skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In spite of trillions of dollars printed for Covid aid, and presumably much more to come, inflation as measured by CPI has not budged, for several reasons:

There is insatiable demand for treasury bonds and dollars, and as well dollar reserve currency status means that the govt can find buyers for its bonds without yields rising, hence tempering inflation. A strong dollar makes imports cheaper, hence also lowering inflation.

Studies show only 1/3 of the stimulus is spent on consumer goods. The rest is saved, invested, or used to pay down debts. Such deleveraging is deflationary.

The amount of money is still relatively small and infrequent compared to the vast size of the US economy and total consumer spending and other activity.

Even if inflation was to rise, you would not need to hedge, because everything would be shifted higher, such as stock prices, home prices, wages, etc. Because the US dollar is implicitly understood as the global and standard benchmark/unit of wealth (the Forbes 400 list is in dollars, not euros), it means Americans do not lose wealth if price levels rise or if the US dollar falls. Bitcoin and precious metals could be an effective hedge if you live in a country that does not have reverse currency status and you need to stave off loss of wealth relative to the US dollar due to the local currency falling against the dollar.
Yes and it’s amazing that there’s such a big overlap between the environmentalist electric car owning, composting granola munchers and Bitcoin. They’re burning tires in the back yard each time they make a transaction and driving a Tesla to work.
Interesting Stoplights: Teslamotors
Covid-19 bill started a 180-day countdown for UFO disclosures
As I'm sure (by your "scare quotes") you know, the actual Left never believed a damn thing CIA said. They remember all of their comrades killed by CIA. My semi-skeptical praise was for the idea that anyone in public view would act any differently just because there's a new occupant.
Let's say you're building a home. Foundation is poured and it's time to frame it. If you hire some random guys with power tools standing outside a home depot, it'll take weeks to months for them to finish, and might well end up crappy. But hire two 55-year-old men with hammers, nails and a single skil-saw, and they can have it up in 3-4 days. Or grab your Amish neighbors and raise a barn in a day.

Productivity is not bounded by your access to technology, it's bounded by the problem you need to solve and the means you use to solve it.

> Brooks explicitly dismisses increased computational power as something that will not improve productivity ("Well, how many MIPS can one use fruitfully?", more on this later), but both storage and CPU power (not to mention network speed and RAM) were sources of accidental complexity so large that they bounded the space of problems Brooks was able to conceive of.

Yet here in the future, our excess of storage, CPU power and network bandwidth have bounded our ability to be fruitful with them. If you add up the MIPS we use today and compare it to what solutions we're implementing with it, we are vastly less productive today. Brooks was right, but in a weird way. There is a bound on programmer productivity, and it is the programmer.

In the past, people wouldn't have set themselves up to need to collect a billion billion logs to analyze some tiny metric among them. Anyone would've seen that as poor planning and a horrible waste of resources. Why would you bury needles in billions of haystacks, and then need to hastily build a robot that finds needles? Why not just keep the needles in a pile of needles? Do you really even need all those needles?

> Thinking that the tools you personally use are as good as it gets is an easy trap to fall into.

This actually seems like a hard trap for most to fall into. Nearly every software engineer I've met either thinks they could make a better tool, or just wants to try for the hell of it. On the other hand, most engineers think that building a better mouse trap will solve all their mouse problems.
One of the questions from chat asked him exactly that. His answer was that he already lives in a government-sector in Berlin where he doesn't need cameras to feel safe at home. The main argument of this talk was about his experiences when he travelled abroad (UK/US) and experienced the surveillance and intimidation.
Indeed. One strange bright (?) side of Covid-19's probable persistence in the world for some time, even after successful mass vaccinations in 2021, is that wearing a mask in public for any purpose has become more legitimate almost anywhere in the world. IMO one should not need to justify wearing a mask during any gathering or peaceful protest in public. Pandemic or endemic viruses make this "easier". :-}
Using "math" as an abbreviation for the noun mathematics always grates a little for us Brits (not that we'd say anything), but as a verb it totally works, I math, you math, he/she maths ...
Ask HN: Why can't I flag comments, but others can?
Is it a rep thing?
We have yet to bring back ice delivery for the sake of the delivery staff. We have fridges now. Life does not end because jobs are eliminated, it just changes.
Sorry, just hoping you had evidence I didn't!
"Number Go Up"

