skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great advice. I've used Anki to memorize technical knowledge (not language) for ~10 years. Here are some additional points with some overlap:

* Keep trying. If you're having a bad time with it it's because you haven't figured out how to use it well. SRS must be useful for at least some of your knowledge. Don't add too much and get overwhelmed. Add fewer cards and try to figure out what makes a good card vs bad.

* Stop adding cards if you get overwhelmed. Do all your reviews for a while and the daily number will reduce to something more manageable. Let the magic of SRS work itself out. You get the real benefit when it starts spacing things in years.

* Start slow. Develop your skill of making good cards by making a few and observing your mistakes then ramp it up as you gain confidence.

* Delete or fix bad cards aggressively. Flag them if you can't fix them immediately.

* Use cloze deletion. This is like "[Paris] is the capital of [France]" and you get two cards where one or the other is blanked out. Much easier to create cards this way. Be careful not to make too many.

* Use image occlusion. It's like cloze deletion for pictures. Really excellent for visual stuff.
They certainly get better mortgage rates than their middle-class competitors or maybe they just buy it outright which would save $100k's in the long-run.
https://github.com/helsus/more-commits

5539299 (infinity mark on github) commits, 336.00 MiB on remote (2.2GiB to 24GiB local)
Is there some writeup with details on how El Salvador will implement things? One obvious option would seem to be a wholly custodial, national, off-chain payment system. So El Salvador would hold BTC reserves, while people would actually transact on a government-operated ledger, only interacting with the Blockhain when withdrawing or receiving actual BTC outside the system, if that will be allowed.
This can be fixed somewhat by excluding primary residence from such taxes (essentially a tax-free allowance of 1). This cuts at hoarding real estate as investment, is a nice extra tax on people buying second homes, and doesn't (directly) affect 99% of homeowners who only ever own one house.

I'm not sure I support land taxes etc. but this at least deals with your objection.
You're thinking about this wrong.

SMS 2FA is not for you.

They say it's for you (for your security or your protection or your ease of use or whatever) but that is a lie.

In cases where SMS 2FA is forced, to the exclusion of all other proofing mechanisms, it is generally because the provider has a brutally difficult spam/scam problem that is complicated to solve.

So, instead of solving their spam/scam problem, they just throw some sand in the gears (of their users) and very loosely attempt to piggyback on the physical phone / physical SIM / physical ID confluence that constitutes a "normal user".

This is, of course, a very leaky mapping and anyone determined can, of course, work right around this. But it does seem to lessen their (again, brutally difficult) spam/scam problem.

The most ironic deployment of this (desperate) technique is Twilio whose own numbers cannot be used for SMS 2FA auth[1] and yet they require a true, mobile (non-VOIP) number to use their own service.

[1] Twilio numbers are not mobile numbers. Most SMS 2FA is sent from "short codes" and short codes cannot SMS non-mobile ("voip") numbers.
So basically, Beijing is waiting for private groups to be very big/instrumental. Then extracts money to be put in the government under the form of taxes/fines. Then breaks up the monopoly in smaller units, some units being left alone, some other being management directly by the government.

That's...exactly what the left wing of the democrats wants to do.
Some people say "Well, you're paying more but you can also sell it for more afterwards". But non-homeowners are still paying more for less. That's the argument I am trying to make (poorly)
And zoning laws designed to keep houses expensive.
Depends on where and how the UAV goes down.
>> Most of those people would have been better off continuing to rent and investing in the stock market instead.

It's hard or impossible for individuals to get 5 to 1 leverage at low interest rates for investing in stocks.
The salt has to be transported in any case (whether salt comes from a mine or from evaporation pools). Even if we don't make it into a byproduct but just put it in a big pit of salt adjacent the evaporation pools it would probably be fine (somewhere that we don't need to worry too much about it leeching into the environment, which is already a concern for evaporation pools). Not sure what applications of salt there are or how pure it needs to be (presumably there are other applications besides table salt)? Since we're already positing very cheap energy, we can probably also posit more efficient desalinization plants (resulting brine is even more concentrated, taking the load off of evaporation pools) since I'm assuming that the energy cost is the bottleneck in desalinization efficiency.
The best I can do is post this link: https://www.wellsfargo.com/online-banking/transfers/

You can add non-WF banking destinations once you are logged in. They put up a disclaimer to expect registering the account as a recipient to take up to 3 business days.

Articles on the Internet from May of this year claim that there are no fees, even outside the WF ecosystem. However, they refuse to publish fees as they vary by account.

I do wish you luck, and I hope that it was just a matter of that link being hard to find (they definitely try to funnel you to wire instructions.)
> My understanding is that, except in towns/cities undergoing gentrification, U.S. municipal property taxes are pretty constant (modulo inflation).

