skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the sake of being a pedant, your statement is incorrect: the U.S. federal fund rate was 15% in 1981, making CDs and T-bills yield 15% APY for the products bought that year. So that kind of return has a place in reality. Granted, those were different times, different economic climate and exceptional fed actions. What you probably mean is that promising anything that exceeds SOFR + say 2 percentage points has a risk premium that should be disclosed.
Yes, and most of the world (and even most of developed world) are neither Canadian, Australian or American. Europe and Asia tend to have smaller homes & the latter alone accounts for more than half the world's population.
...and it never dries, if unused.
Help make the paper better. What are some better exemplars for technology?
I know Seattle has an old steam plant to supply the downtown with heat. Never heard of rock storage in the US. I'm interested in a reference.

If so, Americans have forgotten all about it, replaced with a desire to do it all with electric batteries.
I think this is something like AI -- where people who are calling it "AI" are often sales people/hucksters (I mean this as little a pejorative sense as possible), and the people calling it "ML" are the practitioners/people you should be listening to.

Once a phrase gains mainstream adoption and starts to rapidly lose meaning, I find that people who care dearly about that thing start calling it something else.

That said -- I really struggle to find the people who are really all in on crypto in a technical sense. Where are the people building cool things and trying to push the boundaries with crypto? Surely it's still happening but just hard to find it in all the debris/trash.
Wow. Cohen and Judge.
Beavis and Butthead meets Brüno.
This is already a reality on several grids across the world though. On weekend days with lots of sun and wind (ie low demand and high supply), prices dip below zero.

Just from an economic standpoint it can also be a valid choice to build storage next to unpredictable generating capacity, for example if you build a wind farm and want to sell during daytime (when prices are highest) as much as possible.
It's unfair to compare it against a savings account. Even 1-year treasury bills would give you around 2% interest. It's just that banks are not willing to offer that premium to you.
Sadly the term is poisoned now and we won't be able to use it for anything new in the near future.
We need the lithium for cars. There is literally not enough lithium known of to build enough utility storage. And, they cost way more than alternatives.

Utility batteries, where used, will be iron-air or molten metal. Light weight is no virtue in that use.
> Hand sanatisation and washing was a big red herring.

My memory is that, at the very beginning, it wasn't known how COVID spread and that it was recommended out of an abundance of caution. Is my memory incorrect?

Separately, in what way was it something intentionally designed to be misleading or distracting?

> A gargantuan waste of time and money, it lies as a clear indicator of the dangers of the way public policy is formed

Was there ever public policy around hand sanitizer?

> health advice can very often be as viable as phrenology.

Which has more evidence of efficacy: phrenology or disinfectants?
> Start with the User Experience and work backwards to the technology you need.

I have a counter example. Founder of a very successful startup (early 2000's) once told me that they first built the technology (adding tracing to Java apps at run-time) just because it was interesting, without any clue if it can be useful to someone. Later they showed it to everyone and they got their first customer who agreed to try it (it required modification to JRE).
Does the parachute for Perseverance have a hidden message in it? (2021)
Given you could get ~20% on anchor, why would you invest in something with lower return with no a priori reason to believe the returns are safer?
dang I didn’t know they are so fast…38,210 mph! this is crazy, i could not imagine seeing it pass thru…
Oh so now they ask for external intervention to their DeFi.

I really cannot believe how we let for so long that many charlatans drive clueless people to financial ruin.
Not infinite, but that doesn't make an argument. We definitely can speed up the transition to renewables by spending more money though, and that is what we should do. Investing more will accelerate the construction of the factories for batteries and solar panels and generate more research into the topic.
I sometimes wonder if the "technology is morally neutral" argument holds up.

Some questions I ask myself

Certain technologies force a certain world view. If that world view is not moral, then the technology is not moral.

If a technology is inherently dehumanizing, how is it moral?

Does the technology have room for forgiveness, repentance, and redemption? If not, how is it moral?

The counter-counter arguments is to move up the stack. "computers are neutral, but a computerized system which does X is immoral. So we can only have computerized systems which do Y". But what if the problem is that computerizing something inherently makes it immoral?

A toy example: When something becomes a metric, it loses its value as a metric ("lines of code", "rankings of universities", ...). Computerizing things makes them standardized metrics.
You need to get Windows Enterprise or Windows Education if you want to dramatically reduce the quantity of bloat that Microsoft flings at you which are $$$.
I was there and rasengan handled it extremely poorly. He could've taken over the network and most people wouldn't have moved out if he didn't screw so many things up.
Simplifying Go Concurrency with Futures
What an incredible response time. I had no idea e-ink had advanced this much.

