skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but if the contradiction bore out, then what's false (at least in some edge cases) is established physics not the experiment result.

The strength of the established physics just means that there is an extremely high chance that the EM drive is experimental error, especially with the small effect size, rather than something novel.
What collapse? In all but the most deplorable areas houses will have multiple offers within days of listing, starting even before any marketing effort. In many cases we're talking cash over the asking price. This isn't coming mainly/only from the tech sector. The number of people with FAANG salaries simply isn't sufficient to support the large number of multi-million dollar homes here. A lot of it is absentee (foreign) investors (for example, just under 20% of purchases in San Mateo as recently as 2019).

At best we might see a slight cooling in the rise in already absurd prices for property out here.
Sprawl is probably worse for the environment overall. More driving, more land taken over. More density also reduces that.
In terms of average rental price It is very expensive for Berlin. I pay 750 all inclusive in a better location for the same size.

The kicker: got my contract signed five years ago.

There’s a stop on rent increases for a reason.
Short Snowflake?
We have a member called 2GKasmiri, would be appropriate to hear him here.
Thanks. Yep, you can watch jhiesey give a talk about Xylem, his "semi-pure, functional reactive language" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiEZ9_Cn5xU It comes after the talk from Dominic Tarr about Acid, his new "fun-oriented programming language".
The sentiment I've heard in many disciplines, but often in art, is that you have to have the skills to follow the rules before you can break the rules in meaningful ways.
> The “fewer the need” is really a binary 0 or 1

I can see several ways in which this is not true.

For one, several different variants might need to be handled with several different vaccines. Vaccines might also not work perfectly on a variant, but they might confer some protection, leading to overall less total viral particles produced, reducing the probability of an effective mutation.
Is the Passover story the original false victimhood narrative?
Wages haven't grown with monetary supply inflation. Every dollar earned buys less each year and wages stay mostly the same. Without debasement what you earn buys mostly the same amount of stuff the next year. Then you are able to save and count on your money actually being worth something when you need it. We have had over 100 years of debasement that increased in rate after 1971. You need to look at a longer time frame to see how badly we have all be fucked.

We haven't had obvious consumer price inflation because the money supply is hitting the financial class first. Instead we have seen asset prices increase rapidly. With the stimulus checks every citizen has had a taste of what has been happening with banks for a century. But, we have had price inflation. Instead of raising the price at the store most manufacturers have opted to reduce package sizes for the same price. They didn't do this for your health. The price creep up is slow enough that it can be hard to notice. I am not sure how old your are. Think back of how much a dollar bought you when you were young. Can you buy those same items for a dollar now? How about 5 dollars? This is the pernicious result of debasing the currency.
I agree that lexing and parsing is probably more useful day to day, but for those use cases, I think a approach like parser combinators will be much easier than the formal approach taken in a compilers course or book.
That same country is ranked higher in food security than several other high quality of life industrial nations in the world: https://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/Index
The trial protocol allows for a participant to leave at any time for any reason. It does not require the participants to not get another vaccine if one becomes available. They'd obviously do that if possible, because there was a 50/50 chance they had gotten the Placebo. Both the treatment and control groups would start to disintegrate the moment a vaccine gets approved for an EUA.

(But fair enough; in the case that no vaccine got an EUA, the control group would have lasted for two years.)

All that the protocol change to give the control group the Moderna vaccine at that point did was to let them at least continue with the observational open-label phase B of the study.

Your suggestion that this a sinister plot to hide the long-term inefficacy of their vaccines is absurd. A Covid vaccine that was highly effective for only a couple of years would be a goldmine in the long term, and would sell just as well right now.
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The Invisible Asylum
You do realize that the problem is NIMBYs all the way down tho, right?

How do you think zoning laws came into place?
What's the label/musician split again?
Thank you for the compliment and suggestion, Dillon! Really appreciated.

BTW - your site looks amazing. It's what my site thinks it is.
Vacant != on the market. I know a few people living in china, all of whom own more apartments than they can use (in the same neighborhoods no less, so it's not even vacation homes).

