skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, here's a meaningful purpose by yours truly. I live in Spain and in Argentina. I have to regularly send money to Argentina. International transfers to Argentina are really expensive. Also, in Argentina the currency exchange is being manipulated by the government, like what happens in Venezuela. And all transfers have to be at the exchange rate dictated by the government.

Except for crypto currencies. They operate in a grey market, not forbidden, not approved.

Without bitcoin, I'd have to transfer money at the oficial rate, and I'd have to have another person on the other side filling the endless paperwork they require. With bitcoin (litecoin nowadays, cheaper transactions) it's done in a few hours.
Sure. I'm not arguing that it's a good business, but it's a simple business, no matter what tech they have backing them. Today's bubble is marked by a lot of Defi/Web 3.0 silliness.
Seriously, I thought I was crazy for not being able to figure out what this device actually does, despite scrolling through the whole site.

I still thought it would be an mp3 player after reading about the battery modes and the sd card installation and the file system menu...then I gave up.
That image gave me flashbacks of gnarly shader debugging I did once. IIRC, I was dividing by zero in some very rare branch of a fragment shader, and it caused those black tiles to flicker in and out of existence. Excruciatingly painful to debug on a GPU.
Optimality is the tiger, and agents are its teeth
A transmission repair is not a normal repair you should expect to experience unless your car is quite old, though. I've never owned a new car, and I've never had a transmission die on me. By the time it's getting close to that point, the whole care is on life support anyway.

Any regular repair a normal car needs is probably something the average person can do with little to no technical knowledge. Changing the battery, headlights, or oil in your car is trivial compared to changing the battery in most phones. That's a subjective assessment, but I think I'm a fairly average person when it comes to repairing phones and cars: I don't do either on a regular basis and have no special experience that would enable me to do either type of repair better than the average person.

I'm good at breaking phones when I try to replace batteries, but I have yet to break a car when changing the oil or headlights.

I shouldn't need to take my car to a shop to replace disposable components--I don't need to take my car to a shop to replace disposable components.

I shouldn't need to take my phone to a shop to replace disposable components, yet here we are. I can try to do it myself, but I guarantee if I try to replace the battery in my Nexus 6P or first-gen Pixel, I'll crack the screen. Even repair shops probably have high failure rates on battery replacements for those two devices.
What Is a Microservice Catalog and Why Do You Need One?
There's a right way and a wrong way to enact copyright reform. This particular bill is the wrong way. First, the US government signed onto the Berne Convention in the 1980s, so we'd have to have another bill to leave it. Second, we're also signatories to NAFTA and it's updated treaty which also have similar IP language that conforms to the Berne Convention. Third, the back-dating of the copyright to specific companies that make 150 billion dollars a year is definitely not going to pass muster since the government would have to offer something place of the lost asset meeting the market rate which I'm going to assume the section of the Disney catalog that's affected by this bill would be an astronomical sum of cash. So if this ever got passed by Congress and signed by a President, there would be mayhem over this bill. Like kiss goodbye the US economy considering how many other entertainment companies that aren't Disney would get smacked hard by this. Seriously, Josh Hawley is like that douche from high school that use to bully the nerds for playing D&D but only joined one tabletop session because one cute girl was interested in it so he magically got interested too. It's that kind of thinking that goes through Josh's pinhead.
I might be terminally online because I see chanspeak everywhere.

We see people decrying the influence of social media, but I remember what the internet was like before 4chan blew up. Before 4chan, the white supremacists and neo-Nazis stayed on stormfront.org where they damn well belonged, and if they showed up elsewhere they were bullied until they left.

Now we're expected to "tolerate" these ignorant shitfountains because of "free speech" and "civility". "Rights for me, privileges for thee," being the central principle of reactionaries of all stripes.

> turned down a chance to move into an fight club house filled with Polish neo-nazis

If I had to choose between living with my parents and having a bunch of Polish neo-Nazis as roommates I'd have to sit down and think it over. Neither option is particularly palatable. The former means living with people who still see me as their "little boy" and can't accept that I've had a mind of my own for the last 30 years or so. The latter means being seen as a neo-Nazi myself because guilt by association is as human as wanting to murder somebody because they won't acknowledge that your god has a bigger dick than their god.
There are a lot of people for whom being homeless would be less disruptive to their life than being carless, especially in places outside the big cities where driving is mandatory. If you lose your car, you have to impose on somebody to drive you to work, which might cost them an hour out of their day every day, which is unsustainable so pretty quickly you lose your job, and then you have no income and no way of getting back on your feet. If you lose your apartment, you can probably find someone's basement or spare room to stay in for a while, chip in on rent, rebuild your finances, and look for a new place to stay.

