skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
XDR Pro monitor with the stand - Quite an investment but for staring at 12+ hours a day coding / design, its simple and works very well.

6' x 6' x 8' Herman Miller A02 cubicle, walls only - Gave up my office as a baby room. Re-factored / reorganized / cleared out basement contents three times to carve out space in a corner. Threw down a cheap rug for an amazing reclamation of space.

Herman Miller Embody - Bought just prior to pandemic. Great chair. Used the warranty once due to some unwanted creaking. Service call quality was excellent.

Generic "foldable phone tablet mount holder" - Attached to bedside table, holds the Kindle Oasis to read falling asleep. Last thing I do many nights is swing this out of way.

Generic selfie light rings - Combined with USB battery packs, extremely useful to light work projects or special video conferencing events.

FLEXI New Classic Retractable Leash 16ft - Use this to walk my cat every day. Not perfect but very good.
Long ago. See the hash rate chart and guess when that might have happened. Hint: long before they were offered for sale.
the maschine mk3 has helped with my video game addiction.

downside is now i want a polyend tracker >.>
Not to understand the benefits of buying in bulk and enriching the commons - what can one say about such people! But at least you do.
The University of Washington in Seattle was super progressive and accepted black students. Cool, right? Nah, the campus was north of the Montlake Cut, so black students weren't allowed on campus past sundown -- a little past 4 PM in the winter -- until the late 60s.

This wasn't somehow special to Seattle, either, but I grew up south of the cut and always wondered why the north end was so white until I learned my history[1].

In public schooling, the framing of the civil rights movement in history classes made me think that it was somehow a problem that the South had. Turns out, every major city I've looked into was segregated, until that became illegal. And even so, real estate agents subtly perpetuate the intent of those old laws to this day [2].

[1] http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/realestate/blacks-minorit...
I don't know how people cope with the boredom of such a limited career. It's like deciding as a child that you like strawberry sauce and then being forced to eat strawberry sauce for the rest of your life.
It's madness.
I'll take "things that will never happen" for 500 Alex.
That’s because she WAS an outsider? Being welcomed doesn’t change that. The only thing that can change that is assimilation on a persons side combined with a willingness from the surrounding body to assimilate.

Even then, it’s usually easy to find areas where there are gaps, if you look.

People can, have, and will continue to form in and out groups. Calling out particularly problematic instances can help (and be necessary) but it’s never actually going away, anymore than crime, poverty, success, failure, etc. It’s a fundamental human (and other species) survival strategy required by and a byproduct of the world we are in.

This is true everywhere, about pretty much everything, and has pros and cons.

It doesn’t sound like they were doing anything particularly obnoxious, just not particularly awesome.

If you look for problems, you’ll find them. Most environments in my experience are a lot less welcoming than what she was describing. Each of these places I’ll note were very welcoming, and for every one of these items I’ve got 10 of people inviting me into their homes or spending time to get to know me and what my circumstances were like.

when I lived in Singapore for a bit, pretty much anyone over 30ish years old would stop and stare at me for minutes if I was outside a financial center. Any sort of discussion with older Chinese folks would inevitably end up with the word ‘Gwailo’ mixed in there somewhere. My first name was hard to pronounce for folks who speak Cantonese in particular, which didn’t help.

India, I’d get random scams directed my way because it seemed like they assumed I was a soft in the head westerner. Everything had a huge markup associated with it (white guy tax I heard a local friend call it). At least I knew enough to not push the cow away when I visited a local temple and one came up and started to sneeze on myself and a friend.

Munich Germany, while on a walk some folks got visibly angry (and one couple yelled at me) when they stopped me to ask me directions and I didn’t know German. I guess wearing a black t-shirt and jeans made them think I was lying to them or something? I don’t know enough German to know for sure what they said, but boy were they not happy.

Japan, I was always welcomed and everyone was very friendly - and very clear that I was not Japanese and needed my hand held at every step. Getting picked out of lines I was doing perfectly fine in so someone could give me hands on personal care was sometimes convenient, but it was clear that I was getting singled out. A friend of mine who lived there for many years and is married to a Japanese woman describes it as ‘you’ll always be treated like a drunk guest that drank too much, and needs help getting home safely’. He speaks fluent Japanese, is very familiar with all the customs, and has been married to his wife for over a decade and still gets the treatment.

Are these problems? I mean, I could write a book on each of those places and many more if that’s what I wanted to focus on. I could also write 10 on the positives each culture had, how much they welcomed me and supported me and others.
> and, frankly, the idea that they charged repeatedly for games is insane to me

I've been curious whether Switch libraries will follow you to whatever the next Nintendo console is. They haven't done that in the past, but online purchases might be so common now that they can no longer get away with not doing it.
Bamix. The best immersion blender IMO.
It's likely that this is just a firmware change to the cards and nothing onboard/physically changed at all. If this is the case, then this is hilariously easily defeated by using the firmware updating tool, provided by Nvidia, to get around this. We'll see though. With any luck, they did make physical changes to prevent firmware flashing around this, but I strongly doubt it.
> Xbox is a specific gaming platform. iPhone is a general computing platform.

