skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so giant, the $50,000 limit works for it as well.

The property is specially attractive because unlike socks, you can do one big effort to move money out in one go, and then forget about it for a few years. Plus, the customary blindness of Western law enforcement institutions to dirty money in property transactions.
I use dolphin with i3 on arch. It's not nothing (particularly if you install optional deps for features like thumbnailing or search indexing), you have a lot of the foundational modules like kparts and kio required, but it's not like you'll end up installing kdm, kwin, or the desktop apps: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dolphin/
> The only scientifically proven way of knowing if someone is a liar is to examine the shape and bumps of their skull.

The only proven way of knowing if someone is a liar is to get evidence.
Don't forget FORTAN's influence on BASIC. See https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/216469/A_basic_history_o...
Why should "the leader of the FSF" not make "as many public comments about unrelated matters as Stallman"?

This seems to suggest that a leadership role results or should result, ipso facto, in a reduction of its occupier's freedom of speech.

I don't follow that rationale at all, which isn't to say that I don't acknowledge that such comments can and obviously do in some cases lead to public distraction from the actual work of said leader, shifting the focus to the leader's perceived identity and moral fortitude.

That's a lamentable development to be sure, but to advocate abstention from public discourse as a precaution against the danger of becoming a distraction from the cause you advocate seems to be a clear case of blaming the victim. Stallman is not at fault here.
"Revenge bedtime procrastination” is a mouthful, but I like how precise it is. I recently noticed how many things I actually do as a "revenge" for things I'm dissatisfied with. e.g., I shouldn't be so stressed about work, so I'm going to revenge-eat this pizza, is the most obvious one. I wonder to what extent shopping/consumerism is revenge-buying, etc...
I am a cryptocurrency enthusiast (disclaimer: I even own some). But I find this article fallacious.

> if we think of Bitcoin as a battery, what can we do with it? The key properties of Bitcoin’s battery are: 1) always on and permissionless (no need to find customers, just plug and go)

I think it is a very wasteful transformation of the power put in. You can get it to be always on and "permissionless" without burning this much energy: check out [Bitcoin Cash, Dash, ZCash](https://www.crypto51.app/) and other, cheaper-to-mine (still proof-of-work) currencies.

The actual benefit you get is security via out-costing: "you have to burn up this many resources to double-spend".

Because of the simplicity of this out-costing, lots of people trust it, because they can understand it (even though it's wasteful).

> and 2) naturally seeking low-cost electricity: it will always buy when the price is right.

Just because electricity is cheap in some places doesn't mean we should bid it up pointlessly.

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I would love to see a PoS scheme that I could understand enough to trust. But they are much harder to create, and until then, I keep my money in PoW ones, in spite of the cost of transacting.
Pragma Initialize_scalars for the win. But at runtime.

And if you can afford it, Codepeer (static analysis) finds most of the ones the compiler doesn't find. And then if you can live with the Spark subset, you get proof of initialization in 'bronze' mode :-).
I'm not sure where the 30% comes from either.

I've seen it often thrown around for housing markets but it seems out of touch, since it doesn't line up with a lot of median incomes of home owners vs median prices in metro areas.

It's not uncommon to see many people putting 50% of their income or more to rent, so why would mortgage be different?
Clean money can buy financial assets like foreign stocks. Dirty money cannot.

> Canada is a great place to launder money because of our lack of ownership transparency ... criminals can park large amounts of illicit cash in real estate and hide the purchases behind numbered corporations or shell companies located in offshore tax havens.

> Canadian real estate has been “extensively exploited” by the problem of money laundering and all financial sectors need to fight against it.

~Half of all transaction fail basic AML/KYC compliance.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6608644/canadian-real-estate-abys...
My opinion flipped the other direction. Which totally surprised me.

I used to dismiss Gladwell's "insight porn" (h/t lordnacho). But now I feel like he's a pretty effective advocate, popularizer of views and policies that I agree with. Briefly, he's punching up.

Michael Lewis was the catalyst to reassessing Gladwell. I just frikkin love his Against The Rules podcast series. Briefly, he argues that we do better, both as society and individuals, with referees and coaching.

Then I listened to a handful of Gladwell interviews. A long form chat with Lewis. Book tour stops for Talking with Strangers. I thought: Huh, Gladwell doesn't sound too bad.

So I started listening to other Pushkin Industry podcasts.

I especially love historian Jill Lepore.

So I guess my TLDR is: I reevaluated Gladwell because he's now working with two people I really admire. Virtue by association.
We generally agree, though not violently :). I was pointing out that the effect is a bit bigger than the parent suggested. The authors aren’t abandoning their priors about anti-female bias; on the contrary they aren’t even recognizing that this evidence challenges those priors—they assume that the evidence to prove their priors must exist elsewhere and in sufficiently large effect as to counteract and dominate this pro-female bias.

