skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does SpaceX track in flight rockets with cameras?
To expand on your point, the "ROI" for a state doesn’t have to be strictly financial. It can invest to improve employment rate, to establish itself as a production/business hub, etc.
Logging is the liability not the other way around. You can’t be forced to hand over something you don’t have
Tezos is proof of stake already and supports dApps/NFTs etc. with a tiny fraction of the fees of Ethereum. Cardano will be similar. I'm sure there are others. While it's better than bitcoin, people should be moving away from eth, not towards it.
Check out vyos.net
If and when we upload a mind to a computer and/or create true AI, this question will be settled for all practical purposes.

Why? Because the person in the computer, being a faithful simulation of a human mind (or some AI analogue), will say they feel exactly the same mental things as real humans, down to the most minor detail. You then see they are just software, and say it's impossible to prove they feel the subjective experience they claim to feel.

Then they say you're just a dude and it's impossible for you to prove you feel this subjective experience you claim to feel.

There's no way out. If it's possible _at all_ to have self-aware software, they will have exactly the same claim to consciousness as yourself. Which is: I can't show my mental state to anyone and you need to take my word for granted.
Absolutely. I'm increasingly in favor of generated code you check into source control.
Ivermectin shows clinical benefits in mild to moderate COVID19: RCT double-blind
Everyone is working on batteries and they are happening one way or another (and arguably they have already happened) because sales of new ICE cars will be banned starting in 2030.

So the question is what would happen without this subsidy? Probably exactly what is already happening anyway, in which case this is a great windfall for Tesla (which is not even a German or EU company) but not really "money well spent". You could also argue that this is a good play by Germany, which has other EU states help reinforce their already dominant industrial position.
Exactly. I was trying to be funny. Not literally blaming Toyota. Though it is their fault in some sense, the popularization of "lean" "just in time" manufacturing as a magic bullet that gives you everything while saving costs.
> Though no doubt wealthy folks are more literate (including financial literacy) than the poor

I’m not sure this part is true. One of the privileges of being relatively wealthy is that you don’t have to pay as much attention to your finances if you don’t want to. You don’t have to worry about budgeting if you know you have enough income to cover your expenses. You don’t have to pore over every inch of your insurance policies if you know you generally have enough money if you get hurt.

Of course, you do need enough awareness to live within your means. But generally speaking, you probably have enough financial headroom that you can make suboptimal financial decisions and still get by. Many poor people don’t have that luxury.
You can be forced to log though.

I'm not sure how your tech-stack has to look like for you to claim that you can't log IP addresses and user-agents etc...
Online banking is safe because it is auditable and traceable. Voting has anonymity and chain-of-custody requirements that make doing it online extremely difficult.
Semantic Web.
A shock is headed for the housing market
Everything Schwitzgebel writes is worth reading: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/

including his blog, The Splintered Mind: https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/

I got into him because of his thoughts on conscious experience and introspection, such as Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White? and How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience: The Case of Human Echolocation. He ended up getting me (indirectly) into Mozi.
Wikipedia covers this sufficiently at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant#Sequence...

The five-line tl;dr: non-expanding cosmologies with no big bang but lots of galaxies tend to collapse in finite time. One can avoid collapse with a positive cosmological constant. That approach predated the work of Hubble (expansion) and Lemaître (big bang). Expanding cosmologies with a sufficiently large initial big bang do not need a cosmological constant to keep expanding forever. Einstein, not being stupid, recognized that and carried on.

Since 1998: an accelerating expanding universe is inconsistent with just a single big bang as impulse, but is consistent with a small positive cosmological constant.

Einstein and Schrödinger certainly discussed whether to treat the cosmological constant as an energy entering into the right hand side of the Einstein Field Equations instead of a multiplier on the metric in the left hand side: [Harvey 2012] https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6338 Their conclusion is that choice of side is principally a matter of aesthetics, and that remains true today.

Harvey2012 §5 is a good reminder not to put too much weight into the early days of general relativity. Exact solutions were few and simple but still extraordinarily hard to work with by hand. Numerical approaches didn't exist, nor did formalisms that provide post-Newtonian approximations that are more tractable. Realistic distributions of matter were largely as-yet undiscovered (compare 1917 introduction of cosmological constant and low estimates of the number of spiral galaxies in the sky, their mass, and the light-travel distance to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy) which came later).

Einstein's adaptation to the flood of astronomical discoveries during his productive lifetime is part of what made him Einstein rather than any less celebrated figure.
You can't remain anonymous if you tie a string.
Blockchain presents, for the first time in history, the ability to coordinate humans at scale without a central authority.
REALLY misleading. They created this feature for Mr. Robot, the TV show, too:

https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-mr-robot-secure-email...

