skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead of every historian writing their own magnum opus of a particular area and timespan, all the geographical information can be combined in a single system.

Isn't that true of all historical data? It seemed so obvious to me that professional historians would share data that I asked several professional historians what the standard format was. Nobody had even considered it, as of ~10 years ago.

Obviously you can't structure all historical information, but you can do a lot of it: Location & time, other things present at that spot in space-time (people, events, weather, diseases, governments, etc. etc.), and sources. And then some unstructured fields, including one for analysis.

I'm sure that's misguided, as I'm not an historian, but it sure seems like much more value could be extracted from research if it was accumulated and shared, and not stuck in someone's personal storage, and that it would save a lot of duplication of effort.
You are 100% right, I did not factor in risk. The SFR has a 100% guarantee of losing all the money they spend on rent. The national average for home appreciation over many years is 3.85%. There is a reason real estate is the investment of choice for many asset managers. Yes, if you sell the house during a downturn you could lose money. If you buy on the edge of a flood plain, or in a bad neighborhood, you could lose money. Individual stocks are high risk, but the DJIA has gone up consistently if you look at it across multiple years.

Renting being a con might have been too strong - it might not be an intentional act to steal money. However, renting is almost never in your best interests, if you are not doing it for the flexibility (don't have enough money at the moment to buy a house, don't want to be tied down, etc.)
I remember the moment in high school physics where I had an epiphany that the velocity equations the class was memorizing looked a lot like derivatives. We just happened to be covering derivatives in calculus at the time and my personal discovery meant I no longer had to memorize the velocity equations (I hated memorizing stuff)!

I brought up my discovery with my calculus prof later and he was so pleased for me (of course it was obvious to him). It's these small victories / "click moments" that grew my love of math and I hope to pass them on to my kids through their own discovery.

Maybe it's just me. But when I get the feeling like I just beat the system, even in a really small way, it's a rush.
It seems unlikely. Children have a lot of direct physical contact with other children. Infections of children will frequently go undetected because they often don't show symptoms. So we can only realistically have herd immunity if all children have either been infected or vaccinated.

(Also note that in some countries underage persons form a majority)
I dunno. Majority control of international trade (exports or imports) is a heavy cudgel with which to wield against uncooperative or defecting parties.

It seems like with enough economic backing they could (and probably will) enforce the agreement.

The more unstable question is whether the respective democracies can get it through their lobbying systems intact.
Again, that's not how it works. The first-party relationship is between Facebook and its users (who willingly share all that data). Marketers run ads on Facebook by leveraging Facebook's graph and data which it owns.

Also that IDFA opt-out doesn't do anything for logged-in identities as I said before. That's why walled-gardens are so powerful and why privacy regulation has strengthened them even further. There is a big difference between independent adtech, 3rd-party data collection, and anonymous tracking compared to the first-party data moats that Google and Facebook have.
Neat idea. Over the past year I have seen a lot of experimentation with webinars and I think many tech folks have landed on OBS to design them. How does one go about designing their stage? Can you connect your OBS virtual camera as a way to pass your webinar design to Slingshow? Or is there a better way to do that?
I'd say alpine is more front end oriented and better compared with vue.js or maybe react. htmx is for driving server interactions via dom events, within the hypermedia network model.

The htmx and alpine pair very well together, we have a lot of folks on the htmx discord who are passionate about the htmx/alpine/tailwinds, so you can do all your work in HTML (locality of behavior[1]).

The htmx sibling project, hyperscript (https://hyperscript.org) would be a more direct comparison with alpine, but it isn't reactive at all, so it would be better thought of as a jQuery replacement for light front end scripting.

[1] - https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/
I'm impressed that they managed to shove in some weird Powerpoint-style formatting at the beginning of the readme.
Cloudflare Outage Affecting Squarespace, Discord, Shopify, and Others
Right, but the We Do Not Break User Space rule has often been explained (somewhat emphatically on occasion) as depending on whether anyone's code actually gets broken, not on whether the thing they were relying on was intended to be, or advertised as, a stable interface.
Yes but that was based on living near (commuting distance from) the company's offices. If my employer's office is in NYC or SF but I live in Oklahoma and work remotely, companies like FB and others I know of will pay me Oklahoma wages. I could be a Level V and make less than a Level I living in the Bay Area.
You aren't supposed to.

Let me repeat myself to make it clear to you, you are not going to have an avenue as a newcomer to making money in the new economy without prior acceptance.
[1] fits exactly my behaviour, thanks for the link :) I don't experience it as a disorder, except when I'm faced with early morning nazis.
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The parent said with profits they can fund plus some work will need to be made to mine bitcoin possible and those road/building can be repurposed.
How does this compare to Duplicacy in terms of throughput?
Because then people find out that it ignores a bunch of your password and people's "password12DHpS*yoCTV44cAmg$gJj" is matched by "password123". Or "correct horse battery staple i have the most brilliant password ever" is matched by "correct horse battery staple".
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Easy: having children.
Problem is computing is overstaffed with non-technical managers that believe programming is a thing for little employees.

