skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texas energy pricing went up because of losses incurred in early 2021 during the infamous winterstorm that resulted in runaway prices.

Most energy companies ran into losses, but the supervising authority approved loss recovery via price increases over a number of years.
> You can’t seriously claim that he was broke while being part of an emerald mining family?

Unless he was completely estranged from his father for almost his entire adult life, which seems to be the case.
They probably saw what happened when Amazon acquired Crytek and decided against it.
I have AT&T fiber right now (500 plan) and Google has become available in the past couple months. AT&T has been great but if my intro rate goes up next month I will switch to Google. The only thing I am not happy with AT&T is that I can't use my own modem/router combo and the options on their router are lame (can't even setup my own DNS network wide). 500mb is more than enough but if my rate goes up Google will only be $5 more for 1GB.
I have seen colleagues working long hours because they take 2 hours of lunch break and 1 hour of teabreak. And management think they are hardworking.
Good question. It's destroying the money to the extent that it's servicing government debt.
They don't have nearly the same power on a federal level. But the people of Kansas do have some power, thanks to the Senate. New York has much more power in the House than Kansas.

Let me turn the questions around: how would it be fair for Kansas to have no power federally at all?

New York can pass laws about what happens in New York. But if New York wants to pass laws about what happens in Kansas, the people of Kansas deserve a voice.

States are independent political entities representing very different groups of people. The EU does the exact same thing as the US federal government. If you don't give smaller states some amount of power and respect, there is not reason for them to participate on your federation.
Software is only half of the equation
I'd probably pick "Software Archaeologist". I've got a soft spot for old programming languages, code bases, etc.
Bingo. Nothing about a "recession" makes it easier or harder for upper management to manage performance. If they were good at it before they're good at it now and if they were bad at it before, they're not going to suddenly get any better at identifying poor performers. But if layoffs are going to have to happen for unrelated reason, might as well try to spin it so that those that are left behind feel grateful and prideful rather than resentful and worried.
By this logic you shouldn't put your money in a bank either.

(I'm not justifying Celsius, just saying there are plenty of 'bank' like places to store your crypto)
Caring about sustainability makes people especially miserable. Perhaps underscoring the point that pleasure is not the right goal...
If FB goes out of EU, people will just move to another social network on the list. ( There are many social networks out there )
An important part of the first step is to add the distinction _under pressure_. I don't consider myself to be an expert persuader by any means, but I have found the ability to find clarity under pressure.

Others have mentioned getting experience through public speaking classes or Toastmasters events. That kind of direct experience is great, and I think there's also a benefit that comes indirectly from formal meditation practice. In my experience that means committing to sitting for a period of time, holding my attention on the sensation of my breath, and returning it there whenever I'm distracted. Those distractions include thoughts and feelings, but also environmental stimuli like loud noises. It develops the ability to rest in discomfort and to maintain concentration.

I've found meditation to be the ultimate tool for enhancing metacognition all-around. It's definitely a long-term investment though, in my experience.
They did willingly give the data to the police. Compare Apple v. FBI. "But the iPhone was encrypted" - nothing is stopping Facebook from encrypting Messenger.
> I mean, if you want a bleaker example, look at the capos in concentration camps.

I think that's actually more or less the same system that I was referring to, I just couldn't remember the term.
I haven't seen anyone try a test. It seems to be limited to the kind of roads where they'd be visible well in advance. My guess is that it will shut itself off well in advance as a result of seeing an anomaly.

But its hard to say, since noone seems to have tested that publicly. Here's an article that gives a fairly balanced look at some of its other failure modes, though: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/a36118292/supe...

"It made it 8.8 miles before abruptly yanking the wheel left, toward the median, and canceling."

Nothing about this would keep me from using it. I'm sure its a great system, but like all of them, it requires attention. If you don't intervene (as it expects you to) accidents can happen.
Even when running Linux, people don't understand let alone control their machines anymore. There are components of your computer which, by design, allow third parties to seize control of it irrespective of the OS you run.

The last understandable practical computer was probably the Amiga. And AmigaOS was better understood than Linux despite being closed source, so open source was never a sine qua non in the Amiga community the way it is in the Linux community.
Perhaps that is actually what the police were investigating at the time.
He did start an LLC but it's not a business in the sense that he's hiring a corporate structure around it or kicking up VC funding, or even trying to make a profit. It's admirable because how many other ISPs can you point to with this model? I can't think of any.
Network Sultions requires you to renew .io domains 26 days prior to expiration
I do not really understand their structure. There is a bunch of engineering scopes, and then one set for the engineering management (all scopes are covered)?

In other words you can have a "M7 Security Senior Engineering Director"?
> But only when you have a noteworthy celebrity, a reality TV show, and everything that is involved in that, do you have an opportunity to even scrape the surface on many of these sites. The funding just isn't there.

