skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was going to say something very similar. His content is usually great, but the writing style doesn't appeal to me because of the verbosity. It generally doesn't keep me from reading them if the topic is interesting to me though.

I appreciate that patio11 states things that might seem obvious to someone knowledgeable in a field. It reminds me of [WP:Obvious] from back when I started using Wikipedia. It states:

> State facts that may be obvious to you, but are not necessarily obvious to the reader. Usually, such a statement will be in the first sentence or two of the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_artic...

This is such a difficult thing to do "correctly" because there is a danger as you see on the wikipedia link that you might start stating that the sky is blue. (Meta: Did I just do that?)
This is what patio11 does so well.

I mean this is pretty early on in the article:

> Every business has a balance sheet, which contrasts its assets (valuable things it owns) against liabilities (valuable things it owes to other people). The difference between assets and liabilities is equity.

> Financial businesses will frequently have non-financial assets and liabilities. Ignore those for the sake of simplicity. Ignore the nice building, the computers, the payroll due on Friday for work which has already been completed. Focus just on the financial assets and liabilities, things like “mortgages our bank owns” (asset) and “deposits from customers” (liability).

> Leverage is the ratio of your liabilities to your equity. Simple division. Fourth grade math. If you have $110 million in assets and $100 million in liabilities you, by subtraction, have $10 million in equity against your $100 million in liabilities. You are said to be levered 10:1.

Now if I were to edit this,
I'd probably go off a tangent at this point.
I would say something silly like
You have deposits from customers worth USD 100M.
You loaned out USD 110M.

What happens if, of the people you loaned your money to, half of them disappear with your money?
Now, your assets are only USD 65M.
However, your liabilities are still USD 100M.
Your equity is USD 65M - USD 100M = a negative USD 35M!
You are properly screwed.

In fact, you'd be screwed if your loans soured by anything greater than your equity of USD 10M,
let say USD 11M.
Lets say your borrowers are unable to repay you any more than USD 99M of the USD 110 they owe you.
Your equity is USD 99M - USD 100M = - USD 1M.

What just happened?
I took you, the unsuspecting reader, on my boat and threw you out in the middle of the ocean.
I've done you a disservice.
Did you expect to read that tangent after the quote I had from patio11?
Probably not.
Did you expect to see a concept like negative equity and negative leverage if you're just learning about leverage?
Unlikely.

In any case, the fact that I feel dissatisfied just writing this comment is a testament to just how difficult it is to explain something. Even when the concept I am trying to explain is nothing more than "it is difficult to explain something in brief".
Ask HN: Privacy focused Mint alternative for spend tracking?
I'm looking for something where I can link all my credit cards / bank accounts and get an overview of my spending.

I'd be open to an Excel sheet if there was some automation to pull in data periodically.

edit: I just found Fidelity Full View [1]. Looked through their TOS and doesn't look like there's any clauses about marketing. Also looks like it's just a white label of a SaaS solution https://emoneyadvisor.com/, which means there'll probably be ongoing development.

[1] https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/full-view/overview
> the example as given seems to be $1.10 of equity (assets)

Equity (in accounting) is assets minus liabilities. $110mm assets, $100mm liabilities and thus $10mm equity.

You may be thinking of equities (from trading), which is another word for stock. (The link being equities represent ownership of equity, i.e. the value of a company’s assets net of liabilities.)
600k is peanuts compared to how much that ability would be worth.

A real bounty would be close to 100x that number.
The world is run by people richer than you. /fixed
The Dust Pirates of Central Europe
>I have never -- never -- encountered a value-producing use case for cryptocurrency that can't be solved by either signed git commits or a SQL database.

You have always --always-- lived in a high trust society with trustworthy institutions
"Eating fruits and veggies makes you obese, sickly, and weak" is probably the most American take I have seen ANYWHERE.

Clearly the fact that the US has so many diabetic and overweight citizens has nothing to do with being the largest per-capita consumers of meat and everything to do with not eating more meat
I still use ed. Because Ed is the standard text editor.
Worst case scenario you use an adapter.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that this whole abortion thing came up and all the Republicans had to choose between scaring all the women in their lives or flip flopping, but the party leadership have been trying to divide everyone on mortality issues for years. No idea who to vote for anymore :(
You're describing precisely the scenario I am interested in addressing.

Someone on another thread said it simply. "Winners keep winning. Losers keep losing. Are you winning or losing?" where a good number of people see themselves as losing and feel they are in a cycle that is compounding their losses.

I don't think calling attention to it is helpful. I think the person "in the driver's seat," so to speak, is more than aware of where they're at and obsessing over that deep awareness is preventing them from getting the ball rolling the other direction.