As for use-cases however, I fail to see why I would want this instead of a regular monitor as a second display. But incredibly cool tech!
> What "dogmatic beliefs" are you referring to here [...] We're not animals.

See, you didn't need any help. Given that some were insistent that humans are not animals, and others were insistent that some ethnic or religious groups of humans aren't people, the resolution was to highlight that the latter claim is wrong, and give up on the other claim for the time being.

This means that status of other species (e.g. octopuses) is not recognised in the UDHR. Arguably a realistic setting of priorities, but still unfortunate in my view of course.

> the key word there is spontaneously

So how is your intuition for other spontaneous events? If your child is spontaneously struck down by Influenza, too bad - they live or die and you're not bothered either way? If a work colleague falls down the stairs, and others present just leave them there, a motionless heap, stepping over the body - does that seem right to you?
There is libzstd-seek[1] which implements one convention[2] and also ZRA[3] which implements its own thing (apparently?) and then there’s the splittability discussion[4]... Clearly people want seekability, clearly the Zstandard maintainers do not want to get locked into a suboptimal solution. But I have to join this question: I can haz zstd seeks plz?

[1] https://github.com/martinellimarco/libzstd-seek

[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/seekable_f...

[3] https://github.com/zraorg/ZRA

[4] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395
> No offense, but I trust them over a rando on HN who built a solar array in his backyard :) .

That same rando built one in his backyard isn't nothing burger.
Could someone please explain to me how this is going to prevent "fraud"?

Is every buyer of a whole wheel of cheese expected to have a reader for these tags?

I feel sorry for the poor bastard who bought into the buzzword soup of the providers and decided to go on with this project :(
In 300 years it reaches the Oort cloud. Maybe it can get an airconditioning re-gas, and the windscreen rubbed by an old newspaper then.
After it kills plastic, how do we kill it
The launch vehicle of the Voyager probes could carry 15,000kg to LEO, the Falcon Heavy can carry 63,000kg. If we really wanted to send something out as fast as possible, we could do it much faster than this.
A little note about read replicas and problems I've discovered. It's often the case in code that you write a value to the DB then immediately read it back often in the form of a different query somewhere else.

If you are setup to do some kind of a round robin read from the read replicas you can often get a different read from what you wrote as the value hasn't replicated to your read replicas yet. The solution is to use the write endpoint when reading after a write.

He says that here but just wanted to point out that it can happen inside an api and cause real issues with data.
I wish Korg would also make these in eurorack format. At least this one looks easy enough to mod
> Almost all technology of any kind selects in favor of aesthetics over equal access.

I don't think accessibility should mean that you have to forgoe aesthetics or compactness for those users that don't need the contrast or extra space or whatever so these don't need to be opposed. Instead, provide options for users that do need them and/or integrate with OS or third-party accessibility tools where possible.

> Why can’t I choose the colors of web sites and applications?

I can choose my applications colors under KDE and pretty much everything "native" (Qt and GTK <= 3 apps) will respect those settings. This seems more of a problem in the proprietary ecosystem where each company wants to insist on their own branding.

For websites there are prefers-contrast [0] and prefers-color-scheme [1] media queries that in theory provide some user configurability but they are a) barely exposed to users b) not implemented by most websites and c) very limited. It would be nice if there was a standard way for CSS to refer to system fonts and colors - then again that would also be yet another privacy leak that WILL be used for tracking :|

> Why can’t I change the default system font for my iPhone or my Mac?

You can in other operating systems. Apple has always been about aesthetics first so this this shouldn't really be suprising - not that that excuses Apple from not providing these configuration options.

> Why can’t I change the font size in modern video games?

This has actually become more common for CRPGs now. I guess most less text-heavy games still don't bother. OTOH most new-ish games scale text with the screen resolution. Older games might have fixed absolute font sizes but if they are old enough they also have a fixed (or limited set of) supported resolutions and you need to scale up the whole thing anyway.

> Why do most desktop applications fall of the edge of the screen below 1080p?

Windows is really bad about having fixed-size dialogs everywhere. This is another of those things I like about Qt-based applications - they have always had flexible layouts unless the developer deliberately breaks that.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
How to implement a visual search in no time
Kacper Łukawski explained how to implement visual search without any effort by combining Qdrant with img2vec and Streamlit.
One week the media is up in arms because of payday lenders.

The next week--when someone does something--we are supposed to be outraged about that.

It's more anti-technology screed. Since it was founded by white men and billionaire Mark Cuban, we need to frame it as an exploitation narrative. Bonus points if you pronounced 'billionare' in a snotty tone.

