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> For example what would be your current solution to have a $10 bet on the outcome of a sports game tomorrow, between me and you?

Are you really asking this question as though this isn't a thing that's already happening, right now, today, without the need for crypto snake oil?
> My main criticism of the government was that they have been unnecessarily strict in issuing resident visas. They also could have been clearer about how long people on temporary visas could extend them.

They made a booboo :(

There was a change to ARC which affected me. My wife and I married in Taiwan. When we move back to Taiwan (From Singapore) september last year, I had difficulty getting my ARC due to Taiwan requiring a Marriage certificate from New Zealand.

The issue is, in NZ/AU/UK if you marry in another country that is legally recognized you cannot get married again. So it's not possible to fly to NZ, get married, and get a 2nd marriage cert.

After 3 months apparently enough people were affected by this that these countries (and some others) were put on an exemption list.

Then I needed my criminal record, which took a while cos NZ>Auckland went into lockdown and a 2 week process took 2 months. :(

Got my ARC card 2 weeks ago.
Vast majority being 90% according to IRS statistics. It seems it will take some time for the myth of the effects of the mortgage interest tax deductions to die down.

It is also capped at $750k of mortgage debt, which is not much for the 10% of filers who are itemizing and using the deduction.
Secret Management with HashiCorp Vault
Would definitely also recommend Finntroll (especially this album) and Alestorm (wearing a we are here to drink your beer t-shirt right now xD) too! Some Korpiklaani could fit this playlist pretty well I think.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_heat_engine#Carnot's_th...
I don't think everyone assumes that. For example, much research has gone into whether animals possess a "theory of mind" (ie, the understanding that others have their own stuff going on in their heads, and that stuff can be different from what's going on in one's own head.) There's an entire Wikipedia page for theory of mind in animals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind_in_animals

Sentience/consciousness is a hard thing to define/study, but that doesn't stop people from trying.

Outside science, it's a fun idea to think about. For example, the obligatory Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quote: "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
But who cares? I don’t browse on a PI, I browse on a laptop.
> It physically must “rotate” something to the right color. I’m no e-ink expert, but there may always be some level of “shimmer”.

You're thinking of gyricon where the balls rotate. That's different. The bulk of the industry now uses electrophoresis which is moving ink particles electrically.
Back then you could order a house from the Sears catalog for $1,495
How do you know it was stolen by TSA?
This is framed as a new characterization of the properties of database servers, but isn't just about whether the client waits for acknowledgment from the cluster?

It seems completely unrelated to the server's consensus algorithm. Any client for any of those systems can proceed before the transaction is committed, it is faster but means that your transaction might disappear if the wrong node crashes.

How does the author end up with an empty column for "PC/EL" in their table and not realize that "choosing [low] latency" (by not waiting for acknowledgment) is no longer guaranteed consistent?
(2) really reminds me of that bit in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions about pedagogy. In some fields you can determine the truth of a statement without reference to who said it. Innovators are seldom the best explainers so you have dedicated textbook writers who rephrase insights in ways easier to understand. In fields where this isn't possible students have to be taught with original sources.
There are no other source of income other than insurance plans, so if they decrease rates we have no choice but to decrease pay.

Im not sure where you are getting the ‘you ignored it’ comment, when the new rates were announced we adjusted pay according to the decrease in rates.
Ya, I know. kick that can down the road.

Not everything needs to be recorded for all eternity.
GP's claim is that seawater uranium is replenished from natural processes, not from reactor waste. That claim is true, and their link describes why. Here's another article:

https://cna.ca/2016/07/27/theres-uranium-seawater-renewable/

There is of course a finite amount of uranium on the planet. But there's also a finite amount of fusion fuel in the sun. Neither will run out before the sun boils the oceans.

If we keep using fission long-term, it will likely be in the form of fast reactors, which get a hundred times as much energy from natural uranium because they don't just fission U235, but also U238 and transuranics. (Because of that, the waste from fast reactors only has to be securely stored for 300 years.)
I use `lsp-mode` but it's true I had to remove a lot of the bells and whistles because the constant overlays and popups were distracting.
> Seems like we're still a long way off from reasonably priced large e-ink displays -- very curious to see any progress in this space

"reasonably priced"? It will always be more expensive than LCD/OLED because the volumes are completely different, like 1000x different.
It's different because I can define a macro-state without any information about which macro-state any system is actually in. As I think you're also saying, the only information I need is information about how I've defined my own macro-states.

If we just define the macro-states, we're good to go. We don't need to talk about 'knowledge'. We can talk about 'knowledge', it's fine, but that lets in unnecessary woo.
I don’t want their pledge, it’s useless if an abusive regime is in power. I’d rather have decentralization to make it technically impossible.
Can we expect this to show up on ereaders anytime soon?
Housing [land] prices have been grinding higher long before the Great Decline in interest rates

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=kYEb
The office I described was far from fancy. It was a DoD project in the 90s run by Lockheed and beneath minimum standards for safety.

