skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as a tradesman mechanic, seeing an old-timer like Fred at work makes me swoon. in the states due to OSHA regulations, there are quite a few reasons why this sort of work would never get done, but Freds attention to safety and detail cant be missed.

Mr. Dibnah is a master craftsman. he makes scaling this chimney look like a sunday stroll.
> The firm is known to have had large positions in the Grayscale bitcoin Trust ...

This (GBTC) is a closed-ended fund that institutional investors have been picking up because it's the only way to get 100% bitcoin exposure from something that trades on major stock exchanges. It's not an ETF, although many treat it as such. In the past, its net asset value has traded at a premium to the underlying bitcoin. But in the last couple of years, that's changed. The NAV is now well below the value of the underlying bitcoin.

Unlike an ETF, there is no mechanism to keep GBTC's value equal to the underlying bitcoin.

The knock-on effects could be surprising. According to this filing:

> Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (Btc) (US:GBTC) has 87 institutional owners and shareholders that have filed 13D/G or 13F forms with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). These institutions hold a total of 32,132,151 shares. ...

https://fintel.io/so/us/gbtc

That 32 million share number translates into about 400 million dollars at the current price/share.
They give money but take your life time.
When you have a single window in a workspace, isn't it too big? I feel like it would be weird having all my text on the left side of a huge monitor when I only have a single terminal in the workspace
Usually thick insulation because you need mass to block bass.

Like rockwool: https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/products-and-applicat...
It is difficult to compare because we don’t have apples that have become smaller with higher nutritional value by approximately a factor of two every 18 months.
The thrust of your comment is accurate, though

> it seemed like its ended entirely

not quite: relative volume actually increased as a function of growing game popularity around the time of the introduction of bonds (http://crystalmathlabs.com/tracker/players.php - amusingly enough, this is currently serving me a first-party ad for goldbuying) but that obviously represented a slice of a previously-undivided pie.

It's like legal weed: black markets still exist for those willing to forgo security and convenience for a deal. IIRC, black-market gold was 40-60% of the face price of a bond for the period I was active as a reasonably high volume swapper/seller. That kind of discount isn't worth it if you're buying 10m or a single prerolled joint or whatever, but generally makes sense in any kind of volume / if you've got the connections to mitigate the risk.

But the analogy continues: if the black market is relegated to a fairly small proportion of the total pool of individuals who buy (weed|gp), even if a lot of the volume transactions aren't captured, many of its harms are mitigated as you don't have unsophisticated consumers smoking rat poison / getting their mom's credit card stolen / etc.
That's the Musk Myth.. in reality SpaceX was built by Mike Griffin who (1) funded him through In-Q-Tel and DARPA (2) crafted the commercial crew program for him while he was NASA administrator.

He even went with him to Russia before SpaceX was founded,

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin
A minor addition to clarify: if one did the same experiment inside an ideal gas, rather than a crystal, there are still atoms in the way (compared to vacuum) but there is no preferred direction through the atoms. Crystalline structure gives a preferred direction along the principal axes. This might mean there is less optical extinction along the principal axes from deep inside the crystal, for example, whereas from deep inside the ideal gas optical extinction is the same in every direction.

That is, the view varies depending on direction one looks within a crystal. "Symmetrical" means that the view should not vary that way. If we freeze our gas into a crystal lattice, we break this symmetry.
This is coercion and it does the exact opposite of convincing others. Making people understand one's politics is surefire way to get the opposite result.

Also, if someone does that to me, the first thing that comes to mind is "Fuck off". Unapologetically.

Not a good way to convince people.
I calculated the dot product in my head because it looked off. Then I calculated it in my computer. Then I came to the comment section before losing all confidence in what I thought was a dot product of two vectors.
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Eh? How does informing people of an alegation of showing his dick and then paying her off help those news viewers?

90% of what they report on Musk is irrelevant.
> One of the many fallacies here that hasn't already been pointed out is that it's impossible to determine the exact amount of revenue a single employee is responsible for in any real world employment situation.

Sure. But if it costs $100/hr in labor to run a McDonalds (split between cashier, burger flipper, fry guy), $100/hr in ingredients, and the store only produces $150/hr in revenue, it's not hard to figure out that those wages are unsustainable.

Blah blah, businesses don't deserve to exist if they can't pay whatever wage. Sure, but I'm not saying McDonalds deserves to exist--I'm saying those people won't have jobs when it becomes very obvious that the store is losing money.

Just because you can't pinpoint the exact contribution of every worker does not mean that you can't have a pretty good estimate of the contribution from retail workers in practice.
I know paper is old-school, but it's a lot easier to ignore the ads there, so I pay for the Sunday paper.

