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Ask HN: Cryptocurrency To Replace Real Estate?
The question is simple - is it possible to design a cryptocurrency to replace real estate as a store-of-value and generational wealth mechanism? If so, what features and/or design goals would you incorporate? To focus the discussion, I'm only considering feasibility in terms of RE-like price stability and long-term appreciation (not regulatory/tax implications). Personally, I think the biggest challenges are implementing illiquidity and regional market pricing (e.g. SF real estate prices don't really influence the NY market). As for why any of this matters, I've had this nagging (grandiose) idea that replacing real estate as an asset class can enable affordable housing on a global scale. Thoughts?
Twitter Scripts in Google Sheets for technical marketers
Yes, I've heard about that. Definitely important, though for the record I was talking more about things like the hundred-degree temperatures, bone-dry humidity and the unusual wind event last week (kind of like Santa Ana winds except in Oregon/Washington). But strictly in terms of wildfire suppression, there are people "voting" to keep doing it, whether it's the people who have claimed property and built structures in the forested areas; or ones who, voting with their wallets via the corporations they buy from, want those trees for building houses elsewhere or making paper products; or (ironically) the people who pushed for strict environmental laws, some of which now effectively prevent that kind of controlled burning. Sprinkle the usual "uninformed dust" on top for both voters and their reps, and there you have it! Maybe this kind of event will shove things in a better direction.
> You buy, you control, that's how the world works.

Only in countries with poor regulators like the states does it work like this.
My humble attempt https://github.com/jsqry/jsqry-cli2
Fat Tails and Boring Edges
alternatively in bash:

query-json ".foo" <(echo '{"foo": "bar"}')
Sounds like a solid use case. Is lag an issue?
There's no UGC on netflix
Following that method will make you a Scientologist, not an expert.
I have been investing in TSLA since 2014, This situation is exactly the opposite.
For some time I am looking at a home built UPS to power my entire house; not buying an UPS, but building an UPS from a few packs of LiFePO4 batteries (probably in series to 48V) and an inverter. This kind of setup can be built with regular lead acid batteries too, very cheap, but the battery life is a lot worse than LiFePO4. A 4kW inverter can power my entire house, I live in Europe and we don't use dryers here, I think they are the biggest electrical consumer in a typical US house. The utility link is limited to 4.5kW anyways, so I don't lose much.

The whole point is I can easily expand in the future to charge from a solar panel array; solar panels are cheaper and cheaper, the biggest cost is the batteries and installation. Until then, the batteries can be charged from the utility company and the efficiency is close to an APC Smart UPS.
> JavaScript will mop up most CLI apps in performance

I'll bet half the coreutils are a minimum of 10x slower in their day-to-day use cases (i.e. small n) when re-implemented in any interpreted language like JS. Cold start overhead matters a lot for CLI programs.
Just because we can't explain fully the phenomenon doesn't mean it's "magics". This guy's case needs to be studied in order to try to find out what made him get better and see if the same conditions would be applicable to other patients suffering from the same ills. Our bodies and our minds are resilient in many ways, we need to find how to enable or accelerate that process.
Contrary to popular belief, space in the vicinity of Earth's orbit is not cold. Indeed, it's very hot. You get the full unfiltered force of sunlight (hotter than noon on the equator), and you don't have any material available nearby like air or water to convect the heat away. Cooling is actually a huge problem in orbit, way harder than on Earth where you can just use fans.
> JavaScript will mop up most CLI apps in performance, including python and ruby, and will get close in perf to C if written carefully.

asm.js is what you mean?

If you so, you are not better to handwriting an assembly yourself.

I am kind of an involuntary webdev from time to time, and I am often the one invited to fix consequences of coding under influence, like a decision to write a GPS server with 100k+ packets per second load in Javascript.

People claiming that JS can be made be as fast as C have no idea at all what they say. Even Java with hand-jacked VM is easier to scale for such load than a JS server reduced to 1k lines of vanilla JS, using all and every performance trick Nodejs provides.
Paired with social uprising, drought, and mass immigration.

1176 BC, the year the bronze age around the Mediterranean collapsed for all the above reasons (plus earthquakes).

We should learn the lessons of what history says about this period. It took 300 years for them to recover...
It appears the medicare rate for a hysterectomy is about $1-$4k. Much higher with hospital stay. Possible medical billing scam?

https://www.jnjmedicaldevices.com/sites/default/files/user_u...
Not required, but knowing a little relational algebra helps queries make a lot more sense. A lot of the features like constraints and indices are very thin veneer over the underlying concepts.

