skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already had private money creation; every time a bank makes a loan, money is created. Governments don't directly control the money supply, they only do so indirectly.
> it was neither a coup nor a coup attempt.
> ...context matters. they were political rioters, not a replacement government.

That doesn't dismiss the severity of what happened. I agree that those events were precipitated by a large number of imbeciles and a smaller number of nuts with a half-baked plan.

But the scary thing is that they proved to themselves, the politicians who pander to them, and an unknown number of even worse people that flexing the threat of violence is on the table of possibility in the USA. It's one step forward on a slippery slope that sane people don't want to go down.

EVEN NOW, Rep. Liz Cheney faces being ousted by her own party for daring to speak truth about the Stable Genius. Coups, insurrections and revolutions don't "just happen", they're in the works for a LONG time. We might be seeing the early stages of one now.
I don't think coming up to terminal velocity in atmosphere is really the concern. What's more interesting is getting up out of atmosphere, falling back down at a speed that's many times higher than terminal velocity, slamming into atmosphere at that speed, and then dealing with the reentry heating and other forces that result from that.
Fungi (and lichen) is known to be able to survive in places where plants cannot. So it's entirely possible that fungi could survive on Mars while trees/moss/grass could not. We also know where this happens on Earth[1][2]. We didn't discover these life forms from orbit or even by standing and looking at them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_soil_crust
[2]: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/02/15/antarctic-ice-new...
The bar for extraordinary abilities is high. Read up on visa guidelines, consult with some immigration lawyers to see if you stand a chance.

Founding a company doesn't open any extra immigration paths as far as I know. Except for EB-5 - theoretically you could invest those $900k+ into your new company, but there are rules to follow, beware. Your investment needs to create 10 full time jobs for americans and in California in tech you'd likely need way more than $900k for that.
I can see a lot of interesting new ideas in Synth! "Smart Bookmarks & History" sound great on their own but "Auto-Roam" is what nailed my own itch. Are you still working on it?
I don't think the OP was talking about anything other than survival of the fittest, which is the usual go-to defense of "capitalism is present in nature", and it does not tend to hold up. However they didn't actually go into much depth, so I guess you can read it however you want, though
A few questions, since I'm curious:

- Is there a minimum amount of ToDos that a user would have to complete in order to not get charged?

- Would there be a ToDo vetting process? If a user said they completed 20 ToDos but they all involved something trivial (i.e. "I did a thing" x20) would they not count?
What value does advertising produce? I mean it, if advertising magically ceased to exist tomorrow, would anything be worse? Advertising is in itself a manipulative activity, an attempt to pass a worse product as a better one, or to create a demand where there was none, or to persuade someone to do something they otherwise wouldn't.
AMA is a bad actor. They refuse to allow junior doctors (doctors who are MD school graduates but who have not completed residency) to practice medicine in ANY capacity.

Common sense says that junior doctors should have the same practice rights as physician assistants - but the AMA refuses to let that happen. They are a medical cartel.

A few states have allowed junior doctors to start practicing medicine in a limited capacity, because every other doctor so damn expensive. But the AMA does not support those states' decision.
Although it is possible to create branchless binary search. Here is one article: https://schani.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/linear-vs-binary-sea..., there are probably other ways to do that.

Another interesting question where one could sink a lot of time is how do to binary search on GPU's using multiple threads. There branching in multiple threads at the same time is also bad, but for slightly different reasons.
I want to make an interesting meta-comment here:

One of the common criticisms of ads is how they impact privacy. I'm not going to pick any particular comment there, because I agree with some and disagree with others and find some to be incoherent. But the core issue is that ads (and the associated tracking and data collection) are an unethical privacy intrusion.

I think that some of the arguments (especially the ones I find incoherent) are because some people value privacy for privacy's sake. That is, I usually try to look at my privacy from the perspective of threats I care about. Some people don't do that, they want privacy for the sake of privacy. Privacy as a goal, not as a means to an end of avoiding specific attacks. When I ask these kinds fo people what kinds of privacy "attacks" they're afraid of, I get things that sounds to me like conspiracy theories.

This isn't wrong, it's just fundamentally different than how I approach things. I expect (given that Jeff publishes his salary every year and is super transparent about many things) he's similarly not worried about privacy as a goal, and instead cares about "circumstantial" privacy.

I wonder if this difference in values is part of the disconnect.

I think another part of the disconnect is that once you have insight into an organization, is much easier to see how it actually works. It's very easy to presume bad things as an outsider than an insider. But by the same token, it's somewhat rational for an outsider to not believe an insider who says "no just trust me, we aren't doing that". And so this too isn't an easy thing to fix without some sort of radical transparency on the part of the company (and even then).
You speak about this as if the entire industry were one entity out to maximize overall profit, as opposed to many individuals, of whom many would gladly harm the overall scheme for the outsized personal profit it surely would generate.

