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> I personally think the biggest difference in startup ecosystem 2.0 will be the lack of Silicon Valley-style VCs. Whatever money is used to fuel the fly wheel will have a fundamentally different approach to investing, at least in the beginning.

Where are they going to get investments from?
The people who banned Dr. Seuss and many TV shows and movies for all of us are now complaining that some schools don't want to promote their extreme agendas in their curriculum and libraries? Sounds a bit hypocrite to me.
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Do you have any thoughts on how water availability will be in the years/decades to come and how a fab would impact it and the communities depending on it?

My understanding is when you cross east past round rock towards Hutto/Taylor, the water aquifer being used changes to use water piped over from Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer.
speaking of runtime performance if you look at lzma for instance it's horrible on runtime performance but it produces some of the best compression ratio of all of them
Those in sales know this too well, qualifying prospects is a manual and time-consuming process. I work in a Sales Operations role and I taught myself Python to automate my job!
Hermes is the obvious choice, as the messenger of the Gods, hence communications and so on.
Can be made smaller for sure, but if I'm say working with 10,000 images in my app and decoding all the time, a 3-4x speedup in the decode time can be a major saving for ~ 10-40% increase in file size with a lib I can just drop in my project without effort
Israel study shows that previous infection provides higher immunity. I haven't seen any other studies showing the opposite but not many of them are done. Most studies compare previously infected unvaccinated with previously infected vaccinated to show that vaccine provides additional immunity.

The second is fast developing situation therefore not many studies are done. I had statistics from hospital admittance in Latvia. It was interesting to see that about 13% of deaths are in vaccinated and 30% of hospitalized were vaccinated too. At this time Latvia had about 60% vaccinated almost the same in all age groups. It shows that vaccine has some effectiveness but vaccinated still spread infection considerably. The main benefit is that it reduces risk of death about 10 times but risk reduction in getting infected or sick is not that good.
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> The cool thing about Bitcoin is that it is money that is separated from the state, the same way like Gold is. So as long as you can find a jurisdiction that considers your funds valid, you can escape your state violence. Of course this has it's pros and cons, but that's how it works when you separate money from the state.

But this is true of all assets!

Bitcoin's only tangible value is that it weighs nothing (which is actually a nice property if you're fleeing your current government - gold is heavy!). But I don't think that's enough to make it a good long term value store for the amount of capital pouring into it.

And just like other assets - I believe its value is entirely based on having a government somewhere that will enforce a code of conduct around exchanges of that asset, and a definition of ownership.

The government issues the currency because the government is able & willing to do absolutely anything in order to resolve disputes between parties that involve real assets - up to and including killing people, killing corporations, or even trying to kill other governments.

Without that commitment, bitcoin sits in a really strange place. I don't believe it will hold value if the governments of more major economies stop supporting it.

Either way - Appreciate the conversation! Thanks for helping fill some time on an otherwise boring afternoon before the holidays!
> Going to the bathroom at a friend’s house was an act of generosity. It was like leaving a gift.

An idea just in time for Christmas season!
So why are the unvaccinated having their liberties curtailed in several countries?
Why assume housing demand is fixed? Population increase, people want second homes, people want vacation rentals…
And how much for the tape machine?
Probably the OP refers to a large scale Israeli study from late summer.

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

Edit. While googling around on this topic, I stumbled upon a decent comparison between the Israeli study and a CDC study that claims the opposite, specifically that covid recovered are five times more likely to be hospitalized for covid than the vaccinated.

https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-...
Hmmm, the whole program still consists of hundreds of functions and I would have to memorize all of them... I don't just work on a single module, I work on the whole code base (open source development).

> The best solution of course is to keep the code base small :)

Hehe, that's the trick. Unfortunately, I came late to the party.
I did not try to imply that this should contemplate the other use case, but I was wondering whether the compression percentage would scale up with more channels that might not be related in the same way RGB are (as in luminance, for example).

This effort really makes me want to try to do something similar for the other use case, and see how well it fares compared to the convoluted standards that are used for this topic.

Thank you for your insight!
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Ideas can cost and save lives too.

So whatabout someother asshole? Come back when you have an argument.
LSP is just a generalization of the implementations IDEs have had for decades.
Property managers love these things because they never have to rekey a lock again, and the tenants can't unilaterally rekey them.
Yeah, OK. But apart from the reliability question - what's a one stop shop for uploading files to Europe and the US in one go?
I wonder if it will be like this when people live in space
Are there guidelines for how long a given type of media is considered stable?

