skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this kind of technocratic thinking is that your market economy education sector produces exactly the kind of elites who have literally zero interest in creating a system in which anyone else has the same resources as they have in the first place, because the unequal system that does exist helps them to reproduce their own class.

It's the same way when I follow discourse about "YIMBY-ism" in the US. People say "Gosh I love the market I just wish we had the right regulations", yet it's exactly the reliance on private-property value as an asset that makes it so homeowners want to restrict supply. And they have all the political power, so you'll never get the regulations.
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I’m sorry, that really doesn’t make any sense.

There is several missing factors here, and it’s a useless metric. Lithium ion can do ‘100 hours’ as well - based on discharge rate. It can also do 10 minutes - based on discharge rate. 100 hours is literally useless on it’s own because it doesn’t tell you anything concrete. 100 hours….. of what?

It looks like a classic science writing article where they left all the important units off, misunderstood the whole thing the audience was looking for, and made it all super confusing and pretty useless compared to an actual paper.
> It’s sacrificing truth for the convenience of about a dozen people in IT.

But those dozen IT people think the trade off is really worth it (for them)!
It should be "how lengths are determined in spacetime" which I assume is just a mundane english second language issue.

In the view of GR, all objects follow straight lines absent acceleration, and the force of gravity is actually a result of curvature of spacetime. That and the rest of your points that follow are more an issue of not being familiar with GR. I agree the article could have done a better job of elaborating these to a wider audience, but if you've read about GR a bit these concepts will be quite familiar.
Amazing comment. Wisdom to discern the difference between where you can be agentic and where you can't.
Another way is to sponsor and help to develop Redox OS[1] instead. It has a kernel completely written in idiomatic Rust[2].

[1] https://redox-os.org/

[2] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/kernel
> "Controlling your time and the ability to wake up and say, “I can do whatever I want today.”

If you are in a good relationship, you can’t do whatever you want any day. The goal of the article is fundamentally incompatible with the sacrifices required for a good relationship with another human being.
Actually, the paper doesn't make any claims on the supply of housing, it makes claims on the rental supply. There is an important distinction.

That rent control makes renting less profitable and that landlords sell some properties is absolutely expected. The question is whether that actually increases rents, which the article does not establish, it instead makes the leap that less rental units means higher rents even if the total supply of housing stays the same, while assuming that rent control doesn't actually lower prices.

All in all, the article doesn't actually make the claim or even suggestion that rent control decreased the supply of housing. The article doesn't provide evidence that rents would have increased faster without rent control, as it doesn't quantify the rent depressing effect of rent control at all.

By the way, I don't actually like the SF implementation of rent control and I believe that the actual implementation details of rent control are critical. I wouldn't be surprised if SF's rent control wasn't effective at all. It's just that the article you linked doesn't actually makes such a claim.
Most powerful Minecraft exploit ever (Machine Learning & 1TB of leaked bases)
I'm solidly millennial by definition, but I feel much closer to the "Oregon Trail" generation.
The US does not have the highest rate of gun violence in the world. Not even close. Where did you get that idea?
Will global warming change the viability of Central Valley agriculture beyond the increased occurrences of drought?
This is absolutely an amazing explanation of local gauge symmetry I've ever seen. Thank you for writing this up. Gems like this is the reason I love HN!
Double Irish doesn’t even exist anymore. The least you could do is keep your off topic rant up to date.
Has someone perhaps tried making a browser on iOS while sandboxed (aka. without JIT, and only sideloadable of course)? My understanding is that interpreted JS execution has abysmal performance and battery life characteristics, and given that Apple only entrusts themselves to run arbitrary code (since third-parties could just RCE themselves any bypass app store review otherwise) they can't allow other browser engines to use the JIT entitlement - it would look like they were intentionally handicapping the performance of other browsers.
According to all the native Chinese I've spoken to, investing in the Chinese stock market is generally a bad idea. They say it is filled with scams, probably due to lack of regulation or corruption. The government's brazen ability to delete whole industries may be another deterrence though.
Pick a VPS from a hosting provider outside of your home country (Brazil in this case). Use it to hold encrypted backups. Either a Syncthing instance configured as untrusted, or just btrfs send incremental snapshots and filter the stream through gpg on the way out.

I suppose your other issue is making sure that payments still get made in a timely manner if for some reason your home country freezes your assets or you get arrested. I guess it just depends on what you're up to and how paranoid you are. Personally I wouldn't worry about it too much. You could probably just deposit a portable hard drive with a friend or relative periodically if you're that concerned.
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2b2t is a minecraft server where everything is allowed, including hacks.

This is the most powerful exploit ever, as the hackers were able to track all players everywhere and basically have spectator mode for the server.

