skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> supports one of the best healthcare systems in the world.

Japanese people have the highest hygiene and intelligence on the matter. They have to be, they've been densely populated for centuries.

However, there were new articles of foreigners with covid-19 being turned away from hundreds of hospitals
because it has "risk" and "real" return possibility. Unlike stock market where boombers finance and exits their IPO to consumers. VCs get 1000x consumers maybe few times or less. Does that make sense?

No gambling gives you possiblity to do 1000x but crypto does and for so many times over the years. To anyone that says ponzi, what do you think Financial system with fiat money is? Does anyone even here mention how boombers and very rich families get 100m or many times bigger loans with stocks for very very low interes rates? why are they allowed to and what are they risking, exactly? is there even a risk?
It's not as if they've done nothing on the ICE front--e.g. catalytic converters and zero-emission vehicle tax credits.

This really seems like just another step, with likely more to follow.
They aren’t all public globally — there seems to be at least one in Austria based on this data, the location of which is presently unknown.
>that's not really an "interest rate" anymore, is it?

If a grace period is ok now, why would it not be ok?

But if there has to be one rate per customer, sure, fine, why can't it be adjusted based on their minimum balance over time?

>Tell me what interest rate could replace "2% fee, 1 billing cycle grace period, 16% interest afterwards"

Option 1 would be to add (for the sake of an example) 24%, keep a sort of grace period, classify people in two groups.

People who were eligible for 2% cash back now pay 0% during the grace period, 16% after.

People who were not eligible for cash back now pay 24% during the grace period, 40% after.

Not exact numbers, just an outline.

Option 2, if they want to get rid of grace periods, they just separate people who usually pay off their balance monthly and those who usually don't and charge them the different rates.
"Want" has nothing to do with it. If people are willing to pay money for a service, that service is by definition valuable. Many thousands of people are willing to pay money in the form of gas fees to transact on the Ethereum network, so the network must be providing value. Whether you think the endpoints (assets/coins/whatever) themselves have value is irrelevant.

I have a feeling that whatever definition you're using for crypto to say it isn't valuable could also be applied to an awful lot of startups and more generally to current stock market prices...
Wow that really sounds like a terrible experience. And the duration seems incomprehensible. Hope you all are ok from it now. Can imagine that left some trauma with people.
And most interviewees, as chess players, are not Magnus Carlsen.
Thanks for posting pepe, my friend
But being able to code up a bug free solution to a well defined problem seems very relevant to me when you apply to a software engineering job. If you can't do that then what can you do?
It just shows how little you know. Like I said, you are very ignorant. There are specific biological pathways that are responsible for these major psychiatric illnesses. Many of them are metabolic. And because there are specific and quantifiable biochemical causes for hearing voices for example it’s possible for you to be objectively wrong about the whole thing as you very much are.
The point was replacing an existing functional vehicle in 2021. It would benefit from upgrades to electricity production indeed, but it's a slow progression, so holding off until the vehicle is to be decommissioned might be a net positive.

I believe we agree with eachother.
If I want to murder people does murdering people have value?
2 PWh is not really a challenge other than scaling it up. We have many orders of magnitude more wind and solar energy that the world needs. Water won't run out either, especially when you realize that salt water can be used for this process.
It’s fairly obvious that a mandate connected to taxpayer funded schools is a totally different thing than one governing all employers in the US. That’s not to defend the former so much as to point out that the set of arguments justifying it are on a whole different level of sanity than these executive fiats governing the entire labor market.
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> Strange Nights, and Some Days Too: Why You’ll Love Japan, for About a Year"[2].

Thanks for this. Sounds about right. I'm approaching the 1 year mark, still love Japan, still think it's better than America even though I make 1/4th as much, but I'm starting to question if it's all worth it when I can just live an easy stressfree (it's not the money) life back in the states.
This sounds like you were just trying to confirm a preconceived bias against Tokyo, or maybe are extrapolating from circumstances that are very different. There’s no way Tokyo is the least friendly place in the world and Kyoto the most. I’ve lived in both and the people aren’t nearly that different.
> consumers can check reviews or rely on past experiences to determine the quality of the repair before choosing a shop that works for them

You can’t be serious about this. Where are these high quality reviews?
Good thing that isn't what the parent comment is arguing then.
Nah, different levels of trust are a thing but it doesn't solve spookiness. People will, rationally, think about the range of possibilities for what you might want to talk about, and if you leave that range as "absolutely anything" it includes bad news.

Right now, it also complicates things that so much communication is over toneless chat or email; something that's clumsily worded or just brief can come across a lot worse than it was meant.

