skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the long run you aren't going to be beating inflation by 2% with your cash or equivalent (CDs, treasuries, repo, whatever). That's in the 0-1% above inflation range, and likely on the lower end of that scale.

Even intermediate or longer term bonds struggle to get 2% real returns.

But yea, "high yield" is a misleading name for savings accounts, and there isn't a huge point to it now, especially after the liquidity rules on government money markets got tighter after dodd frank.

There is still one benefit to having at least a month or two of expenses in a savings account though - FDIC. In an emergency that also crashes your bank, FDIC turnaround is like one business day. SIPC exists for brokerage holdings, but it is glacially slow by comparison.
> Google knows they can't win in hardware

cameras on pixels tend to rank well compared to competitors, so it's arguable that they are winning in that regard. maybe not in the camera hardware itself, but the pictures the hardware+postprocessing produce

and frankly the camera is one of the most important parts on a phone. whether it has 8gb or 12gb of ram or 60hz or 120hz display is kind of irrelevant to most people
That said if anything pretty much all of the new school frameworks and many of the tools in their ecosystems are already dependent on compilers for optimization anyway, react itself is introducing a compiler in the latest versions.

Anyway I prefer the html looking syntax if anything because it looks like the output on the page. That’s dependent on a project coding style that doesn’t unnecessarily wrap things in components, which for my company’s product I’ve set as a standard.
> Teacher shortage mostly happens in sparse communities not dense ones since it is easy to find teachers where lots of people live.

Only in medium density cities. Once you get to very high cost of living areas, finding and keeping teachers becomes extremely difficult because there's just not enough money to pay them enough for the cost of living. Many teachers either move to cheaper areas or change careers to high paying jobs.
This may not be optimal but it works for me: everything that I promise to do, even to myself, goes on the calendar. If I am really going to do something, I should have a plan of _when_, and that plan is in the form of a calendar invite to myself.

This does 4 good things and one bad one. Good:
1. It fills up my calendar, which gives me a better chance of getting time to do things.
2. It teaches me to say No to something when the calendar is full, or at least acknowledge the trade-off from saying Yes.
3. It helps me negotiate with people who I am willing to show my crazy to. "Ok which stuff on my calendar is your ask more important than?"
4. My phone reminds me to do all this stuff.

And the bad:
1. Every single night I have to rearrange items that I inevitably miss.

Rearranging is self-punishment, but it has a value. I rarely drop a commitment, and I am better at managing what commitments I make.
Well, I like the link you already posted and expect to see the arXiv one posted to HN as well.

I have a home-brew solution for pulling feeds and will be cross reference with your info. One small impact!
Earthquake Booms, Seneca Guns, and Other Sounds
Well, you might be forced out of Texas.

Property taxes show no let up. Ft Worth just announced they are raising rates. Cities across Texas have been riding the increase of house values and when that stops they just raise the taxes so they can continue to fleece everyone. It is slowly killing off the state. 12-14k for an 700k house (was only 400k in 2018) is insane, school taxes are more than half of that and all they seem to do is spend 10's of millions on football stadiums and sports facilities. Texas has turned into a corrupt shit hole.
I'm honestly a little perplexed but this question. It's a bit like asking if there's any proof that marketing works. Or that campaign ads work. Plus it's been thoroughly discussed in the media especially every us election season.

But assuming you're asking in good faith the obvious one is Russian interference in the 2016 election, which the former head of the NSA considers

> the most successful covert influence operation in history

Another former director of the NSA said

> it stretches credulity to think the Russians didn't turn the election

The Wikipedia article is a good entry point if you're not familiar with the details [0].

After the election, the Russian government had scandal-making influence in many positions including the National Security Advisor.

The US seems to believe these tactics work because we use similar ones to influence foreign governments. For example you can read about US involvement in the Arab spring [1]. A lot of the techniques are the same, but things weren't quite as online then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html
You’ll find people prefer to be free from oppression (hate speech) and free of guns (to push against government)
Maybe I should learn to read!
https://hkalbasi.github.io/zngur/how_it_compares.html
Warning to any smaller Android developers: do not fall behind on your emails
Also, check out PySheets (https://pysheets.app), which leverages PyScript to run Python logic in a spreadsheet UI, which is written entirely in Python. The PySheets UI uses LTK (https://github.com/pyscript/ltk), a fully client-side UI rendering library for PyScript.
It works for a negative trajectory too. The ‘Nazi bar’ story/urban myth comes to mind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/comments/1ama4ld/the_nazi_bar_...
This article has zero substance at all.

What's the advantages of moving slow and fix things? The author mentioned he moved slow for his existing open source projects and non-profits over 15 years. Why not distil some lessons about what moving slow means and what life experiences he went through to put forth this perspective...