More detailed writeup of this exploit:

https://nocom.2b2t.website/
> Unfortunately, ivermectin is not a miracle cure. At best, the Egyptian study was poorly performed and partially plagiarized; at worst, the data were outright fraudulent

qft
So mined diamonds are bad because mining is, in general bad. Got it. Now we have synthetics and those are bad because... they take away jobs from miners? You can't have it both ways.
You're not actually learning anything there. I assure you, repeating the same problem with a slight variation for the 372nd time isn't doing anything to your ability to actual solve problems, it's just helping you get a higher score on the standardized test.

Which is a zero sum game.
Typically that type of issue is addressed in audit. There’s no requirement that you live in a state to collect or file for unemployment. UI validates against IRS data and may or may not know where you are based out of.

My guess is some project manager at a fraud boiler room stuck your zip code in in the “CO” folder instead of “CA”. The people who file these claims are literally on the phone all day and know what to say.
Startups will suffer from antitrust bills meant to target Big Tech, VCs charge
What an strange sentiment. Being a comedian is a job like any other and early ones are very familiar with struggling to pay bills.
Well, Great River Energy aren't tiny, although they aren't a huge company. They're headquartered near my home, and are big into renewables.

If they're planning a pilot plant to bring online in the next two years, then they have done their due diligence and believe the tech can work. It'll be interesting to watch.
Much longer WSJ article: https://archive.is/2I7aq
GPS specs a specific window (the broadcast message bit positions) in the ephemeris for specifying leap seconds, so that data window has to be filled with a value, even if it's zero.

The issue is that only certain defined gps weeks use those bits for that purpose (when to actually apply the upcoming leap second), and it doesn't happen that often.

But anyone who assumed that an upcoming leap second message implies a non-zero value hasn't done their basic homework. It's a regularly recurring message, not only done when required.
China is miles ahead of the west, it's crazy, people over here, specially on hacker news are obsessed with their stocks

You guys are disconnected from the reality, you represent exactly what's wrong in the west
You never know when or where the skills you picked up are going to be useful, no matter the career path or occupation.
If you don't know what those words mean, you can look them up in a dictionary. If you're looking to make fun of people for knowing things you don't, whether words or anything else, maybe you're on the wrong website. Or in the wrong species.
Unfortunately, most flexible e-ink displays aren't made to always be flexing. If they're flexed during an update, it can damage the display.
It's crucial to mention the recent "lying flat" movement along with this idea.

"The “lying flat” movement was jumpstarted in April when a post on Baidu titled “Lying Flat Is Justice” went viral on the platform. A manifesto of renunciation, the post shared the author’s lessons from two years of joblessness. The extraordinary stresses of contemporary life, the author concluded, were unnecessary, the product of the old-fashioned mindset of the previous generation. It was possible, even desirable, he argued, to find independence in resignation: “I can be like Diogenes, who sleeps in his own barrel taking in the sun.” Discussions about “lying flat” picked up pace in May, as young Chinese, over-worked and over-stressed, weighed the merits of relinquishing ambition, spurning effort, and refusing to bear hardship."

The TLDR is that younger Chinese are burned out the with idea of working themselves to death at a chance for success, and as has happened with many first world countries, the cost of what is deemed success (homes, children) is too damn high.

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/the-lying-flat-movement...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-lying-flat-took-chinas-ove...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/world/asia/china-slackers...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-lyin...

https://qz.com/2019322/why-lying-flat-a-niche-chinese-millen...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/lying-flat-gains-t...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/05/the-low-desire...
The reasons for the private tutoring curb do seem to be somewhat legitimate. So:

Declining birth rate is definitely a major metric that the Chinese government is secretly watching closely. There are reports that Beijing is hiding all birth rates by region https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mritl5/breaking_xinj.... Also, Nikkei reports that newborns are down 18% y/y https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/China-s-population-growth-sl.... And the recent government relaxation to 3 kids have been mocked by the netizens in China as pointless. IMO, China will not be able to reduce falling birth rate with any government policies, since most families have been indoctrinated with 1-child policy for decades.

Attack on private tech companies The attacks on Alibaba, Tencent, Didi and others are two fold: to reduce individuals power within the CCP controlled economy, and to remove their potential to list abroad so as to reduce capital outflow. The trend is for these Chinese tech companies to weaken in the upcoming decades.

Something that wasn't mentioned in the article, but warrants a strong mention. Reduce free thinkings. The Chinese government have been introducing mao-era communist party thinkings into public schools. (or brainwash, whichever). The shutting down of private schools will enable the public schools to exert even more power on the kids. This is also in line with the Chinese government shutting down mosques and churches in recent times.

