skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is hard to know what horrors nuclear weapons have prevented and what horrors they may cause in the future. So far I would say they have been a net positive, but tail risks are a bitch.

But certainly it would be much better to just have a few dozen nuclear weapons per country to stop WWII like events than the thousands that the US and Russia still have that might cause a serious nuclear winter event killing most of the people on Earth.

From your link Sakharov had similar musings:
“Have Soviet and American atomic scientists helped to keep the peace? After more than forty years, we have had no third world war, and the balance of nuclear terror... may have helped to prevent one. But I am not at all sure of this; back then, in those long-gone years, the question didn’t even arise. What most troubles me now is the instability of the balance, the extreme peril of the current situation, the appalling waste of the arms race... Each of us has a responsibility to think about this in global terms, with tolerance, trust, and candor, free from ideological dogmatism, parochial interests, or national egotism.”
In MMT when you print too much money, you contract the money supply through taxation. What do you think the Biden admin has been working hard on?
"Simple code" -> very difficult to decipher use of SIMD intrinsics. Yikes.

He may have deleted 1000 lines of code, but he'll need a 2 hour inline video (with a 1000 line transcript) to explain how it works.
You didn’t read my article, or you did, and you aren’t understanding anything I wrote.

You do have freedom of form, you are just limited in the forms you can change to. You exercise it every time you get a haircut.

The question is about what changes if there are a variety of contexts where it is fair to assume most or all participants have photonic override. You are missing the point: this isn’t about goggles. Take a longer view, once the goggles become invisible.

The title image refers to an allegory I wrote, which I’m sure you didn’t read, that might help you understand what is probably going to happen as a consequence of technological curves.
Similar situation as yours yet I got offered several times to so it's just a matter of learning how to spot them and not of going to parties, although that would make things faster (more people would help you ID the professionals).

Going downtown around 1am on a Sunday morning should get you the full package, at least in most European cities. City parks, albeit edgy and dangerous, are an almost sure bet.

Dealers usually ask you if all is fine and you need help with anything, prostitutes clues are usually attitude and attire, plus they often work in groups. A good undercover cop will be unrecognisable, for obvious reasons (they have to copy criminal behaviour to be successful).

Providers have a harder time than their customers (longer jail time and higher fines) hence the secrecy which makes it diffocult to spott them.

When in doubt assume it's not a professional, if they are they will make it obvious.
Pharo actually does that. it inherited from Smalltalk, and I think also APL before.
I think the biggest problem of surfing the web via Tor end nodes will be the Cloudflare captcha. As much as I like Cloudflare, their captcha makes the open web pretty much unusable through Tor. At least last time I tried.
What’re you talking about? You can make a low end VR headset out of a $100 smartphone and a $5 plastic box today

5-10 years after VR starts to really take off, you’ll be able to get a decent standalone VR headset for $200 or less. They’ll probably be cheaper to make than laptops or TVs in the long run because of the smaller displays.
While working at Google, I came to appreciate design docs. They're a way to help think through the system design, and help communicate the goals, decisions, etc. at a high level. It also provides experts with a place to put in checklists, to encourage me to answer how e.g. privacy is affected.

However, what I missed was a "problem doc". Something for when I just have an idea for a problem to work on, but forcing myself not to share a solution. Something that triggers brainstorming in the reader, and perhaps the right place to also ask "is this the right problem?"

(The article itself seems to just be about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem)
I'm not sure I understand this argument. It may be true that housing is a basic need. But that doesn't change the fact that housing is also finite. And unlike food or cars, it's not a depreciating asset; a house rarely breaks down. Even when it does, the land it's built on is still yours. When food goes rotten or a car gets totaled, you have to throw it out.

What do you propose?
Makes me wonder if that's the whole point. Kind of like a carrot on a stick. While Facebooks business practices continues as normal.
Yellow journalism refers to something more malicious than clickbait does.
All modems could do fax, not just softmodems.
If they are brothers then I suppose they could be mixed Taiwanese-Dutch. But that really isn't the point is it? I'm talking about trends in populations. It's an answer to the question of "Why do we see different representation of these groups on the height spectrum?", not "Explain the difference between these two individuals".

Edit: Also to assert that, given two random people on opposite ends of the height spectrum, it's much more likely that they are distantly related than closely related (controlling for sex) because (controlling for nutrition) height is a heritable trait.
Facebook? Probably. Which is why (among other things) we should be concerned.
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Silent "ce" isn't really any less surprising to me. Where would I otherwise know this rule for "cester" from?
What's up with the fxxxing emojis? Makes the post unreadable.