You've got it backwards—the only reason the Xbox is a gaming platform and not a computing platform is because Xbox doesn't want to allow other people to sell software on it. It's a distinction without a difference.
You could do 1 plot at a time.
I feel like that, too. What always gets me as so strange is how national authorities always want to fence it in, not understanding that - in my opinion - it can only really exist as such. That view is also the fundamental problem with public / private digital space and how our private digital homes get made public affairs...
The English Professor Who Foresaw Modern Neuroscience – Issue 100: Outsiders
- Devices never see updates, other than a select few flagship models

- It does not matter if the blame is on Google or OEMs, it is still fragmented
Polkadot Behind the Code
> So the problem is that an US company cannot be GDPR compliant, because that conflicts with US law.

This is completely not true. First, most US companies are GDPR-compliant because they don't gather, store and process personal data of EU citizens. Now, those that do - mainly Internet companies - they need to abide by the terms of the GDPR (or not to serve EU customers, which for some is the easiest way - like New York Daily News). If you decide to store personal data of EU citizens, you need to do it using servers located in the EU, which, depending on the nature of your business, might or might not be easy, but companies had several years to prepare for that. There is no any conflict with US law anywhere.

Personally I was in a similar position and instead of choosing Mailchimp I choose Mailerlite, which is Europe-based and, being less popular than Mailchimp, (much) less expensive for the customers I have (with mailing lists in the range of 5k-50k contacts). It has its quirks but it works and I have no much reasons to complain.
You can still buy Google Glass, but the Hololens sounds more in line with what you're envisioning.
Different case than what we're talking about here. Your case would be the same if it was cash buying a company.

Here we're talking about something different, which is an individual trading one form of crypto for another and showing how the same trade donew ith stock would be taxed similarly if you just swapped stock with another trader.
To my knowledge, in case of unspecified behaviour, it's not required to pick and document a particular choice. Behaviour may even vary on a case by case basis where it makes sense (eg order of evaluation of function arguments, whether an inline or external definition of an inline function gets used, etc).

The need to properly document the choice is the defining characteristic of implementation-defined behaviour.
That's not how chia rewards you though. It's a lottery, and though chia may be around 1000 or so right now it could massively increase in the future. Current projections are something like 3-4 months to get a single reward. But if you could make potentially an extra 50K a year with some harddrives that's not a bad deal.
You need a relatively large amount of storage space for plotting, more than most RAM disks. It has proven to be more cost effective to consume SSD's than to use slower HDD's or a RAM disk.
Please use somebody else's sun
Not very likely to happen. Would take a lot of votes where they would be in the minority to go there way.

Borders between states do change on small scales. Since the 1940's:

1950: Kansas and Missouri exchanged land along the Missouri River due to flooding in 1944.

1961: 20 acres of land was transferred from Minnesota to North Dakota

1977: Texas and Mexico exchanged some parcels of land.

1998: Supreme Court gave part of Ellis Island to New Jersey

2017: North Carolina and South Carolina moved about 19 homes across state lines.

Honestly the formation of West Virginia comes to mind as a similar situation where they had political disputes, had a bill of secession, and just generally felt they were not represented and outnumbered by the government to the east of the Appalachian mountains. They weren't able to succeed until the Civil War broke out and they stayed with the Union.
I've got to ask- what is dangerous about this road? More generally, the roads with fatalities aren't necessarily "dangerous" per se, they're places where drivers make bad decisions. For example, wide roads are fast roads - if you make residential roads narrow it reduces the average speed due to perception[1] - if you want someone to drive slowly, artificially narrow the road. What it looks like here is that this is a wide fast road that allows drivers to make bad decisions. Which is sort of the best case scenario for Tesla. It's more interesting to see how a Tesla handles a roundabout or a turn across traffic- which I would guess simply results in the autopilot disinengaging, refusing to engage or crashing.

