skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be part of the rule allowing them to fly at night. It's clearly related, why delay?
This concept you've described is literally a Black Mirror episode. Those are not intended to be encouraging.
I failed a polygraph. There was a crime at a store, and my name came up when they searched through the ATM records. Police had ample evidence that I was in no way related to the crime, but kept trying to find something to pin on me because of the failed test. Those particular detectives had complete faith in the lie detector as a valid tool of police work.

Video evidence of me entering the store, using the atm, and immediately leaving the store? That was not evidence to them because I failed the polygraph.

I take an exceedingly dim view of any police department that uses a polygraph in any capacity. They've been proven time and time and time again to be worthless as a tool, but police still use them. The rough equivalent is using tarot cards as a tool for solving crimes.
I don’t know why people continue to believe it is not a threat.

Outside of economy, why is replacement rate needed? If the world reduced to 1 billion humans would the Earth be in a better or worse place?

Seems clear to me that fewer humans = less CO2, less deforestation, etc. You can argue less invention too but that’s not as obvious to me given Multiple Discovery (1).

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
Wow!

Let's not get to crazy here... fear and hate drive audiences which drives profits.

Also we we need to start with a critical thinking public.

But I'm with you, I'm going to keep hoping.
I store on an external HD, and every year I buy a new HD and copy across to it and verify checksums against my records. Costs basically zero and low-effort. What am I missing?
But that's not why the FAA is regulating it, and these regulations won't stop that. They're regulating because people are flying recklessly above 400ft, above roadways, and in restricted airspace.
> If it was accurate, everybody would be working for minimum wage.

A lot of people actually are working for (close to) minimum wage.

> BTW, if you're unemployed because of the pandemic, the best use of your time is to level up your skills

I am not, but your recommendation only highlights the inequality I was referring to. In your conception the entire burden is placed on individuals. Companies seem to have no responsibility to train people at all, that's smth you have to do on your own time for free.
Even though I don't fly over people, I retrofitted a parachute onto my DJI drone just in case. It automatically deploys if the drone loses power or control. It doesn't impact flight characteristics or battery life by much.

I feel like a basic safety like this would be a prudent and more effective measure for overhead flights than self-transmitting "license plates" (which I agree are at least better than the silly internet requirement).
You can write a bot player that follows a script or applies some simple decision rules. The hard part is detecting whether or not the game is operating correctly at each step. It's not like a simple web application where things happen in discrete steps and you can inspect the DOM to verify that it contains the right nodes.
What about all the paninis you can get if you can make the shot though? Think of it as urban duck hunting.
Cities feel like the last place that would be a good fit for airborne delivery, at least in the US.

Take NYC for example: Delivery people on e-bikes are still harassed incessantly by the NYPD and community boards by people being scared of the possibility of being hit by them.

Factor in our paranoia about terrorism and a single accidentally dropped package would likely result in counter terrorism and bomb squads being called in.

I couldn’t imagine any proposal for giant flying robots with multi-pound payloads hovering overhead be taken seriously by even the most progressive leaders.

In hard to reach / rural areas, I could see some benefits from drone technology though. Drone chainsaws, anyone?[0]

[0] https://nypost.com/video/watch-this-helicopter-saw-blaze-thr...
With our luck the nearest mirror is 500 light years away and by that time we'd have figured it out ourselves. Oh well... :)
> you'd still only likely get such a small sum per-article (10-20k pageviews, maybe?) that you'd still have to supplement revenue with advertising and other revenue streams

Advertising and other revenue streams also only pay out per view on a fairly small number of views though, right? Is the problem not that advertising pays more per view than people are willing to in the first place of their own volition?
I worked on this for quite a while: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd
FWIW I live close to Shenzhen and have a company there and have never heard of this system actually being applied except through media announcements. I am skeptical it is widely deployed as jaywalking is rife here in nearby cities and in fact believe it is probably largely a proactive media announcement from a solutions provider to local police who is claiming to have better capabilities than they really do. Of course it will happen eventually but in urban areas globally we already carry cellphones and drive cars with number plates, so privacy left the arena some time ago...

Maybe in the short term we will see a push-back of all-weather snow-busting bicycle-riding mesh networkers in Berlin or something, but I think the global trajectory is clear. What we really need is an alternative to commercial cellular.
Author here. I am beyond exuberant that this was posted here. I am completely over the moon. If you want to ask questions please ask them.
Is RocketLab able to 3D print larger rockets?
That’s a good question. I think the comment making the correction is adequate, since this isn’t a “carved in stone” sort of media and those interested read the comments as well.

