skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t part take. But I think you’re a bit too quick to dismiss the “social” part of economics, remember it’s a social science after all. Once you include that, your rational valuation frameworks start to erode as it becomes subjective (even worse, collectively subjective). Then the rest of the conversation is shouting over each other. Both sides are right, it is insane, but it’s insane because it wants to be insane. History will look at it positively if it crosses some threshold/tipping point of social acceptance. And negatively if it doesn’t. That’s all there is to it really.

The lines between economies and schemes are blurry and hero’s and villains are only declared once the dust settles. We’re not there yet.
An economic asset is valued based on expected future cash flow. In the last decades however, real estate and some stocks are mainly valued based on expected appreciation. Real estate even generates negative cash flow for most home owners, and some investors.

Per se, it is speculation (in higher prices) rather than investing (in future cash flow).

> If the best returns is on beans and rice, people will starve.

Farmland and equipment are assets, but they are valued based on cash flow from selling produce. Produce is perishable and can only be sold as food, so it will be sold at a market prices regardless of speculation in farmland.

> all of the wealthy will liquidate their stockpiles of stocks(crashing the stock market in the process)

Not "all of the wealthy". Relatively little is required at the margin to crash the stock market, and the majority of "wealth" would follow the market down. Only a tiny proportion would be able to exit at the right moment.

Asset depreciation is an adjustment of the relative value of labour vs. assets.

A possible delineation between "water" and "oil" is whether the thing can be legally used as collateral for loans and how the value is booked. But idk.
I don’t believe that paying for your reputation was what the poster meant. Blockchain can be used for basically “write once” non-alterable records that you can prove you “own” without any currency aspects. That is basic blockchain tech. However it would cost money to run the machines that managed the BC and people would not do that without an economic incentive so maybe you’re right?
Can you explain how one "hoards money"? Like are they burying it in their backyard or stuffing it in their mattress? Do they have a McScrooge money pit?
Yesterday I ran into this nice article on using cgroups to contain firefox memory usage, https://dev.to/msugakov/taking-firefox-memory-usage-under-co...
The 'American Dream' of upward mobility is broken. Look at the numbers
Eh. The New Deal was a lot of things over 35 years but there was a consistent "bottom-up" theme that's been replaced by a "supply side" theme.

Neither set of ideologies explains everything, but lots of little decisions over a few decades can add up.

(Also, I realize we're being fast and loose with labels here, but after 20 years of Reagan/Bush/Clinton drug war, taking credit for legalization feels a little bold.)
The UI on that touchscreen is very different from the average car touchscreen. Bigger and ridiculously more responsive. The wipers are accessible in two quick touches: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rr_XzzJ6gc

I’m pretty sure you can operate it with voice commands as well, and the click wheel in the 3?

That said, why would you not leave it on auto? I own a normal car and don’t touch the dashboard at all during 98% of drives, everything is set to auto (wipers, lights, AC).
To some degree its a style choice but most (all?) of the languages used for UI use some kind of the UI thread paradigm with a way to run code on and off of that thread. Not everything called a coroutine is designed for UI interaction. Kotlin's are better suited than Goroutines. As you admit your self, js and others have settled on this style and one has to assume its for a good reason.

Async/await solves the problem of posting execution to another thread, getting a result, and easily and efficiently waiting for that result on exactly the thread you need.

It'll be interesting when or if someone uses Loom in the UI space.
A gun is a very visceral projection of constitutional rights. I wonder if people buying guns lately are doing so because they feel that “their rights” as a whole are under threat. For whatever reason that may be, buying a gun is a very affirmative way of exercising your rights.
I did the same web search (although in all caps) and was immediately pointed to “Commercial of-the-shelf”, and I redid it now in incognito mode over a VPN, and the first answer is still “ Commercial-off-the-shelf” (with an added hyphen probably due to the language where the VPN endpoint is located.)
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I'd be a bit careful if I were you. Bug bounty programs are after all the exception rather than the rule - the security equivalent of open sourcing software - an active decision by the company to sign away normal rights and normal legal protection.

If you find a vuln and publish it and the company does not have an explicit bug bounty program allowing such things, you may be sued or face other legal action.

I know several security researchers who have been sued for hacking, in many countries (mostly across US and Europe), because they assumed they were doing a "good thing", whereas the law doesn't care - it only cares about what is legal or not legal. Apart from the hacking charges, the very nature of bug bounties means it's pretty easy for the lawyers to add a coercion/blackmailing charge as well, which makes it more serious.
I agree that trade is required for trade deficit and freer trade (e.g. NAFTA) is an accelerator. I say "little to do" because to me the important issue is whether we have a system where the currency ensures trade means trade deficit or a system where currency helps to balance trade.
> When you can create money backed by nothing

Isn't that what money really is about?