> Some of the local coverage was good, but I prefer even more focused coverage like CHS Blog/The Urbanist/Seattle Transit Blog and Geekwire.

Are these all Seattle-centered? Which of these do you recommend the most?
> Hue, saturation, and value are statements about human perception, not about the physical characteristics of light

Color in general is a statement about human perception, not physical characteristics of light. As Newton said, “the rays are not colored”.

Hue, chroma, and value are human-perceptual color attributes. They vary based on spatial and temporal context, and vary from observer to observer.

But people should not use the HSV color model (or your favorite image editor’s color picker) for this kind of analysis. It is a garbage tool for just about every purpose, but especially for this one. Munsell’s model, which is much more perceptually uniform, or e.g. the World Color Survey chart based on it https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/images/jrus-20100531/wcs-... are much clearer.
What would invalidate your belief that it is all just a greater fool scam?
"The leaked internal findings also serve as a cautionary tale for other employers who seek to emulate the Amazon Way of management, which emphasizes worker productivity over just about everything else and churns through the equivalent of its entire front-line workforce year after year."

"Amazon's attrition rates were 123 percent in 2019 before jumping to 159 percent in 2020, according to internal data in the report Recode obtained, while turnover rates across the US transportation and warehouse sectors were much lower: 46 percent and 59 percent respectively in 2019 and 2020, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates."
I think it’s roughly two weeks
Don't be ridiculous. The overwhelming majority of people are going to get married. More than 40% of them to someone they meet at work. That's just life.

Stop interpreting things the most hyperbolic way possible. Basic statistical facts paint quite a different picture than you are.
This could be an interesting tech for lower-power/lighter noise-cancelling headphones: a layer of metamaterial to dampen the higher frequencies, and active electronics for the remainder. I imagine there's _some_ of this already going on in the high-end headphone space, but lighter and longer-lasting headphones are always welcome.
Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31751242
Fiat kitted out a 500 EV to charge wirelessly while driving
Where's the button that lets me buy stocks with insider information before I adjust the rate?
My favourite idiocy is that gnome-terminal will offset the items in the right click menu and display hex and and octet translation of a number you happen to have highlighted... for reasons.

When someone posted this as a bug because of the obvious unintended idiocies with this a being a default immutable behavior, the maintainer essentially told him to f off and go build his own version.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644986

Made another MacOS covert with that exchange, I'm sure.
Thank you! I've looked around for macroeconomic simulations before and found very little. Looking forward to learning from this.
> Given clock speeds of multiple GHz, that means spending an entire clock cycle or more simply communicating between components.

Yeah that's expected isn't it? That's why we have caches on die. Nobody is out there expecting main memory reads to retire in a clock cycle, let alone IO! I don't think even lower tier cache access retires in a single clock cycles. That's just not how processors work these days.
> Ink & Switch is an independent research lab working on this problem.

Wow! Bookmarked.
Exactly what I thought. Laminar airfoils with max thickness far back do very well in the computer but they behave poorly. I would want to see proven that this plane is stable in all conditions.

Putting a hydrogen engine in it seems like a distraction.
If I can rephrase your comment, so now that I've refuted your "Why America not banned?" question, you pivot to "who cares about civilized society, might is right, everyone should just bow down before Putin's threat of violence! Resisting is what clowns do!".

If that's how you think, why do you care about CERN not doing the right thing like banning America when it endangered civilians who were trapped in dictatorships?

How about you look up the definition of grasping at straws...
This is probably not exactly what you're looking for, but I remember being very impressed with this guy's TDD workflow on Emberconf 2015:

"Toran Billups - test-driven development by example"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1vcg_XSR8
> Wouldn't any physical structure that's not homogeneous and isotropic also break symmetry in the same way. Does the room I'm in break symmetry as there's a different likelihood of hitting a wall depending on the direction I travel?

Uhuh, but enough to be physically detectable?
I mean, we haven't had a depression quite as world-shatteringly gigantic at the Great Depression since. Although I guess it isn't obvious if that's because the system we have now is somehow better, or if it is just the case that we've been more prosperous as a baseline since then, and so our various downturns haven't launched people into such a level of destitution.
>> The first time I ran the program, it finished in a couple seconds. I was sure something must have failed

At one of my first jobs I was a DBA supporting a CRUD app in the finance industry. The app had one report that took forever and usually timed out, I was told to take a look at it. The DB query was just missing a couple indexes so I added those.

