skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, one day India invalidated just about all their physical bills.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37974423
> Given that transferring crypto is hard, slower, more expensive, riskier, public, and more wasteful than real banking

Literally none of this is true except maybe "riskier".
> Due to the zero-sum nature of real estate, it fundamentally breaks the positive sum theory of capitalism.

From World War II to the early 1970s, the utilization of existing US capital equipment rarely dipped during the worst of a deep recession, to what have been the highest levels of capital capacity utilization rate since the 2008 financial crisis. The old lows have been about what the new highs have been. This indicates an overabundance of capital investment and overproduction, which was the opinion of former GE CEO Jack Welch.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/revisions/Curren...
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> after falling ill with the second shot I'm not participating in this charade anymore

Where exactly is the charade?
Being ill for a few days after a vaccine is normal, it even happens with flu.
Most (not all) web3 games don't have a server. Just frontend interacting with a smart contract
Paying for what you use, the peak of shady business practices!
Proof of Authority systems
So which cloud provider offers a HARD spend limit? I just want to fund my account e.g. $20/month and never, ever, spend a cent over that. Even if my account gets hacked for bitcoin mining or whatever, I don't want to spend a cent over that.

With AWS, you can do it, via a trigger on a spend notification and a script, but the whole thing is a giant kludge. It should be a default feature. It should be a default feature for all cloud providers.

I'm literally using them less because this isn't a feature they offer. Even the free tier of AWS is too risky without hard limits.
Just out of curiosity, what was your use case for so many IPv6 addresses at once?
Yes, despite what I said, I don't think comps have been the answer. Bullying is rife, the stats on sexual abuse of girls in UK schools is unbelievable (one of the highest in the world, bullying is only as high in Europe in Finland another comp education system), it isn't possible to succeed in a comp because you are stuck with a load of people who don't want to be there.

The playing field can never be level. Where I am the grammar schools are as good as the private schools, but they are only in places where property prices are prohibitively high (ofc)...but they are the only effective way out (Sajid Javid went to a comp, it is possible but it is very rare and requires support from family that isn't available in most of the UK). The way to move forward is to aggressively stream students (not necessarily by ability, I went to a school with a guy who was thick as pig shit but went into St. Andrews because he worked hard, took his A-levels three times iirc), improve teaching, and offer more opportunities in poor areas (maybe even through positive discrimination, i.e. offer kids from poor areas a chance in a decent school...the UK used to have state-funded places in private schools).

You are right though, it isn't only cultural. Part of the reason why this group is so far ahead is their education system is far better.
According to the cppcon talk about Mesh [1] (an allocator that implement compaction for C++ programs), the overhead can be massive too (17% overhead measured on firefox, 50% on redis!)

[1] https://youtu.be/XRAP3lBivYM?t=1374
Gotta start somewhere! Change is never easy.
Pandemic skyrockets in Europe; Covid is the No. 1 cause of death
Why do big investments get tax breaks but not smaller ones? Is there a rationale other than ~~corruption~~ political power having great economies of scale?
I'm not a doctor.

The fact that there is widespread lack of transparency and money motives to carry on with this situation makes me really skeptical. 1918 flu lasted 26 months. We are at 21 months with masks, vaccines and lock downs and no ending in sight. Only oppressive measures to people keeping measures who expressed a different opinion.

The fact that vaccines are becoming a religion is a red alert for me. No matter what people say the current situation shows that the vaccines do not work and the gran finale is a dystopia with a classic medieval witch hunt.

Is covid the culprit here? Not anymore for me.
Governments already have control over money by simply being able to choose what is and isn't legal to use. FDR outlawed private gold ownership. India banned cash:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37974423
Efficiency in electrical grids can often be counterproductive to reliability.

It is economically efficient to not winterize your generation capacity or build longhaul electrical transport infrastructure to move electricity regionally, but without these rarely used elements you could end up with severe load shedding or a black start event.
Right, but that just means some paperwork gets filed when you attempt to do large transactions with cash, not that it's literally illegal to do those transactions. I don't understand why the toplevel comment says it's illegal to buy stocks. It seems like it would be merely very difficult, not illegal. I think your biggest problem would be finding a broker that would accept a pile of cash to buy you stocks with, rather than the fact that the transaction needs to be reported to the government.
There's a bigger message beyond IoT: every new bit of technology you bring into you life requires some amount of upkeep. The same thing is true in your job: new code, new services, etc. all require upkeep, so be prepared for that, and use it when deciding if you really need something.
Overengineering is typically a term thrown around when a manager wants to ship a system in half the time it actually would take to make a half-decent system!
just a development for families, with some amenities like community center, pools etc. you can get a very large house for not so much money. it honestly is fairly nice, visiting used to seem depressing when I was younger but now when I visit with my kids it seems like not a bad place for a family to grow up in.
Yes I was mostly talking about the US. And at local level. Federal govt can do very little if anything to things such as zoning laws and nor they should. The example I provided was to do with California and it is much like the same way in many other parts of the country.

