skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data shows that the Scandinavian region, which is the poster child for social democracy, has suffered for it, in being surpassed by low-tax Hong Kong and Singapore in life expectancy, despite the latter coming from a position way behind them in the 1960s, and this is a result of the Scandinavian region's stagnation versus less social democratic economies:

http://iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/San...

• Scandinavia is often cited as having high life expectancy and good health outcomes in areas such as infant mortality. Again, this predates the expansion of the welfare state. In 1960, Norway had the highest life expectancy in the OECD, followed by Sweden, Iceland and Denmark in third, fourth and fifth positions. By 2005, the gap in life expectancy between Scandinavian countries and both the UK and the US had shrunk considerably. Iceland, with a moderately sized welfare sector, has over time outpaced the four major Scandinavian countries in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality.

• Scandinavia’s more equal societies also developed well before the welfare states expanded. Income inequality reduced dramatically during the last three decades of the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century. Indeed, most of the shift towards greater equality happened before the introduction of a large public sector and high taxes.
Have you tried contacting the first couple of recruiters you had contact with via that email address?
Seems like they listed them in alphabetical order for some reason.
The list is alphabetical
See the "the earliest Englishman" aka "Pildown man" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

Stereotypical comments, lower the standards of this site and are intellectually tiresome.
"I never saw Chinese people disapprove facts for national pride. It's that Chinese people have a conviction that they can do whatever other people can do, and probably can do some better"

Are you sure about this? Because if the view that humanity developed in china is still popular, despite strong dna evidence suggesting otherwise - I do see nationalistic skewing of facts here.
The article is talking about the possible chemical space, which is vast. Mass spectrometry breaks up a sample into constituent compounds based on mass, if it’s a biological compound could even be thousands. Having separated the compounds by mass you can then do further analysis of them.
I don’t know think people are really engaging with the substance of what is being said here. What he’s saying is that stable coins are backed by funds in money markets. If there is a run on them it’s likely to crash the markets where the backing is because the tethers will have to liquidate fast. This is distinct from the fraud that’s alleged.
Still checking it out, but in the meanwhile I wish it did automatic http -> https redirecting.
Lately I've been writing a lot in paper notepads and I've favored pens over pencils. I don't remember where I heard this idea originally, but there's something about using a pen which makes you grow a bit more comfortable with accepting that errors and mistakes will always happen but you can take action later on to correct those mistakes. With a pencil you often erase your mistakes and pretend they never happened. You're a flawed human, not a flawless writing machine. Expecting perfection from yourself at all times is very limiting. It's better to fill up a notebook with a mix of good ideas and mistakes than to leave it blank.
Out of all stablecoins, I've found DAI the most interesting one, it's a beautiful engineer solution to tackle a problem. Backed by volatile assets, profits and interests (%). Every participant has a clear incentive/risk, trustless and transparent.
I've seen the "unsettling supermarket" concept last year in a museum in Tallinn, Estonia. It's a shelf where most but not all products have the wrong brand. Coca-cola soap, Tampax cookies, Snickers canned fish, Evian ketchup and so on. I thought it was a really neat idea to make me think about the huge simplification of "brand" and what is really happening behind and around a product.
YouTube rolls ads now on channels regardless of whether or not the channels are receiving a share of the revenue
In fact they are ordered by alphabet.
Alexander Shulgin explored potential psychedelic drugs ands points out that thousands may still be out there, waiting to be discovered.

In one example he looked at nutmeg oil and found over 5000 compounds (!) which is a lot to explore.
Ow that there are more trustworthy alternatives, people ought to get their money out of USDT. The writing has been on the wall for too long.
Some kind of highly anthropomorphic non-human entity is highly popular throughout history.
They did.
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...
Also: https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/05/19/the-tether-ponzi-sche...
Calling them complementary is quite the stretch. You've only talked about YAGNI twice, with one time throwing a "opinionated" label without any reason.

I mean, let's be honest here: "you ain't gonna need it". That's what YAGNI stands for, and represents. That's what you say to anyone who claims "but it would be far more flexible if...". It's YAGNI, no matter how much makeup you want to slap onto it.
My newest object of rage on many websites: the subscribe to our newsletter pop up you now get whenever your mouse moves to close the tab
Is the datacenter disconnected from the electric grid? Does it not have huge tanks of petrol to run backup generators? Was the datacenter built from locally-sourced materials? Those are the easy questions.

What "renewable" energy does it run and how was it produced? What's the carbox/fossil profile of those energy sources? How long do they need to run, and in what conditions, in order to offset this initial fossil energy invested? Those are the medium-difficulty questions. And as i much as i hate Michael Moore's rhetoric, "Planet of the humans" does a pretty good job of explaining why these questions are important.

