skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for clarifying.

The term is very easily confused, to state the obvious.

In my opinion, I think it would be better to avoid it. I'm sorry if one negative meaning deprives people of the joy of using a nicer one, but such is the nature of language.
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> Surely there must a technical trail to investigate.

The probably is, but I'm guessing the really definitive records would probably require a subpoena to obtain (e.g. business records of the domain registrar or hosting company).
That does explain a lot. The music and artstyle definitely have the demoscene look to them. Also explains why the music took the center stage in terms of sound design.
Roosevelt? He’s like audio antidepressants.
This, just realized that post was dated Feb 2020 not Feb 2021.
> Is it that hard to say “we think wages among the working class are too high so the central bank depreciates the currency”?

No, that’s easy to say, but that's not what they are saying, which is substantially more nuanced.

What they are saying is more “there are times when demand drops within one or more sectors of the economy, such that production with wages in that sector at their pre-decline levels would not be sustainable. The result is either moderate cuts to real wages or cuts to production that cut jobs with much larger ripple effects throughout the economy.

“Because nominal wages are sticky against downward adjustment, in the absence of inflation, the result tends to be job cuts with the immediate effect of unemployment plus the ripple effects that unemployment and the associated production cut entails. With moderate inflation, real wages in the effected sectors can be cut modestly without cutting nominal wages, avoiding productivity/job cuts and minimizing ripple effects. This has much more modest effects outside of the target sector, and avoids the worst effects (job losses) in the target sector.

“Also, easy money policies can sometimes avoid the demand drops leading to the choice between real wage cuts and productivity cuts in the first place, short-circuiting the problem instead of merely mitigating it's effects.”
Given that many of these only have three wheels and to my knowledge regulation on “cars” only applies if the vehicle has four wheels- I wonder why these aren’t available in the USA at the same time.
This is something I realized recently. I am in India and the number of small manufacturers who are making electric people movers is very high.

These are not high speed vehicles, they are below 40 KM/h speed as I see them, but the big shift is that hundreds of small companies around India are producing and maintaining small electric vehicles, mostly locally. The drivers charge them at home at night or during longer lunch breaks.

Surely one can say India has had these many companies making the foot Richshaw or body parts or other commercial ICE vehicles. But there is a big difference that lighter people moving EVs bring to the roads or intra-city transport. They are silent, do not pollute on the roads and most importantly, I think these companies will continue to integrate better motors and parts to build many people/goods moving EVs in the next decade.

What I conclude is that EV revolution is going to be way more democratized than we realize.
Two things to watch out for in planting.

A strong reason to favor native cultivars is that the bred versions are bred for their appearance to humans. They are often sterile and devoid of nutrition or not attractive to the pollinaotrs, perhaps not quite as bad as paving the lot, but not a lot better.

Be very careful of the use of systemic pesticides. They are great (for some values of 'great') for keeping the nursery plants free of insect damage. They also reliably kill the insects that we want (i.e., NEED) to foster. Best option is grow your own from seed, or find nurseries that do not use systemic or persistent pesticides.

And yes - go to Xerces society to learn a LOT more!
This just reminds me of how we ship meat from the US to China for processing and then back, then slap "US Raised" on it to avoid suspicion.
> Ah you get it. That's the idea. Buy gold if you want, I don't care, but money is an intermediary, not a long-term store of value.

Only because the wealthy benefit from depreciating currency. It doesn’t have to be this way, and it is this way because of policy that is designed to benefit the ultra-wealthy.

> They're paying you less value so it's a decrease. You're tripping yourself up focusing on units.

They’re paying the same, but the units depreciated because the oligarchs want workers’ wages to go down.

> If you treat it as one you'll have a bad time. Just like if you treated your horse as a boat.

Or treat a savings account as a savings account.
a LOT of energy is required to fly supersonic- IMO the energy storage side (battery and/or hydrogen fuel cell) has a long way to go to make supersonic flight remotely feasible.
Mind explaining more to someone who has never heard of this?
Clearly needed to use a jump machine.
And to think Nintendo wants these to end up in a landfill.

Imagine if jailbreaking video game consoles (that is, modifying hardware that you own however you want), were actually legal. Old consoles like these could continue to provide value to owners via competing app stores, free and open source apps/games, cool hardware features like the OP, etc. All of that could happen without infringing on Nintendo's rights, or requiring them to do anything in any way.

