skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is correct in practice. But consider what I said in the context of the discussion: contrasting 'digital dollars' with cryptocurrencies.

With dollars, individuals have to choose between bank accounts, which are subject to counterparty risk, and cash, which cannot be transacted digitally.

If your holding of 'digital dollars' in a bank account is subject to counterparty risk, then there's something different about the dollars you hold and 'real' dollars issued by the central bank.

With cryptocurrency, anyone can transact the real thing. There's no counterparty risk. (Of course, there are issues with blockchain scaling, use of custodial wallets etc., which negate this to some extent.)
iTunes U was totally cool in 2007, and remained cool into the early 2010s with some improvements. My just wish it had remained cool until today!

To be honest, I think iTunes U was negative incentive for universities to put content online, since it was basically a failure. It took Coursera (and MITx, etc.) to show the value in MOOCs, and that people would pay for it. I'm not sure the line between iTunes U and Coursera is necessarily a straight one.
Bloating is just a buildup of gas in your stomach, small intestine, or colon. Avoid difficult-to-digest meals, such as cruciferous and brassica vegetables, which are high in indigestible sugars.
Towns normally set the property tax rate to meet their budget, so appraisals increasing across the board would not increase you property taxes.

Prop 13 leads to perverse outcomes like subsidizing slums and trust fund kids while penalizing new homeowners and people improving their property. It's also simply unjust for two neighbors with similar properties to pay different rates based on their age or even ancestry.
But that's true for renewable energy too. Nothing about the two energy sources are different.

Either energy prices are decoupled from mining rewards, in which case reduced prices of either fossil fuels or renewables (or increased price of BTC) means more profit for miners or energy prices are coupled to mining rewards, in which case changing prices of fossil fuels or renewables means nothing to miners.

Please tell me why mining does not incentivize cheaper fossil fuel energy technology in the same way it supposedly incentivizes cheaper renewable energy technology.

> that you ended up so confused

I am not confused. I've heard this argument 1000 times. It is bogus.
There is no analysis anywhere that suggests Blackrock is poised to corner the rental market.
> We just need to make sure it flows to the correct places.

That's the key, and also something that's unsolved. History shows that a lot of the money will be squandered in increasing "clever" ways, and it may take until the end of the decade before the public even realizes that it happened.
My rent doesn't change with interest rates.
Link to actual article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-...

(Also, the article is now over two months old.)
off topic but I am really wondering ...
How a story on top of HN (number 1) suddenly drops to number 19 in matter of minutes ?

Algo glitch ?
Penalty for mentioning Bitcoin much ?
This is the correct take, IMO. Wise.
It's still a pain. And once you bought a house, you might like to think of it as an unmovable good (literally, in many languages). Now your cash flow doesn't permit you to live there.

Also, with low/zero IR, PV of tax payments is infinite, it's not like increasing house price is offsetting that.
It's all new games made specifically for this platform? What do you mean?
I live in LA and while we have our problems, it's still a paradise state. Still 100s of cultures running all kinds of businesses and restaurants. The only thing that's a bit blech is the high number of opiate addicts that roam the streets but it's a complex problem to solve. We really need some kind of mandatory drug rehab and housing without causing individuals rights to be taken away.
Part of the Pile dataset is the Ubuntu IRC stuff
Interesting! I learned a lot of new things about memory when I did the "learning how to learn course" [0]. I definitely recommend it for people trying to learn vast amounts and use their memory effectively.

The link's more specific honing on memory itself seems more in depth however.

[0]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
The bigger concern might be that Bitcoin offers zero privacy; anyone you pay with Bitcoin can know exactly how much you have in your account, which is a huge personal security risk, possibly especially so in El Salvador.

If people use Bitcoin to store their life savings instead of banks, expect gangs to run around robbing people for their bitcoin because all it takes is one unscrupulous vendor to inform the gangs of your net worth.
'Never' burn bridges is too absolute a declaration to be possible in the real world.

Some employers aren't worth the effort or brain power to preserve a relationship with. Some are, and some are excellent employers you may not want to part with but are doing so for other reasons.

For myself, I spent about 2 years with a company and I was completely burned out by the end of my time there. 14 or 16 hour days at times, some weeks I put upwards of 2,000 miles on the work truck, no raise throughout my time there despite bringing in more work for the outfit.

To top it off, the owner had a habit of just telling someone not to bother coming in when they gave their 2-week notice, unless he really liked them. Sure enough, when I told them I was burned out and done with it rather than finishing out the two weeks, closing up the reports I was working on, documenting my workflow for someone else and so on, I was asked to turn in my vehicle and phone and get on with it.

All well and good in my opinion as I was completely done with those folks, and it only solidified my choice not to answer any calls from them in the future were I to get any. And there it is, a burnt bridge. Not particularly through my actions or the way I exited, but I'm not sad that its burnt, either.

