skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you will find straight up tons of people who made "threats" of a similar magnitude

Not tons of people who actually attempted to purchase a bomb, however.
> it doesn't really matter whether you use an existing PoW coin or a new one.

MobileCoin isn't a PoW coin.
Imagine if Microsoft were Chinese or Japanese or based in the EU. Would that have been better?

Also, Bill Gates revolutionized the computer industry and brought a lot of wealth and power to the US and control of a good industry.

The fact that he right now goes for diseases world wide is great, I would not want to die from Polio or Malaria, those disease can always make a comeback and spread like Covid... it would be better to have them eradicated entirely.
You and Russ both need to take a look at [1]. Socioeconomic mobility has massively fallen in the US over time.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
I think it's pretty solid. That plus the low carb bread from Costco is my go-to afternoon snack.

The most notable thing is that it does have a carb in the serving size, while the Palmetto brand did not.

I think if you were also being a pimento purist, it's coming from Easley, which is a long way from the coast?
Used cars are expensive in the US right now too. We had a car that wasn't being used very often so my wife suggested we look into selling it. Went to the website of one of those places that gives you an offer online and the offer seemed to good to be true. Took it in to them and walked out with a check for the full amount.
If something has decentralized parts and then centralizes some of those parts, it's still more decentralized than it is centralized.

The point about decentralization is that there are other nodes to build on when one part is removed, even if that node is the biggest one.
It's absolutely disingenuous to use CFR to drive home a point about absolute deaths rates in a population.

People with asymptomatic infections (which are the majority of them) do not have any reason to get tested, so they do not count as "cases".
Nobody should have to rent.
You haven't been in many programming language discussion threads have you? ;)

IME C coders are a fairly relaxed bunch on average, definitely more relaxed than some of the younger and more "radical" language communities in C's neighborhood.
Nit: Democrats definitely don’t hold all three branches of government. They hold two, the Supreme Court is 6/3 conservative. Democrats have two chambers of one branch, the legislature, by the thinnest margins possible.
You're making an obvious strawman argument by deliberately picking an asset that isn't fungible and doesn't increase in value like everything else. Any sensible person would, at that point, sell the art, so now we can talk in sensible terms, with real fungible and taxable assets.

Wealth compounds much, much faster than the tax burden grows. Someone who inherits $3 million (not much from the point of view of the very-wealthy) can live comfortably on the growth alone while still compounding their wealth further every year.

The only way a wealth tax would compound faster than the wealth itself is if it is larger than the growth rate of the wealth. And since the growth of wealth (e.g. by just putting it in the stock market) has averaged at ~8-10% over the past several decades, a 1% tax is not going to eat into a person's wealth over time. It's simply going to slightly slow that growth down.
Small claims court is an attempt to address the problem of court being too expensive. I think legal costs have grown to a point that we need some kind of "medium claims" court in the US (or just dramatically expand the limits of small claims).
>LED bulbs (which were still available at time of the regulations)

LED bulbs were readily available at the time? My memory might be fuzzy, but the phase out started in 2012[1], and the lighting section at the hardware store was a sea of CFLs.

[1] In December 2007, the federal government enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), [...] The law was to effectively ban most incandescent light bulbs, starting in January 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
Even though there is the async keyword and Promise() there are no async functions nor callbacks in JavaScript itself. For example setInterval and setTimeout is not part of the language and needs to be implemented by the runtime/program that runs the JavaScript.
(about the number of slaves)

> " ...and I'm sorry to say, the answer is way lower than 127"

127 is a really high number that nobody should encounter in real design situations. I2c was conceived for communications between chips on the same board; it is extremely unlikely that one could fit that many chips on a board, all talking i2c with each other on the same bus. I2c switch chips also can be used to split the bus in multiple parts so that only a few chips at a time are physically connected to the bus. Example: the PCA9548 from TI, NXP and possibly others.

https://www.nxp.com/products/interfaces/ic-spi-serial-interf...
> Sofi Oksanen is both talented and works so hard in promoting his work.

Her.
You linked an income inequality graph, which is distinct from wealth. If you look at the list on Wikipedia [1] and sort by Wealth Gini (2019) you will find that the Netherlands are #1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...
Here's the Norway page

https://www.adobe.com/no/creativecloud/plans.html

Looks the same to me. Is it possible the law isn't what you think it is?
A quick look at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...) shows that the Netherlands does not have the most wealth inequality in the world.
What an odd assertion.
noblesse oblige is, best I can tell, a cultural myth. There’s been quite a bit of writing on this subject[1]. I’m not convinced self-made wealth of today is any better or worse than the concentration of family money in the past - so I think your point is half correct.

