skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the world still operated on the gold standard, gold bullion was the perfect hedge against inflation. Dollars (and pounds et al) were priced in gold, and so any inflationary measure that devalued the dollar would have a theoretically perfect mirror in the price of gold.

That's obviously no longer the case, but the fact remains that gold is a tangible asset universally recognized as valuable. There are other such assets, but most of them are either commodities with a shelf life (like crops and refined oil), or bulky capital assets (like industrial equipment). And that's discounting the fact that inflation often causes economic decline, lowering the relative value of said marketable assets, even if they are performing relatively better than the currency they are valued in.
Wildcrafting and Mentorship: Succession Through the Forest
I hope so. It's a surveillance company with a neo-nationalistic streak and zero shame about how it makes its money.
This looks great however I’m skeptical about dom memoization. VDOM + immutable data structures seems to be much simpler conceptually and may provide even better performance.
There is no major city in California with ‘adequate supplies and management’ - they’re all irresponsible and failing. None have a decent gray water program, almost no new water storage has been built in 40 years, and they dump untreated sewage on a semi-regular basis (accidental of course).
I am interested in this, waiting for more comments since its not open sourced and issue tracker suggests might be issues on m1 macs
In terms of using the App, once we get approval from the regulators, users just have to download the app and do our onboarding process, then wire their respective funds via SPEI.
And yes indeed, most Banks don't have APIs, however our onboarding process is compliant with official KYC requirements and that's how we will be able to operate.
No, it's not misleading. The Office 365 desktop apps are written in React. As is Teams. As is Visual Studio Code.

Specifically, React Native for Windows.
https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

For things like background services, they still use C/C++.
That's a bit like claiming that dogs have an intuitive understanding of calculus because they can catch a ball.

There's a rather weak sense in which that claim might be argued to have some validity, but it doesn't have the implications you seem to think.

Monads are not a feature of the universe, independent of human minds. They're a concept we impose on things in order to make dealing with them more tractable in some way. It's very unlikely that a machine learning algorithm is relying on anything remotely like "an intuitive understanding of constructs like monads".
UK here, not American. My government is not less invested in this war sadly.
Printed, sure, not counting for asset inflation, energy costs, healthcare, education, housing, and all the other things that really matter. But sure, you can get a Big Mac for less than $6 still.
The Colorado River Delta is an ecological disaster. Because it is in Mexico, it is not part of the analysis done in places like Phoenix.

The Gila River in Arizona is about run dry before it reaches the Apache Nation at San Carlos. Mostly for cotton in the desert. Cotton in the desert is only possible because of water rights.
To add to that: when people buy gold to hold onto it as an investment, it takes gold off the market and puts dollars into the market. Gold is more scarce, and dollars are less scarce. This has two effects.

1) reduces the price of dollars and increases the price of gold.

2) Incentivizes more gold mining, which means that purchasing power that could fund science or innovation is instead being used to dig metal out of the ground. Maybe gold miners are getting higher wages while some professor has less money to pay grad students. Oil is being directed to power mining machines which makes all other energy use more expensive. And so on.
More than ever, and more water intensive than it used to be. For example: https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-enviro...
It's not as if it always re-circulates. People often sit on cash if there are no obvious productive investments.
I wrote that they are "are supposed to be" not that they "are" such places. Their current state does not negate the idea. The alternative is no education and no freedom. It is not a good alternative.
Where can I read an introduction to the concept of "entropy" in the sense that you're using it?

I understand it's an information-theoretical concept, and also understand it's somehow related to randomness, but I'm not sure exactly how, and I would like to have a more precise understanding.
For accessing the database I use sqlite3vfshttp[0] with an s3 presigned url for authentication.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/sqlite3vfshttp
> Not sure what this is supposed to mean

Oh, I'm sorry—I just realized I confused you with someone else on that point. It's unrelated to the other issues though, and not affecting moderation.
The level on intentional compatibility breaking was crazy.

The fact that they went out of their way to break python 2 unicode when running on python 3 was just totally nuts. Especially after making such a big deal about unicode!

I've never seen anything like it I don't think? Maybe the new Perl that never really landed?
I didn't get any shots. I had longcovid from Mar 2020 - Jun 2021.

I think having the shot will ruin my robust immunity. If you train your immune system to create very specific antibodies to one part of the virus, that is already being evaded by breakthrough infections btw - you will be more susceptible to variants. Anyone who had covid and takes this vaccine is ruining their existing immunity IMO - but people can do what they want, just don't force it on me.
The old ones look much cooler than the new model.
Because Palantir is worried about the USD (and presumbably other major currencies such as the pound and euro) devaluing. There isn't an escape from that. Mars doesn't print its own currency yet.
compbio is not a field you'd want to go in if you want to use well-written tools exclusively. There's tons of absolutely abominable Perl and R code powering critical pipelines everywhere you look.

