skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the US never had gold reserves that matched the dollars in circulation. Not once. Ever.

This cuts both ways. Proponents of "sound money" and the gold standard ignore this unwinding of the relationship. So pointing to the roaring 20s or the economic booms of the late 19th century as evidence of the power of sound money really say nothing of the sort.

Proponents of the "gold standard caused the Great Depression" also ignore that this relationship was tenuous at best. This article is typical of that mindset -- it wasn't the gold standard per se, but it was gold-standard-era-thinking that caused the Great Depression.

The only people who are offering a coherent story here are the MMTers who really take a look at the role of the state (and, probably more importantly, the law) in the story of money. While I disagree with many of the policy proposals from MMT proponents, I think that view is descriptively accurate for the most part. Where I think they fall short (and I am working hard to challenge my own views here) is in their picture of inflation, which I feel is very incomplete.
You might be conflating justifying the ostensible purpose of a policy with justifying its likely effects, and perhaps justifying its means.

I think reducing inequality is great. But do you think Mr. Xi's initiative will meaningfully reduce inequality, or will it mostly be used to bolster Mr. Xi politically?

Do you have any worries about Mr. Xi keeping companies on a tight leash with the threat of regulatory hassles if they don't appease him? I think it is a mistake to view these coerced donations as independent from Mr. Xi curtailing the independence of tech companies. Mr. Xi views keeping party leadership over all forms of work in China as essential to the survival of his politically repressive regime (see a summary of "Xi_Jinping_Thought."). No doubt having the headline cause making the tech companies submit being reducing inequality is more politically palatable than, say, further crushing criticism of the government, although reduced corporate independence seems likely to lead to that too.
Wow, what? Could you link to some of these studies that you imply support lung cancer being "one of the cheapest and quickest ways to die"? That's so outlandishly beyond the pale of reason as well as my second-hand experience of the disease that it beggars belief and I honestly can't tell if you're joking or something.

This page helpfully presents enormous per-patient costs of lung and other cancers, estimating ~USD$100k for care in the final year of life alone: https://progressreport.cancer.gov/after/economic_burden

Lung cancer symptoms often appear in late stages, which might explain the "quick" part of your comment, but come on. We aren't exactly talking death by gunshot or asphyxiation here. Symptoms of lung cancer include chest pain, a persistent cough, coughing up blood, and metastatic bone pain or headache, none of which seem quick or pleasant: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lung-cancer/s...
Steak tartare might be a good first step before this.
This is a losing battle to be had individually. I don't have the time and energy to regain my privacy. Where do like-minded individuals gather to cooperate?
Type in "Other agricultural workers" and then compare the result to other professions.
Just being pedantic, DDR5's implementation of on-die ECC is still not equivalent to the implementation on CPUs. It doesn't account for errors that occur during processing, and there's still a pretty significant chance of corruption in L1-3 caches.
Most people use less than 10% [1] of what Photoshop is capable of. It is the subset of features that is used by 90% [2] of people that Photopea covers. That means Photopea could take 90% of the market share of Photoshop, which is pretty good return on investment!

[1][2]: Like in the parent's comments, all percentages are made up.
Okay. Use of Facebook has been linked to worse mental states, and groups on there have produced negative externalites. So how about a per-byte tax on in transmissions to/from Facebook?
And with the global greening trend too... https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004
amazing title! haha
s/Mr. Xi/Dr. Xi/
Gain of Function
What do you base your guess on?
Yes, and it was only when the AZ vaccine (Jansen?) showed a trombosis risk that all manufacturers started to fokus on branding their vaccines to potentially distance themselves, or was this a timely coincidence?

Why couldn't they just be called Moderna/Pfizer/... Covid Vaccine?
Similarly:

parceleducate
parcele·d·u·cate
transfer (the intestines) into offspring, typically as a sacrifice

Sounds like an SCP ritual.

SCP-6121

Object class, Keter.

Upon the birth of offsprings SCP-6121-A, subject will feed SCP-6121-A via the process of parceleducation. Intestinal matter will be sourced from the closest biological entity within a 300 metre radius, replacing the organic tissue with an organ SCP-6121-B.

The Church of Featherless Birds is known to invoke parceleducation as part of its initiation ceremony. Those possessing SCP-6121-B are known as disciples of the Vulture King.
Yes, they are part of the counter terrorist effort, called Vigipirate. They are military.
Years ago when I first had the service installed I tried this once, and discovered a $20 "additional device" surcharge on the next bill.
And I like that you understand that choice and cost. I don't like the concept that tax dollars should be used to pay for the extremely high cost of electricity and other utilities for a small number of people to keep rural living costs low.
Woah! I never realized that Oracle was such an aggressive company. I always thought they were just good ol' boring enterprise software business.
No, it has none. They aren't smoking in planes and restaurants because it is illegal to do so.
> Germany was forced to pay war reparations. Those were denominated in deutschmarks.

