skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're forgetting a.2) the "wealthy" people usually have high incomes, and the x10 houses are usually in high tax states, and housing is a huge tax break.

~20% or my housing "cost" is paid for by a tax break for owning a house. Another ~20% is principal.

When you also factor in that the Fed guarantees to devalue money at AT LEAST ~3% per year, and you have 5x leverage (or more) - that's another ~15% effectively subsidized by the government.

So when you have sufficient cash flow - it's easy to look at your housing "cost" as only ~40% of the actual payment.

Compared to rents, this is a steal.
rpitx is probably the #1 reason for getting a raspi these days.
If you can find one that's not marked up 200%..
Ancient Temple dedicated to Zeus discovered in Egypt
You're probably thinking of getting a speck of a radioactive metal (like Uranium or Plutonium) in your lungs. That gets stuck there, the body has no mechanisms to eliminate it, and it will keep emitting gamma rays all your life.

Tritium is very different. It is an isotope of Hydrogen, and a water molecule containing one atom of Tritium is fairly indistinguishable from any other water molecule. The most important thing is that it has no reason to stick to any other Tritium from that glass that you drank. It will spread throughout your body. Like all other water molecules, it will probably be out of your body in a mater of days. Tritium's half life is 12 years, so the vast, super vast majority of all the Tritium you'd drink with that glass of water will be long gone before it has a chance to decay.

But even if some of these atoms decay, their decay is a beta particle (an electron, and if you really care one antineutrino as well, although that antineutrino will probably travel through a few galaxies before it interacts with anything). The beta particle is not very damaging (compare that with the gamma rays emitted by Plutonium). For sure a single one is not damaging at all. Now, in contrast with the speck of the radioactive metal above, this beta particle will not be followed by others like it, because the Tritium that emitted it doesn't have any other Tritiums next to it.
It depends on criteria.

For example, USA early vaccination ramp up is second to only United Emirates in the world.
Taiwan was late in this particular aspect and quite panicked when some virus broke through quarantine measures (contained by quite heroic contact tracing efforts)

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Sadly no.

Normal prices are around €0.35/kWh, but since the Danish electricity grid is based on renewables, with backup power being generated mainly by natural gas, that means when natural gas prices go up, so does electricity prices.

Combined with freak occurences of low rainfall in Sweden and Norway during 2021, meaning less hydroelectric power, as well as an unusual period of very little wind along the Danish west coast in august/september, meant that most of the winter has been using a lot more "backup power" than usual.

Solar is of course an option, but considering that the southern parts of Scandinavia is about as high up north as Canada, the sun usually doesn't shine when we need it (the sun rises around 9:00am and sets around 4pm during winter, with an impressive 19 hours of sunshine during all of December)

As i'm typing this, 57% of our power is being generated by renewables, and the current price is €0.46/kWh. The highest price in April has been €0.63/kWh, but on March 23rd it was €0,71/kWh, on March 14th €0.79/kWh, on March 9th it was €1.00/kwH, and on March 8th it was €1.12/kWh. It was even higher in february.

All of the above prices are "hourly spot prices" from 18:00 - 19:00, so the average 24 hour price will be lower, usually around the €0.5/kWh mark, though in february that was closer to €0.7/kWh.
I've been slowly teaching myself electronics for the last three years. Started by building electronics kits and gradually over time you start to see similarities between the circuits and questions arise..

Why are there small value capacitors near all the power inputs on the various chips? Why do many of the inputs and outputs have the similar value resistors right near them? What are these diodes doing, going from ground towards the power output?

Curiosity leads to understanding, leads to pattern recognition, leads to greater understanding, and so on.. Now I'm building my own circuits from scratch and routing custom boards in KiCad and it just seems like second nature almost. There are still SO many mysteries and so much more to learn, but once you begin to understand the basics that knowledge allows the next step and so on.. I think all you really need to get started is a soldering iron (get one with adjustable temperature, I love my Hakko but started with a cheaper one), decent multimeter (The UT61E is really great and cheap) and some leaded solder (just don't eat it).. There are cheap digital handh-held scopes these days too and you don't HAVE to have a scope right away.

