skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who want to tell the old Austrian story about money will always find supporting evidence to do this. If you are seeking to view everything as a nascent currency crisis, because thats the only economic narrative that appeals, then there will be things that tie into that.

A modern iPhone, price converted into 1970s equivalent technology, has many millions of dollars of 1970s technology on it [see YT link below]. Now available for 600 dollars. An older gentleman I was speaking with yesterday told me about how nickels and dimes had become worthless.. indicating a decrease in value of the American currency. On his lap he was holding, what would have been for the era he had in mind (60s), a sleek, miniaturized supercomputer. These are now available for less than 1000 dollars with a monthly operating cost less than 100 dollars, including power. The same 10 dollar bill that in the past might have bought more food, now buys an unending amount of technical gadgets and do-dads mass-produced from the Chinese market, which can be shipped to one's doorstep for either free or an additional 5 dollars. Those products and markets didn't exist or were not open in this golden age of nickels and dimes he was referring to.

I may have misread your comment, but if you are leading me down a primrose path to speculate on the relative worthlessness of the dollar, because some asset prices have increased - I'm not going there. I've seen people parroting these arguments for 20 years now online. Stocks and housing are special cases. Cars are actually also weirdly price-fixed to support the auto industry. Everything else is getting relatively cheaper. This guy has some worthwhile thoughts on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSw41MqPFoM
I hope we agree that alternative mnemonics don't change anything essential about the code, so the equation "kind of" still holds. You have a point that it's hard to formulate this precisely.
The US Plans to Finally Standardize the Length of a Single Foot
the sim city way.
These videos sell because they induce fear, so stop watching them. I think the only acceptable resource (that's fear driven) is Real Vision Finance because they regularly bring guys from the other side.

If you think there is inflation in the U.S., check the Chicago real-estate market. It has been in a depression in the last decade, more so in the last year. There is an imbalance between US cities which is inflating some cities and depressing some others. Hyper-inflation occurs when, regardless, everything is increasing in price because of monetary debasement. I'll start worrying when Chicago real-estate market start a bull-run without a change in fundamentals.

On the other hand, if you are living in a hot city, you are definitively experiencing local inflation. If you are able to move to a lower-cost area, you should definitively do that. Be mindful also, that shortages can cause price spikes but these are not (monetary driven) inflation. If the suez canal is blocked by a ship, you might see prices spike for a while until traffic is back to normal. The pandemic has caused lots of disruption and multiple goods have experienced that effect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

interestingly the perpetrators received immunity from the US...in exchange for information...I wouldn't be surprised if history repeats itself and a lot of people are counting on it...
Let’s also give them transportation, nice clothing, and fast internet so that they can apply for great jobs. Sometimes jobs are hard to get so we should also give them employment workshops and education. Even still they would be better off with an advanced degree so we should give them enrollment at a major local university. We should also give them watches, writing utensils, and brief cases so that they are prepared to take notes and be on time. We should also give them a cellphone and cell service so that they can better reach potential employers. We should also give them athletic equipment, shoes, and workout clothes because working out is necessary for optimum health. We should also give them tax exclusions because taxes are oppressive. We should also give them nice laptops in order to write their resumes and track their potential application status. We should also give them education in entrepreneurship so they can attain wealth ahead of their peers and thereby never return to homelessness. We should also purge the entirety of their criminal histories as that is a major employment discriminator. Dating is hard and loneliness is an epidemic so we should also provide exclusive access to a dating service.

Then after we have given every homeless person a bunch of stuff homelessness will entirely disappear never to return right? There is no reason to think this. It makes me want to be homeless.

Instead a better option is to make homelessness less attractive and less available. Homelessness is less a choice when there is nothing to enable it. How high is the homeless rate in rural North Dakota, northern Wyoming, or west Texas for example?
WebAssembly doesn't make it JavaScript application either. It is merely runtime.
>would deplore a protest in which a police officer was killed

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/capitol-polic...

But they surely instrumentalized that death for their own ends:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/29/politics/brian-sicknick-l...
It's mid-season and plenty of Europe is still in some sort of lockdown. I expect it to pick up again by summer, especially if tourism comes back to life.

Although, I believe people may wait to feel a little more secure in their future before they start to spend. There is a fear that winter will see yet another lockdown (despite vaccines). Until that dear subsides, spending may well be subdued.
Maybe, but this would require even more work, time and infrastructure.
I think you're reading OP a little too harshly. That's another type of a strawman argument.

Of course there are nuances and exceptions to every generalization. OP seems to be saying that most boolean flags we care about on a day-to-day basis can benefit from being placed in a time domain. If you're aware of an exception, you can just point it out. There's no need to dismiss the entire argument.

