skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good analysis.

What we are experiencing is an inevitable decline in a late stage of an empire.

Land and real estate market under current laws doesn't clear, so leaves too many city lots vacant or unused. Lots don't come back to market and new properties are promptly snatched up by speculation on even less availability. This forms a monopoly in housing and land markets. Orders of magnitude larger than any big tech, oil or railroads that we've ever experienced. In effect, most of disposable income of orninary people is eaten away by the monopoly. Everyone pays a "rent" tax which is impossible to avoid.
This is well described by Georgist economists.

What is not described yet and what the article touches on is important. The real estate monopoly, sucking away all incomes,
doesn't allow for many winners in the economy. In the 50s every man could have been a "winner" in an environment of half of the world destroyed after ww2. Nowadays there are only a few winners at the top. Women only mate with winners and would rather hold out than having to reproduce with losers. You witness rise of feminism, break down of family units and rock bottom birth rates. Beginning in Japan which suffered from the mega real estate crash first, now the same scenario spreading to the rest of the world.

The land monopoly won't be dismantled because both parties benefit and most importantly, population is invested in this pyramid scheme of ever increasing house prices. You can't expect people to vote away their ponzi life savings stored in crumbling houses.

The inevitable stage that follows is a next-gen feudal society with landed aristocracy as we know it from history. You only win in life if you get born into the right family with enough inherited real estate, getting paid rent taxes by serfs.
You’re missing a key detail: the Fed returns profits, but not loan principal. If the Fed keeps a T-bill until maturity and doesn’t roll it over, then the Treasury must actually pay the principal so the money is destroyed. It is only if the Fed actually cancels government debt that we could call it outright printing.

When the base money is itself an IOU, then debt issued by the privileged party is indeed printing money, albeit money with an expiration date.
Why don't people watch that Al Gore documentary anymore?
> So now the long term plan is for the holdouts to either change their minds and get vaccinated (and many of them have)

This makes the huge assumption that the variants stop. The Mu variant, which appears to be vaccine resistant, is here already: https://www.newsweek.com/mu-variant-which-may-vaccine-resist...

My question is, have we ever mass distributed a non-sterilizing vaccine before?
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This is a reasonable concern. My wife had it and got the test to prove it, I also had it and did not get tested, but considering that she was asymptomatic, and we continued all normal activities, as well as quarantining together, it would be silly to question if I had it.
I agree. Nothing running a GPOS is suitable here.
They're filling up with unvaccinated people because people aren't sure how to be sick anymore. Stay at home and check your oxygen. If it dips to 95 or 94 then start thinking about going to Urgent Care. Not really ER. It's like when you have a baby they drill it in your head not to come to the hospital too soon. People still don't listen but yea. Where is that messaging for Covid?
I think there's enormous reason for concern, but... I also think there's a not-so-fine line between saying (A) that we will go through some major hardship and decreased quality of life as we attempt to mitigate and adapt, versus (B) civilization is finished, there's nothing left but despair and destruction, kids have no viable future on this planet, etc. The latter strikes me as a mass projection of millenarian eschatological thinking onto what is admittedly a troubling set of data. I suppose that policy makers find it useful, therefore, to stoke a certain amount of sky-is-falling panic, particularly among teenagers who are more inclined to be attracted to and scared of doomsday scenarios. But by the same mechanism (ie supplanting rational discourse with doomsday panic), a counter-movement scores easy points saying "look, nothing's happening." The same basic flaw on public messaging pertains to vaccines and masks. What seems to have happened is that those in charge of public messaging have concluded that the majority don't know enough or care enough about science, and so they need to tap into raw fear and emotional appeals just like the science deniers do. What this does, unfortunately, is cheapen the conversation to the point where we're measuring the stress levels of teenagers as if that were a useful metric of how severe climate change actually is or will be. Their stress levels, just like the stress levels of anti-vaxers, aren't based on rational thought; they're generated by fear-peddling from one messaging system or the other. As both these systems try to out-alarm each other, they tend to drift further toward worst-case scenarios and their exponents move closer to shouting for revolution (e.g. Jan 6th), if only to serve as post-justification for the hysteria they engender to serve their goals. Climate scientists shouldn't stoop to the level of deniers. It's too short a game to keep people in panic at all times. If we've learned anything from the failure of messaging during covid, it's that trying to sustain an endless freak-out doesn't work, and it's ultimately counterproductive, because daily life causes drift away from any singular narrative, and groups of people then grow stronger counter-narratives even more dangerous than those they had before.

