skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or they rely on trusting some custodian to preserve your claim on that wealth.

Is this going to be one of this discussion where people try to pretend banks haven't existed for centuries and work very well for pretty much everyone?
Proof-of-stake is basically an oligarchy though, those with funds call the shots, similar to the current mainstream system but without any of the checks and balances (they will be developed for crypto, too, in time, but at a high price for the early small adopters). Another example of crypto not really being that special in the end, if it wants mass adoption - you can ignore the boring realities as long as it's just used by a relatively small club.
An interesting point of view, thanks for sharing.

> You don't need an amendment to stop doing that.

An amendment is the simplest and clearest way to do it. There are infinite ways to do it but most are more complex.

> And if you can't stop doing that using the normal process, you won't be able to pass an amendment either.

The normal process is opaque. Lobbyists will skillfully bend and twist some bill in a million ways so it would not really do what it is marketed to do.

A simple amendment, on the order of ~50 words, would be a much better and clear solution.
It was an anti-Left and anti-Black plot from the beginning, according to some. Unfortunately, hard proofs of that are absent.

In any case, were it about health and well-being, it likely won't look like a war.
I’ve never heard of Ganzflicker before, but it’s essentially a Dream Machine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine
Almost everything except maybe the "fool pool" running out this time? Although even that is hard to speculate about. The crypto business may adjust and make itself even more accessible to a larger "fool pool". There's still a lot of money in the world that's in the hands of people who literally don't know what to do with it. Just create a sort of a Western Union for bitcoin and go to poorer countries... What a terrible, horrible idea that unfortunately might work.
LOL - all unfounded/inaccurate FUD - get REKT - HFSP
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> My online banks keep getting worse, crypto keeps getting better. Think about this: banks are CLOSED 77% of the time! Need to send a wire? 3/4 times bank will be closed.

This is a very American perspective. It's not like this in most places. And even if it was, Blockchain isn't the only solution. By far.
C'mon now BTC certainly doesn't have (1) it's down 50% in the last month. I'd quibble with (2) because portability does imply a low cost of portability which compared to USD it does not have. (3) It has. (4) It has. (5) It definitely isn't broadly accepted and (6) it's not great at either, just look at what percentage of the coins have already been lost. 20-30% in a decade. Every random walk down the time line leads to 100% of coins lost.
Is there a good smart watch that's not an iWatch?
Battery powered train trial for West London
Getting thrown in jail or prison isn't exactly harmless to the families of the imprisoned either.
I totally agree with you and your friends, but we're losing this fight. Which I find sad...
Please just do away with the back-and-forth dance of paying for a meal on literal silver platters. In a busy cash-only restaurant you can spend 10 minutes on that alone.
>You can find this coverage in the US too.

Yes, but only if you look hard enough. For other countries the regular mainstream coverage is like that.

>I don't think its 'provincial' to want your own team to win.

That's a different thing.
and most importantly, you have control over your DATA.
> I doubt they had a survivorship and secession plan for their bitcoins

You're speculating though. Any information to back that up?
It's also worth reflecting on the fact that banking being terrible is predominantly an American problem among the developed nations. Even in 3rd world countries, banking is pretty awesome. Checks have been obsolete for decades, any kind of money transfer takes around 5 seconds after you press send from your bank's app, even during weekends and between different banks. Transfer limits are generally settable from the apps as well. Worst case they sort you out through phone immediately. Waiting for 3 weeks for something like that is unheard of where I live which is a developing country.
- Get a solar array on your roof.
- Get a battery on your wall.
- Get a small generator that will run off fuel that stores well. (Propane) and get a few tanks.

Probably more important than that, start building a supply of food storage. Small at first, pick foods you like and will eat.

I love just outside of Portland. We’re lucky that we have AC. The thing that got me today was 2/3 restaurants we called had closed up and the last one wasn’t doing any cooking. This was obviously not dire for us. We had food in the house, but You never know when your options are going to suddenly dry up.
So that's why Russia or Myanmar shoot or arrest protesters. Tiananmen Square was also just the government's attempt to help the protester's cause?
About the whole GameStop thing, for me the most interesting thing was how old school the whole stock market is. 2 days until you really own the stock?!? And then even some trading companys are just take your stocks and lend it for shorting?!?
> For scientific reasons, it has been way more convenient to sequence more people of European origin.