[1] https://www.worldcat.org/title/executive-imperialism-the-myt...

(And the paper) https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/28722/bk0003v1h0r/

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/04/the-ignoble-lie
I don’t think gravity and medical intervention risk and uncertainty are in the same domain. I could be wrong.
Copyright typically only applies to expressions of an idea, not the idea itself. You cannot copyright the observation that the sky is blue, but you can copyright a poem describing this circumstance in a certain language.

In this particular instance, a scientific theory is not copyrightable, but a paper describing said theory definitely is. Sci-Hub is in hot water precisely because copyright on papers is a thing.

If you wanted to exercise ownership rights on a theory itself, your best bet would be patent law. Patents apply to ideas, but only within the realm of making actual objects. Abstract ideas like scientific theories are usually not patentable, except for the realm of software. Software patents typically cover algorithms and thus mathematical concepts, and since software is a way for mathematical principles to enter commerce, it's probably your only way. (This is also why software patents are so controversial: It's the closest thing to "denying others access to an idea" that we have in our current system of law.)

Disclaimer: IANAL either.
> Edit: And now they are selling light fixtures with the LED's integrated and non-replaceable.

Market!
“Quality” in this context simply means popularity - among literary critics. There’s no objective standard of measurement for literature.

Popular books aren’t better or worse than “good” books, they’re a different product. Could Michael Crichton have won the Nobel prize? Or could the Nobel prizewinner for literature write - and sell - a massive hit like Jurassic Park?
The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use
It's relatively cheap for the US to do since we made the catastrophic mistake of depending on Emergent BioSolutions to make the vaccine in the US, so all our raw doses are coming from a Janssen plant in the Netherlands and we've run out of the "banked" doses made before FDA Emergency Use Authorization.

What I'm finding interesting is that if this has anything in common with the (AZ/)Oxford vaccine problem as we should suspect, it would not seem to be related to Oxford's unique or nearly so use of an unstabilized version of the spike protein. At this point the only things obviously in common are some version of the spike protein and using adenovirus vectors. Different ones of the latter, a chimpanzee derived one for Oxford and a normal human one that's one of the causes of "the common cold" for Janssen.

Derek Lowe has commentary from yesterday on all this here, up to date except it only mentioned Janssen in passing based on his hearing about early cases with the latter: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/12/az... It goes into the cold risk/benefit calculations you should make for various treatments and their diseases.
Shameless plug: I also wrote about how we have overused the term "Tech debt". The concept of "debt" for me should include some sort of "investment" - ie you don't do something well because you need or you want to invest the time on something else.

But if something is done with plain bad code, it shouldn't be called tech debt. Something that outgrew its objective shouldn't be called tech debt. If something is a bug it shouldn't be called tech debt.

https://isidoro.io/writing/tech-debt-broken-windows/
> outdated

No, CL's popularity hasn't changed over the past 30 years.
How much of the increased housing costs is due to growth and how much due to lack of real-estate taxes?

Real estate prices are going up everywhere - including places with negative demographic trends.
> Implying that changing paradigm can only make things worse is a fallacy.

So is saying that changing the paradigm will make things better or stay the same. I'm not making a data driven argument for not changing things, I'm simply pointing out that you're not making one either.
You shouldn't need to, unless your PowerShell installation doesn't support Invoke-Command, or ForEach-Object -Parallel...
What would this tracking mean in regards to following the EU ePrivacy directive? My understanding is that session resumption mechanisms could be used to track users by capturing the session ID and associating it with the user's IP address, it should follow that the use of such devices should be allowed only for legitimate purposes, with the knowledge of the users concerned?

"(24) Terminal equipment of users of electronic communications networks and any information stored on such equipment are part of the private sphere of the users requiring protection under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. So-called spyware, web bugs, hidden identifiers and other similar devices can enter the user's terminal without their knowledge in order to gain access to information, to store hidden information or to trace the activities of the user and may seriously intrude upon the privacy of these users. The use of such devices should be allowed only for legitimate purposes, with the knowledge of the users concerned.
25) However, such devices, for instance so-called "cookies", can be a legitimate and useful tool, for example, in analysing the effectiveness of website design and advertising, and in verifying the identity of users engaged in on-line transactions. Where such devices, for instance cookies, are intended for a legitimate purpose, such as to facilitate the provision of information society services, their use should be allowed on condition that users are provided with clear and precise information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC about the purposes of cookies or similar devices so as to ensure that users are made aware of information being placed on the terminal equipment they are using."
Source: (24) Terminal equipment of users of electronic communications networks and any information stored on such equipment are part of the private sphere of the users requiring protection under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. So-called spyware, web bugs, hidden identifiers and other similar devices can enter the user's terminal without their knowledge in order to gain access to information, to store hidden information or to trace the activities of the user and may seriously intrude upon the privacy of these users. The use of such devices should be allowed only for legitimate purposes, with the knowledge of the users concerned."

