skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some supporting evidence comes in the form of writings from the earliest authors we can find, who explicitly claim that they descended from more advanced prior civilizations, who fell due to big cataclysms. This story is actually quite common.

It's hard to know to what extent Golden Age and Age of Heroes myths were rooted in or developed out of real events, but by the time many of these myths were written down civilization really had collapsed across the Near East and Mediterranean some 800 years earlier [1]. The Late Bronze Age collapse was in many ways more catastrophic than the fall of the Roman Empire 1500 years later.

But the civilizations that fell during this time period were civilizations from which we have ample evidence like the Mycenaeans (who may have been the inspiration for Greek Golden Age myths), not some mysterious civilization that had invented Segway scooters tens of thousands of years in the past.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
We balance risks which have uncontrollable inputs. Not controllable ones for which we now have an answer. That's the difference. You note it right in your comment - that you in fact do take measures to be safe, and try to be specifically aware of elements of the dynamic situation which require attention.

That's very different to say, if you planned on reversing a car and decided it took too much effort to look behind you before you do. Sure - chances are most of the time you won't run over a child doing this...
From your article, they haven't even put fuel in the SLS core stage to see if it leaks. Their promised timeline is based on the expectation that there will be no major snags on the way to actually sending it into orbit. I'm not aware that any orbital rocket program has ever been that lucky. I'm therefore dubious that everything will go according to their plan.

By comparison, a full-sized prototype of Starship managed to launch and land again a few weeks ago. (Though on one engine, and not on all 6 for the final model.) As of June, they still considered it possible that they would get to orbit this year. (See https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-orbital-launch-deb... for confirmation.) I consider that unduly optimistic, but certainly would take an even money bet that they get into orbit in under a year.
It's useful for customer support too. Some places all use fake names for personal safety but it also lets people say what needs to be said more confidently.
I don’t think he looks at music and browsing for new music in a remotely similar way to an average person.
For example, even in the US, courts have established that Twitter is a public forum with respect to what politicians (such as Trump) say

IANAL but the court said Trump couldn't block you from his twitter account because his use of his feed made it a public forum. This was about Trump, not twitter. Twitter, AFAIK, wasn't forced to unblock the accounts trump had blocked.
I didn't say it wasn't fine. I use it as well but I work in one of those jobs where it works fine. You aren't going to use linux if your job is video editing or CAD.
This sucks. I have a bespoke app that throws ugly HUD data on top of what I'm photographing but that saves me a ton of time by not having to switch to other apps to check. Now that's not gonna work any more? One more reason to move to a Linux phone I guess.
Are you going to college this year? Read this
This isn't modeling. It may be correct, but it's not modeling.
Software just isn't a focus for the German economy, it's more industrial machinery & automotive.

And Germany actually has among the highest amount of immigration in the world so not sure why you think they don't let people in. In my experience it is actually easier to move here than to the US (I'm an immigrant).

The places where it's a problem are those that people leave, like Bulgaria and Romania. There are basically enough "cheap" immigrants available from poorer European countries that the wealthy ones don't need to also additionally increase the rate of immigration from outside Europe.
What point is there in making a theoretical deduction about an empirical issue?

Yes, life could have 'theoretically' started anywhere where life by definition is possible. Fine, but that's a tautology, and in contrast to what the author seems to believe actually not scientific and thus deserves to be rejected.

If we're talking about scientific statements then show me life actually existing somewhere that isn't earth and then we can make some grounded theories
Exploding fuel pallets. Here's one ton of fuel, a one-ton inert reaction mass, and an explosive charge that will fire at the right time to separate the two. It drives the fuel mass to nearly the velocity of the rocket ship (this also makes catching it easier). It preserves momentum by driving the reaction mass in the opposite direction.

Hint: Make sure the reaction mass misses the rocket ship.
Haskell has the UnicodeSyntax language extension which accomplished this https://wiki.haskell.org/Unicode-symbols
That + ripgrep is how we're planning to do full-text search in ArchiveBox.io, seems much more appealing than running a full ElasticSearch cluster.
I think the general public does care about privacy. How many people illegally smoke weed? Millions easily. Those people care about privacy.

And there are plenty of people who aren't techies who still don't want all their info going to facebook.
That's true, but $100 in a series-E savings bond is just sitting around waiting for tax dollars to pay its coupon rate. Not really helping anyone and certainly not participating in the fractional reserve system (to the extent that the federal government runs such a system to its own advantage :-)).

When I helped set up one of these accounts for the startup I was in, we set it up to hold the $10 to $20 million that came in from investors. We bought t-bills through Goldman Sachs. They are very liquid, they pay a marginal return, and they are intrinsically insured. At most we kept $100K in our "regular" bank account[1] to pay salaries and taxes. Paying vendors consisted of simultaneously selling some t-bills, wiring the money to the vendor, and putting the fractional remain into the checking account.

