skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s what capital productivity is all about.

No, it's about investing money (and other resources) into endeavors that create actual goods and and services. The crypto world is (absent a few marginal use cases) almost entirely about derivatives and speculation - and of course money laundering and ransomware.

That is to to say: the very opposite of the intrinsic purpose (to the extent that it has one) of capital.

It’s unstable, risky, prone to failure — and it’s exactly what the global economy needs.

I have an even better catchphrase for you:

"It’s unstable, risky, prone to failure — in other words, pure nihilism, baby! And it’s exactly what the global economy needs."
>Because that would require taking from some people and giving to others through government, which is a very inefficient way to do it.

I mean where do you think defense contractor profits come from? How about medical and Pharma? Medicare is the largest single payor in the US and they deal exclusively with the elderly who require more prescriptions and medical care. Many large industry's largest client is the federal, state and local governments. Where does that money come from? Our taxes; not only ours but the taxes of future generations through debt. We do it all-the-time with business to prop them up. That doesn't even get into tax incentives.
Among other movies, yes. But it was a common trope :-)
See my other response to sibling.
The data source is the World Health Organization. The data quality from different countries is included in their report.

The data for western Europe and the US is of high quality.

Which data would be of higher quality?
You're trolling, right? Everyone knows that there are generally no "actual numbers" available for this kind of transfers unless you're a BigCo or a private banking customer.

You'll send $1000 from your Nigerian bank to the Peruvian bank, $937.65 will arrive after a week+. Most likely nobody will be able to explain where the money went.
Your hypothesis is wrong because money was never invented by the government but by the people as medium of exchange for everyday trading.
Yes, it also exists on Android too[1][2]

[1] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowM...
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/30618030
How the hell was this ever a myth…?

It’s trivially shown to be complete and utter garbage..

Anyone pushing this type of pseudo-ideology should be laughed out of any intelligent discussion.

(Sadly, in reality, these braindead morons are actually in charge of our economy..)
Typo: He was pissed [off].

(I don’t usually comment on typos but this one took more than a second for my brain to decipher.)
If an investment works well and is well known (S&P), it’ll only work for so long.

The PE ratio’s in the 500 S&P co’s have been heading ever upward (https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe) indicating some sort of self-reinforcing effect.
Its a lot easier and more secure with an encrypted usb drive or a piece of paper with a seed phrase.
This is a nice glass-half-full way to look at it, which honestly I hadn't considered doing before. I will try to think about things this way a bit more :)
Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass
I've stated multiple time that I'm not biblical about open source software and I'll use the proprietary solutions if there is no good open source alternative. However nvidia is a special case(as usual). My laptop has a low end mobile nvidia gpu which is anything but special or demanding(mx250 to be exact). The laptop itself is dual screen(the Asus zenbook duo series) and nouveau worked out of the box, no issues whatsoever. I mean there were some but they were unrelated to the gpu driver. In essence I never really needed to deal with the proprietary drivers. My workstation is a bit different in that regard. The GPU was the one thing in it that I cheaped out on - an oldish quadro model from 2017-18. But again the nouveau drivers worked perfectly and all 3 monitors worked perfectly fine. I did however plan on playing with CUDA a bit and decided to install the proprietary drivers. Big mistake. It took me a whole weekend to recover from the tons and tons of problems that came with them. So in that regard, I think that if a distro offers them out of the box, the chances of wasting so much time in fixing and getting things to work may be a good thing. That said, I'm not entirely sure that forcing people to use a proprietary driver by default in a linux distro is a wise idea. A much better option would be for the users to decide on their own which one they want to use.
> Exposing ports breaks every security model in your firewall

Of course. That's why we do only bind them to localhost, and tend to use nginx to proxy from that to the outside world (for web apps anyway).

That being said, I've still seen Docker do dumb stuff with port mapping, and seen it change behaviour between "minor" version updates. Though that was a while (few years) ago now.

> ... except by not using docker

Kind of stuck with it for now, and having to work around it's crappiness. ;)
The problem with that argument is it happens all the time. just the other way around. The problem is we're in the worst situation. where people who trust the market don't want to create laws that help the working class and people that want government to create more laws to help the working class argue amongst themselves and the rich and powerful slowly slip in more laws that help them.
Yes, lack of drainage is one of the main causes of failures of retaining walls in my experience also, and understandably as the amount of soil pushing agains the wall increases its weight when wet, often more than 20% and water is also a good lubricant to allow for slides to happen.
In this thread: everyone argues the false dichotomy of which master is better to serve: government or the rich.
Why would you assume that? Most stock people buy is of American companies.