Too bad the founders are the wrong sex. Otherwise we would have been hearing about how 'These women are taking on the exploitive payday loan industry and winning'.

If this application is helping people, then kudos to them.
I was never employed at Microsoft.
> I don't see how stablecoins are fundamentally a ponzi scheme

Of course they are not, but UST is. Stablecoins are different from each other. USDT, USDC and DAI are all collateralized (at least partially). UST is minted out of void by burning LUNA, creating demand for LUNA so creators get a profit and turn away, slashing all UST investors. It is an outright ponzi scheme hidden behind layers of DeFi jargons and borrowing trust from true stablecoins like USDC while being fundamentally different from any other responsible stablecoin.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
I believe that in the UK at least, word limits for essays are quite common (as in, I've heard them mentioned by several people who studied there).
I remember reading a blog around 2010 or so about someone listing "desiderata" for a scientific computing language - including Matlab, Python(?), etc. - and then settling on OCaml.

A functional language for data analysis and computation is certainly favorable. However in the meantime, Julia seems to have taken off so I wonder where OCaml stands in this space, also given its limitation with concurrency.
There is certainly not enough money invested in solar and storage. It is ironically that Musk rather spends money on buying twitter than investing into more battery production at Tesla.
Torments gameplay is not convoluted. The game is mostly about reading. Very unique and cerebral and quirky. It's awesome.
Technically "15% interest. No surprises." is correct
Is Homemade Baby Formula Safe?
They don't curate the search index by hand, and "obvious bad actors" aren't really that obvious from a "well-definable heuristic" point of view. It's obvious to a human, but it seems hard to identify via an algorithm
The author mentioned it in the conclusion:”If you're stuck for ideas, I recommend just building something; anything; even if it's terrible, and I guarantee a better idea will pop into your brain shortly after.”
it's more like a personal wikipedia/database than simple note-taking. And Dataview is all about CRUD that any database should have.
In the end 99% of people do boring things, first in teenage years well into 20s people have great ideas, they wanna change world and other nonsense until they hit reality and usually by 30s while having children they realize how naive they were and why were their parents boring, doing things like other people with no more great ideas anymore, just wanna live peaceful life with health and enough money.

Do what you want, not what other people tell you to do, but sooner you realize the reality the less energy you will waste on things you can't change. Same goes for success stories if billionaries, for each of these there are thousands and thousands failures which are not promoted in media. You can do whatever you want but statistically odds are against you acomplishing something great.

Btw. I was living in China which was definitely not boring country, but that craziness and excitement and constant changes can be manageable only for so long, before you get tired of them and before I left I was saying boring is good, can't wait to be back in boring Europe. I'm glad to be back in boring Europe, which is changing slowly compared to rapid changes in China. What changes in China in 1 year takes in Europe at least 5 years.
The king of applying call/cc to itself must be Oleg: https://youtu.be/MZBklDFpSAE
>Do you have any evidence that online charter schools are worse than online conventional schools?

I wrote exactly the opposite. Perhaps your poor reading comprehension makes you a less than ideal candidate for critiquing education?
>At the plant, the garbage is first mixed with a large crane so that all the different kinds and sizes of items are uniformly distributed for easier burning. Next, the waste is incinerated at extremely high temperatures, over 800°C (1,472°F). This reduces not only the volume to 1/20 of what it was but also the amount of dioxin gases produced by incineration. Multiple provisions are made to prevent gases and harmful substances emitted during incineration, such as sulfur oxide and particulate matter, from being emitted outside the facilities. Chimneys of waste incineration plants emit vapor—not smoke—that does not contain harmful substances. Heat energy produced by the incinerator is used to supply the electricity needs of the entire facility, with any remainder being sold (earning approximately JPY 9.8 billion annually, or USD78.6 million, in income from electricity). High-temperature water is also supplied to neighborhood swimming pools and tropical plant greenhouses.

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See also: Sweden also incinerates waste for heat and electricity, and a few years ago there was a story about how they ran out of trash and had to buy more trash from their neighbors.
The incidental rate of gastro, and a bunch of other things went down everywhere which isn't nothing. I think you've over stated things here a bit, Fomites are held to be low risk, but low isn't zero. I don't think the CDC is just covering itself for historical reasons.

There's no time where hand sanitising isn't helpful, unless you're deep into germ theory, or think the cleanser is breeding stronger germs
I found on here: https://developer.confluent.io/podcast/monitoring-extreme-sc...
> I remember YC stating that they will "forfeit" their shares in companies that turn out to do unethical things.

