skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 times the inflation adjusted number seems to be the implication.

However, the company receives money every year not a single lump sum at the end. If I lend you 10$ and you agree to pay me an inflation adjusted 1$/year for 100 years that’s vastly better than getting an inflation adjusted 100$ in 100 years.

In the initial example the first dollar is discounted X%, the second X%^2, the third X%^3… Where getting paid an inflation adjusted 100$ after 100 years is fully discounted X%^100. The first case is equivalent to a bond paying nearly 10% + inflation with annual payments where the second is closer to 4.7% + inflation without annual payouts.

PS: Further it’s ~zero risk as the contract states the city is responsible if revenues fall below projections.
Yeah, my definition works for all those examples.
Mysterious ‘skin-like’ golden orb found on ocean floor off Alaska coast
Why not just login to all of your email accounts in your email client?
And the angels write in C
I lived in an apartment building in Richmond, VA that had an old elevator with pop out buttons. The elevator broke down constantly and it wasn't uncommon to have to force the door open to get out
Musk stiffed Twitter vendors and dared them to sue–dozens did just that
It's not necessary that they match. All you need is that the length of each string is not less than its position in the list.
You're already getting downvoted. Pretty terrifying. I do wonder if the mods are involved in war profiteering

EDIT: you're flagged again. /u/dang is this your doing?
Nice catch, it's actually an ~13.5% annualized rate of return when taking into account the cash flows (assuming annual payments distributed evenly across the contract life, I'm sure you could refine it further).

It's still unclear that this is a bad deal financially. What percentage of that return is going to the vendor's costs? What costs would the city incur if they tried to do it themselves? What were the city's other options in raising cash?

If there was a cheaper muni float option on the table and Daley went with this deal instead, then that feels worth investigating to see whose pockets got lined. Otherwise, it's probably not as bad of a deal as the headlines make it seem.
Short version via ChatGPT (for the lazy but curious like myself):

Between 1994 and 1998, AOL (America Online) emerged as a significant player in the digital landscape. Initially established in 1985 as Quantum Computer Services with a product that connected Commodore 64 computers to an online network, it expanded and rebranded under Steve Case's leadership. Case envisioned a simple, user-friendly online platform, and AOL's chat feature became its most notable offering. While AOL was initially a closed system, unlike the open protocols of the wider Internet, its aggressive marketing campaigns successfully lured millions of Americans into its ecosystem. Ted Leonsis, who joined AOL after the acquisition of his company Redgate Communications, envisioned AOL as an all-encompassing digital entertainment hub. However, as the broader Internet gained traction, AOL felt compelled to integrate certain Internet protocols, eventually even providing its users with browsers to access the larger World Wide Web. By 1997, AOL was the gateway to the Internet for nearly half its users. Yet, its aspiration to be a distinct multi-generational platform faded as it became synonymous with the broader web. This evolution culminated in AOL's acquisition of Netscape in 1998, signaling its full immersion into the wider world of the Internet.
JSON isn't a programming language
What's the proper meme for this sort of situation?
De Havilland Canada ramps up production of new DHC-515 Firefighter planes
Okay, then prove that your definition of a monad is isomorphic to the given definition
Yeah, political statement and stances taken in venues/spaces that are not appropriate are not good IMO. We need less of that.
> Isn't a monad effectively just a [something]?

I think this article responds well to that kind of "it's so obvious!" flash of insight: "The Monad Tutorial Fallacy", https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...

Basically, you have to build your own intuition. Examples of monads are just examples, what matters is how you reached that insight, and there's no shortcut for that; you cannot simply be told that "monads are like wrappers" (or burritos, read below). Like the article states:

> “Monads are easy,” Joe writes. “Think of them as burritos.” Joe hides all the actual details about types and such because those are scary, and people will learn better if they can avoid all that difficult and confusing stuff. Of course, exactly the opposite is true, and all Joe has done is make it harder for people to learn about monads, because now they have to spend a week thinking that monads are burritos and getting utterly confused

[...]

> What I term the “monad tutorial fallacy,” then, consists in failing to recognize the critical role that struggling through fundamental details plays in the building of intuition. This, I suspect, is also one of the things that separates good teachers from poor ones. If you ever find yourself frustrated and astounded that someone else does not grasp a concept as easily and intuitively as you do, even after you clearly explain your intuition to them (“look, it’s really quite simple,” you say…) then you are suffering from the monad tutorial fallacy.
Thank you for the explanation

Amazing how at a certain distance, a galaxy starts looking a lot like a living organism

Same for planets, or at least what astronauts say about Earth after seeing it from space
Show HN: Chitchatter – P2P chat that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral
The regular Nintendo Switch (non-OLED).
> big oil, big tobacco, big ag, big pharma, big banks, big auto, big telco, big media, big soda, big accounting

For banks and accounting, the U.S. is marginally pro-consolidation. But oil is fractured (lol). Tobacco is, in America, tightly regulated and also fractured. Auto is full of upstarts. Telco and media are being transformed from several directions, including, also, by upstarts. And I’m not sure why soda is a priority.
Microsoft: China stole secret key unlocking US govt email from crash debug dump
As a naive guess, if the US had somehow managed to avoid corruption at pretty much all levels in their Afganistan er... adventure, then either approach may have worked.