And hell, even if it was true, what is wrong with investing in foreign companies (of presumably underdeveloped nations)? That money still isn't "doing nothing", but rather giving the funding to companies that need it.
I wasn't denying that people can be addicted to the internet, my comment was in response to whether what the parent commenter was saying is even that analogous to addiction.

Internet addiction is a term that seems to get thrown around a lot these days, especially at kids and teens, but I think what people tend to label internet addiction isn't really an addiction at all or even directly damaging -- it's just people understandably wanting to take advantage of having access to the internet and smart phones to stay connected to friends or to entertain themselves. If it gets to the point where kids aren't doing school work, or if an adult rather play video games than get a job, then sure that's a problem. But if a guy likes to come home from work and spend 80% of his evening catching up with friends on Facebook and playing video games I don't think that's an any less valid way to spend an evening than say reading a fiction book. And again, we don't accuse people who spend most of their free time reading sci-fi books as being addicts, even if taking their sci-fi books from them would send them into a state of withdrawal while they found something else to replace their reading "addiction" with.
Or realize Bitcoin just can't be used as money, by design. It couldn't even handle the volume of transactions of a small town, because the miners and developers are not interested in that, and have chosen to keep block sizes small for their own interests.
> BTC mining is just one of those operations that is resistant to a carbon tax since the price of BTC and therefore the mining rewards can just rise to compensate.

I don't follow your logic, could you elaborate? One could say that about other things subject to carbon tax. Like all goods and services, the price is set by how much people are will to pay for it.

"the price people are willing to pay for short-haul flights could just increase, and therefore the airline profits are unaffected."
"the price people are willing to pay for aluminium could just increase, and therefore the smelters are unaffected."

They don't really make sense. Carbon taxing would change miner behaviour, because greener energy would be more attractive (by virtue of being cheaper, especially with carbon taxing and reduced fossil fuel subsidies).
Ok. Since this is open source using an open protocol, what is the healthy client or fork?
And I hate it.
I have a very sensitive skin. Unprotected in full summer sun (latitude 51 north), I'll burn within 15 minutes. In typical hiking attire, only my hands are in the sun, and I keep them in my pockets a lot of the time. My cheeks and lips receive only indirect sunlight, the rest is covered by a hat, sunglasses and a beard. In this attire, I've had sunburn through t-shirts a few times. They are never too bad, though, as I'll overheat way before I burn.

In non-fully protected clothing, something else burns before my chest has the chance to. A major problem with sunscreen is that it degrades over time, and is severely affected by sweat and abrasion. I've read that you should be reapplying every 30 minutes. I typically don't reapply nearly that often, so some parts of my skin are not fully protected. Once those start to burn, I leave direct sunlight, so the skin under my t-shirt (which has consistent coverage) never really gets the chance to burn.
Gold is an awesome conductor, and, more importantly, it is nearly impervious to corrosion.

That’s why it’s used in circuit board solder points and various types of plugs.

I think that platinum may be slightly better, but it is even more expensive.

Gold electroplating is not for the faint of heart. They use cyanide as a catalyst. At one of the companies I worked for, they had 50-gallon drums of cyanide, down in the electroplating lab.
As I have already said, there is no need for genetic information in a living being able to grow and reproduce.

The difference between a living being with genetic information and a living being without genetic information is the same as between a processor with micro-programmed control and a processor with hard-wired control.

In a processor with micro-programmed control, it is easy to add new instructions or to replace the instructions that it can execute with others having a completely different behavior, just by changing the content of the control memory.

In a processor with hard-wired control, you might be able to change the interconnections between blocks or to replace some logical gates with other kinds of logical gates, but the chances that these changes will result in a new processor that will still function and do something useful are minuscule.

Genetic information is necessary for the evolution of simple self-reproducing living beings to the complex living beings that exist today, but it is not necessary for life, i.e. for growth and reproduction of complex molecules.

It is fortunate that this is true, because otherwise there would have not been any path from inanimate matter to memory molecules like RNA, because they cannot continue to exist without being replicated from the template of an already existing memory molecule, so they cannot have any other function earlier than the first replication begins to produce them, and the replication cannot appear before the monomers, e.g. ATP, are available.

About the RNA synthetase, that is just a catalyst.

It cannot produce any RNA without the monomers (nucleotides) and without energy, i.e. a dehydrating agent like ATP, which must extract the water from the monomers, to condense them in the RNA polymer.