It's the opposite situation to being in a big city, where you can get by without a car, and the concept of a "spare room" sounds luxurious if not wasteful.
as others ITT have said, I borrow every month on 0% interest for everyday purchases like groceries using my credit card, and its a net financial gain for me. You just shouldn't borrow more than you actually have unless its for an investment such as a house
...Wheat Waffles?
That doesn't seem really complicated to communicate. Levels are common across large companies. Just post the targeted levels and salary bands. You can still make out of band offers if you decide the candidate doesn't meet or surpasses the intended level.
What you did was reflow the solder. This isn’t an uncommon technique for amateur/small batch repairs or assembly of surface mount circuit boards. At the maker space I use, there’s a toaster oven dedicated to this task.

That being said, you don’t want to use that oven for food purposes anymore. Lots of toxic chemicals will off-gas in the reflow process.

ETA this reminds me of the Xbox 360 “red ring of death” fiasco. One DIY repair technique was to wrap the entire Xbox in towels blocking all the ventilation. The theory was the resulting overheating would reflow the failing BGA solder joints. I don’t know if this really worked or was anecdotal but it was one I remember seeing a lot.
We don't need solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, water reclamation, on shore chip foundries, manufacturing, battery chargers, non-crumbling bridges, manufacturing, paved raids, public transit, or working airports. We need more crud apps and adtech! More stock options and stock buybacks!
It was a concept designed for the low- to middle-class in a very different era than what we have now. Especially in rural areas, banks were not often used by those who probably needed them the most, for a variety of reasons. Lots of workers were either paid in cash, or cashed their paycheck weekly at the local grocery/department/liquor store.

Even today, lots of people have the issue where if they _have_ money, they are compelled to spend it on frivolous things like entertainment and alcohol. Layaway was an easy and convenient tool that people could use to make sure they were putting at least some of their money toward things they really wanted.
IIRC, the energy use for crypto as a whole is on par with the energy use of the fiat currency system, if not higher. I don't know how gold mining ranks, but it may be well below crypto mining in energy use or well above. Mining energy use depends a lot on asset price, and gold prices are comparatively low (compared to other asset classes).

Silicon and other electronic parts also get dumped into this market, when the capacity used to build those devices could be used for other things.
The drivers involved in those accidents are unaware that it is going to drop them off at a red light. They presume the speed warning is because of how sharp the curve is and accelerate out of the curve before realizing that they need to come to a complete stop immediately. Perhaps a warning about the intersection and traffic light would be more valuable to drivers who are navigating out of the ramp to fast.
It was as if millions of twitter trolls with a distorted idea of free speech suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
The Economist was of the few publications to investigate “what if” before Brexit while almost all others dismissed that scenario. They might not be perfect but they try and they investigate.
I always thought layaway was just used to lock in a sale price, so essentially, a customer is betting that the payment now plus the foregone interest/investment return in the payment will be less than the future sale price.
I'm not opposed to them btw, but as a Dutch person I found it weird to have this all split out. In NL you get AOW no matter if you're the queen or just Joe, you just have to be of pensionable age and iirc lived in NL during your working life. The public broadcasts are financed with tax money but not every household separately gets a bill equivalent to a Netflix subscription to be paid for a year ahead. If we pay money to zimbabwe then that's just regular tax money also, not another separate solidarity tax entry on your payslip.
I agree that incompetent people are out there, but I also think the interview setup is completely unnatural and nerve-racking.

I've been working 10 years, can get things up and running pretty fast, learn fast, but I'm super anxious in interview (and I've done hundreds). I'm just an anxious person, so most of the time I completely freeze up. Perhaps finding a better way to interview is a better way to hire for diversity.

I think there are two camps of people: truly incompetent liars that look good on paper and people just straight up bad at interviewing who are perfectly qualified. So how do you give the latter a fighting chance?
and your individual spending choices have no bearing on whether the merchants will continue to charge that fee. So you might as well get the benefit of it
Netflix tells employees they may need to work on titles they perceive as harmful
From the top of my head

- Suing a powerful adversary if you are in the right

- democratically changing a law (and abolishing old laws) to adapt to changed technologies

- patents and copyright as a way to motivate innovation (those are transaction costs introduced with a noble intention, but I think they can be improved by e.g. just paying people to

- land speculation (georgism ho!)

- borders and restrictions on free movement

- moralistic bans on drugs and prostitution instead of regulation to make those transactions safe and cut down on externalities

The book "radical markets", while not 100% aligned with my politics gives a more detailed overview on some of these
You’re saying you’re trying something even cooler? Do share. :)
Quick and Dirty CFML Slack Notifications with Hyper
Yep, the article I linked includes screenshots of the Admin panel and hyperlinks to a few Zoom support pages.

