skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the problem in the US has to do with the petrodollar system.
OPEC has only been allowed to accept US dollars for their oil since the 70s.

That generates massive demand for dollars outside the US. Foreign countries obtain the dollars they need to buy oil by converting their currency to USD or by exporting goods/services to the US.

As a result, the value of the US dollar gets inflated and large parts of the US economy get "offshored" thanks to the favorable conversion ratio.

On the bright side, this system means you can import foreign goods very cheaply - but on the downside, it means exports are often not viable.

There are several industries in the US that don't reap large benefits from cheap imports. Education, healthcare, construction, and child care just to name a few.

I hope this adds some color to the phenomenon you've observed
May our free lunches continue forever. Thanks docker!
Google completely pulled out of China and practically all their products are banned & blocked in China as a result. Although considering most people don't even mention it and are happy to excuse companies like Apple, it's more of an example of how utterly meaningless it is for a company to do something like this. I'm sure Google, Apple, and their competitors will never repeat this mistake again.
Just that increases in risk are usually approximated pretty well by a linear change with dose. Radiation, poison, allergens, etc. Drugs too – the ones where the toxic dose is close to the therapeutic dose are generally pretty nasty even when used as intended. It's possible for there to be a transition between "very safe" and "noticably unsafe" as the quantity of something increases twofold, but a priori unlikely. For this to happen not only in vaccines, but through an unknown mechanism that operates precisely in this particular range, would be truly rotten luck. It's also contradicted (a posteriori) by the evidence I referred to (overdoses and animal models).
This way of thinking, as you draw the lines into the future, correspond to rational analysis. Could be called quality of goal-sets, as opposite to "crowing on a pile of dung" as is now the ongoing mindset of our elites. ...fascinating and not depressing the observance of reality, your way would be beyond and far of what is now passing for science, politics, societal engineering, technology layers without a grand design. It is not going to happen, goes against the history of mankind pointers. You Sir, must be one of the few, your status thus would reside in other then wealth and ego, you posess the suicidal gene!
I guess I would date myself, but:

- syntax highlighting in text editor

- tabs in browsers (in my case that was Firefox before it was called Firefox)

- DVCS, I've started with Bazaar then moved to Git (of course). Used VCS (painful) and SVN (less so) before that.

- REST APIs and discovering Sinatra framework to write them.

- Rails. First time I saw famous "write blog in 15 minutes" my head was blown.
> Melancholic depressive patients report that they feel worst in the morning, just after waking up, get better as the day goes on, and feel least affected in the evening just before bed. Continue the trend, and you might wonder how depressed people would feel after spending 24 or 36 or 48 hours awake.

Perhaps melancholic depressive patients end up experiencing negative dreams while sleeping, and that makes them wake up depressed in the morning? Because if you sleep deeply you tend not to remember what you dreamed during the night?

That looks so straightforward but the author goes all in into sleep deprivation as a way to "treat" depression.
Investigation of Covid Vaccine AstraZeneca and thromboembolic events continues
Simple fix: anything govt funded that's published (say in a journal) must be made open access. Anything that's not published is not affected. This deal doesn't sound so great for UC. It doesn't appear to apply to the traditional closed journals which includes most of the high prestige ones. UC was doing fine with no active subscriptions, per a thread a few days ago.
These arguments always ignore the fact that the only reason $X GDP is generated is because people are incentivized. Children don’t produce, so someone else is producing for them. If you tell people they will get $12k no matter how hard they work, they won’t work. We’ve tried socialism.
Pretty much any administration that does not want to be responsible for mass detention camps, will inevitably undermine the border patrol. There is very similar situation in Europe.
Sure, at this point it's a self-fulfilling prophecy: K8s is almost the only game in town because...it's almost the only game in town.

But how did it get to that point? How did something so big and unwieldy that even billion-dollar cloud providers can't do upgrades on it properly (*cough* looking at you, EKS) become the go-to standard for running apps in containers?
Very good question!
Thanks, that's a great collection.

