skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s nothing productive in the system creating that output. It’s just money redistributed from fees paid by the merchants and other customers.

It’s a bit like a casino: somebody can get lucky and get out more money than they’re paying, but most don’t. And the house (Visa/MC/Amex) always wins.
A/C/E has the same irritating design, but historically worse because it used to not have train arrival previews.
It tastes different. It's not the same thing.
I could have sworn that was usb c already. You seriously plug a lightning into those?
heat pumps are bidirectional - they can move heat into or out of the same space. fridges are unidirectional.
SEC Says It's Using AI to Surveil Markets and Assist Investigations
Ask HN: Mid-career job assessment services?
Hello,

I am in the midst of a years long struggle to find appropriate work that actually uses my skills. I am in an administrative tech job and I absolutely hate it. I want to get back to writing code, queries, doing deploys, actually working on code but my "time between jobs" makes me too risky for employers. I don't fully understand my struggle but part of it is also discovering my neurodiversity struggles.

Are there any reputable services out there that will help evaluate my skills and use this information for job placement purposes.

Have you done something like this before? Was it worth it or a waste of time?

I'm not willing to do 100 different coding tests but if some recruiter or agency could give me a test and help me understand my value or what I could meaningfully put my research and education efforts to I'd be willing to put a hell of a lot more effort in.
I'm happy with my Panasonic appliances.
> It is also equipped with AI Energy Mode

.... well of course it is!
A $500 minisplit is often a ~6,000BTU unit. Most houses require more like 48,000BTU depending on their size, insulation and climate. More expensive mini splits use higher pressure and fancy inverter technology so that they can deliver 100% of their listed capacity at very cold temps where the $500 one is likely downrated below something like 15°F
> v0.0.6

eh, I think I'll wait..
Propane is the refrigerant (R290). That would be closed loop not consumed.
In Lightning, the springs are in the device and the pads are on the cable. With USB-C, the springs are in the cable, and the pads are in the device. There are different failure modes for the springs failing vs the tongue that the pads are on failing. One approach is not universally better than the other.
You'd end up with a cable that only worked for "slow charging" (5V / 500 mA), and even then only in one direction (because the cable could only pretend to be Rp+Ra or Ra+Rd for one side). It's easier to do the right thing.
You're mostly correct but I should point out one thing that credit cards do that debit cards don't really do in America: fraud protection. Credit card companies spend a lot of money protecting their customers from card number theft (which is rampant in all parts of the world)
I mean… the domain is still twitter.com…
This is a fantastic project and site. I 100% support it. It’d be awesome if we had more transparency in prices for many things. In fact I’m leaving my current job in a month or so and when I do I plan on sharing all of my compensation details and raise percentages the lot with all my colleagues. They should know and be able to benchmark their salaries against mine.

One feature that might be nice is being able to search by some metrics like square meters, number of room, bathrooms, etc and see aggregate stats on that. Median rent, high low etc.
Dependency graph is a feature of the build system with better understanding of the language import rules than the CI system can have (or whatever terminology you want to use). Good ones can hermetically, concurrently and deterministic build only the files that were changed.

Earthly is just a thin wrapper on top of docker multi stage builds[1]. Such docker layers are one-dimensional, meaning if one of the steps are calling “make”, that step will have to rebuild that entire layer, not just the one c++ file that changed. There are solutions to this with --mount,type=cache but they take away the reproducibility and and are equally possible with plain dockerfiles.

[1] tbh I don’t know if this is the case, but that’s how others explain it. This is core problem with Earthly. They don’t say how it works, just that you will magically get 20x faster. Without understanding how, I don’t know how to take that seriously and I can only assume it’s snake oil.

I mean, there is a need for a better Dockerfile syntax. But then market it as such! Not as magic 20x faster builds.
Also turns out to be a different skill. (My old school printing is fine, my old school cursive was pretty much gone by day one of college, chalkboards are almost always slow block-printing - so when I started using whiteboards, it was all cursive patterns that were unreadable and mostly served as a vague reminder to the audience of what I said when I was scribbling over there.)

About 5 years ago I was inspired by a friend casually doing some amazing whiteboard art at work, and ended up trying a more calligraphic approach (not fancy gothic patterns, just that kind of intent/attention.) A lot slower, but a bunch of coworkers privately requested that I keep up the new approach...
5 kg is only a couple of textbooks. Teens need to pick what books to take home. Obviously digital is free weight, but physical textbooks have a real weight cost, I don’t want my kid going through what I had to go through.
[Author here] Heh - yes but don't, though...