From experience, hard drives seem safe on the order of years; I've spun drives back up from the early 2000s and they are fully intact. The lifespan of burned optical media is/was counted in minutes. Various flash memory is somewhere in between - I've had all kinda of cheap flash drives die.

Even with the multiple media forms they need to be refreshed at some frequency, and I don't know how often that should be.
I’m not sure that Bitcoin offers any special insight here.

We use email; it’s very much a crypto-less federated system that works at scale (of, more or less, every Internet user!)

And there are newer examples: while it’s by no means a Twitter, Mastodon (and the broader ActivityPub universe) is already at a healthy scale. I collected these stats three and a half years ago; the ecosystem has grown substantially since then: https://davepeck.org/2018/05/03/mastodon-stats/
Interesting angle. What if the business asked for it, the dev team delivered it, but the business subsequently gave up on it, and now it's overengineered in comparison to what remains in use. To avoid this scenario, I don't try to outthink the business team, but I do push people toward temporary manual workflows sometimes, and promise to automate later if the idea actually pans out.
In my DIY backup setups, I'm relying on rsync.net's snapshots [0] and also the fact that the AWS S3 bucket I'm automatically copying stuff to has 'versioning' enabled. [1]

Is that good enough in your point of view?

Thanks

[0] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/snapshots.html (not affiliated, just a happy customer)

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Versio... (ditto)
The color in the image is misleading. They are very bright red.
Honestly, I have no idea how this could have happened without at least two people simply not doing their job, at all.
Yeah, my technique was equivalent to filter mode 0 (the only mode), filter type 1 (sub pixel to the left). literally array.ravel().diff(prepend=0) in numpy.

I think part of the reason png is so slow is that it empirically tests to find the best one.

> Compression is further improved by choosing filter types adaptively on a line-by-line basis.

I'd be curious to unpack a png and see the statistics of how much each kind is used.
Yes, which is why cryptocurrencies enable self-custody, so you only need to trust yourself.
And how much is the tape drive? For _most_ people (not data centers) that prohibitively expensive. A 2 TB harddisk is $48 from newegg (and I'm sure you can find cheaper).
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Indeed! Let's protect our col...common wealth ourselves!
Rent seeking isn’t parasitic. It provides liquidity to the housing market where it wouldn’t otherwise exist. You want to move to a different city, renting doesn’t exist, then what? How does that work for anyone who can’t make a downpayment, or anyone who is in a hurry, or at all really? Nationalized housing in the US tends is even more dystopian than the private sector.

If you want a vibrant, sane, and fair rental market, we’d need an actual free and fair market in the first place.
> Real estate is predicated on the concept that adding value to the land increases its value. So... what exactly become the merit of taxing land over property? If you tax property, the value of the land is included in that tax.

An issue with property taxes as they are currently implemented is that they discourage development. Someone who owns a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles will pay very low property taxes on that land relative to someone who has built a large apartment building (even setting aside Prop 13). If the owner of the parking lot decides to build an apartment building on it, their property taxes will go way up. So the county is punishing the property owner for developing on that land, even though it's socially desirable.

The idea is that the land value is value that is created by the property's location, not anything the owner has specifically done. In other words, it's value created by the rest of the society that the owner has captured. However, development on the land is produced by the owner. A land value tax captures some of the value produced by society as a whole and does not tax value that was created by the owner. This incentivizes owners to develop on their land. (Or more properly, doesn't disincentivize development.)
Indeed. I hear that over half of people have a cough for weeks afterwards.
I'm a big fan of Tesla and Mr. Musk - but does anyone know of any non-vaporware large scale industrial facilities that use Tesla battery walls as power backup? Do Tesla manufacturing plants do this?
> Also most themes dim the comments, but IMO if something in the code needed an explanation, it should be brighter, not dimmer.

That makes me crazy! I use base2tone, which is not nearly as minimal as your theme but more than most, and I modify the comments to be bright.
All of those have value even if you wouldn't be allowed to sell them. Stocks pay dividends, people use gold as jewellery, and you can live in real estate. Speculating on assets with real world value is different from speculating on assets nobody would care about unless they could sell it.

The whole point of these scams is to convince people to buy assets that nobody wants, but you convince them that some other guy really wants it a lot and will pay more for it in the future. And of course if he could convince some new guy of the same thing he can even sell it at a profit, but since there ultimately is nobody who wants this asset the chain has to break sooner or later.
Not totally true. You could, for example, use as collateral tokens that represent staked Ethereum (rocket pool ETH for example) so you are effectively using the ETH to generate staking yield, and also using it as collateral simultaneously.