The Zheng & Zhang paper is particularly interesting, given it tackles taint analysis and succeeds where Psalm (which also has a taint analysis mode) fails: https://psalm.dev/r/7098c7bb59. Might try to implement a cut-down version of their method.
US elites have managed to cut a deep gap between themselves and the ordinary American people, so that they are protected well enough to NOT worry about the reaction of middle-low class people.
Snow tires do not damage roadways. Only studded tires damage roadways which are illegal in many states.
And Matt's Script Archive was mid-90s.
Um, like, duuuuh. If you're gonna buy cheap Chinese junk, skip the Amazon middleman and go straight to Alibaba.

With so many "Amazon" sellers just rebranding cheap Chinese stuff, it really is better to just go backward in the chain. I suspect that you probably get fewer "counterfeits" since you are looking for "Thing that does <X>" instead of "Brand <Y> thingit."
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You are correct - Opera had tabs way before Firefox, and Opera had a full mail client as well without feeling bloated or slow.
That article discusses RNA not mRNA (messenger RNA). mRNA is used by ribosomes to "print" proteins. Totally different thing.
I have multiple experiences with Toyota’s driven 200k to 300k miles with just standard repairs. A Corolla costs $20k? $25k?

Let’s say $1k for new tires/brakes/oil changes/filters every 45k miles.

That’s $333 per year for maintenance, and the car lasts 13 to 20 years at 15k miles per year for 200k to 300k miles, so let’s say $2k per year on the high end, $1,200 per year on the low end.

Extremely high liability insurance is $50 a month or less.

Fuel is 10 cents per mile if you assume $3 per gallon and 30 miles per gallon, so $1,500 per year in fuel for 15,000 miles.

$1,500+$50*12+$2k+$333 = $5k per year on the high end.

Excluding insurance and fuel costs, you can push a reliable Toyota/Honda’s costs down to 5 cents per mile or less.
While there are many issues surrounding our banking industry, the way it manages currencies is far superior to how any of the crypto currencies work.
Fraud prevention, fraud reversibility, low fees, transaction rate, simplicity. Reliability is fine as well, I don't get the issue?

Keeping transactions publicly in the blockchain is probably one of the worst things that could happen to privacy.

I've read Bitcoin's paper back in ~2011, played with it's implementation a bit, so I'm well aware of what the blockchain is. It does NOT solve anything meaningful, it's not nearly as special as layman make it out to be.
Former US investigator: Covid-19 may have come from bioweapons research accident
I think there's two distinct ideas being discussed. Can people be unemployed because of structural, societal, or political reasons? Sure, and I think most people would agree. We have plenty of example of that happening - depressions, recessions, mass refugees, etc.

But can people be unemployed because we run out of things for humans to do? That's what the video is arguing, but it won't be the case unless we've fully satisfied all of our desires. If we haven't, there are, by definition, still things to do.

This idea was particularly popular during the recession (the video was made on the tale end of it). It was common to hear that the high level of unemployment was because automation had taken our jobs or because Americans didn't have the skills for the jobs that were needed. But much of this was nonsense, and we saw employment gradually rebound as we moved out of the recession. Not only nonsense, but dangerous nonsense, since it leads people to entirely misunderstand a solvable problem.
Perhaps a typing / autocorrect error for Fablab: https://www.fablabs.io/

In other words, a type of maker space / hackspace.
Hanging out in IRC channels in early 2000s was how I wasted my teenage years. But I did get a gmail invite out of it leading to my primary email address to this day: arithmetic@gmail.com
The better for who? Certainly not the people from the fly-over states.
That's because environmental impact studies aren't really about studying environmental impact.
Maybe this is an additional component to NIMBYism, but I've often noticed how public works projects get derailed from a myriad of busybodies coming out of the woodwork to halt the project based on some hitherto unknown concern. I can't help but think our public works projects are too public and it's too easy for some random Joe/Jane to have an outsized impact on the project planning.
> "There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS"

