skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a landlord and I don’t think that’s the average landlords rationale. Yes you become more picky regarding tenants because you don’t want to deal with an eviction. That was always the case though. You’re just going to need to carefully understand how the tenant behaved during Covid. Eg. Did the get evicted from being 18 months in arrears that they will never repay? Did they lose stable income for a period of time but now it’s back? Did the sell a billion dollar tiny house in $HUB and move to your town flush with cash and a remote work lifestyle? All very different and likely already biased groups demographically speaking.

But now, you may have some losses to recoup and this whole thing is akin to theft/shrinkage of goods. It has to get factored into the price. Also, the biggest thing pushing rental prices IMO, housing prices. Since buying is the alternative to renting, they are strongly correlated.
I would argue AMD's designs aren't so much performance alone, but cheaper to manufacture. Effectively they brought the idea of breaking the chip into components, then putting them together later. That allowed for a cheaper and more robust design.

https://www.techpowerup.com/264271/amd-gives-itself-massive-...

As soon as I saw that back in 2016 I bought a ton of AMD stock. It was clearly a winner because they could have a lower cost design AND potentially better performance.
I think that comment is easier to parse if you replace "people" with "corporations". Toybox not using the GPL is an important advantage for Android vendors, not Android end users.
Yes, I’ve heard the same (and used it to set my rate, when I did contract work). The general thinking is that as a contractor you need to make up for any benefits you might not get, as well as cover time spent finding work. It’s reasonable to assume half of the work year will be spent on non-billable activity, especially for short contracts, so people assume ~1000 billable hours.
> There's an entire country that uses crypto as legal tender.

El Salvador is a case in point of why crypto is a terrible currency. The first day that they went live, Bitcoin dropped 10%.

> Sending money overseas is cheaper

Right now it's about $2.50 per transaction which is not the cheapest option. Earlier this year we saw transactions fees for BTC hit like $60. Add to that the risk of it dropping 10% in a not-uncommon event…that's not good.

Let's talk about businesses.

First, cost. Let's say you have Stripe's base fee: 30¢ per transaction + 2.9%. For that $2.50 transaction to be cheaper, your purchase would have to be over $75. Is that typical for most businesses? No. And again, that $2.50 is what it is now. It could be $3 in a minute or $20 tomorrow. No one knows.

You think small business owners want that kind of uncertainty? Taking a (???) cut from every monthly SaaS charge does not make sense—not to mention that as you scale Stripe will negotiate prices downwards while BTC will not.

Let's turn to scalability.

BTC clocks in at seven transactions per second. Seven. Transactions can take 10 minutes or longer to process. Imagine a supermarket checkout line where each person blocks for 10 minutes. Or a gas station, subway, restaurant, corner store, coffee shop, or anything else.

Note that I said widespread uses. I am aware that some places are experimenting with bitcoin. I am also aware that crypto has shown to be woefully inadequate for all but a few narrow use-cases.
Why? I prefer when people don't flash their badge at me to support their statements. Words should stand on their own without appeals to authority.
Lessons learned from running GraphQL
Yeah,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
As an interested outsider (no connections or technical expertise), it seems like Keller’s tenure at a company very frequently coincides with very successful products being developed. Is that the view from inside the field as well? Is it seen as a bit of a coincidence, or is he really that good of a technical leader?
They live paycheck to paycheck because the central bank has enslaved them.
It is a short paper from a leading conference in the field of Natural Language Processing. I have not engaged with the work, so I can not speak about its quality. But at least get your facts straight and avoid appealing to authority.

All journals have good and bad papers, the same goes for conferences. So to understand the quality of a piece of work you need to at the very least talk to a few people in the field that have engaged with the work to form a reasonable opinion about its quality.
You were bamboozled by a clever attorney or made to look like an idiot by an incompetent one.

I served on a jury where an attractive, sharp defense attorney just ripped a witness to shreds. The person testifying was a customer engineer who installed and repaired a particular piece of equipment, whose entire function was dependent on time. He was testifying about what he did every day, not some nuance about direction of travel.

She built the poor guy up and then threw him off a cliff. At the end he ended up testifying that time is impossible to accurately measure. The issue was pretty obvious - the incompetent DAs didn’t prepare the witness for cross examination.
I'm not sure 20/20 is the pinnacle of broadcasting.
Either way, he's moved on to new media, like many others, including Larry King.
In an important sense, taking on risk to profit on someone else’s need is how the entire economy works…

You can argue that much of what we produce nowadays isn’t a fundamental “need” like shelter, but that’s really beside the point, and a function of our relative prosperity as compared to previous eras.

