skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the moment, there isn't a single alternative product for a state-free currency as a store of value that has reached the valuation of Bitcoin.

I thought the Bitcoin people stopped referring to it as a currency a few years ago when it became obvious that it had failed to be capable of filling that role? The current “store of value” sales pitch seems likely to follow a similar trajectory since, unlike a reserve currency like the USD or a traditional commodity like gold or real estate, it has no inherent value other than the current social consensus and is thus highly volatile.

This comes back to the same question of what value it offers. Someone who wants buy or sell things defaults to faster, cheaper, and safer options. Someone who wants to save value has faster, cheaper, safer options which have much longer track records of predictable valuation. A devout libertarian who thinks “state-free” is important similarly has a range of options, many of which do not conveniently provide their government with an itemized log of every transaction.
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I don't think you read the whole of my comment.

Amazon aggressively reinvests its extremely large and stable earnings into the business which Bezos owns a large part of and controls actively. Both he and his ex-wife have realized extremely important liquid wealth by selling a significant part of their stakes. How would you measure his wealth?
I'm just beginning to learn about investing...Is there any book and/or website to learn about how the dollar can affect commodities that you would recommend?
Its amazing that a 50% drop in the dollar was barely detectable in US, due to price stickiness, subsidies, and whatever else.
Often the reason I have a bash script is because I'm running some AI tool to solve lots of problems in parallel, gather/filter results, and then gathering results, then finally doing plotting and things.

Personally, I never really like solutions which are "you can't do 5% of stuff in X, you have to do everything in X". I like trying new things out, but I'm not willing to 100% invest everything in Julia up front, rather than just trying out some small bits.

Also, I think my collaborators would get annoyed if I rewrote all our bash scripts in Julia -- I can't expect them all to learn Julia.
That all sounds good. Maybe you personally can make it work. In reality, for most people it's a cycle of buying new big hardware (consoles, desktop, laptop) every few years, using them very sporadically and then turning them to e-waste. I don't see how a centralized solution could be more wasteful than that.

The latency part is true though.
Agreed. I got the idea from the Humble Bundle[1] and wondered if it could work with physical products as well, instead of digital. Turns out there are more businesses than I thought doing it, even in the city I live, although it mostly seems limited to be coffee shops and restaurants for some reason.

If nothing else, this experience showed me that people can be pretty generous if you give them the chance, which changed my outlook on life for the better.

I may try offering a plan with this model for a limited time on my hosting business, to see how things go, as an experiment. It may be a little difficult since dedicated servers are not cheap, but depending on how much each people pay, it may offset the costs and turn into a profit. Tom Morkes[2] has a book on this model that might be worth the read as well[3].

Personally, I go with no analytics whatsoever for my business, for personal reasons, but we do offer a GoatCounter to customers to entice them to move away from Google Analytics. I will definitely keep an eye on Counter.dev as an alternative to that, good luck!

[1] https://www.humblebundle.com/

[2] https://tommorkes.com/

[3] https://tommorkes.com/pwywguide/
Yes, I incorporated a single person LLC that I am using for all projects because I don't plan on raising capital and I'm concerned about liability.
Na. Turkey needs to be counterd by others. And others need to defend themselves from Turkey. These the are natural allies in this region for obvious, not so obvious, subtle and not so subtle reasons. There is a very long history of unhappiness between Turkey and these three countries.
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Same thing that is stopping them from cutting other power lines: laws, and punishment for breaking those laws.
Random result: https://www.dataspan.com/blog/data-center-cooling-costs/

>According to research, anywhere between 30 and 55 percent of a data center’s energy consumption goes into powering its cooling and ventilation systems

Meanwhile the cooling cost for a computer in a home is probably zero.
Underwater high power cables are a mature technology. The operators would have equipment distributed across the line to monitor the cable. Any shorts or opens would be detected and breakers would be used disconnect the section of the cable.
What's curious is the Axis powers seemed to correlate strongly with countries that would eventually reach peak population sooner than others.
The armed forces of these nations.
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From the article:

> In the U.S., prices rose close to 3% in the year ending Jan. 2, according to NielsenIQ, roughly double the overall rate of inflation.

The study found that food prices are rising faster than inflation.

