skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When some people supply work more than they demand work, then others must demand more work than they supply work. That is what it means to lay flat and it explains the whole credit/debt crisis thing.

The problem isn't a mythical fixed demand in the labor market, demand is entirely up to the people making up that economy. The real problem is that people desire to supply more work than they demand, which then inevitably has to be redistributed through income sharing, usually known as charity or welfare.

Supplying more work than we demand has become a cultural phenomenon. People insist on working hard even if they have no use for that hard work themselves. Saving (the act of demanding less than you supply) has become sacred and is considered morally good. It's like people don't believe in the market anymore. The interest rate tells you how much you should save or spend. You are supposed to save and spend according to the interest rate which is determined by the availability of solvent borrowers who need slack capacity in the economy (supplying more than you demand), not according to your morals. For some absurd reason people want the central bank to get out of the way of their manipulative morals that distort the market.

It's not just the government that distorts markets, the entirety of reality distorts them. Getting rid of governments just gives rise to other forms of distortion like outdated moral frameworks.
Why should they filter out bad drivers if it safer and working system? Shouldn't those be exactly the people to use it if it was actually working?
I have two kids and no car. Only three bicycle. We live in Oslo, Norway, so the winters can be cold. It helps living in a city with trams, bicycle lanes and electric cars spread around that can be rented by the minute. I just got totally fed up being stuck in traffic jams every day, so I eventually sold the car.
What is the Streisand effect?
Why wouldn't it be approved? vaccine 'side effects' might not sound serious but they are absolutely deadly to some if we were to give them to millions of people. For the elderly, a 1% risk of death might be far better than the risk of covid since mortality shoots up once you get older. Obviously you shouldn't give this vaccine for anyone whose risk of death by covid is less than 1%
I’m not advocating giving up.

By the last bit I mean people are not just making mistakes they are also deliberately lying by making things that lead people to making mistakes.
In this economy? Yes. The S&P 500 alone is up 20% this year.
Anyone who is building a plan like this needs to seriously consider whether 7% is yield realistic in the long term. I would contend that for that yield you are taking some risk which in this plan you can't afford. A very commonly quoted "safe" yield assumption is 4%. Yes you can earn more, but in many cases for more yield you are taking more risk. For example the author mentions private loans and syndications, which carry a significant risk of loss of capital. Since they are planning to live on the proceeds of that capital, a loss would be a big problem, because your retirement income may not be easy to supplement (lots of older people find they can't work or can't easily get a job).
I agree with this. Until we reach AGI where it can think for itself, this shouldn't be done. If they were to prove it, someone could claim that the AI was responsible for any harm that occurs due to the use of IP.
Error aka Someone "important" couldn't back up their CV with a valid record.
Have you actually been in any European country? Trains are heavily used for short, medium and long distance travel. High-speed rail in Western Europe is huge. Many many people commute via train or subway.

Profitability has absolutely nothing to do with it. High speed rail in France is hugely profitable, but the state subsides many lines because it's the right thing to do. Railways have a higher capacity, are much cleaner and faster, and are provided as a common service. You don't expect the fire department or forest service to be profitable, do you?
It's not impossible. They do this all the time for law enforcement. Did even read the links?
Facebook's Journey to the Metaverse
Since we were perfectly capable of creating working graphical, internet connected software with a few megabytes of RAM in the 90'd I sometimes wonder if the availability of gigabytes of memory isn't the problem instead of progress. Seems like programmers will use it all and are driving the upgrade threadmill which causes working hardware to be discarded.
Part of the complication is the dynamic nature. Truly affordable housing is older housing, but older housing never comes available if it is never built in the first place.
That seems a much better plan than the author's, because if things go wrong you still have the original asset to fall back on (you can move back into your house if the bottom falls out of the airbnb thing and you can't live on it any more).
"Clean code" is a top contender.
V2ray is a plugin used on top of shadowsocs

I believe Google's outline uses it
> If I buy a piece of land

Why do you presuppose that land is something you should be able to buy outright?

It's your improvements on that land that you (should) rightfully own and be able to sell or pass on to future generations; those improvements are the result of your labor, after all (be it directly or indirectly). The land is not; it existed for millions (if not billions) of years before you, and barring a literal Earth-shattering catastrophe will exist for billions of years after you.

> Land leases massively disincentivize making improvements to land or structures, because it’s not even yours.

They do the precise opposite. If you're going to take up space, you should be using it for its maximum potential - and that's exactly what things like land leases or land value taxes incentivize (since it's pretty pointless to spend that money if you don't intend to develop it to its full potential).
Open a browser and you have JS built in. To me, that is pretty accessible. Maybe on a phone you might need an app.
Fully agree. I discovered Tenacious D though their early bootlegs on AG. The amount of stuff they had available had never been matched.
I read the article, which said Apple wanted to make this impossible for themselves, but then police complained so they didn't.

