skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then, at the peak popularity, in part due to my presence, I am forced out, because someone who has never been here says that they would like to live here.

This is exactly what is happening in parts of Utah. Planners accounted for natural growth and a standard rate of in-migration, but there has been a flood of people from out of state forcing out the locals who made these places what they are by living in them for decades.
The developer wants to build the densest housing in four counties with little parking, and nobody has asked the real question: is this planned as Section 8/affordable housing? It sounds like it. Section 8 is guaranteed income for the landlord and probably a headache for the neighbors, especially if they had no poverty in the area before. A very similar situation happened in my rural village, where a developer decided some commercial property would make a great spot for dense, low-income housing; the village fought it and got called racist by the courts, who forced the village to rezone and the village council to undergo racial sensitivity training.
Lyme is a pretty nasty disease. I know several people who had it and some took more than one year to recover and some that still have residual effects.

In the Netherlands ticks are fairly common and approximately 1 in 5 ticks carry the disease. Which means that is probably less safe here to walk in nature than it is in most tropical countries.
More homes and more people doesn't necessarily make an area more desirable. Many people prefer space, privacy, and quiet. Those things are more important to them than property values.
French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
I know about it and agree that it's quite good. But, given the format, I generally prefer to just read in this case. I don't have nearly as much "listen-only time" as podcasts I'm interested in listening to and I prefer to mostly use it on podcasts better consumed through audio.
Unsolved until today. The first episode of Loki reveals that the God of Mischief was D.B. Cooper, escaping via Bifröst.
> It would not surprise me if this study takes approximately 90 days to complete.

The other CA (KIR S.A.) actually issued certificates with a validity of one year, so, for them, dodging this is not that easy.
Another example that cars take too much space. Public transportation is the answer.
As US income inequality began a marked increase in the 1980s, the richest 1 percent of households increased their savings while the bottom 90 percent fell into debt. Research finds that lenders indirectly used the top 1 percent’s savings to finance this borrowing, essentially enabling the rich to benefit from the bottom 90 percent’s debt repayments.

This does not imply causality as the author mistakenly assumes. Maybe the bottom 90% have more debt simply because costs are rising faster than wages and ability to save. Maybe the rich can save more because thy earn more.
I was pretty disappointed that this wasn't a website about alpaca's gone mad.
A moment of silence for the loss of some of his billions. I sure hope he can get by on the few billions he still has.

Gosh, is there anything more tragic than the loss of wealth?
So you think that "something was killing lots more people than usual" but that the few isolated cases of counties overcounting Covid deaths are systemic and that there was no reciprocal data issues?

What precisely do you think was killing all of those extra people who were showing up in ERs with respiratory distress?
This has had quite a few discussions including a couple large ones:

Bitcoin becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27445119 - June 2021 (134 comments, ongoing)

El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27408683 - June 2021 (398 comments)

El Salvador Congress Approves Bitcoin As Legal Currency - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27444718 - June 2021 (48 comments)

Bitcoin is a legal tender in El Salvador for all transactions and tax payments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27444400 - June 2021 (8 comments)

El Salvador Bitcoin legal tender is much bigger news than most realize - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421705 - June 2021 (7 comments)

Bitcoin: El Salvador plans to make cryptocurrency legal tender - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27416409 - June 2021 (8 comments)

El Salvador to offer residence and no capital gains tax to Bitcoin investors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27416068 - June 2021 (6 comments)

El Salvador President: 1% of BTC invested would increase GDP by 25% - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414667 - June 2021 (14 comments)

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I guess we'll leave this one up and then downweight follow-ups [1], unless significant new information [2] arises.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Google doesn't require SMS. They often ask me when I log in, but I can always hit 'skip', which I do because I'm scared of this exact case.
After I spent my entire net worth plus a good chunk of my future net worth on this house you can be damn right I’m going to vote to protect its value.
> The bid-ask spread on a stock exchange doesn't really the same as my be willing to pay $350k for your house when you would be willing to go as low as $300k.

It kind of is if its a transaction that both parties are considering because the buyer has no more attractive properties (considering asking price) to buy, and the seller has no better bids.

Its a different kind of market because houses aren't non-differentiated mass commodities, but from the perspective of either the buyer or seller the opposing offer is equivalent to the price on the opposite side of the market in stock trade, once things have been narrowed to the best alternative to either do the transaction or not.
Is this a joke?

Just leave the extra second on. Any release of software has a risk associated with it so you shouldn't risk it unless the update is worth the risk.

