skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't say that that was the source of the figure, merely that there was some other evidence of this as well.
I wonder how much refinement the metals in an asteroid like this might require. Are we’re talking saudi oil, or Canadian oil sands?
Patent infringement. Is it? In India these stunts are very common, kids make copies of cool stuf to add in their uni application. (US uni application)
I think you should start with easy ones. IIRC kids take small tests in class every semester at elementary school (like 50-150 kanjis per test). Those kanjis are the easy ones and then you can build up. So learning kanjis you find on a newspaper or a novel might be too hard. Understanding those words in real life context requires you to have higher language skills anyway (e.g. understand economy news or whatever in Japanese).

On a slight side note, kids can't even write their own names in kanji. You can imagine how happy we got when we were taught kanjis that were part of our name. So you shouldn't feel bad about it, taking small steps serve you well in the long term.
6% is within the margin of error.

We're spending so much time and energy to quantify various 'biases' ; only to find there is no bias. This is good. We're finally living is a post-racial society with no specific group discrimination.

Now if western societies can move on from affirmative action policies and all the other nonsense at the top of their daily agenda while China leaves them all in the dust.
A $25M donation to help students got ensnared in politics
I agree. In the last 5-10 years the belief that race encodes all useful information about a person seems to have caught on among certain political circles to the extent that overt displaces of prejudice seem to be a signal that indicates ingroup membership.

There was a brief period during which the popular aspiration was to deny or try to combat our racial biases, but we seem to be increasingly giving ourselves over to them.
I think the two of you are in violent agreement.
> The trial is about figuring out the truth.

Even that is an assumption.
And punny and other wordplay headlines. For example, I could absolutely see, if there were a politician named Fenwick who was fired, a headline writer doming up with: Fenwick defenestrated.
The drivers are necessary only until driverless vans are here (relatively soon). Drivers, being near the head of the line of people to be displaced, have little bargaining power.
So sick of the "buT wE sHoULD T ceNSOr" crowd. It's time we stop providing these idiots a platform.
https://archive.is/pVMAZ
This is what doesn't make sense to me. High earners are struggling to buy a place.

It's not sustainable generally and political will for ever growing prices will have to shift as demographics age and non-owners grow relative to population.

And if interest rates start going north in any real way it's going to be severe with some of the debt load you hear about so many people taking on.
How about Star Trek? I can't vouch for it having not read it, but Manu Saadia wrote Trekonomics in 2016:

https://www.inkshares.com/books/trekonomics

Sounds ideal for curling up to read with a cup of "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" from the replicator.
Then when it pops all the people with means will buy it up to invest and those without will still be in the same situation, or worse.
No the GP, but I would assume Fran Allen's work would be involved in that? Surely that had some impact on mainframe compilers.
Lol you're the minority bud. And yes please censor religion, it is to blame for most of this shit.
Ada seems like a really good language. Is there any reason why it isn't more popular?
https://archive.md/PhL7p
That's the problem - their results show a bias against white and/or male entrepreneurs in this study on gender and race, yet don't point this out and suggest that we should look for negative female/asian bias elsewhere. The results speak for themselves but the abstract and mindset is indicative of what they were really looking for in the first place.
That seems an odd take. Should we look for pure discrimination against any group, that isn't related precisely to the associations people make?

I mean, it's possible. Faced with two people who (they believe) have identical backgrounds, I may discriminate against the black one purely because I dislike black people. But equally, I may have imperfect knowledge about two people, and knowing that one is black makes me associate them - consciously or not - with different things. That might then affect my willingness to give them a job.

This is close to the difference between "taste-based" and "statistical" discrimination, in economists' terms.* Normally we care about both, so why not try to find out about it?

It also seems unlikely that Asian names are free of associations, including e.g. associations about being hard working and/or nerdy, which might matter in a study like this.

* Though, I don't think it's identical. You might dislike someone (taste-based discrimination) based on your associations with their ethnicity. And you might predict purely from their ethnicity, holding everything else constant, that they would do worse in a job (statistical discrimination). (E.g. if it's a sales job and you believe buyers are racist.)
Well. In one sense no, but in another—-if you are going to do capital controls why leave giant loopholes like foreign land?
Yes, absolutely, I show him how to make variations on the pieces he knows, adding ornaments, stripping it down to chord changes, harmonizing with it when playing back a recording and changing the timing and so on. Music is like paint for time, you can mix it and apply it any way you want.
So this particularly odd strain came from caves 900km away and settled next to a virology institute which has been studying coronaviruses for the last 15 years? Are you a betting man? If you think about it the alternative(it came from nature) is arguably much more worrying. Does it matter? Not that much. It'd just put an end to the research. This field of study has been criticized forever for this exact reason and the fact that its basically fancy chemical warfare being sold as research for medicine. Did China let it loose on purpose? Of course not, it wouldn't have come from China.
Does no one remember SARS escaped twice?
I'm not sure that slavery "challenges the capitalist status quo"
I've been doing bare-metal embedded for a long time now, and believe me, I don't want to be the negative guy, but I stopped the video at the third "the compiler inserts runtime checks". A thing I don't want in my embedded code is more hidden code. Runtime check is, in my opinion, a pretty bad selling point for embedded (bare-metal).

