 3.6%.

Together, trade and inventories subtracted about 4 percentage points from headline growth. Government spending shrank, also weighing on GDP. But real final sales to domestic purchasers, a measure of underlying demand that strips out the trade and inventories components, accelerated to a 2.6% annualized rate.“ [1]

In case you’re wondering why the market is blowing this off while the Wall Street Journal and, I presume, CNBC, are blowing it up.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-28/u-s-econo...
The author of this article transcribed the initial part of the melody incorrectly in the graphic.

The initial rhythms of the melody shown in the graphic are short long long. But the rhythm at the beginning of that melody should be short short long. It's an orchestra playing the literal rhythm of a horse galloping. Even Honda got that part right!

It looks like the author tried to paper over the error by writing the word "schematic" in parentheses in the graphic title. That's not a musical term-- closest would probably be "reduction" or "simplified". But unless transcribing for an instrument that cannot perform fast repeated notes, there's no good reason to change those rhythms. Alternatively, one could take out the consecutive repeated notes (and barlines) if the point is to just show the basic profile of the melody (in which case the discrepancy between the original version and Honda version would be clearer).

I'm being nitpicky, sure. But let's review:

1. the music was incorrectly transcribed

2. engineering jargon was used to explain away the incorrect music

3. we frown on transcription errors because they can quickly (and permanently) propagate further down in a project

Wait, am I talking about about Honda, or the author here?

"I got news for you, you can both do better! Yuck yuck yuck." --some relevant Catskills comedian from a bygone era

Edit: clarification, also I am available for hire for corporate musical fiasco PR
> What stops me from commenting, and from reacting to other people's comments, is the fact that the chances of starting a conversation are so low

In person, a conversation is personal like this.

In this discussion forum, it's common to see a chain of replies in discussion/disagreement where each replier is a different person. -- The conversation is continuous in its content, not necessarily by who is replying.

People reading comments later will gain from a good comment/discussion, and may be able to offer a good reply in turn.

More people read than comment, so I'd encourage you to leave a good comment anyway.
Hoping to buy in the next few months.
Yeah, we actually do that. Here's the Phase III trial for Pfizer's vaccine where they did a RCT of 43,000 people. They published their efficacy and safety end points (as well as criteria for stopping the trial if they found safety issues) before enrollment and show the results as well. They're following the same patients for two years to assess long-term safety as well:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577?articleTo...
Yeah, I don't get the hate. I've been using copilot since the release and it's pretty handy. It ain't god's gift to this earth yet, but it's pretty useful for boilerplate scenarios.
Why would you tie yourself to a storefront that flexes non-compliance with standards for commercial gain?
Pipenv and Poetry are both pretty solid. I'm assuming when you say Python doesn't have acceptable package management, you mean the tools distributed with the language aren't acceptable?
Here you go https://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/07/housing-pr...
Agreed. This was the only nit I was inclined to pick as well. I have a lot of fun writing Go, because it gets out of my way.
Ask HN: Are your Google Cloud Functions failing miserably?
We're seeing massive error rates right now across our functions -- and the Cloud Console is seemingly erroring out in a lot of ways.

"Request rejected. Error: function terminated."

Are we the only ones? No recognition from Google, of course.
I haven’t used Emacs in a few years and I don’t remember the startup time being a problem. Maybe because I always left it running?

Anyway, I looked up what people are saying these days. Looks like maybe a second or two?

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m8d55l/what_is_your_...
My guess is the biggest reason is to be closer to friends, family, and/or community. Having help to raise kids is huge. And when you have kids, you begin to focus on the real important things in life, and the type of environment you want your children to grow up in, and speaking for myself personally, I wanted them around as much family and love as possible.

It's also easier to do this now with more remote work opportunities and with more tech hubs across the country now.
The FAQ does mention a karma threshold to flag links, so sorry about that. Perhaps that threshold should be raised.

It doesn't mention revocation of flagging permission for abuse, and I think that would be helpful.
Tell HN: Google Cloud Is Down
Anyone else having trouble?

https://status.cloud.google.com/
https://archive.ph/idtyC
The most likely scenario based on all the reports I've read is a variable altitude balloon (similar to Google Loon).

The second most likely is a hybrid airship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_airship
Hi HN,

Thanks HN: I'm James - I'm a cofounder of PostHog (popular open source project), which was born on HackerNews in 2020

Along the way, we created a Slack group that quickly grew to a couple of thousand users - mostly needing support with the product. At the same time, we saw signs that docs are critical. For example, people who searched our docs are 8x as likely to succeed with our product.

Then we asked ourselves - why not make it possible to ask questions, right in our docs?