Yes: you could use bayesian priors and a custom model to give yourself more confidence from less data. But...

Don't: for most businesses that are so early they can't get enough users to hit stat-sig, you're likely to be better off leveraging your engineering efforts towards making the product better instead of building custom statistical models. This is nerd-sniping-adjacent, (https://xkcd.com/356/) a common trap engineers can fall into: it's more fun to solve the novel technical problem than the actual business problem.

Though: there are a small set of companies with large scale but small data, for whom the custom stats approaches _do_ make sense. When I was at Opendoor, even though we had billions of dollars of GMV, we only bought a few thousand homes a month, so the Data Science folks used fun statistical approaches like Pair Matching (https://www.rockstepsolutions.com/blog/pair-matching/) and CUPED (now available off the shelf - https://www.geteppo.com/features/cuped) to squeeze a bit more signal from less data.
I 100% concur with afavour that regularly running into acquaintances around town is magical, and wonderful, and pro-social, and a rare privilege.

I've had that experience only once in my life, when I lived literally in the center of town in Palo Alto, and ran into coworkers very regularly on the street, because our company gave us a subsidy of hundreds of dollars every month to live within a 10-block radius of the office. And these were misanthropic pale boys who mostly had no hobbies and avoided going outside and meeting other people if they could help it.

I've lived in 200k-sized cities and I've lived in college towns and I've lived in quaint, "walkable" suburbs. And nowhere have I had the experience of serendipity as a result of density, because in all those other places I would get in a car and drive to a specific destination point and meet no one either there or en route. And even if there were some amenities I could "easily" walk to within "only" a mile or so, no one else I knew walked there with any regularity, so I'd never see any friends around town.

Objections that go "but I'm happy with my life in XYZ location, how can you say that" are missing the point. If you haven't experienced the difference, it is as stark as night and day.
Does this work the other way? I.e. “you have enough buckets if adding one more puts the number of samples in the smallest bucket below 10?”
"Infinite Growth or Death" is an impossible goal but still people seem to strive for it.

Though most VC funding seems to have the explicit goal of "Burn cash to drive out competition so you have a monopoly, then abuse your market position to wring your locked-in customers dry", which feels awful from a consumer POV.
Absolutely fascinating article.

My sleep went from bad to utterly shittastic a few years ago and I ended up missing several items that went to debt collection. They were medical bills I would only be too happy to pay and it’s a very weird feeling. I haven’t carried any debt for decades at this point, not even car or house.

I am still scheming ways to pay the creditors by getting them to accept a check, but it’s hard after they’ve gone to collection.
Unless you received a faulty cable, which I guess is technically possible if extremely unlikely, this is categorically untrue.
It doesn't "use up" propane - it's a closed system that uses the propane as a heat transfer fluid. The hot water generated by the system is what will get piped around your house.
If you're an auto-didact my advice to myself would be: take a week to get a grip on the basics again (maybe read an algo and datastructure book or cracking the coding interview). Then grind leetcode. That's the service you're looking for : ) Or toptal.
Intuitively, it seems that if it reduced symptoms after infection, than it would have been seen as correlated to exhalation.

Now, I realize that it could just negatively correlate with self-reporting symptoms? Or it could be that that correlation between self reporting and how much you exhaled was just very lightly correlated, such that the other correlation is low? Neither of which would be that surprising, I guess. They do disappoint me, for some reason.
Per install, not sale, which includes demos, pirated copies (yes, really) and, say, a web browser spinning up the browser version of a game. Or a cloud service running it in a VM (each executable startup in that case is an "install"). Or any download from a service like gamepass.

Above all, a single player/user redownloading the game on their device counts as a separate install. They've now said that they're using proprietary "fraud detection" and IP address uniqueness to prevent fraud, and seemingly requiring devs to reach out if they think they've been overcharged.
Ah yes, let's ask people on spotty connections to download a (likely) megabytes-large JavaScript bundle. What could go wrong?

Most of my users have old phones and bad connections. I've tried this JS-heavy bundle-first approach. It doesn't work.

The solution is way simpler than local-first. Just shrink every page and interaction. Fewer requests, little JavaScript (if any at all), low latency. Use static pages when possible. Even the oldest phones on the most remote connections can usually deal with a sub-50kb page all-in. It feels like people forget how simple web interactions can be.

I'm sure local-first can be great for highly interactive tools like Figma. But the grandparent is right. Most sites don't need anything close to that level of complexity.
BOOLR – A digital logic simulator
Amazing: https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.guidebook.com/upload/z5nhuRkp...
But speaking from experience, if you have a falling out you can’t really go back there anymore and choices are generally limited in small towns.
Until our latest insurance, Ive never had a medical interaction in the US that didn't involve my wife fighting some midwit over the phone for an hour over billing mistakes.