What is this runtime check the compiler inserts? How much does it costs? If the anwer goes into the "you can disable it" or "some things are infered and some other are not" territory, then I guess I can keep the good ol' C as the main referrer for embedded.
Is it possible the two photos were exported from some photo software ten minutes after each other, and the export adjusts the EXIF timestamp? Probably less likely, but just positing another scenario.
I think a known pseudonymous identity is better than an unknown fake identity. Real names lower guard but most have no way to actually verify.
I like the term "insight porn" to describe that feeling.
I'm young enough to fit into your group of people who may be too ignorant to kill politicians.

I'm not killing politicians because it's bad
Carton and case aren't collective nouns though. They describe the packaging. You can buy a tray of eggs or a keg or six-pack of beer.
> that the anti-female bias must be even stronger elsewhere to overcome the significant pro-female bias at initial stages

From a strictly scientific standpoint, you can’t really draw such “must be” conclusions. It could also very well be that the input into the existing funnel is low; I.e that there is a lower percentage of female founders because females make a lower percentage of the applicant pool.

And, to be clear, the disparity could also be due to stronger biases further into the investment process!

It’s just that we don’t know whether it’s the former or the latter (or some combination), and based on the research here it is inappropriate to draw that specific conclusion. That’s not a scientific approach.
Cost per acquisition
The first link is from 2016. The only one that rises to “decades” ago is the last.
Likewise, I don’t understand the disconnect. You have to have your list of dependencies on an internet connected machine, yes, but you already allowed that. You said:

> I could then go to an internet facing machine and run a cargo command

Copy over your Cargo.toml to that machine, run vendor, copy the vendor files back.
Depends. Could those renewables go to other applications? If so, then using them for BTC means that somebody else must use carbon. If instead the renewables were located in places where it was not possible to move the energy to more useful locations or if the entire world ran on zero-emission power, then it'd be much less of a concern.

I'm happy to let BTC win if it means that global warming is halted. But if worldwide net zero emissions is a prerequisite for BTC being considered non-wasteful then that's a tall order.
Wondering what the total expected cost of buying a house in the 80s was, factoring in much higher expected interest over the mortgage, versus today, with much lower interest. Is it that we are effectively paying up front what previously would have been spread over the term?

Interest rates in the east 80s were in the teens. Today they are around 10x less at 1.5%. Over 25 year amortization that makes a big difference in total interest payments.
The idea of a diversified portfolio is that you buy stocks and other assets too.

Stock market gains over the last 10 years may be impressive, but they're nothing compared to housing in certain key cities.
> yet don't point this out and suggest that we should look for negative female/asian bias elsewhere

I’m confused, the study does suggest we look for anti-female bias elsewhere. Indeed, the authors seem to argue that it must exist elsewhere, and more powerfully so in order to explain the gender gap.
The problem with analogizing Bitcoin mining to gold mining is that Bitcoin mining secures value in the past and gold mining secures value in the future. If you stopped mining Bitcoin, all previously mined Bitcoin would lose value due to the decreased security of the block chain.

It's like if gold began to sink into the ground the moment you stopped mining it, and you had to keep mining and smelting it at a ever-more furious rate to keep it above ground.
Seems like religiosity is a neurological need, but church is not. With organized religion decreasing in various countries, I wonder where people will get their outlets for social and metaphysical needs previously supplied by churches.
As an Australian, every single problem you have, we also have. It sucks.

I'm starting to come to the view that you should only be able to own one house, and you've got to live in it otherwise you pay full market rent on the vacancy.

I think about the housing situation as an almost existential economic threat. With the scale 'money' sitting in housing the banking sector is acting like a parasite starving potential capitol from growth opportunities.