But the corruption just made a joke of everything, and of course it all ended badly. :(
One time (ironically, after I learned about model free methods) I got sucked into writing a heuristic for an A* algorithm. It turned into a bottomless pit of manually tuning various combinations of rules. I learned the value of machine learning the hard way.

If prompts can be learned, then eventually it will be better to learn them than to manually tune them. However, these ideas need not be mutually exclusive. When we reject the tyranny of the “or” and we can have a prompt prior we manually tune and then update it with a learning process, right?

P.S. whoever wrote the title, I think it’s pretty silly to write “The Framework…” for anything because this presumes you have the only member of some category, which is never true!
Do ppl sabotaging those relationships realize that their enemies do not do that?
> Most people do have a memory of what it was like to be dreaming, at least some of the time. And some people have vivid, detailed recall of dream narratives -- I dated one for four years. Even in her summarizing mode she could go on for ten minutes about one dream.

They were talking about anesthesia, its a different state to a dream state.
When you fall under anesthesia you just shut down - no experiences of any kind - and next thing you experience is waking up.
> It's a tug of war,

Yeah, any workplace in which the word "war" was used in the context of colleague interaction saw me leave within a few months.

I like to plan those things ahead of time with all stakeholders involved, then we work together instead of against each other.
"Massive galaxies that stopped forming stars (known as massive quiescent galaxies) are plausible progenitors of giant elliptical galaxies."

Could someone explain a bit more what this means? Is it that those galaxies were "born" out of the quiet galaxies, or shaped into ellipses because of them?
E.R.A. non-passage: Proof climate change legislation is doomed
AWS also purposefully makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Case in point that we were burned on recently:

- set up some service that talks to a s3 bucket

- set up that bucket in the same region/datacenter

- send a decent but not insane amount of traffic through there (several hundred Gb per day)

- assume that you won’t get billed any data transfer fees since you’re talking to a bucket in the same data center

- receive massive bill under “EC2-Other” line item for NAT data transfer fees

- realize that AWS routes all traffic through NAT gateway by default even though it’s just turning around and going back into the data center it came from and billing exorbitant fees for that

- come to the conclusion that this is obviously a racket designed to extract money from unsuspecting people because there is almost no situation where you would want to do that by default and discover that hundreds to thousands of other people have been screwed in the exact same way for years (and there is a documented trail of it[1])

1: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-aws-managed-nat-gatew...
I never suggested otherwise. Ideally zero people would be crossing this border illegally and then there would be no deaths, right?

We should do everything possible to discourage this crossing. Adequate surveillance is a large part of that.

If you are legitimately seeking asylum you can just walk up to any border crossing station and not risk your life.

Edit: As far as the condition that we keep captured criminals in, I would wager a good bet that they're comparably better than the appallingly horrific conditions of South American jails.
> It has to feel right

I'm not aware of any work/research on this. Does seem reasonable though. But the rest of the insect is much larger and non-termitey, so...?

(edit: so... why don't they attack/reject it?)
Enough money allows all contracts to be negotiable.
Yeah, of course. At the scale of Google's main products, they could build unique ads platforms and keep everything completely seperate if they wanted to, needed to or were forced to.
> I have no idea what to do to stop this from happening.

I think deleting the account would stop it :P
I keep getting password reset emails from Spotify, from 0 to 10 times a day. Having a two character username seemed like a good idea when signing up..
Really annoying.
"Microsoft fired their entire QA team. They also fired their entire technical documentation team."

Honest question: Is this a scurrilous rumor or the actual truth?

If you're just being hyperbolic, I'm down with that, no complaint, I'm just curious how literally true this is.

(I have to admit it'd explain a lot of what I see lately; I've observed for well over a decade now that if people held Windows to the same standards they do for "the Year of the Linux Desktop!" claims that Windows doesn't necessarily pass the test either. But it does seem to be getting worse lately, and with things like ads it's downright broken by design. Windows now survives in my house by the skin of its teeth, only because I haven't found a Linux Cricut solution and we use that every few months.)
Alright, lsd is pretty good.
I took was an early adopter of gmail and I imagine a person could guess what my email address is, especially if I said I keep forgetting my HN passwords.