[1]https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/narrow_residential_streets_daisa...
It's a very faint aftertaste, and its all Hoegaarden. One of the flavors leaves a "just had metal in my mouth" sort of feel after drinking it.
I don't understand why you are downvoted. Filesystem access is another big one! Chrome has the technological advantage and sports an enormous kitchen sink of features. One has to make the hard decision, work on a concept that will work only on one browser, try to cut corners with graceful (or crippling) degradation, or wait potentially a long time until a spec is standardized and implemented. The latter may result in others hitting the market sooner, so it is understandable why we end up with web-apps that function in a single browser only. Hopefully this improves in the future.
A $10k credit card bill isn't rare for people who do a lot of business travel. I'm not sure what "auditing" means in this context. As long as I'm not aware of it, I don't really care. It would rapidly get annoying to fill out some form whenever I had a $10K credit card payment. (Not that it's especially frequent.)
It can be, just set up a RAM disk and use that as your temporary drive. It's exactly what I'm doing to fill my tiny 12TB Raspberry Pi farm. Your plotting rate won't be competitive (plotting in parallel on NVMEs turns out to be much faster).
On the facebook post he say "this was hand held", which sounds like a man who is on a fast track to a conviction for using a mobile phone while driving.
Judging from this

> Mailchimp may in principle be subject to data access by US intelligence services on the basis of the US legal provision FISA702 (50 U.S.C. § 1881)

It might not be just a matter of where the data is stored, but also who can get access to it. From my reading, any US based conpany would be affected.

This feels like a super huge impact that would have made more waves, but the ruling also seems recent. And perhaps there will be more twists and turns yet ?
Why wouldn't you want to avoid paying taxes if at all possible? Do you enjoy paying taxes?
The physics of interacting with your previous self are undefined with many plausible solutions.

It is entirely plausible that the universe limits your interactions with your past causal self to a small range, allows arbitrary overlapping world lines, blocks all causal violations entirely, or has disastrous consequences for time loops.

My personal bet is that the universe has no reason to care that you've interacted with your past self given a consistent proper time worldline. This however removes conservation of energy and momentum in the universe, which General Relativity also does not preserve.

Of course this does allow for misuse of causal loops to generate arbitrarily large/infinite amounts of energy without any bounds on observability.
But people can see the car/house/yacht etc you bought with it.

If you want to actually enjoy your wealth you better find a way to legalize your anonymous money and pay taxes on it.

"I dunno...It just appeared in my crypto Wallet" is not convincing
Eh not really. Having VC backing means you have an extra incentive to do things that a bootstrapped company wouldn't, mainly to please your investors.
Is it possible to optimize plotting to use I/O less and RAM more? Or is it an inherent boundary of the protocol like energy use is in PoW?
Yeah, I plot an a DL580 with 512GB. Other than not having to worry about write durability there's not much gained though. GB per GB my ram drive is faster, but i can plot in parallel on my NVME drive because it's considerably larger.
Exhibit B: Drugs

Sadly you can't buy your getaway car with Bitcoin anymore.
volume and tuning should be dials. I dislike touch screens too.

My tundra has the perfect UI for climate and audio
Sure, but expecting others to go out of that way to do that for you just doesn’t work in my experience. This seems pretty mellow frankly.

If anything, complaining about it just seems to make it worse?
> Then again ... what’s the point of putting that on a blockchain?

Marketing. :p

> That’s actually pretty simple if you can live with centralization ... just certify CO2 offsets for example for each coin purchased.

We have this today, but "just certify" does a lot of work here. It's really hard to certify CO2 offsets in many cases (e.g., it's tough to verify that the trees someone plants weren't going to be planted anyway or that they will live to their expected potential and not get burned down prematurely).
I'm not suggesting we turn people into cattle. I believe that people could find meaning much more easily if there was a stronger social fabric for helping others. Individuals could work on projects meaningful to them without having to worry about a commercial component. People would have time to take care of their family and friends because they wouldn't have to work two jobs. It's about freeing people from the struggle to survive so they can use that energy to thrive.
I dare say the important part is being able to come up with experiments that, if successful, would disprove a theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Misunderstandings like the "one word" issue cited at the beginning of the article are common among native speakers. I'm sure everyone has been to meetings where parties walked out the door having agreed to diametrically opposite things.

It is not necessarily a matter of English vs. non-English speakers but whether you have empathy with your audience. (Plus a bit of project management to ensure everyone understands decisions.)
Two points on the market basket mechanism for measuring inflation:

One is that I think lots of people over-focus on specific sectors: sure houses and college education have gotten more expensive, but clothes, travel and computers have gotten much cheaper. Most of the complaints about "hidden inflation" that I've seen are basically ways of saying 'if you only look at the things that have grown much faster than the inflation average, then it looks like inflation is much greater than average.'

Now the question of 'hedonic adjustments' (how do you account for the problem that no amount of 1970 money could buy you an iPhone, or a car as safe and reliable as any car made in 2021) is a tricky one. As I recall from my macro class <mumble mumble> years ago, economists basically introduce fudge factors to account for that. I recall some speculation that the fudge factors in the health care sector (of the US) were systematically wrong, because the population isn't actually getting healthy or living longer as those numbers would suggest.
To add on to your point, the core issue is that you need to take into account correlated risk when deciding on your investment strategy/risk tolerance.

