skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think it’s fair to think of it as a kind of quality inflation like shrinkflation. The reason it gets me frustrated is that while shrinkflation is a difference of quantity, quality inflation is a qualitative difference, sometimes to the point where I will no longer buy that product at any price (the older higher quality product essentially no longer exists).

That’s been going on forever too, but at least my hand-wavey perspective is that whereas I might have thought in the past “huh, I sense my Cadbury’s bar is possibly 2% lower quality than 2 years ago :shrug:”, now it’s more like “huh, I can’t be the only one who’s had to stop buying this crap which was previously an ace product”.

I suppose both these forms of inflation are down to consumer buying power being weakened, and posit that nowadays it’s due to the “stock price being the product” - to lean on a reference to Silicon Valley’s Action Jack :)
You might like this as well:

https://www.humanprogress.org/how-the-cost-of-light-has-fall...
In many of the cases of those loans, they are structured to be payable only after the death of the person receiving the loans. And at that moment the cost basis for all of the investments goes to the price at the end of the day of death... bypassing all of the capital gains taxes. That is the real problem there.

I do completely agree that treating capital gains more favorably than earned income is just crazy (even though I personally benefit from it).
Good one. I do hope people recognize that homeless people constitute less than 1% of Americans. By contrast 60% of tax returns filed by Americans have negative net tax rates. They literally contribute nothing to the running of the Federal government, and for about 40% they contribute nothing to all other levels of government.

This story is about how the very few extremely high earners use sophisticated personal finance strategies to minimize their tax burden. On the other hand huge numbers of people use the unsophisticated strategy of not developing any significant skills or education and not earning much money resulting in not paying any net taxes. Not talking about the super poor who earn nothing, but people who earn $30,000-$60,000/year. At the end of the day, they are not net tax payers.
Custom domain names are coming to iCloud mail with iCloud+
Same. If I can view it in the browser I'm not using an app.
Oh, I thought I recognized that logo! The publishers for House House's "Untitled Goose Game."

It's a neat concept for a system, but a bit unfortunate that one can't play Untitled Goose Game on it.
I meant theoretical in the sense that it's not the global way of doing it.

Also, decentralized != blockchain.
Glad that my training and knowledge base is on point, hehe.

Thank you so much for the kind words. My biggest wish is for my team to use our combined skills and expertise to bring high-impact, scalable solutions to those who can't access an eye doctor (or don't want to go into the office.)
Our generation had distractions, too. TV, for example. I don't know the direct answer to your question but at least part of it is that 'not-forcing' your kid in to programming means they might just never be in to programming. My oldest is at least kind of in to programming (and also plays a lot of Minecraft and watches a lot of YouTube) my youngest two have shown zero interest in programing, but have interests of their own.
They definitely don't have to be. I've echoed these sentiments before.

However, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 certainly are, though the reasons why they are complicated have nothing to do with choosing to use a binary based format. (They are complicated for good reason, though, and I hope that browsers and servers can continue to support HTTP/1 as the baseline till the sun burns out, just to make life easier.)
Presumably they sell stock, but any money works. It's all a gamble. If the stock tanks -- and they often do-- then it's easy to end up in bankruptcy.

But this article is all about hating on the rich and imagining that it's all perfect for them. They don't want to talk about the times when the stock falls and the once rich turn into very poor.
Money Stuff: MoviePass Changed Some Passwords
A good start would be:

Remove the algorithmic feed

Remove the Trending bar

Increase character length

Ban witch hunts
In Siberia they heat using btc mining: https://archive.curbed.com/2017/11/9/16619032/bitcoin-mining...
It's a completely ridiculous policy that would require enumerating every item in history and deciding if people are able to buy it from you.

My fridge? My dog? My shoes? My car? My bike? My boat? My model railroad set? My grandmothers ashes? My underwear? Oops I accidentally undervalued my gaming computer on my taxes and now people are knocking on my door.

You'd end up with a document 3 million pages long and vengeful neighbors and exes buying each others items to fuck with each other. You're calling it a strawman argument, but these are actual things that would have to be addressed.

No amount of "delving into 150 years of research" gets around all the massive, massive holes in your ridiculous idea.
Colonial Pipeline CEO explains decisions to Senate
What other functionality would make Streamlit a better experience for you?
Your comment made me realize something.

The government is funded by taxes and bond sales. Bond purchases absorb high interest rate demand across the entire market. If there weren't any taxes, there would be higher interest rates. So taxes are what subsidizes low interest rates. We're the ones paying the interest on their loans.

Now it all makes sense. Mind is blown.
This is a false dichotomy.

You can generate these configs really easily with any off-the-shelf programming language for a small fraction of the effort they’ve put into HCL + all of the stuff on top that makes HCL the shitty programming language that it is.