[1] This was the FDIC insurance limit so we didn't hold more than that in a depository account.
I assume the network doesn't broadcast a connection between real life identity and the data you're storing.

So my understanding is that in the example of a decentralized app that uses Filecoin to store an IPFS object on the network the IPFS object id could be sniffed on the localhost by something like Wireshark. This way an attacker could identify the encrypted objects that are of interest to them and then independently request them from the IPFS network.

In terms of threat, I'm primarily thinking of larger criminal organizations that might target things like files containing SSNs, credit history, etc.

SHA-1 is an example, but my biggest concern comes from the potential of quantum computing to render what we consider secure today obsolete. (https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/05/30/65724/how-a-quan...)
Suppose for the sake of argument that it really does taste the same as sugar, and with no aftertaste. Hasn't there been research showing that something that tastes sweet causes an insulin reaction the same as sugar does?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014832/
Yeah I recommend this approach, it's what ArchiveBox does as well.
I thought preg_quote() took care of that just like quotemeta in Perl?
Nice, but the small powered pallets would have to catch up with the ship and quickly won't be able to even if given initial momentum
Once you work hard and get into aristocracy, it's hard to give that up for your legacy.
IIRC Scala has this.
I don't recommend or use that shit website anymore, so the simple solution is stop doing the thing that's hurting you... but if you really need it for some reason then putting ~30min into making a fake id might be worthwhile.
Of course it is absurd. But a lot of people have no idea what this is even all about.

A large part of the internet is screaming "The evil Epic brought this upon themselves, if they don't want to pay 30 %, then don't use iOS!"

Apple increases costs for users, just because they bought an iOS device. Thats definetly not good for consumers.

But what are developers going to do about it? For some developers, over 2/3 of their customers are on a iOS device, so just not using the App Store is not a realistic option. Apple has also made sure that the App Store is the only possible way.

So, it's way to big to ignore, and there is definetly no competition. Clearly something has to happen. I would also love to be able to use a decent browser like Firefox or Chrome on iOS(not the current webkit crap apple forces mozilla and Google to use).
Emacs-specific solution, but there is this[0] example of J and prettify-symbols-mode, the results look something like this:

quicksort=: (($:@(<#[) , (=#[) , $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#)

quicksort ⤆ ((∇⍛(<#⊣) , (=#⊣) , ∇⍛(>#⊢)) ({⍨ ?⍛#))⍣(1<#)

[0]: https://wjmn.github.io/posts/j-can-look-like-apl/
Money laundering.

Singapore exists at the behest of the United States. Its sovereign wealth fund is heavily invested in the United States and its geopolitical precariousness on the straits of malacca is predicated upon the implicit protection of the United States Navy.

It's a political choice to let millionaires flee there, just as it's a political choice not to tax them at home. A snap of the US's fingers will change Singapore's policy.

Like when Wrigley sent a US Congressman to visit - he snapped his fingers and chewing gum was no longer banned.
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[1]: https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
Honestly it just sounds like you're not a heavy mobile phone user if you're only upgrading every five years. It might not be worth it to you or the "my phone is just a phone" crowd but for the mass of users for whom their phone is their primary computer three years syncs almost perfectly with when a person who bought high-end is going to start feeling the age of their phone.
You get fast shipping? Amazon is usually slowest, takes 1-2 weeks if you're not Prime.
Cool, this makes choosing my next VR headset upgrade easier: not Oculus.
Ok good! But how do you contain the blast without harming the ship or sending it off course?
This is wild stuff. SV had its origins in Fred Terman, the halo effect of Stanford, and that Shockley happened to have been born there and decided to move back. By the time the computer club was around it already had enormous momentum.

I'm no fan of noncompetes, but you are vastly overstating their impact.
"Then who will purchase your cars?"

Let them leave. We have a government all the more for ourselves. We need not purchase products built with the exploitation of cheap, and even forced, labor.
Coke is quite bad for your teeth, and lemons especially so.
Its a matter of intent. If I've caught you trying to subvert the rules, then I have no reason to think you won't abuse them again. It is reasonable someone wouldn't want a frequent abuser to be able to submit new apps via their SDK. In the extreme case, I could submit a new app every minute just to waste their reviewers' time.
These patterns are not only applicable to Haskell but FP and programming in general. I am using them with a Typescript codebase.
This is ridiculous!

My computers are literally dissolving under my hands (since they're made of cheap plastic, perhaps intentionally for "ecological" purpose. And this schmuck believes an advanced civilisation would build artefacts that would last 12k years??? (actually, they did, purposely: the sphynx and (some) pyramids, but not everyday ware). We're dematerialising stuff, that is, building at the nanoscale (how often do archeologists study old rocks with electronic microscopes?), and putting our infrastructure on fucking low-Earth orbit, middle at most, that all have a lifetime of less than 1000 years!!!