She's probably saved us $5-10k, probably $50k for her extended family (about five nuclear families)
Moreover, it's an inequality engine. Get money from those who can't pay their bills (poor - they are punished bad back-breaking late fees and penalties) to those who can (middle class and the rich who usually pay their cards off in full every month so never pay any interest, and get cashbacks and bonuses/airline miles/etc).
That might make sense, but as it doesn't mention any cooling features, I assumed it was purely for (faucet) hot water. The fact that there's no tank is weird if it was for residential hot water, I think you're right that it's for heating. (or combo, with a separate hot water reserve for showers)
Anyone have the full list of startups?
What's happening is people around the world parking their money in real estate.

In my corner of the world it got to a point where things like blocks of just studio apartments are built, which were all bought out back when the project was still a hole in the ground.

It's most pronounced in China, where over 70% of household wealth is in real estate, because everyone and their grandmother is investing.
Scientology isn't a religion it's a cult/grift. For decades they were denied the tax status of a religious organization because they didn't meet the legal test until they mounted a decade long infiltration and harassment campaign to which the IRS eventually relented.
Because the vast majority of people use credit cards without messing up their lives?

I suspect most people don’t even need them but use them for cash back and consumer protection.

For people who do need them, there’s nothing inherently wrong with buying something and spreading the cost or paying for it later in return for paying some interest. Most people who do that won’t get into any trouble.

There are a hundred legal but potentially dangerous things that should be banned before credit cards if you want to go down that route. Start with guns, processed food, alcohol and social media perhaps?
Good addition to my post. People forget that when they originally made friends (involuntary) regularity was a big part of it. Your parents might have expectwd you to go to $SPORT, so you went and got to know people there, some of which might have become your friends. Same but even greater in magnitude for school.

Now some might have terrible memories of school ans maybe never found a decent friend there, but as someone with multiple silblings I can assure you that luck (or the lack thereof) plays a big role when it comes to theae things.
You conveniently left out the part where credit cards offer ... credit. Essentially quick loans upto a limit with zero collateral.

If the govt. banned credit cards, you will then ask why poor people can't get credit. They will then go to payday loans and loan sharks.

Remember, nobody forces you to use credit cards.

Also, the US is also not the top country for either credit card usage or possession. Some European countries top the US.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...

> We are not in the 60s anymore. A cashless payment system does not need debt.

Right, when I lived in EU briefly, I remember the insane complex and costly bank accounts. Nothing comes for free.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/31/savings-europeans-hit-out-at...

https://www.reddit.com/r/eupersonalfinance/comments/10usczr/...

> EU banks also have many fees... To get a contactless debit card - there is a fee. Use your contactless debit card and pay a 1% fee on every purchase. Use your debit card in another EU country and get a 5% foreign transaction fee added on top. There is no checking account interest paid to you. You need to have a minimum balance. etc. Absolutely terrible service.
> Gut Check: Especially if you’re off by quite a bit, this is a chance to take a step back and ask whether the company has reached growth scale or not. It could be that there are plenty of obvious 0-1 tactics left. Not everything has to be an experiment.

This is a key point, imo. I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of companies are running "growth teams" that don't have the scale where it actually makes sense to do so.
Create a simple Markdown-based blog in Node.js
> Why does the American government does even tolerate this credit card garbage business in the first place ?

Why should the government be involved in tolerating or not tolerating this? Credit cards are perfectly legal, ie tolerated by the government, in most of Europe, too.

The real question is: why do customers and merchants tolerate credit cards?

> So Why ? Why sponsor a system that fuck up entire families and push vulnerable people to suicide by giving them a way to pay things they can not afford in the first place ?

Debt in general, and buying things on debt in particular, ain't unheard of in Europe either. Debt collection agencies with shady practices exist in European countries, too.

> Why tolerate an entire industry of debt management that put people to their knees and bring literally Zero value to the real economy?

Who says it brings zero value? Have a look at why customers and merchants tolerate this industry. It's more complicated than 'banks are evil, and customers and merchants are idiots'. (They might very well be, but for your explanation to work, European banks would need to be less evil, and European customers and merchants need to be less stupid.)

> In the 60s, indeed, holding a debt record to every card holder was probably the only way to get a non physical payment system to work in the first place.

I don't think that's the case. And even if it was, your explanation doesn't explain the popularity of revolving credit, instead of just paying off everything every month.