How do you propose housing be managed if not by voluntary exchanges?
Do you have a link to that case? Sounds really interesting.
Many people at FAANGS certainly care very much about money/comp, and for many of them, it is a large part of why they choose to work at those companies. While being smart and optimizing for comp is important, I empathize with your disdain for "professional professionals" - the amount of process and structure involved, and how it is now necessary to game it, does seem like a far cry from simpler organizations that just got stuff done.
It makes me feel better, because there's more to fix :)

Life was really bad for me about 13 years ago, and that means it's easier to relate to other peoples' suffering now. People have practical needs - food, shelter, a little money - but need community even more.

Thanks to ambivalents pointing it out, I read the article, including Chekov's story of the little hammer. I also remembered UncleBob talking about code: "clean as you go" [1]. We can make the world a better place, but the solution isn't to pay someone else to do it professionally - we have to all take responsibility and fix our little parts of the world as we go along. We can also make it better by not only filing bug reports, but suggesting what to do instead. Then we'll all be saying "thank you" all the time!

Treating others in the way that we want to be treated (not how they treat us), dying to ourselves, and giving thanks - that's a message from someone who did "come and save us", our Savior. I'm not very good at following his instructions though >_<

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSaAMQVq01E&t=2021s
google "mit vs gpl"
oh come come now, you're still kinda cool.
When people are ok with moral hazard being ignored for so long, these types of things are inevitable…
> Why should I feel bad when the risk comes to fruition? Why should anyone?

The landlord didn't assume the risk that they couldn't remove the resident AND the resident wouldn't have to pay.

This was effectively the state seizing property, forcing the landlord to maintain the property and providing it to someone else.

You also probably don't know who most landlords are, but in way of example, say I rent out a room. Should I be subjected to someone living in my house, then lose my house because they aren't paying and I cannot afford to not rent out that room?

This is a common scenario.
Savings are not supposed to be stolen by the central bank. “Hoarding wealth” is actually how society benefits the most.

You said you aren’t an economist, but you have been taught what you know about economics by communists.
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It would,
I'm not sure what German law forces Germans to read emails to a personal account which is the context of this thread.

If you are a corporation using gmail then you will likely have emails going into a shared mailbox or public folder and have team members triage emails as sales lead, spam, upset customer, etc.
A Bitter Pill (2016)
That’s much worse. A shame he has proven to be corrupt, not even able to be honest in criticizing bitcoin.
It’s a resource whose cost is flattening due to the rise of PV and wind power, unless you live in some backward place where they are still mostly coal.
> see if their next GPUs will finally give Nvidia a run for their money at the high end.

Even if their hardware catches up with and beats that of NVidia, they will still have a huge problem with the software ecosystem.

Everyone who does anything serious with GPGPU and supercomputing is using CUDA, (a proprietary abomination) these days and AMD does not have a competitive product in that space.

That said, the software ecosystem around GPUs is an extraordinary mess, and there is therefore a huge opportunity for the company that can fix it.

Unfortunately, this is a deep cultural problem: as witnessed by the giant mess that is the Nvidia software ecosystem (nightmarish driver version management, proprietary technology, huge unwieldy binary distribution to install anytime you want to run 20 lines of GPGPU code, lack of properly working and debugging and profiling tools, etc...) companies run by EEs (such as Dr. Su) simply don't have the DNA to produce simple, clean, elegant, working software.

The kind of brain it takes to produce cutting edge silicon and the kind of brain it takes to produce cutting edge software are imo simply incompatible.
I personally find it more intuitive to write it like that.
>(The NIST P-curves aren't backdoored.)

Unfortunately, we have no way to validate that the NSA did not grind the "seed" used to generate their parameters to search for curves which were strong or weak against some publicly unknown property which is only found in candidate curves at a one in a billion level.

This is a weakness in the methodology used to pick the parameters, somewhat lovingly mocked by the BADA55 curves: https://bada55.cr.yp.to/vr.html

It's not unreasonable for people to be concerned about this. Injecting intentional weaknesses into cryptosystems used by others was a fundamental objective for the NSA, which drove programs as significant as the CIA literally purchasing the at-the-time world largest manufacturer of encipher machines in order to ensure that it continued ship NSA designed intentionally weakened systems for decades ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-... ). That was, of course, somewhat before the establishment of the relevant ECC standards-- but the cloud of operational secrecy prevents us from knowing that much about what NSA has been up to more recently.

The curve used in Bitcoin though isn't a NIST curve, and its generation procedure is about as close as you can get to rigid parameters without having rigid parameters as an explicit design goal.

a=0 (required for the endomorphism), field is 3 mod 4 for fast sqrt, increment field from 2^256-2^32-1024 (fast limb structure) until you find a prime field with a non-trivial cube root of unity (required for endomorphism) and until you can obtain a curve with prime order, set B to the lowest value that does. The result of that procedure is secp256k1. (you can actually drop some of the requirements above and still get the same parameters too, but I am pretty confident that this was their search criteria) -- so no high entropy "random" inputs.
We have a client in Azerbaijan who was very angry their timezone was shown as Asia/Yerevan. As you may know, Azerbaijan is in a state of cold of war with Armenia. It can get pretty controversial.
Not by itself. It must go through the States via the ratification process.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution
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He does rent the houses back to the original owners. He had people offering money to these neighbors so they could live next to Zuckerberg.
>We weren’t like this 10 years ago.

