skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a fellow who is running a startup that moves a (very) heavy weight up a hill, and going back down it provides power. He says it is something like 90% efficient at energy recovery, whereas pumped water is far less due to friction in the pipes.

He also said the inertia of a falling weight is enormous, and would help stabilize the grid.
No. The worst outcome is you make no money AND you have to pay AMT on gains you never were able to realize.
solar powered, hopefully?
It's grammatically correct but possibly unclear, so I edited it for clarity.
In the US, many police do have law degrees. It’s practically required if you want to be an FBI Agent.

Honestly I don’t think police need to be well versed in bankruptcy law, contract law, arbitration law, corporate law, tax law, or all the other types of law lawyers learn.
Can someone explain how much more or less sense Sycamore makes conceptually in Rust for webapps?
This site brought back nice memories. I gave two WebTV's to family members, and both times it was a big hit. In both cases a much bigger hit than I had anticipated. I wasn't able to pin it down exactly, but both seemed to feel somewhat, "left out" by the web and the WebTV seemed to "give them permission". I wasn't surprised when over the years it just faded away, but for it's time, it was a good product.
As someone who actually pays taxes, and who avoids being in debt, I’d sure like it if you did. Do you think when someone signs a contract with you that they should adhere to it?
One question that comes to mind about this hypothesis, is if there is sexual dimorphism in neck length.

Apart from the sexual prowess demonstrations, many of these ale traits for sexual combat are in fact a disadvantage. For example the brightly colored peacock, or the massive deer antlers, or as the article mentions, the massive sizes of walruses.

In those cases, the female has a more optimal body, optimizing for survival vs sexual combat.

If the neck of giraffes was primarily for sexual combat, you would think there might be some dimorphism.
It does kind of depend - I've made a career of being both: being the log designer that understands software (and makes sure the registers make sense etc) and/or the software guy that understands the c hips (and can read the verilog and find the bug) etc etc

Both require deep domain knowledge that doesn't always overlap - but being able to do both makes you more valuable
Ok, but "I think renewables will get cheaper faster than nuclear" is a very different claim than "renewables are way cheaper than nuclear right now."
I wrote a medium-sized Rust web component with Yew, https://github.com/finos/perspective . I chose Rust/Yew for circumstances unique to my use case (a core data engine already in WASM/C++), and with some prior experience in both web and Rust. It's more complex than Typescript/React development for sure, but I also found it surprisingly capable/comprehensive once you've learned Rust itself, there's very little consolation in the Yew web app development experience outside of the complexity of Rust, and the application model is quite similar to React (wrt to markup in Rust source). It's also quite helpful (in my case) that contributors can work on data-engine and user experience features in the same language,

If traditional JavaScript web app development fits your needs, I don't think Rust/Yew makes a compelling case - but in the presence of other performance-abusive requirements, it's a viable web app platform as well.
There is nothing about crypto that prevents scams.

But in the regular banking system we have decades of experience in how to mitigate the impacts of them e.g. account insurance, MFA for any new transfers or over a certain limit, auditing by independent regulators.
Oh, come on. This is just fear mongering. Quillete will be off on another moral panic next month, this one will be forgotten. It won't come true, Quillete will not apologize for fear mongering, and they will not change.
Highly recommend https://www.lynalden.com/
> Data from 90,504 postmenopausal women, aged 50 to 79, over nearly 19 years of follow up [... showed that] women who consumed at least one sweetened drink per day were 73% more likely to develop liver cancer than women who had three or fewer sweet drinks a month. Women who drank one or more sweet beverages daily had a 78% higher risk, according to the data.

Ok, so there's a big difference between 0.1 per day and 1.0 per day, but more than that is almost negligible. No control for other lifestyle factors, though I'm sure we could confirm this even approximately with self-reported activity measurements.
> why would I use Rust and Web Assembly

Why not? It's a fast, general purpose programming language with a solid type system. The article is a programming tutorial, it's not trying to persuade you to rewrite your employer's web stack in rust.

> but is starting with the highest level of complexity a good idea

Complexity is in the mind of the beholder, if you work with rust often, this is a couple steps above a "hello world" in terms of complexity. Besides, anything that goes beyond string templates and jquery is too complex according to the zeitgeist.

> And the code example puts mark up directly inside Rust files… why

This is a pretty common approach to "component" style web development, there are quite a few motivations for this but the primary advantage is that it causes markup elements to become first-class entities within your code, allowing your view composition to be checked by the compiler as well as allowing you to design your own reusable markup elements that fold up application level concerns. It's also nice when your views have lexical access to your application state variables so you don't have to pre-render a big string template and interlace it with an explicit map of serialized parameters - it's very nice when the compiler lets you know a view simply cannot display the type of data you're trying to shove into it rather than rendering a broken looking page.
it needs to be a total loss

there can’t be any value
This is great advice that bets that the system is a going concern. If the system collapses, then the bet goes sour.