Enterprise Agile has made this situation worse.
You can do multi master replication with conflicts detection with symmetricDS. The migration would be similar to the procedure described in the article.
As a Salvadoran living abroad but keeping an eye on politics there, I feel the need to comment given the amount of skepticism shown here, which is understandable given the history.

I believe that what the president, Nayib Bukele, and his team have done is monumental. The reason is that I also believe that the financial system crashed back in 2008 and has been kept alive by central banks worldwide. Last summer we saw how Lebanon banks reneged to pay back their customers their holdings in USD. This seems to be increasing. The thirst for USD around the world is increasing and all the so called printing by the FED is not getting to the other countries and international companies fast enough.
El Salvador is in a though position since it does not control its main currency. The other one, the Colón, while still legal tender is for all practical purposes unusable. It would take too long to grow the economy enough for it to be valued appropriately against the USD. Mandating BTC as legal tender is an awesome move. To me the most important benefit is that the 70% of the population which was excluded from banking and relegated to use physical currency will now be included. If the economy is an engine and money is the oil, El Salvador, which had only some drops of oil, will now get a complete oil change with synthetic on top of that. Lets remember that the law obligates the government to instruct all citizens on the use of the technology and to provide the means if necessary. This means that the government now has to provide connectivity to all citizens and teach them. Nayib has shown that he’s up to the task. For example, El Salvador is providing every child in the public school system with a laptop and free internet connectivity.

So I think this is beyond if BTC goes up to 200k. It doesn’t matter. If it goes back to 10k is OK too. What matters is that every citizen will now be included as equal in this new financial system.
That's literally the parent's point. "the US did it too!!!" doesn't make it a good thing.
The City of London is a holdover from the feudal era, largely exempt from UK control. Really strange. Not at all the same as the city of London. The Guardian has covered it.
OPEC is a cartel and has been running for 60 years, that would be a fairly good run for a global agreement.

But I think you misclassify this from a game theory point of view. Larger countries with higher tax rates can effectively punish companies that take advantage of the other ones if the cartel is broken.

This is the same reason the agreement was reached in the first place, it's "give up a little or we'll fight and you'll lose", much like it was for bank secrets in Switzerland.
I think my comparison was too absurd/convoluted, because you're still making the same fundamental categorical mistake of asking "Why can't [X] be treated as [Y]?", as if "food" and "drugs" are just synonyms, and not separate categories with different rules and preconditions. But in any case, in a universe where "steak and eggs" were classified as a drug, and have also been commonly sold over-the-counter (i.e. at your local diner, without needing a doctor prescription), then nothing would prevent your doctor from prescribing "steak and eggs" for Alzheimers. And in our current universe, nothing stops your doctor from prescribing Viagra or Tylenol to treat Alzheimer's, even though none of those drugs have been approved by the FDA for that specific use. Doctors have a lot of freedom to use their judgment in prescribing off-label uses. So it's not a question of "Why can't doctors prescribe steak and eggs/Viagra/Tylenol" for my Alzheimer's — it's "Why won't...?", which I think the answer is mostly self-evident.

So why can't Aduhelm be treated like an OTC herbal supplement? Well for starters, because Biogen didn't research and develop it with the intention of marketing it as a herbal supplement. So I think the answers to your question are very much related to the answer to "Why doesn't Biogen release Aduhelm as a herbal supplement?"
Can we all take a moment and appreciate this headline.
Multitasking is just rapid attention change, and it can be jarring going from rapid changes in focus to lower stimulation and longer term focus, but both frames of mind are valuable, situationally. You might get more value multitasking but you might also bring a lot more value to some meetings by staying deeply focused, and I think that highly focused, high participation meetings are the ideal. Other communication can happen other ways. To help me with long & deep focus, I've found that reading novels or other long form writing helps me tame the impulse to bounce around so much, somewhat.
> Requiring backing for dollars was a real limiter on inflation

Which directly leads to instability when the value of the backing changes. I'm not aware of any mainstream movement amongst orthodox economists to revert to pre-Nixon policies.
> ” Telegram, arguably the world’s most dangerous messenger service”

The sentence where I stoped reading. This is not a serious article. It’s FUD.
Public Safety is never a reason to oppose Right to Repair, to the extent there are safety concerns they can be elevated with out needing to curb independent or self repair

That said, Safety is red herring that the industries use to justify their anti-consumer actions with zero actual data to back their position.

