skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dew point over 70 doesn't sound that high?

I live in Vietnam. It is 8am right now and the dew point is 80. It only 80 at the moment but is supposed to get up to 90 later in the day. I assume the dew point will also go up to around 90.

AccuWeather says the "RealFeel" will be 97 and "RealFeel Shade" will also be 97, so being in the shade does almost nothing, since it is overcast and raining very slightly at the moment.

We're not in a heat wave or anything, this is just normal weather basically year round. If anything it's been especially rainy and cool the past few weeks.

Trees are nice but are not remotely a substitute for air conditioning. Trees do not lower humidity enough to stop the average European/American from sweating constantly just sitting still here.
I see them doing with the Internet industry what they have done with the Financial industry.

- What are they doing: force smaller companies to die or be bought by bigger ones.

- How are they doing that: They keep adding regulation so that fix costs and complexity to manage a company increase.

- Why are they doing that: having a lot of smaller companies is difficult and expensive to control. Usually it is impossible. Having a few big companies is easier and cheaper to control (you only need to book a room and invite a few ceos to regulate everything).

The fun part is that companies like Google, Apple, etc fake a fight against the regulators, but are actually the 2nd beneficiaries (1st being the regulators).

If you speak with seniors in the financial industry, they will talk about it with passion and anger because they can provide countless practical examples which killed their industry and the "joy" to wake up in the morning.

As an exemple, you can see how JP Morgan seems to fight regulation and make it appear to be a victim of regulation, but finally is always the winner.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-10/bankin...
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/california-financia...
They’re from Prague, in the Czech Republic.

So no, not Russian.
I'm surprised he doesn't call for reparations
I think "you can't call people who were in the KGB ex-soviets because they did not have strong attachment to communist ideology" is an indefensible assertion.

If these people were a farmers or factory workers or something, sure. But these were people who worked and fought for the soviet state, not just workaday citizens.

If the current government of the US collapses, and whatever government we end up with afterward is eventually run by a cadre of career CIA agents, it will be very fair to call them whatever the equivalent of "ex-soviet" will be, even if they don't ever talk about their ideological attachment to constitutional republics.
> I don't really care to argue about the self-evident.

its totally not self-evident. Even after ww2 world was bi-polar, and now US leadership in economy and tech is much less evident.
Well yeah, how else do you stop color bleeding out and staining your other dishes?
> Flags should never be reused and should be retired after they're no longer useful.

That's such a "no-brainer," that I don't think it's even written down, anywhere.

When I read that, I was like, "Whut?"

In the Days of Yore, when we hammered programs directly into the iron as Machine Code, we would do stuff like that, but I can't even imagine doing that with any halfway modern language. They don't say, but it's probably C++. I know that's popular for HFT.
Just use Flexbox and blame it on the user if they are still using old browsers that doesn't support it.
I don't use stories but I often use their Reels feature. There are some great shorts there, it really reminds me of the Vine days.
+1. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War is a great complimentary biopic.
Also borrows the whole of its compositor "nvnflinger" from Android's "SurfaceFlinger".

I'd call that a pretty significant piece.
WavJourney: Compositional Audio Creation with LLMs
Interesting, seems like things are more complicated than I thought.
Wasn't there a documented operation that JFK didn't want to sign/rejected, that pertained to the CIA wanting to set up false flags to justify war against Cuba?

Found it: Operation Northwoods
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Early theory about the cause (incorrect, as it turns out):

Nanex ~ 03-Aug-2012 ~ The Knightmare Explaned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337359 (no comments)
> Even Krugman says that MMT is bollocks.

Krugman seems to be fully in line with the policy positions typically associated with policy advocates associated with MMT, his disagreement with MMT is that given the theory's position (he has shifted over time between characterizing this as an apparent and a clear position) on the limitations of traditional monetary, a strict application of MMT would actually come to a more conservative policy recommendation on government fiscal policy because MMT denies (or seems to deny) that traditional monetary policy can backstop fiscal policy if the monetary effects of such policy aren't what is intended. He agrees with MMT (both theorists and most of the MMT-influenced policy activists) that the only real constraints on fiscal policy are monetary effects (the positions most MMT critics take issue with), but disagrees with (what he sees as the position of) MMT theorists on traditional monetary policy being ineffective at its monetary goals. I'm not familiar with the source work in MMT to know if the position he takes issue with is actually the position of MMT theorists, but I'm familiar enough with the less academic policy advocates associated with the MMT movement that I've always considered their advocacy to be in line with orthodox Keynesianism more than even most policy advocates who rhetorically are Keynesian, because the latter tend to -- despite embracing the positions which clearly make it out to be a false constraint -- adhere rather strongly to the preference that the government play-act as if the finite public purse (the "fisc") were a real thing outside of the domain of monetary policy, though they'll embrace things like countercyclical deficits, whereas MMT-influenced advocates tend to embrace that a fiat currency budget doesn't have a fisc and is constrained only by the monetary effects of the money it creates by spending and destroys by taxing.

