skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a typical brushless motor, the torque is proportional to the magnetic field from the rotor times the current in the stator (non-rotating part). The best conventional magnets and conductors (neodymium-iron-boron and copper) can only generate a certain amount of torque without overheating due to the I^2R loss in the copper. This isn't nearly enough for most applications from driving vehicle wheels to robot joints, so motors need a step-down gearbox. For something like a walking robot knee joint, it needs around 15:1 torque multiplication. This makes it move "robotically", and not be able to absorb the impacts of running and jumping.

A superconductor can handle much larger amounts of current than copper, and maybe also generate a higher magnetic field in the rotor, so you could get much higher torques directly from the motor.

Superconductors still aren't ideal -- they stop being super in really high magnetic fields, perhaps because the electrons are moving in curves rather than straight and the complicated quantum effect that causes superconductivity doesn't work. But plausible superconductors could give great results.
WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust
I'm a fan of how the phrase gets dumber the more you think about it, and how it's just a way to try to make "put all your eggs in one basket" sound like a good thing. It's delightfully stupid.
Full time indie game developer here. I've also done a myriad of other development in the past.

I always say the difference between software development (app, website, ect) and game development is that with software you have a predefined problem and your trying to solve it. With game development you are creating the problem and you are trying to solve it.

In my opinion software development can arguably be more straightforward as a result because you know that what you are building is meant to relieve some pain point.

I love game development but it can be very tricky to sell people on entertainment.
Characterizing Microservice Dependency and Performance: Alibaba Trace Analysis
Have you seen the original Reddit post?

You're right (I assume) it is an ML thing and not "replacing" the image, but it takes a 170x170px intentionally blurry blob and turns it into a detailed moon photo. Very very little of that photo is the result of light captured via the camera sensor.

This is the original posters side-by-side:

https://imgur.com/ULVX933
My local Publix (South-Eastern US based chain) has their own brand of meal kits [1] that they sell in store. Seems like a win-win in terms of logistics since they've already got all that down. The only thing I could see is that you might spend a small premium for the convenience of having it pre-packaged and right sized for an individual consumer (when compared to buying a 4-pack of chicken breasts for example).

[1]: https://www.publix.com/recipes-planning/aprons-meal-kits
> A language where x=x can return something equivalent to false in a common use-case is wrong.

Then almost all common languages are wrong, if you consider floating point NaNs to be a “common use-case” - and surely they must be, since it is easy to produce them using ordinary arithmetic operations.
Yes but in Europe Philips Matchline were seen as comparable.
For smaller values of doom. The one he's talking about is unaligned AGI doing to humans what humans did to Xerces blue.
If I had to guess, this failure was neither complicated nor involved any sort of conspiracy on the part of the VS.

Imagine you run a largish financial company. Over the course of a year or two, your customers like your service and ask you to hold on to a few tens of billions of dollars for them. And they only ask for 0.20% interest. Wow!

You could invest this money in the usual money-market things (short term treasuries, etc), and earn very little money. Still plenty in the grand scheme of things (you're multiplying by tens of billions!), not you see dollar signs in your eyes and want more. And you look at the yield curve:

https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...

Wow, you can get 2% net if you buy long-dated treasuries, and 2% of tens of billions is hundreds of millions of dollars a year! And those dollar signs in your eyes get really big and you ignore the fact that this shiny yield curve is in part because no one sensible actually expects rates to stay low forever. And you also think "wow, this is such a good deal that I'm not going to think about the fact that a long-dated treasury is also a short bet on interest rates". So you decide to pull the trigger and buy these things with customer money.

And then the plot actually gets a bit nefarious, because you discover that this will violate Basel III. So you lobby Congress to exempt you, and you succeed, and you go for it. And you make a killing, at least until it blows up completely.

(The whole "liquidity" story is a red herring here. If SVB had been solvent, liquidity would likely have appeared. But SVB was actually insolvent, and no one really wants to lend money to an insolvent institution.)

If the VCs had actually been paying attention, I bet some of them would have said to their portfolio companies "here are a few million dollars in capital -- kindly store it in a Basel III-compliant bank or maybe a money market operated by one of the big players" and not "SVB is down the road and they're great!". Because the VCs were not playing the "screw up the Fed's monetary policy next year" game -- they were playing the "throw lots of money at portfolio companies and hope some of them make it big" game.
Treasuries are some of the most liquid instruments available, it is not a “liquidity” issue like “How do I line up buyers for all these weird, hard-to-price assets”.

And the measure put in place by the Fed is not a liquidity back stop, it is a value/solvency bailout, or kind of capital infusion. This is what SVB was trying to do on Wednesday, raise capital. That should tell you it is not a liquidity problem.
It wasn't my intent to misrepresent your position — The context is right there for anyone to see.