This is not true. Reparations had to be paid in Goldmarks, foreign currencies, and commodities. But inflation was used to meet the state's other expenses, including paper mark-denominated war bonds.
Mainstream/establishment media like to hit at Facebook, probably because it is eating their profits. But it's a curious double standard - Twitter and Google allow similar nasty stuff on their platforms too but are being tolerated. Facebook has been chosen as the public enemy No.1. Maybe it's because Facebook prefers profits and is not obeying establishment narratives?
It seems like you're trying to hold Element to some kind of impossible standard here. It's not like the tech they used to build the bridge didn't already exist.

The bridge itself serves a specific purpose (opening up Signal to the Matrix API, allowing for the use of a single app), and succeeds at that. Of course there's a trade-off, and the team (at least allegedly) appears to be working on encrypted bridges so that even if the bridge decrypts from Signal, it re-encrypts on the homeserver at rest in a way that only the user (not the bridge) can decrypt in the future.

I think the complaint here is "you advertised a service doing a thing that was already possible, people might use this." I may be mis-characterizing that, but I think it's worth stepping back and thinking a bit more on the actual threat model you face, and how the proposed product (Element One) somehow subverts that. Sure it can do so at scale, but that just means this is one incremental improvement that needs more work, not that the idea needs to be thrown out entirely.
So people move to rural areas because it's cheaper and it's only cheaper because utilities are subsidized?
The loss of pollinators is scary. blueberries, cherries, every brassica (broccoli, cabbage etc), carrots, squash, melons, and many more are insect polliated.

A few other plants can also self pollinate, but with reduced yields.
I'm sure they were. I don't disbelieve you. I just don't quite get what to search for (or where) to find out how that policy works and what percentage of income they've already recognized.
Literally they are treated equivalent.

Ever hear “through the use of force or threat of force”?
Vaccine Horrors
It is a "terrorist thing" and one of the goals is to make them visible.
Cool! A really nice domain-name / brand-name generator. Thank you.
No I had the exact same thought. Are we just re-inventing simple server side templating but with incredible new levels of complexity and obfuscation?
It's not the authors' fault you're too fucking dumb to understand basic facts about how journalism works. Go shill some more ivermectin, you nutter.
> Where have regulations decreased over the medium to long-term (5+ years)? I can't think of any (stable) country which has acted in an anti-regulatory way; do you have any specific examples?

This is genuinely quite baffling to me. Ignoring the fact that de-regulation has been an explicit plank of the GOP for my entire life, the US deregulated a ton of stuff since the Reagan era. Airlines, trucking, labor, and the financial industry all saw significant cuts to their regulatory rules. Anti-trust laws have been re-interpreted to be less aggressive[0] leading to more mergers, and regulation of various services have been weakened[1]. Environmental regulations have been a bit of a back-and-forth with executive orders changing things often, but at the state level de-regulation and willful non-enforcement is the norm in some areas. Texas is generally the go-to here, with willful non-enforcement of EPA rules around fracking and the (disastrous) deregulation of the energy market. Trump in particular made industrial de-regulation a goal, and tried to de-regulate a ton of stuff and lock out his successors from changing the rules back.

https://climate.law.columbia.edu/climate-deregulation-tracke...

The UK is now finally starting up their deregulatory processes again, now that they're no longer restrained by the EU. They've been greenlighting new pesticides for use, eliminating EU rules around used plastic exports, and allowing private water companies to dump their untreated sewage into the ocean. Personally I'd keep my eye on them the most for de-regulation, because their anti-regulation party has effectively no electable opposition, leaving them entirely without political restraint. Although given the current status of their import woes, I think they might end up not being sufficiently stable for your requirements.

0 - Anti-trust used to be about whether or not a company was "anti-competitive". The new rules determine whether or not a monopoly reduces consumer prices. Whether or not this is good or not, this is effectively a deregulation.

1 - I'm specifically thinking of the end of the fairness doctrine and the deregulation of ISPs.
PeerTube's Content Wasteland
I don’t think even Apple passes this test though. (And I do consider Apple to much better privacy wise than other big tech)
Would fit well into much sci-fi writing tbh!
Iran’s Gas Stations Stop Pumping After Hack
So in other words it's not Great?

