skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, it doesn't. Its literally what every government seizure of anything uses.

Yes it does. Walk across the border of the USA and mexico with 20k in cash, and try it again by memorizing a crypto password.

Once you do that, see how both go.

The proveable fact, is that the actual examples that we have, of real life laws and governments, shows that the cash would be confiscated, and the crypto password would be more difficult to do so.

That is a falsifiable experiment that people can do. And the experiment goes my way. That actual, real life example, proves me right, in that specific circumstance.

I don't care about hypotheticals that don't exist in the real world right now. The only thing that I will accept, is real life proof, of crypto passwords being as easy to confiscate, as cash, in the real world.

As in, show me, specifically, how a random border patrol agent, in the US right now, would just as easily figure out that I memorized a crypto password, as opposed to figure out that I am physically carrying 20k in cash, as I go on vacation to mexico, tomorrow.

In the real world, right now, if you cross the US border to mexico your cash would be more easily confiscated than a crypto password, by the random border guard that you talk to.

> It’s force or the threat thereof top to bottom.

Then show me the government mind reading machines, that the border patrol, on the current US border, uses to scan my brain for crypto passwords. Because I can show you how they will confiscate cash. Because I have examples of them confiscating cash. There are no examples of the government turning on their mind reading devices, and stealing my crypto password.

> that have a strong evidentiary threshold

Oh but technical solutions change the evidentiary threshold! A person with a suitcase full of money, has much more evidence of them carrying money (because the suitcase can just be opened), than in the situation of a random, poorly paid border patrol agent, interrogating someone for their crypto password, that the border patrol agent doesn't even know exists!

That is one way how it makes it much more difficult to apply force.
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This is a meaningless wall of text since you did not read my original message.

It is an attempt, one of so many, to victim blame. You might think that's not what you are doing because it is ok to attack any of the millions of statements like mine because in the end: each of them is an anecdote by themselves and since you make no effort to aggregate them. They always will remain that.

You are what's wrong in this situation.

Your anecdotal and marginal position is irrelevant because it fails to see the larger picture of available vaccines and complications. You are hyperfocused on myocarditis as if that is the only valid diagnosis of the issues we have or as if it was well known what the long term effects are of the un-named side effects caused.

I'm tired of this goalpost moving (mRNA vaccines against spike protein and the idea that the only side effect is myocarditis). And honestly if this is where you will hold your stand I think it's regretful you didn't suffer with us.
> Since money is not created

Isn't USD created? Thus BTC functions as a USD sink. As the USD economy expands BTC represents some claims on it. It's a store of value that automatically appreciates (by design basically).
Experience varies. I've enjoyed all my postings, some more than others and I don't regret enlisting for a second. But I've certainly seen a lot of reactions to make incidents in the form of watch a video or a PowerPoint presentation. Not so much for proper training.
One thing that stood out to me is that they train it entirely on simulated data and deploy it without needing any fine-tuning on real-world data.

I took one of Andrew Ng's deep learning courses a few years ago and remember him saying that this approach typically doesn't work. It sounds like that's no longer the case which is really cool because it's relatively cheap/easy to generate simulated data.

Is this a more common approach these days? Are there any other interesting examples to point to?
But you pay income tax on the income
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Quantum tunnelling has already become a problem in most computer components. NAND flash was the first in maybe 2015 to start reporting seeing issues?

Effects are moderately visible and have to be counteracted at 5nm. I heard some rumours about 7nm, but cannot confirm any countermeasures were taken to avoid quantum effects.

It should be noted that "3nm" is now purely for commercial reasons and has no relationship to the size of transistors on board.
It's always been a problem to some degree. Keep in mind that 3nm is a misnomer and has no real physical meaning behind it.
When I was working on a hardware project at Lyft I interviewed at least two Tesla engineers who said their sole reason for wanting to change jobs was that occasional commute.
> High earners pay an effective tax rate of > 50%

How so? I put a salary of $300k in SF here, and came up with 38%: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#c0piT.... Obviously Fremont workers do not need to live in SF.
Your intuition is shared by many, but it is a little off.

Lots of low/middle income Californians actually have a higher total tax burden in Texas.[1] And I’d guess that Austin is one of the places where cost of living is highest for Texas, reducing the net quality of life profit.

Also, residential expansion in those two places is a bit of apples and oranges. Bay Area is surrounded by water, mountains, and Open Space Preserve. Austin is surrounded by land, land, and more land; and most of it is flat.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-19/wait-c...
Resource driven economies like Texas can maintain a low income tax by deriving most of their tax revenue from property taxes and taxing oil and gas revenues.