Yes, except for places experiencing increasing real property values, real property taxes aren’t increasing.

But the discussion was about places with sustained real property value increase, so that generality is irrelevant.

The scare scenario is still wrong, but for different reasons.
My biggest Factorio lesson was this:

I no longer start a new factory from scratch if I want to do things differently. I use my existing - and now outdated - factory to launch a new one a few minutes run away.
Things went off the rails at the end...

> Well, the banks are controlled by and in bed with the same cabal buying everything up. You think this will be corrected by market forces when it is a financial and political pincher movement pushed by the same cabal that stole the 2020 election & hid COVID Truth?
You are fucked.

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1402449561864577024

IMO, weakens the entire 'thread' and makes it much less trustworthy, even though I do believe this about institutional real estate investors. 'Feudalism' might be a bit extreme, but this will definitely impact the middle class in a very real way.
I've seen this a lot, when is an example of a time when you would want to call hooks out of order? I can't think of a single time where this would be a good thing to do
The oceans have an area of ~89.2 billion acres [0]. Abstracting those 5 million acre-feet would lower sea level by 17 microns. Sea level is rising by ~3.6 mm per year [1], so you would need 211 of these setups to counteract that. Scaling up Diablo Canyon's nameplate capacity of 2256 MW, that is 475 GW. There is currently 390 GW of nuclear power in the world [2].

So, again, not unthinkable, but really quite a lot of work.

And i'm not sure what you do with the water.

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

[1] https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...
But the only reason you'd want 5-to-1 leverage on a house would be to have a hope of keeping up with stocks. Also, it'd be 4:1, right, if you're doing 20% down?

Home values are believed to be less risky. Accordingly, they appreciate more slowly. To make them a good investment, you take leverage until they approximate the risk/return ratio you desire.

Remember, there are huge buyers like BlackRock out there that make the market efficient. If home prices drop to the extent that investing in a house is better than the stock market, then the investors swoop in and the prices go up until the two asset types are equivalent (including the fact that one generally borrows to buy a house).
Somewhere today a company is breached
I find myself playing Rocket Rush, without the rush. This allows access to all the tech without the grind. I've built so many small nuclear plants with a bunch of steam tanks to store the power until needed. I've also built a ton of solar arraignments.

The constant things I always buy are 4 heavy oil, and 200 plastic. I usually get 10 miners, electric furnaces, and level 2 assemblers. Once I have power, and coal gasification up and running for plastic/explosives/batteries, it's just a grind.

I've settled on using an Island terrain, to give it an end, rather than just not wanting to keep expanding forever. Once the island is cleared, and has radar, it's time to start again.
I don't think the existence of superrich people in a society necessarily directly reduces the functionality and peace of that society, but instead is a symptom of broader issues. I think when it becomes a direct problem is when the superrich are allowed to use their wealth to strongly influence the system itself, opening feedback loops that let them enrich themselves. It's a bigger issue in the US since policymaking is strongly influenced by those with money.
>This is called the Bid-Ask spread, and its always, always, always non-zero. Stocks have bid-ask spreads of a penny, but Pokemon Cards, Houses, Lumber, etc. etc. all have a spread in reality. There's never one price for things, there's a buyer's price vs a seller's price, the bid and the ask.

If a bid-ask spread can be positive (as in a stock where the bid is lower than the ask) and can be negative (as in your house example where the bid is higher than the ask), why can't it be zero?

It seems like you're conflating the bid-ask spread with consumer/producer surplus that arises from being willing to buy/sell at prices higher/lower than the market clearing price.
It's a popular notion for the redneck crowd.

It never happens because it the math just doesn't work out. State/local revenues boil down to: property taxes, sales/use taxes, excise taxes, fees and income taxes. The big revenue streams are property taxes (schools, towns), sales taxes (county/state), and income taxes (state). Fees mostly sustain individual programs and have limited revenue potential - you can't make a fishing license $1000.

So when you get rid of property taxes, you get rid of local control of the levy, which sounds great until Little Rock doesn't want to provide state funds to pay your football coach $200k. Even in a middle of the road state like Arkansas, the pressure to meet Medicaid and other other state program dependencies would make it difficult to fund local government. You'll have a revolt if try to levy a 20% sales tax.

The talk radio answer is "shrink the government!". That means layoff cops, firemen, close schools and libraries, eliminate school sports and close public resources like parks, libraries and suspend things like street lighting. That will make reactionaries happy, but employers will leave.
I think that's precisely his pointy: every transaction is "money transmission"... (not saying I agree with his motives)
You wrote before, "TLDR is I'm a copywriter turned comms consultant. I work mostly with tech companies."