Ironic, given that this is Hacker News and full of talk of “disruption”.
> This flight profile is not at all optimized for fuel use.

I suppose you could say it's optimized to use almost all the fuel :)
You can also do more complicated things on the receiving side of the email, with something like imapfilter (or just a thunderbird incoming mail rule on a desktop PC at your house), to auto sort alerts or notices of nominal condition into certain folders/subfolders.

https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
Doesn’t mention the most prominent one: coordinated activity measured on two wrist accelerometer devices in proximity is a decent-confidence indicator of sexual activity.
> I imagine it's because although the sounds are very different cross-linguistically, maybe there aren't any languages where these phones are contrastive and thus they don't warrant separate glyphs in the IPA.

I think this is a pretty spot-on observation. IPA does offer a bunch of diacritics for making more narrow transcriptions. For instance, Spanish's dental <t> is [t̪].

However, the narrower the transcription, the less applicable it is to a language in general. Things like dialectal and even individual differences start to come into play. So in general transcription will only be as narrow as necessary to achieve some point.
I get your point, but this is inaccurate. Advertizing has always been targeted based on the demographic most likely to see them - deciding to air a TV ad during Saturday morning cartoons, during a football match, or during a soap opera has very meaningful differences. The only change now is that the granularity of information available for targeting has increased.
The joke is that their reference of a fingernail, as if it were a consistent unit of measurement, turns out to be useless as a reliable measurement of surface area given the range in measurements of those around them.
Hm, that's an interesting analogy, and not entirely off the mark. It misses a few essential things though, which is that the mathematical relationship between the wave function and what we call "physical reality" has a very different structure from the relationship between yaml and server configs, and this structure actually matters. But with those caveats in mind, yeah, you can kinda sorta think of it that way.
I'll just add it's extremely easy to migrate, pg_dump and then just load it back up.
Just wait for the pendulum swing !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joH9qU-vDeY

My god, it looks so infuriating... and not in the 'puzzle is hard' kind of way, but legitimately awful gameplay.
Twitter bans 'From the Desk of Donald J. Trump' account
And Time Machine deletes data if it runs out of disk space.

Do NOT trust Time Machine. Back up your data.

And restore it once in a while.

"Backups not issue. Backups very boring. Restore is issue. Restore very exciting."
> I think people comparing ads to guns, plagues, and locusts need to check their own values. Ads support free stuff for the poor and middle classes.

Until i can ACTUALLY opt out by paying money, you need to get off your high horse. My data is clearly more valuable to you than my dollars - otherwise I'd have a choice.

> If you hate ads, lean into that. Don’t work for adtech, block all your ads, pay for everything. I support you and respect that!

I do, pls continue to support me by:

1. making it possible to not have my data constantly collected and sold by facebook in exchange for dollars.

2. Stop tracking me after my account has been deleted.

3. Stop acting like you are part of something good while I don't have a "no surveilance" option. Until then, YOU are the problem.
I see advertising as intrinsically immoral. So it's not only the privacy abuses (which are the most serious part) but advertising in general.
I made a tiny donation to Rossmann's campaign. Time poor at the moment, I skipped straight to the conclusion which is very uplifting:

"To address unlawful repair restrictions, the FTC will pursue appropriate law enforcement
and regulatory options, as well as consumer education, consistent with our statutory authority.
The Commission also stands ready to work with legislators, either at the state or federal level, in
order to ensure that consumers have choices when they need to repair products that they
purchase and own."

Looking forward to reading the full report later.
> Did they not look at what they paid for?

Nope. Plausible deniability is a thing. It's not uncommon corporations and lobbying firm to pay contractors large sums of money for 'image management' and intentional ask no questions about how it gets done.

Everyone knows what's happening, but as long as no one explicitly asks (in a documented form), the benefactors can feign innocence.

> I find it hard to believe these investigators truly think Broadband for America had no idea.

The individual investigators likely know full well that Broadband for America knew what was happening, at least in broad terms. But knowing something and being able to prove it in a legally actionable way are two completely different things.
I work in ads, not particularly because I like the domain, but because it's a great tech challenge. I got the chance to work in large scale systems and solve hard problems using fun technologies. As an engineer, it's my favourite job so far.

Beyond that, people who ask such things are just taking the moral high ground.
The site doesn't work without javascript and/or cookies. Irony for a paper about privacy.
How was this not planned for and fixed years ago? I can understand this happening for random stock ticker apps but NASDAQ?
After 50 years most nuclear waste is barely above background. I wouldn't want it in my yard because it's poisonous, not because it is excessively radioactive. Another way to think about this, uranium ore is in the water supply right now in some parts of the world. It's just about as radioactive as 100 year old waste and yet somehow people are managing to survive.

