skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gulf between U.S. and Japanese homicide rates is so high that it's a farce to suggest a hypothetical distortion of real occurrences would in any way be meaningful, notwithstanding that there is zero evidence it's not accurate in the first place.

> So, I'm not sure that you can really say that Japan's criminal justice system is an example of "strict punishment" either.

You can depending on the nature of the crime.
This alone might convince me to start using fish again. Thanks for the tip!
They probably don't sell these in retail and I didn't feel like waiting a month to get one shipped from China.
New York requires annual car inspections that include emissions testing as well as a basic safety check (tires, brakes, head/signal/brake lights, horn, fluids, and a few other things). They "only" cost $20 but they put a color coded sticker on your windshield that is easily seen by passing cops, who will pull you over if you have the wrong color. Getting the inspection done is a bit of a pain in the ass, too, as because at least for me it would usually require taking at least an hour off of work to drive the car to a garage who could do it. And the garages seemed to often run out of inspection stickers, as they're provided by the state and only allot so many to each garage that does inspections. It was kind of a nightmare in its own way.

And if your car failed inspection, you were obligated to fix it, of course. I knew a lot of people who would postpone the inspection as long as possible and hope they didn't get pulled over. When I was pretty poor I had a car that frequently had its check engine light on (an instant fail for the inspections). It was cheaper to buy an OBD reader online that could reset the check engine light long enough to get the inspection done than it was to fix the problem.

When I moved to Georgia which only does the emissions test (and only in the Atlanta area counties), I was surprised by how quick it was. Perhaps coincidentally, I see many orders of magnitude more cars engulfed in flames on the roads in metro Atlanta than I ever did in New York.
Thank you, I think that's very useful historical context. Yes Malthus had useful and valuable insights, but also yes we have since discovered mechanisms and processes that can largely mitigate these risks which he could not have foreseen.
Yeah - this is a much bigger problem with Bitcoin than the analysis of use cases, energy consumption of technicals:

The primary incentive structure of Bitcoin is to incentivize holders to discredit anything but bullish information.

I.e. Bitcoin’s real danger is the cognitive bias it creates in the minds of the holders.
Technically you could get a Raspberry Pi at https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi for £7.25 per month but I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind. It's not exactly a server and it's not going to win any prizes for performance.
It sounds like you are talking about Caramel[1].

As far as I understand its serious enough but quite young.

[1]https://caramel.run/manual/
like graphviz does
So, everyone sitting in a parking lot while their SO does some shopping and their phone charging has voided the warranty?
Gas and insurance alone can easily hit 300 of you drive enough. Say you keep it at 200, 100$ a month to fix minor things isn't unreasonable. But that assumes you bought a car cash, from my experience people tend to finance cars just because they can't get three or four thousand dollars together at one time. Then you're paying $400 a month
Perhaps you misinterpreted 'coming online'?

The statement refers to NEW energy generation, with the implication that renewable/green energy sources will eventually outpace fossil fuels as old plants are decommissioned and alternatives come online for baseload (batteries/other storage).
What if one file was written by a malicious program?
They just look like constraints of a less sophisticated production process.
A very long article with no real information. Why did they even decide to publish this weird thing?
This might narrowly be true if your definition of engine excludes other ICE-only components like the transmission or radiator (which is technically correct in specialist discussion but not general usage). The most common non-crash explanation I’ve heard people cite for turning cars into write-offs with is a blown head gasket, so I’m not sure about your thesis in general, and it’s certainly not something an electric car owner needs to worry about along with a slew of other cost/complexity increases specific to ICEs.
They should have use

> This is Our Last Cry Before Our Eternal Silence

https://infostory.com/2012/01/31/this-is-our-last-cry-before...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1352692104707919872.html
I don't know how you can look at this and tell me that our system is efficient, stable, non-parasitical, rational, less wasteful...