3% is high, and 1.5% over inflation is also concerning, but I think a lot of people are jumping to conclusions based on the headline. Those inflation numbers would go unnoticed by most during normal times. We’re only seeing these headlines because inflation is a popular media topic right now.
"Food prices are not properly accounted for in inflation measures"

There, fixed the headline.
But don't you already know the answer to that question, since that's how she talks? Seems like you could just say "Yes", "No, but we can get coffee if you want." or "No, I'd rather not stop."
To go from NJ to Manhattan without entering other boroughs one would simply take the Lincoln Tunnel, Holland Tunnel or GWB. Alternatively one can take a ferry or even a railroad barge.
It only takes a dozen good megaton nukes to destroy, say, 80% of Chinese industrial potential, which is concentrated in a few large cities. A lot of population is also concentrated in a few major cities, especially the most educated and qualified population. (Same applies to US, Russia, and many other countries.)

That is, yes, Chinese nation won't be obliterated; most people would survive. But the resulting chaos would be nothing like the country before that. It would be up for grabs for the strongest local groups, and whatever international / foreign forces which would inevitably come with humanitarian aid.

Most importantly, the powers that be can't hope to retain the control of the country, to say nothing of their own quality of life (and maybe the life itself).

This is why nuclear deterrence works.
Bitcoin has different fundamentals IMO. For buy and hold I still think 10x from here (over the long term) is possible. This year we might see up to 100k. It’s extremely fickle. We could easily see 5k again. No one really knows, though. The best fundamental analysis that gives a bright future is of Bitcoin replacing some significant market cap for gold. Probably not though.
> The boys has had great success but still has orders of mangnitude less cultural impact than the MCU for instance. It's actually making, to some extent, the same point the article is making: super hero movies are bland and childish.

I would think the approach would garner a little more sympathy in a forum populated by a lot people who work for companies that exist solely to divine a specific, incremental slice of human desire, and architect vast amounts of human capital to create an app to fulfill it, and make stupid amounts of money in the process. The people behind the MCU laugh at the notion that they have made a "bland" or "sexless" or <insert pejorative here> product, all the way to bank, with TRAIN LOADS of money.
I've been saying this about housing for a while.
It's more likely that Israel here has interest into linking with the European grid (Cyprus being just in the middle), and not Greece linking with Israel's
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Many articles in Turkish run media. But in reality? Not much.
Most companies treat the Middle East as appendages of Europe (EMEA == Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Good luck getting staff to move from London, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam etc headquarters to the soul-crushing wasteland that is Saudi Arabia. Dubai, perhaps, but Saudi? Most would resign outright, and I can’t blame them.
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The same thing that's stopping them from cutting the under-ocean internet cables, I imagine - political and military repercussions.
Do you think self censoring is not censoring? What should we call it instead?
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This is not unexpected. The UK banned gym commercials for daring to suggest that one may be improving the body in order to be "beach ready" (i.e. show off sexiness). No no no, it is not allowed to say that you try to look better for other people.

As for movies, of course we want to look at beautiful people.

I'll just leave that hanging there for a few seconds. It really should be that simple.

So movies need to show the beautiful people, but they can't "objectify" them. But that's not the same thing. A movie will catch shit for one when they've done the other, though.

Which of Lost in Translation and Batman (1989) caught heat for objectifying women? Which one had a 2D damsel in distress, and which showed off more body?

So you make movies with beautiful people (because that's what people want, all else being equal), but you only put the sexiness "on display", and don't acknowledge it in any way what so ever. Because acknowledging that there such a thing as sexy, or sexual attraction, is harassment.

If you acknowledge it, it has to be made a joke, and as nonsexual as possible. E.g. it's only the men who get to compliment Captain America's ass. It can't be sexual, because the men who said it have an established history of not-gays (a female partner).

But again, back to the beautiful sexy people. Should we be surprised that actors have been wearing wigs (or wig-like fillers) since the days of black&white? Should we be surprised that people want to look at post-hairplug Elon Musk instead of pre-hairplug?

"Fetishize" the body? Wat? It's a fetish to be attracted to "beautiful people" now?
Agreed, it is income. Money received through work, in this case gaming the credit card company.
This is honestly the type of thing that gives people mental permission to believe in conspiracy theories. The article is so out-of-touch with even the most metropolitan Zoomers that it appears utterly alien.

I know HN loves a pull specifics out so /shrug

> We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.

Transportation and accommodation will scale with technology so there will be a premium version of both of these in the future. The non-premium version of both my be available 'for free' (as part of taxes) but 2021 is a good indicator that very few people will wish to take those up.

>In our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.

??? So don't you pay rent for the time you spend sleeping in it?

> Shopping? I can't really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.