According to the Wiki that Asse II mine has not released radioactivity into the environment? It was maybe not the best choice given that the mine had been prone to flooding even when it was operational, but it's a manageable problem.

Dropping nuclear is exactly about using the other bad technologies. Renewables are slowly coming online to help, but for the most part you shut down a nuclear plant you open 4 natural gas plants in its place. Unless you are China, then it's 4 coal plants.
I am not a YouTuber, but am thinking about creating a channel. I used to have a written blog on the topic of high-density residential housing. I have been thinking of resurrecting the blog as a YouTube channel. Given the niche aspect of the topic, I don't expect a large audience at all. However, I would be disappointed if the channel failed to attract some viewers interested in the topic.

One of the reasons I stopped my blog was because I had hardly any readers. At first, I believed I was writing for myself. I learned a deal about the topic of housing, and I improved my writing too. However, I realised I also wanted an audeince: not for fame or popularity - just to engage with readers and gain some feedback I wasn't writing absolute rubbish!

If I create a YouTube channel I will use my blog posts as a basis for the videos. I would not appear on camera as a "talking head", but use visuals in the video to illustrate a topic. I can't speak fluently spontaneously without multiple pauses, 'um' and 'erm' - instead I would use my blog posts as a kind of script.

Should I revive the blog (written word)? Or create a YouTube channel? Still undecided :-)
Interview with Jai Malik, General Partner of Countdown Capital
Absolutely. I cannot even walk through my city without an assault being waged on my senses.
You can't stop it absolutely, but you can in effect by taking away the economic reason that it occurs. The primary reason the deforestation is happening is to open up land to produce agricultural products for export (primarily soy and cattle). If the importing countries cease to import the product, Brazil loses the economic reason to produce more (and as much) and open up more land via deforestation.
I was thinking to set a minimum of 5+ todos/day to complete.

Once you complete a task there is a timer/time you need to wait before completing another one (like 60 minutes).
The main idea of the article is that when someone who is a domain expert proposes an idea that seems wrong, there is a chance that this idea is a great idea because why would a smart person proposes a stupid idea? They must've known something.

He says that in history, great ideas started like that. But he didn't provide examples. I didn't find the article practical because of that. It would have been a lot more useful if it provided contemporary examples that support the claims made.
> The Mighty model is timesharing CPUs.

Yeah, but I think it's better to think about it like virtual/remote desktops, where the granularity is a browser tab.

At least, that's the only way it makes sense to me. I might understand that to do 4k high res 3d on my phone - my phone will need help. And once that "help" is available - my TV, and my tablet and my smart watch can make use of it.

But I'm not generally willing to trade latency for cpu time sharing. What is interesting is an always on, always working desktop session. It's why I like screen/tmux and ssh, rdp - and would consider running a Linux terminal server, so my laptop(s) and desktop(s) could be a disk less, stateless thin client.

Make the observation that the browser tab is the new process/application granuality - and it makes sense to host tabs in the cloud.

Personally I'd want to self host it - but the idea doesn't sound quite so inane.
What is a good way to communicate audio information. Listening to audio doesn't necessarily explain how the sound was made (well it does kind of), whereas seeing a word in IPA makes it easy to reproduce (for people familiar with IPA) and compare.

English writing is not a good phonetic system for representing speech even for the English language: IMO a 1-to-1 mapping between pronunciation and spelling should be the goal.

You might want to explain how to pronounce the word in a British or Australian accent or compare it to how a word was pronounced 200 years ago. In that case you can use a phonetic alphabet to show the difference.

The idea is to have a writing system which can be used to accurately record all possible sounds. It's helpful for learning languages with bad alphabets such as English (https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pronunci...), for describing accents and for comparing languages and linguistics work.

PS: I don't know IPA so I'm probably wrong about everything.
Data from Israel shows Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine 95% effective against infection
Ads should not exist period. Youtube worked without ads before and it can work without ads. I don't need to be paying a premium to use a service.

Why are ads the way to generate revenue? Like I don't care about buying a coffee grinder. Ads not only help contribute to needless purchases but also directly affect the environment cause of that.
And are waiting for $1 and above for a gigantic sell off. Making the late comers hodling the bag when the DOGE price goes through the floor.
To play devil's advocate: that might become the going strategy. They're gonna be profitable as hell until they get fined and aren't allowed to continue after all...

But then it's just a matter of closing that enterprise down and creating a new one. They can keep apis stable and give the big corporations plausible deniability as "the contractor said they're compliant"
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In the US the election in November is the beginning of the election process. Winning the election in November is the first step to becoming president, but winning that election does not make one president. The process is this:

- An election occurs which allocates electoral college delegates for each state

- Those delegates meet and cast their votes for the candidate of their choosing.