The ability to wrap ownership in a smart contract can extend to pretty much any use case, as long as the lending protocol supports using the wrapped token as collateral.
That person surely hasn't watched the show so no idea about it in the first place.
Isn't the common theme: "this is what big tech does" ? Ie, it seems a lot of small companies/startups look at "best practices" and just copy them. It's not just engineering. It happens in product, hiring, marketing, everything.

It's completely wrong given the context 99% of companies are operating in. It's no wonder a Zuckerberg can come along and build a crazy successful company in his early 20s. He likely didn't know any "best practices". Common sense was enough.
Maybe America's puritany is just conserved. As its ire shifts away from some thing as they become liberalised/destigmatised, it shifts onto others.
RLE on runs of deltas is in very many compression schemes; it's a common technique (probably so common that many authors don't deem it worth mentioning). Lossless video codecs in particular (huffyuv, lagarith, utcodec, etc.) have had this going back 20 years at least.
Thanks! The rule is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's sort of a subrule, which is below the detail line that makes sense to include in the guidelines, but which is a good practice: when changing a misleading or linkbait title, try to use representative, neutral language from the article itself. You can usually find that somewhere, whether in a subtitle, the HTML doc title, a photo caption, the first paragraph, or even a 'thesis statement', as high school English teachers used to call them, buried somewhere in the middle of the piece. That way the article still gets to speak for itself; more so, in fact, because media headlines are usually written by someone other than the author. It's almost never necessary to make up language to replace a baity title with. I did so in this case, but that's rare.
I've done both.

Solo Pros: less communication overhead, rapid decision making, unified direction, do things your way, full ownership

Solo Cons: lack of mental support, heavy burden, all falls on you, context-switching between tasks (e.g., building v. talking to users), in tough times you must find your own support network, less manpower

Cofounder Pros: divvy up roles, combine diverse skillsets, mental support, camaraderie, make use of strengths of multiple people, investors like teams, can boost each other up in tough times, bouncing ideas off each other and brainstorming can lead to breakthroughs

Cofounder Cons: potential for disputes and conflict, compromise can worsen results, must agree and unite, easy to end up with a bad cofounder, must continue to nurture relationship

Common saying: "go fast alone, go farther together"

You can also start solo and bring on cofounders once you feel you need it.
Most people do not have a $1000 LTO tape drive.
>> An example of this is the right's claim that many of these banned books are almost pornographic in nature.

I'm pretty sure illustrations of people having sex and an illustration of a younger child giving an older child oral sex falls into that category:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBdP1kYXoAA_c0T?format=jpg&name=...

People lost their minds when a woman read several pages from the book "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe.
Ask HN: Is it just me, or Firefox's suggestions are bad?
After many years of using Google Chrome I switched to Firefox due to privacy concerns. Overall I've loved the experience so far, but there's one thing that bugs me: the suggestions. Firefox seems to be unable to make a sensible use of my browsing history. It suggests urls I visit only very rarely, or sometimes even suggests things I've never visited (I read some time ago that they would start providing sponsored suggestions). For example, it's completely clueless about my Reddit browsing habits. The only subreddit I visit most of the time is r/rust, but it doesn't appear in FF's suggestions. There's only reddit main page, which I have never consciously visited. Sometimes the problem is the opposite - I want FF to suggest a url of a main page of, for example, a blog, but what I get are only some random posts I read on that blog a long time ago. Initially I thought that was a bug which would get fixed in a subsequent release, but this situation has been going on for at least a few months. Chrome's suggestions were way more intuitive for me.

What's your experience?
I think oftentimes people find meaning in what they can have, because simply put, you have too, otherwise your life would be meaningless.

So I wonder if that means a lot of countries still see that material wellbeing, health, hobbies, nature, travel, new experiences, romantic partners, friends, etc. are all too hard to have or keep or sustain, where-as family is all you end up with, and thus what you have to find meaning in of itself?

That would mean from a different lens, seeing family as number one would be indicative of issues in that country in acquiring anything more? And if you were to see family rank low, it be a good sign, which means that you don't have to find meaning in family, because while you have family, you also have other avenues you can rely on to find meaning.
Did you know that the "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" from the Declaration of Independence is said to be inspired from John Locke, who said that "life, liberty, and estate" are the essentials a political body has to protect for each citizen[0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_...
That is how you raise yet another generation who mistakenly believes everything written to be sacrosanct, holds no tested and cohesive views, is easy prey to manipulators who have no qualms making people uncomfortable, and will forever defer to authority figures who tell them what is acceptable.
Starbase, TX, seems to have a good reason to grow.
First off, this is really cool. I have been hoping for something like this for a while.