Half of it was just ranting about vc culture and Paul Graham...
The summer session is open to the general public, and you can take courses through the Berkeley Extension during Fall/Spring on a space available basis.

https://summer.berkeley.edu/
https://extension.berkeley.edu/static/studentservices/concur...
having a pos in places without a reliable internet connection is enough of a reason for stored value cards to be a thing. Some things shouldn't require the mothership to be alive and reachable to work.
React is set to become much less complex as a user once the react compiler is in place and if you use server components/actions; in my product we’ve already basically eliminated 95% of useEffect calls, almost all data fetching, client side state management with the current gen tools, and once the compiler is in then all memoization will be gone too.

You still end up with the bloated bundle size but with one of the more modern react alternatives you can eliminate that too. So at least for me, I don’t mind the build complexity for the power I get; especially now that node itself is supporting typescript, the build side is getting simpler to set up as well.
SSG?
Surely the recordings are available somewhere on the web, but here's a short clip I found on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cm97VQobbh4&t=435
I'm in a suburb in Austin, I did chop out part of the lawn to plant a pollinator garden, but it's nothing really special. I made a project for my house, and I'm at 550 species total, 250 Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). That's really just a result of regular observations. Every month I pick up at least a few new species. In the spring and fall I pick up a bunch, typically. Keeps adding up over time, and with moths there's a lot of species out there.
Like Frontpage Personal Web Server?

From 1999: https://geocitiesfp.tripod.com/webserver.htm
Does the device/algorithm have to be trained on a specific person's brain/physical parameters? Or could this be swapped to another arbitrary person and work essentially the same?

The thought behind the question: how similar is everyone's process to construct the word "happy"?
Wrote this a while ago. KGs are definitely the next new old thing.

https://aneeshsathe.com/2024/05/10/dancing-on-the-shoulders-...

With LLMs enabling easy, if noisy, KG creation extracting knowledge into a computable form will lead to advances.

Drug discovery already uses the tech heavily, wouldn’t be surprised if it expands to more domains quickly now.
The conference paper (which is very well written and approachable) suggests that the precision of instruments was insufficient to establish this as of 20-ish years ago. See the section "First Experimentations": https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Unto-Laine/publication/...

Trivia: I tried to copy "First Experimentations" directly from the pdf and this what came out of my clipboard: -*%.$+/01/%*2/#$3$**&#. Thanks, Researchgate
Wouldn’t the tree explanation be refuted by simply recording the sounds in an open field, far away from trees?
I was young at the time but pretty sure subscribers in my store did not get late fees. I could only find two sources below to corroborate my memory. I would not be surprised that they were doing something shady to get sued though.

[1] https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/blockbuster-expan...

[2]https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085734/000119312507...
(honest question, not trying to be snarky) Do you have one (many would be great) use cases where the practical gain of the virtual DOM solutions have a genuine impact?

I'm asking because, many of React (or friends) introductory material naturally focus on building things like TODO lists or Tic Tac Toe; while those offer insights into how to work with React (& cie), they're not showcasing cases where the performance gains are perceptible, and IMO not even cases where the "organizational" benefits of such libraries are salient.
LLM powered disinformation machines is terrifying. The barrier to entry and sustained cost is so low.

But the social impact is significant. I'm reminded of a fake story about kid kidnapping in India, that caused a mob to burn the two people that were targeted alive... They were completely innocent, the mob attacked them based on fake news. Now, that can happen enmasse.
What are some examples of interactive CSS?
In grade school I read a book called ‘The Hatchet’. It was a story about a man who survived a plane crash near the arctic circle and had survived many days on his own with not much more than a hatchet. He experienced these sounds after a number days in the harsh wilderness and thought it was gun shots and that he was going to be saved. The book then went on to explain that it was the trees cracking from the extreme cold. I was mesmerized by this as a kid. Knowing now the true origin of the ‘frost crack’, I’m twice as captivated.
> It’s not to say that trees don’t crack—but rather that spooky noises long attributed to trees may emerge from the night sky itself.

Well, it seems like he demonstrated that the night sky itself can make sounds under certain conditions, not that these sounds are always the night sky.

By the way, I don't recall ever hearing the supposed tree cracking sound in an area where there were no trees. If it's always just the sky, you'd expect to hear it at least occasionally on the plains, or coming from 250' in the air above you when you're on a frozen lake.
Fun fact, E4X is the reason JavaScript has ‘for(of)’ instead of ‘for each’ (the reason we didn’t get ‘for (:)’ is even dumber - it would conflict with ‘:type’ annotations a few TC39 members were convinced would magically be in the language)
> 2. Neutrino interference. Is this a thing? Pretty sure it's not a thing.

It's an interesting question. I think that the answer is yes.

Assuming there are no experimental physicist nearby...

Trying to use a grating grid or mirrors with neutrinos is impossible, so you must try something else.

You must pick another particle that has charge and that decays to neutrinos, like in the article.

