skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious about the source of those numbers.

Anyhow, I can really say that I have a problem with finance. It's often equating people to numbers, and it's hard to de-obfuscate what is really happening. I don't dislike money as a medium, but I don't like how it seems so opaque and complex, and how it becomes difficult to understand how food/housing/clothing/transport really works at a large scale for a normal citizen.

I'm 35, I love math, and last year I learned that a 5% mortgage of 150000 euros over about 15 years would cost around 85000 euros. It feels so crazy to learn something like that so late in life.

When climate problems kick in, that's where financial complexity seems impossible for me to understand.
For the UK I always found this presentation interesting https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-55...

It indicates that the previous decade tended to have higher interest rates compared to the past few years.

The table shows 2007 vs 2017 that mortgages as a percentage of disposable income have generally went down.

IIRC there is a strong correlation with higher household debt and areas with higher housing prices relative to income. The UK government do release quite detailed statistics by region for those who are interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

Here's a video of Ray Dalio explaining inflation-deflation and some other basic economic principles. The process explained in the video is the reason why you can never have a real economy running on Bitcoin.
Exactly what I've become over the past 5 years. I only let myself to eat meat as a treat, in a very good restaurant at least.

I grew up in a culture that is completely meat-centric (Brazil) and I moved to Sweden some 5-6 years ago, vegetarian and vegan options here are plenty and somewhat tasty. It's been pretty easy to cut down my meat consumption to zero on a day-to-day basis and save meat for special occasions.
It appears that the cancel-vultures were already circling Gina for her stance on biological gender in women's sports. So there's another tricky definition of "family-oriented", where either side could claim differing interpretations.

What ostensibly had her canceled was her observation about that other regressive time where intolerance of differences was normalized.

For myself I don't think Giuliani should be deleted from Youtube, Carano from Disney, or anyone else for that matter. It is also worth noting that CGTN is still on YouTube, Twitter is still listing various CCP accounts under "promoted followers". "Travel to Xinjiang", is suggested to me. Content whitewashing human rights abuses is fine for Twitter. Farrakhan, Khomeini and a host of other anti-semetic, holocaust denying voices are still present on that platform.

Ultimately the both-sides argument, "Therefore you must also censor Cenk Uygur", just reinforces a platform's moral authority in censorship. Claims of hypocrisy should be used in favor of open discussion instead.

I don't think canceling these people refutes their ideas as effectively as an open debate. For the average western person Khomeini's blatant falsehoods can easily be countered with establishment information, they are no threat.

The question becomes, are the masses of the hard-left unable to mount a suitable response to someone like Carano's critiques of their excesses, and therefore intolerance, cancelling becomes the only remaining option?

For critics, this becomes an easy snipe.

You'll also notice that the social media space is not dominated by exchanges between thought leaders in the realm of culture or economics. Instead, the champions are politicians or celebs who offer the unnuanced observations one would expect from pop culture.

Pop figures do battle, wage the war of ideas and culture with ineptitude. Cancelling is akin to ejecting them from the arena, perhaps unjustly. Nobody likes the officials when they rule against your team.

For Seuss, I think it is worth noting that he started with and evolved from racial views many would find offensive today. The obvious refrain is that we can't judge the past by the standards of the present. However to that I would add that a single mistake (or a collection of them) doesn't amount to the totality of one's character. Especially when the individual has reformed.
Scientists find three new shark species that glow in the dark
>There's tens of thousands of ETH2 validators live today.

Over 100,000 as of a few days ago!
The title should have been: "My definition of SemVer will not save you."
High-res digital video has been available to the multicopter community for a long time now through https://www.dji.com/fpv. First released by DJI, later the technology was licensed to others (at least the camera / VTX side of the electronics), se for example caddex vista / nebula (https://caddxfpv.com/collections/dji-1).
> The cow wouldn't even exist if it weren't useful to us.

I hate this argument so much.

For a start, animals are perfectly capable of breeding on their own. They don't need you. You are not their god.

Who is pretending they are something they are not? They are sentient beings whether you like it or not. You might think you are superior, but your cat and your dog are certainly not.

And who says that being alive is good? They're born into captivity, without a chance and many of them tortured for their entire life. But that's OK, because at least they got to live?
I know the answers, but can't really drive my attention. So I might say that I am a train occasionally... But then I'm able to correct myself sometimes!

(All of this is absolutely out of my memory, you have to trust my girlfriend)
It’s not an exact analogy, that’s for sure.

Maybe I could save it by asking where am I likely to get a better quality burger: the place that charges me $5 a week just for burgers, or the one that charges me only $4 a week AND I get a whole lot of other stuff I don’t like but could still consume
This is one more of those "software engineer tries to apply algorithmic thinking to law and gets ridiculous results" situations.

