skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So's labor, and building anything slightly odd adds even more to costs, for a bunch of reasons. Just building a standard house with somewhat upgraded R-value insulation, solar panels, and a "geothermal" heat-pump, would be a hell of a lot cheaper. Plus you'd actually be able to sell it in a normal time-frame and for a normal price, if you decide to move.
The Fed already solved major large scale bank failures in 2008 without causing any semblance of hyperinflation, so your point is...?
> Consider the natural numbers. There is no 'why' behind them.

In a universe with more than one object, cardinality exists. Natural numbers are how we can discuss cardinality.

Natural numbers are also how we discuss ordinality, because ordinality exists in any universe having at least one dimension.

Axioms are how we discuss natural numbers rigorously. But natural numbers exist independent of any axioms. That's why they're called natural numbers
> The inability of public dialog on this nuance is just a reflection of our poor scientific education.

This is the only part of your comment I disagree with. “Science” has very little sway in cultural debates with either side.
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Exactly, I live in the Bay area and now that my wife and I work from home our previously totally adequate 1 bdrm is now too small to work comfortably. Particularly when we are both on calls. Getting another bedroom for an office is going to be $10000/yr after tax, don't see my work paying for that. If I was 100% remote I could move somewhere cheaper but I can't since I have to go in occasionally (scientist in the lab).
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I mean it seems like it's just returning back to 2000 before the U.S. and NATO allies invaded. The Taliban ruled then, and they're going to rule again in the future because after 20 years and over a trillion dollars it just didn't work.

And what good does staying do? If we stay we're bad, awful imperialists and playing global police. If we leave we're bad too for letting Afghanistan return to the year 2000. If you're damned either way might as well save money. Maybe the EU can step up and commit resources and money and prevent this outcome you're describing. Why does America have to do it?

I think most Americans hold this viewpoint too. If you don't like it, I think it might be beneficial to go back and look at the years of "America in Afghanistan bad" international press. No wonder Americans said "fuck it we're done".

Funny enough the more controversial war (Iraq) seems to have brought about the more successful long-term change. U.S. forces are effectively out and the Iraqi government is running Iraq. Would be great if the Iranians would stop meddling but is what it is.
Biggest problem with Cuckoo tables is that if your hash function doesn't have the right properties insertions do not converge. They literally go into an infinite loop.
This makes them not viable as a generic primitive for hash tables.

Besides, as you mention, that they're in fact slower than modern engineered hash table implementation that do only one random memory access in the vast majority of cases.
Why _should_ an engineer working from home in Seattle but enjoying all that Seattle and surrounding area have to offer get paid more than some poor bastard who is staying hear his family to help care give in Where-the-hells-ville, AR?

If we move to Beverly Hills should that person get paid more than Seattle? (yes of course Google has to have an office there per these rules)

Should employees who choose to own a car be paid more than someone who uses public transit or their own bike?

You are paid $x in order to produce $y. Assuming our $y's are the same what we choose to spend our $x on should be personal and private.
But that argument (not yours, I know) is really weak: If we have problems with banks behaving in ways that are harmful to others in society, and problems with emergent phenomena that banks don't care to avoid because most of the losses from any collapses won't be on their balance sheets... why would we exactly want to have a bank-equivalent organization that isn't under at least as stringent regulations as the banks?

If the argument were that more regulation is needed, then surely up and coming actors with less to lose are even more important to catch with that regulation?
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Die in the climate wars, probably.
especially on the way out

This doesn't matter to Paul. Him, and most of his colleagues/voters, etc. base their ideals on individualism. To them, pro-social behavior, like wearing a mask to protect others, is inconceivable.
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Part of the profit in taxis is through medallion appreciation and rentals.

Taxi medallions are required to operate in a city. The supply is artificially constrained, creating a taxi cartel. But medallions are rarely owned by the drivers themselves, rather they're owned by the taxi company or an investor, and leased back.

Limited supply + lease -> rents

Plus the medallions can serve as collateral (as with any asset), or be bought and sold. If one entity controls enough of them, they can then influence taxi availability (and hence prices) within a region.

This hits the bigtime only in a few major cities, but is probably enough of a factor in taxi finances to warrant a mention.

(I'm not nearly as knowledgable about this as it may seem. Mostly some discussions in econ courses at uni and the stray article since. Uber did crash medallion prices though.)

