skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not a pension, but you could retire at 38 with millions of dollars invested and earning a passive income.
(2011)

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676263

And 2 years later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6817095
Delete the word “new”, emphasis on “key”.
Gulf State places aren't good places to live in if you are a migrant worker
MAGA proponents are not fools and know when to keep their opinions to themselves, I've noticed. My last company was openly hostile to the last President as a matter of informal policy, and there was much polite nodding in supposed agreement.
Because in the same way we can rely on health sciences to explain how masks work, we can rely on political science to tell us how senate elections work. :)

You certainly don’t win senate elections by telling your constituents that they’re wrong. You start with the preconceived views of your constituents and work your way backwards to an argument.
Without {}, it's insufficiently C-like http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
Just to play devils advocate but isn’t this already possible? Who is forcing people to buy Apple phones? Doesn’t Android already allow other app stores?

Isnt it possible that Apples users like the fact that apps are curated on an App Store by Apple?
On the other hand, Google has a kind of pricing gap. You can either get 200GB for $CAD40/yr, and the next storage option is 2TB for $CAD140/yr.

Nothing in between..
I'm not misinterpreting it. The article says:

"The study challenges this notion by introducing the concept that money was a bottom-up convention rather than a top-down regulation. Bronze Age money in Western Eurasia emerges in a socio-political context in which public institutions either did not exist (as was the case in Europe) or were uninterested in enforcing any kind of monetary policy (as in Mesopotamia). In fact, money was widespread and used on a daily basis at all levels of the population."

So it clearly argues that money originated as a bottom-up phenomena without centralized authorities. You may dispute that theory, but it's not a misreading of the link's argument.

>>Those that lived in the surrounding vicinity of the temple were required to bring contributions, eg a goat herder would bring goats. The temple would record their contribution, typically denominated in units of weighed grain.

To call that money is quite tenuous. This kind of system would have been useless with any kind of long-term trade, e.g. the trade in lazuli, tin or flint, which has been occurring since even before agriculture.

If we want to use a definition of money so expansive as to include some temple credit system, then we could look to the theories of Nick Szabo, who originated the concept of smart contracts and the blockchain.

Szabo notes that proto-money has originated independently in numerous regions, like the kula trading ring in pre-colonial Melanesia, where two independent forms of proto-money enabled long-term trade: necklaces circulated clockwise, from one island to another in the kula ring of islands, while armshells circulated counter-clockwise.

In pre-colonial America, wampun, which are shells of the clam venus mercanaria, were used as proto-money, and in fact adopted by the colonists to great enough extent that the term "shelling out", denoting spending money, originates from it.

Szabo hypothesizes that the standardized collectibles seen in various early sites of homo sapien settlement dating from the paleolithic, like the ostrich-eggshell beads from the Kenya Rift Valley dated at 40,000 B.P and the mammoth ivory bead necklace from Sungir, Russai dated to 28,000 B.P, were in fact the earliest forms of money, and that the trade-based trustless coordination that this proto-money enabled raised the carrying capacity of the environment, and enabled humans to out-compete neanderthals.

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/shelling-out-the-origins-of-mon...
A free Mariner’s Weather Handbook https://setsail.com/mwh.pdf
They better watch the fuck out.
I'm guessing that was probably a blatant abuse of the residential service. Not that I agree, but ISPs already block port 25 for the most part. I'm surprised they didn't just start banning customers abusing the service.
This mimics a lot how 3270 devices work, by transmitting chunks instead of individual keystrokes. The IBM 3270 technology dates from 1970!
> I don't mind if my workstation is 20ms off UTC.

This is one of the reasons for OpenNTPD's existence. They wanted something that was simple and a ~50ms deviation was part of the design goals/trade off for this.

http://www.openntpd.org/goals.html
I think this defeats the purpose of Codespaces, because it would mean that all the code runs locally and only thing that remote server provides is storage?
How long the system has existed has nothing to do with it. It's pure economics. If you owned content rights would you sell it for $1M when you get split up rights and get $2M for partial rights and still have upside for the remainder? If someone on the internet said "it just doesn't make sense to a viewer" would that change your mind?

No it wouldn't. The dollars don't lie. The viewers opinion is reflected in what they pay for, and that is reflected in what distributors are willing to pay. These things do change over time as the landscape shifts and new business model possibilities show up (eg. Disney+ day and date streaming releases), but it has absolutely nothing to do with your armchair notions of what makes sense to a "normal viewer". They pay or they don't, businesses are rewarded by figuring out the aggregate implications.
I'd like to believe this isn't primarily profit motive. What gives me pause is how I write regularly asking for separate vaults for trivial passwords and passwords that could lead to financial ruin. The profit motive wants to keep 1Password simple to use, at the expense of security. I've been forced to buy a second password manager for sensitive passwords.
But if this standard is applied then we end up with (imo) facially silly arguments like "a sandwich is an investment because I need sustenance to live and if I stop living I cannot work."
This article is immensely creepy. Hardware-level telemetry. I'm pretty sure no users actually want things like this.
My intention was to show how diametric political frameworks are allowed to exist simultaneously in the US. Most people fall somewhere between.
> I cannot download specific apps that are only on the Australian Apple App Store.