Components are cheap (check tayda electronics) and it's endlessly fun, especially for those with a side gig working on the computer all the time. I find having something 'real' I can tinker with a great hobby and don't see myself ever stopping at this point.
We can clean it up easily if and when we get there, unlike Earth.
I mean, that's a big difference. reddit's site search is infamously bad.
Those in the Rust Belt can visit the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, OH: https://nmgl.org/

They had an exhibit of finding and searching the Edmund Fitzgerald when I was there last.
Well that's not quite what it is, first of all, and second of all I don't like the practice of calling something a catastrophe when its just predicted by a theory, but didn't happen. I mean, bad theories always predict something horrible should be happening. What's next, do flat earthers get to have an "ocean water catastrophe" because their theory implies all the water drains away? Or a "super luminal" catastrophe because their theory requires infinite unending linear acceleration of the earth (and moon and sun)? I mean, it really is a catastrophe I guess...for the theorist.
I think ESG is a terrible plan. It will simply force governments to be subjects to investors. It was maybe meant well, but it will have the obvious effect that unaccountable "stakeholders" will form our new governments, simple as that. Voting becomes even more irrelevant here. Or new overlord would be named DEI, or DIE as I prefer it.

Not the the current situation with financial agencies is optimal, but this is probably the worst idea the older generation has had in the last 50 years and I don't know how young people can see a future for themselves. Well, it wouldn't really matter what they do anyway. Because the stakeholders will form the a new class completely dictating policy. Either you are rich now or your political participation will vanish. Without capital you simply have no stake in it.

It already is trillions of dollars heavy without any result. Even pure unfiltered greed is preferable to that so we could as well go back to that...
Speaking of observers always rubs me off the wrong way... I don't want to touch on the observer problem, but just to mention something that should be obvious: there's ALWAYS hidden information in any system where time exists. Any "observer" can only know what the world looks like within its light cone. Because quantum mechanics shows that determinism is not possible, it's not possible for any "observer" to know the exact future state of the world outside what was observable within its light cone up until that moment. There's also the problem that you can only store a limited amount of information even given perfect theoretical storage... hence again, some information must be forgotten by whatever the "observer" is... talking about a "perfect observer" that knows all there is to know makes absolutely no sense.
Bitcoin BTC is currently more expensive than the banking system in first world countries because of the specific technical choices they have made. When I first used bitcoin it was free to the user (i.e. it was paid for by issuance). Other cryptocurrency systems that have made different technical choices are much cheaper these days - bitcoin BTC is a bit of an outlier in that regard. I personally have been experimenting with USDC on Argent wallet (a zksync L2 on ethereum). It's easy to use, quick and the transaction fees are around 20c at the moment (and likely to reduce further), and I'm sending a stable coin that tracks dollar.
OP is CEO at "The easiest way users connect their bank accounts to your app." which seems a bit suspicious as he reports a bunch of account compromises.
> You might think "but BOMs are super evil." Checking a BOM is extremely, extremely easy.

Checking the BOM is not enough, you also have to handle it. Non-LE BOMs (like surrogates, at least before the emojipocalypse) are rare enough that many "UTF-16" based tools simply only support UTF-16LE. They are also stupid because you need to know that you are dealing with UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE in the first place - either through heuristics or because it is specidified and then you can also guess/specify the byte order.

And like surrogates, the BOM is another wasted Unicode character that is only needed for the UTF-16 mess.

> Furthermore, you don't get to bail out of checking anything just by using UTF-8, you have to check to ensure you have _valid_ UTF-8. That's right, you gotta scan the whole bytestream anyway, so you may as well just check the 2-byte BOM at the beginning too.

You don't need validation for most UTF-8 tasks, GIGO is often more reasonable for things entered by humans.