That said I totally agree with the other point of the article, always turn in your best work. Networking, word of mouth, and relationships are worth far too much for future employment than to risk it on half assing some aspect of a job you don't really like.
Lots of knee jerk hate on the government for spending money in this thread. Investing in R&D (and infrastructure) is more or less the best investment the government can make. Historically these investments have been incredibly successful, and have allowed the US to lead the world in a number of ways. We have some of the best researchers in the world, we should give them money to do their research.

On the hate for government contractors---like any R&D investment, they don't all pan out. This is why we make redundant investments. Overall, the ROI has been very positive even including the failures.

On the increased size of government spending---we're already spending trillions, I know it sounds big, we've inflated very quickly. This is how watered down money is now though, we need to adapt to the new inflated price of things. Personally, I have a huge amount of patience for investments in technology research. The other way we get out from under debt is raising taxes. Would you rather see tax rates hike and no real progress be made, or returns from investments help get us out from this hole and advance technology?
You can do far more than 3 tx per second in mainchain. Look into channel factories. 100s of trustless lightning network channels in 1 onchain transaction. Layer approach is the only viable scaling solution.
Does Gravity Bend Gravity?
Not arguing with you, but are you suggesting that raising mortgage rates and/or stopping the printing of money will get rid of the Blackrocks and make housing affordable to the working class?
Nope, probably not. It's using JAX, which works on both GPUs and TPUs.
As has been pointed out repeatedly, this has the net effect transferring homes from owners to renters, which does not directly impact access or affordability; the housing stock remains available.
Same thing happened on May 10th too: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/x9ynwxy7sgd1

They say it was a performance issue, but we were getting 500 errors from the Fastly API.
"Increased productivity through micromanagement" is a manager's most exciting dream, and that's what agile (big A or little a) provides.
> It had its own, super fast, rendering engine (I forget its name, Presto?). It had a built in email client, feed reader, calendar (unfortunately with no Exchange or Gmail integration), a notes app, a powerful download manager and even a Bitorrent client. And a TON of features and UI flexibility.

And don’t forget its MDI interface [1] which made using all those features a joy and is still today better than all the tab implementations of modern browsers (for power users at least).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-document_interface
Land value taxes ignore the value of buildings constructed on the land. It’s very different from current property taxes because it incentivizes density.
Presumably, owing money for 60 years instead of 30 years will cost you much more in the long run. And more baked in interest early in the loan means less recovered when you sell.
I'm thinking bigger than the Colorado river. I also think scaling up nuclear power is a good idea--the economics of managing nuclear waste imply that the cost of managing a little bit of nuclear waste is not much lower than the cost of managing a whole lot of nuclear waste, so we're already committed to most of that cost.

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

Use it for agriculture (presently a whole lot of agriculture depends on unsustainable access to water) and desert greening. To be clear lowering the ocean levels is a nice byproduct of producing more water, not the other way around.

Nuclear takes a long time to scale up so this certainly isn't feasible in the next 50 years even if we had the political will. It's more of an interesting long term idea.
As others have said, it is not that SMS 2FA is insecure; it is that thieves have figured out how to defeat it using SIM jacking and a bit of facebooking and googling. It is now trivial to figure out your home town, your favorite pet, etc. Also as others have said, the current alternatives have their problems. What if you lose all your Yubi keys? What if your phone was accidentally wiped and you never got around to backing it up? You cannot prove you are you and so customer support cannot help you. Google, Microsoft, and Apple are not known for helping consumers get themselves out of this catch-22.

It is a mistake to ask consumers to protect, backup, and secure their digital lives themselves. Consumers don't have the time or skills to keep up with the hackers. If Apple, Google, ATT, Verizon etc. cannot provide digital security, this is an opportunity for someone else to step in. My personal suggestion is this is a ripe opportunity for someone like the US Post Office or Department of Motor Vehicles. Consumers would go to the US Post Office or DMV and purchase a Yubi key from them. The additional value they add, is they can verify the identity of the consumers who is purchasing the Yubi key and replace the key if it is lost/stolen. Similar to how they process driver licenses or passports. This service is optional and would actually cost money. I would gladly pay a monthly fee for this peace of mind.
Hey there! @Dialogflow Gateway: nice idea and cool showoff cases.

Got some ideas on collaborating, send you an email.
The usual advocacy point is to reduce most of the other taxes and send the LVT way up. "We should have a land value tax" is usually meant to mean "most tax should be on land".
There's a verilog2factorio compiler: https://github.com/Redcrafter/verilog2factorio
A greater percentage of bottled water is drunk. Drinking being the most critical use of drinkable water. If there's a shortage that's the activity you want to most prioritise over others.