I didn't see anything you wrote that provides extra nuance to the statement. That is - nothing you wrote softens or modifies the quote. Am I right, or did I miss something? You were pretty clear. You even used "literally".

Sure... you went on to say why you see it like that, but that's not what being "quoted out of context" means. Is there some caveat, exception or nuance you were trying to express that modifies what you meant?

As for why I didn't engage further, let me ask you this — what if I tell you JS provides several good use cases for me and people I know? Will you then agree that some people do find good uses cases for JS or will you try to tell me I'm wrong? My impression so far is the latter.

You see what I mean? There doesn't seem to be any point in engaging.

As for the rest - I have no interest in debating BAT, or the advertising world. We largely agree. My point was simply that you misrepresented their value proposition by insisting there was never even a theoretical benefit to users and creators. It's a non-starter for having a useful conversation IMHO.
In contrast, Java also did that and I doubt if most people think of Java as interpreted. So, using a byte-code interpreter may not be the criteria most people are using to decide on this. Truthfully, I think it is all a bit arbitrary.
We have Stockholm Syndrome because we don't have modern languages to replace it. (except ORMs, which address some issues, but not the big relational ideas) No one thinks SQL is the best possible way to write a query.
It takes challenging but elegant ideas about sets, and express them in a language that demos well in the shop window, but obfuscates and interferes in non-toy queries.
That sounds like a great service, but terrible business model because you're reliant on supermarkets that can eat your lunch at any moment by launching a competitor. Since they also have a entire grocery supply chain, they'll be able to outcompete you on price as well.
here’s an active one https://discord.gg/mc5QRVJQ
Owning a home is preferable though. "You're either paying your own or someone else's mortgage."

Edit: clearly one quote cannot capture the complexity of life. However, should I ever own a home, I'd be happy to let you guys pay for my mortgage.
I wouldn't say that networks trump demonstrated ability (I prefer that to "credentials" because that's what credentials are a proxy for), but in any economic environment, your network is as valuable as your demonstrated ability. This is for many very rational reasons.
Gulnara Karimova: How Uzbek president’s daughter built a £200M property empire
Is there a claim anywhere that the yellow one specifically has longer battery life? As far as I can tell, it’s just a new color.

This random article I pulled up claims the internals are the same.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/10/iphone-14-yellow-preord...
At 17 you are an adult and have a choice. By the time this kid could reason about this stuff she already had her privacy taken away forever.
This exists in lots of industries. The real estate industry is full of people selling courses on how to make money in real estate.

For example, see "Trump University".

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-university-scam/
I'm not sure exactly what features to add next to this site https://remoterenters.com/ but the idea is to help people find a building where their rent is actually a good deal. Because yes, many people will never get a mortgage and buy a condo or house. And a16z has a plan to give renters equity in their building + make the experience of living (and working) there 10x better.

And just like jobs are now "anywhere in the world" so it changes everything in terms of the available candidate pool, the available renters are now also anywhere in the world. Landlords need to compete!
There is a thing I would like to buy called "having my kid grow up in a stable environment in a nice town with a nice school" that I would probably pay $5M for.

Luckily attaining this only requires a few thousand bucks a month for a mortgage and maintenance on a property in exactly a place like that. So I actually get a great deal, for $500k I get $5M value. If I rented so I can invest the difference, I doubt I could make $5M.
I loved SimAirport - probably the only game that I got obsessive. I usually abandon sim videogames after a few minutes. I love aiports and I like casinos, so it may be a bad idea to download the second one, ha.

Congratulations and thank you for the good times!
Yup. The reasonable UX here is that you as a retail customer get to pick what assets your deposits should go into, and you take the risk. Bank just gets a minor cut for doing the admin work.

And yes, that means if you picked “10y treasuries at 1.56% interest rate” back in 2021, then 80% of your deposit would now be gone. You should have picked “3m treasuries at 0.1% interest rate”.

This whole idea that a bank deposit is some magical asset that you can never lose anything on (other than through inflation) is a leaky abstraction. Like with all leaky abstractions the happy path is great, but when it starts leaking it can get real bad.
I think changing the name doesn't take away the hate at the core here. People would be as fine with "fat-bullying" as they are with "fat-shaming", they see it as somewhere between "their social right" and "actually helping the person".

It is the same as changing "retard" to "mentally challenged" or "handicapped" to "disabled"... the next term just becomes equally toxic because you haven't changed the actual stigma, just the word used to express it.
To me, ML is tending towards religion. Religion in the way of blackbox processing. Seems no one can reason what happens within the network, the number of parameters, the number of layer, the choice of temperature, etc. Or it is just my ignorance. While the enlightenment nudges mankind toward science, could it be that the scientific breakthrough of ML is to knock us back into pre-enlightened age?