Even if you insist on building your own programming language for this purpose, Hashicorp could’ve saved themselves a lot of work by looking at the prior art of the last 70 years of programming language history.

In other words, if they just picked, say, JavaScript from the start they could have saved a bunch of time and energy and put that into their application engine.
Like the author I think resolution needs to improve to make this a better experience. Also comfort is important. Quest 2, even with the elite strap is not quite there when it comes to comfort but maybe the Valve Index is.

What I would like to see is a way for these VR headsets to replace monitors completely. When I say that I mean being able to do everything a monitor would normally do but in the headset including jumping into bios screen at startup. Once that is available, with HMD resolution improvements, I could then replace a few of my $300 monitors and have more flexibility in my office setup.
Joe Armstrong on Broken Promises (2015)
It’s a game! What is not fun about the scenario?
It's a big bet. Even in the modern era of low-cost pipelines from concept to fabrication, novel console devices are incredibly expensive and risky to bootstrap into life.
You mention in the epilogue that you would use plastic sheeting instead of directly waterproofing the 8'x4' plywood sheets -- that would also make the plywood somewhat more re-purposeable.

How loud were all the pumps combined? You mention there was a bounce house, were the pumps quieter than that?
Oh there are plenty of batch files in DOS and Windows history that COPY SERIAL.TST COM1, just sending RS-232 bytes straight from file to COM1 via good old COPY.
/s ?

This is a product of [Panic](https://panic.com). They know how to build a website. And write tools to [build a website](https://nova.app/).
I found my favorite walks in nature have also been the most inconvenient ones.
Tomahawk TLAM/D carries 166 submunitions in 24 canisters. There's no reason those submunitions need to be dumb — or stationary for that matter.
Let's say I have an iOS app. Not a single thing changes in my repo. I would like to build and submit to the App Store every day. On how many days out of 100 does Runway successfully result in an app submission status of "Under review by Apple" or whatever, without any input from me?
From another perspective, consider it probably did not cost $90 million to execute this plan. So overall, this is a net profit, and most likely cost effective.
Are you referring to the Index of Economic Freedom in the second paper?

1. The data is freely available and you can check the methodology yourself: https://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2016/book/methodology.pdf

2. "We check the robustness of our results using alternative freedom indices."
Wow, this is super helpful in that it gives me extra context outside of what I'm used to. Also just good to know what else is out there :) Thank you so much!!!
That’s for the previous thread though. Unless I’m missing something every thing he says doesn’t necessarily apply to this thread.
Look at the main website.

They built a game to support and draw interest to their ideological cause.
But this won’t be a 100% closed ecosystem still right? You pay rent to your landlord in crypto, and they pay their employee in crypto, but somewhere there will be someone exchanging it for Fiat down the chain. And that’s invisible risk (unlike say, transacting in cash with your landlord knowing it can’t be traced).
Wondering if this is on their Linux Server only and or does it work on FreeBSD with their Edge Appliance?
The manufacturer has several reasons to push the buyer to financing.

More options to adjust pricing with dealers.

Repayments provide steady cash flow when sales are lagging. A auto finance business can become a general finance business (see Ally née GMAC) which may experience different business cycles than the auto business.

Loan servicing provides a marketting channel and a legitimate interest in monitoring borrower credit (which could be used to tailor marketting).

Promoting purchasing vehicles on credit may encourage borrowers to consider a new purchase when the loan is paid off.
> Everyone is surprised to find the government does shady stuff, but many of these operations are even acknowledged like Iran-Contra where the government sold arms to the embargoed Khomeini government to generate black money to fund the Contras.

Another one, maybe the biggest known one, is when the US sent 12 bn to 14 bn in the form of 100 bills (yup, in bills) using a military plane to Iraq and these bills mostly all mysteriously vanished.

12 to 14... billions.

At least 1.4 bn was found to have been stolen and stored in a bunker in... Lebanon (I don't remember if it was just located or seized). Overall an estimated 9 bn are unaccounted for I think.

(trying to insert the wikipedia and NY Times link to the story/stories but I get a "we have trouble processing your request, sorry" from HN)

There were wire transfer to the tune of billions too. But the 100 bills shrink-wrapped and flew in a military plane: you cannot make that up.

Shady stuff if any...

EDIT: like Iran-Contra, I'm pretty sure in the future movies are going to be made about these $100 bills.
Almost 100% Panic.

See their other sites: https://nova.app, https://panic.com/transmit/
Isn't that the entire point of Ethereum and some others?
Founder here, we worked on this for more than two years and developed a few strategies using this software. Ask away!
A house someone held for 25 years, fundamentally, doesn't seem any different than stocks someone held for 25 years. I'm not sure why we're obsessed with the idea that non-homeowners should subsidize homeowner's housing.

