skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you want a smartwatch, and want your data to remain private

Pick one.
Watch some of his videos. He has a lot of insight about the subpar quality of Apple devices, about the outrageous lies of Apple Genius Bar quoting people thousands of dollars for repairs that take him 5-10 minutes, for apple’s efforts to make the devices non serviceable, withholding schematics, controlling access to replacement parts etc.

Here’s a televised CBS report.

https://youtu.be/o2_SZ4tfLns

He is extremely good at repair while despising the company’s despicable practices - and warns people about them.
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I did the math, and for me Glacier is great for backups where homeowners insurance is likely to be involved in the restoral. It was ferociously expensive for anything less drastic.
From what I know, adenovirus based vaccines have been studied for many decades. Also I see there have been vaccines deployed for use in military personnel in the past.
This is a really disingenuous take on what I said. If tomorrow bitcoin were made illegal, it's value would plummet, or those holding it under the radar would have to resort to all kinds of backroom deals and money laundering attempts to hide it. This is because bitcoin cannot defend itself against the strong arm of the state.
I've heavily used TCL twice in my career, and while I find it an interesting experiment in a language, and actually enjoy a lot of it, I would never recommend it to anyone, nor would I ever pick it for a project. The core idea of "everything is a string" just has a lot of failure modes, and you find yourself making common errors even after years of developing with it.

But it's a really neat exploration of a "what if" in programming languages.
You omitted the context from the rest of the sentence:

> most database-like applications do their redundancy themselves, at the application level …

If that’s not the case for your storage (doesn’t sound like it), then the author’s point doesn’t apply to your case anyway. In which case, yes, RAID may be useful.
At least in case of Brazil, it helps that the FBI assisted the Car Wash operation arrest a relatively autonomous front-runner presidential candidate on trumped up charges, to empower the puppet rainforest burner, negationist chloroquine peddler that rules there now, stacking a pandemic body count close to five hundred thousand in the process, and counting up. See https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/united-states-justice-de...
Well there's also the angle of people moving from the big city into a small rural community and gentrifying it. A good friend of mine had to deal with this trend in Bozeman and was ultimately pretty much forced out by it.
I also thought of you when I read this :)
How much money is there to be mined per year? On the order of 10 billion dollar? What share of the total hash rate could you realistically buy and power with your volcano? One percent? Probably not ten percent. What would the investment for the hardware be? I have a hard time imagining that you could make a noticeable difference this way even for an economy like Salvador's. And there are probably many better ways to spend money than buying mining ASICs.
non-educated Ethereum question here: But the third parties can compete and all manage the same data on the Ethereum block chain right? e.g. I could use any service to login with same data, so if one went defunct, could I just choose another?
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>free speech bad

I'm guessing at least one of the three authors of this article is Jewish
This is one of the biggest use cases for "crypto assets" that I can think of. Perhaps the only one, aside from ring of trust and public key distribution.
> use bitcoin mining when demand is low to help offset the cost

I've looked at income statements of a bunch of public companies that mine Bitcoin, and one of the most striking things is how much of the cost is actually depreciation of hardware. Granted, part of this is that they are running the hardware to its limits, but another aspect is that new improved mining hardware comes out frequently and pushes the old hardware over the profitability edge.

Basically, I'm skeptical that anyone can mine Bitcoin profitably without running the hardware 24/7. Other coins that use commodity hardware, maybe.
We can pay local taxes in Bitcoin in Zug, Switzerland.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/swiss-can...
> Have we reached a state of elite-overproduction?

I'm very curious about this line of thought, as it seems to have become very popular in the blogospher over the past year or two.

What are the consequences of "elite overproduction"? I'm curious what the implications of this line of thought are.

Generally, I think more education is better than less - I am wrong to think that?

My personal hypothesis is that this fear of elite overproduction is being generated by existing professionals who are afraid an increasing supply of educated workers reducing their negotiating position/compensation.
For the past couple months I've had success with this "one weird trick" to help get to sleep: I go through the alphabet and for every letter I think of 3 unrelated words that start with each letter. When I'm tired by my mind is running, this helps me slip into sleep.

My wife and daughter have also had success with it.

I also have had success with listening to audio books or podcasts, but don't like doing that if my wife is also trying to go to sleep. Despite that she can't really hear me over her Sleepbuds.
> waking up early, at the exact same time, every day

If you can do that, congratulations, you don't have insomnia.

> need to eat a heavy breakfast (…) Some people think they are special snowflakes who "have never been able to eat in the morning"

If I don't wait one or two hours after waking up before eating I'll puke, or at best have some severe nausea for hours, no thanks.

