skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People talk about things like Bitcoin as a threat to sovereign currencies, and they are, as competitors, of sorts

No, they're competitors for the stores of sovereign wealth that are the backing of sovereign currencies.
It's not ultra-tall. It's quite short. It just happens to be ultra narrow.
1GB of egress costs about 9 cents.

The cost savings is equivalent to ~$9/mo in standard US regions. Nobody is going to migrate clouds over a $9/mo saving.

If we're talking about CloudFront that comes out to $85. That's actually a pretty good savings, but it's distinct from egress. CloudFront's pricing isn't locking customers in due to egress pricing because it's a CDN, not a data storage service.
> due us just having faster machines

?? These benchmarks keep the machine constant. And I’m not sure we’ve seen faster machines in a long time. Clock speeds have remained fairly constant and gains are solely in more cores.
If you want a fast laptop, your two priorities are, IMHO, the thermal design and making as much room as possible for the battery.

I'm afraid that RPi level of performance in a laptop is going to be underwhelming, though still interesting for many cases.

If there was a widely accepted standard for laptop main boards, like there is for desktop and server boards, that would be wonderful. I don't expect it to ever happen though.
Oh I thought this thing involved the Bank of Japan, but evidently it is all private sector. Arg nevermined. Hopefully the Bank of Japan does indeed continue with it's exploratory plans, though.
Current Californian high school math classrooms may have sizes of 1 teacher to 40 students, with classroom size penalties ending at middle school. This is also true of the more prestigious areas mentioned in this forum. I cannot imagine a successful Montessori experience with 1:40 ratios.

When considering the issue of individual variability in math ambition and readiness, it's more plausible to have a student who is ready for Geometry to move into a classroom where a teacher has already been polishing a year-long discourse on Geometry, as opposed to expecting any teacher to be ready for a discussion on Geometry.

Under Equitable Math this will not be possible. Instead, all students must always be at the same level up until the last year.
you make it an optional field. it’s converting an optional field to required that is effectively impossible
I do not think this is an example of the (real) problem you are highlighting. First, the ECDC is not a government. Second, their previous standpoint was not inconsistent or wrong: in particular, there was no urgent need for boosters (for healthy youngsters) in September since the vaccines appeared to be working well.

Did you read the ECDC guidance, in September and now? Can you point out the passage that exemplifies your point? Or do you have another example of a government saying that young people will never get boosters? Since naturally you did not write your comment based solely on the tone implied by the words 'major shift' in the headline of the Reuters article...

There are certainly people, journalists, and government ministers guilty of what you say. But throwing a catchall accusation around is a bit cheap, in my opinion.
They're the same thing:

The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...
It's even funnier than that – back in 2019, Adjoint was bragging about "delivering blockchain technology built specifically for the needs of the financial industry" [1]

No idea if they pivoted away from blockchain or just stopped saying it on their website, but it makes me take this with several grains of salt.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190502154457/https://www.adjoi...
I did that on a base model APC UPS that would beep when the power was interrupted, even briefly. I didn't care to know, I just wanted it to work quietly so I de-soldered the beeper, problem solved.
If this is true (I honestly don't know) then he's a master of the craft.

And also unbelievably cynical, but looking at his work it's obvious that this is the case.
and then I'll just write a script to use GitHub Copilot to write a bunch of crap during my down times and when I get back I'll just make another commit that says, "Changed my mind, refactoring...wheeeee".
I mean, nexuses of grocery stores exist in rural areas. But 15 minutes is pretty close for such a town. 5% of rural people live in a food desert. Meanwhile you probably live in Ohio or Illinois, because if you look at the Aldi map, that seems to be where most rural Aldis are. (WI and FL are the next guesses.) But, with three exceptions in NM and a bunch in Cali, there are no Aldis west of Dallas. That's a huge area.
The proof many CEO are just overpaid idiots who look nice in a suit:

Jamie Dimon: "I regret and should not have made that comment’ about China’s Communist Party"

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jamie-dimon-i-regret-and-s...
Sanctioned by who? If it is the USA, then in this "just world", the US should also sanction itself as a criminal enterprise
I don't think AWS's billing system is robust enough for that. In pure AWS fashion you have to create a billing alarm, which pushed an event to SNS which triggers a lambda to shut down your stuff but it is possible. The catch is that billing metrics are estimates and alarms might be delayed.
Fun fact -- the majority of bank loans are also for real estate, further bidding up the price of housing.

The Great Mortgaging is a great source on this:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w20501/w205...

Just look at this scary chart:
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/content/images/2021/10/2021-...
So chip production does have a labor cost, but the equipment used is quite pricey, and so the relative cost of labor is less. Also, given how pricey the equipment and how demanding the cleanroom protocol (which, if not followed, reduces yield of saleable products), there are a lot of incentives to make sure you have long-term employees who are well trained and motivated to keep their job.