IMHO the high income tax regime found in California is actually a function of high density, high income, knowledge based earners moving in.

If enough of them arrive, demands for services (schools, fire, police) and infrastructure (i.e. light rail, etc.) will increase. The original NIMBY locals will initially love the increasing property values and new restaurants... until their property tax bills start rising to astronomical sums.

The state will then need to push for Prop 13 like property tax capping legislation at which point the state legislature will need to raise funds somehow and magically they will end up with a 10%-20% state income tax on super high income earners like Elon, et. al.

That said - just a IMHO prediction and just saying that you can't blame it entirely on just California(ns) being dysfunctional. :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXLnmLEevQ

Property tax values in Austin just saw the highest increase in Austin History
The Charismatic Christians still speak in tongues and lay on hands. Althought given what I've seen in the past 4 years with Flat Earth, Q, and AntiVax, that's no longer crazy IMHO.
Bay area public schools are horrible. I live 15 mins away from Apple HQ and all you need to know about our assigned elementary school is that it has metal detectors on the entrance because of the gang activity.
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In some festering neo-Randite authoritarian’s wet dreams of corporate dystopia, sure.

When did so many people internalise the fiction of companies as their new feudal overlord?
Is there supposed to be something there? I see a (very) cool animated infinity logo, but nothing that could be invested in. Not even a hint as to what it is.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, or the page.
At this point, I am starting to feel permission fatigue.
Eat the rich. Or just torture them enough that they depart your governmental unit.
I know some people like to make this political, and I know that the real reason is probably a simple mix of cheaper land, lower taxes and thus hoping to raise profits, but I personally think this is a great thing.

California is saturated, it's nice to distribute things amongst the states more evenly. There's already so many people and high value tech companies in California.
> company that builds a product that in small way obviates what Texas exports and lives on

Texas produces more GWh of Solar + Wind energy than any other state in the US.
The flip side of such a contract is that you would be locked out of selling the item if its value dropped too far (thereby depriving the creator of royalties), and if the value increased, the royalties would only be ensured on the original price.

I think this is more than just a loophole - it's a fundamental weakness of the smart contract system. The smart contract can audit things which are on the blockchain, but cannot govern external actions. This is fine when the only objects the contract cares about are digital tokens, but once you integrate things like real-world art and associated rights, it becomes very easy to circumvent.
Don't know yet. One thing I realized is I can't really decide whether a place is worth moving to without living there for a few months. So that's what I intend to do before I uproot my family and move. I like TX in general, but a week or two does not give an even remotely complete picture, beyond just the basic "affordability" and quality of available housing stock.
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1089205_tesla-to-add-pr...
> My cardiologist says that without an MRI he can't diagnose me and my insurance did not cover it. It's quite likely imo that there is a relevant diagnosis not being made because it's inaccessible.

I would suggest you report it to VAERS, but everyone's decided that data should just be ignored so what's the point?
To me, this is what makes Twitter (and Instagram
and anything else aimed at talking to the public)
mostly useless. I don't want to hear about the
day-to-day lives of Twitter randos at all or
follow celebrity gossip.

I enjoy Twitter a lot and my feed is 0% randos and celebrities.

It's about 50% friends I know personally and 50%... well, not "celebrities" but like... local personalities, independent musicians, leaders of open source projects, etc. The ones I follow are actually very responsive to replies which is very very cool and useful to me.

I'm not sure where else I could easily and enjoyably aggregate that stuff.
If they overwhelmed the medical system to the detriment of others then yes. And this is coming from an ex smoker who knew it was bad for you when begun smoking. Now this is slightly different for other age groups that started their habit when the tobacco industry were paying doctors to promote smoking.
Mentioned, yes. Cited (as happening on a decentralized exchange), no.
I don't think they are necessarily saying that fast food is healthier, just that you aren't going to get too many people excited by claiming that cooking for yourself from scratch is easy and doesn't take much time. Then you go on to describe a meal that consists of white rice and boiled vegetables.
The main problem for musk in this case being his tax burden, since he is otherwise entirely insulated from every other issue affecting most californians.
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One theory is that it's still legal to build new housing in Texas, so the Austin supply can increase to match the demand.
> Among patients with COVID-19, the risk for myocarditis was higher among males (0.187%) than among females (0.109%) and was highest among adults aged ≥75 years (0.238%), 65–74 years (0.186%), and 50–64 years (0.155%) and among children aged <16 years (0.133%).