In the first living beings that used ATP and the other nucleotides to perform condensation reactions, the reactions were not controlled as well as today, so there were many parasite reactions that consumed a part of the reactants instead of producing the desirable end products. So some of the ATP molecules must have condensed with themselves and with other nucleotides, instead of producing useful polymers.

From these ATP condensation side-reactions, some kind of RNA synthetase must have been produced by chance and then it began to replicate itself. However that was possible only because ATP and nucleotides produced continuously by the host metabolism were available. Without monomers, the RNA synthetase would not have been able to do anything.
No. I am comparing a 5$ purse to an 800$ purse .

Trickle down made it so that the 2 are indistinguishable, except for an hologram nobody would ever check .

Of course if you are hating on trickle down because not everybody owns a 40M yacht then you’d always be disappointed in every system .

At least with trickle down a regular person can afford to be on a 40M yacht for a week in their whole lifetime if they accept some trade-offs , some sharing of the boat with other guests and maybe some debt .

Not to mention luxury buildings costing 5 billions or more .
Regular people can go in those hotel buildings at least 4 times per year (think the big Vegas hotels)

Also nurses do travel overseas . Don’t know if it’s all paid for or some debt but for sure they are going
Scabs.
why? most likely higher ups from Twitter involved with Maxwell and Epstein
Any time a headline uses words like 'demolishes' I immediately discredit it because its clearly written to be sensational.
Think of all those super-expensive (in the US) drugs that are mediated by Cytochrome P450. If only they would say “take one tenth of the $250-per-pill dose plus a 50¢ glass of grapefruit juice.”
Show HN: PerfUnit is Java Agent which helps to take control over app bottlenecks
thx for the suggestion.
> From my experience, certs are negatively corelate with talent unfortunately.

After having worked in multiple different career fields this line of thinking appears limited to software development. Ironically many junior software developers simultaneously express this and yet push their education as a form of formal certification.

> It probably comes from the fact that a cert is usually for a tool or something specific

Again, I have repeatedly seen software developers express this as well. Perhaps its assumptions upon things not know, such as an informal argument from ignorance.
That I agree with. I just disagree with the assertion that legacy banking is not programmable, because there's nothing that inherently prevents it from working that way (other than bank policy).
I don't know what the original "trickle down" theory is but if it is all about money, then both the theory and its rebuttal are just circular reasoning.

The way I understand the "trickle down" idea is that the global economy is not a zero-sum game and when rich people build something, the poor indirectly take advantage of it, even if the wealth repartition curve doesn't change. For example, a rich person may use his wealth to make cheap computers, which sell well, so he becomes even richer, the poor don't become richer, but now they have computers, so in the end, even if wealth inequality didn't change, or maybe even became worse, the poor are better off, thanks to computers being cheaper. If we didn't let the rich entrepreneur get rich, there would be no cheap computers and while the poor may be wealthier on paper, they still won't have computers.

But if we only care about money, then yes, of course inequality causes inequality, and if the "trickle down" theory says otherwise, then it is simply illogical, just as its debunking is circular reasoning.

The study is not worthless, it is an interesting observational study, but I don't see how it disproves the more interesting non zero-sum version of "trickle down". For that it should also use indicators that are not money, like health, education, etc...
The headline is confusing. The proposal is if you are already using the NVIDIA driver, to default to Wayland instead of Xorg. Previously Xorg was the default with the NVIDIA driver. Non-proprietary drivers should still be the preferred choice for Fedora users, avoiding NVIDIA hardware if at all possible.

The actual change proposal is: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultOnNVI...

Discussion: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
Judging by Godot and the few other dynamically typed languages and how performance isn't much of a concern with them, apparently its not much of a penalty.

That being said, for peace of mind, I do wish engines like Godot had chosen a strongly typed language. I use Godot myself and much prefer it to other engines I've used, but I can't shake the feeling the GDScript sacrifices performance for ease of learning, even if it happens to not be true. I know theres Godot C# as well but that still doesn't feel like first class supported, though maybe I'm wrong
>The truth is that they conserve their wealth by investing it, which means that money recirculates into the economy to provide for the continued prosperity of others.

I know asking to read the article is too much, but maybe read the title?

Also, is the word "offshore" not in your vocabulary?

Otherwise agreed. Bailouts, of course, are atrocious. Investment should be a risk.

Speaking of which, reminder: bankruptcy doesn't clear away student loans, making them an effectively risk-free investment for the banks. Yay.
> Humans have been playing games literally for thousands of years - there is a value in entertainment, especially with our busy lives of 21st century.