If we really claim to live in a progressive society, shouldn't renters be getting the subsidy? I mean, sure, a small percentage of the population does have public housing. But that hardly compares to the amount of people saving $10k per year on taxes with the mortgage interest deduction on ~$1M homes in HCOL areas, and then another 15-20% on $250k ($37.5k-$50k) when they sell it.

This is more than the average household makes per year after taxes...

The long-term average for appreciation on housing is 2.75%. In the last 20 years, it's been well above that. But even still, the average home-owner with a $1M house is saving $20k+ in taxes per year.

I mean - I get it. The average person buying a million dollar home these days probably has a marginal tax rate of >40%, and houses are wicked expensive. It's nice to save some taxes. But is this really the group that should be getting the savings? And isn't it possible all this is just manipulating the housing market further?

I'm not sure about everyone else, but I'd rather my home be a place where I live than a meme-stock I speculate on.
No way to evaluate whether your messages are readable by law enforcement at any given point in time, with a greater red flag being the advertising claims of Wickr misleading users to the contrary. Wickr, a US based company.

There may be some level of encryption, it acts like a company set up by the government or made to be tapped into.

This wasnt conspiracy theory fiction even before Anom, as there are other examples of governments especially the US government doing this already. Just let Anom be another more clear cut reminder that it doesn't matter who you trust that uses a software, if it doesn't pass some key criteria then don’t use it. There is no “I’m sure this large group of people thought of that” just assume they are stupid, negligent, thought the same as you did and nobody attempted any scrutiny, or are all informants themselves.
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There's another aspect to consider, perhaps: nowadays it's very easy to get to get that kind of loans with low, low interest rates, well below average market returns. So, if you have a large collateral, you could just use a chunk of the loan to repay interest. I hope my math is not wrong, but if you borrow $100K with a 3% APR — even mere millionaires can get better terms than that — after 10 years, you've had to pay "only" $35K in interests. You could use part of the original loan to pay that, or you could get a new one, assuming your collateral has appreciated. Neither of those require realizing gains, right? You just keep pushing them into the future, until you finally die and your heirs' cost basis gets reset.
My holy grail would be to (somehow) create a release on Windows (my dev system) and deploy on Linux (our prod servers). However, I have little hope because of the Erlang binaries requirement. Still, you can always hope :)
It’s hanging out in a private repo with a bunch of other stuff and I don’t care to put it in it’s own repo at the moment. Basically CloudFormation publishes a JSON spec of all of their resource types and I use that to generate Python code with type annotations. It’s sort of like Troposphere, but I go further—Tropo makes you reference resources by their cloudformation string names, but my tool lets you use the Python object containing the resource and it will resolve to the correct CloudFormation “Ref” object at compile time. (also, unlike tropo, I generated my Python types from a spec so I don’t have to keep up with AWS changes). That said, I’ve given up on CloudFormation altogether since Terraform has better support for resources outside of AWS.
Setting aside the advantages of Proof-of-Stake in terms of energy consumption, and setting aside the "green energy buyer of last resort" argument that the BTC maximalists often say, and setting aside the theoretical requirements for a valid PoW function, I do think it's tricky to argue which computing is inherently "valuable" or "not valuable".

There is this intuition that guessing a bunch of random numbers doesn't contribute high-leverage information or "work" to society. That there are a bunch of "information processing" tasks that have more inherent value.

But consider SETI@home - is decoding massive amounts of space noise valuable if nothing ever comes of it? Is the computation wasted?

Consider Folding@home - there are now far superior algorithms like AlfaFold that take far less compute. Is the computation wasted?

Consider all the matrices being multiplied on gigantic neural networks. Some of the resulting models will be enormously valuable to society. Most of it will be dead-on-arrival experiments - simply wasted compute. Even worse, the leverage can go the other way - a ML model can cause far more harm than the energy footprint used to train it.

One of the nice properties of the BTC PoW function is that you can be sure that your hash finding algorithm is probably not that sub-optimal.
For about the zillionth time, space heating with Bitcoin mining is about one-quarter as energy-efficient as using an actual heat pump and so the “we can heat buildings with it!” argument does not actually excuse the massive energy use at all.
I'm more interested in using it for non-gaming-related things since it seems like a neat little hardware package to begin with.
Who is this built for?

Serious question. Yeah it looks cool but in a joke sense. It doesn't really look like it is going to do anything well. The accessories look even more like a joke. Obviously im not the target customer, but im trying to figure out who is?
Am I correct to assume that this is Bargaining stage of grief?
Immigrant parents, being more likely to be overachiever on average, are very different than normal parents in this regard. I didn’t know anybody growing up who had to drill on school work. Some dads were into sports and would pressure their kids to be the next babe Ruth or oj Simpson, but school work not so much. The education arms race is very much a function of globalization and international competition, which has added a lot of stress to childhood for today’s middle class American adolescent.
Can't answer for Finland, but in Norway:

>Does that include their "offshore" income?