Out of 100s of thousands of visitors, only a small percentage make it into Slack (and it'd be the same if we used Discord), so can we serve questions and answers in the context of what they're trying to do. As a bonus, this would also make everything searchable.

Then we asked ourselves - why not also make this open source for anyone to use?

This means that far more people can benefit, and it'll generate word of mouth growth about who we are - hopefully bringing some extra customers in the long run. Simple as that. We may charge if we get lots of usage and once the product is more mature for the cloud version. If it's not popular, we're going to be using and extending it ourselves anyway :)
https://proto.actor/docs/cluster-partitions/#multiple-activa...

> This can be prevented by persisting state in a database with some form of CAS operations, e.g. Couchbase.
Fair enough. The comment I was responding to characterized pooping next to a stranger as "nightmare fuel;" perhaps I over-interpreted that.
Same lake, just around the bend. I've never been to the western shore of Huron in Michigan, so can't compare to ours in Ontario. But along ours there's some lovely sandy beaches.

Erie can get pretty gross.
Not this year. I dont raise rent on tenants who stay, only when getting new tenants if the market allows it.
The Future of TwitFix
How is this clickbait?

Copilot, a software product created and named 7 years before GitHub came out with a different product using the same name, is shutting down.
I assume EA didn't make this just for funsies. What do they use it for?
hnreplies.com sends you emails, https://hnrss.github.io/#reply-feeds for rss
(To contextualize the votes: I think you were getting down voted for assuming that sexual and racial bias don’t exist. You assumed the statement mentioning that such biases existed was inaccurate and wanted explanation as to how. However, per my other comment, the biases exist and contribute to significant negative health outcomes for the disadvantaged groups.)
Monetary policy is a factor, but definitely not the only factor. Supply shock inflation is pretty common throughout history.
I can tell you exactly where it came from, it's being spun up in that launcher thing, obviously, that's the whole point of spin launch. You can see it for yourself in the video. Is the pointy end of the rocket always facing in the same direction, e.g. upwards? No, it's changing its orientation continuously, it's always facing 90 degrees from the arm of the launcher, which, you guessed it, spins.

It is indeed exactly like a bucket. And the bucket changes its orientation throughout you spinning it, that's the whole thing, that's why the water stays inside. The top side of the bucket is always facing you. For that to happen, it has to rotate around its COG with the same rate it's rotating around.

A different example: the moon is tidally locked to the earth (like the bucket to you, or the rocket to the spin launcher) - very obviously, it needs to spin around its axis to achieve that, and it does so at exactly the same rate as it is rotating around the earth.

That momentum doesn't just disappear.
> Are there any good financial api/datasets out there available for financial data?

I assume you mean other than the usual suspects ? ;-)

Try IEX Cloud or Quandl, both are quite US-centric although Quandl does have a small amount of international stuff.

But really, for consistent quality and coverage its hard to escape the usual suspects.

P.S. Don't forget to read the small print properly ! Many companies make a differentiation between internal use and publishing on the web for others to consume.
If you try to use a language for absolutely everything its going to struggle somewhere. You have to use a language for what its good at, and have structure in place to make using a better language for a job practical whether thats by hiring/training or by building in some kind of ABI layer from the ground up.

Go is really really good at some things. Its alright at others. Its awful at others.
Telephones?

The fact I can talk on the phone to someone thousands of miles away feels pretty magical to me when I think about all that goes into it.

Other tech that feels magical to me:

* The browser: wait, I can publish something and it is visible and interactive to anyone with an internet connection? And all I need is a text editor?

* Steel: we can build huge structures hundreds of feet high, drill thousands of feet under the earth, all with metals we refine from rocks?

* Matches: I can, for a very little amount of money, get a box of matches which will let me start a fire with close to zero effort?
This is a timely post for me! I've never been big into metal, but just recently I've found that metal often helps me focus better than the classical, alternative, indie-rock, and hip-hop I usually listen to.

I've had Bloody Kisses by Type O Negative on repeat lately, but I will be combing this thread for recommendations!