If you continue to be patient and repeat that humanity doesn't function according to algorithms, they'll eventually get the message or get bored and leave to work on the next disruption.
Drinking coffee on an empty stomach can damage the lining of the stomach and cause indigestion and heartburn and also negatively affect your blood sugar levels and ultimately increase your risk of heart disease and diabetes
source: https://knovhov.com/drink-coffee-on-empty-stomach/
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I was just considering inflation that people see "on the street".

By including M1, aren't you including fractional banking? If that is so, if bitcoin became "standard currency", banks would just fractionally bank bitcoin.
Why not use an opensource vector search engine/database like Milvus? https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus
It's probably one of the most popular solution now.
well, yeah. All of the opencl implementations were (and probably still are) awful. Other than requiring a lot of boilerplate, I found it adequate, essentially a clone of the the CUDA C driver API.

opencl 2 went into the weeds going full c++, but that all got rolled back with version 3.
There's a chance for everything.

Nevertheless I find it much more likely that we really see a case of zoonosis here, given the fact that Chinese food culture has "little respect" for anything.

Also: If this came from an institute for virology, that must be the WORST of its kind of all times. That is making mistakes on the Resident Evil level.
Play some games, get some hobbies.

Don't get too old before you get to truly enjoy something in life that isn't obvious like having a job and meeting people, because you will likely not have both when you get old. Your kids will be busy adults and you'll be retired.
The big difference is that you can say President USA is this and that and nothing will happen to you. But speak badly of the Chinese government and you would end up in a shithole for life. Or worst. Or say something bad about the N Korean leader for example. This is totally different.
This is interesting. How accurate would you say it is?
That's my point though, you don't get to survey people not buying the microtransaction because they quit due to terrible load times, whereas you could survey people who cancel a subscription. I guess they could still gather data by reading reviews, looking through forums / Reddit / whatever, and tallying up complaints, though.
there is https://github.com/sirnewton01/9webdraw
but I was too lazy to try to build that with plan9port
Its tricky to compare debt between countries since it works differently.

In Sweden you can't 'walk away' from your mortgage like in the US for example. This means its much safer for the bank to lend money and that interest rates are very low. Swedish mortgage default rates are very low.
I don't think it's possible to strip a person of their shares outside of court.

I think this person hadn't vested the shares yet, or didn't qualify for exercising their options, etc. There surely is a very detailed contract, it's not something that could be done ad hoc.
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I can't. Can you name one society that has outlawed war? Because I was talking about war, not murder.
Why is the flight time at 40km/h roughly 1.4 times hovering time? One would expect drag reduces the efficiency...
It's not VR it's just like a normal screen strapped to your face (it's a simple image not stereo like VR does).
“Maybe they’re the skulls of our enemies?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
> All images copyright Nasa/JPL-Caltech

Question: Aren't those pictures actually in the public domain as they were produced by US government's agencies?
Insiders almost always have more rights than outsiders.

Berlin has more than enough people living there, they don't need the outsiders and its within their rights to discourage them from moving in. But this isn't even doing that as they're very welcoming, they merely want to protect the people already living there.
As a young house-owner I am quite upset at the banks and at the older generation. They reaped all the benefits, whilst I end up with debt out of college and don't have access to cheap housing. We got fucked by the boomers so hard.

Even my grandfather, who bought his house for 75.000 guilder and is now 83 still has outstanding debt due to this system of interest only mortgage. He's lucky that he can sell his house at a huge profit if he wants to live in a care home, but I am sure the bank earned what he borrowed and then some over his lifetime.

Also the fact that the government is killing the NHG is infuriating, they know damn well that housing is too unaffordable for young people to qualify anymore.
intent may be a mitigating factor for some, but the harm should be judged by those harmed, should it not? If they can't speak to the harm, who can?
I think people tend not to see it as a big thing (or even not notice it at all) because colour being wildly inconsistent is the normal case in the real world, due to changing lighting conditions, and our brains adjust for it automatically.
As long as universities keep evaluating academics based on the journals they publish in, then the top journals are going to keep charging big bucks.

There is a significant movement against this now
https://sfdora.org/read/
- and I hope it succeeds, but it's an uphill battle against a lot of systemic pressures.
Given self-clocking signalling[1] exists, why is clock frequency precision the limiting factor?