Or proposed building works - most day-to-day archaeology is funded by developers as part of the planning process.
Everyone talking about not having E2EE in messenger, am I missing something? How would one implement E2EE on a web application? How would the key sharing work on such a transient platform?
Yep, quite sure you are right.

Solid positioning is key with dev tools.

All I'm saying is out of all companies trying to reach folks on Twitter Supabase is doing (imho) very good job.
Ingesting CSV Data for a Crypto Accounting App with Flatfile
Do you think that if an electric Enyaq got stuck on the same update the situation would be different?
Why is the convo always about his behavior instead of about the fake accounts and the proof of how many there are. I feel like everything boils down to that but no one’s really at discussing that.
>If you don't agree, I suggest you try the experiment yourself :)

I'll take you at your word. I guess it sucks to be you.

I don't agree or disagree. Rather, DeNederlandsche Bank disagrees with your assessment. Take it up with them, I have no skin in that game.
Compared to a fully equipped and financed archeology team from today, which is not the case. Those who discovered the site know they are underequipped and underfunded for the specific site. In this case, reburying is cheap and effective.
Someone should probably have a stock, but it is not clear to me that it should be the automakers.

For those components that are used by multiple different automakers (and others) wouldn't it make more sense for the component manufacturers to be the ones stocking?
> I've lived through decades of running into software with names like "Easy Driver Finder", "Quick PDF joiner", "Simple Disk Partitioner" and such, which so often turn out to be crap/non-free/unusable trial version/malware.

I have a few friends who use windows. They live in this weird world where everything they call "free" is a trap. They are usually very impressed when I show them repositories and flathub.
I'm feeling that Maslow slide too. Expect a really clever money-making idea to come along any time now.
Huh? There is huge variability between factories. It’s not like a country of a billion plus people is doing the same quality work throughout…
I follow Supabase on Twitter. It's fine. It doesn't bother me.

They also do this in their blog posts which makes it less boring to read through.

I'm sure they'll get more serious once they are able to target bigger businesses.
I know quite well. This article is in many ways me trying to figure out how to do just that. I know I can't just say "I know a lot about this, trust me and just answer my question." But if just asking the plain question is perceived as patronizing, how can I move on? Sometimes, getting some maneuvering room and empathy from the other side helps tremendously.

I legitimately do not know what patronizing is. I have an abstract understanding of it, and it baffles me why anybody would do something like that. Yet it is an abstract force with very real consequences I have to deal with.
I used to take the Chicago Metra and ride in the vestibule to exit the train quickly. The same 8 people would always be there every day but this gentleman, "Gary", would always carry the conversations.

People were just drawn to him and I was in awe of how he captivated us with his stories. I was able to study him for a couple of years and came up with a list of how he was able to hold our attention:

1) Gary spoke loud (he had to since we were in the train entryway) but did not shout.

2) He adjusted his tempo of speaking to match the urgency of his story. Just like a good song, he had noticeably different ways of expressing himself.

3) Just as he adjusted his speaking, his hand movements and facial expressions also supported his story telling.

4) He was older (maybe early 60s) so he had a lot of life experience.

5) He was not condescending or patronizing. He was very empathetic with his audience and the stories he told. You could tell that he really cared about the subjects of his stories and how we could relate to them.

6) He knew everyone's name. So when he talked to you he would use your name a lot.

7) He always was to the point. He didn't meander or deviate from his train of thought. Every story had a build-up and a conclusion.

8) He was very funny without being mean. Sort of like Cosby before we found out what Cosby was really like.

9) He was always happy. He loved his job and his family and he was nearing retirement (he told us this). His happiness was infectious.

10) He was always asking questions. Sometimes, I'd get to the train early and it would just be me and him. He'd always ask about my day, any interesting projects, etc. He would then comment on what he had for lunch ("Have you ever had the Chicken Vesuvio?" he asked) and go on about an experience he had at an awesome restaurant.

After two years I had to stop taking the train, but I'd sometimes hear about Gary from a friend. He did retire a couple of years later and moved somewhere warmer. I've always read articles about excellent speakers, but then I always think that I was fortunate to learn from Gary.
I agree that there has to be some ceiling. We don't need that many politicians on the payroll. It looks like the current method of apportionment is as fair as you can reasonably expect (Huntington–Hill). The problem is that each state needs at least one representative, so it's impossible to give California the same representatives per-population as Delaware unless you you give Delaware a fraction of 1 or increase the total representatives.

I wonder if having 2 per state like the Senate would work, but then you could weigh each of those votes in proportion to the representative's state population.
1. It works

2. There's a diagram

3. It has three levels
I wonder why they chose to declare bankruptcy in Vermont even though the first sentence clearly states "unlicensed in Vermont"?