I don't know of a perfect solution, but, as best as I can tell, a solution is to "just start." Define a laughably small area you're going to "win" in, convince yourself you've won, then increase the difficulty and repeat. Upon failure, significantly step away from your current goal to avoid repeated failures building resentment. The rate in which you're able to iterate on this cycle is entwined with your emotional and physical vitality and people most often begin failing after having overleveraged self-determination at the cost of vitality. Self-determination is good, leaning into it heavily costs mental health, and it's easy to overlook mental health eroding while riding high on motivation and repeated successes. Eventually motivation dwindles, overexertion becomes apparent, and a tumble downward begins due to an unwillingness to accept the limitations of humanity. Eventually, acceptance and resignation occurs, a new area to win is defined, and the cycle repeats.

I'm building some gamification techniques around this cyclic pattern to provide long-term visual cues of where an individual is at, establish habituation around self-check-ins, and providing tools to help explicitly manage mental state.

Often times when I'm at my lowest I stop showing up for myself, but I'll still show up for others to not let them down. I'm hopeful giving people a virtual pet that they build endearment around, while surrounding them with positive mental health techniques and positive reinforcement, will keep people showing up for "themselves" more often.

Good luck with your mental health journey. If you'd like to talk about it more, or if you feel you need support, just reach out. Happy to talk.
That's what people don't get. FTX' spectacular failure is literally an advertisement for decentralization.
> You just need to know which features imply a GC/allocation and you need to take care to avoid those features.

This is very insightful. Would you mind sharing more resources regarding that? I'd be interested in a list of such features.

The GC can also be used manually by setting GOGC=off, then be triggered manually at the most convenient time.
Our countermeasure is that in Matrix you can’t build gatekeepers, as conversations replicate between the participating servers. You can’t talk to someone on another server without literally sharing ownership of that conversation with them. Now everyone could chose to congregate on a single server (e.g. matrix.org has about 35% of the users on Matrix right now, given it’s the default) but there is no advantage to doing so.

Meanwhile we’re building out P2P Matrix to avoid being dependent in servers altogether: arewep2pyet.com
I also pour bulletproof coffee on my balls several times a day, then snort some crushed adderall. Helps a lot...really feel like I'm closing in on 11x.
One of my mantras is "what you say no to is more important than what you say yes to," and the Go team says no to a lot. It can be frustrating and Go can be incredibly inexpressive (and, frankly, boring) compared to other languages, but it's hard to find another stack in which any random developer can be as productive as quickly on any random codebase. There are other languages where my personal velocity is a lot higher, but at a team level I haven't found anything that beats Go.
Damn, two red flags in the span of 5 seconds.
There are certain apps on my phone that iOS spotlight search doesn’t find even if I type their names out in full. But if I search for them in the App Library, they are found.

Odd.
Given he decline in quality of Google search over the last decade, my guess is that Google people are the problem.
The engineering knowledge is there and growing, and spans borders. Like all construction in the states, the people to construct things are lacking, but that’s not the fundamental cost increase.

Here’s a few things I think are to blame (some as mentioned in the article and some of my own.)

- Desire to minimally disrupt others, this extends beyond rail to other projects, look at the big dig in Boston.

- Planning requirements re ISTEA act, have put engineering in a back seat to local concerns.

- Lack of domestic production/ buy america - leads to paying higher prices and big startup costs on every project

- No standardization of components. Almost every rail vehicle in the US ends up different. Every station is engineered from the start. 150 years ago, stations would come in on a train and be stood up to all look the same. England learned this late with crossrail.

- Political desire and requirements to minimize and mitigate impacts of globally net beneficial projects. Elevated trains are a nonstarter in most cities. If you can’t grade separate more trains mean more delays to cars, which means excuses for ambulances saving lives can be used.
Isn't that true of almost everything humans do? When I get a tank of gas, I'm basically paying to have a bigger problem in the future. I do so because it solves a problem I have in the present.
>it's preferable for CCS win, as it's the safest, most durable, most compatible, while also being the lowest cost option.

Can you share a link to back these claims?
Between "no, we don't want either US companies or US government to have full unlimited access to any data they want" and "EU requires you to be extremely careful with user data, not siphon it willy-nilly and not transfer it to other jurisdictions just because" I chose option two.

The "undesirable side-effects" are being sold as undesirable first and foremost by US companies (and US government!) who assume that everything and everyone belongs to them.

Does it suck to be stuck between a rock (GDPR) and a hard place (the US' continuing desire to not care about user privacy)? Yes. What amazes me though is that the only side that gets blamed is GDPR.
What exactly do you think is degrowth? Allowing construction of dense, walkable cities would likely dramatically _increase_ economic growth in the US.
What was made? I wasn't even born in 95 and am deeply curious to know.
> If data in your tree is important, you want to replicate it, right?

Yes!

> You didn't implement it because it takes considerable effort.