But the DMCA doesn't allow it.
Sure [0], [1], [2], [3] can give you a hint at the keywords to search for. "Taxonomic impediment" is often used, it will let you dig deeper (though I don't like the term for various reasons). The topic has been raised for decades. I was part of the NSF program PEET [4], my peers and I got the best training in the world. Some of us are fortunate enough to good or great jobs in taxonomy. I can think of none that are strictly alpha-taxonomists (their primary research output being species descriptions). For example, if you did a PhD that was an epic 500 page monograph of the description of 100+ new species and covered 400 species total referencing science and specimens dating back up to 250 years, you wouldn't be a prof now. If you did a diverse, but necessarily less comprehensive PhD on a bunch of topics, maybe a couple new species, maybe a little molecular phylogeny, perhaps a database, a little of this, a little of that, and some of it was very buzzy- you'd have a fighting chance. This isn't really surprising, and I'm not making a real value-judgement on either approach. BTW- the problem is not that we've run out of species to descr

[0](https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/61/12/942/390232)
[1](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/latest-endangered-speci...)
[2](https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...)
[3](https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article-pdf/35/6/729/10346383/j...)
[4](https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5451)
You don't need to be Google scale. Google scale is just "medium large startup" scale replicated across a zillion regions. Gmail has an enormous amount of data behind it, but it's not like calling foo.sort() is going to be iterating over billions of accounts.
What's interesting is that society continues to make the deadly mistake of being hauled around by over-powered, over-sized, gas-guzzling monstrosities while obviously better solutions exist.
Opinel also makes carbon steel blades that rust if not properly maintained. It looks like one of those reviews may have slipped in to the list.
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Yes, but json by itself doesn't actually do anything. It'd always be used in context of javascript/python/ etc.. As I said you could interpret it as a tuple or I guess a frozen array for javascript? I don't think there is a native immmutable array in javascript.

If it's a map I'm a bit more unsure how you'd check to find the object (quickly). You're basically getting into the how to store a struct/class as a map key. Either way its a bit more involved than just having json parser return an immutable array and map, and the more I think about it the more edges cases there are.
If you interested use the Pentel Energel pens rather than Reynolds. I hated Reynolds as a child because of how thin the barrel which used to hurt.

Some of the quick drying waterproof gel pens give similar feel of a fountain pen.
Cities probably should be filled with max 56kph tiny vehicles rather than max 249kph vehicles. Space is limited and standard cars take up a lot of it.
Someone once told me “Take your salary and double it, and that’s your minimum contracting rate”. It seemed impossible to me for years, but ended up working just fine when I finally did it. In fact I more than doubled my salary, and no one really bats an eye. If you have skills people need, they’ll pay.

For what it’s worth I was earning a salary around $110k CAD, and my contract rate (assuming I worked full time) worked out to around $240k CAD. No one has had a problem with it yet (although I went back to a salary position since then - I have kids and contracting was hard to organize around family and the pandemic).
That is not a statement about policies, it is a statement of historical fact about electrical-supply grids in general. What part of that statement do you disagree with?
Sure you can have the entire worlds information and entertainment at your fingertips with a $50 smartphone, but if you can't afford to have a roof over your head I'd argue the smartphone is irrelevant.

I don't think we should be including basic necessities alongside improvements in entertainment in the same statistic, because it will just hide problems.
“ If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done”
None of those tweets point to anything close to a "profound abortion of an idea" - in fact, I think these are almost supporting the claim. "we could do BitCoin right" and "it fails as a cypherpunk protocol" could be simple self-critiques or misdirections or even sly jokes. Saying bitcoin has an inflated value also doesn't mean this person didn't create it. Didn't Elon just recently say Tesla is way overvalued?

The Unix vs Windows argument is pretty silly. And as mentioned in other comments, the 2014 email is generally regarded as not legitimate.
This comment is off the mark. You are conflating comments with extensibility. They are very different.
These might work in a regulatory black hole in China, but they won't anywhere in the West. Smart has had a small electric car for sale for nearly a decade and you never see them around.

Maybe when the alternative is a scooter an electric golf cart is a step-up, but the electric scooter market isn't exactly throthy in the West.

Electric cars aren't that popular because the range is still mediocre for entry level ($25-$30K) cars, the charging rate is simply too much of a stepdown vs. topping up on gas, and there's no good crossover/small SUV offering.
> Only because the wealthy benefit from depreciating currency

Source this claim. Everyone benefits from a depreciating currency because inflation provides a buffer against deflationary spirals that lead to large recessions and job losses for people of all classes. Tell me exactly how inflation benefits only the ultra-wealthy and not anyone else.

> because the oligarchs want workers’ wages to go down.

I would suggest that you clarify this claim so it does not sound so much like a conspiracy theory.
I’ve had a few but not a lot. About as many as I’d expect with new hardware and software.
> What's your point.

Should be obvious from the discussion, especially for someone who “knows quite a bit” about the subject.