Of course, if the system collapses green pieces of paper will be just as valuable as any stock certificate.
Half a college degree is two years of credits. That may or may not be an associates degree.

Generally, if a student in a four year program drops out at two years, they get nothing.

But they could enroll in a two year program, and if their credits transfer graduate in a year.

Few colleges (including two year) will offer a degree with less than a year of study, even with transfer credits.
It’s so depressing to see Microsoft suppressing open source seemingly to prop up Visual Studio sales. The truth is Visual Studio is bloated, dated, slow, and clunky and the experience in the modular and customizable VS Code is much better.
Raising taxes long predates MMT, and it will keep happening long after people have stopped trying to sell MMT.

MMT takes the interesting twist of claiming that the means, taxation, is actually an end in itself.

I don't disagree that it looks like a decent description of how many countries run, but the assumptions propping up the theory would rapidly fall apart if governments acted on the beliefs that MMT espouses.

The theory rests on the probably correct assertion that you can only voluntarily default in a currency that you print with impunity. But that statement sits atop a tacit assumption that the money is worth the paper it's printed on. In reality, any country pursuing this theory will inflate its currency to the point where the currency can't be used internationally, and the citizens will abandon the currency to the extent that it hasn't been made illegal to do so.

If they can't skip out on the inflationary currency, the people who failed to flee in time will stop working and innovating consistent with the degree to which the hyperinflation means that there is no means of saving for the future.

The hyperinflating government will try a combination of preventing emigration and ownership of stable stores of value (gold, foreign currencies.) The leakiness of the system keeps everything from fully and officially failing, but MMT's guarantee of no default will ring hollow when the government can't afford to feed its political prisoners or even the guards watching them.

Of course, I've used the wrong verb tense, because I'm describing Venezuela.
Same. Just part of my goal to get 20k steps per day while listening to a good book.
No masks though
oh for sure these vegan documentaries are going to cherry pick footage (because the goal is to shock and expose) but it’s not as though they were invited to film in multiple locations around the world and chose the most messed up place of the bunch. The problem is that most people have this like cartoon visual in their head of farming and that these animals are killed gently and instantly when an extreme opposite is closer to the truth.

I’d argue that industrialized slaughter is just never going to look good regardless of what facility it is. Lab grown meat is something I would support but as it stands today the meat industry is an abject horror and deserves to be exposed.
Thanks much, contributions, however small, are greatly appreciated. We're starting to unify docs at https://docs.taxonworks.org. I've updated the link to point to the corresponding location there.
Actually, In the country I am from, Active funds still handily beat Index funds as of today.

Understanding Macro cycles via economics might be part of the said 'edge'.
Even if you somehow liked this work environment, you'd be crazy not to take that deal, right?
Live 11 is becoming more of a cpu hog to my iMac Pro with each M1 update. It crashes the most often of all my DAW software. That said while I could go back to Logic or Cubase I still get 10x more music done with live vs the others. I remember about 10-12 years ago live version 7 or 8 was way behind schedule so much so that the CEO/Owner made a statement about it. This is all from memory though so some details may be wrong. I say that to say that is suspect that the code base is probably more fragile than the others.
Just a nitpick but

s/decimated/devastated/

Decimated means 10% death rate (usually as an brutal lesson). Did stocks lose 10% or did 10% of stocks just get liquidated?
My parents grew up in the depression and I was in high school in the 70s. I'm very careful with money, and have always been a frugal saver. Of course, people who save money are punished the most by government policies, and especially by politicians like Joe Biden.
Takashi Murakami apology for dropping NFT price
Sure, everyone says they want humanely sourced gummy worms. But there’s still a niche market for that fresh worm with the gummy goo still coagulating.
Most VCs liquidate most of their position around IPO except for really blowout exceptions, so that should tell you something about what the smart early money does on IPOs :)

We were in an ipo just recently with same-but-different setup:

- sold some immediately at the pop to recuperate the principal

- ... Note this may count as a short-term capital gain (< 1yr, ...) with higher taxes, so factor in. That makes a floor.

- In retrospect, I should have examined the P/E ratio and sanity checked revenue growth against growing into a reasonable P/E multiple, and raised the floor based on that difficult road, but was lazy :) There are other ways to quickly handle risk for the private/public transition: something is better than nothing.

- we kept the rest bc we liked the company long-term, incl.desired risk, vs wanting to pay taxes to diversify it. It of course went way down below the pop, and markets now stink, but everything at this point is 'free money' that we are ok with. We view it as a long-term holding so are ok with that

- If it fails to go an upswing over the next couple of years, we'll sell at a more forgiving long-term capital gains tax rate. Likewise forced to bail sooner if tanks below market.