They do it because it's the best way to invest their savings, so new apartments are usually spoken for before they're even built and often unoccupied until they're sold again.
Because our medical (and other professional) cartels are powerful. A massive amount of that money is literally directly transferred to the world's least-efficient healthcare industry. The vast majority of that money is never given to people.
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> I much rather steer the conversation towards solutions rather than engage over abstract "good" and "bad" terms which you don't seem to want to define.

That’s not really how it looked earlier in the thread.

You seemed to be strongly defending the idea that engagement is good, and not even accepting that there could be a problem.

Perhaps that’s a misreading of your intention.
Onramp is a good point. Didn't think of that.

> Then there’s the gas fees on Uniswap. Not even worth bothering with unless you plan on making $1000+ trades.

This is fixed by PancakeSwap.
To be fair, housing in China is used as a savings vehicle. They have few, if any, social safety nets available to them, and don't trust the stock market.

Housing in the US doesn't have nearly the same speculative force behind it.
Why would Canada deploy this to a single provider? A national alert system should have a better DR plan than that.
80% of Toronto basement units are illegal as well. Gov looks away because housing supply more pressing. Sometimes I envy Japan, enough disasters like earth quakes and hurricanes for urban resets. Urban environments are just like forests, sometimes you need a controlled burn to rebalance ecosystem. Entrenched bad forestry and urban policies lead to bad environments. Sometimes you just need an act of god to shake things up.
Wars are strategic but motivated by emotional propaganda. In this case, American news is full of discussion about genocide in China. China will use it's incredibly effective propaganda machine to promote theories about heinous American acts (about Covid, Taiwan, anything).

(Just to clarify I am not saying there aren't heinous acts going on anywhere. But what I will say is that there are actually horrific circumstances in many parts of the world (such as for example, where wars were already "successfully" initiated). It just so happens that the press and the moral outrage coincidentally tend to be extremely ramped up when and where they are needed to motivate war.)

It's not possible for military or economic planners to say "look, we need to go to war or else we will no longer be able to get computers" or "our money will disintegrate" or "we need to access this area to maintain strategic dominance" or whatever it is. So whatever type of moral story is necessary to justify mass killing is propagated. Not because those people are evil liars, but because without the stories there would be no war, and the strategic objectives would fail and have very real consequences.

And it's not hard for a human to rationalize anything really. People are happy to have a moral reason to defend their ability to procure the next gadget or whatever threat there may be to their standard of living. Which often those are actually very real threats and not just about trivial things like gadgets.
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Yikes! That's not a good failure mode at all.
Marginally, if anything. Non-technical users misattribute and misunderstand causes of outages.

There’s a comment on the AWS page complaining that iTunes gift cards are being slow to arrive. The Google page has people who think the comments are the place to talk to Google support.

A major outage will make itself known in far clearer ways.
Your argument boils down to righteous dignity. You presume that it's below another person's dignity to live in, gasp, 500sqft. This is obviously nonsense. I've lived in less. It is important to understand that scaling down square footage is the simplest path to creating market-rate, sustainable, affordable housing
You're attempting to mock someone for not personally taking on a problem of society. That's uncharitable to say the least.
People have been saying that ever since Bitcoin existed.

1) they don't see it as a threat (ex: Powell comparing it to gold rather than USD)

2) it's actually generating capital gains tax, jobs and revenue for the country (by creating business around it, etc)

3) US has auctioned off seized Bitcoin in the past, so it would be weird if they make something illegal after selling it themselves

Last, but not least, they can't ban it, they can ban the on/off ramps and cause short term disruption, but that wouldn't be sustainable in the long term, how do you stop millions of people from running some code on their computer (case in point, torrent is still very much alive)?
Nice blend of virtualization and retro computing
I would rank it with puzzle solving ability, which may or may not correlate with doing a good job.
I have some understanding of your view. However, it often makes me think of living in a museum. Wanting to make the whole city like a museum.

But museums are full of dead things.
Certainly people may be reluctant to visit grocery stores or senior centers because of covid and school lunch programs may be unavailable when schools are closed.

However, there is also a general economic crisis due to people losing their employment or business income due to the pandemic and lockdowns. People whose income has suddenly been lowered have trouble affording all sorts of basic necessities: food, clothing, household supplies, rent, utilities, health care...