The argument made in the article is that bitter, ostracised people who want to lash out have existed forever. The biggest change in the last 10 years is that the internet has become more accessible to this group and allowed their voice to be heard.

Not saying the author is right, but it's an interesting perspective and definitely worth considering.
I was under the impression that was still the standard way to move GA aircraft across the Atlantic, and happened regularly.
Perhaps instead we should construct a society where nobody has to be miserable.
The design of Curve25519 and its analogs has an extremely limited design space. If there is an engineered weakness in Curve25519 than it is likely that any curve that we could select would be likely to have the same unknown weakness. In the literature this is called "rigid" design.
That is disinfo mostly being circulated by anti-bitcoin types who are trying to cause problems for Adam. It has no basis in reality.
And you believe your experience is statistically significant.
I bought at <2, at 5, at 10, at 20, 30, 50, and most recently (just a few months ago during the last retrace) at 75. AMD has been an execution machine, and honestly, even if/when Intel finally brings back competition, AMD will be fine as long as they keep executing. At this point, there are probably better risk-adjusted places to put your money, but to your point on inflation - 40% of all USD was printed last year, so it seems to me, anyone looking to preserve their savings would be best served looking for some hard assets.
Worth mentioning that toybox replaced Android's toolbox back in 2015 (with the release of ver. 6). Toolbox utilities were based on their NetBSD versions whereas toybox utilities works more like the common GNU coreutils.

Edit: A list showing the change with what tools are supplied by each box in each version: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/mast...
Yup.

Surprising: looks like putting someone in charge who actually understands - in depth - how the business and the tech. that powers is actually works instead of random MBA-wielding drones seem to yield good results.

And Intel is also finally learning that lesson with their new CEO.
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Android has a policy of "no GPL in user space". I think Google makes this concession to the desires of phone manufacturers (Samsung, LG, etc.), but someone else probably knows more ...

Similarly, Apple has a policy against shipping GPLv3 code. When bash upgraded to GPLv3 from GPLv2 ~10 years ago, Apple stopped upgrading it, and then eventually migrated to zsh, which is MIT licensed.

The issue is that GPL is a "viral" license, which hasn't been tested all that much in court, but they're erring on the safe side. They don't want to mix their proprietary code with GPL code.
Thank you so much :) I really appreciate the advice! Ironically, my wife recently accepted a job at Doppler, a YC startup with exactly that benefit. I love that woman so much; she’s awesome.

You’re absolutely right that benefits are a huge consideration for almost everybody. I guess I happened to win the lottery, as my wife’s health insurance covers both of us, so I’m starting to question whether it was even worth sharing.

She carried me for about 5 years while I recovered and found my footing again, so I’m just happy to repay her with a nice vacation. She’s been dreaming of going to the Seychelles for about that long.

I dunno. It’s also counting chickens, as they say. If it works out, I’ll just try to pay it forward however I can. If not, we’ll still be happy. Was just hoping to convince some outliers that there’s a different road ahead; one I never gave much thought to.

You’re also correct that I’ll be pushing 40 soon enough. She and I joke that we’ll both find a role for ourselves at a big bank somewhere when we’re 70, so that we have impressive titles but no one is quite sure what we do. That way I can work on lisp while occasionally writing legacy banking software, and she’ll be tinkering with React (which by then may as well be in a museum).
There is in fact a book in the works: https://www.handprint.com/CE/book.html

I'm looking forward to it, it's likely to be one of the definitive resources on color. I believe it's important to pay attention to the artistic perspective; I think the belief that there is a "scientifically correct" approach to color problems is often a damaging form of scientism.
Uh...what? In base maybe, but after bonus and equity you're looking at $1M+ per year even at an L8 - https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

The average SWE working at a series B to series E startup is nowhere close to that. Even if the company exits successfully, it's after a few more years, further dilutions, and you might, MIGHT walk away with a million or two...which you have to amortize over the years you worked there.

Am I missing something?
These "billions" are conjectural based on limited analysis of early minded blocks with no-to-little connection to Satoshi, FWIW. Essentially there are a set of early blocks which have never been spent whos structure indicated non-standard software was used to mine them. People assume Satoshi because that's the exciting thing to assume, and it isn't like anyone else who mined a lot of Bitcoin early on is becoming increasingly eager to self-identify and potentially get themselves targeted for kidnapping. The pattern started a couple weeks after Bitcoin started and continued until it had mined on the order of 16k blocks.