Returning to your example, you probably do care when a certain regulation started to apply to a certain industry, because factories built and products sold before that date may not comply, and may not even be required to comply, with said regulation. You probably also care when it stops applying. Laws are not rules of nature; they change all the time and often come with expiry dates. If you store every regulation with a few timestamps, it's going to be pretty straightforward to find out which entities need to be in compliance but currently aren't, etc.

Besides, the cost of keeping a few unnecessary integer columns around in your database is often negligible compared to the cost of updating the schema and notifying everyone who uses your API several years down the road when you realize that you need it after all. Disk is cheap. RAM is cheap. CPU is cheap. Updating enterprise software is not.
And let's add to this that you can very easily lose even the "rental" if you simply move to a different country. If I buy a physical copy, not only do I permanently own it, I can take it to the other side of the world with me if I want to.
Thanks for mentioning nix. I didn't know it had a macOS variant. I've been meaning to learn the whole nix ecosystem but hadn't found the energy yet.
So we're trying to come up with reasons why this is bad advice? uhhhhhh ... something something far future something Y10K problem something.
Isn't x86 assembly not directly executed by the CPU? IIRC it's turned into microcode instructions. I could be wrong though
Haha is that what they're calling it now? "Restored"?
Waydowntown (2000)

> The film centres on a group of office colleagues in downtown Calgary, Alberta, who bet a month's salary on who can last the longest without going outside by using the system of covered walkways that connect the buildings. The film takes place over one lunch hour on day 28 of the month-long competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
Interesting, as I've been considering going to Harvard for the purposes of finding a suitable dating partner. I can't think of a better place to find someone with the qualities that I desire, other than possibly top tier prestigious companies.
The obvious solution is to encode it like this: `null` is `null, `yes` is the timestamp when it was set and `false` is a timestamp somewhere in the future. Now t < now() maps nicely to the value of your boolean.

You just have to pick your `false` timestamp somewhere far into the future, let's say something arbitrary like 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038. The software won't be around for that long anyway, so it will never be a problem...
2048 bit RSA can have at most ~2022 bits of entropy.

It can and often does have much less¹, depending on how the keys were generated (debian). That may or may not be an issue, depending on the resulting distribution of keys, i.e. how usable is the information that only a teeny fraction of keys are possible (Infineon).

¹ Entropy interpreted as the number of possible, roughly equal-likelihood outcomes.
MacKenzie Scott Gave Away Billions. The Scam Artists Followed
The eight richest people in the US have over $1T in wealth
Wow. Thanks. I didn't know this is a thing. Had to Google and learn. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2017/01/23/how-privat...
Github shows the force push, and from which commit to which commit it happened. You can then manually put the into the diff view of Github and see what changed. I agree that it should have a UI though.
If we are living in a simulation it's slightly more troubling that it might be running in a browser.
Heat Gun
Stuck at home with nothing to do? You decide to get artsy during these challenging times stuck at home; inspiration flows if you have a project in mind.
> But it takes so much dam place.

Does it? If you use iron instead then we only need to know that it has eight times the density of water. Multiplying a volume by eight is not a lot; it's only twice the size in length, width, and depth.

So let's imagine replacing a typical hydroelectric power station [0] with a 'gravicity' system. Supposing the same depth you need a system of about one third of its length and its width and then fill it to the brim with iron. And of course do not forget to install cranes that are able to lift this iron to another space about 200m lower and back up.

By the way, for concrete blocks it would only be a volume factor of 2.5, which would mean about 36% more in length, width and height.

All in all, the amount of space that can possibly be gained with these systems seems pretty minimal to me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_...

Edit: care to explain the downvotes?
How Barbados, Croatia, and Estonia are courting the remote worker
This is interesting, thanks, but I don't understand how it supports the refutation you made about x86, which is what I was responding to
Great tool.

I've been doing some tests with Emoji / SVG favicons.

There's a couple of problems.
They don't show up on some old browsers and in google search results.

For old browsers there's a solution, which is to have a raster .ico version of the icon at the root of the domain: e.g. example.com/favicon.ico

But for the google issue, I'm not sure if that's the solution. Whatever google is using to render svg icons in their search results just doesn't like emojis. I haven't tested that yet.

also as others have pointed out there's this bit of code that can save you an http request:

<link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 99 99'><text y='.9em' font-size='90'>EMOJI</text></svg>">
In the past I made a map of train lines in and around Prague, which required quite a complex stack, since the information I wanted was in relations. How does Protomaps deal with relations?
Really interesting project/product! It's really nice to see new ways of rendering OSM data, and alternative map services.