(Stock exchange seats are another somewhat similar asset, and also staple of econ course discussions.)
Capital requirements are for something else. We're talking about retail customers being able to withdraw their cash, in which case the reserve requirement is the correct number.
I've got equipment racks that haven't been connected to a network in years. It's absolutely obnoxious when everything is a few minutes off from eachother. I just figured out how to set up one Windows box as an NTP server to keep everything else sane. The time doesn't have to be exactly right but it just needs to be consistent across everything. It's very confusing when a log file has a creation timestamp inside from one machine that is widely off from the Date Created timestamp on the network drive. We've got a nice rubidium source for the test equipment but I don't have any way to feed that to a Windows box.
You know, i wasn't really going for whataboutism as much as deconstructing the messenger. You see, turkey has been using these syrian fighters (who, for all we know could be former ISIS members) as literal cannon fodder in the nagorno-karabakh war: they were thrown in the frontlines so that the enemy would shoot them and reveal their positions. In return for its involvement in libya , turkey got a maritime delineation deal that is explicitly contrary to international law. And the BBC is not an unbiased source, it is british, and UK has been steadily supporting Ankara's misdoings in recent years like, obstructing security council resolutions for both the NK war and recent cyprus developments. So yeah, what about all that? I m positive that wagner is commiting war crimes, but i fear we ve slid into an un-polar world where world order is unprincipled, opportunist and immoral.

- https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55238803

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya_(GNA)%E2%80%93Turkey_mar...

- https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1165307/anastasiades-point...
For a more visual idea of what happened, here is a user-contributed "street view" close to the very spot that PG&E mentions in their filing. You can see what the relationship is between this terrain, the forest, and the power lines.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.83185,-121.4410804,3a,75y,50...

Personally I feel like burying this is a waste of money. The entire Feather River Project generates less than 1% of California's peak power demands, and it doesn't generate it in the late summer when we actually need it. California replaces this amount of generating capacity with new rooftop solar every 10 months at current pace, or with individual utility-scale PV plants that are being completed regularly. It's not worth the fires. We can afford to turn it off.
Mesoamericans as a whole, including nahuas, did not typically build windows. Some south American groups did, but not high up on walls or for cooling. Perhaps you're thinking of something else like mashrabiya?
It's part of a series of blog posts that talks explicitly about crawling. There are indeed other links that do better explaining advanced extraction techniques.

Extraction => https://www.zenrows.com/blog/mastering-web-scraping-in-pytho...

Avoid blocking => https://www.zenrows.com/blog/stealth-web-scraping-in-python-...
Tether has pulled this shit regularly.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

> Tether published a self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserves, in 2017, that it characterized as “a good faith effort on our behalf to provide an interim analysis of our cash position.” In reality, however, the cash ostensibly backing tethers had only been placed in Tether’s account as of the very morning of the company’s ‘verification.’

> On November 1, 2018, Tether publicized another self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserve; this time at Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. of the Bahamas. The announcement linked to a letter dated November 1, 2018, which stated that tethers were fully backed by cash, at one dollar for every one tether. However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.

I don't see much reason to have faith in the latest round.
I've been IT since I abandoned the restaurant biz in the 90s. So I have roughly 25 years of experience, and look forward to my retirement in 8 years. I've worked at three startups, and two large enterprises.

There are a lot of IT jobs in non-FAANG companies that place more value on experience and domain knowledge, but they're not as glamorous or high-paying. Midwest companies, or places like banks/insurance companies. Stable companies that tend to change at a slower pace.

This can be good or bad depending on your personality and professional drives. I've always had a bit of paranoia about job security, but looking back, that's usually been a result of imposter syndrome.

The one thing that has helped my career tremendously is being generally agreeable. No one likes to work with the asshole rockstar, but someone who is easy going, shares credit and helps keep everyone as positive as realistically possible is valuable. Just make sure your boss sees this in you.
Pregnancy is boolean. A person's viral load is not a boolean value.

The umbrella is a better comparison. My umbrella doesn't prevent 100% of the rain from coming in contact with me. This is good enough that the umbrella is still standard practice.
The reserve requirement is the amount of money that a bank is required to have sitting in its account at a Federal Reserve bank per total deposits.

That requirement has dropped to 0% because we've developed other ways of mandating that banks have enough cash. These are things like the tier 1 capital requirements, that require the bank to hold a certain amount of capital (which does not include money that depositors put in the bank! Those are assets, not capital) for its total asset composition.
Wearing masks is usually only a minor inconvenience.

It's a minor inconvenience at the grocery store.

It's a major inconvenience to wear one at gyms.

It's a major inconvenience with regards to socializing with friends (a core human need), I really hate not being able to read other people's facial expressions when I talk to them.

It's a major inconvenience to require it at schools. It's horrible for kids not to be able to see the facial expressions of their teachers or classmates (especially when learning how to read and pronounce words!).
>Why do we so easily jump to awful interpretations?

I think the root cause is failure to assess certainty levels. For those people, "I know X" and "I don't know, but some weak evidence leads me to believe X" are exactly the same thing.