It's a meme among speculators and others who don't see bitcoin as providing an actual value proposition.
77.78TWh/year or the same as Chile.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
Also, what heating described by Boyle's Law? That law is the ideal gas law at constant temperature.
I was more referring to how it's standard practice on modern OSes to leave the zero page unmapped in a process's address space so that, if the compiler converts the NULL dereference into a dereference of address 0x0, it'll trigger a segfault.
Worst case, you're in a dead-end but secure job while you figure out what you actually should be doing with your life.
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Did you read the comments on the YouTube video itself? Outside this techie HN bubble the real world people think of these robots dancing on their jobs anr lifeless bodies. Forget your home countries , but this is how most people in USA thinks about the technological progress as well. And on top of that I am wondering when AI will be parsing these YouTube comments in another 10 years it will just interpret the massive hate that the YouTube comments show for robots and AI and don’t be surprised if it sends some rouge instructions to these robots to annihilate human beings in self defense. It sounds like a absurd joke I know but for some reason it seems to me one of the many possibilities.
That's my point. The rules are only the rules until the bandwagon decides they aren't.
Big congrats! Tremendous efforts put into this fantastic product that I’m happy to use every single day, thanks!
The current fiat system has be around for about 50 years. Don't you think it is a little premature to compare it with 5000 years of monetary history and declare it a winner?

In any case, the fact that fiat money has not been able to prevent the business cycle from creating devastating crises would seem to imply otherwise.
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1. Don't try too hard to make science funding more efficient / market lead or whatever - just fund more - double the science budget tomorrow And again every five years for a generation. We are about to go through a societal refactoring with solar / electric / digital / climate change hitting at once. Spending a few quid to help out the fundamentals won't hurt anyone.

2. The above might upset people but string theory is a good example - partly yes people are held hostage by funding (much like it's hard to avoid being typecast as an actor). But the solution to that is to fund lots more (experimental) movies, not to hope studio heads can pick better winners.

I am perfectly happy for a slice of my tax dollar to go on someone thinking about Pram theory (#) for a decade simply because we have no idea whatsoever how to tackle the big ones in physics, so spray and pray is going to be a lot better than most other options.

(#) Red Dwarf episode. worth watching episode just for this joke.
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/05/27/the-origin-o...
Are we reading the same article?

You stated:

> The central allegation is that a few thousand Xinjiang Muslims were offered employment possibly in exchange for political indoctrination

It's a million, and they were not offered employment. They were "transferred" and forced to work in factories, among other places.
If AB5 was bad, then a good reaction would be to lobby the state legislature to amend it. Prop 22 doesn’t just circumvent AB5: it makes it virtually impossible to improve it via the legislative route.

Here is the specific language:

After the effective date of this chapter, the Legislature may amend this chapter by a statute passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote entered into the journal, seven-eighths of the membership concurring, provided that the statute is consistent with, and furthers the purpose of, this chapter.

This means two things:

1) To make a change that is consistent with the purpose of prop 22 (that is to say, that proponents of prop 22 would agree to), an 7/8 congress majority is required. This is highly unusual, and not a coincidence: to achieve such a majority requires getting the California GOP on board. California Republicans are mostly irrelevant at the state level, but they have endorsed prop 22, and this is their reward: a permanent veto over any incremental changes to a crucial section of California labor law.

2) To make a change that is inconsistent with the purpose of prop 22 (for example to reverse it), a new ballot measure must be adopted. Although that is technically not impossible, in practice it may as well be. Uber and Lyft spent $80m on this ballot measure, and could easily double that if required. Their natural opponents, unions, could barely raise $5m the first time around. They simply don’t have pockets deep enough to compete.

Whether you supported or opposed AB5, it should be common sense that California’s democratically elected congress should have authoroty over California law. Prop 22 establishes a new reality where that is no longer the case: for $80m dollars, you can essentially buy yourself a permanent exemption. That is incredibly dangerous.
Well, Apple is fighting against US legislation to thwart slave labor.
Thoughts and prayers to you in this challenging time.
That's a stupid Chinese restriction because Chinese mapping data uses GCJ-2 instead of the standard WGS 84 datum. If the Chinese government were to give Google the license to use their datum, Google's map location issue would be gone. (Though POI would still be a problem.)
OP here. This is my project to document the real history of the modern monorail, which is little known. They were invented in Texas! I am friends with the inventor's son and we are working on expanding the museum content. I have access to a huge library of documents and photos to add in the coming year. Looking forward to your thoughts!
I'm not the person you are responding to, but I am the parent comment. Anyways, my issue was that often the users that were "liking" my ads weren't even in the geographic region I selected. So if I say "spend $20 a day" and target people in X area, why are they showing my ad to people in Y area? I know they have options for lived in vs travelled through etc but these were clearly people that lived in Y area.
I think you are mistaking safety for security. The whole discussion is about security - preventing attacks from attackers on purpose. What you described here in the seat belt example is safety - preventing accidents that happen without intention/malice.
How do you feel about Porn? Movies? Video Games? Skiing? Driving to a party or vacation spot?