I wonder how well the audio fingerprint works over telephone. On one hand, it certainly won't have the same frequency range as a laptop speaker, but on the other hand so few people join by dialing in, it may end up obvious who the leaker is.
For some values of “always”. In 1972 Coca-Cola traded at 48 times earnings.
How so? By acknowledging the general utility of savings accounts while explaining why in some cases they aren't fit for purpose?
> Maybe. If you type 10,000 words per minute but your entire module gets refactored out of the codebase next week, is your productivity anything higher than 0?

If you spent less time typing that module that later went to trash, you are, in aggregate, more productive than someone who spent more time typing the same module.

This sort of argument only makes sense if you assume that there is some sort of correlation, where people who are slower at typing are more likely to make better design or business decisions, all else being equal. I certainly have no reason to believe it to be true. Remember we are talking about the issue in context of someone who is slow at typing because of arthritis. Does arthritis make people better at software design, or communication? I don’t think so.
In what sense? My phone doesn't have a programmable radio I have access to, can't do RFID and doesn't have GFIO pins for accessories. Its NFC is unreliable - I've programmed tags with it and it's miserable. It has no IR transmitter or receiver, no MicroSD slot. In fact my cell phone does almost nothing the Flipper Zero does except Bluetooth.
I just think its en vogue and politically advantageous for republicans to attack disney right now.
Also, arguably the most socially productive outlets would have been public goods, like major infrastructure investments and public education and health initiatives. But that's evidently politically untenable.
> What sort of transaction costs between people today are _practically_ the most important to leading to a creation of a firm?

Discovery of services (what can I help you with? what can you do for me) and trust (can I trust you to do task <x>? Can you trust me to pay you) are two of the biggest person to person transaction costs I see nowadays.
Multi-Objective Optimization for Automatic Wireless Network Planning
I wouldn't call it an improvement. The less distracting the walls are, the better.
I was about to post "very impressive", but that seems a huge understatement after finding out she's still in school...
I agree with your point in general, but I think you'd need to scale the two example numbers each up by an order of magnitude. A hundred-millionaire is definitely rich, but can't buy all the houses, boats, private islands, etc. that they want. A single property or a yacht can easily cost well into the tens of millions. Plus if you're living in a $10M+ home, your annual expenses are presumably significant, so you'd want to keep a fair amount to live off of.

It's probably ridiculous to most to think of hundred-millionaires being financially constrained, but I do think there's a material difference in the buying power of $100M and $1B without getting into unique goods.
The small company I worked at was definitely an anomaly. They treated all their employees well. I got a very good raise every year.

When I was looking for a new job last year I had a hard time finding any company that would even match my compensation. Luckily for me, large tech companies have an absurd amount of money these days are and paying absurd salaries.
Big discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31365307
You don't have to worry about dozens of other applications fragmenting your memory. You keep your threads neat and your memory neat, and you don't have to worry about failed allocations.

Another reason to keep memory contiguous is that fragmentation can be much more punishing (sometimes), especially when latency is important. On large devices it doesn't matter much if you're under-utilizing the CPU while waiting for RAM, because the OS will do other things and then let you do a lot of work all at once. Embedded processors will have nothing else to do.
PC and laptop displays are working toward 480 Hz
Can you dig further into the specifics of your worry? I find that most interviews focus on my knowledge or experience, I’ve never really had the degree come up. You are somewhat alluding to two problems though, interviewing with 10 years of experience and the path you took to get there. Starting out may be harder(although it’s an employees market out there right now so it may be a great time to start)

But it’s funny you say 10 years ago. I started 20 years ago and don’t feel like 10 years ago is that much different from today(though would say it seemed easier to start out 20 years ago)
All I do is lube mine and its been a gem for years now. People preach that there is this whole maintenance regimen and you have to be this hobbiest watchmaker to deal with bike gear ratios and such and such, yet most bikes just sit in the garage with the lube that came on them from the factory and work fine. Go to a college and see all the 50 year old 10 speeds lined up in the racks. If you have a 50 year old piece of hardware in such high use that doesn't seem like its this unreliable untrusty system to me, quite the opposite. Especially compared to like anything else in transportation, like a car that might incur thousands in repairs over its life. How many 50 year old cars are parked at the college? How many cars are even over 25? Even a skateboard is less reliable; take a skateboard out in the rain and the bearings are fouled and the deck may even warp. You can even get bike tires that make flat tires practically obsolete short of hammering in a nail because they use kevlar like a bulletproof vest. Literally bulletproof tech.
The Splinternet [video]
Relax. It's a web toy inspired by another web toy. Nothing serious and nothing to be worried about. If you want to change the world for the better, fight against google, twitter, facebook, and their tracking ads networks. Those are the places where a serious amount of CPU cycles are wasted every second producing toxic matter. We need more creative (mis)uses of the web, not less.
I am always fascinated by the ignorance that is blatantly displayed on HN when it comes to biotech advancements. Not even some actual criticism of the tech, or even the faint understanding that this sort of thing is exploratory research. Wonder why this sort of skepticism is never applied to cutting edge AI research whose ethical ramifications are much more severe and which is already being utilized by bad actors to facilitate genocide [1].

