skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read through your other comments, and I don't think that there being a market for money games is sufficient to keep the crypto train going, if it can't find its way into the underpinnings of the real economy. People play money games with things that are indispensable, like the stock market. Failing that, I'm skeptical that people will find crypto interesting after it finds its top. It may just find itself as a perpetually fringe and somewhat seedy sector, like MLM -- a place where fortunes are made off the backs of folks who are betting their meager savings on a chance at better prospects.
https://archive.md/ujxAx
> We need a true industrial policy and state capitalist system similar to what Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore have.

You forgot China. If you institute strong controls over industry in a country the size (and culture) of America, you won't get Japan, you'll get China, and the corresponding anti-features of their system (such as authoritarianism in general, and companies acting as agents of the state in particular).

Very few people want that, and certainly not me.

There are far better ways to build robust manufacturing systems than complete government control.
Covid is dangerous. Media hyperbole is also dangerous. Western Europe countries are experiencing a covid wave, hopefully it will peter out in a couple of months. Though we will never hear "cases falling through the floor" in the media, they'll just shift the attention to the next hotspot. Austria, which is a bit ahead of the curve, is seeing deaths plateauing at 5/day/M. Hopefully they already crested the peak.

Be wary of "skyrocketing" claims from questionable sources.

Precedents:

* Florida, which was hypermediatized in late summer, then silently recovered.

* Balkan countries, which had an early wave, and are on a recovery course. Note how their case numbers didn't go that high, most likely because they are poor and testing penetration is not that high.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/florida

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
It’s a business decision on AWS’s part. If they want to reduce cognitive load or objection of some customers, they’ll be more willing to “eat it”.

My strong guess is if you had a free account, setup a budget cap, went over it, and they decided to charge you*, a quick email to support would get it waived.

I’m very much a fan of AWS, in part because while they have the chance to uphold the legal terms, my experience is that they’re pretty customer friendly.

* Early on, I had many bills under $1/mo that they just comped without me having to do anything.
The different media types is probably the hardest issue; I'd wager that for most people, backing up > 2 TB on anything but spinning rust will be impractical/prohibitively expensive.

A slight twist of this: I now have data old enough that accessing it with modern computers is starting to become a challenge. Thankfully I migrated all my, once enormous collection of 50,000 MB on tape, to just be files on my file server, but I'm worried about the longevity of optical media, and now I nervously glance at my collection of even older media ....
We have an African Grey parrot - my daughter said she was in the room and he was busy eating and dropped some food on the ground - he looked at it then vocalized "bye bye".

We say "bye bye" to him whenever we leave the house.

Another one is the phrase "kom kom" (come here) whenever he is outside on his perch and we want him to come inside.

He then started using the phrase "kom kom" with my wife when he wants to be picked up by her.
Consider participating in hackathons too, most of them are virtual now. You will build a verified portfolio and it's fun too.
Ohh. *facepalm* Yeah that's way better.
Three weeks ago, three of my devices stopped working — all for different reasons — and required different steps to fix them. This week, one device suddenly start working again, another connected after some initial struggles, and a third became so intrusive I had to move it to another room. This isn’t a device or brand problem. It’s an industry problem. Smart home products look like hardware but are really software, subject to updates and changes that will break integrations, contain bugs, and add new, unwanted features. But I got help from a software upgrade at https://computools.com/consulting/ and all my devices are working fine now!
Blockchains rely on intermediaries to process transactions. The difference is, in a blockchain-based system, the end user has no freedom at all to choose which intermediary they want to use. The intermediary is chosen at random, according to how much useless computations they have done. And because of these useless computations, the system is also less economically efficient, in other words more expensive, compared to alternatives.
Neal Stephenson makes an extensive case for Athena in Cryptonomicon towards the end of the book in a conversation between Root and Randy Waterhouse.

I highly recommend it.

And, yes, I consider Athena.
>The inlet flow for that would develop far more than 14psi as the volume of air ingested is enormous.