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> Liam, October 14, 2015 at 10:30 PM

> But https://protonmail.com/security-details page says “No tracking or logging of personally identifiable information. Unlike competing services, we do not save any tracking information. We do not record metadata such as the IP addresses used to log into accounts.” So, now it turns to be that you introduced tracking and logging? Is this data encrypted as well?

> Admin, October 17, 2015 at 9:14 PM

> We don’t save any of this data by default, the user must explicitly turn it on for us to save it.

There should be a reasonable assumption that given they have end-to-end encryption for the service, they just encrypt the logging for the user and store it encrypted without the key themselves like they do the emails.

Also to note, they at least have an onion link to use their email service.
Probably depends on how complex your setup will be. We are running a normal 1GB Pi4 with OpenWRT (trunk until now) for quite a while on a 1gbit down/500mbit up fibre uplink with SQM against bufferbloat. Unifi switches handle all VLAN related work, fibre uplink is on VLAN 7 mandated by the carrier, so PPPoE works with only one LAN port on the Pi4. Wifi is also unifi hardware.

Thanks to full duplex, clients are able to use the fibre uplink without slowdown. VPN is managed by a separate system, though we had some successful experiments with WireGuard. Both a colleague and I are running the exact same setup at home (with fibre uplink and VDSL).

It's a very capable and power efficient setup. I'd definitely go with a CM4+dual NIC board today.
Please make your substantive points without fulminating.

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Nothing that a wealth tax on the current value of land won't fix. Make property taxes to the value of the number of people that land should support in a highrise configuration, and let the current owners pay it.
Nah, Chrome will eat ram even in ram constrained circumstances. Google DGAF, they even cache YT videos to disk (burning SSD endurance) despite Youtube using urls with nonces in them preventing reuse.
Doctors triage patients all the time. The critera are (broadly) how grave is the patient's condition and how likely is it we can help. Beyond that, I'm not sure that any individual decisions or motivations of the patient are of any relevance. Do we want a world where people who don't seek early treatment for any variety of conditions (addiction, mental health, obesity, even cancer, etc) or engage in risky behavior (e.g. many sports) go to the back of the line when they become seriously ill or injured?
I know what they meant.

That doesn’t mean you can just argue a point without any sort of justification.
Frontend at Google means something like an HTTP server, not a JavaScript app. Backend is e.g. your API server.
> Apple/Google isn't going to try and steal your identity, bank account info, or numerous other "small" things

You can believe in that, and trust them, but you cannot prove that, unless you have access to the source of everything installed by Google/Apple, and source of third party apps, favored by Google/Apple. But, even if you're working for a government agency and have access to sources, it's still a monumental task to do, because of the volume of the sources. It's why we, Linux owners, were crying when trivial initd and trivial shell scripts, which are easy to read and understand in about an hour or two, were replaced by Systemd, which may take days just to read source.
> An SSP is basically a potential space-based weapon

Asteroid mining has a similar problem.

Any tech that can send a metal asteroid to Earth orbit can also smash it into Buenos Aires.
I went to get lunch with my brother. We had to go to four restaurants before we found one with an open dining room.

I went to the grocery store a couple of days ago. They one register and a bank of self-checkout open at 5 PM. The lines were 20 carts deep.

My daughters school is doing rotating classroom closings, not because of covid but because they can’t hire teachers.

My Amazon shipments have ballooned from 1-2 to 5 days.

These are just some personal stories. We haven’t talked about global supply chain issues, container gluts, price inflation, food shortages, etc.

This is a level of dysfunction I have not seen in my 37 years on earth.
I think GP is prefectly well aware of what was meant, and their point still stands - you need to do a lot of careful analysis to actually claim any ROI for these kinds of government handouts, and the burden of proof is very firmly on those claiming the benefits. The history of these things is overwhelmingly that in the final tally, actual benefits fall far short of break even.
On the contrary, there's plenty of different implementations of the same algorithms.

Plus it's also extremely difficult to make underhanded changes to magic numbers if the source code is public.
> needless excess work-in-progress that cannot be delivered to the customer but may very well go stale or never be sold at all.

And what exactly is a big stockpile of raw materials and components that aren't intended to be delivered to the customer under normal circumstances?
Maybe China will build such a system, not because it makes economic sense, rather for national prestige, so they can claim to be ahead of the US in that technology. Even if they spend a few billion for a modest sized demonstration system, that’s only a fraction of their national budget.