So they draw a conjecture based on what someone else said, assume that conjecture is correct, and vomit it as incontestable truth. Other assumers join in, take the anecdote as incontestable truth, and you have the rage spreading like a wildfire.

[Incidentally this kind of behaviour was what made me ditch Reddit. Not the power-tripping mods, or the corrupt admins, but the idiotic users. I'm glad I don't use Twitter, it seems like they fall in the same bag.]
The manual moderation here is pretty terrific. No doubt there are some that feel abused by it, but I'm sure they can find another platform more to their liking.
OTOH, your employer used to compensate you for using your car, your gas, your time to commute. Now they know you are not doing that. I would be surprised if the average FAANG car commuter spent more at home than commuting.

My feeling is that things should be left the same, but I think your POV is definitely valid. The _space_ at home becomes a problem especially for those in expensive cities and lower compensations. Affording an extra bedroom is not always possible.
Someone who is retired, has a million dollars invested in the stock market, no debt and no income today is not rich. They are middle class.

Assume they are collecting an average Social Security check. That's 18K per year.

If the person draws 3.5% of their net worth each year, that will give them an additional 35K per year. (I picked 3.5% because if you look at the history of the stock market, that's a safe rate to draw money for a long period of time, even during past historical market downturns.)

So they can spend a grand total of 53K per year. That's very close to the average US salary, 52K per year.

It's true they don't have to work. But they're not rich. They are middle class.
Nope. Rudy isn't smart enough to know the difference. He sat on one of Crowder's shows and literally held up an LG and then said that it was one of the hard drives.

Just watch this little link for a few seconds:

https://youtu.be/GureRbH-_Xs?t=346

Now, what use would be shoving a Macbook drive into an LG computer?
> Trust the compiler. They are very, very good.

In some ways they are, and in some ways they're not.

I recently made a loop 5x faster by writing it slightly differently. Reason? MSVC decided to emit code that messes up store forwarding (very much a microarchitectural detail). Spelling out the pointer derefs produced much better code.

More specifically, the loop was loading ARGB values and storing them as BGR (yes, blitting on the CPU, don't ask). MSVC tried to be clever by storing the lower 16 bits of the ARGB value to the stack and then reading the individual bytes for writing. CPUs of course don't (usually) go to main memory when you write to memory and then read it, due to store forwarding. But that only works if your stores and loads are the same sizes - which 16 vs 8 bits are not. So the compiler somehow managed to make a 3 byte twiddle memory bound.

Profile, and don't be afraid of reading some assembly.
I don't think creole is that well defined either: from certain perspectives Late Middle English was a creole of Early Middle English and French, the border zone between when Late Middle English could easily be considered to have been a creole versus where Modern English is definitely not regarded as a creole is really tough to define with all sorts of weird answers (from "it was never a 'true' creole because England still had an army on paper during the Norman Conquest" to "it stops being a creole when you have an empire and colonies are building their own creoles of your language" and all sorts of other ideas).
> Why should cryptocurrency be under the purveyance of banking regulations?

This is a straw man [1]. The article calls for regulators "to subject stablecoins to bank-like rules for transparency, liquidity and capital." The title of the article calls for them to be treated "like banks" (emphasis mine). Not as banks.

PayPal and Square are absolutely regulated like banks, as are money market funds, stablecoins' most obvious analog.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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> Steam managed to create the Windows gaming environment out of whole cloth.

As someone who has been using Steam since the early days, this feels incredibly anachronistic. Steam pioneered digital distribution but Windows as a gaming OS was already well established at that point.
I feel like its a market rate, if the company can now hire people all over there are likely some people now willing to do the job for less money, particularly because they are living in a place with lower cost of living and their expenses are significantly lower. However, if they are trying to compete for local talent in high cost area they need to pay more.

Note, this doesn't always apply, for example, doctors in rural communities can sometimes make more money because they are needed and most don't want to go there.
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Right. There might be three people in the world that believe that the stated goal of the mission was to kill a bunch of people and return power to the group whose members we killed while in the process arming them to the teeth with U.S. equipment so they have free reign once again[1].

[1]: https://www.the-sun.com/news/3448281/taliban-grabbing-girls-...
> I am not paid to protect 'the org',

Just last week, I reiterated to execs that part of the job of an engineer is to "document themself out of a job" (regarding documenting designs, code, processes, etc. so well that other engineers could take it up). An earlier time, when I mentioned that more verbosely, I asserted that the kinds of hires who will do that (automatically, or by embracing the culture we nurture) tend to be the best engineers, and the most valuable to the org.

