skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, there may be more, but there are at least four types of goods one might hold:

* Consumer/durable goods meant to be used - i.e. dishwashers, houses you live in, furniture

* Appreciating assets meant to grow long-term wealth - i.e. ownership shares in productive companies expected to last a while and earn profits, houses you rent to others, land itself

* Bets and hedges - i.e. insurance policies, credit default swaps, futures contracts, the Bengals at +3500 or whatever

* A medium of exchange - some highly liquid, low fee, stable-valued token meant to be held temporarily to eliminate the need for either direct barter or trust in delayed-delivery transactions

Cryptocurrency just needs to get its story straight on which of these it is. Clearly a good can cross categories. People make bets in foreign exchange markets for currencies, as well as hedges when they actually do business internationally. Even owner-occupied housing can be seen as a strategy to grow intergenerational wealth. Beanie babies and baseball cards are consumer goods that may or may not over some limited period of time see dramatic increases in dollar-denominated value.

But fundamentally, you don't want a medium of exchange to cross over into other categories, at least not often. Rapidly decreasing value causes panic and social collapse. Rapidly increasing value encourages holding rather than spending, which brings the productive economy to a halt. Even just having direct use value may do that. You don't want collectible stamps or commemorative silver coins to be a primary medium of exchange because many holders will not want to exchange them, and same problem, the trade of real goods grinds to a halt.

Cryptocurrencies seemed to start off as a basically sound idea. Hashcash and proof of work were originally developed as anti-spam, anti-DoS measures. Make a client prove it did a bunch of useless work before it can send a request or message, as a natural rate-limiter. Satoshi came along and realized the tokens generated by this useless work have some level of fundamental value, and when traded on a blockchain, can allow for trustless transactions without the need for a single authority. All fine. But as soon as it got pulled almost entirely into the realm of speculators whose primary aim is to increase the dollar-denominated value of the tokens, it lost any potential to replace normal currency.

I don't think there is anything inherently bad or immoral about people sending each other what amounts to gigantic piles of dirt proving they have the strongest automated digging machine and convincing others who have a lot of cash that buying the dirt piles is a better wealth growing strategy than buying companies and land and other traditional investments, but it isn't exactly the revolution we were promised.
Lots of French employers will ask for multiple months of pay slips so they can screw you in pay negotiations.
For the "move to subdir" step, I recommend using git-filter-repo, which should be preferred over git-filter-branch (older code snippets often use it).

Use git-filter-repo's --to-subdirectory-filter and --tag-rename:

https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo#solving-this-with-...
A consitution, by definition, describes how a government is supposed to run. It would be odd to find something like that in one.
My American boss says he does taxes for himself and parent and it's no biggie.
Several years ago, I was sick of hitting pay/signup walls for sites I already knew I was never going to join but kept clicking because I either didn't know where the link was going or I just forgot that site was walled off. I made an FF add-on that applies a specified style to any elements with attributes matching a given regular expression. It can do text content matching too but, as it's currently programmed, it tends to apply to an element too far up the tree.

It was intended for personal use but, if anyone is interested, it's a public github repo and, because Mozilla requires an add-on to be registered to be usable in any practical sense, it is up on the add-on site. There's no proper UI, the only interface is through preferences and it's just a textarea where the JSON config goes (example given below the textarea).

Source: https://github.com/7w0/ssure (the interesting stuff is in https://github.com/7w0/ssure/blob/master/content/content.js)

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/
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As far as I can see in the definitions, Household Final Consumption does not include public expenditure on behalf of individuals (that would be "Actual Household Final Consumption). US healthcare expenditure per capita is a bit over 10,000, almost exactly accounting for the gap seen in that list between the US and the richer European countries.
> The end result is a company giving pay transparency ends up either with a much bigger labor bill, or staffed by poor performers.

I think that a system based on secrecy and/or asymmetry of information won't last long, and in fact I think the current "chaos" happening in the labor market suggests that a majority caught on to what their "true" market value is despite salary secrecy and companies will have to deal with a bigger labor bill no matter what.
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I assume you're not in the USA? As a network architect, even non-coastal jobs are easily had for $120,000 and go up from there...
> If this is so, then what does it mean to say the insulation is outside of the rain control barrier?

Yes, the cladding is acting as a bulk water control layer, but there is still moisture in the air from humidity.

* In a cold climate the warmer/moister inside air will at some point reach the edge of the building: by having the insulation on the outside of the control layer(s), the air will be kept warm, and so there won't be a cold surface for it condense on. If the insulation was on the inside then the control layer would be cold, where the air would condense, possibly causing mold growth.