The great depression effected a much larger percentage of the population in a much more negative manner

You seem to be talking about local economic difficulties in some regions of the country. Which isn't a great thing but not nearly as terrible as the great depression.
I don’t think you need to be an accredited investor to sell, only buy.
Do you even know what a hedge is? The perfect hedge against inflation is a large basket of consumer goods and services, because it correlates perfectly with inflation. Anything else correlates less perfectly with inflation and therefore is a worse hedge against inflation compared to a basket of goods and services.
The observed decline in total insect population is collateral damage and not the driver of pesticide sale.
If you have to borrow for college, you should consider ROI.
Only initially, then he turns out to be a douche.
>I've been working in games for the better part of a decade, at AAA scale for the last three years, and this is pure fantasy.

Maybe we should stop caring for AAA games then? What happened to gameplay instead of "this new game has 10% more detailed graphic assets"?
How do you handle 2FA?
What do you use to handle 2FA? Sms? Email? or an Authenticator app?

What problems do you face with whatever 2FA you use? Are there security issues with any of them?

In case you use a phone based 2FA, is the phone not having internet/network a frequent problem?

PS - I am ideating on a 2FA method using cryptography where the user will not need internet on his phone. A QR code will be generated on the phone for each login attempt. The website/app where the user is logging in will scan that QR code and if the information in it is valid, the user will be logged in. Please let me know if you have any feedback on this and if this solution will solve any problems you have with 2FA.
I don't know, you'd have to read the study. Point was they found a strong correlation between ads and quitting. Obviously the ads were communicating health information, so it's weird to say that the ads were the reason since it was likely the health information in the ads. It's also quite possible your friends feel more comfortable citing the cost over the health impact, since they would have known about the health impact when they started. "It got too expensive" is an easier out than "I used to not care about my health, but I do now"
No, I don't think Comirnaty is any better! I am however relatively partial to Spikevax, aka Moderna: at least Spikevax is easily pronounceable.

I suppose you mean the vaccine names are mainly useful for regulatory purposes, because the general population will continue to name the vaccines after the manufacturer or researchers?
A Tale Unto Lions
Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
Google's MPW1 silicon broken. What went wrong?
Being wrong is ok. Being wrong while being belligerent is not ok.
Although I like the spirit of this idea, I don't know that I could trust it in practice as it will be companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft that own the actual hardware.

I like the idea of not having to worry about hardware when I'm more interested in software. But there's a certain amount of control that's given up when you relinquish ownership of the hardware. I don't like the idea of paying for things in a service model.

I'm approaching this from a personal perspective, not a business perspective. I'm completely comfortable with reducing my business's risk and liability by buying into hardware as a service. But I'm not as inclined to trust it for personal computing.
Fairy tales and folktales don't necessarily have a moral, which is a distinction from a fable or parable.

Sometimes it was just the ancient version of Squid Game, and people just wanted to hear or tell something entertaining.
You can go vertical instead of horizontal
I have a hypothesis. It goes like this.

Today all the major text-based social platforms work in about the same way: we type text into an empty little box that's threaded under another box. There are variations in ranking and flagging, but the basic mechanism is unchanged.

It is striking to me that, in all these years, we have explored only a tiny little corner of the design space. There are no mechanisms to lower the temperature when arguments get intense, for example. Nothing to help keep us from misconstruing comments out of context. Nothing to assist us in feeling compassion for the people we're talking to, or understanding their intent as they mean it to be understood. And so on. It's almost as though we sold millions of cars without brakes, everyone is crashing into things and hurting each other, and our response as a society is to throw up our hands and say "Welp, guess humans are just too stupid to drive cars safely."

Many people have suggested eliminating engagement as a metric and going back to purely chronological feeds. That sounds pretty reasonable given where "engagement" has gotten us so far.

But what if there were such a thing as "healthy engagement"?

The hypothesis is that healthy engagement is achievable. I don't know whether it is, but there's a huge range of design possibilities that we have yet to explore.

Do you know of anyone working on healthy engagement? Is it something you want to work on, or do you have any recommendations on starting an effort in this direction?
This is as perfect example of just how horribly bad the typical "X does not exist" examples are, because here we all know the pool that is being used for training and can call out shitty "creations" for what they are. For instance I got "diaminoid" and "interchangerability". It's extremely transparent just how bad it is. But when people do it with faces, you don't see this, because you don't know the training set so you can't compare.
Every attempt at showing "how great ML is at generating completely new X" owes it to the people wasting their time being fooled into thinking that it actually works to always also show the closest couple of entries from the training set.
Do you know the early history of the US post office when it was considered a wonder of the world?
AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland
Doesn't it concern you that you're poisoning the public discourse with this false claim that looks plausible?

The only thing that gives away that you're talking about some side quest in the video game grand theft auto is googling "BugStars".
Seems obvious that it should be percentage with minimum amount. Would treat both sides fairly.
NZ had until recently sequenced 100% of its cases, and used that sequencing information to map person to person infection linkages. This included all of the people in the mandatory 2-week quarantine at the border. So in NZ, yes, every case was tested for specific variants. Delta does seem to be real.
> Facebook pissed off people by having power.