The time they spent investigating and updating is time wasted. Anything else they could have done would have been a better use of that time.

The time I spent writing this comment was a better use of time. And this comment is really not important.
There's some examples on Hackaday, also Adafruit has a livestream where people show off their projects.

https://hackaday.com/ and https://hackaday.io/

https://www.adafruit.com/
But then let's please move the discussion from "Is SMS a good or bad second factor?" to "SMS is a mediocre second factor, and a terrible single factor. For this service, is it a second or single factor?"
I just store mines in a small sqlite DB and use emacs's sql mode to query them along with a bbdb syncronization for my email, org-contacts and a small web frontend over a kubernetes cluster to get them online from my mobile,

works well,
Is it possible to use virtualization and x86 emulation at the same time now? I’d gotten the impression that people didn’t think that was ever going to happen, and it seems like a pretty non-obscure reason to want Intel support to continue.
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I didn't say it was, but giving us nothing, taking 3.5bn for yourself and then implying we're the ones with a chip on our shoulders?

Maybe r/uk should kick us out as we're clearly holding you all back.
Gotcha, nice work
> What if I told you that in many areas households don’t even need a single car?

Any part of the US where a street of townhomes would be more dense than the existing status quo is not one of these areas.
But we're talking about what was a 1 hour outage. Does it make sense to spend more than 1/8000 of your revenue to avoid an hour per year esp when you will never lose an hour of revenue from being down for one hour because many customers come back to buy the thing they were going to buy anyway.
> The desktop I'm comparing it to is 7 years old and cost $600 new. You can't even buy an M1 iPad for that price today.

Which desktop is this with what components? What's the metric you're comparing? Show me the benchmarks. This still feels like the world's dumbest comparison but hey I'm at least curious now.

> Which is an arbitrary goalpost that means nothing.

But it's the goalpost they very clearly set--you're the one who either missed it or willfully chooses to ignore it, which means you're the one being misleading, not them.

> Because that's what you can buy for $1000. That's the performance standard. If Apple wanted the M1 to be compared to machines with integrated graphics, they should have released a computer at that price point

A pure price comparison on its own is missing so many relevant factors and you know it. You can also buy a desktop that outperforms a smartphone that costs the same. Is that a fair comparison? How much energy do these machines consume, what's their battery life under load, how much do they weigh, etc etc. I don't just walk into Best Buy and say "here's a $1,000 bring me the thing with the best Geek Bench score, no other criteria."

>The datacenter market is looking at the M1 and laughing

What are you even talking about now. Since when was the datacenter in the design goals for the M1.

>But I frankly don't care, and I have a hard time believing that other people do too

No one cares about battery life or the weight of their laptop? This is news to me. I have a feeling it's news to all the people who buy ultrabooks, too.

>Performance-per-watt is Apple's neat way of giving performance a denominator, because they simply can't compete with the rest of the industry wholesale.

Because they're not trying to outcompete the entire industry in every form factor with the M1, since the goal is to provide stellar performance while still achieving efficiency that enables small form factor designs. You are exhausting with this "willfully missing the whole point" thing.

Again, they haven't even released the parts that are actually meant to compete at the higher wattages you're trying to compare against the M1.

I'll make an analogy--maybe it'll help. Car Company A just came out with a brand new sedan with industry best Miles Per Gallon. And beyond just the MPG rating, it can actually tow some pretty heavy loads, too! Heavier than other sedans in its weight class. Impressive stuff.

You're the guy with the F-350 dually pumping his chest saying "mine can still tow more!"
But only for those languages?
haha that has to be on purpose. If it's not... just wow
That needs a commitment to commercial space on the first floor and underground parking for tenants so that surface parking is available to customers without the need for massive lots. Builders who want to extract maximum profit with the cheapest construction won't go for it.
“Screw you, I got mine!”

The capitalistic attitude in a nutshell.
And insurance companies will stay clear of unrecoverable loans.
> Why do you think a few thousand people floating out into open seas will be invaded, if they are not threatening physical violence against any other state in any way?

Well, the mere existence of another state tends to lead to a diminution of whatever states are close by (within 200 miles). That's why in 2019 there was a seastead that got destroyed by the closest government (Thailand) because, even though it was in international waters, it was an affront to their sovereignty: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-18/bitcoin-couple-face-d...

Although they were less "invaded" and more "arrested"
nodejs based software are very slow on my raspberry-pi based desktop
Tone isn't easily discernable in the written medium, especially when you have an international audience, many of whom have good English, but not as a first language.