Who gets to decide that? You see value in entertainment derived from a gaming rig, a person in Argentina sees value in mining a unit of make-believe currency which they can then sell on a speculative market. Should we form a global committee to decide on which types of computation have value, and should therefore be allowed to execute?
It works great, especially with Windows 11 where you can run X11/Wayland apps perfectly. Fedora isn't packaged for WSL2 at the moment but https://fedoramagazine.org/wsl-fedora-33 is a good way to do it - I use Arch Linux via this method and it works great.

The only difference between this article and today, instead of using that Powershell command to set your default user on login, use /etc/wsl.conf (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#user...)
Apps like Tor and private tabs in Firefox ask Android to not allow screenshots when they are open.
Modern Java looks horrible to be honest. I create abominations like this in JS pretty often, but it isn't good code. Best if wrapped in a huge try/catch where the error case juwt prints "didn't work for some reason...".

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Pancake_Stack Pancake stack doesn't need this hipster crap like functional programming or ifs or fors.
I'm surprised you have so many cryptocurrency recruiters reach out to you that you have to turn them down 'often'. I've never had one reach out to me. What is it on your resume that you think is attracting them to you?
It's a good set of abstractions, but I've found that the system used for immutability (immerjs) carries noticable performance costs (a factor of more than 2), to the point that it was faster to make a mutable copy of almost all the gamestate at the start of the 'apply move' code.
>There's not a single problem it solves.

Start thinking of crypto as luxury goods, then a lot of what happens (has happened) makes sense. It started out with practical problems it was trying to solve, but clearly morphed into something else entirely.
> sending money internationally.

The volatility of cryptocurrency prices alone makes them a pretty bad fit for any transaction whose value needs to be agreed upon within reasonable limits.

For stuff like blackmail, where profit margins are high and payments are highly negotiable, the benefits of anonymity outweigh this drawback, but for most honest business, it matters to a recipient whether they get $100k or $75k.

> economics taking a dive

And your bet is that when society collapses, the power grid and the internet will keep operating to keep cryptocurrencies cranking on. Not sure that is a safe bet.
> Slack in the motion of finances. It prevents the entire system from seizing up when there are problems.

That's not my problem. Why would I, a greedy actor, ever care about the system at large? Just give me my BTC. Why would I ever take frBTC (fractionally reserved BTC) over BTC?

> I have no idea how this is related to the discussion at hand.

What I'm saying is the frBTC (fractionally reserved BTC) is just another altcoin, no different than puppyCoin, BitcoinSV, or buttCoin. The thing you talk of about a fractionally reserved BTC already exists, has been happening, and will continue to happen for as long as people can fork code. The trick is convincing anyone at all that they are the same thing.
Trickle down economics is a bad faith straw man argument against supply side economics.

I see plenty of HN posts argue that “putting more money in the hands of low income individuals is good”, but suddenly that’s wrong because… Reagan?
This is the scientific meat of the press release where it claims a 25 times neutralizing antibody titers against the Omicron strain with a third dose of Pfizer-BionTech:

The sera were collected from subjects 3 weeks after receiving the second dose or one month after receiving the third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Each serum was tested simultaneously for its neutralizing antibody titer against the wild-type SARS-Cov-2 spike protein, and the Omicron spike variant. The third dose significantly increased the neutralizing antibody titers against the Omicron strain spike by 25-fold. Neutralization against the Omicron variant after three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was comparable to the neutralization against the wild-type strain observed in sera from individuals who received two doses of the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine: The geometric mean titer (GMT) of neutralizing antibody against the Omicron variant measured in the samples was 154 (after three doses), compared to 398 against the Delta variant (after three doses) and 155 against the ancestral strain (after two doses). Data on the persistence of neutralizing titers over time after a booster dose of BNT162b2 against the Omicron variant will be collected.

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At the bottom of the press release it mentions that Pfizer is the marketing distribution partner for BionTech in many countries. Does anyone have a list where BionTech distributes directly?

"BioNTech is the Marketing Authorization Holder in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries and the holder of emergency use authorizations or equivalents in the United States (jointly with Pfizer) and other countries."
Yeah, it triggers me since I need to select the text to then have it read to me by my TTS. I blame designers (and sometimes lazy devs), so anyone that does this care to explain why? AFAIK you should only disable text in HTML in your custom widget like if you create your own button or menu.
Which seems to be Telegram's goal here.
Crypto isn't entertainment, it's greed pure and simple. It's a pyramid scheme where once you join, you have to sell the idea to others to increase your value.

Crypto isn't the first of this kind, nor will it be the last. But it does use obscene amounts of energy to make the scam work. And the energy requirements become greater year after year. It is not sustainable in our civilization.