After I added them, my boss told one of the users of the app to try out the report and she said it was still broken. He asked what she meant and she said she clicked the button and the page with the results came up right away. She thought it was broken because it didn't take forever.
its fixed now, likely it was hacker-news'd.
FYI the Fed used to have an educational game called "Chair the Fed". They took it down in 2021. I'll leave the meaning of that action as an exercise for the reader.

https://www.frbsf.org/education/teacher-resources/chair-fede...
What material wouldn't degrade over the lifetime of the chimney?
IIRC, Switzerland was doing funny things with bank deposits and exchange rates to control deflation until recently. So +2.5% inflation may represent a significant jump from where they were last year.
Really glad to see experiments in this direction. I was working on something similar writing https://github.com/xeoncross/typecrypt a couple years ago if someone wants to see a basic wrapper around https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...

What if you could create an iterable blob storage (prefix searches, range searches, date searches, etc..) and use that as the backbone for a social network/inbox system? It was a work in progress, I never finished it, but would like pick it back up when I have time.
Gross profit is not profit.

And the comment said "profit" not gross profit.
Thank you, Doreen, for being Doreen. Always an interesting take.
Nice! Edited videos are best evidence!
Please remove the strip-ey overlay you have, it makes the text actively harder to read.
Cheap money will come back again also, at least within 3-5 years
1. What did you try exactly?

2. How is this “regular integrity protection” defined formally?
> if you cannot control evaluation of forms / expressions

Assuming quote works, you can do:

(eval (macro-expand '(
# rest of file goes here
)))

which I think technically meets the standards for "trivial", albeit annoying.

(Edit: Although it'd have to be eval-with-macro-expand if you want proper first-class macros.)
But even that is more real than Crypto. That’s a currency used to buy something people wanted.
Because they have no reason to be afraid of deportation for being undocumented.

Employers of undocumented immigrants frequently break labor laws because they can get away with it because their employees are too afraid to do anything about it.
I read it but can’t find anything he said about his political philosophy. Am I missing something?
> Is it radical to think that to some, progress might mean _more countries_?

I find hard to believe that anyone would put that in front of more basic needs like food, safety, home.

Sure, once basic needs are satisfied, our goals start to diverge, and rely more on our subjective views of the world.

But is the world even close to that? Should we disregard basic needs as a solved problem that we don't even think about anymore?
We do. It's called D
Aside from making it much less likely that customers will return, it'll also lead to threads (and word of mouth) like this which will deter some, and if you overdo it, it even risks attracting regulation.

That may not be enough of an incentive to overcome the immediate benefit, but it's not nothing.
A company's true loyalty is naturally to its shareholders but it's a bit of a cop out on your part to deny the fact that there are different levels of ethicality within different companies (palentir vs yacht games).
I like static site generators more than in-browser CMS, or syncing/exporting from my editor.
I really wanted to like it but the ui is very unappealing to me.
> Do we exist just to eat, shit, and breed?

we exist because we eat, shit, and breed. But that will end too.

We are just an expression of processes in the unfolding universe.
Batteries should only be used to get the car to and from the the charged roads. This tech will allow for cars to be produced with sub 100 mile ranges, making them lighter and cheaper.

I always thought this was the next step in EVs. Plugging in EVs at electric gas stations is using new technology in an old way (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40673694).

edit- It would probably be better to have the charging tech separate from the road, like something placed on top, or on the side of the ev lane, so existing roads could still be used.
In EU tech salaries are getting a bit better. Maybe Switzerland is a happy mid-point between the US and EU where you can have great compensation and quality of life? UK can also pay well, in some cases close to CA, and offer a decent quality of life. But definitely a bit inferior to Germany unless you manage to live in some of the nice spots.

There's something which has not been discussed here, although it is perhaps not the OP's priority. As a European, I feel I fit much better culturally in the US rather than in Germanic countries. With the exception of Spain, UK and perhaps Italy.

First, there is no language barrier for me. Second, I feel that foreigners click well. Actually, I feel I am not seen as a foreigner. Whereas in Germany or Scandinavia there is a weird glass ceiling. Maybe big cities like Munich or Berlin are not like this, though.

It has not bothered me much, but some of my foreign friends actually relocated to the US because of this reason.
I was supporting them for a while.

Unfortunately, over the past few years, they stopped doing journalism and are just trying to output the same misleading clickbait as everyone else, interspersed with ideology-driven, fact-free propaganda pieces.
If only people understood that accusations aren't fact and we evolved to Innocent Until Proven Guilty.
Anything outside.

Hiking, running, cycling, bike packing, bird watching, fly fishing.

Whatever is affordable and practicable where you live.

As Group_B said, no screens.
High Scalability (http://highscalability.com) comes to mind first for me.
I am not justifying anything. I am putting numbers behind your belief that “everyone who works for 40 hours a week should be able to support a family of four”. It’s easy to talk about ideals until the cold reality of numbers, inflation, etc are brought up.

How do you propose we restructure our economy so that everyone get a wage that supports a family of four?