Pretty much any kind of entertainments uses energy. Bitcoin just uses energy to perform an (arguably) useful function. Is that a more irresponsible usage of energy compared to our other reasons of using energy?
Seems like it.

> The Coinbase analysis was conducted for The Times by Alexandra Marr, an economist who has provided statistical analysis for court cases involving pay bias. When she factored in stock options for Coinbase’s employees — often an important part of pay at start-ups — the compensation for women and men was roughly the same while the gap between white and Black employees grew to 11 percent.

So the pay gap disappeared when options were considered for male/female at least.

Surely they are looking at this?

>ased on an analysis by Alexandra Marr of Coinbase employee and salary data from 2018. Analysis included the 448 salaried employees who were paid in U.S. dollars and who were assigned to a level within the company. None of the manager groups overseeing engineers had more than two women in it so all manager categories are ones overseeing non-engineers.

Oh so the data is from 2018? well...

> In a statement, L.J. Brock, Coinbase’s chief people officer, said the company started to conduct a comprehensive review of compensation across the company in late 2018.

Hmmm....

>The data analysis from those cases suggests that Coinbase had bigger wage disparities between men and women than either Google or Oracle. At Oracle, the gap between men and women with similar backgrounds and roles was 3.9 percent according to analysis in the court case against the company — less than half as much as the gap at Coinbase.

Very bad sounding!

> The numbers in the Google and Oracle cases controlled for factors, such as experience and education, that were not possible in the Coinbase statistics because of the limits of the data shared with The Times.

> The Coinbase figures arrived at by Ms. Marr took account of the job level of all employees, as well as their status as an engineer and manager. It is possible that if the analysis took account of more factors, the pay disparity would shrink.

Yeah this is a hit piece. You are putting forth a strong agenda and then having to walk it back in case you get called out for it.
I've added some more. Sorry; it's our bug.
My favorite logical inconsistency in the food pyramid is that dairy is given it’s own category of required daily intake for a healthy diet, but 65% of the global population has some level of lactose intolerance. The government was claiming that people with lactose intolerance cannot have a complete diet.
My solution is to use browser bookmarks as my inbox and my own yaml-based tool for archiving links only. For me, only a few links are actually worth keeping long-term.
Attach the mini-drone to a helium filled ... red balloon (just to rhyme with the well-known song), or some better tactical color.

This would somewhat alleviate the energy expenditure to maintain lift and prolong the flight time. The motors may selectively cut off based on present state of inertia. This may be all possible due to relatively small weight of such drones. Sure this would preclude operation in storm winds.

It's a question of mission requirements. Drones of these sizes are more like a floating/hidden eye/ear than anything of direct offense. Besides, it does not need to transmit at all, just record and deliver back on homing beacon.
Sure, but they were in his home. If he had cameras streaming to a server recording everything they would stop doing that at least. (Or if they didn't, he would at least have evidence of the criminals faces)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click the 'flag' link at the top. There's a small karma threshold before flag links appear.
> Do you dispute that doubling the number of tires moving the vehicle forward will drastically reduce the ease with which the vehicle breaks traction crossing over the slush?

Grip and traction are two words for the same thing, the only thing that determines grip are the tires plus the weight (and distribution thereof) they are carrying. So, yes, having AWD does nothing to help grip - that's a mechanical force between your tires and the road.

AWD helps utilize grip, by distributing torque to all four wheels. It helps acceleration by avoiding wheelspin where two driven wheels don't have the grip, but nothing else.

Edit: Clearance is more important when trying to cross over piles of shit on the road anyway. It doesn’t matter how many wheels are driven on your car if you bottom out.
Do you mean "flag posts" or "downvote comments to posts" by chance?

If it is "flag actual comments" I cannot do that either. Though we do have a similar rep level.
well when you are at professors level, then it is not only about yourself. Especially in physics with you have small teams, some grad students what are under your wing. Their livelihood and career depends on you. And some of them are newlyweds with baby incoming. So then comes human factor.

Though how big institutes work i do not know.
500k Nvidia RTX cards found in abandoned container.
The RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 are still hard to find. A shortage favored by strong demand, excessively long production cycles and the global pandemic, which does not make things easier. Good news however, since a South Korean port operator has just got hold of a lost shipment of 500,000 GeForce RTX 3000 cards!
There's a good scene is the TV series Des where the investigator interviews an phychopath who kept the dead body around and watched the TV with it in another chair. The investigator is interested if Des had sex with the body. To which Des asks who's the real sick person here if murdering someone and pretending to interact with them is ignored, but potential sex with a dead body is what warrants attention.

Reminds me of the GP comment... Also aligns with - murder is so out there that we can joke about it, rape is so common that we can't.
"MBAs are running the show" is such a cliche. I see that more as simply a reality which is always constrained by resources.