I'd wager it's because he was smart enough to read the man page for rsync and didn't over-engineer a non-solution to a non-problem in his particular use-case.
I start VSCode whenever I need the UI debugger or an LSP plugin is too immature on Sublime. But otherwise, I daily drive Sublime Text. The speed difference vs. VSCode is night & day for me.
I worked for a private roofing company one summer in high school. The crew I was on would take two hour long naps under their trucks in the shade. I asked about it and one dude said, "The longer the job takes, the more we get paid." I can only imagine this attitude is amplified for government work.
It could, but it not necessary have to. It a but depends on your "sociality" and reliance on other's opinion to define yourself.
Police don't trust Apple's Find My to retrieve missing MacBook shown next door
There's minilua (https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/blob/v2.1/src/host/minilua....) which is used to build LuaJIT (dynasm, etc)
Rivian’s LED Headlights Are Giving Owners Headaches in Snow and Ice
>Would it be wrong to say that the US has lost the engineering skills necessary to build this kind of big projects?

Yes, that’s not the issue. The US still has many of the best engineering schools in the world and projects very rarely fail in the US because engineers screwed up and couldn’t handle it.

The problem is that the government has lost the backbone to actually disrupt people’s lives in the ways necessary to do large scale projects.

The California rail is not difficult, but it is quagmired in NIMBYism and political trading. The chosen route is not about efficiency or anything engineering related, it’s about scratching the right backs.

>The best minds in the US are focused on showing marginally more ads, wall street , and lots of other things that pay very well, but not big engineering works.

Because big engineering projects don’t ever get greenlit. There has never been a case where we wanted to build mass infrastructure, got all of the approvals, and then went, “whoops, nobody can engineer this”.
> These are concepts which need explaining, they make no sense for beginners or especially kids.

They will be explained naturally as the lessons progress I expect, trying to explain all that up front is the easiest way to fail.
Cody'sLab has a few videos about growing his own algae for consumption which are pretty interesting:

https://youtu.be/64cEmjtwRgw

Personally, I'm not opposed to this kind of food but integrating it into your existing diet can be challenging.
With modern democracies, we have people gaining power who are the most willing to do whatever it takes to acquire it.

In Athens, they selected by random lot. A much better system.
Last I checked, Nova doesn't do keyboard macros and I do a lot of text munging and need them because I refuse to type the same sequence multiple times.
Tesla announced a plan to open superchargers to non-Tesla EVs earlier this year; Musk announced that they would be adding CCS to US superchargers back in May. Unfortunately Musk is both the official Press contact for Tesla and also a guy who says a lot of random half-baked things, so it's impossible to determine if this was an official policy or just an idea he had one morning. [1]

Even after this move I don't see any way that the Tesla standard gains enough momentum to take over from CCS in the non-Tesla US EV market. If Tesla had done this in 2015 there's a chance it might have caught on globally. With the non-Tesla US EV market locked into CCS and growing rapidly (and Tesla itself already committed to CCS in Europe), it feels like the Tesla standard is doomed. (In fact today's move is actually sort of bad news, since it indicates that maybe Tesla hasn't quite accepted this reality.)

[1] https://electrek.co/2022/05/10/tesla-add-ccs-connectors-supe...
When there's a will, there's a way.

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566243
Well, that's trivially falsifiable.

A competently regulated market is better than a "free" (ie, unregulated) market in nearly all situations.
Twitter Called to Meet EU Data Watchdog over Privacy Concerns
InnerSource Commons
Sam Bankman-Fried Reaches Out to Elon Musk
He did hold the door open for women.
Just wondering why does it affect the total cost though. I think the total cost is stated in the contract? So if you want to pay premium for the workers you are free to so that but that premium should be out from your pocket?
Let alone that it appears on any forum that ever mentions haskell these days.
There might be specific exceptions (especially for things like police) but otherwise local and national governments are bound by the GDPR the same as corporations.
Yeah, but the conversion happens very quickly. Deposit, trade, withdraw.

Unfortunately, people leave tons of money on exchanges, for long periods of time. That's the problem. That's what the majority of exchange users are doing.
I mean it's something not proprietary that _every_ other manufacturer and _the federal government_ agreed on.

You can't reasonably say that e.g. USB is a standard and CCS is not
The SF area already has rail corridors that ran from all major cities (San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz, etc) to Los Angeles. Most of that project is over farm land, where right of way / imminent domain should be straightforward.

Instead, we get the redundant Bart to San Jose (Amtrak has been continuously providing that route for a century or something.), and SF to SFO (caltrain covers that already).

They need to pick one rail technology and move the entire region to it, then dictate the legacy systems operate in a unified way (allowing regional, independent rail authorities to completely override city councils, sacramento and DC), with the understanding that they will be fired if the transition to a unified system takes more than 5-10 years.