* In a hot/humid climate the humid outside may get by the insulation and hit the cooler control layer and condense, but will just roll off the control layer outside of the building (and not cause mold inside).

> Furthermore, if we combine these diagrams with the one showing a roof-wall junction, there does not seem to be any barrier against rainwater reaching the wall insulation that way.

This is probably regarding Figure 5. All the various layers are connected to each other, so what's on the inside cannot get out, and what's on the outside cannot get in.

The black line (air/vapour layers) is continuous up the wall, around the corner, and onto the roof. The light blue (insulation) goes continuous up the wall, around the corner, and onto the roof. And the cladding is also continuous so that bulk water and UV rays are also blocked continuously.

See related articles:

> RR-0410: Vapor Barriers and Wall Design

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/reports/rr-0410-va...

> BSD-106: Understanding Vapor Barriers

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/digests/bsd-106-un...
> There's nothing difficult or unstable...

Sure there is. There are companies that are going to go out of business if they can't hire.

> ... just offer higher compensation or better working conditions

Not if they are a startup and simply can't. They only have so much funding. And besides that, it's not even a question of offering more. It's a classic low supply and high demand situation. Only those with the most are going to win the bid in the end.

The rest will go out of business for failure to hire. That's the crisis.
I've always thought it's insane that many developed countries' governments fret about their birth rates, then do absolutely nothing to incentivize having children from an individual's career perspective.

It's not unreasonable social calculus to just say "We the government are going to pay you your potential lost earnings, if you decide to have a child."

In the US at least, existing policy is mostly targeted at family units (via tax credits), which doesn't really bear on an individual's opportunity cost and decision to have children or not.
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Hey ceesharp,
No, it’s not possible for multiple reasons:

1) We want to avoid additional services having impacts on your main service, like one of the services, could use all the resources (cpu, ram, disk) and crash everything else.

2) We are offering several types of backups, including daily full VM snapshots, if you need to restore a VM snapshot this will impact all the software on the VM

3) Price overhead of having a single service per VM is acceptable for fully managed services, where ensuring the quality of service is worth the few more bucks to guarantee that.

4) We do provide root SSH access to the VM, so you are free to run some additional stuff, but we do management only on the software we support and the part we auto-deploy
That's some pretty high-end gatekeeping;

you might consider that your context is getting in the way of a fundamental point:

you can't say what it means for other people to "truly enjoy something".

And that irks me.

Like, how do you know you're really enjoying your skiing i you're not hiking up 8000M peaks to do your skiing? If you're not hopping out of a helicopter and getting filmed by Warren Miller, is it really worth it? Are you truly enjoying the sport if you're not skiing couloirs?

I mean, I play music and I do some hard stuff. I don't think a lot of it is easy. But I am confident that someone can pick up a guitar and play it well enough to enjoy it (themselves) after not much practice. I personally wouldn't be satisfied doing the exact same thing... I have been doing it a long time and have high expectations. But those expectations are -for myself-, and that has nothing to do with what other people might enjoy.

I'm gonna go enjoy some powder, I ain't a great skiier, but I can get down anything on my local hill. And for what it's worth, I am literally the only person who gets to say if I "truely enjoy" playing in the snow.
So, assuming it's around that long, what happens in 2140? Infinite value?
The way that vector indices work typically can make doing CRUD with them a real challenge. There is definitely novelty in being able to do both ANN indexing and fast high throughput CRUD.

In addition, the R of crud is hard to combine with vector indices. Case in point I am still waiting for elastic search to support both ANN and regular, structured filtering together well.
Windows has become a complete piece of shit these days: almost nothing works well, there's ads built-in, security is just a big joke. I've taken to keeping my Windows machine for gaming only, network-isolated from Microsoft and re-imaged every 3-6 months.
Likely a bug with Safari's Rendering / GFX Stack or the M1 GPU Drivers. Since using Chrome on M1 or Safari with Intel iGPU using System memory as Graphics memory doesn't share the same problem.
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I charge my watch while I'm at my desk.
If your requirement is the EU (and not merely Europe) ... I've heard the best things about the Nordic countries (especially Sweden) and Cyprus

Switzerland isn't a member of the EU (https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/countries-in-europe/eu-coun...) - but the folks I' know who've lived there liked it (minus cost of living)

I've also heard good things about Iceland - but, again, they're not an EU member nation
Most importantly, it has no real guarantee. There is no reason why our beloved Tether inc can't just vanish from its Cayman Islands headquarters one day
Define "dignity." A slave in chains can have dignity, and a fabulously wealthy dictator or oligarch can have none, so I'm not sure what a promise that dignity is inviolable does for anyone, really.
Did whoever mirrored the site run s/kill/kiss? Really obscures Gene's true message I think.
Security and bugfixes generally don't cost that much. Most of the subscription fee is going to go towards new features (and possibly new products).
Your journalism only extends to investigating what companies deliver to your driveway, and not one millimeter further?

