skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we have energy cheap enough to make nuclear transmutation a practical source of gold then the economy is already unrecognizable.
Whatabout those dudes over there, they also do bad shit too, ignore my bad shit amiright?!
And in other news: “That can’t be graphite on the ground”
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I read TBP and A Deepness in the Sky at the same time. Despite the "big ideas", TBP isn't even in the same league. Can't bring myself to read the second TBP book, just don't care. Did buy a Fire Upon a Deep recently, looking forward to it.
https://twitter.com/johnregehr/status/920691341738123264
RationalWiki is not a credible source.
>but need to be able to carry 4x8 sheet goods, large furniture, or sports equipment like bikes, kayaks, etc.

I'd argue you can do most of those things with an SUV or really any car with a roof-rack. I rarely need a back seat but I do appreciate having interior space to keep/transport camping gear etc. in my car. An open bed will tend to work better for some large awkward items but this isn't even that big a bed and you can always rent a truck or trailer for a day.

But really, I'm making a largely rationalist argument and a lot of people in the US just want a pickup.
If you see a picture of the surface of a star that's not our sun, it's certainly an illustration. No such image exists of any other star.
Guantanamo will be used as the detention facility for illegal immigrants pretty soon based on the news.
The new law about the property tax links the tax amount to the value of the area. If done right, this forces house owners to rebuild their property and adjust the density if they want to remain profitable.
No. ALWAYS store user-entered dates in UTC, and simultaneously either (a) save the user's timezone preference or (b) use their system-specified timezone and only do that conversion at the last step when rendering the UI, preferably with client-side timezone functions. Also use client-side timezone functions to provide the server with UTC dates directly.

You'll deal with DST hell on your server otherwise. Countries change their DST and timezone policies from time to time, and you don't want to have to deal with keeping track of that stuff or force upgrading your server for a petty politician/timezone issue. That's the client machine's job.

Saving everything in UTC also makes comparisons, logging, abuse tracking much easier.
Falun Gong being a weird culty organization (they absolutely are) doesn't mean China isn't abusing them, which they are, or that they're not harvesting their organs, which they may well be.

"China is harvesting organs from detainees, tribunal concludes. Victims include imprisoned followers of Falun Gong movement, China Tribunal says"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harve...

> An independent tribunal sitting in London has concluded that the killing of detainees in China for organ transplants is continuing, and victims include imprisoned followers of the Falun Gong movement.

> The China Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, who was a prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said in a unanimous determination at the end of its hearings it was “certain that Falun Gong as a source - probably the principal source - of organs for forced organ harvesting”.
OC - AMA.
Housing is not a market that should be governed by capitalism. I honestly don't care if the ultra-rich trade 30 million dollar homes and speculate on their value, but the fact that homelessness is even a problem in the first world is a travesty.

Our children will look back upon a time when there were 6 (SIX!) empty homes for every homeless person in the United States and weep. Obviously those homes aren't all where the homeless people are, but that's another problem itself: Why on earth are developers building homes in the middle of nowhere, why are they building luxury condos, and who the hell is buying them?
Nice idea. Can I have a free apartment in the centre of Moscow within 5 minutes walk from subway then?

What I want to say is that houses are different and there are places where everybody wants to live and where nobody wants, and that is why the housing prices can be so high. Maybe instead of asking for a fixed rent people should consider a cheaper place to live? Everybody cannot live within 5 minutes from a subway station.
But even with software and silicon technology, lots of people are hasty to throw out the old without really understanding it

Especially with. The number of times young programmers "invent" something which was done 10 to 30 years ago is epidemic.
Instead they install cameras behind the screen to try to detect camera lenses :)

https://torrentfreak.com/movie-spy-cameras-attack-the-dying-...

They also apparently use the data to gauge emotional response to movie scenes!
I suppose this is why they call it anecdotal evidence, as our experiences don’t agree.

What I will say is that code that is architecturally correct for the performance requirements necessary is largely not less understandable or unmaintainable than code that is incorrectly designed for the performance context. You don’t end up in the kinds of harder to read optimizations you see in this article in those cases any more than you do under the other case.

Another consideration is if your architecture is wrong for your performance space, nothing will help but a rewrite. If your code is optimized in the small too early, you can always rewrite in a way that is more clear.
Not "endless", but chances are they'll simply apply "standard" money transmitter rules... and yes, that includes KYC/AML
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> Or said another way, if you have strong ties to the city and/or are a longtime resident of the neighborhood you win, if you don't you lose.

This has literally nothing to do with who ends up in a rent stabilized apartment.