It's really grim.
To expect nobody to starve in the absence of government redistribution, you'd have to be quite optimistic about private charity or voluntary community provision. For example, some people are born severely disabled. Others can't hold a job down. Not everybody saves enough for retirement. Etc.
Analysis of 6,200-Year-Old Grave Raises New Questions About Neolithic Massacre
I'd love to see data for that. Do you work for Apple? Amazon warehouses, as notorious as they are for working conditions, don't even have a suicide problem. Note that the nets were installed reactively:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
Sure, but income doesn’t measure all consumption. How would you consider a third home in the Hamptons? Certainly not income, but definitely both wealth and consumption. Wealth is probably a better proxy for consumption.
I have family in Toronto and I concur that the primary cause of the rise in real estate prices is China. My cousin is an established IP attorney who earns a pretty good salary and this is directly from him...he was looking to move last year into a $1MM house (approx. 4k sqft) in suburbs of Toronto. He had the deal all worked up and ready to close until the real estate agent called him in the 11th hour and said the house was sold. He had been looking for some time and thought he finally found what he liked only to not get it. This really irritated him so he decided to find out what really happened. Well, it turns out that a Chinese foreign student made a $1.25MM all cash offer with contingency to close right away. This is the current state of real estate in Toronto. Imagine someone willing to pay more than the assessed value of the property because they’re not taking NO for an answer. Which seller would not want to make extra profit?
See also: https://www.tesla.com/2020shareholdermeeting

For another perspective on structural batteries
Makes sense given Amazon visitors are already pre-disposed to purchase something while the vast majority of YT viewers aren't.
Wealth isn't "transferred".

Wealth is just a measure of "popularity * productivity". Besos is more wealthy than a nurse because amazon engages in billions of transactions which are each productive. A nurse engages in one.

Your wealth, at a first approximation, is the rate at which you are productively transacting.
I really like this but I can't seem to get my Nanokey2 to work with it.

Edit: Never mind, it was the settings, it set the output to the nanokey, but didn't set the input.
English "counters" are in some way worse because they aren't consistent. Slice of bread, slice of cheese but not slice paper.

To be fair, Japanese has "everday use" counters and "trivia TV show" counters.
Me to! Maybe it is not in the scope of these projects. Apple however managed to do this for their latest architecture and also I think it was done quite a lot for the Pandora game console. So that would be by translating the binary files themselves to a new architecture before executing them.

In the case that someone targets one application run in wine this is not to much work I believe. If someone would be interested into doing this, I would be very happy to help!

https://www.giantpockets.com/starcraft-pandora-port-came/
I'm sorry if i'm not familiar with the situation in Canada -- but the people hoarding apartments, why do they keep them empty? Why not at least try to rent them for a partial recovery of carry cost? Wouldn't it be irrational to keep apartments empty when you could at least rent them for a bit of money.

If they rent for a partial recovery, then isn't that good as renters get a good deal?
> Does Amazon make more from ads than AWS?

I didn't need to read the article to know. No, Ads don't make more than AWS.

Adspend has been utterly gutted since the early 00's as analytics have shown how ineffective it is. There's still very large companies that uses a nonsense correlated-purchase-after-seeing-an-ad attribution model. This is fantasy to justify existing jobs and to tell other big companies how amazing they are.

Digital ads are not going to "take off" anytime soon either, as the hyper-concentration of capital makes spends more regular and "chunky" (block of 5mil spend to each target platform from the big boys, to the big boys) which hasn't even kept up with inflation. A bearish stance when factoring in population growth slowing and political pushback/infighting/adblocking, is pretty reasonable.
The fact that an individual can accumulate that kind of wealth while another individual can work three jobs and barely live is an indication of some fundamental imbalance.

I'm glad you used Warren Buffet as an example. He has made a point to illustrate how he pays a significantly lower effective tax rate than his secretary. Oversimplifying, it is because his income isn't labeled "income" - it is gains from investments. His secretary, however, has "income". the two are taxed much differently. That example alone shows how the wealthiest are taxed at a lower rate than at least the middle class. And very much simplifying the equation, you can see how two people with different tax rates would see their wealth increased at different rates.

But the really fundamental problem is not taxation of individuals. It is:

- monetary policies which have allowed one group to create money and keep it amongst themselves

- loosening of rules regarding corporations and their employees which allow companies to pay less and provide less benefits now than they did when the Baby Boomers and their parents grew up

- globalization, which has allowed a small few to take labor and resources from distant lands and profit (at the expense of the people in those distant lands)

You've let a bit slip with the "alcoholic parents" phrase. Wouldn't it be convenient if we could explain why poor people who grow up in a slum have few opportunities just because their parents were alcoholics? It doesn't work like that. Without doing research, I would bet that alcoholism is as high or higher amongst the wealthier class than the poorest class.

How about higher education? How has that changed in the last few decades? Student debt? Have starting salaries increased in line with cost of education? No, absolutely not. The value proposition for higher education has diminished significantly, but the requirement of having a college degree has increased.

There's so much more going on than most people notice.
There are quite a number of factors which are causing incredible price growth.