I wonder if this includes COVID contact tracing apps? It could be a very juicy story if so.
Personally, anything over 3 hours I tend to fly if possible, even if it is theoretically longer overall. Airport has food, washrooms, Wi-Fi, lets me walk around, and lets me work on things. Between 3 hours in a car or 3 hours in an airport and 1 on the plane, I much prefer the airport. I have never really understood the hatred people have for airports.
With only 2 players what exactly is keeping Google from closing up.

Depending on the decency of the human race is a sucker bet.
But in this case they are simply stating the truth, so I don’t think they need to say much. Rising prices for an asset cannot be called inflation, since the owner of the asset benefits from the rising prices. Inflation is specifically the opposite: the loss of value. Words need to have some meaning or we will have no way to communicate with one another.
I haven't looked in a long time, but it has high quality 4k rips with Atmos sound tracks like a Blu-ray would?
I think the article answers itself -

> "Magic Alex" Mardas was not the revolutionary engineer he portrayed himself to be. In 1995, in an article about what became of The Beatle's hangers-on, The Independent described him as:

> 'The Greek TV repairman, set up in Apple Electronics by the Beatles, who promised to build an artificial sun, a telephone you told who to call, wallpaper loudspeakers, a house which hovered supported by an invisible beam, and even a flying saucer. Not one invention was made, and the recording studio he built proved unusable and was demolished. Allen Klein fired him, and he has since disappeared.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Alex
Well when Apple releases the next OS it will automatically OCR all images, so one possibility is just downloading them all on an Apple device.
Hi! I remember, you asked about blurring parts of the image! I added it in v1.4.8 a few days ago, if you're still interested.

Capturing selected area – yeah, you're probably right, I should add it. I always thought the standard logic of Select → Capture is a bit flawed because you can't readjust selection, it sucks on dynamic content, and what if you only want to zoom in and don't care to crop at all. I reversed it to Capture → Select → Enter (crop) and for me, it works wonders, but I assume onscreen selection may work quicker for many popular use cases.
Great piece! I'm saddened to think I might never have to do this sort of thing the job, when I have in fact been lucky to have had good occasion to shave many other sorts of yaks.

One thing I find interesting on Linux vs the others is where the defaults come from. MS and Apple clearly can enforce things, but conventions are a bit more subject to negotiation. Especially with Wayland, it seems like the ability/motivatino to do more stuff client side is allowing less coordination to happen period.
But they require a separate global distributed HA clustered service just for ID generation. This makes no sense from a cost or complexity perspective unless you’re Twitter-scale.
> Annuities require more starting wealth than safe retirement with equities.

How would you create a "safe" retirement (meaning you won't outlive your money) and still end up with zero at the end. A "safe" retirement implies you are going to have money left when you die unless you spend you last dollar and then commit suicide.
Apple has the same kind of gap with iCloud.
How accurate is this? I tried ocr'ing my receipts a while back and the issues with misrecognized numbers were too large to be worth it. Unlike text where a few typos are unlikely to largely change the meaning, a single digit wrong on a receipt can be a big issue and receipt numbers aren't super high fidelity.

This looks like something I'd definitely use (and pay for, at that price).
Who gives a fucking shit. They call themselves "Hong Kongers", they can get fucked. What a stupid fucking name for residents of a country. Complete and utter nonsense.

BTW, Hong Kong was historically part of China. The only reason we're having this discussion is because they got colonized by the British. Why should I care what happens to a colony that is supposed to be 100% returned to its original country in the next 30 years? Why should I care if they accelerate the process?
It's not dead at all. With the mega-trillions in more government spending causing massive inflation, we'll all be millionaires shortly. Everyone will be inflated into the "wealthy" tax brackets.

I was going through some old financial records of mine from the 90's, and was surprised at how much less things cost then.
Is this a side-channel DoS attack on Netflix by the media companies who have, or are planning to, setup their own streaming services?

The pendulum is swinging back to the dark days before Netflix's distribution aggregation solution.