- After they vote, each state creates a Certificate of Vote. This is the actual legal document that elects one as president. 6 copies are made: one sent to the VP, one sent to the SoS, two to a US archivist, and two to the chief judge from the closest district court.

- In early January, Congress meets to count the certificates. That is the actual election. Everything before then is just process.

So while the election had occurred, the process was not yet finalized. Until those votes are counted by Congress, then the person elected by the people in November is not elected president. The rioters were absolutely attempting to disrupt the most crucial part of the process -- the thing that legally elected Joe Biden president.
Outside of tests and toy examples you're generally expected to only panic when the developer has failed to uphold an invariant, not when the user has. As a result there's generally nothing a non-rust-developer can do with the message besides post it on the bug tracker.
Spanish <t> is dental, which requires the dental diacritic: [t̪]

However, since there is no alveolar [t] in Spanish, it will generally just be transcribed as /t/ rather than having to put the diacritic on all the time.
The think that really drove that home for me is remembering how after long trips you'd have bugs splattered all over your windshield and front end. People even used to sell deflectors.

That doesn't happen anymore cause we've killed off most of the bugs...
Nobodies taking that away. That's what still exists with net neutrality.
this sound great. I'd cancel my Netflix sub and go for this in an instant.

Now go pitch it to the 50+ copyright owners that you'd need to convince to make this happen.

Strong hint: it's not going to happen. The people who own the content you want to stream like this have no incentive to make it work like this.

If they could go back in time and say "no" to Spotify, they would.
I don't know of any resource that explicitly takes this approach. The closest thing I know of is David Z. Albert's "Quantum Mechanics and Experience".

AFAICT I am the primary proponent of the pedagogical significance of this idea, so maybe I should write something up. Watch my blog.
How would a software dev get into doing molecular biology?
That’s absolutely the argument... What other argument was there? You didn’t actually point it out, unless your minor rephrasing of one sentence of what I wrote somehow invalidates my point.

And where does the accusation of virtue signaling come in here? It sounds like it’s not a superficial change they’re making. What’s the difference between “virtue signaling” and merely “a press release announcing policy changes”, exactly? Where is this needless cynicism coming from?
Appreciate this, but the discussion is about male circumcision.
This is every data scientists’ dream.
Fair. All financial conflicts of interest should be reported on equally, like when Kyle Rittenhouse received funds.
Did anyone see the linked article at the end which described very large writes to the SSD in short time frames? I think Marcan had joined in on the twitter conversation. Lots of terabytes in just a fee months. Any ideas why this might be?
Ouch. It's disturbing to see a politically nominated official, who is in his position presumably because of world-class leadership and communication ability, be SO OUT OF TOUCH that he doesn't recognize that what he is doing appears as satire.

Elections matter.
But will you be looking if the drain plug comes out at 2am and suddenly the only thing keeping the boat afloat is the bilge pump and the battery?

Still seems like a good idea to have monitoring even if you can see the boat.
Also regarding regressivity: poorer and/or less informed people are more at-risk for predatory advertising: think scratch lotteries, payday loans, etc. Also of course the "YOU HAVE [241] VIRUSES DETECTED, DOWNLOAD SUPER CLEANER SX"
Perhaps they are. Or perhaps they’re just taking a moral position at all.
140 years is a comically low bar to think of as a long-lasting house.
> I don't have a preference who gets paid what in this situation as both are multi-billion dollar companies.

They pass that on to the consumer. It's Comacst trying to indirectly charge their customr twice for not using Comcast's streaming platform.

You should care because it's your money.

As far as the rest of your comment is concerned,maybe you can point at what exactly would be the costs in complying with net neutrality? Complying simply takes inaction and isn't a burden on smaller ISPs.
Clojure specifically doesn't have the bracket wrapper around condition-expression pairs but syntax highlighting/ formatting considers it and aligns stuff nicely. I don't think, it is a problem that it basically is a list or function call with arguments. I do think, adding `->` just like that would be a problem because it would be very inconsistent with the syntax of Clojure.
> Branches are often faster than branch-free methods, since they can speculate certain data dependencies away.

And often they're slower, since predicting some branches is often impossible due to the data :) So the processor ends up miss-predicting most of the time, thinking it knows what happened last time.

It all depends on what you're doing.
u r talking about the small changes that can be disruptive. This is different than the crazy ideas mentioned in the article. Ideas like the earth is round or that a large mass can bend light.

I guess Clayton Christensen explains the difference best in his youtube videos. Also Peter Thiel talks a lot about the difference of ideas in his talks on youtube!!
Out of how many? I don't know if that is a low or high percentage.