I quit reading after the first batch of emojis.
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The process is more complicated under the hood. I’m describing it from the POV of an engineer that wants to update a field — from that POV, it really is that simple.
I, personally, would love programmable banking but, well, I'm a programmer. Large swaths of people don't remotely want to learn to program, despite the ability to.
We are, it's just that the inflation is only noticeable in assets at the upper tier (housing, stocks, high end electronics, etc). No one is too interesting in buying up all the food, so there hasn't been immense inflation seen there.

But I always find it funny that after the money printing in 2008 folks say there was no inflation. Yeah, not in everyday goods that the common folk would notice. But it's getting harder and harder for them to not notice the immense inflation on non everyday assets. The common folk are starting to realize it's impossible to make investments, they've effectively been priced out. I can't imagine it's going to end well.
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> Besides, it'd still work fine, but you'd only be able to view two or three fonts at a time.

That would be trivial to break over a few requests, I think
Housing is not necessarily equal to land- We can densify and build more homes per plot of land. Where legally allowed, this actually increases the value of the land as an investment while making housing, the consumable part, cheaper.
The Big Five model of personality is a lot less popularly known than the Myers-Briggs personality types (probably because it's not fun to talk with your coworkers about who's more neurotic), yet it's more accurate.
> But English does not hold that what woman consume is not porn (and, in fact, you’ll find extensive English language studies of how women consume what is uncontroversially porn.)

You can find extensive English-language studies of many phenomena that people prefer to pretend never happen. That doesn't mean the pretense isn't there.

> “blue movie” is correct, if somewhat dated; the rest are, at best, never as widely used.

As best I could tell, the "blue" terminology is correct Indian English; I would have no qualms about labeling it incorrect American English. No one I've mentioned this to has ever even heard of the term.

> Actual English usage rather emphatically disagrees with you. [0]

This would be a more convincing rebuttal if the page was willing to describe more than 12 books as "pornographic novels".
1. Housing does not need to be finite, that's a huge part of the problem. Municipalities choosing for housing to be finite / constrained.

2. Have you never owned a house? Houses break down all the time.
I think you're forgetting an important stakeholder here: humanity. We as a unit need to do things in an efficient way so we can save our limited resources for other, more important things.

Developers and their time matters more for the above since they're a smaller, minority population whose services are disproportionately necessary as opposed to users (who are more replaceable).

From purely a self-centered user's point of view, it doesn't matter, and might even be a negative since they don't get Apple's high-touch review. But it's not like Apple cares all that much about the opinions or user experience of the user either.
One positive I can think of is more diversity and availability, there are just many more PWAs available. Another is time saved - if a user can start using your PWA in a couple seconds instead of painfully installing the app over a minute, then over a billion users you've saved very significant time.

I would even argue this sort of time saving might cause "natural" selection.
If this happens, expect a War on Crypto. The militarized police units already need new enemies, as MJ is being legalized all over the U.S.
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Sorry what's weird about this? I assume they're against the creation of automated government databases of cars, licenses and persons (say with ML) and not tech per se
Good news, it’s the year 2021 and computers are so fast that you could probably bit bang a 56k modem connection using a python script on a raspberry pi
How am I going to have a video chat while I wear VR goggles covering half my face?
The point is that housing is required to live. Apartments aren't being built at a rate that keeps YoY growth in houses to <5%, which is a lot of growth compared to inflation and wage trends but would be healthier than the growth we're seeing in some regions (eg. Atlanta suburb Lawrenceville, with 27% YoY growth[0]).

0: https://www.zillow.com/lawrenceville-ga/home-values/
yes, my parents wouldn't understand playstation or xbox
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Good link.

So in this case, evolution is the correct term. Microevolution is more correct.

Macroevolution is more correct when describing speciation.
The Metaverse is the ultimate Truman Show.
It might also (or instead?) need to be expressed on a per-capita/per-household basis: the portion of growth in that graph that is merely the result of the country having higher population doesn't represent any change in the importance or value of home equity to an individual household.
Even if he had stopped before hand-rolling the SIMD, it'd still be a multiple order of magnitude improvement.

I do think it would have been useful to demonstrate that before going straight to hard mode.
Early repayment is more difficult in a low rates, high values scenario.

The impact of a small windfall or a pay raise put towards the mortgage gets levered by your rate.

IMHO high rates / low values was a better situation for working stiffs.