These cities are immigration destinations, a large number of Canada’s > 300k annual immigrants becomes residents of these cities every year. These immigrants are educated and quite often asset owners in their own countries. So lots of foreign money flows to these cities through immigrant population. Also culturally immigrants invest more in real estate as countries they have come from don’t have great investment alternatives beside real estate.

Because interests rates have been falling for last 20 years property prices have increased tremendously. This has created tremendous wealth for property owners, who then learned that they can cheaply get money out through home equity line of credit. This money is then invested in other properties which are rented out to pay for mortgage and expenses, creating a loop which further expands the price growth.

At this point property owners are making more money just by living or holding their properties than by working. So its becoming extremely attractive form of investment.

All of this is propped up by lax regulation, low housing starts, green belts, few public housing options. It is a dire situation and now young people are getting frustrated. Because the wages haven’t kept up and savings have been inflated away by a government which loves to print money.

Now this not even a big city phenomenon, the leverage available has caused prices in small cities to rise tremendously as well. Young local population is getting priced out because numbered companies are hoarding up houses and making them rentals.

There are some solutions, like banning non residents to own residential property in Canada. Asking for over 50% downpayment for 2nd residential property, 75% on 3rd. Taxing vacant properties.

In the end government needs to realize that residential properties are social assets not financial assets. The goal should be to create vibrant communities, and that cannot be done if people are unable to own a residence.
Reminds me of the Miracle Piano Teaching System for Mac, PC, Amiga, Nintendo Entertainment System, and other platforms in the early 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Piano_Teaching_System
Correct.
Our time will come back. And this time we will make sure y’all barbarian get the metric system.
Lots of my friends are Esperanto speakers and we use only Esperanto to communicate. I learned it to fluency in around 2 years. It’s incredibly easy to learn, super fun to use, and unique in that it bridges so many other languages that one can really experience a lot of different culture through the language.
I think a progressive tax like income in total residential property value.

Numbers off the cuff but something like <$1m is zero. $1-3m is 1%... Etc. Make the top rate untenable to own more than say $50m in residential like 10% + top rate for anything held under obscure ownership structure.

This way peeps can own a normal home at no cost, even have an investment property. But the person with 300 apartments who buys another 10 every year is encouraged to move their money to alternate assets.
Show HN: I created a funnel analytics service
> allow criminals to launder money through housing ... wealthy immigrants

not sure how it is in canada, but money laundering is taken fairly seriously in australia.

As for wealthy immigrants, the amount of purchases by foreign investors are few compared to locals purchasing.

> get on with fixing the root problems.

and nobody agrees what the root problem is.
I wonder why the rise of AirBNB isn’t discussed much more frequently. I’ve lived in pretty desirable areas and found it nearly impossible to find a decent rental because anything good is dedicated to AirBNB during the nice months, so my option is to rent a shitty apartment for 12 months continuously, or a decent apartment for 8 months and then be in disarray for 4 months struggling to find somewhere to live. I think it is complete madness that AirBNB has soaked up so much of the rental and housing stock.
you basically told somebody to roll his own crypto. that is a stupid idea. using refresh tokens and access tokens in a standard way is way more secure than rolling your own, this stuff is already pretty hard.
of course one could go with a simple cookie login, but when it comes to external apps, that's not always a good idea, especially not if you need to revoke specific applications.

so your general rule of thumb is pretty stupid.
If anyone’s curious, I wrote more about it here: https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18/
Maybe but the nuance of understanding and influencing complex situations through communication is beyond the scope of current AI techniques. Humans could be trained to observe and intervene in ways that will increase safety rather than increasing driver's cognitive load.
> Building renewable energy sources in the middle of nowhere to power a bitcoin farm is just completely nonsensical and does noting to help with the shift to renewables.

Building renewable energy sources in the middle of nowhere to power nothing also appears nonsensical at first glance, yet it actually happens to the point that energy prices can go negative.

For one, some forms of renewable energy are highly volatile and can not just be made to match demand under any circumstance. Hence there is a need for batteries to store this otherwise worthless energy. Today, these batteries just don't exist, wind farms are ideally backed up by gas plants, whose output can be regulated to even out wind volatility. In other cases, wind is backed up by coal or nuclear plants which can not be regulated as well, hence more of that wind energy goes to waste.

Secondly, especially in the case of China, these renewable energy projects are meant to raise the domestic product and production capacity numbers, with little regard to actual demand. The electricity grid to deliver all that energy to actual consumers is an afterthought.

In due time, these problems shall be solved. Better ways to store volatile renewable energy will emerge, better transmission infrastructure will arise. Bitcoin could be a stepping stone to solve the hen-egg part of that problem.