Also, Austin (and other parts of Texas) already have a fair number of chip fabs, and have for decades. I used to work in some of them. Samsung even has existing fab capacity in Texas. So it's not such a new thing.
Annual boosters for all volunteers or annual boosters for risk patients seem to be the most likely future strategy, depending on the approach of the local health authorities and the number of infections in the future. Just like with influenza, and it's probably going to be combined with the influenza shots.
The people losing money to bitcoin are bagholders in inferior monetized assets like USD, real estate, etc.

It's still a net gain for society though - introducing good hard money is extremely positive-sum.
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This sounds more like reading news selectively reporting whatever is most engaging. From the mask stuff to the vaccine boosters there wasn't much serious doubt among scientists (yes I'm sure you can find somebody and some comment). I'm not sure what can really be expected of politicians (who aren't scientists) or scientists (who are public figures), much less reporters.

The booster trials literally started as soon as the first EUV was issued, because they were expected to be more effective. They didn't invest in it because they thought it was unnecessary. The EUV was necessary because the disease is wide spread, communicable, and deadly enough to overwhelm ICUs, otherwise epidemiologists would prefer to have even more data. However, when the risk to your patient of actual illness is more than an order of magnitude higher without action... you take emergency action.

I hear similar stuff from engineers who now are looking for even more data on the effectiveness of masks, because they've read reports saying they aren't effective, or questioning studies saying that they are. The germ theory of disease hasn't been disproven. People don't wear masks well. Cloth masks aren't very effective protection (of the person wearing them) due to bypass flow. Viruses can enter through the eyes as well, so a mask can never be "perfect". Masks and glasses also protect (if you bother to wash your hands) from accidental surface contacts. At the same time there are doctors/nurses working in ICUs intubating COVID patients for months without getting exposed... that's an (uncontrolled) experiment running in thousands of places. It's not published, but it's known to be effective by people working there. The PPE is expensive and training along with diligence is required, because even if you're vaccinated you can spread it just not as likely and not as much and not as long (another long chain of but, but, buts... which add up to more than an order of magnitude).
I think this is the best take.

The article really falls down at the end where the conclusion is basically, "I don't care about people's privacy concerns and discomfort because I like street photography and enjoy making it." With a hint of, "and other people like to look at it, too. (Ignoring the uncomfortable people who would immediately refuse to have their photograph displayed, if asked)". So the author is basically arguing that they know better than their subjects and think their favorite hobby is good for society. That's not a very convincing justification.

As others have mentioned, being surveilled for specific purposes which we can generally assume will be viewed by one or zero people is different than being frozen in time for many people to dissect and judge.
Basic goods like food?

Imports, Total Estimated Value by Country, 2017 (most recent) [0]: Canada: 26,200.3, Mexico: 23,541.0, [...] China: 6,159.7

Or energy?

"In 2020, the United States exported about 8.51 MMb/d and imported about 7.86 MMb/d of petroleum1, making the United States a net annual petroleum exporter for the first time since at least 1949." [1]

Or arms?

Based and manufacturing in the US: Honeywell, Huntington Ingalls (ex: Northrup Grumman Shipbuilding), L-3, UTC, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin [2]

If you're talking a full manpower, total war scenario that requires mobilization of the entire country's non-military industrial base...?

I think there's a reason there haven't been any wars like that between nuclear armed powers. Ever.

Because by the time it gets to that stage now, someone has fired nuclear weapons if they have them.

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/us-food-imports/us-fo...

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

[2] https://www.therichest.com/the-biggest/top-20-largest-arms-m...
I think this is actually an argument for investing in crypto.com, other exchange companies, or some of the huge bitcoin mining operations. These are the entities creating value by keeping the bitcoin network running and moving $millions worth of bitcoin around between wallets. Owning bitcoin itself does not grant you any equity in these profit-making entities that actually make bitcoin work.
And how IS fiat a Ponzi scheme? You don't buy into the US dollar expecting your "share" of dollars to go up. You just use it to pay for stuff.
no idea, there's also a fish truck that dumps fish in it every week or so
For all adults means everyone above 18. That seems rather extreme.

It is important to remember that initially we meant to protect the vulnerable. I still remember when several government ministers in their late 50s and people even in their 80s contracted COVID-19 and the majority of those were saying in TV interviews that they had luckily only mild symptoms. I remember when the chief medical officer was stressing that even though the virus can be deadly that the vast majority of people will experience no or very mild symptoms.