I feel sorry for kids whose lives are made to feel meaningless and short-changed by this information warfare on both sides. Yes climate change is real and dangerous and yes the world needs to be proactive, and yes quality of life will decline, more in some places than others, and mostly falling on the global poor. Yes children should be educated about it and yes adults need to get ahead of it, including changing systems and practices that there is deep resistance to changing. But panicking the hell out of 14 year olds - or in this case, 50-somethings, that civilization is imminently coming to an end is going to have the terrible consequence of hastening or creating an end through instilling abject despair, rather than cultivating the means and the will to make the necessary changes.
So you don't have a family and you want a house? Go find a sweet apartment or townhouse and let the equity build until you've got a family going. That may be a bit judge-y but come on, not everyone can/should live in a detached home.

EDIT: I'm assuming that's an option. Does the Bay Area have condos or is that one of the dumb zoning things y'all got going on?
Is that one thousand, or one million?
Microsoft Azure RCE and LPE vulns via silently installed management agents
Yes. For example, most of the STM32 lineup has builtin USB support, and can connect to displays through a range of protocols.
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Where do you find properly built apartment buildings with a soundproofing barrier in the underfloor and brick party walls?

My in-laws lived in a mid-height (4 floors) concrete-and-brick building that went up under Salazar. An equivalent building in the US would be built in wood and sheetrock pretty much everywhere. Even 5000 square foot doctors' palaces that go for half a million dollars are stick-and-cardboard. Solid construction you'd only find in highrises in urban centers, and even then it's not guaranteed that the walls aren't made out of cardboard.

You see these sprawling neighbourhoods of SFH's with 1.50 m separation between buildings and very much the whole lot paved over. Everywhere else there would be mid-rise multifamily buildings, but the American insists on an SFH, because soundproofing.
I’m on the 12 Pro Max and I have the M1 iPad Pro. There’s -no perceivable difference- in scrolling effect. Seems to me just like the Pixel line real features couldn’t be added because of Covid this year. So just throw in a bigger battery and hype the marketing and hopefully they’ll keep buying. Whatever. And what happened to the sat phone feature? Are we going to make a hall of shame for those clickbait bullshitters? Because they wasted plenty of people’s time with nonsense rumors and made a fortune in ad revenue. Let’s call them on it already
In my opinion, async is such a mistake because it exposes a complicated abstraction to developers that could (and should!) be totally hidden by the runtime. Async "feels" cool and powerful because you get to learn about the intricacies of concurrency via coroutines, but at the end of the day, you just produce a tangled cobweb of difficult-to-follow code that is absolutely infested with explicit references to the concurrency. And it's so easy to get wrong.

Golang gets it right with goroutines. Languages should have extremely light and performant concurrency that efficiently map to OS threads. And the developer should only care about synchronization, not personally accounting for every possible context switch.
Here's my question: why didn't the Romans ever (so far as I can tell) use clarified butter? Like olive oil, it is shelf-stable and has a high smoke point; it was well known in ancient India, so I find it surprising that the idea was never imported.
Seems to be that "what would happen if NixOS and Qubes had children" scenario. Glad to see Nix propagating itself, the fundamental ideas are right, maybe what we need is different people trying to implement more stuff atop it, so even if NixOS dies the ideas live on.
Somehow the passage of time gives it a modicum of respectability.
I had it before the vaccine. It was an absolute joke of an illness, and I'd rather not be referred to as "heroic" for getting a sneeze and a poor sense of smell for a while.
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Hmm, IMO tail risks are the most interesting type of risk - just handling a certain amount of normal variance is uninteresting, it's the tails that are memorable and create stories.
the fact that that rate of change is faster than organisms and systems can adequately adapt to.

And even this assumes that there is some sort of linear progression towards a semi-stable state instead of churning, unpredictable "seasons" for tens of thousands of years before the climate settles into something.
The "we are figuring this out as we go" factor for this is massive, something that's rarely acknowledged yet a big factor for the more rational opposition to "just vaccinate everybody all the time".
This is a common myth.

If .2% of earners REPORT INCOME greater than $x, they paid tax on that!

We get the percentiles straight from the IRS data.

There's this idea that people report they made $100 MM to the IRS, but are like, "Well, I only want to pay tax on $300k of that." And the IRS is like, "Sure."

You wouldn't be in the top .2% if you only reported incomes of $300k to the IRS. You'd barely be in the top 2%.
The only troubling development is that a large portion of the U.S. population (including some of my family members) showed that they believe that democracy is not important for our country.

Can you clarify who and what? My most recent memory of tyranny-esque statements was the President of "the free world" dismissing freedom.