Note that I think it’s a fine thing to stick to one’s priors until they’ve been conclusively disproven, but recognition when the evidence obviously challenges one’s priors is my baseline for good faith. That said, I suspect this paper is written as it was because the authors thought their careers might be in danger for merely suggesting that the disparity might have a cause beyond discrimination.
It's also disingenuous to not factor in the massive wealth transfer in progress via the US health care system in an article on income inequality that counts healthcare as income.

The US pays almost double per capita for health care compared to its northern neighbour Canada.
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> High earners are struggling to buy a place.

because there are even higher earners buying, pricing them out. So are they really 'high' earners?

I think the lack of supply is the true source of the problem.
This is an extreme case, but not an unusual one. People draw conclusions about people with very little information. They then carry on to believe that their conclusions have real weight, and are based in fact. It's part of why there were always be socially fluid types and con artists.
Ask HN: Why isn't ADA more popular?
That’s exactly what it is - any energy demand, under this worldview, is good because it means more demand for clean energy.

In a world that’s already struggling with this, it makes no sense at all.
His Plane Crashed in the Amazon. Then Came the Hard Part
I’ve taught programming and various other software engineering subjects for many years. Among the hundreds of students I came to know there’s definitely more women than men that I would hire on the spot. For an ideal company that is. I’m aware of the all to common poisonous environments where it would be torture to hire a woman.
If you disable JS with an extension like Ublock Origin it disables the subscriber block.
> as long as the system really is focused on the safety of drivers and other road users.

That's the problem; nobody (rightfully) trusts Amazon to only have everyone's best interests at heart, or to not abuse this system. Because they have in the past, and they will in the future.
Don't know about Louvre, but some museums definitely publish 3D models online. Europeana[1] in principle should be the one-stop place to find those from European museums, but still finding those is bit difficult now imho.

Sketchfab has a recent blog-post on their part: https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/1-year-of-public-domai...

[1] https://www.europeana.eu/
> This seems like a pretty flawed idea and an attempt to justify the incredible amount of electricity required by bitcoin.

It's not "required", it's only that high because it has so much success. Bitcoin would be working with only one miner running, the first blocks were minted on a private computer.
The true cost of free labour – and how founders can find their way around it
Is an education un-exercised worth having? The experience of getting the education probably has some (hopefully positive) impact on the individual, but if there is no real opportunity to use that education later, there may also be some psychological downsides.

Not entirely related, but also worth pondering is the brain drain of diverse intellectual talent into the world of finance, particularly private investment. What would the overall benefit been if the dozens of MIT physics and chemistry grads used their education to make things, make discoveries, etc. instead of making money for a limited group of beneficiaries in finance?
I disagree with your point (I’ll explain why below) but it shouldn’t have been dead so I vouched for it.

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There’s diversification across asset classes and within asset classes. If you add a large non-diversified asset even in a different class, to a diversified portfolio your average diversification goes down, not up.

Or in other words—REIT sure, but a significant fraction of your wealth in a single, idiosyncratic, illiquid, high carrying and transfer cost asset is not diversification.
It's years since I read and then binned any of his books, but to give a concrete criticism of Outliers:

Anders Ericsson, who conducted the study upon which "the 10,000-Hour Rule" was based has written that Gladwell had overgeneralized, misinterpreted, and oversimplified his findings. https://web.archive.org/web/20190320062202/https://radicalsc...
RightPercent: B2B AGENCY FOR FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE

I'm not sure what data that shows, but I'm confident it's not showing anything but the "public data"...which is a simple excel spreadsheet, hosted on Google by "someone".

If you search for the doc id (16HWY3ytQY0kMEFCoJKAwkjO2dr6x0-Nm146-taLpf7A) it's a couple RightPercent posts...probably because they pulled it out of their ass for their own sales pitch.
As far as I know you dont only buy a dog a call it a day. You are basing your argument on the commodity product appeal which unlocks more expensive products with no labor involved such as drinks and already prepared pastries.

Also rent is very cheap wherever ikea is located.
> The only scientifically proven way of knowing if someone is a liar is to examine the shape and bumps of their skull.

Sarcasm?
Versus CPC, where you get paid for anyone clicking through, or CPM, where you get paid per thousand views of the "ad".
> 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?

Because they are too lazy?

And look this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26610167

Paying people money to avoid the vacancy tax sounds bizarre, beyond idiotic, but somebody does it, and it's there. They will prefer to pay money rather than bothering flying to Canada every month to collect rent, and making sure that renters keep the apartment pristine.
Oh, priced file manager - instant turndown.
It's not because you'll need it later. It's because you can sell it later.