> you definitely can't store UTF-8 in something expecting ASCII.

Unix tools would disagree.

$ echo "Hello Wörld!" | tr '!' '?'
Hello Wörld?

Many tools only care about finding substrings. UTF-8 gurantees if the byte sequence making up the encoding of a Unicode character (or sequence) appears in valid UTF-8 encoded text then it also decodes to that Unicode sequence.

> Practically all HTML is gzipped

Not when it is being parsed it isn't.
> In this case the third party is Blizzard Entertainment, who can control the state and data.

And in the case of two Ethereum based assets, the third party is the Ethereum network, which can be forked to control the state and data (as it was after the DAO fiasco).
You don't need a lab: electronics components, breadboards, some arduinos, a multimeter and some small tools are enough to start and learn, but it's true that with 4 people in a 65 sq meter, even that may be too much... maybe you can find a fablab in you city ?
The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho
Very anecdotally from my Chicago (close) suburb: a little bit screwed. The available inventory in my neighborhood is the lowest I've ever seen for early spring, there's just very little up for sale.
Pizza as a Service 2.0 (2017)
The included project templating functionality looks interesting. Being able to standardize scaffolding and project management under a single tool is definitely a value-add.
Nobody talking about the DHTML days when we were all writing our own “JavaScript” components?
Thanks for writing that. From the perspective you’ve articulated I sometimes wonder whether the idea of the heat death of the universe is a matter of perspective, it only applies to the matter and properties of the universe that we consider significant, are we living within the heat deaths of past forms of the universe in which physical interactions we have overlooked dominated?
> I just want to live somewhere

Same. Which is exactly why I bought a house in 2011. In hindsight it was the perfect time, but at the time the market was still bumpy. At the end of the day, I had a stable job and needed to live somewhere.

> I make enough money not to worry about rent, even if it should substantially increase

The house next door to me rents for 2.5x my mortgage.

My salary has continued to go up, while my cost to live has continued to go down (I refied at the rate bottom). If I want to take a year off I can either rent out my house or just carry the cost at this point. Buying this house gave my wife and I more flexibility because with some decent certainty (+/- small amounts for taxes/insurance fluctuations) I can tell you what my cost to live will be next month or 24 months from now.

Finally, buying a house with a mortgage is best way for a normal person to protect against inflation. Housing is typically a families #1 or #2 expense, and being able to mostly lock that cost is a huge win 3-5-10 years out.
- In term of message overhead there is not much difference. one details is that each node keep incrementing his heartbeat counter continuously, making it a state change that need to be propagated.

- slower here depends on the number of node selected to gossip with. if you choose a long gossip period yes, but in real system the gossip period is short enough to not notice it. So slower means compared to Rumor-mongering style. Not as in having an inconsistent cluster state.

-(Thanks) I will probably amend this as a note: A seed node can be any node in the cluster we know is reliable and will almost always be there; kind of like the ACE within your cluster, they can be many.

-Garbage collection :"... We mitigate this by periodically garbage collecting obsolete nodes."
I'm very interested to hear more about those arguments w/ the Remix community; got links to share?

Re: leaking server code to the client, so far I've been well-served by the recommended preventative measures: audits for inadvertent side-effects, and/or ".server.tsx" filenames as needed. But your experience here may be more extensive. Could you expand on "made my own prototypes"?
You don’t actually have to invest at all. Over time inflation makes your payments cheaper and cheaper. By the time you reach the end of your 30 year fixed mortgaged in the year 2052 you’re still paying in 2022 dollars which is probably less than half of what the average mortgage in 2052 is.

If you invest on top of that and get some small decent return you come out even more on top.
Let's make a clear examples of what conspiracies are because otherwise we'll go around forever: Religions and cults fit the bill perfectly

They take money and labor from their followers and society (huge tax breaks and exemptions) and give nothing tangible back except the psychological pleasure given by meaning and the knowledge being in the "right" group which will go to heaven with angels or 72 virgins or something else.