Note: I'm not taking political sides. I don't trust either color. But this idea that it's the Reds who are naive is, in the context of the current admin, biased and unfair.
Singapore has an 81% full vaccination rate but is still experiencing a rapid rise in symptomatic cases. I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but it's not a complete solution.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/seriously-ill-cov...
No, they can default even when it is denominated in their own currency, which is what Russia did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Russian_financial_crisis

Most countries just choose not to do this. They weren't forced to default. They could have chosen to monetize their debt. They just didn't choose to do that.
Interesting. Would be curious to know what parts they worked at. GM seems high enough to know about "areas to look at".

Still doesn't excuse having such bugs in the first place though.
It’s noteworthy because it’s bizarre behavior and he’s related to her. The question is how noteworthy.

I tend to doubt there’s any sinister plot afoot here, or that it’ll have any impact on the trial. He probably wanted to attend the trial, knows she’s toxic, and was worried that any association with her might affect his businesses. But yeah, I think her father-in-law appearing at the trial in a flimsy disguise and giving ham-fistedly evasive responses is definitely worth a mention, even if it’s not legally actionable or related to the trial itself.
Looks like an alternative to OxygenXML, but a lot less refined. Anyways, good work, I'll be trying it out!
This is actually a great reference. The Roman festival of Parilia was celebrated by offering millet and milk to Pales, followed by drinking wine mixed with milk. This event eventually became Rome’s birthday celebration :)
> We know that IQ peaks at 21 and for most folks

No, we know that IQ test scores (designed specifically for measuring relative intelligence in children) peak on average around 20-21 with very wide error bars (not “at 21 for most people".)

We also know that executive function peaks significantly later on average, and other categories of cognitive function peak on average at a variety of different ages, some 40+. [1]

> For the next 60 years they don't become better informed,

Yes, they do. IQ isn't knowledge, and peak IQ and peak information aren't the same thing.

[1] see, e.g., https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/when-do... and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-80866-1
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Yes, the vaccinated still get covid. But they're not being hospitalized in significant numbers. The issue is hospitalization. Hospitals have indeed been overwhelmed[1] and considerable numbers of people have been dying at home, many in their 20s and 30s, with covid because hospitals simply can't take them in. Natural immunity comes as a result of being infected, which brings a huge risk of hospitalization and death.

As mentioned elsewhere, pushing natural immunity as the solution is as dumb as chicken pox parties that misinformed people of previous decades used to have. It was unnecessarily dangerous. Yes, people who push that should be pushed out of the discussion. Give them an inch and they'll eat away your country from the inside out. There's a reason the US is such a massive disaster with tremendous deaths and growing (but primarily in select states, and primarily states that have opposition to vaccines for political reasons), while other countries that embraced vaccines are finally getting things under control.

Just a few weeks ago, Japan was approaching national collapse of its medical system. Vaccines have thankfully managed to catch up to and exceed the US vaccination rate and things are starting to get back under control.

The reason things are getting better is because nobody is waiting for 100 million people to get infected. Everyone, even past infectees, is getting vaccinated as a community effort.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/08/26/national/japan-...
It's really not debatable at all. What is debatable is how much printing it takes. It is not debatable that there exists an amount of printing that will cause inflation.
There is a .swp file in the torrent:

> strings .whois.sql.swp

b0nano 5.4

anonymous

datahound

whois.sql

I tested on my machine and nano swap files contain the nano version (5.4), the username (anonymous), the hostname (datahound) and the filename (whois.sql).
What is innovation?

Getting some idea proven in a lab or delivered in a half-baked product is one thing. Putting a lot of polish behind it, and making it usable for anyone is a completely different.
another issue is that changing something, greenhouse gas let's say, is harder on the margin. The first improvements are cheap, the later ones aren't. Looking at an EPA webpage, I see that current per capita US CO2 emissions are about 65% of the 1970 levels.

I can certainly see some of the problems. The real increases are in India/China. Union of Concerned Scientists shows that US share of worldwide CO2 is 15%, even a solid change is only a fraction of 15%. A lot of solutions (nuclear, fracking of natgas to replace coal, cutting immigration from the Third World to the First, etc.) are politically unpopular with climate activists. World population is supposed to peak at 50% higher than current level. GDP improvements (and energy use) could easily outstrip improvements in efficiency. etc. etc.

oh well, no one is asking me to run their lives so I'll just sit back and watch.
Whoops, duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28532531 - sorry didn't spot it!
> if we estimate the median and move it a small amount for each new data point, it would be pretty close.

Yeah, this is gradient descent on the absolute loss.
It blows my mind how easy it is to get root with this - "Simply remove the auth header and you are root."

https://twitter.com/amiluttwak/status/1437898746747097090
You ever consider maybe modern civilization is inherently unsustainable?
What specifically was the lie told. This is what I'm confused about.

