skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy enough to see which public companies have this debt, when their debt obligations are due, and what their historical expenses, revenue, and cash on hand are.

Could probably script this and build a report. I'm not going to do this (I'm working hard and can't afford to be nerd sniped), but please share if you build this. After buying your own positions, of course. :)
To whom do you refer to with "we"?

I hope we leave it be until we develop the tech to measure it non-invasively.

The tech available to Napoleon's Egyptologists or the British in the 1800s would not have allowed him to do it. They would have picked up anything they could carry and brought it back to Room 4 in the British Museum. Our tech in 2022 does not currently allow us to see the interior of the chamber more precisely than "there's a void there."

It's likely to not have been breached for millenia, it would be positively criminal to drill to it.

I say wait a couple hundred years until some future archaeologist will have a neutrino or muon scanner with sufficient resolution to read the hieroglyphics. It'll keep.
So I'm not sure from the blog the dates when this happened, 'early in his career'

If this was early 2000s, maybe late 90s. I can add lots to this story.

All of this info was well known to many teams, there were many overloaded links. It was all in legislative hell. We couldn't get the right to put new telephone polls up nor install to existing polls. We wanted new polls on new paths but we couldn't get through various first nations. Some national parks got in the way. Various cities wouldn't approve. They wanted their bikeshed as it were.

Then when we even got the easements, it was winter and the fiber teams were quitting because it was -30c and they are working out of the back of uninsulated unicell vans with the door cracked. They couldn't even turn off their diesel trucks, else there was no way to turn them on even if they plugged in the block heaters.
Because the amount of places where dams could be built to produce electricity is quite limited, and most of them are already in use.
So hydroelectric power is fine, but there is no way to significantly increase amount of it.

Edit: I was wrong, see https://web.archive.org/web/20170329132409/http://www.iea.or...
I have the latest Apple TV 4K, and it still uses the Lightning connector to charge the remote.
Just the idea of writing getters and setters that don't actually do anything at all, except to allow access to a 'private' variable, makes me want to tear my hair.

It's boilerplate for the sake of boilerplate.
Or just generate 86400 gifs, each 86400 frames long, and have the server deliver the correct one depending on the current time. But that wouldn't be nearly as cool as generating and delivering the gif in real time.
> a user bought just one extra Apple Lightning cable for $19

I've bought a lot of Lightning cables over the last decade and I'd say that 90%+ of them were under $15.
RAID on random USB Sticks
Just came here to write that! Because of that and because I am not a fan of the convoluted UI, I switched to YT Music. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you are going to write in a language that requires installing additional dependencies on every machine, why not something like Lua? The great thing about bash for me is that it just works on most machines without dependencies.
Using Electrodynamics to Generate Images
The reason you're getting downvoted is because you compared a tax on ad spend to "Christian moralist" taxation in the United States, otherwise known as sin taxes. But you changed your definition of a sin tax halfway through the thread.

These days, sin taxes like those on soda are often not motivated by religious concerns, at least in the US. They're taxes on goods or services that are harmful to individuals or society.
It's not very green at all. It's known to kill large swaths of the ecosystem.

The true green yet unfashionable energy source is nuclear fission.
Be real fun when the strategic oil reserve runs out / stop draining it after November Election.
Nothing was done to increase domestic supply. And OPEC has decided to tighten the screws on us.
The state government is a consolidated view of the people in that state. That doesn't mean that everybody in the state agrees. But, it does mean that there are some settled issues at the state level. A state's senators should be representing those settled views.

Senators did represent the people but once removed. The people can be swayed by a smooth talker or a pretty face. The state legislature selecting senators ensured that senators represented the collective wishes of the state and reinforced state sovereignty by giving the state government a voice in congress. The Senate acted as a check on the people's whims represented in the House.

Federalists 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 75, and 76 address the Senate but the reason for the Senate is summarized at https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/idea-of-the....

Unless a Constitution describing a large government is ratified I will stick to my belief that a large portion of the government is unconstitutional and unnecessary. The Constitution explicitly says that the only powers the federal government has are what is described in the Constitution. Anything beyond that shouldn't exist at the federal level.

A small federal government ensures that what the people of one state want has absolutely zero effect on any other state. It ensures that the people that live closest to each other are deciding the rules they live by. That makes for a happier populous as the people feel they actually have a say in how their lives are governed. A large central government is costly, ineffective and overbearing.
PayPal’s Objectionable Terms Are Back, $2500 Fines for Content They Don’t Like
I was thinking the same about both connectors. And then I bought an iPhone. I never broke a USB-C connector nor socket in few years of heavy usage on few devices, but I needed to buy new lightning cable because the pins have worn out after less than a year of just connecting the cable to iphone.
But your #1 and #2 don't appear in most countries non-extremist left parties. Sure many other western democracies allow abortion in some form, but never unrestricted. E.g. in Germany you can abort in the first three month of the pregnancy if you have been to counseling. That makes it impossible to make a decision in a moment that you would regret later. Later abortions are legal only in life threatening situations.