It still appalls me that people were willing to risk granting custody to all of their crypto for a meager 8% return - absolutely wild.
I'm not sure it makes sense counting societies prior to the industrial revolution because most issues in society before then depended just on the control of arable land. The industrial revolution changed the entire dynamic. Dictatorships, whether communistic or fascistic haven't lasted long in this era, and nearly all surviving monarchies turned into meaningless shows of pageantry (and those that survived as actual rulers like some in the Middle East, did so because they were oil states and are unlikely to last long as the world moves away from reliance on fossil fuels).
The second paragraph was a HN-jokey way to describe hacking a project from a personal itch to a service with a target market
I guess I'm still not being clear. I'm not insulting MOND or people who like it, at least not on purpose. That's just absolutely not my goal. At all.

Rereading my first comment, I'm not happy with the tone. I wrote it quickly on a phone and didn't get it right. I was honestly just making observations without judgement, but it doesn't sound that way.
I'm not sure what measure of complexity you're thinking of. Are you familiar of the concepts of accidental and essential complexity?

C is a very simple and conservative language; so simple that its simplicity has lead to all sorts of trouble. TypeScript, on the other hand, is a surprisingly complex language! Its type system is very advanced, and Javascript, and thus TypeScript too, has a lot of complexity these days, both accidental and essential. Indeed TypeScript would be a much simpler, cleaner language if it didn't have to be a source-compatible strict superset of JS. JS used to be a simple language, back in the late 90s!

Zig tries to be C with minimal extra complexity added in order to make it a modern language that's nicer to program in. Rust tries to do that and in addition shield the programmer from the sort of mistakes that have cost the industry billions, possibly trillions of dollars, and that unfortunately entails adding some amount of essential complexity in the form of the ownership and lifetime system. One could argue that Rust's syntax is ugly, being a sort of chimera mixing C and ML heritage, but honestly, syntax is the least interesting, least important aspect of a programming language.

C++, well, C++ actually is a hideously complicated beast. The reasons are manifold, but include path dependence, the need to maintain C compatibility, design by committee, and the fact that C++ users in the industry are a very heterogeneous bunch, and everybody wants to get their pet feature in.
And...they can't?

Even with fully proportional representation, there is no state that would be able to do anything close to "dictat[ing] federal policy".

California has, according to other people in this discussion, about 40 million people.

The US as a whole has about 340 million people. You'd need 5 Californias, all voting in perfect unison, to "dictate federal policy" in a fully proportional system. And guess what? California does not, in fact, vote in perfect unison, and no one's proposing a system wherein the people of the state vote, and then assign their state's proportional votes entirely to whichever result in that statewide vote gets 50% + 1 votes.

Oh, wait. There is a system that does that. The Electoral College. The one we're talking about getting rid of.

In 2020's Presidential election, California cast more votes for Trump than Texas did. (And Texas cast more votes for Biden than New York did, for that matter.)

In a fully proportional system, something like a third of California's representatives (based on those 2020 Presidential election results) would be voting for policies that the GOP favors.

Once you stop looking at the Electoral College maps and thinking that they accurately depict the political leanings of the country, you start to realize that no state is homogeneous, and the idea that we need to treat them as such is, at best, a hopeless anachronism, and at worst active propaganda.
From Meta's perspective, in all the ways that matter, the advertiser is the end user. Non-advertisers' impressions and data are simply inventory that can be sold to end users. And it would be bad for the "end user" if that inventory was stored by default in a form that could not be easily indexed for cost-efficient packaging and delivery.

(Lest you think I'm exaggerating, inventory is literally an industry term: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/advertising-inventory-mean-3...)
Well... ask a Great Depression survivor how they feel about banks. I have met many that won't put a dime in a bank.
Exactly. You can’t make this claim without saying that your managers are incompetent all the way up to the C level because it means nobody was measuring performance even though that’s a core job requirement.
Any serious cyclist carries a chain link tool for fixing a broken chain, along with a couple of spare inner tubes. Breaking a link doesn't happen often, and you'd typically not let a chain get so old that it happens from age; that will trash the sprockets. I've had breakage happen, though, and was glad to be able to get going again, in minutes.

Since you can't fix a broken string just by removing a link and closing it, the only protection against string breakage is to carry a full spare.
Robot Arms Are Replacing Shelf Stockers in Japan’s Stores
When would that time be? Afaik it was always the case from the first 12c.
Maybe it’s not the employees fault, but the management who hired them… or maybe it’s the fact that it takes forever to get anything done at FAANG nowadays.

Or maybe, just maybe, interviewing based on esoteric computer science problems isn’t the best way to identify high performing builders.. but a great way of identifying people who can hack a process to secure maximal reward.