Sometimes people use figures which are dramatically higher which come from counting literally every block in the first year which is unspent, not just ones matching that pattern. That is provably a radical overestimate, as it includes blocks mined by varrious known parties. A common characterisic of almost all musing about Satoshi is extensive confirmation bias e.g. "Satoshi was an early Bitcoin user thus any early Bitcoin user is satoshi!".

In any case, regardless of who Satoshi is/was, wouldn't you like to live in the timeline where some early Bitcoin fortune was used to fund turning cryonics into something that works? Hal is cryogenically preserved, so maybe he's not dead-- only resting [1]. :)

I think the idea that someone managed to get cryonic recovery working specifically because they believed doing so would get them access to a Bitcoin fortune would make for an amusing science fiction novel. ... and really, Science Fiction would be an aspirational level of rigor for most speculation about the identity of Bitcoin's creator. Fortunately, Bitcoin was designed so that it hopefully doesn't matter who created it.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2evdr8/hal_finney_...
Just asked two of my male acquaintances and received an integer response. Of course, they're both bisexual, so I've no way of confirming the gender-type of these integers. Not sure I understand your point; are we bowling for pedantry?
> because for whatever reason they think it’s a personal affront on their identity

Because most people seem to believe in a single objective Reality™. It leads people to not just disagree, but to consider “the other” as having a totally broken thought process. Makes it a lot easier for people to dehumanize the other :/
> Hence medievalists' disdain for the "dark ages," which are basically an Italian Renaissance construct that got blown up by nationalist Germans in the nineteenth century.

Any more info on the last part? I am asking because in contemporary German the term 'dark ages' is almost unheard of, whereas in English it seems to be a fairly common term.
Trump once said, "I'm the only one who can fix this."

He was correct, in that he wasn't beholden to the CCP, unlike a surprisingly large number of politicians and media outlets.

For example, besides the Biden family, it's been reported that the White House chief of staff is a "former" CCP lobbyist.

CCP leaders brag in public about how Wall Street is in their pocket. (A CCP member was in charge of CALPERS investments until recently. When discovered, he just up and left.)
So ... the Canadians were definitely hostages.
How about "The city in the zone that the most people in the world could point to on a globe"?
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Another interesting data point I'd like to share here is that of multiple stories found mentioned in ancient Hindu texts called puranas (which means historic). These stories talk about humans traveling to far away planets (lokas) wherein the wheel of time moves much slower than on Earth and thus is an indication of ancient Hindu knowledge of the phenomenon of time dilation. For instance, consider this story of King Kakudmi and his daughter [0]:

> Kakudmi's daughter Revati was so beautiful and so accomplished that when she reached a marriageable age, Kakudmi, thinking no one upon earth was worthy of her, went to the Creator himself, Lord Brahma, to seek his advice about a suitable husband for his daughter. When they arrived, Brahma was listening to a musical performance by the Gandharvas, so they waited patiently until the performance was finished. Then, Kakudmi bowed humbly, made his request and presented his shortlist of candidates. Brahma laughed loudly and explained that time runs differently on different planes of existence, and that during the short time they had waited in Brahma-loka to see him, 27 chatur-yugas (a cycle of four yugas, totalling 108 yugas) had passed on earth. Brahma said to Kakudmi, "O King, all those whom you may have decided within the core of your heart to accept as your son-in-law has died in the course of time. Twenty-seven chatur-yugas have already passed. Those upon whom you may have already decided are now gone, and so are their sons, grandsons and other descendants. You cannot even hear about their names.[2] You must therefore bestow this virgin gem (i.e. Revati) upon some other husband, for you are now alone, and your friends, your ministers, servants, wives, kinsmen, armies, and treasures, have long since been swept away by the hand of time."[3]King Kakudmi was overcome with astonishment and alarm at hearing this news.[3] However, Brahma comforted him and added that Vishnu, the preserver, was currently incarnate on earth in the forms of Krishna and Balarama, and he recommended Balarama as a worthy husband for Revati.Kakudmi and Revati then returned to earth which they regarded as having left only just a short while ago. They were shocked by the changes that had taken place. Not only had the landscape and environment changed, but over the intervening 27 chatur-yugas, in the cycles of human spiritual and cultural evolution, mankind was at a lower level of development than in their own time (see Ages of Man). The Bhagavata Purana describes that they found the race of men had become "dwindled in stature, reduced in vigour, and enfeebled in intellect."The daughter and father found Balarama and proposed the marriage which was accepted. The marriage was then duly celebrated.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakudmi
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Crazy? Maybe. Shooting yourself in the foot? Definitely.

The number of times I stepped away from a problem after hammering at it for a couple of hours, took a break, got some sleep, and came back to it and solved it in < 30 minutes is...solidly in the double digits by this point.

You may find yourself better served forcing yourself to step away; you may find you get an answer with less work, and take better care of yourself.