It will interesting to consider the effect of randomness on our minds in the coming decades. It has always been possible to become wealthy through luck, but in this current context it has intensified to a different level altogether. Every minute you spend doing something else could have been the minute that would have let you discover the next get-rich-quick bullshit/random fluctuation/new bubble/new craze etc. Hard work over long periods of time can be rendered meaningless in an instant. Creating actual value to be rewarded by a small quantity of inflation-prone currency each month is a sucker's game in comparison.
Does the control format have an official spec? I too have had to resort to parsing those files with regexes.
True. People never cease to underestimate the value of capturing people's attention. Strange considering that attention is the only thing which gives these things any value at all in the first place.
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It would seem that an important part of the "market" is missing, namely the ability of consumers to respond to price signals. If every customer could set a maximum price and automatically be cut off when the price goes higher then the load shedding would be automatic, with the available power going to those willing to pay more, presumably because they need it more or can afford it.
Do not invest in proprietary services. This is why.
wasm3 is slow for a reason actually. Its meant for IoT devices rather than full fledged PCs
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Counterpoint: I just upgraded a small fleet of drives to 16GB models because that was the optimal price/GB after checking a multitude of supply channels (at least at 7200 RPM).

My last upgrade was to 4TB and I've no doubt my next in a few years will be to 64 (though might be a different technology eg. SSD if the relative economics change).
I wonder if the availability of stuff has informed the price inflation of housing.

What else do people have in their lives that they can bid up with whatever money they have left over from other concerns?
AMD GPUs are better than Nvidia for that - they had async compute way longer. I thought the problem was CUDA lock-in and lack of a nice programming model using something modern like Rust may be.
Is this good ol' Shlemiel the painter (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics/) rearing his lovable-but-sometimes-a-little-bit-empty head again?
No large coastal city will become flooded on a permanent basis. Building levees is just too easy and cheap relative to cost of giving up on a city, just ask medieval Dutchmen. By the way, the scientific consensus for predicted sea level rise in the worst temperature growth scenario is still less than 1 meter by 2100. That’s less than the difference between low and high tide. Some areas will get flooded (eg large parts of Florida Everglades), but 1 meter is really not a big deal.

Similarly, there is no reason to be very concerned about crops: we already are able to grow crops in a very wide variety of climates, and we have cultivars specially selected for local climate conditions. While climate change is very fast on geological scale, it’s rather slow on human scale, which gives us plenty of time to adjust our crops and farming patterns.

This is the biggest reason why climate change is not an existential threat: we are not going to sit on our thumbs, and watch the steamroller slowly ride over us, at speed of 1 cm per day. That’s not going to happen: mitigating the problems associated with climate change is rather simple, relative to other problems our societies solve on a regular basis, and we have a lot of time for it.
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> you're putting a lot of meaning into what you admit is an assumption

Can you suggest another interpretation? It's a point about representing a number, and is not a point about arithmetic, so I'm not seeing what else it could mean.

Either way we're agreed that it wants reworking. Technical documentation should not be incorrect, as I believe it to be, and it should not be ambiguous, as you believe it to be.

> Who said arbitrary?

Look at what I was responding to: After 2^53 - 1 you get incorrect results when dealing with integers, making the results not "reliable". That's not very precise, as dealing with might refer to the problem of exactly representing the integer values in the Number type, or it might refer to the problem of doing arithmetic with those values and getting exact results.

To rephrase my point: with the exception of 0, there is no Number value x such that, for all integer Number values y, the integer x + y can be represented exactly as a Number. It's not 'safe' to compute Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER + 1 despite that both terms are 'safe' integers.

Which is to say, we need to be clear that we're reasoning about the problem of exactly representing integer values in the Number type.

> The natural numbers are canonically represented by a successor function, denoted S(n). So we're talking about the highest natural that can be represented as such.

I don't see your point here. I've already discussed the difference between Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER and the much greater integer Number.MAX_VALUE.
screw this shit
> So no, BTC does not solve any problems at all.

If you define the problems away, certainly!

But look at the logical coordination: your point #2 depends on point #1 being true. Remove the belief in monetary policy and it all falls into place.

> the panic to fixed currency will shut everything down

It's an opinion. Lots of people think the deflationary incentives built in are bad for the economy. Another alternative view is to look at all the busywork (extraction and wastage of resource) that happens because of our current system: far fewer turkeys will be allowed to fly with a crypto that just can't be inflated.