I didn't say household water use is minimal, I said a tiny portion of it is used for drinking. People use on average like 200L a day and drink like 3.

It's mostly used on showering, gardens, washing machines, toilets, pools, dishwashers. Activities that could generally be cut a fair bit. You crank up the price and my showers are definitely getting shorter, my non-existent garden pool and dishwasher would get removed if they existed, id pay attention to the water level setting on the washing machine instead of just leaving it on high, and only flush for shits. I absolutely do not believe people would eat a huge budget hit to keep these activities nor that they're already running at a much higher rate of water efficiency. Demand would plummet and more water would be available for drinking.

Everything hurts poor people more. That's how having a financial buffer works. It's basically the definition. Poor people are people who have few or no resources. You want resources to make life less painful. Cutting water use hurts poor people. Allowing things to get so bad that neighbours have water flow issues would hurt them more. It's not going to be the wealthy that go without in any scenario so "trying to fix it will hurt the poor" is a nothing statement.
I agree. On a similar vein I was trying to figure out how best to model something complex recently, what kind of data structures to use, etc, and Google searches don't really help. Where are the books on this kind of stuff for our field? In the end I just invented something decent, but it seems like a missed opportunity.
Isn't this counter to what RAD/AGILE what have you?

Yesterday a look at solution a for problem y and it turns out that was a dead end so we wont do that any more.

Today Looking at solution b for y or can we solve y by doing something else
At my workplace one R&D engineer had the last lines printed out as poster (i guess the AD note is older than 2007)
Why is it a joke? Your property value went up significantly, you are in fact a winner. Why should you get to shirk your responsibility to your community?
> you need to solve it politically.

And what do you do when politics are fully captured by corporate and oligarchical interests?

The majority of bitcoiners see no way out of our current political system. The dollar underpins the US hegemony.

Bitcoin wouldn't be necessary if the government would allow alternative currencies, but until bitcoin, it had squashed numerous attempts at alternatives.

So to say that we need to solve it politically misses the point. Bitcoin is a solution to solve what is seen as a political mess. Further, politics is just non-violent war. This _is_ a political method.

> their rich friends will just find a way to use it against you

I don't entirely disagree. I see bitcoin as a start. The lightning network already brings some anonymity to transactions, but it could be made to do better.

Monero (XMR) is a privacy based crypto that already does so and can currently do 1500tps on chain (BTC does ~7). Crypto is war against oligarchs motivated by failed traditional politics. Monero and other techs like decentralized exchanges are a step up in weaponry of this war.
Excellent article! One thing I'm curious about: LLVM uses phi, as was considered best practice at the time. Of late, some people have started using block parameters instead; they are fundamentally equivalent, but make some operations more convenient at the cost of making other operations less convenient. Do the LLVM developers still consider phi the best choice, or would block parameters look better if you had it to do over?
"People are not satisfied with the existing solutions"

s/People/Criminals and twenty jackasses on hacker news/

Actual people are sick of completely unchecked scamming taking over every interface of their lives. Ransomeware is out of control. This week I'm personally dealing with some credit card fraud which ended up with $18k stolen and spent on a cryptocurrency exchange. Phone networks are nearly useless because they are overrun with endless phishing attempts, meaning I miss calls from doctors, etc.

Cryptocurrency is money laundering as a service: it's enabling and exacerbating the whole ball of terrible. A few people have gotten rich off it, and will loudly try to defend it. Cigarette company executives did the same. It's a net drag on society, and needs to be dealt with.
this is actually good. once people no longer own homes they are going to stop voting for people who artificially prop up home prices by restricting supply through zoning and land use rules. Long term positive for our political system.
Yeah what the heck happened there.

"same cabal"

Everything is a grand singular conspiracy to someone these days. Happens on HN too, every few bad news type post has some accusation that whatever outcome was because of a conspiracy.
Here's why investors buy up houses: they know your neighbors will do the dirty work of artificially constraining the housing supply, which makes it a good investment.

Here's one who comes right out and explains this:

> Meanwhile, local opposition to building is so commonplace and the approval process so cumbersome, time consuming, and expensive, even when a proposed project complies entirely with requirements, approvals are not forthcoming, at least in an expeditious manner and needed supply is simply not provided. Recently I heard of a new acronym to add to my vocabulary: CAVE, Citizens Against Virtually Everything, to be added to NIMBYISM and BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone).

https://www.clearcapllc.com/2021/04/27/q1-2021-clear-capital...

Support groups like https://yimbyaction.org/ if you want to 'stick it to the investors'. If there's a credible threat to build plenty of housing, they'll move on.
Understanding trade offs at a high clip. This is going to be counter intuitive advice, but making a lot of bad tech decisions actually leads to the desired outcome (what not to do).