It was literally in a modular building that had been assembled onsite. The floors sagged and the fabric on the cubicle walls had mold growing in it. The nearest coffee pot was a 10 minute walk away, which is why residents were tempted to bring their own.
CD-ROMs typically don’t degrade. CD-Rs and such do.

CD-ROMs have physical pits etched into the plastic, as do mass-produced DVDs and BDs. These advantages don’t apply to discs you produce yourself, however.

It can happen, but it’s rare—not so rare that I forgo backups, but rare enough that I continue to maintain an archive of actual CD-ROMs.
Well the way I mostly solve it is by using the cache from docker. As well as versioning important packages. As well as multiple requirements files.

However, i feel like if with every small change to your libraries your code breaks there would be something wrong haha.

Also I'm not saying it's a perfect solutions. Only that I had a lot of python apps this was never any issue (an d I had a lot of issues)

If you are building a library though, i totally get the point of using
It's fairly well-known that some accounts "karma farm" by posting comment designed to be upvoted, and then use the credibility to sell themselves to marketers. Also, I believe it's fairly straightforward to buy votes in your posts from sock puppet farms.

Here's an old post from a security researcher that wrote papers on this topic, and also experimented with buying votes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...

I am unsure what the current field is like.
Do most employer policies really require explicit approval for moonlighting? I'm on job number seven, not counting a 4-5 year stint freelancing full time, and none of them required approval. A couple required notification but several didn't mention moonlighting at all beyond the typical "only do work stuff on work machines."
DevLog[1]: Building a serverless platform for Rust in 4 weeks – part deux
same, never had any problems adding subreddits to site: searches
Amberol – GTK4 Music Player for GNOME
As I understand it, it's this refinancing that leads US citizens in the UK ending up with a surprising US capital gains bill after they re-mortgage their UK property. And we also (normally) have ERCs in the UK so as usual, the rest is the worst of both worlds.

Ideally one could renounce the citizenship, oh wait...
If you look closely enough the sunlight that powers solar panels also comes from the fusion of hydrogen that will be literally changed to another element. But I think it's still fair to call solar renewable because the sunlight hitting the Earth is continually renewed. And while the amount of Uranium on Earth is fixed the amount of uranium in the seas is renewed from that much larger stock, so I think calling extraction of sea uranium is fair.
Why do people compare monthly mortgage amount and rent? It misses several big elements to housing costs: taxes, maintenance, closing costs, realtor costs, and opportunity cost of the money tied up.

Renting vs buying comparisons need to account for lot more than those two numbers but that's all I see posted most of the time.
Doesn't matter, you just have to be one step ahead. There will surely be something else next and as long as average people haven't caught up to the "new method", it will work. Life is a constant test of whether you are able to swim at the front.
Because language is defined by usage, if there was a body of water that is freshwater but widely agreed to be a sea then the parent commenter is agreeing to revise their definition to match.
They are also 'it' when it comes to Detroit for information technology, unless you count Compuware.
But isn't that how humans do it too? They have a hunch, pursue it, and if it doesn't work out, they backtrack. Of course, some people have better hunches than others, but that doesn't change the global idea.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max can stream video for 25 hours. How long can your phone?

Waterproofing is more important to me than a removable battery. Apple will replace the battery for $69 when it is time. And they will still be providing software updates for it in 6 years.

How much is a replacement battery for your non-waterproof phone? How long will it receive software updates? Will you buy a new one when they stop updating it?
Yeah. I was just thinking that. I mean if the rest of the country decides that georgia and florida need our water, which is one of the more serious current proposals, then that's democracy. I'm from Wisconsin. Born and raised right on the shores of Lake Michigan. But the law is the law.

Our best bet is to do our utmost to ensure that the law stays the way it is despite whatever pressures there are from other areas of the country.
If you are in NYC, why not reach out to faculty at local business schools like NYU Stern, Columbia, etc. PhD is more about your research interests matching with that of a faculty member than anything else. So, review the current research direction and publications of the faculty member, reach out to him/her about the research and explore potentially doing PhD research under their guidance.

> ... a PhD in Business seems to be the low-hanging fruit.

This seems to be a red flag, it may come across that you just like to have "PhD" after your name than any real interest in business research and education.
So is the great salt lake a sea?
My hunch is that if you try to build your solution with the constraints enforced by Heroku your system will be more resilient.

If it's about being easy to dump stuff to disk, using S3 or even Postgres for something like this could become easy after a few attempts. Another pattern that would come out of this exercise is trying to deal with that job in parallel by breaking it up into sub-tasks (many workers at the same time).