The Record are cars is clear and estiblished people self repair and use independant repair all the time to fix mechnical safety systems like breaks with no systemic issues or damage to public safety

For medical devices I have yet to see any data the independent repair causes any harm, in fact I believe the the US Government has a study that states Independent Repair of Medical Equipment is critical to maintaining the US Health System, so in the case of Health Care prohibitions on independent repair may CAUSE public health issues by taking critical equipment out of service waiting on "authorized" repair or parts
Irrelevant to statement. Higher average wages make the system more sustainable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_v_Commission : it doesn't matter what the headline rate is, it matters what the effective rate is.

> "selective treatment allowed Apple to pay an effective corporate tax rate of 1 percent on its European profits in 2003 down to 0.005 percent in 2014."

Tricks include transfer pricing; company A charges company B an arbitrary number to reduce company B's profit to zero (so it pays no tax) but this gets classed as exempt in company A.
Medtronic insulin pumps are routinely hacked by their owners:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-...

Sorry for the Google amp link.

There’s also this kind of medical device hacking (again not black hat):

https://hackaday.com/2020/07/15/diy-dongle-breathes-life-int...

And open-source ventilator software:

https://hackaday.com/2020/03/30/professional-ventilator-desi...
Is it possible that corporations generally are getting so large that comprehensively securing their entire network is more or less untenable?

Maybe instead, individual business units (or even smaller) should be independently responsible for security.
Transporting power is extremely expensive and infeasible over large distances. So power needs to be generated near industry or homes. However, cryptocurrency can be mined anywhere and then sold.
Interesting, thanks!

I certainly agree with what you wrote. But I think the point still stands that this is hardly black and white—the shilling did supposedly stay in circulation, right?

The argument about taxes and legal tender certainly show ways to increase demand for a currency, but they appear to be somewhat unnecessary, as with BTC.

We may in fact be agreeing. My premise is that chartalism is an interesting idea which can help color questions of why a given currency becomes accepted, but ultimately isn't literally true—other mechanisms of increasing demand for a currency may also be effective.
That's nice but it's centralized. If the service is used in a certain way it will be shut down by the government or some rich oligarch.
If you don't do any work-related activities on it and you have a work phone, how/why are they requiring you to get a new personal phone?

If one does do work things on their phone and, especially if you have MDM installed, it is of course reasonable to require you to be on a current OS. And Apple is pretty good about length of support but it's not forever.
The people's interest is benefited by doing 'the right thing'. And if enough countries sign up to do 'the right thing' then they can release 'FATCA 2: Electric Bugaloo'
But everyone knows you can only get rich by working in STEM. Have you ever heard of a musician worth millions? Or a writer? Or an actor? Or an athlete? Fashion designer?
Encountering "woe32" in GNU things was what made me stop writing M$ as a teen. It was so embarrassingly petty that it made me entirely reconsider the idea of insulting nicknames for things I don't like.
Tape is great for long term storage of archival records, but nobody wants to restore a live virtual machine from 7 years ago.

Depending on the business system you might want your server to be backed up multiple times a day to just weekly, and if you are doing multiple times a day you do want it to be decently fast or to have some extra capacity so as not to slow down normal operations while the backup runs.
Braintree (IIRC) had a really clever migration strategy, although I can't seem to find the blog post now. They paused all traffic at the load balancer, cut over to the new DB, and then resumed traffic. No requests failed, just a slight bump in latency while the LBs were paused.

This app apparently had robust enough retry mechanisms that they were able just eat the errors and not have customer issues—Color me impressed! I'm not sure how many teams can make that claim; that's a hard thing to nail down.
> I think people don't realize how much WFH sucks for people who are not ICs (or don't care).

yeah it probably sucks for managers to see huge parts of their jobs & supposed value-add automated away or otherwise proven unnecessary
There doesn't even need to be a difference. Platforms need to have a way to allow nested platforms, or we will lose a lot of economic output to the platform tax.
That's a good point about banks fleecing people for remittances. Still, that's a political problem which doesn't outweigh the downsides of DeFi today, IMO. Maybe you're correct that other coins will find a sweet spot. But I suspect the politics cannot be bypassed forever, no matter what the medium of exchange.

> And don't get me started on the absolutely insane inheritance taxes in some countries - the state is effectively robbing people (and their descendants) after their death.

There is a balance here too. When the wealthy can shop for tax and wealth havens until (almost) nothing is ever returned, they essentially rob the communities that supported and made them rich in the first place.
I'm pretty sure discrete HBAs / Hardware RAID Controllers have effectively gone the way of the dodo. Software RAID (or ZFS) is the common, faster, cheaper, more reliable way of doing things.
I find it interesting how all of these articles keep mentioning Ireland specifically when there are countries in Europe with even lower tax rates.