Also something else bears mentioning in the context of this: Chinese government is actively reducing the number of uyghur births. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57383548.
Undoubtedly the factory was paying a PR firm, not the newspaper!
However, if you were to memorize that solution, you can get really fast and accurate with relatively little actual math ability. I believe that method probably will have the greatest increase in test scores for the lowest common denominator. It really is quite abhorrent though.
it is compatible, if "thing I want" == "spend time with these people/make them happy"
I guess I don’t really understand why unemployment payments don’t “come” from the (former) employer? They already know the direct deposit details and have a rough idea of the eligibility. It seems like the easy solution would be for a partial “paycheck” to keep being deposited and have the state make payments to the employer, instead.

If Acme Corp. gets an unemployment claim for an employee who’s still working they’re in a much better position to quickly recognize the fraud. And if they get a legitimate claim for a former employee but to a previously unknown bank account it’s easy enough for them to get in touch with the employee to double check the details.
The whole issue, and that article itself is politicized. So much so, that it is hard to find medical information on it, with the rampant flagging of articles, and "disinformation" labels being thrown around. The article saying that Ivermectin alone is the Flyover Country treatment plan is a misstatement at best, deceptive at worst.

The Establishment is pushing vaccines for everyone, or, almost everyone starting from 18 and older, unless you have an allergy to vaccine ingredients.

Flyover Country, and some other countries, are pushing treatments using a cocktail of drugs, suggesting vaccines only for high-risk population.

Why can't we have some honesty about this?

I'd much rather having some open discussions about the pros and cons of each, standard of care around treatments, and which vaccines are best for which populations given the known side effects, than this continual stream of missinformation.
One advantage is that GraalVM Enterprise Edition is free to use on OCI infrastructure. I have yet to try it, but could be useful for a nice performance boost.
Oracle cloud unit employees told to prepare for 24/7 work
The Amiga was great back in the 80s, so far ahead of anything else. In the early 90s trouble arrived, and starting 1992, it was essentially technically dead since PCs had caught up. The newest AGA chipset on the Amiga 1200 and 4000 was a disaster and a nightmare to program (being planar rather than chunky) whilst VGA mode 13h was a dream come true. Nobody really bothered with extracting the most out of AGA resulting in lackluster games that looked terrible compared to what was coming out on the PC w/ VGA (nevermind SVGA later).

The Paula audio chip was essentially unchanged since the first Amiga (4 channels, 8bit samples) and was no match for the Soundblaster 16 (and later the GUS). All of that meant that for the first time, games that were coming out on the PC were way ahead of anything the Amiga had to offer and the momentum had fully shifted. Moreover, they were artistically novel and windows into the future.

Ultima Underworld, Ultima 7, Privateer, Day of the Tentacle, X-Wing, Wolfenstein, Doom, System Shock, Myst were all groundbreaking PC games released in 1992-1994 that never came out on any Amiga. Even games that did come out for both systems 1992 onwards, were usually a lot better on the PC (Dune 2, all Lucasfilm and Sierra adventures, Flashback, Another World, Eye of the Beholders, Syndicate, Theme Park). The Demoscene productions were also a lot better and forging new ground on the PC, AGA demos being limited by the c2p routines that were slow on the 020 and 030 Amigas.

It is still a great machine for hacker types though, nearly infinitely expandable and the OS is a joy to work with. It's just too bad that the models following the A3000 - the last great Amiga -, A1200 and A4000, were absolute disasters that killed the entire platform.
> Recipes were passed down generations before any changes would be made by the introduction of new ingredients to the local agriculture.

How can you know that to be true as a fact? Do you have a time machine? And new recipes don't need new ingredients to exist. Changing the way you cook things, the temperature, the process, how you mix them, the tools you use, or even random luck can lead to new recipes.
Charge rate is independent of capacity. A 3 C battery charges in 20 minutes, whether it's 1 kWh or 7 kWh. If you have 7 batteries, each charges in 20 minutes.
Ironically, the article was paid by Microsoft.
This article itself is politicizing the science and medicine. Please don't take medical advice from journalists. Talk to your doctor.

If you want to weigh in on the ongoing medical debate (this is not settled science), please at least read 10 or so relevant studies first. Far too much chatter by people who don't have not put in the requisite work.
what if you just fill the whole disk with random bytes? Wouldn't that take care of it ?
I share most of your skepticism. Do you know if they’ve published a technical paper on any of the numbers?
> If eighteen months from now Starship has launched a ~dozen or more times and SLS once, I'd imagine they might wrap up SLS with Artemis 2, which should be mostly complete by then.

Starship needs to be crew-rated by NASA before it can replace SLS+Orion. I'm sure that will happen at some point, but that point may well be after Artemis 3 has happened.