In fact, new residents are more likely to end up in rent stabilized apartments than existing residents, so rent stabilization has the exact opposite effect of what you're describing it does.
This was my first thought, but I'm not sure this is true. Buying debt from the US government increases the numbers of dollars in circulation (since bonds are redeemed in dollars) and shores up its price. Selling this debt to someone else (i.e., not back to the US government) doesn't destroy those dollars, it just changes its owner. It's not clear this would result in devaluation.
One of the biggest costs of new rental construction is financing costs (on a 30 year loan it's often half of the cost). Given that it's cheaper for the government to borrow money than the private sector you can have the government simply build market rate housing, but wouldn't need to charge as much in rent.

In this context, the government can essentially be a magic entity.
> What seems to always end up happening is that new residents subsidize the rent controlled ones

Not really.

It's landlords that subsidize rent controlled tenants.

The system is redistributive. The value that would have gone to landlords in an increasing rent environment goes to the tenant instead.

Theoretically it can distort the market, provide disincentives to building housing, etc etc. But those are second order effects, and situational, and often very arguable.

In economics terms the subsidy flows from property owner to tenant.
> Questions of feasibility aside, it is highly unlikely that such operations would escape the attention of Western intelligence agencies

"If this was happening, the CIA would tell us" doesn't count at all as a successful defeat of the argument, IMO.

Whether or not the Falun Gong harvesting can't be decided definitively either way. I lean towards it happening based on more evidence favoring that. There's no smoking gun because while the Party is pretty shit at their job, they're also extremely powerful, and as much obfuscation as the Falun Gong can manage, they'll never achieve the levels at which the Party intelligence apparatus pulls of on a daily basis.
> The only solution is changing the zoning laws

What about pulling a HongKong / Singapore: Create a special economic zone that is a stand-alone municipality with extremely lax zoning laws to spur housing & transportation growth?

Google is kinda-sorta doing this. To avoid Mountain View NIMBYism, just carve out the Google land for this purpose.
Europe sure managed to slay the dragon of those evil cookies what with the banners plastered all over every site forcing you to click a button to close them.

Cookies have been around for 25 years and are dead simple, and Brussels failed spectacularly to understand, let alone sensibly regulate, them. Colour me skeptical they'll manage to wrangle something that even the people working on it barely understand, and that's changing on a yearly basis.
This is not Appeal to Authority fallacy. He's simply citing a historically accessible example of similar criticism that here is being dismissed as "lots of people are hasty to throw out the old without really understanding it".
This is not much of an "economic war" strategy, TBH - it's just a very visible signal of the "hey, we hate the U.S." sort. The "reserve currency" one uses as part of world trade is immaterial, except for convenience; the U.S. are not perceptibly better or worse off as a result of such choices.

Tariffs and trade barriers though? Now, there's some "economic war" if I've ever seen it! "When goods won't cross borders... armies will."
the exact same transition happened here in Sweden, and now the housing market is so fucked that it might take down the economy in the next recession.
> Think of this like a domino effect: those earning $10M per year buy luxury residence, leaving their old house for those earning $1M, who in turn leave their own houses to those earning $500K, who leave their apartments for those earning $200k, and so on, and so on.

This assumes that a) rents don't increase for the new residents (which is false) and b) people only move within a city and there's no high demand from people outside to move into the city (which is false too).
Some other links :

- White paper : https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-bl...

- What's Next? : https://developers.libra.org/blog/2019/06/18/the-path-forwar...

- Moving Toward Permissionless Consensus : https://libra.org/en-US/permissionless-blockchain
> It's data you made public by publishing it to LinkedIn, where default privacy settings is "anyone who can log into linkedin can view this content."

... under specific terms of use that scraping technically violates.
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab: The von Kármán Lecture Series (2019)
https://www.ritasice.com/
My point was "only $12,000" sounds very ivory tower and tone-deaf to people for which $12,000 is an awful lot of money.
Where do you see a double standard applied?
People incorrectly assume their money can't be stolen from a bank via hacking or wire fraud.

The only thing you get from having your money in a bank account is government-mandated insurance, that covers you only up to a point. I think as crypto ecosystem matures, similar services will be offered there too.
Second to last paragraph.
I propose Amazon and consumers pay for the environmental damage shipping these products using fossil fuels causes.
> Yes, but why Jefferson

Because they thought Jeffersons thoughts on the matter were relevant.

> Why not Arglebargle?

Because I know what that word means.

> Or me?

Because "lisper central banks" doesn't produce any meaningful results in a search engine.

> I have musings on the topic of central banks, would you like to hear them?