Per stephen wolfram [1]

> It’s worth emphasizing that there’s no “theory” being used here; it’s just a matter of what’s been found to work in practice.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
Love "There Will be Blood" (and PTA), but I don't see how it fits. Plainview as a villain was great because his extraordinary, single-minded ambition motivated him to attempt kill his own humanity. But Plainview failed. His humanity was still in there, in long-abused, long-neglected agony and rage, which had its final, full, disgusting eruption in the final scene of the film with Paul Dano's character. It was evidence that Plainview couldn't kill his own humanity. This made him interesting. My spreadsheet villain succeeds in fully killing his own humanity. I don't know if this is even possible, but given the plasticity and variation in the human mind, it probably is. But I still don't think it would be interesting to watch!
There's a few of these in the US too, like mealime. But they only integrate with some grocery pickup/delivery services, some of which are regional, and the rest are a race to the bottom in terms of quality and cost like Walmart. The integrations are also not very good, getting quantities wrong or constantly trying to add pantry staples to your cart like salt.

I feel like more curation is the answer, hand pick the ingredients in each recipe using each grocery pickup/delivery API. But honestly I see supermarkets adding this as a differentiator that's good enough to keep anyone from buying a 3rd party service for it.

Maybe there's space to sell similar functionality to small regional chains to white label?
Looking at the authors' history, it seems he is very prolific, almost suspiciously so. I skimmed the article, and it seems like a bot could have written it.

https://medium.com/@moh.aboelez
Agreed. I've thought about putting a light/dark mode toggle on there.
I think a film that covers this is "Men, Woman, and Chrildren."
The FAANG companies are 25 years old at this point, they aren't that relevant to today's situation. Europe has had many large companies going, but most got acquired by their US competitors. In part because they could use offshore assets and also avoid taxes once acquired.

But that is also only partly relevant, because the same is true of the US. If the US is doing so well by that metric where are the next US FAANG companies? The reality is that neither Europe nor the US moved up the value chain but sideways to primarily offer services.

That isn't because of manufacturing. Many think so because they don't know much about manufacturing. It is because of the cost of living. Western economies can't support a knowledge based ecosystem. I can have things made in Europe, or China. It doesn't matter. Where can I go and develop a product for years, or work my way up in a product company, or eventually hire a hundred people to do it, all without suffering? The answer is nowhere because the market is dominated by service focused companies that require less start time and have a less variable success rate. In China, its almost in every decent city.
They can’t touch most of those trillions to cover losses because they have to be 1:1 backed for their customer’s security holdings.

E.g. I have hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks in my brokerage account, but $100 in uninvested « float ».

They could invest that $100 to make some money for themselves, but that’s where they might be taking some risk. If they screw it up and don’t have my $100 available, they can’t go fractional on my stocks to make up for it.
REXX was a big deal when I worked on mainframe compliers at IBM. It was the system scripting language (think bash or DOS scripts) as well as the editor command language (like emacs) -- and it was a scriptable programming language for apps (like JavaScript). The best part is that all of those parts could interact. So your REXX app could talk to the command line and execute code there, or to the editor -- and vice versa. Pretty slick.

I wrote some great stuff in REXX both for work and for fun. Mike's stated goal with the language was to make programming as easy as possible for the programmer, compiler be damned! In fact, it was quite difficult to create a REXX compiler and that didn't come until much later.

Where REXX fell apart for me is that it didn't keep up with browsers and the internet, which is where the bulk of development work shifted -- at least my development work! REXX was also strictly imperative/procedural and didn't include the functional concepts that were also invented by John Backus, a contemporary of ours there at the time. Today, functional is my religion and I can't imagine going back. I've become a big fan of TS. I wonder what Mike thinks of it?
Unless your business model is to get acquired by one of the supermarkets
This can't be solved well by the "end user", since it'd have to be done after the page loads.
The stuff I read is that it was the hedge implementation that lost them all the money. It's very hard to know for sure how that happened without being inside the situation.

Long answer: Hedging rate risk in general is a very deep topic. Investment banks have massive swaps desks that are built on the back of this and there are numerous examples of people losing a ton on hedges and in certain cases the dealer banks have been fined for miss-selling etc. Not saying that's the case here but it is at least possible. For example in the UK there was this[1] and in the US from memory there were numerous munis who settled and received payouts after losing a ton on rates hedges.