I'm personally interested in human origins, so from my perspective yet another "convenience" dataset from Europe is nearly useless. There's a lot more reasons to build this than just the search for medical magic bullets.
This IEEE article makes some questionable extrapolations in my opinion. First, they start with 2017's global primary energy consumption of 600 PJ, and then round it up (by 66%!) to 1000 PJ ("for simplicity"). Then, 1000 PJ is used as the baseline that we would need to replace with zero carbon sources, leading to scary-sounding propositions like "covering roughly 1.6 percent of the world’s land area with (solar) panels".

But that's misleading. Up to two thirds of the primary energy we "consume" each year is wasted: it is used to pump, refine, distribute, combust, or otherwise perform work and/or create heat that is not directly needed or wanted for the desired "energy service", e.g. moving a vehicle or lighting a home. Electricity generated from fossil fuel combustion has an immediate primary energy loss of 40-70% due to the inefficiency of heat engines. Wind and solar power plants do not. For example, if a solar plant produces 1GWh of electricity in a day, the full 1GWh is considered "primary energy production", while a natural gas plant that produced 1GWh of electricity in a day may have consumed 2-3GWh of natural gas "primary energy" in order to do so.

Similarly, electric vehicles are much more efficient than combustion engine vehicles at converting "intermediate energy" into useful work (a charged battery or refined gasoline into motion). Heat pumps are often more efficient at heating spaces and water than burning gas.

So, if we are able to generate most of our electricity from renewable sources, and electrify all ground transport, space/water heating, and many industrial processes, our primary energy use will be significantly lower in the future than it is today! That's not to say there aren't major technical and political challenges ahead to mitigating climate change, but oversimplifications that make the problem seem harder to overcome are of limited usefulness.

Further reading:

IEA underreports contribution solar and wind by a factor of three compared to fossil fuels
http://energypost.eu/iea-underreports-contribution-solar-win...

Energy flow charts:
https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy
... or fractional reserve banking
> I need the control you won't have with a cloud offering (you can't install extensions)

Depends on who you go with. Google's managed postgres thing lets you install supported extensions.

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/extensions
I think it's more complex, Apple's app store rules make it clear than an iphone app cannot be a clone of their website, and there must be a differentiating factor. Thus, hearts.
I'm mostly thinking about all the stuff that goes wrong. Corrupted data files, server(s) die, monitoring, getting paged, backups, testing restores, yada yada. It works until it doesn't, and then the value you derive from self-hosting is questioned when there's a failure. If you can self-insure against shit happening & like doing so, then it's probably worth it. Mostly just point this out for the potential self-hosters who haven't thought everything through, and more likely (like myself) who wouldn't know what to think of in the first place.
The real issue here is that the “backend” database engine was exposed on the public internet. It should have been a layer behind that with suitable protection, as mentioned a VPC with security group rules or equivalent firewall.

Regardless of the docker foot gun this could have been a human fudge as well.

Having done exactly this myself before with SQL server and Slammer I didn’t blame the default configuration, I blamed myself.
I'm completely aphantasiac across all senses. I can't mentally visualize, mentally have song stuck in my head, imagine taste/touch/etc. I still dream frequently. Dreaming and lack of awake mental visualization are separate. There are people who lack both but you can dream visually frequently while being completely unable to have any visual imagination awake.
Hm. It's an interesting conjecture, but needs more backing.

From the article: "In most societies, investments in fertility take time and time and energy away from investments in status. Yes fertility confers some status, but in our world not as much. As people get rich, they are tempted to invest less in immediate fertility in order to gain in status"

Maybe, but fertility has declined in developed countries for poor people as well as rich people.

The article suffers from having one good idea and then trying to bash too much to fit it.
Pimsleur is great to improve your pronunciation and learn until B1. From there on I would recommend using Memrise and ClozeMaster. Memrise has a great collection of community based courses that will push up to C1
Yes, I self host my databases. Gives me control to choose my own backup mechanism and costs much less.
If it isn't even made with the same ingredients, how can it be related by anything but name?

I've traveled to Thailand quite a few times and AFAIK the sauce is not called "Sri Racha" there. The American sauce is just named after a town from a region that is known for spicy sauces generally. So they don't even share a name.
Yeah, you're probably correct. I think a lot of people are very liberal about their downvoting privilege! I'm happy for someone to not agree with me but I don't like being flagged or downvoted just because someone doesn't like my opinion. I think downvotes should be for comments that are racist or abusive in nature. A little bit of sarcasm should be okay!
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Thanks for clarifying.

> you are only listening on a private network anyway
what if i host my app in say some where else than the DB?