Sure.
Why are they dropping i386? Surely 32 bit Ubuntu is still very much in demand in developing Countries or for people wanting to get old machines running with "okay" hardware? I can still get my IBM T22 to load a lightweight browser and navigate the internet.

The kernel still supports i386 and surely it's not that much effort to make sure Gnome and the various packages compile for it? They still plan to support 32 bit ARM systems?
What 70% of Data Science Learners Do Wrong
Yeah, I don't really understand the social network features of linkedin. I guess I add people as connections sometimes but even that doesn't really seem important.

The only utility I get out of it is that I can put up my resume and get recruiters to contact me. Which more than makes up for everything else since it has led to job offers
True but at least from an outsider and naive perspective his dissenters are more hardline than he is! What direction they’d take China in is unknown, I guess.
Not cumulative.
Thursday, June 20's 7pm pacific Livestream link: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
If you're playing devil's advocate, you should be more explicit. Otherwise it sounds like the hill you're dying on is one that represents the desire to openly express hatred of large groups of people based on broad categories.
Thanks and yikes! I am positive that the growing critique will lead to an improvement on that front though.
> historical context of the early PRC

I mean, China has censors. I get the feeling it had to be a somewhat veiled metaphor, although it felt extremely obvious too.
> I will not buy from these companies for the rest of my life, as well as any other companies that have products that are 'made in China'.

Good luck with that. I hope you don't need any technology in your life since nearly all modern computing components are made in China. The only way to avoid Chinese imports is to live on a homestead and make everything yourself.
This is the best worst idea I've ever heard. A lot of the offices (Google) are along the water, so the commute could be pretty ideal.
Hey, anyone remember the last time companies printed their own money? Man, the return of company scrip. I don't see at all how this can turn out bad.
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What about Apple and Microsoft? Should add these two to the list.
CEO of Cleo resigns after it was discovered that her resume contained lies
My metaphor for China is in this timeline, the Chinese Nazis won and now you see the results of a stable Chinese-Nazi dictatorship.
Stopping Germany was more of a happenstance. FDR favored Britain and had the US assist in favorable "trade" but only officially entered the war and combat because of the Japanese. Had the japanese weathered the oil and metal embargo without retaliation maybe the US wouldnt have joined the war effort
> People who disagree with rent control largely disagree with the goals, which is to keep existing residents where they are.

You could also phrase that as making it hard for people to move in, making it hard for young families to stay in their neighborhood when their housing needs increase, making it hard for older people to downsize. It's really benefitting the residents who are lucky enough to already be in an apartment of the size they need, at the cost of everybody else.
ZFS does bring in file system level versioning. Not widely adopted yet though.
Maybe it was this?

Gavin A. Schmidt, Adam Frank: The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?, https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748

I found it through an article in The Atlantic that may or may not have been linked on HN recently.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e...
I would absolutely consider building in a city that has so much demand and that is so deperate to slow down the development of the real estate market.
And there are already a lot of programmers who aren't in the bay area. That's fine. That there are cheaper options available that many take advantage of doesn't change the fact that LA is still the center of the movie world (at least for American movies), and SF/SV is the center of the software/internet world, with many choosing to locate in those places despite the higher absolute costs.
Every time we get heavy rains which seems to occur more often these days, there are several slides in the open space above Woodside and some roads are unpassable for weeks or years in the case of the last slides on Skyline Drive and West Old La Honda. Evidence of how slide prone the area is is abundant on even gentle trails in every park along the ridge as well. Most of the housing currently there all the way to the coast subsists on well water and cisterns and use septic tanks for sewage until the flat areas, in the drought last year many wells ran dry. None of this scales up. It's not like the Oakland Hills where the East Bay water district supports the area. Crystal Springs reservoir and the basin that drains into it visible along 280 all the way to Woodside is reserved for the city of San Francisco water company which may not be obvious to a casual observer.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
> I've found most of the arguments for and against Go to amount to little more than tribalism and snobbery[1]

You can say that about any technical option that isn't garbage. That observation doesn't help us learn about Go, and doesn't let us dismiss all the other arguments.
Perhaps your wife's family frequently checks your profile?
Ubuntu isn't really intended for legacy systems.
If it is more than that, and you sound very sure of it, please show me. I am honestly interested.
If they use part of the money to lobby local governments to remove these regulations, it might work.
There's some subtleties here. The "camp" is not targeted to all Muslim in Xinjiang. It's mostly targeted towards Uyghurs, and most Uyghurs is Muslim. Uyghurs is considered a minority in China. There are a tiny group of Uyghurs people that are considered terrorists or separationists. So the entire Uyghurs population in Xinjiang gets "educated". Why? I think it's fallacy of thinking. Suppose you know that of all the crimes committed, a large percent is by people of color x, then what's the chance of a person of color x commit a crime? Most people will think the chance is also very high. It's a incorrect inference. People of color x may have a very large population and if you apply Bayesian rules the chance would be very low. Now let's get back the Uyghurs case. For most Chinese outside Xinjiang, what they see is that most terrorism in China is carried out by Uyghurs. So they think that Uyghurs are terrorist and needs to be educated. While in fact I believe most Uyghurs are peaceful.