With idiots such as Greta, how much would you bet that in a few years they'll demand that any non-biodegradable artefact of the past centuries be dismantled and recycled?

In addition, we will soon switch to bio- and genetic technology, thus making us a very advanced live civilisation, that would leave even less artefact, because there wouldn't be any, but they'd be grown as plants, or animals (bacteria).

And of course, this is not counting the ice age, when we take a glacier 1000 km high on the face for thousands of years, there doesn't remain a lot of macroscopic artefact to be found.
Perhaps you should try Single Assignment C (SAC), it's a fast array based language with C/Algol syntax but it's proprietary though.

http://www.sac-home.org/doku.php
> you can get your third-party sources from HTTP, Git

Can you elaborate? I assume those projects have to be brought into the Bazel configuration format, or does it have some support for foreign build systems?
I would make sure you actually want to start a startup and arent just looking for a way out from your boring day to day
At Google now, but have offers at 2 other FAANG's if I want to go there for a level up.
Welp I won’t be buying any future Oculus devices. I’ve got a Rift and enjoy it but I have no intentions of creating a Facebook account. I deleted mine back in like 2010-2011 and haven’t looked back.
Agree about the PDF viewer. I love how you can draw on PDFs which is a godsend in meetings. Edge will eventually become the de facto Chrome install on Windows 10, IMO.
In a Communist dictatorship like Albania (where I grew up) it was sound government policy to raid the wealthy in times of financial need. We are a long way from that, but some leftist politicians are leaning hard in that direction.
If you're going to call out people for "bullshit" when they post facts you could easily Google, then you could at least apologize after you were shown to be both wrong and rude.
> And the reason that deflation is considered "worse" is because it lets people keep equity in unproductive assets instead of liquidating it and moving the money into more productive assets.

No, the reason deflation is considered worse is the possibility of a deflationary spiral.

The Fed is primarily interested in preventing a collapse of the banking system. They don't really care if people are spending their money on productive investments or hoarding it -- in fact, if everyone was spending their money on productive investments there wouldn't be any bank reserves, and the Fed would be very unhappy about that.
Commercial displays are not more expensive because they don't have ads - that's an absurd suggestion. They are more expensive because they have higher requirements. They need to be running for at least 8 hours per day without issues, but often 24/7, as opposed to the usual 4-6. That's the main difference.
We can spend all day arguing anecdotes. As a counterpoint, I've never used Facebook, but once tried setting up an account to participate in a group event organized by some friends - by the next day, before I could even use the account, Facebook had locked my account, and wanted a photo of my ID to let me access the account. Needless to say, I abandoned the account.
> Stop it. Please.

No. Nitrogen pollution has local effects and is an enormous problem in some important fish spawning grounds, but it cannot explain what happened to the Great Barrier Reef in 2018 and again in 2019.

The effects of temperature on corals are getting to be quite well understood now. Globally, marine heat waves are a major problem, alongside pollution and direct reef destruction.

Likewise, ocean acidification is happening as part of "climate change" (carbon pollution) and is another stress for corals.

I agree with your point about N runoff. We need to stop growing maize for biofuels and animal feed and implement megascale riparian planting programmes to limit the damage done by floods. For starters.

These things are not either-or. Overfishing and destructive fishing practices, "development", various kinds of pollution and oxygen depletion ... we're doing it all, and it all affects reefs.
You don't help losers by knocking down the winners. Cutting off Usain Bolt's legs isn't going to make you run any faster.
>As an occasional entrepeneur I do not at all mind being subject to this tax.

That is not an argument. You can be a masochist and love to be beaten, it is not an argument people should be beaten. If it does not matter to you it does not mean it does not matter to others, it does not mean you are representative and it does not mean it is morally good.
I'd be curious to hear more, your goals seem to be very similar to mine with ArchiveBox. I'd love to chat with you and learn more about your project/approach to archiving!
Where we live, without prime, almost everything is £4.49 standard (4ish days), or £4.99 next day delivery.
Do tower blocks not have balconies or roof terraces where you live?
You are correct, tricking your mind doesn't trick your insulin...normally.

There are several studies showing that miracle fruit can actually improve blood glucose levels. Thus it could be more beneficial to diabetics than using any other sweetener that, as you said, may strain their condition even worse.
What if they claim publicly to delete your data, accept decentralized payments to delete the data, actually delete that data on the node in the sense that nobody can retrieve the data on the public internet using any official protocols, but routinely take filesystem-snapshots of their servers and the owner browses them offline undetectably at their leisure?

Then 3 years later all the snapshots end up on a torrent site, after you paid that whole time to "delete data".
It's fine you hate using Music, but at least be honest about the situation: You want it without paying for it.