Just try to put a time limit on how long you will allow yourself to do that. I’d say no more than one job (2ish years, an accelerated pace of just being an awful dev). Try all the bullshit under the sun, and then consciously stop and move on to another job.
Not yet.

The most detailed explanation was given by the president and his brother on a twitter space in English this midnight.
I'm not aware of any locality in the US that has a pure Land Value Tax. There are a few localities in Pennsylvania that have a split value tax, with separate rates for land and structures.
I think they were saying that hn crowd tends to dislike jira
> simply letting ancient decisions hold in pepetuity is not acceptable.

If ancient rights were ignored, it would shake the confidence in governments which could have unintended consequences.
Your liability has. If the interest rates goes back up to late 20th rates, your monthly payment isn't going to stay the same.
>should have the right to do business with whomever they want, based on any criteria they deem appropriate.

There's a subtle distinction where you may have layered your own individual beliefs onto this statement by using the word "should", rather than indicating what is actually the law. While you may feel they "should" have that right based on your own feelings and personal morality, there are specific laws that say they do not. In many jurisdictions within the U.S., for example, businesses generally do not have the right to refuse business to a person based on that person being part of a protected class.
>"According to researchers at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), there's about 5,000 times as much lithium in the oceans as there is in land deposits, and a newly developed technology could start extracting it cheaply enough to make the big time – while producing hydrogen gas, chlorine gas and desalinated water as a bonus.

The process relies on an electrochemical cell containing a ceramic membrane made from lithium lanthanum titanium oxide (LLTO), with pores just wide enough to let lithium ions through while blocking larger metal ions. “LLTO membranes have never been used to extract and concentrate lithium ions before,” says post-doctorate researcher Zhen Li, who developed the cell.

The cell has three compartments. Seawater flows into the first, from which positively charged lithium ions pass through the LLTO membrane into a second compartment holding a buffer solution and a copper cathode coated with platinum and ruthenium. Negatively charged ions, meanwhile, go through an anion exchange membrane into a third compartment containing a sodium chloride solution, where they're attracted to a platinum-ruthenium anode.

The lithium is pulled through the LLTO membrane toward the cathode when a current is applied, and the process generates hydrogen gas at the cathode and chlorine gas at the anode, both of which can be collected. Where lithium starts out at a concentration of just 0.2 parts per million in unprocessed seawater, experiments found that running it through this cell in five 20-hour stages enriched the concentration to over 9,000 parts per million, leaving a solution that was pH-adjusted, centrifuged, rinsed and dried to leave a lithium phosphate powder of 99.94 percent purity, meeting standards for battery-grade lithium phosphate."
Sorry if this is not on your sensibilities, but that assembly was very corrupt so much so that people wanted them out as soon as possible, he did not command the military to do what they did, the military showed up in support for the people who were also there.

He has 90% approval rate on the opposition owned polls, and he has supermajority of the assembly for a reason, 30 years of pure corruption without any consequences by the previous governments, you'll not find enough people to oppose him to fill a boulevard.

The new assembly just passed a bill finally allowing Salvadorans in other countries to vote in all future elections, if that's not democracy I don't know what is, if the opposition is against the overwhelming support he has, maybe they should've done things right by the people in those 30 years, but they didn't and they're finally out.

And it was done democratically, by the people without a single protest.

Read into what the traditional parties did to try to block Bukele for running for president, they closed a political party overnight with a congressman from that party still in the assembly, which was unconstitutional, but nobody said a word there.
Could be the reason the eventual product ended up with a more complex implementation?
They're not a company. They made some decision to not add more to the Pile, as they think it is complete enough. However, you could go to the Discord and propose a restarting of the Pile project, they allow those. On the Github, it looks like the next step after a restart would be the Pile v2, a multilingual dataset. Good luck!
Recently Mozilla started requiring 2FA for their AMO site used to publish addons. I have a few private addons that I develop and use, nothing big yet, but I really didn't want to link anything up with 2FA over SMS and I'm also trying to reduce my "Google footprint" so instead I selected their only alternative that doesn't use a centralized third party.

It was a bit complex, but I eventually got Keepass to generate the TOTP codes which so far are pretty awesome.
El Salvador doesn't need to establish mining operation to leverage this new legal tender, anymore than Ecuador (or others) have to print USD for their own economies. countries that use large quantities of dollars do need to regularly import/export USD notes though
The creator of Piet chimed in on the Twitter announcement thread. https://mobile.twitter.com/TartanLlama/status/14019462727230...
Biden revokes Trump bans on TikTok and WeChat
People using "The Great Reset" as a pejorative tend to have their views deeply rooted in right-leaning garbage conspiracy theories. Surely there's a better source for what Black Rock is doing than this person's Twitter thread.

> Only the worlds largest asset manager and the leading proponent of The Great Reset.

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1402437638423035906