But these MMT-influenced advocates don't generally advocate around the view of the uselessness of traditional monetary policy as currently entrusted to the Fed that Krugman takes issue with; they tend to prefer using traditional fiscal policy within its monetary constraints more actively for the purposes of traditional monetary policy because its easier to fine-tune the distributional impacts within the aggregate target, not because the Fed controlling rates doesn't work for macro-level monetary functions. So, in a sense, academic MMT may be a different thing that policy-world MMT, with the latter being mostly Keynsianism without fiscal policy cosplaying a commodity money constraint in a fiat money system.
Indeed, it's quite impressive that he could build and sell the same app twice. Maybe he'll do it a few more times before people catch on.
Much of it legally is cake by EU standards: https://www.thenational.scot/news/19927787.subway-bread-clas...
Some who knew Ruby theorized that he wanted to be a national hero by killing JFK's killer. Those who knew him said he was fairly emotional and hot-headed too.
I give you permission to opt out. If you have skills, there are plenty of countries that would gladly have you.

They all mostly do monetary policy the same way though.
Really unfortunate. It’s not like we don’t have the will or capability. I’m hoping this is just while they iron out licensing agreements.
I think it should be appreciated in context: it's a good way to teach both awk(1) and make(1) to someone new to UNIX. It also demonstrates how to use awk(1) for prototyping, which IMO is a good programming habit to "develop": it forces to focus on the essential, and not to unnecessarily overthink.
So Google and Amazon are not passively listening to conversations unless you query it? Not super surprising Google is using voice search for targeting just like web search. It’s sleazy but not surprising.
UK air traffic control meltdown
What's the bus factor of coreutils?
Using DuckDB to serve low latency OLAP queries
I wanted to buy an apartment at auction. The opening bid was more than what I thought was reasonable at the then prevailing 17% interest rate. So I pulled out. Interest rates came down, apartment prices rose massively. Ended up renting for many more years.
My understanding of time dilation is that at the time the event is actually happening, things occur at normal speed, it's just that our memory of the event is time-dilated and so we remember everything slowing down and taking a long time.
I found this even weirder, frankly. Everyone is sitting out there in the open, but it's impolite to talk, and most people have headphones on. Strange vibe to be in a giant room full of people that is basically silent, IMO.
They were asleep at the wheel, not unlike all the random brokerages that blew up when swiss central bank pulled the CHF peg in 2015.

This is a culture problem - as soon as you load up your trading firm with a bunch of software industry hires, you end up with jiras and change management workflows instead of people on deck that have context for what they're doing. That's the only way to explain reverse scalping for 45 mins straight.
from the same article

"it is based on a proprietary microkernel"

"....Despite popular misconceptions to the contrary, Horizon (the Switch's OS) is not largely derived from FreeBSD code, nor from Android..."
> I will commonly wish there was a method to change a curve in a single drag in some particular situation…

If I understand what you want, you'd probably really dig the Curvature tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzilL2zvldo
Well, they have to justify their billion dollar valuation somehow, but it's seeming that their valuation and Clubhouse itself was just a Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon.
ThreatMapper: Open-source cloud native security observability platform
I don’t know what they focus on, I’ve had many assumptions to A/B test over many interviews

I have a lot of experience people managing though in successful projects and teams! I guess I never found the Cracking the Engineering Manager Interview book
Yes, this is most likely. The biological advantage was useful, before humans invented modern technology that allows for actually unsustainable, industrial fishing.
The egg from Aliens vs. Predator! It's out and about now. Or the Orb from Woody Allen's, 'Sleeper'[1], except that was silver.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAKWKfVcd04
I suspect (both because of the color separation and the reference to towels) you have confused laundry machines with dishwashers.

One doesn't usually separate dishes by color before washing them in a dishwasher, and even if for some reason one did, one still wouldn't usually wash towels in a dishwasher.
Very few models have a bit line feed in Europe.

Maybe because our how water systems are more various, so you can't just assume that's always hot on demand when you want it? If you need a heating element in the dishwasher anyway it's not much of a feature.
The same is true for PPOs, you just pay more for them. And a bigger problem is healthcare deserts. If you're in a rural area your options are limited by default.
Alaska is the new hotness. Or, at least it will be in 10-50 years.
I don't see it.

In a brushless DC magnet rotor, there is little energy loss, the magnets aren't very conductive.

Here, we have additional current and newly introduced Joule losses in the rotor. It is not clear that these can be kept low enough so the result is as good.