If you're at the point where you need to dip into an emergency fund, it's possible (maybe even likely) that the entire financial market is burning. You will need access to capital when nobody has access to capital, which will make borrowing very expensive or impossible.
I also encountered a pair of tweets in which neither was offensive in any way, but they differed in their views of Israel vs Hamas.

I also got one from a gay porn model in which the presumably-offensive reply said "I want to get fucked like that"; in context, this can't really be considered offensive.
Oculus Quest 2: Virtual Reality has improved my life in almost every away and I love this thing. I can't recommend it enough

Asus G14 Zephyrus laptop: picked this up thinking it would be a temporary machine i'd use for a few months before building a desktop and it's so great i've had zero reason to build a desktop because it handles everything I can throw at it. Video editing, AAA games on high settings, coding, VR, etc, it's a beast of a laptop.
> which is ~24% higher than the 70k you mention.

Which is still not 250k.

Either way, I see the point you're trying to make, but when people discuss "how much was X in todays dollars" they don't mean "go find a 'basket of goods' to reflect whatever value they want".

CPI is the go-to measure that is understood. Yes, some things are more expensive relative to CPI (housing, education, medical care), but using a non-standard measuring stick is not intellectually honest (unless you make it clear and disclose your reason for why you think it should be different).
South Atlantic Mennonite Conference: The Use of Electronic Media [pdf]
maintenance on a used Porsche can easily cost more than the car over its lifetime. I remember going in for an oil change and finding out I needed new breaks. That was a mortgage payment.
Props for not hiding the FoV of the glasses, its just front and center on the page, unlike other AR companies.
on older plotters:

there were many manufacturers. the ones that seem to be higher quality were HP and Roland. alps made a tiny one that was repackaged for commodore, atari, etc. and there were a plethora of other manufacturers (graphtec, houston instruments, and so on)

check ebay for "pen plotter" but beware that many are quite large and shipping will be expensive.

i currently have a HP DXL 7575a (a large roller plotter) and a Roland DXY-1150 (small flatbed). the roland was shipped but the hp i had to pick up locally. roland still has the manual on the site for the 1150, but it required a wacky power supply that took some effort to find. for HP stuff make sure it has RS232 and not HP-IB interfaces or whatever wacky stuff. also, different plotters used different languages. Roland's RDGL and HP's HPGL were easy enough to implement directly from the documentation...

many of them don't work because various belts have died. my HP fired right up.

one ongoing concern is that pens are no longer made so you have to fight over scraps on ebay.

modern plotters:

get an axidraw. it is nice and lets you use standard pens.
My Ebike bought in April 2020 during the Pandemic. Daily rides after work has been helping me detach from work and personal life. Seattle has been amazing to ride with beautiful lakes, parks and trails everywhere. I didn't own a vehicle before. I'd love to keep this as my only vehicle if I can.
Sure, and the Internet Archive has the Wayback Machine. But these are not commonly known and used tools, so for normal people, everything is a constant now, and whatever is yesterday is forgotten.
No, sequence points aren't relevant because they occur at runtime. "Time traveling UB" happens in the compiler, typically in optimization passes and can cause otherwise valid code to exhibit completely different behavior than it would if the UB didn't exist.
An updated understanding of how to synthesize value-added chemicals
So every conclusion to hard drive also applies to electricity? How do you establish the equivalency?
That wasn't my intention. My intent was to show that the units of stored value changing over time, in this case, is a bad thing when the reporting threshold doesn't rise for inflation as well.
I was not suggesting that all loans be forgiven, I was using the Israeli jubilee as an illustrative precedent.

I was suggesting that the government offer enhanced unemployment benefits one year out of ten.
If we get a choice, then Irish English.

There are a few things that got pulled from Gaelic to English in Ireland that I love.

Like "him/herself" to mean the object of the sentence without naming them "ah would you look at himself, all dressed up like that", "I'll have to check with herself if I'm allowed out on a school night", etc

And no (or dimished) use of yes or no. Monosyllabic answers verboten.
C was created during a time where instructions were executed linearly with no vectorization, memory was a flat space with no CPU caches, and there wasn’t a branch predictor that may or may not execute the correct program branch in advance. The list goes on but the rest is beyond my scope.

C was designed for a now obsolete computer architecture model and over the years this old model has essentially become an abstraction that sits between C and the CPU. As such, C programmers aren’t really programming in their CPU’s domain anymore and C, by default, lacks the commands necessary to effectively utilize these new developments. It is left up to the compiler to translate C code from the old architecture abstraction into efficient machine code for our new machines.

For a more in depth look into this topic I recommend you check out (0).

(0) - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
That would be a bummer, but if it doesn't exacerbate the energy/co2 problem I consider it a net benefit.
Same with a virus. A virus doesn't want to kill the host. A deadly virus is an unsuccessful virus
Not laughable, no. Looks like 3 orders of magnitude.
Science Isn’t Here for Your Mommy Shaming