Not all of these are precisely metal, but I also enjoy:

- All Rights Removed by Airbag

- Facelift by Alice in Chains

- In Absentia by Porcupine Tree

- Houdini by Melvins
which of course means that the economy grew at 5.5%, which is pretty damn great.
What is meant with expressiveness in this context?
I signed up for https://hnreplies.com/ a long time ago which notifies me if someone replies to my comments.
No question reflective LCDs are rare, but you can look at the pebble smart watch or playdate game console for modern devices using reflective LCDs, for an idea of where that tech has gone.
Any videos of the experimental highest jumpers?
I went the other way. I used to have a couple of pi's which did different things. They kept on crashing as the sdcards were destroyed by much use - this can be changed by modifying Linux to use RO root (I thought of this recently when I made a secondary DNS box for my network).
Now I have a low power Xeon server where I can create a virtual machine for any task and it's faster than the pi3/4 that I used before.
Yeah, they mention this in the article.
Another Micro advocate! I agree, it's also my go-to editor. It's a great halfway point between breaking out Emacs and resorting to Nano. Micro is dead-simple and gets work done without any complication.
It's wild how in 2022 there's nothing consumers can do to stop this "price gouging" - I guess it's a free market and it's a niche so they have little competition and kinda a monopoly?

I don't understand the legal aspect of this stuff, but if the EU bureaucrats were able to impose USB-C standard instead of custom-charging-ports, surely they could do something about this too? Am I totally wrong? Seriously curious....

One more thought: colored rollable e-ink can have so many good uses, from being used in education to cut back on paper-books to displaying advertising and more utilitarian uses in our every-day life. gatekeeping this tech is absurd to me.
Real estate prices aren't included in inflation (BLS CPI) calculations because those are investment assets, like buying stocks or gold bullion. The CPI does account for housing costs through rent and owner's imputed rent.
These displays can also work wonderfully, see the Amazfit Bip.
What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 (2020)
The scope of the problem is basically what is happening on Uniswap (peer-to-peer swapping of ERC20 tokens) and Opensea (peer-to-peer swapping of ERC721/1155 tokens), which together account for the vast majority of Ethereum's daily contract activity.

These discussions often circle back to the notion that USDC, ENS, or any other ERC20 or ERC721 (NFT) is "not real" and therefore this problem is not worthy of study.

And yet nobody has an issue with Namecheap marketplace—a centralized ledger that manages token balances and virtual property exchange (domain names), without these token credits/debits ever being realized in your bank account (i.e. you can transact within their virtual dollar system without withdrawing funds to PayPal).
It doesn't matter. It just matters that they cause problems, not how. If the gaps cause problems when outside a certain spec, one needs to ensure the gaps are kept within those bounds. Why they fail outside of those bounds matters not.
The transit stop use case really does seem to be ramping up, including the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority currently adding them to most surface Green Line stops: https://www.mbta.com/projects/solar-powered-e-ink-signs

Transit was one of the two core practical applications the Visionect founder mentioned in Nov 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25067359
Also the accuracy of Reddit date ranges as listed in Google search is broken then works then it's broken again so you just hope for the best on any given day. Seems to be working at the moment.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220414184726/https://www.popul...
It wasn't "supposed to be hidden for 75 years". It would have taken 75 years to properly anonymize the 450,000 pages that some people thought they could just request.
And tons of ghosting.
It becomes a cargo cult.
New links found between musical training and cognitive ability
You can use threads to watch others just by changing the id, so if you want to find where dang is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

(Of course the most common use is to see where you commented, but I rarely go beyond one page)
A few thousand years is a long time. The lakes will be an essential treasure for the next 200 tumultuous years when water supplies become difficult.

Imagine what it was like here when the ice sheets first retreated. Niagara falls but times 100.
> I recently generated a single-use card with a $1 spend limit to sign up for a free trial of Masterclass, for which I would have been automatically charged an annual membership fee of $180 if I’d forgotten to cancel on time.

Now, i understand that most businesses most likely won't bother, but theoretically, in a situation like this: What stops a business from sending you a notice about your agreed payment being late?

Unless i am missing something this isn't really all that sound advice? Why not keep a calendar with reminders?
Had someone give a talk on crystal at the Boulder Ruby meetup a few years ago. It seemed really interesting if you wanted to build CLI apps and liked the mouthfeel of the ruby language.

What was missing at the time was the equivalent of the gem ecosystem. I'm not sure if that has changed.

Here's the talk if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Hx5wgNFL0
> In my experience, people can't actually read everything on the screen at one time anyway, and the more dense/terse things are the harder it is to read (otherwise we would minify everything).

Whether or not you can read everything on the screen at one time is missing the point entirely. The point is that context matters, and the more frequently you have to scroll to find it is more cognitive burden.

> It's not likely that it will continue with corrupt data because you can't use the return value without explicitly ignoring the error.

It is far too easy to accidentally do the wrong thing with an error in Go. In Rust, for example, no matter what you want to do with the result of a fallible call, you have to do it explicitly. If you want to crash on error, you `.unwrap()`; if you want to bubble it up, you `?`; if you want to continue with a default value, you `.unwrap_or()` or one of its variants.