This gets the cause and effect completely wrong. The only reason you can sell it later is because someone will need it later. As a society you store energy precisely because you will need it later. Whether you do this by creating a market for it or not is purely an implementation detail.
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Yeah, I followed that story pretty closely, including talking to a lot of the authors who were in that publication. It was all very suspect in that it seemed like FCC was trying to create controversy to obscure their own bad, probably illegal, act.

For one, the pressure was just that Medium went from not having a business model to choosing subscriptions as their business model and that had a lot of ripple effects in terms of incentives. I guess that creates "pressure" but it's hard to fault a company for having a business if the alternative is going out of business. Anyone saying this is a vanity project for Medium's CEO and thus doesn't need to be a business is way off base. He made his money in publishing platforms (Blogger, Twitter) and Medium is just more of the same.

But what that subscription pivot led to was some publications feeling like they should leave. Only problem is that they don't have a license to any of the articles in their publications. So leaving, legally speaking, would mean starting with zero traffic.

I'm 99.5% certain that what is called here "threatening us with a lawyer" was simply explaining the Medium Terms of Service which leave the copyright with the authors and ask for minimal license for use throughout the Medium network. It's definitely not the case that publications gain any right to license an author's work more broadly.

That didn't stop FCC though. They copied thousands of author's work and moved it to a new site. Medium had no standing though--they don't own the copyright and so can't enforce it. And so that left a lot of authors in a weird position where they needed to decide whether it was worth figuring out their rights and fighting for it or what. I'm sure some were fine with the move, but I also talked to many that were upset. In any case, it definitely wasn't legal on FCCs part.
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The energy usage of a PoW scheme is in direct proportion to its usage (transaction fees), block reward and price of the underlying.

As such, I don't see that Bitcoin Cash, Dash or ZCash would be fundamentally more efficient if these factors were to rival Bitcoin, even if parameters such as block size were to change. For the longest time, Ethereum transactions were far cheaper than Bitcoin transactions, but today they rival Bitcoin.
> must exist elsewhere, and more powerfully so in order to explain the gender gap.

Why is anti-female bias the only possible explanation of the gap? Why is that the only acceptable hypothesis? It's a possibility, it might even be probable, but there seems to be an exclusionary focus both in your comments and in the abstract.
> For f*'s sake, when will people with money stop funding every stupid idea just because it involves (blockchain|token|social|web3.0)?

I feel exactly the same way-- investors would do way better with ideas that involve (blockchain&(token|social|web3.0))

If we go that route regulators will be too busy making money hand over fist to even think about becoming crony capitalists.
Psychedelics and esoteric philosophy, of course. And netflix. Mostly Netflix.
> If you’re a software engineer, you would probably agree with what Steve Jobs said.

No. I don't. I do believe that Jobs was being hyperbolic.

This article would seem to imply that most managers are 0.1X:

> In fact, you can see how hard it is to evaluate a software engineer from the process of big tech companies. The most common technical interview process for programmers is to ask them to solve very challenging programming questions.

Your engineers are already solving very challenging programming problems. If you can't work with that, you shouldn't be in management. Part of your job is to evaluate skills and compensate accordingly. If you can't manage that, you are a 0.1X manager.
They aren't doing anything. Bank of Canada said they don't want to adjust rates for a couple years, ruling parties have been mum on the whole thing because it benefits a good chunk of voters that are homeowners.

Right now it seems like to buy a house you have to offer no conditions, so no housing inspections etc. which is probably going to lead to a good number of screwed people when they find out their 900k home needs an extra 200k in work.
It doesn’t even result in more bitcoins. The emission rate is fixed.
Older compilers use techniques across the board and are not based on a systematic theory.

There was one Fortran compiler from that era for the 1401 that made more than 50 'passes' to minimize memory use.

Today 'N passes for large N' is popular for experimental compilers, not to save memory, but because the passes themselves are easy to write. (At resource expense, and the danger that users will never be able to understand error messages.)

PL/I and Algol were targeting the space that C took over but had good and bad ideas that were abandoned, misunderstood, forgotten, etc. For instance the first Algol had no definition of how to do I/O which sounds terrible at first -- except today a C prog might throw away the stdlib like arduino does.
Airbnb didn't create demand for housing that didn't exist. People really want to rent places that aren't hotels for short periods.

Is that madness? Cities trying to clamp down on Airbnb are just shooting themselves in the foot again along with NIMBY housing regulations.

There's incredible demand for housing in cities that isn't being met, and the cities which refuse to allow supply to rise will face the same problems and eventually lose out to more dynamic cities.
Strongly agree. It would be nice if the authors nodded to the possibility that the disparity might not be attributable to VC bias at all.
This is the new "blockchain not bitcoin". Why do VCs feel the need to post reductive grand statements like these?
Referring to me as a "resource" immediately destroys any good will I have for that person. I can no longer see them as a human from that point on wards.