You may still argue for expansation during demand crisis (another opinion). A government could still obey Keynesian prescriptions with BTC as the world currency: however, it would have to balance things out by building tax revenue during happy years, to spend it away on sad years - with a hard limit.

That "small detail" of an hard limit will certainly change a lot of things: the government will have to tax/steal/confiscate what it can't wish into existence (or print).

It doesn't change much in practice, but it will be quite fun to watch! I think it will be the end of social democracy!

> And of course, there is no institution that we trust, internationally.

... now let me tell you about trustless and crypto :)
$0 :)
This is really simple but edge from 6 to 1 should not cross node 4 in the visualization. Also it would be useful to show how to escape or if escaping works at all: how to escape ":" or "(1)"? multiline?
This is an awesome write-up.

I am not rich. I have never been rich, and it's likely that I never will be, but this:

> At the same time, I’m mostly happy. I have a wonderful wife who is very satisfying to be near, two kids who are about as custom-fit to my personality as possible, and dozens of friends online and off who would take a bullet for me, and vice versa.

describes my life pretty well.

I have lived low on the hog for almost my entire life, and that allowed me to save up enough, so that I can live in a fashion that is comfortable to me, while I do the kind of work I love (the kind that could make other people millions, but not so much for me). I just love doing this stuff. I'm living the dream (which I once described as "My dream is to one day, work for free").

I also grew up overseas (mostly Africa), and know what real poverty is like. It has had a huge effect on my outlook.

And, for my entire adult life, I have worked intimately with people that are on the shit end of the stick. I am constantly hearing (and seeing) what living rough is like.

Helps me to stay grateful.
Just struck me as odd. I'd seen where people came back later and answered their own question, but never like this.

Live and learn.
> do you want to try a new standard that you don’t known if it will be obsolete in a couple of years

Some incarnation of oneAPI is bound to exist as long as Intel has a foothold in the HPC market. For example, MKL and MKL-DNN have been rebranded with a oneAPI prefix. So no, the long term stability argument doesn't hold water.

I'd also note that they appear to have added support for cuBLAS and cuDNN as backends in their respective oneAPI libraries. It would be hilarious if that lead to more people running oneAPI on non-Intel hardware than first party stuff.
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I've been "counting couch change for food" poor and "maybe I can retire early" rich and the thing that strikes me the most about both is how many facets of society are geared to punish the poor.

Your car broke down on the side of the road and you needed a week to get the money to fix it? Now you have a fine and an exorbitant ransom on your vehicle from a towing company.

Your employer made a mistake with your paycheck and it didn't arrive on time? Cool, now you have an overdraft fee, a bounced check fee and late fees for every monthly payment that hit at the wrong time. There goes your paycheck.

You need a loan for a car to get to work? No problem, you'll just need to pay 21% interest and insane late fees if you miss a payment.

You need to buy boots for work? Payless has $10 boots but they'll only last a few months, so you can rebuy them 5 times a year or maybe just destroy your feet instead.

Meanwhile, my insurance company will tow my car for free, I have a buffer in the bank such that nothing could possibly bounce and even if it did they would forgive me, I have a 5 year, zero interest rate loan on my car, points back on credit cards for buying things I'd buy anyway, free money for getting a new credit card or bank account, etc...
looks cool and easy, like it
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$1200 a year insurance? Seems a huge amount! Is this one of those things where it's for some reason more expensive for poor people?
But we do have just airplanes that are 100% reusable. So far, Rocket Lab only talks about reusing the first stage; second-stage reuse is hard, and a huge cost savings.

But maybe until Starship gets the launch rate to reach its potential, there's room for smaller rockets with disposable upper stages. SpaceX is banking on the space industry expanding well beyond megaconstellations, but that will take a few years. By the time we get there, maybe other companies will manage reusable upper stages too.
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As laid out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298300, it doesn't call strlen(); and it isn't 256 bytes. Moreover that use case is not the use cases at hand, which are people parsing 10MiB of JSON and 504KiB of YAML with parsers that are not calling sscanf() just once.