Years back, I was entirely remote my first year at the job. When I finally went to a work retreat I was shocked how nice people were to me. For the whole year I'd thought no one liked me and I was on the verge of being fired! (Also, no one's faces looked how I had guessed from their voices on conference calls :D)
If 1000 people participate in lynchings and pay money to enact them do lynchings have value?

Very comfortable saying that my definition of value is opposed to many companies and startups
Right, because people overestimate the need for repairs, and underestimate the value of security.

You can’t seriously think that most people do a good job of assessing cybersecurity risks accurately.
Fair point. Not everything happening on smart contract platforms is good and some of it may even be bad.

The post was asking if value is created and I think that my argument that the market price of doing things in the ecosystem having a real world cost translates to it having value is correct. There are plenty of insanely wasteful and horrible companies that create real value in the world.
There are plenty of risky activities one can legally partake in… are we just going to let those people die when they are injured?
You should see some of the stuff that can be done with 64k of memory (c64)
Ah, yes, multithreading. That always interacts poorly with old UNIX APIs...
Better to just have two or more Emacs processes running. One for programming, one for email, one for Elfeed. If I had to check email in Emacs, I might do it this way, but like you I just use Tbird and Emacs.
> GC can never fully replace thinking about your allocation patterns

Of course not! Nothing can. But—two things:

1. Per Knuth on premature optimization, 97% of your code should not care about such things. For those parts of your code that do need to effect their own allocation strategies, they can generally do so as well in a GCed language as another. Tracing GC forces minimal cognitive overhead on the remaining 97%, and allows it to interoperate smoothly with the 3%.

2. Tracing GC has better performance characteristics than other automatic memory management policies, in a few important respects. Compacting adds locality; bumping gives very fast allocation; copying gives very fast deallocation of deep graphs in the nursery.
I do need to try nvim again, I'm sure there's a lot of new amazing plugins.
No Eternal Meaning
I decided to look up out of curiosity, and found the official table describing the point system[0]. And to be honest, it is way more liberal compared to how point systems or immigration in general work in western countries.

Just by earning a typical "barely above entry level FAANG salary", you already got 50 out of 80 points necessary. If you got a bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience, that's another 20 points. The rest can be satisfied by age (5 points for under 40, 10 points for under 35), passing N1 level language exam (15 points), and the list goes on with tons of other ways to get those remaining points.

Seems pretty reasonable and deterministic, no H1B lottery gambling or waiting in queues and hoping you aren't getting kicked out in the next few years when your OPT extension from F1 expires. Mind you, I am not trying to roast US with this, because US system isn't particularly bad at all if you look at how difficult it is for someone outside of EU to immigrate to one of those countries. And of course I am not saying that Japan did something amazing that makes immigration universally accessible. None of the developed countries have that. But out of all of them, Japan seems to have a pretty reasonable one for professionals, and that's a recent development too.

0. https://www.lb.emb-japan.go.jp/Points-Based-Immigration-Trea...
I really think that college could be structured better, yes. I think that algorithmic fluency helps in many areas both in science and in the industry, and the way college is taught isn't good for reaching that stage. If nothing else it provides you with a good framework for how to think about and structure computation.
It may have real value, but people paying money for it doesn’t prove that. Genocide requires a lot of money, so is it valuable?
I'm happy to see California do this and hope other states wise up to the damage being done by these pollution machines. Drives me bonkers every week as neighbors and their landscapers fire up gas powered leaf blowers, edge trimmers and lawnmowers. Not only are they polluting the air and creating a noise nuisance, but for most yards they are using up a valuable energy resource for a task better suited for hand or electric tools. Think of how much more enjoyable yard work would be if you didn't have to listen to the deafening roar of everyone's internal combustion engines all the time. Rakes, push mowers and pruning shears aren't that much more effort - and most of us could use the extra exercise. If I charged these landscapers for all my lost productive time due to their noise and the impacts on my health from all the dust/noise/air pollution, an investment in batteries or extension cords looks pretty cheap.
> I am a strong supporter of the right to repair, and it informs my decisions, but in many cases, I am willing to pay a premium for known, trusted and secure platform with hardened components from a trusted and secure supply chain. That includes the labour of installing those parts. There are cheaper options around if that isn’t important to me.

IMO, that's the same sentiment that comes up in the app store tax threads. Some Apple users say they're willing to pay more, but the reality is they're being subsidized by the users that don't need or want those features.

In the case of device repair, I don't see an issue with locking the phone as perfectly as possible from the factory, but once I buy it and own it I should have the option of putting it into some type of repair mode where I accept the risk of having it repaired with 3rd party parts.