Source ePrivacy diretive: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Great extension to the analogy! In my experience over-engineering class are the most damaging of all and I feel like the article and general discussion of technical debt largely ignores this.

I'd also add two subsets of the over-engineers. One subset are those that create frameworks to solve problems vs. address the problem directly. The other are those that introduce (language / datastore / build tool / etc.)-of-the-week to a codebase in an ad-hoc manner. And I'll admit, I've been both of those once upon a time...
Even when cookies are generously handled they’re still a nuisance. At what point are they just banned outright?
I'm suggesting you apply the same cross-domain skepticism to your adage that comes from the financial domain.
I recommend everybody to read this guy https://www.reddit.com/r/MakerDAO/comments/de0sys/kyc_is_abs...

My experience as a person who also was misfortunate enough to spend a big portion of my childhood in Russia, and get a Russian passport nearly mirror misfortune of this guy.

Speaking honestly, the "global mobility" for me is only possible thanks to very same people who enable rather shady people moving money around the world, and contacts with no-nonsense bankers for me probably rank as my most valuable contacts.
Yeah Afghanistan, Lybia, Syria are all much better now that there's "freedom".
There's no energy scarcity, only a choice of whether, and how, to produce or obtain it.

For example, open-cast coal mines, and coal-fired power stations fed by them, are among the cheapest (and most environmentally damaging) ways to generate electricity from fossil fuel.

it's now actually cheaper, over the lifetime of the installation, to cover that land with solar panels, than to dig it up and burn it.

Fossil fuel, as the name suggests, is dead.
Context: the Finnish language has no gendered pronouns so confusing he/she in English is a common mistake.
How did projects get staffed? Was that senior mgrs allocating staff to winner proposals? The article mentions "Most great innovations at PayPal were driven by one person who then conscripted others to support, adopt, implement the new idea.". I am wondering how "conscripted" worked. It also mentions "Vigorous debate, often via email: Almost every important issue had champions and critics. These were normally resolved not by official edict but by a vigorous debate that could be very intense." It looks like David Sacks was successful at shaping a product-driven culture there. Is the implication that innovation and project allocation was coming out of "product"?
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Other people make the point of how it misleads.

Moreover, the pricing structure itself is misleading. Unlike, say, an apartment lease, there's no intrinsic reason for having it be an annual price billed monthly. It's not like Adobe has to buy extra servers that just sit there empty if somebody cancels. It's pure exploitation of cognitive biases.
> I'm not sure there's physically enough space to farm enough food to supply the population

I'm sure there's an elephant in the room here.
Only by making public transit more available and reliable.
Don’t most European cities have pretty strict building height restrictions? Of course that’s not as bad as banning multi family housing complexes completely but it does seem like basically the same core issue
Steam's system survey shows Linux desktop usage at ~0.85% and general consumer surveys show less than 3% usage even after thirty years of development and that is in spite the fact that it costs nothing. Moreover, a $45 Raspberry Pi 4 costing a third as much will have vastly better performance as a desktop than any logic it's possible to fit on the DE10 board costing $150 that was mentioned. The examples provided therefore demonstrate the exact opposite of the points you are trying to make.
CodeWrite author here.
Thanks for a link - highly appreciated!
If anyone has any questions - feel free to ask.
Yup, I didn't update my card details and forgot to cancel hosting with a UK provider and they sent a collections agency after me for £16.
It is a leftist, anti-capitalist theory, and there are many leftists. In that sense, it may be widely accepted.

Ultimately, speculators only try to guess at future prices. Even when hording occurs to manipulate prices, that is usually temporary, as keeping the asset off the market also has a cost.

Maybe prices rose a little faster with speculators than without them. But high prices should lead to more building (like if you have land ready for building, there will usually be a price point that tips you over to "OK let's build"). If it doesn't, odds are something else is going on.

I'll take a close look at the paper, but at first glance it also only says "speculation could be a contributor to housing prices".
I think the argument hinges on the technicality that it's not splicing itself into the host genome, so no chance of it becoming a retrovirus or something like that (in the event that the cell's lineage is not extinguished by the immune system).