And the support of logically inconsistent and outright vile policies to favor the later letters of the alphabet soup are an American export.
> ”They cannot ban people from asking users for consent to collect data.”

Why not? This is exactly what needs to happen. Either that, or allow cookie consent to be granted/declined globally in the browser settings, not with a bespoke, intrusive UI on every. single. damn. website.

Let’s ban cookie pop ups!
The Banqiao Dam failure [0] came to my mind the moment I read the title. The amount of deaths that single failure caused may have something to do with that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
I use org-mode with org-journal https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal

What's nice about this workflow is when I create TODO items and don't finish them for a day it transfers over to the next day.
A few thoughts from a geographer (be prepared to shoot me):

- Basically every comment is wowed by this, but nobody questions what the accuracy is. I, too, can Krig interpolated surfaces to any resolution.

- off-nadir view doesn't seem to offer much

- We've been dealing with janky tile loading for like 20 years now. I really hope we'll get a much smoother approach for viewing these tiles as they load. The dissolve transition hides it a bit, but makes the data uncomfortable to view when playing the timeseries.

- I'm deeply curious about the Picnic data layer. Can someone share the ArcGIS/QGIS model for that one? =D
Which emoji scissors close (2020)
I'd expect anybody doing enterprise software and having to integrate different systems would be aware of these.

Google probably has better explanations for these, but to summarize:

* data connectors - connectors that allow you to get data from all systems you use in your organization, from databases to ERPS, to custom build systems.

* ETL - a method for moving data from your data sources to your datawarehouses (DWH) - extract from source, transform to desired format, load in you DWH.

* Snowflake - cloud based highly scalable DWH for structured and unstructured data
It's also the case that we already know what kinds of things kill people, and people aren't really sticking to the lifestyles that correspond to longer life.

Someone the Queen's age was actually unlikely to make it to 100, so you'd have to improve survival quite a bit.

From looking at a UK table I found, there's ~2000 people left of 100K at 99 years, 1300 left the year after. Table doesn't go to 103.
The vast majority of modern day ads are a cancer on society that are engineered to maximize the insecurities and desires of the viewer. They try to make you feel as unhappy as possible so you'll make a purchase to soothe those negative feelings.

If there was a moral ad network, I might take pause, but the industry has leaned into the rottenness and embraced creepy surveillance and thought manipulation.
This is one of the best things I've seen online in years. Thank you so much!
This may just be a localized thing, but housing construction here is not slowing down. My in-laws own a construction business and they're the busiest they've ever been. Their biggest challenge is hiring and getting supplies.
EU is issuing biometric passports where are loaded your fingerprints and some EU states started to issue biometric citizen IDs, where are fingerprints stored too. So it is kind of already going on?

Additionally citizen IDs are nothing new, at least in Eastern Europe, where you will get one when you reach 15 years of age.
You sound pretty smart and well versed in the stonk investing.

Going to be great to see many of the 80%ers in tech have to face reality when the recession comes next year... hope you're a 20%er.

To be clear, Tech employees have been grossly overpaid the past decade (including myself). That reality is ending soon... get used to it
> The expectations of Apple were higher only because of that brand recognition.

I think the expectations were high also because Apple had a really strong marketing push on the concept of "docking" your devices. I remember even cars had dedicated iPhones docks as additional selling points, along with speakers and many other devices. There was a promise that if you bought an iPhone you could dock it everywhere and so there was this big ecosystem of things you could plug it in. Then apple switched to lightning and quietly retired the whole docking thing.
Not working on my iphone. Slashdotted?
The south of Spain.

Yeah, sorry.
Signal on Android has backups and migrations. Maybe the IOS signal doesn't?
Ask HN: How to effectively give feedback of technical issue to major services?
I will use Twitter as an example. It's slightly better (Google) or worse (Instagram) for other services, but the problem exists in almost all of them.

Twitter has multiple feedback channels, mainly one for general customer [1] (called "one" below) , some for developers [2][3] (called "second" below), and some for ads (not relevant here).

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/forms

[2] https://twittercommunity.com/

[3] https://developer.twitter.com/en/support

The problem is that, the first one basically only deals with content/account related issues ("my account is locked" etc.), while the second one strictly only deals with API issues.

If you encountered any technical issues on Twitter's end when using it, even if you have a proper STR and everything, there is just no way to feedback it.