But apology accepted ... thanks for the clarification.
Lapland is a historical province in Sweden. You'll also find a northernmost part of Finland with the same name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland

One area around three national parts (Padjelanta, Sarek, Stora sjöfallet) is also called Laponia.

But the political division of Sweden around that area - that's Norbottens län, so that's the subdivision that people care most about in their day-to-day life.
The headline should mention the spatialization. Otherwise this is just pitch-shift, which we've had for years already.
Games are also bad propaganda because it costs little to try different things. So censorship, while possible, cannot be hidden behind plausible deniability.

Similarly, a game implies a set of rules that can be criticized and cannot be made vague on purpose -- as required by motte-and-bailey and similar rhetorical tricks.
> How do you distinguish between true value creation and simple asset inflation? Low interest rates cause soaring asset prices, which can create an illusion of "value creation", but I don't see it actually increasing the value much.

This is exactly the problem with inflation. It creates all sorts of distortion of what people value, by fucking with our concept of what cash is worth. Do keep in mind that "value" is not some sort of objective thing. Everyone values things differently. Someone who is allergic to peanuts, may have a negative value for peanuts, someone who thinks peanuts will give them immortality might have an unreasonably high value for peanuts. And capitalism just doesn't care. Live and let live. Important thing is that it's not just true for things, it's also true for money. (note that value is not price, though often times it's rhetorically convenient to conflate the two).

So the phrase "value creation" does not refer to some sort of intrinsic improvement in any given thing. What it means is, say the peanut allergy guy comes into posession of peanuts somehow, and he exchanges to peanut immortality gal for a wad of cash. This created VALUE for the allergy guy because he values cash more than the peanuts, and created value for immortality gal because she values peanuts more than (that amount) of cash.

Moreover, using amount denominated in money to track value creation is dangerous (note I didn't say necessarily wrong, I said dangerous), because it assumes that money is equally valued by everyone. That's not really true, and we probably shouldn't, in policy, implicitly judge people in one way or another for having different values for money.
Hmmm this just seems like a bad decision on your part. I bought my house in 2018 and it was expensive, yes, but definitely manageable on my salary. I definitely would not buy a house right now, especially if it required spending 'my entire net worth plus a good chunk of my future net worth'.
My entire point is that power over mining is derived from power over energy. Nations do have the power to use energy and build miners. Multiple nations working together can form a cartel just like the oil cartel of previous years.

I understand what you're saying, re: txns and forks. My point is everything rests on this idea of 51% attacks being impossible. They are not at all impossible or even unlikely. Nations can form alliances or control huge parts of the mining capacity. The blockchain cannot magically solve the problems of politics and centralized power because that power can be used to control the chain too.

Use proof of work and miners can collude to launch attacks or manipulate prices. Use proof of stake and large stakeholders can do the same.

Owning crypto in an anonymous wallet, or running your own node cannot save you from a dictator with a gun. Mining may be decentralized but they can't escape crackdowns from a government with guns either.

There is fundamentally no purely technological solution to political problems in the real world. It's a distraction from the real frustration we have with democracy and centralized power in the real world.

It reminds me of when people thought social networks would unite the world.. instead they only mirror its problems. I feel like crypto is so far up in the digital land you have forgotten there is a real world out here..
I think if you are using derisive terms like "stack and pack" for apartments then you are probably precisely the investor that is manufacturing the housing crisis.

Apartments create greater affordability, they allow for designing cities with lower carbon impact than single-unit homes, they allow better community, more connections, cradle-to-grave living, they allow people to survive without having to get in a car to do any task during the day. They are fantastic. I would live in a "stack and pack" home in an instant if they were allowed in my community.
I think part of is that the CAB (the browser group setting standards for CAs) is much of the same people that initially supported Lets Encrypt, and also use Lets Encrypt as a justification for tightening requirements on other CAs.

They really do _not_ want to be seen to be giving Lets Encrypt special treatment because of the connection between the CAB members and Lets Encrypt and the threat that Lets Encrypt poses to the business models of the traditional CAs.

So a violation of the rules by Lets Encrypt is being dealt with by the letter, even when the issue clearly does not warrant that level of reaction.

(See also the time Google Search banned Google Chrome from results for a month when one of their advertising campaigns breached the rules for paid SEO)
Telga, one of my favorite battery supply companies is up there too. They will be locally mining, refining and coat graphite in the same area.