If you want to pay 2x or 3x or whatever's needed to make up the difference that's fine by me. Just don't make me participate in that system because I don't need it.

> If you don’t like Apple’s approach, use one of the other brands instead.

There's not a manufacturer in the solar system that's going to forgo the use of parts serialization unless it gets prohibited with legislation. The money to be made by locking out competition is too appealing.
To get into those modes you need to be in 1TR which means you need to assert physical presence (hold down the power button to boot); that's what I meant :)

The user is in control, they just need to prove they're physically at the machine.
Smart contracts enable all sorts of utility that we are still just barely scraping the surface of.
Sure - but of course ifixit profits from devices that break easily, whereas Apple benefits from making devices more and more indestructible, which is why they keep working on that.
That's my usual assessment, but today at RacketCon Ryan Culpeper gave a strong case for using OO more in Racket, with a demonstration of his point in his new http client library.
SICP is the GOAT as far as I am concerned. Keep working at it. I'm definitely more confident and employable because of the perspective that SICP gave me. Thanks to Lisp (and Scheme of course) I've been able to pick up a dozen other languages with ease and use them very well.
The question was why the price of crypto is rising so fast. The answer, at least for Ethereum, is that it provides a service that some people value enough to pay for. The fact that philosopher1234 doesn't value those services just means it's very slightly less valuable than it otherwise would be.
What if Xi Jinping just isn't that competent?
Because it's a pyramid scheme that is powered by hype. It just so happens that the exponential requirements for the number of participants has grown to the point where you'll start to see ppl talking about it more and more and in everyday conversations.
> If people are willing to pay money for a service, that service is by definition valuable.

This is only true if you define "value" to mean "people are willing to pay money for it."

But that's a useless and circular definition. It's only tolerated because assuming that money is a proxy for value was useful for making crude models in economics.
> A world where we can buy only Apple is a nightmare hellscape

How is this in any way related to the discussion on repairability?
Have you gone through the process of buying real money with it?
That developer really did you a favor! Something similar happened to me-- I didn't realize I could get a job without a comp sci degree, and now I'm a senior engineer/"tech lead", whatever that all means.

All I know is my users are happy and my test cases are passing.
i doubt this will be a big issue, the safety requirements around this will match the price of the damned things.
And what utility are they extracting, exactly? It's incorrect to assume that a willingness to pay is always indicative of durable underlying value. See every bubble ever, for example.

The real problem in the world of crypto is that it's gone through many boom and bust cycles without real innovation to match. The future of what crypto could deliver is as speculative now as it was five years ago.
Which data structures do you miss most?
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I want a place with narrow streets (fifteen feet wide at most). There should also be a lot of restaurants and tiny parks and cafes and the like. I want to live in an old flat a few stories above all that.
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Not if people who know the details are cryptic and vague about the validity of that basis.
Crypto has a bunch of narratives around it that are compelling to different groups of people - it should be digital gold, or it will replace centralized applications, or it is a way to bring about a libertarian future, or it'll make transactions cheaper/more accessible, or it'll get you rich quick. They contradict each other, but that's okay because no single person believes all of them. People can hold whichever narrative they want to. Some of them might be true! I don't know.

The other side of this is that certain crypto markets are highly liquid, and liquidity is sticky. Sure, they're subject to high volatility and intense drawdowns, but being a focus of trading is something that lingers a long time. Most traders don't care about fundamentals. This is just another place to speculate to them (that's not a value judgement on my part), and the best places to speculate are places with lots of other participants.

I know that basically boils down to "it's popular because it's popular," but I do think it's self-reinforcing or self-sustaining. Narratives drove money into crypto and to this high point, but I think these reflexive dynamics are also keeping it elevated
My rule of thumb is that people remember things one or two layers lower than their max. If you learned calculus then you wont forget basic algebra. If you took a grad course on electromagnetism then you wont forget basic calculus. The same goes for algorithms, if you learned them once and then never had a course where you built upon those to make more advanced algorithms you will forget them. But once you start to see them as basic building blocks for other things then you wont forget.