I have tried both; the representative in one is often beyond clueless about what I said. In second channel, they will close your ticket/question as soon as it's not related to API. I found myself frustrated about this situation often, knowing something they can improve/fix fairly quickly (at least, straightforward) once elevated, but there is no way to reach the right person.
I actually sprung for a new phone this generation (14) since it was rumored that it would be the last of the Lightning models. Gotta get maximum usage out of all the Lightning stuff laying around the house.
Ugh. How do these companies so thoroughly not understand their own raison d'être?
I'm not sure why people continue to take what the fed says as being accurate predictions of the future. For example, they said in 2021 that they expected interest rates would be zero until 2024 [1]. They obviously have a lot of real power, but they must be understood to either be deceitful or incompetent given how wrong prior predictions have been.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/3d7704d3-a312-4294-95bc-90233f469...
The recession is real (but probably won't materialize until we see the 4th quarter of this year's numbers). Lots of sectors are seeing reduced consumer spending, layoffs and of course interest rates rising reduces capital spending.
Stonk investing? Lol. Given that you’re just rambling at this point I think we’re done here. Good luck.
No, they hinder the goal because they will never provide more than a tiny fraction of the needed energy and building one would tie up immense amounts of resources that could electrify many more households and cause permanent outflows for interest on debt that can never be paid off and fuel that they are not allowed to make.

I have an idea for a program where I pour lead onto your food and loan you $100k but you can only spend it on preordering a sports car I sell that doesn't work on unpaved roads for $150k which can only be charged at chargers I own and if you do anything I don't like ever I'll just ban you from using my cars altogether. It won't explode iff you keep up with perfect maintenance and I'll be removing all of the chargers in 2060 (or 2050 if I get lots of orders). It may arrive any time between 2028 and 2040 or maybe I'll just cancel the order (but you still have to pay back the loan).

The alternative is you buy a LEV that charges itself if you use it less than 30 miles a day, can accept any charger and costs $30k but you have to find a loan yourself. It might fail to charge up to 20% of the time with a few days' notice if you don't buy the $50k deluxe package.

They're both transport, right? Transport is good.
I tried Duluth fire hose cool max a couple years back. They are so much better than jeans if you live in a humid region - they won't stick to you and they breath more when you're doing sweaty work (like checking bees in the summer). They seem to be generally more comfortable too. They are a bit on whe expensive side, but so are most jeans these days.
Really? I've never heard of that and I mainly use Ubuntu which is Debian-based
Democracies that elect powerful presidents directly are usually two party systems. Only the indirect vote of the government through a parliament makes multi party systems more stable.
if you lived in water, you might have discovered clever ways of breaking it down into H2 and O2 in ways we landlubbers haven't. seems like i've read somewhere where those elements are useful in escaping the gravity well.
>This is the weirdest "recession" I can remember. Business leaders are constantly talking about how challenging the economic environment is and the need for layoffs etc

I think people's sense of timescale is off. Business leaders are talking about things that we likely won't see for months.

This isn't rocket science; we have insane inflation, rising interest rates, a strong USD and tightening monetary policy around the globe. Where do you see the growth coming from? Have you considered that "things aren't that bad" might benefit one or the other party during the upcoming election?
Yeah, I mean maintaining full employment is one of the fed's mandates. It would be an insane thing for a fed chair to just come out and say. I assume he want's to keep his job, and pissing off the Senate isn't the way to go about that.
It takes courage to follow the law
(2017)

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14996715
I think you're missing the actual point just to argue. u/brigandish doesn't need to come up with their own definition of abuse because there is a already a clinical definition of abuse.

It doesn't matter who's making the decision about control. Even if a doctor thinks you're capable of controlling your diet, it doesn't make their clinical diagnosis of obesity go away. It takes more than control to alleviate the problem (e.g., knowledge about diet, access to healthy food, motivation etc. are also necessary). Either you meet the clinical definition or not. If you have the utmost ability to control your diet but still have a BMI of 60 because you lack those other factors, guess what, you've still got an obesity problem. That's why the clinical definition has multiple diagnostic factors.

The point is clinical definitions matter. If you don't think so, try to get an insurance company to pay for rehab based on your personal definition without having a clinical diagnosis of substance abuse.
Firefox has a lot of "clicking" sounds for me at the start of most samples. Like one instant square wave with no length.

Plays super laggy for me if it's an unfocused tab in firefox.
The connector for Whatsapp is amazing, it has so many use cases across several industries.
This hasn’t been true for 20 years. “The DeBeers monopoly” has become the go to argument for Reddit and sadly this far more educated forum. DeBeers isn’t even the biggest diamond producer any more, Alrosa is (Russian government company). Alrosa and DeBeers together are around 80% of production, so DeBeers no longer has pricing power.

The reason for this - the discovery of diamond mines outside the DeBeers stronghold of Southern Africa - Russia, Canada, Australia.