What is the ecological impact of the cloud? Why do countryside folks have to have their data run across the country just to exchange messages with their neighbors, and what's the impact of that? What's the impact of a song that you downloaded from Youtube (replicated, dedicated centralized infra) instead of Bittorrent (decentralized, already-in-use hardware)? What's the impact of streaming this same song over and over? What's the impact of online advertisement and web trackers? How many people are working in concrete offices in a city in order to maintain that hellish infrastructure? Where does all the sand and minerals come from to build all that infrastructure as well as all the electronics you find in there? Those are the hard questions and when you answer them you'll never fantasize about green capitalism ever again.

In case you're interested in such topics, and what to do about it, but can't stand for Michael Moore, i strongly recommend the "End:Civ" documentary: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L4ccAJJrrjM
Ah yes now I see it, thanks. It still seems a weird decision
A car has a 7-9 year production lifecycle. So that could mean 14-16 years of parts produced.
Seconded. Well worth reading.
I don't think there's a catchy one-liner which can explain why Spanner "needs" real time instead of Lamport clock. Spanner is a system with some very concrete characteristics (Paxos consensus, strongly consistent pessimistic writes, non-blocking snapshot reads etc.). There are ways to use Lamport clock instead of TrueTime, but then you'll also have to lessen some of the correctness/performance guarantees [and thus it would no longer be "Spanner"]. To fully understand the trade-offs you kinda have to dive into it and understand the system as a whole.

These lecture notes are a bit brief, but they go through why TrueTime is needed by explaining the correctness issues if we don't have it. http://www.cs.utah.edu/~stutsman/cs6963/lecture/15/
They should not charge cap gains on the estate, since that'll force sales of illiquid assets which is not good. They just have to not allow the resetting of the cost basis of the assets. It's a very simple fix.
No, a similarity between SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses was expected but not this. Flu is not caused by a coronavirus. From the paper:

> This finding is in contrast to multiple published studies in which pre-existing T-cell immunity is suggested to arise from shared epitopes between SARS-CoV-2 and other common cold-causing coronaviruses. However, our findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 reactive T-cells are likely to be present in many individuals because of prior exposure to flu and CMV viruses.
This stuff is so subtle.

It's not actually clear to me right now what part of the memory model would prevent the release store of an earlier unlock from being moved past the acquire load of a later lock.

Except that you wouldn't move it past a single acquire load, you'd potentially move it past an infinite number of acquire loads, and maybe then you run into formal language about forward progress?

There are similarly fun questions around hoisting an acquire load out of an otherwise empty loop...
From developer's perspective the AppStore is better unless you are a giant corporation.

As a user, of course I would like to be able install whatever I want easily. I still can install whatever I want but it's not that easy.
The wide adoption of Flask as Python's backend development framework of choice makes it quite clear that software developers have a hard time picking up April fool's jokes.
YouTube creators don't have much of a choice. No other platform is currently feasible as almost everyone only uses YouTube.

They also no longer have a choice whether or not ads run on their channels due to policy changes.

Also, I think your supposition is invalid as you are comparing digital entertainment to physical food
Естественные безанкорные ссылки с топовых трастовых ресурсов
https://seo.newsens.ru/
> How can a company ever go green as long as this kind of thought patterns are mainstream

It's fundamentally impossible. Capitalism is what brought this ecological madness down on it, because of its shortsighted profit incentives. The very same system cannot fix the problem, because nothing has changed.

Pointing out companies who used fossil fuels was intending to allow us as a society to realize we need to reduce consumption/production, not pretend we should shut up and live happily as long as we paint every single polluting thing with a green chemical glowing paint.

There is no such thing as green capitalism and there will never be. Consumerism, private property and competition is what destroyed this planet. Whether we go on and destroy new ones (hello Musk, Bezos and other psychopaths) or destroy the capitalist system depends on our understanding of those issues.
I measured that on an Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900. I understand that not everyone has the privilege of being able to afford a $1,000 computer. However those people usually aren't coders. It'd be great if I had one of those 64 core "specialist" workstations that people like googlers use to be able to compile projects like TensorFlow in a reasonable amount of time. My project would probably build in seconds. But alas I don't, so I need to forgo eigen and template metaprogramming.
To each their own, I don't see a big difference between the marketing of an Iphone and the marketing of any laptop out there. Apple might claim whatever suits them for their defense but even themselves have realized internally how their product is used.
In hindsight, this makes me wonder. What if similar Trump-related controversies had suffered a similar fate? Can we reliably say that would have looked very different to what we've actually experienced with our own eyes? And if not, is it reasonable to think that this mentality only started en-masse exactly with COVID, or could it possibly have been there for some time?

(Just kidding. Orange man is obviously evil.)
It’d be easier to use Cloudflare WARP command line client for the same purpose.