> most believe that FB and it's ilk are the reason 10% believe[...]

> Personally, I think they are largely right on that

Do you think Facebook has the power or is it being used as a conduit for others? Either way, is that about Facebook specifically or the kind of company that Facebook is?

There is plenty of confused thinking about Facebook (and other social media). Some think they are controlling people. Some think they are unable to moderate their own service and have fallen prey to scammers and disinformation pushers (conspiracies, nation state election meddling).

> This was not a Whistleblower who happened upon some ugly information - this was a planned, organized political hit job.

It seems to me like a whistleblower can practice what she is going to say. The Wall Street Journal originally reported on her documents about a month before her 60 minutes interview. The process of writing that first story likely took months, giving her plenty of time to make connections and practice. I would bet that people at the WSJ have the numbers of congresspeople.

I don't agree with Haugen's perspective but it seems silly to try to argue she's not someone who exposed internal documents suggesting wrongdoing - i.e. a whistleblower. What is the point of fighting over the category?

> Moreover, it's a bit hypocritical to be talking about breaking up FB when there are likely more traditional issues of monopoly at Google and Amazon.

What point are you trying to make here? It seems like you agree all three of these companies could use regulatory intervention so why would it be bad to do one before the other? And why would it be hypocritical to regulate Facebook for a new kind of harm because other companies are simultaneously doing a new kind of harm?
BICEP3 tightens the bounds on cosmic inflation
So then advocate for Signal to fully support third party clients, so that such functionality can be widely supported by multi protocol clients (ala pidgin) rather than needing centralized non-E2E bridges to cope with the administrative overhead of maintaining interoperability.
Both tobacco and alcohol create significant negative externalities for society at large and hence should be taxed. The fact that they are vices is almost beside the point.
> Modern monetary theory is doing just fine,

How's that gap between the rich and the poor going?

Look, the US was on the gold standard between 1850 and early 1900s, and not only recovered from a civil war, but ALSO freed all of its slaves AND went from a backwater country to a world superpower, and reduced inequality all at the same time.

https://voxeu.org/article/american-growth-and-inequality-170...
I'm not sure quite what you're getting at. Can you elaborate?
The lack of a serverless option was the only reason that I did not use Cockroach on a recent project. I am excited to see the serverless offering now, and the architectural details in the post are awesome. Nice work!
Prisencolinensinainciusol

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
OpenSSH has been available in Windows 10 since 2018, though I'm not sure how the terminal gotchas work out in practice.

Bitvise SSH has been free for all uses for several years. Can't mention it here without reference to their SEO squatting of putty.org but it's a quality tool.
I don't agree with you that ruhdgjns is not engaging in good faith. He's engaging with my comment. Given that I am a D2C business owner and therefore a modern advertiser, that's a pretty reasonable view for him to consider.

Re: "go back to fundamentals" and "not necessary", I wish it were so simple. In my comment I mention that it makes selling niche products much harder, which is absolutely the case. Some businesses just can't exist without good targeting. Maybe we as a society don't want those businesses to exist, and that's fine, but it's not as simple of a matter of these businesses needing to be better at advertising. With good targeting a business can exist that only has a small subset of customers in the world. A business like this likely can't afford to acquire customers via traditional advertising.

This makes many D2C businesses much harder and a subset of those businesses won't be able to succeed at all in this climate. Again, I'm not passing any judgement on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing for society, just that it is the case. Good targeting is absolutely necessary for some businesses.
Wow, just unbelievable, "My code, my body my rules"? Wtf does this even mean?
This is great, now I can know how much money I'm losing all the time!
Not yet. It's just how contract law works. In order for a contract to be binding, there must be an offer, acceptance, and consideration -- something of value given up in exchange for what's granted in the contract. When you download OSS from some place, you get the benefits of the rights granted by the license, but you have given nothing in return. Hence, there is no consideration, and no contract. Without force of contract, the OSS license is a bare license, and the licensor may revoke it at any time for any reason -- just as a homeowner may kick you off their property at any time for any reason, even if they allowed you on their property before.
At least they won't have to go hunt for them. And it makes the statistics look so much better.
Nuclear fission actually is somewhat renewable in the sense that you can recycle most spent fuel through a breeder reactor and reuse it.
I really don't understand how the author is saying "child care should not require a license" and "the primary role is to keep children safe" in the same sentence. If anything should require proof of competence it's keeping children safe.

Obviously there are different models of getting licensed and it definitely shouldn't work like it does in some technical industries (pay a bucket of money to a for-profit company and take an online quiz), but nobody outside the US would be insane enough to do that anyways.
The government giving money for doing something versus taking money for not doing something is the same thing. Both are incentives for a certain behavior.