Debt and money go together. When you take on debt your creditor can decide to sell his credit to somebody else, de facto using your promise to repay your debt as a currency.

Isn't your promise...just a promise? Yet you can buy stuff with it?
My point exactly - validation usually involves write permissions to put a challenge or something else as required by the protocol (ACME in your example). If I put the security.txt file there and certbot gets compromised, there goes my security policy. Putting security.txt up one level so only root (I.e. me) can update it allows me to keep .well-known writable by robots only.
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It's pretty baffling. You don't even own Jack's first tweet. You can't delete it or control it in any fashion. You have no IP rights to it. You own a unique link to it... it's like paying for a bit.ly link.
Were there towns which refused to surrender? Colchester, when it finally surrendered during the second civil war, had to pay a ransom of £14,000 in exchange for not being pillaged, and the leaders of the defence were executed.
This was a wildly good read. It's quite long, but you'll come away satisfied, I think.
Stripe is Currently Risky for Nonprofits (but Stripe is Working on It)
The point is that this is a terrible argument for "we should switch to gold" or "we should have 0% inflation". Losing $2-$20 to inflation annually is trivially handled with tax credits or whatever.
Yes but you must own and rip these games yourself before playing them: https://yuzu-emu.org/help/quickstart/
WFC is an excellent Windows based firewall.

It also has the option to see the location of the executable trying to access the web and to also upload a hash of the file to VirusTotal.

I have been using this back before when it was a paid program (I think it was only $15 for lifetime use) and before it was purchased by MalwareBytes.

I no longer use any Windows computers but I install it on all my friends and families Windows PC’s.

I really wish there was something similar for Linux.
> "buy-or-build"

As an aside, the term of art is "make-or-buy" if you want to be able to Google it.

The discussion we are having is interesting because COTS are notorious for their hidden costs and how difficult they are to properly budget. Having to find a way to disable or reverse advance post-processing in a camera would be a fairly typical example of that. In this specific case it might mean having to commission a custom firmware from the camera manufacturer - something which is very much doable but might end up costing you as much as buying bespoke equipments for inferior results in the end.
This site would be great for a lot of people I know. Being immigrants yourselves, are there any plans for adding support for ethnic formalwear or events? I've been on the lookout for qipao (Chinese) and aodai (Vietnamese), for instance.
Has the Hubble ever been used to image Earth?
> I never heard this discussed as a big "risk". As far as I know this was always more or less known to be the endgame and not even a dangerous outcome but the "good" scenario.

The endgame is for the virus to turn into a community virus. This is not the big "risk". The big risk is in using leaky vaccines to combat the mortality and morbidity until we get there (or can reset economy). In chickens, use of leaky vaccines lead to the evolution of a disease which kills nearly all non-vaccinated. That's nothing like the seasonal flu (which would be a "good" outcome, indeed).

You'll find expert back-and-forth on leaky vaccines risk for humans here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6247/461 "Risk of ‘leaky’ vaccines debated" (2015)

> Vaccines have saved millions of human lives, but according to evolutionary biologist Andrew Read they sometimes may also cause pathogens to turn deadlier. Read first put forward the theory 15 years ago. Now, in a new paper, he presents evidence that that is what happened with the virus causing Marek's disease, an infectious disease in chickens. Read acknowledges that the effect has never been seen with human vaccines, but he argues that future vaccines that prevent disease rather than infection could have the same effect. Other researchers say that no general conclusions should be drawn from the paper. Even if he turns out to be right, the study offers no support whatsoever for those who oppose vaccination, Read stresses. If "leaky" vaccines are proven safe and effective, they should be used, he says, but perhaps with closer monitoring and additional measures to reduce transmission, such as bed nets for malaria.

And for all the solid risk management in the West, China, a country where:

- SARS-1 leaked twice from a lab,

- which re-sentences Australian citizens to a death penalty as diplomatic punishment for Australia wanting joint investigation into the origin of a disease with still unknown zoonotic basis

- which would not allow WHO full access, and put information blackout its scientists

- informed the world way too late of an upcoming pandemic, pressuring the WHO to geopolitics and trade instead of world health.

That country will vaccinate a billion people with a leaky vaccine that skipped a trial with a poorly estimated 50.5% efficiency. Risky as all-living hell.
The FDA recently approved the first test of T-cells to determine whether someone was previously infected by Covid, https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fda-authorizes-cell-test-game-...