Everything happening now is basically profit, and we are ok with most outcomes. The real risk was pre-IPO, and the rest is about profit handling. If we had held even earlier-stage shares, as in the early employee or VC case, we would have sold more.
Wait I thought that trying to increase white population by banning abortion was a revisionist view.
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You tell me: which component of a cryogenic energy storage system is not already in use in some process (air separation or otherwise)? One of the attractions of this sort of thing is it's composed entirely of things that are already quite mature, and that have existing supply chains.
Not everyone, I grew up in abundance but became a total cheapo in adulthood. It has been kind of a problem actually. I don't spend on some things that I really should spend on.
I suspect the reason is that semiconductor industry relies much heavier on captial (comparing to talents) than software industry given the same level of risk. One or two talented software enginners can bootstrap a company with reasonable amount of success that can be a good indictor of future larger success. You can't do that in semiconductor industry.
The only reason they're saying this is because they have their assets in hand and now want the value of it to rise and stabilize.

They have no intention of being held accountable, they just want the market illusion to make it LOOK like someone will be accountable.
Mercurial performance is still terrible for large codebases.
Not a documentary but visually stunning: The Fall

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
45m, for most of the world, means meters.
When I first read the title I thought that was awesome! Just around the block. But reality disappoints.
Very quiet places are within reach of most HN crowd, if so they desire. Don't procrastinate waiting for a gamma ray burst :)
Andreeson is very rich and he wrote Mosaic and Netscape, so he’s smart.

But he always seemed kind of full of BS with Opsware and stuff and cashed out by selling to a greater fool, I think HP or something.

So I’ve always looked at his offerings and not understood why they are valuable.

I never thought he was trying to scam, but this clip seems to be total BS to the extent that they are just cashing in on a more broad set of greater fools.
Curious - is there anything that would make you think that this is not “fear mongering / moral panic” ?
> The returns that capital demands

What does that mean? Are you "demanding" any returns from your investments? How? Who exactly is "demanding" returns on capital? And who are they demanding it from?
Data driven people know that the quality of data and how its collected is important and justifiably dismiss anecdotal data which doesn’t meet those standards. GIGO.
Which is of course meaningless, since curtailment increases with the amount of installed wind/solar. What matters is how much curtailment there would be in an optimal all-renewable energy system.

I tell you what: show me a cost optimized renewable energy system in which the electrolyzers have a capacity factor of 5%.
Obligatory death by neutrinos.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
> An asteroid mass black hole would strike the Earth causing a massive amount of gamma radiation cooking everything on the surface

I'm ignorant on the matter, could you explain why this would happen? A black hole with a mount Everest mass would be a tiny fraction of a micrometer in diameter. Even assuming a huge asteroid we would be talking about micrometric objects so I don't understand how could they create such a dire scenario if traveling through Earth.

For comparison an Earth sized black hole would be ~9mm in diameter if my Google-fu is correct.
Oklahoma. I'm actually working with a kid from Ohio State who's constantly ragging on their program for not even teaching Verilog much less how to build an ASIC.

Purdue's program is ok, but it's a veritable bastion of academic excellence compared to schools that have no staff that have ever performed a tapeout, which is most of them.

Electrical Engineering departments have tons of faculty who know what they're talking about. CS departments have people who mostly kinda sorta know what they're talking about (even if they're 10 years out of date, which is an eternity in CS).

I would wager most schools don't have a single faculty member who's performed a small tapeout, much less a big project for an industry leader. Actual ECE, VLSI, the building of chips, is a wasteland on the academic side of the house IMHO.
Bullshit. The missiles have only limited sensors and maneuvering capability. Commercial satellites don't provide real-time targeting data. And cheap drones lack the range for this mission. You obviously have no clue what you're talking about
Tech IPOs 2012-2022: Hits and Misses
Oh but you have to use breeders (or perhaps sea water uranium extraction) for a global nuclear-powered economy. Burner reactors run out of sufficiently cheap uranium in less than a decade at that scale. That pesky "scale" thing again.
I find the other trade off (against the extra fuel consumption from each takeoff and climb) interesting. Additional fuel is consumed to carry the weight of the additional fuel required for a longer range (and so that is recursive). For example, under the Weight - Flight Distance heading of the Fuel Economy in Aircraft Wikipedia page, it notes that for trips above 3000 NM, it is more efficient for a 777-300 to make a stop for refuelling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
Ask HN: If you know all life on Earth was going to end in 1 hour via this device, what would you spend the last hour doing?
Makes me think of the intellectual elbow grease that it takes to interpret ratings of photography equipment. There is always the guy who tells us this inkjet printer is a piece of crap and he shows pictures he took of the prints he made that look just like the prints I make when I put the photo paper in upside down.