Unemployment insurance can help but it may not be enough. Rent has been mitigated somewhat due to anti-eviction policies but those will expire eventually and the rent will come due.
It's legitimate salvage!
Even if you allowed skyscrapers, most existing houses and buildings would be illegal because of code. The map on this particular page mentions it only looks at zoning, so it's still very valid.

But my point is saying "X amount of homes would be illegal to build" is completely pointless and just meant to rile people up. OF COURSE most buildings are illegal to build today. We don't build like we use to for a variety of reasons. Even if you forget about building code, there's also rules around minimum amount of affordable units that older buildings didn't need to follow. Zoning is a specific one and yes, it's often problematic and regressive. Let's focus on that.
I think you’re misunderstanding my original post, and thus presenting an argument you want to make in an incomplete and easily misunderstood manner.

I apologize for the sarcasm in light of this. Cheers!
China could simply cut off North Korea, collapse it into the south and bring that behemoth to fall.
I'm in the same boat with my MiPad 1 Mocha! But the build of LineageOS 14.1, exactly from that forum thread you linked, was giving me some major issues:

* A very bad one is that the tabled would suddenly reboot, from time to time, for no apparent reason (e.g. it might reboot just after opening the application drawer).

* Even worse, using cabled headphones with the audio jack would be dangerous!! because some times a very high pitched beep might start sounding with max volume.

Those two issues are clearly a product of how these alternative ROM builds are done: by some random hobbyist, in their free time, no professional QA at all, and some times changing internal system parameters without really understanding very well what they are doing.

All in all, pretty much an exercise on luck. The high pitched sound was the worst for me, it worsened my tinnitus problem for several hours afterwards...

In the end I tried my luck again with the AospExtended v5.8 [1] and this time things seemed to work out much better. But still, I would never personally recommend an unofficial Android ROM, ever. It feels like sending people to take a stroll through a mine field.

[1]: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-8-1-0-20200224-unoffi...
Zerodium is interesting. Apparently this bug would fetch "Up to $50k": https://zerodium.com/images/zerodium_prices.png

Is there a way to verify whether Zerodium might be advertising large payouts (for attention) and then offering much smaller payouts for the actual bugs?

It's pretty risky for Zerodium. There's nothing stopping a researcher from collecting a payout and then reporting the bug to the vendor.
It's also possible that you could accidentally stumble into a situation where doubling your presence also doubles the risk of significant problems.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261
> Is there a fast way to help them recover some functionality?

A NATO tank division in Yangon, and a missile destroyer flotilla in the bay of Bengal.

There is 1 US friendly nation anywhere in the vicinity. And given the timeline of Iraqi Freedom as a reference, 1.5 month.
How is it remotely hard to understand that someone doesn't want their neighbhourhood and greater neighbourhood plowed into the ground and replaced with skyscrapers?

They can disagree about it sure, but it should't be remotely hard to 'understand'.

America is a very large places, there are tons of places for people to build out and build up if that's a primary issue.

The most vertical city in the US - NYC - is one of the least affordable.

In fact - the 'most dense' places tend to be the least affordable, paradoxically.

So even in the event affordability becomes a primary concern, even then the answers may not be more obvious.

More than likely getting different companies to move to adjacent areas might be a more suitable problem to the affordability crisis.

Surely Morgan Hill, Pleasanton, Fremont or Santa Rosa could equally opt to 'build up'.
> Apple puts rather extreme security effort into preventing iOS jailbreaks.

Yes, IMO their business model is more accurately described as “gilded cages/jails” than just general “gilded/good-appearing stuff”. They deeply care about the strength of their DRM — including at the expense of end-user security, eg. you can’t access the internet through the Tor browser installed the normal macOS way without macOS broadcasting that you used Tor Project products to Apple’s DRM servers.¹

> They are pretty serious about trying to prevent data exfiltration from locked iOS devices as well.

They definitely care about the appearance of trying to prevent that exfiltrating (they don’t publicly appear to help the FBI do it), but they don’t try hard enough to actually prevent it (including in situations were preventing exfiltration seems to have been proven possible, see nearby comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667141).