I’ll have something more to say about this when I finish my experiment here in “elder delurking”. One point that has come up is it is much more pleasant for the elderly to “fire and forget”, though this is more relevant for a posted comment than an original post. Little upside potential (who wants to be an 80 y.o. Influencer, nobody that old is interested in managing an online persona), and major downsides (you are all punk kids to us, even if you’re 50) to pursue a different strategy.
The Earth is highly differentiated. What's at the surface is not representative of its average composition, or of the average composition of the material it was formed from.

In particular, the Earth's surface is highly depleted in platinum group elements compared to carbonaceous chondrites. That's because those elements strongly segregated into the molten metal that flowed into the Earth's core when the planet was very hot. Ditto for gold. The Earth's surface is also depleted in tellurium; this is thought to be due to the volatility of TeH2. On the other hand, the earth's continental crust has three orders of magnitude higher concentration of uranium than the chondritic average; the Earth is likely the best place in the solar system to mine that element.
How do we verify that?

All it takes is a single machine with the proper certificates to RDP the data center, the same way on call engineers do.

The lack of existence of something like that is impossible to verify even for the data center employees.

I am not saying there is access provided to the government, I am saying no one can say there isn't such access, simply because of how easy it is to have it without anyone knowing besides very higher up execs.
working for someone else, probably not many. However if you "start a business" in just about anything you can do it.

for example basic mowing can be 50/hour now that neighborhood kids are no longer cutting lawns. The hard part is the utilization is low due to travel time.

pool maintenance

trades such as laying tile, installing drywall, painting, cabinetry all can pay well if you are working directly for clients.
Yes, as soon as I have installed a program which I like and think is a "keeper", I write my setuplet script, usually by copying and pasting from the bash history.
Interesting. It hardly matches what I know of chartalism at all. Maybe my understanding isn't really MMT. (Also, odd that it's regarded as a new thing, since chartalism goes back a good century.)

I do take exception with questioning chartalism's validity based on the workings of our system with a federal reserve bank. The existence of a federal reserve is a choice, and one made to limit the ability of the government to print money.

My understanding is based on a flows among parts of a financialized system, that is, one in which a large part of the interactions among people have been converted to exchanging units of a currency issued by some institution with a near-monopoly on violence. This happens usually by charging a "hut tax" on all households that everyone is required to pay in the institution's currency, and you can only get it by working for the institution. It can be an indirect hut tax. In company towns, the only access to necessary goods and services like, say, food was via the company store, and you could only purchase there via company scrip, which you got by working for the company or by transacting with someone who did. The English did this in Africa several times, the French did it in Madagascar, etc.

Once you have a financialized system, if we look at the flow of dollars around, you have dollars spent (created) by the federal government, dollars taxed (destroyed) by the federal government; you have dollars loaned (created) by banks, and dollars received (partially destroyed) by banks; and you have dollars transacted without loss among non-financial actors.

Most of the money created is created by banks in the form of loans. The bank creates $X as a loan to someone. That person uses the $X to do something that hopefully grows the economy, and then pays back $X + $I (interest). The bank destroys the $X again, and keeps the $I (which they use to pay employees, cover loans that default, disburse as profit, etc.).

But where did the $I come from? It could have come from dollars created by other commercial banks, but in the end those dollars get destroyed or covered by assets. Eventually, all new dollars have to come from the issuing government. Which means every time the economy grows, you either deflate the currency (fewer dollars chasing more goods) or increase government "debt" (put more dollars into circulation than you take out via taxes). In any growing economy that doesn't have deflation, the government must accrue debt.

If your currency is the reserve currency, it's even worse, because basically you have to accrue debt for the whole world's growth, and pay interest on it. In exchange you purchase certain powers over the world's economy.

This, for me, is the crucial point of MMT: reporting federal debt isn't the right number, nor the right number to cap. You want to the ratio of increase in federal debt to increase in GDP.

To go with that crucial point, you have a crucial question: when you have economic growth, reflected in the currency, whose hands do the new dollars go into?
You have to frame your statements correctly. It's not they who are hard to photograph. It's the hardware which has a hard time photographing them.

There is a deeply prevailing western misconception that systems that work for white people should also work for everyone else. When it invariably doesn't, it's always the fault of the minority. Funny how that is.
Ohio at least requires that there be a light that illuminates the liscense plate whenever the headlights are turned on, so no need for special night vision systems
I’d pay good money for a shotgun-like device that had power enough to take down the drones foreigners like to fly meters from my face videotaping me as I walk down the beach, but not powerful enough to be dangerous to use in such contexts.
You know how we have an overabundance of ways to design, describe, develop, and document rpc-based distributed systems like REST and microservices? Why isn't there anything like that for event-driven, message-based systems? If there's a message bus in your architecture, it's usually just a pipe-shaped widget on a diagram. There's dozens of tools that can describe and API down to the finest detail, like swagger/openapi, uml, C4. We have infrastructure as code (helm charts, etc).