(I'm not 100% confident in this analysis; it seems like there should be an equivalence... but I don't think it's as symmetrical as it seems).
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Yes you're absolutely right, housing cannot be both a good investment and affordable by definition. Time to give up the narrative. It doesn't make sense.

I've mentioned this before but it's worth saying again: 1 square foot of housing is approximately the same price - adjusted for inflation - as it was in the 1970s, on average. [1] There's a few caveats however.

(1) New houses are 2x bigger on average than they were back then, and the average American family is smaller [1].

(2) City councils, and by extension zoning rules, in major metros preclude construction meaning that supply cannot meet demand. This benefits existing landowners to the detriment of both the next generation and renters. San Francisco is a prime example [2] - SF needed to build 6X as many houses as it did between just 2012 and 2016 just to meet the job growth in the area. This pushes the price per square foot inside metros up way above what they would otherwise be.

(3) Zoning rules outside of major metros, including setback rules and minimum size rules, parking rules, etc, make houses outside metros much bigger. Also, expectations have shifted. This pushes the square footage of suburban homes up - and with it the total price.

(4) This applies mostly in the last few years - but lower interest rates make houses that are more expensive much more affordable on a monthly basis, which is totally fine as most folks end up with a 30 year fixed rate mortgage. A drop from 3% to 2% makes a house about 25% more expensive cost the same amount per month. Yes, it increases down payments, but down payments tend to be up to 20% of the price - so an increase not of 25% but 4%.

So what can we do? Easiest thing is state-wide or federal zoning rules. Build up. Allow smaller homes. [edit](Stop with the mandatory parking.) In Japan, supply and demand meet, and a new 3 bedroom house in Tokyo is like 400K USD [edited for current data] - right around the cost of construction. This is thanks to their federal zoning rules. [3]

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage

[3] https://marketurbanism.com/2019/03/19/why-is-japanese-zoning...
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It's not that's outrageous if you really think about it. $19 is the cheapest product that Apple has on sale. It's a novelty product that everyone wants to make fun of; at the same time, everyone is curious how much better can it be compared to a regular microfiber cloth. It's cheap enough that people that can't ordinary afford Apple products can. It's also a status symbol. I expect the novelty to fade away though after enough saturation in the market so I don't think it's a sustainable one.

Plus, most backordered doesn't mean highest selling. They could of undersupplied because even they didn't think it would sell that many.
Food is also a "basic need", does that mean we should enslave farmers with regulation? Or just enslave the rest of us in order to pay farmers?

Edit: I'm suggesting that feeding (and housing) yourself is a personal responsibility, not a collective one. And that the instrument we use to enforce basic order and peaceful coexistence (punish noncompliance with imprisonment) is far to blunt for enforcing cooperation (helping each other find food/shelter).
I can't find any scans of the external modem PCBs, but the internal ISA ones have a 28f or 29f series EEPROM from what I've seen. Often there's a sticker on them with firmware info, which suggests they're programmed before being soldered on the board (ie: no JTAG).

The internal ones shouldn't be much different than externals, they just implement another serial interface.

Would be a pain to desolder and resolder if it's a TSOP chip, but PLCC isn't too bad. You might have some better luck if you high-jack a compatible motherboard's floppy-disk BIOS update process to write a new binary.

56ks are not very expensive to buy off ebay.
Your cost calculation is a little off. I commute to work by bike since around 8 years, payed 800 $ initially for the brand new bike and only needed 3 maintenances in the bike shop for 400 $ total. Plus I bought some extra tires once for around 80 $ and a couple of replacement brakes / tubes / a bit of oil every now and them for a total of around 100 $. In terms of rain gear I've never needed to buy anything extra but my 20 $ cheap rain coat.
So we're at 1400 $ spread across 8 years and the bike still runs smoothly and is being used for other activities than commuting to work.
There is no cheaper alternative than this.
unpopular opinion: house prices are high because people can afford them.

of my friend group who are all in the early thirties age range nearly everyone owns a home. pay has gotten so high that you can get a starter home for ~$1.5M and live comfortably. it’s just concentrated to specific jobs. i hire engineers straight out of school who are making 3x compared to me a little over a decade ago. the prices still have room to go up
The Aussie national public broadcaster, the ABC, has the fantastic Gardening Australia show that has been going for 32 years (in its current format). It's not too pretentious and is full of great technical pragmatic tips from knowledgeable professional horticulturalists and experienced amateurs. You might like this series on indoor plants as we call houseplants. https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/the-great-indoors--containe...
With a WM, and a rather complex language.