That was at the beginning of the pandemic. I contracted the virus like at the very start and I had indeed only mild symptoms. Almost a year later I received my very first shot as soon as I was eligible. I was very happy because people were saying that I could get COVID again and I simply didn't want to be unwell for a week again even if it was a mild illness to me. Then I got my second shot as well as soon as I could get it. I was convinced that after my natural infection that I had a very strong immune response, because I was knowingly exposed to COVID many times before I got my first vaccine jab and never felt ill again.

Now I have had:
- Natural infection before vaccine: I had a very mild illness
- 1st shot
- 2nd shot
- Many natural exposures to COVID which might have boosted my immune response.

I honestly don't feel very keen anymore on yet another jab. Mainly because when I got my first two jabs I had quite noticeable heart palpitations for a few days after and now I'm thinking why do I still need to keep getting more jabs if even when I didn't have a jab at all I was already strong enough to shake off the virus.

I do understand that we need to have a lot of immunity and I do believe that I have a lot of immunity without any further boosters. I'm certain that my natural immunity has given me the best protection from the beginning with the jabs acting as long lasting boosters.

Can someone explain to me why I should even entertain the idea of yet another booster. I feel like I'm ok to get infected with COVID-19 once every so often like with a cold or flu. We all have a baseline protection which we didn't have before. Now our illness should be mild for everyone, even the older and more vulnerable people.
What use are records of your in-game assets if the servers where you play the game are down?
Oh, a fellow Burner.

Nearby Gerlach is Reno, the biggest little city in the world. It's 100 miles or 1 hr:45 mins away by car, 51 weeks of the year. With no income tax and a Tesla plant, Reno is thriving. Northern Nevada may have a lot of desolation, but the same rules of real estate apply - the three most important things are location, location, location. Land in Reno is expensive compared to Gerlach but cheap compared to downtown SF, at $270/sq ft (of course, SF being one of the most expensive cities in the US means everywhere is cheaper).
explains why that particular person's entire personality seemed to be based around anti-cryptocurrency sentiment.
This approach might work in an industrial setting for photo-electrochemical applications but is highly unlikely for residential or commercial power generation. mono-Si panels last for decades with no need for maintenance other than regular surface cleaning and no lead issues.

However you could, in an industrial setting, do something like this:

"Integration of a Hydrogenase in a Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrode for Tandem Solar Water Splitting 2020"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32010793/

Here you could use a catalyst regeneration strategy where you basically have a little production line onsite and as each unit wears out you just pop in a new one and send the old one to be regenerated, that's more plausible.
Disclaimer: I think everyone in this thread agrees we should try to improve the lives of all animals

> why not just stick with feeding the locals? At least those are free to decide to visit you or not.

This is almost never a good idea (for any animal). Assuming you're feeding them the right type of food (bread is terrible for ducks for example), you're training the animals to rely on humans for food. This both makes it more difficult for them to survive on their own should you stop feeding them, but for some of the potentially aggressive ones (like geese) will become comfortable approaching humans, even the humans who do not want to be near them.

I've read your stance on animal rescue places and I generally agree - most aren't good or are glorified zoos. But I do think there's genuine ones that are helpful, and I think between those and rescues where you can give the animal direct attention are the best ways to humanely assist animals who would otherwise die in the wild.

My problem is with the traders and terrible owners who only use them as a show piece. A good owner should be providing ample enrichment and attention
I sympathize with the author but I would consider non-consensual street photography ill-advised at best, not necessarily immoral. It's an accessibility issue, and like with many accessibility issues, it helps to engage in a "thought experiment."

Just like you would assume someone with a wheelchair may want to enter your public building, you should assume that when taking picture of strangers you are being invasive towards someone struggling with anxiety and body image. It doesn't mean you _are_ being invasive whenever you take photos, just like a person with a wheelchair may never want to enter your building. I personally don't feel comfortable taking photos of strangers except if they are very far away in the shot. The author mentions the "possibility of sometimes making someone slightly uncomfortable" but from personal experience that's not the worst case scenario.

And of course there are exceptions like emergencies where you should take photos.

"But for an action to transcend individual discomfort and enter the netherworld of immorality there has to be both a strong societal consensus as well as palpable, real-world harm resulting from it." I can't really agree... does something need to have "strong societal consensus" of immorality to be immoral? Does a wheelchair-inaccessible public building need a disabled person sitting at the entrance to be immoral?
> That means that if banks (which are businesses) are not good at doing business, the government is essentially forced to treat them as dollar-equivalents by making them whol

The federal government also charges the banks for that insurance. It usually is not a loss for the government.
> There's some evidence of waning immunity and reduced antibody titers, and greater incidence of breakthrough infections for people who have been vaccinated a long time. There's also just a lot of evidence that 3 is better than 2 for likelihood of breakthrough infection

I do not contest this. I am likely to receive a booster shot myself in January.