Yo must use a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime... to make two rays, the idea is that each particle is "split" in the two rays. (The correct formulation is more complicated and use a lot of algebra. The incorrect formulation say that each particle is split. Just bear with me and assume the particles can be split.)

If you miss align the two rays, perhaps with a magnetic field, you can get an interference pattern when the two parts of the particle colide when the ray colide (again, the algebra makes sense in spite the English version is weird).

But you can make the collision far away to ensure the particles have decayed and in the site of the collision they are neutrinos instead of the original particle. After the decay, the "two half" of the neutrinos are coherent and can produce an interference pattern.

So if you design everything very carefully, I think it's possible at least in theory.

I really don't expect that is humanly possible to build that experiment, but there are some ingenious people out there.

[What about aligning a supernova and two nearby black holes that act as gravitational lens. I'm not sure it works, but is sounds too cool not to try.]
Why? Are you against the program in principle or how it was executed (ie. reviewers got in the program)? I don't see any issues with giving out free phones in exchange for good publicity, as long as it's properly disclosed. The execution was suboptimal but I don't see any evidence of malice either.
I've been learning Rust and really enjoying it, but the primary downside (compared to C++) is the lack of access to the large, well-tested libraries that exist in C++. For example, my work would benefit from using the CGAL library [0], something that be nontrivial to rewrite in Rust. As much as I like Rust, at some point it's a better idea to use C++ to tap into libraries like that.

Does anyone have thoughts about how mature Zngur/CXX/etc. are for a project like mine? Would it be reasonable to invest effort in creating those bindings? Thanks.

[0] https://www.cgal.org/
I wonder if this could be solved with partitioning on the deleted_at column; you’d only need two partitions: one for live data (deleted_at is null) and one for deleted data. Then, in Postgres at least, you could just query the live partition directly when you want to skip deleted records.
seems in control
Single-player internet? At some point, LLMs can probably simulate enough of the entire internet to just fake it on localhost, and any URL you type in will generate a whole website right then and there, customized to your personality, genes, and politics.
Well, to be fair, Google clearly designated content creators they thought they could threaten into silence as their literal marks, so accidentally letting tougher audiences see the language is "missing the mark".

Honestly, every corporate apology is just "sorry you caught us, next time you won't."
The rest of the atmosphere isn't as important. But I mean, the ozone layer on its own is 3 billion tons...
more like research gatekeeping amirite
The article explains that this objection was raised by other researchers, but that the sounds were triangulated to a height of about 250 feet (because they are caused by an electrical interaction at the top of an inversion rather than from the aurorae directly).
A small nitpick, the main character is only 13 years old. Great book!
Static site generator, apparently
Please provide an email sign up option. X and Google are not companies many of us want to use anymore (if even we ever did for sign-ups).
Really fascinating. After reading a little more, I learned that while Laine proposed the inversion layer hypothesis in 2016, the Auroral Acoustics group he headed was informally started in 2000. The reason the linked article is coming out now is due to Laine’s latest paper that details the triangulation of the sounds[1][2].

Would love to try and record this myself. I’ve been recording some VLF “sferics” for some time now for an art project[3]; it seems the auroral sound recordings often peak in the same frequency range (and perhaps there is overlap without me realizing it).

[1] http://research.spa.aalto.fi/projects/aurora/index.html

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Unto-Laine/publication/...

[3] https://www.mattdesl.com/sferics
The Proton Foundation
Also E4X was only ever implemented in Firefox, never really got traction even in Firefox.

But even considering the single implementation problem, it also was just not a good language model, nor was it well specified or defined and it brought with it a pile of weird baggage and complexity.

Then because it was The Future there was no real thought into proper interop with JS (it was essentially a completely independent spec so adopted general syntax but specified in a way that meant JS could not simply adopt that syntax).
Authentication using HTTPS client certificates (2017)
Behind the Pageantry of Shen Yun, Untreated Injuries and Emotional Abuse
https://archive.is/cNTNV
Claiming that Chatgpt is more intelligent than a student is the same as saying an encyclopedia or a library is more intelligent than a student. Sure they retain more information. But Chatgpt is not AGI and it has no idea what it is even talking about.
We had a lot Mac’s (Apple IIe and iMac in school). Like everywhere

I only knew one person who owned one at home. He was a diehard Mac person as that’s how people who owned Mac’s acted as I remember. They refused to own a Windows whatsoever.
Eh, that’s a rather myopic view though isn’t it?

None of those issues you’re talking about seem intractable
using the same tools that caused them, frankly, and are likely no harder to solve (if we want) than some of the things we’ve already successfully resolved quite thoroughly like;

- world hunger from a technical/energy basis, as the only remaining hunger issues appear to be politically driven.