Stronger magnetic field due to high current in the rotor does not directly imply higher efficiency, it only directly implies higher torque, which gives the car higher acceleration. We don't need to increase this strength, current motors are plenty strong. This top torque mode of operation usually goes with decreased efficiency, due to high currents and high Joule losses. The best efficiency is likely to be achieved when ohmic and friction losses are kept low, thus currents as low as possible everywhere, induction coupling frequency dynamically governed to be at the optimal value dependent on the angular speed.

The only obvious advantage of the marketed motor is smaller size and likely lower weight. I'm afraid price will be a disadvantage.
These terms work for any manufacturer I use.

I suspect “all” was exaggeration.
Surprising. I’ve found any dishwasher I’ve bought in the last 10 years has been absolutely _baller_ at washing dishes. Maybe it’s because I’m willing to spend the money on the good ones though.
That is essentially what they say in the video.
This is what’s fascinating and terrifying about conspiracy theories. You’re clearly an intelligent person who can articulate their thoughts. But none of this is well reasoned. In the face of compelling evidence you propose vague, unsubstantiated alternative theories. This is a bottomless pit. It’s not hard to make up a fantasy to explain reality. But that way lies madness. Reasonable people can disagree and arrive at the truth. But constantly inventing unsubstantiated counter arguments simply delays the inevitable conclusion to the detriment of everyone.
I worked in fintech for a few years. I'll never again work on software that's responsible for trading, you could offer $1M/year and I wouldn't take it. By far the most stress I've ever experienced at a job.
I think the commenter means "you can have preferred access".

PPO = Preferred Provider Organization. You have a better deductible/coinsurance/copayment for "in-network" (preferred) providers who have negotiated their rates with the insurer (or accepted the insurance company fee schedule). You typically need pre-authorization for elective surgery and advanced medical imaging. You have the option to see someone "out of network" but with less coverage.

HMO = Health Maintenance Organization. Simple version is you don't get to choose your provider, you don't need preauthorizations and you have to go through your designated primary care provider to access specialists. For the most part you can only access providers within the HMO network if you want any coverage.
And Johnson continued those policies.
Checking everytime you use the alias, instead on when you init the shell. How often do you need to install a packages?
The largest ecosystems that are deployed as production hardware right now, sure.

That's because designing a high performance core takes several years, and then getting it into a chip, tested, into mass production, and in to computers in stores or data centres takes another three or four years.

RISC-V has only existed as a frozen (ratified) base ISA for four years and a couple of months, and a lot of extra stuff that you want in applications processors for phones or PCs was ratified in November 2021, less than two years ago.

You're not going to see a lot of products with the late 2021 stuff until 2025 or 2026.

In terms of people starting projects now, or recently, that is indeed mostly RISC-V.
Try a commercial dishwasher if you get the chance, they heat the water to near-boiling and will clean a load of dishes in about 60 seconds.

Not exactly friendly for your electric bill though.
> A related myth is that the government needs to repay its debt. “Debt” is a misnomer; government debt is just money (or purchasing power) in another form. A $20 bill is a liability of the Fed, which makes it a liability of the federal government. A $20 bill never has to be repaid; it just is. Fundamentally, Treasuries aren’t much different.

A debt-like characteristic is interest. We "owe interest" to those who hold our debt.

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/05/26/who-does-the-u-s-owe-...

> As of July 2023 it costs $726 billion to maintain the debt, which is 14% of the total federal spending.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio....
The second gunmen doesn't require a conspiracy to explain. Oswald fired two shots: one in Kennedy's back which did not fully penetrate, and one through his neck which hit Connally.

Then, in the ensuing confusion, a Secret Service agent following the motorcade accidentally discharged his AR-15 in the back of Kennedy's head, killing him.

The agent who pulled the trigger on the ground doesn't even need to realize he had done it; it's possible to accidentally discharge without realizing it.
You may be moving your arms in different ways. To compare reading counts between two devices I’d use both on the same wrist.
But I think in the end it really doesn’t matter how accurate they are if the effect is one that these devices make us move more.
No one, is quite a bold assumption !

It's actually quite routine stuff now in finance at least - to perform some kind of 'fire test' on a regular basis - you shut down some components during the day, and switch to backups solutions, to test everything works smoothly.
I’m reading that as the frequency of smart meter measurements is 15 mins. Those are rookie numbers for stabilizing the grid. If they could contact you and you could cut the connection in <3 minutes then it might be useful, but only if many consumers were in the same boat.

Compare that with the crypto miners: ERCOT knows how long they take to shutdown and their load, as well as already having commercial arrangements for the shutdown. And with one switch they reduce many multiples of an average homes load.
I'm not dead set against it, but if there was any mistake or bugs I don't know how you'd find them and fix them in that approach
What Is NVLink and How Does It Differ from SLI?
My DDS alleged that the bacteria strain(s) that promote plaque tend to out-compete the one(s) that leads to cavities. Can anyone confirm?
So summer is caused by AC rather than AC being turned on in summer?
If you want to play that game, a sizeable part of the tree population is just going to migrate north/south.