I'm insomniac and it drove me quite close to death, try getting a total of 6h of sleep in a week, 48h without rest, or staying still and conscious for 8h. Sleep deprivation is torture and everyone has their idea of how badly people manage their lives, how insomnia isn't a thing, and how they should just "go to bed", "quit screens", or "eat proper".
You think we have not tried everything and anything?

Melatonin saved me, not condescending uninformed counsel. When I started taking melatonin I discovered what feeling sleepy was like. I only knew exhaustion until then, and it was not always enough.
I've been able to sleep for the past two years and it still feels like a luxury.
It's hard to imagine that directive lasting beyond the first bug report of "it broke, fix now!".
You stated exactly that:

>Everybody mining bitcoin is using the cheapest energy source available which currently is coal.

'Some website said...' some other website said vaccines will make my arm magnetic. Doesn't make it true. Don't spout nonsense just because you agree with it, check the veracity of the statement first.

>Thats about 24 Coal power plants that could be shut down, if bitcoin would disappear today

No they wouldn't. They existed before bitcoin, they will exist even if bitcoin is outlawed and shut down. The demand would come from elsewhere, but if you understand power generation you would also know that gas and coal power stations are used to keep a base level of power on the grid, solar doesn't generate at night and wind doesn't always blow. Hydro power cannot be transported everywhere it is needed. So coal, gas and nuclear make up the rest. Until we get better storage they will continue to be used and required.

Honestly this comment of yours has just highlighted how little you know about the subject. You don't even mention which website but I can guess it's digiconomist, which has been debunked before. That site relies on showing extreme figures to get page views.
(1) Two Chinese Boys Die Wearing Face Masks During Gym Class
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-two-c...

(2) After Multiple Deaths, Officials Call for No Masks in Gym Class
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005609/after-multiple-deaths...

(3) Oregon high school junior breaks 800-meter school record and falls face-first at finish line as mask restricts breathing
https://twitter.com/covid_clarity/status/1387212971399540737

(4) New Jersey driver crashes car after passing out from wearing N95 mask
https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/driver-crashes-car-after-passi...

(5) Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask Wearing
https://www.globalresearch.ca/medical-doctor-warns-bacterial...

Enjoy! :)
Is there any protocol information for someone making a project with lights they want to be able to control with this tool? I was looking around a bit but could only find resources on getting it working with specific premade things.
I worked in the defence industry for a few years where they did this. I also have equipment that is nearly 50 years old in service now (electronic test gear).

BUT the cost was astronomical as were the storage requirements for parts and the cost of the replacement parts. The oscilloscope I have (tek 7904) was released in 1972 and would cost about $100k now with the plugins I have in it. And that's because it was designed for repair. Versus a modern unit which costs around $5k, lasts 5 years and is disposable. Yeah that's not gonna wash. Also it actually requires some quite extreme skills looking after 40+ year old kit.

What you end up with is a $7000 iPhone and a repair industry where min charge is $500 for some obscure part because the universe has moved on.

Recycling and reuse is better and that's where we're heading. Even cars are going in that direction.
That's the whole thing, isn't it? Different societies do stop people from doing different sets of things. So "nobody is stopping me" can't be evidence for any "natural" set of rights beyond society, since it would result in wildly different sets of "natural rights" for people in different societies. And a different set outside of a society, where maybe you have the a greater right to light things on fire but a lesser right to not get killed by someone else lighting things on fire.
What about non-removable batteries that are also glued in? With a excessive amount of glue?

Making them doubly non-removable?
> You also have the problem of writing dozens and dozens of seemingly engaging and individualized messages only to get no response back.

To use a property analogy: if I am not the highest offer on a house, I probably won't get it. Doesn't matter if I have a trust fund or work for minimum wage (effort put into the offer) my offer wasn't accepted.

Similarly if I'm the seller, I can decide "No, actually I don't want to sell my house to BlackRock, I'd rather sell it to this young family" and that's entirely my choice. This choice might leave money on the table, but at least I get the warm fuzzy feels inside for doing what I think is best.

What you describe sounds like you want some kind of "thank you for putting in some effort" but you decide the amount of effort to invest, the other party owes you nothing.
Unnecessarily expensive computation in software? preposterous.
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It's "really measuring" the deflection of a beam of light by a mirror connected to a wire connected to a weight. Everything else is a matter of modeling.

The best model that explains all of the data is the Einstein Field Equations. The most useful way to interpret the model is to think of space and time geometrically (albeit a very weird kind of geometry in which one of the dimensions has the bizarre property that a straight line is the longest distance between two points). If you view it that way, the geometry acts as if it has intrinsic curvature: otherwise straight lines (like beams of light) don't go straight.