At the other end of the spectrum, once you can write a few basic queries check out something like SQL Murder Mystery
https://mystery.knightlab.com/

This one is super-fun and lets you practice some basic to low-intermediate skills.
Ah thanks that explains it. Using an iPad is also a really cool advantage of that setup. Thanks I thought there must be a reason for this tool.
The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc.

There are lots of great tools that solve some of these problems. I have yet to find one that solves all of them.

I think we need something like Namecheap + CloudFlare + ngrok, designed and marketed for self-hosters and federators. You simply register a domain and run a client tool on each of your machines that talks to a central server which tunnels HTTPS connections securely to the clients.

Mapping X subdomain to Y port on Z machine should take a couple clicks from a web interface.
TheVerge: What newsrooms can learn from threat modeling at Facebook
It told me many things I already knew... but it enabled me to summarize them in a new way.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter,etc.. all exist to sell your attention to advertisers. This means they want to keep you on site for as long as possible. The algorithms used find the nearest rabbit hole, and gently push you in that direction. The hole might lead to a new skill, just plain fun, or could be horrible for you and society.
They don't care about the effects, they only care about the profits.

Evil isn't the intent, it's just the side effect.
Because it would be one of the most significant scientific discoveries in history, and that's some serious cred that can build massive nationalistic pride.
Besides the obstacle of it being difficult to cool objects in space (you need atmosphere to do convection cooling, i.e. heatsinks), you need to somehow actually get everything in space. It costs a lot of money to get heavy things into orbit, whereas it costs nothing to sink those same objects in the water which naturally has better thermal conductivity to boot. As another bonus, you can get at it much easier if you need to perform maintenance by e.g. attaching pods to a crane rig and simply raising it.
Yes, we only ever hear about CA, and never about David Brock and Share Blue / Correct the Record.
Regulation has little to do with it. Most of the tech industry is inherently winner-takes-all or winner-takes-most because of how easy it is to scale up tech solutions. US companies get a huge head-start because of their large home market compared to the fragmented EU market, and can easily carry that advantage into also dominating the EU market.

There is a reason Russia and China have strong tech companies and Europe doesn’t. That reason isn’t lack of money, lack of talent or regulations. The only way for Europe to get big tech companies is by removing or crippling big US companies so EU companies can actually compete. The US companies would be quickly replaced by EU alternatives and those would offer high compensation all the same.

Whether or not that is worth it from the perspective of the EU is not so black and white - tech is obviously not everything - but the current situation where all EU data gets handed to the US government on a silver platter is also far from optimal from the perspective of the EU.
Example of the Glicko-2 system (2013) [pdf]
People need to actively speak out against lockdowns and lifestyle restrictions. Just sitting here and being quiet won't do anything. Governors and corporations will continue to make arbitrary, rules until they are voted out of office.

Anyone who knows human nature know what people need "permission" to do this. The media, the governors who are pretending to lead, the loud mouths on social media and everyone else needs to spread the word that it's ok to go out and that this isn't going to kill you.

So long as we spread fear people will remain fearful. If we want to get back to normal we need to tell people it's ok to go back to normal.

Those groups and individuals need to stop the daily fearmongering and start spreading the message that you don't need a mask and don't need to be afraid of your fellow human beings.
Possible Signs of Life on Venus
Why did you take this approach rather than getting a hardwired UPS and installing a subpanel?

A subpanel would make future expansion easier.
Maybe it's because the banks are all pretty good and modern in Canada, but I honestly just don't get PayPal. My credit cards are all very easy to pay with, fraud detected quickly and easy to dispute, and many purchase types insured.
> The original NeXTSTEP engineers wouldn't have let this happen...

Who?

(because some of them are still at Apple, including Hair Force One :)
Most ads I see these days on Instagram are scam. They usually lead to sites that have been built with a quick template and always offer 50-80% discount on little things I want, for example lamps.

They all offer PayPal so I took the bait once. The scam was clever: they ship something that isn’t what you ordered. Like a jump rope for $1 instead of the $30 lamp (discounted from $200) or drone. To get a 60% refund, you have to send it back on your own cost.

Now it gets more tricky: the parcel might not even be delivered to your address. Mine never arrived but got delivered to a zip code close to mine, but not mine. There are lots of reports of people that receive things without ordering anything and people who never get their stuff. There is also no guarantee what you ship back arrives back at them. If it doesn’t, the company doesn’t refund anything.