>The test is administered via blood draw. T-cell DNA is then extracted and sequenced with Microsoft's artificial intelligence, mapping out the immune system's "massive black box" data into navigable science, researchers say.
Well said, this is exactly what it is
As others have pointed out, this is handled differently in the UK versus the US. You are correct for the US standard definition of CPI, but the author of the article is a professor in the UK, writing on a UK domain for a (primarily) UK audience. Here's a link that another poster provided that summarizes the UK definitions: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/money-mentor/article/rpi-versus-c....
I have never heard of the AIER before, but this headline stood out to me. I thought I should give their Wiki page a quick visit before reading on and found this:

> AIER statements and publications portray the risks of climate change as minor and manageable,[8] with titles such as "What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change", "The Real Reason Nobody Takes Environmental Activists Seriously" and "Brazilians Should Keep Slashing Their Rainforest".[9][10][11]

> The institution has also funded research on the comparative benefits that sweatshops supplying multinationals bring to the people working in them.[12][13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi...
If the buyer takes down their pin, and nobody else has it pinned, then that's their prerogative. The NFT is still there on the ledger, unless the whole blockchain goes down too.
That's the point the parent is making, except he thinks it doesn't take as much as a million dollars for that effect to take place. His question is why is $8 trillion of money printing since last March A-OK when $100 trillion isnt?

Is the line $8 trillion? $25T? $50T?
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Out of all the database products out there, I probably trust SQLite the most to do what I ask of it.
I think there are few things.

1. There are some people who struck it megarich with crypto and now have so much "f-u money" that they are willing to spend it on conspicuous consumption. It is the same sort of thing that comes from "look at how much money I lit on fire" posts being given social credit in places like WSB.

2. There are other people who already had a gazillion dollars and are also interested in conspicuous consumption.

3. NFTs are trendy and trends in the crypto space attract people seeking to make money on a trend. A bunch of people are surely buying these things hoping to leave somebody else holding the bag.

4. It is crypto, so some degree of fraud and crime is involved.
It's bullshit (in the sense "absurd and meaningless") but I wouldn't call it a scam.

Something I wrote yesterday[0] that I think is relevant here:

> I'm not sure I understand the hate for NFTs. Don't get me wrong, the concept of NFT as currently used is completely absurd and definitely overhyped. But what is bad about it? People who spend their money on NFTs mostly do it because they got rich in the past few years gambling on BTC or ETH, and now use that money to basically tip the artists they like. Or they plan to resell the token at some point, which is pure speculation, but nobody other than themselves risk to get burn. Minting and selling NFTs is almost zero work and effort for artists, all the risks are on the buyers side, and only if they buy them as speculative assets.

> It still make no sense to me, but if rich people want to gamble their money and by doing so support some artists, that doesn't sound too bad IMHO.

> I would be more cautious if retail investors would start to gamble in this market, but that's not what I've seen so far.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448481
In Fareed Zakaria's book The Post American World Order, he makes a great point that India (services) and China (goods) have been deflationary for certain goods/services in expensive economies. If you think of CPI as an average of deflationary and (local, expensive) inflationary products, the trend we are seeing in the US of large local assets (with local cost basis) versus a cellphone (Chinese cost basis), the stagnant measure of CPI versus the increases we see in local costs of living is better explained. All these metrics are faulted and manipulated.

The underlying desire of capitalist institutions making a markup on every possible local market ("rents") in is inflationary to local costs and when the external markets costs go up, that's when total inflation will go 'shazam'.
Whois is not a good place for this data. Whois data is typically abused by spam bots (and most people don’t look there), it can’t be easily extended with security-specific info (a link to the encryption key? a link to the full security policy?), it works only for the registered domain (you can’t have different whois for maps.google.com and mail.google.com), and some registries might have policies that make it difficult to fetch WHOIS data (eg. by blocking IPs of cloud providers, or by forcing you to go to a website to see full subscriber information).
I’ll grant the “as easily” part, but also counter with diamonds and China’s influence on the availability of rare earth elements.
A lot of people think the Fed already has problems seeing as how they barely ever hit their 2% target! Their tools don’t seem to work already!
Hang in there buddy, I’m sure the US & oil industry is still working super hard to get a Pinochet in there ASAP
It's a false dichotomy to begin with.

If political belief is caused by personality traits (e.g. orderliness) and brain structure (e.g. amygdala size), is it really a choice?
A lot of people have web hosting packages that don't give them direct access to the webserver configuration, but do let them upload arbitrary text files to their webroot.
Can't it be a URL with an IPFS address in it? Or should it be s/URL/URI? Does it matter?
They've already announced an enhanced "Switch Pro" and said they hope it "extends the life cycle of the Switch platform for many more years": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-04/nintendo-...
The cannabis legalization happened because of two additional factors:

A) Overincarceration of non-violent offenders

B) the reveal of racist roots in the foundational war on drugs rhetoric (which led to more strict penalties for the use of crack [cheaper street drug], for instance, than straight cocaine [high-society, white-collar drug]).