Yes. It counts as taxable income even if you end up paying 0% tax on it (such as via foreign tax credit).

>Also, what is income?

Net realized income. You can't tell the difference between earning $1M, and earning $10M and losing $9M, and earning $10M on paper but only selling $1M.
Unfortunately it’s still way, way less efficient than other heating systems like heat pumps

This also doesn’t address the wasted materials and labor used to make the chips.
That’s reproducing naturally though.
I heard he smokes 5 joints a day. His wife rolls them, so he doesn't smoke too much.

He has good genes, or a high tolerance.

I tried smoking around December, and realized I hated it. I liked it in high school. I couldn't wait until the effect went away. It's weird I kept trying it, and finally gave up. Was about to toss it, but hide it instead--too cheap to toss?

Then again real life has been scaring me for years. I wish there was a calming drug that was easy on the body.
Does this include suspense for data fetching?

Edit: seems so! Post links to a release announcement on GitHub which says it’s “fully” supported.
> Raising capital gains would be a decent idea that forces the rich to pay more. Basically zero support for it.

Zero support among whom, the wolves or the sheep? Taxing the rich more is generally popular[0] and this would accomplish that; it would seem like that's support.

> Taxes on the sale of a primary home is not as rare as you think.

I would need to see a source on this; I can't imagine a scenario in which any middle-class person pays any tax on their home at all, unless they live in an extreme-outlier of a neighborhood or find gold in their backyard.

0: https://money.com/wealth-tax-rich-tax-rates-2020-presidentia... for example
Then launder all your crypto because you dont know if someone thinks you are a hacker from 20 transactions ago trying to cash out

This of course makes your legal actions indistinguishable from hackers laundering their own crypto, shifting the methods away from probable cause to completely benign
That seems only marginally better than the not-uncommon mode of heating (gas) and temperature control (windows).
Are you talking about LA? SF is the only city in the US where every resident is technically within a ~10min walk to a public park. And among my group of friends here I can definitely say that hiking and getting into nature is the most common hobby outside of work. And just in reference to this article, I know zero people here in SF who microdose (unless they just never talk about it).
Ethereum's current energy intensive Proof of Work is not used to run the smart contracts. It just secures the blockchain, same as Bitcoin. The smart contract execution power requirements are basically non-existant compared to that.
If you're referring to the email which Radon responds to the technical details; I don't think it's fair to label it aggressively worded without mentioning that Amjad had essentially accused them of copying internal design decisions.

Taken directly from the email; "but this feels weird/unethical since you worked for us and now are copying internal design decisions (even bad ones)".

Could Radon's email be worded better to defuse the situation? Probably; but they are a fresh graduate just out of university and I think it's reasonable to hold Amjad to a higher standard.
Bitcoins use an entropy increasing resistance hash function, which makes it terrible for heating and cooling. There's a reason why we should use FedCoin instead of Bitcoin or cash or gold.
Lasers are already used for inter-satellite communications, so there's no need to just use gross color shifting (though perhaps the BOM impact would be less).

Related side story: my resume had something about PKI in it so I kept getting calls from Boeing recruiters trying to fit me into a job doing said satellite laser comms (presumably using PKI). I kept telling them I knew nothing optics-related aside from basic Newtonian stuff, and they kept calling me back. I hope they finally found someone.
My takeaways from the Nature article:

The underlying driving enthalpy seems to be the solvent adsorption exotherm. By extension once full wetted the particles stop producing voltage, but can be dried and rewetted.

As with typical electrochemistry both an oxidation and reduction are performed simultaneously: Oxidation on the PTFE side and reduction on the CNT side. Essentially each particle is its own little electrochemical cell, deriving its working potential from the solvent-surface interaction.
Thanks. I also forgot Creative had a Nomad, I was thinking of Sega.
I mean, that's also true of hacking game mods as a kid vs. actual programming for money as an adult. But many professional programmers got their start by just playing around with computers as a kid.
I was disappointed to not see any mentions of Gridcoin in the Proof of Stake section. It rewards people for their contributions to certain BOINC projects. There definitely is a range of "usefulness" to the projects supported. There are computations like distributed protein folding (Rosetta@Home) all the way to analysis of Minecraft phenomenon (Minecraft@Home). While the Minecraft makes for some very entertaining YouTube videos, the electricity used would probably be better spent on other projects. However, it is still a significant improvement over the computation for Bitcoin.

https://gridcoin.us/
https://gridcoin.us/guides/whitelist.htm
I didn’t even know what “microdosing” before stumbling on this post, still am not 100% sure what it is, I guess it’s something related to taking psychedelics in small doses?