What I contest is that they make the original suggestion that "only weakened immune responses will receive the booster" with no implication the policy will change with new data. Now it is a "major shift", and not an "predicted outcome acted upon with sufficient data". This is a consistent problem in public messaging throughout the pandemic; people feel uncertain and like the government is as clueless as them.

> There's no way the dose schedule is ideal steady-state

Again, I am not in medicine, nor do I in general care for this style of research, yet I have been made to do it consistently because I do not understand the public messaging, and I am quite staunchly a believer that you cannot simply not act against a pandemic. This is my complaint. I do not argue the conclusions you put forth, simply the way the governments have been unable to outline scenarios in any meaningful way and thus give off the appearance of constant reactivity without foresight
1TB / month CDN usage for Free ? Ignoring Cloudflare, I am not aware of any other CDN that offer anything similar.

Although their pricing [1] after the first 1TB is still very expensive.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=3
With a high tax on improvements (as is the case today), there is incentive to make improvements in a way that the municipality won’t know about (as is the case today). The easiest way for the municipality to learn about improvements is via the building department permitting and inspections process, so a lot of work is done without pulling permits.

Lowering or removing this disincentive would increase the amount of work that gets inspected.

As an owner-occupant, I want the inspections and am willing to pay one-time for an impartial second set of eyes.

As an owner-occupant, I do not want to pay a recurring subscription fee (in the form of higher property tax) as a result of the inspection.

Given how many properties have obviously recent remodels and no permits pulled in the last 30 years, it’s fair to say that at least some of the market has decided that permits aren’t worth the tax increases.
Wait, fragmentation is not included in that 6%. It is that a GC with no fragmentation will already suffer a 6% overhead. A region-based GC will suffer from additional temporary fragmentation on top of those 6% as well, because some segments can be filled only partially with live objects until they are compacted. That effect might be actually bigger because allocations are done only from contiguous space, and it can't just try to allocate from the "holes" until it compacts them. And you also need some additional room to do allocations from in order to avoid too frequent GCs. So I'm practice it is not 6% but sometimes 600%.
I work in real estate so I'm alway interested in people's hypotheses... knowing that the Millennial and Z generations are both bigger than the Baby Boomers, I'm curious why your hypothesis is that housing prices will be in a free fall rather than continue to be a case of less (desirable) supply relative to demand.
In this case, the state wants to decide what sexualities that children are allowed to be exposed to. Is that a can of worms that you really want opened? If the left demanded a ban on books that contain positive depictions of heterosexual romance (for example, A Wrinkle in Time would be banned because of the pornographic, dare I say pedophilic, kiss shared between boy and girl) would you be making the same argument?
Great point. I think having this data encrypted on a public system for anyone to verify will lead to much more openness in the ratings system. It has the potential to be a far cry than the black hole the US system is today. I don’t pretend to predict the future, but if you look at the past, any time “open standards” have replaced closed black box systems - it has generally benefitted the end consumer.
...and they're missing out, that's exactly the message. By the way, I'd be shocked if Java 8 was still more than half of the running server-side JVMs. There's a lot of them for sure, but I'd be willing to bet it's gonna be less than a half now, and declining.
This the classic “pack your bag and move” type of argument much like “learn to code”. For many this is not an option due to job, family and a host of other things.

The point in the article I was highlighting was about prices outpacing growth. And that’s a problem. When you have prices doubling almost every 5-10yrs and no chances of slowing down then why even work?
Thank you, this is probably more clear than what I wrote.
No one forces employees to accept the terms offered

edit: it's not cheating because the game is still of negotiation until it's in agreement, if you break an agreement, I see that as a cheat. No one made you accept the job or the pay.
> the value is all about how developed it is

If by "developed", you mean "built upon", that's empirically not the case:

Here's an empty lot in the heart of San Francisco for $2 million dollars:
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/content/images/2021/08/image...

Here's a building next door to it on a similar sized lot for $2.3 million dollars:
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/content/images/2021/08/image...

Location, Location, Location. The vast majority of the value of urban real estate is land (locational) value.
"Modern" banking systems still suck if you want to move large amounts of money, move money globally, move money without asking for regulatory permission and waiting for regulatory delays, avoid having your assets temporarily seized because the comptroller makes a paperwork error, etc. etc.
When buying stuff online, either the credit card network temporarily foots the bill until the charge actually hits your bank, or your bank processes the transaction directly and money moves away by a bank to bank call. It needs to ne synchronous and connected.

With this new system I’d assume you transfer ownership of your money but it doesn’t need to have both banks connect directly, and there might be a chance to have it work offline as well.