MUSL, with the same implementation strategy of nonce FILE objects, ends up performing multiple passes over those big input strings, once to look for NUL and a second time to pull each character out one by one. And it's doing those multiple passes multiple times, as it sets up and tears down the nonce FILE object each call to sscanf(), meaning that it's scanning the same parts of the string for NUL over and over again as it repeats the same buffer fill(s) from the input string a few characters further on. As I said before, it's not entirely free of this behaviour. With the other implementation strategy, in contrast, there's only a single pass over the whole input string, even with those multiple calls to sscanf().
When the past is as murky as the future, there is little reason to distinguish between the two.
Fine might not be the right term: there definitely are people okay with the risk, especially given how much faster they’ll get to their destination, but given how much more expensive cars are there’s also a financial push to take a possible risk over certain financial stress.
>even when backed by battery storage
We have seconds of grid battery storage in the US.

>Solar and wind are the cheapest electrical generation technologies
What do you think happens 90% of the time when solar & wind are not available in sufficient capacity? People shut off their lights, laundry machine, and heater/air conditioning?
Is this source properly separating BTC purchase transactions with trading transactions? Because if not they'd be way overstating BTC velocity.
This seems really nice as a sketchpad for small flowcharts. I'd definitely use it to map out a small piece of work, because I'm terrible at laying out flowcharts on scrap paper without wasting space or painting myself into a corner.

One minor annoyance: I can't use tab/shift+tab to indent or dedent lines.
Would being forced to choose between a car that doesn't have government permission to drive and paying way more than market value for something that does from a BHPH lot make the situation of the person you're replying to better?

Also what he described is pretty out there even by poor person standards. What you usually see is people failing inspection for rust holes in non-structural areas, cracked light lenses, leaky exhausts and non-functional evaporation emissions systems.

In my experience: Lightbulbs are cheap and get fixed. Driving with bald tires sucks and people do get them replaced when they are showing cords. Brakes are important cheap enough and get fixed (helps that pretty much any shade tree mechanic will do them for parts plus a few bucks). People need to get to work. They don't try to put stuff off until payday because they like driving a car that might fail on them.
I remember my use of AIM fading through college. It being used through the message app on Mac made the experience of it going away pretty seemless. I use my text messages through essentially the same application, so in a way it still feels current
I can appreciate the sentiment of books like that, however reality isn't that ...fair.

For any one "millionaire next door" who made it by being frugal, many more starve no matter how frugally they live. Many will rise and fall, many more will never even rise above poverty.

I'd like to see the statistics on lifetime well-being between frugality and financial risk-taking†. I'll bet the disparity is shallower than we'd like to believe.

These discussions always interest me, but I'm disappointed by the amount of puritan dogma that usually gets treated as some kind of natural truth. If being poor taught me anything, it's that there is no dogma you can lean on.

† Caveat: the risks being made with a goal to "level-up" (read: escape poverty), rather than blind self-indulgence. Ex—do you max out your credit card (/whatever available leverage) to acquire the tool you need to perform a job in the manner of quality you know can be accomplished with said tool, or do you buy the tool you can "afford" and gradually, over time, work your way up to the "right tool" in this case. In the past, more of the latter may have been possible. These days, I think you're at an even more immense disadvantage by taking that path. Admittedly, my outlook might be too coloured by my own experience. Had I not taken the chances (sometimes enormously painful), I would probably still be trying to squirrel-away $5 bills at a time while working 11 hour warehouse shifts.
Absolutley, I have 3 old iMacs with perfectly good displays that I could only use by running the computers attached to them (via VNC or similar). I would definitely pay 150 bucks like in TFA for a driverboard that would allow me to rip out the Mac-parts and only keep the display...
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Maybe, but the same is true of money, stocks, etc. Attributing insane value to essentially worthless things is a major foundation of the economy.
You left out one of the biggest causes of this. For many people in that 56%, the year they end up in the top 10% is the year their last surviving parent passes away. Inheritance is a big one-time windfall for many people.

The other misleading thing is it looks at 44 years of longitudinal data, and doesn't make corrections for differences between the early years and later years. Income has become more polar in the last 40 years, so the current numbers are a fair bit worse than the average numbers of the last 4.4 decades.
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Was this an old lead acid battery (I ask because you say "when you were a kid")? That was more common in ones where they were not sealed, and you had to add water to it occasionally. Modern lead acid ones are completely sealed, and should not have that issue.