DeBeers used to sell their diamonds on a take it or leave it style. Cutters could take their sale price or not, but a “no” essentially put yourself out of business.

Now rough diamonds are mostly sold via auctions. There’s about an auction every 1-2 weeks across all the miners, so there’s always an opportunity for cutters to buy supply, and prices are out in the public.
I wrote a post a couple years ago about how I do daily work journals:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/09/coding-career-advi...

Since then, I've switched tools. I now use VS Code to write a Markdown file per-day. I also use the Foam extension, although the only feature I actually use from that is the "Create Daily Note" command, specifically tweaked to auto-create the right folders and filenames like "2022-10-24 (Monday).md" and similar main file header. I keep those in a Git repo.
Hey. I want my audiobooks on Spotify.

This is purely a disinterested position, of course. In order to serve you better.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Audible-The-Big-Bucks/dp/B0BDBG5VNP/r...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-the-Future-A-Novel/dp/B09NZ...
HN is capital not labor.
I learned that "garbage collection" is not just a memory management technique but also refers to big trucks removing the content of trash cans when I took a "nerd test".
What about fly.io? Since Heroku discontinued its Free tier, lots of people praise it for its simplicity.

As a person, who played quite a bit with Digital Ocean and would have loved to skip the server setuping, I think it would be perfect for my future projects as well.
It’s been 2 quarters of negative growth for decades.
You can find videos of every politician on both sides saying that.
There is no "accurately", because there are many measures of inflation, each with its own particular claim to verisimilitude.

So any economic figure described as "adjusted for inflation" should taken with an extra measure of wariness.
In many cases, the word consumer connotes a legal definition that is different than customer.

For example, see the definition from Reg P: Consumer means an individual who obtains or has obtained a financial product or service from you that is to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, or that individual's legal representative.

A customer may be an individual or a business.

Source: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/101...
IMO, the whole point of the Remarkable is that it's simple to take notes and annotate PDFs. It doesn't try to do everything, and it's a great single purpose device. The EPUB/e-book reader functionality is very basic, but it's great for reading PDFs.
More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking social media trend
The Match Expression feature is interesting. According to the PHP docs, it can even handle non-identity expression, although the approach seems a little hacky:

https://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.match.php#e...

<?php

$age = 23;

$result = match (true) {
$age >= 65 => 'senior',
$age >= 25 => 'adult',
$age >= 18 => 'young adult',
default => 'kid',
};

The above example will output:

string(11) "young adult"
An Analysis of the Origins of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Interim Report [pdf]
yeah, dam failures are pretty spectacular. Maybe we're collectively cooler with them because 1) they've been part of our accepted collateral damages list longer (hundreds of years) and 2) because we know better where the fall out will be we put more marginalized people there? I would be really interested in looking at property values or something like that for regions in suspected dam burst zones and neighborhoods that are just outside them.

on topic onion sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjfrJzdx7DA
Yep, which creates a first-strike/second-strike trade-off. If you have enough resources to click-up an age (or to research some tech-upgrade), you have to choose whether to do _that_, or to build up your military. If you choose the latter, you are implicitly trying to cripple/destroy your opponent before they attack you. If you succeed, then well played. But should you _fail_, you have a huge problem.

The interesting thing is that the first-striker's failure implies that the opponent had built himself up enough to survive the first strike. Which implies that their economy was not vulnerable to the first strike, and might also be capable of launching a second-strike soon.

As a kid, I never really _understood_ decisions like Pearl Harbor -- classic first-strike/second-strike tradeoff example -- until I played this game.
Is it the post where OP actually fixed a bug in a record time? I think it was on Reddit.
Hi Timja, sorry about that! We have been so focused on this for the past months that is easy to loose perspective.

Data connectors, in the loosest definition possible, is simply a piece of software that moves data from one place to the other. This can be from database A to database B or (as in our case) from a given API into a database.

ETL stands for "Extract, Transform, Load", a process in which you get data from some place, clean it/do something with it, then store it into a desired destination. Probably this term is most frequently used in the context of data warehousing, in which you move data from one or more OLTP databases from the application side, into an OLAP database.

Finally, Snowflake is a very popular (and very cool) database focused on Data Warehousing needs.
We're happily writing everything Java in 2022. We have quick development turnaround, developer productivity, high execution speed, simplicity, reliability, and transparency. CDI, Tomcat, JAX-RS, slf4j, JPA, Junit, Mockito, Hawtio, Maven, ActiveMQ are all things we leverage. Everything is monitored in production, and we handle thousands of messages per second and thousands of requests per second, all on modest hardware. Deployments are super simple too: everything is packaged up as a native Debian package using the JDeb maven plugin and is a one touch install. Isolation is done using systemd, avoiding the rat race and un-needed complexity of docker and other complicated tech.