The sad thing is that this thinking fallacy happens everywhere in the past and now. And it's really hard to see it as an insider.
I'm interested in why you could see this. My understanding of the cultural leanings of the US is that something like this would be almost impossible to get passed as federal law, or as a constitutional amendment. Congress can't even agree on generic funding bills without a party war over immigration. The last couple congresses have spent most of their time doing everything possible to jam operations of the executive branch.

I just don't see a hate speech law ever passing in the USA, not without a dramatic change in the political climate, which I also don't see happening any time soon.
>Interesting. Why?

Not sure if academic curiosity or Marketing guy looking for a lead...

I need a break from my cynical side.
Looking forward to your links showcasing the evidence Geoffrey Nice put forth.

RationalWiki covers a lot of claims, and the counter-claims. It's overall not very compelling, very "I swear I heard about incubator smashing", with retracted claims and whatnot.

See Amnesty International's seal of approval for the fraudulent Nayirah testimony:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
Good luck calculating that!

If you do, make sure to offset that with: (1) the reduction in retail space use for products, (2) the reduced amount of cars on the road, etc. etc.
>lots of people are hasty to throw out the old without really understanding it

There's enough wrong with the current financial system to make it worth trying new things even if they don't work out. I think what bugs us is that Facebook is marketing this already. Cryptocurrency is definitely not something I want to replace the current financial system though.
I never liked 'Do something' syndrome. It's just busywork and the really important things need to be done first. Most startup founders need to do marathons and not sprints IMHO
In addition to all the other problems, you may need to be a US-flagged and US-built vessel depending on how exactly your dock based cruise interacts with the 1920 Jones Act's restrictions on cabotage. Requiring a US built ship may significantly increase your costs.
Is any of that true?
Where is terrorism coming from? Why they attack USA? What about domestic terrorism? What are the USA's solutions?
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The trend is even weaker for the previous 6 months. The financial times article also mentions those numbers.
The curios thing about these anecdotes is that as dysfunctional as somewhere like the Soviet Union was, getting a affordable apartment in only 10 years would be a great deal for many today. In many metro areas property values have increased more the savings from the median income, meaning that the application, or aspiration, of the majority of people is going in reverse.
I mean… I could also post articles on Fidelity and Ernst & Young investing in the technology, Stripe, Square, obviously Facebook and a whole host of other companies in this announcement, etc, but it feels very much like you've decided your conclusion and are simply feeding it with whatever journalism confirms it.

Regardless, you asked for a more targeted argument, I asked you for the same, and your response was 5 different articles on 5 different things. That's not targeted, it's the literal opposite. The problem with not being targeted is you have to pick a thing that you're disagreeing with. Here you seem to be disagreeing with “people think blockchain is useful”. But… There's plenty of evidence that isn't true in the general case, even if specific groups certainly don't think it's useful. Alternatively, we'll take your opening statement of “All cryptocurrency is a scam”---which is both not targeted (‘all’ is the operative word there) and not really supported by your articles since they're all about specific people or specific attempts.

It's fine to be a skeptic, by the way! I take no issue with you not particularly believing in the hype; my own take on the hype is considerably more skeptical than the louder folks. Just… Maybe don't put down other people's arguments unless you're willing to put in the time to make a better one?

To your other points: (a) you can have a mostly-technological solution in a world whose final resolution mechanism is human and legal; (b) there are plenty of companies in the cryptocurrency space still operating with SEC approval, including teams that did ICOs; (c) cryptocurrency, even the completely public/trustless type, isn't mutually incompatible with banks as a concept, though it could eliminate certain aspects of banks that require direct human intervention in the long term.

None of these things are here yet. Technology takes time, and the difficulty with technology that's built in the open is that it's in the public eye long before it's fully ready for prime time, so the debates about it happen in the public eye. A classic example is the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate[1], except cryptocurrencies are being developed in a world that is 1000 times more connected than the Linux kernel was, and they are ostensibly applicable to considerably more people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate
Would you mind expanding on your point? I understand that there is limited trade in gold, but why does the fact that they are running up against a limit in buying gold matter to the argument?