Was this written as a piece of satire? Could anything be more intrusive than an algorithm that knows that well. Also, look at the incentives of the person who runs that algorithm - it's not you cos you're not paying for it. They're obviously going to change that algorithm to pick things with highest margins not the things you really want.
Isn't it now migrants who almost displaced gypsies as the most convenient and socially more acceptable European scapegoat outcasts?
Use after free is the big one Zig still doesn't protect against. Yet?

So I think it's a fair statement. Rust is safety obsessed. Zig is doing its best while paying top tribute to other gods.
I've always been a PC gamer, on Linux mostly (Steam enables so much).

After enjoying a SNES mini for a while, I considered maybe it could simplify life by getting a dedicated modern console rather than use PC, for playing the latest games.

However, then reading about how modern consoles are online connected and let you wait while they auto-download updates, makes it look exactly like PC, so not adding any value. So PC gamer I stay :)
No, one component of “inflation” (defined as the rise in the consumer price index) rises much faster than the others.
Probably this:

https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239757/ishares-sp-gsci-c...

In other words a commodity ETF.
> It is not great yet, but it is an ongoing problem, which they constantly work on and improve.

That's just it. This effort has been dragging on for years now, slow as molasses in winter. If it were a regular goal it would have been a solved problem long ago. That hacks and workarounds for this have been deemed acceptable for so long just goes to show that it's not on the list.
Will lots of electricity be lost in transmission? Also, this article is very scant on information, why is this project mutually beneficial for Greece, Cyprus and Israel? I understand a bit the other commenter who thinks it's in order to poke Turkey in the eye.
Israel has the means to detect and prevent such shenanigans.
I'm 41. I am doing just fine as a software engineer. I'm making a fairly ok rate for a MSc in my market (North-Europe).

I don't known what it means "older devs have it harder". I am a valued contributor, and if something bad would happen I have a pocket full of leads where to find next gig.

You have to maintain your career - nobody is going to do that for you. So yes, you have to figure out how to become a valued contributor.

Make sure your CV communicates you are "smart and gets things done" and you are set, more or less.

Perhaps software engineering is a bit more fragile than other more professional fields as there are lot of young uneducated employees who can be abused and exploited by unscrupulous employers. But generally you learn to identify those, and with a good CV of years of successful projects, you can find agreeable employment in most market situations.
What a joke. Terrible news for gay staff and women. Plus the costs of trying to get any one to move their would be insanely high.
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The title doesn't and can't contain all the nuance of the article. Considering that books were published about data analysis in Clojure, the bar to clear for market size isn't that high. A lot of people buy books for reference even when you could learn everything online.
At the moment I have no direct intention to use Nim (nor do I have any direct intentions to avoid using Nim). But, it is good to see that mark-and-sweep is a possible GC strategy.

As far as "speed" vs "completeness/correctness" goes, in many (maybe even most) cases, if I have to choose between them, I tend to choose "completeness/correctness".

At work, I changed one of our cluster build pipelines from "fast" to "correct" (making it take about 16x longer to complete). Unfortunately, that was as an action highlighted in a port-mortem as one of the root causes of a cluster completely imploding.
Multinationals operating in the Middle East all put their HQs in Dubai for a reason. Just about everything in Saudi, including things like getting a business visa to enter the country, is a nightmare if you don't have the right connections (wasta).
This video is fairly informative https://youtu.be/bRcu-ysocX4
Nice, I see u use cloudflare, is it the free version of cloudflare you use? or a paid version?
hey.com is a competitor to Google's GMail services right?
"Dutch Disease" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease is the usual term. Although arguably corruption and kleptocracy are more problematic in resource rich nations, and the Dutch did ok.
It is the inflation for the poorest population. What does it matter that 4k tv's are cheaper to people who spend all their money on necessities.
I mean countries in time of war. Presumably that is one of the Emergencies for which this cable is intended.
and fifty bucks too, maybe it's a lesson
Don't Turkey and Greece have issues with one another? Why run a backup line through a country you have grievances with?
Every time you enter Manhattan from NJ using the tunnels or the George Washington bridge you are directly entering the City of New York(which is in the state of New York).
Why have it at all? It's magical thinking like religion that needs to be debunked and obliterated. Religion and quackery have no place in scientific medicine!
Also clothing, medical care commodities, and transportation services.
Meanwhile used cars are up more than food in the US. That graph has bizzare rollups you need to click through.

But the article is really about 40% spike in global basic commodities for the global poor, not 3% US bump.
not across 1,700km
Why spend crypto on NFT-art if you can spend it on this?
> Partially, there is great sanitization of Western films to be accepted by foreign censors.