What makes matters worse is that scientists, who are already not great coders, have to work with even less technical people (i.e. the physicians). These collaborative processes will inevitably involve software like Excel. Need your M.D. co-collaborator to annotate a gene list or whatever? Your CSV's getting re-saved in Excel whether you like it or not.
Awesome.

I wish they were legal a decade ago when we were trying to figure out how to buy ant farms...
Microsoft wants to use blockchain to tackle software piracy
I always wondered how Phoenix homeowners get away with watering their lawns just by flooding them.
no, it's not complex at all. A correctly functioning government would be scared to death at even the thought of forcing its citizens into their homes (or anywhere else).

A government exists at the pleasure of the governed.
Not really. Gold is an asset and has very little utility. Unless the gold broker physically dug up the material from the ground themselves (unlikely) then they would likely have had to put up dollars themselves to acquire the asset in the first place. Worse, if they bought the gold a year ago, they would have created negative value.

Wealth creation (which then flows to those things you mentioned) is typically seen when you use a scarce material to create goods and services that drive profits that then are used for those activities.

For example, let's say you bought $50M worth of gold bars, melted them and and sold them as earrings for $100M. NOW you have $50M to pay for labor, inventory, sales, etc.
On the contrary, simulating MMU or caches are trivial. You can create a memory subsystem mock in a few hours.

IO, assembly and interrupts are much harder.
Ironically from my convoy with friends, it is the right wingers who are YIMBY. Go figure
https://longbets.org ?
By "sit on cash" you mean put it in a bank account where it is loaned out to businesses and homebuyers and governments who then spend it and continue circulating it.
Most SV companies are trading at at double digit price to sales ratios.
Palantir is at almost 30x.

You'd think the best thing for SV to do with cash is pass keep passing it around in same circle of companies or create new companies. If every dollar spent is creating $30 of valuation, you don't stop spending under your umbrella of corporations.

The music isn't showing any signs of stopping.
Much easier (and already being done) with drones.
Clearly, C is not a functional, array language. Nobody said it is. What is your point?
And really, even if you know python or R, are you really going to fire up a jupyter notebook, load the data, and run pandas queries every time someone in lab meeting or after a talk asks you about this gene or that gene in your data?

I don't do any scientific research, but I have been using jupyter as a replacement for excel since it was called the ipython notebook. I don't really use pandas all that often, I just find it easier to read and edit data in python. Though I first learned ipython added the notebook from a talk Wes McKinney gave about Pandas.
Isn't most of the housing stock that is used as an investment property occupied, i.e., being rented out?

Also, the flip side of the argument is that not building lots of housing doesn't necessarily mean that people aren't going to move there. If you have a bunch of housing that is "not for existing Bostonians" as the page says, and it's getting rented/sold, one common reason is that your city is an attractive employment location for high-paying jobs (for Boston I'd guess tech and biotech) and so people are moving in. Not building new housing for those people doesn't immediately make your city unattractive; it just means that this crowd of people with high-paying jobs will take over your existing housing stock because they can outbid "existing Bostonians."
Since you seem to be knowledgeable, care to comment on this:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environme...

It very much sounds like it directly contradicts your confident tone.
It took me a minute to realize that this is not the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- a group they would almost certainly accuse of "safetyism".

This is the "Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology", whose web site I can't read at the moment. But it does sound suspiciously like a partisan, ideological group that adopts a fake neutral name.
> Every part of this is bullshit.

To some Apple fans, employees, and shareholders.

Plenty of people agree with me and hate Apple's shitty behavior. Many of them would be happy Apple customers if Apple would knock off the bad behavior (myself included).

Unfortunately this issue won't go away by ignoring Apple. It will remain a plague on small developers and the industry as a whole as long as Apple is allowed to continue their anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices.

> First, Apple is driving innovation, obviously, not "shitting on it".

Areas where they do substantially innovate (M1) are driven by a desire to control the supply chain. Other innovations (AirTags, AirPods, Mac, iPhone) are stale or copies of other innovations. Apple has enough firepower to decimate entire product areas by cloning and integrating them with their ecosystem.

Maybe they look and feel superior? That's because Apple is a Death Star of engineering that you can't compete with.

Many people feel software companies should not be hardware, platform/distribution, and services combined. Especially at scale.

> Second, no, Apple should retain the power it has over how software works on its platform, the vast majority of users emphatically want that, and that is because of the various concrete benefits the approach has.