You're not paying for Apple Music. Apple Music costs the exact same price as Spotify Premium: $10 a month, or $15 for a family.

You're paying for iTunes match which is an annual fee of $25 that lets you play your CD-ripped library anywhere without transferring the files. Go to your Library, play your music, relax, this is what you paid for.

To suggest that somehow you're entitled to free Apple Music because you pay an annual fee of a separate product, is disingenuous.
I would be tempted to do so only to lower the review after the charge back window closed.
If you are ripping more than the measurements in the recipe page, you are stealing their work.

Look into how other recipe apps work and you'll understand.
You might consider turning this into an OpenType font including all the random alternates: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/26833/hand...
Sounds like survivorship bias to me /s
Very nice - https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/output/2020...
Do they not have drive through testing where you are? The ones I saw handed you a kit through the pharmacy drive through drawer, you test yourself and then drop the provided package in the mail. They don't even want your sample to enter the building, let alone you...
Some added context since I'm throwaway:
I've been at Google for the past 4yrs. I'm fortunate that I can join any other company I'd like. I have offers at FAANG, mid level startups, and early startups.

I founded a startup before Google, so I know what it takes. I just don't really know how to go from 0 to 1 right now. My mind is also muddled with taking time off and thinking of an idea, or if I should just take time off and come back to a new team at Google, or join a different company. But, I also feel like I'm capable of building my own future with a startup.
And I've wondered if the blurring of the line between research and product development at the likes of Google and Facebook (MS Research seems to still be an exception) is because they feel they have less breathing space?
You say "I'm sorry", but in context it really sounds like you're saying "fuck you".

I like to consider things this way...

At your local grocery store how vigilant are you that your orange juice carton might actually be filled with rat poison? Never crossed your mind? Very remote chance? Why? Because one item in a million is inspected by...who exactly? Think about how you'd feel if you found out one day that your grocery store actually gets its stock from a warehouse where sometimes cartons of OJ are replaced by rat poison on purpose by someone looking to make a buck at someone else's expense. You'd probably feel at least a little violated or betrayed. Aren't we all glad that we don't have to worry about shit like that at the grocery store? We shouldn't have to worry about shit like that from Amazon.
The media has a huge bias to push a dominant narrative, and it's hard for actual data to get through.

So the early, and false, narrative about population density posing an insurmountable challenge to preventing disease spread got a ton of play. Now, when it's clear that density is not driving spread, it will be rare to see a news article countering that narrative.

I also think that reports like this Zillow data will not see nearly as much media attention as the initial truths reports about people fleeing cities.

Same with the "techies are all leaving SF" stories; I'll wait for actual data before listening to the narrative that serves the interests of a huge factional divide in SF.
Well, orders of magnitude fewer than 1000/day.
Is the Economic Policy Institute actually anti-immigration, or are you claiming that they oppose the H-1B system and are, therefore, “anti-immigration?”
> The AppStore is not it's own economic market. It is just one member of many in the actual economic market.

Let's be realistic here. Iphone users don't have a choice of app stores, and the useful android options have a high technical barrier to entry. That's not a market, that's an oligopoly.

It's like ISPs that gouge content providers for carriage costs, and then customers for throughput and limits. You can't snap your fingers and make competition appear, so you regulate the players to prevent abuse and protect the consumer.
> when it's clear that density is not driving spread

That's not "clear" in the least.
From the article, data seems to show sellers flooding the market in San Francisco:

> In San Francisco, list prices have fallen 4.9% year over year and inventory has risen 96% with a flood of new listings.

> When comparing the principal city to its surrounding suburbs, the San Francisco metro area does break the mold. Higher levels of inventory, up 96% YoY following a flood of new listings during the pandemic, are sitting on the market in the city proper, a significantly larger jump than the surrounding suburbs.

> In San Francisco [...] the softening is clear as sellers inundate the market and buyers have not changed their pace to match — newly pending sales in the city are up only 1.7% YoY.
Honest question: you bought a device that depends on an "app store" to work. What exactly did you expect?

-- from someone waiting for VR to become a commodity hardware, like a monitor.
Startups have their own way of creating burn out and since it takes a toll on finances as well, the impact is much higher. It is not all fun and motivation. Also there are non tech problems one need to solve in a startup.

IMO, avoiding burnout might not be a best motivator for starting up. Maybe moving to a startup might help you decide along with reducing zoom calls hopefully :). Also it gives time to think about what is that you want to create.

Another option is to talk to friends who started up, to understand the practical challenges.

My suggestion, take some time and decide. It is more about making an informed decision. And when we are lost, sometimes we take decisions more on hope.
I agree. There are milder examples though that you eat anyways such as coffee, straw/blue/raspberries, greek yogurt, and dark chocolate. Miracle fruit works with all these foods too, not just extremely sour ones. In fact, the flavor enhancing is most prominent in these mildly acidic foods.