What does this person think "driver" means?
Animal farm is a fictional story about humans disguised as animals. The horse allegory is a non-fictional story about the downfall of horses which are very much not human-like.
The article does not show any reason to doubt safety of nuclear plants. Increased leukemia incidence in proximity to NPPs is interesting and should be further studied, but there are different possible reasons for it. It can be a societal effect/problem, i.e. poor and less healthy-living societal classes can't or won't move out from uncool nuclear power plant towns, but more wealthy or healthy-living-conscious people are more inclined to move away.
Actors aren't just about local concurrency, and if a language is attempting to bake them in, they should leave some room for the distributed case in my opinion.

One of the biggest benefits of using actors is that whether an actor exists on the same machine or across the network can be abstracted away from you. You're just sending messages, so you can send a message over the wire and it would be as simple to the developer as sending it locally. Not considering this use case would make it a very limiting language feature.
Another thing that’s about to be bolted onto Swift at the language level (instead of making it a library). Sad!
Using a terminal instead of punch cards. That was liberating.
Most people in the highest net worth lists are self made. Inheritance doesn't help you that much if you are retarded. Mostly it's gone in one or two generations.
The One-Year Anniversary of Lockdowns
This is linked in their top-level menu:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/financials/

Donation history (> $5k):

https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ni...
> I'm not saying that the European or Asian models are better, there are definite benefits to the liberties afforded to Americans

I'm curious, what liberties do Americans have compared to Europeans? The only thing that comes to mind is owning guns, and I'm quite convinced that's a net negative, a tragedy of the commons (everyone gets theirs and the community suffers for it, as a whole).
On Middle Men (2009)
I have a soft bricked Xiaomi phone with a locked bootloader. I haven't seen any need to unlock it, because I was fine with its OS (It is an AndroidOne phone with stock Android).
One day the phone froze while I was listening to music, and upon a forced restart, it stuck on bootloop. An issue that should have been fairly easy to fix with a reset, or at worst with a reflash of the original ROM. But turned out that I could not do any of those with a locked bootloader.
Later I've found out that Android phones have an "Emergency Download Mode" (EDL) that you can access by short-circuiting 2 test points on motherboard. Since I couldn't find a better option, I've opened my phone and tried to flash "the original", Xiaomi released ROM, but blocked yet again from doing so, because Xiaomi also locked the EDL mode. Only authorized Xiaomi personnel can flash "their" phones through EDL mode.
I didn't know any of that when I bought my phone, there was zero mention for bootloaders on user manual, EDL lock was added after a software update (which I've learned years later, as it wasn't mentioned on release notes).
So, my phone is waiting for benevolent hackers to find "exploits" in its bootloader to be usable again.
I'm not saying they don't have democrat aligned demands, but as to your examples, you can certainly want Trump and other supporters of the big stolen election lie to be banned for incitement to violence and insurrection. That is not necessarily a political issue so much as a legal one.
This is exactly what I do. Just have your winter tires on another set of rims and use the jack that came with the car. I do have a impact driver to make getting the lugs on and off a lot faster though.
Most of the users are on Steam and the fact that they have an existing library on there is a bit of a network effect. Users will prefer to get more games where their existing ones are. The social networking aspects (having friends on Steam, the ability to stream to each other, join games, and so on) also provide a barrier to new competition via network effects.

Are they a monopoly? I am not sure if it meets the current definition of one in practice, since seemingly no antitrust action is taken on by the government these days. But in my mind Steam is a monopoly for digital game distribution on PC. You could argue that consoles constitute a similar monopoly within each console's platform, I suppose. And you could argue that not all games are sold via digital distribution. But I think we need a new modern anti-trust law that doesn't rely on a very high bar like a "monopoly" but some other less stringent definition.
> If you look at the 10k, 50k, 100k maintenance on EVs is almost a joke

So then you should have no problem buying an out of warranty Tesla - it should be inexpensive to maintain, right?