There was a point where it wasn't believed that asymptomatic infection was likely. In that case, wearing masks is less beneficial.
At least right now any particular "orbit space" does not have a meaningful value, as equivalent orbit spaces are available for free; while they aren't unlimited theoretically, they are essentially "first come first served" and there is no possible market for those spaces because current international treaties essentially permit any country to allow a launch in any free orbit and no country is permitted to make any exclusive claims to any parts of space that they are not actively using right now.

So even if some country e.g. USA would pass some laws allowing to reserve some spot in a with an option to resell it, that would only mean that USA would prohibit their own launches to that orbit, but any other country (China, France, Russia, etc) could still authorize anyone to launch to that orbit and once the orbit is taken it would be illegal for the USA buyer to launch there, and there would be no right to any compensation from whoever took that spot, because according to current international law there can be no exclusive right to that spot.
You're absolutely right about "at some point in your life, you have to have had the time and stability in life to learn all that, and you need time and stability to work towards your goals in the present using those tools." And I failed in adequately establishing the audience to those that can afford to do otherwise. That's an entirely different beast, and I tried avoiding it by writing "nearly nothing" instead of starting from just nothing. I was thinking more college freshmen, people working minimum wage trying to move out into other fields with just software example as something I was familiar with. At that level, wealth is a priority to survive. Do you have any advice on how I can improve the argument, to avoid downplaying that situation?
The CDC study you reference:

Overall, 246 case-patients met eligibility requirements and were successfully matched by age, sex, and date of initial infection with 492 controls.

The Israeli study I linked:

Overall, 673,676 MHS members 16 years and older were eligible for the study group of fully vaccinated SARS-CoV-2-naïve individuals; 62,883 were eligible for the study group of unvaccinated previously infected individuals and 42,099 individuals were eligible for the study group of previously infected and single-dose vaccinees.

I'm going to go ahead and trust the more recent Israeli study which has much more data to go off of. Also note that in either case, the narrative is still that past infection provides protection. If it's much better, almost as good, or as good as the vaccines is all fine by me. It's still excellent protection and on par with what people were rolling with maskless just a few weeks ago.

Time to evolve the narrative in the media about "vax vs unvax"
> What is already known about this topic?

From the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report[1], March 12, 2021 (though I don't know if the CDC counts as a politically slanted source for you or not):

> Obesity increases the risk for severe COVID-19–associated illness.

> What is added by this report?

> Among 148,494 U.S. adults with COVID-19, a nonlinear relationship was found between body mass index (BMI) and COVID-19 severity, with lowest risks at BMIs near the threshold between healthy weight and overweight in most instances, then increasing with higher BMI. Overweight and obesity were risk factors for invasive mechanical ventilation. Obesity was a risk factor for hospitalization and death, particularly among adults aged <65 years.

That's just from the summary, there are many more details based on publicly available data and I'd suggest you read the full report. It's not the only one out there on this subject, not by a long chalk.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm

Edit: missed off the quote indicator, those aren't my words :)
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I think yogurt is an exception here because it ferments quickly and doesn’t necessarily need refrigeration. A number of the Indian families I know will make yogurt every day. I suppose you could make a similar argument that butter could be made daily in small batches, but the labor involved in butter making is orders of magnitude greater.
Unfortunately that's simply wrong. There's no scientific basis for claiming that the virus can be pushed out of whole regions. It's impossible. Or at least no one has proposed a plausible plan.
It can reduce or minimize the number of cases you spread while infected (i.e. you won't be infected for as long on average), though, and the positive impacts of this at scale are large. (Consider that case numbers grow exponentially, so even preventing e.g. 20% of transmissions in one month will have outsized effects weeks or months later.)
Actually it would be exactly that — when it mentions butter it’s highly unlikely that it is referring to clarified butter.
I know right, this one still cracks me up every time I read it: "The one who buggers a fire burns his penis"
I'm sure its awkward but they appear to be an equal opportunity reporter - https://www.wiz.io/blog/black-hat-2021-aws-cross-account-vul...

Their product is pretty interesting. I did a demo a while back and their approach of building a large graph and doing a good amount of reachability (network and entitelement) leads to some useful signal. It's not entirely novel, JupiterOne has been doing something in the same vein for years now but it seems to work well. Still feels a bit rough around the edges but i thought it was interesting and could work well in situations where simple checkbox-style config analysis falls short.
I'd add to this that loosing weight simply requires a calorie deficit. There is no requirement that you must eat large portions of meat to loose weight.

With that being said, eating low carb may be an easier way for some. Don't want to discount that.