> In adjusted analyses, patients with COVID-19 had, on average, 15.7 (95% CI = 14.1–17.2) times the risk for myocarditis compared with patients without COVID-19;

Okay, so it's 'just' an order of magnitude higher. Unfortunately, myocarditis is one of the least serious side effects of COVID.

If you have a choice between a vaccine that offers 95% protection against COVID, and a 1 in 5000 chance of myocarditis, and one that offers 90% protection against COVID, and a zero chance of myocarditis, you're better off taking the former. You're also far better off taking either one, compared to being unvaccinated.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm
What surprises and impresses me is that Usenet was huge: bigger than Slashdot or Hacker News, and bringing in a diversity of people (not just computer geeks). Perhaps the anti-spam made it difficult to welcome newcomers, and when the newcomers went elsewhere, other web forums grew up. What is the best way to balance safety and welcoming new people? I genuinely don't know, but would be interested to hear ideas.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
Serious question, why use Facebook at all?
Thank you! There was a very famous Japanese fashion designer named Kenzo Takada. His brand in the 70s was called Jungle Jap. Now the name makes sense!
The talk about wealth taxes was probably one of the reasons he decided to move. You want to get all the billionaires to move out of your state, just bring up wealth taxes.
If you filed married for example your 2020 tax burden on a gross income of 32000 ($16 * 2000 hours) would have been $272.
That's my question. Taxes are higher and CA has prop 13, so the difference gets worse.
More details on this style of setup: https://youtu.be/6BhV-o77RqQ
It’s not ready for showtime yet, but this is being worked on[1].

[1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/pip-audit
It has been clearly spotted in 2 mRNA vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna). There is limited information about vector based vaccines.

It is fairly clear that adverse effect is dose dependent and it may be the reason why we do not see that many with vector vaccines - immune system creates some immunity against the vector virus and actual amount of vaccine entering cells is limited. It is also evident from the limited immune response from vector vaccines.
That's temporary and the company has to look at things long term. Austin doesn't have the geographical barriers that the Bay Area has. If the building supplies and labor are available, Austin can sprawl out in pretty much any direction, though obviously transportation eventually becomes an issue.
Nassim Taleb pointed out that if you have no 'skin in the game' your opinion is actually less than worthless.

Worth considering...
It's one thing to expect companies to act on their own initiative, but to do nothing when the problem is proactively reported to them borders on negligence.
Musk had billions of dollars in performance based stocks vesting over these years.

The simplest reason for moving is avoiding billions of dollars in California state income taxes.
"Its a house michael, how much could it cost? 2bn?"
They have upward-looking cameras, at least on some of them.

You can see it in the last Smarter Every Day video[1] where they're talking about surfacing a submarine in the arctic ocean.

At several points you can see a video monitor showing an upward view of the ice.

[1] https://youtu.be/XFJnWp1tAdU?t=1427

e: to be clear, that upward looking camera isn't going to be enough to detect much beyond your own footprint. If someone is about to cross that area you'd need some other way of detecting them.
I'm not a "legacy" HN user or anything but

> If you are posting this on HN, accepting users, and (presumably) taking payments, then you have already publicly launched, and you should have done this already.

This seems like an overly stringent requirement for Show HNs. The guidelines say no such thing[0], and in fact they say the opposite:

> A Show HN needn't be complicated or look slick. The community is comfortable with work that's at an early stage.

I thought what drew people to HN in part was the ability to see fun and possibly unfinished/amateur but interesting and thought provoking content.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
While I see the obvious dystopian version of this, I'd still like to see this tech in the hands of search and rescue teams.

People get lost in the woods all the time. Image a swarm of 100 of these drones, 200, 500, all flying at 40km/h in a coordinated sweep, searching with multi-spectrum cameras and image recognition.
If they don't build housing, they will rapidly have all these problems. There's no magic here, no curse on the Bay Area and Seattle, it's all economics, though the geography of SF and Seattle don't help. From cursory Googling, it looks like Austin is beginning to upzone areas so that apartments can be built, which is a step in the right direction. From what I understand, Austin has already been struggling with affordable housing, so I don't think the outlook is very good.
This depends almost entirely on the accuracy of the simulated environment relative to the real world. If we have very accurate simulators then sim2real isn't too bad. If we have poor simulators (or simulators which don't fully capture that <0.1% probability action that happens to have REALLY bad consequences...) then sim2real doesn't work.