Neoliberal economists would be any mainstream economist who are still living in their la la land thinking QE is done for greater good of middle and working class and lower interest rate has nothing to do with investor class using their inflated market value of assets to borrow more and buy more assets that in turn also keeps going up. Meanwhile credit card interest rates are still averaging 10%+.
Person who runs billion dollar business says competitors will fail, encourages people to continue to rely on him. News at 11.
Besides material well-being (19 percent), the things that are more likely to give Koreans meaning in life are health (17 percent), family (16 percent), general satisfaction (12 percent), society (8 percent), personal freedom (8 percent) and work (6 percent).

But even then these higher levels of interest are far below the median, except in the category of general satisfaction, where Korea has the second-highest portion of respondents (12 percent) saying they are satisfied with life, after Germany at 17 percent (at the other end of the spectrum only two percent of Americans say they are satisfied with life, and one percent in Greece).

If "material well-being" was at 19%, health 17%, and family 16%, that doesn't sound like an outlier in and of itself, and not entirely that alarming. Somewhat concerning to me is in the next statement, where it's stated that only 2% of Americans say they are satisfied with life, compared to 17% of Germans. As an American, that speaks volumes about our lifestyle and culture, and I find it disappointing. Satisfaction is contagious; I want to live among others who feel this way. Most of my friends work from home and are either alone most of the time, or have significant others but few friends whom they see on an active basis.

Secondly, I wonder (not trying to cast doubt, genuinely wonder) how surveymakers level-set these questions to be linguistically neutral. How do they account for "material well-being" translating perfectly across most European and some Asian languages? Or even the expression "meaningful"? Just something I think about when it comes to large surveys.
Right, then you run that code in a VM that has no ambient privs. If you still need to do AWS access stuff then you just stick your access keys in files somewhere your untrusted process can't touch like if you weren't on AWS.
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And $333 for participation. OlympusDAO ecosystem focused for devs.
I would think they use a metro-area scheme similar to what the government uses for their employees https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality

Because, I mean, waterfront property has a premium everywhere, and even in the same exact "starter home" location I'm sure you could teardown and fit a $3M home. Those choices aren't determined by the metro area.
When I went to high school in Texas, my History textbook still framed the Civil War as a "states rights" and "economic freedom" issue.

Many school districts also defied the governors short-sighted/partisan order of banning masks in schools. I don't recall any representative from Texas' HHS department supporting that order.

Some CRT would be a welcome breath of reality for our education system. Could you share why you think that it's hostile to children?
Why only Israel?
The federal government prints dollars. It is never going to take a loss doing that.
I am not going to take a booster. I had two doses and I haven't got back to normal after the second one and it's been months now. I've got massive headaches and shortness of breath which I didn't have before.
> The difference between 2 files and 1 file is barely relevant,

To you. To me doing Rust stuff, it's been quite helpful to have single-file C programs; it makes it a lot easier to compile and link things.
you mean what payment systems and any online game with in-game currency have solved?
This is a cool project!

Would request those known in the space have their names appear below number of authors. For example, if 0xsisyphus tweets about the series it would display that.
It is a difficult subject. A store security camera that cycles every weeks is no big deal. But what if there are cameras on every street corner run by the government and saved for 5 years? What about Ring footage of your neighborhood/building being saved for 5 years? The tough question is how do we separate what the data could be used for and what it is likely to be used for. And if we aren't vigilant now, could we just wake up one day and it is too late?
The commodity in this case is just a proxy for USD or other currency.
She says: _`"Consent" seems like an easy concept, but it's really not, at least not on the street.`_

Well, it`s funny how things get fuzzy when one`s direct interest is involved. The Weinsteins of the world keep saying that phrase.
I guess to me it’s more about progression. From Bitcoin, to Ethereum, to Uniswap, there is a strong development of the early ideas and technology. This doesn’t seem like it will just stop to me. It indicates a very bright future in my opinion. Also, although I get disillusioned, I personally have come to appreciate more that the value being produced is financial. There is clearly massive pent up demand for financial games. On Wall Street there is a huge market for firms that proudly do not pay attention at all to the underlying assets they trade in a “fundamentals” sense, and just play games with mathematical and technological advantage. From what I can tell massive segments of finance are just money games. This is a form of that, which is a real and tremendous market. A natural progression that people who say “high frequency trading provides no value” or “banks shouldn’t be allowed to deal in derivatives” will hate.