The max difference is 14 psi because that's atmospheric pressure.
From my past experience with AWS SES, it requires a bit more development to handle bounces, spam, etc. Perhaps at $previousjob, we did not have the resources to handle this development time.

Personally, I prefer Postmark. Their onboarding, support, and pricing is excellent. The interface is good and decent integrations.
They don't use silica sand to make semiconductors, they use quartzite. Which isn't available near near Toledo. There's plenty of other places in the US, but first you have to actually know the right mineral to look for.
not just that: employers, insurances and banks could use this information against you (police record = bad business)

"decriminalised", but given "right circumstances" will screw you for years
It's hard to believe $2.6T worth of crypto is all for criminal applications. Maybe you've overlooked something.
I’m unclear on what you are complaining about: other people enjoying other vices than your own or air pollution. While a particular odor to the stated air pollution can involve a personal preference, the odor is question arguably emits fewer carcinogenic substances and the rolling papers and filters involved certainly pollute less. Single-pull pipe smoking is rather common in some places, meaning the consumer makes one inhalation and exhalation of smoke and is done, not to mention the ubiquitous vaporizer.
I do hope you aren’t merely trodding on the relief of cannabis consumers not being legally repressed anymore, as that would be a prejudice 100+ years out of date.

One additional point: you mention “having had consumed” meaning you feel at liberty to decide what other humans mental states should be?
"it's stated that only 2% of Americans say they are satisfied with life, compared to 17% of Germans"

This isn't actually what the original study says, it was quoted in a confusing way by this article. 2% is the number of Americans who "refrain from offering detailed responses, responding instead that they are satisfied with life, that they feel fulfilled, or something else broadly general but still positive." [0]

So 17% of Germans find life fulfilling but don't particularly feel inclined to share their reasoning.

The percentage of Americans who find meaning from some source is clearly much higher, although I'm having a hard time finding that number.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/11/18/general-rather...
Two Norwegian journalists arrested after interviewing Qatar World Cup Manager
Apple sues NSO Group for attacking iPhones with Pegasus spyware
I guess I can understand the idea of blockchains as a better way to play financial games. That's a valid use for which there is demand. Another use I can understand is hedging against political instability. Neither personally appeal to me, but I get it.

Still, it seems to me that an awful lot of people are playing this game with scant knowledge of the rules or of what's involved, which is a bit like investing in Tesla without understanding what a car is. I also feel that a lot of the "value" that has been built up is predicated on the idea that Bitcoin (and/or other coins) will indeed become the new world currency. I have seen a few people saying this very thing (or close to it) in this post's comments.

That's not to say they are wrong. However, if the outcome of defi is limited to playing financial games, there is a point where people will lose confidence in this "new world currency" forecast and the price of BTC will see a severe correction.

And that's one thing that I find bothersome in this whole craze: the fact that many ideas in the crypto space have legitimate value does not imply that it is profitable to invest in any existing technology. The future CAN be defi at the same time that Bitcoin might crash to zero, if it happens to be the wrong horse. Worse yet, existing entrenched interests in cryto have a vested interest in making sure that the only technologies that succeed are those they have a stake in, so if Bitcoin succeeds, that may very well be at the expense of vastly superior technology. I think there is a very real risk that the success of Bitcoin will either prevent or significantly delay the emergence of good, efficient blockchain technology.
Its not hard to understand at all, they willingly screw over customers, just look at all the posters here falling all over themselves to excuse this blatantly shitty customer hostile behavior.
The actual survey results seem more interesting: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/11/18/what-makes-lif...