- Smallpox, Cholera, Typhoid, Leprosy, and a large slew of other infectious diseases which have ravaged humanity since at least the dawn of recorded history, and probably earlier. Even Malaria is controllable/controlled, depending on the political situation.

- Death by violence or accident is a rare and distant possibility for humans today compared to even 100 years ago.

- Actual life impacting environmental pollution (comparing historical norms like open sewers, indoor wood burning stoves, dangerous fine particulates/dusts), etc. is at historic lows.

- Real world quality of life for the population of the world is at the highest level globally we’ve seen, probably ever. And while there will be dips, that is not likely to materially change back. At least not without a lot of work to intentionally break things.

Do we still have issues that need to be solved, and more upcoming? You bet. Some of them quite urgent. We also have more tools than ever at our disposal to solve them, if/when we use them.

Currently, the biggest issue appears that it isn’t actually obviously critical that we use them, so people are holding back. Because it’s more fun to live their lives than make the sacrifices necessary to use many of those tools.

I mean, just look back to what was going on 100 years ago vs now.
But what if the discharge requires some specific environmental factor, say, something the height of a tree?
Do you really want the nuttiest of the Trump nutjobs "developing" your voting machine code?
To quote Lin-Manuel Miranda,

> There's nothing rich folks love more than going downtown and slummin' it with the poor
This might be a dumb question, but I wonder what the lifespan of this battery is. When the zinc oxidizes, the electrode eventually becomes less effective as an anode right?
At first I thought this was going to be about frost quakes[0], which are mini quakes we get in the Midwest when there's a deep cold.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryoseism
TV Show of the Century: A Travelogue with No Atmosphere (1967) [pdf]
I believe they ARE doing that, which is honestly pretty wild across country borders, and it isn't enough.
Give that talk or write that blog
I feel the same way. I find tracking exhausting, because if I’m going to do it I want it to be correct, which takes a lot of effort. In some cases it’s not really possible to be correct, which causes me a great deal of stress if/when I try.

That said, some people are into it. This post from Stephen Wolfram is something I think about often. It’s cool to see, but not something I could ever realistically do. Kind of like the people who take a picture of themselves every day for 20 years.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana...
In the current breach-heavy environment, hiding results behind a paywall seems like a dark pattern. haveibeenpwned is a trustworthy alternative IMO
The search for the biggest shape in the universe [video]
I lived, as a child, on the island near where the Hunley sank.

In 2000, we sat on the beach and watched them lift it out of the water with binoculars.

It was odd, then. But now I’m grateful for the chance to have seen it. A beach which is now one of the top vacation destinations in the US was once a good spot to watch the first submarine sink.

It was odd, then, too.
> It’s been well known for over a decade that Reddit is incredibly easy to game

Yeah. Arguably Reddit has embraced inorganic activity since beginning. the founders used it to grow the site and pretend they had more active users.
> breaking the law

citation needed
National Public Data confirms breach exposing Social Security numbers
Imba is what anyone interested in this sort of thing should look at. I have no idea why it is not more popular. Maybe because JS devs falls for Faang marketing easily.

https://imba.io/
I have tried several PFOF and regular brokers. The spreads end execution of PFOF where far worse.
The Machine in the Garden
My favorite part of todays Robber Barons is they all have very similar offerings with similar price structure, but they are not monopolies because the other Barons are doing it too.

For example they all settled on 30% tax on app store revenues.
He indeed is. And it is sad there are so few people like him. We definitely need more people like him who are fighting the good fight.
I suppose I was imagining tests that are created to validate an internal piece of code when it's first built or refactored, not necessarily in pursuit of a specific observed bug.
So, Zngur allows you to use arbitrary Rust types in C++, store them by value in the C++ stack, and call arbitrary Rust methods and functions on them. But it doesn't bridge any C++ type into Rust, since it is not possible with the same ergonomic

You want to use C++ libraries from Rust. This only does interop the other way.
I find myself agreeing with the author, surprising myself. I guess I have for a while but never articulated it.

I used to be big on the "move fast and break things" mantra. The world was ossified, so the narrative went, full of incumbents fortifying their positions with regulatory capture, and we needed a disruption, a fire to burn the brush so fresh undergrowth could spring through. They broke things with the promise of a better world and now the things are all still broken. They never got around to the building a better world part. Turns out that undergrowth was parasitic vines waiting for an opportunity to strangle the forest.
I was lucky enough to live next to a patch of morals as a kid. No expert required. :)
If your answers would be different with than they would be without this knowledge then please don't vote.

Isn't this like table stakes for being a thoughtful person who isn't a sociopath? The most influential thought experiment in contemporary philosophy is to not act like a toddler?
In fact, I came to the comments to ask. Thank you!
> KVM, ESXi, WebKit, etc., need to be taken much more seriously.

Openssl
Robot That Solves the Rubik's Cube Faster Than Anyone Else in the World