If you agree with this then the laundry list is very very very long before you arrive to Schwab and the WEF, which is essentially just a nice hotel in Switzerland, and for all their faults you'll find many more people talking crazy and trying to take advantage of others in Silicon Valley which is becoming a fertile ground for cults but as we all know humans are masters at throwing stones while living in a house of glass.
Noticeably absent is “sex life”… are has that been rolls into workouts?
Ransomware attacks are. Vulnerability scanning is.
I'm sending out free (unvalidated) startup/SaaS ideas
Imagine if billionaires used the 28% rule.

Important to compare like renting a modest Apartment. If that payment that works for you is X, maybe 3X is too much house? Houses also take a lot of repair, and need things like new roofs and HVAC.
You seem confident in this, so I assume you have run the numbers. How many support agents do you need to moderate 3bn monthly active accounts?
Until now it hasn't been a problem? And if the deal falls through then the cryptoscams are still OK, I assume?
Testing feature logic, transformations, and feature pipelines with pytest
Generally speaking as interest rates go up peoples purchasing power goes down as they try to keep the monthly payment manageable, which in theory could decrease demand and prices could go down.
I imagine the law requires Github to process all valid takedown requests. I don't think that Github gets to set extra conditions on what takedown requests they do and do no process.
Just a number he made up for a story.
I like using Nix shell for this as well. All of my projects specify their dependencies (compiler, formatter, lsp, etc) there, and with direnv-mode it means I can run Emacs from anywhere and when opening a project with a nix shell specified it automatically picks up everything. It's really neat.
I think to call it a sea it must be huge and salty. The arguments against this in the article is that Baltic sea is "pretty fresh", so it actually is salty. They also say the Dead sea is a lake, which is logical because it's tiny.

If anyone can point to a sea that's not salty, I'd be happy to know. Until then, these are just lakes! Which is fine, because a sea is not better than a lake, and vice versa.
Pensions? Not likely, in the US.

As for Social Security, it was designed to cover (at best) 40% of costs. That leaves your (shrinking) investments to cover the majority. And Social Security is quickly running out of money. (This should be fixed immediately. Before forgiving student debt, or many other things. Social Security is vital!)

Younger workers will get inflation adjusted raises. The older will lose purchasing power. Inflation is absolutely harmful to those on fixed incomes, less so to those on elastic incomes.

But if you're arguing that a $15 minimum wage was harmful in general, I won't disagree. Inflation hurts everyone.
To stay within your bits analogy, I imagine an increase in entropy would be the equivalent of each bit becoming base-3, base-4, and so on, hence increasing the number of possible states (and reducing your ability to predict them).
It does not generate lockfiles: https://ofek.dev/hatch/latest/meta/faq/#libraries-vs-applica...
Not only that but it doesn't even say it is by Apple or official in any way on the site. It says "for Apple Products" as if it was not affiliated and even the contact info is a different company.

It looks like they made it appear as sketchy as possible.
Lotpot: The first hypothetical marketplace – propose, bid and buy anything
just launched and I'm here to provide value to the hacker news community.
Alllll of you have a following, a prodcut, a weird item, a brand, your knowledge, your time - an asset that is undercapitlaised. Offer it for auction on lotpot and get paid for what you've worked hard to build already! Or better yet, ask your audience, customers or followers to make lotpots for what they want from you, you'll be shocked...

users get exactly what they want instead of just what's offered to them for sale, and the claimers get a new inbound revenue stream they never had before
Why as an artist should I assist in my own demise? If you are coming gunning for my way of life and skill I've spent half a lifetime developing, my very purpose, don't expect me to just roll over and help you.

We still own the rights to all our material. I don't see why we can't en mass expressly forbid the use of any of our creative works in machine learning training sets. That's a specific and measurable point where our material is inserted in to a machine without prior permission and with malicious intent towards us.
The Boardroom Initiative
If only we could invent a way of settling transactions that takes more money and energy than running traditional banks. It might sound like the worst idea ever, but with enough buzzwords and a sprinkle of Ponzi, I think it will be a hit.
Glad you mentioned ext.js. It was one of the early frameworks that tried to create a complete, all js, gui component model.
Yeah, I think it's the fact that many of the garage doors I see around here are easily 15 to 20 years old or more. My brother approached me recently about his apartment complex garage door, as they only give out one remote unit (but they have two cars), so we duplicated the code hoping it's not a rolling code, and he tried it out and it works. So he duplicated the remote without trouble. It's an ESP32 with a battery.
"They hold more than a fifth of Earth’s unfrozen fresh water"

I read quite a few stories about the horrible drought in the west, and here I am sitting on a good part of all the usable water in the entire world. I can't help but think at some point a bunch of people are going to come for that water, in one way or another. Either by moving here, or trying to move it there. Some ideas have been floating around about that for a while

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/04/10/g...
Sure, if I'm allowed to change the games, I can link them even without a block chain. Transacting digital assets on a particular market (be it a single blockchain or Steam or the WoW Auction House) is a solved problem, and is not helped in any clear way by adding a blockchain in the middle.
Interesting. I didn’t look up his books or even think about that. I did however start to think about a book I could write. Maybe this was an advertisement, but that’s certainly not all it was.
A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers
That's very true that few are impressed. 99% of people don't notice expensive watch, and for the 1% who do that sometimes lead to weird discussions. But I wouldn't say this is fashion. Actually many watch enthusiasts I know of are not people you'd call fashionable at all.
All over half a century ago, but there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Big_Pollution_Diseases_of..., cases where the Japanese government didn’t come out well (e.g. Itai-Itai disease was known in 1912, but according to Wikipedia, “Medical tests started in the 1940s and 1950s”, and for Minamata disease “The Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectural governments conducted a joint survey in late 1960 and early 1961 into the level of mercury in the hair of people living around the Shiranui Sea. The results confirmed that organic mercury had spread all around the inland sea and that people were still being poisoned by contaminated fish. Hundreds of people were discovered to have levels greater than 50 ppm of mercury in their hair, the level at which people are likely to experience nerve damage. The highest result recorded was that of a woman from Goshonoura island who had 920 ppm in her sample.

The prefectural governments did not publish the results and did nothing in response to these surveys. The participants who had donated hair samples were not informed of their result, even when they requested it”
reddit's whole infrastructure is straight out of a case study
You can just combine the two, without the need of an extension - use Google to search within Reddit.

Say you want to search Reddit for pancakes - your Google search would be

pancakes site:reddit.com

And Google will return the matches it found on reddit.com. Alas in what I've used it, it won't work with subreddits (like doing "pancakes site:reddit.com/r/pancakes")
Hmm, if people were worried about ingestion I was certain it had to be alpha particles. I stand corrected.

I’m not sure how much the half life matters a lot if you ingest a lot. To be fair, kinda unlikely from drinking water, but might be if a fish has been gathering Tritium it’s whole life (but then, it’s probably already doing that now for much larger quantities).

Either way, I suppose the 3 X-rays I had today completely obviate any relevance of the tritium.
In the generic form, blockchain/DLT cannot solve the double spend there either. Selling a picture for a token does not magically delete all copies or makes it impossible for me to sell it again (yes, someone could look in some blockchain, but that might not even deter another buyer - even fake goods trade).

Basically, for on-chain assets, a blockchain solves double spend and also ensures that on-chain funds/assets are correctly delivered (malicious attacks aside). This also exists outside of blockchains, for example in payment vs payment settlement in FX. Banks created CLS precisely to avoid having one part of an FX transaction settle while the other was still outstanding - so other ecosystems with immaterial goods and risky settlement found other solutions/created their own "middle man mechanic".
We won’t. We’ll just create even more mess.
How to Tame React’s UseCallback Hook