I would imagine signal-to-noise would be the limiting factor, ie how strong is your transmitter and how sensitive is your receiver.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-clocking_signal
All these pallets are on white background, but dieter Rams made some awesome designs with black being the main color. Of course the ET 66 comes to mind, and my parents owned a ts 501 that I loved as a kid without ever thinking about design or Dieter Rams.
I guess one key part is the need of a regular long night sleep.

With short sleep, one sleep to deep for that.
It's the same thing with helicopters, they need more power to hover than to fly forwards. It's called translational lift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translational_lift
> Usually you can be over a month late before the water company actually goes to the trouble of sending someone out to turn off your water.

What? You can be disconnected from water because you're a month late? That's barbaric, what the hell are you supposed to do in that situation?
It's not VR (no stereo image) it's just an easy portable way to have a big screen.
> I don't understand this vegan processed food propaganda to push people not eat meat.

What's the propaganda angle?

This is working the problem from a different end. Yes, we need to increase quality and reduce the amount of steroids/antibiotics used in meat production. Yes, we should stop subsidizing it and let the prices go up. But at the same time, lots of people love meat, so providing a similarly tasting alternative will reduce the demand for meat without forcing people to alter their tastes too much.

Mid-term, it helps mitigate a climate problem. Meat production is very energy-inefficient and emission-intensive to such a large degree, that it is a good problem to attack early.

Long-term, it also solves an ethical problem. Ever since homo sapiens started to settle down and domesticate animals, we've been very cruel to farm animals[0]. I don't want to push any moralizing propaganda here - it's a touchy topic for everyone now, as way too many groups use it as a weapon, but I think everyone knows there's something to it. It's uncomfortable to touch. But! If we can develop enough meat substitutes, we can just sidestep this problem entirely, and eventually stop farming animals[1].

> There are much more efficient ways to curb down emissions than fighting holy war against meat(coal anyone? trans oceanic shipping).

I think a better way than fighting a holy war is to make options available. Which is what Beyond Meat is doing. They're not telling you, "stop eating meat!" - they're saying, "if you'd like to stop eating meat but can't because it's so tasty, try our alternative, maybe you'll like it enough".

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[0] - Factory farming is just extreme end of it, but even the old-school small farms are just animal abuse and torture.

[1] - At least for meat. I'm not sure what the story for milk and eggs are, both of which are crucial ingredient to a wide range of foods and chemistry.
My immediate neigborhood, with quite a few empty appartments?!
Even the service workers asked to install the mandated smoke detectors were commenting about this, since they can't access quite a few of appartments even during COVID's stay at home policies.

There is no offical data on this, since it's illegal to keep them vacant for more than 3 months. So they are under "maintenance" or the like.

https://web.de/magazine/politik/schattenmieten-leerstand-ber...

https://www.zeit.de/2020/37/mietendeckel-berlin-immobilienma...
I doubt a NASA suggestion box open to the internet will be very fruitful.
Only for some very specific, non-traditional definitions of the word "elegant".
I'm not underestimating pigs. I know they're intelligent and sensitive, if you like. I said so in my comment. I discussed what would happen if they were _more intelligent than us_. That, they are not.
Pretty cool, but I can't make it scroll with space bar, up/down arrows, or page-up/page-down. Hacker News seems to scroll fine. (Firefox Nightly)
You seem in the know, any recommended sources or communities I should look into, or even if you're happy to share more I'm keen to hear it
Dutch political commentators suggest that there had been a tacit housing policy bargain between the left and right wing parties for many decades: the left delivers large rent subsidies while the right delivers mortgage subsidies for their constituencies. It just seemed much harder to win elections with supply side policies (build, baby, build!).
2D Isn’t Dead, It Just Became Something Different
I have it intergated with an on prem SQL server, no issues. When a new client is added to the SQL database a flow triggers, that creates Sharepoint folders with the clients info, also creates a planner tasks list for the intake process.

I also have a flow that brings the Planner tasks back into SQL so that I can dyanically create links to the Planner tasks list in the SQL database frontend.
Here, have your automatic downvote.
Companies like Amazon have no incentives to police gaming of reviews. A purchased item is money to them, regardless of if the purchase was a sponsored purchase. It's why fake products have equal or more reviews than popular products found in stores.
The dairy industry is arguably worse with regard to animal abuse and mistreatment than the meat industry.
> the challenge is that people have made long-term financial plans based on it, and if you were to suddenly cancel it altogether, lots of people would probably get in trouble

This can be solved with a grandfather clause.
It's a total PITA, but it can be done as long as you are ok with full screen. I use it to run PixInsight on FreeBSD and view it on macOS: https://xw.is/wiki/HiDPI_XQuartz