Instead, they are doing the exact opposite of everything I just recommended, and all the systems are falling into disrepair.
I believe is Musk is as technically skilled and capable as the average or above average engineer, and certainly as the above average billionaire. I believe he can read up on things and carry on intelligent conversations.
I believe he can impress people who aren't used to strangers even trying to understand technical issues.

I don't believe he is solving any substantial technical problems at SpaceX or "designing rockets" himself.
Apple monetizes their services by either tying them to expensive hardware or charging a subscription fee.
Whoa! Been a mac user since 1986 and never knew of this.
The GC is low latency, but its throughput isn’t great. The key is avoiding the heap by mostly brute forcing trivial data structures on the stack (which is why you see so many repetitive O(n) loops).
Even if adapters were somehow impossible, you wouldn't have to do that.
Not included: an actual plain-text list of book titles, possibly sorted by frequency of recommendation. Instead there's a circular graph with far too many colors to match to the titles, a screengrab of a spreadsheet that's only listing the one-recommendation books, and a graph that claims to be grouping the book titles by number of recommendations, but appears to be in no actual order.

Well done, microsaashq.com. Well done.
Well, you never get that high in politics if you don't have some traits for that, or you are pushed there by others on purpose. Either way it means she fell victim to intrigue - by getting ousted from PM position or by being installed there on the first place.
Paris-Bordeaux was €15m per mile for electrified 200mph capable line. $20m / mile doesn't sound amazing for a non electrified line that operates at 79mph now and might have sections that operate at 125mph in the future.
Guess what we find in books (2016)
Your perception is that the probability of seeing someone that works at Google in the United States is as low as seeing an extraterrestrial capable of speaking English? What justification do you have for believing that I would be incapable of asking questions that would be able to tell the difference between an actual engineer at Google, and a random person pulling my leg? Google employs more than a hundred thousand people in North America alone. Some people that are now employed there were in my graduating class! Do you have some reason to call me an idiot?
>and earn $35k coming out of school, when you could be CS grad and earn $150k, with way less stress?

First, $35k is made up, that’s what someone working full time at In-N-Out now makes.

Second, being an entry level civil engineer is not more stressful than working in CS. You bear no responsibility and don’t do any physical labor. Why is that stressful?
That's your first complaint, about refactoring. It has nothing to do with your second complaint about the project structure.

Also, Sublime doesn't do refactoring but VSCode totally does, given appropriate language server support which does exist for e.g. typescript. I have no problem believing that IntelliJ has more and fancier refactorings and code navigation features, but honestly I have never had a lot of use for anything more than rename, goto definition, find all references, and most importantly function/variable name completion, which all work great in VSCode.
Bitcoin failed, though?

All the proposed usecases except speculation and censorship resistant wealth transfers (eg. getting money out of Russia) have been abandoned.
That’s funny. Is that how pages go up in rank? Make many references to the same word and make circular arguments?!
My biggest gripe with undo is in cases where it's unclear what undo will do if anything, and the action is file or email related without a clean redo option.

Thunderbird - oops I just keymashed and did a bunch of random shortcuts. OK great I can Undo infinitely with no indication of what emails are being moved or undeleted, etc.

Windows Explorer, Dolphin etc - undo can be pretty opaque unless you already know what it is that is being undone. And there isn't a redo!

> Of course that tree requires a navigation system for users to pick their way back through the undo-redo history, leading to all sorts of complicated user interfacery that nobody has time to deal with.

I would LOVE the complicated user interfacery to be in all applications to show at least the list of actions! Image editors are great at this.
I think it’s pretty safe to assume this quote is apocryphal, but it’s a good quote nonetheless. Swedish historian Dick Harrison wrote about it briefly here: https://www.svd.se/a/a23oL/vem-myntade-uttrycket-an-nescis
I think you should even if you don't get hired. Our company keeps the score cards for 6 months and anyone interviewing can request to see them. No one ever does.
Another major ad agency recommends pausing Twitter ad campaigns
More alternatives:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps

I'm partial to WordPress with the ActivityPub plugin and would highly recommend pushing for inclusion of core AP functionality into your content management system of choice (so everyone can just stand up and participate on their own domain name, like media/gov/your local school etc).

Mastodon itself is fun but the real value in the fedi is going to be diversity of interoperable (or even incompatible) implementations. There (on a long enough timeline) will be a successor to Masto's fedi domination.
How you can transfer bitcoin between exactly two people with zero outside involvement from other entities? I suppose you might be able to have a bunch of pre-filled wallets of various amounts that you can transfer via thumb drive, but in a practical sense your transaction is going over various networks and through other machines.
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The author of the submission? Or the person claiming it's ugly?

"Human activity is a complex thing and no law can describe it with 100% accuracy, news at 11".

I doubt anyone arguing against GDPR read it. Or read recitals. Or read even high-level descriptions of the law, say, at gdpr.eu. Or read any laws in general, to compare.