> Hi yes I know quite a bit about sticky wages and inflation.

Then why did you ask me for a source for a statement that is well understood among anyone who has studied the subject? Krugman’s statements to this effect are so well-known as to have been written about in other publications.

Back to the original statement: Is it that hard to say “we think wages among the working class are too high so the central bank depreciates the currency”? well is it?
Yes but the problem there is not that your list is backed by a linked list or an array, it's that every single value is boxed and needs dereferencing. The difference between no hops and one hop totally trumps one hop vs two hops.
Warning: just started investing. I don't know all that much. The popularity of spacs is because actual speculation being hard. I just do not know whether Unilever or another established company will make a bigger profit next year. Unless you have really specialized knowledge you don't know that and have little chance of predicting it. But I do know often exciting new companies go up in the months after it gets listed. Being on this forum for long taught me that much. So now that I have started investing, that's what I'm gambling on. Whether a company goes public through spac, direct listing or ipo doesn't matter so much. Spacs make it easier for me to get in early when things are still speculative, institutions haven't bought yet and not everything is already priced in. There are also many to choose from and of some it is already out what they will merge with. There are good resources to get a feel for the spac landscape. I hope this strategy will make me some money while putting my capital to work at the forefront of societal change. I'm liking spacs a lot more than established companies and large cap corps that I'd otherwise try to speculate on have also the downside that they are the reason monkeys beat the index: they don't return as much. So spacs it is.
It's amazing how otherwise brilliant folks get caught up in this anarchocapitalist conspiracy theory mumbo jumbo.

There's a few bits of plumbing in this world you'd do best to familiarize yourself with so you can raise your socioeconomic stature with maximum efficiency, economics is one of them. I only tilt at them because I hope that they'll benefit from an understanding of how these things work in reality.
I'm glad to hear about your Dupixent journey! We're looking forward to getting some. Thanks for the insight on allergy drops.
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The critical part that is playing its role as I understand is that DC motors and batteries are plenty available from decent manufacturers.

Very soon, as I see articles around the web, there will be much better quality motors and batteries available across the country from brands say Yamaha or LG. Making the shell of a vehicle is not hard. ICEs have a ridiculously higher parts count compared to EVs. And not all EVs have to go above 60 KM/h.
That’s only relevant up until you approach the speed of sound. Passenger aircraft are designed to stay subsonic for a host of very good reasons.
Is soy a key driver of deforestation?
>only Facts and in-depth reviews.

and manufacturer propaganda. Tomshardware made somewhat famous burning Athlon video (later revealed they used board with disabled/non functioning thermal cutout) during prime Intel pentium 4 payola timeframe.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hot-spot,365-4.html "AMD did not bless the Thunderbird core with ANY thermal protection whatsoever."

In reality AMD socket certification required thermal cutout, same as Intel for Pentium 3. AMD processors do include thermal diode just like Intel ones.

"Intel's older processor is also equipped with a thermal diode and a thermal monitoring unit"

is a lie. Pentium 3 thermal throttling is performed by the Bios just like in Athlon case. Serendipitously tomshardware picked broken Siemens motherboard for AMD system as recommended by Intel, imagine that.

They published a non-retraction catching Siemens in a lie and showing proper AMD setup safely shutting down. Of course you cant read it because its burried down, excluded from wayback machine and deadlinked http://www.tomshardware.com/column/01q4/011029/index.html

Anandtech wasnt better 20 years ago. They used to publish rave Pentium 3 SSE reviews https://images.anandtech.com/old/cpu/intel-pentium3/Image94.... using a piece of Intel commissioned software as an independent test. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p...
Not sure I understand.

A - we identified species
B - we removed our ability to identify species

A & B therefor

C - we're better off

... doesn't seem to follow. Something is missing.
Various sources cite Ethnologue's figure of 460,000 Spanish speakers in Brazil, which is 0.2% of Brazil's 211m population, so yes, much lower than the 4% figure cited in Wikipedia.

In fact, it seems there are many more German speakers in Brazil (about 4.5m), especially in the southern states.
The EMA cannot prevent a member state from approving vaccines on their own.
That seems like a silly splitting of hairs.

Why stop there? By that logic the recession is not caused by the lockdown but by less businesses being open and reduced consumer spending.
I've had the opportunity of participating on the design phase of an application to control the distribution of ostomy bags for a network of public hospitals. I was a bit shocked when I knew that the decision-makers were about to cut functionality intended to provide workarounds in case of system failures, so that employees could keep delivering bags upon request.

That would basically result on patients not getting their ostomy bags on time, and I can't even imagine what would follow afterwards. What would be the reactions of patients and their relatives, what levels of stress would hospitals' employees would be subjected to, and so on.