Misplaced periods give me all sorts of other people's emails - new cars, new mortgages, new bank accounts, new home purchases that are not in my name or identity (based on the names I understand the confusion) - all sorts of things that I'm not doing IRL. Sometimes I try to reach out to the sender and get them to correct the email address, sometimes I just unsubscribe
I get the same with <common_name>@outlook.com ; managed to sign up right as the service was launched and thought I scored :)

After a couple of years gave up on that address as it was getting dozens of messages a day (a lot of them legit email, sent to the wrong address - including bank statements, shipping orders, etc.)
Don't forget near constant drug testing for some athletes. In cycling they must notify the governing body of their location, just in case there's a surprise drug test.
Ukraine war: US to arm Kyiv with depleted uranium tank shells
I found the particular text of the sponsorship tweet rather shocking. "Software-defined conflicts" is a callously buzzy way to describe events involving mass loss of life.
Tell me that you don't/haven't worked across a variety of Unix*en without telling me that you haven't...

Back in the day it was navigating all the crap between SunOS vs SysV, HPUX, AIX, BSD, etc and then later Solaris, Linux, etc Now it's OS X vs Linux coreutils vs busybox etc. They all have subtle different interfaces and while there is a common basis the reality is that 'ls' is a strange hill to die on for the point you're trying to make. Like 'ps', it's something people have messed with the flags and output a bunch of times...

As others have pointed out, there is no single `ls`, and it's been "replaced" in various systems many times. Yes, we have a contiguous usage of the GNU version for some time, but only really in Linux.

Homogeneity has never been the name of the game in Unix culture, I don't understand why people would insist on it now.

I say: Bring on the "modern alternatives". I just installed lsd. I used to keep a shell alias from lsd -> ls for years anyways :-)
Worried is a weird word when we are talking about Nintendo.

Nintendo is scummy AF advertising/marketing to children and their constant abuse of fans for playing recreationally with IP.

Nintendo is probably a negative externality given their marketing to children. To this day, I still have a mental illness of obsession to their games, and I hate playing them.
Practically speaking, all of the things you might usefully put in that space are larger than infintesimal, thereby discretizing the volume.
Yet the stock drops 4%. What gives?
firstname.lastname@gmail.com can have similar problems. Somehow people miscommunicate or misremember their email address and I get a lot of misdirected messages.
Yeah if this prices out tourists to the point where it's a problem for the tourism industry, we can deal with that later. For now let's get these apartments back in the regular rental market.
We should pity (some of) the incels
I guess it may also be meaningful context that the account posting the link on HN indicates that it is affiliated with Anduril.
I am certain I've seen that one. I loved AOHell and CreditWiz... and all the associated tools around that era.
Is this a store selling new records or second-hand? I would assume demand/supply for second-hand classical records is much lower than other genres.
The universe is intelligent because we are part of the universe. And we are intelligent, given our current definition of intelligence.

Otherwise, a rock will not be intelligent by itself. Or a mountain. Or a star.
I got one yesterday I ignored
It is, in a word, awful. A perfect example of this is on Chicago Avenue, where the city added dedicated bus lanes… except they aren’t really, because even though you can’t drive in them unless you’re a bus, you can still park in them.

Absolute Kafkaesque urban planning.
In my case at least, my Windows laptop is the only device that has this problem. It works totally fine and as expected on several Linux laptops, my iPhone, my android, and my partners phone.
Formerly called the CL-515, this DHC-515 variant will be the technological successor to the venerable Canadair CL-215 and CL-415 water bomber aircraft used worldwide against wildfires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-215
We Tested ChatGPT in Bengali, Kurdish, and Tamil. It Failed
Yeah, the writing for that hinge was on the wall when they didn't retain the design. Maybe it was the wrong system in which to implement it, or maybe it was just bad execution. The work folks are doing in the foldable LCD space show that there is lots of work left to do in optimizing the humble hinge.

Caveat emptor before v3.5.
That's a fair point. I think the casualties will be the stuff that's released that's not directly monetized. The open source developer doesn't make any money to justify paying for any of the process to get a seal of approval. Nor would they generally want to spend their evening preparing paperwork for someone else to review. A lot of critical projects have 'teams' that are basically 1 person.

And what's considered 'critical' might be overly broad. Is the manufacture of Kleenex brand facial tissues critical? It might be under the final law. If your SaaS is used by Kleenex, do you now have to produce design documents, software process documents, audits of your process, etc. to show you can continue to be used by Kleenex to produce a trusted name brand in facial tissues? Do you do all the work to keep Kleenex as a customer only to have them switch to your Indian competitor who does none of that?