I quickly realized this is an obvious scam and asked them to cancel, and opened a PayPal claim before anything got shipped. The company said they are processing my refund and it will take 3 days for my money to be back (which is not how PayPal works). Guess what? In the 3 days, they just shipped something which threw the PayPal claim off because now they have to wait until the shipment arrived and gets sent back (info from PayPal cs).

It’s been over a month and I am still trying to get my money from PayPal back. It’s difficult because I haven’t received anything but the shipping number says it arrived. The site no longer exists and the email I previously used to reach out is gone too.

It’s crazy to me that PayPal enables all of these scammers. They clearly know how to play PayPal to get around the buyer protection.

These days I can’t trust any ads because of this unless I do a lot of research on the site. It’s very likely all scam. I saw similar sites on google shopping (the price comparison product), so it’s not just Facebook.
I don’t really see your point. Even the examples you list are nonsensical.

* We are no longer in the ps2 era. EA now uses Frostbite, which was developed by the Swedish studio Dice. It is alive and well, powering some 40-50 games. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbite_(game_engine)

* Nokia was dead well before MS bought them.
This story would have motivated me to make sure the proper people have the proper documents to ensure my plug gets pulled after a couple days. But I already took care of that.
> T4g instances are powered by AWS Graviton2, a processor custom built by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores.

> all new and existing AWS customers can try the t4g.micro instances free for up to 750 hours per month.
I don't know anything about the subject, and I can't speak to the authority of this cite, but it contradicts your statements, and so I'd be curious about your response:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-202289...

Do you have a better source, which you think refutes their arguments?
I hear this all the time but they never mention the exams that weed out large % of the population unless you jump through additional hoops. Germany has exams that dictate whether you go to university or trade school, with very little recourse to fix. Italy has continuation exams after the first year that 50 to 70 % can fail. Sure its free/low cost after the fact. Its a totally different government meddled system in Europe. Almost anyone in the US can find a for profit University (I know many with a 90% acceptance rate) that will accept them somewhere in the US with real accredited degrees.
Only way to outdo China is to outdo China
The last time I checked, the problem with GPUs and realtime audio is that although the GPU is extremely powerful and the bandwidth is fairly large, the latency for a roundtrip from/to the CPU is too large for what we typically consider "low latency audio".

Put differently, the GPU is plenty powerful to do the processing you're thinking of, but it can't get the results back to the CPU in the required time.

For video, there is no roundtrip: we send a "program" (and maybe some data) from the CPU to the GPU; the GPU delivers it into the video framebuffer.

For audio, the GPU has no access to the audio buffer used by the audio interface, so the data has to come back from the GPU before it can be delivered to the audio interface.

I would be happy to hear that this has changed.

None of this prevents incredibly powerful offline processing of audio on a GPU, or using the GPU in scenarios where low latency doesn't matter. Your friends with guitars and pedal boards are not one of those scenarios, however.
Squeezing AMD and Intel in server and laptop markets seems like logical next move. Surely Nvidia/Arm can produce similar or better processors as Apple.
Well people already put Word and PowerPoint on their resumes like it means something.
Every bank builds their own infrastructure, yet I've never heard a bank advertise themselves as a tech company...
>Lost as in it is consumed. Seeds that are eaten are turned into calories/protein/fat.

So, transformed.

A bit like how capital is transformed into capital investments.
On average though, a reasonable very rough assumption is 0.5 kg CO2 / dollar (from what I read). You could make a complex model, but simply saying money = consumption = CO2 is a straightforward starting point.

A given employee might or might not fly or whatever. But statistically, the average is going to be pretty predictable, and it's not intellectually honest to pretend that because one doesn't know individual behavior, the average could be anything.
400K sign on to ballot drive to repeal Michigan governor's emergency power
I find neither of those things surprising.

The companies I've worked with have HR departments staffed by people who are also straight out of college. They have no knowledge or concept of people older than their circle, nor of all the legal consequences of their position. As far as I know, there is no "HR school" that teaches people these things. They learn by failure.
It's literally waste heat, what else are you going to use it for? You won't efficiently generate electricity with it or anything like that. About the best you could hope for is warming up inhabited spaces in winter, but that ends up not being cost-effective because you'd rather have the data centers in the middle of nowhere where land is cheap (and you can't really transport the heat to where it's actually needed).
I've got a static-ish address, meaning that my ISP hasn't changed my IP in many years, even with modem or router reboots. I've been meaning to get a dynamic DNS provider, but it hasn't been a priority.