At least that seems to be the lynchpin from my point of view. It was always going to fail from mmy point of view since prohibitions in the U.S. don't have stellar records.
That’s one reason. It’s also widely known it is healthier for the cattle and has them out on pasture rather than in cages.

The reason people argue the meat is more nutritious is because the cows are healthier via eating their natural diet.

Corn diets cause health problems and bacterial infections requiring antibiotics.

Some of this will literally be on the websites of farms selling pastured beef. It’s not a big secret and if you seek out pastured beef it’s likely familiar.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010511074623.h...
Another advantage to Fortran in academic settings, at least the older version of Fortran, is that there isn't much to the language. Someone already familiar with programming can pick it up in a day or two.

So if your a Prof with a large code-base that you want to have a stream of Grad-students, undergrad research assistants, assoc. Profs etc. contribute to before they move on, having a language that doesn't require squandering half a semester on learning to code before you can start doing actual science is a big bonus.
What if these platforms defaulted to showing everything users opt into, like before the AI started curating for engagement. Then they provided users a choice of curation algorithms tuned in various ways.

Then so long as the platforms are removing clearly illegal content they would comply without engaging in editorializing.
Right. If you want to put things on the blockchain, you need to pay for the privilege somehow - mining blocks, executing contracts on ethereum, etc.
"kept a charlatan with half baked ideas out of reputable journals."

LOL. Citations needed. Please point to the peer reviewed criticism that disproved his math. You've clearly never watched him speak to people about mathematics - there hasn't been a person he hasn't been able to dance with when discussing mathematics/physics principles.
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It's worth remembering that up until very recently section 230 was invoked in these debates mostly by people lying about what it says. When such people change their tune and now say we have to reform or repeal it, I think that should be met with a fair amount of skepticism.
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I just set up the Starlink "dishy" on my roof.
It couldn't have been easier.

And it "just works'.

Say what you want, Musk has really done it right.
Kudos to all who worked on this.
That promise is based in trust that when someone wants their gold back out, they can get it.

If there is little confidence in that, people wouldn't store their gold there.

There is, therefore, a natural limit to how fractional your reserve can be and keep trust over a long term.

With fiat currency backed by nothing, the reserve no longer needs to exist at all as long as you have control over the creation of new money.

I'm not saying the gold standard is the answer but it is different. That difference does not go away when we talk about lending.
That's a feature for us iPhone users, not a bug. I don't need to consider risk when I do anything on an iPhone as there is next to no risk.
I think you missed your citations.

Another point is that GP's claim "it was Cromwell or the inquisition" is a bit overblown. It was Cromwell or a relatively High Church monarchy, and a lot of taxation without representation. I don't think there's a credible argument that Charles I would have reintroduced Catholicism, still less the Inquisition.
So from the outside looking in this looks very silly, not highly inflated. In fact on the surface it looks clearly like a scam with a lot of hand waving and philosophical nonsense tacked on to confuse people.

Anyone can mint an NFT that points to whatever, and the benefits you get are purely imaginary or at best speculative that a greater fool may exist and buy it from you for a higher price.

The art world while also somewhat suspect at least has physical possession/ownership.
Asset inflation is the cause of income inequality. That’s why it has been a huge problem especially during Obama’s time until now. It’s 100% the fault of the Federal Reserve but they refuse to take blame.

Lower income households cannot accumulate assets. But the Feds policies have created asset inflation and not CPI inflation. So the lower income families can’t complain they can’t buy food, but they can’t buy anything else like a house.

They can’t compete against anyone unless they start investing in assets but they can’t.

Meanwhile in Silicon Valley there is so much wealth it’s reached critical mass. House prices are a joke because anyone who has stock compensation has made a ridiculous amount of money.

The difference between asset accumulators and those that don’t is stark. My wife and I have become multi millionaires in the last 5 years because our house and stock have gone through the roof. My friends without stock don’t have as much luck and are in the same position as before but no ability to buy anything. I mean for Christ’s sake my comic book collection value has quintupled for no good reason except people chasing assets.

So of course you won’t see inflation in assets because the Fed is burying their heads in the sand over it.
OpenBSD has login.conf

https://man.openbsd.org/login.conf.5
Right. Not to mention, what's to prevent an unscrupulous "researcher" from paying companies - or starting their own fake ones - to enter positive feedback, etc?

Sorry to burst your bubble, hn_throwaway_99, but this is the same kind of nonsense idea that you typically scoff at. It offers no new benefits, while adding new problems.