I am developing another way to run your own map server (without mapnik!) from a low-end computer (https://github.com/jamesrr39/ownmap-app in case you're interested), but a little bit different to you in that I'm currently focusing on rendering raster tiles. I'm really happy I saw this thread, however, I hadn't heard of the OSM Express, MBTiles or PMTiles formats before and was/am rolling my own format, so it's really interesting looking at some ideas from these.

Thanks again for sharing your project!
Maybe the solution is using very dense material. Like nuclear power plant waste.
Resurrecting the Optigan Disc Format (2011)
For testimonials from some of the people living in these Toronto tiny shelters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdbmLKaGleg

Some interesting notes about the shelters from the video:

- they are on wheels, and because they're off the ground they stay warm and dry even when it's raining

- they can be locked from the outside or inside, which gives people a sense of safety (e.g. people's tents can get slashed up, but these are strong), and they can also safely leave possessions there

- they let people sleep much better (longer, more comfortable)

The amount having these things improves a person's psychological state is immense.
I'm assuming you're being absolutely fascitious.

If you're not (and you're female), Wellesley is a better choice. You have more options (Harvard, MIT, Olin, &c.), and the parties are better :').
Back in the day == 10 years ago?

Green Arrays Inc was producing forthchips in 2011.
Long years to overnight success – $10k in a week
The Covid-19 pandemic ruined America’s idea of work-life balance
The current version of GPL is 100% toxic at many places I know of - this is not overly conservative lawyers - you have all sorts of rules around releasing your encryption keys - secure boot chains etc - it’s a no go and viral
Linconia
"Linconia was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by Republican United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862, after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln asked the Senator and United States Secretary of the Interior Caleb Smith to work on a plan to resettle Africans from the United States."
I started doing all my development inside a virtual machine. UTM on the M1 chip running Ubuntu ARM works very well and has minimal impact on battery life. The VS Code remote extension makes development inside the VM feel like its local.
I once had a thought experiment of how a suburban city could be reworked with a focus on coworking centers.

Like the center of a neighborhood would be a coworking center and a park, it could be surrounded on each side by a subdivision, and the corners could be commercial/services. That way you'd be able to easily walk to your job if you wanted, and head home to let out pets or have lunch, no problem.

It would require pretty much everyone to move to coworking for it to be viable, though, and you might find out you don't like spending so much time with your neighbors.
Hi, I am a longtime lurker and have seen lots of people launch their ideas and have decided to finally bite the bullet and launch mine.

My hobby is writing and am currently writing an action thriller novel as well as an animation screenplay. As any writer will tell you writing takes practice and some might suggest that it is good practice to write everyday.

And so I thought why not combine the idea of writing prompts (short exercises that provide you with a topic and you create any story with them) and sharing on Social Media.

That's where 'Based On A Story' was born.

A fun way to create stories based on the word-of-the-day using only 280 characters.

I combined the wordnik word-of-day API, with Firebase as a backend to make the extension work and then I used the Twitter social sharing links for the sharing.

I would really appreciated some feedback on the effort I put in.

Thanks,
Sharon.
I’m not sure this was retracted. The amp links still work, and the original article on wired is still up.
I can get just a tiny grasp of the power of that sight just by looking at the photos, and can't imagine what would be like experiencing it in 1st person.
This brings the hope that one day when every human would be able to experience it, we'll create a utopistic Trek-ish reality in which people suddenly become less selfish and put the common good above idiocies such as nationalism or the pursuit of immense wealth at the expense of others.
Hopefully one day seeing the Earth from orbit will become sort of a rite of passage for kids.
TCP doesn't lose traffic, it blocks and retransmits (until the connection itself breaks). it cannot lose just the password bytes entered to sudo and still transmit the rest

so unless the connection didn't respond to anything at all after it failed to accept your password, your problem is not with the ssh tunnels or due to path/mtu issues themselves.
MacPorts is fine (a coworker is using it daily). There's also pkgsrc and nixpkgs (I use the latter daily), which are great.

That kind of vulnerability being a real possibility is one of the main drivers behind ArchMac, although I did contribute to Homebrew, I always found it to be way too complex and brittle for its own good (no offense, many of it is a design choice, it’s just my personal opinion and why I steer clear of it)
I've experienced the opposite: a lot of what Symfony gets wrong, Laravel gets it right at the moment (also imo).

Exactly, both contribute towards a common goal and they can easily share code thanks to a common language.
> it might take 25 years for any NASA software to be fully developed in the first place

NASA is a government agency, the work should be in the public domain
I'd wager that one of the big variables is proximity. At college, you eat, go out, party, study and do all of the mundane stuff together with a close group of people. At work, after hours you may go get some drinks, but you are not going to go buy TP together.
I'd argue that this sort of "showing off" has now mostly been replaced with driving an electric vehicle, consuming organic food or turning to vegan food (and talking about it), keeping your body in shape at the gym, etc...