Some people propose hybrid architectures – putting Orion+ESM inside Starship, and using F9+Dragon to ferry the crew to LEO. However, I think NASA will view those hybrid architectures as even more complex, and hence riskier, than the current SLS+Orion(+Gateway)+StarshipHLS architecture. Plus, pro-SLS forces in Congress will oppose NASA doing that. Bridenstine proposed launching Orion on Falcon Heavy, and Senator Shelby's response was to ask Bridenstine for his resignation. Shelby may be gone from Congress but there are other members of Congress with the same attitude. It is harder for Congress to oppose a NASA project to crew-rate Starship because it would be less obviously directly competitive with SLS+Orion, even if the death of SLS+Orion would be its ultimate consequence.
> but the article is full of technical terms that you really don't want to know

The article looks a lot like word salad... too many specific technical terms for the average person to manage, yet lacking in the specifics that would be needed by someone capable of understanding their theory.

If it's written for their audience, then the only audience they seem to be targeting is average people who won't understand their assertions may be a load of crap.

Or is there someone here with a deep understanding of these topics that would care to chime in?
Cram school is equivalent to memorizing every previous sat question ever that just a huge expense and time sink. Eliminating them will help propel China ahead while the USA falls further behind because kids and parents have to waste considerable effort cramming
I don't understand the first part of your comment. Paid tutoring benefits the wealthy at the expense of students with natural ability who can't afford to pay. It distorts the value of achievement.

I agree that the connection between tutoring and birth rates is difficult to see.
Exactly this.

If this was done in the EU or the US everyone would be spinning it as being a boon for children, finally allowing them to live their best lives while they are young and equalising opportunity across the wealth spectrum. But because it's China it's "authoritarian".
The official release does mention reducing anxiety and costs for parents, and you can see how the birth rate goal makes sense, but it does seem to be more about student welfare. At least, the release doesn’t mention the birth rate that I can see, but I wouldn’t really expect it to.

Link in Chinese:
https://tinyurl.com/5nu8kebn
it's that we don't really tax them at all. we spend so much money and time chasing pennies rolling away on the floor while the vault is being robbed.
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*Citation needed

But also, I am not sure that "parity with Synapse" is necessarily required or desirable. Sure, it needs to be fully functional and handle all the basic federatable communications, but its not like most small scale self-hosters need/want all the enterprise features being packed into Synapse. I think it is better for the Matrix ecosystem to have various server implementation that target different segments but can all still communicate.
They have an aversion to the "undeserving" getting government services, and are happy to set up a complicated public/private partnership to "prevent fraud", even if that privatized program ends up costing more and being less effective than just directly providing the services by a government program, even with fraud.

It's not surprising there's now a big push to 'prove' that the pandemic unemployment benefits were wastefully expensive. It doesn't fit the neoliberal economic worldview that says government aid should be "need based" and have means testing. Of course the total dollar amount said to be lost to the waste is less than what the DoD spends in a day.

The most obviously agenda-driven aspect of this new pandemic fraud panic is that it directly plays on the American aversion to the helping the "losers" who didn't clear the "pulled up by one's own bootstraps" bar. It's the same rhetoric employed against student loan forgiveness and by the Tea Party, to name just a couple of examples.
> By that logic my iPhone 11

Don't worry about your physical iPhone, all of your data is mostly already saved for you remotely where it can never be wiped ever.
> you still have to take the VPS provider's word that they've enabled them

No, you don't. Both of those implementations provide hardware attestation via vendor keys securely embedded in the CPU. I have no idea if any providers currently make such features available though.
When we create a monopoly through regulation, we should also regulate the prices the monopoly can charge, because any market without competition is broken.
>despite warnings from the American scientific community that little to no evidence exists of its efficacy.

There are dozens of studies on the effectiveness if ivermectin.

c19ivermectin.com
> Could be more financially unstable households.

In my schooling experience I don't think I remember there being a correlation between household wealth and mental health issues. There were poor kids who didn't engage at all with the stress of preparing for the future and therefore had a great time in middle / high school (their suffering came later...) and many kids with richer parents who put them through grueling schooling regimens, with very high standards and conditional love, which led to lots of problems with anxiety / depression.

I think a lot of problems came from the remote schooling being really bad for time management. Kids got bad grades, felt like their lives were ruined. This is something I think is happening a lot.
Not true of older Android phones, however.
Why are they appreciating so much if there's no rent to collect? Are storefronts NFTs?
The ethical alternative is not using any diamonds as jewelry because some advertising made you believe it was important [0]. If you spend your money instead on improving the life of the people that are currently mining these diamonds, that seems to be a very ethical alternative.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
The client would not be the product.
If you have A -> B -> C -> A, then you need all three of A, B and C to be defined if you're going to use any one of those modules. When that's the case, the only thing you're gaining by using modules is the organisation of the file.