Anyway, too little context for me to flesh out a solution but the gist is that in general these constraints nudge you in a 'healthy' direction when designing systems.
Reminds me a lot of surgical robotics just at a larger (physically) scale. We went from tiny tweezers and scalpels to giant grabbing arms.
I've thought that for a while, but I'm not a physicist. Do you know any prominent physicists that hold that view? It seems to contradict at least the popular narrative about entropy as a property of a system.
I don't know which ones you would find interesting, but the magazines I buy frequently on the newsstand (but don't subscribe to) include:

Nuts & Volts

Servo

Practical Electronics

Linux Pro

Linux Format

Admin

Code

2600

MagPi

Hackspace

Retro-Gamer

Bass Angler

(Note: some of those names might not be exactly right, since magazines sometimes change names and I recognize it on the newsstand by the location and the general visual look, not the exact words of the title. For example, "Practical Electronics" was "Practical Everyday Electronics", or vice-versa, or something like that. And Linux Pro and Linux Voice merged, or something, yadda, yadda)

Magazines I actually subscribe to:

HBR

MIT Sloan Management Review

Wired

Bassmaster
Probably needs a (2020) in the title.
TSA keys aren’t secure. For example, there’s https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys, which states

“pictures of TSA master baggage keys got leaked by the Washington Post and also PDFs hosted on TravelSentry's Website. This repo is a reproduction attempt.

[…]

The TSA has issued an official statement making it known that they don't even care that we've done this, as the now-pointless locks affect theft prevention, not airline safety.“
For context for those outside of mathematics, Gowers is a preeminent mathematician who won a fields medal for his work in functional analysis. He has advocated and worked towards computer-generated mathematics for a long time, mostly along approaches roughly in line with this one. In particular, his interest in this topic predates the deep learning revolution (which I'll say began with alexnet, but wherever you date it the claim holds).
We're very excited to launch GraphQL joins - a way for folks with existing investments in GraphQL to join data across GraphQL and non GraphQL sources. A few key points:

- Join data across new or existing GraphQL services: Your own GraphQL services or GraphQL vendor APIs (eg: Github)

- Join GraphQL services with other non-GraphQL services: Join data in your GraphQL Server with data in your databases (eg: Postgres, Timescale, Yugabyte with GraphQL servers)

- Uses native GraphQL with no changes to the GraphQL specification: No upstream changes are required to the GraphQL service

- Powered by semantic configuration - no custom code required.

- Role-based access for schemas you bring in

We'd love for you to try it out and give us your feedback. This is a sample repo for you to take this for a spin: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-joins-example
I bought a cheap usb-powered hand-held oscilloscope DIY kit off Aliexpress. It was a fun soldering project and now I have a (very minimalistic) oscilloscope for when I need one (which is very seldom).
Sevarg has done it https://www.sevarg.net/2019/12/14/building-raspberry-pi-4-de...

It’s totally doable from what I understand and sips tiny amounts of power.

An M1 may be better but I don’t know if it can get as low power.
>They're ordered by the magic, not by the correctness or usefulness

I agree 100% on this: a well-curated set of search engine results or directories (like how Yahoo! started back in the day) would be immensely useful today

Getting to the well-curated list, though, does bring its own Catch-22: who determines what's "good" initially? How do you collect enough "qualified" editors/submitters to get it rolling? How do you keep from falling into the broken world of social voting[0]?

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[0] https://antipaucity.com/2015/09/16/like-problems-social-voti...
"Am I really happier, or do I just think I am?"
> and you're already in the hundreds of different opinions!

No, you aren’t. Beause there are overlaps. (Seen Venn diagrams, btw?)

> with ZERO external information

This is a very bad advice. When you don't read those threads or blogs, you are not taking advantage of accumulated human knowledge over the years.

And this approach will more likely to lead to poor choice of books.

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One method I forgot to mention- I also look at reputations of publishers/series. If a book is coming out of Green Tea Press, Pragmatic Bookshelf, or Manning, I will tend to favor them more.
It's similar to glitching we see in scifi/cyberpunk
Cloudflare Thwarts Record DDoS Attack Peaking at 15 Million Requests Per Second
Previous Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25616593

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22443363
Indeed. I was assuming that the comment I was replying to was referring to helium in general because they were not more specific, and the normal form is ⁴He — we’re not filling party balloons with it.
Surely if it’s much cheaper volumes also go up massively…
>When you finally pick something up, the amount of material about any given topic, unconstrained by the volume of paper, seems impossible to get through in a single lifetime.

So when I usually want to learn something, I first have something in mind I want to build. I pick a tutorial and give it 5 minutes and decide if it's useful enough to continue. Once I complete a tutorial, I start the building process. Once I'm building, the internet becomes a reference manual, which it is much better at.