I pay for Netflix. If a media company doesn't want their IP on Netflix, then they don't get a share of my subscription. I don't have the time / desire to watch enough TV shows or movies to justify the cost of multiple subscriptions just in case there's one show I don't want to miss on one of those services. I do have Amazon Prime as well, but that's incidental - as soon as Prime TV is de-coupled from the delivery discount: gone from the monthly / annual subs list.
> Netflix, like countless other online services, is not built for global citizens

Not a huge NF fan, but TBF Netflix is built for such a customer base — see how they don’t block their own material (as described in the article).

It’s the legacy rentiers who have control over distribution of various titles in individual countries. Those assholes need to die off.
I learned this the other day because Google thinks I want google.co.hk when I access from my VPN IP address (which is in a New Jersey data center). I filled out their "wrong country" form and of course haven't heard back and don't expect to. The /ncr workaround means I have to go to google.com/ncr before searching instead of searching from the browser search bar - annoying!
That doesn't necessarily mean that each of those features should appear as a different row, or even be different between plans. If you can't figure out a way to make a comprehensive pricing page, the amount of features is not really an excuse.

This one is over 5 pages, with 5 different sections which don't even look triangle-shaped as you can usually expect from increasingly-priced plans.
Social Darwinists admire strength and power despite own fragile self-image
there's never a stretch with Microsoft. It is always, and has always been the same play. You can make excuses all you like, but in the end they will attemtp to embrace, extend and extinguish all competition.
Well I doubt you could call it really “employee hostile”, it’s more a shift to a more normalized benefit expectation for the industry and relying on the Google name prestige to separate it from the other companies in the tech sector.

It may not be what it once was…but employee hostile? Hardly.
That's a level of nitpicking that I didn't bother with.

Of course the Verilog or VHDL is just plaintext, which you can modify anywhere, but to actually do anything with it you need to compile it into a bitstream.

It does make me wonder if someone could set up a CI server to get around proprietary compilers like Vivado. Point the community resource at your source and get back a binary! Obviously you'd need to strip the license ID...
Maybe but then again, the vaccines went from published SARS-CoV-2 genome to vaccine approval in less than a year too. A booster shot under those circumstances seems pretty consistent under that compressed timeframe. 10 years from now people will probably get something more stable with boosters at bigger intervals. A vaccine is a vaccines; just because the virus is evolving quickly doesn't mean it's not. You're still almost certainly way better off with a vaccine than not.
He only supports platforms that Dropbox does not officially support. They won’t revoke tokens, they’ll do something far worse—they’ll hire him!
OH NOOO, I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD GUYS. IT'S REAL HOT IN MY COUNTRY UH OH OH NO NO NO NO NOO, NOT MUH HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, TEMPERATURES ON OUR PLANET WERE SUPPOSED TO PERMANENTLY REMAIN WHAT THEY ALWAYS WERE HISTORICALLY >:(
> Discoverability on Apple's Mac App Store is horrible. I released a game earlier this year on the Mac App Store and while it's not a great game (my first experience with LÖVE, so a pretty simple project), I got zero sales.

One of Apple's excuses for their fees is that they're doing all of the marketing of your app on their App Store for you!

I didn't know how anyone could say that with a straight face in the past, and I'm glad app developers are waking up to this.
All I need is file transfer.
As a techie-turned-PM , I found this pattern really useful when discussing specs with different stakeholders. Business stakeholders understand their business as a series of events (Customer walked in, customer bought X , customer checked out etc) so the user stories become a lot more relatable to both developers and business folks. I vaguely remember events being discussed in "Domain modelling made functional" , too
Differentiable Surface Rendering via Non-Differentiable Sampling
Maybe - hear me out out on this one - I did and that's why they were fired.
125Mbps? 60 MB?
I can’t think of a single person I’ve worked with in the last 10 years who understands the difference between vanilla git and GitHub. Nobody really understands why pull requests are named that way, or that it’s possible to have very different workflows to what GitHub offers.

I don’t know that this is the result of a deliberate strategy by GitHub, but by any metric the extend step is a resounding success.
Ok but... why post it now?
It's probably not a coincidence that Moderna 1) has a higher dose, 2) has more side effects, and 3) is more effective.

I got the Moderna vaccine. The second shot hit me pretty hard, I was definitely knocked down for a day. But honestly I was happy about that, being out for one day and then back to normal isn't that big of a deal, and it's a signal that the vaccine did something significant.

Non-medically educated opinion ahead: I think symptoms of illness are mostly a result of immune system activity, and so vaccine side effects are an indication that the immune system is working hard. That's the whole point of a vaccine.
big enoug problem with Smurf’s

Maybe its just because I play on Sydney servers, but I really find this a bit overblown personally -- and I've ranked up from bronze 2 to plat 1 over six months of playing. I think its honestly just that some people have "on" and "off" games, at least from the hundreds and hundreds of ranked matches I've played.
There is so much more to China and the people who come from there than its communism, even though its communism calls the shots. That's sort of how this mess of Cross-Strait relations came about. What is China and what is not is by no means a resolved question. Let's hope for a peaceful resolution.
Seems like someone could make an app for this.