This is the difference between theory and practice. Even though ICE engines are more complex (true) they are nevertheless well understood, the manufacturing process has been refined, and there is a robust aftermarket and network of independent dealers so that costs are controlled. One thousand dollar door handle replacement on your Tesla (https://forums.tesla.com/discussion/90061/door-handle-not-fu...) is going to make up for a lot of oil changes.

The issue with PEV is that these are new components and the manufacturers have locked down the supply chain so you have to go to the manufacturer. That's how you get these insane repair costs and why right to repair and a robust third party market is so important.

Each time someone suggests how much cheaper to maintain the EVs are, ask them why no EV manufacturer is offering a 20 year 200,000 mile warranty. If the costs are really 90% lower, then this should be easy to do. And Tesla should easily be able to set aside only 10% of what other automakers set aside for warranty reserves. Yet we see that

"Business news publication Barron’s calculated that Tesla's third quarter additions to the warranty reserve were 2.7% of the company's car sales – slightly higher than the auto industry average of 2.5%. That’s despite the fact that electric engines have fewer parts that are subject to wear than internal combustion engines, making them potentially cheaper to maintain." https://fortune.com/2020/03/04/tesla-warranties-accounting-p...

But again, there is a difference between theory and practice, between a well understood, mature system and a new system. If you don't believe me, then go ahead and buy that out of warranty car with lots of new tech and see how it works out for you. I'll wait.
Sakari just was dumb, and deserves the bad press. I've built similar products and we launched with the "phone call to verify" feature to specifically prevent this type of abuse.
Here's an idea. Don't buy shit you don't need and you'll have more to spend on stock plays.
Presumably the car's solar panels are not getting any sun under a roof.

A car having anything remotely close to useful solar charging requires so many goldilocks conditions to be just right that it's not worth the complexity, and it's better to invest equivalent resources into more practical solutions.
Be the change you want to see. Usenet text groups are still there. You can get posting access via https://www.eternal-september.org/ now that most ISPs have dropped usenet over the false 2004-2008 era scaremongering about it.

Come back to usenet. Life is good. There's still some spam but it's honestly less than you get on any link aggregator on the web these days.
you don't need 4k for retina at that size. 2880x1600 (3k?) will do 221 ppi
What do you mean? That it is used as a political tool?
I remember filling js files with alert messages back in 2004. Imagine the joy debugging a 15k line js codebase back then.
> horses don't create demand, but neither do unemployed humans.

Sure they do, although almost certainly nowhere near enough to sustain our current situation and the system it's built atop of (from which the holders of capital seem to have benefited immensely), although perhaps this is exactly the point you were making.

It might not be recognizable to most people living in modernity today, but in general humans will always trade (by some means, not necessarily with "money") with other humans whenever relative specializations occur between them, which even in small groups is likely to happen naturally.

After all, it's not the exchange of paper bills or service to capital in particular that makes an economy, and there is always going to be demand of something and some supply of some of those things as long as humans are around and interacting, regardless of how miserable the existence is, or how "inefficient" such a system might be.
> bureaucracies in East Asia and Continental Europe tend to be better-staffed and more empowered to make professional decisions

Not from what I've seen. The highway I drive every day is in the middle of an extensive refurbishment. The local government (I currently live in Europe) was given the option of shutting it down for a month, which was completely untenable, but in line with what I think the author was trying to get at. They were also given the option of keeping it running at full capacity and doing the construction work over a several year period.

They chose the latter, for obvious reasons, at a significantly higher cost, since the highway has to be rebuilt and demolished several times over to keep all lanes of traffic moving at all times.