If they wanted to do it in the first place, why did they go to the effort of trying to make it impossible and had to be stopped by police?
I'm buying a China Mobile Hong Kong SIM. 10 eur for 10 gb, free roaming in mainland. I can access any blocked service in Mainland at full speed. Usually putting a vpn layer on top. no speed impact.

The sim can be purchased in any convince store in hk without identification.

That's the easiest solution in my eyes.
This trick no longer seems to work on The Economist. Any alternative?
A better link: http://archive.today/qYueR
We have that too and we use bicycles for that ( approx 10km radius ).
Trucks have been running with governors for decades. That has reduced truck accidents, not increased them. It makes for some idiotic overtaking behavior every now and then (when one truck that goes 89 km/h overtakes a truck that goes 88.5, and it takes forever and then some), but that's a nuisance, not a danger.
> Personally, I think the DMCA was a horrible mistake. The provisions it added to copyright created a ton of horrible precedent that led to the draconian control private companies exert over the lives of billions of people worldwide, justified in law by their intellectual property concerns

A mistake, or a resounding success in achieving exactly what you mention? Do you really think the DMCA was passed with the people's interests in mind?
If you invest in the S&P total return and take out 7% per year your capital will dwindle pretty quickly. The annualised total return on the S&P since 2000 has been 3.31% https://www.buyupside.com/alphavantagelive/stockreturncalcco...
I like the way it's asynchronous first and everything revolves around the event loop. It makes responsive GUI's very easy to create.

Always thinking asynchronously means your less likely to create synchronous render-blocking code which sucks for users.

Also the npm ecosystem and tooling is very easy to work with and easy to understand (everything is under node_modules not some globally installed binary)

It's great for small projects and websites, but anything that requires performance would probably be better in a compiled language.
Wouldn't be much of a fake if the source were known, now would it?
A hashchain (a proper name for a blockchain) is a linked list composed out of hashpointers.

A hashpointer is like a regular in-memory pointer, but instead of using an address of the memory word where the value is stored, it uses a hash of the value it's pointing to. Unlike the regular pointers, changing the value will invalidate the hashpointer as the hash of the value will change.

As the hashchain may have an infinite number of heads, there need to be a consensus on what is considered a correct head. Unfortunately this problem is unsolvable.

The "Crypto" community proposed many consensus methods, but most of them are just Rube Goldberg machines. Nakamoto-style consensus algorithms are just leader election based on the out-of-band externalities, such as assigning a speculative value to hashpointers (or derived datastructures).
Chomsky is an idiot.

The US does not have an empire - in fact, it decolonized most of the globe after WW2.

It does have some Pacific islands. But calling that an empire is absurd.

Some countries, like the Philippines, peridodically consider joining the US voluntarily.

If the US is a cruel superpower, it's the least cruel in history. I can live with that.
I'll play devil's advocate. Your marriage doesn't sound like one of equals. You're doing a Masters while working full time I imagine. So who picks up the slack for household management? I'm guessing your wife. If you have kids, then it is even more unbalanced I imagine.

I know people in similar marriages - it works great, as long as the spouse is happy being the dutiful house wife. But I also know people in this situation who are now separated - usually the man/provider is completely blind sided when their ever loving, house wife says one day "no" and just walks out. They had no idea there was an inequality in the first place, and assumed their spouse is happy like this.

I personally believe that when marrying someone, "marry your equal" is incredibly important advice. Marry someone of similar earning power, with similar career and life accomplishments. This helps ensures a equal relationship that has the greatest chance of success.
For accuracy I would prefer the title had been:

> Trusting science [without understanding the scientific method] leaves people vulnerable to believing pseudoscience

But it was already a wordy title.
Some pragmatism and quite a lot of ego, with a dash of bile. On the whole, refreshingly honest.

Your mine craft is not going to define you. Bitterness to an ex partner might. Why not give the kid the watch now?

I think the rationalisation about organ donation is a bit wrong headed but body autonomy empowers the decision. Maybe donate your body to science? Saves the funeral costs.

Kingaroy is Joh country. They breed 'em strong up there.
Indonesian people have remarkably little animosity after being colonized by the Dutch for about 300 years - basically none.

But if you ask about the Japanese WW2 occupation, they call them "cruel."

(The US told the Dutch not to re-occupy Indonesia after WW2, essentially giving Indonesia its freedom. This was part of Roosevelt's effort to decolonize most of the globe, and is one of the great legacies of the USA, contrary to current Marxist self-loathing.)
I'm pretty much 100% certain
it'll end up being the driver who engaged the self-driving mode in a situation where it wasn't safe.

Think of it like firing a gun into the air. You didn't aim to kill anyone, but if someone is unlucky enough to be hit when the bullet comes back down you are still responsible.