I refer to managers as belonging to one or a mix of the "slave trader", "parasitic" or "demonic" classes. In my 10+ years in this profession, I am yet to come across a "manager" who doesn't fall under this categorization.
Another project that works like this is devito https://www.devitoproject.org/ - the python code generates C code, calls gcc to compile it, dynamically links the object code with dlopen(), then calls the compiled code. That way, the hot code loop doesn't run in Python
Eh, you might not want to confess that you haven't read the article before arguing against it, that's pretty bad form.

Why don't you read it and argue against the arguments laid out in the article instead, so the rest of us might learn something instead of reading empty opinions from someone who doesn't even listen to others?
Such an error is nobrainer? Yet you deployed your code with several of them?

Understandably you didn’t put your whole effort into a small code example in a HN comment, but a language that allows one to do so without any errors would be big productivity and safety gain.
Do you have data on this as it relates specifically to H1B applications?
What happens when you print 10x the money... let’s see shall we, they are doing it now!
Not saying what is / isn't a bubble, but enjoyed this discussion here on Aussie / Canadian RE bubble. https://youtu.be/2MLZxJuzT5E?t=2802

Joe Walker: "Sydney and Melbourne are 2 of the most expensive cities in the world..."

Tyler Cowen: "AND THEY SHOULD BE! Great food, great views, relatively competent government. Are there 2 nicer places to live on Earth? Maybe these places are actually undervalued?"

Turns out really great places to live are extremely rare (Toronto, Vancouver) and expensive for good reason.
I have the same questions.
Old english was a more complex language but evolved to more simple grammar over time. Languages are not static.
Batteries can release energy. Bitcoin cannot. Neither can aluminum.

Bitcoin consumes vast amounts of energy, far more than "traditional" payment systems (per transaction), and denying that reality helps nothing. Bitcoin is an energy-wasting system. Fix that problem if you want to see wider adoption; don't just pretend there is no problem.
The predicate of this article is nonsense. The market has not failed, nor is it nearing 'systemic failure' if some people can't afford to buy goods in the market. Is it a housing crisis for young locals? Yes. Is it a market failure? No.
I am not sure I understand. Can you please elaborate?
Not true for lot of cases. Every time you decide carry your water bottle and not buy a new plastic bottle, Bill Gates isn't buying 1000s of more bottles. For lot of consumables, gap between median and 99th percentile is very low.
Ah, I love how people love to paddle flawed ideas in order to protect their mindset.

This article goes into great depths to explain all the fallacies when it comes to energy and bitcoin: https://www.ofnumbers.com/2021/02/14/bitcoin-and-other-pow-c.... tl;dr is that bitcoin is just wasting energy and no amount of text will help improve that situation. It should be outright forbidden.
Ask HN: What functional language to learn to get a job?
I see most of them are losing popularity. Should I just give up my dreams of funcional language job?
If anything it’s a record of energy transformed from electricity to heat, little else.

The energy isn’t still present in the Bitcoin.
The quote doesn’t say “with intent to release”. You’re writing that in. I’ll quote Thompson on ‘manufacture’

> Wait, what was that last one? “The baseless theory that COVID-19 was manufactured in a Chinese lab”? I feel pretty certain that COVID-19 wasn’t deliberately manufactured and deployed as some sort of biological attack, but where does “gain-of-function” experiments end and “manufacturing” begin? Even if it ends up being true that the lab-leak hypothesis is wrong there is actually zero question that the Wuhan lab was manipulating coronaviruses to make them more lethal. To that end, the primary evidence we have that the lab-leak hypothesis is false is that China says it is false.

This gives a new perspective to Roose’s recommendations (well technically, the recommendation of the experts he consulted, which all happen to align with Roose’s previously stated beliefs) that the Biden administration set up a “truth commission”, appoint a “reality czar”, audit tech company algorithms, and “fix people’s problems” with a social stimulus.

The lab was doing gain of function experiments, which most people would agree would constitute “being made in a lab”.

I don’t necessarily think the lab leak hypothesis is the truth, but it certainly is a real possibility. And if it was an accidental leak then it would very likely have been a virus modified via gain of function.
Dice NPM module in an attempt to improve my own JavaScript skills
So, English is like Python?
That poem is amazing. It really brings to light how inconsistent English pronunciation truly is.

Also I bet most native English speakers wouldn't be able to pronounce most of those words correctly. Many are obscure words that rarely come up in conversation (I only know them because I watched a lot of British TV as a kid). And for the longest time I thought awry was pronounced “Aw ry” until I heard someone say it as “a wry”. The word “hagiography” has two hard g’s instead of just one. And recently I learned that the word “mercantile” in Chicago Mercantile Exchange is pronounced mercanteel rather than mercan-tile (like floor tile).

English is full of shibboleths.
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2048 would be a better title.
Some write "coöperate" in English, which looks like the same kind of pretentiousness.