So... it doesn't get to directly measure curvature. It's not even clear if it's meaningful to "really" measure curvature. Push on the whole notion of "measure" hard enough and it turns out that it's not nearly as clear as we think it is. Everything is "theory laden": a measurement is always a matter of interpretation, even the most straightforward ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory-ladenness
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Their favicon really looks like Flickr's logo.
Some day I should visit Maui. I hear it's the least built up of the islands served by scheduled commercial passenger service.
I don't have automated mirroring set up, but I have insight.

I use a Windows free tool called FastGlacier. I set up an IAM user on my AWS account for my backups, and use those creds to login. Then it's drag and drop! You can even use FastGlacier to encrypt/decrypt on the fly as you upload and download.

Glacier is cheap because the retrieval times are very slow - something like 1-12 hours depending on the tier.

I have about 100GB of critical data. Personal documents, photos and some music I don't want to have to search for if the house burns down. It's something like a dollar a month. Less than a cup of coffee.
Maybe the best system is honor code + encourage students to tell the Prof / administration if another student is cheating.

Cheating all on your own is difficult if you also have to hide it from your peers.
Wellcome ti Yoga Nidra...

https://youtu.be/7H0FKzeuVVs
> Some Luddites who often bemoan abandoning the gold standard point to this is a mistake but the last few centuries has shown this to be wildly successful.

First, that's not accurate. Federal reserve system is ~100 years old (and arguably caused the great depression, 1970 inflation crisis, 2008 and what may be coming in 2021-2022). The gold standard was only abandoned completely in 1970's (~50 years).

> Starting in the 1959–1969 administration of President Charles de Gaulle and continuing until 1970, France reduced its dollar reserves, exchanging them for gold at the official exchange rate, reducing U.S. economic influence. This, along with the fiscal strain of federal expenditures for the Vietnam War and persistent balance of payments deficits, led U.S. President Richard Nixon to end international convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold on August 15, 1971 (the "Nixon Shock").

In 1934 the U.S. Nationalized all gold:

> Congress passed the Gold Reserve Act on 30 January 1934; the measure nationalized all gold by ordering Federal Reserve banks to turn over their supply to the U.S. Treasury.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard

I'm making no claims but you can see some of what the implications are (I think this site is a bit over the top, but makes some stuff clear):

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Wish it was as swappable as RAM sticks, quite the pain to get in with a screwdriver after removing the GPU during OS installs on 2 drives without bootloader crap
Unfortunately, a single dose of the mRNA vaccines or any other vaccine seems to be pretty ineffective against the variant currently circulating in the UK - it really takes two doses, and there doesn't seem to be any way to change the rollout to give both doses sooner.
funny, I used to do the exact same thing with Seneca but at some point he would write something very deep that I would need to think and that made me spiral into a whole revaluation of my life which really ruins any hope of sleep.
I'm not an expert in history, but I think that Poland should reappear in 1918, but it's missing few more years on the map.
I read until the words are blurry, then I put the ebook down. I specifically choose books that are slow, mildly interesting, and unlikely to inspire bad dreams.
Focus groups show privacy and safety and both arguments are gleefully weaponized by the lobbyists.
Yes, and the TSA is required to check the shoes of all passengers who want to fly because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid

The fact the people who make a policy have a specific thing they want to achieve with that policy does not automatically make it a good policy. That remains true even if the thing they want to prevent is bad and could kill people.
The part you quoted is specific to Medicaid, and what I said is accurate for Medicare.

The greater point also stands, which is that the fed doesnt negotiate prices, and is not lower than retail.

>Medicare or Medicaid and the gov negotiates a much lower price than retail
My prices on the UPS options are about double yours (USPS is the same). I'm in the Salt Lake metro area.

UPS 3 Day Select: $49.19
UPS Ground: $20.85
UPS Next Day Air Dom: $118.86

Every time I ship something it seems like it is priced about the same as these options. How do individuals (and this company) unlock those magical shipping rates you get from other businesses without which they'd be dead in the water as a business?
well most often hba's and raid controllers are another thing which increases latency and makes maintenances costs go up quite a bit (more stuff to update) and also it's another part that can break.

that's why it's not recommended when running ceph.
Option A requires building out power transmission and storage.

Option B does not as the mining is always running and near the source.
Mining more bitcoin won't make its market capitalization go up.
> It will be signed into law because people asked for it.

Again, did Swiss citizens ask for it? It seemed like US politicians asked for it. Why should I raise my prices because you said you are losing customers to me?

I'm not saying it's not a good thing, but representatives should be looking after their own people's interests and cooperation agreements need to be conditioned on that.
https://docs.wildland.io/#multi-categorization is something I've always wanted, ever since I first started using computers. It seemed so strange to me that a file can only be in one directory structure. (Yes, links, I know, but that's a workaround IMO)
This isn't how investing in an established company like Google today works (where most people invest most of their money). When you buy Google stock, it almost never affects their R&D budget.

You could argue that startups wouldn't be able to raise as much money, sure. And they DEFINITELY wouldn't be able to if interest rates were higher.