/edit: oh, and yeah, if you patch xrandr not to return, I suspect that the resolution change will persist on switching between macOS and the unix desktop, though I haven't tested that yet.
And even if they do use BTC (they don't really, at least in Africa, i don't know about Venezuela), they do not trade using BTC but a second layer anyway.
When the herd eat grass it stimulates grass growth and grass is a huge carbon sink. there is a cool ted talk about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
I loving see people beat problems into submission.
“Free chlamydia” is a better simile for Oracle.
Norway follows the EU regulations without right to vote on them and has access to common market (but not the customs union). It contributes only to EU programs it elected to participate in: largely security, humanitarian and educational.
Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem
The pro-code option is interesting: https://github.com/microsoft/Power-Fx/blob/main/docs/overvie...

yaml + Power-FX
You don’t find it at all suspicious that the CCP blocked site visits to the Wuhan lab for an entire year? Or that they censored domestic research on the origins of the virus early last year (https://www.newsweek.com/china-censoring-research-covid-19-o...)? Or that they deleted studies from this lab relating to bats and coronaviruses (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13701168/covid-cover-up-china-...)?

As for the WHO’s findings - from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00375-7:

> Dwyer [member of the WHO team visiting Wuhan in 2021] says that the team didn’t see anything during its visits to suggest a lab accident. “Now, whether we were shown everything? You can never know. The group wasn’t designed to go and do a forensic examination of lab practice.”

Clearly China is not helping their case. And the international community, including the WHO, has not been holding them accountable on the possibility of a lab leak.
Not long before that other time fully revealed itself as that other time they were burning books.
Ocusync has been out for some time now and it already sounds like magic. I think when compared to wifi or some radio bridges it usually operates in much less congested environment. Nonetheless, if you think about frequencies used, energy going down with r^2 and bandwidth they are doing, it's an amazing feat even in ideal conditions. And here's it's a moving object, on battery, with four electromagnets around it.
Ask: We use Rest API in our SPAs but famous SPAs don’t follow the norm
When you read books and tutorials on how to build Single Page Applications, you will notice that all of them advocate using either REST API or GraphQL to communicate to the backend. Which is a bit strange because when you look at popular websites such as Reddit, Microsoft Azure, Google Calendar, and Dropbox, you will notice that they don’t use REST APIs for communicating to backend. Instead of REST, each of them seem to have built their own protocols. Are any of these designs made public? How do they work? I look at Google’s and found it’s incredibly hard to decipher.

I find it amusing that ordinary developers use REST API while the big boys play with more efficient ways.

Deciphering Facebook is relatively easy because they were nice enough to make theirs public (GraphQL)
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> The 20 min flight time is a lie, Joshua Bardwell measured 10 minutes hovering.

To be fair, hovering time is often lower than flight time for copters.
> That lesson came out of the discovery of Allan Savory a Rhodesian/Zimbabwean ecologist that desertification only accelerated once huge herds were culled in an assumption that the grazing was causing the desertification, rather than that they were part of the system.

The only reason I came to this thread was to see if someone would pull the Allan Savory card, and here it is.

There is no reputable, working scientist in the relevant field who cites Savory as a reliable source.

> According to a 2016 study published by the University of Uppsala, the actual rate at which improved grazing management could contribute to carbon sequestration is seven times lower than the claims made by Savory. The study concludes that Holistic Management cannot reverse climate change. A study by the Food and Climate Research Network in 2017 has concluded that Savory's claims about carbon sequestration are "unrealistic" and very different from those issued by peer-reviewed studies.
I said Norway because it's a Nordic country which is not a EU member, and serves as a counterexample to your statement.

It in fact does not contribute to the EU programs it didn't elect to willingly, that's one of the perks of EEA.

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/european-policy/Norways...
Right, and until they solve all those problems and implement these efficiencies, a very easy way to make an impact on an individual level right now, is to not eat meat. But I understand it's easier still to just propose solutions that offset the responsibility.

The EU are actively trying to make it more difficult for consumers to identify vegan alternatives (amendment 171). Governments are not going to make laws that significantly increase meat prices, we are nowhere near that kind of policymaking.
So, return of the Pebble watch?

Which was bought and killed by Fitbit?
I’ve met many Iranians and I have to say they were without exception exceedingly polite, friendly and welcoming and immaculately mannered and hospitable.
Pedant here; focal length and aperture are (literally) orthogonal concepts.
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> Any time there's a vegan angle to a scientific study or a documentary the standard of proof for me is much higher because these causes are often pushed for animal rights reasons.

I think that's a mistake. Or rather, the standard of proof shouldn't be higher for "vegan angle" scientific studies, because most studies have some background reason for existing, so our standard of proof should be high in all cases.