So from this rule, if you just learned the rules for chess you would forget them. But if you started trying to win chess games and viewed the rules as building blocks for strategies, then you will remember the rules for chess. Then you start to compose strategies etc.
Imagine if Elon Musk selling Tesla was the pin that pricked the everything bubble, hah.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1457064697782489088?t=t-...
“People will pay money for it” is not a useful definition of value. People pay money for assassination or vengeance and many extremely destructive things. What use is there in labeling these things as valuable?
Highly recommend episode #231 of Lex Fridman talking to Alex Gladstein - it's a long but interesting discussion on human rights, democracy, totalitarianism, and how money fits into the picture. Alex describes BTC as a trojan horse, a "number go up" technology that attracts buyers by being the best performing asset (certainly a tautology, it keeps performing well because it's been performing well) - once it becomes the currency du jour of dictators, those very dictators that instituted it as currency may find that they've lost control of their citizens, since they can more easily exfiltrate their wealth. (my answer to your question is, people value money that is not controlled by their government, and also serious Fear-Of-Missing-Out)

Don't come counter-arguing to me tho, I'm not the Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein is, he makes the argument better than I.
Very jealous. I work in Tesla firmware (throwaway account) and builds are notoriously long.

It was 4 years before I received a new laptop and I had to threaten to put in a 2 week notice before I finally was approved for a new one (I had been asking patiently for over a year.).

Still common to this date for us to use outdated hardware. Great company, but does not understand the importance of equipping engineers with up to date hardware.
... or to the piles of maple and oak leaves outside my home. If not disposed of, they'll accumulate alongside the leeward base of the walls of my house and end up being a fairly major fire hazard.
Good read on greater money printing: https://blog.ftx.com/blog/the-everything-bubble/

"In the US alone the Fed has bought $4 trillion of bonds in the past 18 months, while the US government is spending $875M per hour in 2021.

This is driving people further out the risk curve, and as we’ve said in the past, “QE Infinity turned your savings account into your checking account, the bond market into your savings account, the equity market into the bond market, the venture market into the equity market, while given rise to the crypto market as the new venture market.”"
I wonder if it's relevant that the golden age of trading cards, the 60s, was prelude to a decade of rampant inflation.

A friend of mine said in late 2020, w/r/t the explosion of NFTs, that we'd look back on it from the great depression of 2028 as the moment when the dollar became worthless, although most people hadn't realized it yet.
Why not just make an incremental step like banning two stroke leaf blowers. I don't understand. Is consistent incremental progress too complicated for the big brain law makers?
The question that follows would be: how do you know what was intended to be less performant versus optimized on-demand? The intentions can be easily inferred when the query at hand was a simple join, and to no surprise, many cloud database offerings _do_ provide optimization automation (Azure SQL will for example even automatically add obvious indexes if you let it). But what if the query did need to scan all the rows in a join, but was only a one-off, and you didn’t want to pay the continued perf and storage costs of maintaining an index? The cloud provider can’t know that, and even with proactive measures (“make it slower” can’t work because speed is part of the product design, and budget controls can only go so far before it impacts your own customers) there’s only so much that can be done. The choice of infinity scale tools comes with infinity scale costs, and so there’s a responsibility that engineers using these tools need to understand what they’re accepting with that choice.
I have some "fond" memories of the Fung Wah circa 2002-2005. I use to take it roundtrip about once a week during that time period. There was the time that we broke down on the Triborough Bridge and were stuck for hours.

Or the time that a woman managed to lock herself in the bathroom without anyone else knowing. And there were no lights on in there. And it was night. So she spent a few hours screaming for help in a stinky bus bathroom, with no help to be found.
I looked at buying one of these a while ago. The AML/KYC hoops you need to jump through to buy HNS are a deal killer for me. I'd literally pay 20x what they want if I could use a normal credit card.
A quarter of a million Afghan civilians died at war in the last 20 years due to a sham war predicated on phony evidence. This alone should tell you that all sorts of horrible atrocities are valuable.

Crypto still looks and smells like a huge sham, tho, so I’m inclined to agree with your other points.
They could do this a lot cheaper just by stacking some of the glut of empty shipping containers in a huge block.
True spinlocks in user space are rarely a good idea. You would use a spinlock in the first place because you assume that the critical section is short, but the kernel often gets in the way of that assumption. The thread in the critical section can run out of its time slice, or there’s an interrupt etc. etc.

And once this happens, you now have a descheduled thread that owns the lock and a spinning thread waiting to acquire it, which is a recipe for priority inversion. As far as the kernel can tell, it’s the spinning thread that’s doing some important work so it has no reason to preempt it and schedule the waiting thread, which is exactly the wrong thing to do in this situation.
> Cryptocurrency is backed by the same thing as any other currency: popularity and consumer confidence.

I don't think currency is just a confidence game. The most important thing is that the currency is actually used to make transactions that are meaningful to human life. A currency that isn't used to exchange goods is just a collectible. There is no such thing as an abstract "store of value" that has no actual utility other than as a store of value. Crypto will fail when people tire of owning the collectible and want to exchange it for something useful.