How would the US respond? Possibly Congress will respond by paying to build its own bigger one, again not for the economics, simply for the prestige.

I am not sure anyone will care that much about the “space-based weapon” angle. If it is a weapon, you just build your own and then you have one too, and now both sides have that weapon. The ability to have a (possibly illegal) space-based weapon yet publicly insist it is just a (completely legal) power generation demonstrator may even be attractive to military planners on both sides. However, in practice, a modest sized technology demonstrator may be quite limited in the damage it can inflict, unless it was enhanced with extra hardware that made it more obviously a weapon, and harming its plausible deniability.
The biggest thing in my mind, which you sort of imply, is that you need money to be ale to utilize that financial literacy. I dont care how financially literate someone is - if your making $7.50/hr and have no capital to invest, then it's pointless.
The CEO's position on Twitter is that "by default" (from the sentence you're quoting) means when there is no criminal investigation, but when there is a legal order in place, Protonmail will collect the IP...

https://twitter.com/andyyen/status/1434600373059297284

"As described in the link above, under Swiss law, we can be forced to collect info on accounts belonging to users under criminal investigation. This is obviously not done by default, but only if we get a legal order."

Activists beware.
Blockchain gives that ability, but Bitcoin isn't a good blockchain.
> It's hard to get up & exercise when you're hungover.

And yet it's the best way to shake a hangover.
Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment. That only makes the thread worse, and the site guidelines ask you not to.

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Don't criticize your parents for not knowing as much as you do. I'm sure they hoped that would be the case.
> They all could do it

That account name is apt. Everybody -could- do it. Even your spouse, your best friend, your parents. They could all steal your shit. But for sanity’s sake a balance has to be struck between trust and paranoia.
It should be possible with investment in current tech to get transmission losses down to 30-40% or less, IMHO. There’s lot better power transistors, controls, and simulation to improve over the last experiments done decades ago. Some were done in the 1970’s. Incremental improvements do add up.
A well tried and tested scheme by corporations. Company establishes a presence in a country, collects subsidies (payed by taxpayer money) under the pretence to later pay it back in taxes and employment. However, once the subsidies end, they move on to the next country. Having the taxpayer footing the bill. Rinse and repeat.
This song is in my audiophile test tracks list. It sounds amazing on a well calibrated HT system. The wood "scratching" of the machine operation adds so much realism to the track; it makes you feel like you're just there in front of the machine.

I'm half waiting for him to redo the track again with his latest marble machine. Only half waiting though, since there is no "stopping point" for a hobby project :)
The ideas is not to validate your schema in a client during runtime. Just like you don’t care if a new key is present in a json blob. You should be able to add new features without breaking things.
It’s not even an argument. It’s pure propaganda spouted by oligarchs who have something to lose when humanity wins.
Universal healthcare actually saves money. It’s a mistaken assumption that conservatives always pick the cheapest or most efficient option. They pick the one that’s cheapest for people with a lot of assets. Individual insurance is paid for mostly by the middle class; universal healthcare is paid by taxes, which means rich people contribute more than they benefit.
This is beautiful, thanks for sharing.
If people need money so badly why wouldn’t they just train for jobs with high paying salaries as early as they can? Education is the passport.
Ex-Playstation boss predicts Sony's PS5 games will cost $200m USD to make
That crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed and will get you banned here. Please don't post like that to HN.

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Says who? The Sulzberger-owned NYT? The market says otherwise.
I've worked at companies where people really dislike things not invented here. I don't get it, if you can acquire technology you should.
Thanks for being so upfront and transparent. Very inspiring comment.
One thing I distinctly remember they _weren't_ doing better was letting you just watch your video in piece. The controls were obtrusive and always visible, the background was bright white, and the suggested videos took up a huge chunk of the screen. I don't know how much that may have played to their advantage (by encouraging you to surf new videos) but I remember avoiding YouTube links in favor of basically anything else for a good long while.
Distros often have their own philosophies on a variety of things.

Think of it like baking a cake, if everyone is given a shop full of roughly the same ingredients, each person will make something different with them, picking and choosing different things, icing or creme, blue food colouring or pink. The only part that's fixed is Linux (the kernel). I'm not sure which bit that would be in my analogy, perhaps the flour?

Some distros have preferences for desktop environments, some create their own, some allow you to choose between several. Some distros chose not to switch from sysvinit to systemd, they also each have their own packaging system, deb, rpm, nix, apk etc

As for the time thing, it's not quite that Ubuntu 25.0X will be what Arch is today. Assuming more development happens between now and then on each package, Ubuntu 25.0X may have packages from 2023-2025. Ubuntu even adds their own patches as they see fit, e.g. cherry-picking Open SSL commits.