You should hear the kind of stuff people are coming up with…what if I could sell a token, and the interest generated from staking it gets repackaged into an options contract on another chain that then gets its value automatically updated every time someone sells and…

It seems nonsensical, until you go learn what all these quants are getting paid millions per year to do for hedge funds and you think to yourself “oh, it’s a similar thing. There is demand for this.”
I agree 100%, I have the same observations.
This is a hoot...

Published in Nature or Science is a -1

because it is so true, particularly in areas of science other than molecular biology.
I don't think it validates what you're saying. You're saying it's creepy, while the study says it's natural if the goal is not a long term commitments. Or is your view that anything that's not a long term commitment is creepy?
> Why would you want to depend on a central authority when you can have a network of trusted blockchain users all signing and broadcasting their transactions to each-other in real time, without an intermediary?

You're already depending on a central authority to back your funds. So forcing a blockchain into the mix just introduces that additional complexity and risk, not a new dependency on a central authority.

> Why hamstring yourself with a database and the upgradability woes therein, when you can use a blockchain?

You're conflating "blockchain" with "distributed database". For example, a trivial example is a git repository storing ledger entries. It's distributed, can be used in an append-only fashion (and enforced at a higher layer), and such a system probably doesn't have the "upgradability woes" you're worried about. It's not a blockchain.

> With a permissioned blockchain, the funds can be cleared much faster (instantly?) than in the current system.

This can also be arranged without a blockchain.
Being able to convert back go standard money is a big deal. Currently all the digital offline payment means are a one way trip: you can pay for goods with them, but not exchange with someone or return it to your account. This initiative would solve that issue.
I used to do this, on and off, with vim. Hey customize this, and that, and add some special key bindings and plugins. Then you go to ssh somewhere and you're totally lost. Ya, I know there are ways to manage your config for vi but it's not perfect. I find it's sort of like keyboard layouts like Dvorak. Sure it might be more efficient, which is debatable, but there is a huge value in being able to sit down at just about any keyboard and knowing the layout.
It’s not a perfect solution

It's not a solution at all given the fact the alerting process can lag behind the logging process by several hours or more. If you've hit a traffic spike it could have rolled over your site and gone in that time, leaving you with a bug bill.

Alerts are not a viable solution to traffic spikes unless they're real-time and absolutely bulletproof. AWS's alerting is neither.
This announcment by Samsung followed news that the onshoring semiconductor bill was moving through Congress (just saw it in the news today or yesterday). I doubt it's a coincidence,

So, I think, at least with regard to chips, your dream is coming true.
It's understood, but not desirable. Proof of Authority is preferable. Double spend is somewhat separate from proof of trust one you change the consensus algo and make it a permissioned system.
The built-in screen zoom is pretty neat. Hold `Ctrl` and use the vertical scroller on whatever pointing device you have to zoom in and out. Real nice when you want to take a (much) closer look at a thing without affecting layout: it zooms your viewport without affecting any of the actual content, unlike, say, increasing font size.

Looks like it’s been updated, I don’t remember the different zoom type options. Maybe I just never discovered them.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210978
Why not just show an example(s) of practical use?
Tell that to the people in Turkey who had there currency fall 10% against the dollar just this week. Tell that to Argentinians, or Nigerians, or Afghanistan.

You might be surprised by the places where crypto has the most penetration. https://bitcoinist.com/cryptocurrency-adoption-highest-5-cou...
AWS has both 12 months free tiers for some services, as well as pretty generous always-free offerings, like the data transfer announcement today. The 1TB/mo CloudFront traffic is now always free, as is the 100GB/mo of data per month from AWS regions to the Internet.

https://aws.amazon.com/free/
> The fact that there is widespread lack of transparency and money motives to carry on with this situation makes me really skeptical.

Shouldn't you be skeptical of the entire healthcare industry then?
They have the highest vaccination rates the earliest.
For the sub-$100 price point, you often can't beat discarded thin clients. There's a steady of stream of units always hitting eBay, including ARM ones like the HP T-series and x86 ones like Dell Wyse units.

If you really just need something that comes with a case and power supply, might already have wifi, and has a few USB2 ports to plug things into, these are great options.
You should look up all that Texas SBoE has done in regards to science, math, history, and health and their often unique and counterfactual ideas on what should be taught.
I wonder if it would be ideal for a separate company, not the banks and not the government, to control the nodes to “mine” or whatever equivalent this currency has. Maybe it should just be the government since you would likely just end up with such a company beholden to the banks.
Oat Foundry is another company which makes split flap displays: https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/
Good one.
Putting it on the list.

It's an amazing little board, list is pretty short :)
Exercising at the start of fast can help people reach ketosis 3.5 hours faster
Was it a paper wasp? They are so cute and friendly.