In terms of accessing local services, I'm using StrongSwan on a VM with the relevant ports forwarded from my router. Ideally, the router would run StrongSwan, but until I switch to pfSense I'm living with this setup.

iOS and MacOS devices get a .mobileconfig profile which automatically connects when needed and disconnects when the device returns to my home WiFi network. My Linux travel laptop can also connect, but I haven't figured out how to make this happen automatically yet.
Can someone explain the rationale behind geographically based pay in remote-first companies?

I don't necessarily disagree with it, but I don't know what aspects of the issue companies are actually looking at to decide that geo-based pay is the way to go.
for text search the rum index is quite robust. my guess is that rum (or something like it) will be introduced into the pg core soon. we index many terabytes of pdf files excellent performance.

https://github.com/postgrespro/rum

also, postgrespro are behind the json/b indexing.
What's scary is that with all the resources that FB has, it still has to prioritize enforcement, which means that platforms like reddit or even HN have no chance of catching this.
I read recently that a survey showed most people don't want companies to get into politics. Not sure how true is what I read, but the numbers were around 82% of the respondents being against political activism from companies.

Others can argue that socialized healthcare is not as good as one may believe, knowing the problems in Quebec region, UK or other Western Europe countries where access to the services is free, but highly unavailable (wait times measured in many months).
I think it really just boils down to doing something you like and believing in your decision to do it.

For example if you're looking at a new tech stack and after some weeks or months of developing something with it. If it's not everything you thought it would be, or you're no longer 100% on board, no amount of motivation is going to keep you moving forward to build your app. It'll feel like absolute dread every time you think about opening your code editor.

I've been consistently blogging for 5+ years (at least 1 weekly post) and I still find it super enjoyable. It doesn't feel like I need motivation because it's doing something I genuinely believe in and want to do.
Is this from http://wisdomofchopra.com/? /s

But seriously, can you explain what you mean by this?
Dual-Purpose Drones for Agriculture
Oculus Quest 2 – Inside the Upgrade [Accidentally Published / Leaked]
The tracking number reports the package as delivered, someone came by and picked it up after it was left at the front door.
I can relate, thought about setting up a Caddy server to route through the different services (also nginx would be fine). Have to try it out and probably make a list of services in a HTML document returned on port 80/443
There is now but one choice... RISC-V, full throttle.
Except that it is no where near universal in Europe. I hear this all the time but they never mention the exams that weed out large % of the population unless you jump through additional hoops. Germany has exams that dictate whether you go to university or trade school, with very little recourse to fix. Italy has continuation exams after the first year that 50 to 70 % can fail. Its a totally different government meddled system in Europe. Almost anyone in the US can find a for profit University (I know many with a 90% acceptance rate) that will accept them somewhere in the US with real accredited degrees. The problem is that free government money is tide that raises all prices.
If you like that you may also be interested in "Meet Oculus Quest 2 [Accidentally Published / Leaked]": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4EPMxJiJRQ
I hear this all the time but they never mention the exams that weed out large % of the population unless you jump through additional hoops. Germany has exams that dictate whether you go to university or trade school, with very little recourse to fix. Italy has continuation exams after the first year that 50 to 70 % can fail. Its a totally different government meddled system in Europe. Almost anyone in the US can find a for profit University (I know many with a 90% acceptance rate) that will accept them somewhere in the US with real accredited degrees.
Extended stay hotels. Here is a comprehensive list of brands to check out. [1]

The standard hotel taxes sometimes drop off after 30 days. This depends on the local municipality though. You can also generally get a better rate by calling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Extended_stay_hotel_c...
I actually happened to be going through the Paypal settings yesterday as I couldn't get it to make a purchase on ebay and thought something might be wrong there.

I had around a dozen merchants who were listed in the automatic billing payment list and only one of them was a subscription I remember setting up. (the others were all legit and large businesses and none of them have charged me, but they could have!). I have since 'deactivated' all of them.

I really do hate Paypal but I often choose them when I buy something from a smaller web shop as I do not trust the web shop to keep my card details safe...
When will they throw it for the general purpose use? Or wouldn't they because it's too expensive for them?
The URL scheme on text.npr.org is different from www. Text.npr.org just uses an "sId" to identify stories but not the headline text like the www site. You can find the sId in the www url immediately after the date.

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=376084137

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/09/3760841...
I have, although not extensively.

I tend to find CLI tools more effective than GUI tools. Each to their own though, I suppose.
Since it seems to be out of print, and on the internet archive I'll drop this:

[0] https://archive.org/stream/R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretiveL...