skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are portraying a false dichotomy here:

Why would the government need to be involved in your currency at all (commodity based or otherwise)?
At a minimum it is a jobs program, and so can be viewed as part of the welfare state (a lot of government spending falls, at least partially, into this category).

Perhaps more importantly, it provides a national strategic interest that is not easily captured through economic analysis. When times are good and international trade happens smoothly this is not important, but when the international market breaks down for some reason, having domestic production gives our government more options in how to respond.

We saw this with covid, when every nation was scrambling critical resources to deal with the public health emergency. We see this now with Russia, who is regretting how dependent they on foreign trade; and in Europe who are regretting how dependent they are on Russian energy.
I like cooking with gas because when my power goes out I can use a match to boil water when the boil water orders go into effect because mains keep bursting.

Also I can make smores when I don't feel like getting a fire going.

I do have an induction plug in hot plate and for actually cooking its really quite good. It boils water faster than all but my 21k btu burner on just 110v, dumps no heat into the room, cools down when I lower the temp as fast as gas, and did I mention it dumps no heat into the room?

As far as air quality taking anything above boiling temperatures inside is super bad for your lungs no matter how you do it. The NO isn't nearly as bad as the particulates created by searing or frying.
>Almost nobody in New York City (where the NYT is based and focuses its coverage) has a vent hood that vents outside the apartment.

Thanks. If this bit of context was clear from the get go it would have been a lot easier for those from EUR where we would expect vents outside the apartment to be the norm. ( Not speaking for all EUR, so there may be places this is not the norm )

As a matter of fact this is the first time I hear about vent circulating within the apartment, and to be honest this sounds quite scary.
Benefits of VLANs, and why use them
How do you make sure genuine users can use the forums?
That’s… not the definition of waste.

Have you ever worked at a big corporation? They pay for some stupid useless shit just because it’s nobody’s job to stop paying for the service.
No.

1: Democratically elected stretches reality towards the end. The end was not a free and fair democracy nor free and fair elections.

Yanukovych was an autocrat and stooge. copying many of the same tactics as his protector Putin to stay in power beyond public support: suppressing opposition, faking votes with international orgs deemed un true/not valid election, using his private military to intimidate and suppress.

The people of Ukraine WANT to join the EU and be a part of European trade. Perhaps not all but a vast majority.

That's the crux of Maidan.

Yanukovych said he would sign the economic agreement which had broad support across the country. But did a 180 and ran to Putin (literally and figuratively, he physically fled). If any country was holding a gun it was Russia.

2: It was not a coup. This was not a military take over, decapitation by a 3rd party nation, or middle of the night execution.

He was removed through an act of parliament after IMENSE popular opposition via democratic sentiment/uprising among the people.

Even if that act itself wasn't laid out exactly in their constitution, what came next were legitimate free and fair elections which is indisputable.

People and countries should be free to chart their own future.

To remove themselves from the foot of authoritarianism and to rewrite and reimagine their government towards Democracy, European trade, & freedom.

A bully autocrat & former controlling country shouldn't be allowed to shut down the will and future of tens of millions just because they have a larger army and threaten nuclear war.
This ignores the massive levels of subsidies that the Chinese govt provides to their companies.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3167588/c...
I've had a Samsung fridge for years and it works really well. Don't know about anything else though. Here in the EU I tend to prefer Electrolux/Frigidaire and Bosch.
Putin seems quite rational in the interviews I've seen. A much more rational clear-thinker in fact than the last couple US presidents. I think it is fair to call him a power-hungry, aggressive, ruthless authoritarian.

Even if NATO is just a fig leaf, why give it to him? Why give him the chess piece that makes it easier to justify this war?

One of the great things about a liberal democracy is that we can openly criticize the strategic choices our government has made. I sure hope that we can continue to do that without labeling those dissenters as supporting ruthless authoritarianism.
Why would people need to work harder for each hamburger?

The relative prices of hamburgers to labour don't need to be impacted by the price of gold, or do they?

What do you mean by deflationary spiral? A decrease in price level during a recession is bad news indeed; but a decrease in prices in some sector due to productivity growth is great for business. Just look at falling prices of electronics in the last few decades.
I have an experience like this. I don’t want to go into depth about it right now, except to draw some connection to this finding. Firstly, just to establish a basic understanding, there were parts of the experience that were more intense than a cumulative lifetime of physical and emotional sensation. One part of it came full circle in my life afterward when I felt the memory being triggered again by the screaming of my son ex-utero. Birth to life, the comfort of nothingness and the terror of consciousness. I can’t shake the feeling that something was eerily similar between what I was observing and what I had felt viscerally without understanding, as if that part of my near-death experience was recall of something deeply hidden, my own very first memory, imprinted at a level of neurotransmitter activity far above ordinary consciousness, finally unleashed.

From a technical standpoint, I have never any moderately powerful drug other than general anaesthesia, but, based on what I hear, I wonder how this scan compares to active DMT use.
You demonstrate you were not engaged to begin with. Obviously asm is the extremest choice, which is why it was last.

But Firecracker is not a difficult project, so if somebody really wanted, they could do it in asm. Likewise, Common Lisp. Not many would choose that, but it could perform as well as the others listed before it. Some people would even choose C.
I believe it was the Mr. Bowen in this article that, despite heavily criticism, steadfastly refused to expand his mask-making business during the early days of the pandemic. His reason was that it would be stupid to expand his operation without long term contractual guarantees and regulatory assurances.

Good on him for holding the line. His business would be in trouble right now if he expanded because the US still obviously hasn't learned the lesson.
> The reason for precise directions is because otherwise people will complain, and if you ignore their complaints, they will complain to your boss. At the end you'll win, but you'll waste a bunch of time defending yourself.

So instead you force all your students to do busy work, like signing a statement accepting no grade if they use the wrong size bread board or photographing the breadboard next to a compass to prove it's the alignment?

To me this sounds like lazy teachers punishing students rather than working to solve the problem.
Gold makes for a decent enough unit of account.

Money that's based on gold and redeemable into gold on demand worked fairly well in history.

(Do note, that different from using gold directly for all transactions. And also different from the interwar gold standard or Bretton Woods, were private individuals did not have the right to demand redemption.)
> The lack of manufacturing in the US

Um

> The United States is the world's third largest manufacturer (after the People's Republic of China and the European Union) with a record high real output in Q1 2018 of $2.00 trillion (i.e., adjusted for inflation in 2009 Dollars) well above the 2007 peak before the Great Recession of $1.95 trillion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St....
NeuralRecon: Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
These masks are made in the US (as mentioned in the listing) and they're on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/NIOSH-approved-anti-counterfeit-packa... I bought some and they're pretty good.
> It's why in usability/UX/any design it's so important to dig deeper, ask "why" a bunch of times, play the devils advocate, try to proof yourself wrong, and never ever take any sort of feedback at face value.

This applies to any user feedback, not just UX... faster horses and all that. Most users do not introspect enough to figure out the core of the issue they are experiencing - if we do our job well, we do not merely empathise, but go on to dig deeper than they are capable of.
Swell merchants could technically make this available since it’s part of the storefront API
Isn't it 60m2 per person?
I've used lots of electric broilers, and a fair number of gas broilers, and have never found one better or worse. I would have said that the main difference is that it's hard to get a dry heat with gas, and hard to get a moist heat with electric. But this is more of an issue for breads and meringues, neither of which gets broiled.

Could you explain more about how you find it "incapable of broiling"? I'm wondering if you might be using it wrong. You may have to preheat for a couple minutes, and may have to leave the door slightly open to prevent the thermostat from cycling. Or maybe I've never fully utilized a gas broiler and don't realize what I'm missing.
Praying this startup crashes and burns so I can see what's actually physically inside the fridges again. If I'm in the store, I'm already looking to buy. I don't need more advertising to encourage me.

>To Avakian, it's simply an expected growing pain. Cooler Screens plans to educate >customers about the digital displays and launch features like voice recognition, >so shoppers can ask about prices or item locations.

So unintuitive and user-hostile that you have to "educate" customers about them.
Abstract Systems, Social Trust, and Institutional Legitimacy
that is what I am connected to right now. it's amazing how much more lightweight the internet is in general with pi-hole/etc.
>All the vents in places I've rented have seemed hilariously ineffective even on the highest and super loud setting

A consumer organisation here studied "rangehoods" and (if memory serves) they found them all to close to useless.

consumer.org.nz - the reports are paywalled and I no longer subscribe, so mēh!
I believe iron is actually in the same ballpark as bronze. The benefit is more one of availability -- if you have the technology to handle iron, you don't need to go around and find sources for both tin and copper. And of course you might accidentally invent steel.
I think you are mostly right, but I've heard this effect observed elsewhere.

I recall a blog post about TurboTax or some other tax software. The part where it says "checking your returns" -- if it takes longer, people view it as having "done something".

You can probably check a tax return, which is really about 100 numbers, or maybe 10,000, in less than a millisecond. But it's better if takes like 10 seconds.

Someone might know what I'm talking about and have a link ...

I do think it's partially the latency, but the UI concerns you pointed out are probably more important in this case.
Related:

“Big Oil on course for near-record $38bn in share buybacks” Feb 2022

https://www.ft.com/content/2852b800-4a03-4cf6-a47f-65c306a22...
Sadly, the amount of talent flowing in could still outstrip the money
The channel owner can disallow links from being posted in the comments. There's an enormous amount of link spambots that spam on there. As a result the filters are extremely aggressive and a lot of channel owners disable links in comments.
Not OP. For the Singapore case. The main reason is practicality. Mandarin and English considered more important in Global Business. English educated political leaders assumed learning Mandarin was hindered by speaking dialect at home. Singapore is a young nation then.
I would bet the asteroid mining supply shock is going to happen this century, I would not be surprised if it happened before 2040.
rofl stack sats. really . there is zero likelihood of bitcoin ever replacing any of the fiat system. Bitcoin is so heavily regulated and tracked now anyway.
Also doesn't take into account greenhouse gas/global warming affects on human and global health. (this assumes using more green energy in future to power induction electricity).
It's not so much about 'ammunition': for that it doesn't matter how the central bank accounts for their gold.

The archaic official value of gold is just a political left-over from when the US was part of the Bretton Woods system, and no politician has found it advantageous to change that relict.

Just like we are still labouring under lots of other old regulations. Like taking our shoes off at the airport.
The worlds population has quadrupled in 100 years, you can't say that "they can import from elsewhere" or each country can just dig it up. What happens if you live in a country where you can't just dig it up and people are poor.
Induction cooking has been around a very long time, competing with gas.

What has changed?

I am getting one when I get a new stove, but then again I do not have reticulated gas here.

My mother had one and it was great
Brilliant. Awesome.
They'll go with a LoRa/LoRaWAN adapter and make a mesh network until it reaches a TV from their brand that is connected to the Internet and upload all the data.
Obviously not lithium batteries. Even suggesting it demonstrates you are not serious.

And, obviously hydrogen will not continue to be made from hydrocarbons. It will instead be feedstock for synthesizing hydrocarbons. Carbon would need to be extracted from air, or at least from exhaust, to get carbon credits.
then spread it out? this does not seem like that hard of an engineering problem. store it in the desert or mountains where land is cheap and abundant.
Instead of domestic production you could also buy them from China and put them on stock for the next pandemic, like a strategic PPE reserve.
Is there are no place I'm safe from blippi... My 4 year olds love it and while it seems harmless, his laugh makes me crazy.
...that goes out
Personally, living in wildfire country, I don't want any appliances that require venting room air. Exhaust air means intake air.
Even in a world where the only model is commodity -> gold/money -> commodity, there will be people who will hoard a commodity to sell it when the demand is high. So, hoarding and making profits is a human nature, that just cannot be avoided.
Why some arguments for 'Gold money standard wouldn't work' do not make a lot of sense

1. 'Co-operation under anarchy is impossible to achieve'

The whole point of money is to get people with different motives to co-operate. It is a technology that allows people to produce, store and exchange value. This system does not require perfect coordination, it only has to be good enough and humans have built good enough systems of coordination based on gold many times over the course of history. Is there any good reason to think humans have lost this ability?

2. 'The specie-flow numbers are not perfect'

Neither are most financial models including discounted cash flow, interest rate models etc. They do bake in many assumptions and conditionals but that does not mean it cannot be used to build a system.

However, there is a point to be made about the fact that gold is not that useful in the modern world because of the invention of new alloys like stainless steel, improved metalworking technologies etc. Also, economic activity would be correlated with gold extraction if we move into a gold standard.

However, we already have economic activity correlated to commodity extraction when it comes to oil. Oil (and other forms of cheap energy) consumption are a direct predictor of the economic output of a nation and so far there are no substitutes for oil.

Technically speaking the world might be better served by an oil standard. Ideally, there could be a central bank that exchanges (standardized) oil for paper currency. The system could be kept honest as new currency is only issued when people supply oil to the reserves and currency is destroyed when it is redeemed from the reserves. This would mean that currency circulation and economic activity is proportional to oil extraction which is already roughly how modern economies work.

However, this will never happen since western countries have deadly militaries and they are not going to let middle east economies set their own agenda on the global stage.

Long term however, if we can get hydrogen as currency that might be best. I am not a chemist, but it might be possible to develop good electrolysis technology to store energy by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. Then burn hydrogen to generate power and release harmless water vapor. We could have a decentralized monetary system that could potentially benefit everyone.
> It is committed to ensuring digital identities are not compulsory and people will still be able to use available paper documentation.

So if a company says that there is a "handling fee" of £100 for customers who choose to use paper documents, then the government will fine that company thousands of pounds for discrimination, right?
McAfee left Belize in 2013 and died in a Spanish prison last year.
Not necessarily. Fractional reserve banking works and worked just fine; now and back on a gold standard.

No need to have one unit of gold for each unit of currency. You just need to redeem them on demand.
This discussion is originally about comparing bitcoin to gold. OP is saying bitcoin's security is equivalent to the underlying crypto protocols which is clearly false as there is a finite amount of computers on Earth to render it worthless.

Nation states don't bother attacking bitcoin because there's little payoff relative to the cost. However, if we suppose there's a hostile country that held their central bank reserves in bitcoin, wouldn't that make a compelling case for the US government to invest in such infrastructure so that they can cripple them like they did with Russia?
Me too I had Java envy, but now I realize a choice of 20 different frameworks doesn't make anything easier.
And why bitcoin, and not dogecoin or ethereum?
> So they are lying, again?
What are normal people suppose to do without expertise on any subject.

This is unfortunately just how the world is. Epistemology is hard, and there are a ton of people out there who make it harder (Three guesses as to whether the author of this article, or any other crappy prestige-publication journalist, thinks they're lying).

It's a scary and confusing world! At some level you just have to internalize that, build the most accurate model that's worth the overhead, and accept that you'll be wrong a lot.
When I put a log burner in my house I choose one with a flat top for this reason. I get your point.

But many things that cause electricity to go out (floods, earthquakes... Russian invasion) will put out the gas too
u cannot get your hand on enough gold to make it worth the criminal penalties. that stuff is heavy
All of these cases for or against are irrelevant. I will continue to cook with gas, long after mains gas is switched off, because I like cooking with gas.

Just like car enthusiasts would rather drive a 1960s Mustang than a safer, more efficient 2020s Camry or N64 fans would rather play with original hardware on a CRT than an emulator with 60fps, 4k native rendering on a 90" OLED.
Have you SEEN the non-NATO member that was just invaded?!
No compiling process = easier?
Yes. It does. I test this out every 10 years on average consumers. The answer has been very consistent. As a matter of fact I find it to be more effective in the age of digital payment where you dont have coins as changes.

But I also want to note it doesn't work on all product type. So the answer "it depends" still true. Dont take it as a Golden Rule.
Linked paper in the video's description: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.8135...
AI is short for advertising industry at this point.

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
> Businesses have the right to refuse service

Yet so many people flipped out when a business wouldn’t design a custom cake for a same-sex couple.

Which is it? Can businesses enforce their own rules and values on their own property or not?
Showing the message the user submitted as part of the success message as well would be reassuring.
Uncontrolled deflation would be linked with growth and wealth concentration would be a serious problem with corresponding unwillingness to purchase anything.

need is of course a complicated word
Well, there are economic flaws, I guess?

At the moment, bitcoin only supports a very small number of transactions per day. So a bitcoin standard on current technology would likely mostly happen off-chain, and use physical bitcoins to settle balances between exchanges.

(Just like historical gold standards mostly used physical gold to net-settle interbank exchanges.)
Archive.today returning bogus IP to Cloudflare Resolvers
Think of a WAF like the thinnest possible veil over your code. You wouldn't go out into public wearing the thinnest possible veil as your only piece of clothing, would you?

So make sure you bake in security through your code, and then when you are done, you can afford to make a decision about whether you need to put the thinnest possible veil over that.
Resolving Ambiguity: Costing Nuclear Weapons (2012) [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30652652
Your math doesn't make any sense. You have $6k a month after taxes and mortgage, not including spouse's income, and that's somehow not enough money? Food for a family leaves $5k/month. What sort of fancy expenses take up $5k each month?

And you claim that a career only lasts 10 years? Is that a weird tech thing? Most white-collar jobs last several decades.

For comparison, I know a number of people who make less than $228k/year, own houses that are around $1 million in and around Pasadena, Culver City, and Santa Monica, and have no problems making mortgage payments, paying for food, saving for retirement, and going on multiple vacations each year.

If you can't live on $5k/month after mandatory expenses, the problem is your spending...
One day I want a kitchen in which I can have every cool appliance -c steam toasters, waffle irons, cheese toast makers, microwave ovens, air fryers, fat fryers, gas hobs, induction hobs....

I could play hockey in it too!
If you look at the electricity market in Ontario, zero development of new plants is part of a market based solution. They had to form a new government agency the Ontario power authority to sign long term contracts so that companies can secure loans to build infrastructure. The market price was politically influenced with many charges being hidden outside of the hourly price in an “uplift” charge and nobody had confidence that prices would be high enough for long enough to get their ROI.

Markets are interesting for economic dispatch based on marginal cost, but then real world constraints such as rivers that must flow and a lack of infinite transmission capacity in all directions kick in and it starts to look a lot like what it replaced. I guess it works where it works
yes, but then you could still mix it with enough untainted gold to have plausible deniability. Gold is like everting bitcoin wishes it were.
Awesome. The mobile experience is great.