But the America of today (>95% of corporate profits) came from companies that weren't able to raise ridiculous amounts of money because of low interest rates from the last decade.

Startups from the last 10 years might have a lot of market cap - but their profits are very, very small compared to just FAANG+M - let alone the rest of the S&P 500.
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how would that process look like in practice should you need to get to call the insurance guys?
as in, would you claim on the cost to retrieve the data or ?
(this question is general, regardless of the actual country)
The 2019 Dutch corporate tax rate is 19% of the taxable income up to and including €200,000, above which the rate is 25%. The lower rate will decrease to 16.5% in 2020. In 2021 the rate for the first bracket will again decrease to 15% with taxable income up to €245,000.

Where do you get that 0% from.
Isn't tape more cost-effective and reliable? (Also, your backups do not need to be spinning all the time, if that's what they are doing.)
Australian bureaucrat wants to fight cybercrime like British Navy fought pirates
This is primarily about movies, with music handled by iCloud Music Library. Several years ago, I ripped my CD collection to whole-album FLAC files with CUE sheets using XLD. This works reasonably well in VOX for Mac and foobar2000 for Windows.

When I looked into media server software, I got a bit overwhelmed. I can't necessarily tell that something doesn't support CUE sheets properly until after I've spent an hour or two setting it up. Can anyone recommend something that will let me browse and stream a big pile of album FLACs by track?
The mixing & prep already begin to change the substance of the ingredients, just like 'compiling' is in fact usually multiple steps which all change the substance (for example, preprocessor=cutting, compiler=mixing, assembler=baking, linker=cooling)
Open source is better than government action:

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
I’m sorry you don’t see that it has value. It has value to me. In fact, I need a secure, permissionless, censorship resistant, non-state backed value storage system more than I need hydroponic food or desalinated water. The problem is the disconnect between your wants/needs and the needs of others in the world. Waste is entirely in the eye of the beholder.
Stripe rescinded my signed offer due to changing company priorities
Not arguing that what you said isn't true, however, if we just take the statement of the article like it's been written - it just doesn't make a difference if we're talking about the intrinsic value of either - BTC/$/€

Bitcoin is a stream of 1s and 0s, $ and € bills are pieces of paper (not talking about the raw material value of coins rn..).

The value of $ and € (and ultimately any currency / fiat) is that has its appeal only from acceptance by others - which is part of the sentence i've copied from the article.

Neither do have any intrinsic value.
You couldn't exchange your paper for gold since 1931. Maybe that's why it felt like nothing changed to you. However, institutions could. Since 1971, unfettered monetary inflation has been used to siphon wealth from the people for the benefit of a segment of rich elites close with the federal reserve. It's no coincidence that real wages haven't increased significantly since that Nixon administration. https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/15558/producti...

Requiring backing for dollars was a real limiter on inflation and government spending. Inflation fuels an ever increasing debt cycle that is incredibly harmful for the economy, but great for banks and financial institutions.
The US did the exact same thing when it came to aerospace, in order to kill Bombardier.
Along the same lines of the alphabet trick you can also count backwards from 100 to 0. I rarely make it through more than once.

It’s a trick that keeps your mind from wondering, but isn’t stressful.
Because not everyone is an effective atheist like in your bubble.
"a third of social science papers have zero citations" ... wtf?
This isn't a left vs right issue, it's a top vs bottom issue.
Their initial post blamed the problem on “human error”, an anti-pattern in getting to the root cause of things.

This post attempts to blame their CDN vendor.

“All these reviewers couldn’t spot it.”
> > RAID or storage replication in distributed storage <..> is not only useless, but actively undesirable

> I guess I'm different from most people, good news!

The earlier part of the sentence helps explain the difference: "That is, because most database-like applications do their redundancy themselves, at the application level..."

Running one box I'd want RAID on it for sure. Work already runs a DB cluster because the app needs to stay up when an entire box goes away. Once you have 3+ hot copies of the data and a failover setup, RAID within each box on top of that can be extravagant. (If you do want greater reliability, it might be through more replicas, etc. instead of RAID.)

There is a bit of universalization in how the blog post phrases it. As applied to databases, though, I get where they're coming from.
I think women's experience has been a lot more complex. U til the 1950s they were needed to work in the home most of the time. And it's only really the last 20 years women haven't been REQUIRED to opt out of working once they got married or had kids...
A large number of those came only usefully into existence in 1998, with C++98

string & vector types: STL, 1998
type conversion operators: 1998.
mutable keyword: 1998.
collection library: STL, 1998.
smart pointers: STL, auto_ptr<> in C++98

I'd argue that without STL & C++98, C++ would've languished even longer. And with STL, it still took another 5 years for the compilers to be good enough.
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