For instance it highlights the finding that 62% of South Koreans and 58% of Japanese respondents provided only one source of meaning in life vs only 1% of Spanish respondents and then goes on to clarify how that skews the results:

> These differences help explain why the share giving a particular answer in certain publics may appear much lower than others, even if the topic is the top mentioned source of meaning for that given public. To give a specific example, 19% of South Koreans mention material well-being while 42% say the same in Spain, but the topic is ranked first in South Korea and second in Spain. Given this, researchers have chosen to highlight not only the share of the public who mention a given topic but also its relative ranking among the topics coded, both in the text and in graphics.
Normally in these kind of cryptogram puzzles the leading digits of a number can't be 0. Your solution has A = 0.
These surveys in my opinion are meaningless (pun intended). It depends too much on interpretation, who answered them, what their current life situation is, and most importantly the set of answers is too reductionist, and can't possibly capture a complex dynamic system like human meaning and happiness.
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
>I have 18 different lights to turn on and I can just hit one switch on my way downstairs and it’s fully illuminated (no voice command necessary) and I don’t have to visit 18 light switches to turn them off again.

In the analog world we'd just wire those 18 lights on a circuit controlled by a single switch...
When you buy bitcoin you are _investing_ in the possibility that the bitcoin will be part of the economic network.

The earlier you invest the better the returns. As time passes and bitcoin grabs hold a position the S curve of possible returns will be less. Same as investing in stocks.

The value is brought by being early adopter. Historically bitcoin is gaining adoption, but one would argue we're still early.

Paradoxically if you think that bitcoin is useless, it's early, if you think it's a sure thing, it's late.

That has nothing to do with bitcoin though, it's universally true for any type of risk investment.
In Korean and most Asian cultures, it goes without saying that material well-being is a means to supporting your family.

I wouldn't take much away from a multiple choice question about such big, abstract, interconnected concepts.
I think it's the latter. Over the last decade, CA (especially northern) has demonstrated a spectacular failure on meeting housing demands. TX is the second largest economy so it's a quite natural to become the new candidate, especially in the context that NY has been suffering from a similar housing issue.
I2C is present in most modern computers. Look up SMBus.

SPI is as well
> Natural immunity has been shown to be 6-14x as effective as full vaccination.

> The fact that fully vaccinated people have the same viral load with Delta invalidates a huge amount of your (and the Irish government's) reasoning behind demonizing the unvaccinated.

Do you have sources for either of these claims? Everything I've seen seems to indicate the opposite.
Isn't that easily verifiable?

One expert told us that the chance of catching illicit actors is “magnitudes greater” using blockchain than in the traditional banking sector. Another went so far as to say that “if all criminals used blockchain, we could wipe out illicit financial activity.” https://cryptoforinnovation.org/resources/Analysis_of_Bitcoi...
What are the odds. Did you maybe bring some object with some radioactive material inside?
There is a nice, succinct explanation for this (which relies on some intuition or knowledge of modulo arithmetic and congruences).

First, a small defnition: let dsum(X) denote "sum of the digits of the decimal representation of whole number x".

In the modulo 9 congruence, 0 and 9 are equivalent symbols. 9 ≡ 0 (mod 9). Though distinct integers outside of the congruence they are indistinguishable elements of the congruence.

Observe that since 9 is congruent to 0, the number 10 is congruent to 1: 10 ≡ 1 (mod 9). Therefore, all powers of 10 are also congruent to 1: 1 ≡ 10 ≡ 100 ≡ 1000 ... (mod 9).

Next, note that these numbers x ∈ {1, 10, 100, 1000, ...} all have the property that x ≡ dsum(X) (mod 9). The sum of decimal digits of each power of 10 is 1, and each power of 10 is congruent to 1, modulo 9.

Within a congruence, whenever we multiply by any congruence element that is indistinguishable from 1, we get the same element. So all of these numbers 1, 10, 100, ... are identity elements in the modulo 9 congruence.

Identity means that, for instance 7 ≡ 70 ≡ 700 ≡ 7000 = 7000 ... (mod 9). If we multiply the congruence element 7 by any power of 10, the result is congruent to 7, modulo 9, because 10 is the identity element: no matter how many times we multiply an integer by 10, the resulting integer is the same modulo 9 congruence element. (Moreover, also note that dsum(7) = dsum(70) = dsum(700) ...).