That’s a racket, buddy.
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"especially as rural america continues to become less and less important to the global economy"

Yeah it should come to no surprise that when people are forced into a globalized system that they don't find representation, comfort or belonging in, that they will become fervently against 'globalists' and 'globalism' and find that the people who are supporting and pushing for it are not doing it from a good place but out of evil to punish them. Also the rhetoric towards those people is antagonistic and feeds their perception of the perpetrators.
https://www.nabu.news/latest has the top news of the day with absolutely no personalized results, if you're looking for alternatives!
> The way that I am interpreting this is that if I were to invest in one of these (i.e. Maker) then the returns that I would see are there purely because other people are investing in it.

That's the opposite of what I'm saying. The returns are from other people using the platform, not from investors in it.
For Maker, using the platform means borrowing. For Uniswap, the returns are from a small % fee on trades. It's exactly analogous to a traditional company.
How does a company participate in this system? Are there headcount/turnover/etc requirements? What prevents someone from setting up companies that claim to employ anyone (you can "apply" for a nominal fee online and you get "hired" immediately and your chosen salary figure gets sent to these assholes)?
Conclave Obscurum http://conclaveobscurum.ru/

A private artistic project by Russian artist Oleg Paschenko. Very strange, creepy, interesting, and years ago, it was interactive (flash). Now it's just a walkthrough video that doesn't provide the same mystique. And it seems some of the creepier skeletal sections aren't shown. I think it might be a different version from the original.

Back when I first stumbled upon the site (90s), it was like a curiosity amplification engine for my young mind. What is it? Why would someone spend time on something like this? And why wouldn't they provide information about what it is or who they are? Am I using it right? Are there easter eggs I'm missing out on?

It was depressing, creepy, and intriguing. I wasn't able to find any writeup on it when I first found it (pre-google) and I was just so drawn in. I'd click in one place, and something weird would show up on the screen, then I'd click again and nothing would happen. I'd see random flashes of skeletal structures or a small child that appeared to be crying. And the sounds were just as disturbing as the visuals. I never forgot it.

Here's a writeup in eyemagazine https://eyemagazine.com/feature/article/conclave-obscurum

Here it is in the Web Design Museum https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-websites/conclave-obsc...
No, I did not mean to come off as trolling at all! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441804

Someone was arguing that we should reject a cashless society, and I was making an argument that it is impossible to do at this point.

The only solution is to have a digital currency as close to cash as possible.

Ethereum (on its own) does not meet this requirement. It is perfectly fungible, but still has a global ledger that can be used to track transactions. It is important that people move to standard L2s that don’t have a record of every transaction.

Bitcoin is actually not fungible in the first place. The Lightning network does provide transaction privacy, though.

By “no global ledger” I should have clarified: there might be a need for a global ledger, but it should be missing all consumer transactions.
We pushed hard on our specs; I appreciate you noticing =] We actually compared the Simula One to the Framework Professional Edition in an earlier post, so the comparison is apt.[1] We have also created a $100 discount code ("DISCOUNT_HN") for this thread to help out somewhat on the price.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29923197
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441454
I love the area I live in and want to buy a house. I finally had saved up enough for a downpayment in 2020... obviously we all know what happened to the housing market around then.

If I could have gotten that downpayment earlier I would have been able to buy my house. Now I need more money to buy the same house and the longer I wait I might get priced out again once I get the down payment together.

If I'm lucky there will be a crash and my dp that I saved will be enough. I prefer to focus on known entities though such as looking at levels.fyi and seeing what comparable position salaries are like right now.

If my peers were making the same amount as me I would probably not feel the same. I don't see it as jealousy because i knew the trade off I was making when I was younger. I just see it as the road I could have taken to have a house today.

FWIW, I don't necessarily regret the year I took off. It was life changing in more ways than a house would be. I just wish I wasn't as imbalanced when I came back from the trip and took my career a bit more seriously.
Then we have more regulation to prevent said shenanigans.

We either do nothing at all and leave the marketplace to the forces of favoring the employer or the other way around.
I get it, making something like this isn’t cheap. I hope you can pull it off, VR computing is the dream.