Shares in a company are typically "forfeit" when the company you invested in goes bust.

While its a nice virtue signalling headline - giving up something worth 0 (only not worth a large negative number as shares are limited in liability) is not at all noble.
Some days I think: I’m working on some cool stuff at my job, look how neat!

But today I know I’ll never work on a project as cool as interacting with hardware at the edge of our solar system.
He can try, it will not end well.

https://twitter.com/grvgr/status/1526971545356214275
I don't view this as race baiting. OP made a perfectly valid criticism that other comparable mass killings seemed to get a very different treatment. Live streaming shouldn't be a deciding factor here, and there are "like-minded people" for almost any niche if one looks hard enough on the internet.
The first thing you need to do is accept that you can't have everything you're looking for and that you have to explicitly decide on the tradeoffs you're comfortable with. The best writing on this subject comes from Tim Urban, in this lengthy but worthwhile essay: https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html.
Morrowind is amazing. One of the most unique game worlds i have ever experienced. I used to just wander around and explore without purpose, and always ended up finding some cool spot or an npc. I doubt i will ever get so immersed in a game again
Here's my 30-something perspective. It's mostly settled for 10 years now with little change, as I'm very happy with it.

I decided then what should be my guiding principle: build things, and don't become mainly a consumer of things.

That's very vague on purpose: "build things" can refer to writing, photography, build gizmos with electronics, inventing cocktails, woodworking, games theorycrafting, repairing broken stuff, and obviously developing things (that's my profession). Those have all been hobby of mine at some point, ranging from a few months to several years. I generally loose interest once I've learned enough or feel like it's starting to get repetitive or there is no way to progress without being a professional. And that's okay, those are hobbies.

Not being main a consumer doesn't mean never playing games, watching shows or socializing, but it does mean I'd rather not spend all my time on those. If I find myself spending too much time on those, I try to kick myself in the butt to build something instead.

Another decision was that I wanted to be my main job to be for societal good, and not a meaningless or morally questionable job. That means, for me, no banking, defense, ads at least. Despite not wanting to create a company, I ended up creating one (luckily when I was younger and had more energy and free time). Nowadays, I consider myself a regular employee with a weird "founder" status. This leaves me enough time to engage with whatever building I fancy at the moment.

As a consequence of those choices, there are a few things I had to make peace with: I'm never going to be really rich, I will stay firmly in the middle class (dev is a good position, but doesn't pay as much as in the states here). I will never be famous, I won't become an entrepreneur or businessman. Frankly, it's really okay: I don't want the stress associated with those, I'd rather have a happy life I can enjoy.
Sure, but if I remember correctly they said that they would give the shares back for free or something. So even if the unethical company didn't go bust but exited, they wouldn't get any cash.
The name "StableGains" sounded exactly like "SafeMoon", a heavily advertised pump-and-dump shitcoin that, unsurprisingly, was not safe, and did not go to the moon. Free money with no risk sure sounds appealing though, just don't think too hard about it.
I think personally, the biggest factor for using zstd is that compression settings don't matter for the decompression speed.

Doesn't matter if I used zstd-fast or zstd-19 the read speed is the same. Hence a lot of linux distros adopt it for packaging; they spent a few days of CPU time compressing their packages on zstd-19 (archlinux does IIRC), the user couldn't tell that it's been hard compressed like that.
I intentionally simplified that language to

> [accesses Gmail and also accesses other servers]

... because that's all that convoluted line means. Break it down:

- Access to "restricted scope Google user's data" (in this case, all we care about is Gmail)

- AND ability to access data from or through a third party server.

It's that last bit that people seem to be getting confused about. For example:

- if your app accesses Gmail and Hotmail accounts, then your app is doing both

- if your app accesses Gmail and also checks today's weather, you're doing both

- if your app accesses Gmail and sends basic usage telemetry. Or checks for updates. Or has plugins that provide spam checking or virus scanning... you're probably doing both

- if your app has ANY plugin system, it could be argued that your app is doing both.

While the language may be unclear, "third party server" is probably intended to reference any non-google service.

And my overall point still stands: YOU do not get to decide what triggers their security review. All you have the right to do is pay the bill.
Fair question. I’d rather see more of this than culture-war and politics.
>Security (no practical eavesdropping)

https://bestsecuritysearch.com/hackers-can-eavesdrop-victims...
Never say never ;)
Hmm, I don't see that.

In the spirit of the cutting edge, any chance you could give me a chain-of-reasoning on that inference?
15% interest?

No! Surprises!
Do the mods deal with reducing the amount of pterodactyls that swoop you?