Next, note that every decimal integer is formed by a sum combination of multiples of power of 10.

For instance, 1234 is equal to 1 x 1000 + 2 x 100 + 3 x 10 + 4.

But suppose we do this arithmetic in the modulo 9 congruence: it must necessarily be that:

1000 + 200 + 30 + 4 ≡ 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 (mod 9).

This is because, individually, 1000 ≡ 1 (mod 9), and 200 ≡ 2 (mod 9), 30 = 3 (mod 9). The power of 10 factors do not matter, since they are really powers of the identity element 1 in the mod 9 congruence.

The succinct explanation is then: every whole number has a decimal form made up of digits, which are multiplied by powers of 10. But in the modulo 9 congruence, powers of 10 do not matter: they map to the multiplicative identity element 1. That leaves the sum of the digits indistinguishable (in the modulo 9 congruence) from the value of the number (which is also a kind of sum of the digits, with each digit being scaled by a different power of 10).
> China is completely uninterested in military aggression

Except they increasingly fly their fighter jets in Taiwan's airspace. And regularly engage in deadly border disputes with India. And continue to conduct cyberwarfare.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58794094

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_China%E2%80%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_China
> I don't see what's wrong here

Best estimates are 100 million dead, and you don't see what's wrong?!? What's wrong with you?

"Capitalism did the same"? That may make capitalism worse, but it doesn't make communism better. They still killed an insane number of people.

And, "the 100 million indigenous souls in the Americas"? You blame their deaths on capitalism? Imperialism, maybe. I could buy that. But capitalism? To a large degree (not totally), no, that is not capitalism's fault.
I suppose what they referred to is Java's (currently incubating) vector computation API. It lets you express vectorized algorithms in high-level way, with the API's methods being translated of the corresponding SIMD instructions of the underlying platform. I.e. you'll get vectorized execution on x86 and AArch-64 in a portable way, including transparent fallback to scalar execution if specific operations aren't supported on a specific target platform.
> Bitcoin has a non zero floor price. I think anyone would agree with this.

I don't. I don't think it's literally zero - even if it drops to $.01 some people will still buy it on the theory that it might go up to $.02. But all of its value is speculative, I don't think it has any intrinsic value (which is equivalent to saying I don't think participating in the crypto economy, smart contracts and all that, has value). And the reasons are as explained in the article - beyond avoiding regulators, it doesn't allow us to do much that we couldn't do before, and what it allows us to do isn't all that valuable.

Even if I knew with absolute certainty that I would never be able to sell it for a profit, I might still buy gold, e.g. to make conductive wire. That's the intrinsic value. What's the equivalent for BTC? How many bitcoins would you buy if you knew that you would not be able to sell them for a profit?
Hi Scott,

You changed my life when at 12 years old I first saw a computer and the first things I saw running on it was Voodoo Castle and The Count.

Back in 1979 it was literally like I had discovered magic was real because here in Australia computers were unknown to most ordinary people.

It's hard to convey how much this blew my 12 year old mind. I don't think I stopped thinking about Scott Adams adventures for years after that.

I LOVED all your games, so much atmosphere.

Thanks for creating that magical part of my life.

Favorites:

Voodoo Castle

The Count

Mystery Fun House

AdventureLand

Savage Island (though it was too hard for me)_
Pew is not some random company doing research - it's a well-respected non-profit that focuses on demographic and religious research and has been operating for ~17 years. I'm quite sure they know how to run a proper survey to account for things like language differences.
Yes, if I can't get the system up & running for computational tasks, I figure I can always pivot the business model and sell its output as a world-class entropy source. My only problem is the lack of a moat around the model since anyone with a steady supply of cats, automated laser pointers, and a few hundred $/month in kitty kibble can reproduce my setup and make the whole thing a race to the bottom on price. I think at that point I could turn my accumulated knowledge into an excellent cat-entropy system servicing business, fine-tuning and optimizing other people's setups, advising on breed mixtures, laser speed, etc.
That’s a good point. Historically, groups religious and otherwise have looked unfavorably on the idea that one’s purpose in life is to concentrate material wealth for one’s self. Acceptable beneficiaries are usually the government or family or religion, depending on the period.
Because bundling DLL in your installer is not hard? Because most non-toy program will have DLL of their own anyway that will need installing?