The more immediate problem with climate change isn't that there won't be enough places to live/farm, it's that it's all going to move causing destabilization of societies.

The long term effects of running out of arable land are a considerable distance in the future.
Could you or someone please help explain why a new icon library or license would be really fortunate compared to this choice?
If you're not sure which service is causing the error, combing a log output from the two services is much easier than debugging each service separately, is my point.
Solar panels are nice things.
Yes! I usually order some kind of combo pizza then add pineapple and anchovies. The pineapple needs something to balance.
This works well unless you have a tankless water heater. Those are very bad for any appliances that fill water in short bursts, because they only heat while the water is flowing and the water only flows for a short time.
Actually it's one of the few truly intellectually-pure endeavors. Everything else is the same pursuit with extra steps:

Make a trading strategy to make money

vs

Make a cutting edge machine learning classifier to back out latent meaning in search queries to produce better search results to drive more traffic to google to sell ads to make money
I used to mainly develop in C++ and implicit this was so frustrating. Nowadays it’s mostly Python and the explicit self is simply not an issue. (I also worked on Objective-C code at some point and that’s also fine.) Why any designer of a new language would think implicit self/this is a good idea is so beyond me.
It almost sounds like you are describing a poker game :)
I read someone say it here and I really liked the way of framing it, UI elements are the API to interface with the human and changes should be regarded as breaking changes.

Beyond that, I think there is a lot of disdain for users these days and a lot of design that doesn't think about the user, and goes for form over function, and even a lot of deliberate gimping to manipulate the user. UX in the modern day is a complete disaster, and it's not just software, it's everything. Cars, furniture, light switches, light bulbs, stoves, washing machines, you name it the UX is being destroyed. Bad UX used to be in the almost exclusive realm of government services, not anymore. It's like everyone just forgot what the point of all this is.
No. Spaces ate its early lunch.

Clubhouse had a moment, then was overrun by cryptobros and sketchy rooms, and then Spaces waltzed in and with it's larger graph in place already, ate it. The market for annoying voice chat rooms wasn't that large to begin with and once the hype died down (oh, not forgetting Clubhouse's large delay on Android app, which was a bit too long and lost a ton of users), it was a shell of itself and no one talks about it / or on it, anymore.

They're trying to pivot/expand into something else, because what else can they do, but it's a whatever meh now.
Thanks! We need more such efforts to improve supply-chain security of open-source software.

Packj detects typo-squatting (impersonation) as well.
> Python has this (_ access).

What exactly is being referenced here?
> How are they taking on loads of risk?

This entire story is about a trading firm that lost 400m trying to provide market liquidity. Which part of the loads of risk isn't clear in this context?
Does interest need to get paid? Yes. It is true that gov debt is not like household debt, but it isn’t an infinite lever. Those interest payments can get really steep.
kWh/year is always inane regardless. That's what kW are for
the second half of the GP comments changes topics to laundry, which is what I assume the parent comment was replying to
Fair enough, as long as you leave the thinking and decision-making to people who have even a modicum of historical curiosity.
Coastal Washington is also well positioned to be a climate haven, though it would need to proactively plan for an influx of people as it's a bunch of small towns, national parks and rural areas.

The ties between Coastal Washington and Southern Alaska could also stand to be strengthened.
Fair point. In hindsight, my mind had wandered off unsupervised, and was picturing the unadulterated chaos of an instant universal conversion of all existing rooftops to super-reflective.

"All will be simultaneously unveiled at 12 Midday tomorrow, citizens, so, ...take care out there!".
Tell me you learned about finance from youtube without telling me ..
I love Cobalt Cube. Were you there after it sold to Sun? Did you know Thomas Oh?
"humans began to make stone tools about 3 million years ago" is just as accepted as "male and female he created them".

I wonder if others read this text the same way I do.
Why is that weird? Not really weird. It might be wrong? Is that what you are saying?
This isn’t really correct. Typically exchanges have safety parameters which market makers can set according to how they wish to trade, and if you exceed those your orders will no longer be accepted and existing orders may also be pulled.

Obviously there are false positives occasionally and there is typically communication between the exchange and the market maker to ensure those don’t reoccur.
I don’t know much about web design so I ask from a place of ignorance: has this been done well?

Standardising components sounds like a good way to improve efficiency and safety but I imagine if it is done badly it could do the opposite.

I’m always skeptical of big government initiatives, so I am interested to hear how those in the know grade the gov in this example.
Bash also would have been an unlikely choice for a book published in 1988, considering it wasn't released until 1989 (Per Wikipedia).