Here's[0] an interesting read I just came across about why a new kernel might be important for a person gaming on Linux.

If you're stuck on Linux 5.2 or 5.3, you won't be getting this "Futex2" change for a while (if it made it into 5.16 for example). If you're on LTS, that could be 2+ years.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FUTEX2-v...
I would encourage everyone to make a spreadsheet (or math tool of choice) and work out how much an extra $X/mo saved and invested buys in terms of years until retirement. That number is a really important one in my financial planning because while you’re young a little bit goes a really long way.

I also wonder how much innumeracy contributes to financial illiteracy. They seem to go hand in hand in my experience.
If you've ever used Spanner you'll quickly decide that it absolutely makes sense for the DB to handle almost all of this stuff itself, it's a wonderful system that is sadly prohibitively expensive for many (most?) use cases outside of Google.
I guess it's not perfect, but the point I'm trying to make is that this is an issue that relates to so many people, that there should be some initiative to create an ISO standard or equivalent.
It's going to be tougher and tougher to preserve financial discipline as useful advice in today's increasingly meme'y world of GME-style overnight successes. I know a waitress that made ~$20k on Moderna. She was doing alright before but now she's talking about leaving the profession.

Sure it'll be right there for her when she needs it again, but the reality is, financial strategies only work over the long term, and willing to keep maintaining a contribution schedule. Everything else is betting / entrepreneurship. While there's nothing wrong with entrepreneurship the mindset is almost completely at odds with investment / finance. A $20k windfall is best put down on property, not on more stock bets.
> extremely bad decisions around payday loans, high APR leasing

Are taking those things actually the extremely bad decisions themselves, or are they necessary consequences of previous extremely bad decisions? For example, if you let your last car get repossessed, and you live/work somewhere with poor public transit, then what choice do you have other than a BHPH car with sky-high APR?
When I need to replace my phone, how to I make sure my next one has never entered Chinese-controlled territory at any stage of its manufacture—including all its components?
So with FastMail under Australian privacy-bashing laws and now this, what are our options for secure, private e-mail?
I’m not criticizing them, I’m contrasting the impact of environment. How many people growing up in that environment never discover their Hacker News?
When, like most people in existence (even in the USA or UK), you're barely making ends meet week to week financial literacy means something entirely different than what this article is talking about.

Knowing the ins and outs of the rigged game that is getting a loan from a fractional reserve bank doesn't matter when the bank will never give you a loan in the first place. And all the financial literacy problems they do face, like how to deal with predatory behavior from the "financially literate" banks regarding overdrafts and credit cards are artificial situations created by the banks.

>New survey data, commissioned for the Financial Times from Ipsos Mori, reveals striking shortcomings in financial understanding that cement inequality.

Becoming aware of how the banks and CC companies scam you doesn't really stop it. Ignorance doesn't cement the inequality, fractional reserve banking does.
I am yet to actually use it for anything, but I like the sound of what EdgeDB is doing [0][1].

The tl;dr is that its schema definitions and query language align much more closely to typical app logic, theoretically eliminating the draw of an ORM and being very good at things that are unwieldy with SQL, like retrieving sets of related records.

[0] https://www.edgedb.com/showcase/data-modeling

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/showcase/edgeql
Not all poor are stupid, but many stupid people are poor because of their financial decisions.

For example: I have a friend who has bought at least 5 new cars in the past year despite making less than a third of my income. He has no self control and just wants the latest and greatest.

My group of friends all roll our eyes collectively whenever this person starts talking about a new car. Just on schedule, roughly 1.5 years after the last car.

But hey, at least this person has a job these days. There was a time where he was unemployed and still was pulling these shenanigans.

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On the other hand: I had a great talk with a nice old lady the other day about reducing risks by making a bond ladder. She didn't know the term was called bond ladder, but she's been using CDs and other instruments (not equities) to build up her savings while reducing interest rate risks.

I know she's poorer than me, based on how she scoffed at the amount of years I thought it'd take to save up for various purchases (car, house, etc. etc.) near the end of the discussion. (Talking exact numbers is a faux pas and I didn't mean to. But if I say something like "and I think my new $20k car will take 1 year of savings", the reaction of myself, as well as the other person, will set the expectations of income innately) But she was clearly highly financially literate, maybe a bit lower on the risk spectrum than I'd personally be, but she'd hold her side of the conversation about equities, bonds, CDs, and other instruments.