That doesn't mean it's healthy for the world. Apple is the de-facto computer for 50% of Americans, and they impose taxation on all commerce and Baptism for all developers working on the platform. Apple is unilaterally controlling 50% of modern client code execution. That is single handedly the most unhealthy problem with modern computing.

> Third, no, Apple did not "get lucky" and "ride" the growth engines in question, especially in the case of the modern smartphone. It created that engine.

Patently false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

Apple took the lead at an inflection point. Others were already developing similar devices, but Apple had brand recognition, the iPod ecosystem, and enough polish to pull ahead by a large margin.

Steve was a fantastic product person, and Apple had the software and logistics to make an awesome device. But this was a competitive edge, not a Bell Labs moment.

> Fourth, your comparison to controlling how people breathe is ludicrous.

Not really.

Have you had your software denied by Apple?

Have you had to use their dev tools?

I'm sick of it.

I also own dozens of devices for motion capture that I would like to remove from the Apple toolchain entirely. I bought the hardware and don't care about the App Store.

> Fifth, no: we will not be asking Congress to break up Apple's sensible security controls over its platform, because we fucking like them.

Well, I am and have been asking. I know plenty of others that are too.

> Sixth, this issue has absolutely nothing to do with the right to repair.

Oh yes it does.

It also has to do with the file scanning on your devices where Apple treats you like a child predator / terrorist / whistle blower / state enemy.

Apple is the opposite of "too big to fail". It's "too dangerous to let live".

It needs to be regulated.
My employer has a mandate so it looks like I'm going to be fired in October. I didn't take the vaccine and won't be taking it.
Hex-Rays begs to differ.
I would be interested in seeing US cities rolling out and enforcing gray water systems.

Are they used at scale... anywhere in US?
If the title says it's the CIA's "turn", then of course the article should be expected to draw a parallel with similar events in the past.
You're both right.

I've used Ghidra to reverse-engineer a game's serialization format[0] and, even though the C-ish result was marginally better than manually tracking registers across the disassembly, it was far from understandable.

A great deal of the work was cleaning up the resulting C into something that a human would've written instead of the garbage ASM-with-C-syntax that Ghidra produced.

That is nowhere near what OP was suggesting (although useful nonetheless).

[0] https://github.com/alvaro-cuesta/townsclipper
So this is ultimately all about Thiel and Musk having a fued about the mars colony and whether that will work out.
Which member of the camera crew was crushed to death? I've seen most of the Dirty Jobs episodes and don't recall that accident.
You deserve the karma hit for mistaking Tolkien with Harry Potter.
It's not "society can afford <x>". It's society has already afforded <x> for the entire duration of this 20 year war. That is not speculation. It also had nothing to do with the money printing during covid or the recent signs of inflation.
I'd add on top of that that these days adult IQ is instead defined to have a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. This is achieved by 'grading it on a curve'.

That's why my above comment was explaining why the 230 figure couldn't possibly make sense under the modern definition.
If you, as a large share holder, were so bearish on Palantir's outlook - why would you bother keeping your money invested in them at all. Keeping your money in the company is a choice you've made above the option of divesting and just buying gold yourself. And for the company, it seems incredibly silly - companies don't exist as things if they lose their employees (which would happen if anything catastrophic enough to justify gold happened) and their shareholders.

Alternative reading - Palantir (being in the business of spooky levels of information) is predicting a global currency collapse... or a return to the gold standard - which is sort of just a slightly different flavour of a global currency collapse.
Hissy fit? He can no longer update his app, he has no options. None of this strikes me as being particularly ungrateful, especially since Apple is known for these aggressive and anti-developer business tactics.
Glass is mostly "recycled" by crushing, mostly to reduce the hazard of broken glass littering the street. In many states, buying a drink in a glass container carries a nominal extra fee to cover the "recycling." No one actually wants to buy your used glass containers for their own sake.
I can attest to this. This is what happened to me after 10 days into a 2 week Ciprofloxacin.

It completely distroyed me in ways I couldn't imagine before. It literally turned on genes that are difficult to turn back.

In the beginning my entire body was vibrating at crazy high speed heart rate was. Instant depression. Nervous system completely shot. Bloating so bad at times deep breathing for hours was required after any food. Couldn't sleep more than 4 hours. I lost 75 pounds in 1 1/2 months. I kept dropping until I went from 240 to 142.

Years later I still only eat 7 foods. At least the depression is gone.

Doctors I found to be unhelpful.
And that driver was cheating the attention nags
>but it's not like Pfizer says “Trust us, we employ doctors!” and the FDA says “Sounds great, no need to check!” Each step of that process involves peer-reviewed publications, public data releases, and reviews by panels of scientific experts.