Its a really cool company, I recommend people check them out.
In case anyone is confused, I believe the reference to "no brown M&Ms" is a reference to Van Halen's contracts: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/

> So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.
I had that card for my Apple II (still have it in fact). It was solely to run WordStar. Once AppleWorks was released, I never booted into CP/M again. (For some reason, I never used Apple Writer. I can't recall why not.)
I really wish that web browsers had worked on the UI for generating certificate signing requests and importing certificates and that websites had 2FA via username/password along with client-side TLS certificate for authentication.

This is more portable than U2F tokens since client-side certificates are part of the TLS standard and should be supported regardless of the application protocol used. Adding other devices could be done by sending a CSR along with the username and password and authorizing the second device from first device that's already logged into the account.
> Pawnshops are collateralized loans for the poor.

Yes, that's why I said "thresholds". Not suggesting we tax small loans (or a small total value of loans taken out by an individual, regardless of the value of the individual loans).

> wealth tax

By many people's estimation, a wealth tax is an elaborate scheme, because is unrealized wealth really wealth?

If Bezos has $100B in stock but a sale of all that stock would only fetch $60B, do we still tax on $100B? How can someone's wealth be realistically and equitably calculated if it is not realized? Putting fairness aside for a minute, you are probably severely underestimating the overhead / elaborateness of such calculations.
> Artificially constraining expensive housing isn't a good thing

Again, this isn't California. This is the Midwest. We have gentrification problems even in cities that are still losing population. And we've never constrained housing, for our cities that are slowly growing, many have built more new units than residents for years now. Most cities have no meaningful housing shortage here, but every city currently has a housing market manipulation problem.

> If the demand is there in the first place, doing so just means that the people who are interested will insteaad buy or rent existing homes that could have otherwise gone to lower-wealth families.

Or you could just reduce demand. Perhaps Pension Funds shouldn't be allowed to buy housing at all. Make them invest in something that doesn't hurt citizens. That would reduce prices instantly, without requiring the construction of fake-unusable for-equity-firms-to-hold-only housing.

In what world does it make sense for real humans to have to compete with private equity firms or pension funds for housing? Real humans are constrained by their incomes (incomes that famously haven't grown in decades), everything else is not.
Uh, for a looong time already. The LT1028 was available in the eighties and afaik, still unsurpassed (in terms of voltage noise, it's unfortunately a sucker in terms of input current and current noise, so it's for low impedance applications only and it's fairly expensive). The cheaper OP-27 is also old and still available. The challenge is to find a low-noise OpAmp with high input impedance where earlier hybrids with discrete JFets fronting a low noise OpAmp were often used. These days its rather a challenge to find low-noise discrete JFet pairs and one has to use an integrated OpAmp instead (the causal chain might be reversed there).
Poor people don't own property, though. So how could it disenfranchise them?
Precisely.

Lightning scales with the number of transactions, but does not scale with the number of users. For that it still needs the bitcoin network to verify, and you're back at your transaction bottleneck but with added complexity.
There have been plenty of articles and stories from insiders about the creation of the iPhone, iPod, and other important Apple products. I’ve seen many in Wired and other tech publications. They may not have the same candor and charm of a folklore.org posting, but they are fascinating all the same.

It’s wonderful that Hertzfeld et al are willing share so much great technical and personal information about their time in that Apple era. This is the kind of stuff that people like us who read sites like this love.

I fear that similar stories of the modern era will be forever buried under the threat of lawsuits from violating NDAs and that’s a real shame. Stories like this need to be told.
The illusion of realty appreciation transcends recent quantitative easing.
Yeah, that was a weird time in the uk. The tories sort of ran out of basic competence, even to rig the system to fit them. But then they went on "governing" for a few more years. See also "Black Wednesday" and other similar faff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
SMS is not a good second factor, even as a second factor.

I deprecated SMS 10 years ago and the only way I receive SMS codes is via an online interface that is password access.

For most people, SMS fails miserably when you need to change your SIM card or fly to another country, or work out of a place with no cell reception but has wired or wi-fi internet access. That's a big part of the reason why I deprecated it in favor of e-mail, which works flawlessly anywhere in the world you have an internet connection.

I only support U2F or TOTP based 2FA and it's upto providers to get with the beat if they want me to use real 2FA.
This is certainly a vulnerability, but it also depends on how you get your TOTP codes. I use Bitwarden's browser extension to get mine, and if the domain is incorrect, the extension won't present me with the code. I think this is a decent level of protection from phishing.