I suspect that the reason is that Ireland is not only offering a very competitive tax rate, but also providing quality corporate services at the same time. And I think that that is the real issue - that you can get first class corporate services for much less than in other countries, making people ask - why should I pay more for the same - or in some cases, more for less?
Very interesting article. But I have to ask: would taking down the system for a couple of hours be that bad?

I looked at the company, and while they seem rather large, they're not Netflix or AWS.

I imagine they need to be up for people to be able to check in, etc. But they could just block out the planned maintenance as check in times far in advance. I'm sure there's a million other edge cases but those can be thought out and weighed against the engineering effort.

Don't get me wrong, this is very cool.

But I wonder what the engineering cost was. I'd think easily in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
How does this apply? This makes it easier for others to steal all of the money? I would think they would be selling those coins after mining them not holding on to them as some future investment.

Nevermind that banks in smaller countries can be a huge source of thief.
The problem is that Kubernetes went backwards in version numbers. I want to depend on, say, v0.19.0, but through the dependency chain, we end up with a dependency on v12.0.0. (At some point, they decided to switch from "kubernetes x.y.z = client-go@vx.y.z" to "kubernetes x.y.z = client-go@v0.x.y".)

I made a test module that depends on loki and kubernetes, and updating kubernetes results in:

$ go get k8s.io/client-go@v0.19.0
go: downloading k8s.io/client-go v0.19.0
go get: downgraded github.com/grafana/loki v1.5.0 => v1.0.2
go get: downgraded github.com/thanos-io/thanos v0.12.1-0.20200416112106-b391ca115ed8 => v0.11.0
go get: downgraded k8s.io/client-go v12.0.0+incompatible => v0.19.0

This causes loki to downgrade to a version that doesn't work.

I don't blame the module system for this, I think it's doing a great job. But when you use other people's code, you're responsible for the transitive closure of all their minor tiny mistakes, and when you depend on big codebases, the mistakes really add up. That's where the hate comes from; a lot of code was written before modules existed, and modules changed the semantics of that code.
Same problem with my 1070ti (also Pascal architecture). When first started can pan, zoom, edit, etc. But, as soon as Run is hit, rendering completely breaks: scroll bars indicate zoom is working, but display never updates. In addition, program hangs on exit (one CPU is pegged at 100%).

Have updated to current CUDA (11.3.1) and current NVidia driver (466.77) with no luck.
Bitcoin can work without government, but eventually somebody is going to want to have their coins turned into fiat. Bitcoin has no solution for this problem, if governments make turning your bitcoins back into their own currency difficult/impossible, then the value of your coin holdings is strictly theoretical.

Unless you can pay your rent in Bitcoin, you're going to face this problem.
Comparing the 4 satellite networks: similar throughput, different configurations
Or at least some reasonable default. I understand that the device wants to do a show off. I have a gigabyte GPU which I can’t control from my Gigabyte BIOS. It can only control the fans. If I turn off the lights from the BIOS sometimes the GPU also reacts to that. And Sometimes one of the LEDs turns on red. The RAM is uncontrollable except when in windows. So at the moment I boot into windows and then soft reboot into Linux to have all lights turned off. Obviously not what I initially wanted.

But what kills me the most is the fact that the RGB Lightshow from RAM keeps running even when I put the system to sleep!
Similarly, those flashing ads on websites should be banned. Not only are they incredibly distracting, but they make me feel a little queasy.
Most appealing setups with RGB lighting only use a single color unlike how they are usually advertised. Browsing https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/ should give a good idea of what people are doing with RGB lighting in the wild.
Not OP. My interpretation is that society doesn’t really need as many university degrees as we are producing. Not because of competition but because not all jobs require a college degree, and ideally we should be increasing the pay of those jobs.

It might be better to adopt a model similar to the German or Swiss, in which people follow different tracks depending on their skills and interests, and not everyone goes to college, instead a lot of people go to trades schools. Of course for that to work in the US a huge societal change would need to happen first or alongside.
Are you referring to the fact that their currency is USD which they don't control therefore can be pushed around by the USG?
I predict an AWS outage sometime next week.
These laws obligate the manufacturer to release maintenance and repair manuals, like the ones they provide to the authorized service centers; and ban all litigation related to someone providing unauthorized services, etc...

Depending on the law, it may also require more documentation, ban on total lockdown of devices and obligation to sell spare parts(but you often can buy genuine spare parts through service centers)

Right to fix also doesn't cover warranties, as you will loose your warranty when doing it yourself.

For cars or medical equipment - that's clearly political influence, masquerading as "public safety".

There's nothing stopping me from modifying my car to be very dangerous right now, without even affecting my warranty. The difference - I cannot install a third party keyfob, because the protocol is locked down.

The kind of medical equipment that hospitals require, already comes with multi-decade support. And your CPAP device can be serviced by someone without manufacturer specific training(that costs a fortune, for little practical value).