Apple uses Cloudflare for their private relay so there’s a chance that these IPs won’t be blocked.
Can you change the title?
Get off Tinder, it is doing more harm than good.

Men at 18-22 have a particularly hard life, I can tell. Their peak in life is a lot later than women, so if at 22 women do what they want and get what they want, men have this in their thirties and later. It's a difference, it's not better one way or another.

At this age companionship is important and hard to get, but looking back it is not that hard if you know what to do:

1. look for people in your neighborhood. unless you live in a deserted area, there are men and women in a mile radius. Find people with the same passions or women that are kind and pleasant to interact with.

2. You are not looking for marriage material at this age. Tinder is for "fun only", but very shallow and difficult for men to get matches, spend some time in coffee shops or places where women your age are. In many cases even the girl at the McDonalds or CVS is a nice person looking for company.

3. Take care of yourself; keep your body fit and weight under control, it sounds hard but at this age it is extremely easy versus later.

4. Find some activities that you enjoy and spend some time on it. Get on a mountain bike if you like it, get a motorbike, go shooting paper (it's an Olympic sport), run a marathon, do something fun. First, it will help your mood, second - you can meet people, third, some people will find your activities interesting or attractive and that will attract people. You have the chance of meeting people with the same passion, that makes it a great long term bond.

And take baby steps, in time you will learn to be more socially open. When you are a noob in any domain people avoid you, when you get proficient they will come to you. There is no replacement for experience, start building experience. Don't fear rejection, it is part of every man's life, you will get used and get hardened.

And drop Tinder. It is doing more harm than good, both for men and women.
Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco
Further down, you'll see:

> My question is: how can I profit from these tax loopholes? How do I apply this if I only make, say, $35000 annually?

Advice or explanation - not really that much difference in this context.
If I'm not mistaken, the backlash wasn't because MS was using green energy, but rather the Dutch government had promised green energy to its citizens, and then when the wind farms were built, in a surprise move MS announced that it's building servers to use the energy (that was initially intended to go to the Dutch public). Basically the server was a "convenient" way for the Dutch govt to technically build new renewables as per the requirement (also see: the Urgenda Climate Case against the Dutch Government) while the new (and otherwise unplanned MS server) used up all the new energy.

It's in no way bad that the server uses clean energy, but the critique is that the government wriggled their way out, Microsoft got to boast about servers running on clean energy while the Dutch citizens were still stuck with the older CO2-intensive power source mix despite the govt's "commitment" to cleaner power.
quite slow and often blacklisted (by Cloudflare for example)
> I mean what other answer is their besides “it’s aliens”

Almost anything, really. But why not leap to the conclusion that you want it to be? I agree that it is a test of thought processes.
Aren’t banks only required to hold 2% in cash of their clients’ balance? It seems like this scam is not new.
I feel like the "sweeping under the rug" is being done here by way of engineering compromises (assumptions & bounds).

The compromise in this case happens to be something along the lines of "If the GPS constellation fails, TrueTime fails (or gets really slow)". For better or worse, all of these TrueTime-style products (AWS has one now too), are effectively dependent on GPS to provide a global synchronous context. I don't think there is any feasible way to bootstrap or maintain a distributed clock with higher precision than its terrestrial network links would otherwise allow.

The way I look at this, the GPS constellation contributes to the core of these database engines. It provides the most essential identity for all transactions (precise & unique timestamps). The actual database servers are just storing the data and ensuring transactions are interleaved properly.

It is probably reasonable from a practical perspective to align your failure modes with those of other telecom and military organizations.
They're all wildly different. You have to investigate each one specifically.

I'd guess most of the centrally managed ones make their money investing the deposited USD to earn a safe rate of return as profit.

The defi ones that take colleteral, like DAI, make money by charging a borrow rate on the DAI that's minted and another fee if your account is liquidated.
> If I ever want to spend that money I have to take it out and pay capital gains.

No. This is the trick. You can take money out of the asset tax free by borrowing against it.

Say that you wanted to invest your home equity. You have two choices. You can sell the house and rent or borrow against the house.

Imagine that you paid $0 for the house and can now sell it for $500,000. You have to pay tax on that, bringing it down to $425,000 in your pocket. You lose 15%.

You put that 425K in the stock market and it gains 10% per year. After 10 years you have 1.1 million.

Alternatively, you can just borrow 500,000 and put your house up as collateral to the bank you are borrowing from. You pay no tax on that 500K. Put that 500K in the market at the same 10%. You end up with 1.3 million in 10 years.

The tax benefit is in avoiding the destruction of your initial capital by 15%. You effectively spent the money in our home, but one method makes you pay capital gains while another does not.

You could spend your house equity on a boat in the same way.