If someone is unlucky enough to be struck by your FSD vehicle it'll still be your fault, regardless of whether you could have known it'd happen.

Drivers will need to weigh trusting their car's software against the risk of being responsibly for what it does.
I don't like this sort of argument against using the term "piracy". Words change meaning over time, what you're saying is like saying that we shouldn't call people "nice" because it used to mean something different (formerly an insult, apparently). When I hear "piracy" having grown up with computers the first thing that comes to my mind is not pirates taking control or a vessel on the high seas, but rather what pops in to my head is the pirate bay and other sites I've known over the years.
> What do you do?

You recognise that it's not about the movie, it's about the activity you do together.

Really, the lengths the threads here are going through to facilitate poor interpersonal interaction are sort of mystifying. Perhaps being a good person (or even just a good friend) is not obvious to everyone, but the information on how to be one definitely is easy to find. How come nobody is finding it?
Communists (atheists) done a lot more harm than any religion, and they hate gay marriage too. Anything powerful can be used to do a good thing and a bad thing. Any institution can be used to do an evil thing, neglect, or be corrupt, e.g. police (police can be abused to protect corrupt regimes), courts or event justice as whole (slaves were legal in many countries), church, etc.
> once a couple have happened there will be an engineering response and they will stop happening

That's the mother of all assumptions. They might get worse as a result of the engineering response. You are assuming that there is a perfect understanding of the problem space. There isn't. This is not a 'mere matter of engineering' at this stage.
Instead of using the Edison device, as far as I understand, Theranos performed blood testing using traditional providers but hid this fact from investors. FSD, on the other hand, is something 3rd parties can evaluate on their own, the flaws are there for all to see. Hype, while not always okay, isn't fraud.
China hasn’t tried to hide the evidence that COVID stated there. But to “hold China accountable” implicitly makes the assumption that they did something wrong and should be punished.

There’s a number of perfectly reasonable ways for COVID to start without China doing anything, and making accusations based on thin evidence is not going to encourage collaboration.
Low fee while market index funds have historically returned that or more (in the long run).
I remember my thoughts of being forever enriched in regards of what’s possible for bikes when I was in Norway 10 years ago and saw a man drag a bike child cart uphill an icy ~12% hill in February at -14C
That is true. Oslo unlike Amsterdam is not at all flat, with many having 100-200m of height to climb on their way home if going downtown for work or shopping.

However, electric bikes are changing that equation drastically. With an e-bike those climbs are not an issue at all. So there's been a good uptick in people who ride bikes here.

Of course, e-bikes are quite expensive compared to regular bikes, but compared to owning a car they're quite cheap. So for someone living in Oslo, having an e-bike and renting a car a few times for the long trips can be a very good deal.
Exactly. That's the kind of thing that makes sense when your vaccination map looks becomes as boringly monotonous as this: https://arnt.gulbrandsen.priv.no/tmp/vaksinerte.png

(From https://www.fhi.no/sv/vaksine/koronavaksinasjonsprogrammet/k... but there you have to read Norwegian and click a little bit.)
That risk doesn't have to exist with land leases, either; it could very well (and in practice does) work exactly like LVT does (and indeed, at a 100% LVT, the difference between LVT v. a land lease is semantics) - i.e., with the current user of that land (i.e. the current LVT payer, or the current leaseholder) being in control of whether to keep paying LVT / renew the lease.

If your lease on your apartment expires, do you think you're not given first dibs on whether to renew the lease? Same deal here.
The author of that comment is missing the idea that the entire question is beside the point.
I recently dug up an old 4S and was surprised the battery managed to get a few days of standby usage.

While making phone calls still works, the software side is problematic. It's 32-bit which and totally unsupported. It won't reliably connect to iCloud. Hardware wise the wifi won't connect to my WPA2 router and the memory is too small to fit a modern website in the browser which means the phone will hang a while when browsing to the wrong URL.
Still a nice phone to look at, no wonder they reused the design a bit for the iPhone 12.
> Some form of "school" starts at around 2-3 y/o. 2-3 year olds cannot take a bus.

Of course you can take 2-3 year olds on a bus? (Not like they could drive the car themselves either...)
Or just using complicated language to say something simple in the first place.

Annoyingly, science is sometimes also guilty of this - as is the medical profession. It's a form of gatekeeping. It would be better if we all just used the simplest set of words to communicate a concept. There are valid reasons for using more complex terms, they serve as some kind of data compression mechanism, but more often than not they are simply obfuscation.
Disabling JavaScript works for me. There's likely an extension for your web browser to do this easily.
Ask HN: What will programming look like in 2030?
Sure, ask me Empire questions!
That can be done without some mythical life after death and almighty chode in the sky.