Humanity can not afford to spend all their energy and resources for scientific research. We have many things we need for survival, and some for entertainment, etc. Obviously we do want to invest some amount of resources and human energy into research - but the question is how much is enough and which fields should we invest more or less ?

I claim that these questions are fundamentally unknowable / unsolvable. So we guess blindly (and very occasionally with a tiny bit of very myopic foresight), and mostly end up unwittingly relying on various historical accidents.

This is a very, very difficult question for humanity overall, and we're never going to get "right" amount of funding or "right" structure as there's no right answer. "MBAs" do and can hinder progress unnecessarily, but not always - they do exist for a reason and they represent society's collective attempt to avoid waste or runaway spending.
Well, to be honest there hasn't been any serious inflation in any developed country since ~2009, since Bitcoin was created. Gold is short term pretty much uncorrelated with anything, but long term keeps up with CPI very well. Even on extremely long time scales, several centuries.
My countries government should understand the implications of the policies it impliments, including the impact on people in other countries, but my governments first concern shouldn't be those other peoples, it should be it's own citizens! For those who seriously try to understand this topic, the implication you aren't talking about (and a myriad more) is that due to this we can expect the first world standards/wealth to decrease in response. Of course there are those who then respond "good! about time!" or some equivalent, but I digress.

The mental gymanstics I see being performed in comments here boggles the mind, but I am thankful at least to have a refresher on all the kinds of responses I need to be prepared to rebute. Lets restate them as prereq for responding to them: (on globalism)

It increases the wealth of poor people in other countries

It offers more employment opportunities for said people

It increases the wealth of the third world in general

It's not globalism, it's the companies who participate in it and aren't heald accountable.

You had a "protectionist" president and how did that work out?

It's not globalisms fault, it's capitalisms fault.

Globalism as a term is a "racist dog whistle" and an "antisemitic conspiratorial buzzword"

So far, none of these are particularly well thought out or presented, and suffer obvious weaknesses. I'm not sure if I feel like taking the time currently to dissect them each right now, but they will go in the todo list.
This article was already posted under the correct title ("OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment") a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137235

I get the impression that the word "unholy" is used facetiously in the article, and is not meant to be taken literally.
And having 1bn people. We couldn't control Iraq or Afghanistans populations (both sub 40mil). Try a job 35 times bigger...
Date of origin may not matter as much as when it came to the SEC's attention. The SEC allowed BTC & ETH under a set of policies & understanding of crypto. That understanding evolved, changing policy, and then XRP got on their radar under the new policy regime. It probably helps that ETH was at least nominally tied to the USD.

Keep in mind I'm not defending the SEC's decision, just speculating on how the policy decisions might have been made & justified.
Ask HN: What are possible career paths in cybersecurity policy?
The question almost says it all: I am working towards an MSc in cybersecurity policy at Georgia Tech and will have 6 years of Devops and SRE experience once I'm done. To make sure I'm taking into all my options I figured I should ask here: what are some career paths that can combine my policy and engineering experience?

Thank you in advance!
Same in Germany. You need to be with the company for six months and the company needs to have 15 employees or more.
Seems like you'd have to be outside of the material world to carry out a full-on simulation -- maybe God?
The other commenter posted the answer to flagging actual comments.
Karma limits what site functionality is available to a user.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
The World Wide Web has only been around 30 years don’t you think it’s a little premature to compare it with 5000 years of carrier pigeons and horse drawn letter delivery? I for one remain unconvinced. Ooh my pigeon just arrived! I wonder what news she brings from the Capital! ;)
Can you elaborate on AWS, why don't you have a choice?
This reminds me of this fake robot video that went viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE&t=0s
For an assassination of a specific target - even with military equipment and technology, it would be dubious to use a mortar. They simply are not precision weapons, as you already pointed out.

But, for inflicting terror and great loss of life in a populated area - they could be used very effectively.
To be productive, you have to use the right tools in a distraction-free environment.

If you want to update one of the synths in a song you are working on, use your workstation.

If you want to procrastinate and waste time, then obsess over using your phone to do something it was never designed to do
They generally start as the real thing. Then the food stylist will poke and prod and pin every little bit in place, super glue sesame seeds where needed, air brush some extra color here and there and even add a clear coat to make things glisten.

Different methods will be used if the product must be edible, of course.
Nope you’re not understanding my point and that could easily be my bad.

That’s part of what inflation does. It allows the monetary system to react to shocks and changes like population growth and global pandemics. Deflation without creation of monetary units benefits the existing concentration of wealth as you and your children get to fight each other for scraps. These pieces are all connected. This system will lead to the existing moneyed class of coiners becoming more and more wealthy as a function of economic productivity forever.