The difference between here and the states is not the level of empowerment or the level of staff competence. They simply have a lot more money to work with, which lets them build to a higher standard of quality, do preventative maintenance on time, and refurbish or outright rebuild when it becomes necessary to do so.
You can want brand loyalty. If Nvidia cards are soaked up in mining & game devs start optimizing more heavily for AMD gpus, suddenly Nvidia loses market capture of gaming gpus & end up at the whim of crypto. Miners are also much less brand loyal, someone comes out with a better hashrate/$ card & you've lost your customers

So there's arguments for miners not being a diverse customer base that would encourage wanting to keep gamers in line. But I'm saying this without knowing any details, so I don't know
Definitely, thanks for the kind words and feedback here. Pricing is something we're still iterating on and a plan that's palatable for startups is in the future. Stay tuned!
Cricut owner here. Immediate work-arounds that come to mind are packing lots of assets into one SVG upload. Once it's in Cricuts cloud you get copy/paste for free. The 20 file upload limit could be expanded that way.
Gamers will be around in 10 years, miners might not be
A lot of it is surely the expertise to navigate the bureaucracy. It's not like it's simple to setup a competing service and manage to get a government contract.
Genuinely curious and not just trolling, but do you put this on your resume: "I can build large cities with high property values in SimCity."

I do not play SimCity so am unaware of the difficulty of building cities of any size.
There are winners who go on to the next level

And there are losers who drop out

Takes money to make money

In pure Capitalism you aren’t supposed to rebalance things for “fairness”. Bailing out the losers just makes the market competition weaker. It’s survival of the fittest. What exactly is “fairness” in the context of Capitalism? Someone happened to be at the right place and make money. Now they are ahead. And why not?
Everybody here knows we're already deep in this process, right? Most of us set up automated systems to control automated systems ad infinitum.

So everybody who enjoys setting up automated systems will continue to enjoy that, and to be frustrated by partially automated systems and continue automating them ever upward.

Everybody else will go do something else.

This is just Star Trek TNG. People like Geordi and Wesley have fun writing pathways through the immensely complicated recursive structure of the ships computer, which is capable of automating absolutely any task, and everybody else is engaged in diplomacy, commerce, watching out for people to shoot, or making wooden tubas.

In a post-scarcity society labor becomes recreation. As long as society doesn't completely collapse before then because of climate change or wealth inequality.
Fire extinguishers could come in handy [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2B20NU
‘Communicating’ with plants through electrical signals
The UK didn't have a formal legal guarantee of free speech until the Human Rights Act 1998, and even that comes with some qualifiers that Americans are uncomfortable with.

At the time of Russell's speech, 1922, all the old apparatus of censorship was still in place; the theatre was under the censorship of the Lord Chaimberlain until the 60s, as were books prior to the Lady Chatterly trial. Meanwhile, free speech haven the US was passing one of the Comstock Acts that made it illegal to distribute information on contraception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws#cite_note-5

I'm just old enough to remember when an elected UK politician (Gerry Adams) was legally barred from speaking on television at all.

Section 5 of the Public Order Act makes it an arrestable offence to swear in public. This is very very selectively enforced.

(As for the other bit of the first amendment, can't get much more British than an establishment of religion; it was one of the things many of the colonists were specifically fleeing)
Who owns the robots, and what are their motivations?
Yes you are, very much so, a multiplication of what you yourself could theoretically approach in a life-time.
Let's say a piece of mRNA has a 1E-12 chance of causing you to grow a third arm by virtue of a defect. Two pieces of mRNA would have very close to a 2E-12 chance of causing you to grow a third arm. That's linearity. If you've doubled the defect rate, you've doubled the risk.

This contrast with e.g. sports brain trauma, where one sports brain trauma might be relatively moderate risk, but two might be very high risk (much more than double). Or risk from ibuprofen, where 600mg is has close to zero risk, but an overdose of 60,000mg poses a significant risk of death (much more than 100x the risk of death of a 600mg dose). That's nonlinear.

I'm not sure how risk from mRNA defects would be anything but linear. It would take an extraordinary set of coincidences.