It's min/maxing, optimizing for the biggest revenue, and it's paying massive dividends. Film projects produce record breaking amounts of revenue. If a blockbuster film passes the Chinese censors (and/or is made with Chinese cooperation), it will produce hundreds of millions more in revenue.

But that's the blockbusters. At the same time, the movie industry is booming with independent and original films. Joker is one example, it's not a Hollywood blockbuster, it's not 'sexy', there's no overblown action scenes, it's not targeting a PG-13 audience (it's an R rated film), and yet it still broke all records, earning over a billion in revenue with at a 55-70 million budget.
Same. I think market bubble is going to keep going atleast in near future because of the new stimulus money that is going to start flowing to the market soon.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/how-the-young-plan-to-spend-...
of course I was expecting a comment like that :)

you're getting downvoted anyway tho!
I really wonder how no one knew heatmaps exist. How was this not caught by reviewers.
So in the same paragraph you blame capitalism for something the government does without our consent? We have to at least assign blame equally, instead of picking and choosing which involved systems and actors to blame. Especially if we can't agree on the actual causes.

On a side note: I have seen some good analysis/speculation/theorizing done about how interest/loaning would work in a world without government-regulation. Have a look, there may be some redemption in those concepts for you if you divorce them from government meddling (which I would posit, causes a huge chunk of all the evils we blame on capitalism).
I suppose a major economic disruption is inevitable in any hot war scenario, at the very least because TSMC is going to be destroyed in this case, by the Taiwanese themselves, or their allies.

To say nothing of not buying the inexpensive goods made in China anymore.
May we all have the courage to stand up against bureaucracy to protect others at risk to our careers and personal security.
While moving the loop into Julia (as others suggested) is probably the better option, an alternative you could consider is DaemonMode: https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl

I.e., have a background Julia process so that you only have to pay the precompile cost once.
You are making a lot of assumptions here. Chief among them is that the price of food must always be strongly tied to the prices of other things in the consumer price index. But clearly, that does not need to be the case. Especially after how unsustainably humans use farmland:

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-l...
I didn't say without entering other boroughs. Manhattan is in NY. You can't go to Manhattan without being in NY.
> Google won't get back to the mojo that gave us search, gmail, and maps before the petro curse is cured.

HN may have differing opinions, but Google’s Cloud business is likely their next big business. They’ve been growing quite rapidly, I doubt it will join the graveyard.
I'd love to hear more specifics if you have em! I have a fascination with that kind of incompetence and the reasons for it.
Intresting.
What's the best real world solution to having those meters in basements or behind high density walls?
And for additional security, reduce the program count by one beyond that.
Greece, Cyprus and Israel are natural allies in the geo political oneupsmanship that is the middle east. Israel provides the technology and protection to execute this maneuver.
Company actions are always going to line up with incentives. And that means in an advertising based company, well the actions will line up with generating more ad revenue.

Through and through their business is advertising revenue.
American pearl-clutchers can't deal with it either.
I don't feel bad for Google at all.

The top level management commited serious sexual crimes and got away with them, and the low level working men had to go through the trainings and meetings that were overwhelming and often illegally limiting the rights of people.
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Sure, but inflation is not a feeling. It needs to be estimated using a statistical methodology.
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No, not really. In a war footing, the power plants themselves would likely be targets; the cables are fairly irrelevant. This sort of interconnect lets spikes in consumer demand get smoothed out.
Yes, and it still didn't work :-(
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One of the biggest dangers about it is the ability of the government to practice selective prosecution.

When most people are guilty of multiple offenses, then a government can find political troublemakers and accuse them of violating dozens of "rules" that are otherwise never enforced.
It was prohibited in early Christianity before the Church gave in and allowed it.
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One thing to be aware of is that you're not running a bash script which simply causes julia to "include" stuff, effectively recompiling everything each time the intepreter is run.

As long as you make sure that all the custom code you want to run is in the form of a precompiled module, I think the time required for the interpreter to launch per se shouldn't be that much of a problem.
None but downvotes by jealous people
The usury comes from the government taking loans with interest, so it is forced to print more money to cover its deficits which keep growing due to interest.
hey.com is a competitor to Gmail like the Lamborghini Aventador is a competitor to the Toyota Corolla.
but nobody is forcing you to buy, and what you have bought will not cost anything to maintain your ability to play them (other than a PC).

And eventually you would finish the backlog, and then you can buy more to fill it again! With subscription, you are paying even if you don't got time to play!
And surgeons came from barbers. What's your point?

Virtually isn't the same. There is no need for DOs. Period.
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