Flying a drone through a static forrest in no-wind (no moving branches, etc.) seems like a reasonable sim2real environment, in part because... well... video games have had forrests and trees don't tend to move very fast unless there's wind.

But sim2real for self driving cars is a lot harder given the huge diversity in streets and freak events that happen (people, bicycles, shopping carts, piano-delivery-trucks)

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Property taxes are _much_ higher in Texas than California, in fact Texas has one of the highest property taxes in the nation (because there's no income tax, and TX still needs to fund itself somehow; TX also has one of the highest sales taxes for this reason, too). You pay the same on property taxes for a $400k house in Texas as a $1M house in California.

Not only that, CA has Prop 13: for better or worse, your property tax is essentially frozen in the year you buy your home in CA. In TX it increases with the market value every year. And the assessors are ruthless – market value of your home went up by 20%, as they have the past few years? Expect your tax bill to too (granted, I believe legislators have restricted this to a maximum increase of 8% a year as of this session, but I believe localities are still allowed to exceed that in some cases).

Source: I'm from Dallas, and a homeowner in Los Angeles. Though rates are publically available:

https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-property-tax-calcula...

https://smartasset.com/taxes/texas-property-tax-calculator
If I remember correctly, the ultimate in luxury flooring is milled from oak submerged for hundred of years underwater.
It's a PR move to cow CA politicians to be more amenable to C-suites without challenge.

It's theater. Petty, obstinate, twattish theater.
Maybe this is just a semantic debate, but I (and likely most people) interpret the phrase “existential threat” in the context of climate change as referring to humans. As in, humanity/civilization will not survive the predicted climate changes. However, the worst case scenarios are not extinction of humans but rather death in the millions to hundreds of millions, assuming we don’t adapt in various ways.
Good luck with avoiding it. Scotland had no restrictions and when they opened schools, about 8% of 12-15 children got infected within first 5 weeks. Delta variant is so infectious that it will not disappear until about 90% of all the people are immune to it. For seasonal flu only 25% is required.
Just fyi this is not a new idea (not to detract from the creator)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
Does learning chess improve other facets of cognition?
So, would you require someone to get formal testing before they can code a website for someone for pay? Why?
Why would Democrats support that?
> the superior option for an owner

Agree with you, but I would guess most of the Gigafactory workers who haven’t exercised stock options probably can’t afford to own in the Bay Area.

While Prop 13 probably filters down to renters in reduced rent, the supply/demand issues for housing is still pretty out of whack even with all of the new units in Milpitas. Also Prop 13 has second order effects that keep older empty nester boomers in a large house even though they would otherwise downsize if they didn’t lose such a generous benefit.
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Poor wording on my part. I meant to say the average salary is much higher in California than in Texas.

For example, here is Tech: https://i.imgur.com/rHBVWRt.png
This seems like an admission that Tesla feels there is little room left for them to grow where they are at in SoCal, similar to Amazon in Seattle, now expanding into offices abandoned by Microsoft and Expedia in Bellevue.

Austin has seen rapid price increases and a flood of development while salaries have not kept up for many of the tech companies that moved there earlier (eg: AMD and Apple). Hard to survive on $30k to $50k a year when housing prices are rapidly ascending year after year. Even Facebook Research in Redmond, WA pays their contractors much better than that, and they are notorious for the mistreatment of their contractors.
The question is whether the equivalent house is just a couple hundred grand cheaper, or a million cheaper? Couple million maybe for a nice new mansion?
Extraction from the companies net value. If they didn't take a salary, bonuses, or dividends the company would still have that value on their books.

If you're just holding onto stocks with no dividend you're not extracting anything.
RPG players do this all the time - they save those health and mana potions for a time they really need it, and invariably never do.

Games that streamline these mechanics by making recovery items more fungible lose a little personality but are probably easier to balance.
> the company should look hard at its public face. Mark Zuckerberg [...] increasingly looks like a liability

In sum, TFA suggests that the business may need a better spokesperson. The business model isn't going to vanish, but it is very dependent on perception.
If you're driving a ~3,200lb Honda Accord, sure. But the mass difference at the scale of 10,000 tons is a lot different. Especially under water.
From that calculator, it seems that you need to be making $2.3M in Fremont, CA to get to 50%.
I have some external hard drives, and some internal SSD's, as well as some USB thumbdrives, brand new in the package. Haven't found anything to store on them yet. I keep re-using old ones. Eventually I'll find one a few years later in some tiny (relative to current sizes) and laugh at how I never used it and originally paid $250 for it.