And of course if you had written that in C it would probably have taken up a lot less.
Which race? The US interred Japanese people during WW2. I hear that we interred people from central and south America for the last 5+ years, too.

We're not a hundred years from anything except gaslights.
So, 5-10 years after some indeterminate future date?
My hatred of Twitter's layout is not principled, I assure you. It's purely aesthetic and visceral.
I think the metaverse is all the billionaire's attempts to bring about a permanent burning man with psychedelic like experience and immersion.
It is driven by a moral panic - that the panic in question is about a very real issue doesn't change its underlying nature. So whatever measures are put in place this time, they'll be normalized and deployed when the next one happens.
It's not an issue in the US because the Farm Bill continues to subsidize the cost of growing staple crops in the US (in some cases to below the cost of production), and also, SNAP ensures folks at the lower end of the income scale have access to basic nutrition needs. It's socialized at both ends, really.

This would be an interesting topic if food in the US weren't already the cheapest in the entire world. [1]

[1] https://www.ecowatch.com/worlds-cheapest-food-is-in-the-u-s-...
Are there people treating food as an appreciating asset?
One of my favourite sayings I got from Deming!
MetaVerse is not bullshit, but that's a future that I do not want to live in, and dont want my children either.

And I'll do what I could to create better and more convincing alternative...
Inflation can make it an invest and keep affordability the same. It isn't 'by definition'.
Sure there are, food is traded on commodities markets just like everything else.
I could live with that and I think many users would agree.
Housing is finite in the sense that all things on Earth are finite.

But more houses may always be built.

And I do disagree that houses are not depreciating assets. The technology and the style of a house become outdated. And much deteriorates over time. Yes, the land may not depreciate, but that is a separate matter from, or, at best, only a component of the value of the house.
Do people horde food as an investment?

Regardless it's extremely affordable for most people
Zuckerberg sees that anime fans and furries love spending time on VRchat and he wants to build it out for fans of football and the Kardashians.

People that buy Louis Vuitton are going to shell out for NFT metaverse skins and wear dorky headsets.

That totally tracks.
> Compare to Azure: most incidents never see the status page.

That sounds like a conscious decision on their part. Everyone always talks about disclosure being the best policy, but at the same time there's plenty who believe that not informing anyone about an outage or even a breach is the correct thing to do, since then they'll probably get into less trouble themselves, or at least will create the illusion of not having as many outages as "those other guys".

After all, informing everyone about an outage that will noticeably affect only some probably has a larger impact on the company's reputation than having it be dragged through mud in smaller communities for its dishonesty. Then again, with many of the larger services, it's not like you have much of a choice of using or not using it - you just get a corporate policy passed down upon you and that's that.

Thus, sweeping problems under the rug and pretending that they don't exist is a dishonest, yet valid way of handling outages, breaches and so on. Personally, i'd avoid any service that does that, though it's not like that's being done just because of incompetence.
I agree that food is subsidised, but I disagree it should be. We should be curtailing government control of the economy, not expanding it.

Edit: just look at the massive harm caused by subsidising corn.
I'm always a bit amused at this sort of article.

At it's heart it is an attempt by someone who makes their living selling a thing (real estate) to instill a since of FOMO in order to motivate you to buy something now rather than perhaps later. You can't really fault them, it does tend to work.

I happen to live in the "red hot" Bay Area and twice wince I've been living in my house its value has gone DOWN year over year rather than up. I have never considered it an "investment", rather it is a fixed cost that I have to pay to live indoors. My parents live in Las Vegas, and that housing market, which has been largely unconstrained, demonstrated exactly what that means. Houses in Vegas for a long time depreciated after you bought them, just like cars. They did that because there was so much new housing being built that you could buy a "new" house for the same price as a "used" house. Guess what, people opted for "new" and used houses needed to sell at a discount if they wanted to sell.

One of the truisms for years was the value of a house was intimately tied to its location. This because it was close to jobs, or schools or what not. It is my hope that remote work really takes hold and you can work just as reasonably in a $100,000 house in Missouri as you can in a million dollar house in the Bay Area. That would really create some downward pressure on prices because of simple market dynamics.
setting up MetaStage for MetaViruses.

wear a MetaMask, and equip MetaFilter.
I do this when I test my migrations locally.

Run code first, throw an error to force rollback the transaction...
That's much harder to sell politically.
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yes? Food staples are commodities, just like steel, oil and chocolate, and are speculated on by commodities traders.
That does sound fascinating! Any particular posts you would recommend?