"lol at" = not actually denying it, so not technically lying, right? ;)
I am just surprised how much negativity is in HN towards Bitcoin. This is the first case of decentralised open source tech winning against big established powers - governments/faceamagoos. We should be celebrating this. I sure hope that Bitcoin is going to be Linux of money/finance.

Lightning might not be at the scale it needs to be now but it will improve greatly. maybe it is good enough already? Like Ruby on Rails. People keep talking about it being slow while massive web applications are being built with and billions of dollars being processed.
This continues to be debated by so many, but like this person, the debate is meaningless in the face of realities. I'd refer everyone back to @taviso's work up of SMS "2FA". [0]

The amount of 'splaining going on in this discussion helps illustrate the trouble. If SMS2FA were actually fit for purpose it would not require so many internet defenders.

[0] https://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2020/07/you-dont-need-sms-2fa.htm...
Yet Apple, SendGrid, any many other require it.
Replace 'buy' with 'receive' and 'Russian blackmarket data brokers' with 'intelligence assets' and you're correct.
LLD is substantially faster than gold (largely because it does multithreading vastly better, but for other reasons as well, LLD discards some long-held linking semantics in the name of speed).

It took a ground-up rewrite to make it so. Rui Ueyama was employed by Google while he wrote LLD for ELF--it was his primary assignment, bought and paid for by Google.

So Google didn't just wait. It moved on to the next step.
I was confused as well. Perhaps it did cause a loss in "color fidelity" (which on a palette-based system with so few colors ... that would be bad).
Right? I read that almost infantile introduction and came here to complain that this drivel was even posted. But everyone here said to read on, so I did. It was a worthwhile read.

The first two sections? Were obvious enough as a warm up. Things actually got interesting for "Real America" and "Just America" for me.

The entire time I'm reading about Sarah Palin, Im saying in my head, "Yes! But this misses where this ends up..." And the author suddenly addresses the Orange Elephant in the room. Very little exploration is done to justify the way right-wing populism is not simply hijacked by Fascism, but an integral part of it. Tacking Trump on the end was enough to placate some folks, but that rabbit hole really is its own book.

Just America? Shows a shallow reading of Intersectional Thought. Without bringing up examples - such as how the Pine Ridge Reservation is the poorest place in North America - does little to express what is appealing about this analytical toolset.

Bringing up how the visible parts of this movement are overwhelmingly white and affluent? Is valid criticism, especially within the intersectional framework.

Not gonna deny that "freeze peach" becomes less valuable. But unless youve got a megaphone with a million listeners and corporate sponsors, nobody should come to cut your mic, but instead try to educate where institutions failed.

The most promise I see? Is when we combine Marxist and Intersectional Analysis. In fact, its necessary to moee fully explain how the white affluent folks rise to the top amid the many more marginalized voices trying to be heard.

Wouldnt you know it, letting twitter modulate the discourse by picking a "villian of the day" for maximum outrage-engagement in political circles only sets us all back as a human race. And i mean that in all sincerity.
> Not to mention that whole paragraph completely disregards the possibility that falling sperm counts are as much a symptom of declining health as a cause of problems unto themselves.

Could this be a symptom of more stressful lifestyle in particular?
>Are Germans more "efficient"? Idk, let's look at some data and try to nut out whether it checks out.

It's more complex than that. In Spain the "presentismo" (being in-place ,in your office, phisically in your seat) it's taken from the middle manager/boss as a religion. Thus, productiviy is halved even if we work even more than you than average.

And, yes, OFC, this was a big issue because of the Covid and remote work over the internet.
Electronic transfers are common. But electronic payments like that are not so much.

We have Bank QR codes and something simillar to M-Pesa, but its not that widespread because there is no one standard for QR payments or similar. That makes it less practical to use because both you and the vendor must use the same bank. (El Salvador is small and there are many finatial instituions.)

Something like U.S. Zelle or Swedish Swish would help, but banks have not standardized yet.

If WhatsApp started something like WeChat payments it would become a hit. Like they did in Brazil.
> then there was at LEAST $60,000 of value created by the transaction.

That is not value creation, that is wealth transfer from Alice to Bob. Alice has to earn that excess $60,000 through labor, or exploiting labor.
People can change, but in the end it's all probabilities and statistical distributions: it's much easier to be constantly exercising all our lives or working hard all our lives than to have a Damascus moment and radically change our ways (and it's much easier to move in the direction of less, rather than more, effort or commitment).

I don't want my comment to be seen as dunking on PG, who I only know through his work, which we all respect if not admire. But I remember seeing a picture of PG taken at one of the YC events a few years ago and immediately thinking " this physical condition is approaching heart-attack risk". From reading his tweets, from which it's clear how much he loves his kids, it's easy to come to the conclusion that we all have some sort of ongoing cognitive dissonance and convenient rationalizations for whatever behavior we support or defend. I could make up all kinds of rationalizations for why work-life balance is important and spending time with our families is fulfilling and cite that shaky study about people on their deathbeds who say they regret spending too much time at work and not enough time with their loved ones.