I'm not overly interested in social media. I gave most of it up after the Snowden revelations around 2013-2014. As far as news, I take breaks when not much is going on and I notice it's overly manipulative. I generally stay away from opinion pieces and when the news article starts going into opinion after the first few paragraphs, I stop reading. Hope this helps.
I like Pages and Numbers better than Word and Excel, but I write, and I got tired of converting documents so I could exchange with editors and peers. Though the conversion and interoperability is very good, it's not frictionless. So now I have a yearly subscription to Word, one of my least favorite writing platforms.

Finance at Apple probably uses Excel because the finance industry uses Excel.
> Even though TSA keys should be secure, I doubt that there aren't counterfeit ones around.

There are: https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys
Somwhere around 3000 AC I'll get a laptop with color eink :/
Ask HN: How do you find what you're good at?
I'm not really good at anything. Aside from just trying things out and getting feedback from managers/coworkers, how does one identify things that they could be good at?

I've been a dev for 10 years and have a masters degree. I am just a midlevel dev. I spent most of that time working on obscure stuff the company needed, like Filenet and Neoxam. I'm now working with stuff like ECS batch, Lambdas, and some front end written in Java, Python, and Angular. I'm not seeing much progress. I think this mostly because I feel like this knowledge will just end up as throw away. The concepts and the bulk of the development are easy to grasp. Occasionally I'll get stuck with some implementation detail and just let it drag out.

I also realize that promotions are no longer a possibility for me. People are starting to wonder why I'm still a midlevel after 10 years. Recently I was told that I need to be more upbeat and improve team morale. Basically I'm being told to change my opinions, insights, and even personality. Kind of shocking when they make a big deal about DEI, including diversity of thought. This caused me to realize that all the managers are oddly happy and upbeat, so this must be a requirement. So they won't ever move me into any leadership position like manager, or even senior developer.

I think I'm tired of being a dev. The pay isn't even that good <$100k. I think some sort of an analyst position would be good. I tried checking put corporate strategy analyst positions, but it turns out they are more of a project/stakeholder manager, and they use these positions as feeders for executive positions (the rest of the team had degrees from places like Harvard and Wharton).

Any suggestions of tactics or positions to try?
The differences are apparent in the US as well. The bank is making offers to a broad population without knowing their life plans. The borrower has a better idea of their individual life plans. I was buying my “lifetime home” 15 years ago and so took a fixed rate. When I first refinanced, I still had the same plans. When I second refinanced, I still had the same plans.

Even among fixed rate products, there’s an option to buy down the fixed rate. Those usually have a point in the future where all choices are about the same, shorter favoring not paying points and long favoring buying discount points (this crossover point varies over time by current and expected rates, but is in the 4-8 year range typically).
I'm gonna share my unsolicited opinion: if you're hiring, you want someone who is ready to do "it". He may or may not have done "it" before, and may not do "it" exactly as you had planned, but he has foundational core competencies, motivation, and the cooperative responsibility taking attitude to accomplish the key parts of "it" as best as you can foresee "it".

If you LITERALLY need "it" done as "it" has been done before in an exactly specifiable way, you probably should contract it out. Not hire.
States as in countries or states as in US states?
Lots of negative comments here about not making much money for the effort that goes in.

Have people considered that perhaps the author enjoys the process and it's a win-win given they learn new stuff, get to teach that stuff, and make a little cash on the side too?

OP has written 78 books. That's 78 more attempts than most people and it's like the Ray Bradbury quote:

"Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row."

Given the stats on going viral, this person is well on their way to writing a book that may one day make the same money of all the others combined with a little luck.

Lady luck fortunes the one who tries at the end of the day.
This sounds great - would you happen to know if there is a way to do this with an Android watch or an apple watch for someone without an iPhone?

Seems like a good middleground for kids that's not quite a smartphone.
> "Wood and animal waste"

Also known as biomass. These are a renewable resource and massively better than fossil fuels when it comes to climate change. Obviously you need to ensure they are burnt in a controlled environment (not dumping smoke into people's kitchens, for example), but in the right circumstances they are vastly preferable to coal and gas.

Developing countries need not repeat the same mistakes as the developed world. We have better technology and far more options now.
According to the article I cited:

> Greenpeace said it had confirmed with Tepco that the system was not designed to remove carbon-14

Maybe there are updates on this matter but I couldn't find anything online.
You don’t need to really beat your mortgage rate, you just need to beat the inflation rate which is easier. As your income adjusts to inflation overtime, your mortgage becomes easier and easier to pay off and makes up a smaller percent of your expenses.

Some index funds though might beat your mortgage rate anyway, so it’s even better.
Production readiness is a very hard thing to do. Not because you can make one unit you can make a bunch of them at acceptable yields.