Given that the Isolate model has already been developed, have you considered a hybrid isolate/process model, where workers created by a single user could be packed into a process via Isolates, but the process boundary protected different users from each other?
Totally legit. I smoke at home or hidden away from sight or bothering others with the smell.
I was referring to the op who is seemed to say they were irritated by other’s consuming cannabis, which irritates me, as it’s some apparatus designed to mess me up with no regard to my preference in remaining unmussed.
The person above was talking about the cost of HDDs, they didn't include the cost of a machine or NAS to run them in so why should I?

Seems like a double standard wherein people are going to pretend housing multiple HDDs costs $0 (unrealistic) but won't even evaluate spending money on a tape drive.

You what doesn't get cryptolockered? Yesterday's tape sitting on the shelf.
It's a shame that something like Typescript is and will dominate the static typing JS ecosystem/industry instead of something simpler and sane like Rescript.
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I'm a beekeeper, and one of the most profounding things to show people when they (anctously) look over my shoulder is this "bee waggle".

It is clear and easy to see, (easier than that d* b* of a queen when you need her, most often), and it tells a lot about the cognitive abilities of a social group, the hive. How they can tell eachother complex directions by twerking.

Kids love it too. And will often play around, wiggling their behinds (a cousin called it bee-twerking) and giggling how they are showing eachother where the sweets are by dancing.
Thanks. This is good detail. I may go back and revise this corner of the post.
As Java is generally the fastest GC'd language, what's the current state of Java gamedev?

Once upon a time, this indie Java game called Minecraft became the most successful game of all time.

But from the few minutes of research I just did, Java cannot be deployed to many commercially important systems

- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation
- iOS

It appears Java is only still viable for Windows and Android, and the 1% Linux desktop market.

There used to be the GCJ project which would in theory let you run Java anywhere you had a C/C++ compiler, but Oracle's litigiousness killed that because the Java[TM] "platform" must run the official Java[TM] bytecode.

It appears C# via Monogame lets you deploy to all desktops (Win/Mac/Linux), mobiles (iOS/Android), and consoles (PS/Switch/Xbox). So ironically C# seems to now be the "write once, run anywhere" fulfillment of the original Java promise.

[EDIT: grammar.]
With the slight downside that you won't be able to acquire a drive for less than $800.

LTO's combination of cheap media and expensive drives is great for people with rooms full of tapes, but it makes it pretty unattractive for everything else.
Are you suggesting that I should remain in the legal shadows due to your inability to manage cannabis consumption?
That would be way more high tech jobs in Austin per capita.
FWIW it is eye opening to read about the close similarity in effects of Hindu chanting (mantras) with modern day programming . Hindu mythology describes and still believes in how certain incantation produces certain results. And they are believed to this day by many Hindus.
if it’s worked for 10000 years I wouldn’t be so quick to knock it.
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"leaving such a large amount of Bitcoin accessible on a phone"

"A SIM swap attack [...] gives the hacker access to the victim’s phone"

Is it just me or this article massively misrepresenting what a SIM swap attack actually does? Unless there's more to the story, no one got access to Jones' phone. They intercepted 2FA SMSes so they could get access to a wallet service or whatever.
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As a measure of bullshit contained I counted the occurrences of the word blockchain in the document. We will need that dope...
Two things:

Terrorist #1: FOCUS ON THAT PLANT ANT TAKE IT OUT!!

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Second thing:

WHY THE FUCK ARENT THESE COMPANIES BUILDING THEIR OWN POWER PLANTS?
yes, but like most things worth pursuing, its a thorny problem, largely for economic and sociopolitical reasons, but also technical.

as you probably know, AVMs (automated valuation models) have been the hotness over the past few decades, but zillow (recently, but all along too) has shown the real limitation of AVMs. in theory, the likes of google and apple have enough geospatial data to create good land value AVMs, but you really still need appraisers on the ground for hyperlocal adjustments that just don't get captured in the AVM data and/or model. and that's all before the politicians, bureaucrats, and competing public interests get involved.
Because we're talking about most people, and most people already have a machine into which they can plug a HDD. Often that's the very machine with the documents they want to backup.
A .NET runtime does ship with Windows . It is just often not the version being targeted by a developer which means the targeted runtime needs to be installed.