I would say this might necessitate an investor injecting liquidity and selling the headset below margins to generate a community initially, while also putting manufacturing pressure on you all to find creative ways to lower cost without compromising quality.

Hate to say it, but at $2k min for a tethered device, I would just go with a Quest for $300 or a Hololens for $3000.
It's very significantly different - it's an alienable right as long as the alienation is considered "democratic and free". It can also be completely alienated by suspension of articles in the Charter.
This looks amazing. Love the attention to detail and focus on keyboard shortcuts. Also haven't seen a 3d visualisation of the relationship between my notes before.

This is an incredibly impressive product for a team of two
She may have submitted it to the Parliament under her name but this entire document has Michael Pezzullo’s disgusting slimy fingerprints all over it. He’s been the driver behind more than a decade of disgusting authoritarian legislation.
Just ask Tesla.
Antidepressants are beneficial in ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease (2018)
And that's a good thing, no? I mean if we were happy with current state of things we'd still be living in caves. Bickering and not being happy is what drives progress forward. You want it better than current state of affairs, for you/your kids and that makes the human brain jump from riding on horseback to riding in a Tesla in roughly 200 hundred years.
I didn't know this - thanks!
>>Some people say the biggest difference between an engineer and a senior engineer is not on the code they write, but on the senior engineer ability to figure out ways to not write code.

YES!!

The thing I spent the most time on when coding was to avoid writing code.

* All code takes longer to run than the no-op

* The greatest performance/speed gains are not from optimizing, but from entirely eliminating chunks of code.

* All code is habitat for bugs, the more habitat, the more...

* More code can unnecessarily obfuscate the structure of the app, and ability to reason about it

Some time later, the same principle came up in a seemingly very different field of sportscar racing, when my driving coach asked me "What are the things you do that slow the car down?". I thought of some mistakes I was making, but he pointed me to the big basics - "turning and braking", followed by discussion that the most basic thing to do was to avoid turning and braking. Now obviously, some of both will be needed as soon as you approach the end of the starting straight — the point is to do only the absolute minimum, and that often takes a LOT of work to figure out how to NOT do something.

Same applies for writing code - avoid it at all costs, and write only the absolutely required minimum.

It is effort well spent
Unaffiliated but I noticed (not verbatim) "export to pdf or markdown, or use the api to export to other formats or services"
All investment gold is exempt from VAT in the UK, including gold bars etc. However, legal tender gold coins, minted by the Royal Mint, may have additional advantages as they are also exempt from other taxes such as capital gains tax.
Political Clientelism. It’s not an excuse, but it’s the reason.
Great summary of the rules removed of all the semantic mitigations that the political class and statists love to spread on their rethoric.
I'm going to go through the interesting ones from the comments and bookmark them. Here are some of mine https://oinam.fyi/awesome/bookmarks/
In which case you get what you pay for; there are plenty of apps like that that don't work anymore because they are one-off purchases and the author does not want to fix issues that make the app no longer work on newer versions of your OS of choice.
It's the Cold War and national security is at stake, you're not going far enough.

Think back to what went on from 1950-1990 in Europe and Asia, except it'll be even worse.

Blocking Nordstream 2 is the very bottom of the barrel compared to what's coming.

After a brief slumber the Russian Empire has awoken again in Europe and it's annexing territory (again). The Dutch would be foolish to spar with the US over ASML at this juncture. Dealing with Russia in Europe and China in Asia will take a concerted front by the US, Europe and their allies.
At some point you're going to have to exchange your crypto for physical goods.
this makes me think of http://www.terrysrubberrollers.com/
It would be more profitable and professional to increase prices.
> If you're unwilling to read what I'm writing

Project much?
I hate most the hypocrisy. Crypto-enthusiasts want to evade central authority, taxation, etc, but also welcome/demand assistance from central authorities like USSS when things go wrong.
This is extremely well done and promising for the future of mass adoption for VR. Congrats!
I still have a Rift S and I'm not in the linux universe, but this is very very interesting.
Ling has definitely updated the site but the source code still has it's great art.
There are Neonazis supporting Russia, and Neonazis supporting Ukraine. It sucks, but there's nothing the West can do about it besides provide asylum to people who want to leave.
That's pretty much what would happen, yes. With the intermediate step of selling those assets.
Which reminds me of [1], Apple Reveals a next-gen Face ID Camera that uses a new iTOF system that is powerful enough to use on Future Macs.

[1] https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2021/02/apple-r...
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