> better yet only listening on loopback or a local socket.
For that app and db needs to run on the same server. Isn't it?
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In Sweden the QR menues tend to be based on Facebook messenger. The restaurants that use this system also tend to push very hard for avoiding manual orders and payments. It is a complete farce every time, since most of the people I go out with don't use Facebook. We are usually not the only patrons annoyed by this, so I hope they give up soon. I will never go pack to a place that don't let me order normally.
They're talking about running the db on a vm, setting it up and tuning it themselves. As opposed to a managed solution which is setup and tuned and hosted on a vm controlled by another company.
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It's refreshing to hear someone in tech describe 15 years as early-ish. Technically true, most of us will need to work for 40+ years.
> That hasn't proven to be the case.

Hasn't? What about the moonshine business? That was all created by the liquor taxes. And all the organized crime around avoiding cigarette taxes.
Markets are often emotional though, and climate concerns can have very real financial consequences, just look at the auto industry.
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That is a good one, I wonder how our brains would manage it.
False. Tesla has never used pouch celles in the Chinese market.
Any opinion about using a configuration language as an entry point to a generic streaming platform?
I think it depends on what exact level you're currently at in your language learning.

If you're a total beginner then I personally think that having a teacher who can actually explain things is invaluable. If you don't have the basic rules of the language internalized and you don't have the fundamentals down you're going to have a harder time doing it on your own than someone who can just ask a teacher and immediately get an answer.

I think the sweet-spot for language learning apps (at least for Japanese) is learning vocabulary and kanji. Those are two things where having a teacher doesn't really help all that much, and where an app can really help.

But, again, a total beginner (which is the market that Duolingo targets since that's where the money is) doesn't need to grind vocabulary nor kanji; they need the fundamentals, which they won't really get from it.
I'd say society is converging towards outlawing all three. Both smoking and alcohol are vastly more limited and regulated than they used to be. Activist groups like MADD who are blocking decriminalization would certainly be happy to also ban all of the above.
Unclear actually.

The content of cannabis smoke is quite different from tobacco smoke, and in particular it contains a lot of terpenes, and the cannabinoids themselves, which are potent antioxidants.

Last I checked, cannabis smoke was implicated in COPD, but doesn't appear to contribute to lung cancer. That was at least a decade ago, however.
Twitter, Quora, Reddit, LinkedIn, StackOverflow, Youtube, etc.

Google's display ad offerings may not be directly social, but their Adx and Adsense ads are shown across most forums and long-tail social channels, including Reddit and StackExchange. Lots of competitors in the social ad space.

Facebook is large, and might be the largest, but it's not fair to say that Google is an entirely different type of service. Hell, Google even offers native ads a la Facebook through their "Discover" ad product which serves across all their various social feed channels like Gmail, Youtube, and Discover feeds.
I disregarded that 99% of the earth is melted i.e. not in yet in thermal equilibrium with its surroundings. Mostly because it does not matter. This is showing how large the greenhouse effect really is, about 74 degrees. That is how much heat the earth "traps", and while its getting warmer, its getting a degree or two warmer, not slowly ramping up from 4C to 78C.

My point is more one of technical correctness. People keep thinking that the greenhouse effect is something new and strange, but without it the earth would be a snowball regardless of the about 0.5% increase we have affected so far, or the predicted 1% increase we will get in 30 years at current development. When people are saying the greenhouse effect has suddenly increased temperature by 1C they make people go what, that sounds strange and huge? if you say, the sum total of human activity in the world has had an 0.5% effect on the critical 74C atmosphere greenhouse property people generally go really, not more?

The bad framing caused by shitty incorrect titles like the one linked is making the problem worse. Politicians arent saying our atmospheric impact on the greenhouse effect is insignificant so far, they are outright denying that the greenhouse effect exists. And they get away with it because of bad framing.
I think that's already been decided.
Some insurers (looking at you United Health Care) have wholly owned PBMs. Thus, the PBM is an asset in its insurance trust. Any profit the PBM makes will appear as in increase in asset valuation for their insurance trust, or balance sheet in some cases.

However, insurance margins remain unaffected as the money did, in some sense, go out the door and is no longer in control by the insurer directly. It's not fraud. It's just anti-competivie self-dealing. So, no, it's not profits per se, but rather increased valuation via clever financial engineering.
I had those dreams from time to time, it looks equally disturbing like those AI memory images: https://imgur.com/ocplHAy

Sometimes it is very fast morphing shape of objects and events, morphing into other shapes and events ...