This little one didn't mind a bit when I put my macro lens an inch or two away, and even did some tricks to show off!

https://geary.smugmug.com/Macro/i-VsCPgMS/A

https://geary.smugmug.com/Macro/i-3xN7pMk/A
We should build a major new city at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. It seems like an ideal location.
According to that definition, I am investing in cryptocurrencies.
I wish it was as easy as a nerd insisting on the technical details rather than the big picture. What we do today with AI is backward-looking automation on a grander and fuzzier scale — lots of money to be made here, but it’s actually the complete opposite of intelligence. I’m stumped on getting this point across (no royal road to geometry?) and without it I have to compete with threatening war chests on the wrong playing field.
What in the world are you going on about? That's a pitiful attempt at gaslighting.

In this example you're the creationist denying the ever growing evidence. You'd be the one out there calling Darwin a scam artist.

There's one of two things going on here:

1. You're ignorant of what's actually going on.
2. You're malicious

You can be forgiven for #1 but you really need to take your blinders off and maybe consider some different news sources.
As long as you're OK with the limitations imposed by using musl, I think it's great on the desktop. I recently switched from Void Linux (glibc variant) and it's working very well. I run proprietary applications like Spotify, Steam, and Discord in Flatpak, and most of the rest from Alpine's repos.

One thing that surprised me is that KDE's software center gives package update notifications for Alpine packages OOTB, and the GUI Just Works(tm) for installing and upgrading.
If a particularly powerful solar flare knocks out the internet for a couple of weeks my real estate investment will still keep me housed. Your bitcoin asset will do... what? Even USD (at least in physical form) is more useful in a crisis. I can put it in my pocket and trade it with the guy down the street for food/water (under the assumption that the government won't collapse). The amount of high-tech, fragile infrastructure bitcoin needs to function correctly is astounding. The entire idea of bitcoin being superior to traditional currencies depends on the idea that nothing really bad will ever happen again.
Yup! I actually forgot about Gerlach being associated with Burning Man (never been, myself). It just comes up when you search for "cheapest land in America."

And yeah, my point is the same as yours -- it's always the location that matters. If you can somehow bootstrap yourself a desert-mega city in the world's worst location, then agglomeration effects take over and the land becomes valuable because people want to be next to other people. But typically desert cities get off the ground because there's something about the initial conditions of that particular piece of desert that's more interesting than everything around it (that's what happened with Phoenix with regards to the canals/water).

Of course, once a critical mass of settlers shows up and sticks around long enough, wherever they happened to congregate is the most valuable location in the local area from then on.
Similiar here - we had some older Zigbee / Z-Wave switches that were constantly breaking. Switched everything to Lutron, rock solid since then. The Pico remotes are incredible - we have some mounted in switchplates in places where we wanted 3-way switches, but didn't want to tear apart our walls running wires. Zero issues.
No one is confused about what the current norm is. The author and other commenters are curious about the arguments for the implications and improvement or replacement of it.
Yeah there’s a difference in techniques used for lossy vs lossless. But my point was that in compression research, runtime performance was much less important than compression performance, that was no different for lossy compression.
I love my smart home stuff. My lights turn on in the morning, change color temperature at sunset, and turn off at night. Thermostats set to the right temperature/mode at night and in the morning depending on the forecast for the day. My garden is watered, but not if it's going to rain. When I turn on my TV, the lights turn off and the blinds close. Everything shuts down and locks when the family leaves, resumes when we come back.

But what's important is that it's all rock solid and 100% reliable, because none of it leaves my house. I don't have any "cloud" crap. Everything exists on my local network only. Well, that's not totally true. I have a Nest thermostat. It's the only device that ever gives me trouble, and it took a whole day to get automated. Some day I'll replace it.

I'd argue that your plant timer is reliable not because it's old and not networked, but because it doesn't have dependencies on servers thousands of miles away and isn't reliant on the continuing goodwill, solvency and work ethic of the company that sold it to you.
C doesn’t map any more closely to assembly/hardware than most other low level languages. If anything, hardware tries to conform as much to C programmers as they can.

Hell, now Java has much better SIMD support than C, even as a high level language.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the memory's. Took me weeks to get all the treasures in Return To Pirates Isle on my old TI 99/4A. Without any spoilers, finding the alarm clock took forever...
I meant pay for the name. Did other owners of the name actually try to make it a paid-for product? Now that I think about it, was the original free?
In NJ they go off all the time to alert the volunteers not at the station, and it's used for all emergencies, not just fires that need trucks to roll out.
Digital Ocean could be interesting. Used to AWS and Azure but DO is doing great too
One reason why some have preferred not to ship with Windows is so that they aren't tied to the Windows release cycle. Not to mention, getting fixes into the monthly updates in a whole thing in and of itself.