Yes, a more exciting work environment, with more agency, surrounded by brilliant people is more inviting (for some!) than working in a top-down, no-agency workplace. But most of all, I confess that I don't like to spend too much time working, which doesn't mean I love not doing anything, but that I don’t like working the way we normally think of it, which can include: managers, deadlines, commuting, finding someone to cover for us when we have to go to the hospital when a parent isn't feeling well, performance reviews, or the usual start-up issues we all know.
Sometimes others start burning the bridges whether you want it or not.
Well, no, California has Prop 13, because wealthy investors in property used constructed images of that scenario to build support for a law to transfer more wealth to the already wealthy, not because its was a real problem (and, even if it was, Prop 13 doesn’t focus on dealing with that problem.)
It's slightly more complicated than that because what they'll do is keep the properties and rent them. There being few houses to buy increases the demand for rent, and cornering the rental market means you can control rent prices.
There is no situation where it is good at anything.
I follow this account and others like it because it allows one to be exposed to things like the idea that COVID leaked from a lab a year ago.

Skepticism is warranted in all cases, of course, but I think it's extremely healthy to keep in tune with a variety of subcommunities who are in and of themselves skeptics of many mainstream narratives.
The reason for those stickers is that they're color coded. My Tesla allows me access to the carpool lane for 2 years and no more. It's a temporary carrot, not a permanent one.
A 30K train manager is still more than a 25K bus driver.

And there are a lot more road accidents than train accidents.
I don't care. Landlords aren't "providing housing" they are just money conduits. It is demonstrably the labor of their tenants which provides the housing, and the pendulum needs to swing back in the tenants' favor for a while.
It's not literal.
(The hustle is my day job. ;-))
Using Civo Kubernetes to Gamify Twitter with Prometheus and Grafana
Right, but the greater the share of the market you own, the less you have to invest in making your offering more attractive, and the more you can start simply increasing rents.

They along with others are trying to build a monopoly/oligopoly in housing. Naturally we would expect regulations against this, but the fact that it's going this far is a bad sign.
Clicked into one of the demos, was greeted by around 10 progress spinners, possibly more. This instantly reminded me of some combination of Google Cloud's deeply mediocre console and waiting for a Jira page to render. I'd simply never prefer a tool like this or see it fit to force someone else to use it, and I don't understand why anyone would intentionally design an app to behave like this.

Please kill those progress spinners, the app is only rendering little bits of 2d art. Count each one as an individual statement of "you asked me for something but I haven't done my job yet, and now I'll make you pay for my laziness, and I promise if you click anything I'm just going to show you a million more progress spinners because I hate you and don't value your time"

Also please don't shoot the messenger, spinners were briefly an acceptable UI cue sometime around 2 decades ago, nobody honestly likes seeing them any more. If you explicitly design an app UI around the expectation of delays, it gives endless room to cut corners and add more delays. In other words it is optimizing the whole user experience for intentional mediocrity.
Depends on the tech stack you want to work with. What you are describing is often called "white label".

The simple way to build this would be to store each customer's data in a database.
This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/DIGITUS-DA-73300-1-USB-sharing-swit...
When I first picked up Factorio I loved it for about ~12 hours. Then I just felt, everything is too hard and there isn't a sense of purpose.

For me, I think it would me a fun game if there was more strategy or something else to do besides build the factory. It seems to me the progression system is actually really linear.

> I get bored in the monotony of the early game, and I'm too stupid to keep things going in the mid game.

This is my other big issue. I don't like putting in much effort when playing video games. It seems like just getting blue science takes hours of work, and those hours were fun for the first factory, but now it's just repetitive.
The blog post is premised on a fundamental misunderstanding of what a "money transmitter" is for regulatory purposes, presumably because they based their understanding on FinCEN's overview page rather than reading the regulations themselves.

The definition of a money transmitter is a person or company that receives money (or other measure of value) from one party and sends that money/value store (sans any charged fees) to a third party. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/1010.100#ff_5)

Miners verify transactions, but crucially don't take custody of the money/value store at any point. Paypal and Venmo are money transmitters, because they do take custody of money in transit. (Stubhub and Airbnb are not money transmitters because the regulations exclude companies that only act as payment processors to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, see (ff)(5)(ii)(B) and (F) of the exclusions in the linked regulation)

So this blog post is much ado about nothing and will generally be ignored by the people who actually matter, i.e., FinCEN and other regulatory agencies with jurisdiction, because they generally tune out people who can't get the basic foundational things right.
Can someone please tell me if I should sell or keep my BTCs and why? Thanks!