> in practice, Go seems to have fewer error handling bugs than exception-based languages

This is based on?
> Bring uninformed and asking questions should be appreciated

I disagree. There's too much noise already. This isn't StackOverflow. Wikipedia exists. People should take a moment to read up on whatever subject before they ask questions rather than wasting other people's time coming up to speed on fundamental knowledge. (It's not like ancient Egyptians and Greeks are particularly obscure, eh?)

We can have much deeper discussions if people ask informed questions.
E-Ink lists Dasung's monitor as one of their showcase products so that supposition is incorrect: https://www.eink.com/Laptop-Peripherals.html?type=applicatio...
The numbers would look a lot better if we were to switch to fast reactors, which get a hundred times as much energy from the same amount of natural uranium.
Perhaps I'm a bit nutty about this, but I feel like shadowbanning is a contract violation. The social media company takes our words and promises to distribute them. But for some people it doesn't follow through.

The implicit trade is that we create content for them and they sell ads to keep the lights on. But if they're not following through on their half of the bargain, I think they should be upfront about it. THe "shadow" part seems like fraud to me.
It is a common mistake, but stocks don't have a positive return because GDP increases over time. They have a positive expected return over time because they have a risk premium. That is, to invest and take on risk, an investor will demand a return above and beyond the expected value of the cash flows the business generates. Whatever path of GDP and/or population is expected to be is already factored into the discounted valuation of the cashflows.

That is, you aren't getting a positive expected return because population growth is increasing over time (i.e., everyone knows that, it is already baked into the price). Now, if the expected population growth changes...then the price would change.

You have an expected return because you are taking on risk.
Golang gives you freedom.

Rust gives you seat belts.

It depends on you what you value more.
I like to keep the theme going sometimes and listen to The Algorithm; Brute Force is probably my favourite

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CDS9gmdHtB8
In large part farms doing this don't get so much bought out but destroyed with herbicide drift from cash crop farms next door. Not everywhere, but in major parts. And when you complain, the locals pitchfork you, because what are you even doing here if you're not growing corn?
They will not do what Japan did. They will raise rates. And there will be people in the fringes no matter what they do. There is no way out of this trap, Then there will be an authoritarianism in the U.S., something like you have never seen before.
I suspect the author deployed Go code to end-user windows desktop systems. I’m sure that would traumatize me. I deploy Electron/Node to Windows, but barely use the file system or any OS interaction and for that I am thankful.
They're seeking similar benefit to the tunnel in the ocean. Sure, they can't figure out what it is now but over time they can improve it. Could be very useful to detecting volcanoes for instance.
A promise is a specific class of an actor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises#Semantics...
How Not to Lose $2M with Your Startup
>I’m super interested in what investing looks like in 50-100 years as the population starts collapsing

In most countries the population has already started collapsing
The Great Lakes will eventually go away, but not for the reason you think. Niagara Falls is eroding its way upstream and will eventually reach Lake Erie, at which point Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan will all drain away downstream.
Any of the Android e-reader, like Onyx Boox.
US copyright law makes a distinction between civil and criminal consequences based on intent to financially benefit from the copyright infringement. Vandalizing Twitter on the other hand yields both civil and criminal consequences.
I want to learn more. Do you have some examples?
HackerOne buys YC-backed PullRequest to add code review to bug bounty platform
I wouldn't be surprised if Musk turns around and lowers his bid. At least that's what I would do. But maybe he wants the company so much that he won't contest it.
I wish Qualcomm's Mirasol display had seen light - you could even watch videos on them comfortably (as per the demo). They were building a huge plant to manufacture those displays commercially and suddenly the whole thing tanked. I think Apple bought parts of it.
Most people stop repairing cars long before it becomes carbon-friendly to do so, since they're only taking into account cost and reliability.
Because 'Copilot' will (obviously) cause people to think GitHub Copilot. Nobody can seriously claim to think this is the most prominent 'Copilot' out there.
A story of Github copilot shutting down would be very unexpected, which is what made most people click.
> However, the fanbase usually acts as a cult pretending that issues are features.

Per Rob Pike (Lang NEXT 2014), golang was created for fairly young programmers that are fresh out of school and don't know many other languages.

So, something I've observed: When somebody doesn't know many things but is building a career, planning their life, on one of the things they know, they're going to take that one thing more personally. This is why it's good for people to be exposed to a diversity of ideas early on. Early exposure to diverse ideas helps engineers reason about tools and systems more objectively, with less input from their ego.
The solution space here isn't "go vs exceptions," it's "errors as values vs exceptions (vs "let it crash" vs...)," and Go isn't the only implementation of errors as values.
Sunscreen. Basically witchcraft.