It's unfortunate that religion has those elements. I hold many Christian values, but I refuse to accept the afterlife, God, saints, apostles and other shit made up by the Church for their own material benefit.
quick explain to non-Taiwan guy:
ARC (alien resident certificate) ID numbers is like social IDs(SSN). It (was) a separate system to our local resident one, until then.
Heh, from what I've been able to tell, they get their own bikes much younger than that!
> The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits 'atrocities' but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future.

-- George Orwell

> We don't know a perfected totalitarian power structure, because it would require the control of the whole planet. But we know enough about the the still preliminary experiments of total organization to realize that the very well possible perfection of this apparatus would get rid of human agency in the sense as we know it. To act would turn out to be superfluous for people living together, when all people have become an example of their species, when all doing has become an acceleration of the movement mechanism of history or nature following a set pattern, and all deeds have become the execution of death sentences which history and nature have given anyway.

-- Hannah Arendt

That is not just an international threat, that's a threat to the chance of future people to even be human.

I remember when Mercedes Benz apologized three times to the CCP for quoting the Dalai Lama on instagram, which isn't even accessible in China. Or when that Marriot employee responsible for social media got fired for liking a tweet directed at the Marriot twitter account thanking them for recognizing Taiwan (because it was included in a dropdown). Marriot also apologized. Or when Leica caved. And so on. So the ship of anything being internal sailed a long time ago.

I'm not American, I don't give fuck one about American hypocrisy. Neverending global totalitarianism would destroy the lives of infinite people. The only reason I'm not flat out saying "even 10 nuclear wars would be better than that" is the knowledge that such wars would only serve to consolidate power and to tighten totalitarian control ultimately. But morally speaking I don't even see the beginning of an argument. You can't one the one hand downplay it as "sometimes severe internal repression", and then talk about the obviousness of the need for Chinese-American cooperation. Yes, we need that, what we don't need is CCP-American cooperation. The CCP represents China no more than the Nazis and their followers represented Germany -- the Germans in exile were those who rightfully inherited that, not a murderous gang.

As Orwell said, we either all live in a decent world, or nobody does. As far as I'm concerned, when someone rules over another human with violence and murder, the buck stops with me. It doesn't matter if it's the US or NATO or my own government or the CCP.

edit: Silent downvotes just prove my point. Not an inch to people who rule with violence.
still exists, but it depends on colledge admission board's decision to take what they want (profilo or exam or both)
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Is it the one that started with ‘Why don't games simulate every blade of grass? Here I've single-handedly made an engine for that.’ I remember seeing that some a couple years ago, but IIRC it was going for more life-like look than this vid.

Edit: found it—“voxel game StoneQuest microgeometry” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXm5JWys55o

Now those are voxels I can get behind. Also vaguely think I've heard the name semi-recently.
> The only of the two of us who had made an ad hominem against the other is you, by saying I have an "inability to attack their (your) argument." Thanks hypocrite!

Re-read my comment, that’s not what I said. It’s difficult to have a discussion with someone who selectively quotes text, and deliberately ignores the wider context.

> I'm not a fan of stable coins, but how many people you reckon are buying DAI or USDT with the idea of striking it rich?

One of the original stated goals of USDT was to provide an on-ramp to other crypto, and do an end run around KYC and AML laws. People don’t buy these coins to get rich, they buy them to either purchase other coins, or to temporarily insulate themselves from crypto volatility, without having to resort to fiat. Additionally the fundamentals to USDT have been called in to question may times, with plenty of evidence that whole things scam and someone’s stolen the backing fiat.

> Try being a neutral pragmatist that doesn't believe crypto is an investment utility but rather one possible financial engine that allows electronic transactions without KYC or centralized authority.

I’m not sure how you’ve ended up deciding that you think I treat crypto as an investment, not a currency, after I’ve explicitly said the opposite.

As I said I believed that crypto could be a very interesting and useful currency, unfortunately it’s not panned out that way. Saying we should treat crypto like a currency when it doesn’t behave like one, and when most people don’t treat it like one, is hardly pragmatic. A more pragmatic approach is to observe how others are using it, observe how it behaves, and treat it like that. If it looks like an value gaining asset, and people treat it like a value gaining asset, then it’s a value gaining asset. Not a currency.

To cover your eyes and ignore the reality of the situation is just foolish. It certainly does nothing to advance the cause of crypto being a currency.
Or just institute a land value tax, which would automatically penalize all those housing-cost-driving behaviors plus a bunch more (like owning a single-family home or a parking lot in the middle of Downtown) without needing a bunch of loophole-prone narrow ad-hoc taxes on each individual situation.
Just finished reading 'Blind Man's Bluff' - about the American submarine espionage stories since WW2.

There are fascinating stories but it was also striking how so many of the stories were about how the US, the technically and economically superior country, spied on and harassed the Soviets near the Soviet territories.
In Firefox, open in reader mode. You'll get a truncated article the first time, but if you F5 while in reader mode you'll get the entire article.