On top of that, hedging rate risk on an MBS is slightly more complex than for a regular bond because it amortizes and as the underlying loans prepay or default this affects future cashflows from the bond. So you can only hedge the forward rate risk given certain assumptions about prepayment/default and if those assumptions turn out to be off you will be imperfectly hedged. Normally that isn't that big of a deal if you have a big portfolio as you can roll swaps on or off to fix the problem [2] but the cost of that adjustment is going to be a factor of how "wrong" you are about the default profile of the collateral and how much rates have moved.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/23/interest-ra...
[2] There is also the problem of default correlation skew here meaning you have so called "wrong way risk" where if your assumptions are wrong on one bond they're highly likely to be wrong across your portfolio. This is as opposed to normal portfolio thinking where a diversified portfolio helps.
citations needed.

China and other manufacturing behemoths are producing dramatically more than they were before the pandemic and we are importing and buying all of those foreign goods.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=117Ig

I don't know about where you live but I see a lot more automation in service industries where I live. We continue to innovate. There's a labor shortage and we are below the natural unemployment rate, and it's not that those workers are doing less, as real GDP continues to grow
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=117IF

The inflation we've seen is almost all demand driven. There's plenty of supply of goods and services compared to pre pandemic. Your narrative doesn't fit the data.

On the other hand, Bridgewater's October 2021 analysis has been spot on.
https://www.bridgewater.com/its-mostly-a-demand-shock-not-a-...

Everyone got their stimmy check, paid down their debt, quit commuting, and realized they could buy more stuff. They did that for a couple of years. Now that credit card balances are peaking again (and at higher rates!), demand will slow and there will be a recession. The fed, always looking in the crystal ball but mostly reacting to what's in the rearview, will ease off rates and the economy will level out. The fed can't get rid of business and credit cycles, but they can try to quiet the amplitude. They have blunt tools to do that.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=117MH
I’m not buying a new iPhone unless it has a fingerprint reader and the notch is deleted. If that means my next phone is an SE, so be it.
Anyone who believes the value of actual-crypto is going to fall, and therefore wants to be out of it and in USDC?
> - Solicit a hard limit when you open an account. People can only afford so much, don't bankrupt them.

As is said every time this gets proposed, this is not only wildly impractical to implement, but also dangerous from an availability. Why is it impractical? You are billed for active things (running databases, network traffic) but also passive ones such as storage. What do you want AWS to do when you go over the hard limit, delete everything? As for the availability, nobody wants to lose the production environment because nobody has updated the budget with more appropriate values in years. What AWS and GCP do is allow you to set a budget, with notifications however you want them when you approach/hit it. When you get a surprise bill due to a misconfiguration or whatever, you can dispute it and cloud providers are extremely generous with them and usually waive the first few errors.

I agree with the rest though.
Just sharing that there is a react component I have used called "React Wrap Balancer" from Vercel that does something similar and works today:

https://vercel.com/blog/react-wrap-balancer

It does add another dependency which I am not fond of.
with mag safe and some key software changes theoretically iphones could have "removable" batteries again. Apple could create a case that allows for a 5x credit card thickness device to be slipped into it, and battery management could drain that first, as opposed to it charging your iphone.

hope they're working on something similar, if not they should get on it
Same, can't find anything about it being different besides the color.
It was like another world what you could do with Arexx, because So. Many. Program. had support for it. Only what I started using Linux in 1995 one could do similar things (but in a much more clumsy and shell, pipes and commands-kind-if-way.)

I think PowerShell is the spiritual successor to Arexx. (Because you could do GUI stuff in ARexx and script GUI programs!)!
I wish they offered the leather case in bright colors as well. It's so much easier to find your phone when the color pops.
We own a house, but have been considering selling it and getting an apartment, despite earning well north of that number in Texas, not exactly a high cost-of-living state.

Financially, we might (or might not) miss out on some equity growth, but our expenses would be more steady. Instead of sporadic multi-thousand dollar repairs and a giant property tax check every year, we'd make a single monthly payment to replace both. Some months we would pay more than if we stayed put, some months we'd pay much less. In the meantime, an apartment would be much smaller, and so utility bills would decrease, too. Rent would go to maintain the shared pool rather me having to pay separately for that, too.

In a state where property taxes weren't running more than $6k/year, the math might be different.

We'd likely have moved already if we didn't have two electric cars.
The Tech specs page doesn't differentiate the yellow model as having a different battery to the rest of the range. I was also confused by the title.
This seem like more of the same. https://nypost.com/2019/05/07/apples-iphone-battery-life-cla...
I guess Silicon Valley would be screaming something about disruption if they would have come with something resembling ETCS. But they did not, so they pretend that trains does not exist.
You can get the leverage from a broker, it just comes with the liability of your loan getting called anytime for any reason. The preferred terms, as well as government subsidies on interest rates can make leverage for homes have a better ROI.
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https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJWY3AM/A/magsafe-battery...

It’s existed for some time. Not exactly what you describe but same concept.