This example is very contrived and ignores things like the capital gains exemption on housing (and the fact that no house costs 0) and that you generally can't borrow 100% of house value (but you can with stocks as long as they are liquid).
If the existence of a cryptocurrency/stablecoin can be a realistic threat to the stability of the financial system, that's a huge admission that the financial system is pretty much already an unstable mess.
Tether is 60B in a crypto market of $1-2+T, and there's plenty of other stablecoins to replace it.

So Tether's founders are shady? Bitcoin was founded by a shadowy figure and nobody knows if his early tokens will reappear on the market someday, making him a bazillionaire and the rest of us take a 20% haircut (vs the float, not the total).
> I would counter this and say that...

You cannot counter somebody's preference with another preference.

> Killers would also be permanently marked red in their name and banned from cities via the guard system.

...and you are also missing the roleplay aspect of this -- "I am an outlaw!" -- that a lot of people enjoy and get deliberately flagged in order to experience it.

What you describe hasn't been happening in most MMORPGs that tried to have a world PvP. Maybe it happened where you were -- and I'd argue it happened for a limited time. But the points of your parent commenter still stand. It's a gaming dream that just never materializes due to human nature.

Game devs assume that the players will do things that make sense or reward them, and that assumption fails every single time.
> "traditional data centres"and "cloud data centres"

There is no difference hardware-wise. The difference is our cloud overlords have been promoting "on-demand scaling" as a proof "serverless hosting" is superior to traditional ways because it's greener and "we can shutdown machines when there's no demands". Which is arguably true, but so short-sighted it hurts to think journalists will fall into this trap.

> to the networking equipment and data centre servers

Sorry i don't have the data at hand, but some people estimated just that. Internet infrastructure as a whole was estimated to use several percent of the world's electricity. Those numbers did not count resources/energy for production of the hardware or the infrastructure, only recurring "costs".
This stuff works only when you fully understand it; that means when you are over 40 and you don't need advice because you have some life experience. It's a catch 22.
It depends. In a general purpose OS without scheduler trickery one would need at least some backoff & yielding syscall. And it's hugely workload dependent.

But more importantly, even with kernel backed waiting (e.g. using futexes) some userspace spinning can be important for performance. And then pretty much all the concerns from the spinlock apply there as well.
> Also, don't forget that you can go open an issue or submit a PR to any of the major .NET repositories right now, and expect to have your work (assuming accepted) incorporated into an official .NET release within a year or so.

Yes! They also publish videos of their design review discussions - I submitted a cryptography-related PR a while back, and it was really cool to watch my proposal being discussed, and then even cooler when my code made it into dotnet :)

> And tooling, etc. Check out visual studio 2022

Don't forget JetBrains Rider - I switched from VS a few years ago, and haven't looked back. VS is great too, but in terms of performance and stability, Rider kicks it to the curb (IMO).
How fast do you believe Intel could come up with such an M1-level RISC-V CPU?

Doing so, wouldn't they also help create a market where the barrier to entry is much lower than x86, thus inviting more competitors than they have now? It'd be interesting to see Intel on such a warpath against ARM...
Ironically, Cloudflare is selling both protection against scraping and tools to facilitate it.
They have government backing to issue new money (in the form of debt). That’s quite different when you remove the government backing.
Can someone tell me what it means that "float is unsafe"? I'd never heard about that.
"Create a problem, sell a solution".
Intercal on Interstates: Intercal Web Framework
Scaling to $100T and Beyond with Radix
Microsoft Wants All Windows 11 Laptops to Have an HD Webcam
Banks hold repayable loans which earn them profit instead of printing what they want and lying about backing...
This is why I'm cancelling my hey subscription as well. I get that they are upfront about it being a feature, and it sounds great at first, but it's made me paranoid about missing mails now - a feeling I never got with any other service provider. It's a shame, as I got in pretty early and bagged a great account name (firstname @ hey.com). But it's not worth sacrificing my sanity for vanity.
Markdown ate some of your asterisks
There's nothing about this that "shakes up" anything, other than the media declaring that it's time to be "shaken up." Anyone who was paying attention already knew there were a lot of strange human species everywhere for a million years.
You are actually right, there is no large evidence of particular lawsuits (outside some maybe justified ones, https://the-digital-reader.com/2015/03/02/e-ink-loses-two-ye... etc.)
OK. And who does that, when and why? Can you point to some practical REAL (= existing) examples?
> Tether is 60B in a crypto market of $1-2+T, and there's plenty of other stablecoins to replace it.

That’s not how this works. Tether represents the vast majority of trading volume. If it turns out that it’s worthless, it will be catastrophic.

Also you’re conflating market cap with hard assets. Apple is a $2T company but if you tried to sell $60B of AAPL in a short period of time, it would collapse.