In all of them the events and message buses are kind of an afterthought. Everything seems geared towards request-response systems, and nothing adequately deals with the range of event systems and message flows.
Specially if it’s someone who voluntarily turned himself in in the first place.
I've never flown a drone, but this sounds like a pretty cool idea! Are you aware of anything like this being a requirement anywhere, or having being proposed by regulators anywhere?
This is the fly in the oinment.

I would love to see Apple have an LTS branch of macOS, but I just don't see this happening. Too much would need to change in the company for that to happen.

From a macOS developer's standpoint, it's really a huge PITA there is no LTS. But, we adjust. Because we have a low-level product (compiler), we sometimes get into a situation where we need to sunset a product before we would normally do that, just because the older product doesn't run on the supported macOS versions. Doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
A heavy phase went to the Earth's core, but there's plenty of metal up here, and some metals (like, uranium) are strongly concentrated in the crust, because chemically they segregated into light silicate phases.
You tried to pull rank on the guy so he responded by reiterating the message. With any luck, a higher ranked Stripe employee might pass by and your stratagem could work this time.
I can't find the link now, but at least in Australia this doesnt appear to true. We have a reverse mortgage system here, and the take up is extremely low ( I think it was <10,000 for the whole country).

Particularly with house prices here being completely insane, parents very much want to leave houses to their children.

I've also read multiple articles around how to get, or encouraging, retirees to be comfortable actually spending their retirement savings, rather than the interest/earnings from those savings, given its so hard to get a living income that way.

I think the 'die broke' crowd will be limited to a very small sliver of any generation... those poor enough that they have a chance to actually spend all their money, but well off enough that their children own their own houses ( possibly debt free )
This is a mischaracterization of the YIMBY position. Most YIMBYs are not opposed to raising taxes so that the city can pay for the construction of affordable housing units. (Note that the city doesn't build housing even if they pay for it - developers still do!) YIMBYs also believe, however, that we need housing of all kinds, including market rate housing. That is where YIMBYs and progressives disagree.

Separately, developers are already required to build a certain number of affordable housing units in every development.

If you require developers to build units that are mostly or solely composed of affordable housing, those developers will not earn enough money to make it worth building the units in the first place. This leads to progressives holding up all kinds of development with endless planning meetings and environmental impact assessments. The result is no housing gets built - no affordable housing, no market-rate housing. They allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good.

We need to work with developers to build housing units of all kinds, including affordable housing, rather than demonizing the very developers who are going to end up building those affordable housing developments that I think we all want.
Is it possible to buy tape drives in the 2nd hand market for a reasonable price?
I mean there is mass surveillance of basically all communication.
This comment seems to have no connection whatsoever with MMT. Saying that "this is a possible thing that can happen if you model a system this way" is hardly the same as "this is an inevitable conclusion and the moral imperative of this model."
The sentence quoted is for the first example in the post, not the iPhone timer.

That’s most likely what it does indeed, much more elegant than keeping track of the extra 500ms.
Where to put React state (diagram)
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't momentum a well-known and fairly tried-and-tested strategy, and hasn't it greatly outperformed value over the past decade or two?

If that was true everyone would be doing it, and then the advantage would go away.

In short: if you think there's a "tried-and-tested strategy" that outperforms over anything but the short-term, then you either reject the efficient markets hypothesis--which would be pretty remarkable--or you don't understand it.
Last I looked into this, if you had a lot of data to back up (Say 1 Gbyte per second, continuous, with a retention time of 1 year), it was still far cheaper to simply use hard drives. One employee can keep up with all drive replacements, hardware setup, etc with time to spare. Drives aren't super power hungry, so any old office building is suitable. Encrypt the drive contents on another site so you don't need 24/7 security. Total system cost was sub $1M with a running cost of $500k/year and storage of 50PB. Bargain.

Now that GDPR applies, most companies need to rewrite backups every 30 days anyway to remove data where a GDPR deletion request applies. That tips the scale further in the direction of always spinning hard drives. Just hook up 64 drives to each machine, make sure you only do streaming writes of 1Gb+ files, do some ZFS raid-like scheme, and away you go.
After 2016 election the MSM stated that all states were literally hacked by Russian hackers. And several outlets did investigative journalism on how easy it was to hack the election machines. Also the DNC servers. After millions spent on investigation the best they could do was 'influence' from some miserable facebook ads. But there was very clear allegations of hacking, with mysterious and secret evidence of Russians and Putin himself involved, as there always is...