Inquiring minds want to know.
I recently had a wild ride with using java.net.URL and java.net.URI, to parse and deconstruct URIs so they can be stored in a database with at least a little normalization.

The documentation page is great but the API is bizarre. So many different constructors with different permutations of whether or not they expect various segments to be URL-encoded.

If nothing else, the complexity convinced me not to write my own!

- https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/URI.html

- https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/URL.html
On what basis do you make these claims?
Talk about screwing initial market leadership.
The word "transformation" in that name has absolutely nothing to do with your use of the word "transform" ("transform the wrapped properties into some IO call"). MacLane could have decide to call natural transformations "widgets". My point is, besides the name (which is completely arbitrary), why would you even begin to believe this has something to do with "transforming properties into IO calls"?

Nice shadow edit. For context, the previous comment used to consist of a single link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_transformation
Ubuntu 23.10 Adding Experimental TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption
Show HN: Nuxt UI, a UI Library for Modern Web Apps
Zero Liability fraud protection and zero foreign transaction fee are table stakes for any major travel card though.

It is the other travel protection benefits where Chase has an edge with better insurance. Additionally Chase has a lineup of travel reward transfer partners that are more compelling for USians. The redemption rate can be up to 50% higher. It also rewards better for heavy restaurant goers.
The Venture X has cell phone insurance, but I've not found it worth it these days given the large differential in Bank account Auto Pay incentives with all the major carriers, and it does not cover prepay.

The Capital One Venture offerings are not terrible, it is a cheaper card.

There's also no reason why you need or should do deposit banking at the same place you use for credit cards. The incentives for doing so have never been compelling.
Did you just describe Googles retired attempt at doing a social network?
Why researchers say they’re a step closer to extending lifespan
Very questionable. Some people will come to completely ingoring them (which isn't good either), some will click anything out of being too annoyed. Whatever, people can be manipulated into doing some statistically predictable actions with decreased awareness this way and this is a vulnerability.
I wonder if those people still deserve that compassion in the eyes of the same people, if they did not want to get vaccinated for COVID.

Life is back to normal finally!

The very liberal live-love-laugh people who were urging the most dracoinian steps against people who were sceptical of the anti-COVID measures of the goverment, who celebrated/urged the government for violating basic human and constitutional rights of the sceptic citizens, can now finally blame the government again for doing some limited steps for the protection of rights and benefits of its own citizens (at the expense of illegal non-citizens this time).

Also: What would you think, if I told you some people find their situation terrible in Germany, and are willing to illegally immigrate to the USA? Would you also feel compassion for them? Where is the line where this is justified?
Same, I get a lot of sensitive correspondence, things like divorce settlements from lawyers, mortgage applications, correspondence with doctors with a lot of personal details (that the person cc’ed me on), airline reservations, etc.

Usually I’ll reply to the sender and tell them they have the wrong email address, some don’t believe me, sometimes they ask me if I know the person (out of a billion gmail users), some complain that I took to long to tell them about the wrong address, and sometimes a lawyer will direct me to delete all copies of the errant email…

I always reply back to tell them that the email lands on multiple devices and is downloaded and backed up automatically and to see if they want to pay me on a time and materials basis or if they want a project based fee. None have been willing to pay me to cleanup their mistake.

Way back when I signed up with gmail, I was happy to get a first-initial.lastname@gmail.com address, now I wish I’d gone with something more obscure.
I'm a little confused. Does the code get generated on any attempt to log in, or only those that have the password and MFA is activated? Or when someone attempts password recovery?

Because I'm a bit concerned if Microsoft passwords are leaking.
Texas just got closer to blackouts than it has since 2021. What happened?
I'm always surprised to read how many great minds served in WWII. Granted most of them didn't see combat, but their lives took a drastic change. Here is a guy living a quiet life teaching philosophy at Oxford and all of a sudden in charge of planning the D-Day invasion...? That sounds wild to me.

For Nagel it appears to have been a positive factor:

"Rowe contends that his war experience had a profound effect on his personality and his approach to the subject. Before the war, he had been a guarded and solitary scholar. Now he was ‘much more openly ambitious: he had enjoyed having power and influence in the army, and he now wanted power and influence in his civilian career.’"

Maybe it was common in those days to sacrifice for the common good. Not to be that guy, but these days it feels like most people are far too self-absorbed to set aside their own ambitions for an ideology, perhaps myself included. I can't envision today's intelligentsia (influencer-istas) laboring over military documents and making government salary. "How do I monetize this" would probably be most people's first thought.

Maybe I'm just salty today.