But what is most disturbing is that during the dream everything looks logical and known, it is feeling like tapping to some higher source of knowledge, but as soon as I wake up, it seems my brain shrank to regular size and cannot read from the same book, so "symbols"/"letters"/"words"/"sentences" which were understandable there I cannot read anymore. Forgive my lack of words, it is like in those movies where protagonist gets turn to a cat or dog, so he at that point his cat/dog brain cannot understand humans and human talking/thinking anymore...

Annoying part is that, attempting to explain people how does it feel and look like sounds worse than when teen boy trying to talk to a girl he has crush into...
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The stock going belly up is the consequence of the fraud, but not the actual fraud. Just like the other people you've mentioned.

Eg. Their clients switched payment processor.

When a btc exchange frauds or a coin hacked or a smart contract is bugged, they get away with all your money. Which is the actual fraud.

In some cases they post a postmortem on medium and call it a day.

I don't think wirecard's fraud is comparable with all the crap in crypto town.
I like the idea of asking for a 4-day, 32-hour week.

Or 4-day 30-hour week.

The 30 hours is important for America -- because of health insurance.

If none of that works, try to get 20 hrs/week part time, so you don't starve, go homeless, etc.

I doubt it's actually enough to fix burnout, but...worth a shot?

I wonder if there are any 9-5 jobs out there that are still interesting -- where you get to do more than just 'x'. I'm thinking - in a comfy corporate setting - the one with health insurance.

I guess some jobs are genuinely more interesting than others, but...getting one that you're never going to be seriously considered for -- don't know what the answer is for that.

I don't know if it was more Taylor or Ford or whoever, but Adam Smith did warn that capitalism would lead to humans who would naturally lose the desire to do braindead work, and become "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."

So from that POV, burnout shouldn't surprise.

I think managers are on the good/bad spectrum -- but that's totally missing the point.

Even if you're sexing your manager, you might get a rude awakening when your performance start's affecting your manager's/sex partner's career.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Take week vacation, or more, maybe you can do a week or two to recharge, unpaid, etc.

All the usual stuff applies and likely won't help - eating right, exercise, sleep, socializing, getting outside, enough B12, get blood work done if/while you can, see if you have deficiencies affecting energy levels.

Maybe meditation? I'm a believer, but don't do it.

Or, try to transfer within the company. Last time I tried that, it didn't work, I stayed too long, should have bounced, was a complete disaster, literally almost killed me, etc.

So that's probably my best advice -- try to be willing to consider doing those things which you won't consider doing to support yourself while you un-burn-out -- drive for uber, stocking grocery store shelves, etc.

One thing I realized now that I'm an old -- people go thru crazy stuff. Like, I'll say something pretty revealing about some stuff I went thru in life or work or whatever -- casual convo at the bar, American-style, whatever -- and someone will be like, "Oh yeah, me too, but [insert their 10x story here]."

I'm like, 'J** F** -- like how are you still here??' :-D

People at work have gone thru and are going thru that.

BUT...trusting that to your manager? Sometimes it's the only play you got, and usually, imo and experience, I would _not_ recommend playing that card.

Instead, you're fine, you're energized, you _love_ your job and always will and are energized for more work -- it's just that you "want new challenges".

I feel like it's super-easy to quit yourself out of a job, especially when you're low-energy/depressed/burned-out/intellectually-and-emotionally-defenseless when your manager or your manager's manager says, "So I hear you're not feeling motivated??"
Depends on your threat model.

(Ie any serious attacker will look past the theatre.)
Just general behavior of that person and their expectations at 41 years old.

You would just add this to other assumptions about unmoved bitcoin, where over time you would look for the days destroyed the metric, aka how many bitcoins have remained unmoved for how long. It is decent news when old bitcoins are moved, and until that occurs they can be assumed to never move, especially when they are in version 1 addresses.
> supported extensions
in my experience, vendors support few extensions (for good reason), but lots of time you need a specific use-case in that long tail of unsupported extensions.

for example, timescaledb isn't supported anywhere, so the options are managing it yourself or using their own hosted Postgres version.
Sorry, you have not understood, aphantasia is my daily state, explained event was one off. Thanks for Hypnagogia.

I was trying to say, that I would like to know how to induce that state somehow, so I could "fix" aphantasia.
yea its a real shame that combining them isn't more common.

i would also like more granular control. like a pin+fingerprint when im connected to my home network and full passphrase when not, ie when im travelling or whatever. if i know I'm going to be home for the evening and nobody else is around it would be nice to not have to use anything at all
Sure, we can go into very true, but specific cases. But in a day to day usage: When you're writing plain JS, you have to do extra work to get type checks. When you're writing plain C, you have to use an unusual environment to not get basic type checks.