Compare also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit#Germany and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocheque

Payment by 'Eurocheque' typically involved short term debt with the merchant as well, but I don't think it had the same 'bad' influence as credit cards had.

Similarly, I don't think checks in the US cause the same issues that you are bemoaning here as credit cards do. But checks also work on something that works exactly like (short term) debt.

> A cashless payment system does not need debt.

Debt might not strictly speaking be necessary. But it doesn't by itself seem to cause the problems you are complaining about.
I really like this way of thinking about it. I try to advocate for internetless development, so it meshes nicely with that.

It also helps me understand the scope of the frameworks. They need to maintain local state akin to saving files locally.

It’s just funny to me how we had this as the default mode of operation many years ago, then lost it because everything went to the cloud, and now we’re realizing that was kinda a mistake and we’re trying to fix it in the new environment.
Three letters: GDP

The economy functions "better" (for a very specific definition of the word) when people can spend money they don't have.
The hearing finished late Sep 12th. More news articles will likely come out in the coming days.

English news coverage: https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2023/09/13/650...

Video is from the official Mexican congress YouTube page. Body analysis is shown around 2h:52m into the video. Currently only in Spanish. There are translations floating around on Reddit, albeit, in overly sensationalized subreddits.
Yes, but instead of consumption, that alternative money would be biased towards investment or even less productive activities, such as house price speculation. Consumer credit creates money where it has the greatest benefit.
I've had a Samsung HDR tv for ~7-8 years, it started showing some damage last year, and the smart part is not great.

Comparatively, my parents Sony TV is some 20 years old and flawless.

So yeah I didn't have a great experience.
Eh I don’t like to have people over because then it becomes a regular thing, people pop in unexpectedly and I don’t really want to host and cleanup that often. Much simpler to go down to the bar and come back to a mostly private experience at home with the family.
Hmmm, from a Newtonian perspective I would have argued (or at least my personal impression is) the only thing we actually perceive is force (i.e. acceleration). All the situations you described are just (higher-order) changes of acceleration and even if you give them a name: At the end of the day, the only thing that matters to our bodies is the force.
I remember seeing people try that fifteen years ago - it was a feature of FeedBurner, which ... apparently continued to work until 2021! https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/feedburner-2021.html
Debit cards in the Netherlands at least don't have a number that can solely be used for payments. You need the physical card (with a pin code which isn't written on the card but memorised), or a virtual card like Apple Pay coupled to that card.

It seems that fraud protection is rather something that is necessary because fraud is so easy.
Change the name to something short that sounds like it can be part of my stack and existed in linux forever e.g. ert
Earthly sounds too mid 2010s and something extra/startupy
Not all countries apply this protection to their credit cards, even if they are issued from visa/master card/Amex. For example, we knew if a Chinese restaurant in Bellevue WA would target Chinese visitors using ICBC AmEx cards because ICBC (a big bank in China) puts the onus on the consumer to prove they didn’t make the charge rather than in the business making the charge. American credit card issuers would never do that and just let you make the charge back.
Oh, come on. These are specific internships for organizations that Microsoft works with to encourage more, different people to get involved in tech.
Ever wondered who decides how the Internet should evolve?
“And some tools are simply more biological: a person in good physical health can think more clearly than a person for whom this is not true, for the simple reason of nutrient supply to the brain being more efficient in the former than the latter.”

Most important learning aid: easily-available, nutritious breakfast and lunch. Quit fooling around with school lunch accounts and debt, financial qualification for free or reduced-price meals; just feed the kids decent food.

Hungry, malnourished kids can’t begin to concentrate. Disadvantaged American kids aren’t (usually) short of total calories, but they are often short of good food available at the right times. Good meals at home require more money and/or time and thought. Little home economics programs throughout the school years would be both good academic opportunities (apply those fractions we’ve been working on, see what baking soda does when it meets an acid) and cultivate the thinking that makes cooking at home an easier routine as an adult.

Second-most important: physical activity that doesn’t feel like a punishment. This is trickier.
what happens if you need to heat your house and it's below -10?
Feels like something had gone very wrong if a function like this is useful.

Would only be useful for unstructured data since if you had structure data you could write a more specific function.

This can easily match the wrong value and cause problems. And why would it match the wrong value? Because you have unstructured data and it might not be knowable if you might have false positives
Mojo?

Has anyone heard if Django (or FastAPI, etc) will be ported to Mojo programming language?

https://www.modular.com/mojo
The Federal Reserve already overprints, that’s one reasonwhy the USD and almost every other major currency is currently struggling. Printing more money during high inflation only worsens the problems.