All these "steps in the process" are completely meaningless when there is a revolving door with big pharma and FDA. This is nothing more than safety/peer-review theater.

Example: Scott Gottlieb FDA commissioner 2017-2019, currently sits on the board of directors at Pfizer.

Are you really going to put up a stink and fight on an approval if the end goal is cushy job at one of these companies? You can bet if you just "push it through" you will be looked on favorably for one of these jobs, but if you put up resistance and actually want to do due diligence, well then you will never be considered.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
What do we know about this source? It seems like a new organization that's under a year old with a name - CSPI (Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology) - confusingly similar to the existing CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) that's been around since 1971.

It seems to have some biases in their blog. And in their 2nd area of interest "2. The Great Awokening - In the last decade, white liberals in America have shifted far to the left on issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation."
> Its engineers were accustomed to spending profligately—the company sponsored 13-course tasting-menu lunches with lobster tail and sashimi at headquarters—calling such extravagance “Palantir Entitlement Syndrome.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/palantir-has-a-20-billion-valua...
Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts.

When it comes to striving for a world where accents don't matter, we feel the same way.

In fact, our dialect coach, Ron Carlos, slacked me earlier today: "We truly hope that one day accents won’t matter, but until then we have folks who feel embarrassed about their accent which keeps them from showing up with their full selves. We’re here to help those folks feel more confident with their speech."

What we're trying to help users with is learning the physical skills that make up their account: pronunciation, speech rhythm, intonation, stress -- ultimately, how to speak the way they want, with the ultimate goal of helping the user become more confident and clear in their speech. If the way they want to sound is exactly like someone from Jersey, Boston, L.A. or anywhere else, we're happy to support them!
> Why, then, do buyers love digital advertising so much? In many cases, Hwang concludes, it’s simply because it looks good at a meeting, blown up on an analytics dashboard: “It makes for great theater.”

This is the case with a lot of corporate "information". We've become gluttons for information but most of it absolutely fails at the task of informing. It just gives a false sense of confidence that we know what's happening and why and in what direction things are moving.

I don't work anywhere near the ad industry, but this sort of behavior is hardly unique to them. It's part of a broader set of cultural behaviors.
Use (and reuse) the code you know over the code you don’t
That would be my favored platform!
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The gold broker likely bought them for $49.5 million and sold them for $50 million, much like market makers in any other market. (Or it could have just been a private party transaction).

Either way, the $50MM still exists and is circulating, facilitating the buying and selling of things. It did not disappear or go out of circulation.
I am still wondering how many other cancers are caused by viruses that we have not isolated or maybe choose not to search for because "conventional wisdom"

The trail of bread crumbs seems to be there.
- HPV
- Hep C
- Human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus (HTLV)
I believe if you don't divert water... you get salt water encroachment, which will poison fresh water aquifers.
Please do not respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. It only makes things worse.

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Insects may do fine, but individual species are another story.

For example through most of Los Angeles, if you see an ant it is probably an Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Over my son's life, the variety of native ants to be found near me has visibly declined.
FTB Pub 1004, Section D goes into ISOs in greater detail.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.html#D-Incentive-Stoc...
Was your original salary at the average market rate?
So they use the recycling logo to indicate the material, NOT that it's recyclable. I wonder which genius came up with this idea...
Then there would be no impact. If you’re a company producing stuff and Zimbabwean dinars are worth 1/10th as much, you would charge 10x as much.

If you’re a shell company with Zimbabwean dinar cash assets and external USD debt, you’re screwed but you’re also not a going concern.
Hilariously there is a motivation to provide low value receipts for estate executors.

"That old bookcase? It was only worth a dollar so I sent it to Goodwill after his death, it wasn't in the will and nobody wanted it".

Now maybe an antique dealer could sell it for $400, meaning maybe the seller might have gotten $100, and now the estate executor is in trouble. But he died and there's three days to get all the stuff out of the apartment and nobody has set up an estate-paid-for storage unit (how long can you afford to store something only worth $100 anyway? If estate/probate process takes a year...) or prepared a deal with an antique dealer to immediately accept (and who's going to drive it over there, I don't have time?) and if its not disposed of in three days the building mgr will hire a very expensive per hour cleaning crew to toss it in the trash (at some expense) and deliver a hefty bill to the estate. And Goodwill gave him a receipt for a dollar so its documented at least. The Goodwill receipt at least proves the executor didn't steal from the estate by hiding the bookcase in her basement and selling it later on ebay for $400. As if she's young enough to know what ebay is.
I’m interested, but the bet needs another condition, to exclude toy demonstration projects. The reactor will have to generate at least 100MW (far less than existing coal plants) and be in operation for an integrated time of at least 90 days over the course of any one year on or before 2046. Accept?