Some fraction of the bad reviews come from people who are getting bad results who don't know what they're doing, but there are some lenses like Sigma lenses for Canon bodies circa 2010 that seem to be bad 10% of the time and you want to catch that. (Reminds me that Sigma makes some really good lenses for Sony bodies these days and I could use something to replace my long lens)
Many people support CO2 taxes to raise the price of fossil fuels when gas prices are low. When gas prices are high I see very few people cheering it on or attempting to claim credit for all their great work to raise the price.

It's tough to really get that ball rolling if that's your goal due to this marketing issue.
Cited paper, it's quite short: https://academic.oup.com/cdn/article/6/Supplement_1/259/6606...
Debugging the device to make sure it’s working correctly.

Regret everything soon after.
I'm not sure what the service life of a wind turbine is, but 20 years is about right for a photovoltaic solar panel. The power output begins to fall off drastically at that point.
I think most people (including GP) would agree that sociology and psychology have not lived up to the standards of positivism, hence the replication crisis. But if you think those fields are dubious sciences as GP suggests, it seems strange to suggest fixing those fundamental methodological issues by doubling down on an already-dominant paradigm that contributed to them.
Maybe 2040 though.
To think one would ever have three months savings in cash sounds insane to me.

In the USA unexpected expenses (beyond monthly savings) can completely wipe a three month savings in a heartbeat.

Add to that getting laid off during a recession and you’re in for real pain.

I guess it’s just been 12 years since people ever had to deal with a bad economy.
A GRB wouldn’t cause much immediate death. The burst itself lasts from seconds to a minute and would be sufficiently blocked by the atmosphere that whatever reached the surface would not be dangerous.

The danger to life comes later. The burst interacts with the oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere in a way that would greatly reduce the ozone layer and produce a photochemical smog.

This would give us years of dangerous UV levels, a global cooling effect that might not be too bad but could be very bad if we happen to be a time of climate instability, and acid rain.
I help work on Compound (https://withcompound.com/) (author of the essay also works at Compound).

We help tech employees manage their finances and specialize in equity compensation.

Our essay on equity and taxes may also be useful to those looking to better understand stock options: https://manual.withcompound.com/equity-guide-for-employees-a...
I suspect parent was making an economics joke

etulips == electronic tulip mania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I was going to post this same question. It also leads to introspective questions about whether or not you are doing what you want to do with your life, given that we are all mortal.

Perhaps that was the reason for this project in the first place.
Options are typically not profitable unless you win the lottery. I view them as a scam and RSUs are met with the same level of skepticism.
> I don't make 12 trips a day to stores/friends/whatever when I can just make one or two

This seems like a bit of a straw man. I live in a pretty suburban area and drive my car probably 2-3 time a week. I've rarely seen my neighbors, even the ones with a bunch of kids drive more than 2 or 3 times a day.

If you've known people that "make 12 trips a day" they might be a very rare anomaly, I don't think this is normal behavior from what I observe.
The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia
It's a different claim. It's looking at trends rather than at a specific point.

Solar historically declines in cost by 24% for each cumulative doubling of production (of the solar hardware). Solar is about 4% of global electricity production now, so scaling it to saturation (just for current electricity demand, which will grow as the world becomes richer and more electrification replaces fossil heat) would drop the cost by another factor of 3.
It is, and it’s an about face from when the racists were pro-abortion because black mothers were accessing them.
"sorry guys, that was just a test" - can you imagine?
What blows the mind is why would anyone use Facebook instead of google search or your phones map application to find this kind of thing.
> I was hungry the other day when hanging out in SOMA in San Francisco, so I tried searching for "burritos near me"...

It’s unfortunate that they did not compare this to Google Maps.

I have had very positive experiences using Maps for queries like this.
I've never seen 45m to mean minutes
As the 'new people' come on board, they have no knowledge of Microsoft's criminal past, and are constantly surprised by the things that Microsoft does, and need to be educated on its past activities.

In the days of the Usenet, that kind of thinking was embodied as "The Eternal September" where older members continually had to educate the never-ending new people on the required Usenet etiquette.

Miguel has been told again and again that Microsoft would inevitably stab him in the back. He wouldn't listen. Tough titties, Miguel.
I worked in a semiconductor school at a tenant organization. When the crunch was on, the parking lot was full at midnight before Christmas.

Pay was not so great as judged by the cars. The other thing was that the workforce was split - you were either old or young.

If you want to make money in semiconductors, find a place they are building fabs and become a plumber or electrician. Those are the folks who make money, and often there’s security clearance requirements that adds job security.
Almost the same experience, 4 years. I've even stayed after it for another ~3 years because it was ~3x pay as a tech for doing less restricted stuff (no need to convince my committee what I do is important) and learning to run essentially a mini-startup within a lab, while being restricted in my portability due to visa policies.