The distinction you're saying appeared in the MSM only after Biden win. Together with claims that all USA elections were beyond reproach, and that this was the most secure election ever, to cast Trump allegations of fraud as fantasy. Not one month later we have SolarWinds. After all the entire government was compromised all along.

This would be a great plot for a movie.
You removed the "were neglected" part of the line you quoted as if it isn't important. Old people dying because they're old is sadly inevitable. Old people dying because they're neglected is not, and when it happens it's due to an infrastructure, tech or social failure. That can be addressed.
That was also my biggest problem with this article. Take Calvin and Hobbes—definitely Calvin lives in a suburban environment, but he also has plenty of nature nearby. Would the author consider this rural then? I don’t know, but I don’t think it was.
It's not really better at all, considering we have much, much better alternatives already available. The land use issue is massive.
If you don't regularly download these files, Backlaze B2 seems to be the cheapest way to store backups.
I would argue that none of these things are complex systems, in the systems theory sense. A complex system is typically comprised of a network of casual relationships so deeply interconnected that its behaviour is not easily reducible (in the scientific sense of isolating individual behaviours to be examined). Human designs intentionally avoid this and instead strive for mostly linear causality, precisely so we can test and develop individual parts in isolation.

For an example of a complex system (and how unintelligible they are), see this diagram of metabolic pathways in the human body: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/content/dam/sigma-aldrich/artic...
You can't have kids when you are in your 20s if you are a man who cannot find a woman willing to date you who also wants to have kids while you are in your 20s.

The bottleneck is the same as it is for any issue regarding children.

The prospective mother must be willing.
> Please define “massively” for us. It sounds like you were eating larks tongue in aspic and are now buying year-old potatoes at the Latvian coop. Remember, some in an international audience may have done just that at some point. Is that what happened?

Whoops, my bad!

Due to the step nature of purchasing food, the break even points change depending on exactly which meals we're talking about dining out for. The more you eat out, the higher the cost per home cooked meals due to loss of economy of scale and spoilage.

My wife, the keeper of the budgets, calculated that the break even point for work lunches was $11 a lunch. This is doable, but it basically means relegating yourself to low end fast food. In the area where I lived (Southern California) that put even Chipotle out of reach for my preferred configuration. There are certainly places that can reliably deliver 800 calories for less, but that'll cost you in the long run in different ways.

> Wonder if a functional kitchen should be thought of as an expense-management device. No matter what the financial situation, in the US without a kitchen you can always find something to eat to keep body and soul together, but with a functional kitchen you can always eat something both tasty and healthy (if you can cook).

I think that's a pretty good way to think about it. As GP has pointed out you do need to purchase an actual kitchen too, but I think that the cost is fairly marginal compared to buying a home in most markets.

> You can choose to cook if you have the cash; you may need to do that if you don’t. The fact that you always can is a very consoling fact in rough economic times.

If one wants true consolation in rough economic times, buy a chest freezer. Nothing provides emotional security like a hundred pounds of meat and vegetables frozen in the garage.
> This is exactly the same like saying ..

No it's not.

Shadows are harder to notice on black skin for example.

And it's important to improve the tech and try to make it work fine for everyone

But then you'll need to first realize that by default the tech is sometimes going to be broken for a group of people.

Otherwise how can you be aware about that there's a problem to solve.
I don't think you're wrong. There's easy parts (ie. publicly traded equities) and hard parts (eg. art collections).

I've been skeptical of skepticism (lol) of the wealth tax mostly because the easy parts dominate the hard parts. Most wealth is in the easily identifiable areas (ie. equities and property) not the hard areas. Even with private companies like some startup, surely the shares have some known valuation right?

My point is though that we've already built a bureaucratic apparatus to evaluate wealth in our property assessment system so surely it's possible to extend this.

A possible implementation would be to mostly ignore the "hard" sectors of wealth (eg. car collections/art collections) or do random audits of the tricky parts just to keep people honest.
You can write bad code in any language if you try hard enough. No one should use lazyio (or any library) for important work without checking the code or at least the docs to see if the code is intentionally bad (and renaming "unsafeInterleaveIO" to "lazyIO.InterleaveIO" is intentionally bad).

One of Haskell's known weaknesses is that there are no curated catalogs of high quality libraries. The industrial strength stuff sits on package servers alongside the broken toys.

I once got an apology from a major luminary in Haskell, author of dozens of high quality packages, because I used a package he wrote that turned out to be an abandoned broken experiment, but not documented as such.