Look, if I can ‘crack the coding interview’, then I can certainly crack ‘how to do as little work as possible and stack paper to the ceiling while my stock vests’.

I wonder when the last time was that Mark or Sundar actually wrote any code they pushed to prod.
No he's talking about memory management and the notion of some shortcut pointing to it.

Typescript with pointers (that do pointer arithmetic) and no extra memory management facilities doesn't make any sense. He's not referring to this.
Bank deposits are insured by law. In the US this is called FDIC and guarantees that your deposits up to $250k will be repaid whatever happens to the bank.

Which crypto exchanges can promise the same? None of them because they're not banks, even if they put up a fancy website that looks awfully bank-like to retail customers.
It's actually just lifted from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192873
The federal government guarantees the banks. No one is guaranteeing Celsius.
A completely different way to think about it: it doesn't surprise you that spring forces get stronger as you stretch them. You expect it because there is material there.

In the case of strong force, you get virtual particles appearing when you separate particles. So the strength increases with distance. It doesn't become infinite because particles also attract their "opposites", and so the result is zero from a distance. (Like the way single charged particles usually are found in uncharged clumps.)

(Opposite is a harder concept in strong force, which has more symmetries than the electrical one.)
There's even less evidence for the idea that smart people see how bad reality really is... Even dumb people know there are "kids starving in Africa", and people beat their wife and kids in their home town.
Another questionable statistics. Bet in next announcement this number go up again. See if Fed will sit quiet and not raise any rate. Better tell Mark that his VR shouldnt have increase by 100 bucks! That is way higher than 8.5%. Same goes with those 6-7usd gas. Surely 8.5% on a dollar is just 8.5cent!
In the UK there are private health care options.
Median income in 1990 was $50,500.

That's already in CPI-adjusted dollars. Nominal median household income in 1990 was $30k:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N
Thanks for the information! I've been looking to build an accessibility tool for a deaf community so that they can see live captions of conversations, but some of the existing solutions I've tried seem to lag behind in conversational speech accuracy, or they're difficult/impossible to fine-tune with the community-specific words and phrases.
You are misrepresenting the definition of hate speech in order to create a strawman. Here is the definition from Google search card:

>abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice against a particular group, especially on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation.

So it's not just "offend or mock or belittle", but rather "abusive or threatening".

And if you think "offend or mock or belittle" are the same as "abusive", then you just don't get it yet.
I'm pretty sure you're answering a different question.

I'm saying:

- it appears that the "stationary action" is the same as "worldline follows a geodesic of the spacetime metric" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Lagrangian_mechan...). I first heard this from a particle physics professor in undergrad.

- for a compound system, the individual elements follow worldline geodesics, with the other particles factored out into a "potential" / as force terms in E-L equation. These represent how 1 particle, when distorted from its non-interacting trajectory, trades off against the other particles distorting from their OWN free trajectories. It's analogous to how heat energy flows between two systems to maximize their joint entropy; here, the particles' trajectories distort each other via forces to minimize their joint spacetime arc length. (As measured, presumably, in ANY reference frame)

- yes, in any specific context, the Lagrangian represents HOW those things trade off, in the same way that in any specific thermodynamics scenario the microstate structure can tell us d(entropy)/d(energy) and let us compute the equilibrium state.

- but how to complete the analogy to thermodynamic equilibrium--what is the "temperature", exactly, what is "heat"? In a QFT context, the interaction is ITSELF a particle, and has its own contribution to the Lagrangian and action, but how to think about it classically?

It has always seemed to me that this line of thinking is the most natural way to express "Stationary Action".
> No, the states and the federal government can too, by destroying money (IE increasing taxes).

Destroying money (taxes, when fiscal policy is viewed through the lens of monetary effects) is counterinflationary. Creating money (spending) is inflationary. Broadly speaking.
> I took my kids there last weekend ... it was over $30.00 and I didn't eat. Fast food -- across the board -- has gone up.

This trend predates the current inflation.

Several major fast food chains appear to have worked out more effective price discrimination schemes that involve raising their menu prices to much higher than they used to be, then offering crazy discounts in their apps or via coupons.

It's always been possible to get significant discounts on fast food with coupons, but before they seemed to think they needed to keep their menu prices at least non-crazy or it'd hurt business. Something changed and a whole bunch of them decided they no longer needed to keep menu prices in the realm of sanity—10-to-1 this happened so fast and uniformly because one or more of the big-3 management consulting firms pushed new "best practices" across the whole industry in short order.

Now the menu prices are WTF high, but you can get 50-90%(!) discounts using the apps and coupons and eat fast food daily without ever paying anywhere near menu price.
Why I left 'X' for Web3