As for the original craziness header, I found it hilariously, but pretty typically, harsh and unfair. Finding the compiler and all is environment is not an easy task in any OS. I've been programming for a looooong time I remember havign to write code that compiled on: IRIX, Solaris, HpUx, IBM unix, Windows and more.

Anyone who ever took a look at configure.sh knows the horrors it holds at bay.
Is there a generalized "governmental mass killings" page?
Duplicate. See front page.
Supposedly the group is more important than the individual in "Eastern" cultures, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170118-how-east-and-wes... so it's perhaps curious that Korea is the outlier in rating "family" relatively low.
An underestimated chunk of AWSs costs is people. They employ >50k people, and likely have a salary bill of several billion dollars, a significant portion of revenue.

50,000 x 250k = 12.5B

Also, they do cross-subsidize, because many AWS services are either hardly used (CodePipeline) or free (CloudFormation) and the cost to run those services is non-negligible.
I think that small businesses already get tax breaks compared to big businesses.

In a lot of cases I'm sure their profits are small enough they don't pay any taxes at all.
Safety? Absolutely! But safety of what? Their own ideas and ideals at the cost of everyone else's.
What's the cloud solution (at major providers) that automatically geographically replicates data? For example, S3 buckets are tied to a region, which cannot be considered reliable - a single DC can always burn down, or even just intermittently unreachable. I'm looking for something that accepts an "upload" command that will (eventually) replicate the data to several regions. Ideally the regions can be changed at any point later, too.

This would take care of 3 and 1, sadly not 2 but 2 is pretty hard.
Very nuanced take; I agree.

Unfortunately, it's impossible for the societal / cultural to progress at all without having the free time and tranquility-of-psyche to actually reflect on life.

Concurrent is a severe lack of noblesse oblige in the U.S. The highest strata has forgotten its cultural roots, and lacks spiritual depth in this age.

Take for example Beatrice Webb calling Andrew Carnegie a "reptile" -- a time-honored tradition. Now, there is a complete lack of self-policing within the betters, a la "Michael O. Church."
The Tribalism in Social Media (2018)
> while it works, simpler solutions also provide the same level of reliability.

It exists and is important because many backup strategies are broken and people don't realize it.

For example your own strategy treats a PC's local storage and an external drive as distinct backups when in reality you've only evaluated hardware failures when formulating it and not malicious actors. In 3-2-1, in particular the media type + off-site thing, tries to "trick" you into having a backup which isn't accessible from the same system that it is backing up (i.e. offline backups).

Your backup strategy has been used almost verbatim by multiple institutions who got cryto-locked. The external drive was hit and then the cloud backup service happily synced the now encrypted files. They went from "backed up in three places" to backed up in zero places, and are now calling the cloud provider hoping that their backups had unencrypted copies in them.

3-2-1 isn't simple, but it is good, and that's what it tries to be.
I think the argument is that it is a lie that this will translate to life satisfaction. Americans could probably take more vacation, for instance.

The survey is being misinterpreted though. Its not that only 2% of Americans are satisfied, its that 2% of Americans offer vague positive vibes rather than a specific answer to what gives them meaning. I don't think I am stereotyping when I say Germany, Japan, and South Korea are more reserved culturally, so of course they're going to be more likely to say "yeah things are going fine overall".
> Reconciling your urges with your less affectual sensations can help you conserve your willpower immensely.

Could you provide an example from your experience and include the process?
I don't think this is what rattlesnakedave was describing.