I left the company some months after that, and I don't know what was the final decision, but they'd been warned.

Maybe one day some set of ethical standards will be considered non-functional requirements as important as robustness, security and others.

With technicians being responsible for warning their managers, managers being responsible for assessing risks and documenting their decisions, everything being made transparently and everybody being accountable.
I recall reading an article in Aviation Week maybe 30 years ago about turbine blades failing for an unknown reason, and it turned out it had to do with contaminates in the water they were using during engine builds or some such.
I really should. lOL.

Thing is, I literally just bought this maxed out i9 less than a year ago and it works perfectly!
They must be lonely.
Benchmark of WebAssembly Runtimes
Igor Bentsen[1] was my neighbor. My kids like to play on the dilapidated old prototype autogyro [2] in his old backyard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bensen_Aircraft?wprov=sfti1

[2] https://imgur.com/gallery/MlJSqYK
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> Only because the wealthy benefit from depreciating currency. It doesn’t have to be this way, and it is this way because of policy that is designed to benefit the ultra-wealthy.

Do they? Generally inflation benefits debtors and not lenders, because debts are denominated in dollars in the year of issue, and repaid in future dollars, which are worth 2% less per year. Overwhelmingly poor and middle class folks are debtors (think mortgages). Mortgages have become more and more affordable each year. This means folks can afford more and more house for the same money, after all the bulk of the payment of a 30 year fixed is interest for the first 10+ years.

And sure enough, new homes are twice as large as they used to be.

> They’re paying the same, but the units depreciated because the oligarchs want workers’ wages to go down.

Yeah but at the end of that day that's irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what those units represent. If I gave you 5 today and 3 tomorrow does that mean anything? Or course not. 5 what and 3 what? That's what we're talking about

> Or treat a savings account as a savings account.

Totally, they offset about half of inflation because they collateralize loans. With interest rates this low, loan collateralization isn't a big value driver, so it doesn't pay much.

It's your responsibility in a capitalist society to allocate capital most productively and so if this particular allocation isn't the most productive, your job is to go find a different allocation, or to pay the inflation premium. Nobody's ever been entitled to a risk-free return in a savings account.

Money isn't a long-term store of value, it never was, and if you insist on jamming it into a round hole, you've failed to understand one of the most basic premises of modern society.
Nobody has mentioned this, but Alive 1997 is the perfect work album/session/set, whenever I need to produce a “pomodoro” I play that album.
> Source this claim.

Asset price inflation vs depreciation of debt in real terms. Wealthy people hold assets that are valued in currency. Depreciating currency causes those assets to go up in nominal terms, and additionally depreciating currency causes a flight to assets. Wealthy people (by definition) have more assets than non-wealthy people, hence this flight from currency to assets bids up the prices of assets.

> Everyone benefits from a depreciating currency, because inflation provides a buffer against deflationary spirals that lead to large recessions.

Thats a theory-laden and motivated explanation. Surely you can do better than just argument by assertion?

> Tell me exactly how inflation benefits only the ultra-wealthy and not anyone else.

Thats not my claim.

> I would suggest that you clarify this claim so it does not sound so much like a conspiracy theory.

I suggest you do your own research and discover that the central bank is very much fact and not at all theory.
Also, what would happen if the Miami economy hadn't had been experiencing a boom in cocaine industry during the same time period?
Heh, my father was a designer of the A-12 Archangel, and he always called them "Pratt & Whisky"
It is strange, but I think it makes sense culturally. HN grew out of that particular libertarian, anti-establishment "hacker" subculture, where it is very common to believe that the government and etc. is out to screw you. Rather than like, the government is also made up of people, the same kind of smart, educated people that might otherwise have worked at your startup, and the reason most of them chose to go into government is because they think that problems like macroeconomics and public finance and etc. are interesting.

But no, us tech dweebs are the righteous little guys fighting back against the rigged system, man!
I find it hard to actually understand what the point of understanding what we talk about when understanding.
> Only because the wealthy benefit from depreciating currency.

Net debtors benefit from a depreciating currency, in first order effects. Beyond first order effects, a currency with gradual depreciation but low volatility benefits everyone. As everyone includes the rich, it is true that they benefit, but not especially true.

> the units depreciated because the oligarchs want workers’ wages to go down.

The alternative is not “employment at the same wages” when demand drops, it's “production cuts and unemployment, resulting in larger second order demand drop, resulting in more production cuts and unemployment, etc.” That this is generally worse for everyone including the working class, both as a whole and even many of the workers in the sector seeing the initial demand drop should be pretty easy to see.