This goes against old advice about job security for some people, like "be the only one who knows how to do that thing the org thinks is important". And against more recent job security advice, where job security is about hopping between orgs rather than investing with one. Popular contemporary gems of advice seem to include "let your project be guided by your resume keyword goals, then hop to another company for a salary bump in 1-3 years, before the chickens of your misaligned work come home to roost at the org." :)

I can't say that everyone will recognize when an individual invests in working for their colleague/team/org rather than solely for themselves. But, besides on-principle reasons for doing that, some people will recognize it, especially people who do it themselves, and those are some of the people you probably most want to work with.
>Tether, has issued $62bn-worth of tokens which it says are redeemable for a dollar apiece. But of the assets backing the tokens in March only about 5% were cash or Treasury bills

Cash & Cash Equivalents & Other Short-Term Deposits & Commercial Paper:

Commercial Paper and Certificates of Deposit2 $30,807,654,349

Cash & Bank Deposits3 $6,282,756,692

Reverse Repo Notes4 $1,000,662,458

Treasury Bills5 $15,279,528,705

Subtotal $53,370,602,204

How do we go from an assumption of 5% in March to ~85% (53/62) in June? The author I can understand being cautious about the subject of stable coins, but this seems to be the wrong evidence to back their claim.

https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tether_assuranc...
A hairdresser in Norway has to be paid a lot because otherwise they can take one of the abundant high paying jobs in the oil industry with no additional training. How would you level pay for hairdressers in Norway and those in e.g. Sweden? There already are basically no restrictions on movement.
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>The wikipedia article on the subgenre is terrible, conflating fin de siecle with Dying Earth. Awful on many levels

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you've ever tried to edit something glaringly wrong, even with proof, only to be insta-banned, you get a cookie!

This has caused me to lose all trust in Wikipedia, I find I always have to check the sources/revision pages and even then it's just a clusterfuck.

If it's wrong about something I know, how much of it is wrong that I've no clue about?

Also do you or OP have a list of some of these books? They sound right up my alley.
Regulating stablecoins like banks would absolutely have to involve reform of the OCC, whose willingness to actually issue new banking charters has slowed to a near halt in recent years.

https://wp-vip.law.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2...

Many fintechs would be more willing to submit to banking regulation if they felt there was a sane and cost effective path to, you know, actually becoming a bank.
I'd point out the extreme irony of this comment, but I suspect it'll fall on deaf ears.
You can only redeem USDT to USD through centralized exchanges (after all, that's the point of stablecoins in dEx ...).

As long as these centralized exchanges collude to refuse redeeming USDT to USD, there is no run of the bank scenario.
Firstly, Tether is rat poison. Unfortunately, newcomers to the space identify "stable coins" = "tether" or wrongly assume that other stablecoins share similar mechanisms. There are many alternatives that operate radically differently in the nascent space.

DAI is immensely exciting. Stablecoins like DAI are interesting experiments that could powerfully create new online economies.

Blockchains like Ethereum are currently far more transparent than the state-sponsor US monetary system. I hope to live in a society where economic experiments can be executed, new lessons learned, and transparency maintained. If stablecoins are persecuted, the need for cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs will allow these systems to continue with far less transparency.

As a different matter, how can society say "2008 bad", which resulted in little economic progress, and then threaten problem solvers from making new solutions? Innovation is a hedge against regulator lethargy.
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I'm curious - if you expect a token to be backed by "cash", just what form do you think that would take? A deposit at a commercial bank? A warehouse full of paper bills?

FDIC only insures deposits to $250k. If you put $30B in a bank, you're placing a pretty big bet on the solvency of that bank. I'm not sure this would be a great plan.
Do they really have automated systems searching for 50+ year old newspapers? Probably a lot of them haven't even been digitised before, so it would be impossible to search for them in an automated way.
It simply is not. Retail banking customers are able to withdraw 100% of their balances and have been for almost 100 years thanks for the existence of the FDIC. Nobody has lost a single dollar to a bank run since the FDIC was instituted after the Great Depression. Even in 2008 when WaMu went under. Not one dollar.

All retail banks in the United States are backstopped by the FDIC and the FDIC is backstopped by the federal reserve. Saying otherwise is tinfoil hat thinking. Fractional reserve banking isn’t a conspiracy.

Retail banks act on behalf of the federal reserve to actively manage the money supply, in part through fractional reserve lending.

The issue for stable coins and stable coin operators, is that they’re not backstopped by an FDIC, aren’t subject to any capital requirements and aren’t subject to any risk management practices.
Recently built one myself (funny how that works with HackerNews). And would double down on your comments about gpsd and ntpd. My biggest problem was gpsd autobaud detection for the Ublox module I was using kept setting the wrong baud rate.