Like, people can snap a photo of a rock, and it uses (whatever) to make an initial assessment, asking the user whatever further information might help, then sending off snaps/panning-video of interesting rocks.
So much hostility... my simple comment is shit posting but yours isn't?

I didn't say I didn't waste energy, I didn't say I was an angel, I was merely pointing out the fact that two wrongs don't make a right. "It's ok for bitcoin to waste electricity because people flying internationally waste electricity too" is a pretty weak argument.

Call it waste or whatever else you want to, the fact is, crypto currency uses a ton of electricity that wouldn't be used otherwise. Sure you can go on weird tangents if you want but it is a simple fact that seems silly to ignore.
No, BBC is not official. The C stands for corporation. It is a national broadcaster like PBS.
There's that 50,000,000 number in there... which have to be US customers.

There have only been 9.37M Nintendo switch sold in the US. Playstation 5 has only 10M worldwide sales. Only 6.5M total Xbox X/S sales.

So, none of the game consoles or devices would be covered under this. Rather convenient for those companies.
I wish I could watch the end of your career pan out for laughs. Convinced that you're still as competent as you were when you were younger, but those assholes in charge of hiring won't give you a chance.
All's well that ends well.
I hate OneDrive, and I don't even USE it. I hate it because my corporate users taht use it have a constant stream of issues with it. It fails to sync constantly, the agent fails to load properly, or needs to be logged in again for some reason, etc. It's a never ending stream of failures with the heaviest users.
I don't really care much for your politics.

I think we can agree that misinformation on the internet by state and private actors is causing damage to society.

How would you recommend we protect against that damage or prevent it from happening? Or are you saying we should just put up with it?
You can do that as an individual as well. You just to have a business and declare it as a business expense. Either way, the business itself isn't consuming it.
My entire posting history has been deleted.
I downloaded the beta and it works fine, it feels native enough for me not to want to switch over. I really do hate poorly implemented Electron apps though, Discord is okay but Slack is terrible and I'm a Sublime Text user until I can get an M1 to handle that slow asf VS Code cold start (and sometimes hot depending on how many things you have going on)
Keep in mind, every single cold and flu you've ever had has used the same mRNA pathway to duplicate itself. Anyone reading this has had this happen in their body literally billions of times and will have it happen billions more. Is it just the single-protein aspect of it (compared to a full virus) that bothers you?
Condensers are going to be heavy, too.
Rails 7 uses a class_attribute leading to a 7x speed improvement
> then maybe you're just not the target audience anymore.

i see you're moving the goal post

once you have a monopoly you can do whatever you want, thus why everyone keeps talking about EEE. look at what apple is doing now with photoscanning. What they are doing is inherently bad but they are able ignore everyone and go ahead with it because their "target audience" doesn't care about this kinda stuff. Doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't actively fight against it. your argument basically boils down to let the market and customers decide for itself. Over here there are some of us trying to tell people to not support electron because of the potential consequences, and the downward trend of the web as we see it.
‘Landmark’ study finds artificial antibodies can protect against malaria
This is basically the idea espoused by Scott Adams in his "Systems vs. Goals" post years ago: https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/

It's a very successful life hack - system-based approaches can be less prone to errors because it relies less on willpower and individual conscientiousness, both of which can stumble at random points.
Reminds me a lot of what I hoped Web Application Messaging Protocol[1] was going to be good for.

Having good transport / container abstractions rather just a protocol is a very nice advancement.

There's still so so so so so much creative stitching together of the web to do. This is a great effort, I like this a lot.

https://wamp-proto.org/
This is silly. An investment is an expenditure of resources today, which pays off down the line. Dinner at a restaurant? Not an investment (unless you believe in investing in memories, which I believe stretches the metaphor slightly). An Xbox? Sure that’s an investment that pays dividends in entertainment over time. It’s a pretty short term since it’ll be obsolete in 5-7 years. Investing in a house w a neighborhood you love? Assuming you stay and love it, absolutely an investment and a long term one — maybe pays off for the rest of your life!

Not all returns pay out in cash. To think otherwise is to financialize your whole life, to know the value of money but nothing else.
My entire Reddit comments page has been deleted as if I have no comment history.
Those studies all have fundamental flaws. The basic problem is those are associative studies, which can’t separate the effects of masking from the normal curve of a viral epidemic.

You are right though I should have been much more specific than just “study”.

A question though: if masking is so great, why wouldn’t the health authorities have performed an actual RCT to conclusively prove they work? (We have one RCT for SARS-2 which showed no statistically significant effect on the primary endpoint)