[1] https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/widm.1...
I think he is interesting. The details of his father’s financial transactions feels a little bit obsessive but yeah, obviously if you are the sort to spend time studying Ted Bundy, I guess Elon’s father isn’t totally off brand. Who am I to judge. I find a lot of things interesting myself, though less often people, more often ideas. To each their own!
Lowering the costs means you get higher margins, which in turn means you can grow the company larger then other similar companies before reaching the marginal return (the point where growing wont increase profits). So a company with low expenses can grow really big - making the founders very rich.

Working in an area that produce revenue - what does that even mean? Should you work in marketing in order to increase demand ? Rather then in production ?
Also of note is https://github.com/tailscale/sqlite, also written by David Crawshaw. It _does_ provide a database/sql driver.
You can't detect race from DNA

https://backintyme.wordpress.com/article/can-dna-tell-what-r...
> There's also the possibility of the Twitter Board's incompetence

This has been repeated at nauseaum .

Just because you don't know their names and aren't shitposting on social media they are not incompetent.

They managed to screw Musk over, they basically looked at macroeconomics, regrouped after the initial no and sold Twitter to Musk at the very top of a 13 year old bubble in the making.

If you look at Musk carrer each and every time he sold onto bigger fools. Compaq, Ebay and of course all the equity raises of his overvalued businesses.

Twitter board managed to screw him over and demonstrate that only idiots don't change their minds, all in one swoop.

They have the upper hand now.

If everything goes as it should this would be like Trump election loss. Meaning a defeat that makes it so that you don't hear from a guy for a long time. A severe wound and an existential threat to the ego.

We can only hope.
I wonder if they intentionally model these after real people (the one in the video looks kind of like a Cillian Murphy bot, and they have what appears to be a Trump bot on the bottom shelf in the second photo).
I think the key is matching up the right parts. I ride with a 1x11 mid grade set up that was made for each other and after dialing it in I have no issues either.
This also has implications when we discuss workers who want to "work from home." I reference Coase in "What work can be done from home? What work needs to be done at an office?" While I think this piece is carefully researched, it is easily the least popular thing I've ever written. I'm surprised at how angry people get around this subject. I don't fully understand what is going, but I've never written anything else that drew such angry reactions from people. Simply pointing out the limits of the work-from-home movement seems to leave some people on edge, defensive, wary, and emotional. I'm not sure why. Obviously there must be some limit to work-from-home.

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/what-work-can-be-done-f..."
Hopefully those Tesla/Elon Musk fanboys finally realize that Elon musk is just another capitalist with some sugar coat lol
I use Twitter every day so I’m curious about the future of the platform.

And when I saw your comment implying you’re astonished about people not getting it, I meant to offer you, in good faith, one anecdotal data point in order to make you feel a little less puzzled.
Where does that say that enjoying and understanding is the same thing? Show, me.
There's a lot of things you can say about Elon like crazy, blinded by money and power, hubris, etc. Lucky? If you start one billion dollar company, sure. The man built up Paypal, Space X and Tesla. The jury is still out on Boring Company but it's still drilling in Las Vegas.

I'm sure he got lucky with Paypal but you can't luck out this many times. The guy clearly knows how to build billion dollar businesses.
Okay, so how do we go from "better than the average human in 50% of specific benchmarks" to "AGI that might lead to human extinction" then? Keeping in mind the logarithmic improvement observed with the current approaches
Nope. I just don't have an excuse to get one of these for business reasons, and my dance card is pretty full. This looks like a toy that I'd spend a lot of time playing with (I'd probably be interested in writing an iOS/Watch app for it, but, like I said, my dance card, full, it is...).
I've hated Disney even longer than I've hated Republicans, so I'm happy to see them go at each other. I just wish they'd do it with weapons more potent than harsh language.
> Dollar cost averaging is timing the market.

No this is the exact opposite. It’s like passive vs active https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/markettiming.asp
The "curse" of the Arduino software is that the libraries abstract away the registers. So you get the quick satisfaction of blinking an LED, but you're never forced to dig in to what those libraries are actually doing to make the LED blink. In my opinion, this model leaves you dependent on other people providing libraries. If you eventually want to move on to other microcontrollers, you'll have to be able to read and understand the data sheets, and understand how the registers configure and operate the peripherals.

While a debugger is helpful, you can still work at the register level without one. You can simply print the register values to the serial port. In fact, if you wanted to, you could create a serial console that would allow you to set the registers over the serial port.