All fairly expensive activities, but none of those include luxury fashion ;)

As with many other things, the pandemic might just have accelerated a change that was slowly happening anyway.
Ouch. We have come to the point where rendering a favicon requires a full web browser rendering engine.
> Here's an idea: what if -- instead of digging a deep hole into the ground -- we use the tower of a wind turbine as the vertical space in which the weight is raised/lowered?

First, there's not really any room in there, wind towers are built for the job, we don't add twice the amount of steel and an elevator shaft for funsies.

Second, even if there were some room it would be inconsequential, you need a lot of crap very high up to get significant amount of energy.

As demo, let us take the largest turbine available right now and lift the entire thing up and down its tower.

The Haliade-X has a hub height of 150m, a 600t nacelle, and 165t blades. In normal operations it's rated for 14MWe.

765t at 150m is 250kWh. You can get electric buses with larger battery packs than that. For reference, US households use about 29kWh/day.

That's the issue with gravity: it's really not that strong, so to store significant amounts of energy you need either ridiculous amounts of weight (hence dams and pumped hydro which can manage unfathomable weights), or extreme height difference (hence… still dams, pumped hydro a bit less so I think).

As a point of comparison, Bath County (the largest pumped-storage station in the world) has a hydraulic head of 270~385m and the upper reservoir stores 44 million tons of water.

Now taking in account that you can't really empty the entire thing, that it's not perfectly efficient, etc… Bath has a storage capacity of "only" 24GWh, it's not actually moving 44 million tons up and down 400m.
Sure, the new version (where Greedo shoots at Han) would reset the clock, but the original work (Where only Han shoots) still remains the same, and to be renewed would cost Disney $500b to renew it this year.
Current version of GPL is an absolute no go for many larger places - even Ubuntu ended up dropping it for parts of stack - risks are way too high
It's a common misconception that energy storage needs to handle all the power needs of an area for a significant time.

The most immediate need for energy storage is frequency regulation, and short hours-long dips in power output. If we can solve that we can scale renewables very far.

For days-long dips in power output, it's probably better to keep some gas power plants on stand-by. I think many areas of the world has enough of them to handle these needs already. To make it sustainable, they could be switched to using renewables fuels, like hydrogen or ammonia made from electricity. We're going to need a shit-ton of those kinds of fuels for trucks, ships and airplanes anyway, so setting aside some of it for backup power wouldn't be a huge problem.

For seasonal variations, I think trash burning power plants is a reasonable solution. Sweden and Norway has some of them, and they also provide heating to nearby homes. I mean, yeah: first of all we should reduce, reuse and recycle. But eventually our trash become unrecyclable, and burning it seems to be the best option. Modern facilities seems to be able to extract almost all harmful compounds from the waste then. There are also experiments with carbon capture from these plants, which in a fully renewable world could make them carbon-negative, and become one of several tools to help reduce CO2 in the atmosphere again over time.

And of course, nuclear would be a great help. If it can be made cheap enough again, it can be used for seasonal variations. But we're still going to need renewables. So we still need energy storage for frequency regulations and minute/hours-long dips in energy output. Nuclear power plants are NOT a good solution for that.
I can't think of a technological product where that mentality applies. Can you?

In fact, it seems that the opposite is true; as a product gets better, people care more about the specs. Whether you're buying a Wusthof knife or a luxury car, you want to know what makes the product good enough to justify its price and position in the market.
Hehe, that's creative. But I'd say - if you're making it that complex, just use a boolean column and a timestamp column separately instead, if you really need the timestamp, and make it explicit and simple to understand.
If anyone’s reading from the UK, St Andrew’s University is known for the number of marriages it creates. It’s not surprising, given you’re spending 4-5 years in a tiny, predominantly student, town. Also, the university has an ‘academic family’ system which produces exactly the expected results.
If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time deep fake technology has been used to carry out a disinformation attack on politicians.

I wonder if the actual video conferences have been recorded. I'm very curious to see them.
No, ssds are still way to expensive If you don't need the performance.
> A lot of them will magically go away, is the thing.

No, they really don't.

Someone's schizophrenia doesn't magically vanish if you get your own two-bedroom apartment, nor does your heroin addiction magically vanish if you get a fancy studio apartment with the nicest view. It's outright insulting to every single person who ever struggled with mental illness or drug addiction to even suggest that real estate is a magical cure to problems.

From where I'm standing, this looks an awful lot like correlation being passed off as causality. You see happy families in the suburbs, with their nice house and nice life, and then you see people struggling with mental health and drug addiction, and all you see is that one's have a house while others don't. Well, guess what needs to be in place in your life before you can even be in a position to buy a house.