How many people do you think will “lose out” if inflation sky rockets where food isn’t affordable? You can look at places like Venezuela to see what happens.

Do you personally give away enough of your income to bring your compensation down to the median household wage of $65K a year?

I assure you that I’m not a conservative by any means. I’m card carrying member of the F*## the police (and have been since the 90s), BLM, keep religion out of policy, pro-choice brigade.

But I’m also a student of economics and an MBA drop out with one course remaining (CS undergrad)
Repped for Jedi Mind Tricks, haven’t listened to them since high school. Always thought their lyrics were so profound and in a league of its own.
> find out whether their leader could take criticism and help them make a better company and product together

This is cringe worthy. They knew exactly what would happen and expected to rally support online. I can't say with certainty what the ultimate goal was.
Also LTCM had something like 1 trillion dollars in swaps. It put the entire world economy at risk.
Hmmmm. PathOfEclipse replied here with a similar quality comment to that I answered, which I replied to with HN guidelines. Now the comment is gone - confusing. This is off-topic, but I need this sentinel. Topic now removed from front page so I presume I am not creating refuse.
About his recent republican coming out: he knew a paper about his flight attendant story was about to come out. The journalists contacted him for comments before publishing. He didn’t comment but did this coming out PR stunt just before the article was published, so that he could pretend it was all made up to punish him joining republicans.

The journalists decided to publish the article anyway.

He’s lying and turning his fan base into hating the democrats who have nothing to do with the article.

That’s who he is, that’s what he does.

He’s lying and turning his fan base into hating the democrats who have nothing to do with the article.

That’s who he is, that’s what he does.
Okay but at the highest level, who directs that work? Who decides what needs doing and how to allocate that human capital? Who's mind is directly responsible for the creation and orchestration of SpaceX?

Labor means nothing if not done for an intelligent purpose. For S0aceX employees, Elon Musk is the source of that intelligent purpose. Of course labor beyond what one man can supply will be necessary for any worthwhile pursuit. What matters is not the labor, but the source of the intelligent purpose that gives the labor a common goal and guides it towards it.
Access to the vault ≠ access to unlocked vault. This is the whole point of storing anything encrypted on your disk.

The password managers don't protect against a malware running on your laptop with root privileges and attaching to your processes. They protect against someone taking the disk out of your computer and trying to extract the passwords.
Gold has a variety of industrial uses as well as aesthetic value. At minimum, it's a heavy physical object, and heavy objects also have a variety of uses.

Beyond that, the less rational reasons people value gold as if it had intrinsic value are at least deeply rooted in our history & culture.
yes but this is not news
Being data-driven is how you get Google's UIs where every color is A/B tested and yet nobody likes the results. Nobody is actually qualified enough to use statistics this way, and nobody who has good taste enough to make the decisions when you don't get good data back is going to put up with the A/B test in the first place.
Yes and no, cross source info allows people to know bulneravility that help change behaviors,much time big data means better
and cheaper data tools, like easy accea to optimize internal proces or better ui
Bullshit, perfectly fine people having their lives screwed as a result of minor crimes committed years ago. Basically they've been denied any meaningful jobs because of the record.
"changed the world". a couple of 5MB drives were important, but delivering 4 300MB drives to every credit union, bank, and medium sized business is what changed the world.
Similarly I immediately lowered to -0.25% and left it there, really quite stable and climbed gradually (not monotically, but close) to 442370.

I assume it needs a bit of a tweak for negative inflations, or is limited by the events being fixed - 'people spend 12% less' is more likely to happen at higher interest rates for example. And in particular if we weren't leaving it fixed but had only just lowered it, (i.e. increased motivation to spend) that wouldn't really make sense.
:) ha you are one of the few accounts on here who's usually roughly aligned with me on these types of things
Games isn't gone. It's doing better than ever in Vancouver.

EA is so bursting at the seams due to growth that they're expanding to a new City of Vancouver studio.
> Using your logic, any IDE with a settings dialog is crap…

You are reading things into my comment that aren't there. Maybe you should reread it. Especially the part where I talk about the separation of project specific configs and general IDE configs. Or how your CI should be able to pick these things up.

> It sounds more so like you hate VSCode

What else are you seeing down there in the tea leaves? Did I say anything about VSCode?
I think the first solution is we agree that a leopard fence would be a good thing. Then we can agree or disagree about how to actually build it.

I'm much more in favor of unionization than you'd think, but I don't think unions are a reliable defense from these kinds of leopards.
In my first game, I carefully managed the interest rate to keep inflation around 2%: Your economy produced 431540 apples.

Next game, I set the interest rate to -0.50% right away and left it there: Your economy produced 442411 apples. Inflation was 1.5% in the end.

Doesn't seem to matter too much what you do. Maybe in real life too.