I'm not a genetic engineer (what a time to be alive, eh?), but I'm pretty sure an adenovirus that did permanently modify cell DNA would be more like CRISPR, including the risks that entails (such as the risk of incorrectly splicing the host genome and potentially creating a precancerous mutation)
This reminds me of the wonderful Chhandayan All Night Concert series. I've listened to their web broadcast for the past 5 years (minus 2020).

https://tabla.org/past-all-night-concerts
The obvious solution is to make renting out properties illegal.
> re-building all of the wealth your family spent generations accumulating, every 50 years.

Correct, that's the point.

> the more you save, the bigger your tax gets, while your income stays the same.

Only if you're a completely useless investor. Most people's income increases as their wealth increases. That's part of the problem. Especially the "r > g" question: are you growing the pie or simply sitting on a larger share?

On the other hand, this can and should be irrelevant to the average family. Start the wealth tax at $1m, say.
Such a privilege to have no idea how the Government can execute millions of its citizens having no doubt that they are paving the way to a Better Tomorrow.
What are you doing with your other hand that is important during the 30 seconds you are pouring gasoline?

I guess it's unfortunate for you that other people have different priorities in gas can design.
Free Software Foundation and RMS issue statements on Stallman’s return
Now we just need to turn the graph into 1-5 numbers which consumers can understand.
At this point don’t the benefits of continuing to using both the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines far outweighs the costs?

And we have already accepted that there may be long term side effects that we won’t be able to detect because we have decided to rush these vaccines into use because of the huge benefits.

Isn’t this just another case of the excessive caution by regulators? White House says decision taken out of “abundance of caution.”

For each prevented blood clotting death the decision will cause many more additional deaths from Covid. It’s not just the delay in vaccinating some people but also tainting the popular perception of these and other vaccines.
Even the first one can become an issue if the follow up refactoring is not prioritized and the team moves on to the next feature, the POC becomes a Product. It needs discipline to make sure the follow up investment happens.
Functional vs. Object Oriented Programming: should we make the switch?
3N2P motor is not a popular configuration for the same reason as you are experiencing with starting. It is harder to sustain continuous rotation. I included that in the simulator to help bring focus to that. The sudden jerk in the motor when adjusting the frequency is what you will experience with real motors too if the frequency is adjusted without taking care of the current commutation phase of the motor.
Haha no. E-CNY represents repression. Bitcoin represents freedom. Xi is crazy, who the hell outside of China wants this trash? Good luck selling your shitcoin Winnie the Pooh!
I mean, that's a gross oversimplification and while a neat story, it's really the same as saying rising CEO wages resulted in a lowering of measles cases across the US because they started going up as measles went down.

You clearly haven't studied WWI or its causes or you'd realize that the entrenched interests were responsible for the spread of the war in the first place. It's the opposite of what you're saying happened.
See https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901
> What do you think? ... What else you want there?
My wife.

Well, I don't think a planet with no women will survive because women and sexual desire has been the biggest motivator of humanity since forever. In a world without women, either we are going to get bored and stagnate playing games or we are going to wage wars and end the world. Men don't struggle because of women, men struggle because they settle with the first woman they seduce. Settling with the first job that would want you will also make you miserable.

Strive for the most suitable woman for you, strive for the best job for you, strive for the best lifestyle for you, then you are going to be happy.

I for one, would not to live in a world without my wife, since she is a way better companion than any man can be and I am so happy to have an amazing companion.
It's still a crime though right? You can't launder money for a criminal and say you did nothing wrong.
It's hard to accurately drive e-paper, so some prefer to consider them black-and-white screens. However, taken at a macroscopic level, it has quite an important bit-depth, as while each individual particle might have only ~two possible states, you are controlling a distribution of more than a hundred of these per pixel.

In a sense, the variability (particle size, etc) will already introduce some noise, which, for instance, makes it so that you need less antialiasing.

Another use of that variability is that those screens can effectively be driven as if they had a very deep dynamic range.

Your statement would be true if all particles were strictly the same, reacted at the same voltage, had exactly two equilibrium points, and didn't interact with each other. Luckily, reality isn't so dull, and you don't really need dither if you put a bit more effort into controlling the voltage being applied: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140284
Where do VCs get the money to invest in follow-on rounds? Same place.
This is a super effective way to get debt collectors sending you messages!

It depends on the company and sales contract, but as you signed up to an agreement for the subscription on these terms it's possible that Adobe would be able to sell the unpaid fees off to collection agencies.
If you see it as an us vs them, then the problem has nothing to do with architecture, tech or technical debt in any framing of the words.