¹Edit: ocsp.apple.com, enabling targeting of the people who need or want security the most.

To the people downvoting: I’m trying to make an evidence based refutation of the less supported speculation/assertions in the parent post. If you have counter-evidence or any reason to downvote other than fanboyism, please explain it so we or I can learn.
With that definition, what would be an example of a non-natural process?
Thank you, I really appreciate the offer. This feeling is definitely something I'd like to free myself from, and you seem to have figured out how to get a sense of peace. I'd love to chat.

My email is charliecollard0 at gmail dot com.

I feel like such a fool for going down this path, but I've recently been reading up on life extension, and Aubrey de Grey in particular. In fact, I did a Google search for his name on hacker news, and this thread came up and I recognised your handle in the discussion!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854050

It's embarrassing how much relief even thinking about the possibility of having more time with the people I love gives me, compared to everything else I've tried. Do you think it's healthy to have this in the back of my mind as a possiblity? My rational side wants to dismiss it as just another religion of a different shade, and I feel it does set myself up for a lot of disappointment at an older age. After all, if it sounds too good to be true...

Have you gone down this road yourself?
You will find no shortage of volunteers for Martian colonists, but understand that for anyone who just wants to be alive somewhere, there's an endless quantity of undesirable places on Earth in which to live that are all still veritable paradises compared to literally everywhere on Mars.

About the only practical benefit of a Martian colony is to serve as a last-ditch backup of human civilization in the event of an asteroid strike. Mars won't be a powerhouse of industry, commerce, or culture; at best there will be some modest scientific output. It's a tomb world.

Give humanity a few millennia to build a Dyson sphere around the sun and maybe then you could start reasonably terraforming Mars into somewhere intrinsically nice to live, over the course of a few additional tens of millennia.
Usually you look at the volume of experimental evidence that directly contradicts it. In this case there’s quite a lot.
PancakeSwap which is running on a "decentralized" network, "CeDeFi" as CZ calls it, that's tightly controlled by Binance.

I think the real solution are layer 2s, optimism comes to mind, but there are many others too.
This just sounds like a really clever mechanism for solving the cold-start problem for the protocol. You generate a bit of initial demand to pull in some initial supply, which in turn generates its own demand, which pulls in more profit-chasing supply (of storage), which drives down the real price of storage, which is part of the value prop to the non-speculative demand, which is how the crypto asset might maintain its value long-term. Boom, now you’ve got a functional network, a valuable token, and a more efficient market for a raw material of the internet economy.

The word bootstrap comes to mind.
I don't know if it was the intent to release on 3/31 (and it would have seemed an odd intent), but I assume the only reason that this has flown so far under the tech radar is that a lot of people glanced at headlines and dismissed as April Fool's.
Meaning it’ll never happen as holders of crypto are accountable to no one .
What protocol do you use to securely send the bash file?
Also, the specification of getenv does not exclude of having other data in environment that is just not retrievable by getenv but would be accessible e.g. through the third argument to main that is mentioned in the common extensions section.
Most mutations probably just render the thing unable to replicate and it "dies," much the same way flipping a random bit is more likely to cause a program crash than do anything useful at all.

The relative rate doesn't matter, the absolute rate does (how often does it mutate at all and survive to infect another host).
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Poll: Which phones do HN users use?
What phone do you primarily use?
iPhone 10/X
iPhone (other)
Samsung Galaxy 21
Samsung Galaxy 20
Samsung (other)
Android (other)
Other (neither iPhone or Android)
No cell phone
They refer to time as shifts as well, presumably since work is so crucial. So it seems to imply the shifts are a regular length of time, so a "day" for a worker would be from the beginning of their shift to the beginning of their next shift. It's a little less clear with the Earth/Mars military.

It's easy to use 8 hours for a shift like we do (and 8 hours for sleep), but our shifts are based around day/night, sleep cycles, and our human limits for work within Earth's gravity. That could change on Mars though. Since there won't be weather seasons or agriculture for a long while, work shifts will likely have a bigger influence on the decision rather than the reasons we have them on Earth.